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  1. “So tell me about it. I mean, this idea is in your head, sort of this doctor plants these ideas in your head. And when you start to think, maybe I need to take a look at food, where did you turn to? Did you like, Did you start to go online and just go down a rabbit hole trying to figure out? What you should do?”

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  2. “Honestly, the first little hint of anything food related did not come from any of my doctors in San Francisco. It came from the doctor who treated me in Kampala. He was a British doctor that had been living there for about, I think, 13 or 14 years and had been just working in the community and running this hospital for a really long time. And he was the first one that told me that my disease was an autoimmune condition, which I had not heard thus far. And he talked to me a lot about the gut bacteria and about how we oversterilize in the Western cultures and that we do antibiotics. And he's like, you probably packed four things of, you know, hand sanitizer and your bag to come here. And he just talked to me a lot about how we kind of kill off anything that could be vital and healthy for our guts and that the bad bacteria just thrives because we eat a lot of sugar and a lot of carbohydrates. It didn't go too.”

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  3. “My God. All right, you get back to the US and you clearly the medication isn't working. Something's wrong. I mean, now, of course, we're talking about it today. Now it seems painfully obvious, but in 2007, it wasn't necessarily obvious. How did you start to think about food and maybe there was a food connection with what was going on?”

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  4. “Yeah, yeah, you know, I would not say I was in full remission before we went, but I did check with my doctor and he was like, you're going to be fine. But yeah, by the time actually we'd stopped in Dubai to get over there from San Francisco, it's definitely a long journey. By the time we were in Dubai, I felt like the world was spinning. And then I just was like, okay, I just need to get, you know, get to Kampala. We were going to spend a few days in a hotel there before we headed up to the northern Sudan border to do some humanitarian work. And I thought, I just need to rest. I just need to, you know, get used to the time change. And I just declined very, very, very quickly and ended up in a little two-room hospital in Kampala, Uganda, actually. So we did not get too remote at that point, thankfully, and had really good care there. But yes, after about eight days in the hospital there, the doctor just said, you have to get back to the United States for blood transfusion.”

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  5. “And at one point, after all this happened, you used to get a humanitarian trip to Uganda with your husband and some friends. And I know this because I've read your memoir, you wrote about it. While you were there, you had a flare up again. You got really, really sick. And I mean, I think to the point where you were, you're almost close to dying. And you had to be flown back to the US or from Uganda. Can you just talk a little bit what happened? I mean, you were following your doctor's instructions. You were taking your medication, but it wasn't working, right?”

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  6. “No, it didn't, unfortunately. It took some time, and quite honestly, the side effects from one of them were worse. I felt worse than I did going into the hospital. And then eventually it did. It did calm it down. But yeah, the side effects were just so debilitating. I didn't feel better. Let's just say that.”

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  7. “This condition is part of, I guess, like the umbrella term is inflammatory bowel disease and like 3 million people in the US Experiences have symptoms of these conditions. You took the medicine and did you get better? Did it work right away?”

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  8. “Yeah, absolutely. It was a relief to know that there was something going on for sure, that it wasn't just in my head or that I was making it up. But it also almost led to more confusion and frustration at the same time because I remember, you know, just being given this two-page little pamphlet trifold type of a thing and kind of sent out the door with a couple of prescriptions and left to my own devices to try to figure out actually what this diagnosis was. You know, I feel like I went in and all I came out with was a two-word name for what I had, but not a whole lot of information.”

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  9. “Oh no, I had never heard of it before. I remember waking up from the anesthesia. And at that point, he said he had done some biopsies and he needed to decipher if it was ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. Both of those were foreign to me, so he didn't really give any indication as to if one was worse than another. But he definitely said that there was something going on, there was some sort of disease and inflammation in the colon. And yeah, you know, I asked him the first thing I asked him was if I'd still be able to have kids. I was a newlywed and kind of had my life planned out. He looked at me reassuredly and just said, yeah, there's medications. You can live a completely normal life.”

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  10. “You were diagnosed with something called ulcerative colitis, and what did they say it was? I mean, presumably you'd never heard of this before.”

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  11. “Yeah, I think I saw three different specialists and a trip to the ER. They did a test, a CT scan, I think, in the ER and saw that my entire colon was impacted. So I think that was, you know, it was like, oh, you're just stressed. You probably just are stopped up. So just throw a cup of fiber into your smoothies for a few days or take some metamucol and you'll be fine. And so ultimately when I walked into this specialist office when I finally got the appointment at that point, I had been in so much pain, was losing some.”

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  12. “So, you presumably, I know you start to go to doctors. And initially, I mean, how long did it take before they were able to actually diagnose something?”

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  13. “Yeah, it started just a couple of months before graduation from college and it started, I think I just had some sort of a stomach virus because I remember going to the ER one night and just having a ton of pain. And then that kind of subsided, but I got married in September of 2007. And, you know, I remember now looking back at photos and just seeing that my stomach was kind of distended. And, you know, I was very young. I was 22 years old. So that wasn't a normal symptom for me. And I chalked it up to stress at the time because I had just planned a wedding, moved, graduated college, and gotten married. And that's a whole lot, you know, of life changes. I just figured everything would kind of get back to normal after the wedding, but it really just ended up getting worse.”

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  14. “What do you remember? Because you, I mean, we've talked about this on your blog and in your books. You were like 22 and you started to experience severe pain and you didn't know what it was.”

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  15. “I did. Yeah, I ate everything. I had no trouble with any of the foods. I don't know that I would say I particularly Cared, you know, what I was eating as long as it was nourishing and fulfilling and it was easy to make. I occasionally remember my stomach being a little just uneasy in the mornings. And I would just kind of eat a later breakfast. But I had no trouble digesting or tolerating anything until after college.”

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  16. “You know, I grew up in a family that used food to gather. My grandmother, my dad's mom is Italian. We grew up in the Bay Area, and she regularly from the moment that I can remember hosted huge gatherings, 50, 60 people. She would cook everything from scratch. There were no potlucks at Grandma Marja's house. And she didn't take shortcuts. She made everything from scratch. And she always prepared multiple proteins and multiple sides so that anybody that came into her house could eat. My mom worked, and I also grew up in the 90s, so it was a lot more kind of convenience items, casseroles that were thrown together with some things from the pantry. But every Sunday we sat down together. So, you know, I was in the kitchen definitely a lot from a pretty early age, making, whether it was like taco Sunday or making a casserole that my mom taught me how to make.”

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  17. “Grain free, dairy free, sugar-free diet. The book's author, Daniel Walker, wrote the book because she struggled with an autoimmune condition called ulcerative colitis, and she found that changing her diet in a pretty dramatic way allowed her to control the symptoms. Over the next few years, Danielle built her brand of cooking into a business, a business that today publishes cookbooks, sells spices, offers cooking courses, and much more. Her newest cookbook is called Healthy in a Hurry, and a lot of the recipes are inspired by her grandma's recipes.”

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  18. “Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Ros. So I'll admit that I'm a total sucker for trendy diets, a tripele, gluten free, whole thirty, keto, intermittent fasting, vegetarian, vegan, you name it? I've done it. And the thing is, in each case, I actually benefited from sticking to those diets. And while I pretty much eat everything these days, those diets have really helped me organize the way I cook, and I should mention here, in our family, I do all the cooking, but it means I get a free pass when it comes to the dishes. Anyway, back in 2014 when I was trying to eat a strictly paleo diet, I came across a cookbook called Against All Grain, and that book completely blew my mind because it was full of recipes I could cook for my whole family and eat a”

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  19. “It's guy here. And I'm super excited to tell you about something new that we're going to be rolling out on how I built this lab. Starting next week, we're going to be inviting some of our past guests back onto the show to answer your calls about the business challenges that you're facing and hopefully we can help you get closer to solving them. You can think of it as kind of like a mentor's edition of how I built this. It's going to be so cool. I cannot wait for all of you to hear it. Meantime, this month as we explore the stories of digital creators on our Monday show, we thought we'd replay Danielle Walker's story from our lab archive. Danielle has built an entire business around healthy eating, which includes her online blog against all grain and several cookbooks, and it was all inspired by her own journey discovering how food affected her health. It's an awesome story. I hope you enjoy it, and now on to the show.”

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