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Hey! i'm glad to hear that your doing good!...
Don't take the extract, its too powerful and will end up making you feel worse. I get the whole herb in the chopped up form from a health food store and take a very small pinch every other day and it...
Because they are worried that people will die by overdosing on potassium in supplements so by law 99mg is the max they can sell in each pill yet 1/4 of a teaspoon of salt substitute that you can buy...
Well for one sunflower seeds are loaded with pantothenic acid which may play a roll in helping the diet to work and alcohol destroys pantothenic acid. In addition it's possible that alcohol destroys...
yeah, no medications at all....
The longest was 2 months but it usually only takes a couple weeks for me....
Like Kiss520 eating sunflower seeds and spinach frequently has put me in and kept me in remission. Been in remission for 4 years now doing this....
yeah if you dont chew them real well. Thats why some people eat sunflower seed butter instead of the seeds....
i'm still doing great...
Foods I consider acidic are things with lots of vinegar like pickles, pickled beets, Italian salad dressing etc....
I don't know how much this translates into fresh spinach because I always ate canned spinach but if I was flaring trying to get out of a flare I would probably eat a can of spinach every other day...
I have done a lot of research on the nutritional value of many nuts and seeds. Most nuts and seeds are pretty comparable in their nutritional value and most are high in magnesium and I have found...
Mine was very severe. Before I went into remission I was in a two year non stop flare and would have 10 to 20 bms a day. I crapped my pants several times in puplic because i had extreme urgency. Also...
Kill good bacteria in the gut and deplete and/or destroy nutrients in the body are some things that come to mind....
did you do the magnesium citrate prep? I have found that magnesium helps me....
Some nutrients are very important for cell function and regulation and the body tightly regulates the levels of many nutrients in the blood. I think with people with UC something is messed up that...
That's great! eating spinach and sunflower seeds regularly has kept me in remission for 4 years all while being on no meds. The diet works really good for me and fortunately it sounds like it works...
Burli wrote " for what seems like no reason, go back into a flare." For you maybe it seems that way but not for me because I have figured out what makes me flare without a doubt. And I'm really...
6' tall and I was down to 155 in my longest flare that lasted 2 years. Im at 205 now....
Your wrong Burli. I dont avoid any foods and I have no food alergys. I eat all the foods I ever have plus more....
What do you mean not? You have no clue Burli. I have pinpointed exactly what nutrients when get out of balance in my body causes me to flare and when properly balanced puts me in remission. I can...
I have controlled my UC and been in remission for 3 and a half years with diet so I would say absolutely without a shadow of doubt that food can heal UC....
I would suggest nut butters....
It made my symptoms worse when I tried it a few years back. As a matter of fact I hadn't graduated to crapping in my pants in public from UC till a few weeks after I started using it. It gave me...
Well that really sucks! you try to do something good for yourself and end up doing more dammage! Murphy's law I guess...
I don't think that would work. Nexium works by reducing the acid in the stomach because some stomach ulcers are caused by excess acid. Colon ulcers from ulcerative colitis are not caused by excess...
Sunflowerseeds don't contain beta carotene but spinach, carrots and other vegetables do. Sunflower seeds contain magnesium and other helpful nutrients....
if I start to get symptoms I eat between 1/2 to 1 full can of spinach every day or every other day and sunflower seeds nearly every day. if im in remission I only eat spinach once a week or so but...
JLH, I don't know if your eating spinach or not but If your just eating sunflowerseeds and no spinach make sure you eat something to get plenty of beta carotene such carrots or carrot juice because...
I'm glad your doing good unclebubba! I drop in to see what's going on at this forum periodically but the search function here don't work worth the you know what because it seems many of the past...
100% absolutely positively without a doubt diet is a major factor with my UC. I can maintain remission with diet alone. I can also bring on a flare by altering my diet. Been doing it for years and...
I also wanted to mention that spinach is loaded with magnesium and I think its one of the important nutrients in these foods that helps some of us. And while juicing is better than nothing, I would...
songlady, If im starting to flare and trying to get back in remission I eat a 13.5 ounce can of spinach every day or every other day and eat 5 or 6 handfuls of sunflower seeds a day. If im trying to...
Spinach and sunflower seeds are the only thing that I have found to bring me out of a flare so I would definitely eat them. As I matter of fact I was in remission for over three years straight from...
yeah it can cause that if you take a high amount through supplements. I get mine from foods. Nuts and seeds and nut and seed butters are high in it and so is spinach....
Yes, I get fatigue and muscle cramps also when I ingest too much calcium. People don't realize how powerful of effects calcium can have on the body. There is a reason why it is so tightly regulated...
I'm still in remission from eating spinach and sunflower seeds frequently. Been In remission over three years now! Pretty weird how these foods provide some of us with the right nutrients we need to...
I have always had the brown jelly and whitish mucus right at the start of a flare or when I have been in a flare and right before remission so that tells me it happens when the colon is just slightly...
yes canned spinach works. Thats usually the only kind i eat....
I'm 6' at 195 now with not much fat. When I was flaring for two years non stop a few years ago i was at 155....
Zippy123, I try to eat a fairly healthy balanced diet but I'm not on any kind of strict diet. I don't eat much sugar but not because of UC, Just because I feel better with other aspects physically...
a lot of the people that were being helped or in remission from the diet have seemed to disappear from the forum. You don't need to eat them together. I would try to eat a few handfuls of sunflower...
in my experience the sunflower seeds are one of the most important aspects of the diet. If I go for a few days without them symptoms will start to return. I can stay in remission without any spinach...
I'm curious how your doing as well bokscarracer? I am still in remission from eating sunflower seeds, spinach and carrots frequently....
Cortisol levels are tightly regulated in the body so you probably are not going to get it higher than normal no matter what you do unless you are taking pred. Pred does not cause the body to release...
who said anything about adrenalin? its called cortisol, a substance in the body that prednisone mimics....
I agree with pb4, its got to be the lamps. Lol...
Yeah its been one of my theories too....
I usually eat some kind of meat, beef, chicken etc nearly every day and have been in remission for 3 years. But while flaring red meat did make things worse for me at times, but so did fruit....