{"id":1365,"date":"2020-05-27T23:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T23:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2020-05-27T23:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T23:43:03","slug":"6-nutrition-lessons-ive-learned-living-with-ulcerative-colitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"6 Nutrition Lessons I\u2019ve Learned Living with Ulcerative Colitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis 12 years ago, I spent 7 years pretending my inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) didn\u2019t exist and ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>I was a college student, then a marathon runner, then a working young professional. I didn\u2019t want anything in my life to make me different from my peers \u2014 especially my diet.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, those were also the sickest, brain foggiest, and toughest years of my life. Coincidence? Hardly.<\/p>\n<p>It was only when I had become so exhausted and frustrated with my own illness that I had no other option but to start researching and experimenting with nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>After months of trial and error with food, I discovered the power that nutrition has to heal the body. I started feeling better, had more energy, and experienced far fewer hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>I also learned some valuable lessons along the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/ulcerative-colitis\/6-nutrition-lessons-ulcerative-colitis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis 12 years ago, I spent 7 years pretending my inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}