Colitis "Diet"

No need to get freaked out over food. Forget all the theories. It’s not about sugar, wheat, dairy, nightshade, macrobiotic-vegetarian-food combining-whatever. You cannot heal any inflammatory bowel condition with any kind of diet. In fact, you cannot even create one. As for inflammatory bowel conditions food is vastly overrated.

The only dietary goal you should have is to not irritate your colon anymore than it already is while you are getting it healed with the proper holistic treatment. To do this there are only three food rules.

1. Eat low fiber foods that won’t scrape up against the already inflamed intestinal tissue.

2. If any other food bothers you when you eat it stop for now. You will get back to eating whatever you want later.

3. Do yourself a favor, forget everything else!

Leaky Gut Syndrome – What A Mess

I have been trying to figure out the exact cause of this condition for a long time. I now realize why it was so difficult to crack the code. There are many causes of this increasingly common gastrointestinal problem. It is the result of a GI tract that has been attacked by numerous vagaries of modern living.

Poor quality food as well as a severely restricted diet. Our ancestors ate a much wider variety of foods. One example is in the 1920’s they ate as many as 30 different berries and 10-15 types of nuts. And they ate the whole food. We only get what is left over after it is processed to death. Our body needs the unique nutrients that are contained in those foods.

A chemical saturated environment: everything we ingest and touch is laced with chemicals that have many altering effects on our own biochemistry. The explosion over the last 20 years of new synthetic antibiotics is everywhere, including our food and water supply, and all of our health and beauty and toiletry products. We are a bacteria phobic culture.

Because of the unavoidable facts above, we are falling apart. We have become a walking semi-food/semi-hemical blob staggering around. We are a culture whose immunity is so weak we can’t stop things from growing on us and in us (give me more antibiotics in my antiperspirants, mouthwash, tooth pastes, and household cleaners please!) Because of this we can’t properly heal and maintain the integrity of our bodily tissues.

Hence, Leaky Gut Syndrome. Why the term ‘syndrome?’ That is used because there are many contributing causes as stated above. We have holes in the wall of our stomach. Because of this undigested food particles as well as preservatives and whatever else we swallow pass unprocessed directly into the blood stream causing our immune system to freak out and to set off all kinds of alarms = food allergies / intolerances.

There is a long list of other symptoms such as malnutrition, fatigue, skin issues, learning issues, pain syndromes, headaches, high cholesterol, sugar management, all types of allergies - you name it! Do you have one of those kids that seems to react to everything? Why do we need peanut-free zones all of a sudden?

We have sprung a leak at the top of the biochemical assembly line, the gut, where it all begins. The complicated part is figuring out what causes this and how to live with it.

The easier part is healing it. Supplements and herbs are what we need to heal this. This can require quite simple nutrients, but we must know how to dispense them and what ones to use (typically ones that are predigested so as to not stress this broken system and set off the alarms.)

The Great Bone Broth Hoax

Bone Broth supposedly having magical health properties to help with IBD is just flat out junk.

There is nothing nutritive in this stuff that is not readily available in most any other food. There are literally dozens and dozens of stories online and on blogs of people who experimented with doing the Bone Broth Diet and they all concluded the same thing, it does not work!

Let me make this completely clear - all of the inflammatory bowel conditions: IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s, Leaky Gut—even GERD can be healed, but it is impossible unless you

ingest nutritional supplements that contain concentrated amounts of what heals skin, fat, and muscle...what your GI tract is made of.

Bone Broth does not have any of those nutrients.