48: 5 Secrets Your Doctor Will NEVER Tell You About Your Crohn's and Colitis

The information your doctor tells you about your IBD is wrong... dead wrong. And the data is so clear that it's almost criminal. In this episode, I'm giving you the 5 most important things that your doctor would never say, but that you need to hear to advocate for yourself properly.

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

• What you must know about IBD
• What your doctor has lied about (even without knowing)
• The role of your environment on your IBD
• IBD is not random (or genetic...or autoimmune)
• Your food matters
• What your medications aren't doing for you

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Transcript

Josh Dech:
You have been taught to believe that your doctor has all the answers about your Crohn's and colitis questions and that there's only a lifetime of medication or surgery left ahead of you. But that couldn't be further from the truth.

And so today, I'm going to be breaking down this narrative by telling you five secrets about IBD that your doctor will never, ever in their lifetime say to you. And by the time that you're done watching this video, you're never going to see your IBD the same way ever again.

Contrary to what your doctor has told you, Crohn's and colitis are reversible. Now, I've helped hundreds of people reverse their bowel disease, and I'm here to help you do it too. Because inflammation always has a root cause. We just have to find it.

This is the Reversing Crohn's and Colitis Naturally podcast. Now, I do these live trainings in my Facebook group every single week and put the audios here for you to listen to. If you want to watch the video versions of these episodes, just click the links in the show notes to get access to our Facebook group and YouTube channel. And for weekly updates, information, tips and tricks, you can sign up for our email list by clicking the link in the show notes below.

Now, if you don't know me, my name is Josh Deck. I'm an IBD specialist, medical lecturer, physicians consultant, and the scientific strategist and education director for the Root Cause for Crohn's and Colitis organization. And today, we're talking about the five things that your doctor will never, ever tell you about IBD that you absolutely need to know.

Here's the very first thing I want to talk about. There's an overarching concept that's going to govern today's conversation. You need to have down. There are three reasons ever, across the board, that lead to your IBD, and here's what they are:

The first one is going to be some kind of toxin. The next is a deficiency. And the third is some kind of microbe.

Toxins are everywhere. They're everything. It's alcohol, chronically high blood sugar, chronically high stress, pesticides, environmental toxins. Mold produces toxins. Indoor recycled air is actually toxic for you to some degree. So there are some toxins that are large, some that are small, but they cumulatively fill your glass, right?

That's number one. Number two is some sort of deficiency. Deficiencies of what? Well, deficiencies of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, electrolytes, fresh air, sunlight, exercise — things our body needs to thrive and build its defenses.

The third reason we get sick is due to microbes. Now, this typically in the world of IBD looks like parasites, bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Those are the most common things that we see. The combination of these leads to the disease that you're experiencing.

Now, this is one thing your doctor will never tell you. But this overarching — think of this like an umbrella that's going to sort of govern today's conversation — everything else is going to sit underneath it today. And that's what I need you to know first.

So then we got this concept down. I want to talk about the things that your doctor will never say that you absolutely need to know if you want to be directing the narrative on your IBD and your future, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else who clearly doesn't care that much about that same future.

Okay? Whether they like to, whether they do, or whether they don't — it's irrelevant. Because nobody's going to care more than you.

So let's talk about this. The number one secret you need to know — absolutely bar none — it is not what they've said that it is.

It is not autoimmune.
It is not genetic.
And it absolutely is not idiopathic, which means unknown cause.

It's not an autoimmune condition in most cases — the vast majority. That one right there stumps most people.

I'll explain.

It is not a genetic condition in the vast majority of cases, and genes don't even cause disease.
And it's not unknown.

I'm going to break this down really quick. So we're going to get into these a bit more as we go.

Only 50 to 70% of all cases have any antibodies at all. But there are two types of antibodies. There are antibodies which are defenders your body specifically makes to defend against an invader. The second type of antibody is an autoantibody — when your body does attack itself.

50 — should I say 50 to 70% of all cases of Crohn's and colitis — have any antibodies. And there's a fraction of those that are actually autoantibodies attacking you.

Which means these antibodies are there to defend you against what?
Microbes.
Toxins.
Or they're there due to deficiencies combining with these. The three reasons we get sick.

Okay. It's not genetic. There's only a family history 24 to 28% of the time. Some stats say as low as 10% there's genetics involved.

But on top of that — genes don't work in a vacuum. Because genes are influenced by your environment, by toxins, by microbes, by deficiencies, by stress, by blood sugar, by everything. So genes don't work by themselves. We can't blame the genes. Something exploited those genes and made them react or — what's the word I'm looking for there — they made them either react or express themselves poorly.

And to say there's no known cause is absolutely asinine. We know there are many, many causes. Again: mold, parasites, fungus, vagus nerve disruption, chronic stress, and bacterial infections gone untreated long term — all kinds of stuff.

So this again — not being genetic, autoimmune, or idiopathic — fits under our umbrella that we talked about of it being some sort of toxin, some sort of microbe, some sort of deficiency. That explains this whole fallacy that we've been told.

So that's the first secret.

The second secret that your doctor will never tell you is that your environment matters immensely.

What counts as your environment?

We know that indoor air, for example—and I know we can’t breathe anything anymore—but here’s the idea, okay? Indoor air, according to the EPA—it’s the Environmental Protection Agency—is one of the top five, if not top three pollutants to humans, one of the top toxins. Because it’s mold, it’s dust, it’s dirt, it’s VOCs from paint and chemicals and all these things that are recirculating. We just don’t open our windows enough. We’re meant to live outside.

So simply opening your windows takes that down.

What else is your environment?

We have all kinds of chemicals in our clothes, we have microplastics if you’re wearing those, we have all kinds of chemicals in our world. Mold is a problem in 70% of US homes. We know statistically that 40% of asthma cases is attributed to mold, and in my practice, probably 80% of the clients I see have a mold layer, either the top layer or a layer in between, driving their IBD.

A lack of sunlight, which again alters genes, it alters your detox pathways and mitochondrial energy production and detoxification pathways—we know this leads to deficiencies.

We know that EMFs and Wi-Fi and 5G actually disrupt your gut lining and your blood-brain barrier, and it proliferates the growth of mold 400 to 600 times its natural rate.

So our environment around us is actually directly contributing to how your body is developing, handling, or expressing diseases. So that’s a major issue.

Your doctors never talk about your environment. But your environment is full of toxins that leads to deficiencies, and those toxins weaken your immune system, allowing what? Microbes to overgrow or invade—either fungus or other invaders.

Your environment matters. Where we live. What we do. How much air we get. Open doors. Open windows. Whether or not you turn your Wi-Fi off at night. Do you keep your cell phone in your pocket all the time? Are you surrounded by electronics?

It matters. It’s not a tin foil hat thing. This is like—you look this up.

Here’s the next thing your doctor will never say.

Secret number three.

I call them secrets because the world needs them. But nobody’s saying them. That’s why they’re a secret. It shouldn’t be a secret.

But one thing your doctor will never tell you—they say IBD is random.

I’m telling you right now—it absolutely is not.

There are many predictable factors.

You think about your genes. You think about your DNA. Your biological makeup is like a chain link. Everyone’s got a weak link somewhere. And when you pull on that chain, the weak link is the first one to snap.

If your weak link happens to be your bowel, guess what goes first?

Here’s a great example. My wife’s family—they’ve all got different medical conditions. Her mom’s got bowel issues and she’s got some joint problems. My wife has histamine issues. So her immune system overreacts. We call it MCAS or mast cell activation. Her sister’s got asthma. I’ve got gut issues.

Guess what?

All of us have been exposed to mold at some point in our life. But all of us are expressing differently because our weak link got pulled, and that expressed differently. It’s not random.

Right? We know genes don’t cause, and it’s not bad luck of the draw.

We know cases are actually on the rise. Cases are growing exponentially. In fact, it is mostly a North American issue that we’re seeing IBD.

And I’ll show you what that looks like, okay?

Think about this: 20% of the US population has a diagnosis of IBS.
20%.
On the other hand, depending on the stats you’re looking at, 60 to 70% of the entire US—even Canada—population complains of some kind of GI issue on a weekly basis.

What does that mean?
 Well—gas, bloat, pain, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, cramping—whatever—at least once a week.

So 70% are expressing some kind of GI issue that is in line with IBS. 20% went to the doctor to get a formal diagnosis.

Now we know as well that 17% of IBD cases actually have a previous diagnosis of IBS.

So if 70% of North Americans—which is astronomically higher than any other country in the world—have some kind of gut issue in line with IBS, but only 20% either got the diagnosis or it’s bad enough to diagnose, 17% of IBD have a prior diagnosis of IBS, you know what that means?

We can very easily say that IBS can progressively get worse and worse until it becomes IBD.

That’s not a wrong assumption at all.

I’ve seen it in my practice where people had a little bit of gut issues that got worse and worse and worse and worse, until one day, it became Crohn’s or colitis.

So it’s a progressive problem.

Some people get unlucky enough to jump the bar overnight—it seems like days, weeks, or months—and boom. Now they got this inflammatory process.

But there was something under the surface. It’s just a matter of how long it took to get you there.

But either way—it’s not random.

Seventy-five years. We’ve climbed 3,000%.

We went from 15 per 100,000 cases in North America to 463 per 100,000 cases. It’s like 0.05% or something insane dealing with a diagnosed bowel disease condition.

And here’s what’s more to it.

North America—okay, again I’m saying Canada, US—we are less than 5% of the global population, yet we make up more than 50% of the world’s cases of IBD.

Is that random to you?
Does it sound like it’s just a genetic issue, or does it sound like we have an environmental toxic issue in our country?

You do the math. You tell me.

Here’s what’s more—again, less than 5%—it’s about 4.7% of the globe—we make up nearly 70% of the global pharmaceutical profits.

Sickness and disease makes up 18% of the United States GDP. That’s Gross Domestic Product, their income that they make.

18% is from three things: hospital care and stays and doctor’s visits, pharmaceutical purchases and sales, and health insurance.

18% of the entire country’s income, making up just under $5 trillion a year.

How are we not asking more questions about this and still calling these diseases random?

It’s a US problem.

When 5% has 50% of the issues, and when 5% makes up 70% of the global population—or the global profits in pharmaceutical sales—it’s not random, it’s not genetic, and it sure as s*** is not autoimmune in the vast majority of cases when we look at the actual data.

And they start in two ways.

Again—not random—it either starts really quickly, almost overnight, few days, weeks, months…

Or it’s over many years, it progresses.

Either way—it’s a progressing disease that had a start and a trigger.

No condition, no disease, ever comes out of nowhere.

You’d never go to your doctor and be like “Man, my heel—I got this giant like blister welt forming.”

They go “Oh yeah, it’s just a genetic thing.”

No.

They go, “Are you wearing socks in your shoes? Are your shoes too small? Are you walking funny?”

Like, what’s actively causing it?

Because we know inflammation is a protective healing mechanism.

Yet what we do not do when it comes to IBD is look for the thing your body is trying to heal you or protect you from.

All we do is go, “Oh, well it’s genetic.”

No. No, it is not, my friend. Absolutely not.

Which means there’s a way through it.

Another secret your doctor’s not going to tell you.

Now this isn’t malicious toward doctors. They just have a different training and a different skill set. And chronic inflammatory diseases are not one of those skill sets. That is not something doctors do.

They can manage it and manage the symptoms, but they are not trained to go after root causes.

It’s not in their education at all.

And part of this process that we see—your doctor says, “Eat whatever you want.” When it comes to bowel disease, what do they say?

“Food doesn’t matter.”

Absolute bulls***.

Here’s what you need to know.

Food matters so much.
This is third grade biology.

Let’s say, put whatever you want in your gas tank.
 You can fuel it with anything.

Nope. Sure can’t.
You’ll ruin a car.

You put whatever you want in your gut—you will ruin a gut.

Here’s the thing—the most outrageous thing your doctor says is, “Eat whatever you want.” That would be like them saying, “Oh, your leg’s broken. Doesn’t matter how you want to treat it. You want to run? You want to walk? Want to jump on a trampoline? No big deal. It doesn’t matter.”

It’s that level of dumb.

So here’s the thing.

Food contributes to the integrity of your microbiome.

If you think about your gut kind of like fish in a fishbowl, we have all these little fish swimming around. The prebiotics is the fish food.

Now, if you feed fish poison, what do they do?

Belly up. They die.

If you feed microbes poison, what do they do?

Belly up. They die.

And what happens is the toxic, inflammatory-producing microbes that damage your gut, your gut lining, lead to inflammation, lead to autoimmunity—they move in.

And these guys are not so nice, and they take over.

And what do they do?

All the postbiotics—like the fish poop—all the postbiotics they do toxify your fish tank. It toxifies your gut, and the good guys can’t grow anymore.

Your food matters.
Your food contributes to the quality and the integrity of your gut microbiome.
They contribute to the overgrowth of parasites and fungus and all kinds of nasty business.

In fact, the things you put in your body—there’s something called terrain.

If you think of it simply like having a garden, and inside your garden you want nice, rich, fertile soil where you can grow whatever you want to grow—flowers or food, you name it.

But if you salt the earth and you pee in the garden and you dump all kinds of kitchen waste and chemicals in it, nothing’s going to grow.

Because you’ve destroyed the terrain.

When we inflame our terrain and fill it with toxins and junk and emulsifiers and additives and all these things—polysorbate 80 and carrageenan and sugar alcohols, plastics and microplastics—it damages the gut lining, it erodes the terrain, and good guys cannot grow.

If you want the good guys to grow, you need to feed them good things.
You need to improve the terrain and detoxify it.

What goes into your mouth matters.
Your mouth is directly connected—it goes down to your esophagus, your stomach, small, large intestine, and it comes out your butt.

Guess what? Your mouth is the top of your butt.
So if you’re worried about your gut, watch what you put into your mouth.

Your oral microbiome also influences your gut.
Weird how it all works when it’s connected.

It matters.

Again, let’s bring it back.

We know that toxins, microbes, deficiencies lead to disease.

When you’re eating junk food, what does that do?
It feeds nasty microbes.

So we have microbes as an issue.
They’re full of toxins.

And you’re not eating nutrient-rich foods because they’re processed and refined and artificial. So you are deficient.

Toxins, microbes, deficiencies—once again, everything fits under this umbrella.

Here’s the fifth secret.

Your doctor says your only options are medication and surgery.

But medication does not heal.
There’s no two L’s in “heal.”
Maybe—I think medication is hell. I don’t know. Freudian slip.

Medication doesn’t heal. It manages symptoms.

Think about this—you go for a walk, you get a nail in your foot. A nail sticks through your foot.

You go to your doctor—what are they going to do?

They’re going to look at you and go, “Nothing we can do about that. It’s really rough.”

“But it’s part of your body now. It’s just part of your DNA. Your only hope—I’m going to give you numbing cream for the rest of your life, and that’s going to manage your pain. And if you can do that to manage your pain for the rest of your life, then guess what? You’re going to be A-okay.”

Rather than pulling the nail out of your foot and figuring out where that came from, how it got there, and what you need to heal, they’re going to give you numbing cream.

That’s a medication.

Medications do not heal. They control.

Numbing cream on the nail in your foot controls the pain, the swelling, the inflammation. But it doesn’t remove the nail. It doesn’t control the infection. You just can’t feel it.

So medication doesn’t heal.

Remember—inflammation is your body trying to heal you from something.
We just have to ask what it’s trying to heal you from.

What is the nail?

Once we can identify that—we can reverse it.

Suppressing your symptoms is just silencing your body trying to communicate with you.

And those are the five biggest secrets your doctor will never, ever tell you—which is a travesty.

Here’s what you need to know:

It is a fixable, reversible condition.

I’m going to give you a couple of resources now that you can utilize for yourself, and how you can get some help with this.

I’ve got a ton of free stuff out there.

Wherever you’re watching from, I’ve got a Facebook group called Reversing—or it’s IBD Support and Solutions. You can find that on Facebook. It’s free to join. All the resources are free. I do these live every single week.

The next place you can find us, of course, is YouTube, @josh.alth across social media.

I’ve got a podcast called Reversing Crohn’s & Colitis Naturally.
You’re like, “Man, I want to catch up on all these episodes.”
45 episodes or something now that we’ve got at the time of this recording.
Probably 50 by the time you see it. All can be found for free online—Apple, Spotify, Amazon, wherever you listen.

It’s called Reversing Crohn’s and Colitis Naturally.

But ultimately, here’s the thing.

If you say, “Man, this makes sense. For the first time in a decade, two decades, I understand—like, there’s a way through this. I can get help now. Even though my doctor told me I couldn’t.”

You’re using your own brain. You’re going, “Wait a minute—the math doesn’t math. It’s not autoimmune. The stats don’t add up. It’s not genetic. Genes don’t cause disease. We see that there’s a massive rise in specific pockets of the world. Something must be causing it. My doctor doesn’t have the answers. Who does?”

There’s a lot of us out there. If you think I’m a weirdo, you’re like, “Dude, whatever,” see somebody else. I don’t care.

But get results from someone who can actually get you the results.

And so if you want to get help, here’s how you can do that.

If you’re watching on YouTube, you’re listening on the podcast—directly below this video or this episode, you’re going to see in the show notes there—I got an email address you can reach out. You can schedule a call. There’s all kinds of free resources there.

This is information the world needs, because your doctor is not going to be giving it to you. But this is where you can get it.

So now at this point, I’m going to turn over to the questions.

Amarie says:
“Funny how polysorbate 80 is in Humira taken every two weeks. I feel like I’m poisoning my child every time. Polysorbate 80 into the gut is different than injected. But an injection is an injection.”

Here’s the thing—I am not anti-medication.
That’s a common misconception.

I am anti-relying on medication to fix you—because it never will.

But it can be a great tool for an interim to manage your pain, symptoms, and give you a quality of life back till we get to that root cause.

Amarie says:
“My mom has gastro issues. Her mom had gastro issues—always taking ginger. My son has colitis. My daughter has Crohn’s. My mom says it’s genetic.”

Again—look at your genes. You have a weak link in your family. That weak link gets pulled.

Now again—genetics matter. Like we said, 24 to 28% of the time there is some sort of family link between Crohn’s and colitis, where it’s in the family somewhere. Your family has a lot of it.

So I’m not saying genetics don’t matter—I don’t want you to misunderstand me.
I’m saying your genes do not cause this disease.

Amongst your family in your household, there is some commonality that is pulling on that chain, and your guts are the thing that’s breaking.

When I look at a whole family that’s got it, I look at a couple things.

Number one is going to be Lyme disease, for example, can be passed through in utero—from a mom to a baby who’s developing.
We see Lyme happening semi-often.

On the other hand—mold.

Especially those who are visiting each other often. They’re sharing homes, they’re coming over, they’re staying, they’re very close, they’re visiting all the time—mold can be in those environments.

If a whole family has issues—I’m looking at mold to see what’s in the family.
If the whole family has issues—I’m looking at lifestyle, I’m looking at food, I’m looking at what led to this.

Was everybody C-section birth?
Was everybody bottle-fed?
Did everybody get ear infections and tonsillitis growing up that they were on antibiotics for?

Which also points to mold, for example.

There’s a root. There’s a common theme and a thread that’s exploiting your weak link throughout your entire family that’s making you sick.

And the difference here is that we have to find out what that is.
And if you can identify that—potentially the whole family can see reversal.

But again—look at your body like a cup of water.
That cup fills up. It overflows.

Not only do we have to figure out what filled your cup—mold or toxins, whatever it is—we have to figure out why it’s not emptying.

And then now that the cup’s been overflowing all these years, creating disease—what else has gotten wet?

What other systems in your body residually have become compromised?

Your immune system, liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, gut lining, microbiome—all these things.

And that’s how we get better.

Jennifer says:
“Mold is global. How come the US has the highest rate?”

Amazing question.

Mold is global.
In fact, not all mold is bad. Our microbiomes are designed to have mold. They’re okay to have some mold.

It’s the excessive mold, in combination with toxins.

And one of the reasons the US is so, so bad is building practices.

Look at our design. Look at construction.

Builder’s grade materials is a fancy word I learned from my fancy wife.

It’s not a fancy word—it’s not a fancy word—but here’s the thing: builder’s grade materials—they’re trash. It’s cheap lumber. It’s very porous.

When they do the—how many times have you driven past a construction site or residential or even commercial, and it’s just like wood sitting in the dirt, with rain and a tarp over top of it?

Mold starts in the studs.

And then what do they do? They go and they build things. They put it together with already wet contaminated wood that’s sometimes been treated, sometimes not, or poorly treated.

And they put all these vapor barriers and moisture-trapping materials and all these fake materials and chemicals on the inside, which also trap moisture, which leads to excess mold.

Whereas you look at a house—now, I’m not saying architecturally it’s better, it’s just different—but a lot of traditional tribes in Africa, you know what they build their houses out of?

Straw and mud. Homemade bricks. All kinds of stuff.

Which actually allow moisture and air to move in and out more freely and readily. And they’re actually temperature controlled, because they’re natural substances.

And a lot of these thatch huts and thatch roofs, they don’t have the same problems. Because the materials are more natural.

Hemp, for example, would be mold resistant.
But drywall is not.

There are so many ways that we can build and do things properly.

But unfortunately, for the sake of saving money—in fact, let me throw this one at you—

If you want to see where homes get so cheaply built, there are a couple of housing inspectors or home inspectors I follow on Facebook and Instagram, and it’s astonishing the things that they’ll actually pick up.

They’ll go, “Here’s a crack in the foundation. Here’s where this was cheap. Here’s where they put junk in. Here’s where they used cheap materials. Here’s where they cut corners. Here’s where there’s leaks. The things weren’t installed or done properly.”

Because the standard of practice is so abysmal in a lot of construction, that there’s ways for all this water to get into moisture-trapping materials, and so people get very, very sick from that.

Question on Instagram:
“Can insulation at work be considered a toxin?”

Yes. Great question.

The question is: Can insulation at work be considered a toxin?

What’s insulation made of?

Fiberglass. It’s made of plastics. It’s made of all kinds of stuff.

Inhaling fiberglass can be very, very dangerous.
It can shred your lungs, cause inflammation, get it on your skin—it’s hyperreactive.

You get really itchy because those fiberglass itty-bitty pieces get stuck in your skin.

They’re often sprayed with chemicals, they’re often—again—they’re artificial materials.

They’re all toxins.

Now, if there’s insulation in the walls, I’m not worried about it unless it’s like asbestos that you’re disturbing.

But if you leave it undisturbed, you’re fine.

On the other hand, if you’re actively working in a construction environment, and you’re working with insulation—either putting in fresh insulation or changing old, wet insulation that may be wet already—you’re going to be toxifying your system and your body at some level.

But here’s the thing about toxins.

We live in a toxic world.
We live in an artificial world.
We live in a world that is no longer compatible with our biology.

So the question isn’t how do I avoid it entirely if I want to live in society and participate in, you know, the economy.

The question is: How can I protect myself best?

Well, if you’re building—the best you can—natural materials.

If you’re going in to paint your home, for example—use paint with low VOCs. Those are volatile organic compounds that are toxic.

If you have insulation being installed, let somebody who’s wearing PPE and proper masking and gear install that for you.

And then make sure the windows are open, fans are going, and that things are decontaminated after.

There’s a lot of ways to protect ourselves, but it’s not so much about avoiding entirely.

Your body is extraordinarily resilient.

It’s just that your cup is full.

So what we want to be doing instead is reducing how much water we’re putting into our cup, and let the innate intelligence of your body take care of you.

And a lot of times, we can heal from even that.

Follow-up question from Jennifer, and then Carrie on Facebook, I will get you.

She’s asking:

“Do you recommend a mold specialist to check the house, which can be very expensive and not affordable for many people?”

So the question is: Do you recommend a mold specialist to check the house, which can be expensive and unaffordable for many people?

Here’s the thing—you can get it done relatively cheaply to test your home.
But there’s a caveat to it.

The mold conversation always sucks.

If you find you do in fact have mold in your home, there’s no good answer.

It means A, you’re going to live with it and just do your best in your environment.
B, you have to move.
Or C, you have to renovate or remediate, which can also be very, very expensive, and to do properly.

So if you want to test, there are some mildly reliable Petri dish testers you can get from Amazon for like 35, 45 bucks.

You can also get an ERMI—I know EnviroBiomics is a website—you can get an ERMI for 245 bucks.

It’s a Petri where you collect dust and send it in.

TheDustTest.com—you can collect dust from around your home.

The problem is, it’ll quantify and tell you, here are the dangerous strains, here’s what we detected and how much. And it’ll grade it like level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5—being max, like get out of the house.

And whether you have it or not, the problem is—we don’t know where the mold is.

It could be just isolated in one room with a leak.

So the ERMI doesn’t do that.

But an inspector or even a mold dog, which can cost $1000–$1500, typically will actually come in and sniff.

And I’ve had several clients use them in their home.

And they put tape on it—it’s exactly every time where the mold is. They’re incredible.

But it is an investment.

But again—the mold conversation sucks.

You got three options:

1. You live with it and do your best and try to reduce it—maybe you quarter off.
   It’s—we got three bathrooms in your home, though, and one of them is moldy.
   So you tarp it off, you tape the door, you open the windows, you just leave it and hope it doesn’t get into your home.
2. Dehumidifiers in the home, air purifiers, open windows are a great way to mitigate the damage of the mold you’re breathing in.
3. But then again—it’s moving, or it’s remediating, which are also expensive, time-consuming, inconvenient, and not ideal.

So you have to pick your poison when it comes to mold.

On the other hand, if it’s a relatively new home—I had a client, she’s right now in litigation with the contractor and the builder and the insurance companies, because they had mold in their brand new three-year-old home.

Severe, severe mold, which made them and their kids very, very sick and developed colitis.

So that’s something to consider as well.

Over here we got Carrie on Facebook, says:

“I can’t understand—if you have the solution, then why don’t MDs—why would an MD or medical doctor genuinely or not genuinely help their patients? I don’t want to believe that we live in a world like that.”

Here’s the thing, Carrie.

I believe a lot of medical doctors go to school because they want to help.

They get into it because they love humans, they love health care.

Some get into it for the money. Some get into it because their parents make them, and it’s a cultural thing, right?

But here’s the thing—they’re just not given the information, which leads to a couple different issues.

Number one—where is the money?

18% of the GDP, rather, for the USA is sickness and disease.

So it’s very, very profitable.

The people at the top—the pharmaceutical companies—are interested in making money.

In fact, Martin Shkreli, back probably early 2000s, was actually on record, quoted—he was a pharmaceutical fall guy—he said:

“We are not in the business of curing people. We’re in the business of making money. And we have a responsibility to our shareholders.”

Well, that blew up and the internet scrubbed that clip, and it’s hard to find now.

But that’s what pharmaceutical companies said:

“We’re in the business of making money. And we have a responsibility to shareholders.”

Not to you.
Not to the one with sickness and disease.

And so these companies—what do they do?

They want to trial a new drug or test something—they’re going to spend the millions of dollars doing the tests, doing the trials, doing the studies, getting them published, because there’s a profitable return on the other end.

But if you get somebody through a quick protocol, and they’re done, and it costs you, say, three, four, five thousand dollars to clean yourself up—all the supplements, remediating your home, whatever you got to do—you’re fixed, you’re fine, you’re healthy—

There’s no subscription.

Do you know Rinvoq and Inyvio can cost something like up to $20,000 a month?

That’s a great subscription model for forever.

And so—it’s just not enough money in actually healing people.

Plus it takes time.

When I spend time with a client—we do anywhere from one to two interviews, which can take one to two hours depending on the time.
I review all their history, all their intakes.

And I spend weeks—16 weeks, so that’s four months, sometimes eight months with them on a weekly basis.

Doctors get in—what are your symptoms, here’s your drug, get out.
Seven minutes on average.
It’s moving you through like cattle.

That’s where the money is.

There’s just no money in healing.

And I’d like to believe we don’t live in a world like that.

But the sad reality is that we do.

And no one’s going to care about your health more than you do.

One of my favorite things to hear as an IBD specialist is something along the lines of:

“I learned more from you in 15 minutes than from my doctor in 15 years.”

And if this, for the first time, is really starting to click, and it’s starting to make sense, and you’re going:

“Wait a minute... this might be reversible. I think there’s more that I can do. This condition came out of nowhere. It happened to me out of the blue. I was healthy for 10, 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly I wasn’t.”

And you’re telling me there’s no cause?

If you’re understanding finally that there is a cause, that something is driving this, I want to invite you to check the link in the show notes below.
Send me an email. Ask a question. See if a program is the right fit for you.

Because I promise you—
 This doesn’t have to be a lifelong sentence.
You’re not doomed to this.
And IBD can be reversed.