Reverse Autoimmune Disease Through Emotional Detoxification

Introduction to Emotional Detox and the Freedom Framework 0:00

Hello, doctor. Keesha here again, and you're joining me for the reverse Autoimmune Disease Summit series. And during this week of amazing talks, all of these speakers are brilliant in their fields of expertise. I am presenting ways that you can detox in order to help reverse your autoimmune disease. As one of the corner puzzle pieces in the freedom framework. So if you listened to my talk yesterday, I introduced the Freedom Framework. For those of you that aren't familiar with it. So we're going to go a little deeper into the world of emotional detoxification this time.

So I'm sharing my screen now. So we're going to talk about reversing autoimmune disease as a way of emotional detoxification. So I told you if you haven't met me before I reverse my own rheumatoid arthritis 25 years ago, in six months, and before I was diagnosed, I was this marathon running perfectionist who pushed yourself really hard and was a people pleaser. And had past trauma that had to be dealt with and hadn't been dealt with yet. This is me running the Boston Marathon over on the left hand side.

And then, in my very early 30s, after the birth of my fourth child here on the right hand side, I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. And, you know, my friends called me an Energizer bunny because I was very, very driven. So I was able to actually not take the methotrexate that my doctor gave me that first day in her office, when she found out that this was a genetic issue, that my grandfather had had it by really going in and doing the what I now call the freedom framework, working on my genetics, my gut health, my toxic burden and my trauma, which I realized when I started really working on this had a huge impact on my immune system.

And we'll talk a little bit about that. Everything that I talk about in the next few days of this summit, as I do these little webinars, I did it this way this time because I thought, I really want to take you through the process. You know, this is this is the process of really from point A to point B to point C to point D, so that we can reverse the autoimmune disease for you. I, talk about all the things that I'm touching on in these little short talks more deeply in my book, Solving the Auto Immune Puzzle.

And again in its companion book, The Quick and Easy Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook. So for those of you that don't know me, I am, nurse practitioner with a specialty in integrative medicine. I'm board and functional and innovative medicine. I have a PhD in sexology. I am psychotherapist and energy worker, yoga teacher, meditation teacher, certified conscious dying doula. I'm a master's of divinity student right now, and I'm the founder of the Academy for Integrative Medicine, health coach Certification program.

And at the end of each one of these talks this week, I'm giving you, an offer of $3,000 off that program. If you want to join us in this amazing tribe of people who are doing the very things I'm talking about here this week. And so sometimes people will write to me after seminars and say, I really want to work with you, and how could I learn more? You know, and so we thought, what we do is at the end of each one of these talks, it stays, give you an opportunity, with a significant scholarship for the summit.

So I love this quote by Rumi I love Rumi. Don't be satisfied with stories. How things have gone with others. Unfold your own mess. And so what we're doing is you're talking about your stories. You know, by by really taking a look at how you've written it over the years. And most of the time we don't realize we've written our story and that we have a cast of characters, both internally and externally, who are living that story. I'm going to give you a little new perspective on, how that perception

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of your story impacts your hormones and your immune system and the disease process that we call autoimmunity, and then show you some science that actually indicates how this is all hooked up and why I, your Veda 10,000 years ago saying that autoimmune diseases, undigested anger, how they had hit on something so many years ago. And, and now we're just learning the science of why it is. And we're going to talk about the root causes of autoimmunity and go through the five hours of healing. So I always talk about the the conventional medical model or standard American medical model is we want is matching pill to IL.

It's evidence based. Which means what we do is when we do a research study, we want to extrapolate it to the whole population, which doesn't work because we're all different. We do have different genetics. And so it's kind of crazy that we keep holding on to this idea that we are standardized people and that we can standardize medicine because it obviously doesn't work. We have these expectations that our insurance should pay for things, and it's not a realistic expectation because standard American model of medicine is match pill to IL.

So if we're moving outside of that to, oh, I need to start taking responsibility for what I eat and looking at supplementation for nutrients that are no longer available in the soil. Like, these are things that insurance plans don't pay for. And they also don't pay for functional medicine testing. And then when we get angry about that, and believe me, I've spent years being angry about that until I finally learned how to just radically accept what is, then we actually make ourselves worse. And so we really want to think about, okay, what what are my expectations?

Are they realistic or unrealistic? And how unhappy am I whenever I have an expectation that's not being met? And how often is that happening in relationship to my body, not meeting my expectations and my health care model, not meeting my expectations? And so then you're in a swirl of upset, which then is a perception that you're not safe, which then sends all these, you know, these lovely signals to your body that you're a zebra being chased by a lion doesn't work to heal when you're in that space.

All right. So there's so many things that if we're really going to talk about reversing autoimmunity enduring insurance model, we have to address the toxic load of chemicals being dumped into our environment. We have to address public health. Like the Epstein-Barr virus. We have 95% of Americans that have that. You know, we have to address our food, our agribusiness. There's just so much, you know, that lobbyists actually are in charge of when it comes to our, our conventional medical model. So as long as it's that way, we need to move outside of that paradigm when we're talking about reversing autoimmunity and think differently.

So this Necker cube I love, I put this in my book because when I first, I don't know if any of you have ever been exposed to a Necker cube before. When I was first asked to look at this, I thought, well, this is so interesting. All I see is this, you know? And then the person said, keep looking at it. So choose choose a point. In here where where two lines or three lines meet, I use the one where three lines me and just stare at it. And what you'll see is, oh, that corner pops out so it's closer to me.

And then if I close my eyes and I look at it again, that's the corner. That's in a way for me. And it can keep going back and forth. This cube, how it's presenting to me, it's so interesting. What that is, is it's a new perspective, which is what I'm up to in this webinar is helping you have a new perspective. So in the last webinar, from yesterday, I said, you know, autoimmune illnesses are labeled and treated by their target tissue rather than by the root causes. So instead of moving the target around, we want to tap the archer on the on the shoulder and say, hey, can you stop, please shooting arrows at me, which is your immune system, right?

We want to treat this as your immune system. Shooting arrows. So I like for people to do this a little. This comes from it's a variation that I tweaked for my health coach students and my patients. Of the I call it the Health Map worksheet. The Institute for Functional Medicine calls it a timeline, and they have it all set up a little differently. But this is the one that I, I use in my practice. And what you do, you don't even need this worksheet. But, when you work with me on my website, doctor kiesha.com where it says apply to become a patient, there's actually it has step one, step two, step three.

One of the steps is to download this worksheet, so you can get it. And what you do is, is your really looking at what is my timeline from Pre-Conception. Right. Prenatal and up until birth and to where I am today. And just fill in things that are triggers from an emotional and mental, spiritual and a physical cause. So for example, if you look here down below, the current symptoms that someone came to see me with weight problems, hot flashes, they were irritable and had insomnia, low libido, brain fog, vaginal dryness and back pain.

And then when you look at this, you can see mom's a smoker. Mom had childhood trauma, single mother, entrepreneur. In a man's world, raising two little boys. Worked two jobs, no child support, prenatal mom smoked stress at a standard American diet. Prenatal care unknown then at birth. Born in the hospital. Vaginally. Labor and delivery. Unknown. Father in attendance. No maternal support and insecure attachment. So then it just goes through and it. You know father electrocuted it three weeks last hand toes and had ego crushed stress high right at this baby's birth.

Right. So then age nine parents got divorced was latchkey kid. You can see how this is actually addressing emotional, mental, spiritual and physical things. Walked yourself to kindergarten, had a humiliating experience okay. So came out as an and this is where the birth of her, type one on the Enneagram, which I also work with my patients and students

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came home to feed self do homework, which was normal for her. And then she was asked to pick the parent that she was going to live with. Just not good, right? So then in teenage years, lost track of dad after he got remarried. Mother worked all the time, remarried. Marriage volatile and violent. Lots of alcohol, screaming guns, knives and police. A score of five. Got strep throat every year with antibiotic sticks. See how these things are in red at least five times. Started oral contraceptive pill at age 15.

Lots of alcohol, inconsistent pot use. Smoked from age 15 to age 27. First sexual experience age 14, which was non-consensual, and then regular sex at age 15 and an abortion at age 16. So this person had right so much happening over here in the emotional, mental and spiritual as well as antibiotic use from strep throat. Now, when you don't do something like this, if you were doing just sort of a standard intake with a conventional medical provider, much of this wouldn't come out in the 20. In her 20s, she was raped in college, thought it was her fault, didn't talk about it, didn't speak out, and then wound up this way.

Hot flashes, irritability. When I worked with this woman after some, you know, did some lab work and everything, she had Hashimoto's and didn't know it. Often. That's the case. Thyroid is one of the target tissues when things like this raped in college. Not your fault. You don't talk about it right? You think it is your fault? Graduated college, met current spouse, first daughter, born at age 28 after 30 hours of labor. And you see section. So now we have C-section, more antibiotics in her 32nd child plan C-section.

Brother died suddenly when she was 37, diagnosed with Hashimoto's. That was when she came into my office at age 38. Was able to reverse it in two years and she had to do a lot of trauma work in her 40s, teenage stress with her children, worry and anxiety. Mom died of cancer when she was 42. Nephew killed when she was 45, marital stress and counseling. Dad died menopause at age 46. With those symptoms down here below. This is so helpful for you to fill out and see. Like, oh, an ace score of five.

We're going to talk about that here in a minute. But so that you can kind of look at your health story right. What is your story as it we're going to talk about and and what is that emotional piece that's in there that triggers the immune system to then in this person's case fire off at her thyroid. Each person is unique. That health story is going to be different for every single one of you. And for me. And what we do when we're writing those stories, we don't take a look at and start weeping and say, oh, I had a terrible childhood, because sometimes people will tell me with an autoimmune disease, I had an amazing child, I had no trauma.

And that in and of itself is great, you know, and and so we talk a lot. We talk around some things with that too. Every kid has had something where they've come away not knowing why this happened. Like why did I have a friend on the playground yesterday and now she's my friend of me. I don't understand, you know, there are these times that happen in human development that we don't understand what happens. And we we make up meanings with an undeveloped brain. So in our Vedic medicine, there's this thing called the puncher coaches.

Puncher means five coaches, means sheaths or layers. You can think about it as your five bodies. And I love this because I, your Veda says we're not just our physical self, okay? Our physical self is the one in the middle here. It's called your adamya kosha. It's got your genetics. It's got all of your cells in your organs and your tissues and your nerves. The thing you know, the the parts that your immune system is attacking when you have autoimmunity is all contained right here in that physicality.

But then you also have this next layer. It's called your energy body or pride of mucosa, you know, and in new Age medicine it could be called your aura. And so your electromagnetic energy field according to currently in photography, Chinese medicine calls it your t. Your Veda calls it prana. Japanese medicine calls it qi, like Reiki. Your mana Miya kosha is the emotional body, your mental body. And it's the place where your beliefs and your feelings are stored. The early meanings that you attach to different events are stored right there, and those are the ones through your chakra system.

You have 72,000 places where your nerves cross in your body, and that forms your energy. Body goes it extends beyond the physicality. It's like this nervous system that comes out here, and it's that body that holds your beliefs and your meanings that stem regulate those nerves and say, ooh, we're not safe. Oh, I'm not good enough. And then that creates a response in the physical body. So you can see that these three bodies are all very interrelated and interdependent. And they if we have toxicity in any of these three, then we don't get to the wisdom part, our higher nature, right, or our spiritual body, which is Ananda Maya kosha.

It's bliss. It's our connection to the divine. Okay. So it's a place where we feel like we're in flow, and if we're toxic in these other layers and we're constantly thinking that we can't trust, you know, we can't, we can't, we can't. We're not safe, then we're not going to feel blissful, ever. And our immune system is going to constantly be like the charging bull. So in your Vedic medicine again, 10,000 year old sister science of yoga. They said all those years ago that we have six levels of disease progression.

So it takes six different levels before we actually have a disease. Now, according to them, we don't notice in in our conventional Western industrialized cultures until we're at level 4 or 5. But we've had this imbalance going on for quite some time, this accumulation

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of an imbalance and then an aggravation, and then it spreads. So Aveda imbalance that starts off in the colon with some gas, some constipation, some dryness can lead to back pain when it gets into that spread place. And that back pain can move up and down our spine. And you know, so now we've had this this spread and then that back pain can create more compensatory problems. So now we have a hip problem where it localizes okay. And then we get an expression of disease and exacerbation. So that acidic body is the energy body is the one between the physical and the mental.

Again 72,000 channels or naughties. And when if you've ever taken yoga or learned anything about yoga or your yoga teacher, you know that we have these three channels that are the big ones in the center, the central channel, which is the Schumann and the EDA and Pingala, which are these bundles of afferent and efferent bundles of nerves that cross as you go up. That's what the caduceus is, is the spine with those bundles crossing as snakes. And where those meet along your spine we always hear, are the chakras right?

Seven chakras. We have 72,000 chakras, but there's big ones along the spine are connected to the sympathetic nervous system. Okay. They're the ones where our mind says, I'm not safe and right. It carries that messaging through the body. And that's why the vagus nerve becomes so darn important. So we have these five physiological properties that are governed by this energy body. The plan of Maya kosha, our respiratory state. Right. How well we breathe our elimination. How will we get rid of our toxins, whether it's by sweating or crying or breathing or pooping or urinating, our circulation right throughout our body, our exhalation and then our digestion.

Really important. This plan of Maya kosha. So the flow of perception is everything. Like how we perceive from that mental body, emotional and mental body, which then triggers the nervous system or the prana mucosa, the 72,000 chakras to inform the rest of the body what to do next. So this perception thing is everything okay? The channels of the mind are connected to the nervous system, whether it's rest and digest or it's fight flight or freeze, which is connected to the chakra system, which is connected to the endocrine system that says to the adrenals, are you safe or are you not?

If the adrenals say, I'm safe, then you can have good testicular and ovarian production of those beautiful hormones that make you feel so fabulous. If it's not right, if it's your adrenal, say, we're not safe, then it's hijacking all those hormones to make cortisol, which is then released. And that will then break down your gut wall, your GI system. And if you are a zebra being chased by a lion, that zebra knows, it's not only not safe to reproduce right now, but it's also not safe to stop and go to the bathroom so your digestive system shuts down.

Then your immune system kicks on because it's trying to keep you alive. And then you have autoimmune disease. When this is done chronically and it all starts with your perceptions. Wow. So important. That's why I, your Vedic medicine, all those 10,000 years ago said autoimmune diseases, undyed chested anger. So our bodies, when we're in phase one of that disease progression is just quiet, quietly telling us something's up. And then when we don't listen, it screams. So I don't mean disease is sort of like a toddler who has been trying to get your attention for hours and finally lays on the floor and starts screaming, okay, so in the cell, in your cell, this is coming back again to our Vedic medicine.

Every cell has its own life force. We call it odious in your Veda in Sanskrit. Oh, just I call oh, juice. It's your life force. Vitality. It has its own stages, which is digestive fire. It's your fire and it has its own prana, which is that wonderful energy. Body place. Right? Prana. It's the life. Okay. Oh, just as the life force stages as the fire. Prana is that life. So just maintains your cellular immunity stages, maintains your cellular metabolic activity. So in other words, it kicks out something that doesn't work and it brings in something that does.

So the nutrients come in, the garbage goes out. That's what metabolism is. Same with you know that's what our body when it's metabolizing, it's bringing in the apple getting the nutrients from it and getting excreting what it doesn't need anymore. That's Tejas, that's digestive fire. Prana is air, right? It's vada. It's the flow of the communication with and between your cells. So these three ojos stages and prana have to be perfectly balanced. You can see if one is not, you're going to have trouble.

So when you have low digestive fire which is called Agni, it's from a disrupted tejas. Then Ana is formed, which is digestive sludge. Okay. It's toxicity. This is what this whole summit is, is autoimmune detox. I really wanted to help explain this in a way that would make sense because this is everything. Okay, so when that toxicity travels into the cell and alters the function of your stages, it interferes with cellular intelligence. That's why detoxification is so important. But it has to be intelligent detoxification, not just I have to keep detoxing, okay.

Because that's where people run into a lot of trouble. Prana is interrupted and becomes dysfunctional. Now remember, prana is communication in between your cells and within the cell, and that communication causes the cells not to recognize each other properly and then start to destroy each other. That's autoimmune disease. Okay. So that means your digestive fire is low. Toxicity builds up the toxin, gets into the cell and alters the metabolic process. And that means the cellular intelligence and then it disrupts communication.

So you start attacking self. So autoimmunity is Tejas burning up OJ's. That means you're literally burning up your life force. You're killing yourself. Undigested anger.

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So the way that we approach this then is we look at the four corners of the puzzle. We really want to make sure we don't leave any. I always leave the trauma one out a little bit, because it's always what I call the missing piece of the puzzle. Okay. The freedom framework, which I went through in the last talk, just as a reminder, we have to do all of these C's. So we want to uncover our root causes of why Tejas is burning up oggi's, why prana has been disrupted. So we're going to look at physical root causes of autoimmune disease, illnesses, hormone imbalances, the GI system, whether it's inflamed intestinal permeability, micro orbital dysfunction.

And then of course those toxins that are called xeno estrogens, estrogen disruptors and producers. We want to look at the possible medications I have. There been a lot of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, etc., etc.. Surgery, radiation, pregnancy all of these things can be physical root causes of autoimmune disease. All of them mental root causes of autoimmunity. All of these toxic thoughts. I'm unlovable, remember? It's undigested anger. So then it's a toxin travels into the cell. It disrupts communication.

It severs your connection to your essence self that knows that you are unlovable no matter what. Knows that when you were born into this world, you were. You were totally enough. A beautiful gift to the world. These are these attachment disorders that severs that. Okay, I'm sick. I'm broken. I have to be perfect. At least I'm better than this person. Life isn't fair. Why me? Life is too hard. I have to make everyone happy. I have never been happy. Nobody gets me. These are mental root causes of autoimmunity.

Now remember, they're created with an undeveloped prefrontal cortex by a child. Our prefrontal cortex, the front part of the brain, that's the executive function. Adult brain is not fully developed until we're 24 to 26 years old. So this shows like this gradual development, the only thing developing a child's brain that you see, the purple and blue is a more mature area. That's the limbic system in my safe and my safe. I'm missing. Right. And then as you get older and older and older, you get more and more of your prefrontal cortex.

So our immature brains create those meanings that then we carry into adulthood, and they run us like a four year old that's upset driving your car puts us into these survival mode issues that actually, unless you actually are getting chased by a lion, usually aren't really accurately perceived by us. It's a button that got created where in our in our immature brain and then carried forward. So this is all played out in and proven in science through what's called the adverse childhood experiences study.

It was done 1995 to 1997 by the centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente. And what they did is they conducted the study because Kaiser had had a weight loss clinic where people were successfully losing weight, but they had a bunch of people that, before they got to goal weight, were dropping out. And the director of the clinic, luckily was curious and decided to ask some questions and started interviewing the people that had dropped out and found that most of them had had sexual abuse in childhood.

So that was like, this must be something. And so combined with the centers for Disease Control and they did the study that was 35, 100 people strong. And they they found that if a child before the age of 18 had experienced abuse of a sexual nature, physical or emotional, right, any of those or been neglected physically or emotionally or rejected for various reasons, whether sexuality or religion or community or self, family or had household dysfunction like, caregiver that was addicted to a drug or was mentally ill or was incarcerated or dead where they had to watch their mother being treated violently or there was divorce, that the more of those they checked as a yes, the higher the risk for these things that we have in our lives today autoimmune disease, cancer, genetic expressions of things we really don't want to express, as well as addictions.

So the higher the number of your aces, the higher the risk for negative autoimmune outcomes and the lower your life expectancy. If you have an Ace score of six or more, it's 20 years less than somebody that doesn't have an ace. So I only I write about this in solving autoimmune puzzle. You can take the quiz there. But one of the things I talk about in my book is what struck me when I was doing the research and I was looking through it was, oh my gosh. And this is something a lot of people don't talk about when they you're talking about the Aces study is the higher the number of aces, the lower the willingness to engage in self-care, whether it's a regular exercise program, regular self confrontation, setting boundaries with myself, not expecting everyone out here to be okay and to make me happy.

But me doing that for me, failure to, you know, do anything that has to do with health. And so oftentimes I'll have a patient come in and say, I'm good. And then I'm not. I self-sabotage. And it's not about being good or bad. It's about being consistent and not self neglecting. So the aces quiz, you know, before your 18th birthday, did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often swear it? You, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you? You can say yes or no and that's one. Or act in a way that made you afraid that you might be physically hurt.

Number two before your 18th birthday, etc., etc.. Did an adult push, grab, slap or throw something at you? Or ever hit spank so hard that you had marks or were injured? Yes or no. And it just goes on. Ten different questions around these adverse childhood experiences. And like I said, this is in my book, Solving the Autoimmune Puzzle. Did it were you ever,

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you know, a person that was at least five years older than you before your 18th birthday? Did they touch or fondle you, or touch your body in a sexual way, or attempt or actually have oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse with you? Yes or no? I answered that one. Yes. Number four, before your 18th birthday, did you often or very often feel that no one in your family loved you, or thought you were important, or special, or your family didn't look out for each other or feel close to each other, or support each other?

I answered this one yes, you. My dad was in the Navy and we had some things happen when I was a teenager that were just awful. Page number five. Before your 18th birthday, did you often or very often felt that you didn't have enough to eat, had to wear dirty clothes, or had no one to protect you or your parents were too drunk or high to take care of you, or take you to the doctor if you needed it. Yes or no. Number six before your 18th birthday, was a biological parent ever lost you through divorce, abandonment, or other reason?

Yes or no? Number seven before your 18th birthday, was your mother or stepmother often or very often pushed, grabbed, slapped, or something thrown at her? Or sometimes often or very often kicked, bitten, hit with a fist, or hit with something hard, or ever repeatedly hit over at least a few minutes, or threatened with a gun or a knife. Yes or no. Number eight before your 18th birthday, did you live with anyone who was a problem drinker or alcoholic or use street drugs? Yes or no. Number nine before your 18th birthday, was a household member depressed or mentally ill, or did a household member attempt suicide?

Yes or no? This one was tough for me to answer first, because whenever my dad went out to see, my mom was very depressed. And so I finally realized, yeah, my dad went out to see like at least four times for 6 to 18 months at a time when my mom was depressed the whole time. So yeah, this was another yes. Number ten before your 18th birthday, did a household member go to prison? Yes or no? So what this is looking at, and this may have been difficult for you as I went through them and you, you did your own yeses or no's.

But what I always you know, what I say in my book is so now you have a number and you know what the outcomes are. But that doesn't mean that those outcomes are set in stone any more than your genetics are. So now we know what we're working with. Now we know that, oh, this needs to be addressed. These aces okay. Because these emotional root causes of autoimmune disease, when we ruminate on those old hurts, go over and over and over again, we're causing more damage when our needs for emotional intimacy that we had as children, because we had attachment disorders, and now we're looking them for them to be met by other adults in our lives, and those adults can't meet them, then we're really aggravating this as an emotional cause of of autoimmune disease.

When we experience fear, guilt, shame, disgust, sadness, or we can't forgive transgressions by old or current experiences in life when we're victim of sexual, physical, emotional, verbal abuse in the past or present. These are all root causes of autoimmune disease. And then spiritual root causes are when our culture, our family norms, our spirituality, our value systems negate happiness. Martyr done the celebrated pain before pleasure, spiritual bypass and perfectionism. Our health story is part of the root cause.

And I showed you how to how to do that. And the last one. So or a couple slides back childhood experience of having illness rewarded is in that story too. I guess the only time that my parent paid attention to me was when I was sick. That's called secondary gain. That's important to note for yourself or I say about rheumatoid arthritis or Ms. or rosacea, my rheumatoid arthritis. Like I am that disease. No, that's not true. Maybe you disconnect from your body due to the prior abuse. I certainly did is called dissociation.

I was so good at leaving my body, which is why I could run marathons so well. I never felt pain. No pain, no gain, right? Because I could leave my body when it wasn't in a space. I wanted to participate with it in. That's a root cause for autoimmunity and then Arrested Development from attachment issues. These are all things I help people heal. So remember we want to confront that data, right? Do the labs look at the way look at the energy level, the sleep, the libido level. We want to do functional medicine laboratory testing.

I look at all of these things. I look very quickly when I'm working with my patients on and at adrenals and hormones, because I want to know about what has been the impact of emotional and mental root causes, like where are your adrenals now? In your hormones? And let's get them on board, right? I want to look and see who's living in the gut. I want to look at autoimmune markers and genetics. I do genetics on 100% of my patients. Sometimes I have them do fake names if they're worried about the data being out in the world, we just I haven't go to the library make up.

I have so many. Mickey Mouse's in my practice. They go to the library, they create a fake, a new email address to go with the IP address of the library computer. They submit all of that that way and that way. That data is private. It's perfect. And then we can still look at it. I always look at food sensitivities. If you are a raging bull, as your immune system is going after the red cape, and maybe it's coconut oil because you eat so much of it and you have leaky gut and so coconut, it's making its way through your gut wall.

We need to know what is your bull charging at food sensitivity testing so important? I also look at inflammatory markers, vitamin D, you know, the normal things like liver and and your CVC, connect the dots between what we find on the lab data and what your lifestyle choices are. This is the self confrontation. Oh, well, I don't go to sleep till 2:00 in the morning because the kids are all in bed and I can get stuff done. Well, that's. Your body's not doing well under that. It can't can't rejuvenate.

And then we create your life with intention. Do do some trauma work. Right. Get some of that done. So the five hours of healing are to remove replace, repair re inoculate and rebalance. So for we want to do all these are that this is the middle of the puzzle. After we've done the corners and the edges. Now we start working on it. Individualization. What is that going. What's going on for your body. What is it asking of you? We want to remove all those old negative core beliefs and self attributions the toxins, the dysbiosis, the poor diet and damaging lifestyle factors that can be causing inflammation and negative emotions like fear, guilt and shame.

We want to replace them with increased self-awareness, positive beliefs, and self attributions. We want to heal that little kid and get a good attachment going with her or him. We want to heal, replace unhealthy or non-existent boundaries with healthy boundaries around energy depleting areas of your life. We want to replace held on to emotional pain with something different. Replace physical pain patterns by practicing breathwork and we want to replace the hypothalamus pituitary axis, you know, and your neurotransmitter axis.

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Nutrients with amino acid, adaptogens and other botanicals and nutraceuticals that match your lab data. We want to replace, a digestive system that doesn't work very well with the ingredients. It needs to do that, we want to repair habituated pathways from maladaptive to adaptive information processing loops. I'll show you what I mean by that. In the hurt model, repair your ability to self confront and take responsibility. This idea of willingness to self confront is the first thing you have to have for healing.

Repair your blood sugar. Balance the damage done by inflammation, the digestive system, your body image, your detoxification pathways, your single nucleotide polymorphisms. And that's needed. And then also whatever needs to happen for trauma release. And then re inoculate yourself with beneficial microbes that match your data. Mitochondrial boosting immune system as needed. And then your cognitive beliefs. And I always say we have to do that. We have to rebalance your life with stress reducing and coping strategies like sleep.

We want to exercise the frequency, the type, the intensity, the duration, the progression. We want to think of those like they're prescription that match your adrenal and hormone testing. That's what I teach all my health coaches like here's how you can give people recommendations for exercise. It has to go by what their bodies asking for. Also a personalized nutritional program based on your data from your body. What it's asking for hydration, spiritual connection. And then I have different programs that I give people for healing their trauma.

And then and remembering that, you know, it wasn't one thing that set you into a capsize mode, right? It was critical mass. It meant there was a lot of stuff that piled up before you finally capsize. And the more miserable you are, the more motivated you are to make the changes you have to make. But if I always tell people, please don't try, don't, don't need to get to the level of misery that I got to. I think about Wiley Coyote and the Roadrunner and like I have, I'm running around the Roadrunner.

Me me me me. And then Wiley Coyote drops an anvil on my head from a cliff, and I'm kind of going, what am I supposed to be paying attention to something? That's how I was. And I always ask people, and please don't be like me. And remembering that all the diseases go in the same bucket. It's all autoimmune disease, which means it's the freedom framework will fix all of them because it's all individualized. There's not one autoimmune paleo protocol, which is why I always say, you know, we have to we have to do this work on an individual level, which is what I teach my health coaches.

And then you get to do your own work in here, too, by doing your own lab testing and then bringing it as a case study. And then I get to mentor you. So at the end of the day, oftentimes it's a less expensive way of working with me because and you're learning how to do it for other people. So for this summit series with this URL dot your wkyc.com forward slash I MHC, we're offering $3,000 off registration. So when you go there you'll see that that's already, put together for you. So it's, it looks like this when you, when you get in, there's $3,000 off and there is a payment plan in place if you want to do this.

This is a six month program with live case study calls every Monday night. And they're recorded. So if you can't be there, you can listen to the recordings and you can do it at your own pace. You can do it for longer than six months if you want to. Or and it's it's all, open enrollment. They're not cohorts. And so you just go through at your pace and you have this amazing tribe of people that are all incredible. So when you graduate, you're not kicked out. You everyone hangs around and they bring back cases.

If they're stumped because I'm here to mentor you for the duration of the Academy for Integrative Medicine. Okay? It I hope you're enjoying the Summit Series. And that day to brings you everything that you could desire. Remember that all of these amazing talks, what you're learning when I'm doing these webinars each day, is what you need to know to be able to individualize all the information that you're learning on detoxification. So until tomorrow, be well and enjoy the series.