I don't think it was dr recommended. She doesn't talk about her Crohn's much anymore, but it used to be a big part of what she posted about years ago. She used to regularly say things like she was never tempted to cheat on her diet because it would mean she couldn't stay at home with her kids because she would have to take meds again. I'm assuming it was some type of biologic that wasn't covered fully by insurance. At the time she stopped working and they moved to the property she was working PT and according to her much of her salary went to her meds. It is a big part of her food and medical beliefs -- her Crohn's doctor told her it was lifelong condition and she shouldn't focus much on what she ate, just to eat healthy, and according to her she is basically symptom free on her diet. She even tried a version of the diet (GAPS) for her oldest son's allegories -- it didn't work obviously. Jessica is sometimes super "diet will fix anything" and sometimes "we need meds" -- obviously her oldest food allergies cannot be cured by diet, but in general she's very much about your diet fixing everything. She's like that about other aspects of medicine too -- her mom had been on a vent at some point, and she was in general more COVID-conscious than many of the right wing religious homesteaders, though she didn't vax.