Healing Crohn's & IBS Naturally with Dane Johnson

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Health, Extracellularvesicles, Crisprcas9, 3dbioprinting, Medicine, Cancer, Health & Fitness, Biotech, Bioscience, Microbiome, Ketogenicdiets

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Digestive health issues like IBS and Crohn's can be debilitating. Whether it's impacting daily life, straining relationships, and causing other serious health issues, knowing where to turn for relief may seem impossible.

Today's guest, Dane Johnson, knows that struggle firsthand. After nearly losing his life to severe Crohn's disease, he turned to functional medicine, reclaimed his health, and now helps others do the same.

So, what's his secret? Hit play to find out for yourself…

This discussion explores:

Why is there so much confusion surrounding testing.
The reasons why everyone responds differently to toxins and treatments
The importance of taking a custom-tailored approach to gut health.
How focusing on the big offenders in diet and lifestyle can make all the difference.

Dane is a board-certified nutritionist and the founder of CrohnsColitisLifestyle, where he's dedicated to helping others find their path to healing.

You can follow along with his ongoing work on Instagram @danejohnson1!

🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Keep up with Dane Jhonson socials here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danejohnsonCCL

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@crohnscolitislifestyle

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crohnscolitis_lifestyle

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Forget frequently asked questions.
0:02.3	Common sense.
0:03.1	Common knowledge.
0:04.1	Or Google.
0:04.7	How about advice from a real genius?
0:06.9	95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license.
0:11.3	5% go above and beyond.
0:13.1	They become very good at what they do.
0:14.8	But only 0.1% are real geniuses.
0:18.2	Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you.
0:22.2	He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field.
0:25.1	Sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more.
0:28.6	Here come the geniuses.
0:30.3	This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs.
0:37.5	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. My guest today is
0:41.9	Dan Johnson. He is the founder of Crohn's Collitis lifestyle. He had a life-thorning battle with
0:46.5	Crohn's slash colitis. He reversed using natural practice. He's a board-certified
0:51.3	nutritionist and one of the most successful Crohn's slash colitis coaches in the world. Some thousands find a unique way to fix their IBD in an irritable bowel disease while building a community of supporters, doctors, and healers. So welcome, Dane. Thanks for coming. Thanks for having me, man. And I just want to put it out there. Anyone who's dealing with health issues and you do need to find a little genius to get your life back. It's very difficult. I just want to hold space and hopefully give you some stuff you can take away today to get real results. Thanks for having me. Oh, I know you probably told it a thousand times, but what was what happened to you? I had Crohn's or colitis or IBD and what's your backstory? Yeah, so when I was growing up 19 years old, I got my first symptoms, but, you know, no family history, no problems in the GI track, just a normal old kid from Virginia, eating, eating what he wanted, loved sports, athletics did all that. But at 19, I started having bowel movements with blood and mucus and then chronic diarrhea. And so, yeah, you're like, this is not normal.
1:46.0	I mean, one day you're going, okay, did I have some beats or did I some chili pepper? What is this? But it kind of got worse and worse where I didn't feel like I couldn't not say anything. You know, I needed to say something. So it kind of looked like a crime scene in the toilet. And then you start getting weakness.
2:00.5	You know when you got the flu and you try to make a fist and you're just weak?
2:03.5	You could when you got
2:01.2	the flu and you try to make a fist and you're just weak? You could tell you in a zap, there's no power inside of you. It's kind of like that, but it doesn't go away. It just gets worse. So I went from, you know, I'm a got lucky being a little taller of a guy where I'm 6162 and I was about 190 pounds when I was healthy at 19, 20 years old. And then I was down to at my
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