SCD diet and LDN

Just wanted to pass this along. I started LDN and SCD diet 3 weeks ago, pain is gone, blood is gone! I am lucky to not have the frequent diarrhea issue at all with my disease, but the pain was terrible and blood was just constant. I have had blood for the last two years almost everyday in varying amounts. I started the diet and LDN at the same time so I am not sure which one is responsible or if it is the combo. I did cheat recently once with 2 beers and paid for it, but I can say up to that point and since I feel so much better. I have been on various oral meds and currently weaning prednisone. I wanted to avoid biologicals and so it looks like I can! I just wanted to share my success so it may be helpful to others!

DX: 14 years ago with Crohn's . No surgeries and only oral meds.

Did your GI presribe the LDN, or did you have to ask him for it?  What is your dosage?

ufnurse

please start on the yogurt. It is an important part of the program. As you know the program is based on killing the bad bugs in your guts and planting the good bugs in a fertile environment. The diet will kill the bad ones but you need something to replace them with. If you do not take the yogurt please consider SCD legal probiotic suppliments. If you go the suppliment route it is very important that you use only SCD legal ones. You do not want to introduce the wrong bugs at this time.

As your taste buds change I promise the yogurt will get better. There are tons of folks like you and me. Did not taste good upfront but now it tastes great.

I am well along the healing path so I can eat fruit. I take frozen organic strawberries, blueberries, dark cherries and what ever else I have (organic freshly picked kiwi, last week at the market). Add it to the organic whole milk yogurt. On top I add some homemade vanilla extract and some Penzy's real cinnomin. At night I might add some local honey. This is low carb, and super healthy and tasty. Some put a stick blender to the above and make a creamy smoothy.

Some drip it and make a savory cheese. You can drip it, add capers and use it as a first class shmear for some lox. Others make ice cream. Tons of ways to make the yogurt to your taste buds.

This is really strong stuff. You can not buy any probiotic that comes close (almost a trillion lac per cup of yogurt). Again depending on where you are will govern how slow you go. Some start with a 1/4 teaspoon. I started at 1/2 a cup and never had any issues. But please do not go too quick.

I hope your sucess inspires others and that you continue to walk the healing path

Dave