Lately, I've been so stuck in my head that I forget just about everything my therapist said.

Maybe I'm self-helpless.

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outro. Okay, it's podcast time. Could we just start off with some basics? Like what is IBD, Crohn's,

colitis, IBS, like any distinctions or similarities that you want to share? IBD equals IDK. That's a great way to put it, yes? Because if the doctor came in and said, you've got chronic inflammation in the bowel. It stands for inflammatory bowel disease. You've got chronic inflammatory bowel disease. We don't know what causes it. We don't know the root cause.

We don't know.

It's the same thing.

We say, well, look, we got steroids, immunosuppressants, surgery, and biologics and immunomodulators. Do you want any? And they just said, you've got chronic inflammation. We don't know what causes it. do you want any of these emergency care medicines that can be life-saving to support you in this

process while we figured out? That would have been a lot better than you've got Crohn's disease. want any of these emergency care medicines that can be life-saving to support you in this process

while we figure it out. That would have been a lot better than you've got Crohn's disease. We know what Crohn's disease is. Crohn's disease is when you have chronic inflammation in the bowel and it's chronic and it's something you can do about it. It's an incurable disease. It's kind of a runaround of saying we don't know. So what is IBD? I just jokingly say, I think, you know, I've been to some of the biggest hospitals and saw so many different doctors and they just said it's an incurable disease where there's chronic inflammation in the GI tract. Based on where that inflammation is, they will give it a different diagnosis. It could be Crohn's disease, which can be anywhere from the mouth of the anus. It's predominantly in the ilium or dejunum-dottom small intestine. It can also be

widespread where its colon and small intestine. Also, Clitis tends to be the large intestine.

Your large intestine is about seven to eight feet long, depending on who you are. Your small

intestines is 18 feet, 20 feet long. It's about anywhere from 25 to 28 feet, roughly your GI

track. So where that inflammation is, they'll give that different subcategory of inflammatory bowel

disease.

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