Have You Heard Of Crohn’s Disease?
Category : Gut Health
Crohn’s Disease is very painful and is increasing in prevalence.
Crohn’s disease is an Autoimmune Disease in the category of IBD (aka Inflammatory Bowel Disease), much more serious than IBS (aka Irritable Bowel Syndrome).
Simply described it is inflammation of the GI track, (aka digestive tract) and has some similarities to Celiac Disease.
The main symptoms of Crohn’s Disease include:
– Diarrhoea and loose stools
– Abdominal pain and cramping
– Mouth ulcers
– Weight loss and reduced appetite
– Blood in stools
– Fatigue and fevers
The Main IBS symptoms include:
– diarrhoea or constipation
– cramping and abdominal pain/gas
– bloating
– mucous in stool
There is no cure for Crohn’s but there is hope with Functional Medicine procedures including dietary and lifestyle interventions. These include:
- Your Microbiome/the healthy bacteria in your gut, benefits from eliminating refined sugar, grains, especially gluten, processed foods, dairy products and prevention of antibiotic use whenever possible.
- Prevent malnutrition by nourishing your body with foods like coconut oil,wild caught salmon, flax seeds, organic fruits, grass-fed meat, and blueberries, for example.
- A higher protein diet, like a Paleo-type diet or the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) works well for people with Crohn’s disease. Paleo lifestyle hacks help eliminate inflammatory foods, allowing your gut to heal.
- Stress reduction, including good sleep which allows the whole body to heal, putting your body into remission.
Before and after pics of a 11-12 year old girl, over a one-year period, with Crohn’s Disease.
On the left she is eating a standard American diet. (SAD).
On the right she had been using the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) for one year. Notice the healthy food swaps, much improved skin colour, brighter eyes and improved posture.
Acute flare-ups can be triggered by stress, foods, anxiety, depression, or acute infections.
The typical symptoms of Crohn’s can be identical to those of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). Candida Tropicalis has been confirmed in current research as a Crohn’s Disease factor.
Naturopathic medical approaches which emphasise dietary and lifestyle changes have been shown by research to be successful in managing Crohn’s disease.
A higher protein diet, like a Paleo-type diet or the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) works well for people with Crohn’s disease.
Crohn’s Disease is an Autoimmune Disease.
The 3 components of Autoimmune Disease are:
- Genetics: Test for the gene
2. Environmental Triggers: commonly gluten, wheat, barley and rye family
3. Leaky Gut: caused by environmental triggers
On a personal level I have discovered Microbiome Labs Products.
I specifically use:
- MegaSporebiotic
- MegaPrebiotic and
- MegaMucosa
Check it out at: https:www.microbiomelabs.com
The product line provides a course of 3 months to recondition the gut by microbial diversity.
The second month adding MegaPrebiotic reinforces the new bacterial colony by feeding them.
In the third month you add MegaMucosa to rebuild the mucous lining of the gut.
After the 3 months you go onto maintenance.
You will need to ‘find a Practitioner.’
Email me at support@auroraeducationwa.com and I will help connect you.
Watch and hear from a Crohn’s survivor/thriver with a inspirational testimony as a personal consultation from Jordan Rubin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UvrOXTnc4
Jordan Rubin, who has had an extreme case of Crohn’s Disease, shares his advice from healing his body of Crohn’s Disease.
He suggests:
Limit carbs, no gluten, no dairy.
Bone Broth, Fermented foods.
Healthy fats like coconut oil, coconut milk, avocados, nuts and seeds if not on flare-ups, nut butter and seed butter all help a lot to heal Crohn’s.
Blueberries also are very nourishing for healing Crohn’s.
Specific herbs like Frankincense which you can learn from the consult on You Tube.
Spices: tumeric and ginger are essential to reverse Crohn’s.
Essential oils, which I use daily, lavender and peppermint.
Supplements, probiotics and digestive enzymes.
Jordan Rubin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UvrOXTnc4
Self-Education Related Homework:
https://drhyman.com/blog/2015/09/04/10-steps-to-reverse-autoimmune-disease/ including a very cute testimony video by a 10 yr-old girl
https://medshadow.org/chinese-herbs-not-rx-meds-to-treat-my-crohns-disease/ Testimony of healing Crohn’s.
Natural Solutions to Crohn’s Disease
Getting to the Root of Crohn’s Disease: A Functional Medicine Approach