Dr. Jessica Peatross
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I started out as a conventional medical doctor. Eventually, there started to be cracks in the system. Why am I discharging people on 40 different medications? And they said, listen, if you don't stop doing this, you can't work for us.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes. And he definitely wasn't normal.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And I see this all the time. And these people look well. They look like they're healthy, but they're not.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's exactly right. It's never talked about what the root cause is. And some of these labels and ICD-10 codes that we bill for in the hospital, I mean, like sarcoidosis is mold. It's water damage. That's an autoimmune condition from water damage buildings.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
The fungal balls in the lungs that extra pulmonary manifestations that is mold. It's fungus. And so that's one of my favorite things to do is take people who have labels given by the Western system and say, let's dig deeper and see what is causing your body to be out of homeostasis. What is causing it not to be in normalcy? And this one particular patient, early into my career, I miss that.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And I will never do that again. Now, I don't test everyone for Lyme disease, but I spend an hour, hour and a half with people. I dig into their antecedents, their triggers, their traumas. These are the things that put people on the wrong path throughout life. And eventually their toxin bucket fills up and you have to empty that toxin bucket.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And oftentimes it's full of frenemies that run together, BPA and industrial man-made toxins and heavy metals and the pathogens that are there for cleanup, upset metals and things.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I love vibrant.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I actually spoke at their first conference for them.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I did. And they knocked it out of the ballpark.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That was very good.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Now you're really sick.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's right. You're just recirculating toxins and can't get them out of the body.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Man, you're my people.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I have to say.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Our indigenous relatives need to do this once or twice per year. And so we don't ever do it. You're right.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I'm honored to be here. Thank you for having me.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, it's hard, right? But I have to say your detox and drainage pathways are definitely open because you work every day at that in your life with biohacking. Most people don't do that. So I have to start at ground zero with them. So I have learned yet another important topic about detox here in my career.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Not that long ago, actually, in the last couple of years, you know, I would always talk about Herxheimer symptoms, which is our healing detox reactions. If people's bodies aren't prepped and ready for a kill and a bind and a, whatever else to get things out, enemas or sweat, then they will recirculate, like you said, toxins that make them feel like they have the flu. And guess what?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They're probably not going to continue your detox if they feel sick all the time.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Eboo will fix that. Eboo because it filters. But still yet, how do you prep someone properly so they don't quit the detox and they come back to themselves a little more naturally and easily? And so I used to just really work on drainage pathways, but now I back up and I do a step before that.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And this nervous system dysregulation.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I do this with mold and Lyme and parasites and any sort of detox that someone needs to go through. Because I used to with Lyme, sometimes you'd have to keep them on detoxes for a year. Yeah. This is a war.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
But you know, now that I go back to nervous system regulation, if I can put someone in homeostasis and balance between parasympathetic and sympathetic, all their endorphins, all their neurotransmitters, all their bodily functions are working on a different level that a pill won't fixed. There's no pill to fix that. You have to regulate that first.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And then the drainage and the detox is about half the time that it would normally take.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I'm glad I can oblige here. So yeah, but you know, whenever you're in nervous system dysregulation, and you're stuck in flight, fight, or even worse, functional freeze, your body contracts. It contracts, so it won't release some of these things. It doesn't feel safe to let go. And so I'll do like a Vibrant Total Tox on somebody, looking at mycotoxins, looking at heavy metals.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Glyphosate and pesticides.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Such a good question. Such a good question, I'm telling you. So if I want to look at a total tox with somebody who comes into my clinic, we do that test on every single person as well as a blood work panel on every person that comes through. And what I look for with people with this brain fog is, mystery symptoms like migrating joint pains, maybe.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They might have fatigue, weight gain that doesn't come off. It's pretty resistant. They might have hormonal issues, which hormones are never root cause. They're always a byproduct of something else that's confused within the body.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's right.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's right. And most of the women I see have mast cell activation syndrome and histamine, especially after COVID, especially after the 5G towers went up, especially in the new stress, the new society. People are so stressed out. And the number one and number two reason for histamine release, which I have to start there with everyone and fix that first, is mold and nervous system dysregulation.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Thoughts can release histamine from mast cells. One thousand percent. Wow.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
PMS, headaches.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
The phthalates, the plasticizers.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
She is a canary in a coal mine. And we thank God for those people.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Because back in the villages, when we used to live in communities and villages, those people would drink the water in a creek and say, oh, I'm sick. Don't drink that water to the warriors. And they would prevent the warriors from getting sick who had to go out and fight the wars. So now we have warrior genotypes. I'm a warrior genotype. I'm a horrible test subject. I smell nothing.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Nothing ever bothers me.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes, exactly.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So I can break down adrenaline, noradrenaline, things like that very quickly. So I don't worry that much.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Right. There you go. Try to say those back to back.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Now, you know why? Evolutionary-wise, your guys' pheromones will attract each other because you're giving children 50% totally different DNA than each other. So that's why they're attracted easily. And that's the case. She's a canary in a coal mine. Thank God for her because she can warn you about things. She smells mold like a dog. She does. I see people on the total talks.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They'll show up, show up with like some byproduct of gasoline. And I'll say to them, do you smell gasoline a mile away? Yes. And I hate it. It's the worst smell ever. And I know I smell it every, as soon as the car door opens the gas station, I'm like, that's your body warning you because it smells it so acutely. It's telling you we can't get processes and get rid of it very fast.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Get the heck out of here.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Cover my face out so they can't take a picture.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Avoidance, first rule of environmental medicine, 1,000%. And I will tell you, based on genetic predispositions, how full their toxin bucket is, how stressed out they are. There are a number of multifactorial reasons people may not do well in mold. But I can sometimes open people's drainage in mold if they're more of a warrior genotype.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
If they have HLA-DR, which is a genetic haplotype that is like a little sticker that's on the immune cells, these people don't recognize pathogen proteins as well. So they don't recognize Lyme. They don't recognize mold spores as well. So they can't remove them from the body. And they cause sickness in these people. I mean, really deathly ill sickness.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so I definitely can't get open the drainage if they're still in the exposure.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And people will say, you know, my house is new. We had it checked, blah, blah, blah. And this is all very subjective within the mold and water damaged world. And what I want to say to people here, people say, you know, mold's been around forever. Why is it the enemy here? You know what? You're right.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
The reason is, is because the way we're building modern housing, we're using toxic adhesives, toxic carpet, toxic. We're letting it be exposed to the environment where it rains on the wood while we're building the house. And then we do things like energy efficiency, which is not natural. Airflow controls mold. So when you have an airtight home, that's great for energy efficiency.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's not great for mold growth. And then some of these toxic things get wet within the house. Mold is there to digest organic waste. That's what it does in the ecosystem. That's what it does when it gets CFO, small intestinal fungal overgrowth. It's digesting, putrefying food within the gut. That's what it does in the environment. We are a part of the environment.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Absolutely. Great question. So first and foremost, there are idiosyncrasies between each person. You tweak things a little bit different for each person based on what they're dealing with. But in general, first and foremost, like I mentioned, the nervous system regulation and taking care of histamine, which is so many people.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I can't have their body just like so confused with chemical communicators that it's not going to take a protocol. So I have to calm the inflammation down. I have to give them antioxidants and basic building foundational nutrients so that they can fight. Right.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So I make sure they have things that calm the histamine, something like vitamin C, stinging nettles, sometimes DAO enzyme, which breaks down histamine, and they can be genetically low in this.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes. B vitamins, methylated B vitamins, sometimes SAMe if they're sensitive, adenosylcobalamin, hydroxycobalamin. And then I make sure they have antioxidants and bioflavonoids. Then calm down everything. Then when they're sleeping a little bit better, they feel a little bit better. They feel less anxious, less itchy and puffy. That's ready to open drainage. And that can take a month or two.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's been a wild ride, absolutely. And I would say my story exemplifies the saying from Rumi, the cracks are where the light enters. And so I started out training as a conventional medical doctor. I went to school at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. I went to residency there. I did internal medicine and I was board certified. And I worked as a hospitalist.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Now, what is opening drainage? We have these natural among trees in the body. Things like your bowels, your liver, your bile, your sweat. For women, they're cycles even. And so I have to make sure that those are all running properly. Because when things enter the body, like mold spores, if you're open, you can just jump out of the body.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
If you're closed up and you tell me you can't poop every day or you can't sweat in a sauna within 10 to 15 minutes, and people tell me they can't sweat, that's not normal. Your bowel and liver should be moving properly. You should be sleeping a decent amount.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And if that, I have to tune that up because if I can open those drainage pathways, then when I start killing and binding, they can drop when I'm binding. That's like a mop up toxins. They can drop it out of their body, out of their bowels, out of their liver, out of their sweat. And if that's not open and I start a killing protocol, we're not going to be friends.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And the androids and lymph nodes are the heralding organs of the lymphatic system. They tell the whole lymphatic system to drain. So when you remove those, I already know someone's lymphatic system is stagnant, which is where we hold cellular memory. We hold emotions and it holds a lot of the toxins that lay in the fascia and lymphatic system as well. So that's a big one.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And I see that a lot too in mold, huge tonsils. Huge tonsils, he had sore throats. I actually think oftentimes it lowers immunity enough for things like EBV and strep to take over.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
In fact, mold, I'll drive the point home, mold is so immunosuppressive that they take mycophenolic acid, which is a type of mycotoxin, and they make mycophenolate out of it, which is a suppressant when you get a kidney transplant.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So the person that's kind of the quarterback of the team, the ER calls them to admit everything but general surgery pretty much. And so I had to know something about everything. And I did that for almost seven years in a hospital.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, and it depends. It gives and takes a few how quickly I can get people calmed down because sometimes they don't want to calm down in their thoughts, and that drives a lot of this process. But, yes, I can cut down on drainage and detox for people, make them a lot happier if I can prep their body properly at first. And oftentimes I'll give them something for the liver to open that up.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Castor oil packs as well. I do a lot of biohacks with people. Sauna is one of my favorites, infrared sauna.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Milk thistle, knack, tadka. I really look at things like opening the bowels has to be first and foremost. I can't give binders if people are constipated because it binds them up even more. Number one rule of detoxing, you cannot be constipated at all. So sometimes I'll bring enemas in if it's needed. That's a worst-case scenario for people.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
But I'm definitely utilizing biohacks to open up all their natural among trees and drainage pathways so they're ready for the killing process, for the binding process, for all that.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And that's part of what's wrong with medical doctors. They aren't open to learning things that they weren't taught in medical school.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So the detox, I usually use something like biocidin. I also will usually do a parasite cleanse before going after the mold.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So parasite cleanse, you know, I like things like mimosa pudica seed.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's an Indian seed, but it's very, very, very sticky.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I just jumbled a bunch of words together like pig Latin.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yep, and I only worked in the hospital. And I learned a lot. I triaged and I kept care of a lot of sick patients. But eventually there started to be cracks in the system for me. I started asking questions that people didn't like. I started saying, you know, why am I discharging people on 40 different medications? That's not health to me.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I heard it tastes awful. Be careful. So anyway, it's this really sticky seed. And it acts almost like when you put it in the gut. Remember those sponges, kids, sponges you put in the bathtub and they'd swell up?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's mimosa pudica.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So it literally grabs everything. It's called the gut scrubber. So that, I really like wormwood. I like cloves. I like black walnut hull if no one's allergic to walnuts. I like Pau de Arco, Uva Ursi. I use all of these as a killing protocol because people say, oh, this is a parasite cleanse. Well... Just like antibiotics, they have broad coverage. These herbs will get bacteria.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They'll get candida. They'll get parasites. And parasites in the animal studies hold things like heavy metals and environmental toxicity. So when I'm pulling parasites, I'm also pulling mold spores. I'm pulling heavy metals as well that they digest because they're there to digest things in the environment that's not supposed to be in you.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So in fish studies, they hold six times the heavy metals that you think the fish itself can hold.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So ivermectin gets some parasites, but not all of them. It has not full coverage for everything. Fenbendazole is the same way. It really works on intestinal worms. And just for everyone watching, this is a dog dewormer. I learned about it in Gerson therapy. We would give people fenbendazole and they would poop out intestinal worms and their cancer would start to improve.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
This has been well known to me underground on fenbendazole for a long time. I usually don't put people on these, but I will. If they already have ivermectin or something, I'll be like, yeah, let's try it with some herbs. I'll usually match it with herbs so we get more coverage.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
There are two different parasite cleanses that I really like, um, that come in packages. And I love, we even use some mushrooms like unsea and things like that in some of these, but definitely, um, The herbs increase the broad coverage for ivermectin and fenbendazole, and they actually help with everything, not just mold, right? So bacteria as well.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so, yeah, some of those herbs, like I like biocidin a lot. It's liposomal. So I know that it's absorbing in the buccal cavity. If you hold it under the tongue, it has broad spectrum activity against Lyme and candida and some mold as well.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Why do we have Coke and Pepsi contracts and feed factory farm meats and cheese to patients who have cancer?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes. Nice little rotten egg bite. Oh, the Nanoglute B, my product. Yeah, so the Nanoglute B is methylated bees, glutathione, which I'm sorry, guys. It's just made of sulfur, and it smells like a fart. It just does. That's the way glutathione does.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, you can see.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Things you do for health. And vitamin C. So that one is something I give people really to calm them down, to help in the inflammation period before we go into drainage and detox. That's some of the foundational support that they need. But yeah, if I can get them past the sulfur taste or smell.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Why is Jell-O on a clear liquid diet?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It was in November 2022. And that was all from nervous system dysregulation and stress. And I had MCV of 106, really high.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's a big red blood cell, and it's because I didn't have B vitamins, which I needed to make red blood cells and have correct production of them. If you have iron deficiency anemia, they're super small, the red blood cells. I see that a lot with parasites because parasites eat iron, and they don't let people absorb and assimilate properly because of the inflammation.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I love that you asked this question. I love it because the reason my labs were so messed up was because I was stressed out. So I had to be my own patient. And then I took what I learned on myself and brought it to the clientele. And so, you know, when people are in nervous system dysregulation, they do things like they have this horrible startle reflex. And so, you know,
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They'll speak without breathing. They won't be able to get into a deep REM sleep at night because they don't feel safe to get into rest and digest. And so it's very hard to fix. You think about how hard it is to change yourself. I'm asking other people to change that are dysregulated and don't see themselves. So sometimes I have some herbs and some supplements that will help.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Things like one of my favorites is liposomal GABA with L-theanine.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Because there was controversy before whether GABA could cross the blood-brain barrier, and now that we think it does. But even if it doesn't, you have GABA receptors in your gut that attach via the vagus nerve and the gut-brain axis to the brain, and you have receptors here too. So it's modulating the entire gut-brain axis in someone that's really spun out in flight or fight.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And that really helps to calm the monkey brain at night, calm the anxiety during the day. I really love, depending on their genes, which you'll love this, I decide what kind of type of B vitamin they need.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Not everyone can handle methylated B vitamins, unfortunately.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's right. And so I'll go with adenosylhydroxycobalamin or SAMe, depending on the person. And if they can handle methylated B vitamins, I'll give them my nanoglut B, but not if they can't.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You're looking at the pathways for sometimes, sometimes that's not something they come in my clinic and get automatically. We can do it, but we don't a lot of times. What I'll do is spend so much time with them. I'll ask them. I'll say I'll spend a lot of time going over symptomatology. And, you know, have you ever tried methylated B vitamins? Do they make you feel like you had too much coffee?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
How do you do with glutathione? There's a CBS mutation where people cannot handle sulfur outside the body. So I test them and I ask them things. If they can't handle it, I'll stop and change for them usually. And then there are things that I like like homeopathics.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So when people tell me they can't handle any supplements, I'll give them homeopathics like Pecana's Big Three that has liver, lymph, and kidneys in it and help energetically drain those organs emotionally and physically. So people get teary-eyed. They go, emotions, because you hold emotions in the body and the organs.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Do you feel safe in your body and your environment? You know, when people say, no, I can't heal a body you hate. I can't heal a body that's not safe. So I can't.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So I have to get them to that place where like, I trust the unknown. I trust something bigger than me. I trust that my body is intelligent and not broken. You know how hard it is to heal somebody that has that perspective? It's almost impossible.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yep, 1,000%. And, you know, these women, they take care of everyone else but themselves. They would never treat their friends or their children like they treat themselves.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's exactly where I was going. Do you agree with that? Yeah. Yes, 1,000%. It goes back to the childhood and then what their continued stress is in life because what I've noticed is if people start out with a chaotic childhood with a lot of trauma, they will put themselves in that familiar state later on even though it's not good for them. But it's familiar, right?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So they'll drink three cups of coffee in the morning because that reminds them of how they felt in their childhood. So I have to make them aware, the observer of their thoughts, to see what they're doing that is actually standing in their own way of their body healing itself.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So it's very much an awareness game with me. And the first question I ask people is, did you have a happy and healthy childhood? Can you tell me about it? And then you can learn so much about an adult who is still masquerading as an adult, really in a child's body from that time when they were younger.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So I really spend a lot of time there with parents, with what happened to you, divorces, illnesses, things that happened when you were younger, because that sets the tone for your health as an adult.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Right? So I go there, and I use a lot of biohacks that you talk about. Breath work is a huge one that I have people do. Wow. Huge. You know, sometimes people can handle cold plunges, and sometimes they can't. Right. It's too much of a medical choice. Right? I'll utilize fasting when we're ready for it. That can also be something that is a stressor for too many people. Right.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so, you know, I use enemas. I use sauna. I use a lot of PMF, a lot of lymphatic massage. Wow. Myofascial release with breath work is huge.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes, and I'm using the parasympathetic balancing autonomic nervous system type of stuff for these people with PMF. That's a great way to get them there. Yeah, because if they've never felt that way and you put someone in parasympathetic mode, they go, whoa, this is weird. I feel vulnerable. I don't know if I like this.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Oh, I know what this is. It vibrates?
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That's right.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Do you know about a Flowpresso? Have you heard of Flowpresso?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Okay. Shout out to Kelly Kennedy, my friend who's the limp queen here who taught me about Flowpresso. I dare you to have a biohacking device I haven't found. I love it. I got you. Okay.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I have a biohacking device that Gary Brecker doesn't have. I'm so proud of myself right now.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So a Flowpresso. It looks like a giant Michelin man suit. So it's basically you have it on a table. You're laying out. You have these things. You Velcro them on your legs. Velcro them on your arms. Velcro them on your torso. And then you set the machine at the bottom. It has warm infrared heat and microcirculation. And it starts like a warm hug.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It hugs you all the way up the legs, all the way up the arms to the heart.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's like a rhythmic hug with heat that moves the lymph and people cry in it and they release everything.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It drove the point home. It's true. Like, you know, the doctors should be really ashamed of the food that the hospital system has had contracts with. It doesn't make sense.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
No, it's rhythmic. It's almost like a warm hug that goes up the arms, up the legs, the torso, all the way squeezing to the heart.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So it puts you to sleep because it's like an ocean wave almost.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, you can't really scratch your arm at all or your face. You can't scratch anything. You're stuck.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They don't know. Some of them don't know. And I will— echo what you said, if I was in an emergency situation, I broke a leg, I'd head straight to the emergency department. Because thank God for acute medicine. But in chronic medicine, they kind of missed the mark. They did. And so I started to see that in the hospital system. And I started to ask questions. Maybe they didn't know.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, I'll quote Joe Dispenza here who says, you know, your thoughts turn into your beliefs and your beliefs turn into your actions. And those actions over time turn into a personal reality, which is your personality. So it all starts from our thoughts and beliefs after that. And our actions come from those, that energy, right?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And that's a good point. Sorry to interrupt, but I never put them on more than six to eight things. Green Pharmacy is one of my biggest pet peeves. And if we do that, it's the exact same thing as allopathy, treating every abnormality we find on a lab. That is not pulling back. You're stuck in the forest. You can't see the trees.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You need to pull back and look at a big picture of what organ systems and the body as a whole is not functioning at peak performance. It's not about killing and eradicating. It's about harmonizing and balancing.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I see the sickest of the sick. Most of them are bloated with inflammation in their gut. So I try to give them powders, liposomal liquids, things like that that I know they can absorb. Because 15 capsules with fillers, most people can't handle that if they're sick. They're chronically ill.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
What would happen if I said something? And they labeled me a disruptive physician. It didn't turn out so well.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And I will say to you, and this might drive the point home for you.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You're really toxic.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's right. So for me, and this will put it in a different perspective for you, the reason I get people out of nervous system dysregulation into parasympathetic mode is because most of them are in cell danger response with a mitochondria.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Cell danger response for the mitochondria. I've never heard of that either. You haven't. This is like...
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Wow, I'm so honored. Thank you.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Thank you. So mitochondria, they do have a number of different functions within the body. But what they do mainly, the two biggest functions are immune system and making ATP through the Krebs cycle and electron transport chain, right? So when you have to choose between those two, You don't do both very well. So that's why so many people are tired and chronically ill.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so if I go in and try and give them a Kilbine sweat or a detox and bind and all that stuff, their mitochondria are already just fighting for immunity right now. Then I'm going to make them exhausted. I'm going to wear them out. You have to get them there where the mitochondria are more balanced with energy production and immunity so that they can actually handle the detox.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And the last straw, actually, I had been complaining about things, and the last straw was I wrote, this patient that's being admitted to our service, I wrote this in the electronic medical record, has been on a proton pump inhibitor called Prevacid for eight years when the package insert clearly says six months to one year. And I wrote that in the chart.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So.
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Yes, circadian rhythm. Yes, watch the sunrise and sunset. Put your bare feet on the ground.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You know why he had tinnitus? The body sees that... Sorry to interrupt. The body sees that as it's a flight or fight or fear of sounds. So the body is stuck and it's a kind of trauma response from sounds. That's what the tinnitus is from. So...
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And the primary care doctor, who was an outpatient doctor, called the lead hospitalist to complain about me and said she's a liability rather than him being the liability for the medication he had this patient on for years. And they sat me down and they said, listen, if you don't stop doing this, you can't work for us.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, for sure. So most of the time I'll have people watch the sunrise and sunset, as I mentioned, and early on, even if they're in a cold atmosphere and they can just look at it out an open window or something.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
These are people who are really sick. They're gluten-free, they're dairy-free, they're soy-free, they're nut-free, they're egg-free. And I'm like, it's not your diet that's keeping you sick.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You know, just do that. Because people don't understand that really turning... food and energy is a light-driven process. The mitochondria is the light-driven process.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
We have a circadian clock in every single cell that responds to light and dark. So if you're staring at a blue screen, if you're never out in the sunlight, I can't get people better. So I have to have them following that recipe as well. Hiking at sunrise, can't beat it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You can take people who are super anxious and depressed, even suicidal, and put them on a week of camping like a new person. They won't even forget that their mood disorder existed. So with those people, have them do stuff like this. I also really regulate their diet. But to be honest with you, their diet is usually fixed by the time they come to me because these are people who are really sick.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They've seen 30 doctors. They have mystery symptoms. So by the time they come to me, they're gluten-free. They're dairy-free. They're soy-free. They're nut-free. They're egg-free. And I'm like, it's not your diet.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
that's keeping you sick okay see this so much and so i regulate that and you know most of the time i have to instruct people to stop scrolling to distract themselves or dissociate because they're not able to process their emotions if they're scrolling all the time they don't know how to be a human being they're human doing all the time and so can you just sit with your feelings and emotions can you sit can you just sit and breathe and not do anything
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And I'm kind of knee jerk reactive sometimes, especially when I don't feel the ethics align with me. And I said, OK, I quit. I didn't have a husband. I didn't have kids. I had the leeway to be able to be a little bit more free. I may have not done that had I known because I made a fourth of what I used to make when I left.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So many people can't. It's their biggest fear. And so that alone lets me know where they are. So that kind of stuff throughout the day, right? I'll get them in the flow presso. I'll put them in the sauna. Take a binder before and a binder after. We're mopping up toxins. You'll notice your body starts sweating sooner with a binder in it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Activated charcoal is great for hangovers or food poisoning because it stays in the gut, but it doesn't go systemically. So I do like zeolite and betonite clay, but not all of them created equal. We have to look at how they're made, right? Do they have aluminum binding in them or not? Some of them do. The zeolites, yes. Wow. And so I don't like that all the time.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
What I really like are fulvic and humic acids, these binders. Because they turn on pathways like the Nrf2 pathway.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Well, it comes from Shilajit, for sure, for sure. But, you know, some of the best binders out there are dibasics of fulvic acid. You know, they have lots of fulvics and humics in it. In fact, my company, Aegis Formulas, we put fulvic acid in every single supplement. because it's 86 different trace minerals, right? And it has a binding component.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes, just because not everyone can take methylfolate, right? I like folinic acid so much.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes, love, love. So I'll do things like this with people and really just have their day regulated. Because if I could go live with everyone from 9 to 5, I'd be able to tell them what's going on or their roadblock in about a week. But I can't go do that with everybody. That's awesome. So I have to rely on their description of their life to me.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so I regulate their diet, make sure they have a water filter, they have good air filters. I make sure they're on the right basic supplements. Then to open drainage, the right supplements, very targeted, streamlined protocol without a lot of extra supplementation. And then, you know, I really look at their mindset as well.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I have a mindset and a health coach who's wonderful, who is a specialist in heart math, specialist in favor of constellation. Yeah, and I have to talk to these people about this because I believe autoimmunity comes from an imbalance in the autonomic nervous system.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It hides in the fascia on the left, the joint fluid, so many things.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
What people don't know is there's not a ready-made system for holistic doctors or doctors who don't go the conventional path. My malpractice, my insurance was paid for in the hospital. I didn't have to think about anything. I got out of there and I got trained in functional medicine and had to make my own system, had to be a businesswoman out of the gates for it to work.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Right. So mold and Lyme often run together, known as biotoxin illness, and they have overlapping symptomatology. But for Lyme, you're right. Three major symptoms, brain fog, fatigue, and migrating joint pains. And you said so many things that I want to touch on here. Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria called a spirochete. It's corkscrew shaped. Remember, form follows function.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So you've got to think of it. What else is corkscrew shaped? Syphilis. Neurosyphilis burrows into the brain, so can Lyme. H. pylori burrows into the gut lining, so can Lyme. It burrows. The form follows its corkscrew-shaped function. Now, when you put someone on something like monotherapy, like doxycycline, an antibiotic for Lyme.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Lyme is smart. This is a bacteria that has been around as long as humans. It rolls into an L-shaped form, which is a sphere, and lowers its metabolism and dives deeper into the tissues with just doxycycline. So I'm not a fan of monotherapy for Lyme disease at all. And it's called the great mimicker. So a lot of things like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, oftentimes are Lyme masquerading.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Oh my gosh.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So that was a big lesson for me.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Similarly, I had an ALS patient who swam in the red tide right before his diagnosis. So these fungal infections and Lyme disease often run together and look like these neurodegenerative conditions in people. With heavy metals mixed in for good measure usually too, unfortunately. So with patients with Lyme, you know, I get a test. I like a number of them. I like tick-borne 1.0 and 1.2 by Vibrant.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
The tick-borne test. It's by Vibrant. I like iogenics, which is the gold standard for alternative testing for criteria for Lyme. And I like Armin Labs, too. Armin Labs is great out of Germany. And so, you know, the thing about Lyme that people have to know is it's usually indirect antibody testing, which means we look at these bands and see if these bands are positive.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Two of the most sensitive bands were removed by the CDC in the early 90s because they came up with the Lyme vaccine. It failed miserably because it had side effects, and they had to pull it off the market. And the reason they took the bands off was because people who were vaccinated for the Lyme disease popped off positive on these two bands on the testing.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So they couldn't have that happen, but they never put the bands back. So the CDC criteria for testing is often very stringent and misses the mark because of that. So the functional testing, we've put those bands in, and it's a little more accurate to get a positive diagnosis.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So, yeah. So, you know, there's no agenda at all. So, you know, you have to know this about people. And another thing is if their immune systems are immunosuppressed, which is a lot of people today, this is a lot of people who are sick with lowered immune systems, their body is not going to produce a positive band because the immune system is suppressed on this test.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So we take all this with symptomatology, with their story, with everything else for a positive diagnosis. Right.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
There's actually, you said provoke it. Remind me, there's another Lyme test called DNA Connections where you go get an infrared sauna or you get a lymph massage and then you pee. And it gets a positive test because you provocated the bacteria out of the hidden tissues with the massage or the sauna.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's like we gotta kick the dust up at the construction site a little bit.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes, you have to have an acute poisoning for a metal to show up in the blood. That's what conventional medicine needs to understand when they test for metals. So for me, once I get a positive on a Lyme test, depending on what test it is, I then break the news to the person. They often think that they can't heal. They often think you can't put it in remission.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, but it's not. It's not, 1,000%. And so another thing I like to tell people is the German studies have now shown that you can get Lyme disease from mosquitoes. From larva to full mosquito, it can stay in mosquitoes. The German studies have proved it now.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You can get it through childbirth. They think it's sexually transmitted, just like syphilis. It's a cousin of syphilis, actually. So there are a number of different ways. And I am of the belief that most people have been exposed to spirochetes. What is the difference between my body and your body and someone who has full-blown Lyme? A lot of it is the nervous system.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
A lot of it is their toxin bucket and their stress, right? So that's why I start there with them. When that's taken care of, we don't need nearly as long. And most of the time, people's livers are stagnant, people's bile is stagnant, and they can't sweat when they're full of lime and metals. They're all jammed up, and they can't release anything, and they're just toxic.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And so if I can rattle that body awake and put it back in homeostasis, sometimes that's the worst part for people in the very beginning, to kind of get them stable. Get them sweating again, get their liver working, get their bile working,
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
get their lymph moving, and then bam, I'll give them something like biocidin, something like para-1 or para-2, something like para-5, mixed with fenbendazole or ivermectin sometimes if they need it, and then wait an hour or so, take a binder, something like fulvic or humic acid, because you don't want to bind up any of the killing protocol, right? So you have to wait a little while.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And then get in the sauna. And then we're going to kick some dust up at the construction site. But guess what? Hopefully you have the binder in your system. It's enough to mop up those things we're kicking up so you don't go to the brain to cause neuroinflammation and irritation.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And then if you're pooping, your liver is working, you're sweating, we're going to get those right out of the body immediately.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
For some people they can, right? Some people like, I mean, you can give people sometimes any sort of supplement. Like I can give people GABA sometimes and it turns to glutamate and makes them irritated or anxious, right?
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
So any supplement cannot do what you think it's going to do in someone's body when they're really toxic and their body's overall confused because there's interleukins and TGF beta and all these different chemical communicators that are pro-inflammatory that make the body confused and not work in a proper symphony as it's supposed to.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I do love whole cat.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I have love ozone saunas. I owned one. I own one. Um, and I love that, you know, and not everyone can handle ozone, right? You know, people will hurts from ozone cause it's a killing protocol. So your drainage and your nervous system do need to be regulated before you go try an ozone IV unless you're doing EBU, which is extra blood. Uh, let's see. Yeah. Extra blood corporeal. I can't even remember.
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Let's see.
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Yeah, there you go. But what it does is it filters everything first, and then it runs ozone through everything, almost like dialysis with ozone through the whole body. And so people will handle that better because of the filtering. I do love ozone when the time is ready. But in general, most of the time I'm calming people down, so I'm using calming modalities.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Tai Chi and Qigong are something else I use for people sometimes just to feel their body and feel their energy. Wow.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And then I use a lot of things you do too, Gary. A lot of the same biohacks you do, for sure.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Ecosystem.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Vitamin C, you'll do that too.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, we'll do that as well.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Do you know about inuforesis? So this is a filtering of the entire serum. They do it in Germany, clinics in Germany and Switzerland where they do biological medicine.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You have done it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I didn't think inuforesis, I didn't think they had anything. Maybe it's a little different. I didn't think they had anything in the U.S. Maybe it's not the same.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You know, I was- That's my next biohack I'm doing for sure. For sure, for sure, for sure.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah. So back to the Lyme patients really quick. You know, my trademark protocol is kill, bind, sweat. It sounds like I'm an S&M doctor.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It went viral online because people were like, what the heck is that? But really that's taking herbal antimicrobial that I was talking about, waiting an hour, taking a binder, and then getting in a sauna because you can sweat out microplastics. You can sweat out BPA. You can sweat out a lot of these mycotoxins. You can sweat out a lot of man-made industrial toxins in general.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
There's actually a small study. It's very small, but it says that you can sweat out certain metals, specifically cadmium. Wow. Get this iron. What? Sorry, lead. Cadmium, lead, which we thought stored in the bones. It doesn't. You can sweat it out, according to the study, and mercury. That is amazing.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Wait, I want to be in your VIP community.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I love that. It's almost like the ultimate human is the ultimate pinnacle of wellness. So what is wellness to me? Wellness is the absence of disease and you're full of vitality and energy and happiness and satisfaction with your choices in your life. And the ultimate human, it's mental, it's emotional, and it's physical well-being.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And in all those areas in that wellness will, you are satisfied and feel full and And to me, that is being the ultimate human, because in this human experience, we all have failures. We all make mistakes. We're not perfect. And so how can we grow through that to become a better person and the full potential of ourselves? That's the ultimate human.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah, 80% of serotonin is made in the gut that then converts over to melatonin. So if your immune system sucks, you can't sleep, and you're unhappy, you should be looking at the gut. And to your point, the specialists, they do good work with their organ system, but the body doesn't work as separate organ systems. It works as a symphony as a whole, and it's a very delicate symphony.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It goes back to the childhood and then what their continued stress is in life because what I've noticed is...
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And I've seen chart wars in the chart where the heart doctor was arguing with the kidney doctor about about which one was more important at the time. I've seen this over the years. So it's not always, there's no perfect system, but I think we can do better than what's out there right now. And so for me, I started to say this in the system to people. And when they didn't listen, I quit.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And I got trained in functional medicine. I got trained at the Institute of Functional Medicine. I got trained in ozone by Dr. Schellenberger.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
The first place I got trained actually was Gerson Therapy.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They taught me about nutrition a lot. They taught me about coffee enemas. And I still use some of their tenets in my practice today. So, yeah, I got a broad range of... I mean, you went right to the pinnacle.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Actually, I was living in California at the time. I was driving an hour each way to shadow a naturopathic doctor in East LA and then Dr. Julian Whitaker over at Whitaker Wellness.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yes, exactly what it was. It was very stressful, and I didn't make any money. But I wouldn't change anything for the world because that's where those doctors were kind enough to teach a medical doctor what they had learned. And I was open-minded enough to let them teach me, to let someone be a teacher. I don't know everything. And that's part of what's wrong with medical doctors.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Some in the system is that they aren't open to learning things that they weren't taught in medical school.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It's not a job. It's part of your life.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Yeah.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
You know, at first I was dabbling in things like hormones, thyroid hormones, sex hormones, things like that. I really didn't understand because you're taught as a physician, you don't really understand the root causes. There are labels, but you really aren't taught. They'll say something in the environment, something in your genes caused it, and that's it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
No, it's sustainable. So, you know, they really, you know, I think with me, I started asking questions until I couldn't ask questions anymore. And one particular patient sticks out in my mind here at Whitaker Wellness. Actually, I was there when Dr. Mark Philaday was there, who does a lot in mold and lime. And it was the beginning of my career in functional medicine.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I didn't know a lot about those topics. And a patient came in who had heart palpitations at night and his thyroid was all messed up and he had severe anxiety and all these other kind of just very vague catch-all symptoms. And I was new, so I asked Dr. Mark Filaday to see him for me as a second opinion. And he came back and said, this guy's Lyme. And I missed it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
And I didn't even think to test for it. And by God, I never missed it again. I'll tell you that. That was my lesson. And so I watched him nurse my patient back to health. And I was on the periphery.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
That's a tough one. And I said, okay, this is something that is being missed by conventional medicine. And I want to find the mystery reasons, the symptoms for people. I want to find the root cause for them. And I kept asking why until I couldn't ask why anymore. And it led me to things like biotoxin illness, like mold and water damaged homes and Lyme disease and parasites.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
Because, you know, people say, oh, we live in a first world country on parasites. Well, Parasites don't get borders. They know that, right? They don't understand borders.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It was smarter than other viruses, actually.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
It only went six feet. That one was scientific, too.
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That's it.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
They haven't changed in 30 to 50 years.
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157. Dr. Jessica Peatross: Detoxing From Environmental Mold, Lyme Disease, and Parasites
I mean, I can pick them apart and look at them functionally. I know you can too, actually. And it's one of my favorite things to do. But I love functional tests that dig a little bit deeper for me too. Because the blood work tells a certain story, but sometimes not deep enough. Right. And that's what I was doing. I was looking at this patient's blood work and everything was within normal limits.