The Healing Journey of a Lifetime
Nearly a decade ago I faced the hardest dilemma of my life: to proceed with a major, irreversible surgery due to severe disease of the digestive system, or to try to heal my gut naturally without drugs or surgery. I was incapacitated and less than a month away from surgery at the time when I decided to finally get to the root of what had been triggering my Crohn’s disease for for over 20 years.
Being an autodidact, I took a deep dive into microbiology, nutrition and nutrigenomics, immunology, epigenetics, holistic medicine, and herbalism. I began implementing what I had learned and within a few weeks I started to feel an improvement. The optimism spurred by feeling better prompted me to defer the surgery for a month in order to give my gut more time to heal.
Week after week, I continued to make gains and kept pushing off the irreversible surgery as there seemed to be less and less need for it, even though just a few months prior, I had been told by my gastroenterologist that surgery was the only option left. I was told that no pharmaceuticals could reverse the disease symptoms I was experiencing and that my only recourse for relief was to surgically remove three, long strips of severely diseased small intestine.
Nevertheless, I decided to listen to my gut (pardon the pun) and continue on my path. There were many pitfalls and setbacks along the way, as I tested various foods and holistic therapies on myself, but by six months in I was feeling significant improvement; and one year after starting on my own healing journey, the symptoms of my disease had nearly disappeared completely. I astonished myself with the realizatdion that after more than 20 years of chronic gut disease, I had finally achieved control over my disease and body. For the first time in two decades, I finally felt normal and healthy again.
I became so passionate about what I had discovered, that I felt a strong urge to spread the word to as many people as I could. YES the body can heal itself! YES chronic disease need not continue for a lifetime! YES there are other solutions than just drugs and surgery.
Since my recovery I’ve been helping people I know through my network of friends and family on a volunteer basis whenever time permits. Now I see this mission as being so important that I’ve decided to become a gut health coach in order to dedicate all my time to sharing this critical knowledge and helping people heal and improve their quality of life.
If you or someone you know suffers from a chronic gut disease like IBS, Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis, Diverticulitis or just feels something isn’t working right in the digestive system, please reach out for a free, non-committal consultation.
Thanks for reading and I hope my story inspires you to start your own healing journey.
Sincerely,
Paul Kane