TEDxEast - Ari Meisel Beats Crohn's Disease

I love Tedx talks - friend sent me this today - very inspiring

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFcjUMtHvt0

To me, it means he is cured if he says he is cured. 5 years without meds. Doing Tri's . It's all semantics. Let's celebrate his success not find fault in his words.

as he writes in the comments...
As anyone with a chronic illness can tell you, a day of relief is a breath of fresh air. I'm happy to report that I have been medicine free and pain free for nearly 5 years at this point. To me the difference between cured and remission is a state if mind. I am cured because even if something were to pop it's evil head up again at some point in my life I would know what to do and how to deal with it and Crohn's will NEVER rule my life again and that is what I mean by cured.

What words for one may not work for another. Each with IBD is unique. Each human is unique. Each snowflake is unique.

What he said in the movie is “What I've done is replicable, for other people and other illnesses… with the right tinkering, noodling, obsessing, we can overcome the insurmountable.”

miriam webster definition of cure: recovery or relief from a disease

just because western medicine tells us there is no cure - does make it true for us. What is *your* truth. Ask within. Question. Educate

western medicine has a great place in society. I love my allopathic doctors. And I'll continue to use them. But I also recognize their limitations and lack of education on nutrition, lack of education on mind body and spirit - which is what makes health comlete. I don't blame the doctors, it's the system that is broken. I also acknowledge that we don't have healthcare, we have a disease management system that wants us to not die, and keep coming back. Lialda. Remicade, Humeria. Prednisone etc etc. none are cures. But the answer is out there. Never give up. Ari Meisel is just one example of many I have come across, many who have posted on here. Many who have not. the answers are out there.

To me, it means he is cured if he says he is cured. 5 years without meds.

Meaningless. There are cases of people who've had surgery, had a 20-year med-free remission, and then ended up in a flare or needing surgery again - were they 'cured' during that time, too?

People who achieve remission through diet, supplements, etc. are no more 'cured' than people who achieve the same state through meds. Crohn's is a known spontaneous relapsing-remitting disease; by spontaneous it will often go into remission or flare up seemingly of its own accord.

NiceCupOfTea said...
People who achieve remission through diet, supplements, etc. are no more 'cured' than people who achieve the same state through meds.

what are the side effects of the diet+supplements vs. the side effects of the meds

Semantics, It is active or it is not. We were born terminal and nature has a way of steering individual courses for us all. Is remission cured? Or in inactive? Cure would refer to absence the of, so is remission just a lower level of activity? What level of activity is it active? Flares I would think is hyper activity. George Carlin where are you?

the wrong diet can be risky. the right diet is not. Find what is right for you. Raw vegan would be tough on me as well - depending on the state of my colon. Diet from juicing? Diet from funnel cake. We have options. We're blessed to have this disease to teach us how to eat. It will teach us if we listen.

If someone can beat heart disease(Check out dr dean ornish) , late stage cancer, etc. Crohn's can be beaten. It starts with the mind and the body. Doctors call them miracles. My Mom beat cancer. Shes not unique, she's a positive person doing her best. I thought she was going to die. She told me "I don't have cancer" - and she was right.

Sorry to hear you are on prednisone. My time on that drug is what lead me down this path to find a cure for myself, and others, a few years ago I would have not believed any of this, but I have done enough research to know what is possible. And if it's possible for one, it's possible for all - but you have to believe. Example - if you don't believe prednisone will work - it may not. Somewhere I read placebo's work 30% of the time. WOW. The mind is powerful.

BTW - running a marathon, though I not yet, is more mind than body. Consider the 4min mile barrier. Roger Banister broke this in 1952. For years before that no one could run a mile under 4minutes. After he did this, many followed, just weeks later another did. Was it because their bodies were miraculously better. Or was it because their mind believed it can be done because another did before them.

I Wish you to find remission soon, tea. I emphasize with your prednisone mood swings. Been there :( Best of success to you. I know you're stronger than you think!