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- 0:03This is Your Pain Game podcast where we talk about the game of living in
- 0:07and with chronic pain and trauma, getting to the heart of how to heal.
- 0:12I am your host, Lindsay Soprano. On the show, I plan
- 0:18on discussing with doctors, chronic pain patients, ballistic practitioners, loved ones,
- 0:23and anybody that is interested in having their voice heard in the chronic pain and
- 0:27trauma world that we live in. So I have talked just a couple of
- 0:40times here on this show about my childhood, right, what didn't you say?
- 0:44But I haven't really dived into the topic of the adults that were in
- 0:48my life. I mean, here and there. I've touched on my parents
- 0:50and so on and so forth, but I haven't really talked about all the
- 0:53wonderful people in the village. That I took a village to raise me,
- 0:57all right, and I was an only child, you know, I needed
- 1:00that I was. I was a lot, and I don't think we all
- 1:03understood why I was a lot. And you know, one of the things
- 1:07that I'm dealing with right now, as in forty five years old, is
- 1:11that the way I was raised was kind of like half out of loving kindness
- 1:14and the other half was kind of a place of complete avoidance and almost not
- 1:19being educated about the future of my health and my longevity. And I say
- 1:23avoidance and like almost a lack of education. It isn't to slam my parents
- 1:27in any way, shape or form, but almost as this whole like lack
- 1:32of knowledge about what the signs are of these future health issues that we're talking
- 1:36about, chronic pain and immune system breakdown, and a lot of it can
- 1:40stem from childhood trauma, right, And so part of my experience as a
- 1:45little girl was not feeling safe to talk about the things that happened to me,
- 1:49things that were happening to me, and things that were going on within
- 1:53my body. And as we've talked about a lot on the stow, I
- 1:56was, you know, I has been in an insomnia accidents. I was
- 1:59nine years old to do math minus forty five and I still am to this
- 2:01day. I'm on two hours today, so I'm really sparking it up.
- 2:06But I never felt like I had a safe place to share and be honest
- 2:10and be taught and be guided. And it took me until my early forties
- 2:15here to start to open up to a different kind of relationships with the adults
- 2:20in my life so that I could be my authentic self, where my authenticity
- 2:24would continue to be my strength instead of making it feel like it was my
- 2:28weakness. And that was a big problem for me, as I always felt
- 2:31like I was not good enough, and I had a dienormous amount of anxiety
- 2:36and depression and insomnias, which also part of that was because I had sexual
- 2:40abuse issues that started when I was young and into college, and physical abuse
- 2:45which of course leads to rebellion and from mascuity and drugs and alcohol and all
- 2:47that fun stuff that we love so much. You know, do I blame
- 2:51it on my parents? Not really? Do I resentment about a little bit
- 2:53of that. Yeah, I do. And so, like I said,
- 2:58I instead I bottled up all of that and I acted out. And so
- 3:00now I'm here kind of a little peeved about the fact that I had these
- 3:04gatekeepers of these adults in my life, and my health and my safety should
- 3:08have been number one, and they weren't doing the work that they needed to
- 3:13to find out if these kinds of symptoms that my child is having could cause
- 3:16things like crest cancer, could cause things like chronic pain and insomnia and all
- 3:22these crazy immune system things that are going on with me because now I'm sick.
- 3:25I'm really fucking sick. So let's talk about it. So, without
- 3:30further ado, I'd like to introduce to you my guest today, doctor David
- 3:34Bilstrom. Hey you nice. I am so happy that you're here. We're
- 3:39going to talk about a little bit of all that we talked about up there.
- 3:42But man, is he going to come at it at an angle especially
- 3:45as women then I need you to pay attention to But as women, Wow,
- 3:49We're going to talk a little bit about why we're more affected and how
- 3:53these ac those adverse childhood events inform chronic illness and autoimmune disease, and to
- 4:00talk about how that childhood trauma and stresses like calumus. Guys, right,
- 4:02we gotta fix it. We gotta fix it. So Doctor David Bilstrom,
- 4:06MD is an autoimmune medicine specialist. He's quadruple board certified, I mean,
- 4:12come on, man, in anti aging and rejectative medicine, integrative medicine,
- 4:16physical medicine and rehabilitation, and medical acupuncture. He is the director of the
- 4:21International Autoimmune Institute and the being A Memorial Center for Functional medicine and the author
- 4:28of the book The Nurse Practitioner's Guide to Autoimmune Medicine. Taking a breath because
- 4:33there's more. That's how awesome he is. He works closely with his wife,
- 4:36Jody, who is a licensed clinical social worker an expert in how adverse
- 4:41childhood disease drives chronic disease. Together they help thousands of people a year Reverse
- 4:46Reverse, Reverse guys autoimmune and chronic diseases and on emission to change the way
- 4:51autoimmune disease is treated worldwide. And I would say viewed as well. So
- 4:57I'm going to roll out the red carpet free right now, emboid. You
- 5:00deserve that. Well, I haven't said anything yet, so I got to
- 5:03earn those those strifes. Oh man, Well, I've I've spoken to you,
- 5:08and I've listened to a lot of the things that you do, and
- 5:10I've been following you and you're pretty amazing, you and your wife, and
- 5:13i'd like to start today talking to you about how you started getting it.
- 5:17How did you get into being an autoimmune rock start? Because it had start
- 5:21somewhere right, and let's take it from there. It did so. Actually,
- 5:26my original area, especially as a rehabilitation doctor was a spinal cord injury
- 5:30rehabilitation, so everybody was paralyzing the neck down, waist down and had very
- 5:35unique and challenging health issues. Whether it was paining, bow bladder, you
- 5:42name it. It was challenging and to the point where the rehab doctors would
- 5:46end up becoming the primary care docs because just a simple over the counter supplement
- 5:50that you know, most people wouldn't think twice a while taking, like for
- 5:53science congestion, could actually kill that population. So you'd had medicines the side
- 5:59effects for so problematic. It just gets their speesticity or something else under control,
- 6:03and then the side effects would kick in. You couldn't use it.
- 6:05The change and I the med and you could easily run through your entire options
- 6:11of medicines, and they still have all these issues. It's always like,
- 6:14jeez, you know, it wouldn't be lovely. There's something out there that
- 6:15could help these folks, and wouldn't it be lovely with no side effects?
- 6:19And that's why I've found acupuncture and end up training at us L A thirty
- 6:25years ago and I came back and with eleven rehab partners in a rehab hospital
- 6:30more than two hundred rehab hospital. We were the last place and even got
- 6:32sent to. But if we couldn't help them, we had no place to
- 6:35send them. So when I came back, my partners are all like,
- 6:39all right, we have another option. It worked so unbelievably well for pretty
- 6:43much everything you know. I'm like, holy cow, what else don't I
- 6:46know that I never learned in my traditional training. And sure enough, there
- 6:50is a whole bunch of stuff that is out there scientifically that we now know
- 6:55that drives chronic disease, also's reverse chronic disease. So I'm on about a
- 7:00thirty year mission to change the way chronic disease is prevented and reverse. Now,
- 7:04in my own personal life, my son at a very young age got
- 7:08terrible asthma, terrible allergies. And there's no kid that I couldn't make asthma
- 7:13go away with a few accimental treatment. So I was like totally optimistic,
- 7:15Okay, this could be beast Okay. So it was asthma went away just
- 7:18like I expected that. All that allergy stuff was just so stubborn, and
- 7:23he was so miserable because all three year old eyes were like swollen shut.
- 7:27All this kind of stuff, and nobody could help. When we tried everything,
- 7:30even all the integrated medicine stuff, you know, urgal medicine, homeopathy,
- 7:35you know, all the traditional and non traditional interventions, enough it would
- 7:39help, and I go with Jesus, I'm going to have to figure this
- 7:41out myself. And sure enough, this is where I found functional medicine,
- 7:45which is basically asking the question to why do you have your heal health issue?
- 7:48You know, not what medicine kind of put it on his advantage for
- 7:51a symptom or two, but why do you get this thing? And he
- 7:56got better and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is like spectacular.
- 8:00And then several years later I was seeing more and more people with autommune disease,
- 8:05but also chronic disease of course that other people weren't able to help these
- 8:07folks with. They went to doc to doc to doc to doc and couldn't
- 8:11find any relief, couldn't even find diagnoses. And then I read this really
- 8:15sad story in the New York Times. The author herself basically couldn't work anymore.
- 8:20She was so sick and have been searching from doctor doctor doct for years
- 8:24and finally got diagnosed with showgrins. The automune disease it basically attacks like everything
- 8:28in the body. And so she finally got her diagnosis, but all she
- 8:33was offered with medications that would kind of try to take care of a few
- 8:35symptoms, because it didn't take care of why she had the showgrins, the
- 8:39why I kept pushing her the wrong way. She kept getting sicker and sicker
- 8:41even after she had a diagnosis. And I'm like, well, you know,
- 8:46in my practice, we've been reversing and preventing automune disease for a long
- 8:48time now. I've heard that story a thousand times. Oh my gosh,
- 8:52it's so sad that people still don't know that there's other options and if we're
- 8:56ever gonna change this, especially because so many and have automune disease nowadays,
- 9:01and somebody kids of course too, somebody's got to be out there and somebody's
- 9:03got to try to change the way automune disease is prevented and treated worldwide,
- 9:09including what we'd love to have as somebody in every community knows how to do
- 9:11this, so every community knows, well, we know where this stuff comes
- 9:15from, we know that we can reverse this stuff and they're not just offered
- 9:18medication options, and then they just kind of keep getting worse over time.
- 9:22It was just too sad and something had to be done. Yeah, and
- 9:26thank you for asking the why, because I think that the why behind a
- 9:31lot of everything is like, it's not, well, these are your symptoms,
- 9:35but why are you having these? What happened to you? What have
- 9:37you been through? And I know from my personal experience and also from talking
- 9:43to a million people now for this show as well, is especially from a
- 9:46women's perspective, we're not asked why. There are some assumptions that were dramatic
- 9:52and we're emotional and we've got all of these things, and we're like,
- 9:54yeah, we've got a lot of stuff going on. Why is it that
- 9:58women are more are affected in autoimmune disorders and diseases than men? Why is
- 10:05that? Because that makes me really really bummed out for us we had enough
- 10:09sick going on, man. That is absolutely right, And there's kind of
- 10:15two major reasons. Is One is a really common hormone imbalance called estrogen dominance,
- 10:20but I call it the most dangerous disease for women because estrogen and progesteron
- 10:26are two really important hormones individually, and we need each of them. Men
- 10:30have it, women have it, just different amounts. And so like estrogen,
- 10:33for example, keeps away heart attacks, keeps away strokes, it's great
- 10:37for the eyes. So estrogen keeps away cataracts, mechanic degeneration, it keeps
- 10:41alasta gross, it keeps away fine lines, wrinkles in your skin, your
- 10:43gout, knees. Estrogen all this wonderful stuff. But when you have too
- 10:46much estrogen compared to progesterone, oh my gosh, there's that estrogen dominance absolute
- 10:52drive the female body crazy. So it drives all the hormonal menstal things that
- 10:56you kind of reference before. So it drives that flows that cramps, ms
- 11:00a, variances, pressus fibers and demetriosis, all these kind of things.
- 11:03But also because estrogen revs and progesterone calms, it also drives excessive worry,
- 11:09anxiety, panic attacks, and insideia can't sleep. And so you hear that
- 11:15kind of list like, holy cow, is that super common right now?
- 11:18Unfortunately, the typical way of dealing with this a lot of it is,
- 11:22well you hear things like, well, you just had the most horrific mestro
- 11:26flow. You're fifteen years old, you're in your your desk at school and
- 11:31you have to walk out with your pants all you know, bloody. Well
- 11:33that's just part, that's just being a woman, you know, get over
- 11:37it. I got to the most horrific cramps ever. Oh my gosh,
- 11:39I'm double up. I'm miss school three days a row. Most just parting
- 11:41a woman, you just gotta do. And it's like that, that is
- 11:43so sad right there. But then also if if if something was done like
- 11:48oh, we're gonna put it on bird control pills for these terrible flows and
- 11:50crams, well the estrogen donals or control pills or estrogen basage and xcestogenoms worse.
- 11:58And so you look at that kind of stuff you go, well,
- 12:00that's that's bad enough. But also it is a huge disruptor of the immune
- 12:03system. And when you look at the immune system, it's a great example
- 12:07of how the body loves balanced, where you don't want to be too high,
- 12:09too low. There's always kind of a sweet spot right in the middle
- 12:13of everything like blood pressure, blood sugar. But we lose that set point
- 12:16in the middle of immune system. You actually move away from that set point
- 12:18in the middle, both up and down at the same time. So the
- 12:22up overactive immune system things are autoimmune disease where the immune system becomes confused and
- 12:26actually starts attacking our own body parts. We're basically self destructing, which is
- 12:31right, right, I'm never going to be a self destruct typically. Oh
- 12:35yeah, that's that's a big no no. Right, Hey guys, what
- 12:39do you think you guys want to go self destruct today? A little self
- 12:45destruction is okay, you know, just destructing. That's not good. Don't
- 12:50have eight glasses of wine, guys, like one or two. Find that
- 12:56sweet spot and stick it there. And then you also have of the more
- 13:00subtle things like allergies asthma and x amount or also these upregulated ones, but
- 13:03also that the underactive immune system things are infections including cold flus, recurrent infections,
- 13:11but also these infections that drive chronic disease, that drive you don't know
- 13:16you've got an infection, But we now know that every chronic disease has its
- 13:20infection component like epstein barr virus and some other ones, but also cancer risk.
- 13:24And so you get women with the estrogendominus before menopause. Right, So
- 13:31that's one reason why we think eighty percent of people that get automune disease or
- 13:33women is estrogendominous, but also it is a humongo driver or cancer. Where
- 13:39you go, Okay, So if you've got estrogendosical for menopause, you have
- 13:43a five point four times greater risk of getting breast cancer before menopause five point
- 13:46four times, oh my gosh, and a ten times greater risk a malignant
- 13:52cancer is your entire lifetime the ones that try. And so if you've got
- 13:58a woe with all this hormonal menstrual stuff, all this kind of read with
- 14:01al calm stuff, you it's bad enough as it is, but you know
- 14:03where they're going. And this is why it's so important to educate women that
- 14:07well, we know what does this, but we also know how to fix
- 14:11it because you don't need automny disease anymore, the cancers and all this stuff.
- 14:16And so this is when you look at now we know that autommune disease
- 14:18processes are part of so many chronic diseases that we didn't think they were part
- 14:22of before, like heart attacks, stroked dementia, Alzheimer's, outs to your
- 14:28porosis too. If you look at the top ten room reasons why women die
- 14:31probably aster deenominans, and this immune system disruption is probably part of about eighty
- 14:35eight percent of all female deaths the top ten causes. Holy crap. And
- 14:43then the second part, if that wasn't bad enough, Why women get most
- 14:46to automune disease is epigenetics, the things that turn on and turned off genes
- 14:52in our bodies. So we used to think that our DNA that tells ourselves
- 14:56what to do, every self as DNA was hardwired. Whatever we we get
- 15:01from parent, grandparents, you know, hopefully we get more good than bad.
- 15:03We're kind of stuck with it. But we actually know now that it's
- 15:05not what genes you have, is actually which ones get turned on and turned
- 15:09off at the genetics the things that influence gene expression. Now, there's ever
- 15:13so many genes that are bad that will try to make us feel sick if
- 15:18they're turn on. There's ever so many good genes that will make us feel
- 15:20healthy when they're turned on. Well, if you get flipped the wrong way,
- 15:24you start getting all these sealth issues. And this is why one reason
- 15:28why it's so easy you start getting health issues. They get not just one,
- 15:31but now I got a second, and a third and a fourth and
- 15:33it's this, and it's that, and oh, my goodness, what's going
- 15:35on because these cells are being told the wrong information by the genes that get
- 15:39and flipped the wrong way. Now, as it turns out, there are
- 15:43so many bad genes on the X chromosome, and women have two X chromosomes.
- 15:46Guys get one X one Y, and the X chromosomes two xes are
- 15:50in every cell in the woman's body. There are so many bad genes on
- 15:54the X chromosome that for women to be otimly healthy, she has to shut
- 15:58down at least eighty five percent of all the genes on the second next chromosome
- 16:03to be absolutely happy, almost totally shut down an entire chromosome in every cellar
- 16:07body to be obsolutely healthy. I am mind boggled right now. Now,
- 16:14even though super challenging, the body's super smart. It knows how to fix
- 16:18this stuff and it knows how to stay healthy. But it is so challenging
- 16:21for women to be healthy because of this. And that's one reason why,
- 16:23you know, so many women get automune disease, and so many women get
- 16:26cancer, so many women get just you know, chronic disease. In general,
- 16:30it is so challenging to be healthy as a woman. It is,
- 16:33and you couple that with trauma and stress, like, dear lord, it's
- 16:37like it's just a hot sesspool the wonder we get cranky a little bit now
- 16:41and again. You know, guys, I'm and you know how I am
- 16:45on the show like I don't make fun of this or making light I have
- 16:48been through so much so as you're talking, my brain is going a million
- 16:51miles an hour. I've always had health issues. I'm like going back through
- 16:55all of this. Every from the very beginning of time. I've had health
- 16:59issues of asthma. I still have asthma. You know, you start there
- 17:03and then you start working it through where I started my period when I was
- 17:06nine, so I was really early there. That's when a lot of my
- 17:08anxiety, insomnia problems started to happen. And there was sexual assault that came
- 17:12in shortly thereafter us. There was a little bit of that going on,
- 17:15and then it went into I had I'm polycystic, right, so, and
- 17:19I've had multiple surgeries on my ovaries, multiple surgeries on my uterus, I've
- 17:22had my appendix taken out, and then you add infertility. I had infertility
- 17:26treatment with my ex husband that did not work, but also all of that
- 17:30stuff. Then you add all of the trauma from being physically abused. Now
- 17:34we're adding up that, and now we've got CRPS. Why do we have
- 17:37CRPS? Do you think like light it all up on top of the fact
- 17:44that I couldn't get pregnant. I tried, and I tried, and I
- 17:47tried, and you know, it's just it was one thing after another,
- 17:49and I'm thinking about all these health issues and how they could have been prevented,
- 17:56and so I love that you talked about prevention, but you also your
- 18:00message is about reversing, because those are two incredibly powerful places to sit depending
- 18:06upon how old you are and where you are in your life with whatever disease
- 18:08you have currently, whatever autoimmune situation that you're in versus. You know,
- 18:14we're not quite there yet, but there are things that you mentioned about insomnia
- 18:18and the periods and all these things that are all telltale signs that something is
- 18:22going to lead her down the road. And when she's forty five years old,
- 18:25she's in a wheelchair, Like it's unbelievable to me. I'm I'm sad,
- 18:30but I'm also hopeful because that's what you give me is hope. This
- 18:33is why I want to educate the generations in their thirties, forties, fifties,
- 18:37and sixties, because you know, you've had this for solt people have
- 18:41this for so long. It's kind of like, well, yeah, I'm
- 18:41stuck. You know one of my I got no options. I tried medicines
- 18:45already and they didn't do well. No, no, you know, because
- 18:48we know what drives the stuff, we're always in a good position actually to
- 18:49make things a lot better. And if everything works really good, you know,
- 18:52profound reversal while people get but also then we can now pass it forward
- 18:57to you, even younger generations who are experiencing the hormonal mastural stuff right then
- 19:04and there or the anxiety bank attacks and go listen, you know your future
- 19:08can be different than the generations before you, because you know we're going to
- 19:11educate you that you don't have to just sit there and be told either that
- 19:15well that's just part of being a woman, or well you have an ambient
- 19:18deficiency or xm EX deficiency. Well then you go and well, no,
- 19:22actually I don't have za EX deficiency because you can be something. But your
- 19:29generations healthier and then because of epigenetics, you know, this is where you
- 19:33go, Okay, Well, if we can turn people's genes on the right
- 19:37way and turn you know, turn on the good ones, turn off the
- 19:37bad ones by age nineteen, we really set somebody to place where they just
- 19:41don't get stuff. But also we can do that before somebody has a child.
- 19:45We are passing on cleaning your genes to the next six day generations.
- 19:48It's not just a children that are healthy. The next six day generations are
- 19:52healthier. But when you think about that, you go, okay, this
- 19:55thing backwards. So each one of us is the product of the previous state
- 20:00generations before us. So when they had the adverse childhood events that flipped the
- 20:04genes of the individual who experienced that the wrong way, putting in a position
- 20:07to get chronic health issues. Well if they didn't because they didn't know how
- 20:11to do it, even back the intercourse, Well, how do I flip
- 20:14my genes back the right way once they get thrown the wrong way? Well,
- 20:17because I didn't know that, they just passed on those chromeier genes to
- 20:21the next generation, the next generation, the next generation. And that's one
- 20:23reason why we think, you know, so many young women have so many
- 20:27health issues, such as starting cycles at age nine or even as early as
- 20:32age five or you know whoa I thought I was early at nine. I've
- 20:37seen five year olds have started their menstrual cycles. And so you know,
- 20:41this is where the women are just getting in young women earls are just getting
- 20:47all these health issues that just weren't totally unheard of a couple of generations.
- 20:51That's that's an episode in itself, just there to talk about that, because
- 20:55I can't even imagine being five. It was hard enough being nine. You
- 20:59know, you're in fourth grade. Either was two girls. That was me
- 21:02and this girl, Debbie. I don't never forget it. We both started
- 21:06our periods at the same time. We both had boobs. We were so
- 21:08embarrassed all at the time, and we felt shameful and we felt guilty,
- 21:11and we didn't know. We didn't have enough information. And I was raised
- 21:15in a pretty conservative Christian home, and so that a lot of the reasons
- 21:18why I couldn't talk about stuff was because of that. Unfortunately, you would
- 21:22think that it would be actually the flip side of that, but whatever.
- 21:26So for me, it was a real challenge growing up. And then you
- 21:30start to develop those anxieties at such a young age for things that you don't
- 21:34know they are going to affect you down the road, you know, and
- 21:37not having the people around you from an adult perspective when you're nine, guiding
- 21:44you and helping you, and also identifying like, whoa, my daughter has
- 21:48all of these things going on and she's under fourteen, Like we gotta like
- 21:52wrap our brains around that that didn't happen. And I know it didn't happen
- 21:56for basically every single woman that I know, every single woman that I know
- 22:00that is in my life, is ill, every freaking one of them.
- 22:07They're all sick, they're all in pain, they're all insomniacs, they're all
- 22:11stressed out. I mean, it is like really really sad. And these
- 22:14are people I've known since I was thirteen, fourteen years old. So here
- 22:17we are. We've been through thirty years of our lives together and we're all
- 22:21in the same place. How do we start to fix this? How do
- 22:23we get engaged and how can we help other people to understand your message?
- 22:29Obviously I'm pushing out like crazy, but what are you doing to help us?
- 22:33Because we need it? We're sick, well I think I think the
- 22:37first one, the first thing and you touched on it is just knowing that
- 22:41there's a different way. Yeah, I don't know, there's a different way.
- 22:44You know, like there's no hope, right, you just keep doing
- 22:45the same thing and you think you're doing your best. But we know where
- 22:49this stuff comes from and we know how to put the buying position to start
- 22:53reversing these disease processes. That's the main thing people need to know that.
- 22:57But then also the science, it is fortunately very clear about what has to
- 23:02happen for the body be healthy, but also what happens when they turn the
- 23:07body unhealthy. And the gut is a real big central mechanism. So when
- 23:12the guts off, you can't digest your food and get the nutrients out.
- 23:15You start getting vinomin deficient and you need these vitamins to make things fix things
- 23:19be happy and healthy. When the guts offt you cannot balance and keep stable
- 23:25this big hormone symphony in women, for example, like the estrogen dominants.
- 23:29You just can't get that estrogen dominants to clear to stabilize if the guts offt
- 23:34And then when the guts off, you can't get red toxins from the body,
- 23:37including toxical estrogens, So your body makes new healthy estrogens. Your opreis
- 23:44do it before menopause. Your cells themselves make estrogen aftomenopause because you need it
- 23:48for your whole life. But the new healthy estrogens get rid of inflammation,
- 23:52help you be healthy all this, But then once they've been in your circulation
- 23:56for a while, they get dinged and beat up, and now they're toxic
- 23:57and irritatee the system. You gotta be able to run your detox pathway.
- 24:00He's got to be able put them in the toilet. You gotta be a
- 24:03play them in the gut and then put them in the toilet. Well,
- 24:06those mechanisms gets thrown off, disrupted gut by him in deficiencies, and you
- 24:10started hummeling these old toxic estrogens that drive estrogen dominance. When the guts off,
- 24:15because eighty percent of the immune system surrounds the gut, you're going to
- 24:18start getting these infections that drive chronic disease, like epstein bar and virus one
- 24:22called herpes virus six, Sacki virus, micoplasma. We now know that infections
- 24:27are part of every chronic disease because they drive, inflammation, and because they
- 24:32tend to go all over the body, you know, they start getting all
- 24:34these things all at the same time, including pretty much every one of them
- 24:37likes to go with the brain and start creating brain related issues when the guts
- 24:41offt it's so stressful to the body because now you got hormone imbalances, infections,
- 24:47all this kind of stuff. Well, then that stress hormone, cortisol
- 24:49gets kicked up into the stress mode. There's kind of fight or flight mode,
- 24:52life or death mode. There's a bare chasement trying to kill me twenty
- 24:56four hours a day, seven days a week. Mode. And even if
- 24:59some of is jeezy, I don't really have stress. You know, I
- 25:02got my life situated the way that I'm going to a lot of emotional stress.
- 25:04Well that is super challenging, and somebody can do Wow, you need
- 25:10to share how you do that. Then you got all these physical stressors,
- 25:14you know, having a biomate efficiency it's just as stressful as you know,
- 25:17emotional stress and affection and estrogenomas. So all those physical stressors kick cortisol up.
- 25:22Well, then cortisol ideally is in our body to turn into court as
- 25:26zone, which is a steroid hormone our body makes to get rid of inflammation.
- 25:30That's why in medicine steroid so much. Well, here's a steroid cream
- 25:34for rash to shoot up your noise and analogies here shooting your lungs for asthma.
- 25:38Here swallowed. If you got let me shoot your knee with steroids.
- 25:41But you buys should be able to get rid of inflammation on it zone.
- 25:44But when that cortisol get stuck in the stress mode, it becomes very inefficient
- 25:48at converting to cord a zone when you're starting all this inflammation. But then
- 25:52when cortisol stuck in the stress mode, one of the very first hormones that
- 25:56throws off is progesterone, and progester on that calming, quieting, I'm so
- 26:03chill, I sleep like a baby. Hormone gets depleted and now you got
- 26:07that double wham. We have too much estrogen, old toxic estrogens, not
- 26:11enough forgesterone. Here's this estrogen, don said, is an absolute message,
- 26:17just a driver of huge issues. So when you know these are the kind
- 26:21of things, you go, okay, well we know what causes it.
- 26:22Well, now we've in a position where we figured out, well, how
- 26:26do we actually fix it. How do we fix all these things and then
- 26:29start the body, you know, start flipping the good genes back on,
- 26:33start flipping the bad jeans back off, Estrogen comes down, forgesterone comes up.
- 26:37You take care of these really big central mechanisms, and that's when you
- 26:41know, you stop women from getting one thing after another another, but also
- 26:45from in a really good position to start working backwards. And I'm doing some
- 26:48of the stuff that may have been present for decades by this time. Well,
- 26:51and I love that. And like I mentioned earlier that I knew that
- 26:53you were going to have a message of hope today, of course, because
- 26:56I don't want to of people no mosses about like wow, that was a
- 27:00Debbie downer, But that the reverse part is so incredibly important for especially when
- 27:07we're talking to When I look at the demographics of who's listening to this show
- 27:11from an analytics perspective, demographics are thirty to sixty five year old women and
- 27:18forty five to seventy year old men. That's basically where I'm at. The
- 27:21majority of sixty five to seventy percent of the people that are listening to our
- 27:23women, which kind of supports what we're talking about how women are in more
- 27:27pain, but I think we're also a little bit more apt to talk and
- 27:33express some of our emotions and all that stuff. It's certainly now, but
- 27:37man, what do we do in relation to how do you approach them?
- 27:41Let's just take me for example. So I come to you with all the
- 27:45things that we've just talked about, and you know, all the things from
- 27:48physical and sexual trauma, to body traumas to asthma, to all of the
- 27:53PCOS stuff. I've obsteen bar virus, I've had shingles a million times.
- 27:57I've heard the simplex virus. I've got. You know, I've got a
- 28:00ton of wonderful things going on of your big party. I feel like I'm
- 28:03a walking Petrie Dish. What is your first step with somebody like me?
- 28:08If I came to you, I'm like, these are all this is the
- 28:11litany of stuff that's happened to me. What happened to you? Why are
- 28:15these things happening? What would be your first step with somebody like me?
- 28:18Well, well, first step You've always got to get rid of these infections.
- 28:21And we always know they're there, even if we don't know which ones
- 28:25until we test we always know they're there. So one of the challenges is
- 28:29it's gonna be multiple infections. Once that kind of side door is left open
- 28:32and one bug gets in, it is a party. It's multiple infections.
- 28:36But they're not the infections that are easy to get rid of. Oh,
- 28:40just take ten days of antibiotic or anti viral elbrets or something like that.
- 28:44These are the ones that take at least three months, if not six,
- 28:47nine, twelve months or sometimes longer to get rid of. Now typically people
- 28:51start feeling a lot better just by getting these infectious numbers down, even before
- 28:55they're fully gone. But you have to use something that will get rid of
- 28:57any infection, no matter where, having umber, what kind it is,
- 29:00whether you knows they' or not, and what we use. And I think
- 29:03this is an absolute game changers out of a company out of Canada, and
- 29:07it's called pH Structured Silver Solution. It's a nanosilver. It's not colloidal silver.
- 29:12It's a nanosilver. But also besides get rid of infections, studies are
- 29:18on skin cells and how skin cells heal so much faster when they use this
- 29:22stuff. Is it actually starts turning on genes like inside skin cells to allow
- 29:27the skin cell to heal, so you don't just get rid of the infections,
- 29:30but you're actually, as far as we know, getting rid of the
- 29:33inflammation and actually helping damage tissue heal at the exact same time. And it
- 29:40doesn't buy accumulate. Some nobody's going to turn blue like you would if you
- 29:42try to use colloidal silver. Ploidal silver is just not strong enough and it
- 29:47accumulates. You know, you can use it to get rid of easy infections,
- 29:49but not these dudes that dry chronic to use. So this is a
- 29:52huge game changer. And then another huge game changer they don't hear people talking
- 29:57about is well, here's a lot of people talk about vitamin indeed, and
- 30:02this is where you know, we talk about gosh, estrogen donds for menopause
- 30:07five point four times greater risk of breast cancer. And you're like, holy
- 30:10how I am in bad shape. It's like no, no, no,
- 30:12no, body super smart. We know, yes, people's vitamin D level
- 30:17should be seventy to ninety, but if a woman just gets her vitamin D
- 30:19above sixty, she has automatically decreased her risk of ever getting breast cancer by
- 30:26bang right. But one thing you've got m to be perfect and you're just
- 30:30kind of hitting the right direction kind of the thing. Wow, it's super
- 30:33smart. I know. This is where you know prevention and reversal is not
- 30:38as complicated as you know, sort of the traditional alepathic model makes it seem
- 30:42like, well, how do I get how do I stay healthy? How
- 30:45do I well change how you eat an exercise? Well, at the exact
- 30:48same time that that's super vague, it's also like super complicated. Well,
- 30:52so how do I Actually it's like, oh my gosh, no, no,
- 30:57no, it's kind of like, okay, so get your viomin d
- 31:00gut. That's a good one. But also every cell in your body has
- 31:03receptors for viamin d, so that's the only reason why byomin d is important.
- 31:07Every cell needs it. So every cell is a receptor, so buyom
- 31:11d can attach or tell the cell what to do. So the data from
- 31:15twenty eighteen was, oh, my goodness, if you can fix this viomin
- 31:18d receptor resistance in the gut, so yomin d can do its work.
- 31:21Because you can have all the buyam d in the world and you have a
- 31:22resistance, you're not getting any bang right, right, But if you fix
- 31:26that. You can fix the automune diseases of the guts, the Ulster applitises
- 31:32and the Chron's disease and all this kind of stuff, and you can get
- 31:34rid of recurrency depth and recurrent h Pylori infections that are whacking you. And
- 31:37you got a hand a box all ther time, and you go, well,
- 31:41that is a bit great because if we talk about autommune disease and say,
- 31:45well, if we can fix the gut the ex central mechanism, we
- 31:47can fix your atmune disease. How do you fix the gut when the automune
- 31:49disease is actually attacking the gun? Right, It's like, we can't turn
- 31:53off the automune disease because we can't fix the gut. The darn automune disease
- 31:56is attacking the gun. Well, you fix this viomin D receptors, you
- 32:00fix these autommune disease of the gup. But then they go, oh,
- 32:02well, this's like exactly what you want to do for pretty much everything.
- 32:07And since twenty eighteen, all these studies that come out that oh, by
- 32:10the way, it pretty much can so like six months later, the exact
- 32:14same researchers, you're a little shout out to my ALLA monitor. This is
- 32:17from the University of Illinois in Chicago, where six months are they go,
- 32:22oh, my goodness, you fix this viamin D receptor resistance. It is
- 32:24a nuclear weapon quote unquote title of the article nuclear weapon against diabetes and metabolic
- 32:30syndrome, So not just diabetes, but also adding them, awaking lesteral issues,
- 32:36hire, checking stroke risk, all that kind of stuff. And then
- 32:39last year Harvard Journalist Psychiatry comes out and go, wow, if you can
- 32:43fix the intestinal microbiome the mix of good bad bugs in the gut with this
- 32:47viomin D receptor stuff, you can treat measure depressive disorder. Another article comes
- 32:52out and goes, wow, if you fix this intestinal microbiome, deal this
- 32:55way, you become more outgoing and more social. It actually your personality traits.
- 33:01And so it truly is this uber central mechanism, and it's actually not
- 33:07super hard to fix because it's kind of most of these things go oh,
- 33:10I've heard the work, So daily viamin D trying to be viamdi little perfect
- 33:15daily probiotic, which everybody's heard of. Those first two, and then the
- 33:19third one is something called peuter rate. It comes in a capsule form.
- 33:22So we call this the foundational triad byamin D, probiotic and berrate. So
- 33:28beaut rate is made by the good bacteria in the gut. Ideally, well,
- 33:31the good bacteria makes sarah tone in to feel good neurotransmitter makes gabba,
- 33:36the calming neurotransmitter makes all this important stuff. Well, it makes these things
- 33:39called short chain fatty acids like buderate. Well, the gut gets messed up.
- 33:45You don't have good bacteria. They get decimated by stress and antibiotics and
- 33:50bird control pills and motions and ad bills and all the budger medicines, all
- 33:55this kind of stuff. So you use it, and you can fix this
- 33:59viamin D receptor resistance, and oh my gosh, what amazing stuff it does.
- 34:02And then this computerate itself. Oh my gosh, it prevents cancer five
- 34:07different ways. It actually treats cancer five different ways, having a patented version
- 34:14of US being used for munk cancer nowadays. Already it's great for the brain,
- 34:17it's great for the lungst Children with cystic by brosis where they're basically drowning
- 34:22in their own secretions get better. Huntington's korea that the German neurologic disease benefits.
- 34:28It's got a profound impact on preventing obesity, reversing obesity. It is
- 34:35just unbelievably great. And it comes in a capsule form. Now, this
- 34:39is where I think, you know, the body is so smart, but
- 34:43we sometimes don't listen to what the body wants. So the only food source
- 34:46of utterrate is butter. And this is why I think every culture in the
- 34:50world uses butter. Now, of course, you know BB commercials say,
- 34:53oh, we got this artificial stuff. You don't want real butter, you
- 34:55know protein, Yeah, and the gut goes away a minute. I need
- 35:01that stuff and the rest of it goes yeah, me too. You know,
- 35:05whether it's cow's look butter, goats butter and him Himalayas they use yak
- 35:08butter, or cultural world uses butter. So like for us with our little
- 35:14cute kiddies with the juvenile rheumatory arthritis, you know, the cutest little two
- 35:17year olds with a need the size of a basketball, so swollen and painful
- 35:22they can't and walk. We're like, well, they can't swallow capsules,
- 35:23yet, We'll go ahead and put butter on pretty much everything. You know,
- 35:27after you cook it, just put butter on it. It always makes
- 35:29everything taste better. It's amazing. Hold enough and take it in capsule for
- 35:32him. Let's start doing that. So I think this is another really big
- 35:37game changers the knowledge that if we can fix this buyomin dreceptor resistance that pretty
- 35:44much is driving chronic multi organ system issues, and everybody, if they have
- 35:47those issues, will you fix it. It really gets this domino effect of
- 35:51spectacularly great stuff going in the right direction, cluing well, now your guts
- 35:55so healthy, you can detox better, so you start getting rid of these
- 35:58all toxic of estrogens. Cortisol because of why is so much better, goes
- 36:02I feel so good, and cortisol moves from the stress mode of the calm
- 36:07mode, and then you can start making progesm better on your own. And
- 36:10then you fix this esrogen dominance. And then because these are such central mechanisms
- 36:16are turning off the bad genes and your cells, you're turning on the good
- 36:20genes and your cells. You start fixing this up the genetic stuff, and
- 36:22it really puts to buying a position to start really for sure stop getting new
- 36:28stuff on top of the old stuff, but also put your buying position to
- 36:30start really reversing all the stuff that's been going on for just a decade.
- 36:35It's so fascinating that, you know, especially coming from a place where we
- 36:39chase all of this stuff because we are marketed to so hardcore in the chronic
- 36:45paining community, right, We're always looking for another gadget, another cream,
- 36:49another this, another that that is going to fix us. It's so frustrating
- 36:53because we've thrown so much money at our bodies to only end up worse.
- 36:58But I am tired of it. I mean I could have bought like five
- 37:00houses in addition to ours now with the amount of money that I'm throwing at
- 37:06my bod and not getting anywhere and getting frustrated. And you brought up earlier
- 37:10about the like, oh, we'll just exercise and just eat better. Oh
- 37:14my gosh. For somebody that deals with disordered eating, which I never did
- 37:16before, that's fairly new. It's like three years old. I struggle with
- 37:21giving my body nutrition because I'm in so much pain that I'm nauseous all all
- 37:23the time. There's all of these things. I am like proof in the
- 37:28pudding of all of these things that went wrong, and all of these things
- 37:31that happen and all of these wise and all these what And now I'm here
- 37:35in a pecher dish and I've got a million different microscopes on me from all
- 37:38these different doctors and all these different places, and all these dissent tests,
- 37:42and I've done all of them. I've done the Dutch tests, They've done
- 37:44that, this tests, They've done it all. And here I am going
- 37:46great, So now what now what? I have all of this, I
- 37:50have all this information from all these places, and it feels so overwhelming,
- 37:53and it feels so lonely because you're like, well, at the end of
- 37:58the day, I'm the one that's living in the pain that I'm in,
- 38:00and I'm living with my gut issues and so on and so forth. And
- 38:04we don't always have to have actual like digestion issues if our guts are out
- 38:08of whack, right, your gut, you don't necessarily have to like run
- 38:12to every single bathroom if you have gut issues. It doesn't necessarily always turn
- 38:15out that way, right mechanism, it could show off as everything but gut
- 38:22symptoms. Right, So when we think about, oh, the gut health,
- 38:24everyone's like, oh, well, we have to take care of our
- 38:25stomach will of course we do. Our gut is its own little brain,
- 38:29you know, but we need to be aware of well that actually might have
- 38:32something to do with our gut, which really runs. I mean, you
- 38:36said something really wonderful earlier. I believe you just said, eighty percent of
- 38:39our like our organs are basically around our gut. Is that what you said?
- 38:43What was it? The immune system surround the immune system surrounds the gut.
- 38:47That's what I muys. Thank you for clarifying. Yeah, and that
- 38:50was like, whoa. That kind of brings a lot to like because we
- 38:53put you know, we punting process bus in and people are eating fast food
- 38:58and putting junk in our bodies and candy and cokes and sodas and coffee and
- 39:00booze and drugs and all this stuff on top of all the pills, an
- 39:04excessive amount of supplementation. We do, I do believe in supplementation, absolutely.
- 39:08I just I don't want to swallow fifty freakin supplements a day, you
- 39:12know. And I think we've we've we've all of us have cupboards of this
- 39:15stuff that we've purchased for our bodies, and they're all just there, you
- 39:21know, I've got. I've got an entire hallway closet filled with crap that
- 39:24I'm not using or taking. That's what I've got. And this is where
- 39:28you know, I hear that story all the time. It's like everything that
- 39:31you're saying is in some ways wonderful. Dutch tests, supplementation. You know,
- 39:37I know I need to manage stress. I'm going to meditate and to
- 39:40progress the most relaxation. I'm going to do this, this, and this.
- 39:44It becomes so frustrating. It's like, well, why I am we
- 39:46even doing this because it doesn't seem to be help. Yes, but what
- 39:49we tell people's no, no, no, no. If we do testing,
- 39:52we're going to see exactly the benefit that your insides have gotten from those
- 39:57kind of activities. Oh absolutely, this that would have been terror. It's
- 40:00not terrible that but have been terrible not with you because you've done these great
- 40:04things. But there's a couple of real big central mechanisms get missed. Ones,
- 40:08infections, ones, these buy them in D receptors and those kinds of
- 40:12things are like they just get missed just by almost everybody. But when you've
- 40:16done all this stuff before, you've set such a wonderful foundation to build from.
- 40:20We're never starting from scratch. You've done all the great stuff you've done,
- 40:22for example, is it's just that a couple of things got missed that
- 40:27you're never going to get over the hump. And all we have to do
- 40:29then is take somebody who already has this great foundation and get them over the
- 40:32hump. They're already got this foundation bill. And so this is where we
- 40:38just released our free online email course called Medical Bildtox dot com is where you
- 40:45can access it, the Medical Build Detox course. And because you've done all
- 40:50this stuff, you're like, holy talent. My medical bills are huge,
- 40:53including just bought five files of supplements, and I'm still not great. Will
- 41:00we take some free email course so everybody could get an email? Will we
- 41:02take a real deep dive into each one of these real ex central mechanisms attempts
- 41:07to get missed. And it's really how do you fix yourself? Course,
- 41:12because if you understand the central mechanisms and how they get missed, but also
- 41:16how to fix it, people are really in a position to get so much
- 41:20traction all by themselves. Of course, we want somebody every community knows how
- 41:23to do this eventually. But if people can do it themselves, well that's
- 41:28the best it is. And it's you know, and somebody that's me.
- 41:31I'm a complete control freak, like nobody's business duh, everybody that knows me
- 41:36at this point. And you know, I always want to take matters in
- 41:39my own hands. And I'm not great about asking for help. I'm certainly
- 41:42better than I used to be, but I'm at this place. And this
- 41:45is one of the reasons why I started this darn show of mine in the
- 41:47first place. Was I was I was sick and tired of being sick and
- 41:51tired, and I was I was going to doctors after doctors and doing all
- 41:54this work and all this all this money, and none of it was going
- 41:58anywhere. And I love that you Just again, another way of hopeful message
- 42:02from you today is that all the things that we've been doing, even if
- 42:07some of them have caused harm, we still have good stuff that we've been
- 42:09doing. There are still things that we can work with. We're not that
- 42:13broken. You know that you your message of hope in relationship, you've already
- 42:19set up some kind of a foundation to work with. We all have something
- 42:21to work with, you know, And looking at it that way is a
- 42:24really good it's a real positive way to look at it. And it's not
- 42:29that I don't look at my healthcare in a positive way. I never.
- 42:31I didn't when I was first diagnosed. Took me a couple of years to
- 42:35get to this place. But when I speak with people like you that do
- 42:38offer hope, and it's not this like crazy scheme, you know, because
- 42:43we fall for all of these traps. We're on Instagram at three o'clock in
- 42:45the morning because we can't sleep, and do you know how many pain like
- 42:49things I've clicked on and like added them to a car. I mean,
- 42:52it is unbelievable how much we're being targeted at it, and we're talking about
- 42:57something actually fairly simple when you get down to the brass tacks of it,
- 43:01which is also frustrating, as like, wait a second, it could be
- 43:07as simple as me actually taking vitamin D. I mean, I know there's
- 43:08more to what you do, obviously, but it's just it's it's just it's
- 43:14wonderful to hear that message because we were we feel fair we feel fairly defeated
- 43:19out here, you know, we do you know, we gotta give a
- 43:22shout out to the body because oftentimes when people are feeling so sick, they're
- 43:24like, oh my gosh, body, you've totally abandoned me. Yeah,
- 43:30you're terrible. You're making the body's like no, no, no, I
- 43:31know how to fix this, and I'm I'm trying to fix this the whole
- 43:35time you've had this. I'm trying to but something is in the way.
- 43:37You gotta get this thing out of the way. Do you get this thing
- 43:39out of the way. I can fix it, but I know how to
- 43:42do this stuff because the body's natural default mode is always to move towards wellness.
- 43:47We use as an example like you're walking around the house and bare feet
- 43:51and you kick a chair leg. You hop around in pain, and you're
- 43:53you know, you're trying not to cuss of the small children around. You're
- 43:57like, oh my gosh, it's hurt so much, But you're not thinking,
- 43:59oh great, I'm going to have this excruciating to pain my whole life.
- 44:01I could be hop around on one foot in pain. We have such
- 44:05confidence in our body's ability to heal, but we know within a two minutes
- 44:07is it going to go way? And then you just try not to ever
- 44:09do that again. Because it hurts so much. But then we get these
- 44:13chronicle tissues and we're like, oh, body, you can't fix nothing.
- 44:15You're just you know, oh my gosh. The body's like, no,
- 44:20I know how to fix this. And this is where we get people like
- 44:24like eighty four year old woman that's had something some six years of age.
- 44:28Oh, well, I've gotten used to it. It's not my worst thing
- 44:30now. I got a lot worst things now that I used to. Right.
- 44:32Yeah, Like a couple of drinkers, it goes away and they're like,
- 44:35oh my gosh, I've had this since I was six years old,
- 44:37and I go, yep, I know I have on my notes right here
- 44:38I was watching. I want to make sure we can get that thing to
- 44:40go away, because if we do, we know we're on the right track
- 44:44for all this other stuff. Wow, that's amazing, And it's I'm frustrated
- 44:50listening to this at the same time as I'm hopeful because I'm sitting here for
- 44:54a reason and my body, like you're saying like no, no, no,
- 44:58My body's saying yeah, yeah, I got this, don't worry about
- 45:00my body's screaming at me. You know, started as a whisper didn't really
- 45:05listen, didn't pay attention. I'm like, oh, that's weird. My
- 45:07right big toe went them. You know, maybe that'll go away. And
- 45:09then the next thing I know, it's crept up my entire body and it's
- 45:12in my guts and it's in it's full body crps, like gross, what
- 45:15the hell? Because I didn't listen from the very beginning of that whisper.
- 45:19And now I'm screaming that my body's screaming at me. And I'm trying the
- 45:22best that I can. I'm failing in so many places, and I don't
- 45:25know why or how I've gotten to that place where I'm incredibly bright. I'm
- 45:30incredibly fun to be around. You know. I love to cook. I
- 45:36love to do these things. I love to you know, I just don't
- 45:38eat well. Not because the food that I put in my body isn't good
- 45:42for me. It's just I don't eat enough, you know. So I'm
- 45:45bummed I didn't meet you seven years ago. Let's just put it that way,
- 45:47all right. You know, even when that first toe went no,
- 45:53it's kind of like, so, so what do you do other than just
- 45:57kind of hope? Right, because you're like, well, you know,
- 46:00people just don't know that things come from someplace and there's things and typically but
- 46:04that it takes ten to twenty years for a person to feel their very first
- 46:07symptom after the holdings started. WHOA, the body fights the fight, trying
- 46:13to reset, it's trying to fix it year after year, ten twenty years,
- 46:16and then somebody goes, hey, this is kind of weird. My
- 46:19knee hurst today. I don't have any idea why that happened. It's probably
- 46:21ten to twenty years in the making. And but if people don't know where
- 46:25that stuff comes from, they're just going to hope for the best. Then,
- 46:29you know, hope it doesn't get worse and new things happen. But
- 46:30what we're hoping is that people know, well, Jesus, when that first
- 46:32thing happens, it's been there a while. Your body's fight in the fight,
- 46:37but it just kind of lost control. It finally hadn't let it go.
- 46:39And but you're not just you know, here's a medicine, here's you
- 46:45know, mo tr and advil for the knee pain. It's like, now
- 46:46there's a reason behind it. And then people go, hey, you know,
- 46:50I think there's a way I could do this myself. Because I've heard
- 46:52where this stuff comes from. Yeah, now we're like ninety percent the way
- 46:57there. I love it. Yeah, well, and empowering as a may
- 47:00kings feel that we aren't out of control, that we can control what's happening
- 47:05to our body. Were made to be felt like well, you're not gonna
- 47:07be able to do this without this pill, or you're not gonna be able
- 47:09to do this with unless you have this surgery. You're not gonna be able
- 47:12to do this without this. And so we've been grinded those messages into our
- 47:15heads and into our hearts and into our bods, and the frustrating doctor's appointments
- 47:20in and out, in and out. It's a full time job to do
- 47:23that. And so you get to the point where you're like, well,
- 47:27you know, I guess like your point with that, the older lady,
- 47:30you know, you go like, well, I guess this is just what
- 47:31I gotta do with. It's gonna roll with the punches. I'm gonna bite
- 47:35on a stick and get through it. I don't want to bite on a
- 47:37stick. I don't want to just get through it. I want to live
- 47:39and breathe and thrive and strive and get back on the slopes and get back
- 47:44on a bike and get back into yoga and do all the things I used
- 47:47to do. You know, but I'm sat in in a wheelchair and it
- 47:51feels like I have worms crawling. Hot lava worms is what I call them.
- 47:54My wormy spermy is hot lava worms running through my veins and my legs,
- 47:59and you can see my pain moving through my leg It is like science
- 48:04fiction. And so when you talk about infection, holy Moly's the first thing
- 48:08that makes me trigger about my little wormy squirmis like I feel like I'm being
- 48:13invaded by aliens and I'm not being like me and my personality, my funniness
- 48:17or whatever that is like legit like I feel like I have an alien in
- 48:21my body running around and rocking havoc, driving me batshit. Well, it
- 48:29is some of these infections that drive chronic health issues coming come from the outside.
- 48:34Those other ones that just naturally get in. They've been in this our
- 48:36whole life. Then you have to have healthy immune system to keep it dormant,
- 48:39you know, your whole life. And so a classic example we use
- 48:43is the virus that causes chicken box. Right, so be gaus this obvious
- 48:46chicken boxing, but then it lies dormant right outside the spine. Ideally lies
- 48:51dormant because your mune system is health. It keeps it quiet. But then
- 48:53I f the missus wis in control. That's when you get the shingles and
- 48:57you go crud. You know, immune system. Dude, what were you
- 49:00thinking? Why'd you let this guy wake up? You know? And the
- 49:04music just like, sorry, sorry, I was trying to keep it quiet.
- 49:07But those other darn infections and the cortissolved the vitamin D receptors and you
- 49:12know that kind of stuff. It's like I tried my best. We'll get
- 49:15it real back in again. We'll get it dormant and then help me here
- 49:20and we'll we'll never let it happen again, you know kind of a thing.
- 49:22Well, it sounds like you're here to help us to never have it
- 49:25happen again, if that is loud and clear in this episode. So from
- 49:30if we're taking anything, guys, we're taking hope from doctor Bilstrom. He
- 49:34is just incredible. And before we jam out, is there anything that we
- 49:37can leave our listeners with before we head out of here? You know,
- 49:42the body's got amazing healing potential, so never know, even though it may
- 49:45take a while, and even though it may seem, you know, slower
- 49:47than we like. Every year, the body keeps fine tune and be like,
- 49:51oh, I've been at this for five years, but at the sixth
- 49:53year mark, I feel there, and I did the five year mark.
- 49:55At the seven year mark, I felt there and did it last year.
- 49:58You know, it's just kind of gets in the right position. It keeps
- 50:00fine tuning. So if a person can hang in there, the body's like,
- 50:04hey, you know, I got you to see me some time.
- 50:06Sometimes it happens really quick, but sometimes it's kind of that slow and study
- 50:09when's the race. But you got to have, you know, confidence in
- 50:13your bisability to heal. Yes, and don't give up, because we are
- 50:15not giver upper on this side of the mic, that is for sure,
- 50:19and I know you aren't either, And thank you for doing the work that
- 50:22you and your wife both are doing. I find him online. It's very
- 50:24easy to find him. Everything is consistent, and thank you for that.
- 50:28From a branding perspective. You can find him everywhere on Instant and Facebook and
- 50:30YouTube and Twitter, his website, all of it is doctor David Bilstrom dot
- 50:35com or doctor David Bilstrom on instant all the socials. I'll put all of
- 50:38that instow notes, of course, and don't forget to go out and grab
- 50:42a book. It's called The Nurse Practitioners Guide to Autoimmune Medicine Reversing and Preventing
- 50:45All Autoimmunity. And don't forget about the free email course that he mentioned at
- 50:51Medical Bill Talk. Why don't you say that one for me? It's a
- 50:55bit of a hospel a medical billdebox dot com, no space. I missed
- 51:00the D in front of the D Talks. I was like, Medical Bill
- 51:04toxic is not correct. Wend Thank you so much for your time with me
- 51:09today. It's been a pleasure. I was looking forward to it so much
- 51:12and it's of course, it just went over expectations. So thank you so
- 51:15very much. Thank you so much for having me. You are exclusively invited
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