When Dr Ellen Cutler was five years old, her relationship with food suddenly changed. Every time she ate, she got cramps and bloated up until she looked pregnant. She developed multiple severe food sensitivities and was constandy constipated.
As a teen, “I would look at other girls my age in amazement, watching them eat whatever they wanted and still be able to wear those tight jeans!” she says. “For years I believed there was nothing I could do about my situation and there was no help in sight.”
When she entered chiropractic college in 1972, her symptoms worsened under the stress of going to school full time while working in an emergency room at night. Diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and inflammatory bowel disease, she was recommended drugs and surgery but refused.
Instead she tried a wide variety of alternative therapies, from colonics to fasting to weird diets to supplementation. But she just kept getting sicker, suffering from fatigue, constant colds and the misery of chronic mouth sores.
Finally, she confessed her situation to one of her instructors at school. Much to her surprise, he recommended that she try taking plant-based digestive enzymes when she
