Digestive Recovery | Unblocked Health

The program

Digestive Recovery

A one-to-one investigation of a complicated gut. Three to four months. Built to end.

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Thirty minutes. Either of us is allowed to say no.

Who this is for

The cases other programs quietly hope they will not get

This program exists for chronic, confusing digestive symptoms. Bloating that ignores your food rules. Urgency that plans your day. Meals you need a recovery plan for. Stools that will not pick a pattern. Post-meal fog that costs you working hours.

It is especially built for cases with structure behind them: a chronic gut issue like Crohn’s, resections and surgical changes, long antibiotic exposure, or simply years of accumulated half-answers. If your case is the kind other programs quietly hope they will not get, it is the kind this one was designed around.

You should be motivated but you are allowed to be tired. The program is built for both.

None of this is theoretical. I live with Crohn’s, and I built this program out of the reading that changed my own case. The longer version is here.

How a case gets read here

Your body reports on more channels than a symptom checklist can hear

01Timing

When symptoms arrive relative to meals, sleep, and stress carries location information. Twenty minutes after eating, six hours after, and 3 a.m. are three different addresses.

02Terrain

Surgeries, inflammation history, narrowed passages, and years of antibiotics change what your gut can currently handle, and what standard advice quietly assumes it can.

03Labs

A stool test can show who is actually running the place, and whether the trouble is the residents or the digestion upstream of them. A blood panel can show which foods your immune system is actually reacting to, which is rarely the list you would guess. And whatever testing you have already done gets read, not repeated. New tests happen only where a result would change a decision.

04Food response

Including the diet everyone swears by. Getting worse on “gut healthy” eating is not a compliance problem. On damaged or narrowed terrain, high-roughage food is mechanically punishing, and your reaction to it is information.

One case like this

“Connor,” a university student, arrived with ongoing stomach pain and after-meal trouble that had him avoiding going out. Reading his food responses showed the “healthy” foods he was proudest of were among his triggers. With those identified and the gut given room to repair, he is back to being active and outdoors.

05State

The condition your body was in when you ate. A body braced for a fight runs digestion on backup power, and no meal plan out-argues it. The state is trainable. Breath is the first lever, and when the bracing is an old pattern rather than a present threat, the work goes upstream to it: Socratic questioning and motivational interviewing, used on the spot when your nervous system needs it, not scheduled as a separate track. Most gut work never reaches this, and it is often where the change actually lives.

Read together, these stop being separate complaints and start being a map.

This includes immune-driven cases: better digestion does not cure Crohn’s, and nobody here will tell you it does. But an inflamed gut with broken digestion upstream never gets a calm day, and the upstream part is readable, fixable, and almost always ignored.

Mark Carlson working through case notes
Your case, worked out on paper

The journey

Five stages, no mystery

The fit call.

Thirty minutes on your history and what has already been tried. I am deciding whether I can genuinely help; you are deciding whether the approach makes sense to you. Either of us is allowed to say no.

Your case, actually read.

Everything you send gets preserved, not skimmed: the timeline, the prior labs, the contradictions. Then we talk through what I see and what I do not know yet. You leave with a starting frame, in plain words, before any test is ordered.

Testing that changes decisions.

Where a lab would change our next move, we run it. Stool testing, food immune testing, targeted blood markers, chosen case by case. Collection gets timed and supported so it happens right the first time. While results are pending you are not left in a void; you get the orientation that fits your case, and nothing that overloads it.

The map, then the experiments.

Results come back integrated, not recited. You get a durable decision map: what matters now, what stays uncertain, what can wait. Then we run changes one at a time, with stop rules, and adjust until your body agrees.

The exit, designed in.

The program ends with you able to steer your own case, and knowing why each thing worked. Continuing together, or retesting to confirm progress, stays available and stays your choice. Never an expectation. The aim here is health autonomy, not a lifetime client.

“I was past years of feeling constipated in just the first month…and can finally clean the pool without wearing out.”

“Susan,” banking director

What you keep

Built for an audience of one

Along the way, the parts of your case that need understanding arrive as personal learning experiences built around you, not modules pulled off a shelf. They meet you where you are: take them on a walk and listen when you are wiped out, work the interactive version when a mechanism will not click, go down into the full depth when you want all of it. And your own situation takes shape as a map you can save, print, and return to whenever your body asks a question you have met before.

No homework, no login treadmill. Guidance built for an audience of one, and everything stays yours after the program ends.

Pace

At the speed your body allows.

Recovery does not respect calendars. If a flare, a procedure, or life itself interrupts, the program pauses with you and resumes where the evidence says to resume. A pause is a clinical decision here, not a failure.

Mark Carlson at his desk
The practitioner you would be working with

Investment

$4,995

or four monthly payments of $1,250 with prior approval ($5,000 total)

HSA and FSA cards are accepted at checkout.

The price is public because you should be able to decide like an adult, before a sales conversation rather than at the end of one. Lab fees are included. Testing happens only where a result would change a decision, and the kits for it are part of the price, not a surprise on top of it.

What it includes is what this page describes: your case actually read, the labs themselves, the supplements your plan starts with, the guidance built for you, and the exit. The one cost that stays yours is an optional retest later, if you decide you want progress confirmed on paper. The formal terms live in a program agreement you review before enrolling, not in fine print after.

“I noticed a big difference after the first month of the gut protocol. Now I’m almost completely back to being my old self. My husband says to keep it up. He likes me much better this way.”

L. Yeh

Boundaries

What this is not

Not medical care, and never a replacement for it. Not psychotherapy. Not a supplement program with a consulting veneer. If your case needs a physician first, I will say so at the fit call, plainly.

“I’ve got so much more energy now. People at work are telling me I look great. My eyes are clear, my skin is normal, and bloating gone. It’s just amazing, the difference.”

E. Rodriguez

Next step

Start with the fit call

Bring the folder. Bring the skepticism too; it has served you well.

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