The 2 Week Diet - For Severely Damaged Guts
Are you allergic to all kinds of different foods that are not your typical allergic type foods? Do you break out in rashes, have headaches or does you stomach often hurt upon finishing a meal?
It is very common for those with autoimmune diseases to have very damaged guts and inhibited digestion.
What needs to happen?
Lots of healing.
What needs to happen
For a period of about two weeks only very easy to digest foods should be introduced into the stomach. At the same time while the stomach is being given a chance to rest gut healing remedies should be used to rebuild the lining of the stomach and intestines.
The Diet
IMPORTANT: Some many need to continue on the diet for as long as up to two months in cases of very severe digestion damage.
1. Foods to Avoid:
Harder to digest foods such as:
- Meat, fish, dairy, eggs (animal products)
- Gluten grains such as wheat, barley, rye, spelt, etc. and non-gluten grains such as oats, rice, corn, millet, sorghum, teff
- Nuts
- Legumes
2. Eat Instead:
- Plenty of vegetables and fruits
- Quinoa
- Buckwheat
- Sweet potato
- Regular potato
- Chia seeds
- Flaxseed
- Sesame seeds
- Pumpkin seeds
3. Soaking:
- Soak seeds for 8 hrs or overnight (except chia, flax, sesame, and cashew). Do the same for grains, nuts, and legumes when you add them back into your diet when you're feeling better.
- Drain
- Rinse well
- If you want to use your nuts, seeds, or grains dry instead of wet, you can soak them and then dry them in a dehydrator at about 105 degrees or put them in the oven at the lowest heat with the oven door slightly cracked.
Watch the video below of Jennifer making pancakes using these ingredients and soaking methods.
4. Heal the leaky gut:
- Potato-onion soup
- Fresh aloe vera gel
- Turmeric drink
See my video on how to do the aloe and turmeric drink below.
For The Best Results
The very best healing regime for the digestive system is complete rest. This means a fast. Eating no solid foods with possibly some juices or just water for a short period of time while doing the above mentioned natural remedies.
You can view our 5-10 day intensive detox schedule here.
Or to make it simple just drink water or juices for several days while doing the gut healing remedies. Freshly squeezed juices from a juicer are always going to be the best, but store bought ones will do since the point here is to simply ward off hunger to enable you to fast.
This fast would be a great way to start the special two week diet.
Conclusion
As your situation improves (hopefully by the end of the 2 months) you can start reintroducing the grains, legumes, and nuts. But keep soaking all seeds, nuts, legumes, and grains even as your digestion improves as they will be easier to digest and you will get more nutrients out of them.
Hi guys. Love your site. My son was diagnosed with UC 5 years ago and after a ridiculous amount of mesalamine or versions of it, he now has been diagnosed with AIH. We’re so scared because he is still on a lot of pentasa, prednisone and imuran. Of course his Dr. says he must continue this or he will have liver failure. When I looked at his last set of labe EVERYTHING was normal except for the autimmune marker. He’s on a super clean diet. Presently we don’t do any grains, dairy or nightshades. We’ve tried gluten free, vegan etc….. and actually the AIP diet has produced the best lab results but he is painfully thin. We are so afraid. I hope your site will help us become a little more educated. There are lots of people reversing autoimmune disease on the net but AIH is rare.
Hi Donna, Glad to hear that his labs are are good. Sorry to hear about the AIH! I reversed my AIH and I hope this info will give you the added insight you need. Check out our video on AIH. God bless in your pursuit of health for your son.