Crohn's Disease takes its toll – back in 2023

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/crohns-disease-takes-its-toll-back-2023

by unnouinceput • 4 years ago

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oifjsidjf• 4 years ago

You can find many cases of complete Chron's reversal on a carnivore diet, no butchery surgery needed.

Tho some people need ~6 months for improvement to start showing.

There could be multiple reasons why carnivore might work, but other diets could also:

1) Carnivore is an extreme elimination diet, so eg gluten is fully excluded.

2) The gut temporary cannot tolerate fiber, carnivore has none.

3) Carnivore is the most low-carb diet possible, low carb diets are used all over the place (if you look outside of the archaic "modern" medicine) to treat many, many disorders.

LinuxBender• 4 years ago

Not to mention Carnivore is much less expensive to experiment with than the immunosuppressive shots at $16K a pop.

I know two people with Crohn's and they have to convince the county/state they make no money so that the state pays for it.

sph2• 4 years ago

It is incredible how digestion works when you ingest only meat and zero fibre, as experienced by someone with IBS: digestion is simply a non-event. Bowel movement are rare (once every 3 days after adaptation) with no fuss and no constipation. Sit and go. Farts stop being a thing. There is very little undigestable residue in meat.

And in general the whole low carb biology feels completely different: I literally feel my heart and circulatory system working with much less effort; it's difficult to explain. A decent comparison is that it's as if fatty acids and ketones are a much cleaner fuel than glucose, which is excellent at short-lived bursts of energy (and the body can create by itself through gluconeogenesis) but not for daily, low-effort maintenance of the body. Let alone the mental calm and lowered anxiety of it: I take ADHD meds and they are more effective on low carb, and in general my mood is more stable (beta-hydroxybutyrate seems to activate the GABAergic system, reducing neuronal excitability, IIRC)

I empathise with the plight of animal suffering, but my theory is that diet and sustainability are clashing against a truly uncomfortable reality: homo sapiens has evolved for million of years to live on animal flesh (much more than we had agriculture), with seasonal, sour fruits and honey to fatten up for the winter (with fructose being a known obesogenic sugar). I get why people want to feel in control over their impact on the world, and it's admirable, but my body is very clear on what works and what doesn't.

shishy• 4 years ago

Yeah, I went vegetarian for 2.5 years and had similar issues (maybe not as bad as what you describe). I reintroduced meat maybe 1 or 2x a week and it's just... so much better on my digestive system...

culiao• 4 years ago

This is interesting. How about cholesterol problems with the carnivore diet? How do you handle it?

sph2• 4 years ago

Cholesterol is a red herring. It is a terrible marker of cardiovascular disease, only somewhat applicable on a standard high carb diet, but there doesn't seem to be any correlation between health and cholesterol whatsoever. The real health marker everybody agrees on are triglycerides, and those tend to go down pretty quickly on a high fat diet (which often surprises people that underestimate how complicated metabolism is, thinking dietary fat = fat in the arteries)

In any case, in my experience, cholesterol drops slightly, triglycerides drops to very healthy levels quickly, HDL raises slightly in the normal range. Also, blood pressure and pulse rate drop in a week.

Something to get you started: https://youtu.be/rdgS3PuSuyg

theandrewbailey• 4 years ago

back in 2023

As in: 'will return in 2023', not 'this happened in 2023'.

Khelavaster• 4 years ago

This dude should've tried thymus hormone & environmental stressor adjustment a long time ago..

Crohn's Disease takes its toll – back in 2023

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