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Hi, I'm Noel, here’s a little about me and my journey from just surviving to getting back to living without feeling crappy, no pun intended, lol.
Growing up in south Texas on the border of Mexico in the 80s and 90s, I was fortunate to be able to eat a wide variety of fruit and vegetables from both the US and Mexico. I also had the pleasure of tasting excellent food from around the world because my mom is a great cook, she loves trying new recipes from across the globe. She also brought her Slovak/Hungarian background into the kitchen along with my dad’s Indian heritage so eating in the Bhagat house was always full of flavors with a wide range of herbs and spices.
I always associated memories with food and smell. My family was frequently surprised at how I could remember what everyone ate when we went to…name that trip. For example, remember that time, in Mazatlán when we had that delicious garlic shrimp right on the beach with that super limey mashed avocado and chili? Then I would proceed to describe each dish all six of us ate. Or how about that burger with tons of spices when we wanted a break from Indian food when we were in India a month in 1985?
We all have memories associated with food and smell. Some are good memories, and some are downright awful. When I was kid, I remember loving raw broccoli and raw cauliflower smothered in Ranch dip, but an hour or two later I was keeled over on the floor in pain. I had no idea why I had so much gas pain from those raw vegetables, but it was horrible every time. When beano came out, that was a lifesaver, but it didn’t always work and had to be taken well in advance. I spent years living on beano and Gas-X. I eventually gave up eating certain foods when I went to college and there went the dependence on Beano and Gas-X. Awesome, success! Well, not so fast. ☹
Are you dependent on over-the-counter meds? Are you tired of nothing fixing your digestive issues? I was and thought I was done with that chapter in my life. But...
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After grad school, I moved to NYC and was living it up, but a few years into eating out/ordering delivery every night, I started to get diarrhea all the time. I just thought it was from all the bad bacteria that exists in restaurant kitchens, so I started eating at home more and cut out a lot of delivery. My diarrhea got better, and I went on my merry way.
Fast forward to 2019, I was living in beautiful San Diego and traveling a ton for work. I ate a reasonably healthy diet but almost everything I ate started making me sick. I had severe diarrhea, and I had stomach aches like never before. What the heck was it? I tried everything and anything: diet changes, essential oils, grounding, supplements, etc. but nothing helped!
By late 2019, I could no longer deal with the foul-smelling diarrhea, gas and stomach pain and finally dragged myself to a doctor. I was fortunate to be able to go to a holistic clinic that ran more than just the regular blood work.
I went back for my results early 2020 and found out that I have an autoimmune disease…I was already prepared for that diagnosis given a family history of autoimmunity, but was still taken back. I let it sink in, found out about next steps, food sensitivity test plus additional testing, and decided then not to let this diagnosis limit me or take control of me but rather drive my healing journey. Done and done!!
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I was always someone who people referred to as being “healthy”, loved to workout and ate relatively healthy, but I still had to cut a lot of things out of my diet initially. Was it hard? Heck yeah! Did I miss that delicious French cheese, cream in my tea, yummy bread, Brussel sprouts, pineapple, protein bars and everything else I had to say goodbye to? Of course, I did! But guess what I didn’t miss? That nasty diarrhea, gas, and stomach aches.
It’s been a process, unpeeling different layers of dysfunction in my body and healing those slowly but I’m so much better than I was in 2019 and finally thriving instead of just surviving!
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Credentials and Education
Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner
Younger You Practitioner (Dr. Kara Fitzgerald)
M.S. Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University