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Has anyone done intermittent fasting for PSC/Crohn’s/Diabetes?

Posted by sandyjr @sandyjr, Jul 18, 2021

I have been reading up on intermittent fasting and autophagy. I am wondering about how that would affect PSC, Crohn’s and Diabetes. My daughter has all of these and I am wondering if this would help/hurt in the treatment of any one of these.

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Aug 18, 2021
In reply to @sandyjr "My message was specific to people with her diseases but got moved to the intermittent dieting..." + (show)
@sandyjr

My message was specific to people with her diseases but got moved to the intermittent dieting group. I was hoping to hear from people that had one or more of those diseases to see if intermittent dieting could have a positive effect. It seems that the responses have been more toward weight loss. My daughter an I are well aware of how awful PSC is. Yes, she is under a doctor’s care.

I would like to hear from people doing intermittent fasting for help with a disease so that she can ask her doctor what he thinks. She is an adult. I mentioned my oncologist because he was talking about it and pretty much got me interested in it. I like that with autophagy, your body can get rid of old, damaged cells and then rebuild with new cells. I can see where that could have an effect on cancer.

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Sandy, this discussion appears in both the Digestive Health group and the Intermittent Fasting group so that it will be seen by many, including people with PSC.

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pscbuddy | @pscbuddy | Sep 10 11:39pm

@sandyjr I know it has been several years since this was discussed, but I was really wondering if your daughter ever did try IF and if that helped with the PSC related aches and issues.

Since a year I find myself in the same situation and it’s quite a burden at times. While prepping for a coloscopy (and thus fasting), I wondered if there could be any benefit to doing so on a regular basis - which is how I came to the discussion you initiated.

To make it clear: Just like your daughter, it has nothing to do with weight loss (it’s hard enough to keep it on in the first place).

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