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Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's new midweek

segment called Ask a Nutritionist. Brought to you by Nutritional Wellness. My name is Brittany Vincent

and I am a registered and licensed dietitian. And on today's show, we will be answering a

nutrition question we've received from our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners.

And today's question is, how to determine food triggers for digestive issues, specifically ulcerative colitis and foods to prepare and eat to reverse the issue?

I think it's a great question, and if you're somebody who has

digestive issues, maybe not that diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, I think this is a great topic

for you, for anybody with digestive issues. So for those listeners who aren't familiar with ulcerative colitis, it is an inflammatory bowel

disease that causes inflammation and ulcers in the large intestine. The large intestine is also

called the colon. Ulcerative colitis also causes that inflammation and ulcers in the rectum as well. Symptoms can include rectal bleeding,

diarrhea, abdominal pain, cramping, fatigue, urgency to have a bowel movement. I've seen a lot of

clients over the years with ulcerative colitis and the main symptom for most of those individuals is frequent diarrhea

and urgent diarrhea. And I've had some clients that have had diarrhea as many as 12 times a day. So it

really negatively impacts their quality of life and unfortunately keeps them home. But the positive is

those individuals have been able to get their ulcerative colitis into remission by figuring out

what their food triggers are. And it has varied from person to person. I also want to note that

ulcerative colitis is considered an autoimmune condition.

And autoimmune conditions, what that means is your immune system is confused.

So your body is actually attacking itself.

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