Today I had fun chatting with Jean Amor Ramoran about how good health is our birthright on her “Super Empowered Angels” podcast. Thanks Jean!
The Holistic Health & Wellness Forum
Does this sound like you?
- I have spent days/years/decades searching for answers to help me reclaim my health.
- I have visited various medical specialists in my quest to feel better, but no one has the solution that works for me.
- I know there is something wrong with my body, but nothing I do seems to make it better.
- I want to avoid pharmaceuticals as much as possible.
You’re not alone! In fact, more than half of adults deal with physical or mental ailments that resist conventional medical treatments. Sometimes we just “learn to live with” feeling less than optimum so much of the time that we really may not even remember what it feels like to feel good inside our own body.
…Or think it’s possible to live without physical or emotional pain anymore.
Where can a health and wellness seeker go to discover alternative therapies that may hold the key to unlocking your health?
As you may already know about me, I’ve experienced firsthand the challenges of finding solutions that work outside of the conventional medical model. Back in 1999, when I awoke that winter morning blind in my right eye, my quest for health began. Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, I learned that 80% of MS patients experienced significant disability within ten years of diagnosis. Staying out of a wheelchair became my motivating force.
The pharmaceutical medications offered by my MS doctors all had low efficacy combined with significant side effects. I had to question if the potential benefits would be worth the pain they caused. After several unpleasant years of constant side effects and continuing progression of the disease, I wondered if there might be a better way (or ways) that I could help myself manage my body and feel better.
Following my doctor’s advice was taking me closer to that wheelchair instead of toward a healthier and more robust future.
As it turned out, there was a whole world of modalities for healing and achieving health beyond the mainstream medical system that I had never heard about.
I looked and looked, and searched and searched, seeking out different modalities that could help me stay on top of the latest types of therapeutic healing, as well as fill in my knowledge of the lost healing and wellness traditions.
That was the motivation behind creating a hub for alternative health and wellness seekers, a place where other seekers could encounter innovative practitioners they may not have heard of before.
Not only to learn about new practices that could potentially change the course of a life, but to actually get a taste of the modality without a huge commitment.
This is an incredibly unique opportunity to empower ourselves by expanding our knowledge of personal healthcare, and I am excited to be a part of this movement to connect seekers of alternatives to the conventional medical system to teachers and healers with the knowledge, modalities, and therapies that they can access to heal themselves.
I am personally inviting you to join me at The Holistic Health & Wellness Forum this Saturday, April 17th at 10am Mountain Daylight Time.
Even better, if you secure your spot before midnight on Thursday, April 15, 2021, and use Promo Code H3@LtH421 you’ll be able to take 50% off of the event registration!
Sign up now for The Holistic Health & Wellness Forum!
Are you ready to take control of your health and learn what you can do to help yourself feel better? Isn’t it about time to take some action to secure your future?
Come and join us inside the revolution to reclaim control over our health and future!
I hope to see you on Saturday!
Could a Hidden Infection Be Affecting Your Mental Health?
Fascinating research on PANS and PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) suggests that hidden infection plays a role in many mental health issues.
So far, the research has focused on bacterial streptocauccus infection, with treatment being longterm antibiotics. This approach brings its own side effect to the body’s immune system, digestive system, and microbiome and can inhibit long-term health and vitality.
Not to mention breeding antibiotic resistance that could spread to the rest of the population.
But I wonder about parasites, too. Maybe the foreign invaders that the white blood cells see in a PANS patient are strep bacteria, as some doctors have suggested… or maybe they are a virus or parasite that we just haven’t looked hard enough to find yet?
According to the article, “The clearest and most common characteristic was rapid onset: A kid could be himself one day and a stranger the next. “
One day everything is normal, and then we get infected by something and everything changes almost overnight. This is a clear indication of a new infection in the body!
Regardless of the type of foreign invader, the immune system will respond with inflammation triggered by the release of inflammatory mediators. The most famous mediator we all know is histamine, but there are eighty or more types of mediators that the white blood cells can release once they deem there is a threat to the body. It doesn’t really matter which mediators are released because they all cause inflammation.
Mediators travel everywhere the blood does, meaning that inflammation is systemic. When we are inflamed, our brain is also inflamed. Inflammation can make it difficult to think clearly, to make good decisions, to be happy. When our brain is inflamed we are moody and mean; we feel our most basic emotions of anger, guilt, sadness, fear, despair.
When our immunesystem triggers inflammation, symptoms may include mental health issues of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and panic attacks, psychosis, mania, bipolar, and more.
However, I believe there is a better way to free yourself from the hidden infestation that is at the root of your mental health than the toxicity of long-term antibiotics. It you’re interested in exploring a more natural, pharmaceutical-free way to recover from the effects of a hidden infection that could be holding you back from living your life, then it’s time to open your mind to alternative paths to healing.
I invite you to join me at the upcoming Holistic Health & Wellness Forum to meet and mingle with innovative wellness practitioners and try out new modalities for healing. You could find the solution to turn your life around that you’ve been searching for that very day!I hope to see you there!
MS, T-Cells, and Food Sensitivities — a podcast
Listen in as I chat with MS counselor Matt Rowe about the T-cell response caused by certain foods (t-cell activation is thought to be the reason for the cause of brain lesions for patients with MS) in the Identity of Health Podcast.
But first, I apologize if you’ve gotten strange or multiple emails from this blog as we’ve been dealing with more Tommyknockers in our back end, but I hope it is all worked out now and you will only receive notification about this blog post once. Sheesh… tech.
But, if you or someone you know has multiple sclerosis, please consider this a must-listen!
Controlling MS with Diet and the T-cell Response Activated with Food
Subscribing to My Blog, “Effortless Eating”
Hello friends and fans of my blog!
You may have noticed that I went dark for a while at the end of 2020. In fact, there was even a month or so where my whole website was down and inaccessible, something that hadn’t happened since I first launched a website at ElizabethYarnell.com in 1993!
The dumpster-fire that was 2020 upended so many things in all of our lives, and mine was no exception. While COVID didn’t steal any of my loved ones (my heart and sympathies go out to those of you who faced such losses last year!), the economic uncertainty it brought, along with other factors, meant that I needed to pull back and restructure everything from what I do to what I call myself.
The good news is that my retreat from the web has brought me clarity in my mission and purpose, and gave me the space to pivot my enterprise in a way that will let me touch and help many more people along their journey to feeling better! If you’ve skipped out on working directly with me to improve your health in the past because it was unaffordable, be sure to read on for new opportunities that are coming.
Your Subscription to This Blog
Before anything else, I want to let you know that I’ve moved this blog’s subscription function to make it easier for people to subscribe or unsubscribe. If you are receiving this, your email may have been ported over from the old system, and I want to say “Thank you”! Thank you for reading, thank you for subscribing, and thank you for sticking by me for all of these years. You give me reason to keep writing and publishing and sharing my thoughts, advice, and opinions, and I am grateful. Namaste: the divine in me bows to and recognizes the divine in you.
That said, if you ever decide that you no longer wish to receive updates from my blog or newsletter, simply click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email to end your subscription immediately. You may have noticed a mistaken test email that went out a few weeks ago while we were sorting things out on the back end – sorry about that! Technology, sheesh.
New Opportunities to Improve Your Health!
When I took my web identity down and stepped back from social media, it gave me a chance to evaluate what I had been doing and to ponder what it is that I love to do.
As a board-certified traditional naturopath (not a “naturopathic doctor”), I love sharing information on new ideas that could change lives by improving health. Sometimes this is research, sometimes it’s recipes, sometimes it’s a regimen or a product. Sometimes it’s an opportunity to learn more about something I may have personally found to be healing. My web site and blog posts (almost one thousand posts since 2008!) will continue to be full of all of this kind of great information and accessible to subscribers and anyone on the internet.
While I continue to be open to working with clients one-on-one to radically improve health through customized, targeted natural therapies –click here to learn if you are a good candidate for this program– I’ve decided to open up my resources and vast knowledge base to launch a gathering place for holistic health and wellness seekers.
As part of this endeavor, I’m going to become more active about introducing you to some of the practitioners, devices, and technologies that are paving the way for new paradigms in healthcare and could make a difference in your personal health.
Take Charge of Your Health
My period of introspection affirmed and deepened my commitment to empowering people to take control over their own health, and thereby their future. I have always believed that knowledge can empower someone to act to help themselves, and the more awareness we have about alternatives to pharmaceuticals and surgeries, the more potential there is to achieve and enjoy health. This is stuff your medical doctor may not know and likely wouldn’t tell you anyway.
Help is coming for feeling better; don’t lose hope!
Watch this space to hear more about this exciting direction and how to join me on the journey!
Yours in health!
