Well, getting to be that age, almost 50, and my doctor says, "hmmm, it's time for a colonoscopy."
Sigh, ok, I'll do it.
After the colonoscopy, the doctor tells me through my drug filled haze, "Boy you're tough! You've got Crohn's disease and there are ulcers on your colon."
Now, I have family members with colitis and ulcerative colitis. I never had the happiest bowels on earth, but I seemed in good health and thought, maybe I escaped the cycle. Or escaped the gene.
Doesn't look that way now. I have a chronic disease, forever. There is no cure, and the way medicine works nowadays, there won't be a cure because the drug companies make too much money off of people being sick. But I digresss...
I can beat this though. Last year,I started eating super healthy, organic fruits and vegetables, grass fed beef, pastured eggs from local farmers. Fanatical about exercise, lifting weights, hiking, cycling, doing yoga.
I can get better. I need to get grains out of my life. I just read about "Beating the Vicious Cycle", Gottschall's diet is very close to the Paleo diet.
I'm really freaked out about the "treatments" offered, tons of steroids that cause horrendous side effects. One drug is so powerful it can be lethal, and only available through a special enrollment process.
I believe the body wants to heal, the body can heal, if we do the right things for it.
Sigh, ok, I'll do it.
After the colonoscopy, the doctor tells me through my drug filled haze, "Boy you're tough! You've got Crohn's disease and there are ulcers on your colon."
Now, I have family members with colitis and ulcerative colitis. I never had the happiest bowels on earth, but I seemed in good health and thought, maybe I escaped the cycle. Or escaped the gene.
Doesn't look that way now. I have a chronic disease, forever. There is no cure, and the way medicine works nowadays, there won't be a cure because the drug companies make too much money off of people being sick. But I digresss...
I can beat this though. Last year,I started eating super healthy, organic fruits and vegetables, grass fed beef, pastured eggs from local farmers. Fanatical about exercise, lifting weights, hiking, cycling, doing yoga.
I can get better. I need to get grains out of my life. I just read about "Beating the Vicious Cycle", Gottschall's diet is very close to the Paleo diet.
I'm really freaked out about the "treatments" offered, tons of steroids that cause horrendous side effects. One drug is so powerful it can be lethal, and only available through a special enrollment process.
I believe the body wants to heal, the body can heal, if we do the right things for it.