I think at it's core this is deeply rooted in a fear of death/disability

People offer unhelpful platitudes because deep down they know that they can also one day get some kind of diagnoses for an illness. Cancer, dementia, alzheimers, you name it.

It's coming for all of us.

So when they ask "did you try x????" It's them really saying "god please let miracle cures still exist, I can't handle confronting my own mortality"

And if you go "no, I havent tried that yet", they get to smile and proceed in life, "oh well if I was sick, I'd try everything!"

Which is pretty much all that seperates them, for now, from acknowledging the void they just brushed up against.

Some people would rather very carefully arrange a thin sheet covering the giant black pit in the middle of their living room, so they never have to look at it.

I have had similar experiences throughout my life with cannabis enjoyers offering up all kinds of theories and approaches for solving my severe incompatability with the plant. It would seem that my extreme panic attacks/psychedelic anxiety spirals brought on immediately with the chemical's onset are just simple matters of my mindset, paranoia, and/or the particular strain I'm smoking. It can all be solved by smoking indica instead of sativa, or by consuming a higher quality bud like Golden Berry Diesel or Anal Bifida. Nevermind that I've enjoyed countless other psychedelics throughout my life without the presence of the negative psychological effects brought on by THC specifically. This is all just me needing to not worry about it so much, or to smoke Buddha Fart Punch or Goatse Golddigger next time around.

Sorry, I got way off topic there.

As someone with decades of experience in the liquor industry and some science in college I suspect Im the most qualified person available to suggest treatments for your ulcerative colitis. /s