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Simple solution reduces Crohn’s symptoms by 40%
If you have Crohn’s disease, it can seem as if your daily life revolves around uncertainty.
One day may feel manageable, while the next brings abdominal pain, fatigue, or urgent trips to the bathroom.
Even with medication, symptoms can flare unpredictably.
And you could spend years trying to identify foods that trigger discomfort, adjusting your diet in hopes of finding relief.
Luckily, new hope is on the horizon with research revealing that when it comes to Crohn’s disease, when you eat could be just as important as what you eat for controlling inflammation and symptoms.
Here’s how changing your eating schedule could help you calm Crohn’s disease and take back your life…
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Your optimum eating window
In a recent clinical trial, researchers at the University of Calgary found that limiting meals to an eight-hour window each day — without reducing calories or changing what participants ate — significantly improved Crohn’s disease symptoms.
In fact, participants who followed the eating schedule for just 12 weeks experienced a 40% drop in disease activity and cut abdominal discomfort in half.
Additionally, eating during eight hours only (such as 10 am to 6 pm) and fasting the other 16 hours a day helped participants:
- Reduce levels of inflammatory markers and hormones associated with immune dysfunction.
- Lose an average of 5.5 pounds versus the other study participants who continued their normal eating patterns and actually gained weight.
- Lower levels of visceral fat — the deeper abdominal fat associated with inflammation and chronic disease. (This is important because Crohn’s disease is driven in part by immune system overactivity and inflammation in the digestive tract. Reducing these inflammatory signals may help the body restore balance.)
Those are big benefits to achieve simply by changing when you eat, without giving up your guilty pleasures!
The health secret of time-restricted feeding
This approach used in the study, known as time-restricted feeding, is a form of intermittent fasting.
And it’s already been shown to help keep everything from diabetes and heart disease to cancer away.
But you’re probably wondering why eating on a schedule would make such a difference.
The answer, scientists believe, lies in the body’s internal clock, or circadian rhythm. In fact, cardiologist Dr. Elizabeth Klodas says helping the body thrive on a schedule is the ultimate health hack.
That’s because every organ in the body — including your digestive system — follows a daily cycle of activity and repair. Constant eating throughout the day disrupts these natural rhythms, preventing the gut from fully recovering.
Time-restricted feeding, on the other hand, provides the digestive system with longer periods of rest, allowing inflammation to decrease and repair processes to occur.
Researchers also observed promising changes in gut bacteria and metabolism, suggesting that meal timing may help restore a healthier gut environment — an important factor in Crohn’s disease.
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Putting time-restricting eating to work for better gut health
If you’re living with Crohn’s disease, this means that you have a practical tool that doesn’t rely on medication or complicated dietary restrictions.
Instead of focusing solely on eliminating certain foods, you can instead create a structured eating window that supports your body’s natural rhythms. Simply choose the timing that works for you, whether it’s 9 am to 5 pm or 11 am to 7 pm.
The key is to find what works for your lifestyle and your digestive system and make the clock your ally in creating meaningful improvements in your Crohn’s symptoms.
For added help, you might consider this diet that helped one Crohn’s sufferer go from symptom relief to remission.
Living with Crohn’s increases the risk of vitamin deficiencies (such as B12, D, C, calcium, and zinc) that are affected by inflammation, malabsorption, and even some medications used to treat the condition. Omega-3 fatty acids, curcumin (with piperine) and probiotics and prebiotics may be helpful. But if under a physician’s care, check with them first.
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Sources
Changing when you eat dramatically reduced Crohn’s disease symptoms — ScienceDaily
By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
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