IBD Flare-Up Management and Digestive Healing

Books specifically recommended for active or recent flares of Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn’s Disease, and other gut conditions:

The majority of these books may likely be found in your local library.

These are the 2 key resources that got me started on my journey. Looking back, their advice isn’t perfect for everyone (as no advice is), but the common thread is that they focus on healing the gut as the necessary first priority. Additionally they both emphasize cutting out all processed food, incorporating nourishing food, and removing all grains and beans (temporarily, not forever) which allows the gut to heal.

• Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet, by Elaine Gottschall

• The Maker's Diet, by Jordan Rubin

These are 2 other resources that helped me gain knowledge and understanding in the early phase of my healing.

• Restoring Your Digestive Health, by Jordan S. Rubin and Joseph Brasco

• The Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmune Disease and Heal Your Body, by Sarah Ballantyne, PhD

These resource books/cookbooks were invaluable during the more dietarily restrictive early years of my healing journey. They helped me learn how to prepare nourishing and delicious meals that aligned with my gut-healing diet.

• Against All Grain: Delectable Paleo Recipes to Eat Well and Feel Great, by Danielle Walker

• Practical Paleo: A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole-Foods Lifestyle, by Diane Sanfilippo

This resource is an excellent way to begin a new, gut-healing, real food way of eating.

• The New Whole 30, by Melissa Urban

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