Another success story with spinach and sunflower seeds!

Yes, still doing well. Just getting over a head cold the past 3-4 days. Still eating spinach every day and sun butter every day. It's been about 3 1/2 months now. I still get a little gurgling, and my BM's still aren't perfect, but compared to what they were, it's almost a miracle. Plus, my lifestyle isn't the most healthy right now. Been eating too much fast food and bread lately, plus have been drinking way too much alcohol. I imagine if I straightened myself out a little more, cut down the bread and alcohol, cut out cheese, I'd probably get to where I want to be.

kiolm said...
I've been meaning to go through this thread with a fine tooth comb. Maybe I will tomorrow.

A couple of questions though. Who came up with the idea ??? I remember reading a similar thread years ago.

How in the world can you eat a can of spinach.lol. There is no way I could eat more than 2 spoon fulls.lol.

What's the theory. If it's magnesium and zinc then why not just take that ?

It is getting gross at times. Had my 2nd half with steak tonight, need to come up with something to put on it. I ate it as a kid and liked it.

It is not that simple, nutrients apart from food are usually not absorbed as well. More than meets the eye. It could be the vitamin k, it was banned from my food list while on warfarin for high vitamin k - I ate it anyway.

I am going to add spinach and sunbutter to my no caffeine no sulfite diet to see if I can gain more improvement especially with the blood and urgency. My stools without caffeine and sulfite are now pretty good.

Here is the reason I believe the spinach and sunbutter work. It is nitrate from the spinach and arginine from the sunbutter, they both produce nitric oxide in the body.
As stated in another post the study results on nitric oxide and UC are ambiguous but some people on this site do go into remission with this diet,really believe nitric oxide is the connection.
I may also supplement with L-Arginine pills.
Here is a link to nitric oxide and UC in case anyone missed it.

http://www.nature.com/labinvest/journal/v82/n5/full/3780454a.html

You also may find this article on L-Arginine and UC of interest.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2795785/?tool=pubmed

Old Mike

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 2/12/2011 9:38:23 AM (GMT-7)