IBS can be cured, here’s how..

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If I tell you that you can 'Cure' Type 2 Diabetes or IBS... what does that mean?

It's a common misconception that curing means you can go back to your old poor dietary habits but without having IBS or Diabetes.

I was told yesterday that IBS can't be 'cured', it can only go into remission. I disagree…

So let's break that down.

If you eat a diet that is laden with flour, sugar and general junk, that spikes your blood sugar so much and over so long, that your pancreas becomes desensitised to insulin and you develop diabetes. Then we know two things.

1. That your body type develops diabetes when it eats that diet.

2. You cannot eat a diet like that and expect to remain diabetes free.

If I were to take this same example across to Chronic Asthma for myself and smoking cigarettes. I used to be a heavy smoker.

1. My body develops chronic asthma when I smoke.

2. I cannot smoke and remain asthma free.

BUT that doesn't mean my Asthma is in remission. It means that now I don't have asthma, I am healthy and normal.

Just because your amazing and very clever body expresses disease in the presence of an unhealthy trigger, doesn't mean that you are living with the condition that only happens when you 'smoke' or 'eat unhealthy food', when you are healthy.

It's a common misconception and I want to clear it up.

I know for a fact that I cannot smoke again. I don't want to anyway, it makes me feel like S'it but equally, I cannot smoke and be a healthy person and I want to be healthy, I love the way it feels.

I also know that I am not willing to take my chances with a high carbohydrate diet, my body expresses obesity really quickly with a high sugar and high carb diet, I have no idea if I will get diabetes or not but I don't like carrying extra weight, I get out of breath quicker, I have less energy and my moods are affected... I prefer to avoid that scenario so I very rarely eat bread, cake or biscuits.. and I don't miss them AT ALL. I couldn't care less. It's an easy trade off... I love the way I feel now thanks, why would I want to change that?

The same with alcohol, which I have had to work on for various reasons, it affects my sleep, my concentration and makes me dull. I have struggled with alcohol in the past and have worked on it for years (that's for another blog but it's coming) and if I drink wine, especially every day, I won't function like I want to, I won't be healthy.

So I am not in remission from asthma, from chronic sleep deprivation, I am not in remission from the lung cancer I didn't develop yet because I didn't smoke for long enough, I am not in remission from the IBS I 'cured' myself of or the GERD that I 'cured' myself of over 20 years ago. I am not in remission from Chronic Depression or Anxiety Disorder or the Burnout I have managed to suffer with repeatedly in a past life. I know how to make them return but I don’t choose that version of me. I also know that if I go and breathe in asbestos fibres I will get mesolethioma, so I don’t do that either.

I don't suffer with any of these things any more and that is directly down to the little decisions I make every day that have a big impact on my health overall. I am in a normal and healthy body for me, it’s not perfect but I am definitely not sick.

I would call that cured, wouldn't you?

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