Rj, From listening to Dr Hyman many times I can confirm that he is very cognizant of the impact of toxins in our food source though they may not have mentioned it here.

Antibiotics triggered c.diff in my husband (24 years after UC diagnoses). Left him with a non healing fistula. The infection the antibiotics were for turned out to be an allergic reaction to lavender essential oil.

Same here! I feel trapped! I am a sufferer of IBD as well as IBS...I'm finally in remission after 18 months of infusion treatments but I'm still suffering with symptoms

This is so deep, I am a sufferer from IBD

Olivia Fitzsimmons soooo not important but I agree

LOL! Right? Well, Im all about recycling too!

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Ado, its unfortunate you are feeling offended, I seriously doubt that any insult was intended by either of these truly committed physicians who are stepping ahead of many others in pursuit of true health for their clientele, perhaps you need to look within as to why you are feeling defensive? I know that there are sites who would embrace anything positive you have to add to the conversation, start with contacting one or both of these men.

Ado1113 I am sorry but it doesn't matter how many yrs you had to sweat through college and then internship and how much student debt you acquired, b/c what we were taught a few decades ago doesn't apply anymore! I studied at a university in Europe. In Europe the US is looked upon as a God, everything which comes from the US is applied. I learned the food pyramid and the plate model and to eat 70% of energy from carbs. I believed all the bs, followed it and that's how I got sick! Luckily, I didn't have student debt b/c our education is financed over taxes, so I feel for you! I moved to the US 20 yrs ago and what I learned here by following f-u-n-c-t-i-o-n-a-l medicine doctors is the exact opposite of what I was taught in my nutrition program! I now follow a l-o-w carb diet, LCD! After I graduated I taught classes in weight loss and was surprised that my students didn't lose weight. But I only taught them what I was taught and that obviously doesn't work! Tons of bread and pasta and starchy potatoes, and sugary breakfast cereals, and 3 fruits a day is obviously way too much sugar, converting to fat and obesity. I wish I had known about Keto diet 30 yrs ago! 160 MILLION Americans are obese! How come? B/c the official narrative of a good diet is completely wrong! Who propagates the lies? The food industry, of course, to make a buck, but who else??? The health care industry which you are part of! (I am not, I am already retired, and I am glad to say I never worked with nutrition/food in this country, spreading misinformation and ill health!) In my perception it is not how much you learned but w-h-a-t you learned that makes the difference! And what you learned doesn't hold water, thanks to too much propaganda and corruption within the system!

I doubt he meant any insult. I have Crohns and saw a dietitian to help me with the Specific Carbohydrate diet, which has been around for almost 80 years to treat many diseases, and the person had never heard of it. Just because you went to school for it doesn't mean you know everything

My husband has UC and has had many weeks in the hospital. Every single time the dietician comes in and tells him to drink Ensure and then gives him the menu of approved foods for his condition: popsicles, milk shakes, ice cream,, chicken broth (which is water and bouillon cubes) and getting nutrients from Ensure. All horrid stuff for someone can't tolerate milk and is dying due to the lack of intestine function. Add to that the doctor whispering to me to go get him fast food as the hospital food disgusting. There is a reason those of us with experience have a lack of respect for the dieticians we have dealt with.

Don't want to add to your frustration but have u been checked for gluten sensitivity/ celiac disease?

Yes. Not the case. Genetic testing for chrohns came positive. Bring from Mediterranean, my diet is appropriate