Restoring Your Digestive Health: How the Guts and Glory Program Can Transform Your Life

In 1991, at age 33, I was diagnosed by a Board-Certified Gastroenterologist as having severe Crohns/Colitis, which affected my entire large intestine and the beginning of my small intestine. At 5'9" I weighed 103 lbs. Without going into great detail, upon colonoscopy, this same Board-Certified Gastroenterologist said that mine was one of the worst cases he had seen. My diet, which had been extensive throughout my entire lifetime, was now reduced to four foods. Not four food GROUPS, but four actual foods. Anything else that I ate made me hemorrhage. Unfortunately, I was put on a myriad of pharmaceuticals, including Prednisone, which I stayed on for 13 continual years. My disease was hardly managed in this way, but I still lived as best as I was allowed by my affliction. This "life" included absolute necessity of staying home because of my need for the continual use of a restroom. In that 13 year timeframe, I unsuccessfully consulted and visited with multiple MD's, and alternative care practitioners from several countries. I tried a multitude of ways to stop my illness, all to no avail, and some actually made me worse. In 2004, I heard about Jordin Rubin, read his literature, and almost passed up on my opportunity to try his program because I was so discouraged that I thought that this, too, would not work for my situation, as nothing up until that time had. I read both _Patient Heal Thyself_ and then went on to read _Restoring Your Digestive Health_. I then made the decision to try his method of healing. As any critically ill patient would do, I followed his regimen to the utmost degree, taking pains to make absolutely certain that I followed absolutely every step he issued in the healing process. Amazingly and miraculously, within three weeks time, my body started to heal. Only someone who has been through the devastation of this disease can even begin to understand what an epiphany transpired for me as I was now able to eat foods once again that I had not been able to eat in the previous 13 years. Also, the constant day-to-day pain and 30+ painful daily bowel movements I had suffered from for 13 consecutive years had now ceased. My body was healing and has continued to do so to the point where I now suffer absolutely NO symptoms of the severe Crohns/Colitis I was diagnosed as having for the 13 years I lost in my life. I literally owe my life to Jordin Rubin. I heartfully encourage ANYONE who suffers from Crohns/Colitis or any of the lesser digestive ills to please, obtain a copy of this book because it will not only change your life and heal your body, but it will give you back your very existence. Karen Buffalo, NY

I originally read this book a few years ago and I felt it did a great job in educating the reader about appropriate ways to restore and maintain optimal digestive health. It is very easy to understand and provides the reader with empowering knowledge about probiotics and many other factors that promote gut health. If you follow the tenets outlined in Rubin's work, you'll never have another digestive disturbance again! This is very significant seeing as 80% of all Americans experience digestive trouble regularly. Dr. Matthew J. Loop - Author of "Cracking the Cancer Code"

I suffered with Crohns disease for several years and went from weighing 130lbs down to 97lbs and looking like a concentration camp survivor. Then I had surgery (1/3 of my intestines removed) and got better for about a year and then it came back. So I suffered for another few years. Eventually, I discovered just about the same thing Jordan Rubin did and I have been almost perfect for the last 15 years with only an occasional twinge. If I wrote a book on Crohnes it would sound almost exactly like this one. The only difference would be that I took Flagyl to kill off the bad bacteria living in my gut before taking the probiotics. Once I reestablished the healthy flora things were 1000% better. So I highly recommend the book.

I've had wonderful success by just eating or avoiding the foods Drs. Brasco and Rubin recommend. I take only one supplement now (after learning about it in this book), and it's not a brand they listed. They offer alternatives for people who have difficulty finding things and for the "Budgetarily Challenged". Their suggestions helped me tailor a plan that works for me. Their explanations of diseases, and conventional and alternative treatments enabled me to make better choices, ask my doctors for the right tests, and be an active partner in my treatment. I had followed the advice of some other authors-and I got worse. In this book Dr. Rubin shares how he triumphed over his own digestive disease, and Dr. Brasco shares his clinical successes with his patients. They know what they're talking about. There's a wealth of valuable information in the resources and books they recommend. This book is helping me regain my health and I feel very fortunate to have found it.

Great book on digestiv health. The book does an excellent job of explainng "what to do" to improve your digestive health, and even explains "why". The book claims that this alone will "transform you life". The best that can be hoped for here is short-lived temporary change. What's required to really make the excellent information contained in this book work for you is to make the changes that are required for real life change, permanent, automatic habits. Changing habits is the key to changing your lifestyle. Otherwis, the knowledge gained in this book is short-lived and will not cause "life change" as the books claims. A clinical dietitian friend of mine gave me an amazing book called The Power of Habit by Jack D. Hodge which explains why so called life changes are short lived unless habits are changed. Utilizing the power of habit can help make healthy eating, permanent and automatic habits. With this "guts and glory program" and the book The Power of Habit, you will have the "What to do" along with "How to consistently do it" - All the tools needed to create real life change. I recommend both books.