The Real Reason Gut Disease Keeps Getting Worse w/ Dane Johnson

Just Ingredients

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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I’m excited to share our latest podcast episode featuring Dane Johnson, an expert in inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. This conversation is filled with hope, practical tools, and insight for anyone dealing with chronic illness or wanting to better support their gut health. Here are a few of my biggest takeaways: 1. You can take ownership of your healing journeyDane shares his personal story of going from being housebound and severely ill to rebuilding his health and life. A major turning point for him was stepping into the mindset of becoming the “CEO of his health.” 2. Food philosophy plays a big role in gut healingWe talk about how important it is to think intentionally about food choices. Dane encourages a “food philosophy” approach—looking at the potential impact of every food and how it’s prepared. For those with IBD, this can mean starting with softer, easier-to-digest foods and being mindful with things like raw foods and alcohol, which can be harder on an already inflamed gut. 3. Managing stress is foundational for healingStress has a profound effect on gut health and overall inflammation. Dane talks about building your “shield” against stress by identifying triggers and taking real, practical steps to support your nervous system. This isn’t just about mindset—it’s about action: creating boundaries, making adjustments where needed, and intentionally adding in things that bring calm, joy, and regulation. I really loved this conversation and the hope it brings for anyone navigating chronic illness. There is so much more potential for healing when we start addressing the root pieces. Listen now and let us know your thoughts—we love hearing how these episodes resonate with you. Bio: Dane Johnson is naturopathic nutritionist and the Founder of Crohn's Colitis Lifestyle, a premier telehealth company on a mission to naturally reverse Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and other forms of inflammatory bowel disease. He turned his own near-fatal Crohn's/Colitis crisis in 2014 into a lifelong mission of self empowered & fully customized healing solutions. When conventional medicine failed, he fully embraced natural healing—and has stayed surgery-free, medication-free, and symptom-free for the past 11 years. Through his signature S.H.I.E.L.D. Program, Dane and his specialized team have delivered over 750 success stories of true IBD reversal. Handling 250+ unique cases weekly, they serve clients worldwide—regardless of age, diet, culture, or location. Dane's rare blend of survivor experience, IBD-specific expertise, and fierce passion empowers people to take charge of their healing, achieve lasting symptom relief, and rewrite their IBD story Connect with Dane Johnson: Instagram: danejohnson1 and crohnscolitis_lifestyle YouTube: www.youtube.com/@crohnscolitislifestyle Website: www.crohnscolitislifestyle.com Healing Journal: https://healingjournal.crohnscolitislifestyle.com/?el=JustIngredientsPodcast IBD Relief Strategy Session: https://www.cclworkshop.com/apply?el=JustIngredientsPodcast Looking for more Just Ingredients content? Instagram Stories: @just.ingredients Podcast Instagram: @just.ingredients.podcast Facebook Community: Join our group Discover our non-toxic product line: Shop Just Ingredients Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Just Ingredients podcast. I'm Karlin and here we dive deep into the journey of healing and wellness.
0:07.3	If you're ready to learn, feel empowered and take charge of your help, you're in the right place.
0:15.9	Welcome back to the show. Today I am really excited for our guests because it is Dane Johnson. Some of you may
0:22.8	know him from Instagram. You may know him from a previous podcast that I did. But I actually have a lot of
0:29.5	people in my life dealing with Crohn's, colitis, different things. And so he is an expert on this.
0:35.8	So I'm so excited to talk to you about all the things that people are dealing with with the gut. And so welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm blessed to be here. Thank you, Carolyn, for bringing me on again. And I just want to dedicate this time to anyone who's chronically sick. Healing is possible. It's not the end. I will make a stand for you. I am passionate about helping us get our lives back. Everything you do is a mission of love.
0:55.8	And Healing is possible. It's not the end. I will make a stand for you. I am passionate about helping us get our lives back.
1:02.6	Everything you do is a mission of love. And the reason is because you've gone through a really hard help journey.
1:07.0	And I would love for you to tell your story because it's fascinating, I think.
1:11.2	Yeah, thanks. You know, it's really pain to purpose. I think a lot of us can relate with this.
1:15.6	I was diagnosed first with ulcerative colitis at a very young age and then diagnosed Crohn's disease by a different doctor. Nope, then ulcerative colitis with gastritis, then Crohn's disease,
1:22.0	who had different opinions on the kind of inflammatory bowel disease I was dealing with. All I knew
1:27.1	at 1922 years old was I was having 25 bloody bowel movements a day. Oh, wow. Yeah. I mean six or seven bowel movements to get rid of the pressure. Wow. People can't really imagine that. Imagine you go to the bathroom, you stand up and go, nope, not done. It's like almost like, you know, when you get sick and you have to throw up over again, yeah. That's happening chronically through the night and through the day for years. And then your body becomes malnourished. So I went from about 185 pounds to 122 pounds at 6.2. Yeah, that's scary. Very scary. And I started having, I mean, 10 out of 10 chronic pain, bloating urgency. I couldn't hide it. And the doctors
2:01.7	did everything they could and bless the doctors because they were doing things that did save my
2:05.4	life eventually. But I was on every medication, four years on and off, steroids, prednisone, 40
2:11.5	milligrams taper off. I was on remicade and tivio, methotrexate, 6MP. I was on a TPN feeding tube at one point.
2:19.8	Wow.
2:20.2	I had to go on an antiviral chemotherapy that helped save my life when I was hospitalized for about
2:24.6	six weeks straight in 2014, where I nearly died of complications. So it's a very long journey.
2:29.9	I didn't get really quick results with diets, even though they were very important.
2:33.2	I didn't get great results with medications, even though they were very important. I didn't get really quick results with diets, even though they were very important. I didn't get great results with medications, even though they were very important.
2:36.7	I didn't get great results or perfect results making homemade yogurts and kifers and
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