Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve better outcomes than those reported

for conventional treatments for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

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One of the most common questions physicians treating patients with inflammatory bowel disease

are asked is whether changing one's diet can positively affect the course of their disease.

Traditionally, our answer had been, we have no clue.

But this may now be changing, given the evidence, that hydrogen sulfide may be playing a role

in ulcerative

colitis. And since the sulfur-containing amino acids concentrated in meat caused an increase

in colonic levels of this rotten egg gas, maybe we should take off the meat.

See, animal protein isn't just associated with an increased risk of getting inflammatory

bowel disease in the first place, but also IBD relapses once you have the disease.

This is a recent development.

Because the concept of IBD as a lifestyle disease mediated mainly by a westernized diet

is not widely appreciated, an analysis of diet.

The follow-up period after diagnosis in relation to

a relapse of inflammatory bowel disease had been ignored, but not any longer.

Worcester Clitis patients in remission and their diets were followed for a year to see which

foods were linked to the bloody diarrhea coming raging back.

And the strongest relationship between the dietary factor

and an increased risk of relapse observed in this study was

for a high intake of meat.

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