You have got to read this on milk/eggs and UC

Was milk pasteurized back then?

It would be wonderful if it was true for everyone. I have been following something called the Harcombe Diet, principally for weight loss but also as a way of trying to eat 'clean' and remove processed foods from my diet. I was moaning about not losing weight (although I am not officially overweight I would like to shift a couple of pounds with two beach holidays looming!) and the advice I got was to exclude dairy for a while and see if that helped. Well it didn't really do much to accelerate my weight loss and crucially in the context of the article it made no difference to my UC. I tend not to use low fat dairy products at all because they are usually nutritionally bankrupt and lose fat at the expense of gains in lactose which is a sugar but now I try to use lactose free milk. I still have my full fat butter, cream, cheese and yoghurt though!

I took dairy out of my diet for almost 2 years along with gluten, starches and sugar except for honey. And finally achieved my first remission in 11 years. I ate protein and veggies.

I do not believe I am lactose intolerant because I can now eat/drink dairy with no symptoms at all (and I wasn't lactose intolerant before UC). It was just the very inflamed state of my colon that created the intolerance to dairy. SCD yogurt is fine now but not tolerated previously.

It's pretty hard to make major diet changes to eliminate dairy in all it's forms along with starches and gluten but I came out way better after doing it. I am also having some potato now and then, no problems at all. But not adding gluten back just in case.

Dairy and gluten are the two biggest intolerances for most people. It's worth it to try eliminating them for a few months.
I always told myself "It's not forever, just for a while" so I wouldn't get depressed And it turned out to be true in my case.

No D, no bleeding, no urgency. Finally. 12 years with UC and finally.

If you are going to drink milk it may be a good idea to get organic milk if you can afford it. Otherwise it may be from cows fed BGH, Bovine Growth Hormone, another one of Monsanto's better food thru chemistry ideas.

If you cannot find organic cheese then look for cheese produced in Europe. BGH is banned in Europe and for good reason. I try to drink lactose-free organic milk.

And there is the possible connection between milk and Crohn's disease. Milk in England is forbidden to have any pus in it because of a possible link to diseases including Crohn's. In the U.S. the dairy lobby pushed to allow pus in milk, I think the limit is one drop per glass.

follyism said...
Considering milk has over 60 active hormones in it I would avoid dairy at all costs, especially cheese. It takes 10 pounds of milk to produce 1 pound of cheese. That means in each bite of cheese you are consuming 10x the amount you would have consumed by just drinking milk. These hormones have been shown to fuel various cancer cell growth: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.07/11-dairy.html

Good point.

hey old mike, how is your son doing with j pouch..doing good? he likes it?

Sorry to bother you for some more questions Mike, but tell me.

Do you know how many times he goes per day.
How do his stool look?
Is he feeling good enough to play sports, etc?