Foods To Reduce or Avoid While Healing the Gut

List of Foods to Avoid While Healing the Gut

There are many things you just don’t want to eat – they are too hard on your system, and they really counteract the healing and delay healing you’re trying to achieve.

In this video, I provide you with a list of the foods you want to avoid, as well as foods you will want to reduce while healing your gut.

What are some good food options whilst healing the gut?

• Elemental (Bowel Rest) Diet
• If you prefer to stick with whole foods (and your system can tolerate them): Common Foods to Heal IBD
• Options for those of you who cannot afford (or perhaps do not need) to go on an elemental diet: When You Cannot Afford an Elemental Diet

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Transcription:

Nitrates are incredibly damaging to the gut,

and a lot of trials show they contribute directly to colon cancer.

No alcohol, no caffeine, no carbonated drinks. Again,

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too hard, too acidic on the gut. Also, no hydrogenated vegetable oils or margarine.

That includes any foods that are fried or deep-fried

in your regular vegetable oils like canola.

Anything that doesn’t say cold-pressed on the label

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is going to be hydrogenated. There’s also a list of substances that

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you need to at least reduce if you can’t

Sugar!

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eliminate them. So the first one, of course, is sugar.

Sugar feeds all those bad bacteria: candida albicans, yeast,

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mycobacteria in your gut, so you want to use stevia

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or luo han guo instead as they are natural sweeteners that don’t contain

any monosaccharides or disaccharide sugar molecules.

The next thing you want to do is you want to reduce your grains and your

starchy carbs for exactly the same reasons.

All of these carbohydrates break down into sugars in the gut,

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and when you have a predominant of bad bacteria in your gut

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that’s what’s going to get fed by all these carbs. Once you’ve balanced your

gut flora and you’ve got a healthy

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microbiome, then a certain amount of carbs is

actually a beneficial thing. The next thing you want to do is avoid

fermented vinegary and acidic foods. Again, acidic foods are

too hard on the gut. Just like alcohol, the vinegar is often a flashpoint food

for people, it’s just too abrasive on the gut and

in the beginning, fermented foods are too difficult

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to handle because again, you don’t have the beneficial

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gut flora. So you may start by building up using targeted probiotics, and once

your microbiome is greatly improved you can usually add in fermented foods

and actually derive a benefit from them. Alright, fruit is

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another item you’ve got to be careful of. Again, if you have a lot of candida

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and also bad bacteria in there you need to

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minimize your fruit consumption, but for digestive

processes you need to eat your fruit in isolation

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because fruit digests very quickly (about 20 minutes) and then it ferments

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if you’ve added it together with carbohydrates or

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protein, so you really want to eat your fruit

What about Fruits and Vegetables?

just by itself. Don’t have an apple pie, just have the apples.

The other thing you need to reduce is your roughage type

fiber. A lot of doctors will tell you to increase

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your roughage fiber, but that’s not actually beneficial for inflammatory

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bowel disease. You also need to avoid cruciferous, s0

that’s the whole cabbage family, garlic, onions, broccoli, cauliflower.

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All those types of vegetables. And you also need to avoid raw vegetables.

Again, something that’s very healthy for

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a normal digestive system is too hard to digest, so you won’t even

absorb the nutrients and it’s highly likely to give you diarrhea.

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Jini Patel Thompson is an internationally recognized expert on natural healing for digestive diseases. She healed herself from widespread Crohn’s Disease and has remained drug and surgery-free for over 25 years. Jini has appeared on numerous podcast, TV, and radio shows throughout the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia, giving people hope and vision for how they can heal their Colitis, Crohn’s, Diverticulitis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), using entirely natural methods. Her books on natural healing for digestive diseases have sold worldwide in over 80 countries.