#457 – Specific Diets for Gut & Immune Issues with Carmen Sturdy

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Ben Coomber

Self-improvement, Education, Science, Natural Sciences, Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a gut or immune issue, or know someone that has? Fancy taking 32 pills to manage it…..? Carmen Sturdy joins me on the show to discuss her personal story with being diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis and her journey to being in remission after being put in 32 pills just to manage it. Her journey is inspiring as long term success all came down to her food creativity, starting with eating just chicken soup and ending up making cream out of cauliflower, madness. An awesome and inspiring guest. Find her online at @EveryLastBite_ on Instagram and www.everylastbite.com

Time stamps:
0:00 An introduction to Carmen her journey since becoming diagnosed with ulcerative colitis
03:50 Pills - a short term fix for some, but what about the long term goal? Going from 32 pills a day, to being 5 years in remission, pill free.
07:30 Specific carbohydrate diet - what is it? & how did Carmen learn to love it?
09:20 eliminating foods, finding the problems, being strict and staying committed
15:15 creativity through restriction - making the most out of what you can have instead of wishing for all the foods you can’t have
18:50 Eating real foods & Being experimental in the kitchen
23:05 What does a relapse look like for someone with IBD?
25:00 Carmens words of wisdom

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Benkuba Radio, how on earth are you doing?
0:03.8	Do you know what, it's been a little while so we've delved into some of the underbelly
0:08.9	of our health, you know, what happens with the immune system, what happens with the gut and its interaction with the food that we eat.
0:16.7	So I thought we would delve into that today.
0:19.5	We actually stayed away from talking about things like gut health for a while on the
0:24.0	podcast because it was kind of apparent with the research that gut health was
0:29.1	kind of evolving quite a lot and what we thought we knew we didn't actually know and start you know when
0:35.7	we talked about probiotics and all that kind of stuff like every couple of months it was just
0:39.8	getting saying no like this actually happens no this actually happened so I kind of actually stayed away from looking at
0:46.4	some of these areas to do with health for a while because of that because as you
0:50.9	know I think we need to be as factually correct as possible when we talk about our health
0:56.2	but today we're going to talk very much about a first-hand experience when we talk about health
1:02.3	so I will welcome today our guest.
1:06.7	Our guest today is not from this side of the pond.
1:10.5	They're very far away.
1:11.4	We're just off air actually been discussing how beautiful
1:14.1	her country is and how much I haven't been and want to go. But anyway, the guest of today's show is from every
1:21.0	last bite. Carmen Sturdy.
1:22.8	Hello?
1:23.8	Hi, I'm so excited to be here.
1:26.5	So Carmen, you got sort of put forward
1:32.4	by a load of the listeners on the show saying this girl's awesome
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