Re: regrettable SCD dietary stance on honey and inulin

[Guest guest]

Marilyn, the problem we've had with honey and other easily-digested carbs of the

Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) is that pathogens start working them and

flourishing before the client can digest them.

Honey precipitates candida flares and dysbiosis in the upper intestine in a

condition called SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth). SIBO results from

chronic poor bowel ecology -- bowel dysbiosis -- that migrates up from the bowel

past the ileo-caecal valve, above which the relatively milder pH favours the

spread of dysbiosis and candida. In this condition of mild pH any carbohydrate

is eaten up pretty fast by candida and dysbiosis organisms; much faster than

bifidobacteria use it.

With regard to the claim that inulin feeds a variety of bacteria including

pathogens, a test tube study of pure-culture species on native inulin did grow a

variety, but research notes that in a natural environment(in-vivo patients), the

bifidobacteria and lactobacilli are known to maintain the pH too low for

pathogen survival.

However, if you prefer test tube studies you'll be interested to learn that long

chain inulin that's had the 10% sugar and 3% FOS removed showed the pathogens

failed to grow, even in a pure-culture test tube, and get this -- even with a

week of additional fermentation under ideal conditions.

The table from all this research is displayed and the fulltext peer-reviewed

study is linked on my site, a rather large resource on the subject:

http://tinyurl.com/inulin-references.html

Because I've successfully treated several people who had been on the SCD without

success, with clients coming back with " My Crohn's is much better thank you " , I

think I can make a qualified comment, and the research also speaks for itself.

I note that people who are cured can have some carbs after awhile, but few

people on the SCD do not have flare-ups because they're still feeding the

dysbiosis every single day they are " in the SCD program " .

So, I reiterate that any carbs including honey would be outlawed on a good bowel

health diet, and the SCD in fact allows their restriction for good reason. I

think it's unconscionable to cater to peoples' personal tastes and say it's OK

to have honey. No SCD for me, my family, or my clients, thank you.

all good,

Duncan Crow

> >Arrowroot and honey feed bad bowel ecology,

> >called dysbiosis, and also candida. One should

> >reduce overt carbohydrate sources and feed the

> >probiotic organisms more inulin, at least to the

> >amount we evolved with that was considered

> >optimal in the research, something under 20

> >grams (diminishing returns) and over 12 grams,

> >to compensate for low inulin in the modern diet.

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> With regret, I must disagree with your statement.

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> Dr. Gee said, " That which the patient

> takes, beyond his ability to digest, does harm. "

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> If one were dealing with candida, yes, I'd

> eliminate most fruits (excluding occasional

> berries) and honey. But small amounts of honey are easily digested.

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> Inulin feeds bacteria. But it is not selective.

> It feeds both bad and good bacteria. I know

> inulin is the darling of most naturopaths, but it

> can make people with a severe overgrowth, as in

> the case of Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, much much sicker.

>

> Prior to finding the SCD, which does not forbid

> some inulin in whole foods, such as onions (but

> Jeruselem artichokes are not permitted) but does

> prohibit it as a supplement, I tried inulin. I

> was very, very, very sick as a result.

>

> SCD has been around for more than 60 years, the

> result of the work of Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas,

> who received a Golden Jubilee World Tribute for

> his work in the treatment of celiac disease.

>

>

>

> — Marilyn

> New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

> Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

> Darn Good SCD Cook

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