how many carbs is too few?

miss miss said:

another very informative post

thank you for sharing

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Thank you, @miss miss. Am looking forward to hear (or more accurately read) your updates on how you are doing.

miss miss said:

I am not cluey enough to work out how others have put all the info in there sorry, but I am type 2

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It's ok, I was quoting and replying to another poster.

ZedZeeZet said:

* as for the UC diagnosis I'm not convinced I have or had it as I have never had any symptoms and reading up on it seems I should be in a bit of discomfort every now and then. OR a low Carb diet keeps it at bay, Dunno.

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Did they do a colonoscopy? That's the only way to diagnose UC. (My daughter has had it since she was 4. She's 29 now - and has been asymptomatic (aside from the active UC they can see in her annual colonoscopy) most of that time, as long as she stays on her maintenance meds, no discomfort. Unfortunately, because of the increase in inflammation that shows up in her colon and a companion disease that puts her at extreme risk for colon cancer, she's now on as $20,000 (17,800 Euros )every 8 week maintenance medication.

bulkbiker said:

I have read many anecdotal reports that Low Carb will indeed bring UC under control so it could be that. Seems to make sense.

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Not really. UC is an autoimmune disorder. Unless you have an allergy to carbs, low carb won't interupt the autoimmune response. (25 years of experience with a daughter with UC - and tons of her buddies with UC and her companion disease) " low carb," despite what anyone swears by.

Neohdiver said:

Not really. UC is an autoimmune disorder. Unless you have an allergy to carbs, low carb won't interupt the autoimmune response. (25 years of experience with a daughter with UC - and tons of her buddies with UC and her companion disease) " low carb," despite what anyone swears by.

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Just some anecdotes and carnivore rather than simple low carb but...

https://meatrx.com/?s=colitis

Carbs or grains?

bulkbiker said:

Just some anecdotes and carnivore rather than simple low carb but...

https://meatrx.com/?s=colitis

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Because my daughter has a rare companion disease, I also know hundreds of others with UC or Crohns (both are IBDs, UC impacts the colon; Crohns the entire GI tract). Nutrition and diets are a hot topic at our annual conference (of ~200 people). What people swear keeps their IBD under control runs the gamut. In our experience, the only dietary change we made that ever made a difference was to remove poultry from her diet. Her control had only been intermittent prior to that time - and since that time (a quarter of a century ago) the only times she has been out of remission was when someone fed her "100% beef" that we later confirmed was actually poultry. The reason for removing poultry from her diet was that it was a blank space on her allergy scratch tests (primarily for ragweed) - so we tested what she had been eating lots of - and she showed an allergic response to chcken and turkey. (She also been having intermittent hives, which also stopped). That immune trigger that stars a cascade of attacks on her colon is pretty much the theory the crohns-colitis foundation adopted later.

But she's able to eat anything else (including things that others can't tolerate - like gluten, high fiber, high fruits and veggies). So it seems to be pretty individualized - but the general therory is a genetic predisposition + environmental trigger.