Hi Chanda – thanks so much for reaching out. Jordan made a lot of changes – in fact when he was “just” gluten free he wasn’t getting better at all. You can learn about what he DID do at our free webinar here http://solvingleakygut.com/webinar/internal-autoimmune/

This article has a ton of great info, too: https://healthygut.com/celiac-disease-101/

Hi, what other efforts besides going gluten free have helped? I’m researching various options that is like to employ. Also, how does one’s body absorb iron and other nutrients once the villi in the small intestine are destroyed?

But just a quick sidenote on this one. Eratosthenes didn’t “break new ground” realizing the earth was not flat. The prophet Isaiah acknowledged that fact around 700 BC. Obviously just not everyone paid attention!

Isaiah 40:22 (KJV) “It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.”

Btw, everything else he prophesied historically came true. There is so much to learn about our diet, health, love, mental clarity, inner peace, financial prosperity, and every other aspect of life. We tend to follow every trend, read every new book, and look up to these philosophers; yet we don’t pay attention to the truth that has been there all along! It has changed my life like I could never describe so I couldn’t just close this out without clarifying! Thank you for all you do! 🙂

You’re welcome Martin – thank you for the feedback man!

Jordan

@ Amanda – All the people I would recommend to help you, as a first step will put you on either SCD or Paleo autoimmune diets (basically the same thing) so get started this week with our free guide to SCD (http://www.scdlifestylebook.com/free.php). Then as far as people who can help via the internet check out chriskresser.com. Good Luck you can do it, hang around the blog and facebook for a ton of like minded people to support you.

Great points Alan – stay tuned, we’re nearing the prescriptive portion of the series… just a few more posts to go.

Jordan

@MGH – thank you so much for the kind words, I really appreciate it. Helps me stay motivated to get the rest of this series going (got lots more coming)!

Also, great points about diet – you rock man 🙂

Jordan

it is worth saying, without responding to anyone specifically, that the diet based approach can be scary to discover when the doctors you trust are telling you the *exact* opposite. for anyone who feels immediately skeptical or threatened it helps to remember that the doctors, who no doubt have the best of intentions, are working only from theories themselves; there is no deep understanding of AI diseases in the mainstream medical field and needless to say a cure is nowhere even near the radar. Even the most establishmentarian doctor would admit that immune-suppressing drugs and tnf antibodies etc are just band-aids.

I write this as a 10 year Crohn’s sufferer (dealer-wither? i hate ‘sufferer’) who loved his dietary routine deeply and was relieved when my doctor told me to ‘eat whatever i want, it doesn’t matter’. only problem was i stayed sick until i made the fundamental and difficult changes to my diet!

you guys are doing great work and helping more people than you probably realize. i found out about your site from ‘crohnsdad.com’ and think he is a godsend as well. thanks so much!

Hi @Michelle – I have used LDN for my Celiac Disease and thought it helped. I wrote one of my first blog posts about it back in 2009, here’s the link:

https://healthygut.com/2009/11/the-scd-diets-tag-team-partner/

Jordan

Thanks @Pawan, much appreciated! I’m so happy that you’re feeling more confident about what happened to your body 🙂

Jordan

Thanks Jamie 🙂

You rock!

Jordan