Dr. Don WoodResolving Your Trauma-Based Challenges So You Can Unlock Peak Performance

My Daughter Got a Death Sentence

3 Feb 2025 · 2 min

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Dr. Don Wood recounts his daughter’s severe health crisis—diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at 14 and later with idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis, a condition the speaker describes as often fatal within a few years. Faced with these diagnoses, he and his wife researched causes and concluded unresolved trauma drives inflammation that compromises immune function; they developed a program intended to resolve trauma, reduce inflammation, and restore immune health.

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Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis

Sometimes up to five years (life expectancy suggested by clinicians in the speaker's account)

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The doctor said that there was no cure for my daughter's disorder, that she should live near a hospital for the rest of her life. My daughter was diagnosed with Crohn's when she was 14. We didn't know much about Crohn's. We were told that there's no cure for Crohn's. Then she developed a second autoimmune disorder where she started to cough up blood. And they were diagnosing and trying to figure out what it was, and they came back with another autoimmune disorder called idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis. That was a potential death sentence because they only gave her sometimes maybe up to five years that people would die with that. Both of those diagnoses are devastating to my wife, Bridget, and myself. And it set us off on a crusade to try to figure it out and to try to research it and say, why is this happening? We discovered that unresolved trauma creates inflammation. The inflammation compromises the immune system and compromises the neurotransmitters. And then, if the research was accurate, that it was trauma. We just need to figure out how to resolve the trauma. That may be the key to solving the issue that both not only our daughter was dealing with, but a lot of people with autoimmune disorders were dealing with. So we just continued to look for answers to try to save our daughter, and we actually did. We actually ended up developing something that would resolve the trauma, which would then resolve the inflammation and then the compromised immune system. Our program tip was developed to help unresolved trauma.