Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Welcome back to Integrative lyme Solutions with Dr. Karl Feldt.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: I am so excited about the show that we have ahead of us. We have some phenomenal information that could save lives.
You're gonna need to tune in to what's going on today. The information is jam packed, so don't step away.
Hello. Thank you so much for joining Integrative lyme Solutions with Dr. Karlfeld. I am your host, Dr. Michael Karl Fe Belt. I've been in clinical practice since 1987. I've seen pretty much everything under the sun, worked with so many different Lyme patients, and I know what a devastating disease this is. That's why I'm doing this podcast to make sure that you are armed with the information that you need in order to be able to be successful in your struggle with Lyme. We'll be featuring authors, doctors, professors, and also people like yourself that have gone through the journey that you're going through, that have been where you've been and is now on the other side. And they get to tell their victorious story as to how they battle Lyme so that you can implement that in your life as well.
Be sure to like us and write a review on whichever platform that you're listening on. What that does is it enables other people to see us more so that they have access to this information as well. So I'm so excited that you're tuning in and get ready for this upcoming show. It is going to be amazing. Well, today I'm with Teresa Hazelmeier. She's an incredible lime journey. And also on the other end now, she is helping people to.
To battle Lyme. Teresa, thank you so much for spending some time with me today.
[00:01:58] Speaker C: My pleasure.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: So you are a registered nurse and obviously with that you're very aware of symptoms and management of symptoms and how to address things.
So tell me a little bit about where your Lyme journey started, what made it confusing, and ple. Please give a little bit of a background how it all went.
[00:02:23] Speaker C: Sure, I got a tick bite in my teenage years, you know, when we were kids out picking blackberries in western Indiana. But, you know, I never got sick. I never had a single symptom until age 36.
And I tell that story to my clients when I work with them in my office all the time. And, you know, this is not so much about the bug as it is about your immune system. And unbeknownst to me, the mercury from my dental amalgams, I think I had 12 or 14 of them, were just leeching all those Years and, you know, bio accumulating in my tissues. I also grew up near a Superfund site that was leaching radioactive uranium for 40 years.
But, you know, EPA knew but didn't tell any of us, you know. Right. I mean, blue collar, hard working people out on the west side of Cincinnati and just very convenient bunch who wouldn't really protest, you know, valued their jobs.
And the name of the plant was, you know, the Fernald Feed Plant. So everyone just thought it was animal feed, you know, because it was a farming community.
So I was contaminated with that. Shortly before I got sick, I was living in mold and I was out in my garden spraying three separate organophosphate pesticides because my uncle, who was a, you know, a farmer. If you want to get those, you know, cucumber beetles out of your melons and cucumbers, Teresa, if you don't want them destroyed, you've got to spray three times a week. And you have to spray all three because they had become so resistant already by then.
And shortly thereafter, I, and at this time, I still had excellent health, I would say. Right. I mean, maybe a little gastritis, maybe a little ibs, a little bit of anxiety, but that would be it.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: I mean, it speaks volumes of how much a body can handle.
[00:04:49] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: Until it starts to break down. I mean, here you got nuclear waste, you got, you know, the, the pesticides, the, you know, mercury and then the tick bite. I mean. And you're still feeling good. Yeah. And so it just really speaks volumes of, you know, the resilience of your body.
[00:05:08] Speaker C: Yeah. It wasn't until Christmas Day of 2000 we were visiting my relatives in New York, but it was the dead of winter. I know I didn't get a tick bite up there, and they have harsh winners in the Syracuse area, but I woke up and I just felt like I had a weird flu, a very, very weird flu. And I thought, that's odd. I don't, didn't know what it was. Stomach ache, headache, achiness all over.
Lasted for eight weeks and no one could figure out what was wrong with me.
Had many, many tests and I think I was diagnosed with reflux or migraines. You know, no one even tested me for Lyme at that time.
And it went away.
Great. It went away and. But a couple years later, the exact same thing came back.
And I went to my doctor and I said, this is the same thing I had two years ago.
He tested me and found Epstein Barr virus, you know, early antigen, and said, you have mono And I'm like, great. I had this two years ago, too. No, you didn't. You can only get that once. And I said, no, I'm telling you, these are the exact same symptoms. But no one figured out what was wrong with me two years ago.
And that was the start of my journey with chronic illness.
I never fully recovered at that point. I just stayed ill. I had this low level, moderate level of fatigue and brain fog and worsening stomach issues.
And then more and more issues just kept developing over the years. But I did find that I was relapsing, remitting, relapsing, remitting. And the only thing my doctor could tell me was, well, Epstein Barr just likes you.
You just have a genetic, you know, predisposition for Epstein Barr, and that's why you have chronic Epstein Barr. And it's incurable. There's nothing we can do.
And I, being a medical professional, trusted that.
I was never even tested for Lyme. No one even thought about it, not even me, for three or four years. And I went to this fibromyalgia and fatigue clinic in Cleveland. Not the Cleveland Clinic, but a different clinic. And they tested me for Lyme and said, you know, you're negative.
And I. And I believed it. It was just. It was just an Eliza. That was all it was.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:07:44] Speaker C: So, you know, with the. The horrific inaccuracy of that, I got a negative. And then over the years, I think two more people may have tested me each time I was negative.
So I just believed I didn't have it. And I didn't have the horrific joint pain either.
So I thought, well, I don't have joint pain.
When you read on Google, you have to have a bullseye rash and joint pain, and you have to have all these things that I didn't have, and I don't even remember a tick bite since I was 12 years old.
So it wasn't until I saw an integrative doctor here in Cincinnati, Ohio, who diagnosed me based on a CD57.
My CD57 Natural Killer Cells were so few, they couldn't find any.
My result was less than 20.
[00:08:38] Speaker D: Hello, dear listeners, this is Dr. Michael Karlfeld, your host of integrative Lyme solutions. Today, I'm excited to share an exclusive opportunity from the Karlfeld center, where we blend healing power of nature with groundbreaking therapies to combat Lyme disease and its associated challenges.
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[00:10:39] Speaker C: And so you can imagine what organophosphate pesti pesticides did which now that I'm a certified environmental medicine practitioner through Dr. Lynn Patrick's program, now I know that when I was spraying all those pesticides out there, it was damaging your my natural killer cells, which that alone may have propelled me forward into illness. But you know, I was also living in mold and just didn't know it. So there was a couple of different things where my natural killer cells were getting tragically slaughtered, poisoned. And so something that my immune system was living with in peace and harmony suddenly became of great significance to me and, and took me down for 15 years before I figured it out. And I went to a doctor in the Indianapolis area because I didn't trust the CD 57. You know, infectious disease said, oh, that's not a valid Lyme test. And you know, I still didn't know anything about the corruption around Lyme or the testing at all at that point. So saw some excellent physicians in the Carmel, Indiana area and she tested me with igenics for the first time ever and I was Positive.
And that was the beginning of the story.
[00:12:11] Speaker B: So with, with that, when you say positive, was it just borrelia that you're positive or do you check for CO infections as well or.
[00:12:19] Speaker C: She only ordered the one. So it was just borrelia.
[00:12:22] Speaker B: Okay, yeah. And, and yeah, it's always fascinating to me how that one is so much more accurate than I, and I did an epis, you know, not too long ago, going through all the different testing techniques. You know, why Igenics is so much better than the western blocked or ELISA or the PCR test that they're doing or, you know, all these things. So, so during these 15 years, I mean, essentially it was like fibromyalgia, like symptoms, you know, chronic fatigue, you know, brain fog. What, what else was. Was that kind of the, the main symptoms that you're dealing with?
[00:13:02] Speaker C: Those. In the beginning, I started getting a lot of pressure in my chest and heart pounding, extreme restless legs, very poor sleep.
All of that evolved into interstitial cystitis, which was absolutely horrific.
Pudendal neuralgia was excruciating.
Tmj, ibs, anxiety, depression.
I'm sure there's something I'm forgetting about because there were so many diagnoses at that point. I just kept getting more and more and more because I didn't realize I was living in mold and I didn't realize that I had Lyme disease until, you know, that was 2015 when I was finally diagnosed.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: And, and, and one, I mean, so during that 15 year journey, I mean, obviously, yes, you're trying to find out what was going on, but what kind of therapies were you doing? I mean, how were you managing everything that was going on at that time?
[00:14:10] Speaker C: Oh goodness. Just like everybody else who comes through my door, you know, I seen 20 different people.
Chiropractic, acupuncture, I was doing every diet I could think of. Gluten free, dairy free, sugar free, Candida diet.
I saw some integrative doctors at a few different places and they would put me on this set of supplements. And that set of supplements someone did put me on Diflucan and some binders.
And now that helped a little bit because I think I did have a very high fungal load and just didn't realize it.
Which was of course making for this wonderful, comfortable place for Lyme to dwell. You know, it loves fungal overgrowth and inflammation and those thick biofilms that yeast makes. So that helped a little bit, a little bit with the interstitial cystitis, but not very much. I did see A Euro gynecologist who did offer to do tons of different distillations on me, but the diagnostic part of her exam hurt so bad.
Just being catheterized alone was excruciating. And, you know, she looked at me and she says, oh, it doesn't hurt that bad.
You're just exaggerating. And you. Have you ever. Have you ever considered maybe you're just depressed?
And then I was just done with her. You know, anything that she had to offer, I just had no interest in. She wanted me to do pelvic floor therapy. I don't know. Something inside of me kept saying, this was before I knew I had the line.
Something inside of me kept saying, there's something else that they're just not finding.
So anyway, yes, I tried that. I tried.
Oh, goodness. What else?
It's hard to remember.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it becomes such a blur, you.
[00:16:23] Speaker C: Know, it became such a blur. All the things I tried that nothing seemed to be making much impact at all.
Oh, I mean, at the. At the Fibro and fatigue clinic up in. In Cleveland, they had me Valtrex, 4.5 grams per day, or. No, that. I think it was three times a day. It was a lot of Valtrex.
And. And, you know, my Epstein Barr titers did come down, but I felt no better.
No better at all.
Because, of course. Oh, before I forget, when Dr. Jim Smith up in the Westchester area found that I was high in mercury and lead, and he did chelation, he did IV kit. Now, that helped.
That did help me. I. I felt almost.
Almost back to normal for about three months, but I broke out in hives to the chelators.
And at that point, he said, we can't give you anything else. You know, you're allergic to the chelators. And then he didn't really have anything else for me. He had. Didn't pick up on the lime or the mold.
So then I just relapsed again.
[00:17:40] Speaker B: And, and, and the mold. Did you figure that out before the Lyme or was that kind of a. As a.
[00:17:47] Speaker C: That was quite a bit after, because actually, when I decided to go the naturopathic route, which I didn't consider Serious Medicine In 2015, when I found out that I indeed had Lyme, I. I had a.
A friend of my parents. Daughter reach out to me and say, you've got to come see this naturopathic doctor in Michigan. She got me, well, from 18 years of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, which was Lyme disease.
And in the beginning, I thought, no way.
She said, you know, she says it's herbal antibiotics, Teresa. And I. And I said, no, I, I have a serious illness. I need serious medicine. You know, herbs are not for me. And I, and I went three whole months.
But, you know, I'm a person of faith, a person of prayer. And I just felt like God kept saying to me, consider that option, consider it.
And you and I decided, well, Teresa, common sense wise, you know, you're allergic to three antibiotics already, and you've been sick for 15 years, so give it six months.
What. You know, what are you going to lose? You. You're already completely debilitated anyway. I hadn't been able to work in nine years at that point.
I was so, so, so fatigued and so debilitated. So I went up to Michigan, I saw Dr. Houston, and within four days of taking the herbal antibiotics, I became completely bedbound because I was hurting so bad.
And nobody picked up. I, I went like that for a year.
It was probably the worst year of my life.
Just laying in bed, just shaking with pain every day and just ex. Just the heart pounding and the throbbing of the pudendal neuralgia.
I could hardly sleep.
Everything inflammation wise, was just completely ramped up. Taking those herbal antibiotics because nobody taught me a thing about how to mitigate die off, except pull back a little bit. So I would pull back a little bit on what I was doing, feel a little bit better. And then she would say, well, now we gotta ramp you back up.
And as soon as I would ramp back up, I got much, much, much worse again.
And every time I went to see her, she would say, you know, this scan, because she did bioenergetics scanning on me, this scan is saying that you're actually getting better, but you might not feel it for a year.
So my husband was there cheering me on.
You got this, Teresa. You got this. Because I wanted to quit, I kept saying, this isn't working. I'm so much worse. And. And now I'm losing any hope that I'm going to get any better at all. And I, I talked to my naturopath multiple times and I said, bridget, I just want to quit. I just. This isn't working for me. And, and she said to me, teresa, I'll call you every day if, if you need that.
You've got to hang in there. And then my husband was saying, you've got, got to hang in there. And I thought, okay, I'm gonna, I'm. I'm gonna take the matters into my own hands. And that's when I Started discovering the wonders of online summits.
You know, Dr. J. Davidson was doing these online lime summits, and I was watching them and being just a very curious person by nature. I. I always want to learn, love to learn. I absolutely those things up. I watched every lecture, took voluminous notes, and then I started applying what I was learning in those pot, in those presentations to myself and.
And we did find the mode in my house.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: So. Yeah. So was it after those presentations then that you started to kind of look and see if there's additional things?
[00:22:17] Speaker C: And one of my doctors over in Indianapolis, Dr. Brett Sackcamp, started saying, I think it's mold. And I kept. I argued with him. No, it's not.
No, it's not mold. No, no. My. My ermie said negative 2.
And my urine test, my mycotoxins, my real time labs, microtox was zero.
I had none really, but I was loaded with them. Yeah, I just wasn't detoxing them at all.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: Exactly. And that's an important point for people to understand is that, you know, if you're not able to move them out, it's not going to show up in the urine. Yeah. So it may. Just because it shows zero doesn't mean that it is zero. You know, you need to kind of boost your immune system and boost your ability to detoxify. And then, you know, it started to show up.
[00:23:09] Speaker C: Yeah. And back then, my doctor didn't, I guess, explain that to me. They just assumed I didn't have any. But I mean, my goodness, that was almost 10 years ago.
I'm sure they know that now, but today I. So I think in the end, though, Dr. Sackcamp insisted because that was a different doctor. So he said, you know, I think you really do just clinically, you have the symptoms. And he put me on binders and I think maybe some herbal antifungals.
And I learned about ozone in the. In the summits.
And I started seeing a doctor in our area who did IV ozone.
And I did two. One passes back to back. One on a Thursday, one on a Friday.
I hurst so vehemently that I literally, literally shook in my bed for a week.
It was unbelievable to me. I think I must have had so many mycotoxins enter circulation from dead mold that.
But do you know that on day seven, I felt a shift.
It was the first time in almost 15, 16 months of treatment that I had felt really any noticeable improvement.
And I got really excited about that.
And I thought, you know what?
I am going to buy a home generator.
And I'M going to do rectal insuffilations at home.
And I just started doing them and I learned from some Facebook group I was in.
And first thing that started improving was the terrible, terrible pudendal neuralgia.
So that was fantastic because that was. I mean, I couldn't sit in a chair for about nine months at all.
All I could do is lay on my sides or stand up, and I couldn't stand more than five minutes. So I spent a lot of time just lying down.
And next the interstitial cystitis started clearing up.
So. And I did a few vaginal insufflations, but mostly just the rectal insufflations.
So for me, ozone combined with those binders really started making a huge difference.
And so I have to believe that all the herbal antibiotics that I took, they were, they were, you know, proprietary blends that my naturopath created herself.
Some booner herbs and some other herbs that she put in there.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: I.
[00:26:19] Speaker C: It was right around the time that my second granddaughter was born. It was in 2016.
I literally in one weekend time made 75 progress.
[00:26:32] Speaker B: That's amazing.
[00:26:33] Speaker C: So, you know, I tell my clients this all the time. Some people will make steady and slow progress upwards or go up and down, but be making steady. Other people are doing the hard work for a year, year and a half, and suddenly that light switch flips and their immune system relents.
And that's what happened to me. And I went into remission in 2016, that fall and have been in remission ever since.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: That's so exciting.
[00:27:11] Speaker C: For nine years now, those first three years, I did have some ups and downs, some flares because I'm convinced now that I actually had tick borne relapsing borrelia that came and went and that the, when I became debilitated every day, that was probably the mold.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: And so when, when you were. Yeah, because he found out about the, the, the lime first and that's when you did these kind of herbal antibiotics and you felt horrible and, and you weren't able to kind of move the needle. I mean, yes, you were killing things. Yeah. But your body was not able to really move out the die off material appropriately.
And then. Yeah. And later on in that process, when you hadn't been kind of moving the needle the much as you'd like, that's when you found out, you know, mold has got to be mold treated mold, you know, with the, with the ozone and binders. And then all of a sudden, you know, you're starting to feel the change.
[00:28:15] Speaker C: Yeah.
Yeah. And you know, and I had done a decent number of DMPs and calcium EDTA IVs and I had done some DMSA before I became allergic to it. So I think I probably reduced my toxic metal burd some.
And you know, organophosphate pesticides are delivered with toxic metals like bromides or some of them have arsenic in them as an inert ingredient, but they are there.
So I probably also reduced some of that burden.
But I.
Once I figured out on my own that even binders can help get some of those metals out and that the ion cleanse, detox foot bath with can help. I think I heard a lecture from Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt and, and bought one of those. And so I have done hundreds of those foot baths and I love those.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Yeah, we have a couple at the center. Yeah.
[00:29:20] Speaker C: Well, my lead and mercury and uranium are all much, much, much lower now when you do, you know, some. On my last, my last toxic metals.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: Test and, and did you also bring in sauna as well along with.
[00:29:36] Speaker C: I did, but you know, I couldn't handle it.
[00:29:39] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:29:40] Speaker C: I had a level of pots. It was, it was a milder level of pots, but I did.
So when I got in, I just felt like I was going to pass out. And when I forced myself to stay in, I would feel so much worse for days on end. And after doing that a half a dozen times or more, I, I just gave up.
[00:30:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:02] Speaker C: I couldn't. I do them now.
Do them, you know, and I love them.
And Dr. Lynn Patrick taught us, you know, those saunas will move out toxic metals sometimes even better than the, the, you know, chelation agents.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: Yeah, they're powerful and, and it's another. It's like bionic foot bath. Yeah. To, it's, it's something you can have at home to really kind of clear things out. And yeah, yes, it is an initial investment. But yeah, those are powerful tools to get a lot of heavy metals, chemicals, mold, you know, out of your system quickly.
[00:30:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
Oh, goodness. I'm, I'm over 60 now.
I can't believe I'm even saying that. And I feel so much better than when I was in my 30s.
So much better.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: That's amazing.
[00:30:59] Speaker C: So much better than all my 40s and, and most of my 50s. I wake up with good energy every day. I have good energy all day. I can work out, I can play with my grandchildren. I have no pain anywhere in my body.
My TMJ is gone. The pudendal neuralgia is gone. The interstitial cystitis is gone. The fibromyalgia is gone. The chronic fatigue syndrome is gone.
I would say 99 of the brain fog. You know, there are still days where I still grasp for a word now and again.
[00:31:37] Speaker B: That's incredible. I mean, that. That's incredible. And. And so which ones were your favorite? Binders. Yeah. When you're going through this journey, I.
[00:31:48] Speaker C: Probably mostly did Takasumi powder and activated charcoal. Those I did the best with. For whatever reason, my body did not like detox. I did not do well with those.
The chlorella I really did poorly with.
[00:32:06] Speaker B: So, as. As in what. I mean, meaning you felt achy or felt nauseous or.
[00:32:12] Speaker C: Yes, my stomach really felt irritated, and I just.
Yeah, I think I. I just felt more achy.
And whenever I felt that heaviness in my chest, that was one of my most troubling symptoms. That constant, constant pressure, soreness, heaviness in my. In my chest, and I just didn't want to do it anymore.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: No. So did they.
Did you have Babesia as well, or was mostly borrelia? You know, the relapsing Borrelia and the. In the mold, you think?
[00:32:52] Speaker C: Well, I was diagnosed with both Babesia and Bartonella clinically.
I never got any lab evidence around it, but I did develop a very mild motor tick and a vocal tick.
[00:33:11] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:33:11] Speaker C: And very mild.
It was very easy for me to, you know, not ever show that in public. I could fully control it. It was mostly only when I was at home. The sicker I was, the more I had the vocal tick.
So my. My doctor in Indianapolis really did feel like I. I had Bartonella. I had some. A lot of eye twitching and eye ticking and not. Not a lot of the classic Bartonella symptoms.
And it could have been borrelia mia motoy, too, I suppose, but back then, she just kept saying, there's no point in us. There's no point in us testing. Teresa, we know that you're. You have Lyme, so let's just. Let's just stay on track with what you're doing.
[00:34:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that's great.
And so with. I mean, now you've gone through that journey and on the other side, and then obviously, this kind of journey changes you. And recognizing how difficult your journey was and how long it took for you to get a solution and being then in the health field already, that makes you want to help people that are like you.
[00:34:36] Speaker C: Yes. Yes.
Excuse me for just a minute. I sincerely apologize. My laptop is gonna die. I forgot to grab a cord. My husband can bring it. Hold On.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: So, yeah. So tell me, what was kind of your next step? I mean, here you're wanting to help people and what, you know, what did that look like? I mean, how did you envision that?
[00:34:58] Speaker C: I found a course that Hillary thing in Kingston, New York, was offering to certify practitioners who wanted to. To do holistic Lyme treatment.
And I applied and was accepted, and I studied with her, gosh, for three years. And then I was a teaching assistant of hers for a couple of years. So I was. I helped her in her clinic for about a total of five years. That was in New York, that the Hudson Valley hotbed of Lyme disease. So. Oh, goodness. I learned so much from Hillary. She is just absolutely brilliant, really, a master herbalist, and just taught me so, so much about goose syndrome and just the skillful use of herbs.
And she's the one who taught me about liposomal essential oil blends, which is one of the main tools that. That we use. A lot of issues that were trained by Hillary.
[00:36:01] Speaker B: That's wonderful. And so, yeah, so. So how did she address. I mean, because there are different schools of thoughts, you know, to go after Lyme and certain sequences. So. And. And you know, how you were trained? What does that look like? What's the process?
[00:36:19] Speaker C: Yeah, well, she taught us how to open the channels for detoxification so that people don't have so much herxing and die off.
And she also taught us how to write formulas with raw herbs or granules, as well as liposomal essential oils to customize those for people, depending on their symptoms.
And she taught us, really, the basics about mold illness and how to identify it and how to deal with it.
Toxic metals. I thought she did it. Just an excellent, excellent program. I'm not sure. I think this might be the last year she's doing it, unfortunately.
But yeah, I. I trained and certified with her, and I also started going to a lot of ILADS conferences, ILADS trainings. I joined ici, the mold illness group, and started attending all of their conferences, webinars, and trainings.
Just this insatiable desire to learn. So that anybody who walked through my door, because, as you know, each person presents some new facet.
Everybody has a little something. There's so much similarity. There's a little something different, too. There's always something to learn. I certified with Dr. Frank Shallenberger and studied with him out in Carson City, Nevada, for ozone therapy. I had a sauna in my office off, which is all I could offer.
I don't have it in there anymore. We're just way too busy.
But I also certified with Dr. Lynn Patrick and Dr. Anne Marie Fine in the Environmental Medicine Institute. That was the most recent thing I did. And I think that's. I have such a heart for that and just an incredible passion around. You know, when people come into my office, just interviewing them on where have you lived, what have you been exposed to?
And sometimes that alone we can tease out what happened to your immune system that you were unable to live in peace and harmony with these bugs, that your immune system became so dysregulated that you are having a terrible time beating these bugs.
And we do urine testing. I now have a physician so in my clinic and a nurse practitioner.
So they will order labs that I couldn't have ordered before and prescriptions.
Methylene blue, ivermectin, you know, a number of things.
So we, I gosh, I have, we have five practitioners in our office now. It started in my living room, literally because once I got well, people reached out to me saying we heard you got better. Because they knew I'd been sick from. What did you do? And so I just started informally coaching people. I was taking my little ozone generator into people's houses, you know, taking them in rectal insufflation. And then I just started getting too busy so they had to come see me in my living room.
And then I started renting an office from my husband and my son's building in Norwood area called the Living Room.
And it just, as you know, the need is so great, is so great. It just, it just grew and grew and grew and I, I trained two RNs to come help me. So we have three holistic coaches in our practice. And, and we now we have a nurse practitioner and a collaborating physician who's a board certified neurologist and functional medicine practitioner.
So it's, I'm just so blessed that, you know, God has brought all these amazing people onto my team and together, oh goodness, we've probably served well over a thousand people. I don't know. You lose track, right?
But it's been, it's been such a privilege and so gratifying.
That's my, that's my, that's my mission. Bring hope to the hopeless.
And you're shaking your head. Yes, too well.
[00:40:56] Speaker B: I mean that, that, that's exactly, I mean people are going through these very difficult journeys and they don't see a way out.
And then to be able then offer effective and restorative therapies that can bring light into the world is so important.
And it's Such a blessing to have people like yourself and then to build it up, because it's one thing that you as an individual, there's only so many people that you can see. But then when you bring in a team and bring in more of these therapies, you're able to kind of move the needle so much faster to so many more people. And here we're dealing with Lyme. You know, what do we got? There's a couple of hundred thousand that get diagnosed every year. And that still, I think, is very minimal compared to what it truly is. I think that's a very low balled number.
And so we need so many people like you, and so that's why it's so important.
[00:42:03] Speaker C: Mm.
Yeah, I appreciate that. And it makes my heart so sad and so grieved. Every single time a child or a teenager comes through our door and we're seeing so many. I mean, once the word gets out there that you know what you're doing and you're having success, it just starts to snowball.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. People recognize that immediately. Yeah, this is this phenomenal. And. And thank you so much for everything that you're doing. And. And I mean, your. Your story, I mean, it led to the solution for thousands of people. So.
So thank you for kind of picking out the. The banner and. And carrying it strong. So thank you.
[00:42:57] Speaker C: Well, thank. I just want to thank the Lord. You know, he. He's doing all this, and I just get to go along for the ride. So.
[00:43:05] Speaker B: And where can people find you?
[00:43:09] Speaker C: We are on. We have a website, foundations wellness care.com. we have Instagram and Facebook.
I have a whole. I have a marketing team who takes care of all that. So I. I'm not saying it right, but we have all the social media platform and we have our website.
We are located on Norwood Avenue in Norwood, Cincinnati, Ohio, and.
[00:43:39] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, great, Great. Well, thank you so much for spending this time with me. I really, really appreciate it and for educating our listeners. So thank you.
[00:43:50] Speaker C: Yes, my honor, thank you.
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