Welcome to Gut Talk™, a website dedicated to researching and discussing Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) including Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohn’s Disease (CD).

We will be looking at accepted medical and alternative options as well as anecdotal and NIH studies and personal experiences. I am neither a doctor nor a nutritionist. Everything you read here will be either from my own experience as the husband and father of two ulcerative colitis patients or from the extensive study and research I have done and continue to do in an effort to help my own family.

I was motivated to put this site together because of the difficulty we have had in finding useful, informative and quantifiable information. I discovered, very quickly, that the medical community does not take a strong position when treating these particular conditions. The AMA provides little to no guidance with regard to the effect of diet and, in fact, many doctors tell their patients to eat whatever they want. This, in spite of studies that demonstrate an increase in the efficacy of corticosteroids/prednizone when combined with changes in diet, specifically the SCD diet, to control possible adverse reactions.

My hope is that, through my research and experience, you may find a foundation from which you can approach your own situation and lead a more productive, happier and healthier life.