My gastroenterologist told me the yogurt thing was nothing.

I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at Duke in 2006, where I worked as an anesthesiologist. I noticed my symptoms eased when I regularly ate yogurt. He explained, reasonably, that every Crohn's patient responds to food differently. But yogurt is a product of bacterial fermentation, and the papers I was reading on inflammatory bowel disease kept describing the same disrupted pattern of gut bacteria.

I kept reading. In 2012, my gastroenterologist recommended a biologic. Instead, I tried the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, which aims to change the gut's bacteria. It helped, and I then rebuilt my sleep, stress, and movement along with it. I've been off all medication since 2015. I want to point out this is a single person's history, not a protocol for you to follow.

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