Marissa Diehl was a healthy 23 year old who was just starting off at her new career. Unfortunately, she had been having issues lately. She’s always been prone to migraines during pms but things seemed to be getting worse.
In fact, she had a slew of general symptoms she couldn’t explain. Migraines every other day, general fatigue, anxiety, pain in her joints, brain fog, bloating and digestive irregularity, and skin problems.
Marissa went to the doctor. She spent hundreds on blood work and was screened for diabetes, heart disease, vitamin or hormonal deficiencies, etc. According to the tests, Marissa was a totally healthy girl. The doctor suggested it may be due to stress from her new job.
Marissa felt invalidated. Stress? That’s it? All that time and money and the cause is stress? These are physical symptoms that were out of her control!
Marissa started doing her own research into what may have been causing her symptoms. They are so general that they line up with everything from stress to cancer. She discovered a website that promising to have the answer with a food sensitivity test. Only after she spent the money did she learn that this test has no evidence behind it.
Marissa pressed on, and started logging everything she was eating, typing every strange ingredient into her spreadsheet. She logged consistently for a few weeks but it became tedious having to type up everything. She started forgetting to log here and there, until she wasn’t logging anymore at all.
Marissa considered an elimination diet but threw away the idea knowing she couldn’t stick to restricting her diet to only a few items for so long.
Marissa was tired of being in pain, of feeling like her body is working against her in what should be the prime of her life.
Fed up with everything, she went back to her log and used her engineering degree to calculate the probability of any ingredient being the cause of her symptoms.
The evidence showed a clear correlation between one ingredient she was eating and her symptoms.
Gluten! Marissa didn’t believe it, but she reluctantly removed gluten from her diet for a week. Marissa had a fantastic week! No migraines, she felt more energetic than she had in a while. She was finally convinced.
But Marissa’s journey was not over. She occasionally still got migraines and a sinus issues. One day, Marissa used a NEW skin product and her skin felt like it was burning. She looked up each ingredient. “Water” that’s safe. “Alcohol? Glycerin? Xanthan Gum?” The number of ingredients was longer than a CVS receipt. Marissa cross compared the ingredients with other skin products she used. Xanthan Gum was the only difference. Marissa looked up Xanthan Gum and learned it is a common thickening agent used in skin products, ice cream, sauces, and even baked goods! Another culprit sleuthed out!
At this point Marissa had spent hundreds of dollars and years of time and frustration trying to find what was causing her symptoms. Would there have been an easier way to do this?
Hi, I’m Marissa and this is my story of how I started learning about my body and what inspired me to make this product. But my story isn’t special. Every day, there are millions of people around the world just like me with generic symptoms that don’t know where they are coming from. There are people like me who got expensive tests and doctor’s visits that end up getting told they are just stressed.
But most of the world is still stuck, trying to figure out what is causing their issues. Every person’s body is unique and requires a personalized health investigation for every patient. Doctor’s cannot understand every factor in a patient’s life in a 20 minute check-up.
So the responsibility falls on the individual. But as you learned from my journey, it is a pain! Who has the time and knowledge and patience and money to figure it all out themselves. We need help.
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