Question for you: If I removed half the stress from your life, how would you feel?
Lighter? Calmer? Happier? Healthier?
As you probably know, The Specific Carbohydrate Diet is the best way to start healing your digestive problems and reverse chronic illness.
So many of you are working hard to take control of your health and getting amazing transformations. Here’s a few emails we’ve received in the past few weeks:
“Thank you Jordan & Steve. This was our best X-Mas ever. My daughter was so happy to feel well again and down to 15mg of prednisone. We are slowly weaning her and hope she will be off by end of January.” – Jenny
“Already I have seen a great reduction of cramps and diarrhea has stopped .I am just starting on phase 1 now. Thanks for all the tips.” – Annie
“Even though I was technically in remission when I started the diet, it brought me to a whole new level of health. My energy levels went up, my GERD went away, joint pain reduced, no bloating or pain and was even getting solid stools.” – Natalie
Your commitment to this healing journey is so brave!
And if you’re already working hard following SCD and you’re ready to keep improving your digestion, then we’ve got something special for you that’s really going to help you do it.
We’ve written before about how tightly linked stress and digestion are… and how ignoring stress can trigger painful setbacks.
In fact, when someone comes to us doing “everything right” with diet and supplements, but they just can’t get symptom-free… stress is the first place I look.
And I got to thinking, there’s probably more of you that would see improvement in your symptoms if you had less stress in your life. You don’t have to do this alone…
That’s why we created a free “7-Day Stress Reduction Challenge” to help you kick off the New Year
This “7-day Stress Reduction Challenge” will help you cut your stress in half in 2012. If you want to overcome the most common cause of digestive setbacks and give your body the greatest chance to live symptom-free…. then JOIN THIS CHALLENGE.
We’ve combined all the most powerful stress reduction techniques and ideas that we’ve been using over the past few years into 7-days (since we all can’t hang out on a beach for a week…).
And the best part?
You only need to commit a few minutes every day to do each assignment. We’ll work hard together for 7 days and melt away a lot of the stress in your life…
The more serious you are, the more amazing your results will be!
Here’s How The Challenge Works:
- Join the 7-day stress reduction challenge by entering your name and email in the box below
- It’s completely free
- Every morning for the next 7 days you’ll get an email delivered to your inbox
- Each email will have a different technique for you to use to lift the weight of the world off your shoulders
- At the end of the 7 days, if you use everything we show you, you’ll cut your stress in half
If you’re ready to get this part of your life handled in the New Year… and ready to do a 7 DAY CHALLENGE with us and many others…..
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Thanks for an incredible 2011. You’re amazing, you’re brave, and I believe in you 
Talk soon,
P.S. – I can’t wait to work with you during this challenge… if you’re taking control of your health with SCD and doing your best to live a healthy life even though you have a crippling disease – this challenge will help you…
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Hey guys,
I tried SCD for LPR, a form of reflux distinct from GERD. I had been on a low fiber, low residue diet by doctors orders so it had been a long time since id eaten the standard diet, specifically i ate hardly any fresh green vegetables.
On SCD, I’ve developed pain and weakness in my bones and joints. Also I have intermittent pain around the gallbladder area.
I haven’t been able to stay on SCD entirely, but I used a lot of bones in making my broth. I still have my original problem and wonder if I’ve developed some sort of calcium-mg dysfunction. Does that make sense?
Does anyone ever have problems eating so much meat/bone stock?
Thanks, I’m trying to piece it all together.
Hi Bryan – great to hear from you.
Whenever I hear that someone has trouble with meat/fats like you describe I find low stomach acid. Next, when I have someone with GERD heartburn issues it’s also a sign of low stomach acid… so you’re showing a lot of signs of low stomach acid.
GERD/Heartburn is typically related to intra-abdominal pressure from low stomach acid (I know, doesn’t seem right).
I’d highly recommend that you read Chris Kresser’s GERD/Heartburn series to learn more and start testing out Betaine HCL supplementation.
If you have proper stomach acid support in the form of Betaine HCL you’ll be able to break down fats and proteins better and it will aleviate your GERD/Heartburn symptoms over time.
Here’s the link: http://chriskresser.com/heartburn
Let us know if you have anymore questions.
Jordan
Bryan,
I was having such terrible GERD and literally spitting up my food and choking on it while I was eating and afterwards before I followed Jordan and Steve’s advice to try to Betaine HCL. It works so well! Took me a few weeks to really get the dose right, but now I’m set. Between that and the digestive enzymes they recommended, I’m doing so much better!
Gutsy Girl
Awesome Gutsy Girl – I’m so happy to hear that you’re getting good results after we talked! You rock
Keep us updated on your progress…
Jordan
I have tried the Betaine HCl, single dose of about 300mg, and I tend to get a burning irritation in my left upper-mid abdomen and, a few minutes later, discomfort down lower in left guts around the waistline.
So I dunno.
Digestive enzymes seem to help without discomfort.
Again, I dunno. I am going to re-listen to your podcast on SIBO.
Thanks for your hard work.
Bryan
Hey guys,
I just some labs back and my ANA returned POSITIVE and the titre was out of range as well. My doc is worried about rheumatoid arthritis coming down the pike, but my concern is still my gut from which all this comes.
Do you feel like SCD is a proper response to leaky gut? Can permeability be fixed or can improvement be seen within a month or two? I have several potential avenues of treatment but they disagree with each other.
Also do guys frequently hear from people fighting both SIBO and Leaky Gut? I have unbelievable sweet cravings that I give in to every singel time within a couple of weeks. I quit smoking, I quit drinking, I’ve quit coffee… I’ve never had such a hard time as I’ve had with these cravings for confections.
Thanks for all your hard work sharing your knowledge with people like me.
Bryan
PS – I should add, I am interested in your opinion only. I know you’re not a doctor.
Hi @Bryan – great question.
SCD was made to starve out SIBO, it’s very effective, but it does take time.
I had SIBO and leaky gut and SCD has helped me with both… however, there’s many thing that effect leaky gut and I’ll be going over them in my Celiac Series so stay tuned for that.
There’s things you can do along with SCD to help, and managing stress is one of them because stress is consistently linked to leaky gut in research.
Stay tuned,
Jordan
i have had my couch from last year and bring up flum all the time and having burning down my front neck down to my chest and i am having to juk in the bin all the time the food take it away only for a short time i have this everyday from last year and i have weak mussle heart as well please help me no dr will help me i am fed up please help
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