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Jordan Rubin from Garden of Life began suffering from constant diarrhea, fatigue, chronic systemic infections and acute weight loss while working as a camp counselor during summer break from his studies at Florida State University where he was an athletic/scholarship student. He returned to FSU that fall and tried to deny he was sick. But within a short time, he became so ill he had to return home.
"The very next morning, my father and mother took me to the emergency room. It was the first time I had ever been in a hospital. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be my last. I was hoping it would be a quick visit. I'd get some "cure all" medication and be on my way back to school. My "quick visit" lasted two weeks.
During this period, I would lie in bed with an IV pole attached to each arm, delivering intravenous antibiotics and nutrients, and watch T.V. I got even more depressed because that was the time of the Oklahoma City bombing.
The doctors prescribed antibiotics and antiparasitic drugs that had to be given intravenously for maximum effect. To add to this, my body was so overridden by infection that it had become terrible inflamed. To combat this, I was prescribed two heavy-duty, highly toxic steroid medication, hydrocortisone and prednisone.
I was given every kind of test imaginable. I got more x-rays in those two weeks than most people get in a lifetime. Both my upper and lower gastrointestinal tracts were scanned-and believe me, these weren't the usual short bursts of radiation you get with dental x-rays. I felt like radiologists were conducting an in depth tour of my gut.
I was told that I had Crohn's colitis. Crohn's disease is a condition primarily involving the small bowel and proximal colon that causes the intestinal wall to thicken and cause narrowing of the bowel channel, blocking the intestinal tract. I had an even worse variation of the disease.
The doctors noted I had marked duodenitis, an inflammation of the duodenum, which is at the beginning of the small intestine, coupled with widespread inflammation through my larde and small intestine. Although less than one percent of Crohn's disease patient specifically experience duodenitis, it appeared that I was one of the chosen few with both duodenal and total colonic inflammation."
Neither his doctors' best intentions nor their medical drugs helped. Jordan's weight dropped from 177 pounds to 104 pounds. It was doubtful he would survive the illness. He became wheelchair bound. At one point, doctors suggested a newly introduced but still experimental surgical removal of a portion of his colon. Such extreme measures led Jordan to realize no answer for his wors would come from modern medicine. Thus, he began to seek answers in the field of alternative medicine. It was an odyssey filled with hope and disappointment.
"I estimate that over the course of about two years my father spent $150,000 on natural health treatments. I took dozens of probiotic formulas, as well as enzyme, fiber, anti-candida and antiparasitic formulas. At one point I was taking upwards of six bottles a day of extremely expensive probiotics; one of these products sold for two dollars a capsule and was delivered in a special oil matrix carrier.
I remember using two bottles of powdered acidophilus a day, two bottles of bifidus, and two bottles of bulgaricus - mind you, everyday. One product alone, the two-dollars-a-capsule oil matrix product, was at a dosage of thirty capsules a day. I wanted to get better. I wanted to end the pain. So I was willing to try anything and everything. My search for an answer for my Crohn's disease sent me further and further from home.
I traveled to clinics all over the world, oftentimes in a wheelchair. As I mentioned, I went to the offices of 70 health professionals from seven different countries-in Europe, South America, Mexico, and Canada."
"I was early 1996. My father had just gotten through telling me he had spoken to an eccentric nutritionist on the phone. My father didn't want me to get my hopes up so he had investigated the man's program himself. The nutritionist told my father he believed I was ill because I was not eating the diet of my ancestors, based upon Biblical principles.
When my father told me about all of this, naturally, I was curious. Since I had opted not to have surgery and I was still alive, I decided to try this. It fit into my belief system. In an effort to start all over, I took myself off all nutritional products and read the Bible to see what people ate thousands of years ago. I also learned that the longest living cultures in the world had one thing in common: they consumed living foods that abounded with beneficial microorganisms.
A few weeks later, I got on a plane, still bound to my wheelchair, and headed for southern California to live closer to the man who would teach me how to eat from the Bible. After integrating into that particular nutritionist's program some of my own findings about nutrition and health from the Bible I saw some improvement.
Most times promises are best kept, but, occasionally, times arise when a promise broken is best. It had been ten months since I had taken any supplements, and although my father had promised he wouldn't send me anything else to try, he decided to send me something anyway. It was a plastic bag containing black powder. I had already tried over thirty different probiotics. Now was I supposed to eat this stuff that looked like dirt? 'Forget it,' I thought. My dad called on the phone and urged me to give it a try. 'It may look like dirt, but it isn't,' he said. 'It contains healthy organisms from the soil.'
An article that accompanied the package explained that these were the nutrients missing from today's pesticide-sterilized, barren soils-not only trace mineral but organisms (Homeostatic Soil Organisms, or HSO's, as I later named them). These were living organisms that had been wiped out by the pesticide treatment of America's farm lands, pasteurization of foods, and modern man's disdain for all microorganisms-even those life-supporting bugs our bodies need for great health.
I decided to include these HSO's in my daily diet, which also included raw goat's milk in the form of fermented kefir, different organically grown free-range or grass-fed meats, natural sprouted or sourdough breads made from whole grains that were yeast-free, organic fruits and vegetables, raw sauerkraut, and carrot and other vegetable juices-all 'live' foods with their beneficial enzymes and microorganisms intact.
During my forty days and nights of parking my motor home close to the beach, I prayed, listened to music and planned everything around buying, preparing and eating my food. My weight went from 122 to 151 pounds. I gained 29 pounds in 40 days! The photograph of me on the beach that you see on the cover of this book was taken during this period.
I was not completely well yet, but I had made miraculous strides toward full recovery. I continued to gain weight and strength, and by my twenty-first birthday, I weighed 170 pounds-practically my original weight before I got sick. I doubt if anyone in the world was happier than me.
The terrain of my body and my intestinal tract were being rebuilt, and it appeared that somehow the HSO's themselves were taking care of my underlying condition. After all, in three months, I had gained over 50 pounds. The combination of the Biblical diet and the HSO's had restored my health.
I still went through periods of detoxification every few months or so, but I continued to persevere. In December 1998, I came home to Florida. I was at my normal weight. I was ready to start my life again. I was finally health. Praise God!"
Read Jordan Rubin's latest book, NY Times Best Seller, The Maker's Diet.