Jeanne Deumier was diagnosed with Crohn’s at 18. By completely changing his diet, the symptoms of the disease completely disappeared. Today, according to her doctors, she is in total remission. She made of her career a book “Diagnosed Crohn” (Flammarion editions).
“Crohn’s disease has changed my daily life as a carefree teenager.” This sentence opens the book-testimony of Jeanne Deumier, Diagnosed with Crohn’s published by Flammarion. At 18, she discovers that she has the disease.
For two years, she will undergo treatment. Until 2013, when she decides to stop everything. Or rather to start all over again. The young woman decides to radically change her diet. Today, according to her doctors, she is in total remission.
Fresher, local, and home-made food
When the disease was diagnosed, Jeanne underwent cortisone therapy. Initially, the solution seems miraculous: no more fatigue because the treatment excites, the appetite returns, the symptoms disappear. But after a while his face swells a lot, especially as soon as the doses decrease, everything starts again.
She then followed a treatment based on immunosuppressants, which she did not tolerate. When she was offered an anti TNF alpha treatment, the young woman refused: “It scared me, there were a lot of constraints and side effects. She then decides to radically change her diet. A naturopath and an osteopath had recommended that she do it, this time she feels ready.
A quasi-vegetarian diet
No more prepared meals and other sweets, she eats local, seasonal, and homemade. “I’m almost vegetarian, I eat eggs once a week, but no dairy products at all.” After three months, the effects are felt. “I was no longer the same person,” she explains. Her skin condition improved, she hardly had any nausea, was less tired.
Today, she says she is healed. Last February, during her last colonoscopy, all of her ulcers had resolved. “I changed my lifestyle at the right time, I had not undergone surgery for the disease, and I did not have a lot of digging ulcers, it was easier to act”, emphasizes -she. Now she wants to share her experience.
Diet and autoimmune diseases
Several studies show that physical activity and a change in diet make it possible to observe changes in the intestinal microbiota, and having a rich and well-balanced microbiota would help to better control the outbreaks of the autoimmune disease.
For example, in multiple sclerosis, a study showed that people who ate the healthiest diet also had the fewest relapses and physical disabilities. There is no established causality, but there is a statistical link between the 2.
The definition of a healthy diet was to eat more fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains and less sugar from desserts and sugary drinks, less red meat and processed meat.
The case of Jeanne is a special case. Until now, diet has been more of an adjunct to autoimmune disease, and the ideal diet is by no means an exclusion diet.
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