IC Bladder Pain Syndrome: The Alternative Medical Treatment for Interstitial Cystitis
Dr Bill Dean began practicing urology in 1979 and retired from this practice in 2011 to begin an Ayurvedic medicine fellowship at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Due to his training Dr Bill is uniquely positioned to serve as a guide to compare and contrast the matter and energy science healing disciplines.  “When the current allopathic healing approach doesn’t have an answer, Ayurveda can certainly shed light and help with difficult clinical problems  This is because of how the 2 models differ in how they do their healing.”   Early in his urology career as a resident he researched a condition called chronic urethritis in women.   Now in retrospect this was the beginning of his study of IC.  Dr Bill became interested in the alternative medical discipline of Ayurveda with the Chopra organization in 1995.  This introduction showed him the science behind the discipline that was grounded in modern physics. In 2004 he wrote a paper on the results of an IC study showing symptom improvement in men, women, and children using Ayurvedic nutrition and aloe vera gel. The results are reported at icdiet.com.   In 6 weeks 91% of the patients had a 50% reduction in symptoms.   This was indeed exciting and energized him to continue expanding on this approach to healing.   He presented these findings in a paper presented at the Northwest Urological Society annual meeting in Vancouver BC Canada in 2005 and began his first website icdiet.com. Says Dr Bill “Chronic diseases are not adequately managed since in the matter science medical model the origins of disease are not well understood. The energy science medical model has room for how diseases in the body begin   This is the key to helping with these debilitating conditions that we have today.” So he wants to show people who come to him how this energy science of Ayurveda can heal IC.   “Complete resolution of IC seems like a tall order” he says, “but with my past experience and what I have learned during my fellowship that it is definitely possible for patients  to resolve IC, if they want to take on the challenge”