Question. I've got myself on a vegetarian diet for inflammation. All of those high protein diets made my colitis much worse. I've also read a lot of published medial papers that say diets high in animal protein can cause colon cancer (I used to work at a cancer center.). Considering aminosalicylates can cause cancer as well, I figured I'd better stay away.

Here's the thing. There are so many diets and what to do and not do for colitis and leaky gut. I'm doing all veggies, all fruits (leaning towards berries due to less sugar), whole grains except wheat, whole fat Greek yogurt, healthy fats, fish and shellfish, eggs, nuts, seeds, legumes and beans.

Most say stay away from all forms of sugar. Some say honey is okay. I have found raw honey seems to be helping. I don't want to defeat everything I'm doing with the honey.

Anyone have any experience or feedback on this?

i'd say ignore all the other people and do what makes you feel good. like gary said- your current diet would land me in the hospital. the more animal products i eat, the healthier i am. if honey is okay in your body, you should do it even though it has sugar. fruit, veggies, beans, nuts/seeds, and yogurt all have sugar, too.

Thanks for you answers. I'm looking for healing the gut though, not if it works with colitis. I have lots of food sensitivities that came back which signifies leaky gut and want to heal that to stay in remission.

For some reason my signature didn't post. I'm on Delzicol 2 capsules a day. That's all I could tolerate. Canasa 1/2 suppository am and pm. I can't take steroids and I will not take biologics.

I was diagnosed 9 years ago and was fine for 9 years doing things with supplements and diet prescribed by a naturopath. Then I went on vacation, didn't take my aloe, probitics and fish oil because I took a carry on. First flare since I was diagnosed and it was bad. Doc said I can probably go off meds again within 3 months. He knows I prefer to do it naturally.

Your GI said within 3 months he's fine with having you off your maintenance meds? Alarm bells ringing for sure. You may want to take care of yourself as naturally as possible and I totally understand that, I was either allergic or non-responsive to meds used to treat IBD for 23 years until I developed a recto-vaginal fistula that prompted me to go on Humira which thankfully has worked so far in healing the inflammation in my fistula tract as well as inflammation that was present in my colon and rectum (I have crohn's that was affecting those areas) so I had no choice for over 2 decades to try and combat my symptoms with very little luck for the most part, was never in remission since getting DX in 1991...and lots of damage as a result (with ending up with the fistula) so wasn't worth it, but it wasn't by choice as I said.

Chances are you will flare again, sooner or later while not being on meds but if that's a risk you're willing to take then it's your choice of course....I would hope your GI would have at least discussed the risks of going off meds with you.

Aminosalicylates? You think meslamine contributes to cancer? Haven't seen much on that, actually have seen some data showing the opposite.