I went from a wheelchair, 122 pounds, 6-2. You did? Yeah. From a wheelchair? I could not walk, 122 pounds. Today, as you see me right now, I'm 185. Me becoming the CEO of my health gave me my power back. It gave me my freedom. It helped me eliminate the trauma. I'm no longer a sick person. I'm not even on a diet. I can eat whatever I want. I'm going to explain that today.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Rose podcast today. I am joined by Dane Johnson.

Welcome. Thank you so much for having me, man. I'm feeling blessed to be here and let's change some lives.

And I'm excited to have you.

My good friend Aaron Smith, our mutual friend, met you and texted me immediately.

I was like, you got to have this guy on your podcast. And I asked her more about you.

And she said that you welcomed me into a bit of what you've been through in your

journey but just how she just found the information you were sharing but the way you share it

was really motivating and she felt really brought alive by just the what you've turned what was

seemingly I guess unresolvable yeah like a A freaking mission. And you're not fucking around. Like the mission, you're going to the moon with it, which is great. So I'm curious, where does that even begin? Like, you said life-threatening. So, like, where, how how do we get there? Oh man, I know it is a basket here.

And first off, yeah, Aaron love her. I've known her for like eight, ten years. We've been good friends for a long, long time and her energy is amazing. She's so fun. She's such a good human. God, she's so good. Like one of the best. I love being around her. He's also been watching from afar from, hey, I was able to get off biologics and i was able to not get a surgery the doctors told me i had to get i went from a wheelchair 122 you did yeah from a wheelchair wheelchair i couldn't walk 122 pounds today as you see me right now i'm 185 wow and i look kind of lean right i'm not looking I'm not packing on a few extra right yeah yeah yeah I don't have my winnow weight on me let's say

so I was diagnosed first with ulcerative colitis and then I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease

and they said no no you know UCLA and Cedar Sinai in different places just couldn't make up their

mind with what

the diagnosis was.

And then it was like, no, it's all sort of clitis with gastritis. No, no, no, no. It's, I'm sure it's Crohn's disease. I've been doing this for 40 years, right? So eventually just, okay, I have Crohn's colitis. I have IBD, inflammatory bowel disease. Is that the sort of overarching terminology?

I used to sell a drug for IBS years ago and I... inflammatory bowel disease. Is that the sort of overarching terminology?

I used to sell a drug for IBS years ago, and I know in the differentiation to IBS,

there's like red flags that have you go the other way, right, to I.D.

You know, certain markers they'll find in a colonoscopy, endoscopy,

sigmoidoscopy, certain markers such as calprotectin, which is the

inflammation specifically in the GI tract. And then if there's ulcerations or just certain signs

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