Ashok Gupta recovered from ME/CFS and created a program to retrain the brain for chronic conditions like fibromyalgia and IBS. He cites preliminary data showing two-thirds of patients reached 80 to 100% recovery within a year. The program frames recovery as self-healing through brain retraining.
Sam.
Hello and welcome to the Gupta Program. My name is Ashok Gupta and I want to thank you for putting your trust in me and joining me on this journey back to health. Now, I also suffered from a similar condition to yours, known as ME or chronic fatigue syndrome. So I know what it's like when you have this. It can be difficult to know where to turn and people may not understand how you're truly feeling. And of course, each doctor has their own view on what causes it.
Sometimes they're not really able to understand the condition. Now, I remember in one of my darkest moments thinking, this is it, my life's over. I was experiencing ME or CFS at university after a severe stomach buck and I was supposed to be in the prime of my life. And yet I had hit a brick wall. I did some research, but all I read was negativity. Oh, there's no cure. You're going to have this for the rest of your life. I was so ill that sometimes I had to crawl to the bathroom. I had so much life ahead of me, but at that moment, I couldn't see any light at the end of the tunnel. I felt my life was over. I just wanted to cry out, why can't someone just fix this for me? I really had hit rock bottom. After a lot of research and perseverance, I learnt more about the brain neurology of the illness. And over time, I managed to fully recover 100%. I then realized that I really wanted to help others with the condition. So I published several medical papers and then set up a clinic to treat others with the condition. It was incredibly rewarding. For the first time in my life, I felt truly alive. Out of my suffering came an opportunity to help others, for which I'm truly grateful.
Some professionals and doctors might tell you that you can't recover and this can make us feel dejected, pessimistic. Sometimes we can feel angry because some doctors just seem to dismiss what we're saying. Now, luckily, not all doctors are like this. When I was unwell, some doctors even thought that I was just making it all up in my head. But of course, we all know this is a real physical condition. I believe that we all have the capacity to heal ourselves from this condition. And this is my inspiration to you today, that however bad the condition feels, however isolating it may be, however down you might feel, you can recover from this condition and get your life back. Many before you have taken this path to health, and so can you.
And the great news is that I don't need to give you anything to recover. You have it already within you. Take the example of a seed. Now, a seed contains all the knowledge and wisdom to grow into a beautiful tree. All it needs are the right conditions for it to blossom.
In the same way, you do have the ability and resources within you already to be healthy and happy. And this program simply draws that out from deep within you.
I won't be giving you any therapy or, or giving you a medical treatment as such. Instead, this is a training course. It empowers you towards your own healing, to find that strength within you, to live your potential. You have that power within you to heal. Isn't that amazing?
And as we take this journey together, I'll be your companion and guide. And there will be some uplifting moments. There'll be storms that may come, but all the way through we can take this journey together. I remember when I was unwell, I used to feel so low and I just couldn't understand why. I was generally a really positive person, but something felt wrong. If you're feeling like that too, I want to help you realise that it's not the real you. As with our explanation of the condition, which we'll go through in a later session. When our nervous system and our immune system is over responding with all this excessive inflammation, this can cause us to have lower levels of the feel good chemicals in the brain, like dopamine, serotonin for instance.
Serotonin gets lowered, which is a feel good chemical in the brain. And dopamine is also at a lower level, which is the reward chemical, meaning we may find it difficult to enjoy activities. We may also have lower levels of a chemical called oxytocin. And oxytocin is the lower love hormone or the cuddle hormone, which means we may not feel as close and loving to those around us.
This can make us feel despondent, negative, not really optimistic about our recovery, even though at some level we know that we're a positive person. Now, this is all perfectly normal. It's just a temporary feeling in the brain due to the condition and it's not reflective of your true authentic self. So as I guide you through this program, let's observe the negative emotions and feelings in our minds. But let's not buy into them. These negative emotions are just temporary. And as we recover, good natural feelings will return. And life is a challenge in overcoming the storms of emotions in our minds and instead choosing something higher, something nobler, to be inspired towards a new possibility of getting our health back.
I've created this program to be a complete healing system for these conditions. And I call these conditions neuroimmune conditioned syndromes, or nics. And these include me, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, electrical hypersensitivity, multiple chemical sensitivities, irritable bowel syndrome, as well as many other related conditions. And this program is based on my last 20 years of research and working with thousands of patients all over the world.
Now, I know that it can be hard sometimes to know where to turn when you've been diagnosed with this condition. I also went from doctor to doctor trying to get an explanation. And some of the patient forums can be very negative about recovery. I think this is just because they can be skewed towards people who haven't managed to get better yet. But the good news is that in fact, many people do recover. They do get better. And I truly believe that you can get better too.
We have conducted a few initial studies which have shown great results. One clinical audit on our program showed that 2/3 of patients reached an 80 to 100% recovery within one year. In another trial on fibromyalgia, we found that patients who received this treatment got much better than those who engaged in normal relaxation therapies. And at the time of filming, we're currently raising funds for a large clinical trial with hundreds of patients.
I believe that you have all the resources within you to heal. I'm not the one who's making you heal. I allow you to connect with a.
Power that's within you already, to retrain.
Your brain and to recover.
Let's start this exciting journey together right now.
