All About My Personal Journey Battling Mold Exposure Have you ever been exposed to mold? Or have you been dealing with chronic mold symptoms? I wanted to share my journey with mold because of how much of an impact it had on my Ulcerative Colitis journey. The deeper I delved into this, I saw how [...]
We often get this question - which version of Absorb Plus elemental shake should I use? Absorb Plus is an amazingly delicious, elemental diet shake comprised of the highest quality, natural, elemental (pre-digested) ingredients. Formulated by Jini Patel Thompson, Absorb Plus can be used for many purposes - allergy testing, clearing intestinal obstruction, bowel rest [...]
I like to re-share this post every so often because I've received this question in various forms for YEARS now...does Absorb Plus create a candida problem? These questions seem to have the same underlying concerns, so here is an updated version of my answer - as well as a good representation of most people's unease. [...]
When is the best time to use bowel rest for IBD, and how does bowel rest work? An elemental diet is a completely liquid diet with pre-digested nutrients that are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream (within 20 minutes). This gives your gastrointestinal system a rest, but still supplies your nutritional needs - also referred to [...]
Sticking to a vegan diet can make it challenging to gain weight without ingesting a lot of grains (oatmeal, wheat, rice) which are not good for your gut - and when you're dealing with IBS or IBD, your body often cannot tolerate legumes (beans, lentils, soy, etc), so you can get locked in a downward [...]
I recently received this email from a reader (we will call her Alicia) who had just finished 6 weeks on the IBD Remission Diet - and her results are amazing! It reads: I did your IBD remission diet for six weeks. I followed every single instruction from your book. Before that, I had inflammation and [...]
Absorb Plus Elemental Diet Shake Taste Test! Join us as holistic health coach Dane Johnson does a live taste test of both the vegan isolate and whey isolate versions and flavors of the elemental shake, Absorb Plus! He tells us which flavors are his favorites, and which he could live without. As the formulator of [...]
When your digestive tract is inflamed or ulcerated, it becomes very difficult for your body to digest food, or to absorb any nutrients from your food. Your diet can become so restricted that you can only tolerate five to ten foods. In extreme states, you cannot eat any normal foods at all. I have gone [...]
We often receive questions from readers who are trying Absorb Plus, with no prior experience using an elemental diet. In the below featured video, I get hands on and show you how to mix Absorb Plus properly for best tasting results and maximum efficiency. I also talk about the different types of healthy oils you [...]
We finally have an elemental diet shake (that Jini helped formulate) available in our Australian LTYG Shoppe for all of our lovely Australian and New Zealand readers. It's called ElementGold and it has FSMP approval - so you might be able to get it covered under your health insurance plan. Your doctor can also order [...]
Flushing Intestinal Obstruction With A Liquid Diet For the best treatment and management of diverticular or obstructive GI disease, your diet should vary according to your symptoms. During good/calm times, it's best to eat a diet that promotes easy digestion and absorption and tonifies the intestinal wall. But during a flare-up (diverticulitis or acute stricture), [...]
Join me as a guest on The SIBO Survivor Show, as I discuss with Josh Sabourin the various ways to use an elemental or semi-elemental diet with Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) or Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)! What is an elemental diet? An elemental diet is made of the essential nutrients - protein (predigested; di-peptide [...]
We recently received this feedback from a reader using the Vegan elemental diet shake kit to provide her body with some bowel rest and hopefully gain some weight. What I LOVE about her story, is she outlines the twisty path healing can take. And how when you're trying to heal multi-layered imbalances or dis-ease, you [...]
*Updated May 2018: Absorb Plus Sweetened Chocolate is now available in the shoppe! I've been receiving a lot of feedback from readers lately asking about a chocolate version of the unsweetened Absorb Plus. There isn't an unsweetened chocolate flavor in the works as yet, but I can certainly understand as I'm rather partial to chocolate myself! So, [...]
*Updated September 2019 I received a message from a doctor about a patient of his who had his stomach removed due to cancer, and as a result had severe protein malabsorption. Because of this, the doctor was wondering if Absorb Plus could be assimilated by this patient. Now, we have lots of people missing parts [...]
If you take a look through medical journals, you will not find a lot of information or data about the use of elemental diets with ulcerative colitis (or any form of colitis). In fact, the data you find will likely say that elemental diets are not effective for colitis. Now whilst I cannot confirm or [...]
When we first launched Absorb Plus back in 2002, we were only thinking about how it would be so valuable for my readers with Crohn's, colitis and diverticulitis - another great healing therapy to add to their toolkit. Then, we started getting emails from people who had passed on a tub of Absorb Plus to [...]
Every so often I receive emails from readers that either move my heart, or contain good ideas. This one does both: Hi Jini, I have noticed a real difference in the way I feel taking 2 Absorb Plus shakes a day for my diverticulitis. Before your shakes, I was very weak walking with a cane [...]
Wow! This is great news for those of you who have been on my IBD Remission Diet - or are considering it - or for those of you who use Absorb Plus (the elemental shake product I formulated) on an ongoing basis. Dr. Silvio Najt, MD (who used my IBD Remission Diet to heal his [...]
In preparation for my teleseminar with raw milk therapy expert, Jim Ehmke, CN, I went on a one week raw milk diet myself! Watch the videos below - shot on Day 1, Day 4 and at the conclusion of the Diet, to find out how it went, what I learned and whether I would ever [...]
This brand new healing protocol is an alternative to The IBD Remission Diet and utilizes a number of key substances and processes to heal a wide variety of diseases, flush out toxins and take your health to the next level of vibrancy. It’s a protocol that builds upon the Raw Milk Cure I explored in [...]
