How I achieved Remission and found my source of Gut Inflammation

How I achieved total remission was by two different ways a) stay away from local tap water and use naturally bottled spring water b) carnivore diet.

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Before the diet started I was going to the washroom around 6-7 times a day, all with urgency. I was on 6 pills of asacol 800 mg and 6 pills of loperamide. I diet had a mix this time of proteins, fruits and vegetables. I was following a traditional bodybuilding diet of eating clean.

I started the carnivore diet around a year ago when I watched a Joe Rogan video on youtube. It took me around a month to fully get off the carbs and onto a meat only diet. My meals would consist of chicken thighs, breasts, wings, fish (different varieties). At this point I was using the washroom around 2-3 times a day. I started decreasing my asacol intake to around 2 pills a day and 5 pills of loperamide.

I ended up in Toronto for a conference for work and I had a flare up and probably went around 4-5 times that day. I was really confused since I was still doing the carnivore diet and nothing else. At that point I realized that tap water was the cause of inflammation of UC. The next day I ordered bottled water and literally all of the symptoms of UC disappeared.

At this point I was drinking bottled water bought from the store from a natural spring.
about a month later I walked into a random store to pick up some more water and I didn’t bother reading the label. Later that day I had a flare again. When I looked at the bottle of water it read “bottled and packaged by local municipal tap water”. I immediately switched back to the old brand I was using and the symptoms disappeared.

By drinking the bottled natural spring water I use the washroom once a day, sometimes even every 2 days now. I think the only reason my body isn’t completed normal is that I still wash my dishes with tap water. I still take 1 asacol and 5 loperimide just because I’m sacred of symptoms incase I accidentially eat something while out or because of anxiety from having UC symptoms and not finding a washroom.

My opinion
If you think about vegetables, fruits, and bread. Typically vegetables and fruit are washed with tap water and bread/wheat products use tap water in order to be made. My guess is this is why most people cannot get into remission ie because of the constant inflammation caused by tap water in your gut. Municpal tap water has chemicals added into it to remove chlorine in it which includes sodium thiosulphate and sodium sulfite which inhibit gut bacteria.

I remember back in 2012 someone had posted on here saying they had resolved their UC symptoms overseas and once they returned back to north america their symptoms returned. This makes sense because the water treatment in those countries is considered "bad" and doesn't go through the same chemical process that we have here.

Meat only would be an interesting diet and sounds odd without bread or rice or potatoes. I agree about the tap water. I think it’s time I switched to only bottled water.

Well water with vegetables and fruits washed in tap water would probably be why it didn't work.

I can tell you from being on an all meat diet that I have 0 fatigue everyday something which did not happen when I ate carbs. I also lift weight regularly and do not get tired between sets unlike with carbs.

poopydoop said...
Using lots of bottled water is not very environmentally friendly....plus the chemicals from the plastic can leach into the water.
I find all the different diets on here very confusing and often contradictory. I tend to listen to my gut (ha ha!) in figuring out which foods work for me.

Neither is eating all meat! But I saw you post in another thread that you were sick of vegans pointing that out. Also, you mention chemicals from plastic water bottles... You do know about all the chemicals (antibiotics and hormones) in meat, right?

First, tap water has ZERO to do with UC. Second, an all-meat diet is horribly unhealthy and you are going to be deficient in a lot of vitamins and minerals, not to mention not getting enough fiber and getting too much animal protein which causes cancer, heart disease, diabetes and stroke. It's so strange that when someone posts about a vegan diet, people lose their minds but someone says they are only eating meat and everyone is very accepting of it.

Btw, I drank bottled water for months when I first got UC because I was worried something in my city water caused it. Nothing changed.

My point was it's ironic you made fun of environmental vegans in another thread and then said water bottles are bad for the environment here, especially when the impact of plastic water bottles and eating meat is not even comparable.

imagardener2 said...

Welcome back ima! I haven't seen any new posts from you since October. I thought you were gone forever since like so many others who have (for the most part) achieved remission tend to disappear from the forum.

When I was first diagnosed I never heard of UC so it was important for me to hear from others that it is possible to manage symptoms with diet:

imagardener2 said...
In remission April 2010 after 10 years of UC after no remission ever
gluten-free =bleeding stopped, dairy-free (less IBS) started remission path+food diary
daily

That is great that you have found out solution. I developed UC while using well water for years. Then after two decades we switched to tap water and I did not observe any change. Regarding carnivore diet I think that ours bodies are not adapted to such extremes. In long term it can bring some problems. Be cautious.

Sara14 said...

Neither is eating all meat! But I saw you post in another thread that you were sick of vegans pointing that out. Also, you mention chemicals from plastic water bottles... You do know about all the chemicals (antibiotics and hormones) in meat, right?

First, tap water has ZERO to do with UC. Second, an all-meat diet is horribly unhealthy and you are going to be deficient in a lot of vitamins and minerals, not to mention not getting enough fiber and getting too much animal protein which causes cancer, heart disease, diabetes and stroke. It's so strange that when someone posts about a vegan diet, people lose their minds but someone says they are only eating meat and everyone is very accepting of it.

Btw, I drank bottled water for months when I first got UC because I was worried something in my city water caused it. Nothing changed.

If you don't agree with meat eating that's your choice. You can google fossils showing early human diets being meat going back 1.5 million years. Also, you can get the vitamins you need indirectly from the animals you consume.

Perhaps bottled water didn't work for you because a) you drank repackaged tap water b) you ate fruits, vegetables, or bread which used tap water to either clean it or was used in its creation.

Post Edited (Shan2013) : 12/25/2019 12:44:53 PM (GMT-7)

quincy said...
Let's not get into the insanity of the thoughts of this type of thread....again. Maybe it will die its own death quietly without being forced to be locked? Because we all know that tap water is the cause and fuel for our UC for f sakes.

q

Not sure if you're trolling.

I know the post may sound absurd. I woke up this morning at around 8 am with no urgency to use the washroom. I just came back in after smoking a cigarette downstairs and drinking coffee (using bottled water) and I still haven't use the washroom since yesterday at 11am.

Perhaps a few people can give it a try and let us know if it works for them as I stated in the topic it has worked for me.

I live in a country where the water is not treated with chlorine and i still got UC here

Sara i don't get why you're being mean to me when I have tried to be supportive in many other threads especially in regards to osteoporosis. And it's Christmas....

Well that's me offline for a few more months.

I'm glad you're feeling well. Flares suck, and we all celebrate your success.

I am very skeptical bottled water is the reason you are within a remission. This diet stuff is all over the map, some claim going vegan gave them a remission, some were already vegans and then got diagnosed with UC, now you claim going carnivore gave you a remission, and I've read so many other contradictory claims over the years.

Certainly continue doing what you think is working. However, UC is documented to have spontaneous-remissions, and I would guess this is what happened to the OP. Hind-sight is always 20/20 vision, we correlate the last thing we did with our remission, and correlation does not always equal causation. Often a treatment takes many, many months to have an affect on us... so just as likely something done before this last regiment was actually responsible for the remission. I and the OP have zero proof either of us is right or wrong though lol.

iPoop said...
I'm glad you're feeling well. Flares suck, and we all celebrate your success.

I am very skeptical bottled water is the reason you are within a remission. This diet stuff is all over the map, some claim going vegan gave them a remission, some were already vegans and then got diagnosed with UC, now you claim going carnivore gave you a remission, and I've read so many other contradictory claims over the years.

Certainly continue doing what you think is working. However, UC is documented to have spontaneous-remissions, and I would guess this is what happened to the OP. Hind-sight is always 20/20 vision, we correlate the last thing we did with our remission, and correlation does not always equal causation. Often a treatment takes many, many months to have an affect on us... so just as likely something done before this last regiment was actually responsible for the remission. I and the OP have zero proof either of us is right or wrong though lol.

I disagree with your correlation concept. I think you may be confused. I did not state the tap water was the cause of ulcerative colitis, but the cause of inflammation in my gut.

I used a process of elimination to get to my conclusion. I have had UC for 16 years now and tried many things over the years with no success. It's now 3pm and right now no urgency to use the washroom whatsoever. Last BM was yesterday at 2pm.

My diet is simple:
7 am coffee - optional
12-1pm around 1lbs of meat
3-5 around 1lbs of meat
continously drinking bottled natural spring water through the day.

Post Edited (Shan2013) : 12/26/2019 3:31:43 PM (GMT-7)