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