What Causes Inflammatory Bowel Disease?

If you have been told that you have Inflammatory Bowel Disease you are likely in the dark about what initially caused this condition. Your doctor may have told you that the causes of your ailment are unknown. That is not true. Your doctor isn’t holding back useful information from you. The truth is that doctors are not taught in medical school what causes issues like irritable bowel syndrome. As a result, physicians don’t have any helpful information to relay to their patients. Inflammatory bowel conditions were never discussed before the 1950’s. This is because they did not exist. There were certainly many stomach and bowel maladies but these were temporary and aside from homemade elixirs they just passed with time. For these simple conditions, plop-plop-fizz-fizz was all we needed.

Now there is a new kid on the block. It all happened just after WW2 when manmade synthetic antibiotics were unleashed into our environment and in our bodies. These have a devastating effect on our gastrointestinal tracts. Being very effective they killed everything bacterial that crossed their path. There was nowhere that was more affected than our gastrointestinal tract. The inside of our bowel is protected by a good bacterial culture known as the mucosal lining. We need this to survive.

This is the beginning of the history of inflammatory bowel conditions. Prior to this, there was no substance that could kill off the mucosal lining. No one ever suffered from any IBD. There are graphs available that show the parallel increase of antibiotic use and the increase in inflammatory bowel conditions. None of this is coincidental. Don’t look to your doctor for help with this. They have bought the antibiotic treatment concept hook, line, and sinker. In fact, if you go to them with a bowel problem you are likely to leave their office with just a prescription.

The Truth About What IBS is Not

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome is not a syndrome.

• IBS is not an auto-immune disease. In fact, no inflammatory bowel condition is present, including Crohn’s Disease.

• IBS is not just going to go away. There is no such thing as remission. You may be able to dampen the symptoms somewhat for a while by juggling foods. Then because you have gone so long without the proper care it will bounce back on you with a vengeance. This is especially true if you take the route of Prednisone or immune suppressant meds.

• IBS left untreated is called Colitis.

• IBS is not going to be fixed by your doctor.

• IBS is not caused by a poor diet and is not going to be fixed by changing your diet. You can’t eat your way into or out of IBS.

• You can’t heal IBS by taking bowel cleansers or colonics. They are the opposite of what is needed. They will make it worse!

• IBS is not something you have to live with.

Is fiber good for me? It depends…

There is more to know about fiber than you think!

If you have an inflammatory bowel condition it can be complicated and you could do yourself more harm than good.

We all think about fiber being good for constipation, which it is, but there is more to the story. What compounds this problem is that your doctor usually does not understand this and recommends fiber to anyone with any kind of bowel problem.

A doctor should never prescribe fiber if there is evidence of IBS, Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn’s, as it will make it worse. This is one of the misunderstandings about fiber.

If you give fiber to someone who has chronic constipation – that’s a good thing. Give it to someone with IBD – that’s a bad thing.