He Was Told Ulcerative Colitis Was Incurable

A healing story about bloody diarrhea, C. diff, gut inflammation, and finding the pattern underneath

One day, Colby was a healthy 20-year-old college student.

He was chasing dreams.

Living life.

Planning his future.

And then, suddenly, everything changed.

Severe abdominal pain hit him hard.

Almost more pain than he could tolerate.

When he finally made it to the bathroom, what came out was liquid — with plenty of blood.

That is the kind of symptom that gets your attention immediately.

He went to urgent care.

They ran a CT scan and told him it looked fine.

He was given steroid pills for seven days.

The steroids helped control the pain, but they did not explain why this was happening.

And they definitely did not give him his normal life back.

The Diagnosis

About a month later, he followed up with a GI specialist.

The doctor listened and recommended a colonoscopy.

That made sense.

When there is abdominal pain and blood in the stool, you need to look deeper.

It took another couple of months to get the test completed and meet again for the report.

Then came the words no young adult wants to hear:

“You have ulcerative colitis.”

And along with that diagnosis came a heavy story.

This is chronic.

This is lifelong.

You will need medication.

We will monitor it.

We will watch for progression.

We may need stronger medications later.

And suddenly, Colby was not just a college student anymore.

He was an ulcerative colitis patient.

Planning colonoscopies.

Managing flares.

Wondering what his future would look like.

Trying to live while carrying the fear of an incurable disease.

The First Medication Helped — For a While

He was prescribed mesalamine, a common medication used for ulcerative colitis.

For a few months, it seemed to work.

The pain calmed.

The bleeding settled.

He felt more normal.

He could get back to living life and chasing dreams.

And that matters.

Symptom relief matters.

But then the symptoms came back.

He did not even make it to his first yearly follow-up before the flare returned.

That is when the deeper question becomes unavoidable:

If the medication quieted the symptoms but the flare returned, what was still driving the inflammation underneath?

The Medication Escalation

When the symptoms returned, he went back to the specialist.

More testing.

More medication options.

A new drug was recommended.

This time, the medication made him feel terrible.

He described it like having the flu — body pain, purging, misery, the sense that his body was being poisoned rather than healed.

That is a terrifying place to be.

The disease hurts.

The medication hurts.

And the person in the middle starts wondering:

“What am I supposed to do now?”

He went back to prednisone because it helped, but long-term steroids carry real risks and are not intended to be a permanent solution.

Then another version of mesalamine was tried.

This time, it did not even give temporary relief.

After several attempts, Colby’s faith in the plan was fading.

Not because he did not want help.

Not because he was careless.

But because his body was still not healing.

The First Step Toward Healing

Eventually, he asked the question every suffering person asks:

“What am I going to do?”

And then, against every learned instinct of a young man, he listened to his mother.

That was a good choice.

His mom had already experienced disappointment with symptom-suppression approaches, and she suggested another path.

By the time Colby came to True Health, he was defeated enough to try something different.

That is often when people find us.

Not at the beginning.

Not when symptoms are mild.

But when the usual answers have not restored their life.

When the person is tired.

Scared.

Frustrated.

And finally ready to ask a deeper question.

We Looked for the Pattern

During his initial exam, we used applied kinesiology, or muscle testing, to look for body stress patterns.

At one point, we tested homeopathic-level vials associated with many microorganisms to see what weakened his system.

Out of hundreds of possible stressors, the C. diff vial weakened him.

C. diff, or Clostridioides difficile, is a bacteria known to contribute to serious colitis and gut inflammation.

Now, I do not diagnose C. diff by muscle testing.

That is not the point.

The point is that his body showed a stress response to that pattern.

And we found plant medicines that strengthened him in response.

The two primary plants were Golden Thread and Cayenne.

Golden Thread has a long history of use in gut infection and inflammation patterns.

Cayenne is traditionally used to increase circulation and bring healing activity to tissue.

At the very least, we had something that strengthened his body and gave us a direction.

But with a serious condition like ulcerative colitis, I also wanted more data.

So we ordered labs and a full stool analysis.

The Labs Told a Different Story

When Colby came back to review his labs, I told him something very different from what he had heard before.

“You are not fine.”

Multiple markers showed real problems.

His SED rate was elevated, suggesting infection or inflammation.

His white blood cells were elevated.

His neutrophils were high, which often points toward a bacterial immune response.

His inflammatory marker was dramatically elevated.

This was not vague.

This was not “everything looks fine.”

His body was inflamed.

His immune system was activated.

And the pattern looked bacterial.

That was not bad news to me.

That was useful news.

Because once we find what is wrong, we can begin asking what the body needs.

The Stool Test Confirmed the Clue

While waiting for the stool analysis, he started the plant medicines that had tested well for him.

By the time the stool results came back, he was already feeling significant improvement.

Then the lab identified the same pattern his body had shown us at the first visit:

C. diff.

That was a major moment.

The muscle testing had pointed us toward C. diff before the lab confirmed it.

Now we had confirmation.

We also learned that his gut inflammation markers were extremely high.

One marker, lactoferrin, was far above the normal range.

His gut was not just irritated.

It was severely inflamed.

That helped explain the pain, bleeding, urgency, and fear.

The colon was on fire.

Adding Deeper Inflammation Support

At that point, we added Frankincense.

Frankincense has a long traditional history for pain and inflammation.

In this case, we used it to support the gut inflammation pattern and help his body calm the fire.

The journey was not perfectly smooth.

At one point, his symptoms returned.

But unlike his earlier relapse, this time he noticed a clear pattern:

The flare happened when he ran out of his plant medicine.

That changed his confidence.

He could feel the difference.

He could feel that Mother Nature’s support was helping his body move in the right direction.

We refilled his support, and the pain and bleeding began improving again.

That is what I call a healing trend.

What a Healing Trend Means

A healing trend is not the same as symptom suppression.

Suppression says:

“As long as you take this, the symptom stays quieter.”

A healing trend says:

“The body is becoming more stable.”

The pain decreases.

The bleeding decreases.

Energy returns.

Labs improve.

Inflammation calms.

The person becomes less fragile.

The system begins moving toward normal function again.

That was Colby’s trend.

Week by week, he improved.

His symptoms reduced.

His confidence returned.

His body felt less like an enemy.

The Recheck

After about 12 weeks, we retested the labs.

By then, Colby was nearly symptom-free and no longer relying on the medications he had been using before.

This time, I got to tell him a different version of “you are fine.”

But now it matched how he felt.

His inflammation marker had dropped dramatically into an optimal range.

His SED rate was optimal.

His neutrophils were optimal.

The markers that had suggested infection and inflammation were now calm.

That is the kind of validation I love.

Not because labs are the whole story.

But because when the patient feels better and the labs confirm the internal change, we know the body is not just being silenced.

It is healing.

Was It Ulcerative Colitis or C. Diff Colitis?

This is the deeper question.

Colby had been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.

The stool test identified C. diff.

His inflammation was severe.

His symptoms were severe.

His medication response was incomplete.

His plant-based gut infection and inflammation support led to major symptom improvement and normalized markers.

So what was the “real” diagnosis?

That is where I think we have to be humble.

Maybe he had ulcerative colitis complicated by C. diff.

Maybe C. diff was the major driver of the colitis pattern.

Maybe the immune system was reacting to infection and inflammation in a way that looked like inflammatory bowel disease.

What I know is this:

We found infection and inflammation.

We supported those patterns.

His symptoms improved.

His labs normalized.

His life came back.

And that is what mattered most.

Don’t Stop at the Label

The lesson from Colby’s story is not that every case of ulcerative colitis is caused by C. diff.

It is not that every person with inflammatory bowel disease needs Golden Thread, Cayenne, or Frankincense.

It is not that medications should be stopped without medical supervision.

Ulcerative colitis can be serious, and bloody diarrhea should always be taken seriously.

The lesson is this:

A diagnosis may name the disease, but it does not always reveal the driver underneath.

If someone has gut inflammation, we still have to ask:

Is there an infection?

Is there dysbiosis?

Is there immune activation?

Is there food sensitivity?

Is there toxin burden?

Is there stress physiology?

Is there adrenal depletion?

Is there liver and lymph congestion?

Is there something keeping the colon inflamed?

Because if we do not ask those questions, we may only manage the flare instead of helping the body resolve the pattern.

The Advice I Gave Him

My last advice to Colby was simple:

Bury this.

Not deny it.

Not forget it.

Bury it.

Meaning:

Keep going until you are so strong and resilient that this becomes a distant memory.

Do not go all the way back to the habits and rituals that led you here.

Bring forward the value of the experience.

Eat better.

Nourish yourself.

Respect your body.

Trust healing.

Listen earlier next time.

Because once the body has been through something this intense, the goal is not just to stop the flare.

The goal is to become a person who does not return to the same terrain that allowed the flare to happen.

That is restoration.

Why This Story Matters

I appreciate this story because, in one way, it was short.

Not short for Colby.

Not short for his mom.

Not short for anyone living with bloody diarrhea, severe abdominal pain, and the fear of a lifelong disease.

But compared to the stories I hear from people who suffer 20, 30, or 40 years before finding the deeper pattern, this story was short.

He spent months struggling through the standard path.

Then about three months in True Health, finding and addressing the pattern.

That matters.

Because the sooner we ask the deeper question, the less life has to be lost.

The Lesson

Colby’s story teaches a powerful principle:

When the body is inflamed, do not only ask how to suppress the inflammation. Ask what is feeding it.

Inflammation is not random.

Bleeding is not random.

Pain is not random.

Urgency is not random.

A colon on fire is a message.

The body is saying:

Something is wrong here.

Something needs help.

Something needs to be removed, repaired, calmed, or restored.

When we meet the need underneath, the message can quiet.

And sometimes, the body can heal more deeply than the diagnosis suggested.

This Is Why I Created Body Restoration 90

This is exactly why I created Body Restoration 90 (BR90).

BR90 is for people who have been given a diagnosis but still do not feel like the deeper pattern has been fully explained.

Ulcerative colitis.

IBS.

Autoimmune disease.

Gut inflammation.

Fatigue.

Pain.

Food reactions.

Anxiety.

Poor sleep.

Brain fog.

Hormone changes.

A body that feels inflamed, reactive, unstable, or hard to trust.

In BR90, we do not just chase symptoms.

And we do not reduce you to a disease label.

We look for the deeper pattern.

Gut infection.

Immune activation.

Food sensitivity.

Inflammation.

Stress physiology.

Adrenal depletion.

Liver and lymph burden.

Blood sugar instability.

Nutrient weakness.

Recovery blocks.

The hidden reasons your body may be stuck in survival mode.

Then we coach you step by step to help your body repair, rebuild, and respond differently.

If Your Gut Is Controlling Your Life

Maybe your story is not ulcerative colitis.

Maybe it is IBS.

Bloating.

Diarrhea.

Constipation.

Pain.

Urgency.

Blood in the stool.

Food reactions.

Inflammation.

Or the fear that your digestive system can ruin your day at any moment.

Please take serious symptoms seriously.

But after the emergency is evaluated, do not stop at the label.

Ask what pattern is underneath.

That is what BR90 is designed to help uncover.

If Colby’s story sounds familiar, I invite you to apply for Body Restoration 90 (BR90).

Tell us what your gut has been doing.

Tell us what has been ruled out.

Tell us what medications or approaches have helped and what has not.

Tell us where you feel stuck.

You may not need another hopeless story.

You may need someone to help you find the pattern underneath — and guide your body back toward strength, trust, and restoration.