Can you share a little bit of your story so people understand how personal this is for you?

Yeah, it's extremely personal.

I think a lot of us grow up knowing that we're healers, right? We have an instinct to support and provide and problem solve and empathize.

And that's an incredible set of instincts, but then you have to develop and hone them.

And a lot of us, unfortunately, have to figure it out trial by fire.

And that was definitely me.

you know there are a lot of times in my health journey where i thought i was going to die young and i was concerned it was taking too long and i was trying to speed it up yeah because it was just so painful so i was down to three foods for you know a few years but the slow march into that is very scary and confusing right especially when you feel like You know, you're going in and out of, I'm going to really try.

What are some of the things, like when you're, for example, you're talking with a patient, talking with a client, and... are you observing these kinds of tics, behaviors, these sort of mechanisms and these patterns that they're expressing? What are some of the little clues that you're like,

let's get back

into it.

So we want to eat a low mold diet while we're working on any mold home issue because you will be more susceptible if there's both involved.

I remember a woman who came to me, she was down to just a couple foods and a lot of people come to us very sensitive, you know.

She was eating organic applesauce every day because it was one of the few foods she could tolerate.

And her mycotoxin lab came back very high, yes, in environmental black mold, but also in patulin.

And that is a mycotoxin that is often found in apple products.

We've closed that door.

But firstly, I do want to understand for my audience that have been living in a cave and don't know who you are, how you came into this line of work? Oh, the

short answer is the hard way.

I was one of those that fell through the cracks of medicine and I was just getting sicker and sicker slowly.

And it wasn't until I ended up in the hospital thinking that I was dying of a heart attack and they were like, no, actually everything's fine.

Like, okay, I'm in really deep water here.

I'm in big trouble and I have to do something about this.

So I think a lot of us start out kind of sensitive.

Yes.

Okay.

Think like a parasite.

Well, the thing about that, so everybody's having this conversation about like toxins and mold and parasites, which I'm so excited about that they're- It's also really hard to watch them do it in an educated way, but it's okay.

We're going to get there, guys.

In a moment, we're- everybody along.

People talk about them as if they are the same and they are not because toxins don't have a consciousness.

They don't, they have a frequency.

Mm-hmm.

So next, I'd love to see them test for mold and add that to the repertoire.

Honestly, that's why we're building Toxin University, because I'm sick of being dependent on other people's research.

You know, a portion of every toxin university cell goes towards research.

We're pulling together all the experts in this space about their little niches and helping non-licensed practitioners who are board certified, like, you know, FDNs, all the way up through MDs, DOs, surgeons, you know, and all the chiropractors and acupuncturists in between that want to learn this stuff.

Like, we have to get more literate.

Work within your specialty.

Work within your scope.

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[whooshing] Well, that was certainly, um, right about where I was at when we had our consult.

And I don't remember very much about it, um, because those were my really bad Lyme years, and, you know, but I know that I had just gotten my, a diagnosis about Hashimoto's, and the doctors I was working with at the time were, um, ta- talking to me in terms of a, a life of pain, and how we could maybe see some, some movement in that, but we would measure progress by years, not months.

And, um, that I would have to play a perfect game and have a zero-stress life, which was fundamentally impossible for me at the time.

And I remember sitting in my car on the phone with you, um, writing down notes on a Post-It.

I was trying to take notes about what you were telling me to do, and just, like, leaking tears because your presence and your, um, compassion was so palpable, and also the strategies you were talking about finally sounded doable.

You know? And luckily, I'll just make the story short, I rented the device you told me to rent, and we got such good results that, um, you know, Michael ended up b- buying one, which for us was, like, the biggest purchase we'd ever made on my health before.

And if you can heal, heal it in half the time, then you have half the time available to ha- get into trouble.