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  1. hareyan

    How to Help People With Crohn’s and Colitis

    How to Help People With Crohn’s and Colitis If your friends or family members struggle with one of these inflammatory bowel diseases, you don’t want to make the holidays even harder. Here are some things you can do to help. Offer alternatives at gatherings. Stock non-alcoholic beer or...
  2. hareyan

    How Can Diet Help With Crohn’s or Colitis?

    How Can Diet Help With Crohn’s or Colitis? Some foods can trigger a Crohn’s or colitis flare-up. Each person is different, so keep a food diary to identify your triggers. For example, some people with inflammatory bowel diseases are also lactose intolerant. Record whether your symptoms increase...
  3. hareyan

    Why Are Holidays Harder for People With Crohn’s and Colitis?

    Why Are Holidays Harder for People With Crohn’s and Colitis? Hi everyone, this was emailed to emaxhealth from naturals2go and I decided to share with you. If you have Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, or other bowel disease, the holidays can be a difficult time. You’re surrounded by...
  4. hareyan

    What To Eat With Diverticulitis

    With more and more people being diagnosed with diverticulitis every year, the focus is on the diverticulitis diet and how to avoid flare-ups. Here are some simple, soothing and natural ways to cope. Reprinted from EmaxHealth. Fast When You Have A Diverticulitis Flare Up When you have a...
  5. hareyan

    The Vegan Diet Is The Chosen Diverticulitis Diet

    Diverticulitis is a diet-related digestive disease caused by a lifelong low fiber diet. The good news is diverticulitis can be avoided, and the symptoms reversed by switching by following a vegan as a diverticulitis diet, according to findings, published at eMaxHealth. What is Diverticulitis...
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    Vegan Foods That Ease Ulcerative Colitis Better Than Humira

    There is nothing worse than a flare-up of Ulcerative Colitis to stop you in your tracks. Instead of suppressing your immune system, reboot it by eliminating inflammatory foods. Although there are many natural remedies of ulcerative colitis flare ups, you'll want to focus on eating these vegan...
  7. hareyan

    3 recipes using vegan foods for Crohn’s disease patients

    3 recipes using vegan foods for Crohn’s disease patients According to the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, about 1.6 million americans have Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), and in 2010, there were 187,000 hospitalizations specifically for Crohn’s disease, a type of IBD. Recently, the...
  8. hareyan

    Soy protein may benefit treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

    Researchers say that consuming soy protein may lessen the severity of inflammatory bowel disease. The severe diarrhea, pain, fatigue and weight loss which is generally associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be very debilitating and may lead to complications which are...
  9. hareyan

    Vitamin D may be more important than known for ulcerative colitis

    A new study suggests vitamin D may be more important than known for preventing ulcerative colitis flare-ups. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease characterized by inflammation of the large intestine that can frequently relapse after being under control for a period of time...
  10. hareyan

    Why your joints hurt if you have Crohn’s disease

    Why your joints hurt if you have Crohn’s disease These new symptoms can explain the link between Crohn's Disease and Arthritis. And why you have joint pain. New research has uncovered a link between Crohn’s disease and arthritis that can cause joint pain for those affected with the...
  11. hareyan

    Natural ways that might stop diarrhea from Crohn's disease

    There is an interesting article, that I may have shared in this forum earlier about natural ways that might stop diarrhea from Crohn's Disease. But today I added a new video in the article showing 6 quick tips based on the info from the article. Here is the video from YouTube...
  12. hareyan

    New treatment being tested

    This is amazing. New treatment being tested. What would you say? Researchers test fecal transplant, stem cells for treating Crohn's disease. Fecal transplant may be an option for Crohn's disease treatment according to preliminary research conducted among children. A second study recently found...
  13. hareyan

    Updated:How turmeric could help manage Crohn's disease and colitis

    Updated with a new information: Turmeric, an Indian spice that has been used for centuries for its health benefits might help with Crohn's disease treatment, reports Kathy Blanchard from EmaxHealth.com based on several studies, referenced below. The active ingredient in the spice that is also...
  14. hareyan

    Help IBD with Lifestyle, Dietary and Supplement Interventions

    Although the mechanisms for the development of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) are multifactorial and quite likely highly specific to the individual, there are a number of things that you can begin to incorporate in your day-to-day life right now that will help reduce inflammation in the gut...
  15. hareyan

    3 ways turmeric could help Crohn's and colitis

    Turmeric, an Indian spice that has been used for centuries for its health benefits might help with Crohn's disease treatment (new). The active ingredient in the spice that is also known as "holy powder" is cucrumin from which the health benefits are derived. Improved gut health This story was...
  16. hareyan

    New ways to diagnose Crohn's, colitis less invasive

    Researchers from Oxford University are very close to developing a blood test that could diagnose Crohn's disease. The finding has the potential to bring new and better treated for the inflammatory bowel disease that uses a biomarker to identify who has the disease. How the Crohn's blood test...
  17. hareyan

    Humor May Actually Be Good Medicine for These 5 Conditions Including Crohn's

    The stories about humor being good medicine may not just be myths. There has been a lot of discussion over the years about the possibility that humor can make people more resilient to illness. Certainly a good laugh usually makes people feel somewhat better. New research supports the premise...
  18. hareyan

    BREAKING: Specific gut bacteria found for Crohn's disease

    Researchers have identified specific gut bacteria found in people with Crohn’s disease that they say could mean better treatment. Scientists for the the new study say though they still don’t know the exact cause of Crohn’s their findings point to an autoimmune response to specific bacteria in...
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    BREAKING: New Crohn's disease treatment trial now open to those in U.S.

    Qu Biologics has been testing an immunologic agent for treating Crohn's disease in Canada. Now clinical trials are available in the United States that uses Site Specific Immunomodulators (SSIs) for managing the form of IBD, reports Kathleen Blanchard from EmaxHealth.com. The biological...
  20. hareyan

    How these high fiber foods could naturally stop Crohn's flare-ups

    It's been a few years since researchers published findings that eating broccoli and plantains could be good medicine for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. But how many doctors have recommended the food as a dietary approach to quell symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBD)? Much has been...
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