How Does Mainstream Medicine Treat IBD, Crohn's, and Ulcerative Colitis?
Mainstream medicine usually covers up the symptoms with drugs or turns down the immune system with infusion or injectable therapy, which is often expensive and carries significant side effects.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) — including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis — is a complex interaction between an initial irritant and the body's overreactive immune response to it.
Mainstream medicine's approach is to cover up the symptoms with drugs, or to turn off the immune system with infusion or injectable therapy that is often very expensive and carries significant side effects. Of course turning down your immune system causes serious side effects — the immune system is there to protect you against infections and cancer.
Even great doctors miss the root causes of IBD, leaving patients stuck on medications they might not need.
What Causes IBD That Mainstream Medicine Misses?
Commonly missed root causes include small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), missed infections such as yeast overgrowth or parasites, food sensitivities, leaky gut, and dysbiosis.
The Atma Approach to inflammatory bowel disease goes to the root of the problem. This looks different in different people, but we've helped hundreds of patients solve the root of the problem — meaning improved quality of life, getting off medication, and staying well without the side effects of IBD drugs.
Commonly Missed Root Causes
How Can Atma Clinic Help With Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
Atma's doctors and nurse practitioners, certified in Advanced Functional and Integrative Medicine, work to find and treat the root cause of your inflammatory bowel disease rather than only managing symptoms.
We've helped hundreds of patients minimize — or entirely eliminate — their inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's and ulcerative colitis.
At Atma, our Medical Doctors (MDs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) go through intensive training to become certified in Advanced Functional and Integrative Medicine. They're certified and ready to get to the root of your issue.