Below is a posting from an anonymous person who as you can see has taken many many medications for ulcerative colitis.  I thought it might be helpful for some other UC patients to see how it is not always easy to go from being diagnosed to finding a solution that works for you.  Thanks for [...]

I think I’ve mentioned it before, so here’s one more time:  I have UC. Also, I love eating hamburgers.  My favorite hamburger joint is called FatBurger.  It’s a relatively small burger chain, many in the California/Nevada areas, and many other spots too.  To me, they are my favorite burgers money can buy. Yes indeed, I [...]

(Jordan Reasoner and Steve Wright become friends as members of the same fraternity in college. Jordan battled undiagnosed Celiac Disease for years before going on the SCD diet for the last year. Steve is still searching for a diagnosis for his digestion problems and has been on the SCD diet for 3 months. They started SCD Lifestyle.com together to help people just starting out on the diet. This is the 2nd part of a 3 part series on their stories and how the diet helped them.)

This recipe makes four small loaves.  I use four small metal  bread pans (mine are afixed together in a solid wire frame — ez to handle); each is 3.25 x 5.5  inches, smaller than usual.   (The recipe would fill two usual-sized rectangular bread pans — but I’ve never tried that.)  I line my pans with waxed paper [...]

Hi, my name is Jordan Reasoner and the SCD diet(Specific Carbohydrate Diet) saved my life. I want to share my story with you and talk about what the diet did for me. It all started back in 2005 when I slowly started pooping a lot. It took me a while to figure out that I [...]

…when it’s not really definite! So , I got to see a consultant gastroenterologist last week. A very pleasant young man. He said I had Inflammatory Bowel Disease, but it was difficult to diagnose whether it was Colitis or Crohn’s, but because of some of my other symptoms, i.e. mouth ulcers, joint aches etc, he [...]

Last Thursday I had a colonoscopy. This was a check up as I had not had a scope in over two years. So I went through the usual preparations of cleaning my bowels and fasting. On the day of the scope I recieved the good news that my Colitis is now mild instead of severe [...]

This is for people with a sweet tooth on the SCD plan. For the apple chips: 1 tsp of Cinnamon, 1/4 tsp of nutmeg, Honey for glazing(small amounts on each chip and thinly), 1 apple Preheat your oven to 200 degrees, and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Core the apples and then slice [...]