This is from my experience and research of published articles. If this helps anyone suffering with uc, I celebrate you. I believe uc is a symptom and the underlying cause is multi-dimensional. Almost 60 yesrs ago, the primary cause for me was my inability to deal with rejection and cruel gaslighting. The assault on self image as a teen in process of finding who she is changed behaviors. Self care, heallthy eating, mindset all deteriorated to neglect and self hatred. It is a fact that deficiencies of B1, B12, Folic acid, Iron, Mg, Zinc , Vitamin C, Vitamin A & D, omega-3s result in mucosal ulcers in corresponding degrees. Bacteria invade these breaks in the intestinal mucosa and stimulate a somewhat violent immune response. Yes some food sensitivities can set up the GI tract for problems. For me it is nightshades, dry beans including soy products, commercial baked goods, refined sugars, convenience foods loaded with preservatives. For 20 years I had zero symptoms after recovering from a long hospitalization for sepsis and toxic megacolon. I did this with a diet primarily of chicken, beef fish, a variety of vegetables and fruits, lots of greens. Almost no bread, rare treats, limited dairy. I did this on my own and kept my body very fit. I rebewed my Spiritual connection with God and set boundaries for relationships. I enjoyed creative outlets like singing and art. About 20 years later, When I could not leave a hostile and stressful, job environment my healthy diet reverted to convenience foods or not eating at all. My gut blew up after antibiotic treatment for bronchitis. It spiraled out of control rapidly and I had life-saving surgery that impacted my nutrition permanently. So I now replace a lot of the vitamins and minerals daily because my transit time is less than 2 hours. Dehydration is a daily battle and I have 2° stage 3-4 kidney issuesbecause of it. My point is this. If you are troubled with IBD or uc, self assess your diet, your lifestyle, how you deal with negative emotions. We sensitive types tend to internalize emotional pain, and that results in stored trauma. Resolves nothing. In my case, uc was my body's response to self neglect and internalizing emotional stress and negativity, and not loving me enough to take care of myself spiritually, physically, or emotionally. It really is all about balance. My heartfelt desire is that if you benefit from my experience, you find the best ways to eliminate GI issues permanently. I have a MS in Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, I am 75, and I expect to live well to 100 and beyond. Best wishes for your good health, may God bless you with love.

IBD is rising because of all the PROCESSED foods and needless chemicals in food.

What bothers me is the focus on managing symptoms rather than understanding the rootcause and addressing it. Everything is about medication. Disease will never go away if the focus is on medicating symptoms.

Thank you for sharing this information. So much misinformation out there. These two professionals seem to be very well rounded with accurate information on IBD. This is the first dietician that seems to actually understand IBD and the patients experience with the disease and how hard food is to figure out. I'm so happy she talked about soluble fibers.

We are servants to our guts. This was a very informative discussion. I'm really glad that Remicade is considered safe for long term use. I just started infusions of Remicade/Inflectra at the end of March 2023, and this medicine has worked amazingly well for me. It's like a dark cloud has left me, and I have hope for the future! As for probiotics, I recommend homemade kefir. I make my kefir with raw unpasteurized whole milk that I buy at Sprouts Market. I look forward to my kefir smoothies every day. -I wish other ulcerative colitis patients the best of luck!

Clearly related with what we eat, despite not being proved yet. If it is a bowel dis ease, probably what we eat and drink have a big impact on it

Thanks for useful conversations you have made with the professionals on IBD, and keep up with the good work

Low carb doesn't have to be very restricted. Doesn't have to be high in fat either. Low carb and fasting put my UC Into remission for the last 5 years and I'm still in remission.

Thank you, I learned a lot and have a better understanding of what to look for in my future. Appreciate all.

I have had episodes of Ulcerative Colitis, diagnosed by colonoscopy about every 5 - 6 years for the last 20 years, one requiring hospitalisation and the others managed by diet, medication and lots of rest for about one month. The periods in between have been totally free of signs and symptoms, and any medication. I eat well and can afford the best of food without too much grains and sugar. I have noticed in retrospect that most of the onsets have been following tension in my life. As a retired medical doctor I am clear that this is a multifactorial disease which requires flexibility in the approach to managing and curing this inflammatory disease. The research is clear that medication is only a small part of this unfortunate process.

This was the most helpful video ever!!!! Thank you!!!

This was so so helpful for me just needing to be heard thank you

Really good interview. Summarises much of what I've have learned coping with this condition for the last 6 years (UC). Thank you for sharing, for the information and for the effort. Really clear information ✨🌻

A great, informative video! Thanks!

Wonderful interview! Thanks for sharing it with us!!

Thank you for this review

Thanks to all of you for sharing so much of information, living with UC or Chron's is difficult, and it's important to understand that it is a condition that will last for life long so, accept it and take action as necessary, and get it in control and be happy, hope someday our pharma industry would look for medication that will cure than just controlling

Thank you for sharing this information.

Excellent video. Thank you all very much. I learned a lot 😍

Excellent information. Thank you so much 💓

Thank you both very much for the fantastic information. Im a new sufferer & this information is so informative.

This was a great discussion. Dr. Gray and Ms. Nanson provided helpful diet info and examples. Thank you. -Andrew (GI/HEP NP). Sadly, hard to get a good dietitian locally.

Glyphosate. It's called gyphosate, and it was originally conceived of as an antibiotic. They spray it on your grains just to desiccate them (dry them out), and on the crops as they grow.

The nutritionist recommends a nonrestrictive diet. When I see that, I realize why for people like her Crohn’s disease is incurable. If the patient eats whatever he or she wants, they will never maintain their illness in remission

Always and I mean always drink plenty of water !!!!

There was only a brief mention about antibiotic use. I have direct knowledge. I had surgery, then sepsis with massive amounts of antibiotics. After a year, my abdomen blew up like I was pregnant. I finally was able to get off antibiotics but I've had horrible inflammation ever since. I've been trying to do my own research ever since.

THANK YOU! I've just been through the diagnostic process and confirmed long standing Crohns and Ankylosing Spondylitis now at 55yo after almost 20 years of my Drs telling me my blood tests for RA/Lupus, etc are negative so I don't have a "physical" condition, my joint pain, crippling fatigue, peripheral neurothapy, "brain fog/confusion, cheonic (as in years!) watery diarrhoea 12 - 15 times daily (I cant even remeber whatvit feels like to have a "formed stool"!), and depression due to being "dysfunctional" is "menal-health related" (translation: all in your mind...) YES, I DO have mental health problems that are very severely exacerbated by the ongoing physical disability that I somehow caused by my dysfunctional thinking...) but if I'd have seen this video 20 years ago maybe I would have felt confident enough to seek another opinion and push for proper investigations and my life could have been very different... ANYWAY... onward and upward... I'm on the right path now and THANK YOU to all for putting this out there 🙏

Great webinar! Thank you very much for this

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THIS 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Thank you so much for sharing this video 🤝

Thank you so much for such great and very educational video. As my 14 yr old son just got diagnosed with Ulcertive Colitis. I’m trying to educate myself on this disease. Once again thanks so much. Great questions and they did a great job explaining and answering every question.

Glyphosates and undiagnosed gluten and food sensitivities and nutritional deficiencies

Interesting to hear that a registered dietitian would recommend FIBER and NUTS and SEEDS to a person with Crohn's Disease, and that a gastroenterologist would recommend nothing of value except DRUGS that really destroy the immune system and in general our lives. We need to hear from a doctor and a dietitian that have Crohn's Disease themselves, so they would understand what it is really like.

Thank you for these information cause my grandchild have this kind of disease and she’s only 15 yrs old it was controlled tru injection coz tablets don’t accept in her body I hope that her treatment works better

Ì have crohn's disease Thank you for infor , Mcd

Increasing in North America. We know why! It's high fructose corn syrup and Monsanto and antibiotics.

This discussion is so pertinent. I’m an RDN . Is there CEU credit for this?

This video is so good!!! Im in a flair up right now and am bed bound (couch bound cuz i need to be near the loo). Im all about the gym and im loseing all m muscell. Im needle phobic so the whole thing is pure hell for me. How good is lifting weights with UC?! Because it helps with my bone health etc!

I’ve been off medications for 25 yrs and symptom free. It’s about diet. Change your diet and the body heals itself. All scopes have been a perfectly normal bowl without meds.

Very good talking with the double Physician and Dietitian. I love to see this, because it is a multi professional approach. I don’t know which diet people have been following nowadays, and of course it is total personal management, but our patients with dietetics restrictions, offering of nutritional supplementation, according to individual requirements, and also disease, symptoms and treatment demands besides soluble fiber acting as prebiotic and more probiotic , always entered in remission without progression. It’s no doubt, that food make disease worst. Just think about inflammatory impact of all food. By the way: Registered Dietitian is the same nomination as Hospital / Clinical Nutritionist in other countries. We have 4- 5 years ( whole day) of University plus specialization in Clinical Nutrition and others developed experience in Gastroenterology and like: developed a protocol to treat nutritionally the patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 30 years ago. Hope all patients looking for always the specialists in this diseases to be well treated and followed.

Casein allergy to dairy is also an issue I have so it’s not always lactose

I began drinking, and have remained doing so, oat and soya milk four years ago. I now permanently avoid 'regular' milk.

I was so so happy tat I came across this podcast I had a dreadful attack of U C in te past 2 weeks and I was bed bound with pai However this time I had a horrible smell from the mucus that I had not had b4 I have been searching the net about B D Ur info in this chat was brilliant but I would like to know what the awful smell came from Thank u

Lots of factors can affect you to have UC. I was diagnosed at 24 yrs old..my mum at 50 yrs old diagnosed with Crohn’s…my mum has a stoma, I haven’t hardly been in remission & I am 49 yrs old now.

Dr I’m surprised at your answer “we don’t know why the increase in chrons and coiltis”. Probiotics are a must! Instead of just cutting the wire to the oil lite why not find the cause. Monsanto! Grows and makes all filler products out of soybean, have you ever look into the soy bean? Soy bean oils are in every fast food product on the market cause it’s cheap. When You eat soybean oil all of us have an allergic reaction but people can’t tell at that moment the long term damage it causes to the digestion system. Soybean products also cause female hormones to become more prevalent in men, such as man boobs and feminine characteristics. It also damaged the hormones of women. Check the labels of bug spray products which contain soybean oil. Not to mention the 70s raised TV dinner population. You a doctor you! Should be more intuitive and understanding of mind body and spirit. By the way vitamin D needs to be taken in high doses 10,000 a day or more. Please watch other videos on KZfaq. You should be proud you got your degree to become a doctor but take the blinders off, at your age you should really understand what’s happening from your yrs of experience.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on this subject. My daughter has Crohn’s, she was diagnosed 9 years ago, her freshman year in college. She is now in a flare up with an abscess in or on her colon, she’s on her second round with f antibiotics, week 3. Doctors say the abscess is in a tricky area for surgery. She’s in a lot of pain, any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated.

Any research on the use of Metamucil? What about going vegetarian or vegan? I just listened to Dr discussing the benefits of avoiding high sulfur foods ( meats) .

The medical profession is in such a box when it comes to diseases! Go to a naturopath or functional doctor.

there is one thing i did not hear about was the use of fermented foods. do they help repair the gut

This guy says we don't know the cause, I've had uc for 18yrs and the cause is the food we eat.

I find it interesting how these people didn’t mention of whole food plant based diet to help prevent UC flares when there is a lot of research showing the benefits.

I funno about biologics being safe... Tested negative for tb prior to Humira, 6 weeks on it had a followup and tested positive for TB. Like, how common is it to catch it? Was it the weakened immune system? Now its 4 months of tb antibiotics and another 3-4 months before a tb test all while waiting to have any sort of treatment for the origonal issue.

what probiotics did they talk? any specific recomendation?

Just bugs me that no one wants to get to root causes !!!!

Very good information although I would not discount the work of Registered Holistic Nutritionists. Yes, it is true that they are not regulated but it doesn't mean that they don't have the knowledge that Dieticians have. Most of them do. The RHN program is very intensive and many RD have done the program after their RD degree and have learned as much information and have been able to fill in the gaps. Science and data is not always what works. Functional medicine plays a huge role in the ability to heal the whole body, which is many times missed by mainstream medicine.

Can uc patient take resistance starch?

Really good information. (But I don't agree on the last comment: I don't think any IBD patient ignores the importance of nutrition.)

I've been having some issues and have an appointment with GI doc. I'm hoping its not this, however I feel much better knowing there are ways to manage this. I always think of the worst so even writing this is a struggle.

She ended up having surgery in October 2023. They removed a foot of her colon. She has an ileomy which she is scheduled for reversal next month.

People Keep Saying It's The Food When Our Food Is Actually Better Than It Was 10 Years Ago It's Most Likely The Fact That More People Are Doing Their Own Research To Figure It Out Themselves Then Taking That Information To Their Doctors.. 🤔🤨

About bones, she didn't mention about the importance of vitamin K2 🤦🙆‍♂️..

Regarding the example that medications must not be discontinued for high blood pressure and diabetes, even if disease is controlled: If ones blood pressure is now under control with diet and other lifestyle changes, the addition of medication may cause blood pressure to drop too low and needs to be discontinued. Same with diabetes. A person can potentially control their type 2 diabetes with diet and exercise and can, in that case,, enable one to discontinue medication.

Can UC suffers follow intermitent fasting?

UC came on 6 months after having an emergency appendectomy. Is there a correlation?

Can anyone please help me to understand if I have UC or Crohn's disease or something else? I have been dealing recently with frequent bowel movements in the morning sometimes (3-6 times), also having heartburn every morning and left sided abdominal pain/discomfort. My tools sometimes look like mushy pies but bright brown coloured and malabsorbed. What could be my condition? My blood markers all fine, except the fecal Calprotectin which was 91ug/g last time. Thank you

I’m in a chrons attack right now! I have done exhaustive research and found that countries like Canada, the UK and Australia… do the best research and have better treatment than the US. Unfortunately I’m in the US😢 I also have peripheral neuropathy! I am miserable!

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Eat real food people if you can get it, cut sugar and all processed foods

Why don't you talk about the cost of treatment. It's expensive for insurance companies and drives insurance premiums up and if you are Medicare the drug companies don't help with out of pocket cost. So yes we look for more affordable options to control the disease

Nothing with skins

Not very informative