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Post edited 10:00 pm – November 14, 2011 by DrSnow

There are a lot of questions concerning "Do I have IBS or Colitis"— "My Doctor says it could be a touch of Crohn's Disease" or "It says online I might have Leaky Gut." Or- "He/she says that it's up in the sigmoidal transverse- aortic-esophagus -lower anal- left side misc thing." Gee- I'd be scared to death after leaving these complicated guys office too. By the time people come to my office they are freaked out! I have to calm them down- kinda like a colon psychotherapist. Don't make it sooooo complicated.

Geography does not matter! It is all the same  muscle tissue from top to bottom! Do the muscles in the legs have different rules than the arms? I have to deprogram all of my clients after their gastroenterologogist appointment or after they have spent the night on Google. Modern Medical Science wants to fragment everything out. They don't practice "Whole- istic" Medicine- they can't see the forest for the trees. It does not matter what part of the GI tract muscle is injured- it's all the same- like a river– it's still all the same river. What counts are the symptoms- "body language." All parts of the GI Tract speak the same language -diarrhea- gas- bloating- blood- mucus ect. All of these symptoms are just different ways for your GI tract to say "ouch."It's all the same tissue- same injury- different level of "ouch"- the same cause – the same cure.  Keep it simple. 

Don't get hung up on the leaky gut syndrome treatment- colitis diet -irritable bowel symptoms- colitis flare up diet – crohn's diet non-sense. When seen for what it is- inflammatory bowel disease (actually not a disease- but that's a story for another day) is simpler than you would think. In fact stop thinking so much & just listen—– & learn how to speak "body language."

spastic Colon-What exactly does that mean? Your colon goes spastic when it is exposed to your own digestive acids and food every time you eat. It is exposed because at some point you had some form of anti-bacterial drug- whether prescribed or in your food/water supply- wiping out your mucosal lining. This is completely un-natural and your colon pays the price. In actuality- this problem was long in development before the symptoms showed up. The main Spastic Bowel symptoms are- urgent diarrhea and pain. If you see the presence of blood or mucus in your stool you are drifting into the world of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s(not a disease at all). Spastic Colon is just another name for any of the inflammatory bowel diseases that involve these symptoms- most specifically IBS and Colitis. This will just keep happening unless you take effective action. The first thing to do is to eat a “Spastic Colon Diet”- low fiber. This will stop irritating the tender tissue of the intestinal wall. You will also need to use an herbal anti- inflammatory bowel treatment- that is geared to your exact problem. To fix any IBD takes a 3 pronged strategy- 1. Adjust the diet 2. Use a combo of anti-inflammatory herbs 3. Use a specific set of  natural tissue building nutrients- determined by the degree of damage to the GI tract -either skin -fat or muscle tissue. Your symptoms will tell you how much damage there is to this tissue and the necessary strategy. This is a Holistic medicine approach- blending all 3 levels of treatment. You will not recover without using this approach.

This is a diet that is recommended by many Doctors for people with inflammatory bowel disease such as IBS- colitis-ulcerative colitis- crohn’s disease -leaky gut syndrome- diverticulitis and gatro-enteritis. It is just a different way of saying low fiber diet. The problem is that this is being presented as being either the cure or as the best that can be done. Neither is true. The reason we do want to eat a low fiber diet is because we have a pre-existing problem-already inflamed gastric tissue and the fiber is only aggravating it- not causing it. This will bring about symptoms such as- diarrhea and intestinal pain/ bowel inflammation.To continue to eat fiber foods will bring about more severe symptoms like mucus and blood in the stool. Eating a low fiber diet is a good idea while you are in the process of getting your GI tract fixed. However it is not the answer. As for getting or getting rid of IBD- food is never the issue- you can’t eat your way into or out of IBD. This goes for the SCD and GAPS diet- nice things to do—— but they will not fix the problem—and everyday you go w/o doing so—— it is slowly getting worse.

Everybody is taking probiotics for IBD’s- such as IBS-Colitis-UC-Leaky Gut-Crohn’s Disease-Diverticulits-Gastroenteritis – Dysbiosis-C-Dif – chronic diarrhea & constipation.That is a good start. But most of you won’t get healthy unless you follow a couple of basic tips—

1.  Don’t believe it when you are told that any probiotic does not need to be refrigerated- they all do- the best ones can go for prolonged periods w/o refrigeration- losing potency slower than most.                                                                                                                                  2. If you don’t take it with colostrum- preferably lactose neutralized- it will do nothing for you. Check out what happens when any mammal nurses their child. Have you seen any animals feeding their babies formula? Not breast fed =  no GI health/immune system/ failure to thrive.                                                                                                                           3.The best probiotic mimics the profile of bacterial strains in breast milk. Otherwise you are taking something put together by “man.” Who do you trust- some human in a lab coat or mother nature?

4. Find one that is antibiotic resistant- hard to find.  So the next time you take antibiotics they won’t get wiped out & you won’t get sick.                                                            5. When buying probiotics- be a pain in the ass- ask these questions- taking probiotics & colostrum is the most important thing you can ever do for your body- it is the foundation of everything. (They even discovered a bacterial strain for weight loss- naturally thin people have lots of it in there GI- overweight people don’t-you can get it with the right probiotic)

I am often asked if there is any connection between irritable bowel syndrome & nausea. The answer is yes- and it is also true of any of the inflammatory bowel “diseases.” Nausea occurs in the stomach- the upper GI. IBS and colitis occur in the large intestines -the lower GI. Same problem- just a different stretch of the same road. Nausea is your stomach’s way of saying that it is not prepared to receive/process/digest food/germs at the moment and if you persist it will throw it right back out at you. With IBS and Colitis – both having diarrhea as their most prominent symptom- is the intestines way of saying that it is not in the mood to process waste right now- so it says “get out of here”- sometimes so fast that you cannot make it to the bathroom= urgent diarrhea. What is the issue they both have in common? Both locations are lacking the mucosal lining-the software- that protects the tender tissue in the intestines from harsh stomach acids & roughage- and also acts to decipher whatever you swallow- food- water -germs & orchestrates digestion. Without it you will not handle the food/germs well- causing indigestion- bloating – gas and Dysbiosis -like candida yeast infections- as your digestion is also the 1st stop of your immune system. If you insist on eating when nauseous it will get sick of you and make you sick- vomit! Either way- up or down- if you don’t get it fixed it won’t just go away and you will continue to have it come out of both ends. And no – don’t blame it on food poisoning- salmonella- montezuma’s revenge- as I will discuss in my next post- because if you have your software/mucosal lining in place you can swallow anything- even tainted food and your GI will not even blink. My advice- get a tuneup.