This episode features how Sibel has been able to heal from Ulcerative Colitis. Here is her story!!
Hey, Sibel here! I write this was so much excitement, as I had been visualising the day that I would be able to leave my “life after colitis” story! And here I am : )
After ending up in A+E in August 2020 and going through tests, I was diagnosed with UC. Doctors were telling me I had inflammation through the roof and had a ‘very’ sick colon. I had been living a super high-stress lifestyle, not taking care of myself mentally or physically, eating junk food for most of my life and experiencing anxiety attacks.
From the offset, I decided I wanted to take the natural route and found High Carb Health online. I knew very clearly that I wanted to live a full life where I wasn’t held back by UC or on multiple medications with horrible side effects for the rest of my life.
After watching a few testimonials, I realised that these guys were the real deal, so I reached out and joined the programme pretty much straight away – this was the best decision I have ever made!
I committed to seeing the process through – Of course, there were many ups and downs, but I had amazing weekly support and reassurance from Shukul throughout the entire process!
Just under a year later, I became free of all symptoms and now live a life free of UC! I am just another story in the countless people who have reversed their condition – If it has been possible for myself and others, it’s possible for you too!
Podcast Transcript:
Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of IBD Heal,
a podcast brought to you by High Carb Health.
I’m your host, Shukul, and today is another
story of someone healing from ulcerative colitis.
Today’s story is about Sibel, who was able to heal
ulcerative colitis after working with us and she’s been doing
really well after spending a good eight or nine months
going through the healing process and coming out the other
side, reintroducing all sorts of food back into her diet
and doing a great job.
So here’s a little bit about
what she wrote about her experience.
Hi, Sibel. Here.
I write this with so much excitement as I
had been visualizing the day that I would be
able to leave my life after colliding the story.
And here I am.
After ending up an A&E in August 2020 and
going through tests, I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.
Doctors were telling me I had inflammation through
the roof and had a very sick colon.
I had been living a super high stress
lifestyle, not taking care of myself mentally or
physically eating junk food for most of my
life and experiencing anxiety attacks from the offset.
I decided I wanted to take the natural
route and found High Carb Health online.
I knew very clearly that I wanted to live a full
life where I wasn’t held back by UC or on multiple
medications with horrible side effects for the rest of my life.
After watching a few testimonials, I realized that these
guys were the real deal, so I reached out
and joined the program pretty much straight away.
This was the best decision I’ve ever made.
I committed to seeing the process through.
Of course, there were many ups and downs,
but I had amazing weekly support and reassurance
from Shaker throughout the entire process.
Just under a year later I became free of all
symptoms and now live a life free of ulcerative colitisis.
I am just another story in the
countless people who have reversed their condition.
If it has been possible for myself and
others, it is possible for you too.
So that’s the story we’re going to hear
all about how she achieved this amazing effort
of healing herself from ulcerative colitis and now
having her life after colitis.
First we’re going to listen to a few
highlights of her story and then we’ll have
the full interview with Sabel, so enjoy everyone.
I don’t think about UC anymore.
It’s just a nonfactor yes came out of
hospital and I was taking like 15 pills
a day and I remember lining them up.
So I’d have breakfast and then I’d line
up the pills and I was looking at
them and I’d say, Is this me forever?
And I remember in our weekly call with used to
tell me think about what is this teaching me?
What is this showing me at every sort of stage?
So I got into the habit of just allowing these
things to come up and then assessing them without judgment.
And the blood in the store
was that started to disappear.
And it was coming up instead of in every store.
It was coming up, maybe in two of them
a day, and then maybe one a day.
And then that kind of lasted a little bit.
But gradually, if it was a graph, you’d
see, it kind of like going down.
I remember we were talking about this.
It felt like I turned a corner
and everything kind of accelerated a bit.
So it was like, Whoa, like I’m here.
So, yeah, it was rough at the start, but worth it.
Yeah.
So very systematic, very phased, very deliberate.
And yeah, we successfully went through it and phased
in the foods without much issue at all.
And then as the time went on, I’m loving it.
Like I’m loving all of this fruit.
And I came from being the meat and cheese eater.
I could win, like, Guinness World Book Records.
With this, I can just do what I want.
I’ve got more energy.
I actually started the gym again 15 or 15 years ago.
I’ve been diagnosed with PCOS, and going through
this process, those symptoms started to fade away.
So I’m just living more of life now.
And it’s just amazing, genuinely.
Just even if it took me two, three years
to get here, I would still have done it.
It’s worth every month it takes.
Every year it takes, it is worth it. Yeah.
It’s the best decision I’ve ever made.
Hello, everyone.
And welcome to another episode of the podcast.
Or if you’re watching this on YouTube.
Thanks for tuning in.
And today we have a testimonial for you from Sabel.
Welcome to the show Sabel. Hey, Shaggle.
Thanks for having me on really excited to be here. Yeah.
Nice to have you on Savel, and we
are so excited to share your story because
you have overcome ulcerative colitis, which is what’s
considered to be medically incurable.
But obviously, if you do the right things, you
can heal your body and get on with life
leave medication free, just like you have.
So how about we get started with your story and discuss
a little bit about how this all began for you and
kind of symptoms you experienced before you got diagnosed?
Sure.
This is going back in the not too
distant past now, but some of it.
I’ve got a recall, but yeah, I
mean, it was about two years ago.
I think two years ago to this month that
I started just getting really weird bowel movements.
And I started seeing blood, and
it started off, like, really small.
And then it became a bit more
bit more, and I was really scared.
So I kind of buried my head in the sand
at the time, and I didn’t do anything about it.
I just thought it will go away,
which I know is a bit silly.
But when fear kicks in, sometimes you can just
bury your head in the sand like I did.
So that went on for a few months, and
it went away for a couple of weeks.
So I thought, yes, and I
hadn’t changed anything at this point.
I hadn’t done anything.
It just went away.
And I thought, okay, cool.
It must have just been like
a random thing that happened.
And then a couple of weeks went by and
it came back again, and it came back worse.
And again.
It was kind of like I wanted to ignore it,
but it got to the point where it escalated.
And I actually ended up in hospital.
So this was across the span of a few months,
went into hospital A and E in the UK, and
they kept me in for it was about twelve days.
So when I went in, they
weren’t actually sure what had happened.
They hooked me up to a whole bunch
of drips because I was physically exhausted.
I was vomiting all the time.
It was like my body was just really strange.
I had fatigue before, but it had increased.
I couldn’t eat anything.
I had no appetite.
Every time I ate anything, I was vomiting,
I started to get really bad diarrhea.
So it was all sort of coming
to a head until, like that peak.
As I said, I went into the hospital
and because of the symptoms of the blood
in the store, they did a colonoscopy.
And they came back and said to me that I
had crazy inflammation and ulcers and stuff like that.
And that is very likely
that I have Uclcerative colitis.
And I remember at the time straight away when they
said that in my head, I thought, okay, I need
to just find my own way of dealing with this
because I knew what was coming next.
I knew it was going to be that whole thing
of like, once you’re leaving the hospital, you’re going to
get a whole bag of pills and then you’re going
to be on repeat with those forever.
And they actually said that the
doctors, they were so nice.
But they were saying things that
didn’t really sit well with me.
So they were talking about, as you mentioned earlier, this
being something that you have to live with forever.
And you’ve got to make a decision
on what pills you’re going to take.
And I remember the gastro guy saying to me that
whatever I do decide there’s really bad negative effects.
So I have to just pick which negative effects I want.
And I’m like laying in the hospital bed.
And I’m thinking, what?
So it was just a lot.
It was a lot of information that
just made me feel really crap.
And then again, he said to me,
don’t worry about what you’re eating.
There’s loads of people that come in here and
they ask about diet and things like that.
And he said, It’s got nothing to do with diet.
Just eat what you want it’s got nothing to do with it.
And that didn’t even make sense to me.
So there were all these red flags
going on while I was in there.
And yeah, it was just when I came
out of hospital, I felt a bit better.
But Funnily enough.
My bowel movements and the urgency and
the blood in the store whilst I
was in the hospital increased like massively.
So I was just really concerned and just scared
and all of the stuff that you’d expect.
Yeah.
Came out of hospital and I was taking like, 15
pills a day, and I remember lining them up.
So I’d have, like, breakfast.
And then I’d line up the pills and I was
looking at them and I’d think, is this me forever.
So I was on steroids and they put me
on a really high dosage in the hospital.
So I had to phase them out.
They said to me, if I stop abruptly, I
don’t know, create like, a shock in the body
and it will have an adverse effect.
So I was taking these and phasing them out.
But it was going on for I
think it was maybe about three months.
So I was going down a few milligrams a week.
But then I was also taking a whole bunch of other
pills and then pills to stop the adverse effects of the
pills that I was taking, that they gave me.
So it was like a bucket of pills.
And it was very soon after I came out
of hospital that I started researching for alternative things.
I think it was literally within the first week.
And that’s when I found you guys on Google
and I found, like, the videos and the testimonials.
And I started watching them.
And I contacted you guys.
I filled out the form and that’s
what started the journey from there. Yeah.
So that’s really quite a full on experience.
Very similar to what Jamie was experiencing
as well, because he went into hospital
with a mild case of ulcerative colitis. None.
It was mild case of colitis because he
didn’t have any elsees at that point.
And then under the care of the
medical team, it progressed to severe colitis.
So the ulcers developed in the hospital not before,
and the symptoms became more and more severe.
The more medications he was given.
So he started with antibiotics and steroids, and then
he was up to 80 milligrams of pretinozone. Wow.
And on 80 milligrams of premium zone, he
was going 30 to 40 times a day.
Just because you end up in the care of the
medical team doesn’t mean you’re going to get relief.
And basically, as you’ve also experienced, that,
you can actually get worse because they’re
putting poison in your body.
As I said, there’s negative effects to every
kind of treatment that they provide to you.
No one wants to be in their early years of life sitting
there looking at 15 different pills they have to take every day
and thinking, this is going to be me for the rest of
your life and just talk about how that makes you feel from
a perspective of, wow, how did this happen?
Because it’s such a shock for most people. Absolutely.
For me, I’d never been in a hospital before.
I’d never been into the an
E room for anything like this.
I never take a medication like this before.
I’d never been told that I had a condition that I
was going to have to just deal with for the rest
of my life and to take that much medication.
When I was looking at it, I thought
to myself, I never even saw my grandma
taking this much medication at once.
And there’s me sitting there at
35 years old at the time.
I can’t remember now 35 last
year, and it was just horrible.
And it would take me ages to swallow them
because one of them, which I can never pronounce.
Yeah, that one every time I would swallow it.
And I had to take, like, six of them a day
in the morning, it would physically make me want to vomit.
I don’t know what it was literally trying to follow it.
And at times I did actually vomit.
And to me in my mind, I thought to myself,
clearly, my body is rejecting this for some reason.
I kept trying to take them because I
was actually scared at the time as well.
What’s going to happen if I stop taking them now?
Because there was all that fear going on.
So I knew I didn’t want to take them.
But then at the same time, at that point,
I thought if I stopped taking them now and
I’m experiencing these symptoms right now because I didn’t
know what I know now I was really scared
about what would happen if I just stop.
So I was stuck in that sort of limbo of what
I know feels right for me to do moving forward, but
just the fear of where I was at that point.
And I remember progressively, maybe about September, October, maybe
about a month and a half in after taking
the medication, it was mentally affecting me.
So you’ll probably remember this.
There was a point, like a couple
of weeks where I went missing.
It affected me mentally.
And I went to the GP and I spoke
to them and they were like, yeah, this is
the effects of this type of steroid pill.
And it was like, okay, so you probably can’t take
this one then you’ll need to take this other one,
but then it has the side effects of X-Y-Z.
So it was just like, this is just a mess.
That’s how it felt. Yeah.
I was about to just talk about the fact
that your story is so much more than just
physical, because as you went through this whole healing
experience, you have to overcome a whole lot of
mental and spiritual situations as well in your life
that you had to overcome them to heal.
And so many people have to do that.
But they don’t realize how important it is.
And the main focus is only what
can I eat to make this better.
And yes, that’s obviously a huge
part of the healing journey.
But we also have to think about the mental
aspect of healing, because the mind and the gut
are so intrinsically connected that if you don’t look
at what’s going on in your mind and the
stresses that you’re under and you talk about fear,
fear is a big stressor on people’s lives.
And fear is basically a lack of knowledge, right?
It’s such a simple thing.
Fear is a lack of knowledge, because if
you go into a dark place and you
can’t see anything, you don’t know what’s there.
You can get scared as soon as the
lights turn on, you can see whatever’s there.
It’s the same situation.
But now you’re not scared anymore. Yeah. Absolutely.
One different thing, the knowledge
of knowing what’s there.
And so that’s why when you join the program,
it is so much about empowering you with knowledge
to understand not only what your body is doing,
but why it is doing those things.
And when you know the why doing the what becomes so
much easier, and then you can really ground yourself into that
understanding of okay, this is what I need to do.
And this is why I’m doing it.
And it makes it so much
easier to deal with the symptoms.
So talk about obviously, you were quite keen to join
the program after finding out about high carb health.
It didn’t take you very long to get a
hold of us and kind of understand that there
was a different way than the medical system.
So what made you interested in joining?
And then what did you learn when you started
the program from all the information that we send?
Yes, for me, I’ve always had this thing where
I’m just not a fan of pills and medication
and stuff like that, because I know that there
are negative effects that come with it.
And it’s just not the path that I choose for myself.
So at that point, when I’ve been
diagnosed, I was already in my mind.
I thought there’s got to be another way.
And I had come across your website and
I was going through some of the articles
and just reading everything about you guys.
And I came across the testimonials and I
thought to myself, okay, is this real?
If it is, then there’s going to be
people that have had success with it.
And if it’s more than a handful of
people, I know that they’re onto something here.
So I found your YouTube channel.
I started going investigate a mode Sherlock
mode, and I was like, find the
Instagram, find the YouTube, like, Google everything.
So I found all of the testimonials.
And some of the videos actually came
up on the Google search anyway.
And I watched I think it was
one or two at the beginning.
And even after I had spoken to
you guys, I was continuously watching them.
But at the start I’d watched a couple
of them and they were completely different people
coming from completely different situations and completely different
belief systems and all of that different parts
of the world, different circumstances.
But they’d all reached the same outcome.
They had healed from what they’d been diagnosed with.
And I thought to myself, okay, so this isn’t
just something that if you have really mild symptoms
and you’ve only been diagnosed for a couple of
months, then you can heal or the opposite.
If you’ve had it for ages and you’re of
a particular age, then you can heal yourself.
There were all these different types of people,
and I started to go through the other
testimonials and testimonials, and I just saw, like,
a wide spectrum of people that had healed.
And it kind of just I was like, okay.
I thought, cool.
I immediately thought, this is my solution.
And I want to find out more.
And I’d already decided before I actually spoke to you guys
that I was going to make that move and join because
the alternative, like, the opposite was not for me.
I was not on the train of taking all
those pills forever, masking the symptoms and not really
dealing with the root, all of that stuff going,
having hospital appointments all the time, doing colonoscopies all
the time, because in the UK, I don’t know
if it’s different everywhere else, but we’ve got a
free healthcare system and they want to bring you
in all the time and do colonoscopies every year.
And I just thought, I don’t want to do
that all the time, and there’s risks to that.
It’s very invasive.
So it was like, go this way or go this way
that I found, which just makes so much sense to me.
So I had the call.
I think it was half an hour call with Shamice.
And he was just talking me through a
bit of about his experience, how he healed.
And he answered some of the questions that I
had at the time, and they were around, like,
when I think about it now, it’s like, I’m
not worried about those things at all anymore.
I was asking him about, okay,
plant based diet, what about protein?
What about XYZ?
What about this and that?
And he demystified as much as he could in
that duration of the call, all of the sort
of preconceptions that I had about things.
But after I joined, then you guys sent me a list
of things for me to watch, to read all of that,
to educate myself on the process and what’s going to be
happening with my body and why it’s happening.
And a lot of it was just I
hadn’t even thought about this stuff before.
I didn’t even think why is
my body creating this information?
And it wasn’t what I thought it was.
So there was a lot of just easy to follow information.
You sent me some of your events that you did as well.
And I think that was really important because, like
you said, instead of just jumping in and doing,
if you understand why you’re following a certain process,
then you know what to expect and you’re more
likely to stick to it.
And that education that you get that you take
that with you for the rest of your life.
So it was really helpful that sort of kickstart
with the education before we even got into the
diet and taking the action and all of that. Yes.
That’s such an important thing, because we really want
our clients to understand why the body is doing
these things before they get stuck into the practicalities
of it because the knowledge is the power.
The knowledge is the information that you
need to know what to do.
And if you don’t have that, it’s not as easy
to stick to what’s considered a reasonably strict diet.
Obviously, we have a transition process
that makes it a bit easier.
You’re not going on to a very limited
elimination diet straight away, but still kind of
considering where most people start from.
Even the transition diet is pretty strict,
considering it’s only whole foods, and we’re
not having any kind of process things.
And it’s a big departure from where people are.
So we have to kind of
step our way through that process.
And yeah, the information pack is just a
really important starting piece to get you moving
in the direction you want to head to. All right.
So the fun part?
Well, not the fun part, I suppose.
I guess the part that everyone wants
to know about is the whole healing
experience about what happened to your body.
How did you detoxify?
What were the symptoms you experienced as
you went through the healing phase?
So let’s discuss that. Yeah. Okay.
So for me, it was pretty rough at the start.
So my bowel movements and all of that,
they had increased a bit at the start.
That didn’t last for long, though.
I remember it sort of Plateau doubt, and it’s
like going down a little bit a little bit.
But what I had a lot of was I was just vomiting a lot.
I was vomiting a lot.
I remember I spent, like a one week solid
just on the sofa sleeping, and my dad was
bringing me watermelon and stuff like that, and I
couldn’t even really turn over to eat it.
This was like when the detoxification
was really just really present.
My skin started shedding.
I looked like a snake.
I remember taking pictures of it.
And if I was walking on rugs in the
house, there’d be like a trail of me, like
behind me, my hair started falling out.
I had a big emotional detox, like, massive one.
And what else did I experience?
I think it was mainly that and that was at the start.
And I mean, the sort of intense part of it.
It lasted for maybe a few weeks.
But then it kind of started to phase out a
bit, so I wouldn’t from it all the time.
It might just be like it might crop up
randomly one week, and it would be that.
And then my hair would fall out.
But then it kind of stopped.
The skin shedding kind of shed for a little bit.
And then it stopped.
And I had, like, great brand new skin.
I was like, woo and the emotional detox.
I think that was the one that went on the most.
And I think for me, that makes sense because prior to
my symptoms flaring up, I was under a lot of stress.
So I was having, like, panic
attacks and stuff like that.
I work for myself.
And I was just Loading on work all the time,
just stressed out with a whole bunch of stuff.
So I think I was just holding in a lot of that.
And that began to surface throughout the process.
And I remember in our weekly calls, you used to
tell me, think about what is this teaching me?
What is this showing me at every sort of stage.
So I got into the habit of just allowing these
things to come up and then assessing them without judgment.
And then when I could kind of
like, let them go, let them go. And it took a while.
It took a while.
But eventually these things kind of phased out.
And then the bowel movements reduced even more
and even more, and they got quite low,
and they sort of plateaued a bit.
But then they went down again, and the blood
in the store was that started to disappear.
And it was coming up instead of in every store.
It was coming up, maybe in two of them
a day and then maybe one a day.
And that kind of lasted a little bit.
But gradually, if it was a graph, you’d see, it
kind of like going down across that period of time.
And it definitely took a lot of patience and not
judging myself to think, why am I not healed already?
There’s some people that have healed in three months.
Why haven’t I?
What am I doing wrong?
So I learned to just allow my body to
do what it needed to do, because I didn’t
get to where I was with the UC overnight.
That was like 20 years of eating crisps and
pizza and cheese and as much meat as possible.
I come from a Mediterranean background.
So it’s like meat all the time.
And I was just eating junk food.
I wasn’t taking care of myself.
So there was, I’d say, maybe quite a bit for my body
to detoxify but, yeah, once I got past that sort of rough
part, and I just thought, if I just hold out, do what
I need to do, do what you’ve said to me.
And each week catching up on the
calls, just keep going, keep going.
And that’s what kept me going.
I think, like, the weekly touch base.
It was like, okay, this touch base is done.
Now just get through the
next week, whatever that brings.
And then it will be like another point. Touch base.
And then, you know, and eventually
those detox symptoms faded out.
And it got to a point where
I remember we were talking about this.
It felt like I turned a corner
and everything kind of accelerated a bit.
So it was like, Whoa, like I’m here.
So, yeah, it was rough at the start, but worth it.
Yes.
And your experience is slightly different to what a lot
of people in the program go through, because your healing
was a bit slower and steadier, which meant it took
you longer for all the symptoms to go away.
I think it ended up taking eight or nine
months from when you started to when all the
symptoms kind of disappeared, where most people take maybe
three to five months before the symptoms stop.
And I think a big part of that was that
whole emotional detoxification that needs to happen because you needed
to confront all those demons in a way that you
had been suppressing for a long time.
And a lot of people use food as a
way to suppress their emotions because it numbs you.
So when you can’t do that anymore, right, everything starts
coming to the surface and you have to that’s part
of the emotional detoxification that people go through.
And obviously, some people have to dig
deeper into themselves to overcome that.
And other people don’t.
It took about eight or nine months before
you were finally like, yes, all the symptoms
have gone, which is totally fine.
I mean, I think anybody would no
one really complain about healing incurable chronic
disease after eight or nine months.
But in terms of the whole experience, I think,
yeah, obviously the beginning part was the most intense
when you had the physical and the emotional experience.
And then, as you kind of continued, the
symptoms were there, but they’re really minimal.
For the last three or four months of the journey,
it wasn’t like controlling your life, but it was just
like, little spots of blood here and there or a
little bit of diarrhea and mucus and things like that.
And I think those last few, at least
the last two or three months was just
you overcoming all those mental and emotional kind
of confronting all that and dealing with it.
And then as you took away all those layers of
conditioning, the center just gradually eased off and eased off
because you weren’t putting as much stress on them.
You were more peace with who you are and
the situation you’re in and you’re accepting of it.
And I think when you do that,
things start to get a lot better.
Then we go to post healing. Right.
So you’ve done the transition phase.
Then you’ve done the healing phase.
And the healing phase is, I guess, by
far the most difficult part of this journey.
And the most exciting part is the post healing
phase, because every week, like Christmas, because you get
to introduce new things into your diet again.
So talk about how we do that and how that went for you.
Yeah.
So we waited until I reached a certain
point with my symptoms and all of that.
And we were like, okay, let’s
move to the post healing diet.
We’re going to test different fruits and vegetables and
bring them in in a really systematic way.
And I remember it was this wasn’t even
long ago, but it was particular types of
fruits and particular types of vegetables phasing in.
So it wasn’t just like a random mix.
The stomach’s going to be ready for
this type of fruit, potentially at this
stage, less test things from this category.
So I remember each week when you send me
the list of things that I could test.
I was just like, yes.
So I was just, like, excited about the silliest things.
At this point.
I was like, dying over the fact that
I could test oranges, like, testing strawberries and
all of this kind of stuff.
But yeah, it was very systematic, very controlled.
We took it week by week, step by
step, really tracking if it had impacted any
symptoms, if I had regressed at any point.
And I think it was like, maybe the fifth
week I had some symptoms show up again.
So we spoke about it and you were like,
okay, let’s hold off on adding anything else.
Let’s simplify again.
And it cleared up really quickly.
My symptoms showed up.
I had a little bit of blood in
the store, I think, two or three times.
And then yeah, it kind of just didn’t show up again.
But we gave that window of room just to make
sure that we weren’t pushing it too far, too soon.
So that was just really sort of
it was at a comfortable pace.
And it was interesting because I’d almost forgotten how
to Cook certain things or, like, mix it. Okay.
So what do I do with these mushrooms now or whatever?
What am I going to do?
So it was almost like just a brand new
slate, but it was exciting at the same time.
So, yeah, each time I was going to
the supermarket to buy new stuff, it just
felt like you said, like, Christmas.
I was just really excited.
I still do get excited.
But yeah, so very systematic,
very phased, very deliberate.
And yeah, we successfully went through it and phased
in the foods without much issue at all.
So that I would say was quite easy.
And because we were touching base every week,
that’s what just helped keep things controlled.
And I could email you just like usual
anyway and ask you, is this okay, or
can I have this with this or whatever?
Because I remember I just had a little
bit of lack of clarity with certain things
because they were new again now.
So yeah, I’d say that was
quite a smooth and exciting process.
Yeah, for sure.
And because you’ve gone on such a simple diet for a
long period of time as you heal, your taste has changed.
And so when you introduce new food back
and just talk to everyone about what that’s
like, because you don’t start introducing all the
spices and herbs and stuff straight away.
But even then, because your taste buds are so used
to these natural tastes now it’s like you explain it.
What is it like when people, when you taste
new foods, it tastes brand new before when I
let’s just use the Orange as an example, it
just had a different sort of alive flavor.
It was just, like, more bursting with flavor.
And I think because of the simplification bringing these
new foods in, even at the simplification state, actually,
even when I was steaming carrots, it was like
these carrots just taste so flavorsome.
So yeah, there’s just a
more powerful flavor to everything.
So that little bit of cumin that I
might put on the mash or whatever.
I’m just tasting it differently now.
And I don’t want all of the sort of, like,
dead foods, like all the processed stuff because it’s bland.
It just tastes blah.
But yeah, it’s just the simple
things, like strawberries taste different bananas.
I didn’t really like bananas at the start.
And like, the banana smoothies that
I was having when I started.
It used to take me ages to drink it because
I was like, this just tastes weird to me.
And then as the time went on, I’m loving it.
I’m loving all of this fruit.
And I came from being the meat and
cheese eater of, like, I could win, like,
Guinness World Book Records with this.
Honestly, I would eat so much
meat, so much processed stuff.
I came from that I didn’t come from
being vegetarian or vegan for a while.
It was like, that’s what I ate.
I ate meat, cheese and all of that.
So getting to the point where, even,
like, green peas just tastes amazing.
Yeah.
It’s like a whole new world.
It’s like a whole new world.
It’s fun. Yeah.
Honestly, I didn’t think that I would get
to where I am now with the enjoyment
that I have with eating whole foods.
I didn’t anticipate this.
Most people don’t, and they think, okay, how am
I going to eat these type of foods?
And I was the same big
meat, cheese and chocolates and sodas.
You name it.
You know what I mean.
But the joy that I get from a
banana, smoothie outweighs any of those things.
And it’s quite fascinating to me how that works.
And I think it really does have to do
with the changes in your body and the changes
in your microbiome because the bacteria communicate.
And when you are eating certain foods that they
want, your microbiome actually dictates a lot of your
tastes and your preferences and your cravings.
And so as that shifts and changes, and as
your taste buds change, everything kind of tastes different,
and you start craving those things that make you
feel good instead of the things that give you
that we call it excitotoxic feeling.
I like that the excitotoxin in the process.
There’s heavily flavored artificial flavors and
colors and the things that really
light things up on your tongue.
It’s like cytotoxic.
You don’t crave that kind of high that comes
for a couple of minutes with eating those things.
The way it works is that with the
excited, toxic foods, it’s an intense pleasure for
a very short amount of time.
And then you feel pretty rubbish until your next meal.
Whereas with these healthy whole foods and
fruits and vegetables, you don’t get that
same kind of excited toxic.
You get that kind of subtle pleasure
that comes with the natural tastes.
And then you just feel better and better
as the meal digest in your body.
It’s a completely different experience.
As your day goes on, you don’t get tired of the
day goes on, you don’t get lethargic as the day goes
on, and you have lots of energy, which is quite amazing.
So talking about a whole new world, you do.
You’re living in a whole new world now,
in essence, in your mind and in your
body and in the way you perceive it.
So what is your life like now and compare what
it was like before in the last meeting we had
you’re talking about how your birthday was last year compared
to this year and the different emotions that you had,
kind of like, really interesting comparison about what your life
is like now compared to what you had before. Yeah.
So this time last year and a few months
before that, around my birthday, it was just like
I had no energy when I say no energy.
I mean, to the point where
at times I couldn’t stay awake.
It was just my body just felt so
drained and I hadn’t even done much.
So I was just in this sort of loop of just
feeling lethargic and not knowing why and thinking, am I lazy?
Because I had a whole bunch of stuff on my to do
list at that time, and I just couldn’t get things done.
I just always wanted to sleep.
As I mentioned, I was having panic attacks and
stuff like that, which was new to me.
Very it wasn’t nice.
Yes.
I had all of those symptoms, and it got
to the point where I’d have to think about.
I remember there was a day and this was a
day where I thought, okay, something needs to change.
This was before I went into hospital.
I was meant to pick up one of my friends.
We were going to go somewhere and it was like
a ten minute drive to go to her house.
And I was really worried about making that journey because
I kept on getting urgency and it was getting worse
and worse urgency to go to the bathroom.
And she had to take the cab to go to the place
because I couldn’t go and get her because I was like, I
don’t know if I’m going to be able to make this journey
and get there without having a bit of an accident.
So it was all of these just things that were just
getting in the way of just normal stuff I’m not even
talking about, like, I want to get on the plane and
fly for 8 hours and maybe all of that.
I mean, just normal stuff driving
down the road, like going outside.
The only thought that I’d have is there a toilet there.
Is there going to be a problem?
Can this bus come fast enough so I can get home because
I feel like I need to go to the bathroom urgently.
So it was just dictating my life.
And I know a lot of people can identify with this
because so many people experience it and it’s just kind of
in a way ruins a lot of stuff for you.
You just can’t do the simple
things that you want to do.
So going through the process with
you guys, like, fast forwarding.
A year later, it’s just completely different.
I was saying to you the other day that on the
previous call that we had, I don’t think about UC anymore.
It’s just a non factor before it would be.
Even at the beginning of the process, I’d
be thinking about it was still a factor,
and I was constantly checking the loop, just
making sure what symptoms are showing up.
And I was expecting to see a problem.
Now I expect everything to be normal because
my body’s functioning perfectly right now so I
can just do what I want.
I’ve got more energy.
I actually started the gym again a couple of weeks ago,
so I’ve got the energy to do that this time.
Last year, if I sat on the
floor, I couldn’t even get myself up.
That’s how weak I was.
I’d lost a lot of weight.
I was like, 48 kg.
I was really just like, yeah, I was weak. Lethargic.
And that was weird for me because
I’d never been that slim before.
I looked quite ill.
And now, as I said, I don’t even think about UC.
I went on a road trip a couple of weekends ago.
I was in the car for like, 5 hours.
Perfectly fine.
Didn’t think about it, had no issues.
Same thing driving back, no issues.
So it’s like I’m living more of life
now because I know what it was like.
Almost like the simple things get snatched away from
you when you have things like Crohn’s and colitis
and you really start to appreciate life, and you
start to just look at, you know, what do
I want to do with myself now?
And it could be small things.
And it is like a second chance because I
could have still been in the same situation now.
I would have been very depressed.
I don’t even want to think about it, but, yeah,
now I’m living more of life than I was prior
to diagnosis, because I appreciate it even more.
I know what it’s like to not be able
to go anywhere or be feeling so sick that
I’m on the sofa for a week, not moving.
I know what that’s like.
And now that’s gone.
So I’m like, okay, so I’m just living more of life now.
And it’s just amazing, genuinely.
Just even if it took me two or three years
to get here, I would still have done it.
It’s worth every month it takes. Every year it takes.
It is worth it because the opposite is just not a
life that it’s not a life to live like that. Definitely.
That’s why we’re so motivated to do this, because
obviously, we know what it’s like with Jamie and
what he went through and how horrible it is
when you’re trapped to the toilet.
Basically, the toilet controls you.
It controls your thoughts and everything,
and you just can’t do things.
And so, yeah, we want to shout from the rooftops.
Basically, you don’t have to live like that.
Yes, it’s hard. Yes.
You’ve got to do some work to get out of it.
But good things take time and anything
that’s worth doing, it takes effort.
So when you put that effort in and
you see the rewards, no risk, no reward. Right?
You got to take the plunge. Absolutely.
And the thing is, it’s funny because I’m not
someone that shares this kind of stuff, unlike things
like this or like, anything about myself.
Really, I’m quite private with things.
But if other people felt the same way and didn’t put
their stories out there, then I may not have given myself
the opportunity to get to the other side of this.
So that’s why it’s so important I
feel to share my story because different
stories resonate with different people.
And I remember a particular story that
I saw on your testimonials back then.
It was the one where I was
like, okay, I’ve got to do this.
It just really clicked for me.
So I just feel it’s important to just share that
and let people know that it can be done.
This is normal.
We think that it’s abnormal for our bodies to
heal from things like this, but it’s not.
It’s the most normal thing ever.
It’s just that we may consume other types of
information that doesn’t help us believe that it’s normal.
The body is designed for health.
Health is your natural state, and it’s always
working to bring you back to health.
What we have to do is get out
of the way and create the right conditions.
And when we do that, somebody
will work towards becoming healthy again.
And that’s all it takes.
It’s just the time, the effort, the commitment and the
discipline to get to where you want to get to
and full credit to you because you did that.
You put in a lot of time and
effort, and it wasn’t that quick journey.
And you had to question yourself quite a few times.
Am I doing the right thing?
Is this actually going to happen for me?
Am I capable of this?
All those questions?
I remember discussing all those things,
and yeah, it definitely wasn’t easy,
but just kept believing in yourself.
And the more you saw the changes, the more the belief
grew, and then every little victory started to add up.
And then each little small step got
you to the top of the ladder.
And now you’re here so big.
Congratulations to you.
But towards the end of these sessions, I always
like our clients to give some advice, a little
bit of something from their heart that people may
be able to connect to who are watching this
and probably in a similar situation to where you
were when you first started watching the testimonials.
And as you said, I think it’s a very
important thing that you said because what we’re doing
here is creating a catalogue of stories.
And each story builds on the evidence base that
this is possible and you can do it.
And this is not something that’s a quackery or
something that’s, as you said, it’s not abnormal.
Healing is your natural state.
Getting healthy is your natural state.
So what advice would you give to someone
who’s watching this and considering making some changes?
Yeah.
I think if you’re in that place and like I
was a year ago, I would say you’ve got nothing
to lose to see where this will take you.
You guys still do that?
Is it half an hour free call just to discuss and
just have a chat about things and I think take that
opportunity and just see if you feel it fits for you,
because like you said, chuckle, There are so many people.
There’s a catalogue of stories of people that
have successfully gone through this process, and they’re
very individual, unique, different types of people.
And they’ve all allowed their bodies to heal from this.
And I just think give it a go.
Honestly, I don’t even want to think about where my life
would be now if I had not made that decision.
I’m in an amazing place right now within
my health and mental state and all of
that just my perception of life now.
So if you’re thinking about it.
I’d say, just take that step through the
free call and just see where it goes.
You’ve got nothing to lose and so much to gain.
And the thing is as well.
There are so many unexpected benefits from all of this.
About 15 years ago, I’ve been diagnosed with
PCOS and going through this process, those symptoms
started to fade away, and I’ve been looking
for something to help that for so long.
So it’s funny because I remember saying to you, it was
like it’s like a buy one, get one free for me.
There’s all these different benefits that you
get that you might not even realize.
So you end up healing your Crohn’s or your UC, but then
you also end up healing XYZ that you may have had.
And it’s different for everybody.
But just from my experience, there was just so
much more benefit than the primary reason as to
why I went through the process with you guys.
It just changed my entire life.
And that’s genuinely how I feel about it.
So, yeah, if you’re on the
fence, you’ve got nothing to lose.
Do the free call and just see how you feel
and working with you guys is just so easy.
And it’s non-judgmental.
And you talk about in the calls.
We talk about quite personal, sensitive things, but
it’s very non-judgmental and just open and reassuring.
And, yeah, it’s the best decision I’ve ever made in
this in regards to my health and all of that.
That’s incredible.
Thank you for those words.
But one thing you mentioned to me that is really
important is that your body is not just healing.
One thing.
When you do this process, you’re healing
all the different cells in your body.
And so, yes, so many people see that they
come to us for colitis, and then their policies
to Covariance syndrome is also kind of resolved as
they go through this process because it’s a reorganizing
of the body as the toxins are removed and
the healing is manifested inside of you.
You get healthy.
And that doesn’t mean just one
part of your body gets healthy.
It means you get healthy overall.
And so that’s so excited because it’s everything.
It’s not just one area that we’re focusing on.
As I said before, really
amazing effort from you, Sibel.
And Congratulations.
Both Jamie and I are both so proud
of you in there that you put in.
And my favorite part of this is that
you now have a life after colitis.
Congratulations.
As you said, you got a second chance
and you’re making the most of it.
So just keep it up.
We always say persistence.
Being persistent will get you there, and
being consistent will keep you there.
So make sure you stay consistent and you stay there.
Okay.
So everyone who’s watching this video or listening to
this podcast, thank you so much for joining us.
And I hope you found this
video very interesting and useful. For your journey.
I’m sure you’ll learn a lot from what Saval
had to go through and some of the things
that she shared with us, very personal things.
And thank you so much.
Again, it’s it’s not easy to share
and go through all that again.
But as you said, there’s a bigger reason for it.
We’re very thankful that you did that.
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