The Latest from Dr. Fine

[Polly]

Just received this email, as others of you probably did too. Really interesting. Two personal pieces of info about Dr. Fine that I did not know:
1. His intolerances are gluten, dairy, yeast, and eggs.
2. He went dircectly from high school to medical school! If he "skipped" college, he must be one smart cookie!

Is anyone interested in going?

Love,

Polly

From Dr. Fine-

This is a letter of gratitude. Thank you!

I am deeply grateful for your patronage and support of my professional services, and my personal character in bringing them to you. In the year 2000, I left a hospital/university-based career in academic medicine I had worked at for 20 years in order to serve the health needs of the public more directly and fully with the findings of my scientific research and my desire to teach. I did so in faith….faith in the goodness of service and wanting to help people. It was then that I founded the not-for-profit Intestinal Health Institute* (IHI) as the vehicle to deliver medical research, education, and low cost diagnostic testing to the public directly. EnteroLab.com is one service arm of the IHI. Because of your trust in these services, and me, the IHI has survived and succeeded.

To thank those I have served, the IHI is hosting an educational conference and celebration, and I want you to come. It will be a weekend of medical/scientific information, healthy food, and entertainment brought to you for your Health, Happiness and Hope. The conference, titled "Intestinal Health…and Beyond!", is being held at the country’s largest hotel, the beautiful Adam’s Mark Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas March 3-5, 2006. Please save the date! (A formal invitation will be sent to you by mail very soon. Please look out for it.)

At this seminar, you will be among the first to hear the final results of my 8-year study of non-invasive fecal testing for gluten sensitivity being prepared for publication.** The data has been analyzed not only for its importance to the general public, but particularly as it relates to people with autoimmune diseases, microscopic colitis, or relatives with gluten sensitivity/celiac disease. Many of my laboratory clients graciously participated in this study by filling out an online follow-up questionnaire (and those that have not but would like to will get their chance). At that time I told them that they would be the first to receive the results. They will be, and so can you. There will be many additional lectures on topics that should be of great personal interest and aid to you. I will also close the seminar by dedicating time to your specific health needs in the form of a question and answer session. Please see the conference agenda attached below for your review, or go to http://www.intestinalhealth.org/Dallasevent. (We are switching web servers to better serve you; if the site does not come up during this transition, please call 972-686-6869 or email intestinalhealth@earthlink.net for more information.)

I and a few other health experts will be sharing all that we know about optimum intestinal and overall health through these lectures. But I will be sharing something more with you. For the past few years, through education, formal training, and hard work, I have elevated my long time hobby and amateur profession as a singer-songwriter-guitar player to a professional level. Please attend this March conference and you can also be among the first to hear musical performances by my professional band-mates and me. I am no stranger to using my voice in service; I have been a synagogue Cantor for 12 years. I look forward to sharing my vocal and musical skills with you in Dallas, and the world at large as a "Physician-Musician on a Mission".

I have dubbed my music "Music with a Purpose: To Entertain, Educate, and Enlighten", and have 3 professionally recorded CD’s to be "released" at the conference. After realizing that music can help serve my professional health mission, I wrote and recorded an entire musical curriculum for childhood health and nutrition, to help in the fight against America’s childhood obesity epidemic. It is called "Get on a Mission of Nutrition" and will be offered as a fun multimedia learning tool to grade schools, community recreation centers, libraries, pediatrician’s offices, Children’s hospitals, and grocery stores, among other locales frequented by kids. (Please see http://www.intestinalhealth.org/Music to learn more about this important program.) Music from my inspirational CD called "For Want of Higher Ground", and my purely entertaining CD "Whatta You Supposed to Be" also will be featured at the March conference. Additional entertainment will be provided by medical humorist Neil Shulman, M.D., the nationally renown doctor and author of numerous books, among them the book made into the movie "Doc Hollywood" starring Michael J. Fox.

I have made painstaking efforts negotiating with the hotel to make this conference weekend affordable and comfortable for you. My institute is bringing almost two full days of educational sessions, professional entertainment, a Friday evening reception, Saturday Lunch, Saturday Dinner and Sunday Lunch for only $250. (Similar events normally cost $400 - $600.) If you desire to attend only Saturday’s activities and meals, you may do so for $175, or Sunday for only $125. The food will cater to the needs of my food-sensitive clientele. Being gluten, dairy, yeast, and egg-sensitive myself, I have personally met with and briefed the Head Chef and Sales Manager on these issues, and they are excited to provide from an isolated kitchen, healthy, delicious, organic, gluten-free, dairy-free, yeast-free, egg-free meals at my recommendation. (Breakfast options including any of these foods will be available to you. Fully Kosher meals available upon request.) I will personally insure the safety of the food being served at the conference so you are comfortable and that your food needs are met.

We have a hotel room block held for Friday, March 3 and Saturday, March 4 at a greatly discounted rate of $99 + tax per night. To make your hotel reservations, please call the hotel directly at (214) 922-8000 and ask for reservations, or (800) 444-2326 and choose choice #2 on your touch tone phone. Be sure to advise them you are registering for the Intestinal Health Institute Conference to receive the special $99 rate. Should you desire to book additional nights, the same rate will apply for three days before and three days after the conference. Space is limited for this conference; to reserve your spot at this time, please let us know you are interested in attending by emailing us at intestinalhealth@earthlink.net or call 972-686-6869. Please advise us as to how many people you would like to register so we may hold seats for you. An official registration form will be sent to you in a few weeks, and online registration will be available very soon at http://www.intestinalhealth.org/Dallasevent. We look forward to having you join us!

Since beginning medical school out of high school at the age of 17, it has always been my deep desire to help people with their health. Now I am here for this and more: "For Your Health, Happiness, and Hope!" This conference is for you…to thank you and provide you educational information along with educational enlightening entertainment and healthy food to help you attain this. It would be my honor to have you join me in Dallas March 3-5, 2006, so that I may stand before you in person to serve you in these ways.

Thank you once again for your ongoing interest and support of EnteroLab.com, the Intestinal Health Institute, and me. I hope to see you in Dallas in March.

Respectfully yours,

Kenneth Fine, M.D.

Founder and Director, Intestinal Health Institute
http://www.intestinalhealth.org

*The success of the Intestinal Health Institute is exciting, but our work has just begun. Our focus must broaden and stretch farther around the country and world to continue our ground breaking medical research, and to keep carrying the educational messages for improving intestinal and overall public health. To do this, we need your help. To date, I have never asked a fee for public speaking appearances (of which there have been many), and I have not asked my supporters for monetary donations to the IHI. However, if you are in a position to make a tax-deductible donation to the IHI, it would help us immensely, and I would be extremely grateful. You can obtain information about sending donations at http://www.intestinalhealth.org/Donations , or simply send your check and return address to: Intestinal Health Institute 10875 Plano Rd. Suite 123 Dallas, TX 75238.

Don’t forget to save the March 3-5, 2006 date. I want to meet you in Dallas!

** Because the IHI is a research institute, it would help us greatly to be able to utilize your EnteroLab results in our research tabulations for this study. No names are ever used in published medical research, and results are not disclosed to any outside party. Despite this, if for some reason you wish your results to be excluded from the research analysis, email us at enterolab@earthlink.net Thank you for your support of our public health efforts



Intestinal Health... and Beyond!

A Health Seminar Featuring Medical Information,

Health Food, Entertainment, and Fun

Adam's Mark Hotel Downtown Dallas, TX March 3-5, 2006

Brought to you by the Intestinal Health Institute and Dr. Kenneth Fine

for your Health, Happiness, and Hope!


(All conference meals will be gluten-free, dairy-free, yeast free, egg-free organic food.

All food will be Kosher but the hotel kitchen is not. Fully Kosher meals available upon request.)

Friday

6:00-8:00 PM: Reception at the Hotel. Hors’ Dourves

Saturday:

8:30 – 9:30 Registration
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome/Introductions
10:00 – 10:55 Early Diagnosis of Gluten Sensitivity Using Fecal Testing: Report of an 8-year study - Dr. Kenneth Fine
10:55 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:00 Intestinal Health… and Beyond!: Ten Steps to FinerHealth and Nutrition - Dr. Kenneth Fine


12:00 - 1:15 Lunch

1:15 - 2:00 Chemical Sensitivity: Why it Happens, How to Cope – Dr. William Rea, Founder and Director of the Environmental Health Center, Dallas
2:00 - 2:30 Arthritis, Arthralgia, and Fibromyalgia: How Not to Hurt - Dr. Kenneth Fine
2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 3:30 Autoimmune Disorders and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: On the Rise but Why? (To Be Announced)
3:30 – 4:00 Is Food Sensitivity Fueling Your Immune System's Fire: Let Food Be Thy Medicine (Dr. Fine’s Anti-Inflammatory Diet) - Dr. Kenneth Fine

4:00 - 6:00 Fitness, Play, or Rest.


6:00 - 6:45 Dinner
6:45 - 7:30 Laughter is the Best Medicine: Don't Take Yourself Too Seriously - Dr. Neil Shulman, Medical Humorist and Author, including the book made into the movie "Doc Hollywood"; President of Dr. Patch Adams’ non-profit Gesundheit! Institute
7:30 - 9:30 What's a "Physician-Musician on a Mission"?: Musical Performance by Dr. Ken and the Band

Sunday
"For Want of Higher Ground": A Road Map to Spiritual Health - Information and music by Dr. Kenneth Fine
10:00 - 10:30 The Circle of Spiritual Health, Happiness, and Hope
10:30 - 11:00 You are What You Think: The Mind-Body-Life Connection
11:00 - 11:30 Successful Suffering: Constructively Dealing with Life's Hardships
11:30 - 12:00 Living a Miraculous Life


12:00 - 1:15 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 How Can I Help?: Questions and Answers with Dr. Kenneth Fine

End of conference. Attendees invited to visit nearby popular museum and tourist attractions:

John F. Kennedy 6th Floor Museum , Dallas Museum of Art, The Science Place at Fair Park, and others

For more information or to register, call 972-686-6869, go to http://www.intestinalhealth.org/Dallasevent , or email us at : intestinalhealth@earthlink.net

[Jean]

Polly,

As much as I'd love to attend, I don't think my finances will allow it. Will you report back to us anything of interest?

Love, Jean

[harvest_table]

Polly,

Thanks for sharing that! Funny, we posted the same time.

I'll be dang, what a cool way to share his findings at a seminar like this. Wish I could go. Are you considering it? He's managed to keep the prices very reasonable.

And he's a musician to boot!

Love,
Joanna

[Matthew]

Polly and all
This is great news . I am thrilled that Dr. Fine is going to go public with his findings. It will be a great help and a step forward for so many people that have auto immune problems. Having known very little about his educational background and own auto immune situation your post, as usual, is of great interest.

While I was cooking dinner I pulled out my 1995 Road Atlas and according to the mileage chart Dallas TX is only 780 miles away. I am pretty sure that in the years since then it has not changed much . Ha Ha. I70 to I135 to I 35, even I can’t get lost with a route a simple as that. So that is, even the way I drive making the journey as important as the destination, a two day trip. Gosh , that's a half a cooler of food on the way down and the other half on the way back. An important consideration for us MI’s. Took a look on the internet and found that their is a Motel 6 in Dallas that would probably be only about half the price of the Adams Mark Hotel and since I would have my car would just drive in each day. The convention can’t be that far a way.

Oh well! I am brainstorming and thinking out loud and who knows what the weather would be like? I will have to consider the idea. I have the feeling a “road trip” might be coming on.

In the back of my mind I guess I am thinking that someone should represent our important group at such an important cross roads.

My best

Matthew

[Carrie]

Hi Polly. Thanks so much for the update! As I'm one of the newer people here, I have not taken Dr. Fine's questionnaire that he mentions in the memo:

Many of my laboratory clients graciously participated in this study by filling out an online follow-up questionnaire (and those that have not but would like to will get their chance).

Polly is there a link somewhere to that questionnare? Thanks.

Love,
Carrie

[Matthew]

Carrie
The online follow-up questionnaire referred to was sent to those patients that had testing done by Entero labs between a specific set of dates. It asked questions such as, did you have a follow up colonoscopy, small bowel biopsie or other testing after our testing?, What were the results? did you have to eliminate foods other than gluten?.....I don’t remember them all. It came with a code number that would allow them to link back to ones original testing to update their research.

So unless you have had the testing done their is no real link to it. I would assume from the comment that if you or anyone else that has had testing done by Entero labs and has not received the follow-up questionnaire you eventually will.

Hope this helps.

To your continued recovery,

Matthew

[Carrie]

Hi Matthew. Thank you so much for the explanation about the questionnaire. No, I never did have the Enterolab tests. But I am very interested in Dr. Fine's research and look forward to reading his report. Thanks again for explaining the questionnare.

Love,
Carrie

[MaggieRedwings]

Morning Polly,

At Last!! Hurrah!! I would love to go but work and finances will prevent it. It is also Frank's BD on the 4th and want to be with him too.

If it was East Coast and I could drive it, I would be there.

Love, Maggie