How I Healed Myself

At 20, I was diagnosed with a chronic digestive disease — ulcerative colitis.

Until I was 29, I lived with ongoing suffering: digestive discomfort, entire days in the bathroom, no energy, low mood, no control over my own body, pain, and a whole host of accompanying symptoms.

And that was despite taking a cocktail of medications three times a day.

Over the last ten years, my life has changed from end to end.

In my late twenties, while I was living in New York City,

I discovered new things and realized I knew nothing about my own health, and maybe that was the reason a disease had developed in me.

I was exposed to knowledge that deals with healing the root of the problem (meaning, why it appeared in the first place) and not symptomatic treatment.

That means all the diagnoses, whether "chronic" or "autoimmune," don't really matter at all,

because I learned to understand that the actions I take are the ones that affect my health.

I learned that nutrition, sleep, movement, exposure to chemicals, and even my thoughts can all create inflammation in the body, and with it, disease.

But we don't learn a thing about health, nutrition, or self-healing in all our days of life.

We learned to leave everything to the doctors, but they only treat symptoms. That's the definition of our medicine. Treating symptoms with drugs, surgeries, and radiation.

But anyone who wants to heal themselves, and not be a customer of pharmaceutical companies their whole life, needs to make a significant change.

The first change in my life was to change my diet.

For most of my life I was sure I ate healthy. I really believed that, maybe because there was a salad every few days, or because I assumed that if something was available at the supermarket, it couldn't be too harmful.

When I got sick, my doctors said there was no connection between my diet and the disease, so that's what I believed for years.

And then I was exposed to information online, through people who had healed themselves and also various doctors in the US who shared articles and videos about the importance of diet in healing and improving health, and how it's connected to inflammation, which, as it turns out for the first time, is the foundation that creates every condition in our body, physical or even mental.

When I started reading and digging into the articles, I understood that a very significant part of my diet was creating inflammation — and inflammation is the foundation of all chronic and autoimmune diseases, and they're all connected to diet and lifestyle.

It's interesting. There are countless articles connecting diet to inflammation, diet to hormonal problems, diet to feeding cancer cells, diet to depression and anxiety, and the list goes on.

But most people don't give it enough weight or draw a direct connection between their diet and the physical and emotional symptoms they experience.

After a few months of learning and experimenting with dietary change, I got off the medications entirely and found myself free of the symptoms I'd suffered from every day for a decade.

I couldn't believe what a monumental effect diet has on our health.

I believe most people don't even understand what it feels like to feel good. I had no idea what the potential was.

Can you imagine a life without —

Digestive problems? Full of energy, smooth skin, a regular cycle, good sleep, and no chronic or autoimmune diseases even in old age?

Nutrition changes the lives of masses of people who heal themselves, but it's not part of the mainstream conversation. We live in a world where giant corporations massively manipulate research, nutrition schools, and medical schools too. And what are the odds we'll feel good if most of the foods we eat were never meant to be eaten?

After years of investigation and self-experimentation, I understood what every person needs to know in order to be healthy, thrive, and heal themselves through diet.

There's no diet that fits everyone, but when you learn your body and the meaning of your symptoms, anyone learns very quickly what's right for them.

I created the "Gut Rules" course to make accessible everything I learned about healing the digestive system, and with it the skin, hair, fertility, depression, and any physical or mental disease or problem.

So that we understand the foods we eat in depth, how to consume them and use them in a beneficial way,

how to improve our absorption and our microbiome through rediscovering the connection between people and nature and nutrition.

When I healed myself, I was sure all the answers to healing were in changing diet and lifestyle.

In recent years, as I read, dig deeper, and have conversations with hundreds of experts, many of them on the podcast,

I understand that disease is not only an expression of an unhealthy life.

So what is disease?

If a person sleeps 3 hours a night and when they wake up in the morning they eat sugar and caffeine to wake up, sits all day at home and at the office, far from the sun and the earth, under artificial light, in constant and ongoing stress, frustrated with their relationship, their parents, and their boss, holding a grudge over past events, unable to express or fulfill themselves, and angry a lot, and when they're hungry they eat ultra-processed food devoid of nutritional value — and on top of all that, every day they drink alcohol or use drugs.

Is it surprising that they don't feel good?

And if that's the situation, why don't they feel good?

Because every choice, thought, emotion, habit, and belief of theirs created it. In other words, health is essentially our personality, and it's a response to every choice we've made.

If we go to a doctor, what can they do about our personality?

After all, we're the ones responsible for ourselves.

And the doctor? They learned to treat symptoms with drugs and surgeries, because most people aren't interested in making a significant change. But what your body is asking for with its symptoms is definitely not a drug.

When we take a drug, we shut the "mouth" of our wise body and its ability to signal to us that something isn't right or working for us.

And often we also believe we can heal ourselves and try a more natural path, we just don't know where to start.

If you're asking yourself questions like:

How do I even begin to become that person who knows how to manage their health, and no matter what comes, I work with myself and with various natural solutions to heal?

And no, I won't heal you,

I'll just teach you how to begin,

it's all in the podcast and in the Gut Feeling academy.