The following story of one young man's way out of digestive hell is a testament to the healing power of our body, once we 1) stop poisoning it, and 2) apply the healing concepts of nutritional cleansing.
We get testimonials every day, of people who have reversed a set of symptoms that they were told were "incurable." They are each amazing in their own right, and as the months go on, we will post more and more of them. But since digestive problems are currently so rampant, and so many believe that there is no fix, we are posting this powerful story here. 
Below is the written story of a 23-year old young man, named Grant. Grant's parents are neighbors of mine, and they called me in the summer of 2004, very worried and asking for advice. After speaking with Grant on the phone, he told me all of the variety of conflicting methods of healing he had tried. He was a perfect case of information overload. So, I sent him immediately to Russell Mariani, one of the cleansing nutritional counselors that we suggest in our Cleansing Directory. A few months later, Grant wrote me his story:
My Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Healing Story
At the start of my sophomore year of college I began to notice blood on my toilet tissue. At the time I felt healthy and decided to continue on my normal business ignoring the situation. I took this approach for about three months until I began to notice that my bleeding was progressively getting worse. I began to get really worried for I knew that the sight of blood in a bowl movement was not a natural part of the process. I discussed the situation with my parents and I immediately set up an appointment with a Gastroenterologist (GI Doctor) to have the situation checked out. The GI doctor performed a sigmoidoscopy and told me that I had a mild case of proctitus and that it wasn’t anything serious and I didn’t need to worry about it. Out of curiosity I began to question the doctor to the cause of the proctitus and whether this condition could lead to anything more serious down the road. The doctor told me that they didn’t know what caused the bleeding and the best thing for me to do was to take anti-inflammatory suppositories and forget about it. Relieved that my situation wasn’t more serious I continued on my life as a regular college student. Gradually over the course of the next several months I began to see more and more blood in my stool and I started to get terrible cramps in my gut. I went back to my GI doctor and expressed concern that my proctitus seemed to be getting worse. He assured me that the cause was unknown and that the only thing that he could do was prescribe me more suppositories. I felt an overwhelming innate sense that my proctitus had a simple solution and that the doctor was leading me down the wrong road. As I began my junior year in college the blood in my stool was increasing, my gut began cramping severely, and I was battling constant fatigue.
I could no longer participate in the active lifestyle that I was accustomed to and became extremely discouraged. My parents made an appointment at our family physician to see if he could give any suggestions to relieving my discomfort and fatigue. I explained to the physician how bad my situation had become over the past year and how it was ruining my life. He told me to bend over and he gave me the old rubber glove treatment. He told me that proctitus was a general term and that I probably just had a hemorrhoid. Like the previous doctor he told me that I should take a suppository and forget about it. I explained to him that I’ve been taking suppositories and they hadn’t been working. Out of defense he told me that he was the medical professional and that I should listen to his advice and not self diagnose.
Discouraged after my visits to the first two doctors I went to another GI doctor who performed another sigmoidoscopy and gave me a new diagnosis of Ulcerative Colitis. He told me that this was an autoimmune disease and that there was no cure; an answer that I really didn’t want to hear, considering the fact that I was 21 years old and didn’t want to live with this painful and distressing ailment for the rest of my life. The doctor prescribed me an enema named Rowasa the drug Colozal in an attempt to control my symptoms and alleviate some of the pain. I took these drugs for three months and saw no improvement in my condition; the only thing I noticed was that the pain and bloating in my stomach seemed to have become worse. I asked whether diet was a possible cause and the doctor said that diet has nothing to do with it and that I should eat a well balanced standard American diet.
As I left his office I felt as if the medical community was betraying me. I took matters in to my own hands and began researching Ulcerative Colitis on my own. I decided to give certain diets a try to see if I could get my incurable condition to improve. I experimented with paleo-diets, low-carb diets, vegetarian diets, and even a strict raw food diet. Nothing seemed to work and my condition seemed to be getting worse as each day went by.
Out of deep concern with my health my parents forced me to go back to the GI doctor who always said the same thing. We don’t know the cause and that you should just eat a well balanced standard American diet, and not to worry because if things continued to get worse they could give me immune suppressing steroid therapy and remove the problematic sections of my colon. I struggled my way through my last semester of college and ended up graduating, but I was so debilitated by that point in my life that I could barely make it to my final exams and [i]missed my graduation ceremony because I couldn’t leave the toilet for more than a half an hour at a time[/i] .
My parents were getting exceptionally scared as they saw my body and emotions whither away. I went to chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, message therapists, yoga professionals, anything I could think of that might help my condition improve to a livable state. The proctitis that I was told was nothing to worry about had evolved into a monster that was destroying my life and leaving me with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. I finally reached a point where I couldn’t leave my apartment and would spend the majority of the day on the toilet and curled up in bed in pain.
Out of desperation my mother contacted a family friend, Scott Ohlgren, author of a book called Cellular Cleansing Made Easy who was in the nutritional field and he recommended I give a friend of his, Russell Mariani, a call. Russell had cured himself from Ulcerative Colitis and had a great success record healing people with all kinds of intestinal problems.
After the first 10 minutes after talking to Russell my spirits were lifted and I knew that this guy knew what he was talking about. Instead of giving me more hyperbole of how Ulcerative Colitis was an autoimmune disease with no cure, he gave the simple answer that I waiting for. He simply said that my colitis was the result of the depletion of the mucus lining of my colon from years of hard and difficult to pass stool. Immediately Russell had me change my eating habits and almost instantaneously my cramping and discomfort were gone and my bowls began to function properly for the first time in years. After just three weeks of working with Russell I was confident that my years of suffering were a thing of the past.
I’m baffled and angry that I had to endure years of pain and misery because the medical profession led me down the wrong road while destroying my hopes of ever curing my condition. I feel extremely fortunate that circumstance led me to Scott and Russell. Without the nutritional guidance from Russell I would be living a life of pain, misery, and frustration. I know that there are thousands of other individuals in the same situation that I was in and I can only pray that they are eventually presented with a similar opportunity to get well.
The moral of the storey: Don’t ever let anyone make you believe that there is no cure and that you have to live with the pain and discomfort of Ulcerative Colitis for the rest of your life. The key to wellness is through proper nutrition and learning the proper fundamentals of living a healthy life!!
