Taking Health into My Own Hands
So the acupuncture only started working for ~2 days at a time. It was not sustainable. In 2007 I earned a bachelors degree in Biological Systems Engineering, but was never able to explain WTF it entailed because I always saw it as a jack-of-all-trades and master-of-none type of education that I received. But, I always did know that a background in engineering encouraged me to think outside of the box and take things into my own hands. Fast forward to 2012 when I travel to Brazil and do what I love to do - explore culture through exploration of places and through food. I like to get immersed. I came home and after about a year of stool bacterial and viral tests, blood tests, and a colonoscopy, I was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Conventional medicine doctors have no clue what it is. The way it is diagnosed is that they rule everything else out (e.g. parasitic or other infections, Celiac disease, etc.) and once they run out of tests, IBS is the catch all diagnosis. O...