Self Healing Colitis & Crohn's 4th Edition
My son Byron (who in 2006 at age 17 was diagnosed with Crohn s) recently confided in me that one year ago he wanted to commit suicide. At that time he was confined to bed with painful fissures, anal tears, mouth ulcers, stomach cramps, diarrhea, bowel incontinence, hot and cold sweats and a host of other miserable complaints. He had endured months of illness and hospitalization and, despite drug treatments, he was not improving. Then your Self Healing Colitis & Crohn s book arrived. He began the diet immediately and within three days the fissure pain was gone and he was up and moving around. We have since proved every single word of your book to be true. Byron s recovery went exactly as you described it would. He followed the steps carefully, reducing the drugs. We know your work has saved Byron from a life of hell. Today, one year after receiving your book, he is entirely drug-and-symptom-free. His weight has increased from 45 kg to 62 kg. He is an active young man who looks and feels great. I am also very happy to report that he now has a vegan girlfriend. Byron lives by the Vegan Post-healing Diet and finds it easy to stick with. We spend far less time on food preparation than we did before, and we now spend absolutely no money on drugs, supplements or medical consultations. When the doctor recently labeled Byron s excellent condition clinical remission, we confidently told him this will continue for about another 75 years! Byron and I believe you have provided him with the cure. Over the six months prior to receiving your book, his medical treatments cost approximately AUS$15,000. Your regimen cost us only the price of the book and one in-person consultation fee when I was fortuitously able to meet with you in California last year. We thank you for so much. Please add Byron s story to your list of testimonials. I am happy to have my e-mail address posted on your website for those who read your Are You Skeptical section, and I will be pleased to share our story. -Julie Smith, Australia * jsm58010@bigpond.net.au (2008) -Client's mother --ClientI've come to learn that my story is not much different from that of other IBD sufferers. I was living a happy and healthy life, when one day, for no apparent reason, I suddenly began to experience abdominal cramps and loose stools. Over time, this progressed to debilitating abdominal pain and 20+ bloody and mucoid bowel movements each day. As I am training to be a medical doctor myself, I naturally turned to traditional medicine for answers. Definitive answers, though, were far from what I got. Nonetheless, traditional medicine was all I knew. So despite its obvious gaps in knowledge on this matter, I took a leap of faith and followed the directions given to me. I tried just about every anti-inflammatory, anti-spasmodic, and over-the-counter analgesic available. I went through numerous courses of steroids and even an immunosuppressant. For about a year, I let the doctors adjust and readjust medication dosages in the hopes that they would eventually find the key and would be able to protect me from having a colectomy. During this year, life as I knew it, was over. I had to take leave from school, lost about 60 pounds, spent 10 days in the hospital, experienced indescribable abdominal pain, became house-bound due to the frequency of bowel movements, took around 20+ pills daily, incurred numerous side effects to these various medications, and spent thousands of dollars on treatments that did not help. My own observations led me to believe that the treatments I was being given were actually worsening my condition. But what could I do? After all, I had to follow the advice of my experienced doctors, right? Wrong. One day, I finally realized that if all these medications weren't helping, then how could I justify the side effects and expense. I understood what the doctors were sayin --ReaderI've come to learn that my story is not much different from that of other IBD sufferers. I was living a happy and healthy life, when one day, for no apparent reason, I suddenly began to experience abdominal cramps and loose stools. Over time, this progressed to debilitating abdominal pain and 20+ bloody and mucoid bowel movements each day. As I am training to be a medical doctor myself, I naturally turned to traditional medicine for answers. Definitive answers, though, were far from what I got. Nonetheless, traditional medicine was all I knew. So despite its obvious gaps in knowledge on this matter, I took a leap of faith and followed the directions given to me. I tried just about every anti-inflammatory, anti-spasmodic, and over-the-counter analgesic available. I went through numerous courses of steroids and even an immunosuppressant. For about a year, I let the doctors adjust and readjust medication dosages in the hopes that they would eventually find the key and would be able to protect me from having a colectomy. During this year, life as I knew it, was over. I had to take leave from school, lost about 60 pounds, spent 10 days in the hospital, experienced indescribable abdominal pain, became house-bound due to the frequency of bowel movements, took around 20+ pills daily, incurred numerous side effects to these various medications, and spent thousands of dollars on treatments that did not help. My own observations led me to believe that the treatments I was being given were actually worsening my condition. But what could I do? After all, I had to follow the advice of my experienced doctors, right? Wrong. One day, I finally realized that if all these medications weren't helping, then how could I justify the side effects and expense. I understood what the doctors were saying when they strongly advised me not to stop my treatment, but I also realized that no study that they quoted could ever hold a candle to my own experiences. I was slowly and painfully dying at the age of 27, and nothing that they were doing for me was of any help at all. Traditional medicine has done wondrous things for many people, including myself, over the years, but in the case of IBD, it did not have answer for me and I needed to look elsewhere. Everything changed for me when I MIRACULOUSLY found Dave's book online. I don't doubt that I likely would have dismissed his theories as nonsense if I came across them month 1. But I was now in month 11 and was meeting with a surgeon to discuss having a colectomy. So, I read his book and for the first time felt like someone else understood my predicament. The things he said were in direct agreement with my own experiences and observations. For the first time in a long time, I was filled with hope and felt as if this illness might be manageable. I am now at month 15 and have been free of medications and doctor visits. I've spoken to Dave numerous times over the telephone and through email. He has done nothing less than nurse me back to health. Dave has given me my life back. How do you repay someone for that? Many of the doctors I work with are quite interested to hear my story. They are astonished that detox and diet have played such a crucial role in my treatment. Such a concept remains foreign to allopathic physicians. A few of these doctors tell me that they have heard similar stories from some of their own patients, but in the end, these doctors have no training or understanding of nutrition and natural healing and can do little more than simply listen to my story. -SG, Florida --ClientI read this book like a bible, and I've been getting consultations from Dr. Klein personally. My life is completely turned around for the better. It's an extreme diet change, but worth it for my health. I finally have my life back! I recently had a colonoscopy that showed my Crohns is completely gone after less than a year of following Dr. Klein's program. I'm so blown away, and so happy. This is for real.  --V. Varela --Reader