Ulcerative Colitis NOT for Life

A multi-layered, honest and moving book that gives hope and courage to patients, friends and family and offers a new perspective on IBD.
Autoimmune diseases, such as the chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, are becoming increasingly common, especially in the industrialized Western world. Besides a genetic predisposition, the role played by diet and lifestyle as disease-causing factors is increasingly coming to the fore. These aspects represent adjusting screws we can turn to regain our health. Nevertheless, in so-called evidence-based medicine, IBD is considered chronic and incurable.
After her son's diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, the author quickly realises that conventional medicine has nothing to offer for the 16-year-old Luca than lifelong, purely symptomatic drug therapy. Therefore, she takes the treatment of his colitis and a contamination phobia linked to it into her own hands. As a team, she, her son and her partner embark on a challenging healing journey. She writes her own prescription for Luca, which comprises the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), the GAPS diet, her unconditional love and her son's right to self-realisation, absolute self-care and authenticity.
Luca's journey back to health involved many setbacks, demanding determination, patience and trust in his self-healing powers. Today, his colitis belongs to the past, and he can live without symptoms and without being medicated for life with drugs that have severe side effects.