@butterfly123 wrote:
@QVCJH wrote:
A plant-based diet is tricky for those of us with IBS. I have done the FODMAP diet and found out that I can't digest vegetable protein. Not that I don't eat fruits and vegetables, but gluten, berries, beans, lentils, nuts, coconut, stone fruits, and even soy, give me very undesirable side effects. My diet is a continuing experiment.
I cannot tolerate soy either and have looked at the FODMAP diet also. My diet is also a work in progress.
@butterfly123
Yes, a PB diet is the perfect way to reverse bowel issues...and quick to see results if 100% compliment. Even though they are plant based, nuts/seeds, coconuts, avocados are all high in fat, which have undesirable effects until fully healed.
Maybe this can help:
Dietary Treatment of IBS
The contents of the intestinal tract – the American (Western) diet – are the obvious place to look for cause and cure of IBS. There are many qualities of this diet that make the intestine inflamed. This diet is high in fat, indigestible milk sugar (lactose), and low in dietary fiber, carbohydrates, and plant chemicals (phytochemicals). Many of the food proteins cause allergic reactions. Specific food intolerances are argued to be involved in as many as 58% of cases of IBS and the most likely offenders are milk, wheat and eggs.
Adding fiber to the diet of patients with IBS has shown to significantly improve their symptoms. Most of the experiments have been done using supplements of wheat bran or guar gum. Constipation is helped much more than the diarrhea-type of IBS with the addition of these fiber supplements. There are, however many different kinds of fibers in plant foods which have many functions in the bowel. Therefore, I have found the benefits from a change to a plant-based diet with hundreds of naturally healthy fiber to be much greater than those seen with a single fiber source.
IBS has also been effectively treated with the addition of “friendly intestinal bacteria,” called probiotics. Organisms used in one study, Lactobacillus plantarum, resulted in all patients reporting resolution of abdominal pain and half of them had relief of constipation. Eating a healthy, plant-based diet causes healthy bacteria to grow in the intestine, because these bacteria like to eat the plant sugars (oligosaccharides) found in starches, vegetables, and fruits.
My experience has been that a change to a low-fat, plant-based diet (a diet based on starches, vegetables and fruits) results in almost immediate relief of bowel cramps, diarrhea, and constipation. This is due to many qualities of the vegetable foods. For the very few people who continue to have symptoms, I will eliminate wheat – to which some people may be sensitive. As a last resort I will ask these people to follow an elimination diet. It seems a shame to blame the patient by calling her neurotic when the intestinal tract is the obvious place to look for a solution.
Source:
http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougall/021100puchained.htm
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