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Thank you for taking the time to reply and not just downvoting me. That is enlightening and I'm glad your relative is in better health now.

I'm certainly not suggesting there is a single treatment plan that'll work for everyone. As I said biology is fuzzy and it annoys me when people try to debug health issues like they were pieces of software. Discussing these things openly does help however.

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I have chrohns. The diet change recommendation is something we hear often.

For me my doctor recommends a mediterranean diet and to avoid emulsifiers, but it’s definitely not a cure and not universal.

If you go look at chrohns forums you’ll see a lot of experimenting and a lot of different diets because (to my understanding) chrohns has a lot of different and unknown causes.

For me high fiber foods can put me out of commission for the next day, for others it’s the opposite.

Yeah, there was a vegan girl once who heard i ha Crohns' and just would not stop telling me to go vegan. Apparently it had helped her IBD but she seemed incapable of believing that i had tried all that and that eggs and meat were the best diet for me. High protein, high calorie. I'll eat vegetables with make but always well done. If i ate vegan I'd probably be dead in 2 weeks.

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