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:
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So during the healing phase there are a number of things that you
just do not want to eat. They’re too hard on your system and they
really counteract the healing and delay the healing that you’re trying to
achieve. Some people for example tolerate raw
milk or raw cheese made from cow dairy. Other people don’t. A lot of people can
tolerate goat cheese because it’s closer to
human breast milk in terms of the proteins,
Foods to Avoid
so the additional guidelines are no preservatives,
no artificial anything – dough conditioners, flow agents,
you know, anything with MSG: monosodium glutamate.
Anything with nitrates, so that means all of your deli meats and your hot dogs.
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,
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
is going to be hydrogenated. There’s also a list of substances that
you need to at least reduce if you can’t
Sugar!
eliminate them. So the first one, of course, is sugar.
Sugar feeds all those bad bacteria: candida albicans, yeast,
mycobacteria in your gut, so you want to use stevia
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,
and when you have a predominant of bad bacteria in your gut
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
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
to handle because again, you don’t have the beneficial
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
another item you’ve got to be careful of. Again, if you have a lot of candida
and also bad bacteria in there you need to
minimize your fruit consumption, but for digestive
processes you need to eat your fruit in isolation
because fruit digests very quickly (about 20 minutes) and then it ferments
if you’ve added it together with carbohydrates or
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
your roughage fiber, but that’s not actually beneficial for inflammatory
bowel disease. You also need to avoid cruciferous, s0
that’s the whole cabbage family, garlic, onions, broccoli, cauliflower.
All those types of vegetables. And you also need to avoid raw vegetables.
Again, something that’s very healthy for
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.
