Do you know what she might have done to accomplish that? There is some evidence of that for me. I pretty much stopped eating very much for a few months but the latest imaging still leans towards Crohns. I am doubtful... I don't have the really bad symptoms, but some inflammation - not of the colon, of the small intestine.
Diarrhea with occasional severe dehydration seems to be my main symptom - five ambulance trips to the hospital this year, the last one potentially critical/fatal. Lots of testing but no clear diagnosis. Recently I take pancreatic enzyme supplements (expensive!) with each meal and snack. That may be helping - no trips to hospital yet since starting enzymes - but still diarrhea.
Last weekend I sang my own Christmas carol to my son: I'll be home for Christmas, I can't go anywhere, my troubled butt, is in a rut, my bottom's always bare; Christmas Eve will find me, on the toidy there, I'll be home for Christmas, I can't go anywhere.
sigh 🙄
sounds like chronic food poisoning, BOB!
Bob, this blood test for food sensitivities was essential in restoring my health 12 years ago. Test is achieved with a local blood draw and that blood draw facility sends the sample to Meridian, and in 7-10 days you get results mailed to you. Tests for nearly 200 foods and spices.
https://www.meridianvalleylab.com/services/combo-e-95-a-95-panel
Just some thoughts on your problems.
I would recommend Glutathione; your body does not make enough of it as you get older.
I take 250 mg. https://tinyurl.com/2fa56e6h
Also, Activia, helps with digestive problems.
They used to advertise for that, and the FDA made them stop advertising, they had not tested it yet.
I tell you when I first took it, I wrote the company to tell them how much it helped with my digestive problems, diarrhea.
https://tinyurl.com/5fmap55j
It’s my son-in-law that has crohns but he hasn’t had serious problems in a while. He still eats all the junk he wants but it’s more like it just went away. He has some sort of med delivered to the house but I’m not sure if it’s for crohns or not. It has to be refrigerated at arrival. I don’t see him much even though they live on the farm but I’ll ask. It acts like an auto-immune disease that just goes into a slight remission at times.
I can see how pancreas problems could cause similar symptoms. Keep taking the meds and see what happens.
Get the book "Dead Doctors Don't Lie" by Joel D. Wallach (see pages 313-314). He has some very specific recommendations especially to do with diet and supplements.
A nephew (19 yo, but Crohn's problems most of his life) had several surgeries including colostomy bag and resection/amputations. Before a last-ditch surgery for "this is the last thing we can do" at Cleveland Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic doctor recommended he see their dietician before final surgery. Long story short, this is one year ago. He is now a freshman in college away from home, living a normal college life and in excellent health. He got rid of his colostomy bag with no need for more surgery.
Crohn's is a terrible condition. That and Irritable Bowel Syndrome may be helped by other than typical surgery and pharmaceuticals. I don't have all the details, but I think Dr. Wallach has - or any Naturopathic doctor.