986 - Top Treatments for Ulcerative Colitis & Crohn's (Research-Backed)

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that you can heal ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease using natural supplements and diet? In this episode, I've compiled the top treatments proven to improve these autoimmune conditions, also known as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), all backed by the latest in health research.

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📌Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:27 Ulcerative colitis vs. crohn's disease

01:28 IBD & leaky gut connection

02:54 IBD risk factors

06:54 Probiotics

10:35 Turmeric (curcumin)

13:55 Elemental diet

18:19 Low FODMAP diet

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0:00.0	This predigestion helps to make the nutrition easier to absorb.
0:05.0	If you're someone who has digestive symptoms, you may notice that really rough and raw food is harder on your gut.
0:15.0	So take that concept a step further or a few steps further, and having a meal replacement that is predigested makes it very
0:23.8	easy on your gut, almost soothing.
0:34.3	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
0:41.2	To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to
0:46.5	subscribe in your podcast player. For weekly updates, visit Dr. Rucho.com.
0:52.4	Colitis, aka. Alterative colitis, is the most common type of what's known as inflammatory
0:59.2	bowel disease. This is where there's inflammation, autoimmunity, and this can eventually
1:05.8	form damage or even ulcers to that mucus membrane of your intestinal tract. And how this tends to form
1:14.2	is firstly in the rectum, and this would be known technically as proctitis, and then in a
1:23.5	continual fashion can migrate or progress to also include the left side of the colon,
1:32.9	and then eventually, if it gets quite severe, can impact the entire cold.
1:38.2	This is similar but different from another type of inflammatory bowel disease known as Crohn's.
1:44.5	And in Crohn's, this can affect both the large intestine or the colon and the small intestine.
1:53.2	Let's go a step further and try to better understand what is happening in colitis.
1:59.2	I mentioned a moment ago that there's this overactivation of the immune system leading to
2:04.4	inflammation and autoimmunity.
2:06.2	And if you've been following my work for a while, you probably understand that there's
2:10.5	this sort of lead-up that then allows this condition to happen.
2:16.6	And what you're seeing in this diagram
2:19.2	helps us to better understand this.
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