WARNING — this article talks about pooping. If you are easily offended by pooping, please do not read this. No offense, but grow up for Pete’s sake ! !
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Usually in Western culture, if you don’t feel good , you go to the doctor and the doctor diagnoses the problem, as he sees it .
Perhaps he will give you a prescription, maybe not. Maybe your doctor will just give you sage advice and tell you to wait and the problem will clear up automatically. And it usually does. Except when it doesn’t.
All my life I have had something called colitis. I think the moniker irritable bowel syndrome also fits.
Colitis is a lot of fun. Mine was so bad that when I got up from the toilet that usually looked like a murder scene. When your body says it’s time for you to go you have absolutely no control. You’re young and enjoying life and you want to go places and do things. But you can’t without the fear of pooping in your pants which can come on you at any second with no warning. You have almost no control whatsoever. If you need a bathroom and you go somewhere where there’s a line, you have to push to the front of the line. There’s no time to be polite.
I have taken every medication and had tons of colonoscopies but to no avail. Doctors keep telling me that there is no cure for colitis. It’s still in research.
My last bout with colitis was earth shattering. It nearly put me in the hospital. As a matter of fact, my doctor recommended that I go to emergency and have fluids put into me through an IV. I was very bad off. I did not go to the hospital. I fought that very idea.
My wife went to the farmers market on Saturday morning. Our friend , Elan , who sold produce at the farmers market, had a husband who had very severe ulcerative colitis.
She showed pictures of him and the inflammation Had actually traveled to his back and legs.
Elan told my wife Joan to take these organic pomegranates. Take the fruit out and take the pomegranate skin and make it into tea.
Not to gross you out or anything but I was such a mess. I had constant diarrhea and I was bleeding terribly. My whole lower section felt like it was on fire because it was. I was pretty weak from loss of blood.
So Joan got home from the farmers market and we made pomegranate skin tea. The severe condition that the doctor recommended I go to the hospital for, cleared up almost instantly. From that moment on I have never had a moment of ANY symptoms of colitis and let me tell you that’s a lot to say considering my long history. After decades of colitis, I had a lot of healing to do. I have been battling this this horrible infliction since the age of 19. Out of all the things that have been tried that didn’t work, no one ever suggested pomegranate skin.
I’m sure there are lots of theories about why information like that is suppressed or ignored. It seems ridiculous that Americans spend billions trying to heal from colitis. Many of these remedies are based on substances that actually harm you. I.e. –I took prednisone to reduce inflammation only to find out that I now have osteoporosis because I took prednisone. I thought that prednisone was a miracle cure. No one mentioned to me that I would develop severe osteoporosis. I definitely would not have taken that had I known.
It’s been at least 10 years since I’ve had any symptoms of colitis, not one moment . No, I have not drank pomegranates skin tea all those years.
I hardly drink it all any more, even though it is probably one of the healthiest antioxidants on the planet. It is horrible to eat because it is so astringent.
I actually prefer to dry my pomegranate skin and a dehydrator or in the oven on a low heat. Then I could grind it in a coffee mill and put the powder into gelatin capsule and take it with a glass of water. I think anybody with colitis or IBS would profit with the use of pomegranate skin powder.
There are no side effects to using pomegranate skin that I can find. It’s simply food. Why would somebody who suffers from colitis not want to give it a shot.
I think the reason I don’t have colitis anymore is because I eat organic. I totally live on mostly organic foods and lean meat and purified water.
I lost about 50 pounds and I didn’t even try. The way I eat makes you just settle at your ideal weight. Right now I hover between 165 and 170.
I’m going to continue writing my views about staying healthy from my own personal experience. I hope you find what I say as a little bit interesting. My theory is this –
If something is going wrong with your body. Maybe you need to go to the doctor immediately. If it doesn’t require an immediate visit to the doctor’s office, you could just shrug it off and see what happens. Or, here is a third option —
you could go online and do some research. It isn’t so bad. It’s not going to kill you. When I looked up colitis online they referred me to
something called the FODMAP diet .
Right after my near hospital experience, I stuck with the safe zone of the FODMAP diet for 6–9 months .
Quite frankly I was scared of a recurrence.
Doctors haven’t been able to cure me of this is a life-and-death situation. I’ve got to take care of this myself. I love life and I want to stick around until Kaiser sends out a hit team because I been on their plan too long.
Eventually I began to leave the safe column of the FODMAP diet. At first I found that foods outside of the safe zone , made me very uncomfortable to eat, so I backed away from those foods. But little by little, I began to eat everything.
Now, I can eat anything I want and nothing bothers me at all anymore. I just make sure I always eat organic and only drink purified water and no junk food. I also eat lots of probiotics like yogurt and raw sauerkraut.
Just fresh fruit and vegetables of a wide variety and lean meat and nuts and chocolate. Oh God, please don’t take my chocolate away from me.
If you take my chocolate away from me, I’m going to take hostages. I will turn into the Hulk — you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
Actually, there’s a bar of dark chocolate in the fridge. Joan is sleeping so she’ll never know. I’m gonna break into that sucker and I’m going to eat me some chocolate right this minute because I deserve it. Oh no, it’s milk chocolate. Who likes milk chocolate — yuck.
But this is a Lindt bar and there’s caramel in the middle and salt to break the sweet. Mmmmmmmyummmmmmmmmmmmyum yum gulp swallow.
Oh well, maybe I will muddle through this chocolate — -MMMMMMMMMYUM YUM YUM OOOOOOO MMMMMMMM GULP.
You’re thinking about chocolate now aren’t you? We’ll go ahead — chocolate is health-food you know.
