High Animal Protein Women Risk of IBD Study

There was a small thread back in 2010 4 or so comments,anyhow I just ran across the abstract looking for something else.

This really needs to be looked at again. It talks about the risk for IBD with high animal protein consumption,of course the real question for us is can we heal on a low animal protein/perhaps low sulfur diet.

This also ties in with heme iron being a potential problem.  It also ties in with colits starting distally due perhaps

to protein fermentation in the colon.

If true then this would seem to fly in the face of Paleo or SCD diet,it would be interesting to see how many

have gone into remission on a low animal protein diet.

Of course it may be too late to fix IBD with this type of diet,something else such as bacteria may be driving the inflammation.

This was a big study in France so it should carry some weight.

I know there a few people here who do not eat animal protein and have IBD,I have to wonder if they also

have tried to eat low sulfur veggies.

Old Mike

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20461067

Then we have this study which pretty much says figure out your own diet,what is good for one person might not be good for another.

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20144628

Then again dietary heme is a problem.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20705428

 

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 7/26/2012 5:43:04 PM (GMT-6)

I had asked a GI who specializes in IBD about any link between childbirth and UC and he said it hadn't been studied yet. He, too, saw a lot of women develop it after childbirth and Thought it would be interesting to look at the link there.

My guess as to the UC appearing after childbirth (as it did in my case) are the crazy hormone fluctuations and the severe sleep deprivation (ie, stress). It's just a theory, though.

I had a total hysterectomy in 1993 at age 39, so hrt was necessary. My flares were up and down, but it was a relief to not have the monthly chaos created by periods.

A few years ago I wanted to see how things were for me to go off the estrogen (low dosage soy-derived patch). So I tapered to nothing.

The hot flashes started and increased steadily...during summer wasn't a good time for it to happen, d'uh.

Eventually, I started to flare and this time with bleeding which shocked the heck out of me. I hadn't bled with any flares for 14 years before that.
I believe it was the combo of the no steady estrogen, the fact that I was in a perimenopause according to the follicle stimulating hormones driven by the pituitary, the distress of the symptoms and the flaring. I wasn't at the twice a week maintenance either, so all had part in the more extreme symptoms.

Needless to say, the estrogen patch returned twice a week, the flashes slowed down and stopped within the week.

I think it's the fluctuating hormones that women have that has a huge part of symptoms, and with pregnancy, childbirth and perimenopause...all would cause huge fluctuations.

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