#82 Dr. Stephanie Basso on Reversing Crohn's Disease#82 Dr. Stephanie Basso on Reversing Crohn's Disease
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Book your free call: 👉 https://www.sameerdossani.net/BookNow Explore more: 👉 https://www.sameerdossani.net What if everything you’ve been told about gut health… is wrong? In this video, Sameer Dossani (Health Coach & Anthropologist) breaks down...
33:41•4 May 2026
From Crohn’s Panic to Food as Medicine with Dr Stephanie Basso
Episode Overview
- Crohn’s disease left Stephanie underweight, anaemic, and facing a future she feared, which pushed her to look beyond standard medical options.
- A year on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, with homemade broths, fermented yoghurt and whole foods, coincided with complete symptom remission.
- She reports that medications such as prednisone and immunosuppressants brought heavy side effects without meaningful improvement before diet changes.
- Stephanie argues that many doctors overlook nutrition, suggesting patients should question treatment that ignores food and lifestyle.
- As a functional nutrition practitioner, she uses lab testing to go beyond minimum nutrient levels and support clients in optimising gut and hormonal health.
“If your doctor is prescribing you a medication without first asking about your nutrition and your lifestyle, clearly you have a dealer and not a healer.”
What drives someone to seek a life beyond chronic illness and scary diagnoses? This conversation follows Dr. Stephanie Basso as she shares how a Crohn’s disease diagnosis at 20 pushed her into a whole new relationship with food, medicine, and her own body. Growing up as a latchkey kid in Hawaii, Stephanie talks about being “very overweight” on junk food, then becoming “sickly skinny, malnourished, anemic” at university.
When doctors told her, “We don’t know what causes it, we don’t know what cures it,” her “whole life flashed” before her eyes. Rather than accept a future of dependency on steroids and immunosuppressants, she decided to experiment with a strict nutrition approach. You’ll hear how she committed for a year to the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, cutting grains and processed foods, fermenting her own yoghurt for 24 hours, and living on meats, fruits, veg, nuts, and homemade broths.
She explains how this put her Crohn’s into full remission, even while standard medications hadn’t helped much before. Her first bite of a Hershey’s bar afterwards “tasted like straight up wax” – a funny but telling moment about what happens once your palate adjusts to real food.
Host Sameer Dossani questions mainstream medical practice, from long-term steroid use to the overuse of proton pump inhibitors, and Stephanie doesn’t hold back either: “If your doctor is prescribing you a medication without first asking about your nutrition and your lifestyle, clearly you have a dealer and not a healer.” The chat is especially helpful if you’re juggling chronic gut issues, side effects from medication, or just wondering whether nutrition really can shift something as serious as Crohn’s.
It’s candid, sometimes critical of conventional care, but always practical and grounded in lived experience and lab-based functional nutrition. It might leave you asking: what could change if you treated food, stress, and movement as your “three doctors” too?
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