S2E24: Leanne Vogel - How to Tell If Your Unexplainable Health Issues Are From a Parasite
Release Date: 10/25/2022
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info_outlineLeanne Vogel is a certified Holistic Nutritionist and Functional Blood Chemistry Specialist who has been helping women use a ketogenic diet to balance their hormones since 2007.
She specializes in addressing chronic root cause issues such as parasites, mold, and metal toxicity using standard blood work. Leanne is also the international best-selling author of The Keto Diet paperback, the founder of HealthfulPursuit.com and the voice behind the longest running keto podcast, The Keto Diet Podcast.
She works one-on-one with clients from all over the world, helping them understand their blood work and coaching them through their root cause issues.
Leanne comes on the show with Chris Irvin to discuss her personal experience with parasites. You’ll hear how her unexplainable health symptoms actually pointed to a parasite, what she did to treat her parasites, how long she had to do this protocol for, and so much more.
You’ll also discover how to tell if you could have a parasite through your blood work, what to do if you suspect there is one, and how common it is for people to have parasites living in their guts.
Here’s a peek and breakdown of what this episode looks like:
- 00:00 Introduction to the Keto Answers podcast
- 00:30 Introduction to this episode’s guest, Leanne Vogel
- 02:46 Quick check in with how Leanne’s doing with the recent hurricane that swept through
- 05:33 Leanne’s story and how she went from studying keto to taking a break from keto and studying parasites, mold, functional blood medicine, and more instead
- 10:15 The weird symptoms Leanne experienced from having parasites
- 13:58 Her experience with pathogenic parasites and how she eventually found them
- 15:54 How long it took Leanne to get rid of the parasites and how she could tell they were truly gone
- 20:40 What affects the severity of parasites?
- 25:35 How many people do you think have parasites and don’t know it?
- 28:55 Functional blood chemistry, including what that is, why someone would turn to this, and more. This section also includes blood patterns and what to look for in lab results to see if parasites are an issue
- 45:20 What to do if you suspect you may have a parasite
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Leanne Vogel’s website
Leanne Vogel’s Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube channel
Leanne’s free resource on What Labs to Request from Your Doctor
Leanne’s Parasite Protocol
The book Leanne mentioned in the episode, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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