traditional Asian medicine

And I love what they're doing, but I want to acknowledge because I have not done that yet.

And so that's the lineage I come from, I say, is the Taoist lineage, which everything comes from that, all Eastern medicine, traditional Oriental medicine.

So I actually wanted to take the moment to say that.

I love that.

But again, in response, it was just a part of my life from the moment I arrived.

But it wasn't until I was about 19, 20 that I decided to truly take this path.

So of studying Eastern medicine, I was actually studying Western medicine.

Amazing.

It's amazing, actually.

So, you know, what personal experience actually led you to study traditional East Asian medicine and, you know, holistic health, basically?

Yeah, so I think looking for answers, right? I was a semi-professional ballet dancer when I was younger, always trying to optimize health, had some health struggles there.

And that led me tiptoeing into traditional East Asian medicine.

And then I actually went into theater as a costume designer for many years and loved it.

And people's stories were what I thought really helped people heal, and they still do.

All right, I'll definitely work on that, actually.

Okay, so, yeah.

And then it was like, okay, where did this come from? And it finally over...

Eastern Medicine actually running a bunch of tests found that I had a really high level of several toxins and traced it back to the fire department.

So I was a firefighter and we would go on brush fires and find the belts of tires with no rubber and the skins of refrigerators and mattresses, but just the mattress spring.

So all that stuff was burning and we don't have protection in the forest and we're breathing it.

So it ends up I was poisoned.

I inhaled some really bad stuff and made me really, really sick to the point to where they're like, we need to check your blood because your organs might start failing.

And thankfully, Eastern Medicine healed me.

Like it took two years, but we did a massive detox and super strict diet and all this other stuff.