Summary: Do you suffer from painful digestion issues such as Crohn’s disease? A while back, Unique Hammond, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Your-Tastebuds-Are-holes-Trained-ebook/dp/B079YZDSPM/&tag=author-hour20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Your Taste Buds Are A**holes</a> thought she was healthy until Crohn’s disease left her struggling to sleep, eat, or even drink water. In this episode, you’ll hear Unique’s journey from a 90 pound patient to successfully overcoming Crohn’s.<br> You will learn:<br> <br> * Why gut issues and Crohn’s disease are increasingly common in Western diets<br> * Unique’s journey with Crohn’s, the diets she tested, and the one that worked<br> * Basic changes you can make to improve your own gut health<br> <br> [Just a quick note, we use “adult” language throughout the conversation. Yes, the word shit comes up a lot.]<br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Your-Tastebuds-Are-holes-Trained-ebook/dp/B079YZDSPM/&tag=author-hour20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Get Unique’s new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Your-Tastebuds-Are-holes-Trained-ebook/dp/B079YZDSPM/&tag=author-hour20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Your Tastebuds Are A**holes</a> on Amazon.<br> Find out more at <a href="http://youregreat.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">You’re Great</a>.<br> <br> <br> Crohn’s was an interesting journey because the diagnosis didn’t happen for a while. I just had transient stomach problems that I would blame on a bad meal or just having too much alcohol or whatever it was. I didn’t really own that these transient stomach issues were part of potentially a bigger story.<br> I just kept ignoring them because they weren’t big enough to take me down. They were just big enough to annoy me and make me feel just not great. I saw a lot of natural doctors if you will, homeopaths and a Chinese medicine doctor who is also a really dear friend of mine. He treated me for a while.<br> He was like, “You’re not getting better, and you need to give a name to this thing.” I really didn’t want to. I was kind of scared of what it was becoming. But slowly, surely, I couldn’t smell food cooking, I couldn’t smell people’s cologne, I couldn’t smell a car passing by, the gas.<br> <br> Slowly, the pleasure in life started to just fade away.<br> <br> Everything was revolving around my stomach, which was really annoying. I ultimately took his advice. I saw a gastroenterologist, and that was horrible. We started running tests. Blood came back healthy. I wasn’t in any great need to get a colonoscopy or an endoscopy, so we ran a bunch of other tests, and everything kept coming back negative.<br> I needed to have them look inside me, and I was really scared of that and against it. Just on principle, I don’t want cameras inside of me. Down my throat and other places. So I fought it.<br> I kept trying to do it naturally, but ultimately, the idea of giving it a name and trying to find out what it was, was the route I had to take. It was scary. I canceled that appointment probably three times. The GI was like “So, are we actually going to do this?”<br> Chasing a Diagnosis<br> Charlie Hoehn: Were you scared of getting really bad news, or something else?<br> Unique Hammond: I was scared of getting news of something that I couldn’t reverse or heal. I was scared of living on medication my entire life. I was scared of having to have an operation.<br> I was scared, yeah. I was really scared.<br> <br> I didn’t want to live an altered life, I wanted the life I always knew—carefree and living on my own whim.<br> <br> I probably put too much into it now looking back, but at the time I was really sick. I was losing weight, I was nauseous all the time, I was in pain 24 hours a day at that point.<br> All of the diets that I was trying for stomach issues, none of them were really working.
