In Part 1 of the series “Vitamins and Supplements for Crohn’s Disease”, we discussed how Crohn’s can affect any part of the digestive tract, including the sinuses and vocal cords. We talked about how yeast is linked with Crohn’s patients and how this fungus can create too many free radicals for the weakened or over reactive immune system to handle. Cells can’t oxygenate properly in this environment, so fatigue and other dangerous, harmful symptoms develop.
Treatment for this disease involves following a specific diet and taking the right vitamins and supplements to ensure proper nutrition and the promotion of healing. Because the digestive tract becomes thicker with this disease, nutrients often go unabsorbed. It is also common for nutrients to be missing in the strict diet that many sufferers must follow to stay healthy. Additionally, because it is an autoimmune disorder, it is important to maintain the health of the immune system through proper supplementation.
Under the care of your physician, you can find a vitamins and supplements routine that helps you. Many people start with probiotics to control yeast and promote a healthy gut. Then, your physician may recommend taking digestive enzymes to help break up food, making nutrients easier to absorb and lessening the workload on the intestines. There are also herbal remedies that help to ease digestion or calm the intestinal tract, that also help control nausea and inflammation. Keep in mind that many of these have not been fully tested.
There are some vitamins that have been specifically proven to help with Crohn’s Disease. Omega 3 fatty acids have been proven to reduce inflammation, as well as the frequency and severity of attacks. People with Crohn’s will almost always test low for levels of these fatty acids. Supplementing helps to balance the ratio of omega 3 and omega 6 acids in the gut. Imbalances interrupt cellular signaling of the phospholipids of the body’s cells. This interruption is what causes a lot of the inflammation seen in Crohn’s patients.
Because absorption is low, B vitamins and iron are almost always deficient as well. When B vitamins are low, the absorption of iron ceases. Anemia (low iron) can not only cause fatigue, but can cause many other symptoms to worsen. B vitamins can become imbalanced and cause other symptoms, so a B complex vitamin is almost always recommended. B vitamins can be difficult to absorb or break down, so you may want to us sublingual or liquid forms. Your doctor may prescribe a liquid form of iron to take with your B vitamins.
Vitamin C may be the most helpful vitamin that you can take for Crohn’s Disease. Unfortunately, many people believe that all vitamin C is acidic and think that they should avoid it because of the stomach and intestinal distress that it can cause. The truth is that vitamin C can be purchased in a buffered, non-acidic, powdered form that is highly absorbable, and free of irritating excipients.
Supplementing with the best vitamin C, buffered vitamin C powder, can help you to heal your gut and control the free radicals produced by yeast and inflammation. Vitamin C flushes the body of aggravating, damaging toxins that hinder cell respiration and cause fatigue and attacks. Vitamin C also helps most other vitamins to be absorbed. It also boosts immunity while calming the immune system to help you avoid the overreaction that causes many attacks.
As always, have your vitamins and supplements routine monitored by your physician and remember to pay attention to how your body reacts as you take them.
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