Post-Concussion Syndrome: Why Your Brain Hasn't Healed

hi everyone we are back we are kicking off the month of June talking about Lyme disease obviously an honor of it being Lyme disease aware Awareness Month so I just came off a very long 12-hour day so I am going to definitely give you all I got before I fall to the ground today so but I'm very excited to be talking about this because I feel like there are so many misconceptions when it comes to this concept of Lyme disease there is a lot of limitations with the testing that is available and there are so many you know different treatment modalities that exist but there is such a lack of understanding the big picture and looking at the body as a whole and also considering is this idea of killing killing killing the Lyme what we actually need to be doing and I'm gonna be going into some case studies that you guys can really understand a little bit more about so that you can really understand that sometimes that approach is great and sometimes that approach can cause you to run into some roadblocks so again so those of you that are joining us talking all about Lyme disease tonight and feel free to pop questions into the chat box if you're following me on Instagram why definitely feel free to add to the comments and for those of you that have to get off early definitely know that we will be sending you the replay so you will have access to the full webinar okay so as I get in to everything I wanted to use my lovely PowerPoint which I use every week but it just allows me to stay on track and give you guys really good visuals as well but tonight you know it's all about understanding the bigger picture it's all about understanding you don't know what you don't know and if you haven't had more elaborate testing than just looking at infectious disease including Lyme then you're not always going to know the big picture as to why you're potentially not fully recovering from this condition in addition to that we're also going to be talking about a lot of the issues with the testing that exists and I'm not necessarily talking just about this Lyme testing because many of you that are here already know you have Lyme and you potentially went down a run of the mill or a battery of different tasks that took a really really long time for you to finally figure out that lime was the big picture for you but there's also more to understanding the other test that potentially you still haven't had that could give you the understanding as to why maybe you're not doing as well as you hoped and then obviously we're going to talk about strategies because I find personally with working with people that have Lyme it is all about strategy this is not about necessarily just doing this linear approach of let's just kill this organism and call it a day it's definitely about supporting the body as a whole and we're gonna get a lot more into understanding that so for those of you that are listening some of you might be new some of you are not just a little bit of a background on integrative Wellness group and myself is that you know overall the reason why I do what I do nowadays and I think the way that I do is because I found that over time with all different trainings that I've done and the schooling that I went to I kind of questioned a lot of the things that I was being taught I felt that not a lot of things always made sense and because of that it kept me asking better questions and not necessarily just settling for the research and I'm doing this quote-unquote because what I've quickly found is that there is a lot of limitations with research and it's also about who's funding the research and how many people were part of the research and did they actually look at all of the environmental lifestyle factors of the people that were part of the research so what I found was that if I was just gonna rely on research I was gonna run into roadblocks with my patients and I did in the beginning until I started to evolve my approach so again this is something that I just seen clinically time I'm getting time and time again is people running into roadblocks and that is what allowed me to fully develop into this integrative practice and to understand the big picture and that's one of the reasons why I work with so many different types of people but Lyme is definitely something that I've worked with for a long time now personally one of my mentors is dr. cling her and it's not necessarily just because he was so big in the Lyme disease world it was more so that he was a doctor that was thinking integrative lis and he really said something to me early on in my practice and he said don't yer don't call yourself integrative if all you do is dive in supplements and diet and supplements is really the foundation of what we call functional medicine and my practice was always called integrative wellness group so it really made me stop and think wow there's a lot of pieces of the puzzle that I'm missing and that was the case with my Lyme disease patients it was the case with all of my patients so I knew that I needed to learn more and think beyond just diet and supplements because how many of you that are listening you've already been down that road you went on the elimination diet you you know you sacrificed you torture yourself you took boatloads of supplements you know you you were taking things three times a day forty supplements each time and you didn't get better or you got better and then you hit a roadblock this is the things that I hear on a day-to-day basis so I knew that for me this was not about just giving you different supplements or a different dietary plan this was about the bigger picture so for myself I am NOT personally someone who had Lyme disease and I nursed myself back to health or I had an integrative physician nurse me back to health and some of you might want to hop off because I know that in the live community a lot of people are attracted to the doctors that went down that but I find that the interesting thing about my own story is that I thought it was healthy and what I realized is that so much of what I was dealing with on my day to day was just my normal and there is a lot of you that have Lyme and maybe have gone down some road of recovery and you have settled for your new normal you're like well at least I'm not as bad as I was so you know the joint pain and the fatigue and the brain fog well I'm just going to settle for this being my normal because at least I'm not better than anymore and trust me I get it I really really do get it but I'm here you know providing this information and and doing this webinar so that you can see the bigger picture and look beyond that to understand that there might be pieces that haven't been evaluated yet there might be a bigger understanding as to why you are not at your best and there's always going to be a solution to that once you figure it out and I think that that's really important to know is that there is always a solution but it's a matter of knowing what it is a matter of knowing what is the part that's missing so I know that is the evening there are tons of things going on around us and I want to give you guys like a minute to just shut down the email browsers you know tell family and friends in the house just to give you the next like half an hour to be with me and be present and I say this because I'm not giving you the run-of-the-mill information I'm not gonna sit here and tell you about the one magical supplement the one magical diet I'm not going to be necessarily giving you information that you potentially have heard before I'm bringing you real-life scenarios case studies things that I see day in and day out clinically but I'm also giving you different stories because there are many people that have come to me and said i have lyme disease and they didn't and it was something completely different that was completely being overlooked so give yourself this time to just be with me be present ask questions do all that fun stuff so first and foremost I always want to really give this insight to my patients and obviously those of you that are here with me is is not your fault it is not your fault that you haven't been able to get better it is not your fault that you tried the best line protocol and didn't get better it is not your fault that you were on antibiotics for one to ten years and you didn't get better it is not your fault it is very difficult to understand your body with out and better clock and it is very very disempowering when you try something and you give it your all and you fall on your face or you hit a plateau so it is not your fault that you maybe at this point feel paralyzed you feel exhausted and you're just like I don't even know what to do anymore and I'm on this webinar because my mom or my dad or somebody forced me to be I don't really care so I get it trust me I get it but I want you to understand that there is information that you potentially haven't heard and there is always going to be a reason for why you feel the way you do so a couple foundational things that I think are very important to understand as we start talking more about line is that number one the facts that we are always seeking the expert is definitely in my opinion a detriment and what I mean by that is those of you that already know you have Lyme you're usually seeking out the Lyme expert the Lyme literate physician and yes that is very important because understanding how to test for Lyme is is a science in itself but sometimes those lime oriented doctors or there's lime literate doctors there they have all the tools from a testing perspective but when they're their tools for the treatment are very small because they might still be using antibiotics but they might be pairing that with herbals as well or homeopathics but the thing about it is that you are a whole person and we know through you know science research and I know clinically that lime can affect anything it doesn't always affect your joints it can affect your gut it can affect your prostate it affect your brain so if we're gonna focus just on you know Lyme and not necessarily what is it affecting don't do those organs need repair do you need neurological support do you need lymphatic support do you need detox support those are the things that are really really important to consider so it's not always about thinking that we're a bunch of separate systems it's about knowing that we are an integration of systems that everything is communicating with each other and that brings me to this very basic point of a lot of physicians are just not always they understand physiology but they're not always like thinking about it in the way of these systems are connected and what I mean is that 90 to 95 percent of your serotonin is made in your gut so if you have depression but you also have IBS how are we going to treat your depression through antidepressants and not address your gut it doesn't make sense and this is one of the reasons why people hit plateaus who feel that they there's something wrong with them and that they have to chronically stay on these antidepressants so this is really a big part of the puzzle is that everything is connected and when you're dealing with Lyme it can go anywhere in the body and that can create different cascades that affect other systems okay so dr. clean heart is one of my mentors and there has been some things that he has said to me over time that has been like mind-blowing and then it's on my radar and I go into practice and I'm like holy crap he's right so one of the things that he said to me very early on and he said 80% of your patients have Lyme disease and I was like what excuse me and I was and at that time I was not doing the testing that I do now by the way so he said that and I was kind of baffled I was just like okay this is really interesting and then I started to implement new strategies of testing and I realized he was right so I'm not saying this is scary you the primary thing that you have to understand is that a lot of people have Lyme in their system doesn't always mean that it's active and it doesn't always mean that it's causing problems so one of the primary things that I see in my practice is that people have had line in their body for a really really long time and it took the one catalyst that brought it to the surface or activated it and that catalyst could have been a loss of the loved one it could have been burning yourself out because you were commuting working in the city you know high-pressure job or it was a virus or it was a parasite that you got from Mexico there are so many variables but I will tell you for myself is that I ended up having lime in my system I never had joint pain I was never bedridden I never had the tell-tale symptoms but what I had was these really random heart palpitations that would happen when I was young and they would come and go I would blame them on caffeine I would blame them on like running on adrenaline working in the restaurant industry I would blame them on not getting enough sleep and then it started getting to the point that I started to have fainting spells but they were always very close to my menstrual cycle so then I said oh well it must be hormonal what it turned out to be is that I had lime in my system affecting my pericardium and that was being triggered especially when I was rundown burnt out stressed out etc so there was more to the puzzle but overall I remember when I found this out and I was just like wow that is really significant so for me I never had a tick bite I never had that but once my family came in and we did all of our testing it turns out that every single person in my family has Lyme in their system and nobody has the same symptoms my sister unfortunately ended up after having a vaccine reaction and ended up starting to have seizures and we didn't know this at the time but later down the line when we did her testing once I got into this industry we realized that what and was that the line was in her system and it got into her neurological system and activated after the vaccine reaction I'm not sitting here saying I'm pro or anti vaccine I'm just saying that at the wrong time those vaccines can be extremely jarring to your immune system and they can actually cause these different types of latent infections to come to the surface so I want you to understand that this is not black and white this is not tick bite Lyme disease it is not any of that and what's even more fascinating about getting a bull's eye rash from a tick bite or having a bull's eye rash on your body that's your second infection yes your second so that means it's already been in your system and now it was activated by a new exposure so so many of us are walking around with line and we do not know and again this does not mean you are going to get super ill this doesn't mean you're going to be debilitated it doesn't mean any of those things it just means at the right time with the right combination of stress infections viruses etc this can easily become a bigger problem so this is really fascinating when it comes to spirochete so beryllium which is what we call Lyme disease is known as a spirochete illness there are other types of spirochetes that exist one of them is syphilis so I will tell you a story very shortly about this but when very early on they the only known spirochete was syphilis and it was known to have 23 genes so syphilis was known to be a very evolved type of bacteria and then they started to find other types of spirochetes and they came across four really of burgdorferi which has 32 genes so what I mean by talking about the genetics of Liman and even these other spirochete illnesses is that these are species that are very evolved they actually know how to manipulate your chemistry of your body so they could find a whole borough themselves and live there they know how to shut down parts of your immune system they have the ability to invade various tissues and they also have the ability to hijack different pathways to move on to the next life cycle so what I mean by this and this was another thing that dr. Klink Hart said to me that I was like no freakin way he said that prostate prostate inflammation prostatitis benign hypertrophy of the prostate which is enlarging of the prostate and prostate cancer most of those cases have all been linked to Lyme disease and the reason why is because the line the spirochetes will live in the prostate and once a male becomes aroused then the spirochetes will move along the ejaculatory duct in order to put itself in the opportune environment to infect the woman so these are organisms that have learned how to find different areas to hang out so they can move on to their next life cycle this is crazy so he said this and I was literally like you gotta be kidding me and then as patients came through my door with prostate issues he was a hundred percent right so this is crazy stuff these are organisms that are very evolved they're very smart but even more interesting than this is that through research they have actually found certain species of Lyme that have up to 800 genes there is nothing in nature that has 800 genes so this is the speculation about if why a man made some sense or causes alignment that's a man-made substance you know was it originally created for germ warfare we don't really know but what we do know is that they have found types of line that have 800 genes that are designed to kill their hosts so this again is not the case for many people but those people that are bedridden debilitated from the line there is a ability that they have a genetically manipulate version of it and in addition to that spirochetes can survive hydrochloric acid hydrochloric acid is the acid that's in your stomach to protect you from organisms and it also is protected from up to 600 degrees Fahrenheit so when we are talking about oh if I boil my water or if I cook my food or I cook my venison which I will talk more about then it will kill off these organisms it's not how it works unfortunately so venison it's deer meat think about it deer ticks there is a huge correlation to eating venison and being exposed to Lyme disease so guys this is not about tick bites this is so ridiculously beyond that we are exposed to Lyme from from mosquitoes from other biting insects it's also can be sexually transmitted and in addition it can be passed from mom to baby so this is why Lyme tends to run in families one of the questions I ask my patients is anybody in your family not live but oh yeah my brother my sister whoever my mom and I automatically put on my radar I need to test for this because this might be a possibility for them so a confused spirochete diagnosis so one of my patients came in she didn't come in actually too long ago she was one of those patients that was extremely extremely debilitated from Lyme unfortunately she looked a lot older than she was she kind of settled for her joints to just kill she powered through her massive massive fatigue and just tried to engross herself with her her job because she loves her job just so many gastrointestinal issues fatigue issues joint issues teeth issues sinus issues like the list goes on she had so many symptoms that she came through my door this was a woman that was on constant antibiotics she's done IV antibiotics she's done she have PICC line for antibiotics like she did the gamut of antibiotics she was also very knowledgeable she did other alternative therapies but kind of like intertwined and would do random supplements and things like that but she was really sensitive it was really hard for her to do a lot of different types of therapies and even supplements so as we went through when we started doing her testing one of my technology is in my office I can find things rather quickly down to the DNA level so when I look at someone's DNA it doesn't only look at their DNA it also looks at foreign DNA so we can pick up on different types of organisms like bacteria fungus spirochetes etc so what it turned out to be is that this woman still had massive amounts of spirochetes in her body but the spirochetes were not from Lyme they were from syphilis guys syphilis is not just sexually transmitted by the way it could be from a mosquito bite it can be from any type of fighting insect it can come from a lot of places so this woman was being treated for Lyme line line when indeed it was actually syphilis which is definitely a different route of treatment in addition to that this woman had so many different rounds of antibiotics which actually was a catalyst to why the spirochetes were spreading guys I'll get there I'm gonna talk more about the understanding of what the antibiotics the role that they play but overall I want you to understand that when you get diagnosed with Lyme and you may be it comes up in a traditional Western blot because the Western blot is picking up on certain antibodies when you're talking about a Lyme spirochete and you're talking about a syphilis spirochete it is very very easy for those to be confused through traditional testing and the other thing too is if you're a person that has had suffered with a lot of skin issues maybe psoriasis may be really bad eczema chances are if you've been diagnosed with Lyme or suspected of line it might not be it might be syphilis because syphilis is the great imitator of psoriasis so it's very very important to know that there are a variety of spirochete illnesses out there and you might not be diagnosed properly so some of the big things we're getting into tonight is all of the myths around Lyme so number one I've already kind of talked about this but that Lyme only comes from a tick which is a myth the other one is that a blood test is good enough Lyme is the only part of the puzzle which is very very rare usually there is a conglomerate of different things going on the emotions don't play a role in having Lyme or get recovering from Lyme also the biggest myth is that antibiotics are the most effective treatments and that if you go into bionics or if you choose to go herbal or nutraceutical that it's just about killing the infection and nothing else so we're gonna bust through all of these because these are all myths so number one is where you get Lyme from so like I said about my story I was born with it was it always active no it became more active later in my life when I had compounding stressors compounding stressors of being burnt out being in school working late nights in the restaurant industry having severe mercury toxicity because I ate tons and tons of sushi and fish also then because I ate so much fish I also had a lot of parasite infections so that perfect storm is what then was the catalyst to allowing the line to become active and cause different cardiovascular symptoms so the other thing is that it can be transmitted through deer ticks also by eating deer meat venison if you're a hunter or you grow up in a hunting family and you're eating tons of deer meat that is definitely a possibility for an exposure because again you cook it nobody's cooking meat beyond 600 degrees Fahrenheit maybe on a grill but it's still though spirochetes can withstand up to 600 degrees Fahrenheit so you're not killing it by cooking it flees mosquitoes life spiders anything that bites can be a carrier you can get it through mom to baby trans Plus ental can also be with breastfeeding in addition they are definitely finding that sexual transmission is a possibility and again that's because it has an affinity for the prostate in a male and then last but not least is the bullseye rash is your second infection yes your second infection with a slightly different strength because there are different strains so this is extremely important for you guys to understand is that there are a variety of ways that you get this exposure and if you are super sick and nobody can help you and nobody's been able to figure it out it's time to get better testing so this is super creepy um I actually dug into research of trying to understand this transmission from tick to 2-person so number one ticks can find you us dogs by exhaled carbon dioxide so that's how they like launched onto us is by picking up on exhaled carbon dioxide the other thing that the ticks do is they secrete saliva which is very sticky and it glues in that's why they're so hard to pull off they also administer a very special type of hormone that can counteract antibodies so these antibodies are the things that will pretty much like we won't it'll shut down us getting itchy so we won't like always be scratching them who I have a tick on us that's why so many of us or like all of us it in the shower like washing our hair and we look oh my god or whatever the case may be and it's because it's not always it's been it releases these different antibodies to shut down that itching inflammatory response even addition to that Marilia has a really really strong outside wall which actually makes it really really hard to kill by our own natural immune defense but it also makes it difficult to kill through all different other types of treatments so it's very very interesting how this all works because the deer take a loan outside of the the beryllium is just such an advanced organism so myth number two is that the blood tap a blood test is good enough so there are so many different ways of testing lime you no joking me Rob do I still run lime Western blots yes they do because insurance covers it and I want to see you like this even one band come up but the line antibodies like that cumulative test of the IgG or the IgM is a crap test so the Western - Western blot is at least a step up i gen 'its is also another option that a lot of people have been using for a long period of time and i genex is definitely a lot more of a sensitive test when it comes to you testing for Lyme but the thing about it is that i genex is still a blood test so there's a couple of factors number one involve weeks before you're gonna build antibodies to the line so if you're getting them like if you're gonna get sick by it or like finding a bull's eye rash and you're getting tested with any less than eight weeks from that point you're not going to necessarily get a good reading so people like go at they get tested and then doctors like no you're fine and then all of a sudden it's like two months three months later that they're starting to feel really poorly so that's definitely one thing the other thing too is that you can do a blood test but the best thing to do is to provoke the line so one of the ways you can provoke the Lyme is by taking antibiotics and then doing your blood test I don't really recommend that because there's no reason to take an antibiotic if you don't need to you can also take like different types of natural you know antibacterials to provoke it but honestly the best way to provoke it is by pushing it out of its hiding places so doctor clean heard and dr. Ruggiero put together this thing called the RK protocol which is something that we we actually use it for testing but we also use it for remedy making as well but primarily what we do is we use an infrared light and we also use something called sound wave therapy over all different lymphatic chains because lymph is part of your immune system it's also your major filtration system so if the line is hanging anywhere it's gonna hide in those areas so we will use the infrared and the Soundwave over these different areas and then we will embark on using a DNA DNA PCR test which is a urine based task through DNA connections honestly at this point in the game this is the the standard this is the gold standard of testing for Lyme not many physicians know about this but if you were to use the DNA connections just by itself without doing the Archaea protocol you're not always going to get a positive reading or get an accurate reading I should say so the our key protocol can be used if you are going to invite on our genex or if you're going to embark on the DNA connections so again this is not just about the test this is about pushing the spirochetes out of their hiding place so you can actually get an accurate reading because lime does not live in the blood it lives in connective tissue that's why that's the the nature of a spirochete a spirochete looks like a corkscrew it corkscrews itself into tissue so that's why it's not always coming up on the blood so it's really really important for you guys to know this because if you're like I feel like there's something missing about my health you might not have had the best testing so going back to this limitation in testing this also applies to neurological lives so for those of you that are on the Instagram I know you can't see this visual but I'll give you like an idea so spirochetes again they look like a corkscrew they almost look like a corkscrew worm so when you get a spinal tap to figure out do you have neurological line because maybe you're having seizures or you're having you know other types of neural of hold disorders or even multiple sclerosis then when they take that cerebral spinal fluid out they're putting it under a microscope and what they're looking for are these corkscrew looking worms the spirochetes but unfortunately when the line is in the cerebral spinal fluid it's not in the spirochete form it is actually in a form called a blip and a bleb looks like a little blob little circular blob of mucus essentially so with that being said if the technician is not looking for the right thing they're easily going to say no you do not have neurological line and then you will could just continue having seizures and doing medication after medication adding a medication etc so again there is not just limitations on the blood based testing and the systemic testing there are also massive limitations when it comes to the neurological based testing as well so I had a patient who came to me she was about 48 years old chronic fatigue brain fog and a history of Lyme so again like another patient that was like I was so bad before that I'm kind of just like settled for most of my symptoms but her fatigue was getting so bad that it was really actually difficult for her to do her job anymore so she came in and was like you know I really want to resolve my fatigue so I don't know if you you guys know but one of the biggest connections to chronic fatigue syndrome is having a compromised and congested lymphatic system so your lymphatic system is the major system of your body it has all of your lymph nodes and your lymph vessels you have lymph nodes from the top of your head all the way down to your toes and these lymph nodes are in charge of gobbling up the bad stuff so they help you to eradicate out viruses and bacteria and spirochetes and fungus and molds and all of these different things but the the easiest way that I can put this is that if you have a vacuum and you have your vacuum has a filter you continue to use your vacuum for weeks you know or days days weeks weeks etc and the filter gets more and more full every time you use it it's going to get to the point that you cannot continue to use the vacuum because the filter is at max capacity this is a very similar concept to what happens to our lymphatic system is the more and more and more it gets exposed to the more and more congested it gets and then it cannot do its job properly so how this applied to this person so this woman specifically was on antibiotics for seven years and I was like well why why were you want to put that long like if it wasn't working why didn't they take you off or try a different approach and she's like well I it would help and then it I would go backwards and then it would help and then I would go backwards so again I will explain a little bit more of why this happens with the antibiotics but she was on the antibiotics for seven years so what I found through one of my technologies called the bio resonance was that this woman pretty effectively killed a good portion of the spirochetes in her body but the dead spirochetes and the Dead live were sitting in her congested lymphatic system so this woman was very puffy very inflamed she's like I can't lose weight no matter what I do she think I could literally not eat for a week and I'll still be this same way so the thing you don't understand is that you can kill the Lyme all you want but if you don't have the mechanisms to get it out of the body then you're gonna be in big trouble because deadline is like carcasses lying in your body giving off massive massive amounts of toxins that are going to affect you neurologically like extremely burden your neurological system so she was on this boat of antibiotics for over seven years and just had deadlines sitting in her system so the crazy thing about it was this was a bit early on when I was using the the bioresonance technology and the viral resonance for those of you that are on here maybe heard about it because a friend told you about it it's a very amazing technology because it provides you with diagnostic information but in addition to that it also has the ability to do treatment so her lymphatic system is so compromised when she first came to the office and she was like she literally could barely keep her eyes open like she was suffering so the nature of how I am Allah go just want to help her right now so I am I did a little bit of treatment on her lymphatic system so she came back on her second visit and she goes so your machine works and I was like what do you mean and she's like so I just want to let you know that after you did treatment on me I felt like I had Lyme all over again she's like you're gonna tell me that I still I'm in my system aren't you and I was like yes and there were tears because of you know it was like seven years gone down the tube but obviously you know there was a solution and we were able to really hone in on her lymphatic system and get that working properly and that she was fully able to eradicate out the the live and the dead online that was present so the thing about that now is I do not work on anybody's lymphatic system with my bio residents until I know they are doing other complementary detox services so so yeah so she did amazing and she really completely recovered but but it's just so significant because her story was just stood out to me so much because again it's not about just killing the lime it's also about can your body actually eradicate it out and it's not just about the limp it's also about your liver and your gut and your spleen and your tonsils and all of those things as well so it's extremely important to know that your detox pathways have to work properly to honestly get rid of this I'm just gonna plug this in guys just so I don't die on you because this is what always happens when I'm on Instagram okay so getting back into it the the other thing too for those of you who are listening I know that sometimes as females our spouse husbands whoever male figures in our lives sometimes don't the significance of how poorly we feel and they sometimes I think like they're obviously empathetic in the beginning because they're like oh my gosh you're really sick and then once it goes on for a longer period of time I find sometimes they're just like is this in your head are you faking it like can it be this that so for those of you that are listening I want you to understand that women are more systematic than men this conversation comes up a lot with mold because what happens is is a woman will come to me and she'll be like I'm sick and my kids are kind of sick but my husband's fine so he doesn't believe that there's mold in the house because he's like well if there's it's in the house then why am I not sick and why is everybody else sick so of course genetics can play a factor in that but more than anything it actually has a lot to do with our blood so females tend to have a lower blood volume they also tend to have lower erythrocytes and they also tend to lose more iron obviously with their menstrual cycle so no it's not hormones it's the loss of the iron so overall the thing that's important to know is that blood volume which applies to women and obviously small children plays a significant role in how symptomatic you are so it's not that it's in our heads or it's not that anybody's exaggerating it's really truly they feel worse because of the constituents of their blood so another thing too about temperature is if you are a person that your temperature is running low it is definitely important I'm not saying you're gonna save just for Lyme but it's important for you to get checked for infections because what happens is is that different types of infections can actually start to hijack your body temperature because for every point two degrees that your temperature drops your pathogens your infections can double so these microbes can actually hijack your metabolism and lime is very very common for doing this but the confusing part is you'll start to get really hot when you sleep because when you sleep your body goes into repair mode so as you're in repair mode your body is heating up and it's like you're thinking like is this a hormonal thing is this a hot slash but really what it is is it's you're it's almost like your body's trying to induce a low-grade fever to help your body fight off certain infections so myth number three is Lyme is the only piece of the puzzle so those of you that have been down this road with Lyme you might already be aware of some of these Co infections but I will tell you this I never ever ever ever had a patient come through my door that was a Lyme patient that only had Lyme these are patients that have other types of co-infections like Babesia something else called Bartonella which I'm going to explain these people have parasite infections heavy metal toxicity mold toxicity dental issues I'm not gonna say they have all of them but there is usually some level of a combination and it's really because different types of organisms want to hang out together and they want to hijack your immune system together so the thing about this Bartonella I put a picture here for those of you that are watching the webinar and I did this because I can't tell you people now because I'm a calluna tech and I live at the beach I like I can I make diagnoses people from a distance constantly but there are so many women that will always stretch marks always cellulite and then sometimes these women are like this thing they're you know 100 pounds they never you know had a major weight fluctuation and there's no reason why they would have stretch marks or you know cellulite or things like that and then the other thing with men is like the same thing they'll have it on their love handles on the sides of their abdomen or they'll have other types of lines across their back going horizontal so these marks they easily look like a stretch mark and we attribute it to weight gain weight loss like bad skin whatever but this is a tell tale of Bartonella which is also known as cat scratch fever they call it cat scratch not because a cat scratched you it's because it leaves marks on your body that look like a cat scratched you so Bartonella is something that is a very common Co infection that lives with lime and then Babesia as well the B SIA is a big it's technically a bacteria but most they think it's controversial because it actually acts like a parasite it has a tendency to eat all of your iron so certain people that I've worked with that are extremely iron deficient they've been iron deficient forever and they've gotten infusions that taken supplements and taken medications it sometimes comes back to the Babesia infection so trust me these infections are a lot more complex than what I'm describing right now but for sake of simplicity the biggest point that I wanted to make to you guys is that Lyme often does not live alone there are usually other types of infections and it is very very very difficult to get rid of Lyme if you are not addressing parasites and if you are not addressing toxicity because parasites have a tendency to eat the spirochetes and they also have a tendency to eat different types of toxicity so if you're not going after the big organism and you're trying to deal with the smaller organism you're going to be on a rollercoaster ride and you're not necessarily going to get very far so you always have to get tested properly to know if parasites are part of the puzzle so the interesting thing about emotions is that if those of you that have been listening this whole time one of the things that I said that sometimes when people have had lime in their system for a very long time maybe they were exposed as a kid maybe they were exposed from mom it was passed to them it doesn't always mean that it will become active but it takes this catalyst that can allow it to become active and sometimes that catalyst is an emotional trigger a loss grief fear whatever the case may be but as we know lime has a tendency to affect connective tissue so I literally had this happen today I had a patient who came to me with a history of Lyme and one of the things that in her prior blood work she has come up positive for an a a an a is an autoimmune marker usually representative of lupus and she goes well nobody ever said anything about it and nobody ever told me that it was relevant in addition nobody was able to tell me like what is this actually doing to my body so again our testing one of the testings being the bio resonance technology actually revealed that the Lyme was affecting her right kidney and it was inducing lupus in her right kidney so the connection between Lyme and lupus is that what is lupus it's a autoimmune attack on your connective tissue so the primary thing that Lima sacks is going to be your connective tissue so it makes sense that if the line is burrowed in the connective tissue that the immune system is going to do its job come to the scene try to kill the line but unfortunately it is going to damage your connective tissue in the interim which then on paper shows up as lupus so the point of me telling you this is because in addition to that if you like well why why did this patient have Lyme that was mainly affecting her right kidney of all all the places like why they're so the thing about it is that as we asked better questions it turned out that there was an emotional tie to this so first kidneys are associated with fear in addition the right side of the body is associated with a male figure so she actually had a domestic violence issue with a male figure that she feared for her life in that time that that happened so the point of me telling you this is that this was a catalyst as to why the line got into the kidney and started to cause damage is because there was this other deeper rooted layer in addition this woman also is in a very hostile work environment dealing with all different types of criminals and doing counseling and she has been attacked by male figures many times and like kind of like has a state of fear that she lives in so this is extremely extremely eye-opening because again this is not just always about your physiology this is not just about kill the line kill the line kill the line it's not even just about detox detox detox sometimes there are other layers that nobody is acknowledging and also I understand that this is not everybody's expertise so when we talk about you know where is the Lyme affecting you hands what are you holding on to in your life your gut what are you not willing to a living of your life that belongs what are you grieving your kidney is what are you fearing knees and ankles what are you what's holding you back from moving forward there are so much significance in these different parts of the body and also in addition to that this is Chinese medicine like this is not my opinion this is not like bogus this is Chinese medicine and that has been around a lot longer than conventional medicine okay so some of you that are listening our probably aware that they are now acknowledging something called post Lyme syndrome so the thing about antibiotics is that that is the conventional approach to line is let's use her courage biotics and kill the Lyme and most commonly it's doxycycline the thing that that you want to understand is that line again being such an evolved organism it has two different and that's actually natural it has three to four different forms but the two most common forms is round body cysts versus spirochete think of a round body sistas a little tapioca pearl essentially and then the spirochete is that corkscrew looking worm so the when you get infected with the Lyme whenever the case may be it moves around as a round body cysts and it figures out where it's going to plant itself it usually goes for vulnerable tissue so if you are a basketball player and you have banged up knees it might go for your knees if you've had kidney stones or chronic UTIs it might go for your kidneys or your urinary tract if you have had chronic gut issues it might go for your gut it depends on the person and it depends on the immune system so it goes from round bodies fists and then as it figures out what tissue it is going to manifest in or I should say plant itself in it then hatches into the spirochete and corkscrews itself into the tissue so what they are now realizing is that through the antibiotic therapy that when you threaten the line it goes from spirochete and it reverts back into the round body sis so by the way when it's in spirochete form you have a boatload of symptoms you feel really crappy tires fatigue joints ache all the good stuff then when it revert sin to a round body cysts because it's threatened by the antibiotics that is when it is asymptomatic so aka you're taking your antibiotics you're like oh my God thank God I feel better feel better so what's happening is that the round body cyst the reason why it was worse after that when it's being threatened is because the shell of the round body says the immune system can't penetrate through it so what they have now found is that depending on the antibiotic that it will actually multiply the amount of round body cysts while you're on the antibiotic so you go from okay I have spirochetes let's threaten them with the antibiotic they were hurt back into the round body cyst then you're pissing it off so now the round body cyst start to multiply and then you come off of your antibiotic and anywhere between four eight or even 12 weeks later you start to feel crappy again and you're starting to feel crappy because you've more than doubled the amount of round body cysts that are now hatching back into spirochetes so when it comes to the use of antibiotics it is now known to be a failed treatment the funny thing is is go to many infectious disease Lyme literate doctors and they are not up to par on this information so here is the article read it yourself it is not my opinion it is not my research this is the research but it is research that unfortunately is not being you know leveraged and it's not being brought to the public because there's a lot of money to be made in antibiotics so with that being said it's not just about killing the organism or the infection it is about supporting the pathways to get it out of the body this is the most common thing that I see when I work with patients that are coming to me after a variety of different doctors if it's medical doctors functional medicine doctors etc they've been through the gamut of different types of treatments supplements therapies etc so we carefully test your DNA for what does your body need to heal is it lymphatic drainage do you need to have support for your liver for your kidneys for your your spleen is your gut working properly are you pooping are you not pooping all of these things are significant because if the line cannot get out of the body and the immune system cannot scavenge out the organisms or the toxins from the organisms then you are not going to get better this is not again my opinion this is what I see day in and day out it is extremely important that you use very specific strategy when you are trying to work with Lyme so this patient was pretty interesting so 53 year old woman she came to me with multiple sclerosis she was diagnosed in her early 40s Champaign neuropathy and then she started to have falling spells so a lot of that like coordination and falling is usually connected to MS so when she comes to me with a mouse that's not my priority is to be like Oh USMS how are we going to treat ms my priority is to figure out what led you to having ms like what's the bigger picture behind this because if we can figure that out we can reverse-engineer this and we can actually provide you with a solution opposed to just saying hey we're gonna shut down your immune system because you're having an autoimmune attack on your myelin sheath like that doesn't cut it in my opinion because that isn't why why is that attack happening so this I when I do my history I'm asking questions back to childhood would - when they were even born so one of the things that came to the surface is that she had tons of ear infections as a kid ton of pound penicillin antibiotics so for those of you that don't know penicillin is made from Penicillium which is toxic mold so if you have an allergy to penicillin amoxicillin or ampicillin you have mold toxicity in your body that's just the way that it goes so this person specifically had tons of penicillin had a penicillin allergy at this point as in a as an adult which meant she had mold toxicity and this is before my testing this is just because I know what I know in addition three concussions from skiing and sports the other thing was growing pains advocate this was the kicker for me growing pains advocate growing pains most often what I see is when these kids have Lyme in their body and they're having tons of pain in their joints because of the Lyme organism it's not necessarily just because they're having growing pains so if your child is having growing pains please get them better testing so that you don't completely miss this and then later down the line they end up with something more significant so overall the big picture time this person was that she had read odds phenomenon on her publications and a with Mia so that what that means to me is that this person has circulatory issues if you have Rea NAS and you're not getting proper circulation to your hands and feet then that means that you are not necessarily getting proper circulation to your head which means your brain so multiple sclerosis is a neurological condition so we need to consider is the brain getting enough oxygen because of circulatory issues in addition mild headaches from neck pain one of the things that we found is that she had spirochetes in her gums that worked their way into the jaw bone which the spirochetes were obviously from Lyme which was then getting into all of the lymphatic system of the neck and causing her to have neck pain that PT and physical therapy and chiropractic none of it helped also on top of it we had cold sores cold sores means that not only do we have a live situation going on we also have a viral situation going on which is from the herpes simplex virus also has a ton of stress on the actual neurological system then in addition we found the growing pains were connected to an undiagnosed Lyme infection and here's the kicker is that her third child she went into preterm labor after their pertussis vaccine she didn't realize this until I was asking better questions but what we realized is that with everything going on in her system so she had circulatory issues that weren't terrible but definitely some issues with getting proper circulation to the brain she had dental things that she just attributed to bleeding gums neck pain she attributed to you sitting behind a computer cold sores oh they're not bad they only come once in a while growing pains as a kid no big deal obviously you know we I'm an adult now we've moved on from that history of skin cancer using tons of sunblock obviously trying to be proactive then also a little blood sugar instability getting a little shaky and lightheaded which he you know didn't eat for a while so all of these things were brewing in the background then she got pregnant which is the stressor on your body in the first place and then she actually went into a preterm labor and that was the straw that broke the camel's back worker everything came to the surface and that's it was two months after that the MS diagnosis was was made by the way this is gonna kick me off in 15 seconds direct message me if you would like to get this replay to your inbox I will make sure to send it over to you guys thanks for being with me Instagram okay webinar back to you so the point of me telling you this story is that you know this was a multiple sclerosis case that was connected to Lyme circulation blood sugar a variety of different things so again it's about looking at the whole person putting the timeline together of how they got where they are and it's impossible for you to know any of this without the right testing so I'm here to tell you you don't know what you don't know I know that I did not know what I didn't know before I did testing I was cruising through a life thinking that I was healthy when in reality all I did was settle for feeling really crappy and with that being said I was able to be extremely proactive in my own house and to prevent something really serious coming or coming my way later in life so I think it's really important for us to stop accepting our new normal and blaming it on bad genes or just blaming it on you know there's no cure and you know you just have to live with this and again I'm not saying like what I'm saying for for those of you that are here with me because of Lyme is that you know we get over the debilitating debilitating symptoms of Lyme and then we just kind of settle well like I'm never gonna feel a hundred percent because that's just not in the cards for me anymore and that is not true it's just there's other pieces of the puzzle that haven't been addressed yet so if you if you've been with me the whole time I think that you already have gathered this but very very very rarely does Lyme disease look like the textbook so if it doesn't look like the textbook then how are you going to be treated with the textbook of antibiotics it is definitely something that is outdated and it is being proven to be ineffective at this point and we need to dig deeper and we need to look beyond that so for those of you that are on here because you're brand spanking new to this world of functional integrative medicine I'm gonna tell you the difference between functional integrative medicine because some of you may be like I have I didn't even know they were different but first and foremost obviously we have conventional medicine conventional medicine is using you know basic lab tests in order to come up with abnormalities in your chemistry which then will result in some type of pharmacological resolution and that's going to be some type of medication or surgery etc so then we move into this functional medicine roles and we do better testing more comprehensive testing we we learn more about the body we dig deeper we figure out the root cause but depending on where you're going for functional medicine a lot of times that is equivalent to the solutions the toolbox being diet and supplement so and maybe a little bit of medication so for me I hit plateaus with that with my patients I hit plateaus with that with my own personal health so that is why I started to move into this realm of Integrative Medicine so now I ask questions about your stress levels I look at you know is there an emotional trigger I look at is their energetic pieces of the puzzle are you absorbing negative energy from everyone around you are you also you know do your detox pathways work properly do you need things like Meridian based therapy like acupuncture all of these things have to be considered you have to ask better questions because you need to understand that people's health is multifaceted and in addition you have to have more options to help with the treatment perspective I am never not fascinated with what my patients test for because when we test we figure out what types of protocols are best I had a patient today who came up positive for Lyme in her testing and her supplements that she specifically tested for through our DNA based testing not one of them were killing agents every single one of her supplements were oriented around her immune system so pretty much what that tells me is that her immune system is so fragile and weak that if I try to go on a killing spree right now I'm gonna make this person very very sick so instead I'm gonna fix the foundation I'm gonna get her immune system to balance out and in the interim her therapy is that she tested four were all energetic therapies so yeah you guys could maybe think that's Lou that's totally fine but I did she didn't share this with me but it turns out that this patient works in a jail and is being cursed at scream died like physically things thrown at her and she is like oh yeah I absorb it like she's like if there is like a bad scenario should I go home in like cry for an hour and then I move on she is absorbing everything from her toxic and she needs to like lift that bird and offer her I'm very simple like acupuncture Tecna are techniques can help to lift that burden but this is something that she's never heard before she's been treated as a Lyme patient kill kill kill kill kill never anything beyond that so people always want to know you know all this testing you're talking about how does this all work like how do we get access to it does insurance cover it so at the end of the day I really really hope that you know I see her health care going in a really positive direction but you know when it comes to bloodwork in some simple labs a lot of that is going through insurance which is great we use your in network providers like LabCorp request but when it comes to time with us to ask these better questions and do better testing we are out of network because we choose to serve you we don't choose to serve insurance providers because I can't sit there and let its insurance provider tell me what's medically necessary because how are they supposed to know what's medically necessary and then when they also tell me that you know different types of treatment modalities are not necessary for the patient is something that is not fair to you because of that is what's going to limit your healing process so what's great about it is you know you have the out of network benefits people get great reimbursement and then also have the option to use health savings accounts and flex savings accounts as well but one thing I will say is that don't let anybody you know tell you that you can't invest in your health because one of the things that I most often find is that everybody values something different and that's totally fine there are people that value driving a really awesome car that's you know a hundred thousand dollars there's some people that always want to have the latest iPhone in their pocket and then there's some people that value your their health and what I find so interesting is nobody's walking around being like oh look at you you're stupid iPhone like that's so stupid that you have that but people love to say oh you're so weird that you're like doing this program or you you're or you're detoxing oh when are you gonna eat normal it's like just such a funny concept to me but at the end of the day if you value your health and you value showing up for your kids and having more energy and you know opening a new business and crushing it and you know you have all these dreams and hopes and expectations like you can't do any of those things without your health so if you value that and getting better don't anybody tell you you can't invest in that because that is just their opinion at the end of the day and it's really if they don't value it that's totally fine but it's okay that you do and I always feel that you know one thing is we forget that health care is about answers and solutions we literally have settled for nobody being able to tell us where we got live why we have line do we have Lyme and then when we finally figure out we have it then we've settled for not really having a solution either it's like oh antibiotics oh that didn't work okay well we don't really know then you know just kinda have to live with it or deal with it or this is your new normal so it's healthcare should always be about you getting answers and obviously getting solutions and you know if you haven't gotten that so far it's just you just you know you're here and you need to know about better testing that's available and this is really some of the major test that we do so when it comes to the way that we work is we do an onboarding process we've changed this overtime tremendously because I used to do a lot of really fancy lab tasks stool samples nasal swabs urine tests neurotransmitter test and what I found is that they didn't always give me accurate information number one and number two is it was very very very expensive for the patient so a patient could come in you can go into a you know my office or other functional medicine offices and you go in at a you know 250 350 consultation rate and then you walk out with anywhere between two three four thousand dollars worth of lab kits that you need to pay for to get your answers so I got really exhausted with that process because I didn't think it was fair for people to spend that much money before they even knew was wrong with them so I kept kind of digging and learning and exploring and it led me to really evaluating a lot of techniques that they use in Europe and one of them is the viral resonance which is a DNA based on task that looks down to the DNA level and again for those of you that are new it is looking at your DNA but is also looking at the DNA of organisms because it can pick up on foreign DNA so we can pick up on different types of bacteria parasites mold fungus etc we are also looking at chemical allergies food allergies environmental toxins heavy metals mineral minerals and vitamins we do a comprehensive blood test auto immune markers thyroid markers neurological markers tons of different markers which again all goes through your insurance and then last but not least my absolute favorite is the autonomic response testing which has actually been created by dr. Klink heart which we do here so when it comes to the diagnosis obviously that is so important to know what's really going on with you but secondary to that it's also about knowing what is your body actually need to heal so you don't waste time and money so we do not guess we test so when we use the autonomic response testing we use this to test what types of supplements are good for your body what types of homeopathics are good for your body what types of detox therapies are good for your body neurological therapies physical modalities chiropractic muscle works cell wave therapy what types of dietary plans are best for you so there is absolutely nothing that we recommend that was not tested against your body and your DNA so this is what allows us to get the results that we do in a short amount of time because we take a lot of the guests out of it there is no trial and error so I've kind of already explained the onboarding process and why we do it that way but you know for those of you that are here and you've just been looking for this you've been looking for answers you're just been looking for a solution you know depending on your goals and what you can achieve it really is priceless and you know I really just and even you know obviously scratch the surface with the amazing things I see in our practice on a day-to-day but bu being able to know where your body is that what it means is just so significant but of course it comes to the price so our onboarding price for all of those tests that I just mentioned is 1425 those of you new to this or maybe like that's crazy that's so much money trust me I promise you it will save you so much money in the long run because even alone just going like a cheaper out and then getting recommended a supplement regimen which is like somebody's opinion essentially you you're buying good supplements you can spend three four or five hundred dollars on supplements and then be like these didn't even help me they didn't even work so get the testing know what your body needs figure it out and go from there because this testing is so invaluable it gives you so much freaking information you will know what you're allergic to what you're not allergic to what you should stay away from are your personal products toxic you will know so much about your body that more than you can ever even imagine the really cool thing about it too is that you know I wanted to see how we could make this work for families so we do the onboarding process for at the 14:25 for the initial member and then if you do bring in any family member in your household like immediate family member husband wife kids its 597 for any of those for the same testing which is really fantastic so the biggest thing is is that we always want to make sure that we are a fit for you as you are a fit for us so if you check out the link here this will get you hooked up to set up a strategy call with our client client care member and she'll be able to give you as much information as you need about the entire process and how it all works and also with your long-distance know that you can work with us from anywhere which is fantastic the reason we can do it that way is because you can source your blood work out local to you and you have DNA in your hair so by simply sending us a hair symbol we can actually do most of your testing from a distance and if you are a long-distance and you decide you know I really want to come there and get you know immersed in treatment we do offer immersion weeks which is really great for to jumpstart your healing process alright I'm gonna take a peek and see if there was any questions so my rashes come and go um so the thing with the rash is you know I have so many people that come in with different types of rashes and they always have a different source sometimes it's a bull size sometimes it's an eczema patch sometimes it's a ringworm sometimes it's you know spirochetes coming to the surface from syphilis like there's really so many things if your rashes come and go very easily it could be your immune system trying to fight and then when it gets a week the rashes come to the surface but they're easily kidney things that you're doing and eating that are putting fuel on the fire essentially so they can be like triggering triggering an inflammatory response which is kicking up the infections so there's many possibilities when it comes to that yes I'm gonna definitely go more into the Bartonella and the other Co infections in the upcoming weeks so thanks for asking that Lina I just figured you would be a little too much today I think you guys are all probably a little mind blown but definitely I will make sure for those of you I think you guys are in reference to the video with the replay you guys are gonna get the replay so so definitely know that that is coming your way you should get it tomorrow and definitely feel free to share it with people I know that there are unfortunately so many people suffering but I would definitely make sure that you know you can share it with others that will really benefit from this information catch aline materia cyst when it's not in the spirochete form because the spirochete or on site around body cyst has literally a shell on it that is or is distance to the immune system so it's very hard for the immune system to puncture through and eradicate the the round body cyst and the thing about it that you have to understand is that like I'm not sitting here saying that like it's impossible for your immune system to kill a round body cysts like that's definitely not true but like right now we have so much working against our immune systems one of the biggest things is glyphosate which is the roundup that's on all of our food like I just recently came across like terribly depressing information like I spend so much money on food and I buy organic and literally like jump through hoops to try to get healthy food and like they're now pretty much saying that there's just as much glyphosate roundup on the organic food as the the non-organic the thing about it is like we still have to eat the organic because the non-organic has 262 more chemicals on it than just the glyphosate so there's a lot of toxicity that is affecting us and these are not heavy metals like these are other types of toxins that not a lot of people are testing for so it's really really significant to kind of know that our immune systems are struggling a bit just based off of how much junk were exposed to and that's one of the reasons why our immune systems are having trouble eradicating out things like Lyme and other types of infections viruses etc so so definitely that's a big part of the puzzle recommend a really good food wash I know I wish there was something great but the one thing that I would say that if any of you guys have seen my big fat Greek way I I love because in that movie the Greek dad has a Windex and he sprays everything with it and like it cures everything so my version of that is a spray called Brio tech it's bri OTEC h3o tack HOCl HOCl is a natural occurring compound in our immune system so it's a very very safe ray to use topically on the body but you can actually spray that on your food to eradicate all harmful pathogens off of it as well as different types of toxins so Brio tech HOCl definitely check that out all right guys it was so great for you to be with me especially for those of you that have been here the whole time I really just want to let you know I love doing this because it's such an educational experience for all of you but you know once you're able to really understand your own body and get your own testing done and really know what your body me it's like that's when this becomes a breakthrough experience and it's really you know why I get up every day to do what I do because it's just so amazing to see people's lives change for the better so I appreciate you being with me we will be talking about a variety of more topics in relation to Lyme as we go through the month one of the things that I know I did not put on the week by week but I'm definitely going to be talking about is this concept of retroviruses which is a little bit new a bit of a new topic but retroviruses are one of the reasons why we think you Kayla one of the reasons why we are having such struggles with our immune systems to recover from Lyme so so this is definitely some of the newest research from a woman called Judy mica vets which unfortunately her lab her research lab was shut down so as much as I want to think that the world is not corrupt unfortunately it is but in addition to that dr. King Hart has really shed a lot of light on her research so um so we'll be talking a little bit more about that in the future I'm trying to understand that a bit more of how this also plays a role in why we are potentially not always getting better but I thank you guys for being with me um and I really hope to see you in the future and then definitely if you are interested in learning more check out our strategy call if you miss the link you can always hop on our website and chat with Lisa in our client services department alright I hope you all have a wonderful night and I will see you soon