If you have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), you've probably wondered whether what you're eating is making your symptoms worse, if you need to cut out certain foods, or if changing your diet could actually help heal your gut.
With so much conflicting nutrition advice out there, it can be difficult to know what to eat, especially when you're worried about triggering another flare.
In this episode of The Gut Show, I'm joined by dietitian Stacey Collins to talk about what IBD is, if your diet caused IBD, diet therapy and more!
In this episode, we cover:
Introducing Stacey Collins [2:36]
What is IBD? [5:42]
What is the diet for IBD? [8:52]
Did your diet cause IBD? [9:43]
I have IBD, can food heal my disease? [16:24]
Inflammation [18:18]
Can nutrition alone heal? [20:32]
Diet therapy [25:36]
When can diet therapy be used? [30:32]
Can you decide based on symptoms alone? [32:25]
Look at the whole patient [35:39]
Malabsorption and malnutrition [36:44]
"I'm healing when I feel like I'm not" [41:43]
Can you transition out of restriction? [42:39]
I ate this and flared, can I ever eat it again? [48:11]
About our guest: Stacey Collins is a multi-state licensed registered dietitian nutritionist, a board certified specialist in digestive health nutrition (CSDH), with focused training in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) nutrition from Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. She completed her dietetic internship and graduate nutrition program at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and her undergraduate education from The University of Texas at Austin. Currently, Stacey is a clinical outpatient dietitian at the Digestive Health Center at The University of Colorado Hospital, enthusiastically supporting the University of Colorado Crohn's & Colitis Center multidisciplinary team as their IBD- specialist Dietitian. Since 2022, she has owned her own virtual IBD nutrition private practice. As a person with Crohn's disease and a j-pouch who never received a dietetic consult, she feels passionately about advancing RD accessibility and their clinical confidence and therefore collaborates on nutrition education and research opportunities as often as she can. Outside of her work, she enjoys Colorado mountain hikes with her husband and their deaf dog, learning to rollerblade and ski faster, and trying not to drown while learning to surf. Website Instagram SubstackThank you to our partner:
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