 There may be a point in your healing journey where you think, maybe I really am just going to be this way forever, and I'm just going to have to deal with it. You know maybe they were really right, and maybe I'm just going to feel terrible until the day I die. Too alive to just die, but really too dead to really live. In my own journey, I went through all of the conventional care system. It first started with a general practitioner, and then to a dietitian, and finally a GI specialist. Now the GI specialist, after just a five minute visit, he said, you know it kind of sounds like IBS, and he ordered a colonoscopy, then proceeded to tell me about his vacation in Jamaica, and the sweet deal that he got. But something to me just felt off about that interaction, and honestly just felt off about all of my interactions going through the health care system. How could it be that all of these people who were specialists, that did years of specialty training in digestion, couldn't figure out what I had? It just felt funny to me, the whole situation just felt off. You know there are times in your life where you may see and consult all of the experts, and you have all the advice from your friends and from your family, but your gut says something different. Something just doesn't feel right, and you just get a feeling that you have to trust it. That trusting of the feeling for me is something that led me on a quest around the world. To China and back. To find these great doctors that ultimately gave me the answers, the real answers to my health questions. And this is something that gave me a very powerful reminder in life. That no matter how difficult the illness, no matter how long you've suffered, there is always a way. There is always a path. There is someone somewhere that can help. But unless you let your suffering drive yourself, drive you on this quest for answers, unless you listen to the messages that it gives you, trusting that your body wants you to heal, it wants you to feel better. It gives you these canaries in the coal mine because it is trying to give you the breadcrumbs you need to hear the message long enough to find the path to healing. And if you trust those messages, you will find that there is a path, that there is a way, that there is someone somewhere that can help. There is always a way. There is always a path. And if you trust the information your body is telling you, if you trust those gut instincts, you will eventually find the way to feeling like your old self again.