Short first-person testimony by Shannon describing her experience in her 20s with unexplained health problems and how discovering functional medicine and integrative/gut-healing care transformed her life over a 9–12 month treatment period.
I remember laying in bed like I am in my 20s, and I am not going to do this. There has got to be a different way. And no diagnosis made sense. It was just parts and pieces. And they just took them and said, well, this is how we're going to treat you. And I decided to do my own research and turn to my spiritual centeredness and really pray over this. I found functional medicine I had not heard of. It started doing my own research. Oh. Integrative care. Discovered who I will forever be grateful for the first functional medicine doctor I ever was exposed to. He changed my life. I remember my first intervention with him. I was sobbing. I said, what can you do for me? He said, Shannon, give me nine months to 12 months. You will be a new human. But you've got to believe in this process. You have to do what I say. I can give you all the tools, but it's in your lap. I said, I will do whatever you tell me. He introduced me to gut healing that is forever my love and passion to this day, because it shifted everything, right? Oh, my goodness.
