To take this completely off-topic: I was surprised when the SCD had a good effect. I found it wasn't 100% accurate; there were certain food groups I could tole

To take this completely off-topic: I was surprised when the SCD had a good effect. I found it wasn't 100% accurate; there were certain food groups I could tolerate, and others that I couldn't. Which the diet accounts for; everyone's physiology is different. However, for what it's worth, I (and a group of people in a local UC group) found the low FODMAP diet correlated well (which is more recently researched than the SCD, and a little easier to manage). Unfortunately for me, my illness also overcame the strengths of the diet. Here's the "one weird trick" part though. There's a documented negative correlation between appendectomies and occurrence of UC/Crohn's. There's early, but growing evidence that an appendectomy may work as a treatment for some types of UC (at least in the young). After my last flare, we tried an appendectomy -- the alternatives were a lifetime of Infliximab (which is expensive for our public health system), or a full colectomy (which, in all honesty, I was leaning towards anyway). It worked, and I'm now in full remission. I don't know whether it'll be lasting, but my related eye conditions (which persisted during a limited round of treatment with Infliximab during an earlier flare) have vanished too. I've since relaxed my diet, although I still have a lot of probiotic yoghurt. It's worth checking Google Scholar -- there are some openly available literature reviews. I believe there's some discussion on https://crohnology.com/ https://crohnology.com/ too :). Good luck with your illness. It's a hard road, no matter which path you take.