Alternative Health

Q. I SUFFER from UIP, which as you may know, is a chronic disease of the lungs. I was diagnosed with this condition 2 years ago and I turned 60 last September. I experience shortness of breath after exercise. I have cut dairy products out of my diet and I have also started taking supplements such as Polynesian Noni Juice and OxyMax to help with my condition. I was hoping you might be able to tell me of some other remedies which could help counter my symptoms. Also, could you suggest where I could purchase blackcurrant oil.

A. It truly warms my heart to read a letter where, faced with a serious and complex diagnosis, you have immediately realised how important nutrition and activity are to healing the body. Usual Interstitial Pneumonitis (UIP) currently has researchers and specialists alike at a loss when it comes to finding a solution or treatment.

At this point in time conventional treatments haven’t shown to be any improvement on no treatment at all. This isn’t to say that you can’t use treatments (conventional or