Brian Austin Green lost 20lbs after suffering bowel disease. The 48-year-old actor - who is expecting a son with 'Dancing with the Stars' alum Sharna Burgess - has had a "rough" battle with the inflammatory bowel disease known as ulcerative colitis but explained that his girlfriend had "never experienced" anything like it.
He said: "I've dealt with ulcerative colitis a few times. It has been a real tough experience. Sharna had never experienced it at all.
I've lost lost like 20 lbs. " The former '90210' star on to explain that in order to manage the disease - which causes sores to appear in the digestive tract and disrupts the normal function of the large intestine - he avoids gluten and dairy so that the body doesn't react as if it was being "poisoned. " Speaking on 'Good Morning America', he said: ""I try and avoid gluten and dairy as much as possible.
It's really just dietary, like, as long as I can keep things within my system that my body doesn't think I'm poisoning it with, then it doesn't fight back.
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