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This blog examines current ideas on alternative treatments for Crohn's disease. Although the medical community will tell you that diet doesn't matter, or that alternative treatments are worthless for treating Crohn's disease, this is only because there hasn't been as much double blind clinical testing for most alternative treatments. Therefore they cannot with certainty offer them to you. But, the truth is, many treatments can have an effect on Crohn's disease, or at least improve your general health. We attempt to examine them here.


Sunday, August 27, 2017

Naturopath's Order of Operations for Gut Healing

Our naturopath recently responded to a question about prebiotics:

1. You mentioned taking prebiotics. Are these now considered safe for SIBO and IBS and will not grow bad bacteria? Are they selective in feeding only good bacteria and not gram negative bacteria? Recommended brands?

Step 1 is getting "bad" gut bugs under control. For this, I recommend the EPF oil. 

Step 2 is getting the "good" guys to grow and this requires a healthy gut wall and some prebiotics. I like Fumaric and Fulvic acids for this - both are in the Kona Gold mineral supplement. I also like arabinogalactins found in GlutAloeMine. I don't usully see patients getting better without this. However, I do agree there is a correct order of operations.

I cannot do Step 1 because my detoxification pathways are blocked, and it causes me to have too much reaction when taking a bacterial killer. So I have decide to use diet to minimize bad gut flora, continue going up on probiotics, which moves out bad bacteria, and then also try Kona Gold again for the fulvic acid in it. This is a product I took years ago and did not seem to react to much.

Restore (https://shop.restore4life.com/) has humic and fulvic acids in it, but it causes too much reaction for me to tolerate. 

I will also try arabinogalactins.
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