Slew if herbal treatments?

Hi Pooper Trooper, I'm with you on the natural route. I'm transitioning to a Paleo diet now, I'd say I'm 80 % there, mostly still reading about it and finishing up some food that's left in my pantry.

I was diagnosed with UC a couple of years ago. was in a flare for the first year while trying almost everything under the sun that didn't involve medications. I did manage to de-flare myself and was symptom free for a little over a year on supplements and being super careful about my food choices. Gluten-free, sugar-free, no refined or processed foods, and very very limited grain intake. I'm leaning paleo now because I know I can eliminate grains without too much trouble thse days after doing the SCD and GAPS diets, which are also grain free. I'm not officially dairy-free, which pretty much puts me in the "Paleo" camp. I'm reading the Practical Paleo book, and just started it, but it is pretty interesting.

I have tried an assortment of herbal treatments, but can't really say that I noticed anything with any of them. I'm trying some again (boswellia & slippery elm, for example, that have been suggested as helping UC), and maybe this time in combination with Paleo, it willmake a noticable difference.

Good luck to ya!

Poopertrooper,

Welcome to the forum.

I think it's great that you're finding a lessening of symptoms with going Paleo.

BTW, how did you get to Paleo to start with?

I started out with SCD, and found that Paleo was just much more effective, since it is an anti-inflammatory diet.

So in addition to it, I've been doing: probiotics, slippery elm powder, L-Glutamine amino acid powder, and LDN - low dose naltrexone.  I am almost coming up on 2 years of remission.

There are things IMO that you can control, which will have a direct impact on your disease, the symptoms you experience and their severity.

I was able to control my UC into remission through various supplements, probiotics, diet modification, and LDN , low dose naltrexone.

 

For more info on the protocol which has put me into remission, please go to this link: https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=1666318 , and look at the 11th post.

 

I hope you  continue to feel better and better and let us know how we can help you.

Hi P. Trooper (fantastic name)

I think you are going to do much better all around going Paleo than not going paleo. It just makes sense that eating healthy nutrient dense foods are going to improve one's situation, regardless if it 'cures' you or not.

Welcome here, and keep us up to date of any changes your seeing.

I think if you can tolerate dairy and some grain, it makes sense to enjoy those things as opposed to dogmatically following Paleo. Do you read Chris Kresser's or Paul Jaminet's blog? Those might be of real interest to you.