#293 The Hidden Weight of Clutter: How Your Environment Affects Your Health and Healing with Heather Aardema
Release Date: 12/05/2025
#324 The Gut-HPV Connection: Why Healing Your Gut May Be the Key to Clearing HPV
How Humans Heal
Welcome to How Humans Heal. In this episode, I want to talk about something that surprises a lot of my patients: the connection between gut health and testing positive for high-risk HPV. It may sound unrelated, but from a naturopathic doctor's perspective, all health starts in the gut. From that premise, I always take my patients’ gut health into consideration. This isn't just a principle, it's based on research and 26 years of clinical experience helping thousands of patients, including many women with abnormal pap smears and high-risk HPV. It's not simply about exposure to the virus,...
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#323 Reframing Menopause as Renewal with Shira Averbuch
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Welcome to How Humans Heal! In this episode, I'm excited to share my conversation with my guest, Shira Averbuch, a naturopathic practitioner based in Israel, founder of ShiraMed Center, and author of “The Moon Within: A Journey of Discovery and Connection to Menopause”. Her book offers a new perspective on menopause as a time of renewal, growth, wisdom, and reconnection to the body. She's also an artist and host of the podcast “Inspired to Be Higher”. Shira built her book around the four seasons, with three chapters in each season, and every chapter opens with a new month. She...
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#322 Menopause Hormone Therapy: Everything You Need to Know in 2026
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#321 Healing Autism, PANS, and PANDAS When Conventional Medicine Fails with Lauren Lee Stone
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#320 Is Mold Making You Sick? Symptoms, Testing, and the Path to Healing
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Welcome to How Humans Heal. In this episode, I want to share with you about mold toxicity: what it is, how to recognize it, how to test for it accurately, and what an effective detoxification protocol looks like. This is something I've been seeing more and more in my practice. Five years ago, it was showing up so often that I completed a full mold toxicity certification program so I could offer my patients the most up-to-date and effective protocol. And I want to be clear: most of the people I identify with mold toxicity never knew they had it. They weren't seeing mold, and standard medical...
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#319 HPV and Supplements: Which Supplements to Take to Clear HPV
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Welcome to How Humans Heal. In this episode, I'm going to answer the question so many of you ask me: which supplements should I take to help my body clear high-risk HPV and prevent abnormal cells or cancer associated with it? I want to walk you through the research on specific nutrients that have been shown to be protective against high-risk HPV and to help reverse abnormal cells. That way, you can get the information you need to start thinking about which supplements to take. I also invite you to grab whatever supplements you currently have, so we can look at the ingredients together and...
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#318 The Lymph Queen: Unlocking Your Body's Healing System with Kelly Kennedy
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Welcome to How Humans Heal. In this episode, I'm interviewing Kelly Kennedy, the Lymph Queen and Head Practitioner at the True Wellness Center, who has been helping people improve their lymph function and flow for over twenty years. I'm so grateful to have her here to share with you what the lymph is, how you know if you need help with your lymph, and where you can begin to reset your lymph system. Healthy lymph flow is essential for helping you to clear HPV, so this episode is essential if you have an abnormal Pap. We’re here to help you! LINKS FROM THE EPISODE: Connect with Kelly:...
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#317 Folic Acid vs Methylfolate: Which to Take to Clear HPV and Abnormal Cells
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Welcome to How Humans Heal. In this episode, I'm going to help you understand the critical difference between folic acid and methylfolate, and whether you should be taking either one if you're testing positive for high-risk HPV virus and potentially abnormal cells. Folic acid and methylfolate are both forms of vitamin B9. Folic acid is the synthetic form of vitamin B9, while methylfolate is the active form. Foic acid is commonly used in processed foods and many lower-quality supplements like multivitamins, prenatal vitamins, and B-complexes. Once you swallow folic acid, your body has to...
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#316 Fix Your Blood Sugar Before It Becomes Diabetes — with Dr. Beverly Yates
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Welcome to How Humans Heal. In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Beverly Yates, a fellow naturopathic doctor and MIT-trained engineer, internationally recognized speaker, and author of the book “The Yates Protocol: 5 Simple Steps to Fix Your Blood Sugar and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes.” Optimizing blood sugar levels is a topic I discuss with my patients every single day, and I'm so glad Dr. Beverly is here to share her knowledge with all of you. As naturopathic doctors, our focus is not on finding another medication to manage symptoms. We want to understand what's happening beneath the surface...
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#315 Did Your Doctor Say You Need A LEEP? Here's What You Should Know First!
How Humans Heal
Welcome to How Humans Heal®. In this episode, I want to talk about what to do if your doctor has told you that you need a LEEP procedure, and you're wondering whether that's really your only option. I'm Dr. Doni Wilson, a naturopathic doctor and certified professional midwife. I've been helping women navigate abnormal pap smears and high-risk HPV for over 26 years. I've seen thousands of cases, helped women heal their cervix, avoid LEEP procedures, and clear HPV completely. A LEEP procedure is used to remove abnormal cells from the cervix. It's recommended specifically for CIN2 and CIN3,...
info_outlineIn today's episode of How Humans Heal I'm talking with Heather Aardema. She is the founder of the School of Living Lighter and is a Board Certified Decluttering Coach who helps people understand what's underneath the reason for clutter using a holistic approach. I'm so glad to have her here with us to help us understand what a different it can make and how to get started.
Needing to declutter is quite common. I, myself have been going through a decluttering process the past couple of years while rebuilding my house, so I know firsthand how valuable it is. And I was talking to a patient the other day whose daughter recently went to college. She was experiencing “empty nest syndrome” and found herself looking around her home thinking “what is all this stuff doing here?”
When we realize that our desk is piled with stuff and the drawers are overfilled, that’s when we know we need to declutter. To some degree, it's part of the human experience because we're so busy keeping up with life. When we finally go through a change that allows us to take time to look around our space, that’s when we realize that we have too much stuff and need to declutter.
But what if all the clutter is having a negative impact on our health and out life? What if we become intentional about decluttering? What kinds of shifts could happen when we get to the bottom of the pile and create space?
Heather shares that it can make a massive difference in our day-to-day life when we address our clutter. The clutter feels heavy, and it's not just a feeling. There's physiology to clutter. If we perceive it, our cortisol is going to go through the roof. Our stuff is more energy than matter, and it really can make an impact on how we show up, the decisions that we make, and the way we live our lives.
We’re here to help you!
LINKS FROM THE EPISODE:
Connect With Heather: https://www.schooloflivinglighter.com/lighter-with-less-DW
Sign Up For Your 14-Day Detox: https://doctordoni.com/detox-program
Schedule A Chat With Dr. Doni: https://intakeq.com/new/hhsnib/vuaovx
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