UC - and the specific carbohydrate diet contradiction

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Fran and Chris there are two problems with Healing Crow information,

which deals mainly with the specific carbohydrate diet.

 

The first problem is with regard to the advice to prevent or reduce

natural fermentation in the gut by probiotic (healthy) bacteria. In

the case of UC and IBD generally, a low level of probiotic gut

bacteria has been cited in the literature as probably causative of

IBD, and certainly promotive of IBD. The diference between taking a

probiotic, which Healing Crow supports, and feeding the culture, which

it doesn't, is huge, as taking one without feeding and keeping it

active with its food, inulin, does not foster its adhesion to the

bowel lining, and consequently the good it can do is artificially

limited by the method. 5,000 years of historic use of high-inulin

broth specifically to stop bowel disorders can still be followed

today, but the high-inulin foods are in short supply in modern

agriculture, so many people use inulin powder today with regular

veggies.

 

The second problem with Healing Crow advice is that it discourages the

use of the high glutathione precursor undenatured whey. Glutathione is

depleted in all illnesses and in bowel illness it can be completely

depleted at the injured portions of the bowel wall, despite a diet

that contains trace amounts of glutathione precursors plus the natural

amino acid conversion that exists in the body. Not taking advantage of

this powerful biological support allows continued free radical damage

at the injured sites, which could be prevented and which of course

results in cell death and bowel lining perforation.

 

Both of these approaches are well supported by a mountain of

literature and even common practice today especially in Russia where

they are a decade ahead (PubMed keywords: synbiotic; " oxidative

stress " in bowel disorders) but the SCD book is 30 years old and needs

an update.

 

I guess there are actually three potential problems, the third being

that dietary carbohydrates that readily ferment and thus feed

pathogenic organisms are supported, I don't know what all they are but

honey and bananas are two of them. The " official " SCD site however

ackowledges that many people have problems with any carbs at all, and

the specific carbs can be avoided.

 

One could comment that without the specific carbohydrates allowed in

the specific carbohydrate diet, what a person has left is a low

carbohydrate diet, one that contains no grains or sugars, or starches,

or even exotic carb-heavy seeds, no potatoes, whole grains, yams,

sweet potatoes, corn, sugar beets, to get to the right ballpark for

fast healing. This is the diet that is in fact practiced by the

candida group candidasis, along with undenatured whey, selenium, and

inulin, plus some other antioxidants and a few vitamins. The group

contains many people with IBS and IBD who will collaborate with you on

their updated, science-based approach to biological support. Here's

the group:

candidiasis

 

Finally, on both the candidiasis group and the colitiscrohns group

there are many people using high-dose probiotics, following the

approach of doctors at McGill university with VSL#3, a peer-reviewed

high-dose probiotic. In this case dietary support is less important,

as the dose is about equivalent to 150 probiotics capsules per dose.

This is quite expensive though, and most people prefer to use the

natural dietary mods to restore their bowel ecology rather than the

intervention.

 

Bonnie.

 

 

 

 

 

, Chris Garen

<chrisgaren555 wrote:

>

> Hello Fran

> The healing crow deals with ulcerative

> colitis and alternative remedies for bowel and stomach

> problems.A lot of advice is for Dr Hulda Clark

> remedies and her website is worth alook.This site does

> get a lot of spam but the genuine people on there are

> dealing with the problem using diet etc.

> Hope this helps

> Chris

>