Jacqueline Lagacé PhD: ''The end of pain : how nutrition and diet can fight inflammatory chronic disease'' BOOK

[Lady Organic]

Jacqueline Lagacé PhD: ''The end of pain : how nutrition and diet can fight inflammatory chronic disease'' BOOK

Hi Guys,

Here is a book I HIGHLY recommend for everyone suffering from Crohn's disease. An English version of the book by Jacqueline Lagacé (PhD in microbiology and immunology) from University of Montreal, Canada) is available at Amazon : http://www.amazon.ca/The-End-Pain-Nutrition-Inflammatory/dp/1771640189
http://49thshelf.com/Books/T/The-End-of-Pain2

Jacqueline Lagacé informs us about Dr. Seignalet diet which is indicated for Crohn's disease with very interesting possible results and for many other chronic inflammatory diseases, such as psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis,etc.... It is a similar food approach such as the one by Gastroenterologist Dr. John Hunter from the UK, except there is no use of the elemental diet prior to starting the elimination food diet.This diet is increasingly popular here in Québec. Jacqueline Lagacé who is now retired from the University of Montreal now continues to inquire about nutrition and chronic diseases, gives conference and is even invited by teams of doctors who want to learn about the food approach.

here is the resumé of the BOOK:

After years of debilitating chronic pain from arthritis, Jacqueline Lagacé began following Dr. Jean Seignalet's hypotoxic diet-which calls for the elimination of wheat, animal-source dairy products, and animal proteins cooked at high temperatures-and almost immediately experienced decreased pain. The End of Pain-translated from French and now available in English for the first time-tells Lagacé's compelling story and explores how our bodies and our modern western diet are at war with each other. Lagacé also investigates the science behind Dr. Seignalet's methods and shows how and why some of the foods we eat may lead to inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, and MS, among many others.

 

[Orchid]

If she has so much proof of these wonderful links where are all her research studies? A scientist doesn't publish a consumer book when they're made a discovery, they publish a research paper. Until I see a massive body of research work that has been peer reviewed for a few years I hold she's chasing a few dollars.

 

[Lady Organic]

Jacqueline Lagacé, while she was working at University of Montreal in the immunology department was not researching on the subject of nutrition. She discovered the Dr. Jean Seignalet diet after premature retirement due to Rheumatoid arthritis. Her book informs us of her own experience of remission with the Seignalet diet and continuous search for scientific litterature about nutrition and chronic inflammation. Dr Seignalet was a doctor from France who fallowed over 2000 patients with different inflammatory chronic diseases, He published a big medical book : '' L'alimentation ou la troisième médecine'', but if I remember correct his results have always been refused by scientific journals because he didnt have comparison groups with placebo treatment or placebo diet.

 

[Orchid]

So she has no papers and therefore no leg to stand on and is abusing the fact she has a PhD to make money off rubes?

Cool.

 

[Lady Organic]

Shes not abusing and she was a well respected researcher. Im sorry you see things that way before knowing all the details and reading the book.

 

[Orchid]

If she was a respected researcher she'd have scholarly papers, where are they? And Seignalet's not much better, he doesn't even understand how an experiment works.

 

[Lady Organic]

I just looked and found, I guess you can review Jacqueline Lagacé scientific articles here: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/24986061/jacqueline-lagace

 

[Orchid]

All very interesting papers on the immune system!

In cows.

Cows are not people. She has no background in practicing medicine, nutrition, no medical license. She has a grand total of three of her papers in human immunology and they're all related to upper respiratory tract infections or cystic fibrosis. The rest are related to finding new ways to detect diseases that ravage cow herds or mice or immunization. While I'd love to sit down and have a serious conversation with her on some of her insights into immunization she clearly has no leg to stand on in terms of IBD.

 

[Lady Organic]

Jacqueline Lagacé was also a professor in microbiology and immunology at the faculty of medecine of University of Montreal. Since her own experience of RA remission and book about Seignalet/hypotoxic diet, she has been invited by University of Montreal, by the Institute of Cardiology of Montréal and by rheumatologists doctors to give conferences to name what I know. The scientific and medical community is clearly giving her some recognition and respect and is opening up about new possibility for helping Inflammatory chronic conditions with a nutritional approach, which is extremly good. I have met her twice and she inspires me greatly. reading this book was a turning point for me, I have completly change my lifestyle going from processed food french fries and Big Macs to completly organic and almost vegan (eventhough to be vegan is not an objective of the diet), an accomplishment which I am extremly proud of.

Hopefully this will help lead to further research on the subject. Unfortunalely,as we know, it is extremly difficult to get funding for research on nutrition and inflammatory chronic diseases... and the resistance for change in food habits is very high.

 

[SusanB2001]

Hi lady o,

I have a question for you... You say you only eat organic now for 3 years? Yet you still have to take medication!? Is that correct? I would have thought going organic would mean you no longer have to be on meds.

I am still trying to understand the best course of action for myself...

 

[Lady Organic]

Hi Susan,

eating organic is definately a first step for human health and general global ecological concerns. Pesticides are destroying the environnement and have potential toxicity impact on our health since it does KILL vegetal and insect life.

Unfortunately in my case the whole Seignalet diet (which is more than just eating organic) has still not helped. Dr Seignalet has an overall 80% success rate among his 2000 patients who fallowed his diet for at least 1 year. Improuvements often occur after 3 months of dieting. I have indeterminate colitis ressembling more of UC, but with involvement in ileon which suggest more of a crohns. Dr Seignalet fallowed 9 people with Ulcerative colitis , but none of them have gotten any benefits. For Crohn's it was different and the success rate was very high for his 80 patients. Author and gastroenterologist John Hunter from the UK also states in his book his nutritional approach may benefit Crohns patient, but not UC patients.

whatever my disease is, I am not giving up on my new lifestyle. Change is a process but now I value it dearly and I feel I am doing my best to be as healthy as possible. Dieting may not have a short term impact in my case, but maybe a preventive impact for my future and I hold on to that now. I see a nutrionnist at the hospital and we make sure I cover everything I need with my diet.

I encourage you to read the book or if you read French I can direct you to the Blog of Jacqueline Lagacé and you shall find plenty of information there.

 

[SusanB2001]

Hi Lady O,

Thanks for your response. I agree eating organic is definitely better for the world! Good for you that you have been able to change your lifestyle. My willpower is somewhat lacking but I am definitely looking into making some changes as I do not want this Crohn's in my life and if changing what I eat will work, it only makes sense to change.

I would appreciate that link to the blog if you don't mind. I do read French, although not as well as I used to, but I'm sure I'd be able to get by.

Good luck with your journey!

 

[Lady Organic]

Hi Susan,

here's the website :http://jacquelinelagace.net/category/sujets-dinteret/

it might be confusing to move around the site at first since there is a lot of information and topics. Scroll down the pages completly. There are also tones of questions and comments answered by Jacqueline and members and testimonies.

Change is a process, and I know it may seem overwhelming at first. I noticed that the more I read, the more I learned and thought, the easier it got to change my habits. The more I learned about the food insdustry, the more I became really sad, frustrated, disgusted and revolted; changes occured then naturally. Since then I try also to engage all my loved ones into better eating habits. I may be annoying some times because I've become really passionate about it, but it works and see lots of progress around me :tongue:

wishing you a good journey too!

 

[DJW]

You know I'm going to need to buy this book now.