If you have ever struggled with a condition like Crohn’s, colitis, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), you have likely suffered a tremendous deal. Not only are these conditions painful, they can take away part of your life at times because it feels as if you have to structure your day around bathroom breaks, bouts of pain, abdominal discomfort and bloating which may have affected your sleep, and more. Unfortunately, these can all interfere with your ability to work and complete daily tasks.These conditions inflict all types of people, both young and old, active and inactive, and it does not discriminate against gender.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation out there about Crohn’s, colitis, and IBS, which leaves people confused and prevents true healing. These conditions are still a mystery in the medical field. Doctors and other health professionals are unable to explain exactly why the symptoms are occuring. Often, the best answer a health professional has for someone is that there is inflammation in their colon and their body’s own immune system is attacking the gut. Sometimes certain foods, like gluten, or something inside foods, like lectins, will be blamed. But inflammation and these foods are not the cause (discover the truth about lectins in this Truth About Lectins radio show). There is something else going on that’s causing the inflammation that medical communities aren’t yet aware of.
Why High-Fat Diets Are Problematic
There are so many trendy diets that claim to be revolutionizing the way we eat and how healthy we can be. However, if anyone were to take a closer look, they would notice that almost all of these diets are essentially the same thing with a small twist. Most of the trendy diets presented today are extremely high in fat, regardless of whether they’re an animal protein based diet, vegan diet, or vegetarian diet. What they all have in common is that they’re high in fat. The twist all of these diets take may be a vitamin they sell or a more heightened focus on a particular food, but they are very similar. Because these trendy diets rightfully remove highly processed foods and include more vegetables, some people do experience benefits in the beginning. When this happens, we have to consider what diet someone was coming from in order to experience such a change. Perhaps your poor digestion was improved slightly, you said goodbye to your runny nose, or you lost some weight. However, these trendy high-fat diets are not going to aid you in true healing long-term when you’re dealing with a chronic illness. They’re just a temporary band-aid.
The biggest reason trendy high-fat diets do not work for deep chronic illness is because they simply do not contain enough fruit. In fact, all of these diets are unanimously against fruit, even though fruit is the most important food for someone trying to heal from a chronic condition, including Crohn’s, colitis, or IBS. This attack against fruit has resulted in many people now having fruit fear, where they believe that eating any more fruit than a handful of berries or a green apple is unhealthy or ill-advised. To understand more about how this fruit fear has arisen and why it’s so detrimental to your health and the health of your loved ones, listen to my Fruit Fear radio show. Science and research has barely tapped the surface of the healing powers of fruit because there is simply no money to be made in fruit.
If you or someone you love suffers from severe chronic digestive problems and have tried absolutely everything and nothing has worked, there are answers for you here. It’s likely that if you’ve tried one of the high-fat, high-animal protein diets that are trendy today, your symptoms have persisted to some degree, even if they improved at first from cutting out processed foods. The same would be true if you eat a vegetarian or vegan diet but get most of your calories from high fat foods like eggs, dairy, oils, soy, nuts, and seeds. High-fat diets of any kind burden the liver enormously and most of us come into this world with an already burdened liver (more on this in my book, Liver Rescue). Your first question may be why we are discussing the liver when your symptoms are in the intestines. The answer is that Crohn’s, colitis, and IBS all begin in the liver. Medical science and research don’t know this truth. If you want to get to the root problem of your gut and digestive issues, it’s essential you bring your focus to the liver and learn how to truly support this incredible, hard-working organ. For in-depth information on how your liver works that hasn't yet been discovered and the critical steps needed for healing, check out my book, Liver Rescue.
You can begin looking at how our bodies were designed to eat by examining the macronutrients in breastmilk. Breastmilk is the perfect food for babies, as well as an excellent indicator for how we should be eating for the rest of our lives. Breastmilk is made up of almost all sugar with a very small percentage of fat and protein. There are so many incredible carbohydrates in breastmilk that science and research have yet to discover or look into. The key understanding here is that breastmilk is extremely low in fat. As children become adults and begin to consume more and more fat throughout their lives as they age, problems begin. And it all starts in the liver.
Common foods for children include cheese, eggs, pork, fried food, chicken, steak, ham, milk, yogurt, hot dogs, bacon, and foods cooked in oil, all which are extremely high in fat and cause the liver to become more and more overburdened. When there is too much fat in the liver, it sets the stage for Crohn’s, colitis, and IBS, as well as constipation, bloating, and SIBO. It also provides a great environment for pathogens to thrive. When the liver is overburdened with fat, it cannot produce the amount, or indeed the quality, of bile that it needs to. This is essential to understand because our livers need to continue to produce strong bile in order to kill off and contain the pathogens we inevitably inherit or contract over our lifetimes. If the quantity and quality of bile is compromised, your health will also be, and it will only continue to get worse with time unless you take the right steps to detoxify and heal your liver.
Crohn’s, Colitis, and IBS Begin in the Liver
The pathogens in our bodies are either inherited from our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and beyond, or they are picked up simply from being out in the world. Viruses and bacteria go into the liver, which tries to contain them and kill them off with the liver’s own powerful immune system, which medical science and research doesn’t yet know exists, to keep us safe from them. However, if the liver is unable to do so because it is too overburdened, the pathogens can then go into the gut and create the symptoms of Crohn’s, colitis, and IBS. On high-fat diets, your liver’s bile production is dramatically weakened so that it cannot do its job of killing off the viruses or bacteria before it goes into your gut and makes a home there. In fact, livers can become stagnant even in young children due to inherited toxic heavy metals that sit in the liver and interfere with bile production. I cover this and the many other troublemakers that cause the liver to become overburdened in Liver Rescue.
When the liver is sluggish due to a diet high in fat, along with having to harbor other dangerous toxins you’ve been exposed to, hydrochloric acid is also weakened because the stomach relies on the liver’s bile production to support it and stop pathogens from entering up into the stomach. Hydrochloric acid is vital in the discussion about these conditions because the special seven-blend I brought to light in my book Medical Medium, which science and research has yet to discover, is able to kill off pathogens as they enter the stomach from the mouth or up from the gut. This means the pathogens can’t travel back down into the intestinal tract and colon again. By killing off the pathogen before it reaches the colon or small intestinal tract, the hydrochloric acid is preventing colitis and Crohn’s, respectively. When the liver is not doing its job because it is exhausted, the pathogen does not merely travel to the intestines and then pass through. It has the chance to settle in and make a sort of nest in the linings. It is still alive; however, it may not become active or cause symptoms until later in life. This is why sometimes Crohn’s, colitis, and IBS does not occur in someone until they are older.
Another Reason to Avoid High-Fat Diets
Once we understand that diets high in fat, which are also under the name of high protein, are interfering with the liver’s bile production, as well as gastric juices and hydrochloric acid, we must also discuss how fat exists within the intestinal tract itself. Pathogens are not being killed off and so they have the opportunity to nestle into the gut linings. This is what is causing inflammation, especially as the viruses and bacteria begin to move through its various stages and produce neurotoxins. Medical communities don’t yet understand how viruses work so you won’t find this information anywhere else, therefore it’s critical to get familiar with the information I share here and in my books so you can help yourself and your loved ones heal. Fat plays a very specific role in this scenario. The fat that we consume, especially that of animal protein, is quite difficult to digest in the first place, let alone when we consume such unnaturally high amounts of it. The linings of the intestine become smothered with thick layers of fat that harden and eventually go rancid, making the home for pathogens that much more habitable. Pathogens prefer to hide in fat-laden intestines because they can burrow in deep and stay there for long periods. When someone’s intestines are not loaded with fat, pathogens have a much harder time of getting stuck and causing problems.
Viruses and Bacteria Feed
Something still unknown in science and research is the all-important truth that pathogens actually eat food, and there are some foods pathogens like better than others. This is critical because when you know what pathogens like to eat, you can begin to starve them of their favorite foods, which will then strip them of their ability to grow and proliferate. While it is thought that certain foods like gluten and dairy cause inflammation, those foods are actually feeding the pathogens that then cause the inflammation. This is a critical difference that’s essential to understand. Some of the foods that feed pathogens are gluten, eggs, all forms of dairy, corn, soy, canola oil, and toxic heavy metals and other toxins. You can read a full list in my book Thyroid Healing or Liver Rescue. Avoid gluten, eggs, and dairy if you are suffering from Crohn’s, colitis, and IBS. It would also be very helpful to include the five heavy metal detox foods I recommend into your diet everyday: cilantro, wild blueberries, Atlantic dulse, spirulina, and barley grass juice powder. These five foods work together in synergy for the only truly effective heavy metal detox. If you would like to learn more about the heavy metal detox foods as well as try out a smoothie recipe that includes all five, see the Heavy Metal Detox Smoothie article.
The Truth About Colitis
While not every case of colitis is the same, in truth it is caused by a viral condition that both medical and alternative health communities are unaware of. In fact, the term colitis is often used when medical doctors are unsure of how to diagnose someone’s symptoms. For them, colitis is essentially a term that means your colon is in crisis. These days it is quite common for health professionals to blame colon issues on the autoimmune theory that your body is attacking itself. However, this autoimmune theory is exactly that - a theory, and a misguided one at that. To find out the truth about autoimmune diseases and why your body has never and will never attack itself, read the Autoimmune Confusion chapter in Thyroid Healing. Colitis is not caused by your body attacking itself. It is an undiscovered viral condition. Specifically colitis is caused by a herpetic virus, one of the undiscovered 31 varieties from the shingles family that I brought to light in Medical Medium. This virus nestles into the colon and feeds off of foods like gluten, eggs, dairy, soy, corn, and canola oil, all while hiding behind the rancid fat in the linings of the intestine. The shingles virus then proceeds into a later stage of harm where it releases neurotoxins, which then also get trapped in the fat, irritating and inflaming the colon. Even when the fats break off and leave the intestines, the colon lining is so inflamed and irritated that the virus itself can eat away at intestinal cells. This is when someone may notice hemorrhaging.
The Truth About Crohn’s
Just as with colitis, not every case of Crohn’s is going to be the same. In truth, there are even more possibilities as to the answer for each person’s condition. Crohn’s can be viral, bacterial, or both. If the condition is viral, it could be caused by Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), which is a virus I have written about at length in all my books, especially Thyroid Healing. If the condition is bacterial, the specific bacteria is streptococcus. Crohn’s in particular has a large amount of toxic heavy metals at play in the small intestinal tract, especially mercury. The pathogens or toxic heavy metals, or the combination of all of these factors, create a chronic inflammation that is highly uncomfortable and often painful. However, regardless of what specific variety of Crohn’s, or colitis or IBS you are struggling with, the plan of attack for healing is essentially the same.
The Truth About IBS
Irritable bowel syndrome is a common diagnosis many receive from doctors and health practitioners when they report almost any gut-related symptom such as poor digestion, gut and intestinal pain, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and so forth. In truth, IBS occurs when the colon is lined with waste products from pathogens such as streptococcus and E. coli, rotting food that wasn’t digested properly due to low bile and hydrochloric acid production, and ammonia gas. For more on ammonia gas, read Medical Medium. The more fats and unhealthy foods in the diet, the worse the IBS symptoms will be.
For an in-depth explanation of each of these mystery conditions, including how to heal them, check out Liver Rescue.
What About Leaky Gut?
It is considerably popular these days to talk about leaky gut syndrome; however, this too is a mystery and misunderstood condition. If someone truly had leaky gut, meaning a perforation in the intestinal wall, that person would be suffering severely. They would have a high fever and would be laying in the hospital due to a serious infection. Do not become confused from articles online that try to convince you that you have leaky gut syndrome. Rather, if you are experiencing digestive issues, focus on the advice given here. What is actually behind many cases of misdiagnosed leaky gut is ammonia permeability, a condition I brought to light and explain in Medical Medium.
How to Heal from Crohn’s, Colitis, and IBS
The first thing you need to do when healing from one of these conditions is to lower your fat intake. Lowering the fat in your diet, no matter what type of diet you subscribe to (whether you like animal protein, are vegetarian, or prefer a plant based diet), will give the pathogens less of a chance to proliferate and you a greater chance to heal. If you eat animal protein, try to lower it to once a day, simply because it is inherently so high in fat. Even chicken breast, which is often touted as a lean meat, is loaded with fat and should be reduced or consumed minimally or avoided while healing. Pork, eggs, and dairy should be avoided altogether as I explain in my books. If you eat a vegan diet, lower the amount of nuts, avocado, oils, and coconut you consume as these foods are also high in fat.
Now that you are aware how much the liver plays a role in these conditions, you can focus on building up the liver’s strength and bile reserves. Celery juice is an absolute miracle when it comes to healing from Crohn’s, colitis, and IBS because it builds up the bile salts that serve in killing off the pathogens causing the condition in the first place. The cluster salts in celery juice also do wonders in removing the toxins created by the pathogens by systematically binding onto them and pulling them out of intestinal tract. These salts are a gift to you and a poison to pathogens because they strip off a pathogen’s membrane shield. Read more about celery juice on the blog.
Bananas are another miracle food and should be eaten in abundance when healing from Crohn’s, colitis, or IBS. While some health professionals will advise you to stay away from bananas completely, they are giving you incorrect information. Bananas, when properly ripened with no green at the tip and a few brown spots, have powerful anti-pathogen properties that can aid you in your healing tremendously. Maradol papayas are another powerful fruit that can be incredibly helpful for those suffering. If you do not like papayas, you likely have not had a good one. Talk to the people who work in the produce department of your grocery story about how to pick a good papaya and when is the best time to eat it. If you cannot find good papayas at your regular store, try visiting a local Asian grocery store. Those stores often have an abundance of good fruit that never makes it to conventional stores.
Additionally, if you have been told that you are allergic or intolerant to fruit, or if you experience discomfort when eating fruit, check out my Fruit Fear radio show to have a deeper understanding of this. In reality, fruit is the number one food that should be consumed when suffering from chronic digestive conditions. It would be a shame to continue suffering by avoiding fruit when this food is actually safe and in fact healthful to consume.
Some other things you can incorporate include making aloe water daily by scooping out the gel from the leaf and blending it with water. You can also consider taking antiviral and antibacterial supplements like alcohol free cat’s claw, licorice root or licorice tea, and lemon balm to give your immune system an extra boost to fight off the pathogens. Also, try drinking high quality coconut water, incorporate cucumbers into your diet, and try steamed potatoes or sweet potatoes for dinner. These are simple but healing foods to get you started healing. Also, be sure to read Thyroid Healing and Liver Rescue for more information that can help you understand your condition and how to heal.
Moving Forward
If you have found this article and now know that your chronic condition is actually related to a pathogen and overburdened liver, you are already halfway toward your destination of true healing. Now that you have a greater understanding of your condition, you can begin to lower your fats and drink your pure celery juice to build up the liver. You can include more and more fruit into your day while eating less and less gluten, eggs, dairy, corn, soy, canola oil, and pork. Wake up each day with the decision to make at least one healthy choice that will bring you closer to healing. And remember that I am here for you every step of the way. This article will be here for you if you need to refresh your memory or remind yourself why you are making those healthy steps. I am so proud of you and I believe in you.
(Note: Some visitors may search for the spelling "catsclaw" or "cats claw" when searching for "Cat's Claw". These are local or regional variations on this beneficial herb.)
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