Supplements for Crohn's/Colitis/IBS - The Brand I Swear By - Garden of Life

If you have Crohn's UC IBS or any digestive issues, you probably don't absorb all the nutrients from the food you eat.  You have to supplement with a good product that will make up for what you lose in your food.  Also, if you have to adhere to a strict diet, limited diet, you may not even consume some of the foods that nourish and provide you with the needed vitamins and minerals that you need to keep your body functioning to the best of it's ability.    

Garden of Life is by far, one of the best supplement/vitamin/herb companies out there.  They are one of the few brands that provide ORGANIC supplements.  Have you noticed that it's very rare to find good vitamins that are organic?  I never used to look for organic until I refuse to put anything that isn't organic into my body.   I'm posting what I take from them that works great and am able to tolerate.  My body is sensitive to supplements, so finding a brand that my body can handle is a process of trial and error. Hope you find this helpful :)

( Everything I have posted here can be found at www.gardenoflife.com ) 

The Vitamin Code - Healthy Blood: I need iron, but have never been able to tolerate oral iron at all.  This doesn't irritate my digestive system or give me any problems. Works great.  

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT's) - 90% Recovery Rate for Patients w/ C. difficile

Yes, FMT's work for people with c-diff.  There are numerous articles that will tell you so.  90% of the patients get better after FMT treatments, versus something like 30% recovery rate with the old school antibiotic treatment, which is just plain bad for treating something like this.   If the body has any healthy bacteria left, the antibiotics will be sure to kill it all - Not good.  You actually want to do the opposite of kill it and instead, replenish the body with healthy bacteria.  That's exactly what FMT's do and people get well.  

This procedure should be the first method of treatment rather than the antibiotic method. I'm not sure if the US FDA has changed their views on FMT's but with this to consider : "500,000 cases of CDI in the United States annually, with health care costs ranging from $1.3 billion to $3.4 billion." Maybe the costs could be significantly reduced by going with the more effective treatment 1st. Wouldn't that be the more logical and humane thing to do anyway?

  

Fecal transplants restore healthy bacteria and gut functions:

Fecal microbiota transplantation—the process of delivering stool bacteria from a healthy donor to a patient suffering from intestinal infection with the bacterium Clostridium difficile—works by restoring healthy bacteria and functioning to the recipient's gut, according to a study published this week inmBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.