Crohn's Disease Defined:
Crohn’s Disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that can cause inflammation anywhere along the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus. Of all cases of Crohn's Disease, 45% occur in ileum and colon, 35% in just the ileum, and 20% in just the colon.
Common symptoms of Crohn's Disease include chronic diarrhea, cramping, fever, rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, weight loss, and lack of appetite. Other symptoms include eye inflammation, joint pain, and skin rashes or lesions.
Frequent diarrhea can lead to dehydration and nutritional deficiencies. Because the colon is inflamed, it is not efficient at absorbing water and nutrients from food.
Read the article: Crohn's Disease - A Nutritional Perspective.
In order for the GI to heal, it is important to take anti-inflammatory supplements along with high quality human strain probiotics with proven viable strains.
Supplement Protocol:
Before Breakfast and Dinner:
Min-Inflamm- 2 capsules before eating
After each meal:
- Finest Pure Fish Oil- 1 teaspoon (tsp) x 3
- Butyrate Complex- 1 capsule x 3
- Intestinal complex- 1 capsule x 3
- Phase 1: HLC Intensive capsules- 1 capsule x3 for the first twenty days (2 bottles)
- Phase 2: HLC Synbiotic Intensive packets- ½ packet twice per day for the following 7 days.
- Phase 3: HLC High Potency caps or powder: Take 2 capsules twice daily as maintenance dose after first 27 days.
*The above protocol can be reduced to half after one month assuming symptoms have subsided.
*After the first twenty days on the above protocol, you may add in Permeability Complex I using ½ scoop 4x daily moving up to 1 scoop 4x daily.
Crohn's Diet:
1. Avoid consumption of coffee, tea, and soda.
2. Consume organic fruits and vegetables and free range meat and poultry.
3. Avoid sugar and artificially sweetened products.
4. Concentrate on small ocean caught fish and foods high in omega 3 fatty acids such as sardines, salmon, mackerel, and tuna.
5. Avoid all hydrogenated oils, fried foods, and corn oil, soybean oil, safflower oil and sunflower oil high in linoleic acid.
6. Avoid foods you know you are allergic to and exposure to environmental allergens.
7. Drink non-chlorinated water and avoid swimming in pools. Get a shower filter which removes chlorine since it kills off beneficial bacteria and can amplify symptoms.
Therapeutic Foods:
Cultured goat’s milk dairy (i.e. Bulgarian Yogurt)
Grass fed Meat
Omega 3 eggs
Coconut Oil for cooking and added to any food
Ocean Caught Fish
Fresh Vegetable Juice (i.e. Celery, carrot, beet, spinach)
Fermented Vegetables
L-Glutamine for Crohn's
Some experts don't recommend Crohn's patients take high dose L-glutamine. Yet others have found it very effective and helpful. More research needs to be done.
"L-glutamine an amino acid that is the main source of energy for the mucosal cells that line the intestines, and helps them heal. Dosage is adjusted for each patient. The common dose range is 6 to 25 grams divided into 3 doses per day, 30 minutes before meals. Dr. Alan Gaby reported in the Townsend Letters for Doctors and Patients (October 2001, p 19, based on J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2000;24:196.) that glutamine may increase T-cell attack in Crohn's disease. In the Crohn's patient glutamine may also be metabolized into citrulline, which is converted to arginine, a substrate for nitric oxide sythesis. Excessive nitric oxide has been shown to contribute to tissue injury and inflammation in Crohn's disease. L-glutamine seems to be effective in ulcerative colitis."
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