Success Stories

Brandon Burell thought he would live the rest of his life worrying about suffocating. His allergies and sinus congestion were so severe, he couldn't breathe or sleep without interruption, and took Afrin allergy medication daily. When he forgot it at home it caused him to have a panic attack. He ...

Endometriosis is more than just experiencing painful periods: For those suffering, it’s a complicated chronic disease that influences every aspect of their life. Endometriosis affects one in 10 women and girls worldwide and it takes an average of 7.5 years to...

When Lexi Tavares graduated from North Eastern in Boston she was known as the bubbly cheerleader type and a dancer who everyone wanted to be friends with, but inside, she felt empty lonely, and depressed. Growing up, she had dealt with migraines since she was five years old, and they became more intense every passing year...

When a ten-year military veteran was suddenly feeling sleepy all day, more than the usual fatigue of being a busy mother of a young child, she knew something was off. She was not eating meat at the time and when her blood worked showed that she had mild anemia, her doctor tried to convince her she should go back to eating beef. But...

Mylitta Butler was the track star of her high school team. At 5 feet 10 inches, she ran across the finish line of her races with a long, lean stride, and no one could ever imagine that one day, her health would ever reach a low point where she could not even run a city block...

When fibromyalgia strikes, it can put everything on hold. The constant pain, fatigue, and depression that accompanies this condition are enough to send anyone into a tailspin. This is what happened to Jaya Jaya Myra. She was a researcher in immunology when the pain started, so you would think that her case of fibromyalgia, if curable, could be researched, treated with western medicine, and solved.

As someone who has recovered from anorexia and bulimia, I am living proof that there is hope for recovery. I want to share this hope with you. Years of my life were spent in the vicious cycle of an eating disorder. At points, I would find some semblance of normalcy, but the eating disorder was always there, ever-present and controlling my every thought, not just about food but everything. It ... R

Chris Wauben says there was a day when he felt like the fabled frog in the pot of hot water: Leap or die. But in his version of the story, he had to change his diet or suffer dire consequences. He had ballooned to 200 pounds, was in constant pain from an inflamed gallbladder, and ultimately knew that if he didn't do something, he would spiral downwards...

Steve Pilot describes himself as a "normal guy" who dealt with major depression, anxiety, and devastating heartbreak and found a new way of living, eating and training that helped him recover from all three. His journey from a depressed, overwhelmed engineer to a magazine-cover bodybuilder involved changing the way he ate, worked out, and his career, and now he wants to help others live

Iris Zuckerman, a wife and mother of three, was living her normal day-to-day life, raising her kids in Chicago and working in legal research when without any reason to believe there was anything amiss, she got news from her doctor that a recent mammogram showed cancer...