inflammatory bowel diseases include ulcer of colitis and Crohn's disease and can be life shattering conditions I know for me diagnosed at age 21 it completely upended my life and threw me from being an athlete and top academician into being a fragile emotionally shattered socially withdrawn shell of a human being it's dramatic but it's also true and as much as I felt alone at that time my suffering was is a common story but for many others the story doesn't have a happy ending I achieved remission through an experimental ketogenic diet there's no doubt in my mind that it saved my life or at least my colon but because there are an absence of rigorous dietary trials for extreme diets for inflammatory bowel diseases including and especially ketogenic diets and a form of elimination ketogenic diet called the carnivore diet the name is self-explanatory there Physicians can't or won't recommend these diets to patients because they're not evidence-based but absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence in other words the research question can a ketogenic and or carnivore diet help treat inflammatory bowel disease even put it into remission some might even say cure hasn't been rigorously investigated you can tell me why you think that is however there is solid biological possibility to suggest these diets could help in inflammatory bowel diseases including data showing therapeutic effects of ketones in animal models of inflammatory bowel disease a correlation between lower colonic Ketone levels and worse inflammatory bowle disease activity in humans the fact that ketones stimulate anti-inflammatory pathways and can promotee stem cell renewal in the gastrointestinal tract and the fact that elimination of certain dietary components including certain fibers can shift microbiom metabolism in a therapeutic manner now in this new study new publication a case series of 10 patients with histories of inflammatory battle disease either Al of colitis or Crohn's disease we my colleague and I Adrien soota report on the remarkable stories of real people who live with real suffering who lived with real suffering only to go out on a limb and try something extreme that they report unequivocally improved their quality of life all of these patients are now in remission on ketogenic primarily carnivore diets for between 5 months and 5 years to date with 8 out of 10 being in remission for at least a year despite severe prior disease and they are also off all medications for inflammatory bowel disease of note many of these patients did experiment with a Litany of treatment options beforehand including both phical therapy and lifestyle therapy including corticosteroids various biologics and amuno modulators specific carbohydrate diet low fob map diet many variations of Whole Food plant-based diets and so on but it wasn't until they tried their current ketogenic primarily animal-based diet that they went into near complete or complete clinical remission but it wasn't until they tried their current ketogenic primarily animal-based diet that they went into near complete or complete clinical remission and we Quantified this using a validated inflammatory bowel disease quality of life questioner the IBD Q32 which scores across four domains bowel symptoms systemic symptoms and emotional and social impacts with a total possible score of 224 with 224 being ideal I.E no symptoms whatsoever and the average score pre-diet was 95 which reflects horrible quality of life and scores increased after diet adoption on average by a stunning 121 points to an average of 26 out of 224 I.E clinical remission these cases were also diverse including six cases of ulcer totis and four of Crohn's Disease including male and female patients patients aged in their 20s 30s 40s 50s and 60s with diverse dietary energy requirements body shapes and sizes and so on however at present all of these patients consume a primarily animal-based ketogenic diet with between 67% and 82% calories from fat 21 gr or less of dietary carbohydrates with many strictly carnivore these patients diets saved their lives and they speak to their own stories for example patient one is a 62-year-old male he was first diagnosed at age 30 as a second year law student and he suffered for decades and he's now disease-free as confirmed by colonoscopy and he says that his keto carnivore diet let him forget that he had Cron disease the decades that he dealt with crohn's are like another lifetime in his words patient three was a 31-year-old female is a 31-year-old female with an Incredible family history of inflammatory bowel diseases including in her brother and her sister and in 10 first cousins I know big family who herself was diagnosed at age 20 while pregnant and who experienced a four-fold drop in inflammatory markers over her first months on a carnivore diet and says reports within days my bowel movements changed from loose to normal and within 2 weeks I have more energy than I did the past 10 years when I last spoke to my doctor he said that if I'm feeling incredible he doesn't want to put me back on medications she had previously been on anti-tnf Alpha biologics for years and then she says and that was so encouraging especially since he had been really skeptical of the diet beforehand I could go on giving the reports of the other eight patients although you can read those yourself but you get the point these are lives that were saved and these stories have the potential to change lives now and through inspiring future research the fact remains extreme diets are not socially accepted patients are often dissuaded from experimentation and standard of care cannot recommend these diets until rigorous controlled trials are performed which this is not and I'm not pretending it is of course this is a retrospective case series with selection bias and without a control group I'm not trying to brush that under the rug it's what we could do with the resources available to us by which I mean zero funding dollars but access to a social network of real people whose lives have been saved and who want to tell their stories so they can save more lives what this is or what the this should be is a wakeup call a PubMed ID screaming at medicine we need to invest in this work listen to what we myself Dr norwitz and my colleague Dr Professor Adrien soota are actually arguing we are not arguing that carnivore is the best human diet that fiber is bad that keto is supreme or any of that we are arguing that ketogenic including carnivore diets could have therapeutic efficacy for inflammatory battel disease and very likely other autoimmune and inflammatory conditions and we owe it to science and to patients to explore this possibility by investing in more research for