Dr. Bilstrom Blogs
Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs). Environmental Toxins. The Death by Suicide of a Famous French Painter
Adverse childhood events (ACEs) include divorce, separation, incarceration, substance abuse, death of a close family member, physical abuse, verbal abuse, sexual abuse and trauma. They occur when we are a child or teenager. They have a profound impact on cortisol...
Sans Gluten: Eating Gluten Free in France and Learning About the United States Tax Code
Sometimes a person has to travel far away to learn about where they come from. While researching about eating gluten free (GF) in France, I found something quite unexpected regarding the US tax code. Being GF in France seems to be about as misunderstood as it is in...
“Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet”
The New England Journal of Medicine. April 4, 2013. This quintessential study on the Mediterranean diet is so famous in the medical world it actually goes by an acronym. The PREDIMED study. A multicenter trial in Spain whose participants were at high risk of...
Type 1 Diabetes: Saving the Children
I was thinking about children's health as I was being truly amazed by architect Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia. The "Holy Family". Work began in 1883 and it is due to be completed in 2026. It is so wonderful that it seems about right to take that long to complete the...
The Journey Begins
What started as my first blog post (this one) has become a treatise on Autoimmune Disease and also chronic disease prevention and reversal in general. This framework needed to be set down before we move forward. So here we are. July 2018. One of my favorite...
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