That doesn't mean it should be avoided. There is nothing harmful about the SCD diet and for many it has helped, myself included. Not that it is a cure or will work forever or in place of mainstream therapy but is something anyone with Crohn's can try and should not be "avoided"
BTW who is going to fund an SCD study anyway.
Fasting can help as well by the way but not as a long term thing obviously.
The article said it's hard to get adequate nutrition on the diet - which could be true. Some people have a better understanding of nutrition than others. And some people can afford to spend more on food than others, some people are better cooks than others. Just because you can go on the SCD without compromising on nutrition, doesn't mean that everyone will be able to.
When I tried restrictive and alternative diets as a teenager, it did come with a cost - I couldn't understand why I was just getting sicker, and with so many messages telling me that I should be able to improve my health, I ended up feeling like a failure, and the constant disappointment was hard to deal with. Being told that so many foods were bad contributed to a phobia of eating (I've since found that the foods I'd been avoiding were actually just fine for me), And when following various diets, a lot of the foods I was eating actually made my symptoms a lot worse, as my system can not handle fibre well at all. So some people may find themselves getting sicker on the SCD, depending on whether they can tolerate the foods it allows or not.
But I also basically agree with this:
I agree with pretty much all of what was written, but for an article it is very shoddy as it does not reference anything. Personally there's no difference between this article and one on miracle cures, as eveything is just opinion without the proper studies shown
