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In this episode of the Panhandle Pulse Podcast, host Chuck Asbury welcomes entrepreneur and wellness lifestyle coach Jody Morgan for an inspiring conversation about gut health, functional medicine, clean living, and holistic wellness. Jody shares her personal journey after her daughter’s health crisis led her to discover root-cause healing, lifestyle changes, supplements, and nutrition strategies that transformed her family’s health.

From gluten sensitivity and inflammation to probiotics, supplements, mental wellness, and toxin-free living, this episode dives deep into practical ways people can improve their health naturally. Jody also discusses the importance of community on Florida’s Emerald Coast, navigating modern health challenges, and why proactive wellness matters more than ever.

If you’re interested in functional medicine, healthy living, gut healing, or making small lifestyle changes that create lasting results, this episode is packed with valuable insights and real-life experiences.

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SPEAKER_00

Welcome to the Pain Handle Pulse, the show that dives into real challenges and honest conversations shaping the Florida pain handle. I'm your host, Chuck Asbury. Each week we sit down with the people who make our community strong, sharing real issues, real conversations, and no filters. We've got a great guest today, and Jodi Morgan. She's an entrepreneur and a lifestyle wellness coach. Jody, welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_01

Hey Chuck. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_00

Great. I'm excited you're here for our listeners in the area that may have not heard of you before. Tell the audience a little bit about yourself. Did you grow up in the area or where did you grow up and how did you find the Emerald Coast?

SPEAKER_01

Well, I did grow up in the area as then I moved here when I was 22. So I've been here, golly, 34 years, 37 years. I don't even know. It's been a long time. And so I have always been on the Emerald Coast. Although I'm originally from Birmingham, Alabama, uh, my family came here on vacation. Like I have photos and videos of being on the beach, even when I don't remember being on the beach, you know. So um between Destin and Panama City Beach, I have grown up coming here. And when I was 22, I was in college in Alabama and honestly was spending more time down here than I was up there in school. And finally I thought I could just, you know, transfer to Gulf Coast, which I did. Um I had nothing holding me in Alabama. And I also came knowing that if I didn't love it, that I could always move back. And a lot of people today say, that was so brave of you. I'm like, I didn't think it was brave. It wasn't even a decision. I'm like, beach, Birmingham. No shade to Birmingham because I was just there last week. Like I still love going back to visit. But yeah, made this my home and have never looked back.

SPEAKER_00

It's great. And it's uh most of our guests on here, story-wise, I've been I'm from DC, West Virginia area, and grew up coming here vacationing as a little kid. And so when you get to the point, you're like, yeah, we can move and work anywhere, why not do it? And so being down here for over 10 years now, it's been amazing. Uh a lot of the people in the area have done that too. They've transplanted in into the area. But what is one of your favorite things that you've remember being here little wise, uh transplanting and moving into the area that uh you were excited about?

SPEAKER_01

Well, it was a way, it was a different time when I moved here. It was it was very much known as the redneck Riviera for like all those reasons, but it had not really been discovered, obviously, as it has been today. Matter of fact, my husband and I, you know, we met four years after we both moved here within two months of each other and didn't meet until four years later. And when we had our first date, we both live in Panama City Beach and we actually just drove down 30A to Seaside and had our first date, which was a lunch at what is now Great Southern, but it was shades at the time. Rosemary Beach wasn't a thing, Seacrest wasn't a thing. Alice, I mean, we just had wide open 30A to Seaside, and to now see how it's all changed. It's been really amazing, um, but also, you know, crazy at the same time. They still have that same table of ours though, you know. So Seaside is always very special when we go there. But um just that, you know, so many people have just embraced how beautiful this area and the community is. I've lived a couple of different places, a couple of different states, and I can honestly say that I've never found community anywhere like I have here, living here. The community is just the best.

SPEAKER_00

That is one of the great things about this, the community, all the people in here that support each other. And I believe our nickname is not the Redneck River anymore, it's the Hamptons of the South. So uh it has definitely changed.

SPEAKER_01

I haven't heard that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's the new trend going around everywhere is the Hamptons of the South. So uh that you can add that to your.

SPEAKER_01

I am I am here for it. I've never even been to the Hamptons.

SPEAKER_00

So how did you get into becoming a uh lifestyle coach?

SPEAKER_01

How did I become this wellness lifestyle coach? It chose me. I didn't choose it. And I actually started down this path uh 16 years ago before anyone had wellness on their lips. You know, I actually at the time was considered crunchy, granola, like people would look at me sideways, like you read labels, you know, all the things. But it started when one of my twin girls got really sick. My girls are about to be 25 years old. They were nine at the time. They were both born premature. And so we had dealt with some like premature issues. But when she was nine years old, there was like her body just turned against her. And she had things like cyclic vomiting, she was losing a lot of weight. She was 17 pounds lighter than her twin sister. And um, we were revolving door at doctors' offices for nine months. I I I'm not anti-physician, anti-doctor at all. But when you go through an illness like that that is undiagnosed for months, and I really saw that every test was being done, every they poked and prodded her, and we were never getting any answers. And the pediatrician that we were seeing at the time actually blamed my daughter and said that she thought she had an eating disorder at nine years old. And I said, she wakes up at five o'clock in the morning throwing up in her bed. Like, this is not an eating disorder. And so I went out on my own. And that was the first time I really became an advocate where I did genetic testing and then I did all these other types of testing to find out what was going on with her that the medical world couldn't find. And I ended up, it was just mind-blowing, all the things that and it took several weeks to get the testing. And once I did, it was very eye-opening. And then I found functional medicine at the same time because I found a doctor that would read this type of testing. And that opened up my world in a way that I didn't know that there was a such thing as finding root causes. I didn't know that, you know, I actually had some health issues at the time that, and that's one of my things that I'm passionate about talking to people about that a lot of times we have a health issue that we get really good at managing, but no one talks to us about healing that. And so I had managed 28 years of garden acid reflux. I had managed, you know, well over a decade of being on an inhaler and being diagnosed with asthma without ever learning that I could change some things in my home. I could change some things that we were doing, supplements and things, and that would take care of that. So my daughter getting sick opened me up because I was doing all the things I could to heal her. And through that functional medicine doctor, which by the way is one of the top 10 doctors in the world, and she has a documentary right now on Amazon that makes me just so proud of her because of what she's done in the world of functional medicine. But it was then that when we started experiencing that healing and we started, and by the way, my daughter is amazing today. Like she is thriving. I'm thriving. I no longer have GERD. I know, no, no longer need my inhaler on a regular basis. So when that started happening in my own home, I am naturally a person that is like, I have to share the things that I'm learning with other people because I can't keep it to myself, you know? And this was way before social media where everybody was oversharing, you know? So it just, I was like, how many people do I know with asthma? I need to talk to them about what I've discovered. How many people do I know that have this? So it was just this organic process of, like I said, it chose me because if my child had not gotten sick, this would not be my path.

SPEAKER_00

Right. And that's amazing. I mean, as any parent, our son was born the Nikki as well. So he's just a little guy. So you go through the whole thing of figuring out how to help them grow and he's amazingly strong. And today you wouldn't even know. But how did you do that back then when there wasn't the social media? You had to go and do all that research on your own and trial and air that. How did that uh process come about?

SPEAKER_01

Well, the internet was not social media, but I did find a lot of information on the internet, which was great because most of it I believed. Today you don't know what to believe and what not to believe. And I just became a student. It was anything that I could learn and absorb. Podcasts weren't really a thing at the time, but anything that my doctor, you know, Dr. Jill Carnahan's the functional medicine doctor, anything that I could learn through her, I would. And I and Dr. Mark Hyman, she actually trained under him. And so I just became this a top researcher. If I could go back and do college again, I would definitely go the science route and the health and nutrition route. But I was marketing and communications. And so I just took all that skill set. Also went through and became a health coach. Like so I went through a health coaching school as well. And I even put that on my business card anymore, but I I mainly did that so I could have access to the knowledge for myself, for my children, for my family. And again, it just kind of rolled into, you know, being a wellness lifestyle coach. And it's all the different facets of everything in your life.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's amazing. So, how did you go about figuring out what the calls that you changed for your daughter's plan of the foods that you're eating, certain chemicals, or uh how did you guys both, even from the asthma point, start healing yourself?

SPEAKER_01

So I had just partnered with a company just to like try their laundry detergent. I mean, it was this whole crescendo. Do you ever ever have something in your life and this happens and this happens? And all of a sudden, there were like four things happening at one time. And I looked back on it and was like, God had a sense of humor because he was like throwing it all at me. And so while we were going through all this sickness and everything with her, I found this company and it's the company I market for today. And I started using their laundry detergent and their cleaners. Now they have over 500 products. Okay. So I came for the cleaners. And six days of having those in my home is when I realized I had not needed my inhaler in six days. And I was like, what is going on? So then I started reading the back of bottles, and you know, now I'm like became a lunatic about what we're putting on our skin and what we're washing our hair with. And, you know, that was before I even looked at supplements. And so it was a few months later when we were with that functional medicine doctor. And because my daughter actually was diagnosed with a digestive disorder, and we thought at the time it was celiac, she never got an actual celiac diagnosis, but it was 100% gluten made her so sick, and dairy made her so sick, but it was the proteins in both of those. So gluten is the protein in wheat, and casein is the protein in dairy. And when I started learning what that had wreaked havoc on her body, and they basically were, it was like food poisoning. And that's what I kept saying for the to the doctors for like the nine months before. I said, she throws up like you do when you have food poisoning. It's like her body is purging. And then all of a sudden, she would take a deep breath and go, I'm hungry. I'm like, what is happening? And so once the genetic, all that testing came back, and I found out she had all these antigens to dairy and all these antigens to gluten, then it was like, well, okay, where do we go from here? And that doctor actually said, you know, yes, you take the gluten and dairy out, but now we have to heal her gut. I had never heard those words ever. We we hear about it now. People now know you hear about gut healing stuff. But I said, what does that mean? And she's like, well, all this damage has been done and we need to go fix it. And so she explains, you know, that with really good probiotics and really good digestive enzymes and really good fiber and all of this. So she was giving me the bill of what everything was going to cost in the doctor's office. And I was like, look, I will absolutely buy whatever products you tell me that is going to help my child. But I've also partnered with this company that has a whole line of supplements and all these things. And it's like one quarter of the price. And I gave it to her and she wrote, she said, absolutely, this is amazing. And she goes, by the way, I'm not married to any brand at all. Now we knew there there were things to look for, but she said, do this. So I did it with my child. And Leah actually wrote an essay when she was in middle school because she said, You don't have to do this. And I said, Yeah, but you're my child. I am going to do this with you. You're not singled out in the house. The whole house went gluten-free, the whole house went dairy-free, you know, at the time. I said, I am going to make this the safest environment possible. Not just the cleaners in our home, you know, not just all of that, but for all the food. We all went on supplements. We all healed our gut. And because I healed my gut too. I was just learning to do this for her and absolutely blew my mind. Blew my mind.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and you want to think, you you hit on a great point, like the probiotics. I didn't think about that until now. Like when our son was born prematurely, he was allergic to all kinds of things again, milk, soy, but these are the chemicals and foremost we had to feed him. So the doctor introduced a cold probiotic that we had to give him to help his gut when he was so little to be able to absorb the nutrients that he needed.

SPEAKER_01

You were so lucky.

SPEAKER_00

Right. We didn't know.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, there's like a seven-year difference between you having children and me having children. There wasn't one doctor that mentioned a probiotic when my girls were born. Not one.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You know, so I love the fact that medicine is finally catching up to that, you know, and that, you know, because I look back and I'm like, how much healthier would they both have been if we had done some of this? I had to forgive myself because, you know, I just listened to every single thing that was thrown at me by the medical field. Um, and now today I do a pause. I'm like, okay, let's go to the root cause of why we're feeling this way. And today, I'm 57, my husband's 63. Neither one of us are on any pharmaceuticals whatsoever. Our blood work is perfection. Just had a doctor um tell me in uh January, she asked if I was a vegan. And I started laughing. I said, no, ma'am. And she said, Well, this cholesterol is so good that you must not eat dairy or beef because only vegans have one this good. And I go, I eat beef at least three times a week and I eat dairy every day. And she's like, What? Well, whatever you're doing, I'm like, it's my supplements. It's the gut healing, it's all of that. So we just are proof that you can make changes and really live a healthy life. And again, it's it is our lifestyle. It is our lifestyle. You know, this isn't a I'm gonna do this for six weeks and go back to my old habits. You know, it's interesting. My husband and I, we actually were talking about this this weekend. That I remember years ago when my girls were little, this was all during the same time frame, that I was watching a show and the they were talking about Dr. Oz was on at the time, and they were talking about shopping the grocery store and that you should shop the perimeter where that's where all the fruits, vegetables, you know, all the meats, all the things. And I remember going, and I'll shop the perimeter. I shop the aisles. Right. And now when I go in the grocery store, and that's can that can be overwhelming for somebody where you're like, I mean, how do I start incorporating fruits and vegetables into my diet when we're doing boxed everything? And now all I shop is the perimeter, and I very rarely go down the aisle. So now we've been able to change it all. But it was, it can be overwhelming. But I tell you, what I really try to reiterate to people is to be proactive with your health and not reactive. But, you know, sadly, most of us don't do anything about it until we have a reaction, and that was us. So I do understand that. But it is knowing that you can make simple changes and actually turn it all around and have a really healthy life.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and that's amazing. So, what are some of the signs that you think people ignore when they're going through this? Just eating unhealthy, feeling unhealthy, that uh you could help uh them make a small change to improve their well-being.

SPEAKER_01

You know, it is just recognizing that the symptoms, like if you're have a bloated belly, if you have indigestion, instead of just, you know, popping an acids all the time. Okay, why do we have that indigestion? That was me. I was constantly doing that. You know, if you're puffing on an inhaler every single day, like, okay, what could I change, you know, for this? Like, could it be the candles I'm burning, the, you know, air fresheners I'm using, the, you know, whatever. Like, what is going on there? It's just looking at what is going on. Is there a health thing, a sick thing that you're managing so well that you've never even looked at the fact that there could be something else? If I have time, I'll tell you a really quick story. Like my favorite, my favorite story in the whole world right now, besides my own. The fact that we've been able to do it. But my daughter's boyfriend's grandpa, Dwayne, 73 years old, had his first heart event when he was 39, had 10 heart events between 39 and 73, 20 years insulin dependent with type 2 diabetes, kidney function failing to the point that a year ago, December, they had made an appointment with him with a urologist to talk about dialysis and arthritis pain so bad, like category nine pain, where he could barely hold a fish and pole and things like that. And he was so anti-supplement, so anti-lifestyle change because he only knew what he knew and he only knew what his doctor told him. And after two years of them basically begging him to make some changes, they bought him one supplement that is a joint supplement with glucosamine in it and handed it to him. And he felt guilty that they spent money on him. And the only reason he took it is because of the grandson giving it to him. Within four days, his category nine pain was down to a five, and he could actually, you know, move his hands. Over the next 60 days, we did the whole lifestyle change with him. He never changed his diet. We just looked at the supplements and the different things that he could do. He's no longer on insulin after 20 years. His kidney function in 10 days improved so much. It doubled the function that he was able to cancel that urologist appointment. He's now lost 70 pounds without a GLP one, without ever even going on a diet just because he was feeling so much better. And he's dropped so many pant sizes that he needs to go buy new clothes and he just hasn't. But to hear this man say to us in his 70s, I never knew I could feel this good because I felt so bad for so long. That is what keeps us doing what we're doing.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Yeah. And that's the thing. We get stuck in our own routines and it's hard to change out of it. And everyone's telling us the next big thing and no one wants to try it. So you hit on a key point. Taking the the supplements or supplements that help your gut and your health, you don't have to change right away your state of what you eat, what you drink, and your lifestyle immediately. You can slowly work your way to it. And maybe by this taking the supplements, it's going to help you not want some of those bad food items or or drinks that you were craving in before.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's true. You know, I went gluten-free just to support my daughter. And when I started introducing it back in, it made me super sick, which was like way eye-opening. I was dairy-free for a long time. I now eat dairy and it doesn't affect me. So a lot of things is that you just have to do a trial and error. I never went and had allergy testing to see what makes me feel good and what doesn't. Sugar's the hardest one. Um, I have finally broken up with sugar into where I do not crave it at all anymore. But that is a big one that, you know, it causes so many things. I'm really in a state right now. Yes, I healed my gut, but my husband and I are really diligent on protecting our brains because we don't want Alzheimer's, we don't want dementia. You know, the older we get, you know, so it's it's like, what are we feed? We're we're fueling our body, we're not feeding our body. So that has become very personal. And we're not perfect by any means. But a few years ago, I gave up alcohol. And it wasn't because I was sober curious or because, you know, I wanted to do a dry January. I just realized one day I feel awful when I drink. And I am only holding this glass of wine to fit in. And I got to get over that. And now I don't even care. I don't miss it. It's not anything that um, and and they just came out and said that, you know, it's a class one carcinogen. So I'm protecting my brain, I'm protecting against cancer and all that as well. So I just ask people, what do you want your years to look like? Do you want them to be healthy? Do you want them to, do you want to feel good? And if that is, and yes, I do, then, you know, what's the most important thing you need to work on right now? You know, because it can be overwhelming. But it's like, like for Dwayne, he was his thing was if I didn't have to take insulin every day, I'd be so happy.

SPEAKER_00

But and now he doesn't start small baby steps.

SPEAKER_01

Right.

SPEAKER_00

Right?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And with that, some people feel Feel overwhelmed. Do you do you have to go to the grocery store and read every label on there, or is there certain stuff that you know that is just good for you or not? Because, like we said, in America here, it's so hard because we eat we put so much stuff in our food in all of our products. We just came back from a trip over Europe and it was you feel two weeks over there so much healthier, so much better coming back here, and you're like, that is I'm not even eating real mac and cheese. What is this that is being fed? It doesn't even taste the same. So is there small steps that people can can take to make the changes so they're not overwhelmed?

SPEAKER_01

Fresh is best and lose the boxes. Yeah. Lose the boxes. It's so disheartening when I see, and I and actually I just saw a podcast where um a doctor was talking about it. He said it should be medical malpractice. If a doctor tells you to like go get extra protein and he's not telling you to get it from meats and and, you know, dairy sources and things like that. Um, everywhere you go, you see a pre-packaged something that has additional protein on it. Well, that 10 grams of protein in that popcorn does not negate all the additives and preservatives and the fake crap that's in that food. It's not food. It's not food. Get your protein from eggs, get your protein from where you need to get it from, you know, get fruits and vegetables. And honestly, when you say like read labels and things like that, you know, the Yuka app came out um a few years ago and I had somebody telling me about how great it was. And I said, you know, I've read labels for so long, I think I'm good. But I wanted to test myself with that. And I went through every single dressing, you know, all the things in my cabinet, and every one of them were an A. So I'm like, you can get really good. And by the way, you can see a real fancy long word and you immediately discount it and think that that's bad. But a lot of really good things have a scientific name attached to it that doesn't make it bad for you. And I will just also say this really quick about different apps. I don't trust apps a hundred percent. A lot of them, and I'm not gonna name any names, but a lot of these apps are pay-to-play and they get paid by advertisers and people that sponsor them to rank products high and others low. And you have to be, you have to be smart and just be an advocate for your own health and be smart in the choices you're making and not think that the the app is going to be perfect on every single thing you scan. So I'm not a proponent for running through the grocery store and scanning everything. But does it have real ingredients?

SPEAKER_00

Right. You know, salt, tomatoes, pepper, like not all this artificial sugars and and everything else combined into it and dyes to make it look redder or whatever it's supposed to be.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly. And we are so lucky where we live because we have so many things at our fingertips now. We have so many great grocery stores. You know, Walmart is the number one organic grocer in the United States. People don't even realize that anymore. Everybody wants a Whole Foods, which is great. We've got one in Destin, but there's so much around here as well. And then, of course, the internet. Like, but please, y'all, do not buy supplements on Amazon.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Do not. They're a major class action lawsuit right now.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Again, because those are all filled with chemicals and everything else as well that uh you don't know what the ingredients are on them.

SPEAKER_01

Well, there's these um duplicates. What's happening is there's reputable companies that are being copied. And Amazon, and so the company would be great if you bought it directly from the company, but people will go to Amazon and see that brand and it's actually fake. It's fillers and it's not that brand's fault. It's Amazon not protecting what people are purchasing and who they're purchasing it from. So that's another like thing that people just need to be aware of. It's like, you know, buy them somewhere you can get your money back and that you are proven that the efficacy is there. Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Right, yeah. So if it's sold by a third party or Amazon itself and not from the company or the brand, double check your your look. That's another good point to look at. So most people start to think when they they have to get on there, try to change to become healthier, um, especially with affordability nowadays, they think it's much more costly to become healthier. Have you seen that by you living this and proving it? Or is it worth the extra spend for the well-being of yourself?

SPEAKER_01

In the very beginning, it was probably a little bit more money spent than it is now because we were having to change out our foods and there was a lot of trial and error with things. Overall, absolutely not. We have saved thousands of dollars, if not, I mean, you know, inhalers are expensive, you know. My inhalers expire now before because I will keep an emergency inhaler on me, but I will have it expire before I need to use it or anything. The amount we've saved on going to the doctor and everything, like we just have wellness checkups. It's been, um, and even some of the times I put those off because I feel so good, you know, and and my husband, same thing. So absolutely 100% we've saved money. We do spend quite a bit on our supplements. I mean, between my husband and I, we're at least $500 a month on, you know, collagen and omega-3s and our multivitamins and our creatine and all the things that we do. But without a doubt, that is an investment because of how great I feel and how great he feels over not doing it and feeling like we used to feel, you know. I can look at pictures of myself from 16 years ago and I can see the inflammation, which is crazy because when you're living in it, you don't even realize it, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Yeah. So it's worth it. You're spending that cost on there versus medical drugs to offset your high blood pressure or your insulin or anything else. So at the end of the day, you're still saving.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00

Going through this whole process, what is one food that you weren't able to absolutely give up? Like that's just a not off the table type item, or did you not have one of those?

SPEAKER_01

I will say the hardest one that I was never able to replace. I did give it up, but croissants. I've never found a gluten-free croissant because I'm still gluten-free. I've never found a gluten-free croissant. And, you know, maybe one of these days I'll go to Europe and eat one over there and see if I can handle it. But, you know, I don't miss bread anymore. I used to, you know, that's the thing. When you start to give something up, somebody's like, I could never go gluten-free. I'm like, okay, well, then continue to feel like crap. But, you know, I look at it as in, am I gonna feel terrible if I eat that? And so today it's not worth it, you know. But no, I've been able to replace just about every single thing. But croissants is one that if there's anybody out there that knows a really good gluten-free croissant, I will be your taste tester.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we'll post that with the the comments at the ed for people to to rec give you some uh recommendations on that. Maybe there's somewhere at the croissants. There might be Europe are amazing. They are amazing in Europe. So if you do go there, you have to try it and see if it does help or not.

SPEAKER_01

Will.

SPEAKER_00

One thing I transition this to just over your well-being of feeling better physically, looking better from the supplements and the food that you're taking. Does it did you also see a boost uh in your emotional benefits as well?

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh, most definitely. Absolutely. Especially going back to my daughter, because she was, I mean, she was nine at the time, so she was little. But, you know, by the way, this wasn't a perfect path. We didn't didn't even address this, okay? It's like nine to 25. This was not a perfect path. This was the path, you know, it was up and down. And because I see that when uh just anything, whether you're like a weight loss journey or you can just think of anything where you're like, I feel so good. I'm just gonna start, I'm gonna go back to doing what I did before. You start falling back to old habits. And so we had times when she was 12, when she was 15, different times where she would stop taking the things that made her feel well. She would stop doing um you or she'd go eat something she wasn't supposed to eat, and then she would like crash and burn. And there was a lot of emotional, psychological, like OCD, depression, anxiety, food disorders that were 100% related to a digest PHFR, which is a gene mutation that she had that we discovered at age 12, the dysfunctional medicine doctor. It's actually linked to schizophrenia these days. And it's also to bipolar disorder. And it's so simple. All you have to have is methylated B vitamins. That's it. She didn't have to go on antidepressants. There's something like 60% of the population have one or both of the copies of this, and they're walking around, you know, not knowing that, you know, if they're struggling with any depression or anxiety, that they don't even test that and to see that supplements can do it. So 100%. And I'll just say that before, because like I said, I'm not anti-doctor, but I'm gonna find doctors now that are gonna do the holistic approach. And at 12 years old in Denver, Colorado, found a holistic psychiatrist that specialized in children, and he specialized in children with MTHFR, kids on the spectrum, all this different stuff. And I had a two-hour appointment with him, learned so much. And he was all on GABA, saffron, you know, L-thyanine, like all this and all herbals, all supplements. So we all have benefited from that because of learning what a medical doctor says you can do without having to take a pharmaceutical. Yes, it's been amazing.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and that's great. And it's one thing I think for listeners to do, to focus on like there are now these whole holistic doctors that just don't focus on the medicine, but the overall health of you. Yes. And in today's age, you can just do a Zoom call, you can do a Skype call, you can get blood work done locally and send to them. And so you're not limited to your your local access of doctors that can improve your overall health.

SPEAKER_01

So true. We're so blessed to be able to have that ac access to that for sure.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. What's one thing that people like when you start telling them about this from the gluten point that they feel skeptical about that you're able to help them think a little bit better and clearly about taking this next step in their journey?

SPEAKER_01

Every single person that is, they just have to be open to want to make some changes. So I know that it's timing with every person. And I'll hear somebody say, Oh, I don't like to swallow vitamins. I'm like, okay, well, you must just like being sick. Like I I have zero tolerance for that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's like I'm not the girl to work with then because I'm I'm like, if you know, I looked at what our changes were life and death. It was a life and death with my child. And it it really was. And I I I tell you, in the last three months, I've had people that I had talked to before about making changes that didn't that have all come to me now after a cancer diagnosis. Three in the last three months. And the first thing they say to me is, I'm so sorry I didn't listen. I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, like there's no shame here. Yeah. You know, you again, I want you to be proactive instead of reactive. Those are reactions where they come and they go, now, you know, we got this di I got this diagnosis and we're getting a plan together and everything else, but I got to clean up all the toxins in my home. I got to clean up all the toxins in my body. Where do I start? And I just want people to start now before you're sitting across from a doctor getting a cancer diagnosis, you know, but that is each person individually. And a lot of times for me, my husband was on board with everything. You know, he was like, honey, you go do whatever you need to do for us, which meant changing all his stuff too. And I was very fortunate to have a spouse that, you know, trusted me with all that. He he actually laughs today. I'm like telling on him, because I just we have a supplement drawer and like his side's the right side and my side is the left side, and whatever's there, he just opened the bottles and takes it. And he says, I think they need to do a toxicology report on me if all of a sudden I die suddenly, because I don't know what you're putting in here. And I'm like, what? But he says he never even looks at the bottle to see what he's taking. He just trusts and takes. And those are my favorite people. Just trust me.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And he's doing he's doing better. He's feeling better. He ain't complaining about some of the stuff anymore, right?

SPEAKER_01

He's not complaining about anything, right? So yeah, it's good.

SPEAKER_00

That is funny. I joke about that other way, too. You guys like the Werner Mysteries and podcasts and all of that, too. So you're you're supplied supplements, it's hard to tell what happens these days.

SPEAKER_01

But it's so funny, so true.

SPEAKER_00

So reaching out to you, uh, where where can somebody get some uh connections into you and and how can they start? Uh I know you talked about a doctor that has a video or documentary that was just released. What are some uh advice that you can give or places people can go look uh to start researching this to make uh life-changing health events for themselves?

SPEAKER_01

Well, I definitely will shout out Dr. Jill Carnahan, although she has a five-year waiting list now to get in with her, like as one of the top functional medicine doctors. Um, but her documentary is Dr. Patient on Amazon Prime, and she was the patient in medical school diagnosed of breast cancer, and that's how she ended up going down this road of healing as well. So she went through medical school, and it's amazing all the things she's done. To get in touch with me, you can find me on Facebook, connect, you know, however we, whatever you're tagging on your podcast or anything. It was really cool how you and I met anyway, for sure. And my information, there's like a link there where people can fill out and get in touch with me and we can either do a Zoom call or if locally we meet face to face, whatever. Um, and I am no pressure on anything. It's like I just share the information. And if you want what I got, then I will definitely lead you down the right path. But also I'm just excited to share what I've learned. So yeah, thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk about, you know, the passion that I have for people just choosing every single aspect of their lifestyle and wellness wherever they see fit.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, definitely. And I think that's an amazing part. You're here to help support the community in the area you live in and either meeting here or just getting out and sharing your story. And that's the whole purpose of what the goal is of the pain handle here is it's a great place to live, it's a great community, and the people in it make it amazing. So thank you for being on today. It's been uh been a pleasure, and uh, I appreciate anyone that comes and takes their time to be on here.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you, Chuck. It has been a pleasure. I've had fun.

SPEAKER_00

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