I most recently spent 3 days hospitalized after a trip to the E.R.
6 cm Abscess on lower colon from diverticulitis.
Suspecting at times, overeating would allow partially digested foods to pass from stomach into intestines and wreck havoc downstream. Things like even raisins, not digested first, would get in a div— pocket and this one time, constipation allowed it to fester and get infected. Painful and dangerous.
On I.V. antibiotic for the three days.
They say the tissue will reabsorb the pus and infection.
At first they were talking surgery and an ostomy. Iick.
Still on mostly liquid diet.
I’ve never had it so bad I needed hospitalization but i used to get diverticulosis several times per year. Eventually I started eating probiotic yogurt or drinking kefir several times per week and no longer have any trouble. I went from about 7 instances per year to about once very 3 years - typically when traveling and off my regular diet.
From wikipedia:
“James H. Salisbury (1823–1905) was an American physician and chemist known for his advocacy of a meat-centered diet to promote health, and the term Salisbury steak for a ground beef patty served as the main course has been used in the United States since 1897.”
I’ve read he used it to treat civil war troops who were dying from diarrhea.
Look into the all meat carnivore diet. I’m 77, have been on it for six years.