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“SCD to me is an expansive diet.” Dr. Ali Arjomand’s (PhD in nutrition and certified nutritionist) life was controlled by Crohn’s Disease for over 15 years. He tried every medication available and kept being met by failure. Over and over and over again, he tried medications that left him still feeling sick, fatigued and unable to live with full quality of life. After many hospitalizations and two intense surgeries, as a last-ditch effort in 2016, Ali began the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and reached remission one year after starting SCD. Ali found such success with SCD that he is still in remission and medication free to this day. Ali, seeing his own success, now runs his own nutrition clinic, Modulla Health, where he sees clients in person and via telehealth to help them with their gut issues. Ali helps clients identify and customize the right plan to fit their specific need and help them implement these changes and guide them through the stages in order to better their health, their energy and their life (while still understanding and respecting that some patients still do need a mixture of medication and diet – like me!). In today’s episode we discuss Ali’s personal experience with the Specific Carbohydrate diet, what the Specific Carbohydrate Diet really is and how it helps, how Ali sees it as an expansive diet, the mindset to go into the diet with, in order to stick with it and so much more! If you’ve ever been interested in SCD, never even heard of SCD or are interested in the healing benefits of nutrition in general, this episode is for you!You can learn more about Dr. Ali Arjomand at modullahealth.com and on Instagram @ali_arjomand_phd.Key Quotes From This Episode: “If you can make it through one year of SCD and when you see pogress, when you see healing, when you see energy coming back, you’re like ‘I’m sticking with this, this is amazing.’”“SCD to me is an expansive diet.”“At some point, if its healed, you should be able to add in [new foods] carefully and thoughtfully… it’s not a lifelong sort of restriction that you stay on. No, it’s a healing prescription.”