Functional Medicine.

I bet anyone here who has looked up for natural treatment to Colitis have seen Functional Medicine before.
This approach suggests that any autoimmune disorder, including UC, is caused by poor diet, bacteria, yeast, candida and other types of bad bacteria in our gut, that causes "leaky gut" and therefore, our body attacks food that we eat, especially dairy and sugar.
I liked what they said I just can't tell if it's true or not. There are success stories against uc with antibiotics which means there are some problematic bacteria that might cause this situation.
Their tests cost a bunch and I don't know if it will worth it. I'm not in a place where I can spent 500$ on tests that might not even worth it.
Has anyone tried this? Heard about it? Whatcha think?

I have tried some natural medicine with poor results. But that doesn't mean that all of them are charlatans. For example when I moved to a new city I had to try out a dozen chiropractors before I found one that really works and keeps me pain free. They only reason why I kept looking for a new chiro was that my first one (in my previous city) was so effective. In my first year I was driving 500 miles to my old city to visit this old chiro before I found someone who was effective in my current city.

I think most functional doctors won't help you and I wouldn't spend money on a functional doctor unless you had a friend with IBD who found him/her effective. You can't afford to spend $500 on tests for each of a dozen functional doctors until you MIGHT find one who is effective.

On the other hand stories like this are inspirational if you can find a doctor who isn't a charlatan.
www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/is-there-a-cure-for-autoi_b_756937.html
one of the most severe cases of autoimmune disease I had ever seen. Her face was swollen, her skin was inflamed, her joints were swollen, her immune system was attacking her entire body—her muscles, her skin, her joints, her blood vessels, her liver, and her white and red blood cells. Isabel couldn’t squeeze her hand or make a fist.

The tips of her fingers and toes were always cold from Raynaud’s disease that inflammed her blood vessels. She was tired and miserable and was losing her hair. Isabel was on elephant doses of intravenous steroids every three weeks just to keep her alive, and she was taking prednisone, aspirin, acid blockers, and methotrexate, a chemotherapy drug used to shut down the immune system daily.

Her doctors wanted to add another powerful immune suppressing drug (a TNF alpha blocker) to the regimen of medication she was already taking. This drug increases the risk of cancer and death from overwhelming infection, because it prevents the immune system from fighting infections normally.

Two months after I first saw Isabel and discovered and treated the underlying causes of her inflammation—after, as she says she, “stopped eating gluten, dairy, and sugar and took some supplements” she was symptom free. In less than a year, she was completely healthy, her blood tests were normal, and she was off all her medication.

My bowel motions and blood had completely stopped with 5 day course of antibiotics. So definitely some bacteria causes exist. But after a month I travelled across country and it came back. Unfortunately I didnt know it would happen.
Didnt try antibiotics again.