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Alpha-Gal Explained · Life TV now

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Speaker 1: Tick bites are on the rise, and along with it
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Speaker 1: the alpha gal syndrome, and it's one of the fastest
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Speaker 1: growing and most misunderstood allergic conditions in the United States today,
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Speaker 1: Yet many people have never even heard of what it is. Today,
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Speaker 1: we're breaking it down what alpha gl is, where it
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Speaker 1: comes from, why it's increasing, how it affects the body,
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Speaker 1: and what you can do to protect yourself and your family.
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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to Life TV Now, where
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Speaker 1: we unpack all matters of truth, faith and freedom. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Joe artist Horn. I cannot wait for today's program.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be going over some information that reveals
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Speaker 1: some insights into some dilemmas I was experiencing even myself
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Speaker 1: last week with some of the content we were talking
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Speaker 1: about that had kind of uneasy. But today we're going
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Speaker 1: to be talking about solutions and what you can do,
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Speaker 1: what I can do, what we can do to protect
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Speaker 1: our families from this thing called alpha gal. But before
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Speaker 1: we dive in, let me introduce who's here. She's an
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Speaker 1: integrative nutrition health coach with a Master of Science and
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Speaker 1: health Education. Please welcome our executive producer, Jamie Woodle, and
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Speaker 1: she's a medical assistant, a mother of three and an
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Speaker 1: Alpha GAL survivor. Please welcome Ashley Blake. I want to
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Speaker 1: hit the ground running today. Ashley. If you missed last
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Speaker 1: at is go back to the archives and watch last
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Speaker 1: week's program. We were blessed to hear your triumphant overcoming
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Speaker 1: of this syndrome called Alpha gal. We did not get
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Speaker 1: a lot into the details in terms of what supplements
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Speaker 1: maybe helped you kind of overcome some of what you
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Speaker 1: were dealing with. But just to recap, you went many
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Speaker 1: months following a tick bite, experiencing all kinds of anomalistic breakouts.
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Speaker 1: You vomited daily for months on end. Doctors could not
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Speaker 1: explain what this is. One night you land in the
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Speaker 1: emergency room and finally, by the grace of God, somebody
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Speaker 1: tells you we know what your problem is. You have
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Speaker 1: Alpha gal. And then since then you've been through the
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Speaker 1: careful elimination diets. You went through this whole period of
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Speaker 1: time with your family where you can't eat out, and
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Speaker 1: you said there was some resentment attached to that family
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Speaker 1: plans getting rearranged or canceled, and it was not an
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Speaker 1: immediate path back to feeling better. Months after this tick
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Speaker 1: bite and even your diagnosis on the elimination diet and
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Speaker 1: talking to allergists, you finally found breakthrough when you started
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Speaker 1: taking care of your gut. She started eating fermented foods.
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming probiotics or steps therein to rebuild a healthy
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Speaker 1: gut microbiome. We're not going to spend all day unpacking
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Speaker 1: gut health. That's a whole other series of programs, but
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Speaker 1: I want it said. That was when you first began
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Speaker 1: feeling much much better, and what now today is a
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Speaker 1: completely different life resembling the one that originally earned the
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Speaker 1: diagnosis alpha gal. Today, I want to focus a lot
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Speaker 1: on what it is and what people need to know
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Speaker 1: about it, why it's on the rise, and what can
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Speaker 1: be done to protect yourself. You know, we do camps
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Speaker 1: every year. We're out in the woods with the children
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Speaker 1: of Whispering Ponies Ranch. They come by way of Royal
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Speaker 1: family kids, we're doing ministry. Our whole operation takes place
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Speaker 1: three hundred acres and I literally cannot stop the tick bites.
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Speaker 1: I cannot stop the chigger bytes. Now, you and Jamie
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Speaker 1: both have spent a lot of time researching alpha gal
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Speaker 1: so let's just start here for those that missed last week,
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Speaker 1: your incredible description of what it is and what makes
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Speaker 1: it different from other typical food allergies.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, like we discussed last week, alpha gal is
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Speaker 2: and it can be a serious life threatening condition that
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Speaker 2: is caused by a tick bite. And it is even
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Speaker 2: further into that solely from a sugar molecule that is
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Speaker 2: found in mammals, and it's natural to mammals but not
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Speaker 2: natural to humans. So when a tick goes and bites
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Speaker 2: this mammal keeps it in saliva, and then it comes
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Speaker 2: and bites you or me or somebody else and gets
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Speaker 2: into the bloodstream. And then that's when our antibodies. That's
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Speaker 2: when our immune system goes this is not supposed to
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Speaker 2: be here.
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Speaker 3: It remembers it, and.
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Speaker 2: Then when we consume that red meat or that mammal byproduct,
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Speaker 2: that our body attacks it. And the only way that
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Speaker 2: it knows how to do that is through an allergic reaction.
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Speaker 2: The way that it's different from most allergies is that
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Speaker 2: it has a big time delay, and so most doctors
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Speaker 2: are going to tell you that your allergic reaction is
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Speaker 2: going to be anywhere between two to six hours after consumption,
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Speaker 2: and even in more extreme cases like mine, mine was
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Speaker 2: twenty four to forty eight hours after consumption, so we
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Speaker 2: really didn't know what it was it is.
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Speaker 4: They also when you go in and they're like, oh,
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Speaker 4: clearly there's an allergic reaction. They usually test for proteins.
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Speaker 4: This is not a protein that the body is reacting to.
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Speaker 4: It's a sugar, an alpha galactose, which is why it's
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Speaker 4: called alpha gal. And so it goes many months sometimes undiagnosed.
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Speaker 4: In fact, I spoke to a woman last summer where
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Speaker 4: she over a year, they started telling her she was nuts,
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Speaker 4: she's crazy, she was vomiting after eating, and eventually she
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Speaker 4: just found her own way into a vegan diet because
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Speaker 4: that's the only way she could function and take care
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Speaker 4: of her family. And it was months after that that
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Speaker 4: they knew to test for that, and they were like, oh,
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Speaker 4: you have alpha gal. You're not crazy. And so that
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Speaker 4: is one reason why we felt it was very important
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Speaker 4: to do this show because it may be more common
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Speaker 4: to some of us in the Ozarks or in the Midwest,
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Speaker 4: and even in the Southeast too, where it is most prevalent.
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Speaker 4: But spreading the awareness because there could be someone out
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Speaker 4: there suffering right now with just mysterious symptoms and not
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Speaker 4: even know that they could ask for a test to
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Speaker 4: test for alpha gal. A lot of doctors don't know.
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Speaker 1: Well, and Jamie, this isn't just theoretical book knowledge. You
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Speaker 1: didn't just sit down one day and google this thing out.
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Speaker 1: This is very personal to you. Yeah, you want to
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Speaker 1: talk just briefly about your encounter with what happened with
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Speaker 1: your family with this whole thing.
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Speaker 4: Yes, we were new to the Ozarks and we have
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Speaker 4: ten acres. We have to do a lot of weeding,
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Speaker 4: bush whacking. Well, my husband often would get chiger bytes
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Speaker 4: and things like that. Well, there was one day where
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Speaker 4: we were just relaxing after a long day and I
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Speaker 4: had given my husband a chip and this does relate,
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Speaker 4: I promise. It was a sweet potato chip, and within
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Speaker 4: two minutes he started to break out in hives. And
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Speaker 4: the joke was you were trying to kill me with
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Speaker 4: this sweet potato chip that he had never had before.
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Speaker 4: He's like, I must be allergic to sweet potatoes. And
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Speaker 4: it was a long time of just random allergic reactions
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Speaker 4: and he couldn't figure it out. I remember that, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: horrible gut issues, hives, And it took months of testing
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Speaker 4: and doctor visits to find out that it was alpha gal.
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Speaker 4: But here's the thing you're not going to like.
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Speaker 2: Joe.
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Speaker 4: He had had chiger bytes many times, both of us
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Speaker 4: have our children. Chiger Bytes are very very normal, very
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Speaker 4: very common. He had only had one tick bite. It
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Speaker 4: was a very small tick and it was barely even attached,
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Speaker 4: and it was on the outside of his pinky toe.
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Speaker 4: You know sometimes that area can get callous, so it
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Speaker 4: wasn't even hardly and there he just plucked it right
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Speaker 4: off head and everything was crawling normal and alpha gal.
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Speaker 4: So the doctors told him, because they also are taught,
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Speaker 4: you know, well, it needs to be latched, likely for
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Speaker 4: twenty four hours or more for you to get it.
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Speaker 4: So they're thinking it could have been the chiggers.
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Speaker 1: Actually, now no, I know, and here we are in
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Speaker 1: the Midwest. I don't like any of this, but we
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Speaker 1: are hearing about this on the rise. And that's the
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Speaker 1: other reason we wanted to do this program, because this
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Speaker 1: program literally specializes in featuring the emergent stuff that most
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Speaker 1: of you know, the Babylonian construct either knows very little
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Speaker 1: about or they're just learning of it themselves. The things
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Speaker 1: that they offer are just not in keeping with the
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Speaker 1: natural stuff that God is going to use likely to
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Speaker 1: bring true lasting restoration. So where are we seeing this
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Speaker 1: the most right now?
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Speaker 4: It's definitely most prevalent in the Midwest, the southeast, but
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Speaker 4: there are parts of some of the northern areas also
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Speaker 4: seeing them now. Unfortunately, especially we're not getting those cold
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Speaker 4: winters that would normally kill a lot of them off,
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Speaker 4: and so it is spreading.
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Speaker 1: It's getting bad.
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Speaker 4: It is getting really bad.
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Speaker 1: One of the challenges Ashley, with alpha gal is that
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Speaker 1: it often goes undiagnosed. And I know that that was
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Speaker 1: your early on experience. That was John Woodle, my friend
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Speaker 1: Jamie's husband, you know, and they're looking at allergies or
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Speaker 1: elimination diets, or they're telling you to talk to an
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Speaker 1: allergist or like in your case. Last week, she talked
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Speaker 1: about doctors just telling her, well, it's an unknown autoimmune condition.
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Speaker 1: We really don't know what's causing this. What are some
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Speaker 1: of the most common symptoms. If people are maybe watching
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Speaker 1: this and they're like, I don't know, do I have
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Speaker 1: alpha gl what is this?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Common symptoms can even go down to feeling overwhelming fatigue,
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Speaker 2: like being just run down, headaches, night sweats, cold st
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Speaker 2: what and you vomiting, upset digestion, so they're having to
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Speaker 2: frequent bathrooms. So if you're vomiting, if you have an
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Speaker 2: under the skin rash, because most of the time, when
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Speaker 2: we think it, all of our jer direction it's on
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Speaker 2: top right and it itches, and we have hives and
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Speaker 2: we've got bumps. Even if you have under the skin
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Speaker 2: rash and it's not itching but it is spreading, that
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Speaker 2: can be a sign of it as well. So I'd
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Speaker 2: say just monitor your symptoms and i'd write and document
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Speaker 2: everything down when you got the symptom, how long it's
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Speaker 2: been taking, and what you did to relieve it, and
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Speaker 2: if it did relieve it in any way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very elusive, it's very difficult, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of states, I imagine, probably aren't even prioritizing these types
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Speaker 1: of tests and stuff. If you live in a region
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Speaker 1: that doesn't really get you know, specifically tick bites and stuff.
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Speaker 1: But man, oh man, we've been in Missouri for you know,
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Speaker 1: nearly twenty years, and I have seen the occasional tick
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Speaker 1: bite too. There are just lead of them now, and
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Speaker 1: I mean that literally, there are just legions of them
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Speaker 1: now with tick exposure being a major risk. Let's get
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Speaker 1: into my favorite direction of this show, practical steps, and
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Speaker 1: we're going to be talking briefly about essential oils and
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Speaker 1: also your journey. Last week, I wanted to draw out
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Speaker 1: a little bit more of some of the things that
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Speaker 1: you did in addition to just gut prioritizing fermented foods, probiotics,
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Speaker 1: where there are other things lifestyle, you know, spiritual. Were
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Speaker 1: there things that you leaned into to get you past
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Speaker 1: the symptomology of alpha gel.
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Speaker 2: For the first two years of my diagnosis, I was
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Speaker 2: not very happy in anyway. I actually struggled and I
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Speaker 2: prayed almost daily. I was like, God, why are you
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Speaker 2: allowing me to go through this? I'm mad, you know,
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Speaker 2: my family's struggling and I'm struggling, and I don't understand
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Speaker 2: why I have to go through it.
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Speaker 3: And of course God.
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Speaker 2: Is very patient, He's like child just wait and you'll understand.
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Speaker 2: And so it took a little bit of time, but
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Speaker 2: that prayer and that consistent being with him, God, I
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Speaker 2: need your help.
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Speaker 3: Please Lord, bless this food.
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Speaker 2: Let's make sure that we're not having an allergic reaction today.
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Speaker 2: I would really like not to use my eppiepen. And
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Speaker 2: he's always faithful. He's always going to be there, especially
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Speaker 2: for his children. So that was my number one. Like
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Speaker 2: I always turned to him even when I was mad.
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Speaker 2: He wants us mad when we come to him, right mad,
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Speaker 2: happy said, he wants it all. And so after that,
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Speaker 2: it was looking at all the labels, making sure that
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Speaker 2: I wasn't getting that cross contamination and really honing in
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Speaker 2: on that.
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Speaker 1: Cross contamination of what for those that maybe aren't sure
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Speaker 1: what you mean by that.
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Speaker 2: So my allergy, like I said last week, is so
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Speaker 2: severe that milk products especially were my highest allergy. So
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Speaker 2: if there was any traces of milk or it says
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Speaker 2: may contain or on equipment with or possibly on equipment, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And that's on everything anything that has a label on it,
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Speaker 4: like would have that.
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Speaker 2: So I had to really focus in on reading every
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Speaker 2: single label. Not just that, but I had to cut
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Speaker 2: out you know certain medications that I was taking, because
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Speaker 2: medications too contain gelatin capsules.
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Speaker 3: That's bovine, man.
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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine you trying to just carve some
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Speaker 1: of those things out of your existence.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, even further into that in everything, Yeah it is.
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Speaker 2: Most people don't know about this medication. It's called magnesium steerrate,
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Speaker 2: and it's actually bovine bone particles inside the medicines itself.
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Speaker 3: So it's a filler.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know in fact magnesium steer rate. Not
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Speaker 3: To be honest.
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Speaker 2: I didn't start taking supplements until way later in my journey.
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Speaker 2: Actually just two years ago is when I really started
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Speaker 2: honing in on what my body really needed and what
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Speaker 2: was missing. So I had to go to the hospital.
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Speaker 2: I was severely malnourished. I was losing a lot of
14:28
Speaker 2: blood somewhere in my body. We didn't quite know where
14:32
Speaker 2: it was coming from. But I was so tired. I
14:35
Speaker 2: couldn't sleep and I was up all the time. So
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Speaker 2: they took my iron levels and they said, your ferretin
14:42
Speaker 2: is at a two percent and you are severely malnourished.
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Speaker 3: We need you to start taking the iron.
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Speaker 1: Aw you were conscious at that point.
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Speaker 2: By the grace of God, I was still functioning, taking
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Speaker 2: care of at the time five children and running a household.
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Speaker 2: So it was God the whole time. I shouldn't be here,
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Speaker 2: but I am, so all glory goes to him on
15:03
Speaker 2: that one. But that's when I started to really figure
15:08
Speaker 2: out what my body needed, because everybody's bodies are different.
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Speaker 2: What might work for me might not work for you.
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Speaker 2: And I needed that over consumption of iron in order
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Speaker 2: to continue life.
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Speaker 3: But not just that.
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Speaker 2: When you take iron, you have to take other supplements
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Speaker 2: to bind that iron, to make sure that it's going through.
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Speaker 3: The entire body.
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Speaker 2: So I really started learning about that just about two
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Speaker 2: years ago, and that's changed my life completely.
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Speaker 1: Just an understanding of how to nourish your body. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I would love to tell you there's a bullet
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Speaker 1: this what I'm hearing you describe. In my view, if
15:48
Speaker 1: I'm watching this at home and I don't have experience,
15:50
Speaker 1: what I'm hearing you describe is if you have any
15:52
Speaker 1: of these symptoms, you may want to ask your doctor
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Speaker 1: to run a panel specifically for alpha gal And if
15:58
Speaker 1: you find out that that is part of your dilemma
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Speaker 1: or the whole of the dilemma, you probably are looking
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16:14
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16:19
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16:28
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16:31
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16:36
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Speaker 1: I just want to say before we turn the channel
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Speaker 1: that there are people in the natural holistic community been
17:59
Speaker 1: talking about practic tishers, chiropractors, naturopathic doctors that are using
18:03
Speaker 1: homeopathic approach and like, for example, my good friend doctor
18:08
Speaker 1: Josh Vance, that you've heard me talk about many, many
18:11
Speaker 1: times for a decade now, as he was instrumental to
18:14
Speaker 1: helping me get my gut under control a decade ago,
18:17
Speaker 1: instrumental in my leaving what I call the Babylonian construct.
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Speaker 1: He's very sober, but he uses homeopathic medicine and he
18:26
Speaker 1: tells me that they've had nearly one hundred percent success
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Speaker 1: rate getting alpha gal into remission with homeopathic bials. Now,
18:33
Speaker 1: if you want to look him up, Josh Vance, amazing
18:36
Speaker 1: chiropractor in Republic, Missouri, you can contact Vance Chiropractic. You
18:40
Speaker 1: can set your appointment up if you live out here
18:42
Speaker 1: in the Midwest and you want to make it a
18:44
Speaker 1: day trip. They see people from all over the place.
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Speaker 1: They might even be willing to work you in as
18:48
Speaker 1: a zoom, but you'd have to check with them about it.
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Speaker 1: But there are others like doctor Matthew Sam's, So it
18:53
Speaker 1: could be that you might be able to look up
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Speaker 1: a homeopathic doctor and say, are you guys doing stuff
18:58
Speaker 1: with alpha gl and that might be one of the
19:01
Speaker 1: ways that you can avoid dealing with some of these
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Speaker 1: medications where they're sneaking a lot of these bovine factors
19:07
Speaker 1: in and you take something maybe orally that you don't
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Speaker 1: even know is part of the continuing trigger, which I know, Jamie,
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Speaker 1: you've got more to say about all the ways that
19:16
Speaker 1: these are being presented in our foods and in our
19:19
Speaker 1: capsules and our everything, our supplements.
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Speaker 4: Go ahead, I know you had touched on earlier. How
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Speaker 4: there is dairy or even traces of it, you know,
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Speaker 4: in everything, and when you have alpha gal your level
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Speaker 4: of sensitivity could vary. For example, my husband can have
19:33
Speaker 4: dairy and his numbers are getting better. He has it's
19:37
Speaker 4: been about a year since his diagnosis and he is
19:40
Speaker 4: getting better. A little cross contamination is fine, if there's
19:43
Speaker 4: a little bacon grease on something. He doesn't go into
19:45
Speaker 4: hives or anything. But it is in everything. Yeah, And
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Speaker 4: I know just because I have to avoid dairy for
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Speaker 4: sensitivity issues, not a reaction. But you'll find way in
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Speaker 4: all of the ultra processed foods nearly. I don't know
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Speaker 4: why they feel they need to put that into all
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Speaker 4: the baked goods. It is awful, but it goes beyond that.
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Speaker 4: There are things you don't think about. Drugs, medications that
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Speaker 4: you take. Some of them come in a gelatine capsule
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Speaker 4: or have fillers or other compounds in there related to
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Speaker 4: a mammal product. Also, another one that we don't think
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Speaker 4: about are injections, which are also known as biologics. They
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Speaker 4: can contain different kinds of animal product in there as well,
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Speaker 4: which could cause you to go into a reaction. And
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Speaker 4: here was one that blew my mind. Even some medical
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Speaker 4: devices like mesh and heart valves, things you don't think about.
20:37
Speaker 4: And so for those that are diagnosed or are seeking
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Speaker 4: a diagnosis, you could even be getting triggered by things
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Speaker 4: that aren't normally on your radar. But if you are
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Speaker 4: diagnosed or you suspect you are diagnosed, Number one, you
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Speaker 4: must avoid getting bit by a tick again because maybe
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Speaker 4: if you're a bit once then you have it, it's
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Speaker 4: not that bad, but if you get bit again, your
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Speaker 4: levels can skyrocket. And there are a lot of things
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Speaker 4: actually holistically that you can do, and I know you
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Speaker 4: and I have talked about this. We use essential oils
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Speaker 4: to help detour the ticks from even crawling on us
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Speaker 4: or biting us. Things like that, and we're going to.
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Speaker 1: Bring a few of these up on the screen in
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Speaker 1: the spirit of being useful, but go ahead and write
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Speaker 1: these down or take a screenshot. But we're talking about
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Speaker 1: apricot oil, witch hazel. That's a big one. We're going
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Speaker 1: to be building our own cocktails at home. Wich hazel
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Speaker 1: is going to be one of the primary features of
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Speaker 1: these sprays that we're going to be making naturally and
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Speaker 1: holistically to keep them off of us this summer when
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Speaker 1: we go out into the woods to serve the children
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Speaker 1: at Whispering Ponies Ranch. Tea tree oil is another big deterrent.
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Speaker 1: They do not like tea treo oil. Lemongrass, geranium is
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Speaker 1: a huge one. And you can go on YouTube, you
21:45
Speaker 1: can go anywhere where you watch social media. You can
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Speaker 1: find out videos. There's do it yourself, you know, DIY
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Speaker 1: videos on how to make your own sprays, oils, spreads, lotions,
21:56
Speaker 1: and then you're going to want to write down cedar wood.
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Speaker 1: That's another one really popular or another. They're available in
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Speaker 1: all kinds of different combinations, or you can make one
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Speaker 1: that you feel resonates with you, maybe even pray about it.
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Speaker 1: But those are some really powerful natural deterrence for applying
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Speaker 1: to yourself topically your shoes, your clothes.
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Speaker 4: Sulfur powder is another one as sw.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when you told me that you use on
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Speaker 1: your boots. That's really helped when you're out doing the
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Speaker 1: gardening and working in the soil. Ashley, getting back to
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Speaker 1: your journey, I think your journey is evidence that probably
22:26
Speaker 1: foretells a lot of people asking this question. Well, I've
22:30
Speaker 1: heard that alpha gel or. I went and looked it up,
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Speaker 1: and it looks like some people just get over it,
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Speaker 1: maybe very mild case, or maybe it just resolves over time.
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Speaker 1: In your case, you weren't so fortunate. No, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you view this in this framework. Do
22:47
Speaker 1: you think that God allowed you to experience the I mean,
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Speaker 1: just short of death, really pushing that ceiling of the
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Speaker 1: experience because he knew that someday you would meet people
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Speaker 1: with a platform like this where you can talk to
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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people that might be in your
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Speaker 1: shoes now as a surrogate for Hope. Yeah, because when
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Speaker 1: I look at your testimony, I think, man, this is
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Speaker 1: so familiar. God allows people to go through things. You
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Speaker 1: can't see it at the time, but it's because he's
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Speaker 1: preparing you to be a glimmer of hope, maybe the
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Speaker 1: one that pulls them out of the Babylonian construct, maybe
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Speaker 1: the one that has the story they latch onto, that
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Speaker 1: presents them with the hope that they needed in their
23:26
Speaker 1: darkest hour. And maybe for them that's you today. You
23:30
Speaker 1: haven't had this self resolving very quick six months stint.
23:34
Speaker 1: You've had to continue working on your diet. How do
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Speaker 1: you feel today versus what you said seven years ago
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Speaker 1: this all started.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be seven years this July that I've had it.
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Speaker 2: You know, I had that minor you stint of not
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Speaker 2: having it for six months, but even in that moment,
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Speaker 2: we were still trying to maintain somewhat.
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Speaker 3: Of the stability of the diet that we were having. Today,
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Speaker 3: I feel great. You know.
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Speaker 2: I've maintained this diet for quite some time now. It's
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Speaker 2: part of my life, it's part of who we are
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Speaker 2: at home, And you're right. God does allow some of
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Speaker 2: us to go through trials that are a little bit
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Speaker 2: more extended than others so that we can reach out
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Speaker 2: and give hope to those people.
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Speaker 3: I don't think just that though.
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Speaker 2: For me and my experience with this, he showed me
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Speaker 2: that it was really time to take care of the
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Speaker 2: body that He had given me. It's no longer time
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Speaker 2: to just use it the way that you want to.
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Speaker 2: It's time to treat it as the temple that He
24:38
Speaker 2: gave you.
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Speaker 3: Right And so in along the way, we found out
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Speaker 3: that you know, I.
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Speaker 2: Did have lupus. Now it's in remission. I had PCOS
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Speaker 2: and now it's in remission. And so by taking care
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Speaker 2: of my body, God healed it along the way.
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Speaker 3: And so but today I feel great.
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Speaker 1: I said this last week. We sit here and we
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Speaker 1: see a reoccurring pattern and I'm in that group as well.
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Speaker 1: If you go back to how heavy I was and
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Speaker 1: the abject disaster that my life felt at the time
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Speaker 1: we're talking about, you know, a decade or more ago,
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Speaker 1: with and they were testing me for They actually tested
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Speaker 1: me for limes. I came back very high side of meglavirus.
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Speaker 1: This isn't about me, and we've only got a couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes. But the point is, you can honestly see
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Speaker 1: where God used that desperate need to be well to
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Speaker 1: carve out all of this garbage from our lives. To learn,
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Speaker 1: like I'm sitting here listening to you talk about learning
25:35
Speaker 1: to read labels. I mean, I wrote time Bomb in
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. What was I talking about? Read the labels?
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Speaker 2: Like?
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Speaker 1: You know? The only difference between you and me and
25:44
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other people is maybe they haven't
25:46
Speaker 1: experienced their existential health crisis yet. But eighty percent of
25:50
Speaker 1: Americans are walking around with what did I call it
25:52
Speaker 1: ten years ago, almost a time bomb in their gut
25:56
Speaker 1: that they're not even aware is percolating, or maybe they're
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Speaker 1: treating it with pharmaceuticals and it blew up way back
26:02
Speaker 1: and they're suffering and they don't realize that it's diet related.
26:05
Speaker 1: They don't know that they need their cruciferous vegetables, they
26:08
Speaker 1: don't know that they need to detox their liver. They're
26:11
Speaker 1: actually making it worse through the pharmaceutical interventions that they're on.
26:16
Speaker 1: And so that's why this program exists, is we're here
26:18
Speaker 1: to illuminate people's testimonies. And I told the Lord a
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Speaker 1: decade ago, I said, Lord, if you would restore my health,
26:24
Speaker 1: which by the way, is not a one and done.
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Speaker 1: I never experienced what you see on TV sometime where
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Speaker 1: God just goes bing and man oh man, are you back.
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Speaker 1: It was this slow, pragmatic and today, ten years later,
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Speaker 1: I am no longer the man that I was. You
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Speaker 1: are no longer the human being that you were ten
26:42
Speaker 1: years ago. At times you don't even feel like you
26:44
Speaker 1: give an option to go back. You don't want to
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Speaker 1: go back, you would never go back, and in doing
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Speaker 1: that you're able to evangelize others and say, man, there
26:51
Speaker 1: is really hope. But it's a long, pragmatic process. I
26:54
Speaker 1: love the spontaneous healing. God can do it anytime he wants,
26:57
Speaker 1: but I'm convinced that he often allows us. There's people
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Speaker 1: here today going through things that I believe they're going
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Speaker 1: to overcome. But it's that long, pragmatic process of learning
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Speaker 1: how your temple works yea, and fueling it for good
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Speaker 1: as opposed to sabotaging it in ignorance. Does that make sense?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Joe, I agree. I think during this time
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Speaker 4: where we are doing this health journey and we are
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Speaker 4: working on our bodies, it is a time of pruning,
27:33
Speaker 4: a time of self examination and really seeking God and
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Speaker 4: refining us spiritually and physically as well.
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Speaker 1: Well. Ashley, we would love to have you back at
27:47
Speaker 1: some point in the future, we'll check back in on
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Speaker 1: see how you're doing. For everybody in studio, for everybody
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Speaker 1: up here on panel, Ashley Jamie, thank you for being
27:55
Speaker 1: here this week, right here on Life TV.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately we're all out of time. Keep your eyes on
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Speaker 1: the prize, which is Jesus Christ. We'll be back.
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