Teen Crohn's, SCD and Beyond
Teen Crohn's, SCD and Beyond
Posts describing our journey
Our son is a diet veteran, with over five years of eating strict SCD and mentoring people new to the diet. He knows that this diet granted him freedom from pain and from medications. However, while the diet led to…
2010-2012 Despite our doubts and despite the doctor’s cautions, we decided to try a strange diet to manage our son’s Crohns. Concerns about giving our son harsh medications from a young age had led us to the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. In…
We started as a single family, isolated, struggling to find a solution for pediatric Crohn’s. As we began mentoring other families that had ill kids and were interested in the SCD as a therapeutic diet, our personal story expanded to…
I was raised in a “science town”, near the green lawns of The Weitzman Institute of Science. The motto in my home was “if it doesn’t have a scientific proof, it doesn’t exist”. In my adult life, I am surrounded…