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Your body holds an incredible capacity to heal—when you honor its natural rhythms.
Shaped by your beliefs, behaviors, and the unique ecosystem of bacteria within you, your health is not a mystery to solve, but a relationship to nurture.
Many of you have been part of my work for over a decade, and I’m deeply grateful for that. When I first entered the field of nutrition, I was passionate about gut healing and functional nutrition. In many ways, that passion still runs deep. But over time, my perspective has evolved—and I’ve come to believe that what we often need isn’t more fixing.
Over the past five years, I’ve been paying close attention to the patterns that support real, lasting health. And one thing has become clear: most people aren’t struggling because they don’t know enough. If anything, we’re flooded with information. What’s missing is guidance—support for actually applying what we know, in ways that work for our lives.
In writing End Chronic Disease: The Healing Power of Beliefs, Behaviors, and Bacteria—what started as research into the relationship between food, lifestyle, and chronic illness became something much deeper. I found myself asking:
Why do some people move through illness and into wellness, while others remain stuck in cycles of compromised health—despite doing everything “right”?
What I uncovered led me to a simple but powerful cycle: Your beliefs shape your perception of what’s possible. Those beliefs guide your daily behaviors, which over time create your lifestyle. That lifestyle—your habits, rhythms, and choices—influences the quality and diversity of your gut bacteria. Together, these bacteria form your microbiome, which impacts nearly every aspect of your health.
Chronic disease is complex. But the patterns that keep us there? Those can be changed.
This book offers a wide-angle lens on what it means to truly prioritize your well-being—not as a project of perfection, but as a practice of care. Through the lens of beliefs, behaviors, and bacteria, my hope is to show that cultivating health and preventing illness is not just possible, but profoundly worthwhile.
Each of us carries a unique set of barriers that can hold us back from healing.
And that’s exactly what led me to my next chapter, DEAP.
Chronic Disease Statistics
Chronic diseases are ongoing conditions that are preventable and treatable with diet, exercise, and therapy. Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States, with 133 million Americans—45% of the population—having at least one chronic disease. Chronic diseases are responsible for 7 out of every 10 deaths in the U.S., killing more than 1.7 million Americans every year.
Here are some statistics on the annual impact of chronic diseases on our health care system:
