How dental and sinus issues affect the brain, thyroid, parathyroid, and breasts.
Episode 190
Since your tonsils are your lymphatic organs and your veins are in charge of dumping toxins into your neck's lymphatic system as part of your brain's detoxification process, having your tonsils removed results in inflammation caused by the toxins. In this episode, Dr. Nicole will discuss ways to address the underlying causes, go in-depth to avoid wasting time, and share her experience with a recent emotional detox. Fun Fact: Sometimes your neck issues are related to your spine or lymphatic irritation. We also have sinuses in our faces and brains, which are a part of the venous system that aids in the detoxification of our brains. Through deodorants, dental work, etc., people are directly getting exposed to harmful toxins. You do have a blood-brain barrier, but a number of things can, regrettably, interfere with it. We'll be delving further into the topic of how dental problems and sinuses affect our thyroid, parathyroid, and breast health on this week's episode of Integrative Wellness Radio. Interested in learning more about Dr. Nick & Dr. Nicole’s courses, memberships, or private work? Learn more at Integrative You . Have a quick question, Would you like to schedule a call, or just want to say hi? Text us at 732.913.0009. Our mission to innovate humans & Healthcare does NOT start and stop with us! This is why we are also dedicated to helping other practitioners in evolving healthcare too! If you are a healthcare leader and are looking to up-level your clinical + business excellence Learn more about our course membership: Limitless Healthprenuer and start boldly disrupting this industry! What you’ll learn: Why we have sinuses in our brain and how they help to detoxify our brain. Why does our brain need to detoxify? Despite having a blood-brain barrier, how do toxins enter our brains? How can removing your tonsils create inflammation in your neck How does our blood-brain barrier get disrupted How having dental problems might cause toxins to enter our brains? Interest
Topics: brain, dental, issues, thyroid, toxins, neck, health, integrative
Key takeaways from this episode
- ## Integrative Wellness Radio: Dental & Sinus Impact on Brain Health and Beyond
- Your sinuses play a crucial role in brain detoxification, acting as part of the venous system.
- The blood-brain barrier, while protective, can be compromised by various everyday toxins and even certain dental interventions.
- Tonsils, as lymphatic organs, are involved in toxin elimination, and their removal can lead to inflammatory issues if not managed.
- Dental health is directly linked to the potential for toxins to enter the bloodstream and affect distant organs.
Pull quotes
Imagine if medicine actually looked at you as a whole, opposed to looking at you as a bunch of separate systems.
Nick and Dr. **Unknown:** Nicole to learn more about the top trends in integrative medicine, to learn about what the limitations are with testing, and what you can do to start your health journey.
All right, so we talked all about anatomical connections in the pelvic bowl, scar tissue, C-sections.
Transcript
**Unknown:** I been up all night, no sleep. Imagine if medicine actually looked at you as a whole, opposed to looking at you as a bunch of separate systems. Dive into Integrative Wellness Radio with Dr. Nick and Dr.
**Unknown:** Nicole to learn more about the top trends in integrative medicine, to learn about what the limitations are with testing, and what you can do to start your health journey. Sometimes I tend to lose myself. All right, so we are back with part two, mothersuckas. This is, this is gonna be interesting.
**Unknown:** My espresso just kicked in. All right, so we talked all about anatomical connections in the pelvic bowl, scar tissue, C-sections. You name it, we covered it. We talked about endometriosis, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, and we are going to be doing a segue podcast to talk more about polycystic ovarian syndrome, because as we dropped the bomb, eh, we mentioned that that is actually more of a pancreatic issue, and there's a lot of people that don't know that.
**Unknown:** So, stay tuned for that podcast coming up. But as we dive in, we wanna talk about the upper body, because there are a lot of people that are walking around with thyroid issues, parathyroid issues, sinus issues, and also brain issues that are actually connected to physical, anatomical things going on, and dental. So, this is gonna be a little bit of a loaded podcast. There are ...
**Unknown:** If you're, if you really, really wanna hone in on the brain aspect, just so you know, we have a podcast that we did that was , I think it was called Brain Fog or Your Brain Can't Poop. I think it was Why, Why Your Brain Can't Poop. Sometimes I laugh at how we actually labeled these podcasts. But that's like a deep, deep dive into this.
**Unknown:** But we're really connecting the dots today on things that a lot of us have experienced. A lot of us have had neck issues. We've had either neck pain, neck injuries. We've had whiplash, fender benders with car accidents, you know, heading the ball playing soccer, getting slammed in the ribcage playing football, lacrosse, rugby.
**Unknown:** And then there's obviously some people that have had full-blown serious neck surgeries, fusions, laminectomies, et cetera. Lot of us have had dental issues. You know, some people have just straight up had a lot of cavities. They've done a lot of fillings.
**Unknown:** They've done sealants and bonding. There are other people that have had root canals. Then there's other people that have gone through different cosmetic changes dentally, and they've done a full mouth of veneers. So, we're really helping to bridge the understanding of how some things from injury perspective of the neck, of the head, so we're talking head injuries, concussion, non-concussion, frozen shoulder, ribcage injury, injuries, can all play a role in diagnoses that you've received later, and those diagnoses might be hypothyroid, hyperthyroid, thyroid nodules, um, neurodegenerative diseases, migraines because of vascular issues in the brain.
**Unknown:** Yeah. Sinusitis. One thing on health history that people don't think about very often but I'm always, like, looking for is, like, you know, shoulder injuries. Mm-hmm.
**Unknown:** TOS, like all that aspect. TOS, just so you guys know, is if you ... Like, a lot of people fall asleep with their hand over their head, and then they wake up because their hand is numb. So it's, that's thoracic outlet syndrome.
**Unknown:** It's when your nerves underneath your collarbone are really compressed or there's scar tissue, so super common with, um- Yeah. So all of that is if you have entrapment creating a decrease in neurological activity, well, you're gonna also have the same thing through your lymphatic system. You're gonna have the same thing through your blood flow, and it's like that, just because blocking going down, you're also creating a decrease of that information going up to the brain as well. Well, that's what people don't think about, is your ...
**Unknown:** So, a lot of people have neck pain, and you know, they're, everyone's doing something different. Some people are just taking Tylenol. Some people are going to a chiropractor. Some people are doing physical therapy.
**Unknown:** Some people are doing massage. But what you have going on in your neck sometimes is actually your spine, and sometimes if it's more on, like, the sides of the neck, if you press on the sides of your neck right now and you're like, "Eh, yeah, it's a little tender," that's going to be more your lymphatics. And I know that a lot of women are self-conscious because they're like, "Oh my gosh, I have a fat neck," and they say it's because they're getting older or whatever else. I say that all the time.
**Unknown:** And it actually has nothing to do with fat accumulation. It has to do with inflammation because the lymphatics of your neck are not draining, but your, that chain from the side of your neck, so like go earlobe, down the side of your neck, that chain goes all the way down to your armpit and even into your breast. That lymphatic chain is connected. There's a lot of women that are suffering with neck pain also having fibrocystic breasts or dense breasts or painful breasts.
**Unknown:** And of course, they're nervous about the possibility of breast cancer development, but understanding that you have a boatload of lymph nodes in your breast, and chances are if your whole lymphatic chain, maybe it started with a neck injury and you have a bunch of scar tissue in your neck, or maybe it's because in addition you use deodorant that has aluminum in it that is putting toxins directly into that lymph chain. And maybe it's emotional. And maybe it's emotional. Hey, we can't segue into the emotional just yet.
**Unknown:** Let me finish my physical thoughts. So, I wanna start from the top down, because I'm OCD. So, let's, let's talk a little bit more about, like, sinuses and dental, and then we'll work our way down to thyroid and ribcage and all of that. You down?
**Unknown:** Let's go. I was thinking top down like, you know, the seventh chakra. Okay. Something like that.
**Unknown:** We'll get there. So sinuses. Some of you, full-blown, have had sinusitis for a long time. You, um, have had sinus infections.
**Unknown:** You've gone on rounds of antibiotics, and some of you just deal with, like, seasonal allergies, low-grade congestion. Well, I wanna start even higher. Like, we- Okay. You go ...
**Unknown:** there's, we have sinuses in the face, but we have sinuses- Yep ... that cover the brain as well. And people don't think about having sinuses that are helping to detox your brain, and that is one of the huge factors that's actually going, everything, especially with gravity, is- Did you listen to my TikTok yesterday, or we're just, like, on the same wavelength? Well, both of that scares me.
**Unknown:** Um- Hopefully no for both. All right. Cool. Cool.
**Unknown:** But yeah. I just talked about this, so that's why I'm asking. Well, go ahead if you... I mean, you- No, no.
**Unknown:** Go, keep... That's exact- That's what I was talking about. I was like, everybody thinks about sinuses in their face, like, you know, nasal passages, but you have all these sinuses throughout your brain- Yep ... which are part of your venous system.
**Unknown:** And what people don't realize about their veins is your veins are part of your detoxification. It, it works with your lymphatics. Yep, and they run literally parallel with each other. So that, that's the thing, even the thing with, um, varicose veins.
**Unknown:** You know, people get varicose veins, and they say, "Oh, it runs in my family," or, "It's with aging," but varicose veins are a... It, it's your body showing, literally showing you how backed up your lymphatic system is with toxins and pathogens. Which is, I don't wanna go there right now, but there's definitely a high connection with f- familial stress that's been passed down. Mm.
**Unknown:** And so this is just, just a quick little mind fuck for everybody. Um, so it used to be- What did you call yourself, a, a mindfuckologist? Mindfuckologist. He's gonna start introducing himself as that.
**Unknown:** What do I do? I fuck your, your mind. And then we reprogram it, so it's even better. So the, used to be transgenerational stress, uh, science used to think it went back nine generations, but now it's been proven it goes back 14 generations.
**Unknown:** So when we think of things being, you know, in our family, well, yeah, it is. It's just not coming up the way that we've been programmed that- Yes ... oh, it's, this is because my DNA is like this or the- Your genetics ... genetics, even though it's being expressed through genetics, is the, the stress or we call transgenerational trauma.
**Unknown:** It's not really trauma, 'cause it's just a perception. But the, the stress is the programs that our DNA can run. So you think about, like, your DNA as the computer, but then it gets to ch- pick and choose which program it wants to run. It's not that, oh, just because you have this program that it's running.
**Unknown:** It's just that it's a program in the background. Throughout our environment and the quality of our life, what we're putting inside of ourselves, the products we use, our thoughts that we use, the actions that we take, that's what's actually dictating which program is coming online for the DNA to use. So a lot of times we even have the same belief systems, we do the same actions- Yep ... and thoughts as our family.
**Unknown:** We get, we get guilted with the same things. As our family, so we start using the exact same programs. And that's just kinda like the underlying aspect that I wanna just quickly help people realize is that with understanding, like, varicose veins and everything, this is just something I've seen clinically, is that it's the same mental and emotional issues that are cyclical throughout the generations of family. And soon as you can actually balance out and stop, collapse that stress response, well, the venous system's all about circulating love, circulating gratitude for your life.
**Unknown:** And it's like the same thing when you look at your lymphatic system. Well, lymphatic system is like you're just, you're not able to release all the fucking baggage- Yeah ... that your body's holding onto, and that is, tends to be similar throughout families. But that's, it's, it's a double-edged sword, because what you're talking about is it's not genetic, but it's the genetic expression.
**Unknown:** And the genetic expression is very influenced by the emotional shit and, and the programs being passed down. But then what, another thing from, you know, the biochemical perspective that people don't realize is that toxins are passed down. You know, they, they've now proven that they've found up to 200 chemicals in the amniotic fluid, you know, AKA the fluid inside of the placenta that the baby is hanging out in. That's the fluid that's essentially supposed to nourish the fetus baby.
**Unknown:** It's chock-full of chemicals, and those chemicals came from you, what's in your body. And that is something that a lot of these children are, are being born already toxic. So you, you have like a double-edged burden from that biochemical burden of toxicity, and then the burden of your family's bullshit. So, you know, so what we're, we're...
**Unknown:** Let's go back to after that tangent, which was totally necessary. But, you know, talking about sinuses that are helping your brain detoxify, and we'll get into why your brain has to detoxify in just a minute. But if you have chronic inflammation in your face because of your nasal passages being chock-full of shit you're breathing in, maybe because you were a smoker or maybe because you work in a hair salon and you're inhaling tons of aerosol sprays, or maybe because you are a mechanic and breathing in fumes, or maybe because you live in a water-damaged building or work in a water-damaged building. Or maybe it's just our fantastic air quality that's outside.
**Unknown:** Well, yeah. You can actually look up your air quality online on, um, EWG. And, or actually, you can even see your air quality through the Weather Channel apps nowadays. And sometimes when you go outside and you see...
**Unknown:** Like, obviously I know in California there's tons of smog, but in, when you go outside and you see, like, a haze, go on that Weather Channel app, and you'll sometimes see it'll say, like, "Stay inside." But nobody actually, like, announces it. It's just if you happen to see it. Or you can just go outside and look at the geoengineering that- That we're- ... we're not posting about We're not going on that tangent.So- Have a high quality air filter in your house.
**Unknown:** Yes. That, yes, yes, yes. So when it comes to, you know, these sinuses, part of it is, one, blood has to go to your brain to oxygenate your brain, 'cause oxygen is what allows every cell in your body to thrive, including your neurological system. And then the blood goes up, and then the blood gets drained out.
**Unknown:** But the venous system is also playing a role in detoxifying the brain. So you might be thinking like, "Why the hell would I have toxins in my brain?" And that's where, one, the dental part comes in. But also, I've worked with patients that are like, "My vision is horrible. My vision is horrible, and I use these eye drops every day." Primary ingredient in those eye drops is propylene glycol, which is massively tos- toxic.
**Unknown:** I'm just like, "Okay." So people are getting toxins, you know, directly into the head and neck via deodorants, eye drops, nasal sprays, even dental work. And- And, and just your water's toxic. Yeah. And you- So there, there's a lot of factors ...
**Unknown:** and your brain's 70% water, so it's just like, you know, not to be the shitter on life right now, but it's like we're like we've kinda been dealt a bad hand, but it's our responsibility to take action, and we have to be able to learn what to do in order to overcome this quote unquote "bad hand" we've been drawn. Well, also one of the main reasons why everybody has high cholesterol is not because they eat too many fucking eggs. It's because the cholesterol is a major protector of the brain. Cholesterol's a neuroto- or a neuroprotectant.
**Unknown:** Yeah. So your cholesterol is going up to protect your neurological system, if it's your brain or if it's other parts of your nervous system. So it's like cholesterol is actually very beneficial, and all these people on fucking statins and cholesterol-lowering drugs are all developing dementia and Alzheimer's. But, you know, nobody wants to talk about that either.
**Unknown:** So before we move forward, just one of the things, your brain's 70% water. If you're drinking tap water, it's toxic. Is... Distilled water is the most pure form of water, and it's- But you need to mineralize it.
**Unknown:** You need... I mean, you, we need minerals, yes. Yeah. Your body is a battery, so you'll wanna be taking- 'Cause I know that some people- But you're not- ...
**Unknown:** have strong feelings about- You can have strong feelings- ... distilled water ... but I don't wanna get into that, 'cause that's just a lot of ignorance. Um- Yeah.
**Unknown:** We can do a different podcast for that. All right. Back on track. So one other layer that I want you guys to understand is that you do have a blood-brain barrier, and that blood-brain barrier is designed to keep toxins out of the brain.
**Unknown:** But unfortunately, there are a lot of things that are affecting the blood-brain barrier, head injuries being one, from a physical standpoint. But also, there are a variety of different chemicals that can disrupt the blood-brain barrier as well, aluminum being one. And aluminum is in deodorant, which most of us have used at some point in time in our lives. So there's a lot of things that are essentially poking holes in that blood-brain barrier, which is allowing for toxins to flood in.
**Unknown:** So this is one of the major things around melatonin. Melatonin is actually one of the major detoxifiers of the brain, and the reason why melatonin is also associated with sleep is because melatonin goes up at night to allow you to get sleepy. And your brain does its best detoxification at night when you sleep because melatonin is the double-edged sword of helping you go to sleep as well as being a major neurological detoxifier. So if you're a person who doesn't sleep or you have insomnia, then this is something to, to really consider, because is your melatonin totally depleted because your gut is messed up, uh, which plays a role in serotonin and melatonin production?
**Unknown:** Is it because you're running on fight or flight and have massive stress hormones floating through the body, which is suppressing your serotonin and melatonin? Or is it a toxicity piece, and that your melatonin is being... it's being revved up and maxed out because it's constantly trying to detoxify your neurological system, and it's depleted at this point? So these are some key things that have to be thought about.
**Unknown:** And one of the things that a lot of times conventional medicine is not talking about, but also even functional and integrative doctors, they're not always up to par on the dental aspects that can affect the brain, the thyroid, and the parathyroid. If you are someone who has had a boatload of silver fillings in your mouth, you're gonna have a lot of leaching of mercury and amalgam in... that's getting picked up by your lymph nodes. It's getting picked up by your blood vessels.
**Unknown:** The same thing is there's very specific chemicals that are associated with different bonding and dental resins that are vapor-based, fumaric acid being one of them. And then we also have the component of root canals, is we've worked with a couple of biological dentists, and they s- have said they've never, they have never, like, dealt with a root canal because most of these people came to them with root canals. Not all root canals were, say, problematic, or symptomatic I should say, but when they go in and they address the root canal or extract the tooth, there was always an infection underneath that root canal if it was symptomatic or not. And that is something that I find very mind-blowing, that- But most of them leave the ligament in.
**Unknown:** Well, and it doesn't ever heal properly- Right ... and it's like a, it's a, it's a cavity for bacteria to brew. So there's definitely some major, major issues with root canals and that creating a harboring of bacteria, and that harboring of bacteria is something that is getting picked up by blood vessels and lymphatic systems, and that is creating... It's...
**Unknown:** Everybody's different. Some people, it's creating brain fog. Some people, it's creating full-blown neurodegenerative conditions. Some people, it's affecting their lymphatic chain, causing them to be in a lot of pain, constant shoulder pain, constant neck pain.
**Unknown:** Um- And sometimes it's body pain, 'cause every single tooth is connected to a different organ system, connected to a different body part, connected to a different meridian. So it's like every single tooth is almost like its, its own little organ system itself. Yeah. And that's, that's a really interesting thing too.
**Unknown:** If you, you know, go online and you look up the organ connections of teeth, I can't tell you how many individuals have been diagnosed with something from, you know, thyroid to, you know, bre- even breast cancer, and they then realized that it was-There was a correlation to a tooth that they had a major procedure on. If either that tooth was pulled, or there was an infection, or there was a dry socket, or whatever the case may be. So there's definitely some serious correlation there. So working with a dentist that understands the systemic effects of- Which is- ...
**Unknown:** dental work or lack of dental work is important ... which is a biological dentist. Yeah. Yeah.
**Unknown:** So it's a key thing to, to consider. Just because somebody says they're holistic, that doesn't really mean shit these days. Yeah. There's a lot of people peddling that term.
**Unknown:** But going back to this, you know, this concept of people having whiplash, neck injuries, plates in their neck, and different surgical procedures is, you know, if you really start to think about what is sandwiched in the middle of your neck, it's your thyroid. And your thyroid is also attached to four parathyroid glands. And really, essentially right above your thyroid is your tonsils, or I should say lack of tonsils. So if you have your brain with this very, very intricate detoxification system, and that detoxification system is, you know, the veins pretty much pull or are in charge of dumping the toxins out.
**Unknown:** So those toxins get dumped into the lymphatic system. Your tonsils are actually lymphatic organs, but most people have them removed. Or they're already full. Or they're already maxed out.
**Unknown:** So if you have your, you know, your, your brain trying to detoxify, and now these toxins are going either into already inflamed and overloaded tonsils, or they're going directly into the lymphatic chain of the neck 'cause the tonsils aren't there, then you essentially have your thyroid in a quote, unquote, "bad neighborhood," is it's sitting in the middle of an overly burdened lymphatic system, overly burdened tonsils. And now it's, it's going to naturally become inflamed due to the surrounding environment. Well, the bad neighborhood it really is, 'cause there's, there's trash everywhere. And if there's trash everywhere, you think there's fighting, and the fighting is the immune system because there is trash everywhere.
**Unknown:** And then you have damage that's going onto these organs. And then because it's the immune system attacking your own organ, well, now we call it an autoimmune condition. And really at the end of the day, it's the immune system is attacking the bad shit. Correct.
**Unknown:** And your tissue might be in the line of fire, but your immune system doesn't turn on, on your body. Your immune system turns on something toxic or foreign, but conventional medicine doesn't look at toxic and foreign. It doesn't... I- it's not even in their wheelhouse.
**Unknown:** So they just say, "We don't know why this happened, but here's a drug to shut down your immune system," which is shutting down the inflammatory cascade. There's actually- So that just creates a boatload of more fucking issues. There's actually one, one aspect of when the immune system does attack itself. Do you know when?
**Unknown:** When you're emotional? Yes. When you're not allowing yourself to be yourself, and you see yourself as an extern- external foreign agent, your body, your immune system will start attacking itself to wake you the fuck up and start actually being and loving yourself. Truth.
**Unknown:** Body is always, always keeping score and always telling us what's up. Yep. If we wanna listen or we don't. But speaking too of, you know, there are some people that are getting ultrasounds and being told they have an enlarged thyroid, a goiter, which is going back to this concept of the inflammatory cascade due to the immune system being overreactive, cleaning up the trash in the area.
**Unknown:** But then there's also the concept of, uh, nodules. And, you know, thyroid nodules are very similar to what we talked about in the last podcast with the, with cysts, is a nodule is when the immune system sends calcium to an area. Calcium is there to create a little prison around something that is harmful. So if that is a bacteria, if it is a toxin that is harmful to the thyroid or the parathyroid, it is going to wall off that foreign harmful agent, and it will encapsulate it with calcium, which creates a nodule.
**Unknown:** So this happens in other parts of the body. This is one of the components to kidney stones. It's not the only component to kidney stones, just be aware of that, but there's a lot of layers to it. So it's like instead of thinking about nodules as, "This is scary.
**Unknown:** This will eventually turn into a tumor," is understanding that it's actually a very, very smart protective mechanism that your body creates in order to protect that vital organ. And that's, that's, that's what dental plaque is. You know, it's a nodule. It's a biofilm.
**Unknown:** Yeah. It's a protective agent. It's walling off- Yep ... shit that's harmful.
**Unknown:** And that's what lesions are in the brain. You know, it's, we think they're called lesions, but they're, they're actually like- It's pla- yeah ... it's plaque. So think about it.
**Unknown:** It's called amyloid plaque. Plaque on your teeth. It, it's the same exact concept. It's walling off shit that's harmful.
**Unknown:** Different form, but the same, exact same concept. Yeah, 100%. So the point that we're making here is that this could be, this could... It, it's hard to say chicken or the egg when you're listening to a podcast because, one, you may be someone who has had a lot of issues that have happened to your neck from a structural standpoint, from a surgical standpoint, a scar tissue standpoint, or, you know, damage of your tissue from whiplash, and th- that has created stress on your thyroid, your parathyroid.
**Unknown:** Or it's the vice versa, that the parathyroid, thyroid is inflamed due to, you know, different toxic accumulation or, or having bacterial colonies in your tonsils that then has created inflammation in the lymph of your neck, which feels like a musculoskeletal issue. So it's like you have to take a deep dive to understand these different pieces of the puzzle in order to really truly heal and get better. Deal... And not waste your time or your money, and fi- actually fix the root.
**Unknown:** You know, how many people are getting, you know, massages or doing physical therapy for their neck and going to an endocrinologist for their thyroid, and nobody's connecting the dots. And they're just on this hamster wheel and actually don't feel better with any of the interventions that they're getting. So are we gonna talk about the emotions now or what? Get it, kid.
**Unknown:** So starting with the sinuses. The sinuses, whether it's, you know, sinuses of the brain or sinuses of the face, it's also connected to like you could think of the sinus cavity, AKA your lungs, uh, that's what holds primarily the foundation of the perception of loss. Mm-hmm. So anytime that we have perception of loss- I'll tell you the story in a few minutes after Nick goes through this- Mm ...
**Unknown:** of my more recent detox- emotional detox that came from doing human behavior work that Dr. Nick does with our patients, and pairing that with meditation. So I'll let him talk more about sinuses and all of that before I share that very interesting story. So yeah, so I mean, I won't take up too much time 'cause we've already covered a lot of things.
**Unknown:** But the, the sinuses, the lungs, it's pretty much the primary aspect of holding onto the perception of loss, and the perception of loss is what creates grief. You know, getting just quickly broad overview, the body is just energy, and what drives me fucking crazy is that we spend so much time, energy, and money on this physical body, but when we look at it actually through a lens of science, it's 99.99999% space. So it's like for me it just makes more common sense, even though there's no common sense out there in society today is like if something's primarily space, why wouldn't we putting most of our time, energy, and money focusing on the space? When less than 1% of our body's actually physical, we should probably putting less than 1% of our time, energy, money on the physical aspects that make us up.
**Unknown:** Might be a little polarized- ... but, you know, you get the fucking concept. So what creates that distress is the perception of loss, understanding that energy's always in a state of balance and equanimity. It's that our perceptions are out of balance.
**Unknown:** Also, we've been proven through actual science, not political science or an agenda-based science, is that energy can't be created or destroyed. It's only transformed into a new form. So follow me here. Nothing is lost.
**Unknown:** It's the perception of loss that creates grief. This is s- sounds easier than done. My mom just passed away last year, and, you know, I help clients go through it all the time, and I thought I could take myself through the process. You know, I finished up that myself, but because I was so polarized, I needed somebody else to actually help take me through that process.
**Unknown:** So it's not always something we can do ourselves because if we... if our mind is so- when I say polarized, if we're seeing too much of loss or too much of gain, then we're beyond that threshold of being able to help ourself, and that's how I was with my mom. I needed somebody else, and I tried for months, and I was in a shitty place, that I needed somebody else to help decrease that perception till I was below that threshold, and then I could do the rest of the work myself. So- I think a clarifying thing too, though- Mm ...
**Unknown:** is loss is not always about the loss of a loved one, but it's perceived loss around even, like, a trait or a characteristic. Because I personally, like, I lost my, my grandmother who was very close to me, but I, I haven't experienced tons of, of loss in my life from that perspective. But there was massive voids around, like, this l- lack of or a, a loss of, like, support, a loss of, of, of nurture, a loss of connection. Like, there was other...
**Unknown:** There's other types of, of loss that can exist in a person's life. Well, we never actually grieve losing the person. We grieve what the person was giving us. Yeah.
**Unknown:** That's... Yeah. Exactly. And that's...
**Unknown:** And it doesn't have to be the person. Like, we can, we can grieve a dog, we can grieve a house, we can grieve a car, we can grieve a job. Because we don't grieve those actual physical aspects. We grieve what those things were giving us.
**Unknown:** Mm-hmm. And that's, the understanding that, that's what's been transformed into other forms because nothing's... energy's never lost. It just changes form.
**Unknown:** So once we can see the new forms and balance out all of that aspects, well, then the mind is back into a state of being equival- equivalibrated. Can't talk today. Well, yeah. It's, it's interesting because I've done so many detoxes, uh, from, you know, different types of, like, therapies and lymphatic drainage and- So, so tell your story ...
**Unknown:** supplements and... Well, the... I am, and it's been... I, I've seen changes in my physical body, but there was a, just a point in time that it wasn't that I was feeling overly, you know, sad or, or, like, very specific emotions.
**Unknown:** I just kind of felt like what got me here wasn't getting me there. You know, for those of you that have been following us for a long time, you know that we picked up and we moved to South Carolina. We had a baby, you know, started a family. There was a lot of life changes all at once, and, uh, just couldn't help but feel like there was something holding me back, something making me feel really stuck and, and creating this, like, this cloud of confusion, uh, just not feeling clear.
**Unknown:** And on top of it, it was the, the most slow my life had been in, like, literally ever, maybe since I was a very small child. Uh, so sitting with the discomfort made it worse Made, made it more intense. So I decided that I was going to have someone help me to work through the clarity that I needed, and Dr. Nick was kind enough to recommend his colleague, primarily because, you know, conflict of interest working with your husband.
**Unknown:** He... W- I started working with someone and embarked on, you know, getting clarity, collapsing some shit that was running in the background that was from past belief systems and past programs, and creating more of the f- visions of the future of, of where I am now and who I am now and, and, and who I'm gonna further develop to be. And as I embarked on this work, and then also pairing that with meditation, which I never did a day in my life prior, and the meditation, I was like, "I don't know if I'm doing this right. All I know is I'm just breathing according to what the recording tells me to do." And it was about three weeks in to that work that I started...
**Unknown:** I thought I was getting sick. I just was like, "Oh, my sinuses. I can't breathe, my throat." And it lasted for a month, and it had nothing to do with being sick. There was no virus.
**Unknown:** There was nothing along those lines. It was, it was my body releasing what I was fucking holding for 30 years So this is, we do some crazy testing here. She re- she was releasing, yeah, her shit, but she was also releasing that transgenerational stress that- Was passed down ... it's, it's, you could think about it as, you know, whatever, but it's, it's us.
**Unknown:** So y- there's no blame 'cause if we're blaming then there's credit somewhere. So it's, there's no blame game, it's just that that's an aspect of who we are, and we have to take the responsibility to correct this. An amazing thing, and then I'll let you get back to your story, but just to like really step into being empowered, amazing aspect is when we're working, energy flows from the non-physical to the physical. The physical is Newtonian physics.
**Unknown:** The non-physical is quantum physics. We have both forms of physics that govern our life. When we work on Newtonian physics, we're, we're dictated by this time, but when we work into the quantum realm, we're not dictated by time. So like right now in Newtonian, there's the present, and then there's the past that happened moments before, and then there's the future that's gonna be happening moments pretty soon.
**Unknown:** But when we get into the quantum realm, there is no time because it's time-space, and that past, that present, and that future are actually all entangled in that same exact moment. So when you heal yourself on the energetic standpoint, you're healing all the forms not only behind you, that transgenerational stress, but you're healing all the forms that were happening or going to happen ahead of you in the future. So this is like the mind- You're just changing your entire state of being. W- but, but the- Mm ...
**Unknown:** mind-blowing aspect is that part of being that you're changing is that stress in the DNA- Yeah ... which is all the generations behind you, 14 generations at least, and 14 generations ahead of you. So you're, you're literally, like we think of, "Oh, it's just me." No. Like y- Yeah ...
**Unknown:** we are so much more powerful than we've ever understood, and we're starting to finally understand this because we have the tools and technologies to actually allow us to see this change, but it's mind-blowing. It's, like how powerful we are being able to change, quote-unquote, other people that we're a part of. Yeah. No, it, it, it's, it's definitely ...
**Unknown:** I think it's just, it's hard for people to probably wrap their head around until they, they see it firsthand and experience it themselves. But, you know, being able to do the work that I have on myself, obviously feel my own transformation, but then also see how it has affected the, you know, the people around me. And I'm not even just talking about you guys, you know, as my, my direct family, but just there's been a shift in all of our clients that we work with. Privately, there's been ...
**Unknown:** There, there's just been a lot of a rip- like a huge, huge ripple effect, and it's pretty wild. It's, it's very wild 'cause still m- to this day, my brain does not work the way yours does when it comes to energy. I just know that- But that, that deep understanding is why we don't work with just kids anymore. We, we work with- Families ...
**Unknown:** the families. Yeah. Because that's- Because kids are the product of- That's how we create a change. Exactly.
**Unknown:** Yeah. It's, it's very interesting. But yeah, kids are very much a product of us, and, and that is not always something that parents ... It's not very easy to swallow because some parents are just in full-blown survival mode.
**Unknown:** I know that was how I grew up, and they were just trying to get by and do what they needed to do so everybody could survive and there could be enough money to get food on the table. So they're just not necessarily understanding how that shapes those children and also expresses your genes differently, which is part of this transgenerational trauma that we're talking about. So overall, total segue, but there's a lot of layers to health I think is really what it comes down to. And, you know, we have been practicing what we preach, and we've been on our own journey of growing and evolving ourselves from all different aspects.
**Unknown:** It's not just about our physical body. But, you know, you just get faced with obstacles, and you could either ignore them or you can say, "All right. Time to learn more about what I don't know." That has been ... Because one of our highest values together is learning, and evolving, and innovating is, you know, we went from understanding, you know, the physical body and doing physical body work on people, then to bringing in nutrition, then to bringing in stress management tools, then to bringing in all these fancy detox technologies, then to getting into advanced emotional work through human behavior and determining people's highest values.
**Unknown:** So it's like it's been this compounding evolution, and it's been necessary for us to grow and evolve ourselves. But our goal was to always share this knowledge with others and help people to feel free, and be empowered, and understand that they can wake up and fucking love life and not feel like they're just trying to get by. You said the word love. We're making progress.
**Unknown:** Oh, shit. All right. We're done now. We gotta go.
**Unknown:** We're getting there, team. We're getting there, tribe. So but for those of you that listen to even my story and feel inspired by that, we have our values determination course. So values was w- the first part of my journey, and it's actually part of anybody we work with privately.
**Unknown:** It's the first part of their journey, is figuring out what the fuck is important to them. Because if you don't have that clarity, it's actually really, really hard to make decisions in your life, and it's really hard to heal your body physically. So that is a course that we actually put together that I am so stoked about because it's just one step for people to ... It, it's getting one step closer to a, a better life and a more authentic version of yourself because people, people need to give themselves permission to just be their fucking selves and not give a fuck.
**Unknown:** And that is one of my goals, is to allow you to feel empowered and confident to just be your fucking self. Yeah. Because what is life, just living, living for other people- The- ... and suppressing yourself?
**Unknown:** The story usually goes you give li- more fucks about everybody else and less fucks about yourself, and then you get resentful, and then you give more fucks about yourself, and then less fucks about everybody else. And- ... then you realize that everybody deserves an equal amount of fucks. But- And we're gonna leave all the F-bombs.
**Unknown:** The ... That's why I'm a mindfuckologist. The, the, the best thing about values is understanding that we are all energy, and that values allows you to serve that energy most productively. So when you can get crystal clear on your values, energy's either bu- building up or it's breaking down.
**Unknown:** You know, it's never stagnant. So the values gives you the foundation to constantly be evolving and building yourself up instead of breaking yourself down. Yeah. And if you're a practitioner and you really enjoy this content, just know that we do have a whole entire course to master clinical, to master clinical mastery.
**Unknown:** Is that what I was gonna say? Ma- master the clinical craziness. To master integrative medicine. Uh, we talk a lot about human behavior.
**Unknown:** We talk about psychological connections to disease. And if you are an individual that is just like, "Holy crap, that made a lot of sense. I've been suffering with X, Y, or Z," just know that we have a very limited availability in our health practice, but we still do work with patients. So check out our links below so you can see where to find us, and obviously check out more of our podcast where we continue to mindfuck you slash give you really awesome information.
**Unknown:** See you next time, guys. We thank you for being a listener and subscriber to Integrative Wellness Radio. If you're looking to learn more about Integrative Wellness Group as well as Dr. Nick or Dr.
**Unknown:** Nicole, you can check out integrativewellnessgroup.com. All night, no sleep. 'Cause I feel like I'm always dreaming. Wide awake, that's okay.
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