I write about digestion, chronic illness, and recovery. My background combines standard modern medicine and chinese herbal medicine, and I have spent close to two decades working with digestive disorders, many of them complex or long-standing.

Many readers arrive here after encountering explanations that never quite accounted for what they were experiencing and were left wondering why their course unfolded the way it did. This blog is not meant to offer pat answers. Instead, it explores ideas and perspectives that are often left unexamined — including assumptions that quietly shape how digestive issues are interpreted and treated.

The posts reflect patterns that recur in clinical work and in broader medical conversations, including why some cases respond to treatment and others do not. I am especially interested in situations where standardized or protocol-based approaches fall short, and in what those failures reveal about how a system is actually functioning.

What is expressed here grows out of clinical experience, but the writing and art are intended to stand on their own, independent of any specific treatment or recommendation.

— Jesse Hoover, DOM
— Herbscript