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Articles by Dr. Albert Snow on IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s, and Constipation

Welcome to a treasure trove of knowledge and expertise in the realm of gastrointestinal health. Dr. Albert Snow, a distinguished authority in the field, has penned a series of enlightening articles dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s disease, and Constipation.

 

Delve into these insightful resources to gain a deeper understanding of these conditions, discover strategies for recovery, and embark on a path toward improved well-being. Dr. Snow's wealth of wisdom is at your fingertips, empowering you to take charge of your digestive health and live your best life.

If you have an inflammatory bowel condition the good news is that with the proper treatment, you can permanently repair your gastrointestinal tract. The means is to replace the mucosal lining which protects the tissue of the intestinal wall. This tissue is made up of skin, fat, and muscle. Without the mucosal lining our stomach acid erodes the wall and over time will create the symptoms of IBD. Using nutritional supplements that contain the ingredients of what the mucosal lining and intestinal wall are made of it is possible to permanently recover from these conditions. Whether you have Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis, or Crohn’s this all applies to you. The longer you go without the proper treatment the more damage will be done to your colon. The proper treatment is the use of naturopathic medicine to repair this tissue and once done you will find that you will be able to live symptom and maintenance free.

The #1 thing that you need to know is that you cannot eat your way into or out of any inflammatory bowel condition. It’s not about food. You could eat the worst possible diet and it would not give you IBS. The same can be said about eating only organic food — that will not heal your Colitis or Crohn’s.

But YES, eating a certain way can make your life less miserable until you get this problem fixed.

It is very, very simple. Just 2 things you need to do.

  1. The 1st rule of eating when you have an IBD is to eat a low fiber diet. This means no raw fruit, no raw vegs, no nuts, no seeds and no corn. Eating this way is temporary and doing just this can reduce your symptoms by 50%. But don’t fool yourself by thinking that you are healed. You aren’t. You just are not aggravating the source of the symptoms as much.

  2. The 2nd rule is to temporarily avoid any other foods that you are absolutely sure to aggravate your problems. I emphasize this because almost all of you are juggling foods based on what you have seen online or what a friend has told you worked for them. That is just theory. The only thing that matters is how your body reacts to any foods. Otherwise you are unnecessarily denying yourself foods that you could be enjoying. Other than the fibrous foods the most common to cause problems are dairy, wheat and soy. This is because they are complex foods and require more stomach acids to digest. One of the secrets of treating IBD is knowing that in addition to fiber aggravating the bowel tissue it is your acids that actually eat-erode the bowel wall.

That’s it. There is no more to it. The real diet for inflammatory bowel conditions is not what to eat but what not to eat and this is temporary.

Remember that it is not really about food – you cannot eat your way into or out of IBD. But you can make it a more comfortable ride.

  • You know almost nothing about it because until the second half of the last century, you didn’t need to as it and you used to be self sufficient. That has changed.

  • Nothing has changed in the last 50 years of inflammatory bowel disease treatment.

  • There is no effective medical treatment for any IBD.

  • Yes, they do have new drugs and fancy names for GI surgeries, ‘J-pouch’ for one. They also have new ‘appliances’ as they call them for you to eliminate.

  • Inflammatory Bowel Conditions are manmade injuries, not diseases. There is no valid list of different gastrointestinal ‘diseases.’

  • If I had Colitis or Crohn’s Diverticulitis I would be grateful for what was available and would be the first in line, but I would also be looking for alternatives. I’d also be a real pain in the neck and ask my doctor a lot of questions.

  • Things do evolve and sometimes the effective innovations come from somewhere other than where you are looking.

  • Let’s do our ‘google it test.’ Go find me anything from anywhere, any source of any kind that will tell you that they have proven that inflammatory bowel conditions are any type of auto-immune disease. They don’t exist and they never will. Most of what you will find will state this and that they are working by theory only.

  • There is a new, valid, and effective model for what these conditions are and how to treat them.

  • Your GI tract is just one thing. It is one long muscle stretched into a bunch of different shapes given names such as esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, colon, and rectum. Think of the person at the circus who makes the animals out of balloons.

  • It is made of skin, fat, and muscle just like your bicep or your thigh. Just like these, they can suffer injury.

  • If I cut my finger, can it be healed? What is a finger made of? A colon and a finger are made of the same thing–skin, fat and muscle, and the healing process is the same.

  • There is really just one injury and it starts with penetration of / a cut to the skin of the bowel.

  • Left unchecked this penetration keeps going deeper until it hits nerve tissue and blood vessels. The deeper the penetration the more severe the symptoms.

  • This is commensurate with the length of time one goes without the proper care. If you do not receive the proper care you will never recover. Have you recovered? What kind of care have you received?

  • There is just one inflammatory bowel condition. That condition is irritable bowel syndrome. Everything else – Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s Diverticulitis, are nothing other than a more severe version of IBS.

  • This is similar to 1st-2nd-3rd degree burns–the same skin-just more severe manifestations of the same condition.

  • There is only one starting point for you to heal yourself of any of these supposed inflammatory bowel ‘diseases.’

  • Go back to when you 1st started getting the symptoms and figure out what happened just before that. All I did was reverse engineer it.

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