Strawberries as Treatment for IBD's? New Scientific Study

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Strawberries as Treatment for IBD's? New Scientific Study

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I wonder how this would work for MC? The fiber and fruit sugars might be a problem, at least early in the healing process.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 085219.htm
The researchers found in mice that dietary consumption of whole strawberries at a dose equivalent to as low as three-quarters of a cup of strawberries per day in humans significantly suppressed symptoms like body weight loss and bloody diarrhea in mice with IBD. Strawberry treatments also diminished inflammatory responses in the mice's colonic tissue.

Following the dietary treatments of whole strawberries, the researchers observed a reversal of that unhealthy microbiota composition in the IBD mice.
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Interesting. Strawberries are a good source of vitamin C, and they contain a fair amount of manganese, folate (B9) and potassium. Otherwise, there doesn't seem to be anything unique about them. :shrug:

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Post by MamaFill »

I just bought a bunch for my son. If I can get past my nausea enough to eat some, I might try it.
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