Dr. Diane Moan

New Year’s Eve is traditionally a big night for drinking.  A little bit of alcohol will warm you up and give you a sense of well-being. Too much drinking can cause alcohol poisoning and even death  What is too much?  One unit of alcohol is the amount your body can process in one hour.  Drinking [...]

Dr. Ellis created this blog post to help peope discriminate between their GI symptoms and Ulcerative Colitis: Ulcerative Colitis:  Know the Warning Signs  Do you suffer from abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea and weight loss?  You may have ulcerative colitis (UC), an autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease. While these symptoms can suggest many disorders, including Crohn’s disease [...]

A friend of mine recently emailed me.  She wanted to know, “What is the appropriate amount of  simple or fruit based sugar for a healthy, active, non-diabetic adult to consume each day?”  I answered that it’s best not to eat more than three daily servings of fruit, avoid fruit juice, even fresh-squeezed, avoid processed sugar [...]

Most people have  some kind of Gastrointestinal (GI) disorder at various times in their life.  GI disorders can be as simple as indigestion from overeating or constipation from lack of fiber or travel, or diarrhea from an antibiotic or from travel due to a parasite or bacterial infection.  GI disorders  can be more complicated as [...]

Who Gets Autoimmune Diseases? The incidence of autoimmune diseases, such as Addison’s, Crohn’s and Grave’s diseases, ulcerative colitis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis have been doubling every 15 years for the past 75 years.  Currently around 24 million people are affected.  Women are two to eight times more often affected by autoimmune [...]