About this episode

Dr. Jocelyn Foran shares her personal journey of healing through diet after battling ulcerative colitis.

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream, and find out why they’re falling in.” - Nelson Mandela Hello Beautiful Human! Dr. Jocelyn Foran’s story is different. She’s not just a physician, she’s a longtime patient, too. As a child, she watched and helped her mother battle rheumatoid arthritis. That’s what pushed Jocelyn toward medicine in the first place. As an adult, she developed ulcerative colitis herself. Doctors told her diet had nothing to do with it, aside from one ingredient in processed dairy (carrageenan). Meanwhile, she had a career as an anesthesiologist and was raising three children, all while unintentionally losing weight, losing sleep, struggling to control her bowels, and watching her medication grow less effective by the day. Then a colleague mentioned the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, developed to help with celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease. She tried it. Within days, everything changed for the better. She moved on to Paleo, then Keto, and finally Carnivore. Her gastroenterologist was supportive, but still promoted drugs. Jocelyn wishes the medical system understood diet as a foundational…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mark Ennis, Victoria Olson

Guest: Dr. Jocelyn Foran

Topics covered

• diet
• health
• ulcerative colitis
• nutrition
• medical system
• carnivore diet

Keywords

• ulcerative colitis
• diet
• carnivore diet
• health
• nutrition
• medical system
• Paleo
• Keto

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Specific Carbohydrate Diet, Paleo, Keto, Carnivore

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