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Tracy shares heartfelt stories, practical tools, and profound insights to empower your healing journey. Drawing from the triumphs over autoimmune disease and cancer, Tracy offers hope to those battling chronic illness, rare diseases, or seeking vibrant wellness.
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As a health practitioner and detox coach, I've spent years advocating for a Holistic lifestyle, emphasizing the importance of removing toxins from our lives and choosing whole or minimally processed foods. However, my journey took a surprising turn. For 15 years, I lived an organic, health-focused lifestyle, making my children’s food, exercising daily, drinking smoothies, and cleansing my body. Yet, at 40, I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
Read MoreIf you would have told this fit chick that she would be entertaining the idea of using the Carnivore diet as a strategy to heal her SIBO. I would had said an emphatic NOPE!!
Backstory on my Guts of Health (anything but….) more like Guts of HURT!
I was fine growing up, no pooping (yes I said it, let’s get it out of the way)! issues
At 17 I had contracted the MONO (EBV) virus probably from my boyfriend’s brother who had it…no I wasn’t kissing him but I was running myself between school, sports and work and my immune system was obviously suppressed. So I had a 3 week vacation my senior year-NOT!
Then I had my wisdom teeth out, bacterial can fester there and could have made its way to my gut!
A year after that I ate bad shrimp and was puking at my new boyfriend’s house, first time I met his parents UGH!! nightmare.
Those last 3 events probably created the perfect storm…6 months after the bad shrimp I started having WEIRD tummy issues.
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