re: Paleo diet ranked worst diet plan for second straight year

I have Crohns disease and for a year and a half, it was getting worse and worse. My diet was not great but I was taking my pills and they were not working. My doctor wanted to escalate me to giving myself a shot every two weeks in the stomach area. I said, "frick that!" My good friend did some research and found a book called "Breaking The Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet." It explains the diet and provides a list of do's and don't's. The diet is called the Specific Carbohydrate Diet but is nearly identical to the Paleo Diet.

I began to feel better almost immediately. I went back to my gastroenterologist about a month and a half after that and brought the book. He was incredibly skeptical and began demeaning the book by reflex. But I was feeling way better (all pain and other symptoms were gone). He took my blood as usual. When I returned a few months later, he said my blood work showed my Crohns had improved dramatically and that he had been recommending that book to all of his other patients.

While just one anecdote, it shows that even a gastroenterologist is dismissive of a good diet that works because it is new to them or they may not understand it. The paleo diet basically changed my life. For the first time since being diagnosed 11 years ago, I have control of my Crohns.