People often fall into pot holes early in treatment, and sometimes even later in treatment doing things that are commonly known as healthy. But, what is healthy? While there are general things that are indeed healthy, those things may not be healthy for you right now. For example, using extra virgin olive oil is healthy-hands down. However, extra virgin olive oil in a person who is very symptomatic with IC will do nothing but escalate the pain levels. When this happens, this means inflammation is going up. That isn’t healthy. Eating raw veggies gives you more vitamins per serving no question. But, if you are having a rough time with digestion, and there is an accumlulation of a lot of “cold” in your digestive tract, incorporating more cooked veggies often will allow better digestive results until the body is better balanced.

This issue came up with the bone broth last month-everyone was doing it-not ok for early or mid stages of IC. This month it is vegetable juices or any juices. Juicing is not something you want to be doing early in treatment, it will throw everything right off. It is questionable (to me) how much to do it later in treatment, I dont recommend it unless it is balanced with other proteins. However, it is very imbalancing early in treatment and can render everything ineffecitve! 

So, be sure to really read the diet to be clear!

Dr. M