01-01-2012, 13:42
Best wishes, wantboobsbad,
My priority would be the management of Crohn's disease. It can really take over your life. That said, nutritional management of Crohn's disease includes some approaches that are common with NBE, although others are contradictory. For a start, cut refined carbs from your diet:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/un738t118u670837/
Nutritional management of Crohn's disease often involves soy as a replacement of dairy:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000542.pub2/abstract
but oats and rye are out of the question:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0140673693921219
http://gut.bmj.com/content/34/6/783.abstract
Ask your doctor for a nutritional management diet, and discuss the herbs you want to use.
Cortisol and estrogens suppress each other, but prednisolon can be be used together with HRT for postmenopausal women. You are not taking any strong phyto-estrogens, so that cannot be the cause of the increased inflammation.
You do take a strong phyto-progestin, dong quai, together with WY and FG, which both contain diosgenin. Try and decrease the dong quai, and see if that helps. But it could do just the opposite too, because cortisol, the hormone that suppresses inflammation, is made from progesterone.
This is why I am confused about the events as you report them: your program is very progestinic, but yet there is an increase in inflammation. Were you already taking dong quai, WY, and FG when you were growing well?
A word of caution about the diosgenin in WY and FG. Nobody really knows how it works. It is an accepted fact now that the body can not make progesterone from diosgenin by a direct biochemical reaction path. But in people taking diosgenin, progesterone and prolactin increase. I haven't read what happens to cortisol. It should go up because progesterone goes up, but since nobody knows why progesterone goes up, I'm not sure.
I hope this helps some, but you have a lot of work to do checking your diet, and I think you should discuss the WY, FG, and certainly the dong quai with your doctor, or at least check their interactions with the corticosteroids you have been prescribed on-line.
My priority would be the management of Crohn's disease. It can really take over your life. That said, nutritional management of Crohn's disease includes some approaches that are common with NBE, although others are contradictory. For a start, cut refined carbs from your diet:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/un738t118u670837/
Nutritional management of Crohn's disease often involves soy as a replacement of dairy:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000542.pub2/abstract
but oats and rye are out of the question:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0140673693921219
http://gut.bmj.com/content/34/6/783.abstract
Ask your doctor for a nutritional management diet, and discuss the herbs you want to use.
Cortisol and estrogens suppress each other, but prednisolon can be be used together with HRT for postmenopausal women. You are not taking any strong phyto-estrogens, so that cannot be the cause of the increased inflammation.
You do take a strong phyto-progestin, dong quai, together with WY and FG, which both contain diosgenin. Try and decrease the dong quai, and see if that helps. But it could do just the opposite too, because cortisol, the hormone that suppresses inflammation, is made from progesterone.
This is why I am confused about the events as you report them: your program is very progestinic, but yet there is an increase in inflammation. Were you already taking dong quai, WY, and FG when you were growing well?
A word of caution about the diosgenin in WY and FG. Nobody really knows how it works. It is an accepted fact now that the body can not make progesterone from diosgenin by a direct biochemical reaction path. But in people taking diosgenin, progesterone and prolactin increase. I haven't read what happens to cortisol. It should go up because progesterone goes up, but since nobody knows why progesterone goes up, I'm not sure.
I hope this helps some, but you have a lot of work to do checking your diet, and I think you should discuss the WY, FG, and certainly the dong quai with your doctor, or at least check their interactions with the corticosteroids you have been prescribed on-line.