Full UC Healing Timeline Explained | Why I Quit the Vegan Diet

This video finally explains my entire healing timeline in the correct chronological order starting from my UC diagnosis. I also clearly explain my time as High Carb Health's (HCH) client following the vegan diet, and why I chose to abandon the vegan diet in favor of an all-inclusive gut microbiome optimizing approach. Contrary to what I have said in the past, the vegan diet did NOT heal me. I was wrong. As I explain in the video, I truly thought I was healed at the time of my interview with HCH. However, not long after our interview, I began eating out at different restaurants because I thought I was healed. I began noticing symptoms of UC soon after.

After that, I decided to educate myself on the gut microbiome. I became convinced that optimizing the gut microbiome was the key to healing UC/IBD. From what I read, there seemed to be multiple ways in which the gut microbiome could be optimized, and that a vegan diet could be one such way. I was faced with two choices: make some modifications and continue on with the vegan diet... or choose a route that allowed me to eat both plants and animal products. I chose the latter because it gave me the most freedom, and I came to the conclusion that this route would also be faster. I was able to heal a few months later and I haven't looked back since. I also had a colonoscopy and a biopsy performed in 2018 that confirmed I'm in clinical and endoscopic remission. I can now eat anything I want to, including junk food, with no symptoms. This is the definition of healing that I was looking for, and it was the one that I got: "to be able to consume a full range of foods without bleeding, mucus, urgency, or diarrhea; to have well-formed solid bowel movements; and to be on no medication."

I would like to be clear: there is abundant research that supports the idea of being able to optimize the gut microbiome on a vegan diet. I think that if I had been willing to stick with the vegan diet, and maybe make some small modifications, I would have eventually been able to fully heal. I was very close to doing it twice, as I explain in the video. Many people have been able to heal from IBD while following a whole foods plant based vegan diet. Most notably, Shamiz from High Carb Health and Dr. David Klein, author of Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's.

Shamiz and Shukul from High Carb Health were nothing but professional while I was their client and they were fantastic to work with. They've helped several people heal from IBD and they tremendously helped me. Even though I decided not to follow through with their program in the end, I'm still a fan of their work and aspects of the vegan diet (though I am no longer vegan). Due to a number of variables, the vegan diet might not be for everyone. But if you are interested in a whole food plant based diet approach to fighting IBD, the Kachwalla brothers from High Carb Health are the experts in that arena.

Here is their website: http://www.highcarbhealth.com/
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/highcarbvegan1/featured

Sources:
1). Brown K, DeCoffe D, Molcan E, Gibson DL. Diet-induced dysbiosis of the intestinal microbiota and the effects on immunity and disease [published correction appears in Nutrients. 2012 Oct;4(11)1552-3]. Nutrients. 2012;4(8):1095–1119. doi:10.3390/nu4081095

2). Tamang JP, Shin DH, Jung SJ, Chae SW. Functional Properties of Microorganisms in Fermented Foods. Front Microbiol. 2016;7:578. Published 2016 Apr 26. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00578

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