Doctor Used Colostrum to Save Her from Mystery Illness [Video]

Pediatric neurologist Dr. Sarah Rahal was busy running her practice in 2017, treating children with chronic health issues as she had been for years.

Then, her own health started to decline. 

At the time, she was struggling with gut health issues that left her unable to regularly see her patients one-on-one. “Things started getting worse for me and I was having a lot of unexplained pain that even my smartest doctor colleagues couldn’t figure out,” she tells PEOPLE.

With difficulties at work and with her health, Rahal — founder and CEO of ARMRA Colostrum — decided to leave clinical medicine.

“My health had escalated to the point where my entire intestinal tract collapsed in my body and came out of my rectum,” she says. “And it was a complication that nobody had ever seen before and we’re still not quite sure how that happened, but they could not help me.”

“I needed surgery, but I was too sick to have surgery and I was in …