Climbsnowgirl, have a question please

Hi therealmiracles,

Still a new member, I was surprise to see my name in a topic and really happy to help

So first, my English is only functional, I'm a french speaker in Canada. So I guess NP = naturopathic practitioner ? Also I think your question come from the fact that I said curcuma (french word) instead of Turmeric in a post? In fact, curcumin is the active/medicine/anti-inflammatory component in Turmeric. So you can either use capsule, powder or fresh turmeric as anti-inflammatory. Also, to be much much more powerful, it have to be mix with pepper (precisely the piperine in pepper) and I would strongly recommend to mix it with fresh ginger. Ginger really helped me in the past. Personally, turmeric doesn't seem to me to work, but because it is so cheap, I would recommend everyone to try!

I am now followed by a naturopath practionner since december and here's her recommendations for inflammation :

- I did a IgG test. I now have to avoid the food which my blood have inflammatory reaction. In the list there's yeast, corn, canola, sunflower seeds, cow milk, wheat (but not gluten) that was not a surprise. But where it got interesting, I do react very strongly to mussels, oysters, hazelnuts, blackberry, barley, mustard, potatoes, white bean and sole. But like, I still don't know how reliable this test is but I now avoid those food!

- She recommend me to juice everyday (with a juicer!), this way it is very easy to include fresh and raw anti-inflammatory vegetables like celery, beets, green leafs, etc. She strongly recommend to juice cabbage, but this is for the healing part of the treatment.

- She recommend to use 2 tablespoons of ghee everyday. It's clarified butter with no lactose with a anti-inflammatory component called butyrate. She also recommended me the butyrate supplement and to start it slowly and increase the dose if it goes well.

- In november, I was using CDB oil as it seems to be the best natural way to replace pred and she didn't approve it. She thinks that it is still medecine (even if natural) and it just hide the symptoms and the reasons why the inflammation is there. With that being said, I would totally recommend someone to give it a good try as it seems to work well for a lot of people that have tried everything...

- She also gave me different recommendation for my specific current situation : gut healing (a specific probiotic, L-glutamine), c-diff (boulardii) and weight loss (digestive enzymes and proteins).

I'm happy to share because NP is not cheap at all!
Hope this was the answer you were looking for!

Started at 30mg (for the 4th time in the last year..) and now at 10 mg. Blood started at 15 mg for me too, gonna stay another week at 10mg and be more carefull with food (with high dose of pred and antibiotic I could eat more things and gain weight for the past weeks, but now it's time to be extra carefull, again). Hope blood it will goes away as Remicade suppose to kick in at any moment now...And yeah, prednisone helps a lot for me too! But one of the bad thing is that in my case, pred tend to hide my c-diff symptoms, so I have to stop it at some point to see if I still have c-diff infection (FMT is the next thing for me).

Yeah ghee is so good! I am a bad patient that still have a coffee once a day, but I add ghee and coconut milk to it. It's so good, I feel less guilty and it's a easy way to have some every day.

Sugar is one of my biggest trigger too, took me 5 years to get this though.... Pork and yeast are also big ones for me.

Almost neighboors :P I live in Quebec, it's north of Vermont

Good luck with the curcumin! Thanks for the sharing, I feel like I am not alone!