THP Total Health Performance: ibd

Friday, 7 July 2017

IBD and Diet

January 25, 2017

Nathan Waters - Total Health Performance

In my world it has been known for a very long time that your diet can help you recover from pretty much all diseases including inflammatory bowel disease. Sadly, some medical experts tell their clients that diet has nothing to do with this disease. I have no idea how they come to this conclusion but it is what clients are hearing. So they go on eating foods that are problematic to them and just hope that somehow they will be cured by the drugs the doctor prescribes.

If you adjust your nutrition then the drugs they prescribe would more than likely work better anyway. Not looking after your nutrition while doing additional therapies would be like trying to use a bucket to bail water out of a sinking boat. No matter how good a job you do with the bucket, there is still water entering the boat. You have to fix the hole in the boat for a long term solution. You can’t just rely solely on one approach. It is multifaceted and many factors need to be addressed. Nutrition is the foundation.

Some of the foods we suggest removing from the diet are processed foods and sugar, wheat, grains, dairy, and eggs as these foods tend to be a problem for a lot of people. Obviously it is very individual but this seems to be a decent starting point.

You can suppress symptoms but you have to address the underlying cause.

For more information and a review of a study that demonstrated patients with inflammatory bowel disease could reach remission with diet alone, please see the link below:

http://blog.designsforhealth.com/si-42214/new-study-demonstrates-patients-with-inflammatory-bowel-disease-can-reach-remission-with-diet-alone

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Tuesday, 2 May 2017

PROBLEM #12 YOU DISRESPECT YOUR GUT

May 1, 2017

Gemma Smith

It all starts and ends in the gut; it doesn’t matter if you are counting your calories or your macros, training once a week or twice a day, spending money on supplements you don’t need; unless your gut function is optimized, you are just spinning your wheels.

It’s not normal to have gas, bloating or digestive upset on a daily basis. I bet that nearly every one of you who are reading this would have one or more of the following on a regular basis:

Gas
Bloating
Constipation
Diarrhea
Stomach cramping
Recurring flu and colds
Skin conditions
Fatigue
Nausea
Vomiting
Depressive thoughts

Why should you care about your gut?

You are not what you eat; you are what you assimilate.

You can be eating and drinking the ‘perfect diet’, but if you don’t break down the food properly, you don’t get all of the nutrients.

If you are eating foods that cause an irritation in your gut then you will be inflamed – think of when you roll your ankle and it swells up, that’s inflammation – inflammation leads to fat storage, so if your goal is weight loss while you’re inflamed, good luck to you!

What can you do from here?

You have to remove whatever it is that is inflaming you – if your sink is overflowing do you stop the water from running of remove the plug?
Write down a list of symptoms you have on a weekly basis – you want to form a pattern or a trend that you can track or monitor
Keep a food diary and make notes of how these items make you feel
Avoid the common offenders – gluten, wheat and dairy (this won’t be the same for everyone, but it’s a good start)
Try to heal your gut – aloe Vera and glutamine work well

Once the item or items have been identified you have to remove them – avoid them for 3-6 months, reintroduce one at a time and whichever ones flare up your symptoms are the ones you will more than likely have to avoid for good.

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