29/05/2026
In the last year, I have battled for my life. I drew on every bit of knowledge I’ve ever gained in holistic health and orthomolecular medicine, while also exploring entirely new healing modalities just to survive.
In the midst of those months of illness, I realised that these seemingly impossible, incurable conditions had come to me because it was God’s way of making me learn how to heal them — so that I could then help others. Although when it came to the point of writing my last will and testament in January I didn’t care what the reason was, I just wanted the pain and suffering to be over.
At one point, I ended up being admitted to urgent care in hospital in a bad way. Those stays made me realise I could not rely on the conventional medical system. In fact, had I allowed them to carry out the procedures they wanted, I’m certain it would have made me significantly worse.
My self-diagnoses were incredibly difficult to reach because these conditions can present in so many different ways. Yet finding the correct diagnosis is essential before you can begin to treat it. It took a long time after the complications from my original diverticulitis — which I had self-diagnosed and later confirmed by CT scan in hospital — to understand how that illness, and the prolonged starvation that followed, had affected my other organs.
This led me to Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, or EPI. After starving for so long, my body had begun to break down. EPI meant I was no longer producing the enzymes needed to digest food, so even though I was eating, I was still severely malnourished. The effects were brutal — I was losing my mind as much as my body. My cognition collapsed. I couldn’t think straight, couldn’t focus, and my memory was shot. When you’re malnourished, literally every system in the body suffers, including your brain.
It was so hard to understand what was happening because everything in my body simply felt wrong.
I can walk again now, and my organs are stabilising. After persistent daily effort. Trial and error and trying new things!
So it’s another bow and hat off from me to orthomolecular medicine.