SCD - Analysis of Gut Microbiome and Diet Modification in Patients with Crohn’s Disease

SCD is a great starting point and got folks pushing the science of the gut flora more than they were I believe. And science has come a long way since the SCD. SCD didn't help me but I am really interested in the Irritable Bowel Disease Anti-Inflammatory Diet: "IBD-AID"

HERE IS ONE SITE ON IT [/url}

ANOTHER DEscriptION OF THE STUDY

"...The IBD-AID also differs from the SCD with the inclusion of oats, since oats (and possibly other fermentable grains that provide a substrate for probiotics) [43] appear to be well tolerated and indeed are useful in regulation of bowel frequency and consistency [44]..." It also includes rice.

I tolerate rice and oats very well.

This is a start having a study on humans. More research needed though.

If you're having a severe flare and losing weight and getting worse on either (I did on SCD) then don't keep pressing as some recommend. If you're having mild to moderate symptoms then it could help but the researcher behind all diets, supplements and naturals tell you to consult you doctor and admit there is not enough data to know if it will help.

I am so grateful for SCD. It helps a great deal and allows me to control my symptoms when I don't cheat. However, I have this tendancy to cheat whenever I feel good enough and end up regretting it. So I haven't totally broken the vicious cycle yet... It's interesting that it increases bacterial diversity. I had expensive stool testing done a few years back and what they found is that I had an absence of growth of good bacteria. I added potatoes however, I feel that they are good for me :)

thanks for the article!

There have been so many (since I joined in 2003) in here who say SCD got them into remission and they remained med free. They last usually for around 3 years then stop posting. I try to find out what happened. Then others post about different herbs, anti-inflammatory foods and supplements and the odd cactus aloe and others. I just wish we would have made more progress by now.
FMT hit the web really fast and all these users were mixing poop using babies and spouses and reporting fabulous results then someone even reported it had 70% success rate in UC but now we know it's kind of like the pig whipworm (when that came out I thought, wow, they are on the brink of finding the cure). We see anecdotal success with that as well; right?

I don't know anyone in real life who has UC and used FMT or SCD to even help them; many report success for a year or 3 but long term I'm not seeing consistent results over the normal statistics which are that about 10% with UC have only 1 flare and about 10% never achieve healing and have surgery and the rest are in and out in different degrees of mild ot severe.

You won't find me eating preservatives, simple sugars, sugar substitutes and some other foods common in what SCD states as illegal but that's only because I just am not interested in the foods I used to eat.

Food contradictions bother me in all these studies and special diets
Eggs are legal in SCD but bad in some studies with mice
Aged cheeses are legal in SCD but bad in some studies with mice
Oats shown as a probiotic but illegal in SCD
Rice and soy are consumed is eaten daily in Japan and their Incidence of IBD is extremely low but rice is an SCD illegal food and soy is really bashed in many studies posted in here

You know what I do see. A lot of websites dedicated to SCD and a lot of money being made from it. You type SCD in a search engine and you'll see pages of websites of companies dedicated to SCD diets and recipes with thousands of testimonials but the GI's still have just anecdotal evidence. I hate even using those three letter together anymore.

And if this study of 8 people with just showing improvement in measured (good) gut bacteria is the best study we have to date then it's just as good as another diet which might offer some relief of symptoms for a few. Am I wrong?

For me, it doesn't matter what I eat. The benefit is that I can eat whatever i want, but the cost is it all hurts, even water! The physical movement of the bowels causes me pain, so diet doesn't work for me! Even bananas hurt my fragile colon!

@ Kevin.
I agree that more emphasis needs placed on better foods like grain fed meat and local, organic produce. Local vegetables with imperfections and insect scars preferred over, say, tomatoes with perfect appearance and horrible flavor.

I wish the larger, more convenient stores carried local, organic produce and grass fed meats. They have the free free range eggs (organic) an some chicken which is non-hormone, no antibiotics and more health oriented stores have opened up near me which is great.

@ Katmom: I feel for you and your daughter losing her colon; that had to be very tough. My two daughters are just shy of when I was first diagnosed. I will try the natural methods if they have any issues and especially like the plan which insoflo typed up for everyone (https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=1666318). I'll then go hard with 5-ASA's.
I see you did try diet an such and with the meds she tried she did have a severe case.
One silver lining is I would imagine I would rather prefer losing my colon when I was 18 (in hindsight) as opposed to all these years of medications (side effects I will soon realize and all those painful flares which caused me to miss events and self medicate very years). It's not great your daughter had surgery by any means but seems better than my path.

I didn't have the benefit of 5-ASA's and naturals (not a great amount of information back then). I tired everything as I found out and as safer medications were approved I used them but my steroid dependency was already starting. I might still have had to use them; maybe not.

But yes, healthier food choices are the way.