Will the Specific Carbohydrate Diet Cure Your Irritable Bowel Syndrome?

The Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) has helpedAmong people with IBS, you could be in either group,
thousands of people recover from bowel problems,the one-out-of-three or the two-out-of-three, which
including Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Celiacis why some IBS folks are fine with grains and flour
Disease. But will it cure your Irritable Bowelproducts and some aren't.
Syndrome?But how can you tell?
Cell science researcher, Elaine Gottschall MSc,Braly and Hoggan recommend a blood test they
popularized the SCD in her book, Breaking the Viciousdescribe in detail in their book, and believe this is
Cycle. Gottschall learned about the Specificmore accurate than allergy scratch tests or challenge
Carbohydrate Diet in a successful attempt to curetests. There are also services in most cities that test
colitis in her 8-year-old daughter. Then she did thefor reactions to grains by computer or with applied
science to figure out why it worked.kinesiology.
The SCD is a way of eating that is gluten-free,Probably the least expensive way to get a sense of
grain-free, sugar-free, and almost completelywhether or not you react to grains is to look at your
dairy-free-only lactose-free dairy products areblood relatives and their health patterns. Do your
allowed. It is designed to heal and prevent bowelparents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, or siblings
problems when there has been damage to thehave Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, celiac, chronic
intestinal wall.diarrhea or constipation, food allergies, rheumatoid
Does this apply to you if you have Irritable Bowelarthritis, migraines, autoimmune disease, osteoporosis,
Syndrome? Probably not. Lots of people with IBSbrain disorders, intestinal disease, chronic pain,
don't need to eat gluten-free and do well on a dietdigestive disorders, infertility & problematic
that includes white rice, oatmeal, and crackers andpregnancies, diabetes mellitus, fibromyalgia, multiple
bread made from white flour. On the gluten-free,sclerosis, kidney disease, or lupus?
wheat-free Specific Carbohydrate Diet, these foodsAccording to Braly and Hoggan, when your family
are big no-no's.members have any or several of these conditions,
Secondly, there's no bowel damage in Irritable Bowelthey can be a sign of the inability to digest grains
Syndrome. There is inflammation and damage ineven if there are no obvious bowel problems. (Many
conditions like Celiac, Crohn's Disease and Ulcerativemore diseases and chronic conditions are listed in their
Colitis but not with IBS, so there's no need to healbook which details over 100 health problems that are
the bowel.linked to grains.)
So, what's the story? Why do some people with IBSSo will the Specific Carbohydrate Diet cure your IBS?
thrive on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and notIt depends on what is stressing your digestion in the
others?first place. If it's largely a grain- or mould-related
One answer comes from James Braly MD and Ronstress, then the SCD could be your best friend. But if
Hoggan MA, authors of Dangerous Grains. Accordingyour IBS is more typically caused by stored trauma
to them, as many as one out of three people isand you have no markers of grain-sensitivity, then
grain-sensitive and will react to gluten, wheat and allyou need a treatment that goes beyond food. For
grain products, even when they don't show reactionsmore information, see the article on this site called:
on a conventional allergy test. Fortunately, thatIrritable Bowel Syndrome - Breakthrough in Brain
means the majority of us-two out of three-are okayResearch Helps You Heal IBS.
with grains.© Results in Healing Inc.