TY - JOUR T1 - Let thy food be thy medicine JF - Frontline Gastroenterology JO - Frontline Gastroenterol SP - 3 LP - 3 DO - 10.1136/flgastro-2022-102235 VL - 14 IS - 1 AU - Kanwarpreet Tandon AU - Alan C Moss Y1 - 2023/01/01 UR - http://fg.bmj.com/content/14/1/3.abstract N2 - ‘Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’, is a dictum often attributed to Hippocrates.Adult patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) interested in this therapeutic approach often wonder why clinicians do not advocate for specific dietary interventions in induction of remission. For physician decisions, the paucity of controlled trials demonstrating the efficacy of specific nutrition-based strategies is in stark contrast to multiple randomised controlled trials of pharmacological agents. So, when a patient asks, ‘how can I manage my Crohn’s disease based on dietary measures only’, the knowledgebase and resources to guide patients usually lags those of prescription drugs.In FG, Melton et al share their experience with the use of exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) as … ER -