My take on this disease..

does proof need to be scientific ?

if i drop a bowling ball on my foot 10 times, and it hurts, is that proof ?

"does proof need to be scientific ?

if i drop a bowling ball on my foot 10 times, and it hurts, is that proof ?
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lol

I guess I will rely on my doc who has no nutritional education to stuff me with drugs. Meanwhile I will continue to educate myself on the importance of proper daily nutrition.

I myself am down to only two canasa a week eating a well balanced diet like the doctor in the video explains. My doc told me that the diet doesn't make sense but the fiber may be helping and to not take the asacol anymore but use the canasa as a maint as needed. I plan on being off it all in time. I will not think otherwise and will stay on track with my healthy diet.

Sorry if I insulted anyone it was not my intention. Sometime I come off as pushy and dont mean to be. My intentions are always to help people. My information was also to question those who thought they were eating a balanced diet to help them heal. Take it or leave it.

fruitgirl, there is no scientific proof that diet can ward off disease and possibly and or cure it? are you kidding me? So I guess the doctor in the video had a coke and a smile and then was cured of MS. There is alot of evidence that diet can ward of or even cure those..

Post Edited (twiggs) : 12/19/2012 11:44:42 AM (GMT-7)

yes ty Soy, I just wanted to convey my opinion. I was wrong to say it can't be debated but it is something I been doing and have success so far with myself. I sincerely beleive that we have our best chance at beating UC if we do this.

Once again sorry if I insulted anyone..

fala la la laaa la la la laaaaa

Steve

Post Edited (twiggs) : 12/19/2012 12:03:56 PM (GMT-7)

Well, I'm proof that diet alone doesn't work for everyone...I've alterted my diet for a few yrs now and I mean only eating pure natural foods/herbs, no junky or additives and I'm still flaring with my crohn's colitis and I exercise regularly as well. As seen in my signature below, I also take vitamin supplements since having IBD means we don't get all nutrients needed via food alone, and I'm still sick, better than I was when going 30+ times a day, but still sick.

Always glad to hear when someone finds what works for them and finds a long remission, but there is no one way that will work for all, this disease is too individual...and many that have always eaten healthy/exercise regularly, still end up getting an IBD so in doing that it doesn't keep IBD away if you're predisposed to getting it.

Best of luck!

twiggs...are you doing the diet concept you've presented?

q

fruitgirl,
the woman in the video is an MD who is a professor of medicine. If you watch the video she explains that she spent years while she was wheelchair bound reading pubmed and designed her diet based on the scientific research she did. A year after implementing, she is hiking in the Rockies. Further, her docs at the Cleavland Clinic do expect that her success can be replicated. And, they're trying to get the money together to fund trials. Doesn't sound like very little science to me, but I'm no scientist.

very well said j2h !

Quincy, Yes I have modified my diet and have been on it for a month. I have also been following the spinach and sunflower seed butter diet prior of which I am on my 2 month anniversary of doing with the exception for dropping the sunflower seed recently. I basically added this routine she talks about in the video to my daily diet. It is not easy to do and requires you to be able to obviously handle these types of raw veggies and greens etc. If I was not doing so well from the spinach and sunflower seed diet I probobly wouldnt e able to do this diet as the DR explains. I have to constantly go to the store for fresh things as well as having my wife work with me on this as she eats this way but not as hard core as I am. I am thankfull I have her to help me as it does require alot money to buy these types of foods and as we all know food is expensive these days not to mention fresh greens only last so long in the fridge as well as fresh berries and fruit meats etc..

If I ever said that we all will be cured by this I was wrong but I truely beleive this is my only hope within my power to beat this. I truely beleive and research has proven the bodies capability to heal itself. I am just not sure as I am a layman as to how long with a condition like UC it would take or if it would ever be accomplished. I am just looking at how our bodies work and basically back tracking and starting at the core of our bodies and how it functions. Simply put if we feed it what it needs which is alot more than what most of us think we need it can heal starting at the cellular level and possibly restting our immune systems.

Gary all your points are well taken but you cant assume that just because someone is selling something that the data they present is not accurate. I think that is important to use all information that is available and to dismiss something that is valuable information is foolish.

Journey, to say never I think is just wrong. Maybe we dont know that it will but until you try and take the time which maybe be years how can yo say never? After all that Dr did with a known autoimmune disease. So I am an very optimistic and wont say never. I beleive most of the disease that afflic people these days are autoimmune related disease as they are finding more and more.

I am on all your sides and want to beat this and in the mean time give back to this forum as much as I have taken from it in the last year. I took the time to put out somthing that I though was worthwhile and noteworthy. If I didn't provide the best of information in the links then I am sorry but I think my point was taken. I also may have used some bad examples like the refugees and others that may not of been
the best of choices. I also never meant to insult as one suggests as I know that we all have difficult lives here with this and work very hard to eat properly and find our own solutions to this disease.

I myself have made some really grerat progress in the time I have been changing my diet. I started this disease taking 2 asacol HD 800 twice a day and canasa as needed and in the begining it was often that I had to use the canasa. It has been one year later and I am not only off the asacol completely since early last summer but only need to take canasa twice a week. I think this is a considerable accomplishment. I am not completely healed by no means and have a long way to go. I experimented last week and didnt take my canasa for a week and saw some small signs of puss and blood. I went back on my canasa and am back on it again every 3rd day which is just about twice a week. This seems to be where I leveled off at. I have been on the DR diet for over 3 weeks and hope in time and the key word here consistancy I can be rid of all meds. That is my goal as well as I am sure all of yours.

I plan on doing more research on this and the cellular level and the aspects of healing. I will try to provide the best info going forward and hope some of you can find it useful and helpful.

I want to wish you all and your families the best this Holiday season.

Steve

Post Edited (twiggs) : 12/20/2012 8:39:20 AM (GMT-7)

Anyone who speaks bad about Pepsi, needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Pepsi is the nectar of the Gods.

Twiggs, thanks for being so informative on the issue of dietary modification for treatment of UC, and other diseases. I feel my disease plays a huge role on diet.

Before diagnosis, I knew my immune system was worn down. My symptoms exacerbated because I let them. I was naive.. I wasn't paying attention to my body and what it wanted from me. My biggest crime was insisting upon convenience, and preferring to take a pill rather than make dietary changes. I did not believe diet could do anything for me besides feed me.

This is where truth lies. To make our human organs function, they need food. We feed ourselves at least three times a day. Our body depends on food to survive. People need to be reminded of this, that digestion is a delicate process and actually controls how the body functions from day to day.

I admit, prednisone was a Godsend, so was nystatin for getting yeast infections under control. But, I would not be moving forward if I had not experimented with diet. For my individualized UC, I found that grains and sugars were a big culprit to my descending health. They are inflammatory, this has been proven. Natural means of treatment will always, always, always, take longer than using conventional medicine. People forget this, even myself from time to time.

Twiggs has no intention of selling a product, or suggesting you, as someone with UC make any changes. We should be able to have healthy discussions on this forum without pointing a finger all of the time. His point from the very beginning was to say, do not take for granted the ability of food to become your medicine.

Wow. What a thread, just remember part of the problem with todays processed food is that it is not food,but chemicals. Even fresh veggies probably have chemicals, some organics probably have chemicals/antibiotics/hormones. UC is a very complex disease,and once activated the immune system takes a long time to forget if ever,our gut bacteria are not normal.
Whatever happened the incidence of UC in the USA started to increase in the 1920's.

That might mean that prior to the 1920's the cause or causes may have been introduced,or it might mean

that something was protective and was no longer used or eaten.
Old Mike

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 12/20/2012 12:07:43 PM (GMT-7)

The point is twiggs is doing a huge disservice to those whose UC has absolutely nothing to do with their diet. Some know this to be true already and some don't know yet. Others have found that their previous or present diets did have something to do with their UC. We could argue from now until eternity what percentage of people did or did not get their UC due to their diets or what percentage of people will or will not be improved by diet. Twiggs is trying to claim that 100% of UC cases were brought on by their diet and that 100% of UC'rs will eventually be cured by diet. That is rather arrogant and condescending to tell someone who has lived a healthy diet their entire lives that the reason they got UC was they ate a burger or peanut butter cookie one time 5 years ago.

This thread would never have been so controversial if twiggs were only trying to help those where diet might might be part of their problem instead of arrogantly telling everyone that diet is everyone's problem. On top of that he is trying to claim he has all the answers when he hasn't even reached remission himself yet. Even if he should reach a full remission following his protocol he should present this information more on the lines like, "Hey this helped me, it might help you too" instead of looking down on us like he is God and telling his flock how they should be leading their lives and that if they follow him he will lead them to the promised land. As I pointed out in the links in his original post he presents a video saying we shouldn't eat gluten and then the last link shows that we should be eating a well rounded diet including meat and grains. Which one is it?