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Posted 3/19/2014 2:33 PM (GMT 0)
Hello people,

Well, it's has been 3 years since my last flare up and I just wanted to share what has worked for me in the past. I have had UC for 10 years now with flare ups 2 or 3 times a year. At it's worst, I would average a 1/2 pound to 1 pound weight loss per DAY! There would be between 20-30 bathroom visits with vomiting while sitting on the pot. No fun. After many hours of research and numerous medications, I decided to try changing my diet. I started the SCD diet with GREAT success. There are 5 phases starting with very basic food. I started making bone broth which is super easy and so good for you! You can learn more here -

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/home/

Also, I have added a good probiotic and jello with collagen hydrolysate which helps with joint pain and hair loss. You can make the jello with your favorite juice (diluted). You can find it here on Amazon -

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Lakes-Gelatin-Hydrolysate-individuals/dp/B005KG7EDU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395239022&sr=8-1&keywords=great+lakes+gelatin

I even add a big spoonful to my tea. There is no flavor and 6 grams of protein per tablespoon! And finally, my best resource, the cookbook by Danielle Walker -

http://againstallgrain.com/

She had a terrible time with UC. This brings me back to the present...I was doing so well that I started eating some grains and sugar again and here I am with a flare up! Now I am really convinced that diet plays a BIG role in UC. The proof is out there! cool

Post Edited (Msgrizz) : 3/19/2014 8:37:35 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/19/2014 4:44 PM (GMT 0)
Everyone is different and has different triggers. I'm glad you seem to have found yours but, unfortunately, one size does not fit all. Many have tried this very same thing and had no help while some others have found it to be beneficial.
Posted 3/19/2014 4:57 PM (GMT 0)
Modern wheat does appear to be problematic. Here's the recentstudy where IBS patients showed considerable improvement in biomarkers after replacing wheat with the ancient einkorn variety:

Interestingly, the inflammatory profile showed a significant reduction in the circulating levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including IL-6, IL-17, interferon-γ, monocyte chemotactic protein-1 and vascular endothelial growth factor after the intervention period with ancient wheat products, but not after the control period. In conclusion, significant improvements in both IBS symptoms and the inflammatory profile were reported after the ingestion of ancient wheat products.
Posted 3/19/2014 5:11 PM (GMT 0)
I am glad you found a solution for your UC. But as said previously this diet works for some people and not others. It helped me a bit but not enough.

Meds didn't help me either however and lots of people get symptom relief with Rx meds.
Diet is trial and error the same way GI's handle meds. Try this and see if it works. If it doesn't you can try this, et cetera. Diet mod. costs a lot less but takes a lot more will-power.

I appreciate the work Elaine Gottschall put into Breaking the Vicious Cycle. I consider her a pioneer in UC diet treatment. But too many of those foods/drinks caused gut problems for me. It took another variation of gluten-free, dairy-free and various other food removals to get me to remission.

Thanks for your post. It may help someone reading it.
Posted 3/20/2014 1:26 AM (GMT 0)
i think SCD is a good base diet to start with and then you can branch off of it. that's what i did. i found that certain SCD foods didn't work for me and added starches in again. my poops are much better now than when i was on SCD.
Posted 3/20/2014 1:52 AM (GMT 0)
I avoid gluten grains such as wheat and rye but I feel the need for complex carbs for energy and mood. But agribusiness in this country is driving me crazy. Most of the brown rice is contaminated with arsenic, most corn is GMO and saturated with glyphosate. And wheat is gluten.

So I try to eat organic corn, buckwheat, and quinoa. The last thing I needed to see is that most rice, organic or not, contains arsenic:
consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic-in-your-food/index.htm
Posted 3/20/2014 1:56 AM (GMT 0)
So glad this has worked for you.... and hope your flare clears up quick!

As others said... we are all different... but a lot of UC people ARE affected by diet.
Just another success story to remind us to listen to our bodies about the foods it does or doesnt want. :) :)
Posted 3/20/2014 2:12 AM (GMT 0)
There are not five stages in BTVC. The stages originated on the Internet several years after Elaine Gottschall died. BTVC ignores resistant starch, because the research wasn't available to the author. There is a lot of good in the book, but two (rather militant) online sources in particular have made it into something I don't think the author intended.

SCD is very difficult for me because ripe bananas and honey are both really hard on my guts (pre-strictures). I also avoid green bananas, even though they are a good source of resistant starch. With strictures, I try to avoid foods that cause excess gas.
Posted 3/20/2014 3:00 AM (GMT 0)
I swear every week there is some new person popping up on here proclaiming this hollistic bs. Lets all be honest here...

None of that SCD / Grains / Probiotic / some nowhere town in africa special honey recipe / bull crap is going to make any difference. Stop buying all the stupid books and signing up for those dumb websites to make some feminist liberal art teacher more money. Because guess what it doesnt work, and everyone in the medicial community knows it As much as some of you people hate the pharmaceutical companies with the dumb big pharma nick names and how stupid you think your doctor/specialist is, actual western medicine is the only scientific way to have a proven chance of making you feel better for a short period of time. And good for them if theyre making a profit, at least their crap actually works.

And honestly if your life is that terrible and your trying to find some secret cure, just go into surgery and get it over it. Honestly, either the medicine route works or you suck it up and do the surgery.

The sooner you realize it the better your life will be. Or you can listen to 80% of the people on here who swear that eating a special coconut handpicked by a monkey in brazil will change your life forever.
Posted 3/20/2014 3:16 AM (GMT 0)
I couldn't agree more - thanks for saying what I've I wanted to for a long time but was too scared - honestly !
Posted 3/20/2014 9:38 AM (GMT 0)

rodzilla said...
I swear every week there is some new person popping up on here proclaiming this hollistic bs. Lets all be honest here...

None of that SCD / Grains / Probiotic / some nowhere town in africa special honey recipe / bull crap is going to make any difference. Stop buying all the stupid books and signing up for those dumb websites to make some feminist liberal art teacher more money. Because guess what it doesnt work, and everyone in the medicial community knows it As much as some of you people hate the pharmaceutical companies with the dumb big pharma nick names and how stupid you think your doctor/specialist is, actual western medicine is the only scientific way to have a proven chance of making you feel better for a short period of time. And good for them if theyre making a profit, at least their crap actually works.

And honestly if your life is that terrible and your trying to find some secret cure, just go into surgery and get it over it. Honestly, either the medicine route works or you suck it up and do the surgery.

The sooner you realize it the better your life will be. Or you can listen to 80% of the people on here who swear that eating a special coconut handpicked by a monkey in brazil will change your life forever.

you mad bro?
Posted 3/20/2014 11:00 AM (GMT 0)
The bro (rodzilla) is obviously a troll.

Post Edited (tap) : 3/20/2014 5:03:09 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/20/2014 12:13 PM (GMT 0)
Bahaha a special coconut picked by a monkey in Brazil!
Posted 3/20/2014 3:26 PM (GMT 0)
What works for some, may not work for others. Simple as that!
Posted 3/20/2014 4:54 PM (GMT 0)
see my post on recent diet review: www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=3026337

IMO, the main reason individual results vary is because we do have different profiles of gut microbes, and likely many people with IBD have different kinds of damage to their gut microbes too.
Posted 3/20/2014 5:01 PM (GMT 0)
Darn! Now I've got to figure out how to cancel my coconut order from Brazil. I've already given them my credit card number. They promised me that this special monkey knew what he was doing. Should have known you could only trust American monkeys to pick the right coconut from an American coconut farm.
Posted 3/20/2014 7:29 PM (GMT 0)
Should've stuck with the 20 bananas a day, Gary.
Posted 3/20/2014 7:42 PM (GMT 0)
"Or you can listen to 80% of the people on here who swear that eating a special coconut handpicked by a monkey in brazil will change your life forever."

lololol...handpicked by a monkey.
Posted 3/20/2014 7:45 PM (GMT 0)
must not be one of my monkey relatives or else i would've never gotten UC!
Posted 3/20/2014 10:04 PM (GMT 0)
OMG I so agree! Am so sick of reading this cured me and that cured me. Why didn't it cure me? UC has a mind of its own and you might be in a remission one day and sick the next and it's nothing you did or did not do. Believe me I tried everything! even darn pouch and I still get sick with it. In your blood! always in your blood. The only cure is a ostomy. Thank yourself that you have UC and not CD cause at least you have an option for a true cure and not just a blind remission.PS I've been dealing with this for over 18 years so I'm not a newbie.
Posted 3/20/2014 11:57 PM (GMT 0)

DBwithUC said...
see my post on recent diet review: www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=3026337

IMO, the main reason individual results vary is because we do have different profiles of gut microbes, and likely many people with IBD have different kinds of damage to their gut microbes too.

Ding. Ding. Ding. We have a winner!
Posted 3/21/2014 1:14 AM (GMT 0)
Boy, what he lacks in knowledge he sure makes up for in his confidence. Now we are all enlightened. We should all stop wasting our time on this useless forum & start just popping pills. Thank you Sir.Way to go on the first post.
Posted 3/21/2014 1:56 AM (GMT 0)
I thought it was kind of sarcastic & funny...but I'm messed up like that!
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