MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Back when my only identified gut problem was MC, my naturopath recommended juicing vegetables; using the kind of juicer that extracts and discards insoluble fiber. I've been doing that ever since. Now I'm trying to address SIBO, and I am told I should cook all vegetables for digestibility. Wouldn't ...

I guess healing did not occur, despite appropriate dietary measures (I also excluded nearly all processed foods). The naturopath who treated me at the time recommended atractylodes before every meal (she was into TCM), which I still use, and digestive enzymes plus betaine hydrochloride, which I stil...

Yes, ALCAT is a blood test. I'm interested in what you say about Enterolab, and plan to look them up. Both a colonoscopy and a stool sample processed by a lab somewhere in the Southeast US confirmed collagenous colitis, six years ago. Now it appears that after six years of a moderately restricted di...

Ah well. A Venn diagram showing foods allowable for combating SIBO and foods allowable for combating MC would have a pretty small overlap. Thus the Diet from Hell: meat or fish freshly cooked (except those kinds found intolerable via Alcat), cooked non-starchy low-fodmap vegetables (only those OK by...

Thanks! Casein in butter also? In ghee? In kefir?

Hydrogen breath test with lactulose came back positive, so I've been madly researching how to treat SIBO, and preparing to go on the Diet from Hell while taking the antibiotic. I have avoided dairy in all forms since I was diagnosed with collagenous colitis six years ago. But many of the dietary rec...