Gourmet Spice Douses IBD Flames
If you’re living with an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) like Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis, life can be pretty unpredictable.
One day you feel fine, and the next you’re sidelined by pain or urgent diarrhea so severe that you can’t leave home.
Because inflammation is a key reason for the symptoms and complications of the disease, most conventional treatments are anti-inflammatories.
But new research shows there may be a natural way to calm gut inflammation—using a gourmet spice with powerful benefits.
That spice is saffron, the bright golden threads often used in gourmet cooking.In a recent study, 30 patients with ulcerative colitis took either a high-dose saffron supplement (50 milligrams), a low-dose saffron supplement (25 milligrams), or a placebo twice a day for eight weeks.
Those in the high-dose group saw significant improvements in multiple measures of gut health, including…
- SCCAI, a questionnaire used to assess the severity of ulcerative colitis symptoms
- Partial Mayo score, a measure of disease activity in ulcerative colitis
- Fecal calprotectin, a measure of inflammation in the intestines
As an added benefit, both the high- and low-dose groups had improvements in their HDRS scores (a measurement of depression symptoms) and quality-of-life scores.
Lab results confirmed lower inflammation markers, showing saffron works at the root cause of IBD symptoms.
If the fires of gut inflammation are consuming your life, saffron may help “douse the flames”, naturally.
Best of all, it’s safe and widely available.
I recommend showing this study to your doctor and asking about adding a saffron supplement to your current IBD treatment plan.
P.S. Gourmet spice CRUSHES depression in just five weeks.
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Hassan Ashktorab, et al., Protective Role of Saffron to Reduce Inflammation and Improve Clinical Manifestations In Ulcerative Colitis Patients, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Volume 30, Issue Supplement_1, February 2024, Page S00, doi:10.1093/ibd/izae020.021
