Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Carnahan | Challenging Medical Norms_ 'That Can't Be Right'

27 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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Dr. Carnahan recounts her personal experience with severe Crohn's disease, describing skepticism that diet played no role. After researching, she adopted a gluten-free and Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) while on medication and reports clinical improvement. She now often starts her Crohn's and colitis patients on SCD variants, though she acknowledges multiple variations exist.

But I had this enough stubbornness in me and enough intuition to be like, that can't be right. Like, how can diet not have anything to do with Crohn's? And I didn't know any better. But I went out to find answers and I came across some data on specific carbohydrate diet and a few other things. And I had nothing to lose, right? I was already on medications for the inflammation and I was very, very sick. I changed my diet and at that moment I was gl. I went gluten free and more specific carbohydrate than anything, which is still what I like to start my Crohn's and colitis patients on. Although there's many variations.