So with IBD or inflammatory bowel disease doctors
typically say manage it medically forever. The end.
Now, the reality is, there's a lot you can do
with diet that can help sure your diet and typically
nothing you did necessarily was the cause of
IBD, but diet and eating pattern is critical
in helping manage symptoms, and helping keep
IBD under control. That's what I'm going to
talk to you about today in this video. My name
is Joe, I'm a dietitian, I run the world's leading
online dietitian consulting service that
specializes in digestive disorders in gut health.
If you've been diagnosed with IBD and you want
to learn about the best ways to manage it naturally.
Then make sure you continue to watch this video.
At the end also got a free guide which expands
on what I talked about here about diets for IBD
that you can get. So firstly just quickly IBD
is inflammatory bowel disease, not to be confused
with IBS, which is irritable bowel syndrome
IBS doesn't have any physical physiological
damage when you do a scope in a colonoscopy,
anything like that, you don't actually find damage.
That's why IBS is a syndrome. Not disease.
Typically with IBD, we see physical damage
and inflammation in the digestive tract in the colon.
And this information is part of, and also triggers symptoms.
There are several types of bowel disease and
typically we’re working with those with Ulcerative
Colitis, Crohn's disease, and some other types
of colitis as well, like microscopic colitis
or collagenous colitis in particular. Now,
as you may have suspected, there are a range
of eating patterns, that can help to reduce
inflammation in the digestive tract and therefore,
help to reduce your symptoms. And there's a
lot of early evidence for these eating patterns,
specifically, helping bowel disease, it's
not just anecdotal. It's not just what we've
heard someone say or what we've seen from patients.
Although that is interesting in itself. What
how our patients respond? But there is also
early evidence for several of these. I'm about
to talk about. So the first one is the specific carbohydrate
diet or SCD. And it basically is a diet that removes
large carbohydrate molecules like really
long ones that can typically be more difficult
for your digestive track to break down.
So the forward is by removing these it doesn't
doesn't demand so much of your digestive tract I suppose.
And therefore it's just easier to tolerate.
There is some promising, early evidence for
this and it can be worth the try. So long as you're,
you're getting the correct guidance. Number
two is the anti-inflammatory diet. Now, this
is actually more of a modern version. Version
of the specific carbohydrate diet. It's kind
of like a spin-off in that, it uses the same principles,
but it also adds in probiotics, prebiotics as well.
So probiotics that healthy bacteria that is
good to have in certain circumstances and prebiotics
which is the food that the bacteria in your gut feed on.
To grow, we want to grow more of those good
or healthy bacteria. So the anti-inflammatory
diet is also useful, but with probiotics and
things, you have to be careful. And the third
one is a low FODMAP diet. You've probably heard of it.
This is a diet specifically designed to treat
IBS and IBS like symptoms. So it involves eliminating
type of carbohydrate, which is a short chain
carbohydrate, and FODMAPs is an acronym to
describe those. And you basically removing
them seeing what, what symptoms you have or
what gets resolved and then strategically
reintroducing them back into your diet, one
by one to see, well, what was the trigger? And
then that sort of dictates where you go from
there, just because you react
to one doesn't mean you need to cut it out forever
and usually we can actually retrain your system
to to help. But we find a lot of overlap with people
who have IBD have IBS as well, because everything
is so irritating. So removing those FODMAPs
allows you to really get on top of your symptoms
there, and then you can be very strategic about
figuring out what am I really sensitive
to right now? And maybe I should limit that in.
The only way to get clarity is via the low FODMAP
diet, the elimination and reintroduction
process, which you should do with dietitian
guidance, and that's what your gastroenterologist will recommend.
There's no food, sensitivity tests or a quick
testing that is proven effective. The
science is just absolutely not there yet at
all, we have clients who have done the tests
who are like, I don't actually agree with half
of the results here and then sure enough, when
we go through the diet with them, it doesn't match
up to those test results. And also, just so,
you know, there's not really a shortcut there,
the evidence for FODMAP diet, with IBD. It's,
it's promising, but it's very early stage.
It's not, if not necessarily done at least the
I'm recording this clinical trials with low
FODMAP diet for IBD that I can think of, but it
certainly does help with the IBS symptoms,
the SCD and anti-inflammatory diet. They're
also all of this is early stage unfortunately,
with IBD research and funding it’s like, there's
not a lot of of research in human trials. They
do a lot of animal studies and of course is observational
where they kind of observe, a group of people.
And see what happens and try to match things
but as long as as long as diets do no harm, that's
kind of my Philosophy. If the diets not going
to do any harm and has potential great upside,
then I can see it being useful for you and I certainly
see a reason why you may want to try that, the
catches it has to do no harm. So that means that
includes not doing a diet longer than is necessary.
And so that means actually working with a professional
who knows what they're doing, who can make sure
that you don't go too far the wrong direction,
Or become too restrictive because we've
gut health with the gut bacteria in the gut microbiome that balance.
If we are too restrictive for too long, it creates
other issues and that could make things more complicated.
So I just want to emphasize that. Okay, so that
was a very brief summary of a few diets or eating patterns.
If you feel overwhelmed, confused, that's
okay, that's normal. Start with my guide. My
written guide is much more thorough and goes
into more details. So if you want the guide just
comment “IBD guide”, comment that and I can send
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and what you need and I can send you the guide
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