Recently, this Cure Together survey of 1,327 Crohn’s Disease patients found the Specific Carbohydrate Diet to more effective at treating Crohn’s Disease than Humira…
In fact, SCD was only the 2nd most effective natural treatment option behind Cannabis… but how long does a good high possibly last anyway?
More and more Crohn’s Disease patients are given Humira in their Doctor’s office instead of a SCD quick start guide.
Why?
I wonder what would be possible if it was the other way around…
In light of that question, I want to share five reasons to try SCD instead of Humira to recover from the symptoms of Crohn’s Disease.
1. Diet treats the root cause, Humira treats the symptoms
What if I said to you, “Hey, my toilet is overflowing and every time I walk in the bathroom my socks get all wet!”.
Would you give me a rubber boots so I could stop changing my socks every time I had to pee?
Or would you hit me upside the head and tell me to go turn off the water so we could fix the broken parts inside the toilet?
Humira is like those rubber boots… it turns off your immune system by blocking the production of TNF-alpha, an inflammatory cytokine your body produces as part of the inflammatory response, but believe me, the toilet is still overflowing. The drug doesn’t address the root cause leading to inflammation.
An anti-inflammatory diet like SCD does address the inflammation and helps prevent your bathroom floor from being wet for the rest of your life.
2. Humira has side effects like…
Reactions at the injection site, upper respiratory tract infections, sinus infections, nausea, urinary tract infections, flu symptoms, abdominal pain, high cholesterol, blood in the urine, back pain, high blood pressure, and more seriously: infections such as tuberculosis, sepsis (bacteria in the blood), and fungal infections… not to mention the whole increased chance of developing cancer thing.
A real food diet has side effects like: increased energy, mental clarity, reduced inflammation, reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, improved blood pressure, and increased nutritional uptake.
Both can help you get perfect poops… what more needs to be said?
3. Humira is expensive…
Estimates around the web show that Humira can cost more than $13,000 a year for patients who have no drug coverage. That’s over $1,000 a month.
Some of our Facebook Fans recently mentioned they are paying anywhere from $600-$800 a month for injections.
Even if you ate 100% organic food and grass fed meat you would only spend about half that a month for one person!
If anything, changing your diet can save you money, especially in the long run. Think of it like this: instead of choosing expensive medication you’re choosing high-quality healthy fuel for your body.
4. Humira has only been around for 10 years…
Ever heard of the drug Fen-Phen?
It helped people when it was new too… until it started killing them. I’m not saying Humira is going to kill people, but the long-term risks of a drug can never realized in such a short time period.
The FDA has been wrong before… know anyone that developed Crohn’s after taking Accutane?
Humans have been eating meat, fruits, nuts, and veggies for hundreds of thousands of years…
I’ll take hundreds of thousands of years of data please.
5. Humira can be a crutch
But unlocking health through diet is empowering.
We all have to eat every day and the food we put in our mouth will either make inflammation worse or make it better. It’s either nourishing or harmful. Food can support us or hurt us… but we all have to eat. We all have a choice…
Choose your path wisely. I know which road I took… the healthier, less expensive, less risky road that ends up leading me to the healthy life I deserve… rather than taking me into a dark forest of illness, surgery, and more pills.
The bottom line is: it’s not healthy to rely on medicine to suppress your immune system and curb the symptoms of Crohn’s disease so that you can make it through the day.
Try SCD for 30-days as a part of a comprehensive healing plan to feel incredible and control the symptoms of the disease.
Empower yourself, take control of your health and break free of the medicine. It’s the only way to get your life back from the dark corners of digestive disease.
Diet versus Humira? Share your opinion in the comments…
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Sometimes its not an either or.
I was diagnosed with a severe case of Chron’s disease when I was 16. I am now 28 and have lived with this disease for 12 years. I have been on Humira since 2007 and before that loads of steroids and other drugs like imuran, asacol, and remicaid.
About two years ago, the humira just flat out stopped working, I ended up back on steroids, and the GI suggested a colonic resection. That was the day I went on SCD. SCD was a god send. All the benefits you extolled about it, I can say without a doubt you are right on the money.
But that doesn’t mean SCD is going to be the cure for everyone in every circumstance. Even in BTVC, Elaine notes that sometimes this diet does not work for everyone. In my case, while SCD is a crucial ingredient to my well being so is humira. How do I know this? Well, I have attempted to go off the drug many many times over the past two years on SCD, always within 3 to 5 days, I am in excruciating pain and have blood in my stool.
To be clear, humira wasn’t enough but then neither is SCD. I need both. Together, I live a happy, pain free existence. I have been off the steroids the entire time and surgery is no longer a consideration.
@ Joseph – Thanks for your very insightful comment. I agree that SCD and Humira should not be thought of as mutually exclusive. They both help to limit inflammation through different pathways so they actually make a great combo for those who need the biggest guns per say.
Elaine made a bad choice of words, but at the time she didn’t have the science we have now. It is now certain, what you put in your mouth will either add to your inflammation or help lower it. Each person chooses with each bite of food. Therefore it’s our opinion that SCD / Paleo is mandatory treatment for Crohn’s, Colitis, Celiac and any other inflammatory conditions. There’s no doubt anymore that it will help every single person afflicted with these problems.
Do misinterpret what I’m saying, I’m not saying that these people will see perfect health through SCD/Paleo alone. To the contrary I’m saying everyone has a food choice each day and these are the best. But for them to see complete health recovery they will need to make many more changes including custom supplement protocols, stress reduction, emotional healing and more to heal these diseases without the support of common IBD drugs.
Steven,
Megan
I appreciate your response to Joseph’s comment. Although I don’t have Crohn’s disease, I have psoriatic arthritis, spondylitis, and secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon. For a long while I treated my psoriatic arthritis with diet. It worked until just recently when my spondylitis reared its ugly head. I was physically ill from the intense pain and came to the realization I needed biologic medication while also maintaining my way of eating. I am currently on Humira, and while it’s not a “cure all” it has been a God send. I am a true believer that just diet alone is not the answer for everyone, although it is a HUGE piece of the overall health and wellness puzzle.