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Think of your gut as a garden that can only thrive when the soil is healthy. Healthy soil requires healthy foods and nutrients that will allow the good guys to flourish. By feeding my body all-natural, easily digestible wholefoods, I allowed it to heal at a fundamental level.

D uring my time in hospital I was given a concoction of drugs everything from immunosuppressants and antibiotics to steroids, anti-cancer drugs and anti-inflammatories. This was all in an effort to get the inflammation in my body under control. The big problem was that the drugs made me feel worse, with their Alfred Hitchcock movie-like side effects! I was nauseated, tired, blurry and foggy. From my days studying nutrition, I always thought that many pharmaceutical drugs only mask the symptoms of disease. Most days when I woke up from an intermittent and interrupted sleep, I felt like a forty-year-old in an eighty-year-old womans body like Benjamin Button in reverse. I was bent double and unable to get out of bed, and my beautiful thick hair was falling out in clumps on my pillow.

As I lay there, I wondered if my condition could be diet-related and whether, if I healed my gut and gave my system a chance to recover, I would be able to regain my energy and health. I made a conscious decision to look more deeply at health and disease, to discover where my illness stemmed from and how I could heal myself naturally. Thus began the process of taking my medical destiny into my own hands. I was on a very restricted diet when I first got sick, because my body reacted to everything I ate and Id started developing allergies and intolerances. So I began by eating lots of liquid foods, as I knew they would be easy to digest and my system would absorb their nutrients more effectively. This process of gently healing my gut lining took about four weeks, and it really gave my digestive system a chance to improve and recover.

After my gut felt better and I was in less pain, I started taking probiotics and eating probiotic-rich foods to heal my gut and replenish my gut microflora (my good bacteria). Once my gut began to heal, I started eating nutrient-rich foods. Soon I found I was ingesting more nutrients and absorbing them, and my health really took an upward turn. Think of your gut as a garden that can only thrive when the soil is healthy. Healthy soil requires healthy foods and nutrients that will allow the good guys to flourish.

I still have my autoimmune disease. Some days when its raining outside or cold, my arthritic symptoms flare up, but I now know how to manage them, and they never interfere with my life like they used to. I live an energetic, healthy and full life, and the gut protocol I followed and the eating path Im now on have changed my life for the better. Im no longer on any prescription drugs and Im 90 percent recovered. It would be untruthful to say that Ill ever feel 100 percent better, but a big part of my healing has been to accept my 90 percent, and in turn focus on enjoying every moment life has to offer.

Healing my gut was an integral part of regaining my health and vitality, and I want to share everything Ive learned with you so that you too can heal your gut and get your life back.

THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF YOUR GUT

The road to health is paved with good intestines.

SHERRY A. ROGERS, M.D.
HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AND AUTHOR

T o begin my expedition into healing the symptoms of my autoimmune disease naturally, I had to do a lot of research on the gut and how it affects your health. Your gut is not just your belly or your waistline, its the gateway to the health of your brain and immune system. Two thousand years ago, Hippocrates the ancient Greek physician said, All disease begins in the gut. It seems that now more than ever we should listen to this advice and look at the source of many of our health issues the gut.