Reddit reviews The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health

The most impressive results in relapse prevention that I know of were accomplished with a SVD (semi-vegetarian diet, i.e. plant-based diet):

>An elemental diet that consisted of about a half the daily energy intake has been shown recently to have a relapse-preventive effect in the Japanese study group: 26.9% relapse rate at 1 year (control free diet, 64.0%) (Table ​(Table66)[39]. Remission rates with the SVD in the present study were far better than those reported previously: 100% (16/16) remission rate at 1 year and 92% at 2 years. To the best of our knowledge, this is the best result in relapse prevention.

These results make perfect sense of course since the microbiome that's associated with the most robust health is one that includes a high amount of prebiotic fibers (and ideally a good variety of them too, see "The Good Gut"). The tricky thing is getting there: in severe cases, fiber is not your friend. At least not at that particular time. Inflammation needs to be taken down with the right combination of medications first and as a complement to changes in diet.

Many people think that having more severe symptoms when one eats fiber means that fiber is a problem in itself, but that is not the case; the inability to consume healthy vegetable/starch fibers is a side-effect of an illness that was initially (partly) developed through a chronic lack of those same fibers. This is why we basically don't see IBD in populations who live on plant-based diets, and why gut permeability seems to play a big role in causing these illnesses. We know now that as gut microbes are starved of prebiotic fibers, they switch to eating the mucus lining that helps keep the gut wall intact and impermeable.

Personally, I have had wonderful results doing this diet and eventually transitioning to a healthy vegan diet. I was able to drop both of my medications a couple years ago and I'm still in remission. I also underwent a lot of stress (long-term relationship ending, the loss of my pets, moving to another city) and thought I might get a flare up, but so far so good.

WRONG. No everything is not a wild guess. Not even close. there's peer reviewed science . Ive read 200+ papers on the gut micrbiome, bacteria and eczema - the gut skin axis. 91% of AD patients think their doctor is clueless and doesn't know what they're doing.(NEA)

Clearly, something is very wrong. because on the on the other hand, scientists are telling us our beneficial microbes are going extinct and western lifestyle is causing immune related diseases TO DOUBLE every 15 years.

NOONE KNOWS EXACTLY WHY

HOWEVER, there's lots of smoke everywhere. here's a quick crash course for the layperson:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/24/545631521/is-the-secret-to-a-healthier-microbiome-hidden-in-the-hadza-diet

the Sonnenbergs guessing is VASTLY more important that any reddit poster. Go learn yourself.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Gut-Taking-Control-Long-term-ebook/dp/B00OZ0TOV2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miEngVBrrIc

To clarify, I dont disagree the environment can be it for some people.

Diet is not the answer alone. The beneficial microbes you need to help your condition may be extinct or not with you. Im not making this shit up. We are in real trouble.

Dr Alessio Fasano at harvard has suggested we may need a Manhattan style project to address our issues as a western civilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rTAhlJ9PMM

there is no cure coming ever. you cant cure everyone that developed the disease differently. we're only looking the symptons

no magic bullet.

Im trying to raise awareness on the gut side of things - treatment needs to be diversified. everyone different on case by case basis.

I see this recommended a lot but I've yet to get to it myself. As far as mood and emotions, quite a few things in diet can alter those and bacteria is thought to be one.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Gut-Taking-Control-Long-term-ebook/dp/B00OZ0TOV2