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The Path to Self-Healing: When The Only Possibility is the Impossible

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Born in Toronto, Canada I was originally diagnosed with Crohn's-Colitis at age 18 and spent over two decades being treated with conventional pharmaceuticals. These had varying degrees of short term efficacy, however, the overall trend was an increase in the severity of the disease. I was prescribed just about every drug used to treat IBD including years of exposure to steroids (prednisone and budesonide), antibiotics (cipro and flagil), immunosuppressants (purinethol), NSAIDs, and even double dose chemotherapy-derived bioligics (remicade/infleximab). Despite various combinations of drug therapy, the state of disease continued to worsen until I was hospitalized in 2018 and told there was no choice but major surgery.  An MRI revealed three long, separate strictures in my small bowel that the doctors concluded was made up of mostly scar tissue due to more than two decades of chronic inflammation caused by active disease. My situation was dire; almost everything I ate wo...
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Learning to Eat: Being in Energetic Harmony with the Food You Consume

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Eating is our most primal survival instinct. But what if we've been doing it wrong most of our lives? Does such an incredibly complex process require more than just chewing and swallowing? Do our thoughts, actions, and emotions while eating have any bearing on how well or poorly our food is metabolised?  Who taught you to eat? Your gut is not a garburator  The old adage "you are what you eat" is profound. It sums up in just a few words one of the most complex biological miracles the body accomplishes over and over again, day in, day out. But did you ever stop to think about what's really going on? From the moment you smell food, your body starts producing the correct enzymes needed to break down that specific food. Some of those enzymes are in the saliva in our mouth, and the combination of chewing begins the process of breaking down and metabolising the food we eat as soon as it passes our lips.  It then goes down the throat to the highly acidic environment in ...
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