Further discussion about SCD

I am making an assumption. It is based on numerous testimonials online at Amazon.com and elsewhere. The assumption is that the Specific Carbohydrate Diet works as described by Elaine Gottschall, B.A., M.Sc.

The reason for the assumption is simple. The next step in what I am attempting here will not work otherwise.

Based on the above assumption, why do physicians who specialize in intestinal disease not recommend this diet to Crohn’s and Colitis patients?

The first and most important sentence to the Hippocratic Oath a doctor swears to before hanging out his or her shingle is: First do no harm. Based on this information, I need to make several more assumptions.

First, some of these doctors do not know about the diet.

Second, some of the ones who know of it do not believe their patients will be able to complete the diet without “cheating” and thereby setting themselves up for a flare up.

Third and most troubling, some do not want to lose patients who are essentially cured and no longer need their services.

Fourth, as troubling as the last, pharmaceutical Corporations, the same ones that some in the U.S. Congress say have the most powerful lobbies on Washington DC, are somehow able to make physicians uncomfortable about recommending the diet and discontinuing the regiment of medications Crohn’s and Colitis patients most adhere to if they desire to live a normal life. That all sounds nasty doesn’t it?

Do you know why the generic version of Asacol is not being sold in America? It is available in Canada, Europe and elsewhere around the world. The generic version of Asacol -- mesa amine -- costs under $200.00 per month for a prescription of 12 pills per day, or 360 per month. In the USA, that same prescription costs $1200.00 to $1400.00 per month.

How can this happen? The FDA allows Pharmaceutical Corporations to pay off generic drug manufacturers in the USA to prevent them from producing the drug when its patent enters a gray area in which it can be challenged by a generic manufacturer. Don’t believe it? Write or email your congressional representatives and ask them. Then ask them why they allow this to happen when it puts lives in jeopardy.

Now does number four above or some version of it sound as unlikely? Hmmmm.

Personally, I think it is a combination of all four assumptions. The vast number of testimonials claiming that the diet works seems to preclude the possibility that the specific carbohydrate diet is a hoax.

Yet, the medical community in this country at least, is, as far as I can learn, ignoring a diet that may put their patients into remission without drugs.

Next, we’ll take a look at some of the new and very expensive drugs the FDA has approved for IBD. Their possible side affects are astonishing to say the absolute least.