Brigid Titgemeier discusses why medication alone often falls short for chronic illness. A Japanese study found biologic injections for inflammatory bowel disease achieved 60% remission, but adding targeted nutrition raised it to 96%. Drugs can help, but combining them with nutrition and lifestyle changes produces better outcomes.
Take Nexium and take it for the rest of your life. And we have no other plan. And the same would be true. We can talk more about, you know, the person with, for example, inflammatory bowel disease that you were sort of referring to. Like, a lot of doctors say, hey, just take your injection. There's data, there's a study from Japan where just take your injection. At one year, about 60% of people end up in remission. That's great because those drugs work. But you know what? If you were to combine that with nutrition, you get up to 96%. Like, if you ask me, you know, hey, doc, you could have 16 and 25 chance of being in remission next year or a 24 and 25 chance. I know which one I'm taking, and it's not close.
No, this is a really good point because it's not just about, like, an andor approach. It's definitely like a complimentary approach to our healthcare system that I think, like, we don't want to try to go down, like, too much of one extreme or the other in terms of improving because we do have a number of people who I've worked with who are on these, on various drugs that, you know, they aren't able to actually get off of, but their quality of life improves drastically in ways that the drug was only able to do so much of. And outside of ibd, I would say for anxiety, for Hashimoto's, for, I mean, so many different conditions.
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