This talk is on a inflammatory bowel disease, specifically Crohn's disease.
How and why the kind of standard, low fibre, high-fat, animal-heavy diet contributes or exacerbates the disease. Why a whole food plant-based diet may be the solution to that problem.
Alan Desmond Consultant Gastroenterologist #devongutdoctor
00:00 Introduction
00:51 What is crohn's disease
01:46 Patient remission rate
02:36 Impact of Crohn's
03:05 Medical treatment options
04:12 The Bowel lining
05:03 Nature or nurture in Crohn's
05:51 The slow motion epidemic
06:39 Explaining the impact of Crohn's
07:01 What can I eat
07:26 Fibre protects
07:53 Why fibre protects
08:30 Patients tolerate fibre
09:14 No evidence for low fibre diets
09:34 Fibre provides protection from e.coli
10:42 Consumption of emulsifiers
11:11 Maltodextrin
11:46 Animal fat and protein
12:44 Dairy and Crohn's
13:15 The gut microbiome
14:08 The no food approach
15:11 Treating active Crohn's
16:32 Treating with whole-food
17:44 Remission rates with semi-vegetarian diets
18:19 Benefits whole-food plant-based nutrition
18:57 The gut-paper
19:32 Summary
Recorded at Glasgow Health conference June 2018
Recorded by Roger Phillips
Editor - Doug Bristor
Assistant Editor - Karen Shoesmith
Funding - VegFund
With Thanks to Dr Shireen Kassam
