Hi Michael – my first thoughts is yeast overgrowth…but not totally sure. Great to hear you’ve started SCD – this should help. keep us posted!

Hi Sima – we suggest staying on the Intro Diet for the shortest time possible (until you see some small improvements) and for no more than 5 days – usually it is between 2 and 5 days. If you don’t feel any better after 5 days on the intro Diet, you still need to move onto Phase 1.

We don’t suggest adding in the yogurt until the 30 day mark on the diet.

Hey Stevie – thanks for reaching out.

We suggest you follow the Intro diet for 2-5 days before beginning to phase in foods one by one. Once you see some symptoms improvement (less diarrhea, for example) – you can start phasing in new foods. Whether or not you’re feeling better yet, we don’t recommend staying on the Intro Diet for more than 5 days.

Our eBook explains all this in a lot more detail: http://scdlifestylebook.com/

Hi Rachel – thanks for asking!

We still recommend following the Phase charts and just skipping past high-FODMAP foods for now or limiting the amount you eat. So you don’t really need to ‘Sub” anything in – jut move to the next food on the charts.

Please also read this: https://healthygut.com/fodmap-diet-a-fad-diet-or-helpful-for-everyone/

Hi Del, thanks so much for commenting! First, we recommend this video: https://healthygut.com/2012/11/episode-4-food-allergy-vs-food-intolerance-showdown/

Jordan and Steve don’t recommend you eat anything you have a reaction to. In their experience, most people can tolerate foods they were once intolerant of when they’ve healed their guts.

If you find that you’re reacting to beef, chicken, and the grape juice here are some suggestions for substitutions:
Shrimp broth (or turkey or lamb) for the beef or chicken broth >>> Directions for shrimp broth are in the eBook!
Use water, lime, or lemon juice to make the gelatin (or eliminate the gelatin entirely, as it isn’t necessary for healing)

I hope this information helps! There is a ton of great info in the video 🙂 Here’s how to create your food safe zone: https://healthygut.com/the-scd-lifestyle-solution-podcast-11-creating-your-food-safe-zone/

Hi there Mother, while this diet was designed to help those specifically with digestive illness, not everyone with GI illness displays gut symptoms… issues may present themselves elsewhere. With that said, the SCD diet has helped many people without gut symptoms. We recommend giving it a shot.

HI Ruth, thanks for taking the time to share. Please keep us updated on how your progress is going and you can email us at support@scdlifestyle.com if you need any assistance.

Hi, thanks for reaching out! This is tough because she is so young and can’t handle the supplements at this age. We highly suggest a trusted functional medicine practitioner to oversee these decisions for your daughter and to get her on some supplements that are safe for her young body. If you are in need of one, you can go here: https://healthygut.com/practitioners/ we suggest continuing with the diet portion and do your best to make tweaks where they are needed to find that balance for her dietary needs. Keeping a journal is very helpful in these situations.

They said in the post that the intro diet + phase 1 + phase 2 together should take about 3 to 6 months, depending on the person’s symptoms. So for each new food in the phases, give it 4 days. In phase 1, for example, there are 12 new foods (summer squash, acorn squash, butternut squash, buttercup squash, spinach, zucchini, pearsauce, applesauce, banana, homemade pecan milk, homemade nut milk yogurt, and homemade blanched almond milk). 4 multiplied by 12 is 48 days. So if you’ve had no complications or setbacks, you should be able to step into phase 2 after 48 days of being in phase 1. BUT, if you do not have any bad reactions to cows milk (or goats milk) yogurt, and you would not like to ever try the homemade nut milk yogurt, then you could probably skip that food and therefore reducing phase 1 to 44 days instead of 48. So it really depends on the person, their health, and their preferences.

I’d also like to know this? Anyone out there who can answer this question?

Thank you,

Brandi

Thanks for the update IIona – glad you’re doing so well!

Keep up the great work taking control of your health and inspiring others 🙂

Jordan

@ IIona – thanks for the question. Wobenzyme looks interesting, but I hate to say much about something unless I’ve tried it myself (anyone out there have experience?).

Digestive enzymes are always going to help support digestion, are you taking any form of them now? If you’re stuck, they might be the next step in getting a strong foundation of health.

Let us know,

Jordan

@ IIona – thanks for the question. Wobenzyme looks interesting, but I hate to say much about something unless I’ve tried it myself (anyone out there have experience?).

Digestive enzymes are always going to help support digestion, are you taking any form of them now? If you’re stuck, they might be the next step in getting a strong foundation of health.

Let us know,

Jordan