A community born out of LOVE
2008
Our founder, Lori Leven, comes down with a mystery illness. Her doctors are stumped, and to manage the suffering, she is perscribed drugs with serious side effects.
Lori is in very real pain: she can barely walk, and the drugs they prescribe her don't do much. Her doctors aren't doing anything to really treat the disease, only the symptoms.
Facing a lifetime of pain, despite being young and "healthy," Lori is willing to do whatever it takes to reclaim her health – but there isn't a roadmap.
2009
2011
Four letters – LYME – rock Lori's world for a second time. Unlike her first illness, Lyme is more common in rural areas, where she has been living, and where clean eating is even harder than it is in the city. With the stricter nature of the Lyme diet, her options become even more limited than they had been when removing gluten.
Again, the cure for Lori comes from integrated medicine, not the medical institution. For Lyme, none of the perscriptions in the world could do what a simple understanding of dietary health could – and Lori's understanding of the fragility of her own health is further solidified. She understands now that we are living in a system where our medical professionals can't, or won't, take our health seriously.
It becomes Lori's mission to become her own advocate – the consequences are life and death.
2012-2020
