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This Month's Newsletter is Packed with the Latest Research, Exciting Events, Plus IBD-Friendly Recipes for Easter and Passover!

• Our First Live Event! IBD Nutrition in Practice: A Culinary Experience 
• Digestive Disease Week: Discovery at Every Turn 
• IMIDeology Event "Bridging Autoimmunity Forum"
• Key Takeaways from European Crohn's and Colitis Organization (ECCO) '26
• Gut-Friendly Recipes for Easter and Passover

GI Nutrition Foundation to Host IBD Nutrition in Practice: A Culinary Experience

We are excited to host our first LIVE event during Digestive Disease Week on Sunday, May 3rd. Join us for IBD Nutrition in Practice: A Culinary Experience, an interactive evening of learning, conversation, and great food. This free, open-flow experience invites attendees to explore how evidence-based nutrition strategies can be implemented into real-world IBD care. Drop in anytime between 6-8:30 pm to circulate among several themed stations highlighting evidence-based dietary approaches for IBD management.

Digestive Disease Week 2026: Discovery at Every Turn

Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is a global meeting that brings together experts in gastroenterology and hepatology to immerse them in a world of knowledge, innovation, and meaningful connections. This year’s DDW is held in Chicago, IL, from May 2nd- 5th. Look for GI Nutrition Foundation at Booth #1927. Stop by to learn more about our evidence-based resources and meet members of our team.  All information about this event and registration can be found here.

IMIDeology to Host "Bridging Autoimmunity Forum"

Bridging Autoimmunity 2026 brings together patients, clinicians, researchers, and industry leaders to advance collaboration in autoimmune research and care through panels, forums, and networking. This in-person forum will take place in the Seattle area from April 10th-11th.  A 15% discount has been extended to our community members for the event. Use the code SAVE15 at checkout when registering. Details about the forum and registration can be found here.

ECCO’26: A Leap Forward in Integrating Nutrition in IBD Care, But Still Some Areas of Debate

The scientific programme recognized the central role of dietary and nutrition-based approaches in multidisciplinary IBD management.

Here’s a snapshot of the main takeaways:

✅ Marked disparities in IBD care persist worldwide despite therapeutic advances

Countries in the Global South are facing the following challenges:

👉 Patients have less access to multidisciplinary teams and to standard-of-care tests

👉 Unequal access to all treatments (not just advanced, even biosimilars)

👉 Fewer training opportunities for healthcare providers

Source: Beatriz Gros’ presentation at ECCO’26 on behalf of the Lancet Commission on IBD Global.

✅ The Tasy & Healthy whole food diet improves calprotectin in high-risk first-degree relatives of patients with Crohn’s

🗣️ Dan Turner, PhD, MD: ”PIONIR is the first randomized prevention trial in IBD showing that the Tasty & Healthy diet reduced fecal calprotectin by 37% compared with habitual diet and may be an attractive alternative in evolving prevention strategies.”

Source: Dan Turner’s presentation at ECCO’26.

✅ It’s not about choosing diet or drugs, but combining both for better IBD outcomes

👉 The recent ECCO-ESPGHAN guidelines recognize the use of both an only-liquid diet and Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet options as an induction therapy in children with CD

👉 Replacing of 50% of habitual food intake with a nutritionally complete formula improves remission rates and remission maintenance in adults with active CD treated with first-line adalimumab:

🔸Yield better responses in patients with ⬆️ baseline burden inflammation and in whom the ileum is involved

🔸Combining oral nutrition supplements plus biologics was associated with improvements in the micronutrient profile and with high muscle mass and grip strength 

👉 The CDED plus nutritionally complete formulas are an effective therapy now integrated into CD guidelines, and major benefits include:

🔸A bridge therapy option before biologics

🔸A rescue therapy in patients who lost response to biologics 

🔸A reduction in subclinical inflammation in asymptomatic pediatric patients with CD 

🔸An enhancement of biologic effectiveness

👉 Combining the CDED with biologics offers a complementary approach for Crohn’s management

🔸 Diet directly targeting the gut microbiome and intestinal barrier, not targeted by drugs

Source: Sigall Boneh’s presentation at ECCO’26 at the Nestlé Health Science-sponsored satellite symposium.

✅ The role of diet in ulcerative colitis

👉 ⬆️ Habitual total meat intake is associated with a double risk of an objective flare, with the strongest signals for unprocessed red and white meat

👉 The 4-SURE diet manipulates the balance between dietary fiber and protein in favor of fiber to affect clinical response/remission, early mucosal healing, regression of inflammation, and histological response in ulcerative colitis

👉 The novel UC-TREAT diet is acceptable and tolerable to adults with UC in remission and does not alter the disease state

Source: Alice Day’s presentation at ECCO’26 at the 11th D-ECCO Workshop.

✅ IBD is not just mucosal inflammation

🗣️ Qasim Aziz, PhD, MD: “Persistent symptoms remain even in patients with IBD in remission, reflecting IBD is not just mucosal inflammation and it is also a gut-brain axis dysregulation.”

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*Please note that the GI Nutrition Foundation does not provide medical advice. The content provided here is for informational purposes only. Patients should always talk with their healthcare providers before changing their diet.*