after living for Crohn's for 14 years, I realized that the data that I was gathering was just as important as, if not more than, what I was learning inside.

I have had a dozen major flare ups of the disease. I found that, for me, diets and supplements, stress reduction and mental relaxation, and exercise help. I heard many people on the internet claim that they had found the magic bullet, but I thought it was irresponsible to be so confident.

Just because these things worked for me, I wasn't about to claim that they work for everybody. Instead, I decided to build a patient-powered research network that would allow patients everywhere to be contributing their own treatment experimentation in a way that could be aggregated for us to learn what actually works for whom.

— Sean Ahrens

How it works

You build a timeline of your health and the treatments you've done.

You contribute to collective knowledge by asking and answering research questions or participating in studies.

We share the knowledge back with everyone.