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Real Food - No Grain No Pain

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Max tried many different kind of medications looking for the one that actually works.  The five groups of drugs used to treat Crohn’s Disease today are aminosalicylates (5-ASA), steroids, immune modifiers (azathioprine, 6-MP, and methotrexate), antibiotics (metronidazole, ampicillin, ciprofloxin, others), and biologic therapy (inflixamab).  Keep in mind, none of these powerful prescription drugs deals with the disease directly  because the cause for the disease is unknown.  Masking the symptoms instead of dealing with the disease directly was the only option we had at the time.  February 2013 Hoping for better outcome and scared for the future, I had no choice but to follow the medical protocols and to administer all the prescription medicine for Max,  for the first six weeks.  On the other side, I knew that the cure is not in the prescription drugs ... This inflammatory degenerative disease is without a medical cure.  However, I knew that if I could find the cause,

NO GRAIN NO PAIN

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砂糖や穀物のない人生 On contrary of all doctors expectations that Max will live in pain for the rest of his life, Max completely recovered from Crohn's disease, in less than six months. Max's blood sedimentation rate was reduced 20 times. From 61 mm/hr on 02/11/2013 to back to normal 3 mm/hr on 07/01/2013. Max's fecal calprotectin protein (colon inflammation marker) was reduced 28 times. From 504 mcg/g on 12/20/2012 to back to normal 18 mch/g on 07/01/2013. The test was done at the Mayo Medical Laboratories testing site in North Carolina, less than six months after Max diet was changed from processed foods made with grains and sugar, to farm-fresh real food. This farm-fresh real food is high in dietary cholesterol, high in CLA, high in Omega-3 essential fatty acids from wild fish and pasture raised animals - grass fed grass finished beef and lamb. “ Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”- Hippocrates of Cos ( 460 - 370 BC) Max's blood C-reactiv