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A Tick Bite Changed Her Life! · Life TV now

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Speaker 1: On average, five hundred thousand people will be treated this
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Speaker 1: year for complications from the bite of a parasitic arachnid
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Speaker 1: that's rapidly on the rise in both bites and infections.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about ticks. Today's guest knows exactly what it's like,
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Speaker 1: the sudden itching, the nausea, the racing heart, and no
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Speaker 1: clear answers even from the doctors. After battling through a
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Speaker 1: brutal season of mysterious illness, the truth finally surfaced. It
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Speaker 1: all traced back to a tick bite that triggered a
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Speaker 1: condition known as alpha gal Now she's here to share
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Speaker 1: her experience, why people all across the country are experiencing
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Speaker 1: the same sicknesses, and how God showed her how to
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Speaker 1: fight back. Hello, everybody in wellcome to Life TV now,
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Speaker 1: where we unpack all matters of truth, faith and freedom.
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Speaker 1: Today we're going to be navigating some territory that for
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Speaker 1: me is really difficult because I really really don't like
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Speaker 1: some of the subject material. But I feel like God
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Speaker 1: would have us share some of this revelation on this
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Speaker 1: platform because there are people out there right now that
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Speaker 1: really need the information. Before we dive in, let me
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Speaker 1: introduce who's here. She's an integrative nutrition health coach with
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Speaker 1: a Master of Science and health education. Please welcome our
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Speaker 1: executive producer, Jamie Woodle, and she's a medical assistant, a
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Speaker 1: mother of three, and an Alpha gal survivor. Please welcome
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Speaker 1: Ashley Blake. Ladies and gentlemen. We have an absolutely incredible
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Speaker 1: off your next order. All right, now we dive in
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Speaker 1: to the important stuff, Ashley, as you've heard me now disclose.
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Speaker 1: You know, prior to the taping of this program, I
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Speaker 1: myself really grappled with things like tick bites, the idea
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Speaker 1: that chiggers carry this potential alpha gal this side effect
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Speaker 1: that people are suffering after they've been bitten by these
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Speaker 1: little critters. And I know that God makes all things perfect,
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Speaker 1: but we're living in a fallen world and some of
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Speaker 1: what He has created, it's okay for me to exist
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Speaker 1: maybe outside of it, like maybe that's why he also
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Speaker 1: created chickens so that they can scratch at the earth
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Speaker 1: and eat some of these things. But you know, we
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Speaker 1: live in the Midwest, and I'm not conflating this when
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Speaker 1: I say I've literally prayed about maybe relocating out of
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Speaker 1: the Midwest, but our operation is here, our ministry is here.
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Speaker 1: I cannot stand, can stand the creepy, crawley, bitey, slithery
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Speaker 1: little things. I just can't. Almost fifty year old man
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Speaker 1: martial arts for thirty years, can't stand the creepy, crawley
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Speaker 1: little things. And to me, the psychology of thinking that
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Speaker 1: one of these bites could land somebody with a syndrome
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Speaker 1: like alpha gal. And then of course it's elusive, and
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Speaker 1: doctors are testing and they can't come up with explanations
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Speaker 1: other than maybe it's all in your head. We don't
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Speaker 1: know why this is manifesting. You know firsthand the debilitating
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Speaker 1: effects of suffering something like alpha gal syndrome, and there
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Speaker 1: are people who die from this. It can be very serious.
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Speaker 1: It's no joke, which is why we refer to you
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Speaker 1: as a survivor. When I do the intro and I
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Speaker 1: say she's an Alpha gal survivor. Take us back to
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Speaker 1: life before your diagnosis, and then we'll get into more
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Speaker 1: specifically what it is. What is alpha gal? How does
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Speaker 1: it begin? Did you grow up in the Midwest?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely so, I've always grown up in southwest Missouri. This
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Speaker 2: is where my family is. We've always been here. So
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Speaker 2: as a kid, you know, life before Alpha Gal I
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Speaker 2: was a care free one. I walked in the woods barefoot,
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Speaker 2: I walked down the street barefoot. It didn't matter where
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Speaker 2: I went. I didn't care about the snakes. I was
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Speaker 2: a little afraid of those ticks. They weren't an issue
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Speaker 2: to me. I knew that if I got bit by
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Speaker 2: one and just take a pair of tweezers and just
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Speaker 2: pluck it off and be like, yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's that's what we're told here in Missouri, pick up
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Speaker 1: and flick them.
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Speaker 2: Yep. And so to me, it was nothing that I
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Speaker 2: thought I needed to worry about. Right. We had heard
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Speaker 2: about line disease and how ticks could carry it, but
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Speaker 2: we didn't really see an inflation of that as a kid.
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Speaker 2: And so, yeah, life here was you know, care free,
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Speaker 2: sure normal.
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Speaker 1: When did you first start noticing something in your health
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Speaker 1: was just not right? And was this following like a
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Speaker 1: known bite you you you experienced something new you could
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Speaker 1: isolate to that day, you know, I had that mysterious
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Speaker 1: bite from a bug. And then suddenly after that, like
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Speaker 1: take us through how this began to develop Back.
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Speaker 2: Then, I couldn't pinpoint when this started. Now I can.
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Speaker 2: It was at the very tail end of July of
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Speaker 2: nineteen twenty nineteen, and so I noticed that I was
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Speaker 2: just not feeling good. I was very sluggish, and it
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Speaker 2: was really kind of hard for me to breathe. And
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Speaker 2: at the time, I was living in Rogersville, and I
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Speaker 2: was surrounded by nothing but cattle farms in hayfields, and
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Speaker 2: so we just thought, hey, you're probably having allergic reaction
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Speaker 2: to your seasonal allergies, and it's nothing to really worry about.
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Speaker 2: But then it got worse. And then I started to,
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Speaker 2: you know, develop just vomiting every day. It'd be frank
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Speaker 2: throwing up everything. I couldn't keep anything down. I was
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Speaker 2: extremely dehydrated. And then it got worse. I started having
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Speaker 2: hives all over my body and I couldn't sleep. He's
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Speaker 2: my ex husband now, but he told me that I
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Speaker 2: had sleep ATNA He's like, you stop breathing in the
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Speaker 2: middle of the night. You're not breathing, and I'm like, well,
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Speaker 2: that's not good. Maybe we should go check out what's
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Speaker 2: going on. Because I'm you know, I'm trying to take benager.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to take clariton, and I'm trying to take
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Speaker 2: these things that they tell us to take to to
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Speaker 2: help with allergies, and nothing seems to be working. And
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Speaker 2: I did that for probably a good month before seeing
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Speaker 2: a doctor.
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Speaker 1: Wow, just daily vomiting, daily touches whatever this thing is
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Speaker 1: your maushes. You had like almost like egzema, like skin rashes, and.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I grew up with ezema, so it definitely looked
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Speaker 2: like it. But it didn't itch at the time, Like,
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Speaker 2: it wasn't itchy. It just just popped up on my
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Speaker 2: face and on my arms and on my chest.
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Speaker 1: Does it look like hives like little raspberries or didn't.
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Speaker 2: It was actually underneath the skin. And so it was
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Speaker 2: just these red patches all over my body. And I'm like,
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Speaker 2: it's not itchy. And I would tell my mom. I'd
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Speaker 2: call my mom, it's not itching. I don't understand why
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Speaker 2: it's all over my body. It's on my neck and
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Speaker 2: my face, and I don't know what's going on. She's like,
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Speaker 2: you need to go see a doctor now. And I'm like,
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Speaker 2: all right, well I probably should.
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Speaker 1: You started experiencing that roughly, you know, fall of you know,
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. This goes on for thirty days something. You
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Speaker 1: finally go start seeing doctors? Yes, what was that like?
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Speaker 1: With a knowledgeable with a kind of looking at you
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Speaker 1: like I have no idea what this girl is talking about.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah no, they had no idea. They I went
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Speaker 2: in and I told them all my symptoms and they're like, well,
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Speaker 2: it sounds like you could be allergic to something that
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Speaker 2: you're eating. Like have you changed your diet, have you
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Speaker 2: done anything with your laundry detergent? What are you consuming?
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Speaker 2: What are you putting on your body? And I'm like,
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Speaker 2: I haven't done anything. I'm the same that I've always
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Speaker 2: been eating the same foods and washing my body with
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Speaker 2: the same products and you know, washing my clothes with
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Speaker 2: the same products. Nothing's changed. They're like, well, we really
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Speaker 2: don't know what this is. This was the first appointment,
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Speaker 2: and they're like, maybe, you know, take some more Bena
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Speaker 2: droll and start cutting some things out to kind of
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Speaker 2: figure out what's going on. So they kind of let
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Speaker 2: us orination diet or something.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they left me kind of high and dry. They're like,
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Speaker 2: you should be fine. Take some more benadryl. You're not
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Speaker 2: really in a state where we're worried about it.
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Speaker 1: Were they drawing like blood labs or did they not yet?
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Speaker 1: Not yet.
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Speaker 2: No, they were just assessing my symptoms and what I
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Speaker 2: was experiencing at the time.
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Speaker 1: So you go back home. I'm assuming the symptoms just continue. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And at what point, I mean, do you have like
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Speaker 1: family now worried, like what in the world. They're thinking,
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Speaker 1: maybe something's wrong with your stomach, or maybe the doctors
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Speaker 1: are going to discover something that you know, diabolical that
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Speaker 1: explains this, maybe with your pancreas or something like this
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Speaker 1: is not right. She's thrown up every day.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, So my mom was most worried about it.
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Speaker 2: She's like, you are not well. Well, I haven't seen
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Speaker 2: you ever like this. She's like, maybe, you know, the
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Speaker 2: doctor's previously had given me a unidentified on immmune disease.
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Speaker 2: So she's like, maybe this is what we've been waiting for,
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe we've been waiting for them to find
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Speaker 2: out what's going on with your body that way we
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Speaker 2: can heal it.
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Speaker 1: So they said something like you may have an autoimmune disease. Yes,
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Speaker 1: did they say, But we're going to do some testing
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Speaker 1: to try to determine which one or just you might
10:29
Speaker 1: have something they.
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Speaker 2: Did do testing at a time, they said that I
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Speaker 2: had lupus, and then they took it back and they
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Speaker 2: went back to saying, you have an unidentified on immune disease.
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Speaker 2: And so my mom's like really honing in on hopefully
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Speaker 2: they'll just label her with what they labeled her before
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Speaker 2: and we can move on to healing and so but
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Speaker 2: that's definitely not what happens.
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Speaker 1: No. I just the reason I'm thinking this way is
10:56
Speaker 1: because we have so many viewers and I hear this
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Speaker 1: when we do conferences and I present on health. Say,
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Speaker 1: I was so relieved when they finally labeled my disease.
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Speaker 1: They told me it was diverticulosis, they told me it
11:07
Speaker 1: was Crohne's disease, they told me it was lupus or fibromyalgia.
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Speaker 1: There's almost a sense of like, okay, because now at
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Speaker 1: least we know what we're going after, right And of
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Speaker 1: course we're not going to get into this today. But
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Speaker 1: I am not a big fan of, you know, becoming
11:21
Speaker 1: the label if you want to diagnose or prescribe, and
11:24
Speaker 1: you find that beneficial for your own peace of mind,
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Speaker 1: because now you know kind of how to go, you know,
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Speaker 1: look at the symptomology and then go after reversing that naturally.
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Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan. You know, in allopathic medicine, we
11:35
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of long term healing from people
11:37
Speaker 1: with autoimmune disease. We just see symptom management. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: you get your diagnosis finally win or was there more?
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Speaker 1: Did things continuously advanced? Now they've said generally maybe an
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Speaker 1: autoimmune disease at some point, did someone along the way
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Speaker 1: figure this thing out?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely So it was October of twenty nineteen, so
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Speaker 2: it was several months later finally I went to the er.
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Speaker 2: My face had swollen up at this time, so I
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Speaker 2: was in anaphylactic shock. I can't breathe, I can't swallow,
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Speaker 2: and I'm having a really hard time, and they're like, okay,
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Speaker 2: well we'll do blood work and see what we can do.
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Speaker 2: I think I was there a total of maybe six
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Speaker 2: to ten hours waiting. They had given me a shot
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Speaker 2: of benadryl and they said this might amp you up
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Speaker 2: a little bit. You know, we're going to help you
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Speaker 2: try and go to sleep and gave me something else
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Speaker 2: and so by the time I woke up, They're like,
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Speaker 2: we finally have an answer for you, and I'm like, so,
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Speaker 2: what's going on in my body? They're like, you have
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Speaker 2: what's called alpha gal I was like, what's that and
12:48
Speaker 2: they're like, you're allergic to all red meat products and
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Speaker 2: their byproducts. I was like, that doesn't make sense, and
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Speaker 2: they said, well, it comes from a tick. And that's
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Speaker 2: when my brain went back to when in July. I
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Speaker 2: was like, oh goodness, the light bulb. Yep, it was
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Speaker 2: right there.
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Speaker 1: I have to ask, and this is as much for
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Speaker 1: me as it is the viewers at home. Most of
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Speaker 1: the research I've done on tick bites, conventional thinking is
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Speaker 1: twenty four to thirty six hours before there's a transference
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Speaker 1: of bacterium or something that would give rise to something
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Speaker 1: like limes disease. And so I've taken great solace over
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Speaker 1: the last, you know, almost twenty years living in the Midwest.
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Speaker 1: If you catch it early, you minimize risks. Why do
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Speaker 1: I have this suspenseful feeling You're gonna shatter that thinking.
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Speaker 1: Do you have a memory of this thing being latched
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Speaker 1: on for a while or was it just this vague
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Speaker 1: little pick and flick And.
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Speaker 2: You're not gonna like me answer. So we were at
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Speaker 2: a family reunion in Poplar Bluff and we were camping,
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Speaker 2: and it was nothing for us to go camping. We
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Speaker 2: were a very avid camping family, so we went every year.
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Speaker 2: And I had noticed it the day that we started camping.
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Speaker 2: We were hiking in the woods and I was like, ooh,
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Speaker 2: something itches on my leg. I bent over and I
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Speaker 2: just picked and flicked.
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Speaker 1: As I continue my inquisition. Do you know if when
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Speaker 1: you picked it very hastily, any parts of it remained
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Speaker 1: in you? Because that's the other thing. I'm always very pragmatic.
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Speaker 1: I'm very slow. We use it's a special type of tweezer.
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Speaker 1: It's like a little tiny crowbar is what it looks like.
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Speaker 1: The very tiny and there's like four sizes depending on
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Speaker 1: the size of the tick. And I always pulled very pragmatically.
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Speaker 1: Usually within about thirty to sixty seconds they'll release, and
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Speaker 1: then I watched them crawl to make sure that we
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Speaker 1: got the head, We got everything. Why do I still
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Speaker 1: continue to hate this face you're making like he was
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Speaker 1: still intact, He appeared alive. Did you do you recall
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Speaker 1: or did you just flick?
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Speaker 2: I don't recall it than.
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Speaker 1: QA, because now there's a chance you were hasty and
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Speaker 1: some part of it lingered on.
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Speaker 2: I will say that he was very small, Okay, so
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Speaker 2: he wasn't a big tick. Okay, it was a very
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Speaker 2: small tick. And so that that's what confused me at
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Speaker 2: first when they gave me the diagnosis. I was like,
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Speaker 2: the last time I got bit was in July and
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Speaker 2: he was very small. How could he do that?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: How could a small little thing like that cause such
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Speaker 2: a detrimental in my health?
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Speaker 1: And I'm doing this as the protagonist for those of
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Speaker 1: you on the couch at home, because this is going
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Speaker 1: to be anybody that looked into this another wave of
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Speaker 1: solace that people take. You know, they say that the
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Speaker 1: smaller the seed ticks, now that the ones you got
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Speaker 1: to worry about are the ones that look more lone star.
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Speaker 1: Those are the larger with the dot in the back.
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Speaker 1: Those are the ones that have had seasons to bite
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Speaker 1: deers and to bite and travel and fall off of
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Speaker 1: wildlife and now infect you. You're saying this was a
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Speaker 1: very small tick.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't say it was big. I didn't see
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Speaker 2: any white dot on the back of it. I'd say
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Speaker 2: probably just your average little one that you might get,
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Speaker 2: not the tiniest tiniest ones you've seen, but just like
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Speaker 2: your little little tiny I'm trying.
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Speaker 1: To think of something to compare it to, and eminem
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Speaker 1: would be like a grape seed tick. Those are massive,
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Speaker 1: they're disgusting.
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Speaker 3: Watermelon seed maybe.
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Speaker 1: Watermelon seed is that bigger?
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Speaker 2: I I would say, is this is this seed to know?
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Speaker 1: Or do you guys track with this? Because listen, if
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Speaker 1: you live in a place where these things live, you
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Speaker 1: you want to believe that there are some steps that
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Speaker 1: you can take to make sure that you're minimizing these risks.
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Speaker 1: So you're saying a poppy seed, well, that would be
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Speaker 1: what I would consider a seed tick.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Any smaller than that and they become to work. I
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Speaker 1: mean I can't barely see them. Yeah. I don't like it, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: I really don't like it. I was hoping you'd help
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Speaker 1: me out today. No, there's good news coming. Okay, So
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Speaker 1: you get this diagnosis. Did al pathic medicine offer you
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Speaker 1: anything other than the diagnosis that was beneficial or was
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Speaker 1: it you know, at least having a name something you
17:07
Speaker 1: could go read about. When did you feel that you
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Speaker 1: were that you were getting a grasp on recovery?
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Speaker 2: Well, go to your first question, they did not help
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Speaker 2: at all. They basically said, you have this stay away
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Speaker 2: from eating red meat and anything that might come from
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Speaker 2: a mammal. They're like, that's the only way that you're
17:27
Speaker 2: going to get any better. And I was like, okay.
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Speaker 2: They're like, you'll have a allergist and he'll talk to
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Speaker 2: you about what he knows. Because this is brand new
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Speaker 2: to us. We don't know what's going on. You're not
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Speaker 2: the first person in the Ozarks to get this, but
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Speaker 2: it's very rare at the time. And I was like, okay,
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Speaker 2: that doesn't help at all. And so I was like, already.
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming you talked to an allergist and you probably
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Speaker 1: cut out, you know, meats and things and took some suggestions.
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Speaker 1: Did help. Did you start feeling better?
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Speaker 2: I did. It took a long time to feel better
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Speaker 2: because my allergy, they told me, was so severe that
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Speaker 2: they said that even the smell of cooking meat was
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Speaker 2: going to close my airway.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Wow. And so they automatically gave me several EpiPens and
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Speaker 2: were like, if you feel like you can't breathe, obviously
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Speaker 2: please use it. Follow instructions. And so it was probably
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Speaker 2: closer to January by the time where I wasn't still
18:37
Speaker 2: throwing up every day. Even though I had cut out
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Speaker 2: the meat and cut out the dairy and any mammal
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Speaker 2: bride products, I was still having. It was that initial
18:47
Speaker 2: overload of the meats and the allergic reaction. It still
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Speaker 2: took time to heal from that.
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Speaker 1: What did that do to your life? I mean just
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Speaker 1: your family, the told the Did you believe that, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you continue to be sick. Did you believe that at
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Speaker 1: some point this trend would help you, that the avoiding
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Speaker 1: of meats and that recovery would come. I just imagine
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Speaker 1: that that was just brutal your family going through that.
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Speaker 2: It was because at first, it actually took several years
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Speaker 2: for my ex husband's family to believe that I even
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Speaker 2: had an allergy. They're like, well, why don't you still
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Speaker 2: have this, and we'll cook for you and I said
19:23
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't in a risk it. They're like,
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Speaker 2: we're cooking breakfast and why don't you guys come over
19:30
Speaker 2: for breakfast. We've got bacon and sausage, and I'm like,
19:33
Speaker 2: I can't come into your home and they're like, well,
19:37
Speaker 2: that's not fair, and I said, no, it's not fair.
19:40
Speaker 2: But I'm here to take care of the body that
19:44
Speaker 2: God has given me, and I can't. I'm sorry. And
19:47
Speaker 2: so it didn't take just a toll on my small
19:50
Speaker 2: children at the time, but it took a toll on
19:53
Speaker 2: our extended family at the time as well. So at
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Speaker 2: the time when right after I got the diagnosis and
20:00
Speaker 2: I went to the allergist, they told me, don't fear
20:04
Speaker 2: this could go away between a year to two years,
20:07
Speaker 2: and I was like, yes, that's what I'm hoping for,
20:10
Speaker 2: and maybe we can even dial it down a little
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Speaker 2: bit and make it six months so I don't have
20:15
Speaker 2: to wait that long for healing. And so that part
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Speaker 2: also took a toll in my family. They expected me
20:23
Speaker 2: to heal very quickly, and when that didn't come, it
20:27
Speaker 2: caused a lot of resentment.
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Speaker 1: You became the symbol of just stress.
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Speaker 2: And like, what, yeah, a lot of stress. We couldn't
20:35
Speaker 2: go out to eat anymore, We couldn't go to families
20:38
Speaker 2: houses or friends' houses, and it was you know, I'm
20:42
Speaker 2: always cooking, and I'm learning now how to cook properly
20:46
Speaker 2: with alpha gal and the new foods I need to
20:49
Speaker 2: bring and you know, some spices have milk products well
20:54
Speaker 2: for sure, and so it was, you know, very much
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Speaker 2: making sure that everything that we put in the house
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Speaker 2: was not going to cause me to have a allergic reaction.
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Speaker 3: That sounds very isolating, very it waslating, isolating. But you actually,
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Speaker 3: when we were talking about your journey, you had mentioned
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Speaker 3: you had a slight reprieve during one of your pregnancies.
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Speaker 2: I did, and it was with my son. So my
21:22
Speaker 2: son is now four. And so about four years ago,
21:26
Speaker 2: halfway through my journey, the doctor, during a standard visit
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Speaker 2: for blood work, said, congratulations, you do not have alpha
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Speaker 2: gal anymore. And I'm like, you're joking, and They're like, nope,
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Speaker 2: you are alpha galfree. Go ahead and eat whatever you want.
21:42
Speaker 2: You don't have to just reintroduce it. It's completely gone.
21:46
Speaker 2: And I was like, that sounds great.
21:48
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
21:49
Speaker 2: That was about six months into my pregnancy. So for
21:53
Speaker 2: the next six months I was eating again and it
21:57
Speaker 2: was great. And my son was born, and you know,
22:00
Speaker 2: I was feeling a lot better because at the time
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Speaker 2: before that, I was very malnourished. I wasn't, you know,
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Speaker 2: supplementing the way that I should have been. And so
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Speaker 2: when we got closer to having my next blood draw,
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Speaker 2: is when I had my next allergic reaction, and it
22:19
Speaker 2: was the worst allergic reaction that I have ever had.
22:23
Speaker 2: The entire time, my face, I think, blew up almost
22:28
Speaker 2: four times as big I sent you a picture of it.
22:32
Speaker 2: It was very painful this time. It actually hurt to
22:37
Speaker 2: just even touch my face. There was so much swelling.
22:40
Speaker 2: I was oozing water. I was using my own oils
22:45
Speaker 2: out of my face. It was very hard. It is,
22:49
Speaker 2: you know, several months after my son was born, so
22:52
Speaker 2: a total of six months of being able to eat
22:55
Speaker 2: whatever I wanted.
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Speaker 1: If you're watching the show, though, and you're wanting us
22:58
Speaker 1: to rush right into you know, the protocols and what
23:01
Speaker 1: she did in terms of lifestyle and maybe some supplements
23:03
Speaker 1: and other things, and how do I prevent We're going
23:06
Speaker 1: to be talking about that probably a lot next week,
23:09
Speaker 1: because we were never going to get through all of
23:11
Speaker 1: this today. We're down to like four minutes already. But
23:14
Speaker 1: having said that, being that, next week we're going to
23:15
Speaker 1: focus a lot more on the what to do is.
23:17
Speaker 1: I do want to offer people that are watching this
23:19
Speaker 1: program some steps that they can start with. So I
23:22
Speaker 1: heard you say a minute ago, you said something like
23:24
Speaker 1: I wasn't supplementing properly. I wasn't quite eating quite right.
23:28
Speaker 1: So even though you were avoiding all of these meats
23:30
Speaker 1: and then you'd had this reprieve with this pregnancy, what
23:33
Speaker 1: I'm hearing is it all just came flooding back, and
23:35
Speaker 1: now what you're now back to, I can't eat whatever
23:38
Speaker 1: I want anymore, and now I have to go back
23:39
Speaker 1: to the tricky diet. Were you thinking at the time,
23:43
Speaker 1: this is my life. I now can only eat two things,
23:46
Speaker 1: and I'm sick of them, and I'm probably malnourished because
23:50
Speaker 1: I can't handle a diverse variety of foods that would
23:53
Speaker 1: maybe give me all my macro nutrients micronutrients. Would you've
23:56
Speaker 1: even thought about those words? Were you even looking at
23:58
Speaker 1: this thing holistically? Yet? Was there some part of this
24:02
Speaker 1: that eventually brought you face to face with somebody that
24:05
Speaker 1: thought more naturally and thought, you know, here are some
24:07
Speaker 1: other things we're learning about this, or tweaks that you
24:09
Speaker 1: could make.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, before the pregnancy, I was trying a more holistic route.
24:15
Speaker 2: I just wasn't having the right supplements. The supplements that
24:19
Speaker 2: I was using just weren't working for my body. But
24:23
Speaker 2: I was working on my gut health like. That was
24:26
Speaker 2: the turning point that I saw was cleaning the body
24:30
Speaker 2: and completely restructuring the gut. Okay, that's when I started
24:34
Speaker 2: to feel better. And so by taking care of my
24:37
Speaker 2: gut health, what I did was I started implementing fermented foods,
24:42
Speaker 2: so kimbuches and then sara krauts, and then kim chi
24:46
Speaker 2: and all of these things that most people don't think
24:49
Speaker 2: that they taste very good, but after a while not
24:53
Speaker 2: being able to eat anything, you're going this tastes fantastic.
24:57
Speaker 2: So I implemented that on a daily basis, small amounts
25:00
Speaker 2: here and there throughout my day, and I saw an
25:03
Speaker 2: increased improvement on the way that I felt, the way
25:08
Speaker 2: that my joints and my muscles felt, and my daily
25:12
Speaker 2: fog because I had brain frog like no other free years.
25:16
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because week after week we sit
25:19
Speaker 1: in the studio Jamie, and people walk in with their
25:21
Speaker 1: testimonies of all types of afflictions and disease varieties, and
25:25
Speaker 1: much of it in remission now and then there will
25:28
Speaker 1: be those that say, you know, I have to keep
25:29
Speaker 1: working on this. So I'm living proof that you have
25:32
Speaker 1: to keep working for me. It's not even a goal
25:34
Speaker 1: to go back to what I did ten years ago.
25:37
Speaker 1: I have no interest in it whatsoever. The way that
25:40
Speaker 1: I took care of my took care of my body.
25:42
Speaker 1: But one of the common threads that you hear week
25:44
Speaker 1: after week after week is, you know, people will start
25:48
Speaker 1: saying that they turned that corner, they started seeing those
25:51
Speaker 1: initial little waves of improvement, whatever it was, fibromyalgia, Crohn's disease,
25:56
Speaker 1: some of the things we've talked about. It's that moment
25:59
Speaker 1: that they start to talk about what their gut health. Absolutely,
26:04
Speaker 1: the gut is the river that moves through the center
26:06
Speaker 1: of your body, and it is the river toward life
26:09
Speaker 1: or it is the river toward death. And you make
26:11
Speaker 1: decisions every day what you put on the end of
26:14
Speaker 1: your fork, whether you're moving toward life, whether you're moving
26:17
Speaker 1: toward death. And there's a bunch of reasons for this.
26:20
Speaker 1: When she talks about fermented foods, she's repopulating something in
26:24
Speaker 1: her gut called healthy biome. These are the good critters.
26:27
Speaker 1: These are the healthy bacterium that are there as a
26:29
Speaker 1: proponent for your health. They're eating the nutrients down for
26:32
Speaker 1: you so that you can absorb them into the lining
26:35
Speaker 1: of your digestive tracks. They're advocating for you, but we
26:38
Speaker 1: often in this country, especially because of our high carb,
26:41
Speaker 1: high sugar diets, we're overgrown with things like SEBO small
26:45
Speaker 1: intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or candidas or yeast or fungal overgrowths.
26:50
Speaker 1: They're only they're parasitically for themselves. That's why you have
26:54
Speaker 1: the brain fog and you can't sleep at night, and
26:56
Speaker 1: you're dealing with insomnia, and your guts are a mess
26:58
Speaker 1: and your hormones are out. We're not going to do
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Speaker 1: a full teaching today on how to restore gut health.
27:02
Speaker 1: But I find that interesting because I didn't know you
27:04
Speaker 1: were going to say that, and I see that every
27:06
Speaker 1: week somebody, at some point they get to some moment
27:08
Speaker 1: in their journey and they say, well, I started to
27:10
Speaker 1: feel better when I started taking care of my gut.
27:13
Speaker 1: With just a few seconds left on the clock, Ashley,
27:17
Speaker 1: before we get into next week, we're going to get
27:20
Speaker 1: into some of the essential oils that you can use
27:22
Speaker 1: when you're going to be outdoors to mitigate risks for
27:25
Speaker 1: things like tick bites, chigger bytes, the things that carry
27:27
Speaker 1: these nasty infections around. We're going to be talking about
27:31
Speaker 1: supplements that really helped you, and some other diet and
27:33
Speaker 1: lifestyle changes that you made. Next week, we're going to
27:36
Speaker 1: have to have her back. Any final comments you want
27:44
Speaker 1: to leave.
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Speaker 2: The viewers with, Yeah, absolutely, this is just a season
27:49
Speaker 2: and there is hope right around the corner. It's not forever,
27:54
Speaker 2: and it does get better.
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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. I love that. Unfortunately, we're all out
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Speaker 1: of time for everybody here in studio. Ashley Jamie, thank
28:05
Speaker 1: you so much for being here right here and Life
28:07
Speaker 1: TV now today. Keep your eyes on the prize, which
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Speaker 1: is Jesus Christ. We'll be back