About Ellen Brown & Her Journey In Healthcare
Why I Launched PCOS.com
Glad you asked. I’m focused on ending the chronic disease epidemic in this country, most of which is diet-related. No biggie, right? Needless to say, I keep myself busy. Nonetheless, we need a new ecosystem that removes the friction from restoring our health. We all want it and we all deserve it, yet somehow our healthcare system doesn’t seem to agree with that most days, especially with conditions like PCOS.
A Personal Mission
Auto-immunity found me decades ago and has led me into countless diagnostic rabbit holes. The same held true for my daughter after we encountered mold exposures, chronic inflammation and immune system malfunctions that have cost us tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours. It shouldn’t be that hard, I want to be part of creating something that makes these amorphous, “uncurable” conditions less elusive. Successfully managing and treating conditions like PCOS is highly personal and customized, it is the opposite of one-size-fits-all.
My Health Journey with Food Is Health
In 2017 I encountered a terrifying array of symptoms that led me from Emergency Room to Neurologists to Immunologists to MRIs and the possibility of diagnoses that no one wants to hear. Ultimately, addressing food, stress and sleep solved what was deemed “untreatable” with anything other than steroids or extraordinarily high-cost immunotherapies that had no guarantee of success. After that experience it began to trouble me that I was part of a healthcare system that was letting that happen to millions of people daily. Slowly but surely I realized that healthcare needed to be integrated beyond treating sickness but to restoring human health. I realized that wasn’t possible without the food industry.
Symptoms Are Always Real
After going through the diagnostic rabbit hole myself and with my daughter, it became apparent that everyone needs to be heard and believed. Almost every visit ended with a sense that we were exaggerating. That has to change.
Why This?
Because I don’t think I’ve done anything yet.
Oh, I’ve spent thirty years as a fancy Healthcare Expert. But that isn’t anything.
I’ve helped insurance companies and health systems and ACOs.
That isn’t anything.
I’ve maximized profits for three decades for all these business people.
Sorry, not anything.
Because I was missing the people, people like me.
Regular people with our all-too-regular diseases — lonely, afraid, unsure.
Quite a few. Enough to create $4 trillion a year in chronic disease healthcare expenditures.
All while creating less hope and less life.
Once I realized this…I started over with a really simple idea: what if people don’t believe they have a right to be healthy? What if health, to them, is for someone else?
Someone richer or smarter or born into a luckier brain and body (even though I have a hunch those lucky-brain-and-body people don’t feel they have the right to health either).
So my question for you is, what if healthcare could actually care for people’s health?
Now that would be doing something.
It’s About More Than PCOS
This is just the beginning. PCOS is one of thousands of amorphous “irreversible”, “uncurable” conditions that plague millions. This is about creating a gathering place for options and information and community. We want to remove the friction for people to find options to restore their health. Not force them into a predetermined path that doesn’t fit. We hope this becomes an ecosystem that is centered around human health and health outcomes, not monetizing sickness and disease through symptom treatment and management. Everyone deserves to be healthy. Period.
