Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath.
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I have a question here from somebody in Sydney, Australia.
The question is, "Eric, what can you eat when your intestines are inflamed?"
That's an interesting question.
We've just recently spoken about some inflammatory markers that can be found in the stool test,
for example, that could spell out whether you've got inflammation or not.
Sometimes these markers can be found in the blood test, but more accurately if you've
got a gut problem and inflammation, you're better off assessing the stool for these markers.
So we've spoken about Lysozyme, we spoke about Calprotectin, so you may want to look back
at those markers, because they could you know, have some bearing on what I'm going to talk
about here right now with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
So, if your intestines are inflamed ... if you're looking at IBD, Inflammatory Bowel
Disease, we're talking about the large intestine, particularly with ulcerative colitis, because
it's colitis, which is the colon.
However, Crohn's Disease is an Inflammatory Bowel Disease that can live right from the
mouth through the whole GI tract.
Could be anywhere.
Could be in the small bowel, the large bowel.
It could be anywhere.
In the stomach, in the throat, even.
When you say your intestine's inflamed, I'm going to talk about inflammatory bowel disease
in general here.
So I have completed some videos on inflammatory bowel disease; you may want to go and have
a look at those under the playlists, because I'm sure you'll find some.
So, when you've got inflammatory bowel disease, you certainly will want to be doing, particularly
if it's bad, if it's active and flared up, you'll be wanting and doing food allergy tests
to determine if you've got food allergies and what the key allergies are and take those
foods the heck out of the diet.
That's going to help considerably.
Yeah.
I think that's a good, that's a fair call, particularly if you've been taking medications
for inflammatory bowel disease; that's quite a good thing to do to start.
So, IGE, IGG, serum-based food allergy test is quite a smart thing to do.
You'll know already, generally by default what foods are flaring you up and making you
feel bad and which foods are quite neutral in their activity on your gut, so you probably
worked a few things out already.
But suffice to say, alcohol and caffeine and heavy foods like fatty pork, takeaway food,
soda drinks, alcohol, these are all no-brainers.
You just don't engage in these kinds of foods.
They're all wrong kind of foods to have when your intestines are inflamed.
Candy and takeaway ... these typical foods that many people will gaze on or snack on
at parties, you know, junk foods, these sorts of foods.
Better options, dietary options with inflammatory bowel disease are the cooling foods and the
soothing foods, the anti-inflammatory foods.
For example, proteins.
Fish, the oily fish, or the omega-3 rich fish species are quite good to have for the inflamed
bowel.
Quite a smart option there.
I'd go for the lighter meats, like particularly fish and chicken.
I would avoid egg, generally for a few weeks.
I would avoid dairy products.
I would avoid bananas, oranges, peanuts, soy, and legumes in general, like chickpeas and
beans.
These things, I'd probably pull aside for several weeks.
Focus more on the leaner proteins like the chicken, organic, free-range chicken.
But if you're a vegan, you know, you may want to have tempeh.
Tempeh, for example, a cultured kind of tofu, which I quite like.
Even though I said avoid soy, but if you're a vegan, that's one of your top forms of protein,
you could be looking at foods like that.
And also looking at the kind of legumes or foods you know that aggravate your gut.
Some will, and some won't.
Be careful of nuts and the seeds and grains with inflammatory bowel disease.
You will be losing weight with this condition, but you don't want to lose too much, so you
want to make sure that you put some carbs in there that are gonna give you energy and
stop you from dropping too many pounds as well.
That could be quinoa or brown rice, which is one of my favorite combinations.
Anti-inflammatory foods are not just the fish.
We're thinking about blueberries.
I'm thinking about pomegranates.
We're thinking about adding garlic and ginger to the diet.
Spinach.
Asparagus.
All good foods.
Broccoli, like kale.
All good foods to eat with inflammatory bowel disease.
Foods high in Vitamin A, for example, also very good for the lining of the mucus membranes.
You could be looking at wheat germ oil.
You could be looking at carrots, for example.
You could look at some sweet potatoes, if they don't flare up too much.
High Vitamin A foods help to build the lining of the gut.
Smart move to do this.
Vitamin E foods.
The fat-soluble vitamins are quite important with this condition, so do a bit of Googling
on foods high in fat-soluble vitamins.
These are very smart to have.
Flaxseed oil?
Good addition.
Walnuts.
And fish oil, all good and anti-inflammatory.
Tumeric extract, another good thing to have.
You can also cook with tumeric, like you can with ginger.
You actually by tumeric and grate that up and add that to your meals.
So tumeric and ginger are fantastic additions if you've got inflamed intestines.
Yeah.
Be careful of the beverages.
Green tea.
But coffee and tea and alcohol are not really the best for inflammatory bowel.
Alcohol's the worst thing you can do.
That's just really abusing your body if you've got inflammatory disease, to have alcohol.
So I hope that gives you a bit of information on some foods to consume with inflamed intestines.
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