Nursemb23 said...
I have to disagree a little with doctors saying it has nothing to do with food simply to push drugs. I think the problem is that it's sooooo varied from person to person what that can eat and what they can't, there isn't really anything concrete to say YES! Eat this an NO steer clear!
Many also have extreme weight loss in a short period of time, so it is suggested to eat what you can tolerate!
Chrons also has malabsorption problems because the small intestine is involved- so that can make a difference as well.
I'm not saying don't do the diet....I'm just saying it is a crap shoot.
We'll have to agree to disagree. Every time I see drug advertisement posters on the walls of doctor's offices or pharmaceutical executives handing out samples of the "next best thing", it's hard not to believe that their goal isn't to push out drugs.
I think every person has individual food tolerances that they need to figure out. The elimination diet, for starters, is perfect. All the GAPS diet is is a blue-print, that's it. People who follow diets strictly are setting themselves up for failure.
There's going to be a paradigm shift in the way that these diseases are treated, simply because the current methods are just so ineffective - you'll notice that many people are not just on one drug, but a combination of drugs. It's just madness that never ends.
As for the effectiveness of food, you'll notice that many studies use adjunct therapies in some of these treatments. For instance, a study showed mesalamines combined with lyc
opene, a compound found in tomatoes, treated iron deficiency anemia in IBD patients. Bone broths have glutamine/lysine that has good clinical results in healing the gut lining. Why doctors don't suggest that is beyond me - I just can't comprehend it, but it has to do with the fact that they are taught nothing about
nutrition in med school.
I was in the camp that diet had nothing to do with it, so I continued to eat pro-inflammatory foods in the form of vegetable oils, carbohydrates and other junk. These things are insidious and add up over time. There's an epidemic of vast proportions going on in other countries that are swaying away from their traditional diets. India, for example, is becoming very modernized, and people are dropping dead at 40 years of age with heart-attacks. They are following the same dietary recommendations - vegetable oils, whole grains, low fat, etc and paying the price like we are here. Subsequently, auto-immune conditions are also on the rise all over the world.
The funny thing is that it's all there in the medical literature. There is some strong science behind food as medicine, but it's thrown out as quackery and snake oil.