Learn True Health with Ashley James

On Learn True Health, Ashley James interviews today's most successful natural healers. Learn True Health was created for YOU, the health enthusiast. If you are passionate about organic living or struggling with health issues and are looking to gain your health naturally, our holistic podcast is what you have been looking for! Ashley James interviews Naturopathic Doctors and expert holistic health care practitioners to bring you key holistic health information, results based advice and new natural steps you can take to achieve true health, starting NOW! If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, if you are fed up with prescription drug side effects, if you want to live in optimal health but you don't know where to start, this podcast is for you! If you are looking for ACTIONABLE advice from holistic doctors to get you on your path to healing, you will enjoy the wisdom each episode brings. Each practitioner will leave you with a challenge, something that you can do now, and each day, to measurably improve your health, energy, and vitality. Learn about new healing diet strategies, how to boost your immune system, balance your hormones, increase your energy, what supplements to take and why and how to experience your health and stamina in a new way. Ashley James from Learn True Health interviews doctors like Dr. Joel Wallach, Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Oz, Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Molly Niedermeyer on Naturopathic Medicine, Homeopathy, Supplements, Meditation, Holistic Health and Alternative Health Strategies for Gaining Optimal Health.

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539 Exposing The Cathartic Truth: CDC Vaccine Safety Data Manipulation & Vaccine Injuries, Hospital Protocols During The Covid Pandemic, Dr. Brian Hooker and Polly Tommey, Children’s Health Defense documentary, Vaxxed III: Authorized To Kill Watch the documentary for free: www.vaxxed3.org Learn More: 539: Documentary Examines Hidden Pandemic Failures In this episode, Ashley James interviews Dr. Brian Hooker and Polly Tommey to expose the devastating impact of COVID-19 vaccine injuries, the suppression of medical truth, and the widespread corruption behind hospital protocols, while urging listeners to seek informed consent and explore the powerful stories featured in the Vaxxed documentary series. Highlights: Dr. Brian Hooker stated that 25% of participants in the Moderna clinical trial reported severe adverse events. Children and teenagers, especially young males, showed a sharp increase in myocarditis after receiving COVID vaccines, with a 50% five-year mortality rate for those diagnosed. VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) captures only about 1% of vaccine injuries, with 30% of the most severe reports censored. The documentary reveals consistent testimonies across hospitals that unvaccinated patients were mistreated, restrained, and denied water and food. Hospitals profited from administering Remdesivir despite known organ-damaging effects and its failure in previous trials, especially for Ebola. Polly Tommey recounted stories from vaccine-injured individuals and grieving families, highlighting that many injuries and deaths followed COVID shots or hospital protocols. Pfizer wanted its vaccine data sealed for 76 years; within three months, 1,223 post-vaccine deaths were reported, exceeding the threshold that led to previous vaccine recalls. Dr. Hooker emphasized that the MMR vaccine has been linked to autism, especially in African-American boys vaccinated before age 3. The Children's Health Defense team observed increasing cases of children with severe brain injuries and disabilities, beyond typical autism diagnoses. Ashley and Polly urged listeners to research vaccine ingredients, understand the risks, and watch the Vaxxed documentaries available for free at chd.tv. Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health Podcast. This episode for me was more intense than other episodes that I published because of the message—I so desperately want the world to hear this. So keep an open mind. Please share this with your loved ones. This information needs to get out there so we do not repeat the mistakes of our past. We dive down some really uncomfortable truths, some whistleblower information, expose some blatant lies that we've been told in the last five years in the media. I think it's so important that we know the complete story, that we know the full truth. In the interview, because I completed this interview before the new year, I will say the last four years. You'll hear me say that a few times, and when I say that, what I mean is during the active COVID pandemic. It is now 2025. So it's technically in a month. It's going to be five years since the COVID pandemic we were actively involved in. It's funny, though. I had almost an amnesia when it came to identifying—has it been four years, has it been three years, has it been five years? I think we all feel a little off-kilter because we all have this PTSD around the last few years of wanting to just move on and not wanting to remember how much fear we were being fed, how much concern we had for our loved ones, and how many families were divided. I certainly know many of my friends and family have, sadly, possibly permanent damage to their relationships, in their friend circles and their family, because the decision to get a brand-new vaccine that was largely untested, divided the nation, divided the people. Now that we have the full data, we can look back and we can see—did we make the right choice? Who is suffering now for making the wrong choice? I ask that you hold those people in your life who are injured now from making the wrong choice—just hold them in love. This isn't “I told you so” because we didn't want this on anyone. But I hope that those who were angry at us for choosing not to partake in the national experiment can let go of their hate and anger, and that we can have love in our relationships again. We can all agree that it was a time when we all thought we were making the best choices for ourselves based on the information we had, and that it's okay that we possibly made different choices. It's okay because again we were making the best choices we could with the information we had. So today's interview—it's wonderful information. My jaw was on the floor. I know your jaw will be on the floor too. So, just again, keep an open mind and listen. Please, by all means, research this information yourself. I never ask anyone to blindly believe anything they learn anywhere on my podcast or anywhere. We should always dive in deeper. Wherever you get your information from, just make sure that the organization that's putting it out doesn't have an ulterior motive, isn't funded. For example, the CDC profits from the sale of certain vaccines that they've created. How can we trust an organization that profits from something to tell us it's safe? Isn't that bonkers? If you go down that rabbit hole—because I did at first—Google is going to deny it, tell you no, no, no, the CDC does not profit from this at all. You're wrong. It's a conspiracy theory. It's anti-vaxxer rhetoric. If you dig a little deeper, just spend 10 more minutes diving deeper. You'll find that, yes, there are royalties, there are gifts, there's certain funding, and we just have to remember that there's cover-ups, there's whistleblowers, there's people coming out of the CDC saying that it's trying to protect its own hide, that the people, the scientists, have made some unfortunate choices to withhold safety information to protect their jobs, maybe to protect the royalties they're earning. So people within the CDC earn up to $150,000 a year in royalties from the vaccines that they license. So there's license fees. So there's lots of shenanigans going on. You have to look deeper, question everything. Shouldn't we question everything? Is there really a time when we should just blindly allow a company or an agency to dictate our health choices? Let's take a step back. This reminds me of when my friend had cancer and we watched the original The Truth About Cancer series. If you haven't heard of it, totally recommend watching it. It's a seven- or nine-day. They've done several. They've done three or four seasons of this, where it's seven to nine hours a season. So think of nine hours of watching whistleblower after doctor after expert talk about how they've helped people to heal their cancer naturally, and you also hear from cancer survivors who talk about it and everyone says, the moment you get this diagnosis, the hospital system will try to rush you as quickly as they can to get that port put in, to get that surgery, to get that chemo, to get that radiation. You're on this conveyor belt that's going a million miles an hour and there's no time. They don't want you to have any time to stop and think or take a breath or get a second opinion. I watched this documentary series and they said this so many times. So many different people said this. This was when my friend was newly diagnosed and then I went with her to her appointments and everything they said happened. Every single oncologist she met with—and she chose to meet with three different oncologists from three different organizations. If you get a second opinion, you never go to the same clinic or the same group. If it's a university that has a bunch of clinics, you don't go to just a different clinic. You have to go outside of the organization or hospital system, finding three separate people in three separate organizations or independent doctors, and everyone did the same thing. They tried to, “Okay, we're going to get you in on Tuesday, by Thursday we're going to have your breast cut off, and by next Sunday we're going to have radiation.” It was just boom, boom, boom. We would always ask, “Is it okay? Wait, hold on. Can we just take a moment? Can we pause? What's the harm in waiting a week and thinking about it and making a plan?” You'd see the frustration on the oncologist's face. It was a sales tactic. It's a disgusting sales tactic. It's not saving lives to rush someone immediately in for chemo. Waiting one week isn't going to make the difference between life and death, and allowing them to breathe, process, get some second opinions and research. God forbid. If we all researched this information, we would begin to see the wizard behind the curtain. We'd begin to see the flaws in the system. This is just how I feel. The last five years is this concept—just rushing us through. Well, this vaccine wasn't tested. Then the way they did the hospital, the way the hospital protocols were and everything was designed to keep us in fight or flight. Keep us not learning, not researching, not questioning. Then if we did question, we were attacked. We were attacked verbally, emotionally, and ostracized. It was all very weird. It felt like a psyop. So my feeling is we need to learn from the last five years before we put it to bed. We need to fully learn from it or else we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of our past. So this interview was very cathartic for me, hopefully for you, it will be incredibly cathartic and will allow you to process the last five years but between 2020 and 2024, let's say—will allow you to process it. Although this is an evergreen content—you might be listening to this 10 years from now and be, “Oh , I remember that back in 2020.” Here's the thing. Even if you weren't fully immersed in the craziness, like I was, and many of us were, we have to learn from it. So take this information in. Definitely watch the documentary that we're talking about. Check out the information. Even if you wholeheartedly do not believe anything, it's still worth taking in the information. I have a friend who's on the opposite side of the political spectrum than I am, and we've agreed that instead of just putting up our talons and just the second we disagree, the media wants us to fight. Instead, we try to understand the other person's perspective without trying to change their mind. I don't think I'll change her mind. She's definitely not going to change my mind, but I'd like to have an understanding of where she's coming from and be able to put myself in her shoes and see it through her eyes. Because if we could at least do that, as a Christian, if I can understand a Muslim's thinking, a Jew's thinking, a Buddhist's thinking—if I can understand their world, I'm not going to change my conviction. But at least I won't have the ignorance to mistreat them, to misunderstand them. At least I can fully embrace them. So take this information, whether you agree with it or not, it's a beautiful thought exercise and a heart exercise in expanding your ability to understand those around you. If you take anything away from this that has helped you, please share with me. Come to the and share with me, or you can email me: . I'd love to hear from you. Thank you so much for being a listener, and really thank you so much for sharing this episode. If enough of us learn from the past, we will not repeat it. Have yourself a fantastic rest of your day. Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is episode 539. Ashley James (0:12:38.263) I am so excited for today's guests. We have on the show with us Dr. Brian Hooker and, back on the show, Polly Tommy. Thank you for coming back. . Before we get into it, I want to let listeners know I have a list of episodes that are worth checking out that relate to what we're going to talk about today. Back in 2020, when the craziness started, when we were being lied to from every direction, from every agency, I began interviewing people about what was going on and the documentary we're going to talk about today. I'm going to get emotional because it was so good. You guys did such a good job and everyone needs to see this documentary. Every single person needs to watch your documentary. I can't believe I learned things watching it. I was actually really surprised because I followed this really closely. Being in the holistic health space, I followed just the travesty and the lies and the corruption from the media and from the government and from everything you covered in your documentary. I can't believe how much I learned from your documentary, but so much that I know what I felt happened in the documentary is I felt heard. I felt that people will feel heard and people won't feel so alone because so many people were isolated and felt they were—this is normal—or they're an outlier. And they weren't. We were all being poisoned or lied to. So many of us lost our loved ones because of the lies. So your documentary uncovers it in a beautiful way that I think is very cathartic. But also, if we do not pull our heads out of the sand, we do not learn from the last four years, we are doomed to continue to repeat the travesties because these organizations will continue to repeat what they did. So we have to educate ourselves. There were people that you interviewed in the documentary that actually recognized that and that got out in time and they survived. I love that you covered what you covered. I had , . Scott Shigara, which was amazing. I love that he was in your documentary. He came on and told his whole story—very detailed story—. . Dr. Richard Fleming, which is definitely a must-listen-to, A lot of us have PTSD. Think everyone actually, as a nation, has had PTSD from the last four years. A lot of us just want to, now that we're back to quote-unquote normal, we just want to forget that it happened. But doing so, we will be doomed to repeat it. That's why we have to watch your documentary and we have to learn from the last four years. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Polly Tommey (0:15:48.027) Thank you for having us. Ashley James (0:15:51.033) Absolutely. My friend, by the way, she was on your bus the very first time you did the very first Vaxxed documentary—Leah. I don't know if you remember. She was very, very, very pregnant. Very pregnant woman named Leah. She told me to say hi to you. I've watched all three of your Vaxxed documentaries and all three are very different and very worth watching. You go deep and you cover the people's stories. It says on your poster, “Embark on a journey to discover the truth.” That's what I feel we did, especially in this last one. Tell us about the journey of going on the road and covering the truth. You, me, saw the travesties, but what sparked you guys to want to go out and begin filming again? Polly Tommey (0:16:43.969) Well, at Children's Health Defense, during the pandemic, our job is to break down the news and bring the truth to the people, because we all know mainstream media news really does not tell you the truth. So we were watching what was happening and we were being told that the COVID shots were safe and effective, that Remdesivir was amazing. We were also watching on social media reports of people falling down, just dying suddenly. Nothing added up. Especially when they started saying that the unvaccinated were the problem, the pandemic of the unvaccinated, that the unvaccinated were killing granny and clogging up the hospitals. We knew the only way to find the truth of what really happened was to get back out on the road and see for ourselves, because we saw that from the last bus. That's how we learned that there is no such thing as a safe and effective vaccine. The people told us. So we knew again, the people would tell us the truth and indeed they did. So that was the inspiration behind it. We're so grateful to Children's Health Defense for funding a bus and it was not cheap for us to go out. I mean, that big bus, that 42-foot bus, that cost a lot of money in gas. But the people donated and they carried us around just like they did the last time. It's what I call a God's thing for sure. Ashley James (0:18:07.311) I prayed before this interview because I was just standing in my kitchen crying, thinking about your documentary. I don't know how I'm going to do this interview. It's not me. I asked God, please guide me because I have to. It's so important. This interview is so important because we have to first of all honor those people who were killed, not by COVID. I know very few people, very few people, passed away from COVID. People died because of the hospital, what they were doing in the hospitals. I love that you guys so, you so well laid that out in the documentary, what they did in the hospitals. Also, I know so many people, I lost a best friend. She had a stroke so bad after she got the shot and she was my maid of honor at my wedding and I lost her. I'm sorry. I want to honor these people and I want to honor the families that are listening. So I just prayed, please God guide me in this interview because we have to get this information out there to honor those people. I just made a friend recently and I know she's listening to this episode and her daughter listened. She believed everything the medical doctor said. She believed everything because why wouldn't you? We trust these organizations and she took her daughter and got the shot and her daughter spent a month in the hospital having seizures, having these crazy symptoms and the hospital never once said it was a vaccine injury. I had to point it out. This is a vaccine injury. She gets the shot and immediately develops. She has seizures so bad, so scary. She's still to this day affected. That's just one child. Think about all the children who are having these horrible, possibly for the rest of their life, symptoms and all the children that died. Heart disease and children. I haven't even let you talk, Dr. Brian Hooker. Tell us about the statistics after these children and these young adults and teenagers started to get the COVID shots. Dr. Brian Hooker (0:20:29.187) Well, it's absolutely incredible. Now that you mention it, one of the things that we get to do at Children's Health Defense is to encounter whistleblowers and anonymous informants, and we are fortunate to have several informants that have been following these clinical trials that are really still ongoing, even though the Pfizer vaccine was approved and then also approved under emergency use authorization. The Moderna vaccine, same thing. But it turns out that one in four individuals that were in the Moderna clinical trial have experienced and reported a severe adverse event. So that's fully twenty-five percent of the population has shown a severe adverse event to that particular vaccine. It's not me just saying that it's actually the clinical records that bear out that show this is not rare. We were lied to. We were told that the vaccine was safe, that it was effective, and it's neither. So when you look at the incidents increasing, especially adolescent males that got the COVID shot, were twenty-five times more likely to be diagnosed with myocarditis. Myocarditis is not a benign illness. It seemed the powers that be, as soon as this fact came out about the shots causing myocarditis, they started to try to normalize it. But the mortality for those patients who are diagnosed with myocarditis—is 50% within five years. So that basically means that your odds of living five years after a myocarditis diagnosis is about half, about 50%. Ashley James (0:22:34.571) Okay, so wait, let's back up. If a thousand young men, I've heard as early as age six. So, taking your kindergartener or first grader in for a COVID shot and then all the way up to teenage years. So, okay, we're taking young men. So let's say we take a thousand young men in for the shot. How many out of that... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/35109845

538 Understanding The 7 Types of Headaches & What They Reveal About Your Body’s Hidden Imbalances, Neurotransmitters, Methylation, Cholesterol, & Estrogen Metabolism, Dr. Scott Vrzal 01/28/2025

538 Understanding The 7 Types of Headaches & What They Reveal About Your Body’s Hidden Imbalances, Neurotransmitters, Methylation, Cholesterol, & Estrogen Metabolism, Dr. Scott Vrzal Dr. Scott Vrzal is giving listeners $50 off his Functional Muscle Testing online courses! Use coupon code LTH here: sownutritionalsystems.com/functional-muscle-testing Get Dr. Scott Vrzal's Book, The Headache Advantage: 7 Pain Patterns as Tools for Total Body Transformation Check Out My Latest Book: Addicted To Wellness Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com Dr. V's Website: 538: Understanding the 7 Types of Headaches Unlock powerful healing tools with Functional Muscle Testing—get $50 off with code LTH at . In this enlightening episode, Ashley James welcomes back Dr. Scott Vrzal to discuss his newly released book “The Headache Advantage,” which identifies seven distinct headache patterns that signal specific underlying health issues. Dr. Vrzal explains how headaches serve as the body's communication system, revealing connections between neurotransmitters, organ function, and nutrition while sharing practical approaches to address root causes rather than symptoms. The interview covers surprising nutritional insights, functional muscle testing techniques for “listening” to the body, and natural immune support strategies, empowering listeners to decode their body's signals and take control of their health naturally. Highlights: Dr. Vrzal wrote “The Headache Advantage” to decode headache patterns by location. Headaches are symptoms, not root problems – they're the body communicating with us. Functional muscle testing helps identify what the body needs or rejects. Bi-temporal headaches are linked to dopamine and estrogen imbalances. GMO corn may damage ovarian health, especially for O blood types. High cholesterol can signal the body's attempt to make more hormones. Sugar suppresses immune function for up to 4 hours. The thymus gland affects immunity and can be damaged by aluminum exposure. Seven headache patterns correlate to different body systems and triggers. Tomatoes may affect insulin and acetylcholine production in some blood types. Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. I am so excited to have back on the show Dr. Scott Vrzal, who is here to teach us so many things today. You're going to be blown away by today's interview. Now, he and I sat down before his book came out. So when you hear us talking about a few things, we say the beginning of flu season, and you're like, hey, that was a few months ago. You're right, that was a few months ago. I'm publishing this now because his book is out and I want to let you guys know his book's pretty awesome. He had reached out to me after this interview that you're about to listen to and said, hey, would you like to write a review for my book? If I gave you the PDF of my book before I publish it? And I said, yes, heck, yes, I will. Getting the backstage pass to your book before you publish it. That's going to be awesome. So I wrote him a review. That was, I guess I won the award for the best review. I'm not even a doctor, but all the cool doctors he reached out to, all the cool health people, health experts he reached out to, and I kind of won because he turned around with tears in his eyes and tears in my eyes, and he goes, “You just wrote the forward to my book.” And I'm like, “He goes, you just wrote the forward to my book.” And I'm like, “Yes, life goal achieved.” I mean it. Come on, how many books have I read? I've always been , oh, I want to be the cool person that an author asks to be the person to write the forward to their book. And here I am, Ashley James. I wrote a forward to someone's book, not only someone, someone who wrote a really awesome book, . I bet everyone knows someone who suffers from migraines, who suffers from headaches, and they can be chronic, they can be once in a while. But even if you have a migraine twice a year, that's still a major disruption in your life. For some people, migraines last a week or longer, or even just recovering from them. It takes over a week. So no one, no one wants that. Who wants that? But the whole thing that we unpack today, which is really exciting, is this concept that the body is speaking to us, that every symptom of the body is the language of the body, and he teaches you today how to listen. Now, he teaches online. This is a newer development, so exciting. He teaches online the techniques that he uses as a chiropractor. And my chiropractor, who is a saint, I'm going to submit to the Vatican that my chiropractor be registered as a saint when she passes away, because she has been a miracle worker for me. She's an amazing chiropractor. So if you're in and around the Seattle area, Dr. Claire Russell, Blue Heron Chiropractic, I am doing a little shout-out. She has put me back together. She's just the most amazing chiropractor. If you don't have an amazing chiropractor, if you don't believe your chiropractor is worth their weight in gold-pressed latinum, then you need to go find another chiropractor and hunt around, because I've been to over 13, 14 chiropractors in my life. I've been seeing chiropractors since I was three, and there's a bunch of chiropractors out there that are okay, that are good. They're good, they do no harm, they help a little, they're good, amazing. Then once in a while, maybe 10%, let's say, are outstanding, just blow-your-mind amazing. You know, those chiropractors aren't there yet. They're still figuring their way out in the world. You know, it takes a few years to get to amazing status, and some are born that way, some have to work on it and work hard to get there. But you don't want to give up on chiropractic. You want to hunt around and find the chiropractor for you that knocks your socks off, that makes you feel three inches taller when you walk out of there, that makes you feel like, oh wow, I didn't realize I could feel that good again, or even that good for the first time. That's the kind of chiropractor you want to see, and every chiropractor that's been blows me away amazing has used functional muscle testing, has used specific kinesiology techniques to talk to my body, to see what it needs to be corrected, be corrected, and this is like understanding the layers of the nervous system on a whole new level, that our body actually is constantly talking to us, but we didn’t. We didn’t know how to listen. Kind of like how cats and dogs can literally string together words that make dramatically correct sentences. If you haven’t seen this on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, or wherever you watch videos—not your TV, if you still have cable, maybe there, I don’t know if you have a smart TV—but go type in “talking dog buttons” or “talking cat buttons” and you’re going to watch 500 hours of dogs interacting in a real way, and cats too. It’s amazing that these animals, this whole time we’ve had pets, hundreds of years we’ve had pets, and we didn’t realize that they were that smart. We knew they were kind of smart. Like, oh, I told him to go bring in my slippers and he actually brought me my slippers, I thought that was the height of the intelligence of dogs, because I had a friend once who she would say go get the mail or go get the newspaper. I mean this is back in the nineties, and we lived out in the middle of nowhere. So you had to go, half a mile down the road to the mailbox and this dog, you just say go get the mail and he would run, he’d go out the dog door, down the stairs, down the long road, all the way to the mailbox and he’d come back with it and drop it right by your feet, and I thought that was the height of their intelligence. But the whole time, they’ve actually understood us, and when we give them an outlet like the buttons to press, they have humor too. They’re hilarious. There’s this one dog that will hit the button that goes “bruh” to his owner and it is. The timing is perfect. It’s really hilarious. So, my point being, our body has actually been communicating with us this entire time and we didn’t know the language of the body. So we’re just kind of like, stupid body, let’s just go take an Advil. We just weren’t listening, and now we can listen. Now it’s all of a sudden we have those buttons, the dog finally has the buttons. Now you’re going to actually, by learning from Dr. Scott, you will have the ability to communicate with your body in a way that you’re able to decipher the language the body’s speaking and then you can help it to get better, and that’s what amazing chiropractors do. But Dr. Scott, first of all, this whole interview is great, but what he does is he teaches. He has this course that you can sign up for. Super affordable in terms of what you’re getting for it. Very affordable. He’s giving us $50 off. The course is just under $300. So it comes to just under $250 after the discount, which is really gracious of him to give a $50 discount. He has an introduction to functional medicine, functional muscle testing. Introduction to functional muscle testing. That's kinesiology learning about how to do applied kinesiology techniques. So if you’re completely new to applied kinesiology, you want to take that course. If you’re like me and you have done applied kinesiology, maybe on yourself and family members, or you’ve done it with some clients, or you’ve done a little bit, but you want to take it to the next level and you’re intermediate, he has an intermediate hybridized kinesiology techniques that he has mastered and created through years of working with so many clients. So really exciting to share this. When I first started talking to him about it, he’s like, “Wow, I really only gear this towards, maybe only doctors.” I’m like, “Okay, so can anyone learn it and do it?” He goes, “Yes.” “So wouldn’t this really be for anyone?” He’s like, “Yes, you’re right. I guess we could say that it could be for anyone, because I mean, if anyone’s interested in listening to their body.” I’m like, “Yes, my listeners are interested in listening to their body, but since so many of my listeners are in the health space, I think this is great to add to your repertoire, to your tool belt, and at such an affordable price.” Then you just have this amazing tool, again, giving the dogs and the cats the buttons to talk. Love it. If you haven’t seen those videos, you have to go check them out. They’re hilarious. So use the coupon code LTH, as in Learn True Health. Use the coupon code LTH. Anytime I recommend something, just try the coupon code LTH, because I always try to get you guys a discount. So coupon code LTH, as in Learn True Health. The website is S-O-W, as in Society of Wellness, S-O-W. . I’m sorry that’s very long. I promise it’s going to be right there at the top in the links to the show notes of today’s podcast at and wherever you’re listening—Spotify, iTunes, wherever, Podbean, wherever you’re listening from. The links are going to be there in the description of the show note area. If you ever can’t find a link, just email me at . Feel free to email me, be , “Hey, hey, that episode with muscle testing,” and I will send you the link. You can also come join us in the Facebook group if you’re into that, if you’re into Facebook and if you’re into connecting with the community and asking questions and learning from each other. I love what we learn together as a community in the . Come join us. You can go to . We’d love to see you there. If you would love to connect with me because you’ve heard my story, maybe I’ve reversed several major issues and I did a 180 with my career after healing myself and said I have to help others. I’ve been doing that for now 13 years, probably going on 14 since 2011. So that’s a whole lifetime. It feels like. What were you doing in 2011? I was changing careers and beginning to help people heal themselves. Before that, I specialized in anxiety cessation. I’ve been doing that since 2005, so that is two lifetimes ago. I’ve been helping people to end anxiety. So if you have a family member, a friend, yourself, or a teenager who suffers with anxiety, I have amazing techniques that teach you how to turn off anxiety in the body and how to rewire your brain. That’s something I’m really excited to help people with because I can get people in 90 seconds to completely turn off anxiety and they finally have relief. Sometimes we cry just tears of relief and joy to finally be out of that state of anxiety. So I love teaching that. So I’ve been working with people for a very long time in terms of emotional, mental, and physical health, and if you'd like to talk to me, if you want resources, please feel free to reach out to me. It’s free to have a 15, 20, or 30-minute phone call with me. Go to and in the menu, select “Work with Ashley James” and you’ll find two options there. One’s blood sugar and the other one’s phototherapy. Just check which one makes more sense to you. But you fill out a little form that tells me a bit about you and what your goals are and what you’re interested in learning about, and we just have a great conversation. I can point you in the direction of some great resources, especially the phototherapy, which I am thoroughly impressed with. I’ve been using it for over two years with my clients, over 200 clients having really great success, and I’d love to share that with you as well. I have nutritional protocols and so many resources for healing. Thank you so much for being a listener and thank you so much for sharing this episode with those you care about. If you like or love my podcast, if it makes a difference for you, please, please, leave a five-star rating and written review, or just a five-star. That really helps. It helps promote the podcast to other people. So if you want this information to get out there, please do that. I really appreciate it. Please copy and paste the link to this and send it to a friend, especially the friends that have headaches or migraines. You will be forever in their life if what you share with them ends their headaches for good. It will solidify you as someone they will always want to, bring a coffee or tea to, or invite out for dinner or something. Can you imagine suffering for so many years and then a friend says, “Hey, check this out”? That is the thing that they’ve been praying for. That’s how God works. God answers prayers through us. If you get an urge to share this episode, do it. You might be answering a prayer you just never know. Awesome, enjoy today’s interview. I know you will. Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I’m your host, Ashley James. This is episode 538. Ashley James (0:14:00.624) I'm so excited for today's guest. We have back on the show with us, Dr. Scott Vrzal. You were here in , and I love that you figured out how to decode headaches and migraines and get to the root cause, understanding the root cause and helping people to heal. Headaches and migraines, they're often treated like they're the root cause, they're the problem, and they're the symptom of the problem. There's so many different root cause problems and you've decoded it. It's amazing. Now you have this book. It's an amazing book. Just launched, super excited for my listeners to get it for those who have headaches or migraines. I also think it's really interesting just to learn this because you might not have headaches now, but maybe one day you will. Because this is one of the ways the body speaks to us. The body speaks in symptoms. We really need to listen and listen so that we can help our body come back into balance because the body is always working at healing itself. It's always being torn down and it's always building itself back up. When we have illness, that's when we're tearing down more than we're building back up, just to simplify it. So our job is to get out of our own way. We got to really learn what is it that we're doing or not doing that the body really needs. So you've simplified something that's so complex and it has really strained so many people for years to try to figure out the mechanism of action and what's going on with their migraines or their chronic headaches. So I'm really excited for the listeners to have access to this. So we're going to dive deeper too. was a great place for us to start. We had a wonderful introduction to what you teach. Today we're going to really dive deep into this topic. So excited to have you back on the show. Welcome. Dr. Scott Vrzal (0:15:49.912) Thank you very much. I'm so looking forward to sharing more and yes, diving into tying some brain chemistry into physical function and what we can do about it to really be our best. Some fun subjects for today. Ashley James (0:16:04.588) Love it. I know that we're going to get into so many different varieties of headaches. That's what I'm excited about because all the way from headaches, from restlessness and anxiety to headaches, from PMS to high blood pressure headaches and low blood pressure. It's just all the different things we're going to be talking about. Dopamine, serotonin, all those wonderful neurotransmitters. Before we get into that though, I know you have this new, is it new? It's new to me, this new course where you're teaching practitioners and people who, you could be massage therapist, acupuncturist, anyone along that practitioner space, health coaches, teaching them in an easy to learn video series on functional muscle testing. I want to learn a bit more about that. I also think that super health nuts who are really into learning how to listen to their body would also be interested in looking into it just to understand more about how we can listen to the body. So tell us a bit about this. Of course, the link is going to be in the show notes of today's podcast at and wherever you're listening from in the show notes, the link will be there. You informed me this morning that you're giving my listeners a discount. Thank you so much. You're taking $50 off. I think it's really generous. It's not that expensive to learn what you're sharing. It's pretty remarkable because I know a doctor local to here that charges thousands and thousands of dollars to teach kinesiology and muscle testing and you're doing it for a very, very affordable price. So thank you for making it accessible to everyone. I think all practitioners should have this in their tool belt as some way of continuing to help their clients and patients to listen to the body. Tell us a bit about this for those who don't even know what functional muscle testing is. Dr. Scott Vrzal (0:18:00.034) So the functional muscle testing videos came about as I was running around the country years ago, teaching doctors on how to deal with autoimmune conditions and thyroid and high tech things like that. They needed a resource that they could go back to and workshop and practice with their colleagues. So we created these videos that basically walk a person or practitioner from this is what a muscle test looks like. This is how we would prioritize and determine what the weakest link is for the body, whether that's a thyroid or a stomach problem or brain issue. Then, once we identify the priority, then we would look at clinical corrections, meaning whether they need a structural change, a nutritional change. Meaning diet or supplemental or acupuncture which kind of leads to some of the stuff we're going to talk about today with neurotransmitters. Sounds kind of high-tech, but this kind of brings it to a usable level. Then it also... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/35041990

537 Your Natural Medicine Chest Part Two, Balancing The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis, Migraines, Insomnia, Stress, Dr. Ellen Kamhi 01/13/2025

537 Your Natural Medicine Chest Part Two, Balancing The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis, Migraines, Insomnia, Stress, Dr. Ellen Kamhi Get my ebook and audiobook here: . Get my course, The 7 Foundations of Health, here: Get a physical copy of my book here: The Vibe: coupon code LTH - LearnTrueHealth.com/vibe Dr. Ellen Kamhi's website: 537: Your Natural Medicine Chest: HPA Axis Balance In today’s episode of the Learn True Health Podcast, Dr. Ellen Kamhi returns for part two of our powerful conversation on natural healing. We dive deep into understanding the HPA axis—how your hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands work together to regulate stress, energy, sleep, weight, digestion, and so much more. You'll learn how chronic stress throws the entire body out of balance—and how simple, natural tools like herbal medicine, better sleep habits, and plant-based remedies can help restore true health. Dr. Kamhi shares practical, time-tested solutions you can start using right away to support your body's innate ability to heal itself. If you’ve ever struggled with fatigue, brain fog, thyroid issues, gut problems, or low immunity, this is a must-listen episode! Highlights: Dr. Ellen Kamhi highlights that hundreds of health issues—like migraines, weight gain, and insomnia—are linked to an imbalanced HPA axis. The HPA axis (hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal) controls stress response, digestion, immune function, mood, and energy levels. Chronic stress keeps cortisol levels elevated long-term, weakening the immune system and leading to fatigue, obesity, thyroid issues, and gut problems. Getting deep, dark sleep—by blocking out all light and minimizing screen exposure at night—is essential for balancing the HPA axis. Mimosa (Albizia) flower is called the “Tree of Happiness” and naturally boosts mood, calms the nervous system, and supports endocrine balance. Magnolia bark lowers cortisol, reduces inflammation, and binds to serotonin receptors, helping relieve anxiety and emotional tension. Castor oil packs applied over the adrenal glands or thyroid help stimulate natural healing and restore hormonal balance. Valerian root helps promote deep sleep, but individual reactions vary—some feel calm, while others may feel stimulated. Passionflower is excellent for calming the mind during the day without sedation, making it ideal for stress-related HPA dysfunction. Lifestyle habits like prayer, meditation, rest, and limiting light exposure at night are simple yet powerful ways to heal the body naturally. Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health Podcast. We have an amazing episode for you today, with Dr. Ellen Kamhi coming back on the show. She was with us in last , part one, where we discussed using herbal medicine to support our immune health and to eliminate or control pain, and also support the body's ability to heal itself while we're going through injury or illness. Today, we're diving into understanding the HPA axis—the hypothalamic, pituitary, adrenal axis—and how that plays a major role in everything from migraines, obesity, digestion, back pain, insomnia, energy—the list goes on and on. A lot of times when we go to a doctor with symptoms, the doctor starts treating the symptoms instead of going upstream to the root cause of the problem. There are hundreds of problems that are all caused by a dysregulated HPA axis, so today you're going to learn about how to support your HPA axis and how to support your body's ability to come back into balance and your body's ability to heal itself. Here at Learn True Health, we believe in the body's innate and God-given ability to heal itself. We grew ourselves from a single cell into over 32.7 trillion cells that are a symphony within a symphony. In fact, a biologist once said that the single human cell is more complex. There's more things going on in one human cell than all of Manhattan. If you can imagine how busy it is in New York City, let alone Manhattan, you think about Manhattan, you think about just everything that's happening, imagine one human cell is more busy than that. It's more busy than all of New York. There's more things going on, and we're just scratching the surface. Every day we're just learning more and more and more. Yet there's this ancient medicine, long before pharmaceutical, drug-based, chemically patented pharmaceutical interventions. I'm not saying we should ignore those. I'm saying we should look at the whole picture. If you needed an entire toolbox to fix a car but I only let you have access to one of the shelves of that toolbox, how effective would you be at repairing that car? Maybe you could change a tire, but you couldn't change the oil. I don't know. Point being, if we want to take care of ourselves, we really should have access to and an understanding of the full plethora of what is available for us. Holistic, plant-based medicine—so herbal medicine, for example—was used even by medical doctors up until about the 1950s when, because of the way their education was manipulated by the pharmaceutical industries, those practices fell by the wayside. Yet we have effective, easy-to-use herbal remedies to support the body's ability to heal itself. We have access to so much now. Because you're listening to this, because we have the internet, we can start exploring. We can start finding practitioners. Doesn't have to be even in our town or our city. They don't even have to be in our state or our country. We can connect with people worldwide and learn how to support a body's ability to heal itself. I highly recommend checking out our previous , where we began this talk with Dr. Kamhi. You can listen to it out of order. You can continue listening to this, then go back to the last episode if you haven't already, because it's a wonderful journey to learn from her. I also encourage you to go to my website. My name's Ashley James. If you are new to this podcast, welcome. I've been doing this podcast now coming up on 10 years. It's amazing, I can't believe it. Together we are learning how to heal our bodies and learning how to create true health, which is a balance of emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical health. You can go to and use the search function to find dozens of episodes on topics that you're interested in. You can also schedule a free phone call with me. I'd love to help you. I've been a holistic, integrative health coach for many years. I am now a proud author. I published a book last year called Addicted to Wellness. You can check it out by going to . I'm also an anxiety cessation expert. That's something that I do talk about, but not as often. I think I should talk about it more, because so many people suffer with anxiety, and I've been teaching people since 2005 how to eliminate anxiety. Can you believe it's been 20 years? What? That's crazy. I have been helping people for two decades to completely eliminate anxiety from their life, and I have these amazingly powerful tools that I can teach you. If you want to work one-on-one with me, I'd love for you to hire me as your health coach. You can also sign up for a free consultation if you'd like to have a chat with me. I love talking to you guys. I love, love, love connecting with you. I have so many resources. If you're sick of suffering from physical ailments or if you just really want to have that peace of mind and you've been struggling with anxiety or insomnia or depression, or struggling with food and not knowing how to eat healthy or get on the right track to getting your energy back—just any of these things—please book a free consultation with me. I'd love to help you. I have some amazing resources that I can send your way, one of them being the phototherapy patches, which have been so life-changing. I've got some amazing tools that I could point you in the right direction. If you want to hire me, you are absolutely welcome to. If you want someone to hold your hand and guide you through, I'd love to be there for you as well. I also really recommend checking out . It's a fantastic resource if you're ready to take your health back and take your life back. The supplements there, the protocols that they have, saved my life coming up on 13, 14 years ago. It was right around 2011. That's when I got on their protocols, and they helped me to reverse what I was told was irreversible PCOS and infertility. I have an amazing son to prove it, that we conceived naturally after getting on these supplements. They helped me to reverse my type 2 diabetes and my chronic adrenal fatigue, which was amazing to have vanished as a result of nutrition, natural supplements, and diet changes. What I'm saying is that there's so much suffering going on out there, and I was in it. I suffered for years while being cared for by MDs, by medical doctors, and they really didn't have any answers for me. Now I believe that drugs and the medical system—the hospitals and those clinics—are good tools. When we break our arm or when we get into an accident, we want to have them at our disposal. They really fail us when it comes to supporting our body's ability to heal itself. They just don't have those tools. So this episode, this entire podcast, my over 500 and now 37 episodes, are dedicated to showing you that there's a world out there that isn't in the mainstream media. That's a whole other topic as to why, but it's here for you, and it's been around for a long time, and it's proven itself. It's proven itself effective, and it's also gentle, and it is something that it's about coming back to ourselves and nourishing ourselves and supporting what our body actually needs to heal itself. So dive down this rabbit hole with me. Enjoy the ride. It's a lot of fun. If you're new, welcome. If you've been a health nut for a while, I know I'm preaching to the choir. Please share this episode with those you care about. We are going to help end the suffering of millions of people through helping them learn true health. Enjoy today's episode. Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is episode 537. Ashley James (0:09:06.042) I am so excited for today's guests and to have back on the show Dr. Ellen Kamhi. Your website is . We had Dr. Ellen back in . That was part one. I feel we're just going to jump right into part two. We talked about some amazing things about herbal medicine. You should be a national treasure. There should be a Secret Service guarding you. The amount of information you have, it's life-changing. I'm so happy that we have you here today because you are going to change lives today with the information you're sharing. We're going to dive into understanding how we can get out of that stress response to then help the body go into that healing mode through balancing the HPA, the hypothalamus-adrenal-pituitary access. That's so cool. But first, I really want to talk about the fact that you have very affordable online courses. One coming up in March. I'm so excited. I'm joining it. I'm going to be one of your students. I'm inviting my listeners to come join. It's such life-changing information. So affordable, so accessible. Tell us a little bit about your course that's coming up in March. Dr. Ellen Kamhi (0:10:29.173) Well, thank you so much for the opportunity. I've been doing herbal medicine since 1964. What has been so exciting about that is seeing people really get well. They seem when they're just put on pharmaceuticals during a two-minute visit or eight minutes if they get a whole long time with their doctor, all that happens is they're given a prescription drug, which sometimes can be useful. But does not usually heal the situation. In fact, I would say it almost never does. That's unfortunate because people then get on a roundabout. Well, when we use a natural intervention such as herbal medicine, now herbal medicine, of course, was always used even by physicians until very, very recently. So even in the 1950s in the United States, and all other countries. Herbal medicine was what anything that might be called a pharmaceutical and was found in a pharmacy. Those were all herbal medicines. Only after a big political agenda, and I write all about that in my book, , The history of Natural Medicine, there was something called the Flexner Report that was actually commissioned by the Rockefellers and was part of a discussion of the AMA, the American Medical Association, as it came into being. That is when purposefully and politically there was a move to restrict both access and information about herbal medicine and other natural healing modalities such as homeopathy and other things that can be very useful that we use in integrative and functional medicine. There was a movement to actually stop the teaching of any of those things. It was called Irregular Medicine. To actually stop the teaching of that to physicians in medical schools. To restrict the teachings to physicians to only one source of information that had to do with only two modalities. One is pharmaceuticals and one is surgery. So when people say, how come my doctor did not tell me about this? It worked so great and it was so inexpensive and it had no adverse effects. Why didn't my doctor tell me about this particular natural healing modality, such as herbs, which we'll be talking about now? The answer is unfortunate because it's actually politically maneuvered. That's a topic for another whole show. But as I came into my understanding of natural medicine, which actually happened for the first time when I fell off a horse and had a very severe back injury, which doesn't heal on its own, and I was told I needed surgery, which would be appropriate in most cases, but I sort of had a little bird talk to me, I would say a spiritual revelation. So look into that because the doctor had told me I would never walk again without surgery, but I did not believe it. So I went to the local library and looked through the card catalog. For those of you old enough to remember those things, they're little drawers that you pull out. Remember, there was no internet. There were no credit cards. This is a long time ago. But I looked through the card catalog about natural therapeutics for a hurt back, which I had. I found so much information and I actually got in touch with all those places I read about such as Dr. Bernard Jensen was one. All of his writings are still worth diving into by any of our listeners today, as well as I myself wrote 18 books. They're all listed on my website at books. So Dr. Bernard Jensen and many other people that I studied with all talked about using herbs for healing. So that is really where I got my start. One thing that I have noticed over many years, because I'm very involved with the American Herbalist Guild. The American Herbalist Guild is an excellent place to get information about herbal medicine, but I do notice that many of the in-depth training that are offered to the public are very, very, very expensive. So therefore, it's going to be limited only to those people of high means to be able to take some of those courses. So I specifically decided to give back to society to have a basic class in herbal medicine so people can do any one of the above. They could either be able to intelligently decide what herb or group of herbs, an herbal protocol, would be the right thing for them and their family, just locally for themselves, their family. Then also, the course incorporates for health care professionals who are already doing something that is now being called integrative or functional medicine, which means natural health suggestions for their clients, how a professional also could intelligently and correctly put together herbal protocols. So that's why I started this class. I think it's been going on for about 15 years. So it's new next to some of the things I've been doing for 57 years or more since 1964 in terms of herbal medicine. So this class I think is wonderful and I love to share it with people. It's given through the Florida School of Holistic Living, which is a wonderful organization in Florida that does both online training as well as in-person training. I do a lot of in-person as well where we go out in the field and identify plants and actually make them into medicine. That's part of herbal medicine. So in this class, the Natural Nurse Basics of Herbal Medicine actually also offers 18 CEUs for anyone who does have a license. So that might be a nurse or a massage therapist or a holistic practitioner of some kind who is also a licensed health professional. So that's why we put this class together, to be useful for anybody who really wants to study herbal medicine. It's broken into four classes. We have one class a month. The first one is called the Basics of Herbal Medicine. Here we learn the fundamentals and essential terminology that is relevant to herbalism. Just like nurses, which I'm also a nurse, I'm a PhD RN, nurses have a, I say, a cliquish language. Everyone does. Hairdressers do. Everybody has their own little cliquish language. In the first class, we have assignments. So we meet for an hour and a half. It's usually on a Sunday for an hour and a half in the morning. You're also given tons and tons of handouts that you're given to actually download and keep forever in your computer. They're given as PDFs. That would be both what I use to lecture from and discuss from, as well as many other handouts about that topic. There is quite a bit of homework. Now, if you want to just listen in and not do the homework, that's fine. But if you want a beautiful certificate given by the Florida School of Holistic Medicine and also the CE units, those are only necessary for someone who already has a license. If you want to get those, then you have to do the homework. The homeworks are very in-depth because the homeworks are where you learn. So you would look up all these special words for herbal medicine so you could talk to another herbalist. What is a cologog? Do you know? If you do, you're probably pretty well versed in herbal medicine. What is a mucilaginous agent? When would you use that? So that's the kind of thing that we learn in the Natural Nurse class. So if anybody wants to take it, you can just go online to , Classes and Events. The second class is Botany and Botanical Nomenclature. Because if you want to talk about herbs, then you really should understand a little bit about the actual plants that you're talking about. So the botany class covers the importance of Latin names when communicating with other herbalists. Something very special called the Doctrine of Signatures. The Doctrine of Signatures is a very special thing that has to do with the fact that a plant, when you actually look at the plant, can tell you because of its shape and its size and its function and its color, it can actually tell you what it is used for in the body. So that's a fantastic aspect of the Doctrine of Signatures. We go deeply into that spiritual signature that a plant has. Also identifying plant families and how we decide if a plant is edible, medicinal, or a very important topic is plants that are poisonous. It's a real good thing to study before you go out and gather plants for food and medicine. So if you do not come on board with the class when we have it at that time, you can always get it on the archive. Once you sign up for the class, you will get a link to come to the live sessions and you will get all the handouts for you to download. Then you also get an archive link so you can join us anytime. If you don't come in when we're doing it live, you can come in basically anytime at your convenience to finish the course. You have about a year to hand in all the assignments. The third class is very specific. It's called Using Herbs for Yourself and Your Family. Now, any of these classes, by the way, you... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/34838275

536 Your Natural Medicine Chest Part One, Immune Support Cold & Flu, Natural Pain Relief PhD Dr. Ellen Kamhi Teaches Holistic & Herbal Medicine 12/19/2024

536 Your Natural Medicine Chest Part One, Immune Support Cold & Flu, Natural Pain Relief PhD Dr. Ellen Kamhi Teaches Holistic & Herbal Medicine Get my ebook and audiobook here: . Get my course, The 7 Foundations of Health, here: Get a physical copy of my book here: The Vibe: coupon code LTH - LearnTrueHealth.com/vibe Get the NEW free IIN sample class and health coach experience: Enroll in the next Health Coach Training Program! Use coupon code LTH when signing up to become a health coach. Dr. Ellen Kamhi PhD RN AHN-BC RH(AHG) provides CE eligible certification educational modules in Herbal Medicine, Essential Oil Therapy, Homeopathy, Energy Medicine, and all aspects of holistic medicine, and supports individuals on their path to incorporate Herbal and Natural Therapies into their Life and Career. She is a respected Consultant in the Nutraceutical Industry providing Formulation, Education and Regulatory Review. Ellen Kamhi is actively involved, along with Dr. Eugene Zampieron, ND, with Natural Alternatives Health, Education and Multimedia Services, and leads EcoTours For Cures™, which brings participants to indigenous areas to experience the ancient healing arts of traditional cultures. Dr. Kamhi is available as a speaker and consultant. for your organization. For details, call (954) 418-2388 or 536: Your Natural Medicine Chest: Immune Support In this empowering episode of the Learn True Health podcast, Ashley James sits down with Dr. Ellen Kamhi, also known as the Natural Nurse, who brings over five decades of experience in holistic and herbal medicine. From healing her own debilitating back injury without surgery to teaching thousands how to build their own natural medicine chests, Dr. Kamhi shares powerful, practical tools for addressing pain, boosting immunity, and living in vibrant health. Whether you're looking to support your family naturally through cold and flu season or take charge of your own healing journey, this interview is packed with must-know insights and remedies you’ll want to keep in your back pocket—literally. Highlights: Dr. Ellen Kamhi healed a severe back injury using herbs instead of surgery, sparking her lifelong passion for natural medicine. She’s been practicing and teaching holistic medicine since 1964 and has written 18 books. Vitamin C (especially in powder form) and elderberry syrup are top immune-boosting tools she recommends having on hand. Oscillococcinum is a must-have homeopathic remedy for early flu symptoms—take at the very first sign. Oil of oregano is a powerful natural antimicrobial but can be too strong for children and some adults. Garlic also acts as a natural antibiotic but should be followed with probiotics like sauerkraut to rebuild gut flora. Food should be whole and unlabeled; eliminating wheat helps reduce inflammation and pain. Homeopathy and herbs work best when used at the first sign of illness, not once symptoms become severe. She recommends building a natural medicine chest at home so you're ready when symptoms arise. Joy, spirituality, and lifestyle habits like rest and connection are vital components of true health. Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. Today we have with us Dr. Ellen Kamhi. She has been teaching natural, holistic, and herbal medicine for 52 years. It's amazing. Since the 70s she's been helping people to get so healthy that they're no longer in pain, they're no longer sick and suffering and just a wonderful wealth of knowledge. We have such a great interview for you today. This is going to be definitely one of those interviews that you're going to want to share with so many of your friends. So many of your friends maybe just copy the link to it and store it somewhere in your phone. I use them. I have an Android, my husband has an iPhone, so I understand there's two totally different types of phones out there, but both types of phones have somewhere where you can store notes. I use the Keep App and I love it. I keep tons of notes and then you can pin them to the top if they're really important. As I was interviewing her, I jotted down all the really important points and, of course, I'm going to make sure that this is in the show notes of today's podcast at , along with all the links to everything she does. I've stored those in my little Keep App where you can keep notes. If you have never done that, it is a game changer. So definitely check out a note-keeping app on your phone. Whether you have an Android or an Apple, you will find that you can be able to store some notes and quickly access them. It's been so helpful because I can't tell you how many listeners in our Facebook group, , and also friends and family, have come to me saying, oh, I've got a sore throat or I'm starting to have a cold, what should I do? Oh no, my kid is spiking a fever, or my kid's feeling sick, or I'm feeling sick, my husband's feeling sick, which I do. I grabbed the notes that I wrote down during my interview with Dr. Kamhi and they have been such a game changer. My family has also had quite the experience. I interviewed her a few weeks ago, several weeks ago, so we've had this experience. Since interviewing her, I ordered everything that she recommended and I've had it in my little medicine cabinet, or how she phrases it, the natural medicine chest. I definitely have a big natural medicine chest with a lot of cool herbs and homeopathy and phototherapy patches and now the vibe which I run to. Anytime someone in my family or a close friend who's visiting feels any symptom under the weather, we run to those and just blow it out of our system quickly. Get rid of pain, get rid of a headache, get rid of a little sore throat or a cough. It's just been amazing. My life, the last over 10 years. My first instinct is to go to natural medicine before going to a pharmaceutical and now myself and my family so rarely need a pharmaceutical, and I just love that. It was such a 180 that there was a time in my life where I was on constant medication, 20 years ago, and now it is so wonderful to have this reversal where it is so odd and weird and rare to even think of having a pharmaceutical either over the counter or prescribed. But of course these are tools. We have to be pragmatic. So have the tools in your tool belt so that when you get a scratchy throat in the middle of the night you can go to them instead of waiting to get super sick. This is what happened to us. We used her recommendations, several of us. One of us would have a little sore throat or the other one would kind of start feeling fluish, and we use them. The moment we started feeling that and we were able to blow stuff out of our system so fast. It was really cool, instead of having it take hold. Of course, eating healthy and all the lifestyle things you can do, but even super healthy people get sick. What I love is this concept that it's not that you don't get sick, it's how quickly your body can bounce back, and that is the true testament to health. How quickly can you blow it out of your system? How quickly can you bounce back? Are you still feeling sick weeks after a cold or flu, or do you just, within 24 hours, blow it out of your system and then you're moving on to the next thing and feeling great? We can always improve. No matter where we are, we can always improve. Today is one of those interviews that you're going to want to take the link to this interview, store it in the little notebook app on your phone, whichever one you use like I said, I use the Keep one, and I love that. You're going to share this episode. I bet you're going to share this episode at least 10 times this winter. This is the episode that is going to help so many of your friends and family. Before we get to this episode, I want to let you know of a few other things that have been so, so, so helpful for pain and for immune, because this episode is about helping with natural ways to reverse pain and also, really important, how to blow out a cold or flu out of your system and get healthier and get back to life faster than if you just, I don't know, waited, just stayed at home and waited to get better. These interventions are super helpful, the things that I have turned to that have really helped—the phototherapy patches. If you want to learn more about them, you can listen to my two interviews, episodes and , and you can also book a free phone call with me where I can talk to you about them. I can help you order them and order the right ones for you, and I can teach you how to use them. They are a real game changer. One thing that I accomplished by using them is I used them for an adrenal and kidney tonification protocol that gave me the energy that I had back when I was a kid. I don't know if you ever have thought, like what happened to me? I used to be able to get up and get on my bicycle on a Saturday morning and just go, go, go, go, go, and then not come home until the streetlights came on. I was full of energy when I was a kid and then something happened in my 30s or 40s or 50s and now I'm just super tired. If you're thinking, when did I lose that youthful, unlimited energy? You're going to love the phototherapy patches. I use them specifically with that protocol and we have over 80 protocols. I did it for about six weeks and I noticed that I was able to get a lot more out in the gym, like I went from five minutes on the rower to twenty-three minutes on the rower, virtually overnight, having a lot more endurance. There are a lot of athletes. There are a ton of pictures we have of all the Olympic athletes wearing the phototherapy patches. RFK Jr—we have pictures of him. We see him in the gym wearing them and that's because there's results. There are over 80 studies showing that it increases muscle output and recovery time, but it also increases healthy bone tissue, so bone density. We've had great experiences with that, where people go back and get their DEXA scans and show that they have healthier bones. There's increased muscle mass and increased output and recovery for athletes. For me, I got that energy back. I used to watch my child—he's nine now, almost 10—but right around when he was about six or seven I had this aha moment where I lost that. I lost that ability to just go, go, go, go, go at some point in my life and I couldn't keep up with him. I did this protocol for about six weeks. Somewhere around the second month, I just realized it was maybe seven at night and I was, go, go, go all day with my son. We do activities all day. We homeschool, so we just do activity after activity and I hadn't sat the whole day and I wasn't tired. I'm like, oh, I got it back. It's really cool because I did that protocol about two years ago and I only needed to do it for just around two months or just under two months, and I still have it. It helped me. It corrected something and it's so intriguing. So listen to those two episodes, and , and then book a free phone call with me because I'd love to chat with you. I absolutely love helping the listeners, helping you guys. I have the most amazing experiences chatting with you guys. If you're a little intimidated or shy, please don't be. I love talking to you. I'd be so honored and so excited to be part of your healing journey and to talk to you. You just share with me what's going on and I have so many resources that I can point you to. If you're suffering in any way, I'm offering you something for free. Just please talk to me for free. It's a free phone call and I'll point you to a bunch of resources. If you want to try the patches, you can absolutely try. They have an amazing money-back guarantee. I have over 200 clients using them successfully, having great results, and the good news is that there's no risk. If you don't like it, you can get your money back. I don't have any experience with returns because people get results with them, but it's good to know that there's no risk. Just try it. Go ahead and go to and click on “Work With Ashley James” in the menu, and then the very first option is scheduling a free phone call with me. It can be about 20 minutes long, but if you have a ton of questions it'll go longer. I'm just there with you to help you and I can point you to a lot of great resources. So that's the phototherapy patches. They're amazing, especially for if a cold or flu is coming on. We have a protocol for that and it really does work. At the height of a head cold, when you're all stuffed up, we put patches, these specific patches, on the sinuses and they will drain them within minutes. I had a friend kind of yelp because I put them on her and then she goes, oh my gosh, it worked. I'm like, of course it worked. She's like, I didn't think it would work. I'm like, well, what did you think I was doing putting these things on you? She's like, I can't believe that works. At the height of a head cold, you will be able to breathe through your nose while you're sleeping. Even if you just use them as part of your medicine cabinet, your medicine chest. It's an amazing tool to have something that's drug free, that's all natural, that's not going to hurt you, that's even safe for children and babies. It's so neat. The other thing I wanted to share with you is the Vibe. You can listen to with Mark Fox. He's amazing. He invented a machine that is a pocket PEMF and frequency-specific microcurrent machine. My family and I have been using it for several months. We've shared it with several of our friends and we are getting outstanding results. It is one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. It's right up there with the phototherapy patches. It's so neat. It's turned off headaches. It has turned off EMS pain. It actually helped me have an emotional mental breakthrough. It helped me significantly with my PTSD. There's a PTSD setting and it is virtually gone. I've just had such great emotional healing from it. It helps with sleep. I think I spent the first hour of the interview talking to him about all the results that everyone has been getting, that I was sharing it with and it just keeps going and going. It's really neat. So out of all the Christmas gifts you could get someone. If you're getting a Hanukkah or Christmas gift or just a holiday gift or a birthday gift, I know we always have these family members who are like, I don't know what to get them. They have everything they need. I don't know what I could get them that would add to their life because we just have so much clutter. We don't want to just give nonsense, just another knickknack, another candle, just something that is going to collect dust. It's not going to really add value to their life. This will add value. This is the gift you give people that you think have everything. They don't have this and it will add quality to their life and it will add health to their life. It's so easy to use, especially men. I've noticed husbands or boyfriends or whatever—men or brothers, dads—are not necessarily going to sit down and eat healthy and take a supplement, but they have the aches and pains and they're not necessarily going to make these big health changes. You want to help them in some way. They just press a button on this machine, they select one of the different programs, and they put it in their pocket. The programs are about a half an hour to 45 minutes to an hour, just depending on the program. It makes a difference. People notice a difference. They also have a money-back guarantee. They're a great company. Mark Fox is amazing, so listen to . What you want to do to purchase it is go to . That's V-I-B-E. . That's V-I-B-E. . Mark so graciously gave us a wonderful discount for ordering the Vibe. Get it now, because it will ship and get on time to your house for Christmas. If you are international, even Canada, for Canada, because the Canadian Post is on strike, he is shipping FedEx and he is not charging extra for that, he's amazing. He's like, yes, I'm eating the costs and I'm just shipping the fastest way I can so that it can get to my Canadian listeners. If you are in Canada, order it. If you're anywhere around the world, he says he ships worldwide, he will ship quickly. I'm not sure if he'll get to you by Christmas, but I know that in the US you absolutely can get it by Christmas if you order now because he does ship fast. So that's . That is the Christmas gift to get people. It is amazing. Tell your friend, hey, you use this, you've got to use it. But if you don't, just give me that gift back, because I'll use it for myself. Maybe that'll motivate them to use it. Have them listen to my interview, with Mark Fox, where he shares the technology and why it works and it does. There are studies. He's been conducting studies—amazing studies on PTSD and sleep. He's in the middle of conducting a study with blood sugar and with diabetics. Diabetics are noticing a significant shift in their blood sugar regulation, which is so cool. We also have really good results with people with Lyme. Lyme and the co-infections and also MS. Just amazing. There are so many, so many applications for this thing because it's frequency medicine, just like homeopathy is frequency medicine and the phototherapy patches are frequency medicine. This is where we're going. This is where we're heading: frequency medicine. Thank you so much for being a listener and, more importantly, thank you so much for sharing this podcast with those you care about. You want to help your friends and family and those you love and care about to get healthy and that's why you share. I do this podcast because I want to end the needless suffering of millions. 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535: Good Fat Bad Fat: Cleaning Up Cooking Oils Misconceptions, Myths, & Dirty Secrets, Clean Omega 3, 6, 9 Essential Fatty Acids Explained, Udo Erasmus 12/04/2024

535: Good Fat Bad Fat: Cleaning Up Cooking Oils Misconceptions, Myths, & Dirty Secrets, Clean Omega 3, 6, 9 Essential Fatty Acids Explained, Udo Erasmus FINAL CYBER SALES UPDATE! Get these 5 holistic cyber sales before hey are gone! Analemma Structured Water Devices (whole house unit, gardening unit, personal size unit) End of the promotion: Friday 6th, December https://learntruehealth.com/structuredwater Discount code rate: 25% Discount code: lth25 (applicable to all products) My Two Interviews About This Structured Water: Listen to Episode 498 https://learntruehealth.com/rejuvenate-cells-with-structured-water-mario-brainovic Listen to Episode 508 https://learntruehealth.com/healing-waters-science-of-structured-analemma-water-with-dr-eric-laarakker MY FAVORITE DETOX & RECOVERY SAUNA: Use coupon code LTH at Cyber Week December 2-6 Up to $1,000 off, including FREE shipping Listen to Episode 245: https://learntruehealth.com/sunlighten-saunas BEST ORGANIC MATTRESS FOR THE BEST SLEEP OF YOUR LIFE! Organix Bed's Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale 20% off mattresses + free white glove delivery (up to $2,018.60 in savings). 30% off bundles of 4+ accessories with free standard shipping. Discounts auto-apply with this think Sale Dates: November 27th - December 4th Life Spa Ayurvedic Supplements: Starting Wednesday, November 27th through Thursday, December 5th will be 20% off site wide at Listen to Episode 505: https://learntruehealth.com/quantum-healing-bridging-ancient-wisdom-with-modern-science-dr-john-douillard IIN: Institute For Integrative Nutrition HUGE CYBER SALE! Get 30% off when you enroll in any IIN course using LTH discount code! 535: Good Fat vs. Bad Fat: Cooking Oils Explained After a personal health crisis in the 1980s, Udo Erasmus went deep into the science of nutrition and came out with a radical revelation: not all fats are bad—in fact, some are absolutely essential for life. In this episode, he shares how essential fatty acids impact everything from brain function to skin health, why most of the oils on our supermarket shelves are doing more harm than good, and what it really means to nourish the body at the cellular level. If you’ve ever been confused about what’s healthy when it comes to oils, or if you’re on a journey to feel more energized, focused, and well—this one’s for you. Highlights Udo Erasmus, is a health educator and author of Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill, shares groundbreaking insights on the importance of healthy fats in human nutrition. Udo emphasizes that good fats—particularly omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids—are vital for brain function, energy, skin health, and overall cellular integrity. He explains that essential fatty acids cannot be produced by the body and must come from the diet, ideally from unrefined, cold-pressed oils. The modern diet often contains damaged, toxic fats due to processing methods like refining, bleaching, and heating, which compromise health and contribute to disease. Udo describes how his personal experience with pesticide poisoning led him to research fats extensively, eventually producing his own line of health-conscious oils. He advocates for oils to be stored in dark glass bottles, refrigerated, and protected from light, heat, and oxygen to prevent oxidation and maintain nutritional quality. Udo criticizes the food industry's treatment of oils and urges consumers to be more informed about the fats they consume. He discusses how fats are foundational for mental and emotional well-being, and that fat deficiency can lead to mood disorders and cognitive decline. Udo believes health starts at the cellular level, and by consuming clean, undamaged oils, people can significantly improve their quality of life. His mission is rooted in a holistic view of health—nurturing body, mind, and spirit through proper nutrition and conscious living. Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. I am so excited for you to dive into today's episode. I want to make sure you know about the amazing cyber sales that are about to wrap up. They're about to end, but you still have time to jump in and take advantage of these really great savings. So I'll be really quick, I'm going to let you know about them and I'm also going to put the details in the show notes of today's podcast at and wherever you're listening from, whether it's Spotify or iTunes, wherever you're listening from, there should be a little area that shows the details, more details, and you click on that and you should see all this information there. So, number one, we have Analemma, the structured water device that I use daily. I have some interviews about it, and . So go back and check those ones out. If you're , huh, structured water, that sounds interesting. Let me tell you, it is. It increases your gut microbe health. It increases your cardiovascular health. They've done studies and it increases the health of plants, and they actually can see that it increases the output of the mitochondria, so it helps our mitochondrial health. It's really fascinating. I noticed after the first three days of drinking the structured water that this low-grade depression I had experienced for a few years after losing our daughter. It dissipated. I just noticed it was replaced by this constant low-grade humming of happiness. I'm like, wow, that's really interesting. What an interesting shift to have, an emotional shift, from integrating something as simple as just taking 90 seconds every time you fill up your water bottle, taking 90 seconds to structure it with the device. You just have a plumber install it into your house, and then all the water coming into your house is structured, or the gardening unit if you are an avid gardener. My plants, my house plants, doubled in size really quickly after I began to use it. I had to move them. I had them by the window, and they grew too big too fast. It was pretty interesting, but the health of these plants went out of control—out of control in a good way, super healthy, when I started using the Analemma structured water device. When it structures the water, it doesn't then go chaotic again. It's really interesting. So listen to those two episodes, and . But right now, until Friday, the 6th of December, we have a special promo code. It's LTH25. So when you go to , that's all one word,, and then use coupon code LTH25, as in Learn True Health and then the number 25, you're going to get 25% off all of their products. So the whole house unit, the gardening unit, or just the little personal size unit which is affordable. It's also a really, really cool gift to give at Christmas. So if you have a friend who's a biohacker, into health stuff, this is one of those easy things. It's also a fun magic trick if you have guests over, you have friends over, or you're going over to a friend's house. I love doing it. I take my little Anilema structured water device and I structure a glass of water and then have a glass of water that's not structured and then I tell them okay, don't look, I'm going to switch them up and only I know which one's structured and I have them sip each one and a hundred percent of the time people can tell a difference. They say it tastes different, it feels different. In my mouth it feels better, it feels like it's easier to drink. It just feels silkier. It's really interesting. I've had friends say this feels like my body's absorbing it better. It's really interesting that you can actually feel the difference and you can even see the difference as you use the device. You stir the device in the water for about 60 to 90 seconds and you can watch the water change viscosity. It actually shifts and changes. It's really interesting. There's a lot of really cool science around it. Go listen to episodes and and get the coupon code LTH25 happening right now for 25% off. They normally do give us a bit of a discount, so use coupon code LTH if it's after Friday, the 6th of December. If it's after that date, don't worry. You can still use coupon code LTH all year long and get the nice discount that they give us. But right now it's 25% off, which is really cool. My next favorite thing is my sauna. I have my sauna right here. I don't know if you can hear that, but there's a nice wooden sauna in my small office. It's quite a small office, and what's cool about the Sunlighten sauna is it's kind of like a TARDIS. If you ever watched Doctor Who, it doesn't take up a lot of room on the outside, but you sit in it and you're like, wow, this is really roomy. It doesn't look like it's this big. My husband and I can both fit in the single-person sauna, and it's a three-in-one sauna, meaning it's far infrared, near infrared, and mid-infrared. That helps your body produce collagen, it helps with skin health, it helps with recovery, and it helps with pain and decreases inflammation. The reason why I got it is because I had heavy metal toxicity and I had liver problems. I wanted to detox and get rid of the gunk out of my body through my skin because your skin helps you detox all those obesogens and forever chemicals and microplastics, all the processed crap that is out there, all the chemicals. Your body sweats it out, so I use the Sunlighten and I get rid of it through the sweat. It also has all these other benefits, including cardiovascular health. I have episode . I have several episodes with cardiologists talking about the benefits of the Sunlighten Sauna. You can type in “Sunlighten Sauna” on my website, , to find those. is with the creator of Sunlighten Sauna, and she's wonderful. They're giving us such a cool special from now until December 6th—$1,000 off, including free shipping. You can go to . That's , and you can purchase it through that, or you can call them and talk to them. They're wonderful people, really great. They also do payment plans. That's how I bought mine, and I was able to do it on a payment plan, making it affordable. You can have a wonderful sauna, and they even have a personal-sized one that packs up, so you can put it in the closet when you're not using it. That one's also a great choice if you don't have a ton of room. Mine takes up just a very small fraction of my small office, and I love it and highly recommend it. I use it all year round. Wintertime is super nice to get into a hot sauna. It's also very easy to breathe in there, because of the way the near, mid, and far infrared work. You feel hot, but it feels comfortable. It's not one of those saunas where it's 160 or 180 degrees. It's 130 degrees, but it actually is really comfortable to breathe in there and sweat because it's heating your body up on the inside. You also have light receptors, and we talk about that, so it really feeds the body that light that we're missing. My next favorite thing is the organic mattresses. You will get the best sleep of your life. We got one. I think it's been seven years now, seven or eight years, and I absolutely love the Organix mattress. I am in love with it. I've had three interviews about it. It's wonderful, and they're giving a massive discount. They also have a really great return policy because I think this is the big question—if I'm ordering a mattress online, what if I don't like it? What if I lie on it and I don't like it? They have this amazing return policy, and I think it's something like 180 days. It is a very long time that you are given to try it out. Let yourself get used to it. Give it a few weeks. I fell in love with this mattress. It is absolutely amazing. My husband and I joke that we don't like going on vacations because we miss our mattress too much. We even had an RV once. We brought our mattress in the RV with us because it's that comfortable. We just don't want to be without it. They're doing a great sale right now, so if you're thinking, oh man, the mattress we're sleeping on is making me stiff every day, by the way, mattresses usually deteriorate after five years of use. Most people are sleeping on a mattress that is in some way unhealthy for their back. It's bent, pushing on their pressure points, and doing more damage to their back. If you're in that position where you're thinking, I really wish I could have a better mattress that's actually healthy for me—20% off the mattresses plus free white glove delivery, that's $2,000 in savings. They also have 30% off bundles with four accessories with free standard shipping, and it just depends on which mattress you're buying. Go to . That's Organix with an X, . You can also give them a call. They're really sweet people. They're really great. I love their bed. I highly recommend it. That sale is ending soon, so you want to give them a call. No matter what time of year, they offer a great discount, a great savings for my listeners. Even if you're listening to this and the sale's ended, they offer a really sweet deal, and it's worth trying because, in the next five years, your mattress is going to start wearing out. Think of your next mattress. Get the Organix mattress and let me know what you think. Every listener that's ever gotten one told me it was life-changing, and it's life-changing for me. It's also fun when other people report to me, saying, oh my gosh, I love my Organix mattress. Check it out—. Okay, two more left. Lifespa Ayurvedic Supplements. is now, until December 5th, 20% off site-wide. I love their Ayurvedic herbs, the turmeric blends, and they've got wonderful herbs for digestion. Just check it out. You can listen to my interview, , about using that ancient wisdom and modern science to help the body heal through these healing herbs. Okay, last thing I got to let you know about is the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. That's where I went and got my year long health coach training program. Absolutely love them. Well, they have more than just health coach training they have. So you don't have to become a health coach to go take their trainings. You can go take their trainings if you just want to learn how to balance your hormones or heal your gut or manage your stress. They have these micro classes that are phenomenal and I love the teachers there. You can go to and get a free sample class, , and right now, they have a 30% off site wide. You want to check that out soon because that is definitely going away, that cyber sale. So jump in. If you're like, man, I would love to learn how to correct my gut and take my gut health to the next level, or I'd love to balance my hormones. Just look at they have at least 12 different courses that are super interesting, in addition to their flagship, which is the health coach training program. So a lot of people take the classes just for their own personal benefit or just to add more tools to their tool belt. So you can check that out 30% off right now and use the coupon code LTH to get that discount. So 30% off coupon code LTH. Thank you so much for being amazing listeners, sharing my episodes with those you care about. This is going to be one of those episodes you're going to want to share with your friends and family. Share this episode with those you care about, because it is definitely a life changer. So thank you for sharing and have yourself a wonderful rest of this holiday season. Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is episode 535. Ashley James (0:12:14.786) I am so excited for today's guest. We have kind of a celebrity on our hands today. Udo Erasmus, you've been in this industry for, I think, over 40 years. Back when I was first exploring health on my own as a young adult, I think it was in my late teens. When you're around 18 years old, 19, 20, you start making your own health choices. I worked summer jobs, so I had my own income, and I gravitated towards the health food store—those really authentic health food stores where you walk in and smell herbs, and that musky herbal smell hits you. I haven't found one of those true health stores in many years, but this was up in Bracebridge, Muskoka, in Ontario, Canada. I walked into the only health food store in 100 kilometers, and I loved that smell. Right there in the refrigerated section, they had the Udo's Oil 3-6-9 blend. I was newly into discovering what I wanted to do to rebuild my health because I had torn down my health through making really bad choices as a teenager, eating the same way all my friends ate. I was starting to try to reclaim my health, and I found this Omega-3 oil. I ended up making curry dressings with it—not heating it, of course, but making salad dressings with it. In my mind, I can still taste it. It tastes so good. There was something that just buzzed for me. I don't know if it was that flax oil taste combined with the curry and turmeric, of course, it's a healthy flavor—but my cells started buzzing. Over 20 years later, I can still taste it in my mind, that flavor of me first attempting to get my health back, the beginnings of my own health journey. Through the years, every time I see your product in the health food stores and grocery stores that I go to, I tend to go to the grocery stores that carry your line because I'm looking for local, organic, and more healthy choices. It always just brings a smile to my face. When I found out I had the opportunity to interview you, I thought that would be really fun. I think there's a lot of confusion around oil. I've interviewed a lot of doctors, and one of my mentors who helped me so much with my health tells people to stay away from oil. But what he's referring to is cooking oil. When it comes to Omega-3, 6, and 9—flaxseed—he doesn't say stay away from it. He says we have to make sure that it's not exposed to oxygen, that it's not damaged by that exposure to oxygen and light, and that it hasn't gone rancid. Oil, the moment we remove fat from fiber, can begin to oxidize as it's exposed to oxygen. There are a lot of nuances when it comes to using oils, but I think that the majority of Americans, and those around the world—not just America, but Canada and those around the world—are using oil in an unhealthy way. We definitely still have a nutrient deficiency epidemic going on where we're consuming calories but not nutrition. I can't wait to dive into this topic with you today about how we can nutrify the body and make sure we're getting enough of the omega fatty acids without damaging our body from the more damaging oils. Udo, welcome to the show. Udo Erasmus (0:16:16.928) Well, glad to be on. It's going to be fun. Ashley James (0:16:20.134) Yes, absolutely. I'm really curious about your journey. Take us all the way back to the beginning and what led you to want to create the Udo's Choice brand? Udo Erasmus (0:16:33.476) Well, the long story is I was born during the Second World War, and I was a war baby. We were refugees, and I was an orphan for a short time because of all the craziness that is still going on in Europe and the same craziness that goes on everywhere where people don't pay attention to peace and cooperation, and then they drift towards war. That really formed me to always be asking questions, to question everything, and to try and understand how can you make life better. I started that when I was six. I listened to people arguing, and it just made me really uneasy. I was very, very sensitive as a kid. I listened to an argument, and this thought came and said, there must be a way that people can live in harmony. This little cocky voice of a six-year-old who doesn't know how complicated everything is—I’m going to find out how. So I was a born scientist, always figuring out how things work. It was also good for security because I was pretty insecure. I never knew what I could trust. Didn't... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/34278500

534 Dr. Jodie Meschuk Gets Kids So Healthy They Are No Longer On A Spectrum, Informed Choice, Autism, ADHD, Allergies, Heavy Metal Detox, Vaccine Injury 11/09/2024

534 Dr. Jodie Meschuk Gets Kids So Healthy They Are No Longer On A Spectrum, Informed Choice, Autism, ADHD, Allergies, Heavy Metal Detox, Vaccine Injury Get my ebook and audiobook here: . Get my course, The 7 Foundations of Health, here: Get a physical copy of my book here: The Vibe: coupon code LTH - LearnTrueHealth.com/vibe Get the NEW free IIN sample class and health coach experience: Enroll in the next Health Coach Training Program! Use coupon code LTH when signing up to become a health coach. Dr. Jodie Meschuk's Website: 534: Getting Off The Spectrum: Jodie Meschuk’s Path to Helping Kids Overcome Autism, ADHD, Allergies, Heavy Metals, and Vaccine Injury Is autism really a lifelong condition, or can it be reversed? In this episode of the Learn True Health podcast, Jodie Meschuk shares her powerful journey of helping her child recover from an autism diagnosis using holistic methods. She reveals how brain inflammation, heavy metal toxicity, and gut dysfunction are often misdiagnosed as autism—and how detox, nutrition, and natural healing can bring incredible results. Jodie also exposes the flaws in conventional pediatric care, the hidden dangers of vaccines, and the importance of informed medical decisions. If you're looking for real answers and hope beyond mainstream medicine, this episode is a must-listen! Highlights: Jodie Meschuk shares her journey of helping her child recover from an autism diagnosis through holistic healing. Autism is often misdiagnosed when the real issue is brain inflammation, heavy metal toxicity, and gut dysfunction. The rapid rise in autism rates suggests environmental and medical interventions, not genetics, are to blame. Vaccines contain harmful ingredients like aluminum and formaldehyde, which can contribute to neurological damage. Parents are often gaslighted by the medical system and not given informed consent about vaccine risks. Conventional pediatric care follows a rigid “standard of care” that prioritizes pharmaceutical solutions over holistic healing. Jodie emphasizes the importance of detoxing heavy metals, healing the gut, and strengthening the immune system. Natural healing methods, including dietary changes and detox protocols, helped her child regain speech, eye contact, and social skills. She advocates for parental empowerment, informed medical decisions, and questioning mainstream health narratives. The medical industry profits from chronic illness, making it crucial for parents to seek alternative healing approaches. Intro: Hello, True Health Seeker, and welcome to another exciting episode of the . Strap on your seat belt. Today’s going to be a bumpy ride. It's an amazing conversation. I'm so excited for you to hear today's episode. Before we do, I want to let you know that if you are struggling with detoxing, especially heavy metals, I have some amazing interviews for you to listen to. Also, I have some amazing resources. You can go to , type in heavy metals. You can also type in vaccine or vaccines. Use the search function on my website, . You’ll find some really great interviews. Kellyann Andrews comes on several times, talking about heavy metal detox. I have Dr. Klinghardt on the show as well, a great heavy metal detox expert. He regularly takes children who are on the spectrum, gets them so healthy that they no longer are on the spectrum, and then we question whether that diagnosis was accurate in the first place. This is one of the things that we discussed today, that so many children over the course of the last 34 years went from one in 10,000 kids being on the spectrum to one in 32, between 28 and 32. That’s not genetic. Something genetic doesn’t just, within four years, become that prolific. So we have to ask ourselves, what’s really going on? This discussion today answers that question. As far as answers are concerned, there are so many holistic ways to support the body. It’s constantly trying to come back to homeostasis. That’s why I love some of the tools that I have. If you’d like to know some of the tools that work really well with my clients, with heavy metal detox, especially in myself personally—if you've been a long-time listener, you know that I struggle with heavy metal toxicity and I have overcome it using several different modalities—I’d love to share them with you. Please feel free to book a free phone call with me. I want to talk to you. I love talking to the listeners, and we have so much fun on our phone calls. Just go to , in the menu, select , and it’s the very first thing that you click from there. It’s a free 20-minute or so phone call. Sometimes the phone calls go longer. If you have more questions, I will stay on the phone with you and answer them. We have a really great time. I highly recommend the phototherapy patches that I've talked about on the show with Trina Hammack and David Schmidt. I’ve had clients use them successfully. We have a detox protocol, and it works so well because it increases the body's function to produce more glutathione. Within 24 hours, you will produce 300% more glutathione. There’s actually a study out of South Korea with several patients of this doctor—I think it was 40 or 60 patients—who, over the course of 12 weeks, used this particular patch to increase their body's ability to create glutathione. What they found was a 75% improvement in their cognition, quality of life, and all their symptoms, and this was rated by the parents. So the parents saw this. Some children went from nonverbal to verbal, from not making eye contact to making eye contact and hugging, from rocking and holding themselves or being held against the wall to playing with the other kids. This is wild, and this is just one of the many things that we can do naturally. It’s non-invasive, no negative side effects. There are gentle things that we can incorporate to support our body’s ability to heal itself. That’s why I’m so excited to introduce this to you. If you are new to this world of holistic medicine, there are so many little things that we can add, and each one is profound. Together, they help us gain true health. As our guest today shares, she helped her child get off the spectrum. Here’s the thing—is it truly autism, or is it heavy metal toxicity and damage from pesticides, from environmental pollutants, from the chemicals that are injected into us? So that’s the question—what’s going on? If you’re here and you're listening because your child has been sick and has been socially poisoned by some form of chemicals out there, whether it’s injected or through food, we can support the body's ability to heal itself. That’s the exciting thing. The power goes back to your court. We feel so powerless when we go to the MD and they write us prescriptions, and they just don’t have answers for us when it comes to chronic illness. They do not have the pathway to true health. We have to take it upon ourselves to learn how to eat to heal our body, what we can do throughout our day to support our body. This is holistic lifestyle medicine. That’s what we’re here to teach you by listening to the . So please sign up for a free phone call with me. I’d love to talk with you and share some of the resources that have made a huge impact on the thousands of clients that I’ve worked with over the last 13+ years. I’m in this to help people and to help people get the true health that they deserve. So go to , sign up to talk with me. I’d love to help you. Use the search function on my website to search for the things that you are most interested in. So go to , sign up to talk with me. I'd love to help you and use the search function on my website to search for the things that you're most interested in, because we have wonderful episodes. We have over 500 episodes, and so many of them offer real step-by-step activities that you can do today, that you can start doing today to immediately improve your health and to feel the improvement right away. If you're not feeling full of energy, having great sleep, mental clarity, if you're not feeling amazing every day, then take on the challenge of listening to these episodes and doing the activities. Another thing you can do is get my book, because I have over 500 interviews in. I wrote my book a few months ago and published it. It's called . You can go to , and it's a compilation of the most effective steps, and it's done in challenge form. So you take on between one and four challenges a week, and you get to journal what you learn from it and how your body feels going through the process of these challenges. It's an accumulation of the most important steps, the fundamental keys to true health, and if you're missing these, these are the pillars of health. If you're missing them and then going out for a prescription drug, your body is missing what it needs, and then we're just drugging ourselves. I know you don't do that, but this is what a lot of people do and a lot of doctors do—we're missing the foundations of health. So please check out my book . You can get it on Amazon or go to . Sign up for a free chat with me. Love to chat with you, love to help you, and point you in the direction of some great resources. Use the search function on my website, , and find the specific episodes for the things you're really interested in so that you can start feeling amazing. I've been on an amazing health journey. I've healed over five diseases, and that's why I do what I do—because I don't want you to suffer anymore. The needless suffering, needs to end. We're turning our health around as a nation and as a world. Please share this episode with all those you care about so that we can turn this ripple into a tidal wave and help as many people as possible to learn true health. Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is Episode 534. Ashley James (0:08:26.066) I am so excited for today's guest. I have Jodie Meschuk, who is a board-certified naturopathic doctor, author, activist, coach, and just amazing, amazing. I love your story. I love that you are here to help parents navigate this crazy world when their child has an illness or has a diagnosis, is on a spectrum. Just pick a spectrum, any spectrum. You are there to help and to navigate. I just interviewed a doctor yesterday. She's unfortunately more allopathic than I'm used to interviewing. She used the word need drugs when it came to something that wasn't like a life-saving thing. She said need drugs. I'm like, Hmm? and then I brought up herbs. I'm like, well, what about this, this, this, and that? What about these other options? This is how MDs, medical doctors, go through an indoctrination system throughout their college, throughout their university, and they're taught how to use drugs as their tools. They're not taught how to help the body get so healthy that it no longer has these symptoms or that it gets to the stage of absolute optimal health. They have not been taught that. Now they have their place, obviously, emergency medicine, saving lives. When it comes to chronic illness, they are horrible, and their tools are horrible. Not they themselves are horrible, their tools are horrible. What they've been taught is horrible. So I'm so excited to have you on the show today because you have an amazing track record of helping parents get their kids so healthy that they're no longer on spectrums. So welcome to the show. Jodie Meschuk (0:10:16.547) Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Every day is a good day to just speak truth and give parents hope. As you mentioned with doctors in the system, or as I like to refer a lot of times to the system, kind of quote-unquote, the system is, it's very one-dimensional. You would think it would be the opposite of the way medicine was years and years ago with house calls, and you had one doctor who could handle many different things that were going on in the body because they looked at the body holistically. Unfortunately, now we are in a day and age where everything is compartmentalized, and you have 10 or 20 or 30 different specialists for different parts of the body, and nobody's speaking to each other. Anyways, all of that just creates a whole lot of, I think, paralyzation and confusion for parents, especially when you're dealing with maybe a new diagnosis that their child has received. I think also, we can look and just kind of call the elephant out in the room, which is that this autism epidemic and really the chronic illness epidemic in children that we see today, it doesn't have to be that way. There's actual truth behind what's really going on. But unfortunately, a lot of these parents just don't have a chance to hear that truth because everything is so censored or relying on the system. So you're relying on those doctors who aren't really looking at the body holistically. All that to say is I'm very passionate about this kind of topic because we have lived it, we've gone through it, we've seen the other side, and I just want to do everything in my power to help end this epidemic that we see happening today. Ashley James (0:12:06.089) Absolutely. I'd love for listeners to know why I found you, why I think you're so amazing is your story, your initial story about how you helped a child of yours to reverse a diagnosis. Would you care to share that story with us? Jodie Meschuk (0:12:27.965) Yes, absolutely. I will say the story has kind of, the way that I share it obviously has changed a little bit over the years because our children get older. There are things that we reflect on. There are things that we look at. I think that's just part of the process. But the foundation of that story, it's interesting because it still holds very true today. If you would have asked me 15 years ago,14 years ago, even 13 years ago when we were in the depths of this reversal and healing the body and just kind of reversing all the damage that had happened to my child, I would have thought that many years ago this would not still be an epidemic today but the sad part is that it still is, and it's actually getting worse. So that's very alarming to me in terms of like how did we even get to this place as a society where, for example, with autism, you have this term that has just become this umbrella for basically inflammation happening in the brain and body. I think it's really important that we call things what they are, but what you're going to find is that when you take a new parent, or even when I go back to the beginning of my story with my own child, you have these symptoms and these things happening, but they want to just lump it into this label or this diagnosis to make you feel better. But it doesn't really make you feel better because all you want is for your child to be happy and healthy. So if I go back to when it first started for us, I was a new mom. It was my first child. As a new mom, you're trying to figure everything out, and you're trying to listen to the experts and have the best pediatrician and do really the best things that you can for your baby. I think if I look back when I was even just pregnant, you want the best for your child. So you go and you find all the things that are supposed to help your child be healthy. At the end of the day, the ironic part is our babies actually really don't need anything at all. They don't need these interventions or vaccines. They don't need a medicalized birth. They don't need the eye gel. They don't need all this stuff that has been basically shoved down our throats for years, that if you don't do these things for your child, your child is not going to be healthy. I never realized that. As a new mom, I just trusted the system, and you're feared every step of the way that if you do not vaccinate your child, for some reason, your child is just going to die of measles. There's so much fear put into you. So that's really where I was caught, honestly. I was trying to do the best I could for my child. I wanted them to be happy and healthy. But because of that blind trust that I had in the system, we ended up paying a really big price for that. So I can kind of take you back to the beginning if you want and sort of set up our story, which I think is probably very similar to what a lot of women go through, especially when you're looking at the medicalized birth system that we have in this country today. It's also in a lot of other countries. Because a lot of things in the U.S. end up bleeding over into other countries as well. But it's very prominent here if you think about how people want convenience. They want quick fixes. They don't want to feel pain. So you have this medicalized birth system, and I'll kind of say, the first straw that sort of led up to the straw that broke the camel's back is when I was diagnosed with strep B. So a lot of women are diagnosed with strep B, which is a pretty normal bacteria that exists. Whether or not that actually causes problems, the data is not actually super clear on that. But of course, the standard of care is that you just get antibiotics, and that's it. That is literally the standard of care. So when you're looking at the standard of care, that means there's no deviation. That's really important for mothers to understand, that standard of care is just all the system has been taught. It's their way of medicalizing everything. If you ask a question or if you try to see if there's another option or another way, you're often met with a lot of gaslighting, a lot of shaming. You're an irresponsible mother, an irresponsible parent. So that was me. I was told I had to get antibiotics, which means that while I was delivering my child, they also got exposed to antibiotics. I had no idea the repercussions that would occur in my child's health with having an immediate exposure to antibiotics before they even entered this world. I think that was just really one of the first things that if I look back on, I go, what? That's such a simple thing to reverse. That's such a simple thing to look at differently, where you don't have to necessarily take those antibiotics if you don't want to. There's another path, but you're never given that choice. You're just told what to do, and you have to fall in line, or again, you get shamed, and you get all the nasty things said at you. So that was really the beginning of the birth. It's the epidural, it's the strep B, the antibiotics. My amazing, healthy, beautiful baby is born, and it's the Hep B shot immediately within minutes. It's the eye gel. It's the Johnson & Johnson toxic baby wash on the skin. It's cutting the cord within seconds. It's all of this medicalization that, if you think about it, doesn't set up the baby for health. Your baby is not born deficient in hepatitis B vaccine. They're not born deficient in eye gel. They don't need that stuff. So I kind of went along with it. There was something inside of me that felt very uncomfortable, but because I didn't have my confidence at that time, I just didn't know how to speak up. I think again, what is often so ignored is the fear that they have sown in mothers for so long that you truly do not know how to even use your voice in a setting like that because all they do is fear you, that something's going to happen if you don't do what they say. So that was kind of the beginning, which, basically again, looking back, I don't know that my child was necessarily set up for health at that point because they already had three or four assaults to their body. Every assault it takes time to come back from. Every assault could cause a domino effect in something else. I don't know that a lot of parents realize that hepatitis B vaccine is full of a chemical that affects the liver, which can cause jaundice and the kidneys too. So you think about all these babies that end up with... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/33856692

533 Unwrapping Sugar Season's Scary Truth: Processed Sugar's Unseen Effects on Your Immunity, Hormones, Sleep, Brain, Behavior, & Even Your Genes, Ashley James 10/31/2024

533 Unwrapping Sugar Season's Scary Truth: Processed Sugar's Unseen Effects on Your Immunity, Hormones, Sleep, Brain, Behavior, & Even Your Genes, Ashley James Get my ebook and audiobook here: . Get my course, The 7 Foundations of Health, here: Get a physical copy of my book here: The Vibe: coupon code LTH - LearnTrueHealth.com/vibe Get the NEW free IIN sample class and health coach experience: Enroll in the next Health Coach Training Program! Use coupon code LTH when signing up to become a health coach at . 533: The Hidden Cause of Flu Season Is flu season really just sugar season? In this eye-opening episode of the Learn True Health podcast, Ashley James uncovers the shocking effects of sugar on our immune system, metabolism, and overall well-being. From hidden sugars in processed foods to how a single tablespoon can suppress immune function for hours, she breaks down the science behind why sugar is at the root of many chronic health issues. Ashley also shares her personal journey of overcoming illness through holistic nutrition and challenges listeners to go 30 days without processed sugar to experience a true health transformation. If you’re ready to reclaim your energy, boost your immunity, and break free from sugar addiction, this episode is a must-listen! Highlights: Ashley challenges the concept of “flu season,” linking it to increased sugar consumption during holidays. Consuming sugar suppresses immune function for 4–6 hours, making the body more vulnerable to infections. Hidden sugars in processed foods contribute to chronic illness, including diabetes, hormonal imbalances, and gut issues. Childhood exposure to sugar can lead to long-term health problems and increased reliance on medications. Cutting out sugar for 30 days can significantly improve energy, sleep, immune function, and mental clarity. Sugar triggers addiction pathways in the brain, leading to cravings and overconsumption. Many chronic diseases, including cardiovascular issues and neuroinflammation, are linked to excessive sugar intake. Ashley shares personal experiences of reversing health issues through holistic nutrition and eliminating processed sugar. She encourages listeners to take control of their health by reading labels, reducing sugar, and prioritizing whole foods. Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is Episode 533. Hello, Truth Seeker. Happy Halloween. It's the start of sugar season. They say it's flu season. Well, I'm here to tell you that I think I have a sneaking suspicion that the term flu season was made up by, and I could be wrong. I could be wrong. I just have this feeling that flu season was a PR campaign to sell flu shots, and here's why. You can get the flu any time of year, and I happen to know people that got sick this summer who were pretty upset about it because it's like, hey, they're ruining my summer vacation. There is something that happens though, right around halloween. I don't know if you saw going into offices, hanging out, even the chiropractor there's bowls of candy that start to appear in the public. Anywhere you go, there's bowls of candy. Somewhere around October, it starts, and it doesn't stop until after January. We've got Halloween, we have Thanksgiving, and it's in the opposite order. If you're from Canada, Thanksgiving happens in October, but still, it's sugar season nonetheless. So we come into a period in the north, for us in America and Canada and all across Europe, where we're having less sunlight, less vitamin D. Many people spend less time outside, so there's less physical activity, and then there's more sugar, more processed sugar, and we call it flu season. Something really interesting happens, and I experienced this firsthand. When we consume even a tablespoon of sugar, we have white blood cells that essentially go to sleep for between four and six hours. It creates this window where our body is very vulnerable to infection. I don't know if the word is ironic, but people were really, really stressed out about getting sick the last four years. People were wearing plastic bags on their heads. They were wearing giant plastic get-up garb so they could hug grandma. Triple masks, wearing a face shield and masks, wearing gloves. Everyone had multiple containers of hand sanitizer. They were so cautious. Social distancing, spending time away from friends and family, isolation, six feet apart, and yet there's not much stress or focus on what we can do to support our body's ability to fight off infection. What negatively hurts our immune system? The number one culprit is processed sugar. When I was 13 years old, I was actually really healthy between the ages of 6 and 13 because my mom, when I was six years old, took me to a naturopath. This was Dr. D'Adamo, the man who wrote He had a center in Toronto, that's where I grew up, and he looked into my eyes and my ears, took my blood, examined me, and said, “You are allergic to milk, yeast, wheat, and sugar. Stay away from them.” I was told I was O blood type and had to eat the O blood type diet, which is a lot like paleo. Minimal grains, lean meats, lots of vegetables, and no processed food. From the ages of 6 to 13, I also took supplements daily. I had to learn how to swallow pills because they weren't like fun liquid supplements like has. They tasted pretty gross. I tried opening the capsules of supplements and taking them, and that was like B vitamins, raw B vitamins. They're disgusting, especially for a 6-year-old. So, from the age of 6 to 13, I ate super clean, no processed food. The only time I got to have processed food was on my birthday. I chose pizza and ice cream, and then, of course, I got extremely sick because I never ate it. But that was it. That was it. I was eating really clean, super healthy, and my mom was so strict, though this is the problem. She was so strict that I ended up rebelling, and I remember my mom did something. I mean, I'm sure I did something. I was being a teenage brat. I was 13, and I said something, she said something. She said, you're grounded, or whatever, and somehow I convinced her to let me go trick-or-treating one last time with my friends because I'm 13 and probably never going to do it again. So all my friends went out, and we had a blast that night. But I had this intention of doing something I knew she wouldn't want me to do, and that little defiant teenager lives in all of us. We really need to do a little come-to-Jesus talk with ourselves sometimes and catch ourselves and go, am I making the best choice right now, or is that little defiant teenager just wanting to eat what it wants when it wants or drink what it wants when it wants and kind of screw the consequences? That's exactly what I did. I was 13 years old, and I ate pretty much all my Halloween candy. It wasn't a ton because actually, a lot of houses turned us down. They were like, you're too old to do this. But I came home with a good stash, a good bowl of candy, and I pretty much ate it within less than a week. I finished that off. Now, what you don't know about me is I had never been on a single drug my entire 13 years. I had never once been on a prescription. I had never been on an antibiotic, and I got so sick from eating that Halloween candy. I ended up with an infection that lasted from just after Halloween. The infection was so bad that by Thanksgiving, I had to get on antibiotics for the first time in my life, and I stayed on antibiotics until after Christmas. The infection kept traveling from different parts of my body to different parts of my body. Now, remember, for the first 14 years of my life, I was pretty healthy, and this was my first real run-in with the mainstream medical system and being sick. I did it to myself, and I didn't learn. Then, at that very moment, I did not learn my lesson. I continued to eat unhealthy food because I had access to food at the cafeteria, so one out of three meals a day was complete garbage. I began to deteriorate my own health, and as a result, by the time I was 19, I had blood sugar dysregulation. I had polycystic ovarian syndrome, infertility, and then into my 20s, I developed type 2 diabetes, chronic adrenal fatigue, and constant infections, for which I was on antibiotics constantly. It wasn't until 2008. I wasn't eating garbage at every meal, but I was definitely letting sugar sneak in. Sugar was in the processed bread, the pasta, lots of processed food. If you don't read labels, just go to the grocery store and grab any random tomato sauce. If you don't read labels and just grab one, I would bet you there's sugar in it. Because without reading labels, most of the cans of food and processed food are going to have some form of sugar. I was eating the standard American diet. I was eating out a lot, and I just continued to get sick and sicker and sicker until I was done being sick. Then I started going to doctors, and they didn't have anything for me. They had drugs. That was very scary because I was in my 20s. In your 20s, you're supposed to be healthy and vibrant, and I felt every day like I was dying. I was trapped in a sick body. You might have heard my story, but my husband and I started watching health documentaries and talking to functional medicine practitioners, eventually finding some naturopaths. As a result, I was able to reverse all those health issues. I was told I'd never have kids, and we were able to conceive naturally. Wonderful. We're so blessed. That's why I do the podcast, because I learned from so many holistic practitioners how to use holistic lifestyle medicine. Your food is your medicine, and supplements are the mortar. Food is the bricks. But our food system has been compromised. We're really missing a lot of the minerals. If you're missing chromium, vanadium—these are trace elements or minerals. There are 60 essential minerals. If you have less than what you need for those, you actually have insulin dysregulation. You have blood sugar dysregulation when you don't have those. I have many interviews about magnesium. Magnesium is the most needed mineral in the body. It's required for 1,800 enzymatic processes, and zinc is required for 800. Calcium is not even in the top two of the most important minerals or elements your body needs. They're all important, they're all needed, and they're not in our food anymore at the levels that we need because of the farming practices of the last hundred years, and especially more recently with hydroponic farming, the chemicals they use, and the way they till the soil. Everything they do depletes the soil of minerals, and they do not add the 60 minerals back. Even if you eat super clean and lots of vegetables, you can accidentally get the 16 vitamins and the 12 amino acids. A lot of times, you can even accidentally get the two essential fatty acids a lot of times, but it's really hard to secure the 60 minerals. That's why I highly recommend going to because the supplements they sell and the protocols were developed by the naturopath who helped me to reverse all my health issues. He designed them, and they're liquid, they're delicious, they're bioavailable, they're plant-derived, and they turned my life around. What I noticed is that I didn't get sick anymore. Well, I also cut out sugar. That's why I wanted to do this quick episode for you. I wanted to share because right now we're going into sugar season. No longer shall it be referred to as flu season. That is the fear-mongering propaganda that they use to try to tell you that flu shots will make you healthy. Please explore and dive deeper into that. I'm not here to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. I just want to give you the information because that information is power for you. So if you're sick of getting sick every year, if you're sick of your whole family, the bug, the flu bug going around or getting colds and flus and coughing and sniffling and all that, if you're sick of that and sore throats, consider doing no sugar. Now, for some people, that is just like blasphemy. Would you rather have a moment of bliss from that sugar? Would you rather have an entire winter season with zero health problems? It is that big of a deal. When I went sugar-free, I challenged myself a few years ago to 30 days with no processed sugar, and I could not believe it. I began to read all the labels. I just could not believe that sugar really is hidden in everything and that there's all different names for sugar. It's not always obvious. It doesn't always say just cane sugar. But I invite you to explore this concept of going sugar-free. That doesn't mean you eat artificially sweetened things either because I'd say, if you ate an apple or a banana or some sweet potatoes, they're very sweet, especially if you stop putting sugar in your beverages like coffee. If you gave up caffeinated bubbly drinks like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, that kind of thing, and instead cracked open a LaCroix, cracked open a Spindrift, something that has some flavor to it, some bubbles to it, but has no added sugar, try that. Give yourself a challenge to say no. Because as you go deeper into this, you will see that within the first five minutes of eating sugar—so the Halloween candy that is available to all of us right now—your taste and reward centers become activated. Your taste buds, the reward centers, trigger in the limbic system of the brain and the nucleus accumbens. Dopamine floods your brain and the pleasure centers, and it creates a strong urge for more. More addictive substances as well. People who notice that they crave more unhealthy things after consuming an evening of these chocolatey goodies, whatever your kids bring home or whatever you bought for Halloween, have a negative effect, immediately, within five minutes of eating it, you get a blood sugar spike. Within 10 to 20 minutes, your pancreas responds. You have an insulin surge. We want insulin. Insulin is a good thing, but when we have high surges of it, it becomes unhealthy. It's a metabolic tug of war. Your cells are bombarded with glucose, especially if you've eaten processed sugar. It's just way too much. It's a flood. The body has to put it somewhere, and it will turn it to glycogen and store it in your liver and your muscles, which is good at first. But then there's an excess because this isn't naturally occurring sugar. So the body converts the excess and stores it as fat, and chronic sugar intake can gradually lead to insulin resistance and can lead to fatty liver disease. This is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. But if you're like, oh, I'm just going to eat on Halloween, okay, but in one to two hours, your brain is actually cognitively disrupted, especially in children. You'll see the crash in children. You're going to see in the next few days children's behavior. If you're around children, their behavior will be dismal. They'll be having little tantrums over spilt milk, and they'll be tired and wired. They'll have problems with sleeping. The high sugar intake can impair their neurotransmitter function, particularly acetylcholine, which is vital for learning and memory. So jacking up your kids with basically legal cocaine and then shipping them off to school—you've not set them up for a healthy learning environment. The immune system suppression I talked about is noticeable, particularly in neutrophils. For up to five hours, I said like four to six. It really just depends on how much sugar and the way the body processes it. But studies show that sugar suppresses the immune system by reducing neutrophil phagocytic capacity. Suppresses the immune system by reducing neutrophil phagocytic capacity. That means the immune system cells become lazy at attacking pathogens. They basically fall asleep. This is something that was described to me by one of my naturopathic mentors is that the immune system just falls asleep. You can see it. You can see it in. They take blood and they watch the different white blood cells and they see that the white blood cells that are there to attack it and control infections just go to sleep, and so your opportunistic infections are more likely to take over as well. Now, within four to six hours of eating that Halloween candy, you have cellular damage and oxidative stress. The advanced glycation. Glycation is where blood sugar is caramelizing the proteins in our body. The glycation, the excess sugar in the bloodstream will bind to the proteins and these compounds accelerate cellular aging and damaged tissue, especially blood vessels. So over time, this can lead to heart disease and other chronic diseases that are affected by blood vessels, by blood vessels aging rapidly. I’ve had cardiologists on the show that have shared that children younger and younger and younger are experiencing cardiovascular disease. This just makes sense because think back, now I’m in my 40s. I think back to when I was a kid and yes, of course, we had access to sugar. It was in a much more limited capacity. Now sugar is readily available and we can see this. Just Google how much sugar do kids eat now versus the 80s kind of thing, and there’ll be all kinds of charts and you can see it. Our children are developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes and inflammatory issues at a younger and younger age due to the amount of constant oxidative stress from the sugar in their diet. Now the mitochondria are the energy factories of our cells and there’s a mitochondrial strain that happens when we have high glucose. It’s because it has to respond quickly to the large amount of energy production. This process generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) as byproducts, causing oxidative stress and more cellular damage if the body doesn’t have enough antioxidants to squelch the fire that basically sugar causes in the cells. Now the highest concentration of mitochondria is in your brain, is in your nervous tissue. So we’re lighting the brain on fire by eating the high amounts of sugar that comes from sugar season, no longer calling it flu season, sugar season. Now, within six to 12 hours, your gut microbiome is disrupted. This reminds me that back when I was almost about to give birth to our son, he came at the end of March and this was six weeks before. I was so good the whole pregnancy at eating super clean, and on Valentine’s Day, which is which Valentine’s Day is part of sugar season, right? So we’ve got Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, and Valentine’s Day, and it’s just like sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar that whole season. So it was the end of sugar season. I almost made it through sugar season without eating one candy that whole pregnancy, and my husband brought home a big box of chocolates because, you know, he was being sweet, and he was saying how much he loved me, and he didn’t think he should eat. He should bring home like carob or some kind of like dark chocolate with no sugar in it. That would have been nice. Him and I sat there, and we ate that whole box, and you want to know what happened? I was so upset at myself, so I just want to share my lesson so hopefully you don’t go through it. But pretty soon after that, I developed a UTI, and I tried to mitigate it with homeopathy and with all the other good stuff that you can throw at UTIs, but it was a rager, and unfortunately, I had to get on an antibiotic during my pregnancy. Luckily, it was a safe antibiotic for pregnancy because I have a great doctor. But there really isn’t any safe drug out there. There are effects. We call it side effects, which kind of sounds innocent. We’re like, oh, it may or may not happen, but there are effects. 100% of the time, when you take an antibiotic, it wipes out your good microbiome. This is fact. We do not dispute this. So if I had just learned my lesson back when I was 13. But I want to pass this knowledge on to you because when you eat the sugar, within six to 12 hours, you have that disruption, that window,... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/33700912

532 Revolutionary Leap in Restorative Health Tech Makes Healing Affordable, Frequency-Specific Microcurrent, PEMF Therapy, Mark Fox 10/22/2024

532 Revolutionary Leap in Restorative Health Tech Makes Healing Affordable, Frequency-Specific Microcurrent, PEMF Therapy, Mark Fox coupon code LTH - LearnTrueHealth.com/vibe 532: Scientific Leap In Restorative Health Tech Innovation: Affordable PEMF & Frequency Specific Microcurrent Feel better naturally with The Vibe! Experience pain relief, better sleep, and more. Get yours now at . Imagine a device that could help relieve pain, improve sleep, and boost mental clarity—all without medication. In this episode of the Learn True Health podcast, we sit down with Mark Fox, the brilliant ex-rocket scientist who created The Vibe, a groundbreaking PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) device. Unlike traditional machines that cost thousands, The Vibe is portable, affordable, and designed for everyday use. Mark shares the science behind PEMF therapy, its impact on conditions like PTSD, anxiety, inflammation, and even ADHD, and how this technology is changing lives. Whether you're seeking natural pain relief or a way to optimize your well-being, this conversation will open your eyes to the future of holistic healing. Highlights: Mark Fox, an ex-rocket scientist, developed The Vibe, an affordable and portable PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) device. Traditional PEMF machines can cost thousands, but The Vibe is designed to be more effective at a fraction of the price. PEMF technology helps with pain relief, mental clarity, sleep improvement, and emotional balance. Studies show PEMF can aid PTSD, anxiety, depression, ADHD, fibromyalgia, and even asthma. The Vibe has over 70 programs, including sleep, inflammation, detox, and brain balancing. Many users experience deep relaxation, reduced stress, and faster healing from injuries. Hydration is key to maximizing the effects of PEMF therapy. Clinical studies on blood sugar regulation and PTSD have shown promising results. Mark envisions PEMF technology integrated into smart devices for effortless healing. Regulatory challenges make it difficult to promote PEMF’s benefits, despite its proven effectiveness. Intro: Hello True Health Seekers and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. We're going to jump right into this interview, but before we do, I have to tell you one thing. The website is , , That is the discount that our listener today is giving us, which I was so excited to find out he was giving us a discount. That's all set up for you. He's giving a great discount. This machine, which we spend a good hour talking about, has testimonials and stories of success that I've had, both personally with several of my friends and several of my family members over the last three months using this machine. I am really grateful that he made it affordable because these machines are normally thousands of dollars, and he made it so affordable. It's so neat how I came across this machine, and it's really cool what this guy is doing. He's been in the PEMF and frequency-specific microcurrent space for several years now. With his background in the sciences and in developing machines, he was able to figure out how to create this to be portable, simple, affordable, and actually more effective. In my personal experience and my experience with several of my friends and family members, his machine is more effective than the other machines I have used on the market. I have even used a machine that was $40,000. I don't own it. I went to a clinic and got almost nothing using those PEMF machines, the $40,000 machines. I've used the $10,000 Beamer mats. I've used frequency-specific microcurrent before and other machines that were thousands and thousands of dollars. His is just a few hundred dollars. Plus, he gives us a great discount, and I get better results from it because he rethought the whole technology. So he comes in sharing today, a good half of the conversation is talking about our experiences with it, and then he gets into the science of it. What I'm really excited about is where rubber meets the road, the studies, so he talks about the studies and the ongoing studies he's doing. We're definitely going to have him back on the show because he's continuing to do clinical studies, gathering that information, and bringing it out to the masses. His goal is to revolutionize health and help people get out of pain and suffering, and I can see it working. I'm really excited. If someone has PTSD, anxiety, depression, sleep issues, or insomnia. If someone has any kind of pain issues, low back pain, chronic pain, migraines, gut issues. If someone has MS or fibromyalgia, any kind of chronic pain. If someone has ADHD, any kind of anxiety issues, sleep issues, or anyone who's just feeling uncomfortable in their own body, mentally, emotionally, or physically, there are over 70 programs you can run using this machine. I have run through them and gotten some really cool results, mentally, emotionally, and physically. If you have a friend in your life who you think of when I mention that, please share this episode with them because together we are helping end needless suffering. My goal is to help over a million people to learn true health, end needless suffering, and gain true health. Please help me in doing that by sharing this episode with those you care about. The link is , that's . If you ever reach out to Mark Fox, my guest, when you buy one of his devices, if you ever chat with him, if you're on Facebook, he runs all his own Facebook posts. If you ever follow him on Facebook, if you ever happen to see him on YouTube or email him because you're chatting about The Vibe, just thank him. Thank him for his time. Thank him for all he's doing because what he's doing is amazing. He's helped so many, for example, so many vets to end their PTSD, end their depression, and end their suffering. That's just one slice of a small example of what he's doing to help humanity. Thank him and continue to share this information, share this podcast so we can help all those people that are crying themselves to sleep. I used to be crying myself to sleep, suffering. You don't even know the people in your life who are crying themselves to sleep because they're suffering, they’re losing hope, and they don't know a way out. This could be the answer for them. That's why I'm so jazzed, I'm so excited that together we can help people to learn true health. Enjoy today's interview. Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I’m your host Ashley James. This is episode 532. Ashley James (0:05:24.692) I am so excited for today's guest. You got to understand, I'm having a fangirl moment. We're having Mark Fox on the show, the creator of The Vibe, which has been probably one of the most interesting holistic medical devices I've ever used. Our entire family uses it daily. We kind of fight over it, which is really funny. We take turns using it. I've shared it with friends, and I have some amazing testimonials I can't wait to share with you guys. I've been thinking about you, the listener, for the last few months, because we've been using it for three months daily in my family and with my friends. We share it wherever we go because I always carry it with me. I keep thinking about how I want to share this with you guys because there are so many possibilities for how it'll support you in your healing goals and increase the quality of your life. First off, tremendous help with pain on multiple, multiple occasions. So there's that, but not everyone's in pain, but it has helped me on an emotional, mental level so much. I'm very excited to get into it today. Mark, welcome to the show. Mark Fox (0:06:34.216) Thank you so much for having me. This is exciting. Ashley James (0:06:36.692) Absolutely. Well, I'm Christian, but beyond that, I believe in God. I believe in fate. I believe in that cosmic divine, just how it kind of brings order to chaos and brings us together. This was one of those answers to my prayers, and it popped up on my feed. I saw a video on it, and I immediately felt that I had to pursue it. I had to go down this rabbit hole. I see lots of videos on health stuff. I'm a health nut. I love it. But I don't always get that feeling. Sometimes I get that red flag feeling. I don't know if this looks a little too.. I don't know, but for The Vibe, I had this intense curiosity, this divine guidance that I needed to pursue it. So I bought one. I thought, you know what, okay, I think there's a return policy. It's actually affordable, but everything I'm seeing so far looks great. I kind of dug in for a few hours and started watching interviews of you and started watching testimonials. I got more and more excited. I told my husband about it. He got even more excited than me. So he was like, when is that coming? When is it arriving? When we received it, we immediately started using it and started having these crazy, fun results. So again, very excited for you to be here. I've been thinking for the last three months about this interview because I reached out to you pretty soon after we started wearing it. I was like, I have to get you on my show. We have to share this with all my listeners who are sick of being sick and who want a leg up, who want to start feeling better, or the listener who has been on their health journey for years and is constantly refining it and looking to improve health. No matter where they are, looking to improve every aspect of life. What I love about The Vibe is that it hits on mental health, emotional health, energetic health, and physical health. It's hitting on these multiple layers of health. I've talked about it, but I still haven't said what it is. Mark, first of all, you have an extensive background, and I'd love for you to share a bit about your background and what about your background led to you creating The Vibe. Mark Fox (0:08:57.274) My background is kind of diverse and weird, but I would say that I was an ex-rocket scientist. I was a chief engineer on the space shuttle program for a number of years. Then I went into the computer industry and actually women's clothing. I owned, actually still own, a piece of a company there. You said something about red flags. When I first came across this, I'm a rocket scientist, and I'm skeptical. I still don't believe this stuff after researching and playing with it for 20, 30 years now, I think. I was very skeptical, but a very good friend of mine is a real forward-thinking veterinarian. His name's Dr. Oz Jackson. Our dog got arthritis in her spine. It was really bad. He said, hey, there's this lady who has this magic machine that can reverse arthritis. If you've had your dog for 12, 13 years, they're part of the family. You're kind of freaking out. I'll try anything. Unfortunately, she got so sick so fast. We didn't get a chance to drive her because it was all the way to Oregon. But that piqued my interest in the technology. What really motivated me was initially PTSD and trauma. I saw the amount of success people were having with it, but this was in clinical environments with doctors. The technology was kind of being held hostage without going through hoops to get the treatments. That motivated me, and then the machines were so ridiculously expensive. My undergrad is chemical engineering. I'm not an electrical engineer, but I'm going to grant myself an electrical engineering degree after this because it's burning things up and catching things on fire. This doesn't work, and physicists and engineers all tell me something, and then I go test it, and I go, well, that isn't right. What do we know? Okay. So that’s really what motivated me the most initially was, primarily, our military. The 44th suicide today. I'm counting first responders in there. So you've got 22 military vets, or maybe a little not much, 5 medical workers and 2 active duty. That's not counting me, you, and all the civilians. That stuff doesn't get counted. That frankly disturbed me, that this technology is available, it's just not affordable. So how do you make something that's small, convenient, and affordable? That was the primary thing I went after—PTSD and trauma. It's still probably the biggest one. In fact, we just had an independent agency. I think I've done the largest PEMF PTSD study in the country for sure. I just got a third party to validate all the data, which is really exciting too. So I mean, that's how I got started in it. There are lots and lots of different protocols in it. It's been an interesting path. Can you call it a job if you don't make any money? This is the most interesting job I've ever had and the most exciting. I get up in the morning and play with the stuff. We're a small startup. We're not making any money yet. Mark Zuckerberg has all my money because the ads are so expensive. It's going in the right direction. At least most pieces of it are. Long answer to how I got started. It was basically my dog, PTSD, and me being ex-military as well. That just rubbed me the wrong way. Soldiers didn't have access to it. The last point there that I didn't make was I thought it would be mostly military people, but it's not. At least half is civilian, and a lot of them are women. Trauma, divorce, miscarriages, bad husbands, bad boyfriends, life—all of that bringing trauma. It's really helped a lot of people with it. I know people don't believe it because I don't believe it. We have a 98% success rate with that PTSD protocol. I've got to be careful because the FDA will not allow me to say conditions. Even though it was a PTSD study that was based on the Veterans Administration questionnaires, we're just calling it a wellness study. It's five different categories—sleep, less stress, and those types of things—that the independent agency reviewed. It's still exciting to have a third party endorse it all. Ashley James (0:13:49.161) I love that you did the study and piqued my interest to try your device. We haven’t even talked about really what The Vibe is and you had mentioned that it's PEMF, which I want to get into later. But first, I want to tell you that my daughter died during childbirth. She was almost completely out. It was so painful, and I had PTSD from it. I didn't even know for months. I didn't know I had PTSD because I was also reeling from grief. I had postpartum. I had really bad COVID right after, which probably was more related to the grief than anything. Then we also had to move. We had our house for seven years, and we had to move suddenly. So it was just a big pile of emotional mess that we were gracefully navigating through. It wasn't until a few months later when I talked to another guest on my show, who him and I have become great friends, Dr. . He's been on my show several times. I had a conversation with him. I said, I just don't know what's wrong with me. I walk into the kitchen, and my mind goes blank. I have this brick wall in my head, and I can't even function. I don't know. If you told me to make toast, I wouldn't know what to do. I would just stand there. I had this big brick wall come up in my head when simple tasks became insurmountable. I would just cry every day. I've done a lot of stuff to heal, so I've come a long way. When I started using your Vibe, I turned it on to the PTSD setting. It felt really good. I just felt calmer, happier. I just noticed the day became easier. Again, this is three years after her death. So I've done a ton of healing work already. It's not acute. But what I did notice after a few days of doing that protocol daily is that I began to laugh. I began to laugh way more than normal. My son and I would just laugh together at silly nine-year-old boy humor. I think I started laughing 100% more, if not 200% more than I had been laughing previously. I just noticed I was smiling even more. I was calmer. Everything started to feel easier. I just swear by that protocol. You have way more protocols. I was going through all the different protocols. The sleep protocol has been a game changer. My son is very hyperactive. He has tons of energy. He could probably pull all-nighters. Just to get him to bed is a whole ordeal that starts at 6 PM. It's just this whole ordeal. Last night, he wouldn't fall asleep till pretty late. I gave him The Vibe. I'm like, okay, just put this on. He turns it on. He knows how to work the machine. It's pretty easy. He puts the sleep on. The second he puts it on, he goes, I feel tired. The second I put this thing on, I feel tired. That's what he said last night. I've watched it. We put it on him, and he falls asleep within minutes. Whereas without it, he'll lie awake for a really long time and keep complaining that he can't fall asleep. It's just amazing. It's amazing how using frequency can support the body's ability to come back into balance. Mark Fox (0:17:26.751) I was just going to say the sleep thing too. Back on PTSD, there's an important point I want to make because I learned this the hard way. So when I said we have a 98% success rate, what I'm using is the Veterans Administration. It's 20 questions, zero to four, highest you could score is an 80. If you score above 30 to 33, they will tell you you likely have PTSD. So when I say a 98% success rate, it means before and after 30 days, the person's score came down. Now, to be statistically and clinically significant, it needs to drop 11 points or more. Two out of three will drop more than 11 points. So that's all the good news. The potential bad news, and at first, I didn't know what to do about it. Almost a third, maybe even 40% of the people will tell me, yes, I don't know if it helped me. I'm like, really? So I started doing report cards, and I would get them on a Zoom call and say, so you don't think this helped you? And they go, maybe a little, not much. I go, well, you reported a 72, thirty days ago, and you just reported a 12. That is an insane improvement. Ashley, they start crying. They forgot how bad they felt. I'm a rocket scientist. I'm not a doctor. I'm going to say that probably 12 times on this. I can't give medical advice. I don't treat, diagnose, or cure at all. The feds pull up to the front door. Okay, so I talked to a lot of doctors and psychiatrists and friends of mine that are in that field. They're like, yes, Mark Fox, that's true of every intervention in the world. I mean, people forget where they were. So I almost started the report card so I didn't get a bunch of returns. I've had people do that, return it and go, yes, it didn't do anything for me. Then they call me back up and go, can I buy it back again? Because they forgot how bad they felt. So that's not a huge amount, but it's a weird phenomenon of the psyche. I talked to a friend of mine I've known since kindergarten. He's a chiropractor. He goes, Mark, I've videotaped all new patients because they come in on a walker. The next time, they're on a cane. The next time, they come in with a lap dog. They'll go, yes, I could do this. I could always do this. He has to show them videos. I know you couldn't do that before. Have your listeners think about it. Here's a good litmus test for that. Journal it yourself, okay? Or the strongest one that I've seen is go ask your spouse, family member, your kids, and your friends if you're acting differently. That's been the biggest indicator. That isn't a biomarker. Just people go, hey, you haven't come over to our house in a year. You haven't come to a picnic before. You've never joined that. You haven't come to the ball game in two years, and now you're doing that. So then people kind of go, that's right, I haven't. It's just kind of a weird phenomenon for people to think about because with ADHD and some of the protocols, teachers will call the parent and say, you switched Johnny's medication, didn't you? So the teacher will notice it. Hey, the kid is acting completely different. Anyway, just a little side note. It's some interesting psychology that's going on as people kind of forget where they were and how bad... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/33563592

531 Unmasking Holistic Beauty: How To Heal Skin From the Inside Out, Why Your Skin Care Routine Is Damaging and Aging You Faster, Lindsey Baillie 09/26/2024

531 Unmasking Holistic Beauty: How To Heal Skin From the Inside Out, Why Your Skin Care Routine Is Damaging and Aging You Faster, Lindsey Baillie Get the NEW free IIN sample class and health coach experience: Enroll in the next Health Coach Training Program! Use coupon code LTH when signing up to become a health coach at https://learntruehealth.com/coach Check out Lindsey Baillie's website: 531: Heal Skin From Within & Stop The Unknown Damage, Lindsey Baillie Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast! Today, we’re joined by holistic skincare expert Lindsey Baillie for a deep dive into the truth about skincare, nutrition, and the beauty industry. Lindsey reveals how conventional skincare practices can accelerate aging, why stress and diet play a crucial role in skin health, and how using the right ingredients can support your skin’s natural barrier. We also explore the impact of environmental pollution, the dangers of social media beauty standards, and the mental health connection to self-image. Whether you’re dealing with acne, rosacea, or just want healthier skin, this conversation will transform the way you think about skincare—inside and out. Highlights: Lindsey Baillie shares her journey into holistic skincare, emphasizing skin health beyond beauty. The beauty industry often prioritizes aesthetics over genuine skin health. Conventional skin care practices, like excessive exfoliation and peels, can accelerate aging. Skincare should support the skin's natural barrier with physiological ingredients. Pollution and modern environmental factors significantly impact skin health. Stress management is the most crucial factor for healthy skin, followed by nutrition. A whole foods, plant-based diet reduces inflammation and improves skin conditions. Dairy and high-fat diets can trigger acne and skin inflammation. The skin reflects internal health—conditions like acne and rosacea can signal gut or hormonal imbalances. Social media and unrealistic beauty standards contribute to mental health struggles around skin appearance. Simple, balanced skincare routines focusing on hydration and barrier support are most effective. Green tea, chamomile, and aloe can provide natural skin benefits, but must be used appropriately. The mental and emotional aspects of skincare should be addressed alongside physical treatments. Intro: I graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and became an integrative health coach, and it was a wonderful program, really transformative, life-changing program. About half the people that take this online course end up doing it just for their own personal transformation. So if you're someone who loves learning or you're sick of being sick and you want to learn about how to create holistic health in your life and you want to go deeper, especially with a community, you definitely want to check out the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Right now, I want you to go to . That's . It's a brand new sample class that they're giving away for free. Check out the new sample class, even if you've paid attention to the old sample class. It's free. You're going to learn something. Might as well jump in and check it out. So go to . That's . About half the people that take it either want to become a health coach or want to add these tools to their already existing repertoire. You will gain a set of tools that will deepen your ability to help people, to guide people, and coach them to better health. But if you don't want to work with people and you just want to dive in for your own personal benefit, that's cool too. It really is for both. Every aspect of your life will be enriched from this program, so I'm a big believer in it, and right now, you will get a huge savings. The class starts in September, so you want to jump on it. If you're interested, check out the free sample class, . If you want to dive in, make sure you contact them. You can do it online, and you can also call them in person. If you do it online, make sure that you use the coupon code LTH, because you're going to receive a very large discount. I negotiated the biggest discount that they give anyone for my wonderful listeners. If September has come and gone, don't worry, because they start up new cohorts of students several times a year. Jump into the program, no matter when it is. When you're ready to sign up, they unlock the beginning of the course, so you begin your course no matter what. It is really a wonderful personal growth and transformation experience. Be sure to go to , check out the free sample class, and remember to use my coupon code LTH. Thank you for sharing this podcast with those you care about. Enjoy today's interview. Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast, I’m your host, Ashley James. This is episode 531. Ashley James (0:02:42.611) I am so excited for today's guest. We have an amazing, amazing woman on the show, Lindsey Baillie. I always want to say doctor, start with like, Dr. Lindsey Baillie. Not yet. Not a doctor yet. Incredible to have worked with you. Lindsey and I have gotten to know each other actually because of my podcast. She's an expert in the beauty industry, in holistic skincare. I don't want to go too much into your bio because I want you to explain your journey, but I love what you do because you and I are both so passionate about holistic health. As we were just talking, I wish I'd hit record while we were just doing our pre-interview talk because we were discussing how the beauty industry is more. Holistic health is more than just physical health. There's mental health, there's emotional health, there's spiritual health. One of your passions is the mental health aspect of the beauty industry. Of course, coming at it from a holistic standpoint, that when we heal the body on the inside, our outsides become more beautiful, and you do that with your clients. Lindsey, welcome to the show. Lindsey Baillie (0:03:52.605) Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. And don't worry, just get the passion picks right back up. So I'll go off about it again. Ashley James (0:04:02.548) Lindsey, your website is . We're definitely talking about what you do because you work with people both in person and virtually around the world to help them overcome really difficult skin issues, really complex skin issues. That's kind of the plight of the holistic practitioner that you and I both have to deal with and naturopaths have to deal with. A lot of times, people come to us as a last resort. They had some skin issues, and they went to the doctor, and the doctor gave them drug after drug or antibiotic, and things got progressively worse and worse. Then they go, well, I've exhausted all my, quote-unquote, traditional medical, which is just a modern, drug-based route of handling it. They also noticed that their gut health suffered as a result. Their mental health suffers as a result, and the quality of their life suffers as a result, and they don't necessarily see that it's all connected. Then they start to seek holistic advice because they're sick of the side effects of the drugs. The MD has failed them. The drug-based medicine has failed them. Then they find you. They find holistic alternatives, quote-unquote alternatives, which is really helping the body come back into balance, supporting the body's ability to heal itself. Through working with you, they overcome, and their skin becomes healthy, but that's the end result because you help them to heal, help their body heal, and come back into balance on the inside. Did I paint the picture correctly about what you do? Lindsey Baillie (0:05:44.636) Absolutely, you hit the nail on the head. There are so many correlations to how we care for the skin and how we approach nutrition and just our general health as a whole. So you go through all those routes. I have this issue, I'm going to go to the doctor, I'm going to go to the dermatologist. Through the drugs they give us or creams and everything they give us, we still haven't got to our goal. So, skin. My number one pet peeve about skin is that people look at it as just a mere instrument of beauty. It's a vanity thing. But what do we know about skin? Everything that happens on the inside of our body is going to come out on our skin. So we have to think of it as healthcare, but the beauty industry has absolutely kind of destroyed that image of what skin is. We're so obsessed with how we look. We have to remember that the skin is our largest organ. It's an organ. It's healthcare. But just as confusing as it is for consumers to figure out how to take care of their skin, it's equally as confusing for us practitioners because we're marketed to just as much as you guys are. So it's really difficult to find the right person with the right tools. It's not necessarily through the fault of the practitioner because, again, we're marketed to just as much as consumers. We're being sold the next great thing. It's like, ooh, I like this person. I like what they're saying. I'm going to use this, but why am I not getting the result with my clients that they're promising me? So it's a very, very interesting landscape out there. Ashley James (0:07:26.372) Let's go back. I'm curious to know what led you to become a holistic-minded aesthetician, a holistic-minded viewpoint of beauty care. You have so many licenses and certifications. Listeners can go to , and we won't list off everything, but there are so many things that you have learned. I know you continue to learn and add to your tool belt. It's interesting that out of everything you've learned, it's been your own research that has led to shaping what you do with your clients. I just happen to know a little bit from what we've talked about, but take us back, what happened that made you want to focus on holistic skincare instead of the conventional skincare approach? Lindsey Baillie (0:08:33.648) Yes, so how I started this journey as a whole was an accident, because, like most young people, I had no idea what I wanted to do. So I just jumped into the beauty industry. You put makeup on every day. Can I make a career out of that? Through everything that I've done, which you listed where listeners can find what I've done and what I've learned, skin was always at the forefront and I have a very curious mind. My dad raised me like that. We weren't allowed to be bored on road trips, driving through Montana or the Midwest and there's nothing there. I'm bored, met, hey, we're going to learn about cloud formations. We're going to learn about prairie grasses. So I have a very curious mind. I became really interested in holistic health when I moved to the UK. We get curious. I have this curious mind. Why am I sick? Why is my skin doing this? What am I doing that is not working? Why isn't it working? My brain is always thinking of this Why. Luckily for me I was in a place that had that mindset. It’s very difficult here to do in the US but it’s really easy to do over in the UK and in the EU because that’s kind of their ethos. That's where the beginning of herbal apothecaries and everything happened. So I kind of went on that journey of discovery. And it just made me want to learn more about the skin. Ashley James (0:09:58.568) The US is sort of where that petroleum-based, drug-based medicine really took off. I don't know if it's exactly where it began, maybe, but I know that it is where it actually exploded. That's kind of what we're known for. Is drug-based medicine and that medical approach. We've been brainwashed for the last hundred years to believe that that is the only legitimate form of medicine, and that's how the AMA wants it. There's actually proof to this. I'm not just saying this because it's an opinion. There's proof to years and years and years of misconduct by the AMA where they went on PR campaigns to bash every other type of medicine, and they did it for a hundred years. So if everyone takes in the media first, it was written media, everyone read the newspaper, and then you go to your doctor, the AMA told the doctors what to tell you. Then it was the radio, and then it was television. For generations, we've just listened to and taken in what the AMA wanted us to, and that was to protect the interests of the pharmaceutical-based medical approach. They were threatened by natural medicine. It's just wild. Then when you are living in this, the milieu is constantly being bombarded by this, like you said, the ethos of drug-based medicine. Then you go over to the UK where it's, wait a second, it's actually acceptable to start thinking about what herbs I could take and the way I'm eating, and that they just allow it more in their culture. It's interesting. Lindsey Baillie (0:11:52.646) Yes. Well, this is what I tell people because a question that's on everybody's mind is, okay, if these practices and these ingredients, these treatments and modalities are so harmful, why do all skin professionals do it? I'm a licensed aesthetics instructor. I can never say my profession name. It's a tongue twister. Most people can say anesthetist, but they can't say esthetician. Really, I'm a corneal therapist as well, and I'll get into that in a moment, but it's what we're taught in schools. It's what we're taught about our profession. So I'm dual licensed in Washington state and in Idaho, and I've taught aesthetics. I really love teaching those basics—anatomy, the cells, just how the skin functions on its own, a little bit of cosmetic chemistry. That's my jam. That's what I love doing. But each state has their specific requirements on what they require to get your license to practice, even just to put cleansers and creams on somebody's face. There's always a level of safety and sanitation. So we're taught basics that have been taught forever since the beginning of licensing. I think it was in the seventies, I want to say. Sixties or seventies, it was called a beautician, and you could do whatever you wanted to do in that realm. But we're taught a very specific way because the state is concerned about safety and sanitation, and it's not necessarily the correct way of caring for the skin. If you think, okay, I have to learn about safety and sanitation to clean my space, to use a modality, to use products, doesn't that mean that that might be harmful? If I have to learn if something is safe or not, could that possibly be harmful? So it's kind of a bummer because you spend thousands of dollars to go to school to learn these things just so you can spend a few hundred dollars more to take your state boards and get your licensing. If you really want to help people with their skin in a true way and really understand it, you have to spend thousands of dollars more to get the proper education, but it's very difficult to find. So it's very frustrating. I would love to change that process one day. But I can only do so much for now. All I can do is get the information out there in every way. Ashley James (0:14:13.598) So do you currently do that? Do you currently teach the proper way or the way that you've found to be the healthiest way? Lindsey Baillie (0:14:22.204)I teach to my clients. I do have professionals reach out to me, and I've actually published a list of resources for professionals on my blog on my website so they have more of an idea of where they need to go to learn the proper information. I'm on substitute lists for schools, so I do love teaching, and if they need a substitute, I am happy to do that. I also am an educator for my skincare line and own my own skin clinic and run that. So, if I can. Ashley James (0:14:53.410) Okay, I want some clarification because I'm not in this world, a lot of my listeners are not in this world. So we're kind of guessing what you meant by what each state teaches you to do, you discovered is unsafe. Can you be more specific? Lindsey Baillie (0:15:13.346) Yes, absolutely. So every state governs this list. They govern the list of what you need to learn to hold a specific license. That's in healthcare, beauty, anything. So in most states, it's the basics, safety and sanitation, because we clean with hospital-grade disinfectant, learn how to use machines properly, learn how to wax correctly, how to apply products on a person's face in a safe manner. All states have that kind of basic requirement, but every single state has either extras or an absence of that information that they don't require to be taught. They are all at different hours that we have to learn. So each state determines how many hours you have to go to school to learn all the requirements that they have deemed that you have to have to hold that license, if that makes sense. Ashley James (0:16:09.222) But you'd mentioned something about what they teach is not necessarily the healthiest thing. Can you be more specific about that? Lindsey Baillie (14:55.766) Yes. Most modalities that are taught in schools are to remove the skin. So we have, exfoliate to some degree, whether that's with a product or that's with a derma planing blade or microdermabrasion machine or chemical peels. I have to tell you that's the most horrible, horrible thing you can do for your skin. But again, when we're thinking of the realm, the state is thinking about safety and sanitation. It makes sense that they require you to learn that but it's not healthy for the skin. Ashley James (0:16:49.180) My mom used to send me to an esthetician, and this was in the late 90s. I was in high school. I actually didn't have bad skin. I was so grateful. Yes, well, no, but teenager. I was really grateful that we ate enough healthy food at home. I mean, that was my rebellion phase, so I was eating junk when I was at school, but at home, we ate super healthy. I was really grateful I didn't have outbreaks. My mom was super into this microdermabrasion where they would take it, they'd basically shave our face with this razor, not a man's razor. It's a different kind. Then they'd apply this acid that made my face look like Saran wrap afterward. My face was wet and had no texture. I was a teenager. My mom would send me there once a month because she did it and thought it was super cool. I remember looking at the bill and seeing that it was 120 or something. At the time, that was a lot of money for the 90s. I felt so guilty that my mom was paying for that when I didn't really need it that I stopped going. I just remember thinking this is weird. It tingled. It burned. It felt really weird to have someone shaving that peach fuzz off my face, the whole thing. I didn't really see a benefit. I didn't have bad skin to begin with. I was a teenager with no problems. Then I just ended up looking like I had wet Saran wrap on my face for a few days. Lindsey Baillie (0:18:31.786) Yes, that's your intuition. So many people have that intuition and they ignore it because they say, this is the expert, they know what they're doing. But then why is my face burning and stinging, and why do I not feel good about this? That's your intuition saying this is not a good thing for the skin. So many people ignore that. In the 90s, that's when we were peeling crazy, laser crazy. We wanted just the smooth skin. Now that trend has come back. So you say that kind of wet Saran wrap look, that trend has come back, and we call it glass skin. Yes, we don't want glass skin. Skin is supposed to have texture. Some people do have visible pores. Pore size is genetic. It's supposed to have a normal-looking skin texture. We're not supposed to have that baby smooth, super glowy, perfect skin. Social media has ruined that for us. We think that is normal. Ashley James (0:19:27.322) Did you ever watch the show Emily in Paris on Netflix? Okay, it's super funny. So just go watch it when you need to binge on something and just chill. This latest season actually has this feature where they're doing this product demonstration in a really ritzy mall in Paris, and it turns out that it's just repurposed KY jelly. They're walking around,... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/33221027

530 Colorful Hidden Poison in Plain Sight, Food Additives Harming Children’s Brains, Causing Cancer, ADHD, Behavioral Problems, Whitney & Brandon Cawood 09/15/2024

530 Colorful Hidden Poison in Plain Sight, Food Additives Harming Children’s Brains, Causing Cancer, ADHD, Behavioral Problems, Whitney & Brandon Cawood Get the free IIN sample class and health coach experience: Enroll in the next Health Coach Training Program! Use coupon code LTH when signing up to become a health coach at https://learntruehealth.com/coach To Dye For The Documentary: Website: https://www.todyeforthedocumentary.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/todyeforthedocumentary FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dyefreefamily Instagram 530: To Dye For: The Documentary, Exposes Hidden Poison Harming Children Class starts Sept 23—don’t miss out! 🎓 Try a FREE sample class at . 💰 Use coupon code LTH for the biggest discount available! New cohorts start year-round—jump in anytime! What if a common ingredient in your food was secretly harming your health? In this episode of the Learn True Health podcast, Whitney and Brandon Cawood, creators of To Dye For: The Documentary, expose the shocking truth about synthetic dyes. After witnessing dramatic behavioral changes in their son, they uncovered the hidden dangers of these artificial additives—linked to hyperactivity, aggression, and even misdiagnosed mental health issues. Join us as we dive into the science, the industry cover-ups, and what you can do to protect yourself and your family. This eye-opening conversation will make you think twice before your next grocery trip! Highlights: Whitney and Brandon Cawood share how removing synthetic dyes transformed their son's behavior. Artificial dyes are linked to hyperactivity, aggression, and misdiagnosed mental health issues. U.S. companies remove dyes for Europe but keep them in American products. Synthetic dyes serve no purpose beyond cosmetic appeal yet contain harmful chemicals. California is moving to ban Red 3 and other dyes from school foods. Dyes are hidden in unexpected foods, medications, and personal care products. Many ADHD and epilepsy medications contain dyes that may worsen symptoms. Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. Today is one of the more relevant episodes I've done, especially if you have children, but really this applies to everyone. There is a hidden poison that serves no good whatsoever that is in our food. Through listening to this episode today, you will start to learn how to avoid this easily. You can easily avoid it when you know about it. Stay tuned. You'll want to be sharing this episode with your friends, your family, especially those who have children, especially for those who have children that have learning issues, behavioral. This actually affects the brain, and it's night and day. When we stop feeding this to kids, they become happy, calmer, able to handle their emotions, able to process emotions, able to learn, sit still, just be happier, more peaceful, and healthier in their body. Really, there have even been people misdiagnosed with mental issues, mental illness, and with things like bipolar, who actually had a sensitivity to this chemical additive in food. Can you imagine feeling like you're losing your mind and being misdiagnosed, all the while you've been poisoned by food that we trusted our government to tell us was safe? We go into that today. We go into talking about why this was approved in the first place, what we can do about it, and how we can easily, easily get rid of it. I graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and became an integrative health coach, and it was a wonderful program, really transformative, life-changing program. 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There were times I was super busy, I missed a few days, so I would just take Sunday afternoons and catch up with all the lessons. So it's flexible, it fits within your schedule, and it is really a wonderful personal growth and transformation experience. So be sure to go to , check out the free sample class, and remember to use my coupon code, LTH. Thank you for sharing this podcast with those you care about. It's going to make a huge difference, and I look forward to seeing how this ripple turns into a tidal wave and how, in the coming months and years, we actually will change the food industry. We will share this information, we will vote with our fork, and we will vote with our wallet. By doing so, we will force the food industry to make changes. Enjoy today's interview. Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I’m your host, Ashley James, this is episode 530. Ashley James (0:07:04.994) I am so excited for today's guests. We have Whitney and Brandon Cawood on the show. They are the creators of To Dye For: The Documentary. This is going to be so important for everyone to listen to, especially Americans, because we're one of the countries that has the worst artificial dye in our food. It's ubiquitous. It is crazy. I'm a label reader, and I'm surprised that there aren't more of us—food detectives out there. It drives my husband nuts. When we grocery shop, it takes me 90 minutes because if I go down the aisles to buy packaged food, I'm very picky. I read every single label, and I cannot tell you how amazing it is just how much absolute garbage—absolute garbage—people are feeding their children. People are feeding themselves, and we think it's a treat. “Why don't you just treat the kids?” I hear this from other people, other moms and grandmas. “Come on, you're hurting them. They're not having a normal childhood experience because they're not allowed to have the same food that the other kids have.” I look at disease rates. If you want to be like an average American—one in three diabetes, one in three obesity, morbidly obese, one in three have cancer—and it's growing. Look at what we die of. Look at what our children suffer from. Look at the health statistics. If you want to be like that, and if you want your children to be like that, then eat how everyone else is eating. But if you want your kids to have better health than the average child, if you want your kids to bounce back quickly from colds, if you want them to be able to pay attention in class and their brain not to be on fire from artificial chemicals in food, if you want them to be able to focus and enjoy learning and enjoy spending time with their friends and not be disruptive in class because their brain is on fire, then you need to read labels and be more discerning. You have to go upstream. You have to be the black sheep. You cannot have your grocery cart look like everyone else's grocery cart. This is where Whitney and Brandon Cawood come in. I'm so excited for your documentary. It's coming out in the next few months. Listeners, I want you to make sure that you go to . The links to everything the Cawoods do are going to be in the show notes of today's podcast at. Listeners can sign up for their mailing list. Definitely . We're going to make sure is in the show notes as well because your Instagram is insane. It's so relevant, so informative, and so educational. The visuals show, “I didn't know that—I feed that food to my kids, or my mom fed that to me—and look what's in it. Look what it's doing. It's harming us.” You're bringing light to something that so many of us are not aware of. I have a friend who would die if she ate yellow dye. She has an anaphylactic allergy to yellow dye. What is going on with artificial dyes that someone could actually die from eating them? I've spoken enough. Whitney, Brandon, it's wonderful to have you here. Welcome to the show. Brandon & Whitney Cawood (0:10:38.832) Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. We're excited. Ashley James (0:10:41.908) Absolutely. Yes, so take us back to the beginning. A young couple in Georgia all of a sudden becomes producers of a documentary? What happened in your lives that made you become aware of synthetic dyes and how dangerous they are for our children, for our brain, and for our health? Brandon & Whitney Cawood (0:11:04.314) Yes, we have two children. We have a six-year-old and a three-year-old. But when our oldest was around ages two and three, he was really having a lot of trouble with impulse control, aggression, hitting, meltdowns, just could not cope with anything that doesn't go his way basically. A lot of that sounds normal to parents that are listening. They're like, yes, I've had a kid that's that age, and that happens, but it wasn't normal in that, at the frequency that it was happening and the amount of issues that we were having. He was going to a Mother's Morning Out program, which is a half-day program from 9 to 11:30, and he was just going two or three days a week. I was having to pick him up every day. We were having notes home every single day. Every time we went to church, every time we went on a playdate, it was an issue that was really, really affecting our lives. It was really affecting him and his relationships with children and teachers. It was just really heartbreaking to watch. I'm a former teacher, so I was just mortified that I had a child that was struggling so much and that we didn't know how to help him. We were eventually asked to leave his half-day daycare, and around that same time, we were trying to figure out what can we do to help him? We had him in behavior therapy. We were doing everything that we could at that point, and finally, I decided to go on the internet and just try to find out if our diet could be affecting our mental health. I have several food allergies, so I have done an elimination diet before, and I've known how powerful that can be to your health. I found an article that suggested eliminating wheat, dairy, and synthetic dyes, and so I took those out of his diet, and just 48 hours later, the hitting and the tantrums almost completely stopped. I mean, it took care of 98% of our issues, and the other 2%, it was, okay, we could slow down, and we could talk through it, and learning happened, and things just started happening so quickly. We reintroduced wheat, and it had no effect. We reintroduced dairy, and it had no effect. We reintroduced dyes, and within 15 minutes, that child that we would occasionally see glimpses of whenever he was on the dyes, we would have days where it was really, really bad, and most of the days were really bad, but then we'd have days that were really good. So anyway, when we reintroduced the dyes, that child that we had that was really good on those days, we had that child for 30 days straight. So when we eliminated the dyes, yes. Anyway, the craziest part about that is the only place that he was regularly getting synthetic dyes daily was his daily allergy medicine. He also had chronic ear infections, so he was on kind of an amoxicillin red loop. But he was already doing mostly organic snacks and the good stuff, so we were really shocked that something that we were giving him could affect his behavior and his well-being so dramatically and so fast. Fast forward, he's done public school pre-K and kindergarten. Now he's in first grade, and quite literally, he has not had a time where he's hit anyone, where he has been upset. He's never cried at school. I mean, he is just the picture-perfect child. I mean, he's not perfect, of course, he's a little boy, but we don't have behavior problems. We don't have an RTI. He's just a normal, very, very smart, very successful, very, very kind and compassionate child. To go from a child that was having so many issues to a child that is doing so well and is so successful, we were shocked. First of all, we didn't know why. Why would something that we were eating affect your mind so much? So I went down this rabbit hole of trying to figure out what's going on, and I was looking into the research and digging in, and I was really confused. I have a degree in education, so I could not decode the jargon in these scientific research articles. I really wanted to go to researchers and ask the questions to try to figure out what was going on. My husband has a background in film. Well, not documentaries, but in short-form film commercials. So I asked him if he would be willing to document our journey and to go with me to interview these researchers and families, and reluctantly, he agreed. Also, I think I threw you off. She was in the middle of saying after the elimination diet, it was 30 days long, and she reintroduced wheat, and nothing changed, and reintroduced dairy, and nothing changed. But when we did reintroduce the dye, within 15 minutes, the bad behavior started back up again. So we knew pretty quickly that that was the cause. I think I threw you off when we were saying, when you were telling that part of the story. Ashley James (0:16:13.697) No, you did. You actually did say it was 15 minutes. That's something that I have heard. There was this doctor back in the nineties. There's this clip. It was one of those, the Donahue show or one of those daytime talk shows. This doctor came on. This clip I've found on YouTube, and if I find it again, I'll put it in the show notes. It's this doctor—I think she might be German. I think I seem to remember an accent. She took children and gave them something they're allergic to. Then within 15 minutes, they were biting, kicking, pulling hair, and screaming. It looked like they were possessed, and they went from super sweet to their brains on fire. We have to recognize that there are chemicals in our food that cross the blood-brain barrier, that excitotoxins that inflame the nerves. Then we just take the kid to the doctor, and the doctor puts them on meds to make them docile and behave themselves. We're just medicating this huge population of children that we're poisoning and then poisoning further by trying to suppress this behavior, these symptoms, when it's the food that's doing it. That is just so sad. Brandon & Whitney Cawood (0:17:36.842) I think whenever we first kind of realized that he was having this kind of reaction, we thought it was probably kind of rare, and we thought that we were kind of on this island. When he didn't even think that people would believe her if she told this story. So around the same time that we started kicking around the idea of doing this documentary, we also started a that we run. It's more broad-based about synthetic dyes in general. It's not necessarily about the film, but we started it, brought to you by our film page. We started that page, and within the two years that we've been working on the film, that page has grown from zero to five hundred and eighty thousand people. So as we're building this film and deciding how we're going to do it, we're getting all this affirmation that there are people out there who are going through similar things. This isn't as rare as we thought it is. We've just heard story after story after story, similar to ours or worse than ours. Some of them aren't as extreme, but just to see that there's so many people being affected really kind of fueled our fire. We have to get this information out there because if this many people are being affected, that's probably just a small fraction of the people that truly is being affected because they're the people who have figured it out. So how many people don't know this is affecting their child? That really kind of gave us some fuel to keep going through the tough times and the challenging times of creating a documentary with two people, but it all made it worth it. Ashley James (0:19:12.252) What you guys are also showing, especially through your social media, hey, if you want to feed your kids junk food, if you want to feed your kids processed crap, you can still feed them processed, you can still feed them sugar, you can still feed them artificial treats. There are a whole bunch of dye-free or natural dye alternatives. One of my son's favorites, he gets them once a year, is the No-Nos. They're little candies that have no dairy, no gluten, no dye. That's why they're called No-Nos, but they're these little chocolate-covered candies, kind of like M&Ms, a little bit like M&Ms. He loves them. I'm big at really limiting processed food and sugar. When you go down this rabbit hole, you start to wake up to, wow, maybe I shouldn't be... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/33057142

529 From Burnout to Balance: Reboot Your Nervous System, Activate Your Body’s Healing Mode, Chopra Yoga 200-Hour Teacher Training, Sarah Finger 08/21/2024

529 From Burnout to Balance: Reboot Your Nervous System, Activate Your Body’s Healing Mode, Chopra Yoga 200-Hour Teacher Training, Sarah Finger Details, free course sample, and more: learntruehealth.com/coach Coupon Code LTH for all IIN courses gets you a BIG listener special discount! Check Out My Latest Book: Addicted To Wellness Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com 529: From Burnout to Balance with Sarah Finger’s Chopra Yoga Training Unlock the power of yoga with the Chopra Yoga 200-hour certification! Listeners of the Learn True Health podcast get an exclusive 25% discount—just use coupon code LTH when you sign up. 👉 Yoga is more than just stretching and striking a pose—it’s a powerful science of healing, balance, and transformation. In this episode of the Learn True Health podcast, we sit down with Sarah Platt Finger, director of Chopra Yoga at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, to explore how yoga impacts not just the body, but also the mind and emotions. Sarah shares how simple breathing techniques and mindful movement can lower stress, improve heart health, and create a deep sense of inner peace. Whether you’re a seasoned yogi or a complete beginner, this conversation will inspire you to integrate yoga into your daily life for better health and well-being. Ready to discover the science-backed benefits of yoga? Tune in now and take the first step toward a stronger, calmer, and more resilient you. Highlights: Sarah Platt Finger, director of Chopra Yoga at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, shares insights on yoga's impact on emotional, mental, and physical health. Yoga is a science of balancing the nervous system, not just a fitness trend or religion. Breathing techniques (pranayama) help regulate stress, improve heart health, and enhance mental clarity. Scientific studies support yoga’s ability to lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and stress while improving flexibility and muscle tone. Holding yoga poses builds physical resilience and mental strength, training the nervous system to manage stress. Meditation is a core component of yoga, promoting deep relaxation, emotional balance, and self-awareness. Yoga helps individuals reconnect with their body, making them more mindful of their diet, posture, and daily habits. The Chopra Yoga 200-hour certification program teaches yoga foundations, breathwork, meditation, and how to integrate yoga into everyday life. Alternate nostril breathing (a yoga technique) balances brain hemispheres, calms anxiety, and enhances focus. Yoga is accessible for all ages and fitness levels, offering modifications for individual needs. Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. Today we have with us a very special guest. She's the director of Chopra Yoga at the . Her name is Sarah Platt Finger. She's an author and an expert in yoga and a wonderful teacher. This was an amazing interview to converse with her about how yoga can help you on the emotional and mental level, as well as the physical level. She brings some great science to the table. It’s really interesting how a simple practice of breathing and moving that you can squeeze into your busy day can affect in a positive way your hormones, your mental clarity, your energy, your sleep and even your heart health. So today we're going to talk about that and before we do, I want to make sure that, if you'd like to study this program, it's an online course. It's a 200-hour Chopra Yoga certification and it's taught by Sarah Finger. There's a few other teachers, including Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Sheila Patel, board-certified physician and expert in Ayurveda. When you take this course, you will learn Ayurveda, meditation, breathing, physiology and, of course, stretching, the wonderful practice of yoga. But there's science behind it, which is really cool, that certain positions that we get in and hold isometrically and breathe while we're doing it not only strengthen the heart, but it lowers and balances blood pressure and it strengthens our muscles, tones our muscles. It’s such a nice break from running on a treadmill or a bicycle or going to the gym and doing the hamster wheel. It's such a nice break and what I love about it is you can do it anywhere. You can integrate it into any aspect of your day to improve, enhance your body's healing function. It's like a special golden button you can hit inside you that turns on super healing mode. So I love that through taking this online program, you can learn the tools to access your own healing mode, and a lot of practitioners because I know a lot of practitioners listen to my podcast. You can integrate this with your clients, with your patients, and we talk about that as well. If you're interested in looking into it, you can even schedule a free appointment to talk about whether this is right for you and to learn more about it. You go to . That's . Of course, the links will be in the show notes of today's podcast at and wherever you listen to this podcast when you go to that link , it's going to take you to IIN's courses. Not only will you see if you scroll down, it's in the third row, it's called the Chopra Yoga 200-hour certification, which is what we're going to talk about today, but you also see the course that I took, which is the health coach training program, and I absolutely loved it. It was wonderful. It's such a phenomenal experience if you're looking for your own personal growth, for your own healing and health and ongoing healthy relationship with your overall life, health and joy in every aspect of your life. About half the people that take it take it simply for their own personal growth and health, and the other half take it because they want to integrate it into their business or that it practice in some way, or they, too, want to start being a health coach and taking on clients and they teach you how to do that. They hold your hand, teach you how to do the business as well. So if you are interested in becoming a health coach and actually doing it as a business, this is a wonderful resource for you. So go to and check that out. But they also have other certifications. This is what I love, because the , they actually coined the term health coach and it's the oldest school online. But before it was online it was in person. So they've been teaching for many years and they merged recently with dr chopra and all of his trainings and so together they offer so many wonderful courses. You could take courses on Ayurveda, meditation, mindful eating course, hormone health, gut health, and a lot of these courses actually weren't available to the public until you became a health coach, but now they have altered them so that if you're just interested in gut health or you're just interested in detox, there's a whole course on detox and it's very affordable, and for the larger courses they have payment plans. They want it to be accessible to everyone. The most important thing that I want you to know is that they offer a really big discount to all my listeners all the time, no matter what. It's the biggest discount they'll ever offer, so you don't have to wait for a sale. If you're interested to take the courses, use my discount coupon code, which is LTH as in Learn True Health, or if you decide, instead of signing up online, which you can do, you can call them to sign up and speak to one of the health coaches there. All the staff that answer the phone have taken at least the flagship training program, the health coach training program, but many of them have dived into the other courses so that they can share their experience with you, and their sales staff are not in any way. They don't pressure you. They're just here to help and they can talk to you about your goals and answer questions you may have. But if you mentioned my name, Ashley James, the Learn True Health podcast or the coupon code LTH, you will get that great discount. You can go back and . I've interviewed him. I've also interviewed the new CEO, although not new anymore, she's been around for a few years, but she's the CEO, the current CEO. I've had her on the show and I've had over a dozen of the faculty. The wonderful teachers and professors and doctors have come on the show and taught and it's it's just been such a blessing to work with them, because what they're doing is helping people to access true health through all the tools and everything that you can learn to find a balanced life to nourish your whole being, and so I encourage you to go to and check it out. You can just keep scrolling and looking at all the different really cool courses. You're probably going to go, I want to take all these courses but if you're interested in what we talk about today the Chopra Yoga 200-hour certification definitely sign up. It starts a few times a year. The cohort does it, you do it together as a group and no matter what time of year it is whether you're listening to this now or in December or in April or wherever it is when you sign up it unlocks the beginning of the course. So you get to actually start the course, no matter when you sign up, and then you get to do basically the pre-work and then the whole cohort takes off together three times a year. So no matter when you sign up, you'll be able to access the training and begin immediately, which is wonderful. If you're interested in becoming a health coach, like me, definitely click on the health coach training program, which is the very first option on the page. You'll see it and you'll gain access to learning more about it and it will take you to a free webinar that will teach you more about it. But there's lots of resources on that page. See a sample class as well If you scroll down the page. Once you click on the health coach training program option, you can scroll down, it'll say sample class and you can sign up for a free sample class. It's very inspiring and it'll give you a good idea as to what it feels like to take this course and what it looks like and how it works. What I love about their trainings is that they hit every learning style. School was really difficult for me. I'm an excellent learner. If you've listened to my show, you know that I retain a lot of information. I love learning. I'm an auditory learner, so for me, like if I hear something, I'm really going to remember it well, and some people remember things better by reading and some people remember things better by watching videos, whereas others remember by doing. There's different learning styles and sometimes teachers, when we're in school they're not as great at hitting all of the learning styles, so some students fall through the cracks or feel very disenfranchised. In IIN, I never had a problem as a student. I really struggled in school because the way the teachers taught wouldn't necessarily hit my learning style or if you struggled in school like me and then. But then as an adult you're like why is it? It's so easy for me to learn when I want to learn something, when I'm on my own, when I'm diving in and I'm doing my own research, but when, when I was sitting in a classroom with 30 other kids, it was like I could beat my head against the wall. It was so frustrating. So I know everyone has a different experience with school, but what I thought was really refreshing is I did not have any problems with learning when I went through the year-long health coach training program through IIN and they also have a six-month program, accelerated program as well, and it really fits into your busy life. It's about 20 minutes a day. If you're going to dedicate 20 minutes a day for a year, then you will absolutely love their health coaching program, similar to the 200-hour yoga training program, the Chopra Yoga program. You can dedicate a chunk of time each day or a larger chunk a few times a week and you're able to be flexible to fit it into your life. We talked a little bit about that in the interview. But if you're interested, go to , scroll down and see the title that says the Chopra 200-hour yoga training and click on it and from there it's a beautifully laid out website with wonderful information that gives you all you need to know. Like I said, if you want to check out the Health Coach Training Program, click on that, because you can gain access to videos and a whole sample course as well as a webinar. So there's lots of resources on that page. So enjoy today's interview. If you have any questions about my experience as a student at IIN or what I've been able to do since graduating many years ago and how wonderful it's been working with them and interviewing them and them as a company, I just love them. There's just very, very high integrity and that's why I continue to share their message with you, because I feel that you, as the listener, would benefit from taking their courses. Of course, I'm not a mama bear, but I want to be very protective of my listeners. So there's something I don't believe in or don't trust. I'm not going to talk about it. I'm not going to bring it to the table. I really do trust them and I trust that they'll take care of you. Have yourself a fantastic day. Enjoy today's interview. Thank you so much for being a listener and thank you so much for sharing this podcast with those you care about. Together, we're helping to turn this little ripple into a tidal wave and help as many people as possible to learn true health. Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I’m your host, Ashley James, this is episode 529. Ashley James (0:12:53.161) I am so excited for today's guest. We're going to have such a fun conversation today. Our guest is Sarah Platt-Finger, who is the director of Chopra Yoga at the and co-founder of Ishta Yoga LLC. Deepak Chopra called Sarah, our wonderful guest, an extraordinary teacher of yoga that has called enormously to my well-being. How amazing! You also co-authored a book with Dr. Chopra, . I've had some wonderful experiences with yoga, and I just want to say right off the bat, I am also a Christian, and I know some Christians want to stay away from yoga. So this episode, although it might not be for everyone, that's okay. Yoga really served me, and it actually really, really helped me. I'd love to talk about that. I think there's a place for practice for everyone. I don't think we have to say that it's a religion. Right off the bat, I think we can look at the health benefits of yoga. One of my closest, dearest friends—just love her—runs an addiction recovery center in Woodinville, Washington, Bajra Recovery, and she gets incredible results helping alcoholics and other people who have addiction to other substances recover. She gets extremely high results and she incorporates and attributes it to yoga. She says yoga is a big part of her system to help people fully recover from addiction and get their life back. I believe there's so much here for mental health, emotional health, and physical health. I think it's really important for us to keep an open mind and look at what we can gain from this conversation—what we can gain from yoga to support our overall well-being. Having said that, Sarah, I'm so excited to have you on the show today because we're going to learn more about what it is to take your yoga teacher training program, and it's online, so it's accessible to everyone around the world. Welcome to the show. Sarah Platt-Finger (0:15:07.992) Thank you so much, Ashley. It's really a pleasure to be with you. I'm excited about this conversation of redefining what the practice of yoga is. Ashley James (0:15:18.604) Exactly. I think that like a lot of people if they haven’t experienced it they don't know. There's so much evidence to show we're actually going to get into the science. This is what I'm really excited about. We can talk the talk, but let's show where the rubber meets the road. You're bringing today some studies today to show the science behind the health benefits that we can gain from yoga. Before we do that, some people don't even know what it is. So let's start with: What is yoga? Some people imagine, we all know like Lululemon, spandex. We know that, okay, we stretch and maybe some people sweat, but beyond sweating, stretching, and maybe some breathing, what is yoga? Sarah Platt-Finger (0:16:00.603) Such a great question. Yoga is a Sanskrit word that means union. I don't think of it as a religion. It's not even really an exercise or a fitness trend. I really think of yoga as a science. It's a science and a lived experience of balancing the different aspects of our being, our nervous system. The more solar and lunar energies, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, the physical poses, which are called asana, the Sanskrit word for it. Yoga did originate in India about 2500 or more years ago, which is why a lot of the verbiage we use to explain the concepts of yoga comes from this ancient language, Sanskrit. It's this practice of unifying the different disparate aspects of ourselves to experience who we really are, who we are beyond or behind our physical body, our thoughts, our identity, our sense, our emotions. What is that seer, the witness, that is able to experience the whole, the rising and subsiding of life experience, and not be changed, not be afflicted, if that makes sense? So it is a practice of essentially returning back to the aspect of yourself that's unchanging. Ashley James (0:17:57.085) When I was a teenager, I don't know if you remember being a teenager, but it was pretty intense. I just remember a lot of really intense emotions. My mom took me to yoga classes with her. I remember going in feeling angsty, stressed out, just very, very anxious, very angry, like just these bursts of anger, which I'm not an angry person, like hormones, man, puberty. Going in, just feeling all riled up, ready to kind of snap and start a fight and coming out back to myself, feeling back to my center. It really helped me through the mental, emotional turmoil of puberty. I studied Hatha yoga, which was a really big shift from the regular yoga classes I was used to because my yoga teacher, who’s from India, told us to keep our eyes open. She said she was more, she was very militaristic. So you became very aware of your posture, how you hold yourself even outside the yoga class. It was this awareness of your strength and where you hold your shoulders, where you hold your neck, how you hold your shoulders back. How you breathe, how you can let sort of that strength and energy flow through you and have that strong calmness inside. When you say yoga means unity, I think of the unity where you come into alignment with yourself, where you're not scattered, where you're feeling like your emotional, mental, and physical body are doing really well together and in alignment together. That's what it feels like for me. Then I went to Kripalu and studied there. Spent over a month there and did Kripalu yoga, which is different. Every time I would choose a different type of yoga, it was very, very different, yet the outcome was very similar. I found more strength inside me, physical strength, but then I found more of this like being on a balance beam and being unshakable emotionally. So as opposed to feeling like someone could look at me the wrong way and I could cry. That would be me going into class, and then afterward it’s like, I am unshakable. That has a lot to do with calming the nervous system and tonifying the nervous system. So we're not caught up in that fight or flight all the time, which we really, really need to do on a daily basis to optimize our immune function and optimize our body's ability to heal itself. We need to... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/32684872

528 A Refreshing Conversation With an Anarchist: John Gusty on Taking Back Your Health Sovereignty, Prioritizing Self-Sufficiency, Informed Choices 08/05/2024

528 A Refreshing Conversation With an Anarchist: John Gusty on Taking Back Your Health Sovereignty, Prioritizing Self-Sufficiency, Informed Choices Check Out My Latest Book: Addicted To Wellness Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com John Gusty's websites: https://theredpillrevolution.com Special Audience Giveaway: NaturallyBetter4you.com Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the guest speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the host or podcast. 528: Reclaiming Health Sovereignty and Freedom Mainstream health beliefs are crumbling under the weight of profit-driven agendas. Join us as we challenge the status quo with John Gusty, co-author of “Red Pill Revolution,” who exposes the hidden priorities of industries from healthcare to music. By embracing the radical philosophy of anarchy, John redefines personal sovereignty and health autonomy, encouraging us to break free from the societal structures that prioritize conformity over well-being. His journey, including working with music legends like Bon Jovi and Kanye West, reveals the double-edged sword of fame's allure and its darker undercurrents. Highlights: Challenging Mainstream Health Beliefs Navigating Fame, Fortune, and Integrity Examining Societal Narcissism and Anarchy Uncovering Medical Misconceptions and Realities Navigating Medical Misconceptions and Realities Navigating Healthcare Costs and Corruption Awakening to Systematic Corruption Choosing Natural Health Over Pharmaceuticals Uncovering Healthcare Industry Corruption Empowering Health Choices for Change Preparing for Systemic Vulnerabilities Building Holistic Health Networks Unlocking Optimal Health Through Supplements Intro: Hello, true health seeker, and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. Today we have a really interesting and fun conversation with John Gusty, co-author of the book . If that rings a bell for you that’s because I had another one of the authors of that book on the show recently. . If you haven't already, check out that interview. This interview is a little bit of a different perspective. We have with us John Gusty, who is not a doctor, but he is you and I and that he is disenfranchised with the mainstream medical system. He takes a little bit of a different approach to it. He's a proud anarchist, which I always assumed that anarchy meant violence, that it was disrespectful, that it was chaotic, that it was something that tore things down, that it didn't promote love and peace. My viewpoint of anarchy is, of course, what I have seen in the media, as we all have, and John talks about that from the philosophical standpoint of anarchy, which I think actually a lot of us could agree on a lot of the points that he brings up today. It's always good to do thought exercises. It's always good to stretch our own belief system, challenge our belief system or even strengthen our belief system by hearing what we don't agree with, and that's okay too. It's okay. It doesn't hurt us to listen to different viewpoints. What John shares today, though, is about helping people have their anonymity, helping people have their sovereignty, especially when it comes to their health, and how the mainstream medical establishment, the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry, even the music industry, which is where he originally comes from how it all is designed to control you, to profit from you and, in many cases, profit from your illness. I know I'm preaching to the choir. He does have some great ideas for solutions, and you can check out his book, the , as well as what Dr. Ayers discussed two episodes ago on the membership site, where they actually do have doctors that are holistic doctors that discuss natural solutions, their website being . I want to make sure you know about my book. It's not just any book. It's not going to sit on yourself, it's not going to collect dust. My book is where rubber meets the road. It's action. It builds you up and gets you quick results. So if you're tired of waking up cranky, sore, exhausted, if you're tired of having poor sleep, if you're tired of having brain fog, poor digestion, if you're tired of having that excess weight that kind of almost feels like water, just like your fingers might be hard to squeeze, your fingers and your toes and your ankles, at the end of the day, your body retains water. There’s so many things that I could mention, simple, actionable steps in my book will help you to get to the root cause of and alleviate, because the actions taken in my book the 33 different challenges that you can take on even in a busy life, will support your body's ability to come back into balance and heal itself. You will have more energy, more mental clarity, better sleep, better digestion, better sex. You will feel excellent after going through my book and you can skip challenges. You don't have to do all 33, but I do recommend that you take on at least one of the challenges each week and you could take a week off. You could do one week a month. You could do it for eight days. You don't have to do it for seven, like it's up to you. I lay out what I have seen work after working with thousands of people for over 12 years, after I have interviewed over 500 holistic health doctors, and what I have seen work to support your body's ability to heal itself, I put in this book and I made sure it was an action-oriented book so that you can get results away. Go ahead and go to , or go to Amazon and type in . Get the book and start doing the challenges. Please feel free to join me in my , the , and share with me your experience, your journey. I'd love to hear from you and if you're looking for answers that are more personalized, please feel free to reach out to me. I do free 15-minute consultations. I do health coaching. I get results and if I don't feel that I'm a good fit for you, I will refer you. I've got a wide list of amazing healthcare professionals that are holistic, that get results as well in different specialties. If I don't feel like I can help you or I know someone who's better suited for you, I will send you to them. So please feel free to reach out and chat with me. I want to help you. Go to and in the menu you can select and you will see the options at the very top for free consultations or, if you'd rather spend a 90 minute one session with me, you can do that. If you'd like to hire me as your health coach, you can do that there as well. Thank you so much for being a listener and thank you so much for sharing this podcast with those you care about. Together, we're going to help as many people as possible to learn true health. If this podcast has made a difference for you at any point in time in your life, please consider leaving a five-star review on Spotify and/or iTunes. That really helps me. A written review as well, if you can, on any of the podcast directories that you listen to my podcast on, mainly iTunes. I know they let you leave a written review and I have hundreds of written reviews, but every time someone subscribes, downloads, leaves a five-star review and also a written review. It boosts my podcast, which helps me to reach more people, and that's my mission, is to help as many people as possible to learn true health. So thank you so much for helping me by sharing and also by leaving a positive five-star review. Thank you, enjoy today's episode. Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is episode 528. Ashley James (0:07:53.282) I am so excited for today's guest. This is gonna be a really interesting conversation. John Gusty was in the entertainment industry for over 30 years, working with some of music's biggest names, and his wife was originally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Was this a misdiagnosis, the way your bio says originally diagnosed? John Gusty (0:08:18.184) Well, first of all, thank you for having me, Ashley. I think this is going to be a fantastic conversation as well. We could probably kill the entire episode just talking about the word diagnose because that's a huge subject. I think any diagnosis should be treated like an opinion because that's true, at least when we're talking about the medical industrial complex. If anyone is getting diagnosed within the medical industrial complex, I would take it as one man's or one woman's opinion. It's always best to seek multiple opinions before making an informed decision. Ashley James (0:09:03.422) We're definitely going to talk about that more. So you were in the music industry for over 30 years. Do some name dropping. What are some bands that I'd be impressed that you worked with? John Gusty (0:09:13.228) Oh, my goodness. Well, I was blessed to be in the Bon Jovi inner circle for a good while. Worked on the Keith Urban team, worked a little bit with Kanye West around the Graduation album period, worked on the Dolly Parton team for a good while. I'm kind of the “always a bridesmaid, never a bride” of rock and roll. If I told you some of the people I've counted as friends and neighbors who went on to international fame, it would sound like I was name-dropping. I came out of a pretty vibrant music scene in Tempe, Arizona, so you've probably heard of names like the Gin Blossoms, the Meat Puppets, and the Refreshments. Then I moved to Athens, Georgia, which was another very rich musical scene. The guys from REM were very good to me, my projects, and my friends. The B-52s hail from there as well. I've seen it happen to many people. I've seen people go from unknown to internationally known, and it's interesting how that affects even the most stable people. The unstable people? I think we all know what happens to them. But fame and fortune is a funny thing. Ashley James (0:10:58.640) Well, and is it just the getting fame and fortune causes some mental hiccups, or is it also that the industry is incredibly toxic? It's both, yes. John Gusty (0:11:11.966) It's both, yes. I think especially these days where society is just marinating in narcissism. Sometimes you're just drowning in narcissism. It's hard to get away from it. Now everybody's a star, everyone's a public figure, but pre-internet, it was a powerful thing to stand up on a stage, do the Jesus Christ pose, and have thousands of people literally screaming for you. Even the most stable person—I'll tell you, the guys in REM could not be more normal, stable, just good people—and I watched the toll it took on them. It will mess with your mind, and how could it not? Jon Bon Jovi started when he was 17 years old, and since the age of 17, he's lived the life of a good-looking, talented man who has had everything he's ever wanted. He's a good, solid dude. There's actually an interesting documentary series on Hulu now that chronicles Jon Bon Jovi. I just watched it the other night, and I think he did a really good, honest job with it. There's a lot of that interview where he talks about the mental toll that fame, that kind of attention, and that kind of ego takes on a person—even the most sane people. So yes, fame and fortune is a weird thing. Ashley James (0:13:03.093) So that in itself, ? On top of that, you have a very toxic industry that's looking to profit off of these artists. I see what comes out of Hollywood, for example. Now we have a lot of actors who started as children talking about how they were sexually abused in order to get a role, how even teenagers or those in their early 20s, both women and men, were asked to perform sexual acts on the director or somebody else in order to get a role. It's coming out just how disgusting and sick it is. There's a lot of manipulation, and the carrot at the end of the stick is this fame and fortune they're holding out in front of them. So yes, I can imagine that the music industry is equally as corrupt. John Gusty (0:14:02.969) Well, as is the medical industry, as is the food industry, as any. I mean, it really comes down to this, and this is something that, once I accepted it as a reality, it really helped me move forward in this wacky world that we live in without being angry all the time. The realization is this: anytime there's an audience, anything or anyone that garners an audience—whether it's a singer, a brand of lemonade, a TV show, or a band—anybody or anything that can command and garner an audience, that audience's attention is powerful stuff. I guarantee you now, Ashley, you and I could make a blood pact and go, “We're going to try to garner an audience and keep the evil forces from attacking us or coming after us.” I swear, if we get an audience that reaches a certain size, dark—let's just call it dark—dark people and dark energies start becoming attracted to your power to pull that audience. They need that attention; they need that reach. So entertainment, by definition, is going to be filled with sick, dark, predatory energies, people, and intentions, by the nature of the fact that anything that pulls an audience is going to be co-opted or attempted to be co-opted by those dark forces at some point. Ashley James (0:15:59.245) I have a personal belief that we're in a spiritual war, and I've seen it. I see it in the medical industrial complex. I see it in every aspect. We are bathed in this milieu of trying to take over your life and your mind and have you vote. The evil of the world is constantly trying to gain your focus and get you off course. Their biggest strategy now is to get you to believe it's no big deal—it's no big deal that there are artists on stage at concerts dancing in demon costumes and performing satanic ritual things. It's no big deal, it's just for fun, it's no big deal. John Gusty (0:16:50.981) That's the essence of gaslighting. I'll tell you, years ago, I think I was probably born this way and just didn’t know. I didn’t know the terms or the directions to find these things. But earlier in life, I discovered an amazing community of people that identified as anarchists, and I really fell into that community. That was the first time I was around people who, if you refer to yourself as an anarchist, you're really just adhering to two principles: no masters, no servants—which I think we can all agree on. I mean, if you believe in masters and servants, then you believe in slavery, and I don’t think many people actually believe in slavery. So, no masters, no servants and you have to adhere to the non-aggression principle where unless you’re defending your own life or the life of someone else, there’s no reason to become physically aggressive with anyone. There’s always a better way to work things out than through force. When you are amongst other anarchists, the whole essence is you want to be accepted for your beliefs, and so you have to accept other people for their beliefs. Immediately, there's no walls between anybody, because you can have two people standing in a room, and if they're both anarchists and they just disagree on everything, they're going to peacefully disagree. When I started taking that more anarchistic approach to life, which was boiled down in modern-day terms, it's you do you, and I'll do me, and unless we're hurting each other, truly hurting, I'm not talking about offending or inconveniencing, I'm talking about hurt, if I'm causing you harm or you're causing me, unless that's happening, then you do you, I'll do me, and we can peacefully coexist. The only place that I see that happening is within the anarchist community. But it also let me let go of a lot of anger, because I think a lot of us are or were or will continue to be angry because we're just wanting to be heard and understood, and I think that's the essence of the narcissism that you see with social media. Social media by definition is narcissistic. Because I'm telling you, Ashley, let's go back 15, 20 years ago, if you and I were friends and I showed up at your front door at 10:30 at night, knocking on your front door, and you answered it, and you're what? I had a picture of my dinner, and I was, hey, I just wanted to show you this picture of the dinner that I ate tonight. You'd be, dude, it's 10:30 at night. I don't care. I love you, but I don't care what you ate for dinner. But people do that all the time on social media. It's, hey, look what I ate for dinner, look where I'm at that you're not. Look at my feet with the beach in the background, and you're not. I know people will go, oh, it's a great way to connect with family and stuff, and you're , it is. But that's not 90% of the reason why people put stuff up on social media. People put stuff up on social media because, if we're all being honest, we're wanting people to go read me, look at me, watch me. And, okay, sometimes in marketing you want to do that, but in everyday life, when you're doing that, that's just pure narcissism, and we're marinating in it. Ashley James (0:20:49.356) I've never thought of anarchy in that way. I always consider maybe I have to go look up the definition of anarchy, but I always thought it meant people who want to create chaos. I'm thinking the Dungeons and Dragons version of your chaotic neutral and your chaotic good, and I'm just thinking anything with the word chaos to me is anarchy. That's just how the mainstream media creates it. John Gusty (0:20:11.300) That's how your Fox News, your CNNs, your cable news religions, that's how they portray it. Because the last thing in the world that they want, and when I say they, I mean the statists, the corporate statists, their biggest enemy, is individuality and personal creativity. So they need you to conform. They need you to fall in line and do what they want you to do. You can't. Anarchy is their biggest fear or enemy, because in anarchy there isn't—again, I'll phrase it another way. I'll just ask you a really simple question, Ashley: do you think that person A has the right to walk up to person B and declare non-consensual authority over that person? No, of course not. Of course not. But we're going to watch it in just six short months. We're going to watch our friends and family all take part in the next season of America’s Next Top President and they’re going to willingly go back into this. It's an abusive relationship. It really is. Let's stick with the abusive relationship analogy—how many times does he have to cheat on you? How many times does he have to hit you? How many times are they going to talk about education, the economy, foreign policy? Nothing, ever. The religion of statism—I dare you to cite one example that the religion of statism has improved. Name anything that ‘s improved. Has food gotten cheaper or healthier? Is water cleaner or free? We're the only species that I know of that puts a paywall between us and water, which is essential to even be alive. But I mean, nothing ever gets better. But we're going to watch. We're going to watch our friends and family go and ask for more of that abusive relationship. Ashley James (0:23:51.496) When I was about 11 years old, I was sitting in the back seat. I actually have a memory of this. She popped this tape that her friend lent her, and it was a health lecture by this doctor, and my eyes were opened that day. My eyes were opened, and I didn't know this guy's name. For years I didn't know his name, but what he said stuck with me. He grew up on a beef farm in Missouri, and he watched as him and his family fed nutritional pellets to the calves and to the cows that contained many vitamins and minerals in order to keep those animals super healthy so they never got sick. He said to his dad, why do we give animals nutrition to keep them healthy, but we don't eat them ourselves? His dad said something like, shut up, boy, and get back to work. But he ended up actually... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/32420817

527 Near Death to Vibrant Health: Adam Sud Lost 150 Pounds, Broke Free From Addiction, Reversed Diabetes & Helped Over 1,000 People Do The Same, WFPB 07/31/2024

527 Near Death to Vibrant Health: Adam Sud Lost 150 Pounds, Broke Free From Addiction, Reversed Diabetes & Helped Over 1,000 People Do The Same, WFPB Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com Check Out My Latest Book: Addicted To Wellness Adam Sud's website: 527: Breaking Free From Addiction: Adam Sud’s 150lb Health Transformation In this episode, Adam Sud opens up about his inspiring recovery journey from addiction, obesity, and illness through the transformative power of a plant-based diet. He dives into the emotional drivers of addiction—pain, loneliness, and disconnection—and how a life-changing Whole Foods retreat with Rip Esselstyn sparked his lifestyle shift. Adam shares how understanding the “pleasure trap” concept, reversing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and shedding 150 pounds in just 10 months helped him create a healthier, more fulfilling life. His story highlights the importance of simplifying eating, building supportive environments, and fostering community connections in the recovery process. Tune in for an uplifting conversation on the power of resilience, gratitude, and the daily commitment to better health. Highlights: Adam Sud shares his recovery journey from addiction, obesity, and illness using a plant-based diet. Pain, loneliness, and disconnection are key drivers of addiction. A Whole Foods retreat with Rip Esselstyn inspired Adam's lifestyle change. The “pleasure trap” concept helped him understand addiction and recovery. Reversed type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and lost 150 pounds in 10 months. Simplified eating and supportive environments were crucial to success. Recovery is creating a safe, hopeful life that makes substance use unattractive. Community and meaningful connections are vital for resilience. Two-week dietary experiments build motivation and habits. Gratitude for the family's unconditional support shaped his recovery. Treat everyone as if it's their last day to inspire kindness and connection. Intro: Hello true health seeker, and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. Today is going to blow your mind. We have Adam Sud sharing his story. It’s something that so many people need to hear. I needed to hear it. It’s really wonderful getting his perspective if you have anyone in your life that is sick, that is suffering, that is struggling, please share this episode with them. I want to help end the needless suffering of millions of people and this is another episode that will help us accomplish that. If you are a new listener, welcome. I recently published a book called, Addicted to Wellness. This is a fun, inspiring, motivating, workbook that will help you to take your health wherever your health is. It will help you take your health to a new level. Check it out. Go to Amazon and type in or you can go to . I encourage you to buy it and go through the weekly challenges at your own pace. You will find that these simple and doable challenges bring you more energy, more mental clarity, better sleep, deeper sleep, and throughout the day you will feel more fulfillment, enjoy better digestion, the list of benefits goes on and on. This book is an accumulation of everything I’ve learned working with so many clients for over 12 years as well interviewing over 500 health experts. So it really does have the key fundamentals that make the biggest difference. The smallest effort on your part to make the biggest difference to your overall health and well-being. And no matter how busy you are, it’s easy to implement into your life, 5, 10 minutes a day in the morning, 5, 10 minutes in the evening, and just watch as you get the results. So this is my labor of love to you, to the wonderful listeners, I love you guys so much. I was sick and suffering for many years. I transformed my health and I turned around and said, I got to help others. This is why I do what I do. Together we can help as many people as possible to learn true health. Through sharing this podcast, sharing my book, together we can help those to stop the needless suffering. MDs have brainwashed us and the mainstream media has brainwashed us to believe that we cannot heal. That our bodies are stuck this way because of genetics or stuck this way, you will always have to be on these drugs. And they sell us this bill of goods that robs us of our vitality and joy and our true purpose in life. It’s actually quite maniacal. And I’m here to tell you that you have an amazing God-given ability to heal–that your body can heal. That you can get so healthy that you get taken off of all those drugs. Listen to today’s interview with an open mind and know that your body can heal itself. Check out my book,. If you have questions, I’d love to see you in the , the . Of course, go to my website, . You can use the search function there and search other topics you are interested in. We’ve covered so many topics about how to restore health and well-being to our physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and energetic body. Check out my book. Share this episode please with as many people as you can so we can help them. And those you share it with can then share with their friends and so on and so on and we can really make a big difference. One-third of the population is diabetic or pre-diabetic that means one-third of the people you know need this information. Just share it with as many people as you can so we can make a huge difference. I’ve helped so many people to reverse type 2 diabetes within months! And they were told they’d be on drugs their whole life and that they’d be sick and suffering their whole life, and it’s such a lie. Together, we’re going to help people to restore them to the health that they deserve. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for sharing. Enjoy today’s episode. Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I’m your host, Ashley James. This is episode 527. Ashley James (0:05:21.588) I am so excited for today's guest. We have on the show a very special guest on the show, Adam Sud from . It's spelled S-U-D—super easy. Adam Sud, I met you through a mutual friend, Robin Openshaw, who is amazing. I also know the guys who wrote Mastering Diabetes. I've had them both on my show, love them, and refer back to their program when coaching my clients. I’m so impressed with their work. If anyone is struggling with any kind of blood sugar-related issue, you’re going to love today’s episode. But also weight loss, hormone balance, getting your energy back, reversing and preventing heart disease. We’re going to cover some amazing topics, and also addiction, something near and dear to my heart. I’ve been very openly vulnerable on this show that I’ve struggled with food addiction for many years. I’m grateful that I don’t struggle with drug or alcohol addiction, but I can definitely sympathize with those who do because I’ve worked really hard to overcome food addiction. I adopted a whole-food, plant-based diet and, over the course of several years, I lost 80 pounds. I’m still on my journey, but I’ve reversed type 2 diabetes, chronic adrenal fatigue, chronic infections, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. I was told I’d never have children after a battery of tests with an endocrinologist. That should be illegal. It should be illegal for an endocrinologist to tell a 19-year-old woman she’ll never have children based on labs at nineteen, when there’s so much evidence that a diet-adapted lifestyle can completely change your life. And because of supplementing with certain nutrients that I was depleted of, especially minerals and adopting a healthy, whole-food lifestyle, I was able to reverse that. We conceived our son naturally, and now we have an amazing nine-year-old son, super healthy. I’m so grateful for that and for this health journey. That’s why I do this podcast. Today, we have Adam Sud on the show, who’s going to share his story of how he overcame some major challenges like many, many listeners are struggling with. I want you to listen not only for yourself but also for those you love in your life. You may not know that there is someone you care about who goes to sleep crying every night like I did. Crying because they feel like they're trapped a prisoner in their body. They wish for a better way, for answers, but the doctor only gives them drug after drug and the media is saying diets just eat the carnivore diet, go Atkins, or whatever the media is pushing and they feel sicker and sicker instead of reversing their diseases and getting back to a point where they feel healthy and some people never felt healthy, like I said go back to where you feel healthy. Some people have never experienced that. Five-year-olds that are now morbidly obese. It’s so sad that so many of us suffer needlessly. Adam, today you're going to share your story and you're going to share some answers, what people can do today to change their lives, to take back control and to reverse these major diseases just like you did, just like I did. So we can learn true health. So thank you so much for coming on the show today. Adam Sud (0:08:54.440) It's my absolute pleasure. I'm so excited to be here. Ashley James (0:08:57.316) Awesome. Well, let's start off. Let's go all the way back to the beginning. Tell your story. Adam Sud (0:09:01.852) Yes. Okay, well, let’s go back to the beginning then. I was born in Houston, Texas, in 1982. I am a seventh-generation Texan. I grew up eating burgers and barbecue every single day—it was the diet of my culture, my parents, their parents, my friends, and their parents. It was everywhere that I was. To be fair, I had a pretty awesome childhood. I was born with an identical twin brother, so I was born with a best friend. I got another best friend a couple of years later—my younger sister, Jewel. We lived in an amazing middle-class neighborhood with all our friends. We rode our bikes to and from school every single day. My mom was a person who really compelled me to lean into my creativity and to inspire my imagination. My dad taught me how to play every sport under the sun, and it was great. But around the time I was 11 years old. I’m not really sure what was going on, but things started to change. I can remember the summer, it was 1993 or 1994—I was 11 or 12 years old. Let me tell you what you did in Houston, Texas, in the summer of ’93, when you were 11 or 12 years old. You got up in the morning, put on a bathing suit, go outside, run through the sprinklers in your house, go to your friend’s front yard and run across their slip-and-slide, then went to another friend’s house to jump in their pool. You’d go outside, find another sprinkler, ride your bikes, do that until noon. You go and have lunch, you’d go and do it all over again until you can’t walk anymore because you’d had the best day of your life. That’s how I spent my summers. I remember one day I came running into the house, and my dad stopped me and asked me how and why I already had love handles. Now, I'm 11 years old. I don't know what love handles are. I don't know how you get them. I don't know how you get rid of them. But what I'm very aware of is that my dad is not approving of this about me. I can remember before that moment, I was very accepting of myself, both physically and emotionally. I had a very good relationship with who I was, how I felt, and how I thought I looked. In that moment, everything kind of changed because what I began to believe was that there were now conditions upon which I was allowed to accept and love myself completely. If there's one condition, are there others? Why do I not know what they are? My gosh, am I not meeting them? I remember that was the first day I felt anxiety, and it was overwhelming. I felt unsafe in the presence of my father. My dad, I will say, is my superhero. My dad is the most incredible human on earth. To me, when I was growing up, he was Captain America. Coming in running eight miles, shirt off, six-pack abs, and he would walk right past us at the breakfast table. He would go stand in front of the refrigerator, and I would listen to him criticize his own body in front of me. I'm going to tell you, equally as damaging as hearing him criticize my body, hearing my father tell himself that he didn't love himself—that weren't those words, but that's what he was saying. When he looked the way that he looked—when I'm looking at him, the person who I thought was the greatest human alive—and he doesn't even think he's deserving of loving himself, that really, I believe, planted a seed in me. My gosh, if that is not worthy of acceptance, I'm never going to get there. How shameful must I be to myself, to my parents, to my friends? So I began to hide who I actually was. That's where I really started to notice these feelings of inadequacy, these feelings of depression and anxiety. I became a class clown. I didn't want people to look at me anymore. I started high school, and I started to be very, very self-critical, very socially anxious, even though I had a lot of friends. So my parents took me to go see a doctor. I was acting up in school, and the school had suggested that I go meet with someone. This doctor diagnosed me with ADHD. Now I have a person of authority, a person in a white coat who my parents have taken me to for the sole purpose of finding out, is there something else about our son that's unlovable? Not what they were actually doing, but that's the perception that I had. It turns out they found something. These aren't the exact words that the doctor used, but the doctor essentially said, “Adam, we found something else about you that's broken. Something else about you that's unacceptable to the world. Something about you that no one wants to see. In fact, it's a burden to have this be a part of you and have you be around people like you.” But don't you worry about it because we're going to medicate you for it. We're going to put you on this pill. It's called Ritalin. What this is going to do is it's going to insult that part of you so greatly that no one will notice it. Let's hope that that makes everything okay. Again, that's not the words that the doctor used. However, that is how I felt. Now, we moved from Houston, Texas, to Austin, Texas, before I started high school. I had gained weight in middle school. I was shy, insecure. I was really looking forward to going to high school with my friends in Houston. But I got taken away from that, and I got put into this big Texas football high school where I didn't know anybody. I'm going to tell you, I was very worried. Number one, am I going to be able to make friends? Number two, is it going to be difficult for me to feel safe in this school? I experienced relentless bullying my freshman year. The bullying was so bad, in fact, that halfway through my freshman year, when my parents would drop me off at school, the assistant principals would have to get their eyes on me to make sure that I made it into the school safely. I'm going to explain to you what my life felt like at that time. I would get up every single day living inside of a body that I had been conditioned to believe wasn't a safe, secure, or hopeful place to be. I would find myself in front of parents who are, without question, the most supportive and loving parents on earth but I didn't always feel a safe, secure, and hopeful place to be. I would go to school where physically, verbally, and emotionally, it certainly did not feel like a safe, secure, or hopeful place to be. I always had the sense that tomorrow was going to be equally unsafe. Now, that experience is a breeding ground for depression and anxiety. That is the appropriate psychological response to that situation, but no one had told me that that's how I was supposed to feel. People made me feel, not intentionally, but it just happened—that there was something wrong with me for not being happy and excited about going to school. Something gone wrong with me that I was always nervous, anxious, and hypervigilant. But I really appreciate the perspective of a British journalist named Johann Hari. Johann Hari says that depression is a form of grief for your life not being as it should. I like the perspective of anxiety being a signal. It's an alarm bell letting you know that there's something in the not-too-distant future, likely some point today, certainly tomorrow, that doesn't feel physically safe. Doesn't feel like a safe place to be. In fact, you should be worried about it. In fact, you should be so aware of this that you should be trying to fix it to make sure that tomorrow finally feels safe. These are all psychologically reasonable responses, but to me, they were overwhelming. They were debilitating. About this time, my prescription for Ritalin got changed to a new medication called Adderall. I'm sure everybody who's listening to this has heard of the medication called Adderall. But if you haven't, it's simply a stimulant-based form of medication used to treat ADHD and other psychological conditions. I can remember I would take one dose in the morning before I went to school, and I would take another dose halfway through school. So, I'd have my pill bottle with me. I remember I would take it in the middle of class. As I walked out of that classroom, I would normally turn right because if I went to the left, I would go past some lockers that belonged to kids I didn't want to go past. As I walked out of the class, I'm trying to turn right and somebody grabs me and pulls me to the left. It's one of the students that would routinely bully me. Here I am. I'm waiting for them. I'm preparing for the worst. But this was slightly different when his arm went around my neck. It wasn't in a harmful manner. It was more of a “buddy, come on over here. I want to talk to you.” He says, “Hey, listen, I want you to know that all that bullying, the hazing that we've been doing to you, it's all over. I mean, listen, you're new. You understand this, right? Nothing personal here. In fact, why don't you come to this party this weekend? Just bring that Adderall with you.” Now look, I may have been an awkward freshman, which I was. I may have been shy and quote-unquote unpopular, which I was, but I was not stupid. I knew exactly what was taking place. Do you want to know what I felt? I felt relief because I thought perhaps maybe I had found a way to feel a little bit safer in a world that didn't feel safe. So, I went to that party. I brought my Adderall with me, and I gave it to the guys at the party. In fact, I remember that's the first night I ever used Adderall as a recreational drug. I'm going to tell you that the moment that that high dose took effect, it was, boom. I cannot explain to you the feeling that took over me in that moment. Adderall is amphetamine. As a shy, insecure, scared kid, being flooded with amphetamine makes you feel like you're in charge. It makes you feel like you have superpowers, unbelievable confidence, and it does this with ease and repeatability. That's attractive. I noticed that as the weeks went by, I was able to lose weight with ease and repeatability. That's attractive. I was noticing I was able to make friends. I was able to go up to people and talk to them. I was able to study in a way that I'd never studied before, with ease and repeatability. That's incredibly attractive. I also noticed that my dad was engaging with me differently. It's likely because, with ease and repeatability, I found a way for school to not feel unsafe. So, I wasn't complaining about going to school anymore. I wasn't trying to skip school anymore. I was studying like someone who actually cared about school. So, my dad was engaging with me as if I had figured it out. Believe me, I thought I had. So, what I want you all to understand is that more so than a chemical hook in the... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/32371107

526 Proof vs Tox$ick Propaganda: Navigating the Lies of Modern Medicine, How To Break Free, Achieve True Health, Red Pill Revolution, Dr. Jeremy Ayres 07/26/2024

526 Proof vs Tox$ick Propaganda: Navigating the Lies of Modern Medicine, How To Break Free, Achieve True Health, Red Pill Revolution, Dr. Jeremy Ayres Check Out My Latest Book: Addicted To Wellness Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com Dr. Jeremy Ayres's Websites: https://theredpillrevolution.com Special Audience Giveaway: NaturallyBetter4you.com Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the guest speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the host or podcast. 526: Red Pill Revolution: Navigating the Lies of Modern Medicine In this episode of the Learn True Health podcast, Ashley James interviews Dr. Jeremy Ayres in a thought-provoking and controversial discussion that challenges conventional health narratives. Dr. Ayres shares insights designed to inspire listeners to question deeply held beliefs and explore alternative perspectives on wellness and healing. With a focus on evidence-based approaches, this episode offers an opportunity to rethink modern medicine and consider empowering paths to true health. Highlights: Profit Over Health in Modern Medicine Spanish Flu and Vaccinations Polio and DDT Role of Pharmaceutical Industry Views on COVID-19: Environmental Factors (EMFs, Graphene, 5G Frequencies) vs. Viral Infection True Medicine vs. Conventional Approaches The Problem with Western Diets Holistic Healing Approaches for Modern Health Challenges Intro: Hello true health seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. We have a very controversial and interesting, thought-provoking deep-dive today with Dr. Jeremy Ayres. He’s going to say some things that I think are going to shake up some belief systems. I think some of his topics are so controversial that some people may find themselves upset or may find themselves deciding to question their own belief system and go deeper. I just want to say that anything that he says that goes completely against your current knowledge or belief system, approach it with an open mind, ask yourself, am I upset because it’s challenging my dogma, or am I upset because I think it is hurtful, or am I upset because I’ve never heard this before that it’s completely opposite to what everyone around me believes. We just question our own belief system. I’m not saying that I believe everything he says. I’m saying that it’s worth having thought exercises. I believe it’s part of personal growth to listen to an opinion different from yours and to just keep your mind open and then go deeper and see what evidence is there for that. Is it true? Is this the truth? Can I find evidence to support this? Why does he say these things? He does a lot more information. We didn’t go super deep on some things he says. I love to have him back and have him explained why he said the things he said. Although there are his books you can dive into. There’s plenty of videos of him online and articles. He’s been a doctor for many years. He doesn’t say anything without a basis. He doesn't just state something that’s an opinion. He comes to conclusions based on enough evidence. You can find this same evidence that he’s found and I'm sure you can reach out to him as well and he will provide you with that evidence. This is a wonderful exercise to challenge our belief system. I’ve had my belief system changed doing this podcast for the last eight years and it’s really enriched my life. I’ve allowed old beliefs to be shed away in light of new evidence, new information, and I find that it actually builds us up. I hope this information builds you up. I hope the information exposes you to ideas that empower you and that give you a path to building yourself up. I want to let you know that if you are new to seeking true health that I have published a book that I’d love for you to do. It's called Addicted to Wellness. It’s a workbook so it’s where rubber meets the road. It provides you with the foundations of health in a way that is fun and doable even for the busiest of people. Please check it out. You can go to or type in Addicted to Wellness by Ashley James on Amazon. Thank you so much for sharing this podcast for those you care about. I have a feeling this is one of those very shareable episodes because we’re going to start to think about friends and family and colleagues that need to hear this information, especially those who have been lied to by their doctors. the doctors don’t even know they’re lying. Again, this is what we’re going to be talking about today. But if you’ve a friend or a family member who is sick and is suffering, who’s sick of suffering, who just doesn't’ want to suffer anymore but they are on multiple medications and the medications are making it even worse not better and they’re not getting to the root cause, their doctor’s not helping heal themselves. This is going to be a wonderful introduction to why it is the way it is and that there is a different way how we can guide people there. I encourage you to check out my book because there’s a lot of evidence-based actionable steps to building our health up and I’d love for you to have those tools on your tool belt. is the book. Enjoy today’s episode. Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I’m your host, Ashley James. This is episode 526. Ashley James (0:05:02.426) I am so excited for today's guest. We have on the show with us, Dr. Jeremy Ayres. is his website, spelt anyway, that's really smart. . Dr. Ayres is an osteopathic physician who combines the best of naturopathic, chiropractic, and osteopathic care. He's famous for the book he co-authored, . It's criminal how the medical industry and the food industry has taken us prisoner and it's like the Matrix, you can't see the Matrix, but you're a prisoner of the Matrix. This is where we live. We live in a world where our health is controlled by major corporations who profit from us being sick. Of course, if you're listening to this, you are interested in stepping outside of the mainstream to look for how to achieve true health. I know with our guests oday, this is a missing piece that has been missing for you and for all of us. Dr. Ayres is gonna fill us in on what we need to know in order to help our body's ability to heal itself. Welcome to the show. Dr. Jeremy Ayres (0:06:24.430) Well thank you very much for finally getting me on here because we've had some technical issues a few times but we're here now. Ashley James (0:06:32.636) Yes, I'm very happy to have you on. We have been trying to get this interview for a while and today we did it. I'm so committed to getting this information out there. I've been screaming from the rooftops for years and then I come across your message and it was so refreshing to see another person saying almost the exact same thing I've been saying, but you also have been in the trenches as a doctor. so you have a unique perspective. I’ve interviewed over 500 doctors the last eight years, and many of them are actually medical doctors, MDs. I was always surprised, what does it take for an MD to wake up, reject the system that they spent over half a million dollars investing in their education, and then move towards holistic plant -based or, herbal-based medicine, functional medicine, and almost reject the drug-based medical industry. So often I'll ask them, what happened in your life? Every single one of them said, I got sick or my wife or my dad or someone in their life is either themselves personally or someone that they dearly loved. They realized that the allopathic drug-based, pharmaceutical-based medical doctor system had zero answers to helping support the body's ability to heal itself and had zero capacity to reverse disease and get someone out of a disease state and live their optimal life, optimally healthy. That's when they went, my gosh, I can't believe I've been lied to because they all said the same thing. They said, many, many years of medical school that we're taught all the answers. If it's not taught in medical school, it's not even worth knowing. What a bunch of lies and manipulation that there's so many doctors out there that their hearts are in the right place, but they've been brainwashed by the medical industry. So I'm so excited to have you on the show today because I want to go deeper and have people understand the history of the modern medical system that it's only about 130 or less years. It hasn't been around that long. When we look at how we think it's always been this way, we're born into this system. It hasn't always been this way and we have to understand that we have been lied to since birth. So I'm very excited to go down that rabbit hole with you. Then we're going to talk about the problem, unpack that problem. Then we want to talk of course about the solution, which you have a wonderful solution. Dr. Jeremy Ayres (0:09:12.348) Where to begin with all that? Because what you've said is profoundly right. Probably most of your audience is aware that you are profoundly right. If there's anyone listening for the first time by chance and just listened to you and thought, what a wacko, let's start there. I'm 55 years young and I didn't one day wake up and decide to pick every controversial subject and do the opposite to what everybody else has been told or thought was correct and right so that it would make me more money and win me more popularity and friends because as you know the opposite is true. I could have made myself a great fortune if I'd have gone a different route for example. So there is a reason why doctors like myself have chosen this path, which has been bumpy and arduous and challenging at times. The bottom line to that is I was brought up by a wonderful mother who passed away last year, accelerated by certain medical interventions that have happened in the last few years. Maybe we can touch on that. But, nonetheless, I was brought up by a wonderful woman, a very simple woman in many ways, and she hated bullies and liars. I didn't realize she was prepping me for my adult life, and certainly she didn't either, but prepping me for my adult life when I realized that the system per se is the bullies and liars. I was brought up like most of you, so-called educated, believing that the politicians, what they're saying were true and how things were run and that doctors were there to help you and so forth. At 12 years old, cancer came to our family for the first time. It was my brother's wife's mother who had breast cancer and she went on to pass with that. Now at the time, I was told that she died from breast cancer and I probably think my brother and his wife would still say that. What I saw was the fear and as a 12 year old boy, the fear and the grief and the upset and the anger and how it caused problems with relationships as her mother went through what she did and then finally passed. At 12 years old, I remember thinking, this is just wrong. Something's got to be done about this. This is terrible. Then I went off on my merry way, growing up until I was about 21, 22, where I represented Great Britain in canoeing in the Olympic training squad. I hurt my back very badly and I've never liked doctors. I don't know what it was. I just didn't feel comfortable ever going to a doctor, talking to a doctor, being in a doctor's office. So I hurt my back very badly. It was the Olympic year. There was this portly chap, who looked more like a British butcher than an osteopath or a healthcare professional. He was an osteopath and I didn't know what the hell that was at the time, but he wasn't charging very much. He said, well, I can help you come along to my clinic. So off I went, well, struggled to get in my car and drive there, could hardly walk. He had a sort of production line clinic, which was lots of booths with separated by curtains and lots of student osteopaths. It was a bit like a commercial factory really, nonetheless, I came into there and he asked me to take my clothes off down to my boxers, and I wasn't ready for that one, examined me and then handed me over to an Eastern European woman with more muscles and facial hair than me at the time, who then proceeded to massage me into near tears, of course, I'm English, so we don't complain. We construct a carefully written letter the next day, rather than like Americans or Canadians who might speak up. So there I am laying, crying, thinking, when will this torturous thing end? Then in came Ron Johnson, this osteopath, and put me in what I thought was a pseudo sexual position at the time, no explanation, and adjusted my back and this loud crack and all the pain went away. That was it. I went, I've got to do this. That was the moment. It was from there on in these memories of 12 years old and the cancer that came into my family came back and I went off with this determination that I must become an osteopath and something's got to be done about this terrible disease. It was as naive as that, thinking that there would be some university course or something that will teach you. As I expand on the story, but as you well know, the more I studied and as I became an osteopath and the more I researched, the more I realized the opposite was true. The closer you got to the information, especially the closer you got to speaking about it, the more trouble you got in. So very quickly, by my mid 30s, I realized that this game is rigged. I think the first book I came across that explained it well was Dirty Medicine. The author had had several attempts on his life. Me at that time, it was like, no, this has got to be exaggerated. But when you pull the layers back and you apply the original journalist method of following the money, we're talking about medicine, the biggest business on the planet by a mile. According to the Fortune 500, they're way ahead of any other company and profits and money generation. When you are asking, if anybody says, well, come on, that's just rubbish. You have to just go and ask anybody in any country where you have lived in the last 50 years, have you become healthier or sicker as a people? Everybody this is pre-convid, and that's what I call it, and I'm willing to explain why I call it convid, but pre-convid, everybody would say, well, we're sicker, much sicker. If you go back to follow the money, who gains? So what you have to at least start to be open to looking into rather than accepting is that this is not a healthcare system. It's a business model. It's an extremely successful business model. It's a bloody dirty one too, because they have done everything possible to silence and ruin critics and any medical doctor that has woken up and come to realize what they're actually in will know what I'm talking about because they're absolutely professionally crucified till they shut up and tow the line or go off and do something else. So I don't think it takes that much for people to realize that this is actually a business and not a healthcare system. Ashley James (0:16:35.741) That book, Dirty Medicine, is that Martin Walker who wrote it? Dr. Jeremy Ayres (0:16:42.408) Honestly, it was 30 years ago, I'd have to go and check, but it was just the beginning of many, many books that started to show me. In fact, most of the best stuff was written a hundred years ago, which is about the time that the Rockefellers who were into oil were being basically investigated for a monopoly on the oil. Actually, they had a monopoly on the petrol and pumping station. That's where their monopoly was, selling it once it was refined. so they decided to diversify into pharmaceutical drugs, which weren't really abundant then. The doctors and naturopaths and chiropractors, and osteopaths and herbalists and homeopaths were sort of level pegings. If anybody was the snake oil salesman, it was the allopaths and the chemists at the time, actually. Rockefeller employed Flexner and began to produce the Flexner Report, which basically did a classic hatchet job of saying, well, some of it was true, I must say, but basically a classic hatchet job of we must standardize all education always for the patient's benefit. They love that marketing line. But what they actually did was create a situation with a lot of backhanders and bribes and upfront and behind the scenes to create a situation where only those with enough money could comply with the new regulations to educate people, whether it be chiropractors, osteopathy or what have you. So you had to go to them for a handout. If you took one of their grants, you had to take one of their members onto your board. So it didn't take very long before so-called natural medicine was pretty much eradicated It was turned into a poor man's cousin of what it used to be. so-called modern medicine, allopathic medicine, correctly, became the market leader legally, protected, financially funded, and that's how it became and established the world leader all around the world as so-called primary healthcare. Ashley James (0:18:56.912) Let's go deeper. Let's unpack this because not everyone knows about the Flexner report. Not everyone knows about this history. This is the history of modern medicine that we need people to understand because if you understand the history, you'll understand that we have been manipulated and lied to our entire lives. So what did medicine in America and Britain and Canada, let's say all the Commonwealth countries and in the United States, what did medicine look like before the Flexon report, before allopathic, the drug-based medicine, the drugs being coming from the petrol industry? Dr. Jeremy Ayres (0:19:44.652) Well, it was a pretty level playing field and probably you could say a true free market existed. So if you were good at what you did. People got to hear about it. If a medicine was good, people got to hear about it. You can trace this all the way back even to Dr. Jennifer Daniels work and the slave medicine, particularly pure gum turpentine. Today pure gum turpentine is sold as a paint stripper. Back in the day, it was used as a very effective parasitical medicine and it earned its reputation by being effective and people doing this work and they didn't really need to know why it just worked. I think a best example is if you go to something like the Spanish flu, which to this very day is in every website and history book as a foreign virus that came and killed 50 to 100 million people, which is absolute nonsense, by the way. The actual truth of the matter is that they didn't have the technology nor do they now, either, but they certainly didn't have the technology to find a virus. It's always foreign because that's scary to Western people, some dirty foreign thing. At the end, World War I had ended early. so there were a lot of very toxic vaccination vials left. so the largest marketing pre-covid or convid, the largest marketing campaign to scare the world into taking all these going out of date vaccinations because all their men and women were coming back from foreign dirty foreign countries and you're to need to be protected and it was actually the mass vaccination that started all these differing symptoms of very serious illness and the allopaths of the time were treating them with aspirin and arsenic based medications which then put them into sepsis and also pressed their organs of detoxification and that's what killed 50 to 100 million people. Homeopaths had about a 0.1% fatality using homeopathy. So they were actually extremely popular and a true free market as people started to see the way. As you will see, history has recorded that a flu virus came, this invisible thing, and that was the cause and it couldn't be further from the truth. Ashley James (0:22:23.738) This reminds me of when we look at polio and I apologize for not knowing the exact dates, in the fifties? I think... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/32311057

525 How Seeking Holistic Health Saved My Life, Addicted To Wellness with Ashley James and David DeHaas 07/21/2024

525 How Seeking Holistic Health Saved My Life, Addicted To Wellness with Ashley James and David DeHaas Check Out My Latest Book: Addicted To Wellness Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com 525: How Seeking Holistic Health Saved My Life, David DeHaas Grab Ashley James's book Addicted to Wellness and transform your health! Get it here: When I was 19, my health hit rock bottom—I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and infertility, conditions I never imagined facing so young. This pivotal moment propelled me into the world of holistic health, a journey that led to incredible transformations not just for me but for countless others. Join me, Ashley James, as I chat with David DeHaas from the Whole Body Detox Show about my new book, "Addicted to Wellness," and the magic of holistic healing. Highlights: Healing Holistically With David DeHaas From Illness to Wellness Journey Early Interest in Holistic Health Impact of Antibiotics on Lactobacillus Reuteri Supporting Gut Health With Microbes Addicted to Wellness Book Discussion Functional Medicine and Holistic Healing Content Creation Challenges and Collaboration Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health Podcast. Today's a fun episode because I'm the one in the hot seat. David DeHaas from the Whole Body Detox Show interviews me on Episode 179 of his show. So I have taken that Episode 179 from the Whole Body Detox Show, David DeHaas being the host and I am placing it here so that y'all can listen to our interview. I was just jumping on his show and I was checking it out this morning and his latest interview, which he published earlier this month, was with Andy Wakefield. I had Andy Wakefield on my show a few years ago. Be fun to have him back because Dr. Wakefield certainly has some more information and he's been in, I think, a few more documentaries since, so that'd be fun to have him back. I love when I get to come together with like-minded people like David DeHaas. David DeHaas has also been on my show. He runs an amazing detox clinic. I think it's in Idaho. Forgive me, I'm pretty sure it's like it's so close. Idaho is like next door to Washington state, but people actually fly in from out of state, from out of country. They fly in to do, he has a week long and I think he has like a 10 day or two week long detox where they feed you and they do a whole series of colonics and they rebuild your gut, and him and I have had some really interesting off air conversations about how people have come back from the brink and he's had some really interesting experiences with doctors. When doctors wake up when their own medicine fails them and I have a lot of those interviews. If you've been listening, over 500 interviews, I have a lot of holistic doctors who started out as medical doctors in the allopathic, drug-based medical field and then they themselves came up against some illness and their system of medicine couldn't help them and that's when their brain exploded and they went my gosh, we've been taught a lie. We've been taught this lie which is prevalent. We are all bathed in this lie and that is that the MD drug based medicine is the only legitimate medicine out there, that you should always go to an MD. That type of doctor and every other type of doctor is a quack, or every other type of doctor is a quote unquote, and I'm doing little air quotes, alternative, meaning something less than not helpful, something less than and , maybe those alternative doctors might like massage you or something, but they're not legitimate because they don't give you drugs and it's been a lie that they've been feeding us. It's PR marketing that they've been feeding us for over 100 years. I'm not going to go deep down this rabbit hole today, but you can. It's a pretty interesting rabbit hole to go down. So these doctors wake up when they realize that their system of medicine doesn't have all the answers. Not every system does. That's the point. We should not give the power to any one system, and I'm pretty sure that applies to everything in life. Don't give all the power to one type of school system, to one type of food manufacturer, to one type of government. Don't give the power and all the control and all the attention to one system, because that's not how life works. We should have access to, and the freedom to have access to, many types of therapies and healing. So MDs that wake up and go, wow, I need to go outside of my system of medicine to find the answers. Then they find holistic medicine or functional medicine and then they heal their body and then they become a born again holistic health expert and they jump on podcasts like mine. Well, David DeHaas, the host of the interview you're about to listen to, he's had several of these experiences where very prominent MDs come to him unable to eat almost anything. Their gut is totally destroyed, they have eliminated most foods in their diet because they no longer can tolerate food and they get transformed by going to his clinic. They do something like 10 days of colonics and juicing and all the other wonderful therapies to rebuild the microbiome at David DeHaas' clinic and they're able to then walk away after ten days or two weeks, able to eat almost anything and tolerate it, and it's so cool. It's so cool that we can do that level of intense healing. So, anyways, there's my plug for David's clinic and his podcast, the Whole Body Detox Show. You can also check out on my podcast as well. I had him on a few years ago and it was wonderful to have him on. then it was great to reconnect when he saw that I had published my book recently this year and he said come on my show and let's talk about it. So this interview today is a great conversation about holistic health and we dive into some wonderful ways in which we can help support the body and healing itself. If you haven't seen my book yet, please check it out. Go to that's all one word or you can just go to Amazon and type in by Ashley James. It's a workbook. It's a lot of fun. I have taken the accumulation of the last 12 years of working in this industry, in the holistic health field, working with thousands of clients. Before, I worked in the holistic health field, I worked with clients for 20 years. I can't believe that. You kind of like look back and you go, my gosh, like in my mind the 90’s were 10 years ago. I'm an 80s baby and it's just wild to think that I've been working with clients that long. I was working, as I want to call it, life coach. I was doing breakthrough sessions with people using neuro linguistic programming and timeline therapy. So I've been working with clients for a long time and this book is an accumulation of all my knowledge from 20 years of working with people and over 500 episodes talking in depth with holistic health experts. The book I made it fun. I made it light and I made it impactful. So if you want to take your health to the next level, no matter where you are, this book meets you where you are and you will be able to, through a series of fun challenges, take your health to the next level. So Invite you to jump on it, to try it. Even if you have five minutes a day, even if you have 10 minutes a day, you can do this book. If you have a busy schedule, you can do this book. I wanted to make it so that every single person could fit it into their life. So get it . Get my book. It's a workbook, so you get to actually do things. That's where rubber meets the road. You get to experience health changes as you build up your body, and that's what we talk about today in today's episode, among other things. So enjoy today's episode. Please check out David DeHaas' podcast, the Whole Body Detox Show, and please share my podcast with those you care about. This is a grassroots movement. My goal is to help over a million people to get their health back, and I can't do it without your help. So you are part of that. You're the ripple that helps turn this ripple into a tidal wave to help as many people as possible to learn true health. Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is Episode 525. David DeHaas (0:08:34.737) Good morning everyone. David DeHaas, your host of the Whole Body Detox show from Living Waters Wellness Center, where miracles begin by healing from within, and today I have a very kindred spirit on the show today Ms. Ashley James. Ms. Ashley James has a podcast of her own called Learn True Health. You've done what some over 516 plus episodes and growing, does a fantastic job, so you can check that out. She's an entrepreneur, podcaster, author and we're having on because she just wrote an amazing book called, . Ashley is a bit like me. You went through a lot of a health journey. There's a picture of it right there. A journey, much like myself, and we had to figure out how to save our lives, and she did. So we're here teaching others. Amazing! She's also a massage therapist, a Reiki master, trained in neuro holistic programming, timeline therapy, hypnosis, nutritional coach. She went after it and grabbed all the different things to put them in her toolbox or wellness toolbox so she can help others, which is awesome. Ashley James, welcome to the show. Ashley James (0:09:44.683) Thank you so much. I'm really excited to be here. David DeHaas (0:09:46.763) Everyone has their unique story, from sickness to wellness, and you've got one amazing story. So maybe give us a little bit of background and we'll get into your book here a little bit. Ashley James (0:10:00.718) It's like rags to riches to rags to riches. So when I was six, when I was really young, I didn't know any better and I thought this is just how life is, but I would always have a sore throat, I was always tired and I'd wake up in the morning unable to open my eyes because my eyes were crusted over and I'd have to peel away the crust in my eyes. They were sealed shut. I just remember being really tired and the constant sore throats and that was my life until I was about six years old. then my mom, she had been put on antibiotics for the common cold, basically, and ended up staying on antibiotics for several months, because this is just in the 80s, what doctors did, and I guess some doctors to this day still do that. So she ran her own business and didn't take the time like a weekend just to relax or a week just to like let her body recover. So she went to prescription after prescription to overcome an infection and gave herself a wicked case of candida. She finally discovered a naturopathic doctor who actually did colon hydrotherapy in his clinic. This is Dr. D'Adamo the original, not his son, but Dr. D'Adamo back in the eighties had a clinic in Toronto, Canada, where I'm from, and my mom went to him, got some colon hydrotherapy and also cleaned up her diet and she started to get better. So she intuitively said, well, if it's good for me, it's probably good for my daughter. I remember, at six years old, being in his clinic. I remember looking him in the face as he took a drop of my blood and figured out I was an O blood type, looked at my eyes for urology, looked in my ear, examined my throat because I had that constant sore throat. he looked at me and he said you are allergic to milk, yeast, wheat and sugar. Stay away from them. Now, even at the age of six I knew that were the ingredients. Those were the ingredients in my favorite chocolate bar, Coffee Crisp. If you're from Canada, you know Coffee Crisp. To this day I can still remember what it tastes like. It tastes like what it sounds. It's crunchy, it's chocolatey, it's coffee flavored. Who wouldn't love that? I said to him, when can I eat a Coffee Crisp? he said once every blue moon. At the time I thought a blue moon was every month. So I got excited, but I soon found out it meant once in a very long while. We came home and my mom tore through the kitchen, got rid of all the processed food, all the wheat, all the dairy, all the sugar, and we ate basically paleo, like what Dr. D'Adamo coined the O blood type diet, and overnight my sore throat went away. My energy, I couldn't even say it came back. I had it for the first time and I no longer woke up feeling sick. I no longer woke up with sore throats, I no longer woke up with sleep in my eyes. I would wake up, jump out of bed and just go, go, go, go go, just twelve hours straight and then go right to sleep and I had amazing health. That was from six to thirteen. At thirteen, I rebelled and I started eating like all my friends. My mom was really strict around food, and out of love, but also coming from fear and just as a parent now I see how important it is to teach children why that food is good or bad and not just restrict without knowledge. So I ran towards all the food I was allowed to eat, and I gave myself chronic infections, type 2 diabetes, chronic adrenal fatigue, polycystic ovarian syndrome. Did I mention type 2 diabetes, and infertility. By the time I was nineteen, I was infertile and the doctor said, after doing a battery of tests, that I'd never have kids. So I was so sick from thirteen to nineteen. I created all these illnesses in my body and I was just feeling so horrible. David DeHaas (0:14:06.600) Were you seeing Dr. D’Adamo then? Ashley James (0:14:08.606) No, my mom switched back to an MD and that MD ended up killing my mom and that was a big wake up call for me. I don't know why she didn't. I guess he got so famous. He ended up not being in the Toronto clinic and so she started seeing another naturopathic clinic and maybe didn't like that guy as much. I really wish she had stuck with holistic medicine, because she'd still be here today and my life would have been very different. I wouldn't be sitting here with you. But this is my story. We have to learn from our past and also appreciate our story so that we can appreciate who we are, where we are now and then build the future we want. So let's learn from the past. Processed foods are how I develop those illnesses, and eating clean and then lifestyle changes and finding the right supplements. So supplements are like the mortar but the bricks. You can't out-supplement a bad diet. You can't out-exercise a bad diet right. You can't give yourself enough colon hydrotherapy when you have a bad diet. It all comes down to using your food as medicine. You're building your body. You're building every cell in your body with what you're eating. So I had to dial in how I ate. I had to go through emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically the transformation to be able to shed those illnesses. I did. I learned what I needed to do. There were many dark years where I would cry myself to sleep, where I was constantly hungry, just going on, the blood sugar swings, feeling out of control, and my liver was so inflamed that anytime I did go on a diet my liver would just stick out. It would be painful. David DeHaas (0:16:00.329) Oh wow, I was like that at one time I didn't know what was going on. Ashley James (0:16:08.465) I finally figured out that it was heavy metal toxicity, probably because my body had a really hard time detoxifying. I've been MTHFR and so I had to really support gentle liver detox, support my liver and in doing that. But every time I went to lose weight, I could taste heavy metals in my mouth and that and my eyes would burn. I could taste heavy metals in my mouth. I think it's from the accumulation of secondhand smoke and drinking soda. I don't know, just any kind of exposure to heavy metals. We have so much exposure to heavy metals we don't even realize. If you also have a problem with detoxifying, then they get accumulated in the body. I had accumulated a lot and I’ve spent the last seven years working on detoxifying the heavy metals. I have a sauna, , which I absolutely adore and that we can sweat out the heavy metals gently. I have a PES, which is an ionic foot spa, a . I've had people on my show, Learn True Health Podcast discussing how they work, very gentle detox without having to do things like chelators. I do also love , which there's only a handful of companies I'd recommend. One of them is , and I did have , the creator of on my show as well. So those are really good episodes to check out. so just through these different modalities I was able to detox the heavy metals. But before that, back in 2008, when I was at the peak of my illness, my husband and I watched a documentary and he wanted to help me, but we just didn't know. You get to this point where you're sick, of being sick, but all you know is MD medicine, all you know is go to the doctor, they maybe do blood work and then they give you a drug and that just wasn't cutting it. I was just getting sicker and sicker under the watch of the MD. I'd remembered when I was six, I went to holistic medicine. I had to go back before my rebellious era and remember what I had learned when I was very young from the naturopath. When we watched this documentary, it was about eating whole foods, avoiding processed foods, and eating organic. They had interviewed the original CEO of Whole Foods and he said vote with your fork, shop the perimeter of the grocery store, eat organic. We did that. We didn't give up dairy yet, we didn't give up meat yet. We just shopped the perimeter so we stopped going down the aisles and we chose only organic. So some would call that like the pseudo paleo diet. You're just eating fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds. We were doing meat and dairy, but we chose organic and dairy, but we chose organic. In that one month of primarily cutting up processed food and eating organic, my chronic infections went away. I still felt like crap, but I no longer needed constant antibiotics and I thought, wow, we did one change and one of my major problems went away. So what's the next step? We just took these baby steps where we did one change, kind of like a challenge, okay, for the next few days we're going to do this, for the next week or next month we're going to do this. We did one challenge of another and some things didn't work and some things did, but that's how we figured it out and we eventually cut out all dairy. Dairy is the hardest, because we're actually chemically addicted to dairy, many people know this. For those who don’t, mother's milk, cow milk for a calf, goat milk for a kid, in order to make the infant want to drink it, put forth the effort to find the nipple and suckle. God in his infinite wisdom made breast milk addictive. Then we take milk from another species, we concentrate it into cheese. The thing that triggers the brain, the addiction in the brain, is in cheese, in concentrated form. So we are addicted to dairy and that's the hardest thing out of all the animal products to kick is cheese and dairy. So we decided to go dairy free, reluctantly, and overnight my husband's adult acne went away within three days. He had cystic acne covered his entire back. It was really gross. It was constantly exploding and painful and he was ashamed and never went shirtless because of it and he had pitting all over his back, his face, but it was mostly in his back and in his chest too. A hundred percent of his acne, within three days of removing dairy, went away. He had never in his entire life not drunk dairy or eaten cheese. So that’s a little challenge. David DeHaas (0:21:39.233) We were supposed to have raw milk and of course there was Hershey's chocolate which was advertised heavily on the tv and I love my milk with my Hershey's chocolate. So... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/32233492

524 Neuroscience Breakthrough Ends Food Addiction Creating Healthy, Sustainable Weight Loss & Peace Over The Plate, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. 07/02/2024

524 Neuroscience Breakthrough Ends Food Addiction Creating Healthy, Sustainable Weight Loss & Peace Over The Plate, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. Check Out My Latest Book: Addicted To Wellness Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com Dr. Glenn Livingston's Free Book : https://www.learntruehealth.com/defeatyourcravings Check out Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson's Free Masterclass: brightlineeating.com 524: Achieve Peace Over Food with Neuroscience Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester and a renowned expert in the psychology of eating. She is President of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and the founder of the worldwide Bright Line Eating movement. Her first two books, "Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin, and Free," became New York Times bestsellers and instant Hay House favorites. Her work weaves the neuroscience of food addiction with powerful insights from Positive Psychology, IFS, and 12-step Recovery to outline a roadmap for achieving true integrity and self-authorship around food. The Bright Line Eating mission is to help one million people around the globe discover lasting food freedom and have their "Bright Transformations" by 2025. Join us for an enlightening journey with Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson as we explore the intricacies of overcoming food addiction and achieving wellness. This episode provides a wealth of insights and practical tools to help you gain control over eating habits and cultivate a healthier relationship with food. We discuss the concept of Bright Line Eating, a program that emphasizes clear, unambiguous rules to resist temptation and maintain a structured approach to eating. Discover how this method, inspired by Roy Baumeister's work on willpower, can help you achieve consistent results and prevent the shame spiral often associated with poor eating choices. Highlights: Establishing Bright Line Eating Guidelines Qualifications vs. Appearance in Natural Medicine Understanding Food Addiction Patterns Silencing Addiction Brain During Cooking Teaching Healthy Food Choices to Children Food as a Poor Proxy Food Temptations and Self-Control Self-Soothing and Addiction Differentiation Thyroid Issues and Weight Loss Success Intro: Hello True Health Seeker, and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. I have some quick things I need to share with you in regards to this episode. So for those listeners, I do the exact same thing, so I don't blame you. For those who like to skip it, skip the intro, let's just jump into the interview. Don't do it. I'm here to share something with you. So this episode today I actually recorded it a while ago and then Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson and her team reached out to me and asked me to hold off on publishing it because they were about to launch and they hadn't launched the membership yet, or there was something. There was something that they were going to launch with a book or something, and it kind of got put to the side and I just kept going and kept doing interviews and publishing. Then she reached out to me and said, hey, I'd love to do another interview. I was, oh well, we haven't published the first one. I've been actually really excited for a while to publish this one, and so I'm publishing this one first and then I'm going to publish the one I just did with her, which both of them are valid and they build on each other. If you are looking for real results-based tools to overcome food cravings, food addiction, at any time where you feel you're not in control of your cravings or your eating, or if you have been struggling with weight loss and if you feel sometimes you can control food, but then there's other times where you end up getting two dinners or you kind of think back and you go geez, I actually ate multiple meals today, more than three. I had two lunches, two dinners and then a snack or some. Food addiction shows up in different ways for different people. But if you don't feel in control and it doesn't have to be all the time but if there's some time where sometimes it's late night eating, sometimes we choose to skip meals and then we feel we're stuffing our faces late at night. So if you ever feel this lack of control or that you're constantly thinking about food and you'd feel you don't have peace around food and peace in your body and you want to get to a healthy weight and a healthy relationship with food, this episode is for you. In addition to this episode, definitely tune in for my part two of this interview with Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson, which will be published soon, and I also want to share that I have a few other resources. This is something that I'm very open about in the show that I have for years. Been working on my relationship with food and I've come a long way actually, just editing the show today and cleaning it up in order to publish it. I was listening to what I shared and some problems I'm still struggling with and some problems I've actually overcome even in the last few months since we had this episode. So it was really neat to hear that I have made strides and we're always growing, and sometimes it's hard to recognize how much we have grown just because we're always thinking about what we don't have. When you take an account of where you were and where you are now, you actually see how much, how far you have come, and that's something that I focus on in my book and I'd love for you to get my book. I love the title because I've been healing and growing from my own addiction brain and what I love about my book is that we harness the power of addiction in a positive way and get addicted to wellness in a good way, in a way that is sustainable and balanced and healthy and really motivating. So my book is fun and light and super informative and you can pick it up and do it five minutes a day, ten minutes a day. I just today had a reader tell me that they picked up the book and just in the introduction it motivated them to go from walking to jogging and they increased their miles and they feel they're back on track in their fitness routine just by reading the introduction. They found it so rewiring for their mindset and that's so cool. It's exactly what I intended. So definitely check out my book, because as we're working on reframing and restoring the negative addictions, we can also build positive ones, ones that get you jumping out of bed, going, man, I am craving that walk or that swim or that bike ride, or I'm craving that green smoothie, or I'm craving my mental wellness and the things I do for my emotional, mental, spiritual or physical wellness. That's such a positive mindset to move towards and focus on what you want versus constantly battling what you don't want. That's the thing we kind of get bogged down into when we're learning to heal from addiction. We focus on a lot of what we don't want. I don't want to be tired, I don't want to be cranky, I don't want to be craving, I don't want to be constantly saying no, I don't want to. I wish I could just have peace, , I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. So anyone who is looking to work on addiction or has been working on addiction, you'll find that it just kind of gets exhausting and we tend to really beat ourselves up and when you get my book, Addicted to Wellness, it's so much positive reinforcement, but not that sickly sweet, just kind of sugarcoating a mud pie. It's legit getting deep inside yourself and realigning your focus to be on what you want and moving towards what you want and then having these small wins that really build momentum and get great dopamine hits from those small wins. So check out my book. I'd love to actually hear what you think of it as you go through it. Please feel free to reach out to me. You can email me . You can also come to the Facebook group . You can also leave me a five-star review on Amazon. I will totally read that and to get the book you can go to . There's another book I really want you to know about and it's free, one of my favorite guests of all time, Dr. Glenn Livingston. He also teaches in a slightly different way, but it's interesting how there's crossover between Dr. Glenn Livingston and today's guest and yet I think it's really a good idea to learn from both of them. So you're going to get the message on a deeper level and I feel that they really complement each other. You can check out his free book called and it is a great book. It's a workbook. There's no space in the book to fill out anything, but you can have a journal beside you as you read it and you could even just be reading it on your phone, digitally, and you could go to to get that free book. I love his interviews. We've had him on the show several times. I've been on his show, so that's Dr. Glenn Livingston, and I have several other episodes with different guests touching on this subject of ending food addiction and healing that part of us. But it is the ongoing process where we're building our strengths and I love that all the guests that I've had give us different tools that fill this wonderful tool belt. So you can go to and type in or you can type in and you'll see a lot of episodes pop up. Chef AJ is one of my wonderful guests where she shares her story of overcoming and what she did to get there and what she teaches. She teaches a way of cooking and eating for those who have So all those guests I feel complement this picture and Dr. Susan Pierce Thompson, coming from the neuroscience background, has figured out a way that gets such great results. You're going to love today's interview and be sure, obviously, to keep listening. Make sure you're subscribed and getting notifications so when my next episode comes out with her with the updates that you will have it. Enjoy today's interview. Please share it with those that you know want to have inner peace when it comes to their relationship with food and their relationship with their body. Ashley James (0:08:56.892) Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is episode 524. I am so excited for today's guest. We're handling a topic today that most of at least America, most modern countries are struggling with this problem. So pretty much you throw a rock, you're going to hit someone who's going to want to hear what our guest has today. Reading about everything you do, and especially the research, I got to tell you there's a part of me that's like, this really sounds too good to be true. So I can't wait for you to show us that it actually is true and how amazing it is the work that you're doing. Dr. Susan Pierce Thompson, welcome to the show. Now you have a PhD and you're a professor and you're a researcher. I want to dive in. What is this amazing thing that you have created that is going to help impact over a million lives? Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson (0:10:06.525) Yes, Ashley, thanks, it's so great to be with you. It's called Bright Line Eating, and it's an approach to food and eating and life that it's pretty radical, it's pretty unusual, and I basically take everything you ever heard about how to lose weight and I turn it on its head, which if you just think about it even superficially makes so much sense because if you look out there, half of Americans are trying to get their eating in check and lose wait. Obesity keeps climbing unchecked and just climbing and climbing, and climbing, with a ferocity that's just horrifying and our collective solution to it is, let's normalize bigger bodies, and just stop hating ourselves and fat shaming each other but really the problem is bad, health-wise, mobility-wise and nothing is working, nothing is working. People are trying all kinds of things and nothing is working. I've just got a very different approach and the research shows it's phenomenally effective. So, yes, I look forward to talking about it with you, and I know you go deep in these, in these episodes. So, yes, yes, exactly, here we go. Ashley James (0:11:24.969) Yes, well, let's start by understanding a bit more about you and how you and so are you the inventor of bright line eating? Did you name it? Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson (0:11:34.414) Yes. Well, I mean, I don't know what your spiritual beliefs are, but it felt to me like it named itself. I don't know if God named it or whatever. I was in my morning meditation, 18, 19 years now. I've been meditating for 30 minutes every morning, and I was meditating on January 26th, 2014 and suddenly, a booming, clear mandate, was it just filled my meditation, write a book called Bright Line Eating, and I'd never heard the words in that order before. I don't think anyone had. I knew what they meant, though, because I had been reading a book recently before that called Willpower, by Roy Baumeister, who's a very venerated psychologist just a really well-published, well-cited psychologist and he wrote this book called Willpower, and toward the end of the book, there was a chapter on using bright lines to resist temptation. So he was talking about Eric Clapton and sobriety and a bright line for alcohol. So a bright line is a legal term. It's a clear, unambiguous rule that you just don't cross. It's a standard that you apply consistently to get consistent and reliable results. So, in the temptation domain, if you're going to be the designated driver, you'll be better off that night saying I'm not going to drink any alcohol. That's a bright line. As opposed to gee golly shucks. I'll be sure to drink moderately tonight, which is a very fuzzy line and you never really know if you've crossed it , and so you could end up getting in trouble with the I'll be sure to drink moderately approach. Ashley James (0:13:18.461) Yes, so after dinner I brush my teeth and floss and then, three hours later, if I'm hungry, I say, nope, I brushed my teeth. I'm not eating anymore because I'd rather go to bed on an empty stomach and actually let myself sleep, and I feel so much better the next day than if I go, well, I can brush my teeth again. I'm going to go back downstairs and go to the kitchen and fix up a 9pm second dinner. Then the next day I feel UGH, it could be a super healthy meal, it could be, I'm going to go down and make a salad, whatever it is. I'm still digesting. When I go to bed, my body doesn't go into that deep, deep healing mode and restorative mode. So then the next morning I just feel it yes. Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson (0:14:08.203) So you have a bright line. Ashley James (0:14:09.928) I have a bright line, I brush my teeth, I floss. Because flossing is a real pain in the butt, but also having to get, I mean, thank God I'm knocking on many items that I think are made of wood now. I've never had a dental procedure, like drilling deep into a tooth and root canal. I saw my husband get a root canal and that cured me of never flossing. That is my bright line now I will floss because I saw a root canal. You should just go on YouTube and watch a root canal. You will floss twice a day. Then I say to myself I brushed my teeth, I spent the 15, 20 minutes it takes to floss and now I am not eating, after 6 or 7 PM and that's really helped me. The next day I feel better about myself. I woke up. I have more energy because, when I wake up, feeling gross because I ate late in the night, I beat myself up and that self talk, and then you want to go and eat things that are not as good for you to make you feel better. That little kid in you wants to go and and put your hand in the cookie jar to self soothe from all the negative self talk about the bad day you had before. So, yes, crazy spiral. Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson (0:15:35.115) It's a shame spiral, yes, and then you eat more to assuage that shame and comfort yourself and numb it out. Yes, I think that's a cycle that a lot of people get in with their eating. I also noticed that if I eat later into the evening, I don't sleep as well. My aura ring tells me. So I wear an aura ring and I like it. My stats aren't good and my brain will say, did something disturb your sleep last night? My heart rate will be up and it'll gradually come down over the night. But it takes hours for it to come down. I like to eat my dinner pretty early, I eat around five usually, sometimes six. Life gets lifey and sometimes I eat later. I don't care particularly, but I will notice I never eat after dinner. I'm like you. I eat three meals a day with nothing in between. So meals are a bright line. The four bright lines, just so people know, are sugar, flour, meals and quantities and quantities so that you eat enough. Actually a lot of people if they're trying to clean up their eating they make the mistake of way undereating, and that's terrible. I help people lose weight, but I make sure that they eat enough, and enough of the food. So I actually advocate a digital food scale, believe it or not, and I think I'm crazy, but, oh my gosh, look at the people, the bodybuilders and stuff people whose physiques are noteworthy. They're all weighing their food. I promise you. It's so easy to get off track, unless you're pretty clear. So, yes, those are the bright lines, but, I came real, if you asked about how I came to all this, and it really goes way back before that moment in 2014. That was the birth of Bright Line Eating, but there was a lot that came to that point, so we probably should go back. Ashley James (0:17:27.093) Yes, let's go all the way back. Well, you have a PhD, let's go. Let's go all the way back. What motivated you? What happened in your life that made you want to go down this road through education and research? Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson (0:17:38.899) I was into school as a kid. I had dreams when I was a kid of visions of going to Harvard and so forth, but what happened was I went off the track when I was a teenager by getting into drugs. I like drugs because Iike to party and Iike to experiment, and my first drugs were psychedelics and I had a great, mind opening, incredible experience that way. But I also drugs because they would keep my weight off and solve my eating problem, which I already had. I already had a very addictive relationship with food as a kid and I didn't think of it in those terms, but absolutely I was addicted to sugar as a kid and eating in general. I weighed more when I was 11 than I weigh now and I started to get concerned about it in high school. So I started doing drugs and the drugs escalated. So by the time I was 16, I was addicted to crystal meth and that resulted in me dropping out of high school. Yes, a lot of drug induced psychosis, like real schizophrenia, real intense psychiatric issues. I stopped crystal meth, thank God that's the devil's drug right there. It's really really nasty stuff and I never went back to it. But then I just got into cocaine, and then freebasing, and then crack cocaine, and so by the time I was 19, I was a high paid call girl prostitute and I was smoking up the proceeds in the crack house regularly, just smoking away my life. I hadn't been in school in years and I was pretty far from a PhD in anything. I hadn't even graduated high school. So I had a moment of clarity in the crack house on August 9th 1994. I had my head shaved, Sinead O'Connor buzzed short and I had a blonde wig on my head and it was a Tuesday morning actually I'd been there in the crack house smoking crack all weekend long, and now it was Tuesday morning. So I'd been up awake for days, smoking and I just had this moment where suddenly I came to consciousness. I'd been awake, but I wasn't conscious, really, not really. I wasn't aware and I came to... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/31974052

523 Headache Decryption: Understanding Your Headache or Migraine Pain Location To Decode Root Cause Holistic Solutions, Dr. Scott Vrzal 06/24/2024

523 Headache Decryption: Understanding Your Headache or Migraine Pain Location To Decode Root Cause Holistic Solutions, Dr. Scott Vrzal Check Out My Latest Book: Addicted To Wellness Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com Dr. V's Website: 523: Headache & Migraine Pain: Dr. Scott Vrzal’s Guide To Root Cause Solutions In today’s episode, we dive deep into the world of chronic headaches, exploring their hidden causes and pathways to relief with expert Dr. Scott Vrzal. Specializing in natural approaches to pain, Dr. Vrzal shares insights on how headaches reveal clues about our body’s health—from digestive imbalances to emotional blocks stored in physical pain. Join us as we explore the surprising connections between emotions, nutrient deficiencies, and detox pathways, uncovering how holistic health practices can not only relieve headaches but restore balance and vitality to the entire body. This episode is packed with actionable tips and wisdom for those seeking true relief and long-term health. Highlights: Headache location often indicates specific health issues (e.g., left-sided for stomach/spleen, right-sided for gallbladder). Emotions can be stored physically, leading to chronic pain and health issues. Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) helps release stored emotions to aid physical healing. Magnesium and zinc deficiencies are linked to stress, pain sensitivity, and immune health. Gallbladder and liver are essential for detoxification and proper digestion. High homocysteine is a stronger cardiovascular risk marker than cholesterol. Organic, mineral-rich foods improve emotional resilience and physical health. Glyphosate exposure inhibits bile production, affecting gallbladder health. Hormonal imbalance, especially with estrogen, can cause headaches and other symptoms. Physical pain often relates to deficiencies or imbalances in specific nutrients. Intro: Imagine a life vibrant and full of energy. Now make it a reality with . Ditch the trial and error of supplement selection. Our trained health coaches are here to craft personalized health regimen that truly works for you. Visit and learn how easy it is to start feeling better today. Your health is an investment not an expense. Visit today and get a health free consultation. When I heard about these specific supplements over 12 years ago. I heard about them back in 2010 and the first thing that went through my mind was, “That sounds too expensive!” That time I didn’t have a lot of money but I also had a ton of health problems. It wasn’t until years later that I finally gave it a try and I couldn’t believe I limited myself because I had decided somewhere that it sounded too expensive without even doing the research. It turns out I was able to fit it into my budget and I started feeling better immediately. Within five days of taking these supplements I began to get my energy back, my chronic adrenal fatigue began to go away, within three months, I no longer have Type 2 diabetes, within two years I no longer have polycystic ovarian syndrome, and I was able to conceive naturally. I was told I’d never be able to have kids when I was nineteen after a battery of tests with an endocrinologist. When you have these health goals and have these health dreams and they’ve been crushed by a doctor or crushed by family members, or crushed by your own belief system, I invite you to break through that, and to challenge anyone including yourself who’s ever told you that you can't have perfect health, that you can’t have optimal health, because at , we have some amazing health coaches that want to show you the way to support your body’s ability to heal itself. Your body is amazing and miraculous. We grew from these tiny cells into 37.2 trillion cells. Your body has a God-given ability to heal itself and what we have to do is give it the raw building blocks it needs to build healthy cells and that's what the coaches at are here for. They're here to show you the foods to avoid, the foods to eat to nourish your body and the supplements to fill in those nutrient gaps so your body and every cell is getting every key nutrient it needs to create optimal health. I'm working with these supplements for over 12 years now with my clients, with my family, and with myself, and I can't believe how many illnesses and how many health challenges I’ve seen people overcome, and you can too! Go to . Give it a try. The only thing you have to lose is all of your health complaints. Ashley James (0:03:13.690) Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I’m your host Ashley James. This is Episode 523. I am so excited for today's guest. We have with us Dr. Scott Vrzal. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, and people who are sick of suffering are going to be singing your praises. My heart is so full now because I know that some of my listeners are just so done with the suffering and the pain. Today, you're here to deliver the information that they've been praying for so that they can no longer be in pain. Welcome to the show. Dr. Scott Vrzal (0:03:57.351) Well, thank you. Yes, that's why I got into it, because I was suffering and I wanted that victory for others. Ashley James (0:04:03.427) Exactly. That's why I started the podcast also. I started this podcast eight years ago because I was suffering for so many years from several major medical issues and I used holistic medicine to get better. After being with MD medicine for so many years and under the MD's care, I got worse, not better. I felt sicker, not better, then found true holistic medicine. There's a lot of people these days that call themselves holistic that aren't. You have to buy or beware. I found my mentors and not only did they help me get better through true holistic medicine, true holistic medicine is supporting your body's ability to heal itself and getting out of your body's way. Stop doing the things that are hindering your body from achieving homeostasis, then giving your body what it's missing in order for the body to do the healing, your body wants to heal. It wants to come back into balance. These simple changes make such a profound difference, in the instance of headaches, sometimes no matter what we try, even when we go to holistic practitioners, the pain is still there and we're left so frustrated or the imbalance is still there. That's why we want to come to Dr. Scott V. I know you like to be called Dr. V. A little plug, your website is and we're going to get into how you help people, of course, we want to talk about your story and what led you to this but before we do, I got to share a little story about a headache in my life with you and because you had asked before we hit record, you're like, so do you have any headaches? I'm like, well, let's hit record so we can get started. My husband who has never suffered from headaches unless we lived in Las Vegas and he forgot to drink water. You do that once or twice. The dose dehydration headaches are the worst. You do that a few times, you learn your lesson. You learn to always travel with water with you, other than that, he never suffered from headaches. Two years ago, he moved in with his parents for five months and lived in a bed beside his dad and did 24-hour hospice care until his dad passed away. He and his dad didn't have the best of relationships. His dad never said, I love you. He was a very stoic person. On his deathbed, he said to my husband, my husband was 54 years old, heard I love you from his dad for the first time. It was a beautiful experience. They both bonded. I believe it was a very healing, cathartic experience. When he passed away, we weren't all torn up. We had spent a lot of time processing it. It wasn't a sudden thing. It was slow and we pretty much did our grieving and our processing while he was going downhill. the day he died, my husband had to get a root canal, which was botched. So they extracted the tooth. It was tooth 15 all the way back molar 15. This was about two years ago. He proceeded to develop constant chronic headaches. Now we go to a naturopath. It's been the naturopathic doctors, we eat super clean. He goes to a really good chiropractor, acupuncturist. We went down the list, and could not figure out what was going on. We went from practitioner to practitioner. We tried everything, homeopathy, everything. Some things worked a little bit temporarily. He had all kinds of different facial massages. He went to three different types of manipulative massages and these headaches would come on around 11am every day, almost every day. Sometimes it was every other day. Sometimes you get a break and it'd be every three days, but this was for two years. They were so bad. I describe it like a migraine in his neck and it would radiate. It was a tension headache. It would radiate up into his head, typical of either a scalenes trigger point or sometimes it would move and be an upper trapezius trigger point, a very typical radiating pain pattern. Also he had ischemia in those muscles. The muscles were really hard, like hard as a rock, and we would strip them and get heat on them and everything, but we couldn't get the pain to go away. No practitioner could figure out what was wrong other than he had this problem that would come on and then release six to eight hours later. He would have this pain, but it was like a migraine because he could barely drive. He could barely talk. He'd be wincing. Then afterwards it was like an old neurological event. He would be left completely exhausted, the rest of the day could not function, like just zero function. So he was going through a migraine and that it would exhaust him. Also it would take all of his effort, all of his concentration away. I was talking to so many different naturopaths and trying to figure out what's the next course of action because I knew that there was an answer out there and one of my good naturopathic friends said, you should try going to Dr. Jeff Harris, who does prolotherapy and he also teaches it. So my husband's been seeing him and now he went from one headache every day to a headache every three days to two a month. With the prolotherapy and we're onto something because the prolotherapy that Dr. Jeff Harris went, there's something going on with your spleen channel, tooth 15, my husband has a giant scar by his spleen because he had an accident, he almost lost his spleen when he was nine. Also the headaches would start at the same time in Chinese medicine as the spleen time. It's interesting because every problem a husband's ever had has always been on his left side. That's where the headache is. That's where the spleen is. The problem is, it would add up. He's had a few sessions and just with a few sessions, it's gone from I said, one every day or one every three days to only two a month. We still don't know a hundred percent why. But I definitely feel the trigger was the botched root canal when they pulled the tooth, everything leading up to that. Now we also have explored, is it the stress of doing palliative care for several months with his dad and being in a weird bed and being in weird positions, having to pick up his dad off the floor and all the things that could go wrong there. But the headaches didn't start till after the dental stuff, so that's my headache story is that we tried everything. One thing we saw that temporarily would shift it a bit is fasting. Well, of course you're getting rid of all the kinds of foods that inflame, even though my husband eats clean, for example, corn, which I know could be inflammatory for some people, he might have it sometimes in his diet. We don't know what's giving him inflammation. When you fast, it's like this amazing elimination diet and you're left, wow, I feel so much better. Well, you might've been eating 90% good and 10% bad and what's bad for you might be fine for someone else. It didn't 100% go to his headaches, but we saw a huge shift. We knew that inflammation was a stressor that played a role, but it was multifaceted and it's fascinating and we couldn't quite figure it out. I'm super interested in talking to you today because I know that there are people out there suffering from headaches and a headache doesn't just have to be in the head. It can start in the neck and radiate up like I said with my husband but there's so many different ways that we can approach it to help the body. But the most important thing I feel is to listen to the body and figure it out. Why is the body speaking this language? ? Why is the body saying, Hey, I'm so out of balance, I'm creating pain and let it be a lesson. Let us learn from the body so that we can support the body to heal itself. I know that's what you do. You've unlocked the secrets to listening to the body around headaches and how we can stop them. My first burning question is, do you also help people end migraines? Dr. Scott Vrzal (0:13:14.543) Absolutely. It all comes down to the location of the headache. In your husband's example, you said left-sided predominantly, but then a lot of what you were talking about sounded all the way up to suboccipital on both sides. Is it both sides or left? Ashley James (0:13:31.296) No, it was typically left side, and sometimes now with all the therapy he's done, it stays in the neck, but it's like a headache in the neck. But sometimes it radiates just the upper trapezius trigger point, which is on the left side of the occipital, all the way around the parietal, the temporal, and then kind of above the eye. Dr. Scott Vrzal (0:13:58.638) So a left-sided headache is going to be a stomach issue. Stomach, pancreas, and spleen in acupuncture are all related and have their own emotions. The first and foremost in there is over-sympathetic. Certainly, your husband's having to take care of his dad. There was some strain there. Praise God, they were able to kind of get some resolution. Unfortunately it was at the end, but that saves him a lifetime of challenge just solving that emotion to finally hear I love you from his dad, which we all need to hear. Dads, make sure you're doing that if you're listening. Left side of the headache is going to be a stomach potentially spleen issue. So we'd want to look at what else in his life beyond the emotions. Clearing, treating, desensitizing for those emotional challenges are going to help the stomach and the pancreas function better and the spleen, again, they're all in acupuncture related, especially emotionally, that stomach meridian does a ramhorn around the left side of the eye and down the neck as you described into the scalenes and so on. The other potential and why I asked, whether it was all left-sided or both is the overzealous response to stress inhibits the thyroid and can cause the suboccipital, so when it's all the way up the neck and the back of the head, what people would typically call a tension headache, tends to do with that chronic cortisol secretion and ultimately under-functioning thyroid. We want to facilitate thyroid function in that case and the consequences of the chronic stress. That make sense? Ashley James (0:15:47.478) Yes, totally, and it's so exciting that you are the expert. You're the headache guy. Everyone who has chronic headaches needs to know that you exist and then go get help from you. I was just two days ago talking to a friend of mine who is also in the holistic health space. She was telling me about a client. She goes, I have a client who's had headaches since he was born and both his mother and father have chronic headaches also. The father now is on dialysis because he's been put on pain meds for so many years. She goes, could it be that there's mold in their house? We're trying to figure out why this whole family who lives under the same roof, why did they all have headaches? I’m like, it might be, but there's so many factors. There's so many different reasons, but it's fascinating that the whole family suffers from headaches. Obviously we're looking at something that impacts all of them. It could be food, it could be mold, there could be so many factors. Have you ever seen a whole family have headaches? Dr. Scott Vrzal (0:17:08.709) . So our first question in that sort of situation is how is the head? How are the family doing when they're away from the house? If they go away to Disneyland for a week do all their headaches go away, symptomatically or historically, then that helps us know that yes, it's something in the house. I mean, certainly their diet's going to change when they travel. But I mean, yes, mold, there's obviously many different types of mold. But I mean, one of the most common things is mold compromises the immune system and can set up any number of symptoms. Yes, we see that often and often with the testing that we do we can even narrow it down to where in the house, in their bedroom window there's mold, or those types of things that are compromising a person's health. Typically in that scenario obviously we want to remediate and get the mold out of the house but then strengthen the lungs because the lungs are chronically compromised from being challenged with the mold so we want to do vitamins A and vitamin C certainly are typical anti-antioxidants to facilitate lung function, or even lung tissue, if you will, in a supplement to rebuild the lungs to help it handle the environment, especially while they're trying to remediate, while they're trying to get that mold out of their environment. Just out of two of those yesterday, clinically, that we had to address. The fun story on that I saw several of them, but one gal said, you have mold in your bedroom. She said, no, you're crazy. That kind of thing is often we hear. She didn't really believe it or hadn't seen it and then she went home and checked the window where it kind of narrowed it down to pulled back the drapes and realized that there's a black stripe of mold down the middle of the window that's over their bed and realized she sneezes, she was sneezing twelve times every time she walked into the room and she'd wake up in the morning feeling doo-doo because she was sleeping with mold, inhaling mold all night. The good news is that it was an easy fix to just clean up the mold in the window and live happily ever after. Ashley James (0:19:19.321) . Also do a little bit more investigating because it might be deeper with mold. It's typically what you see is the tip of the iceberg. I have a few really interesting interviews about mold remediation. Listeners go to typing in and listening to those. I have at least five episodes with mold remediators that will just blow your mind. But I was also thinking about that family and what people often don't think about is that a lot of food sensitivities are passed down genetically, food allergies, food sensitivities, but also the microbiome. We share the same microbiome just because of exposure to one another and microbiome, which is from our mouth to our anus. It's not just in the big colon, and your microbiome is in your skin too, but as far as your digestion is concerned, it is the entire digestive tract has a microbiome. It's about six pounds of bacteria and either good or bad microbes, depending on what you feed. You eat junk, you're feeding the bad army that lives inside you. You eat good, clean food, you're feeding the good army. But the thing is, it's so fascinating. I have two interviews about this with the . You can type in at to listen to those. That the bacteria in your gut digest your food and produce chemicals. Now, some of these chemicals are really helpful and some of them are harmful and you can actually then have a reaction. It's not necessarily that... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/31846237

522 Confessions Of A Male Gynecologist, Author of The Hormone Balance Bible, Dr. Shawn Tassone 06/13/2024

522 Confessions Of A Male Gynecologist, Author of The Hormone Balance Bible, Dr. Shawn Tassone To book a free session to discuss experiencing this technology with me, visit learntruehealth.com and click Work With Ashley James in the menu! Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com To experience the technology covered in this interview book a phone call with TakeYourSupplements.com Check Out My Latest Book: Addicted To Wellness Dr. Shawn Tassone: Americas Holistic Gynecologist | Tassonemd.com Tassone Advanced Gynecology | Drshawntassone.com Author of The Hormone Balance Bible Discover the power of holistic health and self-advocacy as we navigate the complexities of hormone replacement therapy with holistic gynecologist Dr. Shawn Tassone. We explore the transformative potential of taking charge of your health, emphasizing the importance of holistic approaches such as dietary changes, lifestyle adjustments, and alternative therapies like acupuncture and chiropractic care. With Dr. Tassone's personal journey as a backdrop, we uncover how personal experiences with loss can ignite a passion for integrative and functional medicine, empowering you to support your body's natural healing processes. Highlights: Supporting the Body for Optimal Health Thermography for Pain Relief and Healing Patient Symptom Evaluation and Treatment The Power of Maca in Health Benefits of Maca on Hormones Exploring the Mystery of Plants Fasting Before Chemotherapy for Cancer Temporary Testosterone Increase for Muscle Loss GLP-1s and Changing Eating Habits Empowering Women Through Social Media Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health Podcast. Today we have an interesting discussion with a doctor and PhD as we navigate the world of hormone replacement therapy and navigating our own care in this system that is not perfect and really requires us to be diligent when it comes to our own advocacy, which, if you're listening to this podcast for a while, you are well aware that we need to stand up and do our own sleuthing, do our own research, do our own detective work and educate ourselves on how to support the body's innate, god-given ability to heal itself. Your body wants to heal itself, and that's the first philosophical shift that takes place, that first belief system shift from the standard model of wait to get sick, then go to a doctor and they give you a drug and you go home and yay, you're better, which that's not how it works, as we know from experience. Yay, you're better, which that's not how it works as we know from experience, you're not better. Even the so-called cure has a list of side effects. It causes stress on the body and really was that drug ever the cure? In the first place, it was suppressing something, killing something, shifting something in the body. But is that what the body needs to heal itself? Now, yes, there's times when you break an arm, you get a cast. We definitely wanted that support, and a cast is a wonderful example of supporting the body's ability to heal itself. It takes a lot longer and it's a lot harder for a bone to heal without the support of the cast. So there's times in modern medicine where that support is wonderful and necessary. Now, if we took that same philosophy and went well, how can I support my body to have more energy, to maintain a healthy weight, to grow healthy muscle, to have healthy digestion and bowel movements, to have healthy hormone levels sex hormones, stress hormones, all the other hormones How can I support my body's ability to maintain and achieve optimal health? We have to look outside modern medicine to gain these answers for a variety of reasons, and we talk a bit about this in today's interview, and one thing that I wanted to let is that it's totally worth going down this one rabbit hole If you are sick of being sick and you are looking to support just like a cast supports the body to heal the bone so that it keeps it stable, allows the body to heal, and then we remove the cast, because a cast left on too long becomes a hindrance, So if you're looking for holistic medicine, meaning how can I support the body as a whole? Because the body is constantly trying to come back into balance, it is constantly trying to achieve homeostasis and something as simple as a small change in your diet can make this huge difference or small change in lifestyle, like an increase of even by 20 ounces of water a day, going to bed an hour earlier, getting 20 minutes of walking just these little, tiny additions. In some cases it's herbs. In some cases it's seeing a holistic practitioner for other therapies, like chiropractic and acupuncture, there's all kinds of different kinds of frequency devices out there, like PEMF. These are all supportive to support the body in doing what it already is trying to do, which is come back into balance. Now I've had several episodes on why is the body so out of whack in the first place? We've got crazy or over 80,000 man-made chemicals since I was born. In your lifetime there have been 80,000 man-made chemicals added to our air, water, food, added to the soil and it's really scary. Why are we so out of balance? Well, think about how your grandparents ate. They ate whole foods, not from boxes, not from factories. They ate from farms. Now the farms use so many chemicals. So just to give you a few examples, we used to walk more, we used to play more, we used to rest. When we rested, we really rested. When we played, we really played. We used to have large family support and now we're isolated alone, stagnant and filling ourselves with man-made junk and we're constantly in stress mode because of all the things we're taking in, all the media that we're taking in. So the body's in stress mode and it is depleted of sunlight, fresh air, clean water. Depleted of nutrients. I have some wonderful interviews, like with Dr. Joel Wallach. Highly recommend listening to that. When it comes to the 90 essential nutrients the body needs. The body needs 90 essential nutrients every day for optimal function and that episode, , is wonderful to listen to. Highly recommend going back and listening to , if you haven't already. Now, 18 months ago, almost two years ago, I was introduced to and I'd heard of it before, but my skepticism went up. I'll say on the show, I'm the most open-minded skeptic and I think it's good to be that way. You probably are too. I'm willing to listen to what sounds really woo-woo, sounds really out there, out there. But I'm going to use my critical thinking, but I'm going to make sure that I don't allow my preconceived ideas or my belief system cloud the new information coming in, like allow myself to be open. So my skeptic pops up and I go, wow, I'm rejecting something just based on my skepticism alone. Sometimes things sound too good to be true and we often just negate it. That probably is not real, it's probably fake. It's probably snake oil, and there is a lot of snake oil out there. But I started to see thousands of people getting results and there's over a hundred studies that show powerful results, and they had a money-back guarantee. So I was like, okay, I'm going to give it a try. It's a technology. It's a wearable technology. It's quite affordable. They could charge a lot more for this, which I was really surprised about. It's very affordable, it's a wearable technology and it stimulates your body, your body wanting to heal itself. It stimulates it and there's no side effects. It's safe for infants. It's safe on pets. It's safe on any, any anyone, any age, any size, and you don't absorb anything. It's not a molecular medicine, it's a frequency medicine. So, with that said, I tried it. I got huge, huge results, which I was really shocked because of how skeptical I was. But there's a money-back guarantee, so I was going to give it a try and I couldn't believe how well it was working, not only for myself, my son, my husband, and my other family members. Then I got my friends to try it and it all worked for them. Then I started introducing it to my clients and now I have over 200 clients using this successfully and getting great results. They're getting so healthy that their doctors are taking them off of their medications, and that is my goal. My number one goal and I've probably said it 100 times on this podcast over the last eight years that this is my number one goal is to help you get so healthy that your doctor takes you off your meds because you no longer need them. Now, whether you need them in the first place is another thing. That really is person dependent, but I think people are being over prescribed drugs and under prescribed lifestyle changes and dietary changes and the things that we're lacking. Dr. Joel Wallach, the man I had mentioned, who's one of my mentors. He will often say, like you didn't have a drug deficiency, you had a blank deficiency like a calcium magnesium, B12, whatever the nutrient was. People will have deficiencies in those, but the symptoms show up in a way that the doctors will prescribe drugs or that there needs to be a necessary diet change. I've seen Dr. Wallach get people so healthy using natural medicine. When I say natural medicine, I mean as close to nature as possible. I've seen him get people so healthy their kidney function returned and they no longer needed dialysis. I have seen him help people save limbs, gangrene in the feet about to be amputated. He helps them and now they no longer need their feet to be amputated and now they no longer need their feet to be amputated. I have seen him reverse all forms of disease, all common, the most common diseases you can think of. If you could think of a disease, he's helped people reverse it using natural, as close to nature as possible, holistic medicine. So when I say holistic medicine, I mean supporting your body's ability to heal itself, because your body is constantly striving for homeostasis and it wants to heal you. It wants you to be as healthy as possible and we are getting in our own way by making silly choices like staying up late and eating sugar and drinking alcohol and the regular stuff that we do that we don't know, because everyone does it, but everyone's sick. Everyone around us is sick. Everyone around us 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription medication. That should tell you something. We should not be this medicated and yet we are. So I'm on my soapbox letting you know there is a holistic, very effective, very affordable type of technology and you can listen to two interviews about it, and , who's the creator of this technology. It's been around for 20 years, so I started using it, started using it with my clients and got just such good results. My clients have their doctors take them off. Their doctors like after the labs are showing, oh, you no longer need this thyroid medication. Okay, we're taking you off that. Unbelievable! I have a few clients who their fractures healed in half the amount of time needed and they freaked out. I've had clients text me their x-ray report saying that the doctor couldn't believe how quickly they were healing. So your body wants to heal itself and this is a technology that stimulates and helps your body get over the other side. Really, really exciting stuff decreasing inflammation in the body, decreasing pain, increasing muscle mass, increasing healthy bones, healthy joints. There's women who've reported after their DEXA scan, after using this technology for about a year, sometimes half a year, as little as half a year that their DEXA scan showed that they're no longer in osteopenia or osteoporosis. So it's really, really exciting stuff. But there's, like I said, about 100 studies and in addition to that, I've spoken with many doctors who are holistic doctors, who are using this technology with their clients and with their patients, and they're seeing these results. The people are feeling better. But it also shows up in the lab. So something that's energy medicine, frequency medicine, is now showing up in the physical realm because labs are changing, and that's really exciting. So if you want to check it out, listen to those episodes, but then book a free session with me. I love chatting with you guys. You can go to my website, . In the menu, click on work with Ashley James, select the very first thing at the top. It's a free, about 20 minute, sometimes a bit more if you have more questions, I'll sit there longer on the phone, if you have more questions. About 20 minute phone call where we discuss this type of technology and I can help you order the kind, because there's different ones the kind you need and I'll show you how to use them so that you place them correctly on the body, on the meridians of the body, for you, for the outcomes that you're looking for. It is phenomenal. The cool thing is there's a money back guarantee. I haven't had someone yet who didn't feel a shift in themselves, that they didn't feel like it got results. I also don't believe in silver bullets out there, like, oh, this works for everyone, I think we're so unique that I'm not going to say everything's going to work for everyone. So if it doesn't work for you, the cool part is you can get your money back and there's no risk. There's no risk, but I've seen so many people get such great results that I'm singing this from the rooftops that if there was a natural way to support your body's ability to come back into balance without side effects, with no risk and it's affordable, then you would want to know about it. That's why I'm recording this for you, letting you know you could also share it with your friends and family, and even pets! Amazing. I've seen so many things with animals. I saw one animal who, in 10 days of using two specific patches for this stimulating and healing. Their milky eyes went away. The glaucoma in their eyes went away. They got their vision back. I watched as a dog with hip dysplasia went from being in excruciating pain within minutes, you could touch the dog down by their hips and within two weeks the dog was able to jump back on the bed to help its owner, it was a service dog and this dog wasn't able to jump before because of how much pain it was in. Everyone around this dog is saying it's a new dog, that the dog is just completely out of pain, is jumping around, it's happy, it's running. It wasn't doing that before. I had a client who had a puppy who was dying. They had no idea why they spent $7,000 on this dog, and had no idea why. I told them what patches to put on the dog and three days later they texted me back and said the dog is completely back to normal. Do not know why. The vet had no clue why this dog was sick in the first place, but they spent so much money on this dog with medications and oxygen tent, everything. The dog was just wasting away. Went from lying there all the time just wasting away. Three days, less than three days, the dog was eating again and just up and at it. I've seen people use this on horses. We have actually a lot of studies done with horses and how quickly it gets them out of pain and decreases inflammation. Now it's really cool and anyone who wants this, sign up for a talk with me, a little chat with me, a free chat with me. Go to and I can share. They take a special camera that 's called thermography and the camera can measure your heat in your body and inflammation. You could see it visually and there's video thermography of people who put the patches on and you watch as the inflammation leaves the body and you watch as the person, like the entire body, decreases in inflammation and the person's out of pain. It's so cool. This helps with sleep. This helps with hormone balancing at the hypothalamic, pituitary,\ adrenal access. It's really cool. So I mean, I could go on for days about how cool this stuff is, but I wanted to let you know. If you didn't know about it already, you're going to want to try it. . Sign up for a free chat with me. in the menu bar. I'd love to help you with this and go check out those two episodes and . I'd love to be your guide to helping you to purchasing these and how to apply them, because we use this in conjunction with Chinese medicine protocols, so you're going to be able to increase your vital life force energy. It's one of the first things we do after we balance the polarity of your body and we do a protocol for decreasing inflammation, and then we increase your vital life force energy and then we do a protocol that opens up all the different among three systems and balances every system in the body. It's really cool. People notice away better sleep, more energy. They just feel like they can go, go, go. So if you're dragging, you're going to want to try it. Ashley James (0:17:23.374) Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is episode 522. I am so excited for today's guest we have on the show, Dr. Shawn Tassone, who is an MD and they want to become holistic, they want to look at the body as a whole and help the person and the patient as a whole and see them as a whole person instead of just a broken down pieces Like I'm just going to treat your uterus. You're looking at the person as a whole and you're looking at how can we help your body come back into balance instead of well, I got my prescription pad here. What drug can I throw at you today? So I'm thrilled to dive into this world of holistic gynecology and first I'd like to know a little bit more about what guided you towards going holistic. I'm always interested. Was there an event where you went, hold on, my traditional MD training isn't enough here. Was there a specific event, or was it just like a series of events that led you to want to explore holistic medicine? Dr. Shawn Tassone (0:18:43.005) Well, thanks for having me on. I get asked that question a lot and sometimes you get attacked online for using certain words like holistic or integrative, functional, whatever, and that's because they are slightly overutilized. If I might share that, I think that it is a marketing technique in a way, but also I think it is a moniker that gives you an idea of who the person is and what they believe in. I would say that my journey began when I was a second year resident, I guess. So I was a resident OBGYN living in Oklahoma and basically one day my, my mom had to have surgery because she had this ovarian mass and it ended up being cancer and so so here I was, a second year resident and I knew a lot about cancer, knew a lot about ovarian cancer. But this was my mom, and what I found was that over the five years that she survived, she eventually succumbed to it when she was 57. I realized she'd call me like the day before chemo, she would be all excited and happy because they load you up with steroids. So you feel good and you got a lot of energy and everything. Then the next day when the chemo kicked in and she had joint pain and all the stuff that goes along with nausea, vomiting I realized really quickly that I couldn't even help my own mom. I couldn't help her live a healthy, productive, happy life, and so I watched her over the years just succumb to this process and just not really have a great quality of life. When she died in 2004, I went on this journey as you do. I'm an only child, so, as I went through this on my own, and as you find yourself in these spiritual crises, you often go to Sedona, which is where I went and I was living in... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/31739687

521 Quantum Physics Meets Holistic Medicine, Dr. Vaughn Cook Shares Cutting-Edge Biofeedback Technology That Reads Your Body's Needs 05/31/2024

521 Quantum Physics Meets Holistic Medicine, Dr. Vaughn Cook Shares Cutting-Edge Biofeedback Technology That Reads Your Body's Needs Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com To experience the technology covered in this interview book a phone call with TakeYourSupplements.com Check Out My Latest Book: 521: Dr. Vaughn Cook’s Revolutionary Biofeedback Technology in Holistic Healing In this episode, Ashley James interviews Dr. Vaughn Cook, creator of the ZYTO technology, to explore the cutting-edge intersection of technology and holistic health. Dr. Cook delves into how energy medicine, voice analysis, and quantum-based tools like the ZYTO Hand Cradle are transforming health assessments. They discuss how these non-invasive approaches provide personalized insights into the body’s wellness, helping practitioners guide patients toward balance and healing. Highlights: Supporting Holistic Health Practitioners Energy Medicine Technology Evolution of ZYTO Scanning Voice-based Health Assessment Hand Cradle for Practitioners EVOX for Emotional Healing Clinical Validation through Case Studies Non-invasive Health Monitoring Quantum Field and Energy Healing Ashley James (0:00:00.000) Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I’m your host Ashley James. This is Episode 521. I am so excited for today's guest. We have Dr. Vaughn Cook on the show. This is such an interesting topic. I feel we're finally into the years of Star Trek. We're living in the future. I was such a Trekkie as a kid and growing up. I love Star Trek. I love the idea that health and technology could come together and that we could use technology to end all disease and end all suffering. That was such a neat concept. a few years ago, I saw the ZYTO at a chiropractic office and I was like, what is that? then Jennifer Saltzman from , who I'm a huge fan of and I rave about their services. They really are just a wonderful mix of holistic health practitioners and coaches that are committed to helping people get their health back through nutrition and supplementation. They've been using the ZYTO in a new way. I said, I need to learn more about this becauseI tell my listeners, I'm the biggest open-minded skeptic. So my first reaction is skepticism. then I go, okay, well, let's stay open -minded, let's go deeper. Usually when I do, I'm pleasantly surprised at what I find. So you have a technology that now we can use through an app on the phone, along with our holistic health practitioner, when you go to for example, and they can hook you up with this and it scans you and tells you, in such a crazy detailed way tells you where you're off in your body and what we can do to support your body to come back into balance. I've scanned my husband, myself and my nine year old son and it was eerily accurate. So I can't wait to dive into the science. So excited to have you on the show, Dr. Cook. Dr. Vaughn Cook (0:02:27.575) Hi Ashley, it's good to be here. Ashley James (0:02:30.712) Yes, absolutely. I pretty much laid it out. This is the technology that shows us how we can come back into wellness. we're living in the future with Star Trek like- technology now. But , my first reaction is skepticism, because you're telling me that with an app and with what I hold in my hand, my smartphone, that we can learn about what my body needs and how we can support the body's ability to heal itself, that little skeptic, and I know some of my listeners might be skeptical, but of course open-minded, because they're listening, and curious also, wanting to know how can they learn how to bring their body back into balance. So I want to jump all the way back to the beginning of ZYTO. How did you get into this because it's a super cool technology. Dr. Vaughn Cook (0:03:24.454) Well, I got into it about 40 years ago. When I was a teenager, I developed horrific allergies and they went away and then they came back. In the early 80s, my wife and I moved our family to Las Vegas, Nevada. When we got there, my allergies came back with a vengeance. I had a neighbor who was a dentist and he said, it's probably just something in your yard you're not used to that you're reacting to. So he said, I have this interesting technology I use in my clinic as a hobby. Break a twig off of everything in your yard and bring it down to my office tomorrow at five o 'clock when I close and I'll test you and we'll see if we can figure out what's going on. So the next day I had three big grocery bags full of twigs. I walked into his office and he pulled this piece of equipment out of his cupboard and it had a meter on it and a metal plate on top. Then he handed me a ground, a little hand mass that had a wire that went into this device. He would then put a twig, one at a time, on the metal plate on the top of the device and then he would poke my finger with a stylus and when he did that the meter would then go up and the machine would make a funny sound. He explained to me that what he was doing was measuring the energy flow through my acupuncture meridian at the particular point that he was probing and the energetic influence of the twig on top of the instrument, its effect on my body would be reflected on my body's response as indicated by the meter and the sound. It was a totally goofy experience. If I hadn't been suffering from allergies as bad as I was, I probably would have gone, this is crazy. The other thing is this guy was a credible guy. I knew him and he was legit. So it was like, well, it might be nuts, but if it's good enough for him, I guess I can sit through it. At the end of the experience, after we had tested every twig, he said, the only thing that you're showing a reaction to is Oleander and Pyracantha. I thought, well, okay, those are two things that we didn't have where we moved from, so it's possible those are the culprits. Then he went over to his cupboard again and he got another instrument out and he got out a little three ounce amber dropper bottle and a fifth of vodka. He poured some vodka into this little bottle and then he put the little bottle in a well. This new instrument he pulled out had two wells on top. He put this little dropper bottle with the vodka in it in one well and he took the Oleander and the Pyracantha twig and he put those in the other well. Then he twisted some dials on the front and he said, okay, what this machine does is it will transfer the energy from the twigs at a homeopathic potency and it programs it onto the water molecule and the alcohol molecule in the vodka. It was strange. I was a fairly open-minded guy, but this was just weird. It sat there for about five minutes, and then he said, okay, here's your remedy. Give me the bottle, he said, put 10 drops under your tongue three times a day. So I went home and faithfully did that because I wanted to get rid of my allergies, I was willing to try anything. On the 10th day, my allergies shut off completely. It was nuts, it was like God stuck his finger up my nose and turned off the valve. It was that dramatic. I thought, wait a minute, I've had allergies for so many years, nothing works like this. It's got to be that the Oleander and the Pyracantha have just gone out of bloom and there's no more pollen. So I went out in the backyard where the Oleanders were and they were still going crazy. I went out front, the hedge along the driveway where it was covered with Pyracantha and they were still blooming. The only explanation was it had to be this magic stuff that he gave me. That was my introduction to energy medicine. it was so dramatic that I then inquired of him and said, tell me more about this. It turns out that what he was doing is a technique that was developed in Germany. It's called Electro Acupuncture according to Voll or EAV. Reinhold Voll is the doctor who developed it and then it came to the states in the 70s. There were a few clinics that used it, but it was mostly just, the Mavericks and they were doing interesting things. But I then met Bill Roberson, the name of the dentist and he introduced me to a doctor named Fuller Royal who had a clinic there in Las Vegas. Then Fuller, I got to know him pretty well in his clinic and he introduced me to a guy named Roy Curtin. See, I'm giving you all the names and genealogy here, Ashley. Anyway, Roy had a company that had taken the EAV manual technology and had computerized the library. So they had developed a way to represent Oleander or Pyracantha with a digital code. Then instead of having the twig and putting it on the test plate, you would go into their computerized database and you would activate the code that represented Oleander or Pyrakantha. it would create the same effect as putting the twig on top of the test plate, on top of the metal plate. so that revolutionized the whole EAV world in a significant way. so I ended up going to work for Roy and his company for a while and then I left and started my own company and developed a similar technology and I started that, gosh, it was in the late 80s and it's just evolved since then. So in the course of time I've built several different devices that we've sold to primarily health professionals. The reason is because with the EAV technology, back in the days when we had to take the stylus and actually probe the acupoint, the learning curve on that was fairly steep. Some people could learn how to do a point test in a couple of days, most people it took a couple of weeks. You had to commit yourself to the process. Meaning, if I brought EAV into my practice and didn't use it on a regular basis, I just would never get proficient enough to make it work well. So it was the doctors who were interested in that kind of stuff who really we sold the equipment to. Everybody said, gosh, would it be so easy if you just would invent a glove and we could just have our patients put their hand in a glove and then we could run all the tests that way. So they didn't have to point test. Eventually we didn't do the glove but we did what's called a Hand Cradle. I don't know if you saw the Hand Cradle Ashley. Ashley James (0:11:54.736) Yes, I have. I have seen it at chiropractic offices. That's really interesting. I've never used the Hand Cradle myself, but I have used your most latest technology. I said, it was a very accurate, really interesting experience. Well, I'm sure we'll get there. Let's go back to the Hand Cradle because I'm really enjoying this, this history lesson of this technology and how it's been evolving. That made it a little easier, more accessible for the practitioners. So instead of having to learn the acupuncture points and know when to touch each one with the machine, now the patient comes in, puts their hand in a cradle with different metal pads, and then it can read them, essentially, read their energy signature, maybe explain a bit how that works. Dr. Vaughn Cook (0:12:42.443) I'm just pausing because I'm trying to think of how much geekiness to give you. Vole, the original developer of EAV, had a student, his name was Schimmel. Schimmel didn't like the idea of going from point to point because that's what Vole technology does. If you want to measure the large intestine, You go to the large intestine meridian and there's a point on that meridian. It's called the control measurement point. It basically gives you the entire picture of the large intestine on the left or the right side. If you want to test the heart, you go to the heart meridian and you test the points on the heart meridian. So you can test points all over the body. The reason it works, frankly, is because acupoints are hardwired to different parts of the body. There is a point that has a more direct connection to the valves in your heart. There's another one that has a connection to the bundle of his and one to the muscles. So you can get a very detailed electronic assessment or exam of your patient by just measuring those points. If what the points are, you get pretty intuitive and pretty uncanny in your ability to diagnose. Schimmel didn't like the idea of going from point to point. It was just cumbersome and it took too much. So he developed an alternative technique. He developed a technique where you would take a sarcode. A sarcode is a homeopathic remedy made from healthy tissue. So if you want to test somebody's heart, you would take a sarcode for heart and you would put that on the test plate and then you would just test one point and you test that one point over and over again because all you needed was just access to the body. He learned the most significant part of the measurement was called the indicator drop. Your body is a capacitor essentially and your organs hold energy. When you challenge the body with the Voll equipment, you're putting electrons into the body through the hand mass, and then you're taking them out of the body at the stylus when you touch the acupoint. the part of the body that that acupoint is most closely associated with will act as a capacitor and the ideal reading is one that goes up to 50 on the scale and stays at 50. What that's telling you is there is a proper amount of electron flow through that part of the body, and the body has the ability to sustain that flow over time. But when you get an indicator drop, when you touch the point, the meter goes up, goes up, then as you hold the pressure on the point, the meter drops. So it goes whoop, and then it goes whoop. See, I'm even making sound effects here for you. What that tells you is that that part of the body is not functioning in a healthy capacitive way, and the resistance is going up and the electron flow is dropping, and so it indicates a chronic problem. So that's the difference between acute and chronic in EAV. Anyway, Schimmel developed this technique where instead of going from point to point, he would put the sarcode on the test plate and then he touched the point and watched the meter. If the meter dropped, then okay, that's an indication we got a problem with heart, okay? Then what he could do is he would take remedies and he could put those on the test plate at the same time the heart sarcode does on the plate and he would then repeat the probe until the meter responded in an optimal fashion. When that happened, then he would say, okay, there's a problem with the heart and these remedies correct that problem. So here's what I'm going to prescribe to you as the patient. Ashley James (0:17:26.803) So that could be herbs, that could be supplements, that could be... Dr. Vaughn Cook (0:17:31.939) Yes. Could be drugs, could be anything, yes. Ashley James (0:17:35.475) But that really takes a lot of knowledge. First, just understanding the body, understanding remedies, understanding what the body might need. The practitioner is still very much the computer. The tool at the time was an incredible tool, but it wasn't intelligent in and of itself. So you still needed really smart practitioners. Because if a practitioner like an MD who's not trained in supplements or herbs or lifestyle medicine, if they only have drugs, they only have one slice of the pie. So even if they had this machine, they couldn't really serve that patient because they didn't know all the available possible remedies for that person. So the practitioner had to be really well -versed to be able to correctly identify what that person's body needed. Dr. Vaughn Cook (0:18:28.881) Well, honestly, that was one of the fun things about EAV was you learned that stuff really fast. For example, homeopathy. I'm an expert in homeopathy and I got that way in six months. The reason it only took me six months is because I was using EAV equipment instead of going in and memorizing the remedy and the rubrics, et cetera, I would just test and I'd say, okay, here's the energetic profile of this patient, and this remedy balanced it. So now I know that that matches. So it's a fast way to get a lot of knowledge, and honestly, that makes it kind of fun. But at the same time, not every practitioner likes to do that. It's not necessarily the most lucrative practice you could run. Ashley James (0:19:27.428) Well, you're helping people get better and then they don't come back, but they might send all their friends and family. Dr. Vaughn Cook (0:19:31.964) Well, that's true, but let's say that you're a chiropractor and you're making significant money adjusting people and then you take time to do this kind of assessment, you could probably adjust four or five patients while you're seeing one with the EAV equipment. So, you would get incorporated into practices. A practice like that may say, hey, we're going to hire a technician. They'll run the EAV equipment, et cetera. But. yes, you did have to know more. The biggest challenge frankly though was the point testing because when you're mechanically applying a stylus to an acupoint, you can manipulate the response. If you push hard, you'll get more electrons and the meter goes up. if you don't push as hard, you don't get as many electrons and the meter doesn't move as much. So the practitioner was actually part of the circuit. A good practitioner would develop the ability to know where the point was, apply the stylus in a consistent way, and once applied, they would hold the pressure constantly and give the meter a chance to move. But in the process of becoming a good practitioner, you also became incredibly intuitive. It was because you were dealing with the body's energy and you would just gain an incredible sensitivity to the energetic situation or status of your patient. You would even get to the point where as you move the stylus to the point, you would know what the meter would indicate when you actually probe the point, you would know what's going to happen before you even did it so that was also one of the interesting things about it, but it was one of the challenging things about it too, because a patient who might be skeptical would watch this and they would experience the doctor pushing the stylus at the acupoint and they would see the meter change and they'd say, you just pushed harder or you just didn't push as hard. The reason they would say that is because if you push on a point that's compromised, in other words, the part of the body that's associated with that point has a problem. The probing will actually be painful. So it can be an owie experience and then you put the remedy on the test plate or you bring it up on the computer and that's the balancing remedy, the pain goes away. So a patient, even though you're pushing as hard as you were, the patient will say, you just didn't push as hard, because it didn't hurt. Well, the reason it didn't hurt is because we've got the remedy in the circuit now. But that was problematic because if somebody is not convinced that what you're doing is legitimate and you recommend a course of therapy to them, they're not going to follow through. if they don't follow through, they don't get the benefit. Unlike prescriptive medication where sometimes you say, hey, take this pill and it's going to make your headache go away, natural remedies sometimes take a couple of weeks to work. So you have to have a patient buy in and willing to follow through. If they think that the experience was bogus in the first place, they're just not going to follow through. So, and that wasn't much of a problem really, because most people, , were me who would come into my clinic. They were there looking for help. Even if I said something that they thought was goofy, they're going to follow through because they want the... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/31544887

520 Jeremy Slate, Host of Create Your Own Life Podcast, Shares Keys For Holistic Media Success For Alternative Health Practitioners Navigating The MSM Suppression of the Natural Health Space Get The Minerals Your Body Needs: TakeYourSupplements.com Check Out My Latest Book: https://www.learntruehealth.com/addictedtowellness Get Jeremy's Book: bestpodcastbook.com Jeremy's website: 520: Navigating Media: Jeremy Slate’s Guide for Alternative Health Practitioners In this episode, Jeremy Slate, founder of Command Your Brand, shares his journey from wrestler to powerlifter and discusses the importance of supporting holistic health practitioners amid growing censorship and misinformation. He highlights how search engines are delisting holistic health websites and emphasizes achieving natural health without pharmaceuticals. Jeremy also offers insights on maintaining motivation, mental toughness, and the value of camaraderie in fitness. Additionally, he explores how holistic practitioners can effectively communicate their message using alternative platforms like Rumble despite challenges from censorship and pharmaceutical influence. Highlights: Supporting Holistic Health Practitioners and Wellness Censorship of Alternative Health Information Evolution of Podcasting Platforms Censorship Concerns on YouTube Importance of Personal Engagement in Media Leveraging Media Opportunities for Growth Improve Communication Skills Through Practice Intro: Are you tired of guessing your way through supplements, feeling each choice is just another shot in the dark? Unlock your health potential at . Here we don't just sell supplements, we customize wellness. Connect with a true health coach who tailors your nutritional path based on your unique health goals and challenges. From fatigue to vitality, from confusion to clarity. Start your transformation today. Visit and discover how feeling amazing is just one free consultation away. That's . Ashley James (0:00:40.006) Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is Episode 520. I am so excited for today's guest. We have Jeremy Slate on the show. Him and I have become friends through the years. He has a company called Command your Brand. Before he got into helping people me and other holistic health practitioners to market themselves, he was a competitive powerlifter and at some point pulled a tank. We're going to talk about that. We're going to have some fun today talking about different concepts, but I think it's really important that we definitely discuss how to support holistic health practitioners and anyone in the holistic health space, because in the last few years, they have been under attack. Now I don't know if you have gotten your tinfoil near you, but I'd like you to go ahead and fold your little tinfoil hat with me, because I know I always sound like a conspiracy theorist when I say this. But when you look deeper, you see that Google has delisted major health websites. Dr. Mercola, do you remember him completely disappeared. He's still there, but Google just will not let you find him, he used to be the number one search for many years. He's an amazing database of health information and so many other holistic doctors in the last four or five years have been delisted and what has replaced it is mainstream media, pharmaceutical based medicine but the people you who are listening to the show you want to figure out how to get so healthy that your body doesn't need drugs, . You want to get so healthy that you live to be 99 plus years old in the prime of your health even then, and I'm friends with people in their 80s who still downhill ski and run marathons and it's possible and you can do it. Jeremy Slate's going to be one of those people as well. Jeremy, it's so good to have you on the show. Jeremy Slate (0:02:50.700) Hey, absolutely. Thank you so much for having me and it's funny you talk about people in their 80s downhill skiing. You should see my six year old hit double black diamonds. She is incredible. Ashley James (0:03:02.106) That's so awesome. I love the idea that throughout life, no matter how old we are, we want to be able to just do whatever we want. You want to go skiing? Great. You want to go swim, you want to go bike, you want to go run a marathon. Part of health is not having limitations, not being limited, and wherever you are in your health journey, get up and start moving. I actually started 75 Hard. Have you heard of that, Jeremy? Jeremy Slate (0:03:30.512) My cousin just did that not long ago. He lost 50 something pounds. I'm really proud of him. Ashley James (0:03:34.048) Yes. People do lose weight and gain muscle, but that's not why I'm doing it. I'm doing it for the mental toughness which is the whole purpose of it. It's two 45-minute workouts a day, no matter what, and then there's a bunch of other rules and what's really interesting is do that voice that that says, oh, I don't know, I'm too tired or I'm too busy, and that goes out the window because it becomes your priority, no matter what, to schedule two 45-minute workouts, no matter what you got going on and it's been wild. I feel amazing. I feel absolutely amazing. My husband joined me in doing it and I can tell you that the freedom you get mentally when you commit to building your health and taking your health to the next level is so worth it. There's this personal, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual growth that comes from putting your health first. Jeremy, at some point in your life you put your health first, you're a competitive powerlifter and you pulled a tank. Tell us some stories that came from that time in your life. Jeremy Slate (0:04:44.871) Well, I think it's important to understand how I got there . So I was a wrestler in school and I'm not a big guy. I'm 5'7 on a good day, usually probably 5'6 more realistically and I wrestled 119 until by the time I graduated I wrestled 140. But to keep a growing high school kid at that weight, what I was doing was not healthy. I was eating large quantities of food and then throwing up that food to stay on weight. So I was not taking good care of myself. So by the time I graduated the thing I really wanted to do was take better care of myself. So I actually got into lifting because I want to take better care of myself. So eating better, working out better, and the thing I found was I'm more of an ecto mesomorph, so I'm actually really predisposed to build muscle but stay lean. So I found out, the more I did, the better I ate, the more muscle I gained. And by the time I was 20, 22, somewhere around 21, 22, I was 215 at 8% body fat. So I was a house. It made going to theme parks really rough because, number one, I got really angry if I couldn't bring my little cooler to every place and number two, I had to wear Under Armour shorts because if my thighs rubbed it was a real pain in the butt. But for me, it was a really big part of my life. I had a lot of fun doing it. And you mentioned pulling the army tank. I pulled an 80,000-pound army tank on the back of an 18-wheeler to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. Again, I'm 165 now. I've upped my caloric intake a little bit because I'm trying to get back to about 180, because it's a healthier weight for me. So I'm not lifting weights now as I was then, though I'm still working out just as hard. At my top I was benching 455 on a single, squatting 705, and then deadlifting 635. Ashley James (0:06:42.920) I can't even fathom that. I have trouble lifting my son who feels I'm lifting a tank. He's nine years old. This kid's growing a bean, but it just gives you perspective that wherever you are, pick something up and lift it and then go, no matter how heavy this feels. In a year from now this is going to feel like a feather. Jeremy Slate (0:07:10.836) And I think that's a vital point, because when you're in good shape, people are like, what do you do? What do you bench? How do you get that? And the thing I always tell people is the number one way you get strong is first of all, eating , that's vital. If you're not putting enough fuel in your body, you're not going anywhere. But the other thing is it's simple, it's called linear progression. What does that mean? Two and a half pounds to five pounds a week for ten years in strength and you'll get strong. But it's going to take you three years, four years, five years, ten years to get strong. So if you're willing to put in the time, put in the effort and take care of yourself, you're going to do very well. But you progress forward in a straight line, improving a little bit every time. Ashley James (0:07:52.584) I love that and stick with it. Set a goal and stick with it, because it's so easy to get discouraged if you don't see results fast enough. I like to focus on results that have nothing to do at first with measuring something because if you think, oh, I'm going to gain a pound of muscle or I'm going to lose a pound of fat, and then you get on the scale and you haven't, and scales are so inaccurate, because what's it measuring? If you haven't taken an extra bowel movement today. That could be just poop weight. And those scales that have the little metal pads and then they tell you this is your percentage, those are so bogus. Jeremy Slate (0:08:36.363) The body fat percentage scales are worthless. The best way is a caliper. Calipers are actually effective, but the scales are worthless because a lot of them actually read the water content as your body fat. So if you drank too much water that day, it’s going to be stupid too. Ashley James (0:08:52.771) I know, I went through some really good workouts this week and I gained two pounds overnight. That could be anything, that could be water retention. But my app said, because I have one of those stupid scales, it was actually gifted to me by a company that wanted me to promote it and I have to test it first. Jeremy Slate (0:09:14.026) Oh, I'm one of those two. I don't promote anything I haven't used. Ashley James (0:09:16.702) I don't promote anything I haven't used, but I also definitely don't promote things that I don’t believe in and haven’t helped me. And this thing told me just this morning that I gained two pounds of fat overnight. I'm sorry. I meticulously measure what I eat, my input and my output, and I just laughed. And so, normally, if you go on a scale and you're exercising every day and you were gaining weight and gaining weight, you would give up, or you'd say this isn't working, or you'd try a different diet and you'd switch gears. But that input is incorrect, and so at first your body is going to go haywire and because you got inflammation, you've broken down some tissue, because you're doing new activities, you're sore. And the water in you has changed, you're drinking more water, you're releasing excess stagnant water, there's all kinds of changes, but a scale isn't a great measurement of your progression, at least in your first few weeks. Jeremy Slate (0:10:15.853) On the weight side, I've tried every app out there. I'm not a big fan of doing things on smartphones. I literally have a spiral notebook. I have a stack of spiral notebooks that I've used the last 20 years of my life, where I track what a workout was and I'm meticulous in the way of okay. So I got five reps of that, but, the fourth one, I had a spot. Or the fifth one I had a spot, or, I wasn't as strong today. So if I'm not as strong that day, but I know in order to go forward I have to get two extra reps, I'm going to do a rest pause, meaning I'm going to re-rack the weight, I'm going to wait 30 seconds and I'm going to do one rep, re-rack the weight, wait 30 seconds, another rep. So you have to figure out what are the things I’m doing to advance myself too. If you don’t know what you did, week after week which is one of the number one things people aren't tracking in fitness. They don't know what their workout was last week and the little things matter, was this hard? Were you not in the right slot for the exercise? And what I mean by that, most people bench press too high, where they're pushing everything with their front delts and you wonder why they blow out their shoulders. The slot is actually right below your pectorals where the bar should actually be hitting your chest. So these are all things that are important, because if you're not tracking these things, you can't improve. Ashley James (0:11:29.149) I love that. So it's good to track what you have done. How do you keep the motivation? I'm talking about the scale. Don't use the scale in the first few weeks of starting a new program because you don't know what it's measuring. Whether it's measuring water or your poop, or you changed your diet. There's so many things and you don't know if you're measuring added muscle or weight loss. But a woman, one time of her month could be five pounds heavier just from water retention, it ebbs and flows. So a scale is not a great thing to look at. What are really great metrics that help people stay motivated in the first few weeks of a new program? Jeremy Slate (0:12:14.561) That's tough because it's also my viewpoint on it as I've gotten older has changed a lot. When I was younger, I weighed everything and I checked every calorie and I was neurotic about it. I remember going on a date when I was seventeen and I freaked out that they put breading on my chicken and I was so embarrassed when the girl just got up and left. So, the way I've looked at food and the way I've looked at what I do has changed dramatically. And I've tried to take a look at, does what I'm doing work for me? I've looked at ratios of food I'm eating. What's my ratio of carbs, my ratio of proteins, my ratio of fats? Most people don't eat enough fats. But when you're looking at how you're doing, the two things I'm looking at is I'm looking at body fat percentage check with a caliper. I'm not checking it weekly, because if you're checking it weekly or daily, it's going to fluctuate way too much. Check yourself every couple of weeks. I'm also looking at how am I looking in the mirror? Am I seeing my shape changing? I also think weight is a really, really bad indicator because, once again, as you mentioned, are you carrying more in your intestines that week? Are you carrying more water? Did you drink less water? Do you have too much salt that you're retaining water? Those things to me aren't a good indicator. I'm looking at how am I looking in the mirror and if I'm continuing to see physical changes. I'm also checking measurements. What are my measurements looking like? My measurement around the chest, my measurement around the waist, my measurement around the hips. If you're checking those things, they're really good indicators to me of how you're doing. Ashley James (0:13:38.883) Yes. I like to go internal also. Check internally for how you are feeling emotionally. Also, remember, emotions aren't facts, so if you just woke up on the wrong side of bed, that doesn't mean your entire day is ruined. But just check in with yourself and go, do I need to do some deep breathing and just release this. Am I happy? Am I grounded? Am I content? Am I sore all over? Am I happy that I'm sore all over? Am I pissed off that I'm sore all over? Sore from your workouts? If you're sore from not working out, then we definitely want to make some changes, because just waking up sore in the morning, if you didn't do anything for the last few days, that soreness is probably inflammation, it's probably stagnation and our body is just screaming out, begging for us to move in a way that brings joy back into our body. And it could just be pickleball. Find a bunch of friends to go play dodgeball or go play tennis. I went to Goodwill the other day and bought some tennis rackets for five dollars each and my son and I went and played tennis and now he's obsessed with tennis. It's so cool. It doesn't have to look like going to a gym. It just moves your body in a way that brings you joy and there's just so much inner peace that comes from that. Jeremy Slate (0:15:01.225) What I would say too, especially early on, camaraderie is important and it's really easy to quit something when you're on your own. As I mentioned, early on, and I know my fitness journey and his fitness journey changed a lot. One of my best friends went on to become an IFBB pro and he was a big little guy, he was 5’3, but he was 260. And I learned a lot about working out and we were also hyper competitive because when we started we were both around the same weight, so I had to beat him and he had to beat me. So I think that's also important to have somebody else. Number one is going to hold you accountable because if I don't show up, I'm letting somebody else down because he could need a spot that day, he could need help that day. He could need whatever it is. The other thing is you can get in a little bit of competition and competition is also going to push you to be better. Ashley James (0:15:52.414) Make sure you don’t push yourself (inaudible- 0:15:52.138) injury. That’s what happened when my dad got competitive and he blew out his ACL doing something stupid being competitive in the gym. He never recovered from that. It's so easy to be cocky, and do something beyond your limits. So when you get competitive, make sure you're still staying within the confines of your current. Jeremy Slate (0:16:20.488) Well, that's something I've learned after 30, frankly. As we're recording this, I'm going to be 37 next week and I learned after 30 to listen to my body a lot more, because there are certain days where when I was younger, things didn't feel exactly right that day. Maybe I was sore in a certain part of my body or maybe I had a stiff hip or whatever it is, and I went in and beat through it. If I don't have it that day and I'm not saying it from like, I'm trying to find a reason not to go but if I don't physically have it that day, what effects can I cause? What other injury can happen? And that's how I tore my UCL because I went in on a bad day, I've had other injuries because I went on a bad day. You have to also really get in tune with how your body's doing, because you can if you're not doing well that day, and once I once again I said not from like, oh, I'm tired and I don't want to go to the gym, but it's a no, if there's something physically that doesn't feel right, it's a good reason to go fight the next day. Ashley James (0:17:23.128) I like to check in with my body and go what does my body need? Do I need to do more stretching? Should I swim? Should I walk? What is it? And when I say walk I mean like power walking where you're getting your heart rate up and you're finding a hill to walk up. But sometimes it's just put on some headphones and just wander through some trails, check out local parks, local trails and get back into nature or get on a bicycle. Go buy a bicycle on Facebook Marketplace if you don't have one anymore. Remember what it was being a kid? I feel like I want to go get rollerblades again. I just remember in the early 90s I lived in my rollerblades. So there's all kinds of ways you can move your body. It doesn't have to be always in the gym or always in an exercise class, or always just sitting in your cubicle or sitting at your desk. Jeremy Slate (0:18:19.190) It's also making it a group thing too. I have two kids. I have a third on the way. We're actually closing into my... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/31223557

519 Is It My Genes? Functional Medicine Dr. Laurie Marti On Working With Your Gene Expressions To Reverse Disease, MTHFR, Fibromyalgia, ADHD, Detox 04/25/2024

519 Is It My Genes? Functional Medicine Dr. Laurie Marti On Working With Your Gene Expressions To Reverse Disease, MTHFR, Fibromyalgia, ADHD, Detox Visit TakeYourSupplements.com to book your free consultation Dr. Laurie Marti's Website: 519: Understanding Disease Reversal Through Gene Expressions In this episode of the Learn True Health podcast, we delve into the complex world of genetics and health, focusing on the vital connection between gene enzymes like MTHFR and overall wellness. Our expert guest unpacks the role of supportive genes and explains why some people experience heightened anxiety, sleeplessness, and racing thoughts after taking high doses of B vitamins. We also explore the powerful impact of diet on both brain and gut health, revealing how certain foods and synthetic supplements could be exacerbating underlying genetic issues. Plus, we discuss the importance of listening to your body's signals and how genetic testing can provide actionable insights to improve your health. This is a must-listen for anyone looking to optimize their well-being through a deeper understanding of their genetic makeup. Highlights: Listening to body signals Genetics vs. Epigenetics Addressing leaky gut and health Gut health’s role in overall wellness Actionable insights from genetic testing Nutritional strategies for genetic issues Self-checks for body symptoms MTHFR prevalence and symptoms Methylation’s role in DNA repair Potential issues with synthetic folic acid Diet affects brain and gut health ADHD diagnoses may relate to diet Foody dyes exacerbate behavioral issues Focus in nutrition and root causes Intro: Are you tired of guessing your way through supplements, feeling like each choice is just another shot in the dark? Unlock your health potential at . Here we don't just sell supplements, we customize wellness. Connect with a true health coach who tailors your nutritional path based on your unique health goals and challenges. From fatigue to vitality, from confusion to clarity. Start your transformation today. Visit and discover how feeling amazing is just one free consultation away. That's . Ashley James (0:00:41.012) Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is Episode 519. I am so excited for today's guest. We get to dive into such an interesting topic today with Dr. Dr. Laurie Marti. Welcome to the show, Dr. Laurie Marti (0:01:00.283) Thank you. Ashley James (0:01:02.689) So we have a mutual friend, and that's how I discovered you, an amazing woman near and dear to my heart. Jessica does mental health counseling, but she looks at the body as a whole, very holistic mental health counseling, helping her clients to overcome addiction around anything you're addicted to. A lot of substance abuse, though. People who want to overcome substance abuse and alcohol come to her, but what I love is that she looks at the body as a whole and helps her clients as a whole, and that's, I'm sure, why she finds this topic so fascinating and why she told me that I really needed to interview you. Because, although you come from a traditional medical doctor, allopathic background, you discovered that holistic medicine, functional holistic medicine, there's this whole world, amazing world of science-based ways of doing things that isn't just waiting for someone to get sick and giving them a drug, and I love that. I love it when MDs they see the light and they're like, wait a second. This system is incomplete without seeing this whole other side of things. I definitely want to dive into all the fun stuff we're going to talk about today, but first I want to know can you tell us, was there an aha moment as a medical doctor when you went, wait a second, have I been lied to? Was I lied to my entire time in university? Why is this whole other piece missing? Did you have an aha moment? Dr. Laurie Marti (0:02:41.395) I think I've had a few of them. There's never just one. So I graduated in a family practice and started doing that for my first few years of my career. I was actually home with my first child and on maternity leave. I don't even know if I'd been practicing for three years at that time. I just said, I almost don't want to go back, but I have all this student loan debt, so I know I have to go back, but I'm not really happy in what I'm doing. One of the things that really bothered me was just within the medical practice that I had three partners and I was obviously the new young partner. I always got the most difficult patients because that's where they end up going, is to the new person in the practice. I would order a lot of blood work on them because I'm like, I don't know how to help you if I don't know what's really going on with you. I would actually get chastised by my partners by ordering so many tests. How am I supposed to figure out what's going on with them? Well, fast forward to me on maternity leave, and there was a company that was looking for a practitioner that wanted to specialize in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, and it was this moment where I was like, wow, that's an interest I've had since my residency, because my residency senior project was on a fibromyalgia patient. During that time off, I interviewed with them and during that process, they introduced me to working with more holistic therapy because they had found that treating patients with fibromyalgia, which is a chronic pain condition, really was amenable to a more holistic approach. I had never been introduced to any of that. it just opened up this whole new world to me. Long story short, I ended up quitting my practice in family medicine and working for that for a couple of years, and then, just wanted to go out on my own and start my own practice and it really expounded from there because I didn't want to be restricted to just working with those types of patients. I had known about naturopathic doctors but I didn't really understand what they did and so it was just by being able to incorporate all of that into the allopathic realm and having this all encompassing view of every patient was just an amazing experience. so I opened up my own practice, it was 2007, and I have not looked back. I've just learned more and more as I've gone along. Ashley James (0:06:07.085) Oh, 16 years. So you've been diving into the holistic space. How does an MD learn all the holistic stuff? Obviously you do your own reading, but do you go through functional medicine? Do you take those courses or do you pick the brains of naturopaths? How do you get this training? For those who are listening who are medical doctors I just want to know more. I want to dive deeper. I've interviewed so many MDs who've become holistic but the medical doctor training is designed to make you see people through the lens of medicine of reductionism. So you're looking to reduce people into their parts, that's part of MD medicine. Being a diagnostician, MDs are amazing. The problem is then the tools they're given are like, here's all these drugs. So it's just an incomplete view of the body. So many MDs that have come on my show said that they thought their education was complete because of the way their education has been presented to them and how much money and time they had to invest in their education, that what they had been taught was the most important aspects. Everything else was kind of just secondary. That functional stuff over there is not as important or poo-pooed. If you graduated from Harvard, I had interviewed a woman graduated from Harvard Medical. She said they made us believe that we were taught the most important things. So we are trained to poo-poo everything else. Then, MD drug based medicine had no answers for her when she fell ill and she had to turn to holistic medicine, which then gave her life back. It was like being pulled out of the matrix. She had this massive wake up and she's like, oh my gosh, there's this whole other aspect. So in realizing as an MD being pulled out of the MD matrix and realizing there's this whole other world you want to plug into, unless you went back to college and got a naturopathic degree. How do you navigate in the world to piece together all the information you need so that you can really help clients on a holistic level? So how do you do that? Dr. Laurie Marti (0:08:43.375) That's a great question. There's a whole industry built around that now, one of them is called A4M. It's basically a regenerative medical group, which they have members, because it's a membership organization. But they actually put on seminars where you pay a fee and you just go and you do classes from experts in different areas of different fields and you can learn as much as you want. I did that at the beginning because I had obviously so much to learn. but I tended to focus on hormonal therapy. You can tailor your practice to what interests you. I think I always had an interest in hormonal medicine, and then obviously these chronic conditions where they were very underserved in the allopathic community. I really felt like there was something lacking for patients that had been diagnosed with these conditions that were considered when nothing else was found to be wrong with them, it had to be in their head, it had to be psychological, and that probably bothered me the most. Yes, I just spent a lot of hours doing formal training. You can get advanced degrees in that, but it really isn't necessary because it's really just about the knowledge. It's not like you absolutely have to have those certificates on your wall. You just have to have an interest in it and you have to put the time in to learn it because that's the most important aspect is understanding that there's different roads in any field and how you get there is you can make that your own and so you just need the background information. But yes, it's good to know that there's this growing interest in MDs learning this other side of medicine. I was surrounded by plenty of other MDs who were in my similar space. So it's a lot different than it was back in 2007. This is definitely a growing area. I think the more that we have pandemics and things like that, you're just going to see this grow more and more. For example, long COVID, it's almost chronic fatigue syndrome that I've been dealing with for years. But when you have these things come to the forefront in allopathic medicine, it's nice having that background because you realize that it's the same underlying processes are there. so you can take that knowledge that you've learned, even though it's something new that you might be exposed to, all that baseline information is there. Ashley James (0:11:57.856) What's really interesting is part of this movement was ignited by Dr. Oz. I think that's so funny, like looking back, cause I can think back to like Oprah and how she would bring things to the table to discuss like menopause. Before she had that first episode talking about menopause as she was going through it herself, you didn't talk about it. It was a hidden backdoor conversation with your doctor. It was almost shameful to bring up and she brought it into the light and brought Dr. Oz on. Then he had his own show. As they explored, just tip of the iceberg conversations about things that were outside of the allopathic realm, little holistic nuggets here and there. Their patients would go to their doctors saying, oh, I want you to run this test, I want you to look for this. The doctors didn't have any training in that. In America you can choose your doctors, you can shop for your doctor. In socialized medicine, it's a little harder, but here you can go shop for your doctor and so you can fire your doctor. If they don't have the extra training, you can fire them and go get a new one. So all of a sudden there was this need for medical doctors to go get additional training. Go get some functional medicine training. Start to understand what's going on because it's now in the mainstream. It was now being talked about. So I just loved watching that movement take off. We still have a long way to go. I'd like to see functional medicine be taught in medical school, but then that would be helping the patient get so healthy where they would need drugs and that would cut the profits of big pharma. Dr. Laurie Marti (0:13:48.363) Yes, there is definitely a strong push with the pharmaceutical industry and training. So yes, I don't think that's something that's going to be introduced anytime soon. Ashley James (0:14:02.170) Which is a telltale sign that we need to think critically when we choose the companies we buy food from, the companies we buy medicine from, the companies we buy supplements from, and the doctors we choose to see. We need to not just blindly trust authority. We can't walk around in fear either. We need to take a step back and make sure that we're choosing the people who have the best training and also the companies who have our best interests at heart and not just profits. So I love that allopathic drug-based emergency medicine is available for us to save our lives should we need it, God forbid. It's like taking your car to a plumber. If you take a chronic disease to an MD who only has training in drug-based medicine because they don’t have the training to see how we can help the body heal itself. So that's my soap box. I say it every day, but you live it every day as an allopathically trained MD who now specializes in functional medicine, which is so exciting. So let's talk more about the work you do. You started out, like you talked about fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue and , there's like Lyme disease and that whole rigmarole of where you say we've been underserved. So true. Then of course, the hormones, but it comes down to if we chunk down and we look at cellular health and we look at brain health, there's stuff going on. We look at liver health, there's genetics and epigenetics. When you look at all of these different syndromes and the diagnoses and you look at the body and how the body's functioning, what's going on that's disrupting the function of the body so it presents these symptoms? Dr. Laurie Marti (0:15:57.854) Well, that's a big question because there are so many things that can cause dysfunction in the body and it's not always really clear from the initial assessment of an individual. But that's where my biggest mantra is, each person is an individual and what makes us unique is our DNA. So at the very core of us, we have a genetic makeup that gives us strengths and weaknesses. then from that, we have our life experiences and our exposures, whether that be toxic exposures. I think most of us would agree that probably in the last few decades, we've been exposed to more toxins than ever before in the things that we eat and the things that we breathe. Thank goodness more and more people are starting to read labels and starting to think critically about the things they put in their body. But our DNA puts us at that part of us that we don't know what our weaknesses and strengths are. So that's really where it begins. Then based upon your exposures in life, stresses, the things that just happen because of life, as we get older we become less resilient. So I think as you go through your decades of life there are different things that become apparent as problematic. Whether that be hormonal things or pain or fatigue, these things can happen at any age. But then obviously as we get older, then there's these different facets of just our life with our hormone changes and things like that make us more vulnerable to the deficits that we may have that we don't even know about. Health is a journey. We don't really think about our health until it's not working. Then, we try to ask someone to help us figure it out. I think that sets a person into looking if they are satisfied with the answers that they have or do they feel like they have more questions. That's when people will seek out a more thorough investigation. I think that more and more people are becoming aware that there's other practitioners out there that can help figure out what's going to give them their healthiest experience. I think it's just an all encompassing world, when you think about what happens in our life in terms of what we consider good health and bad health and disease and pathology. I think people have to get to a point where they feel like they need to ask for help. I think that that's really the start is when do you start asking help or asking those questions? Ashley James (0:19:31.531) Yes. That's such a good point, because, what popped into my mind is my mom who she was like the epitome of health to me. She worked out seven days a week. She took her supplements. She was meticulous with her diet. She'd cheat once in a while. Like she'd eat red jujubes and she knew red dye wasn't good for her, but it wasn't like she overdid it anyway. She'd have like three red jujubes and that was her little guilty pleasure. She had some alcohol, like one or two servings, a few times a week kind of thing. So she had a little guilty pleasure, but she felt like she made up for it by how strict she was with her diet. Like she followed the diet plan that her naturopath gave her just meticulously and had the discipline to exercise but she ignored these little symptoms that came up. She ignored this whole little digestive feeling here, a little tired there, a little kind of funny feeling near her liver, she chalked it up to the fact that she had moved to Naples, Florida. They'd gone through the stress of moving. She was acclimating to a new climate, eating different food, meeting, making new friends, doing different activities. She just kind of pushed it off to the side until she was diagnosed with stage four liver cancer. A few months later she died. She ignored the symptoms because she was healthier than most. So those symptoms weren't maybe if she was not healthy, maybe she was eating junk food every day and just really didn't take care of herself. She would have noticed sooner but she ignored those symptoms. So, at what point are you a hypochondriac? At what point are you making a smart move by getting checked out because you feel the symptoms? So for her, it wasn't a big deal until all of a sudden it was. My dad, on the other hand, largely ignored major red flags for heart disease and died suddenly of heart failure. So, that’s blatant. I'm going to ignore major, major red flags. But then sometimes the body is speaking in whispers. So at what point do you go what? This isn't optimal health. I should probably look into how I could optimize this. So is it that I'm a little tired in the morning? Is it a little bit of brain fog? Is it like I notice I can't do as well in the gym? I had a friend, we were part of a coaching program. He was an amazing coach. He‘s been a chronic smoker his whole life. Then he quit and did Iron Man's and his coach noticed that his times on his running were getting worse. That’s the only symptom he had of lung cancer. He ended up overcoming lung cancer. Lived for many, many years. Died very, very elderly. I don't remember if he was in his eighties. He lived a full life. That was his only symptom. So luckily he caught it early enough. When do we listen and go, I want to optimize that. On the other hand, we've been told our whole life, oh, you have that because you're a woman, you have that because your mom had that, you had that because you're in your 40s or 50s or 60s, you have that because you're black or you're white or what. We're just told these ridiculous things, these lies by our doctor that, oh, you're fat because your family was fat, or you have diabetes because your family has diabetes, or you have glaucoma just because that's... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/30988638

518 Neural Therapy and The Five Levels of Healing, Chronic Pain Gone Through ANS Reset, Dr. Jeff Harris, NAANT President 03/19/2024

518 Neural Therapy and The Five Levels of Healing, Chronic Pain Gone Through ANS Reset, Dr. Jeff Harris, NAANT President The North American Academy of Neural Therapy naant.org Dr. Jeff's website: jeffharrisnd.com Get My New Book Addicted To Wellness: learntruehealth.com/addictedtowellness 25% Off Sale on My Favorite NON-TOXIC Medical Mattress: BEST SLEEP OF YOUR LIFE! learntruehealth.com/organix 518: Neural Therapy and The Five Levels of Healing with Dr. Jeff Harris What if your chronic pain could be alleviated by targeting an old scar you never thought twice about? Join us as we welcome Dr. Jeff Harris, a leading expert in neural therapy and renowned naturopathic physician, who shares groundbreaking insights on this cutting-edge treatment. Highlights: Nerve Block Injections for Healing Procaine's Anti-Aging Superpower Neural Therapy Protocol for Body Reset Unlocking Inner Peace Through Conversation Eligibility for North American Academy of Neural Therapy Conference Neural Therapy Tool Set Spread Awareness Healer's Journey and Empathy Alternative Treatment Success Story Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the This is going to be an amazing one. Dr. Jeff Harris, naturopathic physician and one of the world's leading experts in neuraltherapy, is here with us today. You can go to , that's and check out the conference that's coming up April 4th through 7th. Every practitioner needs to know about this, as you're about to hear in this interview, and I just wanted to make a quick shout out also that my book I published it last month In case you didn't know, you got to grab your copy. The reviews are just so beautiful. I spent a lot of time very intentionally designing this book, using everything I learned from my over 500 interviews with holistic experts, as well as my over 12 years of experience working with clients to help them achieve their health goals and their goals around joy, fulfillment and leading an overall better, happier life, more satisfied life. I made it very simple to use. It's a workbook, so you use it 10 to 15 minutes in the morning, 10 to 15 minutes at night for 12 weeks and you will build foundations of health, no matter where your health is right now, whether you're just starting on your health journey, you're frustrated, you want to take your health to the next level, or whether you're like me, you're a health nut and you're always looking to improve. There's always room for improvement. No matter how old you are, there's always room to become even healthier, right, and no matter how young you are, there's always room, no matter how busy you are. If you say you don't have enough time. That is exactly why you need my book, . It will help you get the wins, collect the W's every day. You'll stack win upon win upon win in very quick ways. That'll motivate you and a lot of us kind of get stuck sometimes or we say, fall off the bandwagon. Oh, I hear this so often from clients. I used to drink more water, I used to exercise, especially when I'm hearing, the feedback I'm getting, it’s the pandemic. We're all kind of like coming out of our caves right from the last four years, and so many people have told me that they they felt like they were on track with their health prior to 2020 and we had so many disruptions that a lot of good health habits disappeared and some unhealthy habits, new habits got created or exacerbated. So with my book, , I will guide you and teach you and you will learn. But not cerebral, it's not so like head knowledge, it's where rubber hits the road kind of knowledge, the experiential kind of knowledge, where you'll start tapping into yourself and it raises more self-awareness, and so you'll feel more and more motivated and excited because you're going to go, oh wow, I did this little change, this one little health habit today, this one little thing, and I got more energy, I got more mental clarity, I had better sleep, I had more stamina, I had more joy, I felt better in my body, I had less pain or no pain. I can teach you these little habits that you implement and you track. And it's so simple. You could do it anytime. If the busiest person in the world can do this book, so you can do it. So if you want to take your health to the next level, you raise your hand. Who wants to take their health to the next level? If you want to take health to the next level, get my book. It's fun, it's simple and it is the foundations of health that everyone is missing. You're going to find there's some things in this book. You're like, hey, I already do that, cool, and you'll learn a little bit more about the benefits of the activities you already do. And you're like, hey, that's so great, ok, keep doing that, and you're going to find that there are foundations of health and health habits maybe you didn't even know existed or you thought were too complicated or you didn't know how to implement. And I make it super simple. I take something profound and meaningful for your health and I make it simple so that you can do it each and every day to build yourself up. And the feedback that my readers are giving me they've already started the health challenges. They're already seeing big wins, huge gains. So I want you to get my book because I want you to achieve those health gains too, and I do it too. This was part of my health journey as well that using the concept of these small, doable but profound weekly challenges, to start to build moment. So you're going to find that you get great moment and it's a wonderful gift as well to give to a friend who's suffering, because the book matches wherever you are, whether you're, like I said, a health nut, or whether you're just starting out, it's going to match where you are and it's going to help take your health to the next level. You can go to and click in the Menu. It says book . Just click there, grab it off Amazon. Come join the , the . I'd love to see you there. I'd love to hear from you. If you have any questions, we're here to help. I know you're going to enjoy today's podcast. Dr. Jeff Harris is an amazing naturopath. He's been practicing for over 30 years. World's leading expert in neuraltherapy. It's phenomenal. I can't wait for you to hear it. You can go to ND as in naturopathic doctor. is his website and to check out more information about the conference, conference April 4th through 7th. Check it out and if you're listening to this and you can't make it to the conference or it's past April, don't worry, go check out their website anyway, because they ongoingly have workshops. But this conference is once a year, so you definitely want to jp in. You're going to be surrounded by amazing world healers, just like yourself, and I can't say enough good things about this. I'm very excited for you to hear today's interview. Thank you so much for being a listener and thank you so much for sharing this podcast with those you care about. If you have a practitioner in your life, share this interview. It is very meaningful. If you have someone in your life that has chronic pain or they have a health condition that they just can't overcome. Those like really difficult cases where it's like they've gone from doctor to doctor to doctor and they cannot get on the other side of it. They're going to want to know about this. So share this episode with them, and thank you for sharing this episode with those you care about, because together we are helping people to learn true health. Ashley James (0:07:29.639) Welcome to the . I'm your host, Ashley James. This is Episode 518. I am so excited for today's interview. I know today's interview is going to change lives. That's why I almost have butterflies. I'm so excited! Dr. Jeff Harris, I'm thrilled to have you on the show today. It's going to be amazing. Dr. Jeff Harris (0:07:55.381) Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Ashley James (0:07:57.317) Before we jp into you, I've got to share a quick story. I haven't talked a lot about this. I've talked a little bit about this in the last two years, but for the last two years, my husband has had chronic pain and I have had every holistic therapy I could get my hands on, he went through and he has had like this nonstop on again, off again, almost daily and sometimes daily neck aches like radiate up into the head and it's trigger points. And we have had him go through, if you can name a therapy, we had him try it. And everything helped a little bit and would shift a little bit, but it would always come back. And there was specific patterns to his chronic pain and the chronic pain was so bad. It was like migraines. He couldn't think. He often jokes, but please get me a guillotine. Like he doesn't want to die, but he doesn't want his head to be attached to his body. That's how much pain he was in. And we tried everything. I've been reaching out to everyone I knew in the holistic space for answers. And one of my naturopathic friends suggested that I reach out to you. And I can't tell you, you are worth your weight in gold because after almost two years, it'll be two years next month, my husband's chronic pain has stopped. It's not just for people with chronic pain. It's more than that. So if you're a listener and you're like, wow, I don't have chronic pain, so this doesn't apply to me. No, no, no. This therapy is saving lives, changing lives, just drastically improving the quality of people's lives. So I wanted to give this little testimonial to set the stage that I think that everyone should listen to this episode, that everyone should learn from you. And that everyone should know about this therapy that I feel like is not very well known because so many of the doctors and naturopaths and chiropractors and acupuncturists and rolfing people and everyone that my husband went to, no one suggested this. They didn't even know it existed and they really need to. I'm very excited to have you on the show. Welcome. Dr. Jeff Harris (0:10:01.285) Thank you. I'm really excited to have people know about this. Neural therapy has been around since the 1940s and it's been amazing. And I've wondered why doctors can't always figure it out. I'm happy to talk more about it. Ashley James (0:10:21.189) You're like one of the world's leading experts in this. And I want to know, how did you even find it? Because it's something that not many people know, but once you do learn it, it's like the tool you are so grateful for having in your tool belt. And everyone who's listening who's a practitioner, listen up because there's a conference coming up in April. I'd love for you to come do this conference and learn neural therapy. And for those who aren't practitioners, share this episode with your holistic practitioners. They're going to want to know that they can learn this and use it in, in, with their clients, with their patients. But how did you discover this? Dr. Jeff Harris (0:10:59.554) So the way I discovered it was I have a patient that I met down in Oregon. I was working with a doctor, Terska. And when I met her, she says she was from Seattle area and there was a doctor that she was going to see and she wanted me to come along and watch. And when I went, the doctor was and he started to inject the scars. And the first thing that came out of my mouth was that looks pretty easy. And he says, you should come to my workshops and learn how to do it. And so he had a workshop that was coming up in about two weeks. I went to the workshop, there was like 70 people and I couldn't get in the front row. And so whenever there was a treatment that was happening, I would walk up to the front and watch very closely because I had a patient, he wanted to see me on Monday morning. He had had diarrhea for two weeks and he was losing about, 20 pounds a week and it was skin and bone. And he'd been to the ER. He had been t, multiple other doctors and nothing had changed it. And, I told him that on Monday morning, I would know what to do with him, which I realized later that was kind of silly. It was like, I'm going to stop all that. And when he came in, I did some testing, actually muscle testing. And what I found was there was nothing wrong with his gut which was surprising. He was having gut issues. So what I did is I started to search around and tried to find where the problem was. I looked in his mouth and he had some pink stuff in this one tooth. And I tested that tooth and it related to the pain and diarrhea that he was having in his gut. And I did an injection into his gum and immediately all his gut pain went away. And I was surprised. And I was like, Oh, good. And he asked me a question. What did you just do to me? And I was a new doc. And I thought that, well, my career was over and I was going to get sued and everything was going to be go wrong. And so I explained in very detail what I just done. And he says, no, he says, not that. Why did all my pain just go away? And this little dark cloud that was raining on me over my head turns into sunshine. And I was like, oh, that's great. That means I need to do the other side of your tooth. And so he opened up his mouth and I treated the other side. And when we treat a tooth that has an infection, it only lasts between four hours and maybe two days. So I told him to go to the dentist. He needed to get that tooth removed. And he did. And all the gut pain continues to stay gone. He called me again the next Monday, pretty despondent and said that his diary was back and I had him come in and then I put some iodine on a Q -tip and then I put it down in the socket that was there and immediately all of the pain went away again and at that point it never came back. So that was my first introduction to neural therapy actually in practice. Ashley James (0:14:53.084) And how long ago was that? Dr. Jeff Harris (0:14:54.290) That was 1993. Ashley James (0:14:57.496) And since then you have been using this successfully in your practice. What are some of the most common things that people successfully have resolved with you using neural therapy? Dr. Jeff Harris (0:15:10.308) It seems like just about everything. Well, one of the things that's not for, is cancer or epilepsy. So to know that is an important thing, but I've treated all kinds of pain, all kinds of issues everywhere in the body that nobody else could even touch. And so often when somebody goes to see another doctor, they'll do treatments like your husband. Well, he'd seen it and there's a little bit better and all those things were important, but the final thing hadn't been found. And is it okay for me to say what we found on him? Ashley James (0:15:57.802) Oh, yes. He is given his permission that we can discuss his case. Dr. Jeff Harris (0:16:02.608) Okay. The most important thing on his body when I did my testing was a scar that was on his left side that he got when was nine years old. And when I find that it's like to me, it's Eureka. Because that's the place that if we treat that, then his body has the ability to have to get better. Ashley James (0:16:33.690) The chronic pain started right after his dad passed away and he had a dental procedure within the same 24 hours as two years ago. And then the chronic pain started. And it's like someone wouldn't think that's related to a scar that he's had since he's nine. Right. But it was interesting to see that there was a lot of similarities between the scar over his spleen and when he had the chronic pain from about and the fact that the tooth they worked on was also related to the spleen. So everything was kind of pointing to that scar, but you'd have to know what you're looking for. Dr. Jeff Harris (0:17:16.514) And it's on the surface of the body, right? I mean, to me, since I've done it for all these years, 33 years, essentially, and maybe 30, if I can get 31, get my math right here. The scars are so often missed because we don't usually think that they're a problem. And scars can cause all kinds of problems in the body. I mean, from the head and neck pain could cause a problem to the spleen tooth that he was having. And then also relating to the headaches, which we found after I did the treatment and that his headaches got worse again, right? Like soon as the Procaine kind of wore off. Ashley James (0:18:02.404) Yes, it was very interesting that his headaches went to daily and got worse. But right when you treated the scar with the little needle that you inject the fluid into the scar. I watched as his whole demeter relaxed and he became very happy, very relaxed. It was a huge shift. And then later that day, his headaches proceeded to get worse for a week until we saw you again. But that informed us that we were on the right path, even though it was negative change, it was actually like it's not nothing, right? We were tapping into something in his body, something in his body was saying, you're on the right track. And we hadn't had that result from any other type of therapy. And so when we came back to you, that's when we were very excited for the next phase so that we could turn off the chronic pain. Dr. Jeff Harris (0:19:03.304) So what I saw when he had the treatment is it looked like he went back to nine years old when the injury happened. And to me, he looked like that cute little boy again and he got that memory. So the headache came back because there was more that needed to be done. And I remember telling you ahead of time that we didn't know how it was going to affect the headaches, but it was going to help a whole system. And I knew there was another place that needed to be treated. And because the testing had showed that, but it's not a good idea to do both of those things at the same time. So when he came back, I treated the place in his neck and then that made the rest of the change. I don't know his status now. That was just a couple of days ago. Has he had headaches since then? Ashley James (0:20:00.104) Not had any. It’s been zero. Dr. Jeff Harris (0:20:03.685) No headaches? Ashley James (0:20:04.561) No headaches. Zero, like not even a little inkling. It's been absolutely zero. Too soon to tell. It's only been a few days, but he normally has one every two days or every three days. So he hasn't had any, which has been wonderful. He's been sleeping deeper. Like a third party observer, I can see that he is out of fight or flight, that he is in that rest and digest state. Cause he's wanting to go to bed at night as opposed to being kind of jacked up at night. His body is wanting to go to sleep on time and he's sleeping completely soundly through the night. I have not in the last few nights, he's not gotten up, like his body is in healing mode and it is so cool to see what you do with neural therapy and to see it on someone who I know very intimately, to see how brilliantly it works in supporting the body's ability to heal itself. Dr. Jeff Harris (0:21:19.357) Yes, it gets the body out of its own way. So the scar was an interference field. And in neural therapy, that's kind of one of the main things we look for. And an interference field can come from a scar. It could come from a trauma that's physical or emotional and can even be psycho-spiritual kind of traumas that have to be dealt with. And by doing an injection of local anesthetic or Procaine into the area. So we can do injections over an organ, like the liver, the spleen, large intestine, lungs. And then the place that I did in his neck is, is called a ganglion. And we have sympathetic ganglion which go along our spine that are part of our fight or fight network. And what they do is they get stuck. They get stuck in the healing process and by giving an injection of Procaine into the area, it helps to reset it by adding... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/30430883

517 Leap In Regenerative Science Has Mastered Age Reversal & Tissue Regeneration Using All Natural Photobiomodulation, David Schmidt 03/05/2024

517 Leap In Regenerative Science Has Mastered Age Reversal & Tissue Regeneration Using All Natural Photobiomodulation, David Schmidt To book a free session with me to discuss trying this technology, visit https://www.learntruehealth.com and click Work With Ashley James in the menu! Check out my new book! 517: Stem Cell Stimulation Through Photobiomodulation Creates Cellular Age Reversal Can light transform your health and wellness? Join me, Ashley James, as I sit down with the ingenious David Schmidt, the mastermind behind LifeWave's phototherapy patches, on this episode of the Learn True Health podcast. David shares his remarkable journey from childhood aspirations to creating groundbreaking non-invasive wearable technology that has revolutionized health care. Discover how these patches, inspired by divine guidance, have helped countless individuals, including my clients, with issues ranging from insomnia and depression to physical pain and anxiety. Highlights: Powerful Healing With Phototherapy Patches Technology and Faith Innovative Stem Cell Activation Technology Stem Cell Therapy and Nutrient Supplements Product Testing and Third-Party Studies Revolutionary Light Therapy for Age Reversal Youthful Aging and Patch Technology Patch Protocol and Potential Benefits Phototherapy Patch Benefits and Usage Patches for Travel and Wellness Natural Solutions for Health and Wellness LifeWave's Vision for Global Impact Empowering Health Through Natural Solutions Intro: Hello True Health Seeker and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James, and I am beyond excited for you to listen to this episode with David Schmidt, the creator of the phototherapy patches that I've been using for over a year with many of my clients having phenomenal results. I'm not going to take up too much of your time right now before we jump into this thrilling episode, but I wanted to give you a few pieces of information that are key. One go to and in the menu there click on and the very first appointment type is a free chat with me, just says phototherapy discovery session. Go ahead and sign up for that. If you are interested in any way in learning more, having a talk with me about the phototherapy patches, in trying them for yourself, there's a money back guarantee, so there's no risk and there's no negative side effects. It's not a drug. We're getting really amazing results. So if you have something nagging in your life, something in your health that you're not happy with and it can be emotional issues, it can be physical issues. I've helped people using the flow therapy patches. I've seen with my clients, they overcome things like insomnia, depression, anxiety, exhaustion. I myself have tremendous energy and I've noticed that sleep is better, energy is better throughout the day, digestion improves. There's so many things that improve so many levels of health. So pick something you're not happy with. Let's have a discovery session where we chat about it, and I'll be very straight up. If I don't think that phototherapy is right for you, we can just talk about what it is, what your health goals are, what you're frustrated in terms of your health emotional or physical or otherwise and what you want to overcome, what you want to get, what you want to improve in terms of your happiness and your health and your life, and if it's on phototherapy, I will point you in the direction of other resources. I love, love, love talking to you guys, so jump in, have a session with me and let's see how I can help you. I have a feeling, though, most of the time, most of the people that I talk to, phototherapy has worked when I suggest it. I have over 160 clients now using phototherapy, successfully using this. What were the whole interview today? It's about phototherapy, and when you hear phototherapy, when I heard it, I thought is it a bunch of like lights. because you think photo light it's a no, it's not. You're not getting in a giant machine. It's actually a really easy wearable technology. It's so simple that it's kind of wild how powerful it is. It's very simple, it's very powerful and it's affordable, which is exciting, one example, there is one of the phototherapy patches and this is all proven. They've done studies and proved it that it increases glutathione production. It asks the body to increase glutathione production by 300% in the first 24 hours and for some people it goes even beyond that after 24 hours. In comparison, if you were to take an oral glutathione, you raise your levels by about 10%. It's hard to absorb exogenous glutathione orally. Good oral glutathione is in the range of $50 to $100 per month; you're only raising it by about 10%. If you were to go to get an IV, that's between $100 and $200. And that doesn't last very long. That's only lasting a few hours. Glutathione doesn't last for days. It's a very short half-life in the body and that is very expensive, if you think about it- the oral glutathione, the injections. The phototherapy patch you're between $1 and $2 a day, basically for increasing it by 300%. So it's actually the cheapest way to support the body in terms of raising glutathione levels. And that's just one of several patches that they have that ask the body to perform specific functions more. So we're helping the body come back into balance. We've got great results around pain, around stimulating healthy bone healing. I've had several clients with broken bones that healed incredibly faster and got them out of pain much faster. That's really exciting. I do have a quick story In our Facebook group, you can't see it, you can't find it on Facebook. I have to send you a unique, private link. So, if you want to, when we have our call together, I will give you that link and the link expires. So I can't even share this link publicly because it's a unique link that invites one person into this group. That's a private, hidden Facebook group of practitioners and their clients and all of the people in this group that are using the phototherapy patches in a specific way. We use them with an understanding that the body has meridians, like traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and so we place them on specific points of the body and we get even better results because there's that synergy of working with the energy system of the body and the nervous system of the body. We're working with it in that way. In that group. If you type in in the search function, if you type in thyroid, you could spend over half an hour scrolling and reading testimonial after testimonial of people in that group. Mostly women are sharing about their thyroid who had hypothyroid but after using the phototherapy patches to support their body's ability to heal itself, no longer have hypothyroid, so much so, in less than two months of doing the protocol, and these are several, several testimonials, all said the same thing, went back to their doctor, and their doctor did testing, and their doctor took them off of their thyroid meds. They no longer have hypothyroid and it's just two types of patches. Again, I'm not making medical claims. I'm not saying we cure or treat anything. We're supporting the body's ability to heal itself. And then people say, hey, wow, my health is getting better. We're noticing my health improving in this way. And my doctor did blood tests. My doctor said I don't need this medicine anymore. And that's my goal. My goal is to get people so healthy. Their doctors take them off meds and because they're so healthy, they're not leaning on those crutches anymore. They don't need to, they're so healthy. Well, this happened with one of my clients. I told her she didn't want to have hypothyroid anymore, she didn't want to be on meds anymore, and I said, ok, well, here's what other people have said they've done to support their thyroid in optimal function. And she texted me just very casually. I was like jumping up and down, screaming. I was so excited. She texted me like within less than two months into doing this protocol, she goes. I went back to my naturopath, like you said, and I got my blood work and she took me off of all my thyroid meds because my thyroid now is performing completely normal. How exciting is that? It's wild, because phototherapy, as you will discover in this interview, it's not molecular medicine, it's just asking the body to come back into balance. I have many, many other examples of how this has helped, specifically to help people get back into balance, and that is why I'm doing this interview, because my goal when I started this podcast. I started it eight years ago with the intention that I would reach those who are sick of suffering, who cry themselves to sleep because the doctor that they see have given up on them, or have just have one drug after another or have side effect after side effect and they're sick of being sick and they're tired of being tired and they want to help their body heal and come back into optimal health, but they don't know how, and that's why I started this podcast to find the answers for you. I don't believe there's like a magic bullet out there. I don't believe there's a magic pill. I think that health is multifaceted. I believe we can't out-exercise a bad diet. you can't, you can't. There's no shortcuts and there are tools that we don't even know about, that you don't even know about, that you're about to learn about today. There are tools out there that will supercharge our healing as we work on supporting our body's ability to heal itself. So that's why I'm really excited for you to hear this today. It's kind of crazy. You've got to open up your mind. So I was resistant at first and I talk about this in the interview I did just over a year ago about the phototherapy patches, I was skeptical then I went, wait a second I got to be a bit more open-minded and so I tried it and I had an immediate, immediate result, and I thought this is too cool. This is too cool, so I'm very excited to introduce you today to the creator, the inventor, of , and I hope you enjoy today's interview and please share it with your friends and family. I'd love to hear from you also, after this interview, come , the . I'd love to hear what you thought about it, your questions, what you learned from it. I'm all for starting a discussion about this and, if you are super skeptical, I invite you to have conversations about it. I appreciate skepticism because I think we need to, especially in this day and age where we're being told what's safe and effective is now no longer safe and effective, that we shouldn't just blindly trust anyone. So definitely come in with your skepticism, but also remember to bring your open mind, and I love that this company does have a money-back guarantee. They stand behind their product, because it is kind of out there when you think about it, but when you look into the results they get and the science behind it, it's phenomenal. So enjoy today's interview and remember, go to and click in the menu Sign up for a free phototherapy discovery session with me, because I'd love to help you try these and just see what happens. Ashley James (0:11:15.701) Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is episode 517. I am beyond excited to have David Schmidt on our interview today. I'm a fangirl, so I'm kind of blushing a bit here just having you on the show. My husband and I are big, big fans of you and of the technology that you've created. I've, pretty much for the last almost year and a half, have talked about you to someone every single day. Our eight-year-old son, actually, he gravitated towards this technology before I was super interested. I was kind of like at first, when we first heard about it, I was like, hmm, this sounds a little like it's so new, it's such a new concept. I know it's not new technology it's been around for over 20 years but it was new to me and new to a lot of people that I introduced it to, and my son, who's like a science geek. He immediately understood it. He understood the technology before I did. We watched some webinars, watched some of your science webinars, and he was like I want this now. I want to put it on me and every week. At least once a week he'll say can you put this patch on me, can I get this patch? And last night he was asking me for a patch. And it's so cute that an eight-year-old totally gets it. And he's had several amazing experiences with your phototherapy technology where he had a really bad sore stomach. He was really nauseous. We put some patches on his tummy and it immediately relieved the nausea and he wouldn't let me take him off him. He's like no, this is making me feel better, don't take him off. He's not generally like a sick child, but he has allergies and it leads to asthma. And we're really good about diet, like we're really clean and eating and we were really health focused. Obviously I'm like a big health nut doing this podcast. After he started using the patches a few times a week, after a few months I noticed that he wasn't using his inhaler. He didn't need it, he wasn't having asthma and his allergies were going away and we've seen a significant reduction in his allergies and that coincides right when the time he started using the phototherapy technology. So just really interesting on that end. We've used it in acute situations in our family, like first aid situations where it immediately stops the pain, immediately stops the swelling. My husband, by the way, says thank you. My husband, Duffy, says thank you so much. I was on the phone with him earlier. He goes tell David I say thank you. His favorite phototherapy patches, alavita. He wears it nightly on his forehead. It gives him such great sleep, such deep sleep, and gives him dreams. And I've talked about this on the show before, he was for 50 years had no dreams. He couldn't remember his dreams. They weren't colorful, he didn't have anything. And then there was one time we took a medicinal mushroom not psychedelic, like a medicinal over-the-counter mushroom tincture and he had colorful dreams. He's like, oh my gosh, it's never happened to me before. But since he's been using the patch on his forehead at night, it gives him such deep sleep and he wakes up remembering these amazingly vivid dreams and he just loves it. What the patches gave to me is I got the energy that I had as a child back. I feel like I'm seven again in terms of my level of endurance and energy throughout the day. So I never thought I'd get that back and I'm so grateful. So thank you, David, for everything that you've created in the last 20 plus years and what you continue to do, and I'm a huge fan and I can't wait for the listeners to dive in and learn more about your technology. So welcome to the show. David Schmidt (0:15:05.846) Oh, Ashley, thank you. It's a pleasure to be here and thank you for that background information. I will warn you that it sounds like you have an inventor on your hands. So because there's some similarities there, I think from my past, from when I was eight years old. So I would encourage you to encourage him to explore that side of inventing or engineering. So that could be very, very interesting for you and your husband. Ashley James (0:15:37.718) You have no idea how happy my son, I bet as he's listening right now, he's got a smile from ear to ear, in the future when he's listening, because he identifies as an inventor. And he wants to be a physicist, he's into quantum mechanics, he wants to be a pilot, he just wants to do so many things, but he loves science. And the way his brain works, it just surprises me. So thank you for saying that. I really appreciate it. David Schmidt (0:16:06.136) Well, you never know where life is going to take you. When I was about eight or nine years old, I knew I wanted to be an inventor, but I didn't know how that was really going to manifest. And fortunately, I've been very blessed with divine guidance leading a life of prayer. And from my perspective, God has played the top role in my life, guiding me and directing me to lead me to where I am today. On these journeys of faith, you end up in places that you don't expect to be, but it's incredibly rewarding. And so part of what goes with the path of being an inventor is allowing yourself to be subject to the will of God, to put the will of God first, and then act in a way that's going to benefit the greater good. So if you have those ideals in mind, you'll end up in places in life that you would least expect, and you find that the journey is exciting and unbelievably rewarding, and that's really been my experience. Ashley James (0:17:27.824) I love that you started the conversation this way. When you dive into what David's created, you see that you are David, this amazing inventor and scientist. And to have someone who has such a strong science background and has invented this amazing technology say that first and foremost, you make sure that you're in alignment with what you feel God's vision is for your inspiration and for the way you touch people's lives. And if you follow that level of ethics, we make sure that we do no harm. We make sure that we are leaving a positive impact globally. And if everyone align their hearts and their actions with God's will, what an amazing world this would be. So thank you for starting the conversation off like that. I have a bunch of really cool questions from my clients and from my fellow teammates that are also practitioners that I've introduced to you and to this technology. And I'm going to save that for the second hour. The first hour, I really want to get into understanding what is this thing we're talking about? Because I'm sure a lot of listeners who don't know are like, what's this? Tell me finally, what is this thing? What I want to do is reference . That's when I had Trina Hammack on the show, actually a year ago. I had been using the patches from about November to February personally and having amazing results. And then I had Trina on last February and shared some of my results. And since last February, so it's been a year, outstanding results. I have over 160 clients having like life-changing, remarkable experiences, pain gone, bones healed themselves twice as fast, people's tremors going away, migraines going away, symptoms of a brain tumor going away, just like hot flashes immediately, instantaneously going away, insomnia going away. Anxiety, depression, just on an emotional level we see a shift, on physical levels we see a shift. It's been remarkable, the stories. I had one woman she had tons of mystery symptoms and all of them, all of them went away. And she was just like reeling, like she couldn't believe it. She'd been from so many different doctors and they all didn't know what was wrong with her. And after she started working with me using this technology, everything went back to what it was supposed to. So we've just had so many remarkable experiences. . And then if listeners want to jump in and purchase them, I want you guys to reach out to me because I work as a practitioner with these and I want to make sure that I help you purchase them and use them correctly. So you can go to and click and book that free session with me so we can talk together. And then if you want to just jump in and check them out, go to . That's . So David, take us back just over 20 years ago where it all began, where creating this phototherapy wearable technology all began. David Schmidt (0:20:48.596) Actually, if it's okay with you, let's go back maybe 40 years. So I just turned 60, so this would be when I'm in my 20s. And I've been to college and gone for a degree in computer science and management information systems. I took a year to go out and work and I worked for a company... /episode/index/show/learntruehealth/id/30247013

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