Greetings and more greetings from New Zealand. It's Eric Bakker. And we're so happy because
we've now had a travel bubble with Australia, even though there's COVID around. I'm not going
anywhere, but yeah, Aussie's opened up. So that means that the Kiwis can fly to Aussieland,
and the Aussies can fly to Kiwiland, so 400 flights a week or something. And
yeah, we'll just see what happens, hey?
Anyway, the question today, how much Omega 3 do I need for ulcerative colitis? Let me
read parts of my script out here because I spent days and days writing scripts for these videos,
and then I'll add bits to it here or there. But colitis is a condition I've
seen hundreds of cases on. You might find that hard to believe, but I specialized in
inflammatory bowel disease for some time. I did presentations on it at
colleges and at conferences. This is an area I'm quite interested in working with.
Well, was when I was practicing. But now it's good to educate people online, and in time I'll talk
more about the different case presentations I've seen with colitis. Yeah. So let's get into this.
It is surprising how common ulcerative colitis is today. I used to see a case every three to
six months in the late 1980s. And by the time I retired in 2019, I was seeing one case a
fortnight, if not more. Could this be due to the colitis patients seeking help by way of natural
medicine? Or could it be that this condition has become more prevalent in our society?
Ulcerative colitis an auto-immune condition causing bowel disease in which the lining of
your large intestine or colon becomes inflamed. This inflammation leads to the formation of raw
source or ulcers, causing pain and bloody diarrhea at any age. But for many people who initially are
in their early twenties, and for most colitis comes and goes for the rest of their life.
Colitis patients who experience flare ups, and if you've got clients,
you'll know what I mean by flare up, they can experience them on a very regular basis.
Some people can experience them once a year. And some people experience them once in a blue moon,
which is very rarely. I worked with so many people in the end, I could get
highly inflamed patients. It would initially take anything up to two or three months to
sort of settle them down, and then we can move them into another phase where they are getting
a flare up once every six months, and then once every 12 months. Then eventually, I
could see that they would rarely, if ever, getting flares again, that the bowel settled right down.
Inflammatory bowel disease is a huge problem with people, okay? Because you may not have it
watching this, but I can tell you guys out there, if you've got a belt problem, your life is hell.
How can you work? How can you socialize? How can you even go to a restaurant with people?IWhat
can you do? Everything revolves around the bowel. It really does.
I've seen plenty with Crohn's disease as well, and it's even more insidious, to be honest.
There are many potential causes of IBD, inflammatory bowel disease. But the cases
that annoyed me the most are the ones that were induced by drugs side effects. Okay?
Several studies now show the consuming of mega three fatty acids
leads to the production of resolvins, protectins and maresins, chemicals your body makes which
lead to reductions in inflammation, seriously benefiting IBD patients.
So it's been found through studies that UC patients who receive Omega regularly
achieve remissions much earlier than those taking a placebo and olive oil capsule. Patients
who took Omega 3 also noticed a significant reduction in steroid medication over time.
So 1000 milligrams, again, three times per day with colitis patients. The other tip
I give colitis patients is to take sulfur out the diet for the first three to six months. No eggs,
okay? Any food high in sulfur comes out. I found some studies showing that sulfur can really
help to create [inaudible 00:04:21], or basically it produces things that really help to push
inflammation in the bowel up and up and up and keep it going. So once you take all sulfur out
of the diet, or eggs predominantly, and start limiting other foods that can potentially inflame
the bowel, red meat, cows milk, those sorts of foods, gluten, they've all got to come out.
So yeah, colitis is a tricky condition. Have a look on Google, particularly for the diet. But
colitis also involves a lot of stress for people. And when they can mediate the stress and reduce
that, they're in a far better position. So remember, this is an autoimmune disease.
And what's my take on autoimmune disease? Do a comprehensive stool test.
It's mandatory. All right? You must do a comprehensive stool test with this condition
because you really want to get to the bottom of what's in that bowel. Have we got this
there? Have we got bacteria there? Are there parasites? What the heck's going on in there?
Colitis patients will have been on medications, no doubt for years. They could have been on different
types of foams that they pumped inside them, discount things down. That can be on different
types of analgesics or pain-relieving medications or steroids. So these things all need to be taken
into account. A good clinician can get most people off ulcerative colitis medications within six to
12 months. And that's a bold statement that I stand by. It's possible. Three capsules a day
of Omega 3 spaced out with meals. Don't forget, if you've got colitis and you don't take a probiotic,
you're mad. You need probiotics every single day with colitis. All right? Thanks for tuning in.