How I found the fruity side of life

Hi YOU,

I am Judith, happy to share with you how my personal healing journey brought me from a chronic illness to holistic health, wealth and happiness. At the age of 18, I was diagnosed with an inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, which is one of many autoimmune diseases. Having seen many doctors and being told “you cannot be healed and you will depend on medication all your life” worsened my mindset a lot. It was only through my own discoveries that I found out there is in fact a way to heal. I made a decision to take matters into my own hands and embarked on my self-healing journey. Through this, I regained life quality and more joy, energy and health than I have ever had.

My Mission

My mission is to share my story, inspire and guide you on your own health journey to become the ultimate version of your BestSelf.

Autoimmune Disorder - Ulcerative Colitis

Going back 6 years, in 2012,  when I had my first inflammation, I would never have expected to overcome all struggles related to my disease and, at the same time, undergo a search within myself!

Ulcerative colitis is an autoimmune disease that triggers symptoms such as inflammations in your gut, leading to diarrhea and internal bleeding. There are non-active phases that can be symptom free, however active phase mostly put you in bed for weeks, not being capable of doing anything.

Doctor’s Response…

My first inflammation was pretty benign. I received medication and was told I can keep eating anything since it would not have an impact to my gut health. This was pretty much the standard response I would get from any doctor. Since then, I developed more issues such as sensitivities to foods like dairy, gluten, wheat, spices, bloating, constipation etc.. They became so consistent that looking back now, I perceived them to be normal reactions to digestion. I didn’t realize how much they actually impacted my life quality in terms of energy, mood, activities and social life. They became so strong, they sometimes became an excuse not to do plenty of things, because I felt uncomfortable. I didn’t realized how much they isolated me from my social surroundings. My diet in these days was mainly a standard low-carb, Western diet, thinking of myself being healthy, while eating a variety of all foods. I got sick so many times as well, plenty of colds or infections. But, as long as I was symptom free, I still felt it was all good.

Medication stops symptoms...for a while…

I went through quite some years of inflammation and recoveries, as medication would only stop symptoms for a while, but not treat the cause: my lifestyle.

...Finding a cure…

At that point, I was so frustrated that my life illness coming up over and over again would put my life on hold. At this time, I began to research and read about other people recovering from their autoimmune disorder based on a whole-food, plant-based diet. Part of it was also a detoxification of the body. For me it was clear, I had to detoxify myself not only from the disease but all the medication as well. So I got started from one day to the other, while on a business trip in Germany and all of a sudden went to only eating fruits all day. I learned fruits are the most detoxifying foods.

...and self-healing

Luckily, I found a video on YouTube by Shamiz from highcarbhealth.com. He recovered from ulcerative colitis himself with the help of Dr.David Klein’s book “Self-healing Crohn’s and Colitis”. Shamiz taught me about the ability of the body to heal itself naturally and how I can initiate this self-healing power by making the right changes to my diet. So I let my body just do what it was designed to do: strive for its’ optimal health. My healing journey began and it took me 3 months to become symptom free. Writing this, it has been three years since then and I feel healthy, healed and myself!

You can find out about all the concepts on self-healing, the exact way I detoxed and all parts of  a plant-based diet and lifestyle on my website.

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Get in touch if you feel like you need some guidance to get started on your health journey, I am happy to help!

• Judy