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I haven't posted in a long time because I pretty much gave up on my condition. I tried everything on here. I know this is an internal thing though. The only treatment that worked for me is tanning. Anyway, something has happened to me this year. (At 29) I was stricken with Ulcerative Colitis. Doctors don't have a cure for this either. They put me on Prednisone and said watch what I eat. I discovered gluten made it worse, got tested for Celiac but turned up negative. I still stayed away from gluten though. Before the disease I drank a lot of milk and ate a lot of pasta. (Particularly pasta with peanut sauce) From my research, I have discovered that all that pasta was slowly stripping away the mucosal lining of my colon. So, let me get to the point here. I have been detoxing/fasting this week and my skin is getting better. I don't need lotion after my showers. That's huge for me. (I still use baby oil to lock some moisture in, but I don't need my usual gold bond. I haven't needed it in weeks, since I gave up ALL grains and dairy. So, I've been reading about the paleo or caveman diet and I am about to embark on it. Right now, I think my skin is beginning to change. It feels good but It still needs to exfoliate, renew and all that. I will keep you posted on how my body reacts to the Paleolithic Diet. I've been raw vegan for the last couple of weeks but I don't think that's necessary. Also, detoxing fasting is very important. I believe grains have toxified my body. In fact, I might need to fast more to really get this going. I'll be in touch.

I'm interested in starting this diet...let us know how it goes for you!

awesome rncc, thanks for sharing.

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My Holistic Nutiritional Doctor diagnosed me with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), but I'm making an appointment with a GI Doctor (Western traditional) soon to make sure it isn't something more serious; like UC or Chrohn's Disease, since that's what one of my Books on Nutrition told me to do if I felt I had IBS. I'd rather be safe then sorry.

Here's some quick digestion tips.

1. Don't get stuck on this Paleolithic diet, it sounds like a fad diet wierd stupid idea to me. The human body has been fine tuned for millions of years to deal with all kinds of foods from nature. If you just live on freakin meat or whatever you're just gonna get colon cancer. Check out any of the books by Gillian mcKeith. You Are What You Eat is a good book to check out from your library.

2. Cut out processed foods, coffees, red meats, etc. Just **** generally. All the good food that man's been living on for thousands of years is predominently Fruits, Vegetables, Seeds, Nuts, Herbs, Legumes. Yeah just check out that You Are What You eat Book.

3. Look up online "what is needed for proper digestion". My best tips that have helped me are avoiding saturated fat because its very hard to digest. Sure, man has eaten meat for ages, but that doesn't mean its easy to digest. Fruit/Veg take 4-12 hours to digest, meat takes up to 3 DAYS! My quick tips are follow a more natural, less processed diet. Have lots of herbal teas, not caffeine ones like black/green/white, but herbal ones like chammomile/nettle/dandelion. These are all natural diuretics. And don't drink for a half hour before or an hour after you eat something, because it dilutes your stomache acid.

I could go on and on. I think digestion affects skin a lot, and I'm learning a lot about it. I'll put together a Thread about it some time soon maybe, but for now I really suggest you check out that book, start eating more raw foods which you're doing already, and try out that drinking tip, cuz your stomache needs acid to break food down. Raw food has more enzymes too so yeah, enzymes help with digestion. Like I said there's a lot to it but I don't wanna overwhelm you with information. I've been reading about digestion for like 2-3 weeks now.

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Hmm.. It really does seem that humans haven't adapted to their evolving food; whether it be fast food, genetically modified food, artificially sweetened foods, paranormal fats, or pesticide-ridden fruits and legumes, we always seem to have problems. Some seem to manifest problems such as famous diseases, others cause allergic reactions, skin problems, weight problems, breathing problems, movement problems, mental and emotional problems.., you name it.

I really hope this diet isn't such a hard adjustment as many people find, and that it really does improve more than just your skin! Please keep us posted on how things are going

Take care!

Chris89,
It's really not a fad low carb diet. I'm doing a variation of it called the SC diet.

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The major culprit is grains. We only started eating them about 10,000 years ago. They, along with potatoes and some legumes are poisonous in their raw state. Only birds eat grains. I used to live off of pasta and milk, which may be the reason why I got Ulcerative colitis. (Lactose is a culprit too) When your body doesn't consume the complex carbs you eat, the bad bacteria in your intestines will consume them, and cause them to overgrow, producing gas, and acid that cause the inflammation. So all I can eat are simple carbs. (Absorbed by my body right away, so the bacteria doesn't get to feast on them)) This will starve the bacteria initiating the healing process. (It may take a while for me to see results. Check out that website. There's a lot of good stuff there. The woman, Elaine, has a very interesting story. By the way, I'm not just eating meat. I can have fruits and veggies too, and the meat that I do eat can't be processed. That's the funny thing about grains. They have to be heavily processed just to make them palatable. I'm never eating them again. I've been reading a lot about nutrition the past few weeks as well. I'm one of Amazon's best customers lately I'm sure. I went raw vegan for a month. That was bad. It didn't work, and I went down to 165lbs. (I'm 6'2" and usually 185-190) I think vegetarianism/vegan is definitely wrong. I've never known meat to exacerbate my symptoms. I trim the fat off because I don't like it anyway. I eat tons of fresh spinach too. That stuff is just loaded with good stuff. It's going to take a while for me to heal though. That bacteria has to die off, and the inflammation from the acid they produced needs to heal. (According to the Specific Carbohydrate Diet Theory) I'll be in touch.

Chris89,
It's really not a fad low carb diet. I'm doing a variation of it called the SC diet.

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The major culprit is grains. We only started eating them about 10,000 years ago. They, along with potatoes and some legumes are poisonous in their raw state. Only birds eat grains. I used to live off of pasta and milk, which may be the reason why I got Ulcerative colitis. (Lactose is a culprit too) When your body doesn't consume the complex carbs you eat, the bad bacteria in your intestines will consume them, and cause them to overgrow, producing gas, and acid that cause the inflammation. So all I can eat are simple carbs. (Absorbed by my body right away, so the bacteria doesn't get to feast on them)) This will starve the bacteria initiating the healing process. (It may take a while for me to see results. Check out that website. There's a lot of good stuff there. The woman, Elaine, has a very interesting story. By the way, I'm not just eating meat. I can have fruits and veggies too, and the meat that I do eat can't be processed. That's the funny thing about grains. They have to be heavily processed just to make them palatable. I'm never eating them again. I've been reading a lot about nutrition the past few weeks as well. I'm one of Amazon's best customers lately I'm sure. I went raw vegan for a month. That was bad. It didn't work, and I went down to 165lbs. (I'm 6'2" and usually 185-190) I think vegetarianism/vegan is definitely wrong. I've never known meat to exacerbate my symptoms. I trim the fat off because I don't like it anyway. I eat tons of fresh spinach too. That stuff is just loaded with good stuff. It's going to take a while for me to heal though. That bacteria has to die off, and the inflammation from the acid they produced needs to heal. (According to the Specific Carbohydrate Diet Theory) I'll be in touch.

Hey Chris89 - While I think you're on to a good program with your ND, don't go knocking the paleo diet please without doing some reading about it also. It's not that much different from what you are doing actually except it allows for eating unprocessed meat. I've read Gillian McKeith's books and several anti-candida diet books now also and think that if you feel best when you eat that way, that is probably the best for you but don't assume it works exactly the same way for every body.

And while bacon, bologna, sausage and other processed meats would increase stomach and colon cancer risks because of the preservatives, good grass-fed red meat I do not believe is a culprit. It tends to be higher in nutrients and good O3 fatty-acids than feedlot stuff and omega-3 fatty acids suppress colon tumor formation. I was about to cite more of the Gary Taubes book but unless you just read it, you don't get a feel for how poorly some of the science has been conducted when attempting to link animal fat with chronic diseases. You also might not get how much the positive correlation between high blood sugar from high carb diets and various chronic diseases has been ignored until just recently. So, of course, I think we're on track eliminating those things regardless of which book any one of us is reading!

A quick look at the SC legal and illegal diet looks interesting and very good for may digestive issues I would think - keep us posted of course! - bd