The Best Diet For Ulcerative Colitis - Colonoscopy Proof
Summary
TLDRIn this informative video, IBD coach Steve shares his personal experience and professional insights on managing ulcerative colitis through diet. Having been drug-free and symptom-free for years, he emphasizes the importance of starting with a diet high in animal foods to allow the colon to rest and recover. He advises a gradual reintroduction of plant foods and stresses the need for a strategic approach to avoid reigniting symptoms. Steve also touches on the distinction between being symptom-free and having healed gut wounds, urging viewers to be patient and considerate with their dietary choices.
Takeaways
- 😀 Steve, an IBD coach, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis 20 years ago and has been drug-free and symptom-free for a long time.
- 🔍 He provides evidence of his health status through colonoscopy results and blood work showing normal colonic mucosa and low inflammation markers.
- 👨🏫 Steve's advice is based on his own experience and feedback from a large number of clients, emphasizing that it's not medical advice but his opinion.
- 🌱 Initially, Steve recommended a vegan diet for healing ulcerative colitis, but his approach has evolved over time.
- 🍖 Nowadays, he starts clients on a diet high in animal foods, as they allow the colon to rest and recover more effectively.
- 🧬 A diet high in animal foods can help reduce the number of bad bacteria in the gut, which is often imbalanced in IBD patients.
- 🥦 After establishing a foundation with animal foods, Steve suggests gradually reintroducing plant foods like fruits and vegetables to build a healthful microbiome.
- 🚫 He warns against adding high FODMAP foods or nuts too early in the process, as they can exacerbate symptoms if the gut is not yet healed.
- ⏱ The order and timing of reintroducing foods are crucial for maintaining symptom-free status and allowing the gut to heal properly.
- 🛑 There's a difference between being injury-free (symptom-free) and being wound-free (fully healed), and it's important to avoid dietary mistakes that can reopen wounds.
- 🔗 For those interested in implementing an elimination diet and other healing strategies, Steve offers help and can be contacted through links provided in the video.
Q & A
What is the main focus of the video?
-The main focus of the video is to discuss the best diet for individuals diagnosed with colitis, specifically ulcerative colitis, and to share the speaker's personal experience and professional advice on managing the condition through dietary changes.
Who is the speaker in the video?
-The speaker is Steve, an IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) coach, who was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis almost 20 years ago and has been drug-free and symptom-free for many years.
What does Steve suggest as the initial diet for healing ulcerative colitis?
-Steve suggests starting with a diet high in animal foods, such as chicken, beef, fish, and eggs, as they allow the colon to rest and recover more effectively than plant-based diets.
Why does Steve recommend a diet high in animal foods initially?
-Animal foods, which consist mainly of fats and proteins, do not require action in the colon for digestion and absorption, thus providing rest for the colon, which is essential for recovery and repair.
What is the role of the colon in the healing process according to the video?
-The colon needs to rest as much as possible during the healing process. By focusing on a diet of animal foods, the colon is less active, allowing for better recovery from ulcerative colitis.
What is the issue with starting a healing diet with a vegan or high-plant food approach?
-Plant foods require more action in the colon for digestion, which does not allow the colon to rest as much as needed for healing. Additionally, plant foods can feed gut bacteria, potentially exacerbating an already imbalanced microbiome.
How does Steve approach reintroducing plant foods into the diet after starting with animal foods?
-Steve advises a gradual reintroduction of plant foods, such as fruits and vegetables, after the colon has had time to rest and begin the healing process. This approach helps to rebuild a healthful microbiome from the ground up.
What does Steve mean by 'injury-free' versus 'wound-free'?
-Being 'injury-free' means that symptoms have subsided, but 'wound-free' refers to the actual healing of the gut tissue. It's important to continue with a healing diet even after symptoms have disappeared to ensure the gut is fully healed.
What are some additional factors Steve considers important for healing from ulcerative colitis?
-Steve mentions self-care, supplements, lifestyle, and mindset and belief systems as key areas of healing that should be considered alongside dietary changes.
How does Steve validate his advice on diet for ulcerative colitis?
-Steve validates his advice through his own experience of being symptom-free for years, his professional experience working with a large number of clients, and by providing evidence from his colonoscopy results and blood work showing a normal colonic mucosa and low inflammatory markers.
What is the importance of consulting a doctor before implementing dietary changes suggested in the video?
-It is important to consult a doctor before making any dietary changes to ensure that the changes are appropriate for the individual's specific health condition and to avoid any potential complications.
Outlines
🍽️ Diet Strategies for Ulcerative Colitis Management
Steve, an IBD coach and a former ulcerative colitis patient, shares his personal experience and professional insights on managing the condition through diet. He emphasizes the importance of a diet primarily based on animal foods to allow the colon to rest and recover, which is crucial for healing. He also mentions his initial recommendation of starting with a vegan diet and gradually introducing animal foods, but now he suggests the opposite approach based on client feedback and his own experience. Steve provides evidence of his own healing through colonoscopy results and blood work, showing normal colonic mucosa and low inflammatory markers. He advises viewers to consult with their doctors before implementing any dietary changes found online and offers his assistance for those interested in an elimination diet and other healing strategies.
🌱 The Role of Diet in Microbiome Balance and Healing
In this paragraph, Steve discusses the impact of diet on the gut microbiome, particularly in the context of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). He explains that a diet high in plant foods can exacerbate an already imbalanced microbiome, leading to more inflammation. By focusing on animal-based foods, one can reduce the bacterial load in the gut, allowing for a healthier microbiome to be built gradually as plant foods are reintroduced. He warns against reintroducing foods too quickly, as this can reopen wounds in the gut and reignite symptoms. Steve also touches on the distinction between being symptom-free (injury-free) and having fully healed (wound-free), stressing the importance of a cautious approach to dietary changes to maintain long-term remission from IBD symptoms.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Ulcerative Colitis
💡Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
💡Drug-free and Symptom-free
💡Colonoscopy
💡C-reactive Protein (CRP)
💡Vegan Diet
💡Omnivorous Diet
💡Bowel Rest
💡Microbiome
💡FODMAPs
💡Elimination Diet
💡Injury-free vs. Wound-free
Highlights
Steve, an IBD coach, shares his experience with ulcerative colitis and his drug-free, symptom-free lifestyle.
Provides evidence of his colonoscopy results and blood work showing normal colonic mucosa and low inflammatory markers.
Advises viewers to consult with their doctor before implementing any dietary changes found on the internet.
Discusses the effectiveness of a vegan diet for healing ulcerative colitis, with strategic food choices to avoid inflammation.
Initially recommended a vegan diet for clients, but has since shifted to starting with animal-based foods for healing.
Animal-based diets allow the colon to rest and recover, as fats and proteins are digested higher in the digestive tract.
A high-animal food diet can help reduce the number of bad bacteria in the gut, which is often imbalanced in IBD patients.
Plant foods, especially easily digestible sugars, can exacerbate inflammation and should be introduced cautiously.
The importance of reintroducing foods in a strategic order to maintain symptom-free status.
The distinction between being symptom-free (injury-free) and having healed the gut (wound-free).
The risk of reigniting symptoms by reintroducing foods too quickly before the gut has fully healed.
The potential for a broad diet including animal foods, fruits, veggies, caffeine, and alcohol once the gut has healed.
The necessity of being sensible about the timing and pace of reintroducing various foods.
Steve offers help in implementing an elimination diet and gradually introducing new foods to stay symptom-free.
Emphasizes the importance of considering self-care, supplements, lifestyle, and mindset in the healing process.
Provides a link to contact him for further assistance in healing from ulcerative colitis.
Transcripts
can be much more effective much faster
to uh focus on a diet primarily based
all right guys so this is a video to
talk about what are the best diet is if
you've been diagnosed with all sorts of
colitis for those of you who don't know
who I am my name's Steve I'm an IBD
coach I was diagnosed myself with
ulcerative colitis almost 20 years ago
pan colitis specifically and I've been
drug free and symptom-free for a very
long time now for years and years and I
help other people to achieve that same
thing I'll leave links to two videos
below this video and you'll see one of
them is my colonoscopy experience where
you see my colonoscopy results and the
other is some blood work and fecal
testing that I had done where you see my
color protecting skull and also my CRP
so you'll see my inflammatory status and
you'll also see my colonoscopy results
in the two videos below this
spoiler alert my colon was completely
clear in fact I think the exact words
were normal colonic mucosa was noted
throughout the colon as in no evidence
of current or previous IBD and my cow
protecting I believe was nine and my CRP
was not detectable it was below the
limit of what the the test could detect
um
that being said I've also worked with a
very large number of people who've been
diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and it
is using the feedback from clients and
what I've experienced in my own body
over the past 20 years that I'm going to
give the following advice of course
don't just go and follow anything you
find on the internet you need to decide
whether or not it's right for you you're
the boss and of course I would also
recommend that you speak with your
doctor before implementing anything that
you find on the internet so this is not
medical advice it is my opinion
um that being said I've worked with
clients across a broad array of diets as
a means of helping them to heal their UC
and these diets everything from a vegan
diet because I work with clients who are
morally vegan I work with clients who
are culturally vegan I've got clients in
India and all over the world and a vegan
diet is a diet that I have used to help
people to heal from ulcerative colitis
it can work of course you need to be
strategic around which foods you are
including it is very very possible to
create a vegan diet that will not work
because there are tons of inflammatory
proteins in certain plant foods that you
do need to avoid but it is possible to
get symptom-free and stay symptom-free
using a vegan diet
however and in fact I'll say that when I
first started coaching about five years
ago now that is actually the diet that I
initially recommended I would start
people off on a vegan diet and then
gradually introduce animal foods and
they would end up as a highly omnivorous
people with lots of different fruits and
veggies and animal foods and snacks Etc
that they could eat but the diet did
start off
um with a vegan approach and then I'll
gradually phase in animal Foods now
these days based on a lot of client
experience based on a lot of experience
with my own body it is exactly the
opposite of that right so I start people
off on a diet that is if they are okay
to eat animal foods not everyone is but
if they are okay with things like
chicken beef fish eggs I don't know some
of those things will sound scary
um people will often think they're gonna
react badly to fish or eggs or they or
red meat
and it's surprising how many people uh
think they're going to react badly to
these things who actually don't perhaps
it was something else in the diet that
they were reacting to again now I'm not
saying to go and just eat these things
that I'm talking about because I said it
and I'm saying you're not going to react
to it you may well react to it right but
I'm telling you that there are a lot of
people who thought that things like beef
fish and eggs were the issue when it was
actually something else in the diet
anyway these days I do start people off
on a diet that is high in animal Foods
the reason for that is people can get a
lot of bowel rest when you have uh
ulcerative colitis and you want to heal
your colon you don't want a lot of stuff
to get to your colon right you want you
want your colon to rest as much as
possible and fats and protein which are
the two constituents in animal foods do
not require action in your colon okay
fat and protein are digested broken down
absorbed very high up in your digestive
tract you know partially in your stomach
and then the absorption happens in your
small bowel and it's pretty much
completed in your small bowel right so
your your colon gets a lot of rest
so and if there's one thing that we've
known for Millennia as human beings it's
that rest equals recovery and repair so
by focusing on a diet that is Centric on
animal foods you can allow your colons
to rest and recover
um also what that does is it allows you
to drive down the number of bad bacteria
in your gut
um in almost all cases with IBD people
have an imbalanced microbiome I hate
using that word but people have an
imbalanced microbiome and it is
primarily plant Foods a lot of the time
junk plant foods but still primarily
plant foods
that will feed your gut bacteria animal
foods do feed gut bacteria to some
extent but not nearly to the extent that
plant foods do and therefore by focusing
on a diet that is primarily animal Foods
you will drive down the total number of
bacteria including bad bacteria and then
you can build from ground up as you then
start to
reintroduce some plant foods like fruits
and vegetables and things you can build
from ground up and build up a healthful
microbiome the issue one of the issues
with starting with a diet that is vegan
or high in high in plant Foods is that
number one your colon is not going to
get as much rest because that stuff all
requires a lot of action in your colon
in fact primarily in your colon
and also it is either already a very
sort of easily digestible sugar or it is
broken down into a very easily
digestible sugar and when you have an
imbalance to gut flora and you and you
are inflamed if you pour a lot of sugar
on top of that sometimes it is like
adding fuel to a fire so it is not
always a good idea to have a ton of
sugar as you often would in a vegan diet
or a diet that is high in plant foods
that is just generally not a
particularly good idea sometimes if you
are already inflamed and having since it
can be much more effective much faster
to uh
focus on a diet primarily based in
animal foods and then gradually
introduce Foods as you get better of
course the order that you add Foods back
in really really does matter you can't
for example be eating beef bags and
chicken and then add in nuts or beef
eggs and chicken and add in some crazy
high FODMAP foods and you know that
there are
um certain things or you need to be very
strategic in the order in which you add
in these fruits and vegetables however I
have seen that with a lot of clients it
is very very possible to get back to
having a very broad diet that is a diet
full of animal foods that diet full of
lots of different foods full of lots of
different veggies snacks even things
like caffeine and alcohol these things
can all find their way back in there
however you do need to be very very
sensible about when you start adding
things in and how quickly you start
adding things in right you need to be
very sensible because there is a
oh cancel that call
there is a distinction between being uh
in I made another video on this recently
but there's a distinction between being
injury-free and being wound free right
so let's say you follow an Elimination
Diet like I would typically help my
clients out with and you get rid of your
symptoms you you may be symptom-free but
in those first few weeks you are not
wound free right so there is still
damage in your gut you you are still
being your body is still repairing
itself so if you suddenly did something
stupid diet-wise you can very easily
open up a wound you can very easily
exacerbate or reignite your symptoms
because the wound is still there right
if you give yourself a good amount of
time and I help my clients to work out
what that is but if you give yourself a
good amount of time before you start
adding stuff back in there's a very high
chance that you're going to be able to
keep symptoms away because when you do
add in something per that is potentially
troublesome
and it goes past the site of that injury
um it's not going to affect you because
the injury is no longer there okay
that's the very very basic uh concept of
being injury-free versus being wound
free and you want to be both okay
course I keep getting calls while I'm
doing this
so if you want help implementing an
Elimination Diet to get you symptom free
gradually introducing new foods to stay
symptom-free as well as looking at some
of the other key areas of healing such
as self-care such as supplements such as
lifestyle such as mindset and belief
system there's a link to contact me
either above or below this video thank
you guys very much much for watching
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and I'll talk to you soon
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