Shownotes
Pam has been dealing with worsening symptoms of Raynauds and Rheumatoid arthritis for years. She’s a teacher and noticed pain in her fingers and toes. Which later translated to severe pain in her hands which made it difficult for her to even teach at the board. She used to be really into
fitness and worked out with huge weights that triggered a lot of healthy ribbing from the guys at the gym.
Her pain level 2 months ago was 10/10, her fatigue was career ending, and her irritability felt relationship crushing. She started the program 2 months ago working with Dr.Maggie and her team and today she reports that her pain was gone within days after Foodmapping. Her irritability is gone and her boyfriend even commented, “Do whatever she’s telling you to do!” He
loves the results and so does she. She credits her quick and huge turn around to Foodmapping. It angered her that her rheumatologist told her food didn’t matter when she knew it did. Armed with the data, within days,
her pain was gone and has been gone. Her mother, who’s Italian also looked at the results with her and is now seriously supportive of Pam’s health efforts. Using science and data for results and engagement of family was huge for her.
She said being a scientific background educator, she knew this program was going to work because all the videos and training she saw made perfect scientific sense to her. She questioned her own commitment and time to do the program but said once she started, the fast pace of learning and results became an obsession. She said “who wouldn’t want to feel better, right?” She encourages anyone who cares about their own quality of life and their family’s to join the Facebook Group and watch the trainings. It’s made a huge impact upon her life and she’s now back at the gym and pumping iron again!
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I started to notice when it would
happen at certain times of the
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:month, pretty regularly . Um, I knew
that it was connected to my cycle.
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:He didn't, 'cause he had no idea what
was going on, but he knew it was just
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:random acts of violence to him, . Exactly.
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:It was what, what's wrong with you today?
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:Is this worth the fight?
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:What is going on?
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:You had several years, or at least
a year of severe, like almost 10.
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:Outta 10 pain.
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:You said within days it's almost nothing.
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:Yes.
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:How is that possible?
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:I found out what was causing my problems.
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:I addressed the problem
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:Welcome to Transform with Dr.
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:Maggie Yu Podcast, where
education meets results.
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:I'm Dr.
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:Maggie Yu, your guide with nearly
three decades of experience
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:in root cause medicine.
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:Here, we dive deeper into the root
causes of chronic disease through
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:interviews, case studies, and trainings.
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:Hey everybody, welcome to
today's interview with Pam.
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:Pam is a teacher educator who, uh,
has been struggling with Ray nodes,
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:which a lot of you don't even know.
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:It's autoimmune, and your doctors
also don't know this, and it evolved
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:and turned into rheumatoid arthritis,
and she was really concerned about
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:this having a severe impact upon her
ability to work out and have healthy
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:relationships with people around her.
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:With her severity of her symptoms and
she struggled massively with food.
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:Okay.
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:And food clarity.
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:And she was fighting her rheumatologist
who felt like food made no difference.
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:I'm Meg, U M D, functional and Holistic
Medicine and owner of Transform,
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:and we have an online program called
Transform Autoimmune Disease Naturally.
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:And we also have a hormone balancing
program called My Hormone Masterclass.
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:To learn more, join our Facebook group,
transform autoimmune Disease Naturally,
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:or you can go to dr maggie u.com, uh,
to learn more about us in our programs.
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or Instagram right now, make
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:I hope you enjoy this interview, and
this is Pam and this is her journey.
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:To her RA and Reno's turnaround.
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:Alright, Pam, let's introduce yourself.
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:Hi, uh, my name is Pam.
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:Um, I was of a few years ago
diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
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:Well, it started with the renos.
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:Um, I noticed there was some circulation
issues, um, and then probably . Within
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:a year or so, I started developing
swelling and inflammation and joint pain.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:Um, Most of it started in my hands
and then slowly moved to other joints.
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:You know, a lot of people, Pam, don't know
that Ray nodes is actually autoimmune.
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:And if we even describe what Ray
nodes is, it's actually extreme
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:pain in tips of the fingers or toes.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:and your to fingers and tips and toes
may even turn blue or pale white.
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:And it's extremely painful.
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:It's made a lot worse by cold,
obviously, but can happen at any time.
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:And that is autoimmune.
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:And yet a lot of doctors
don't even know that.
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:And to me it sounds like this preceded
your actual rheumatoid arthritis
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:diagnosis by quite a bit of time.
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:Right.
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:How severe was your rain notes?
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:It's worse, obviously
in the colder months.
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:Um, anything will trigger it.
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:That's cold.
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:Um, so severe.
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:And then what about joint pain?
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:At what level would you say your joint
pain has been prior to this program?
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:Some days a 10.
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:Um, it would come and go
depending on the day, depending
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:on what I was doing sometimes.
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:Um, , but there were days that I
couldn't move, I would just be in tears
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:because I just couldn't move my hands.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:, um, you know, some days were
better than others, but it got
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:to the point where it was bad.
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:Have you been able to work while trying
to deal with these severe symptoms?
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:I have.
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:Um, it's been difficult.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:, um, I'm a teacher, so writing
on the board, erasing the board.
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:right.
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:Pulling the marker off of the,
or the cap off the marker.
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:Um, not easy.
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:What were some of the other symptoms
that you dealt with that you felt
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:Um, fatigue.
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:The fatigue was some days just unbearable.
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:I'd come home from work.
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:I mean, I have full days, I have busy
days, so I just feel like I was just
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:running myself ragged when I didn't
really feel like I was doing that
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:much, but I was just constantly going.
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:But the minute I would stop, I would
just crash and there was no, you know,
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:I'd be in bed early and, I mean, I'd
go to bed early anyway, but there
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:Watch the evening news . You know,
you know, when you're dealing with
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:a lot of those symptoms, a lot of
people don't think about immunity
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:as having all these different
targets and affecting everything.
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:Not just your fingertips, not
just your joints, but really
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:overall sense of fatigue.
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:How did it impact upon your mental health
and your general sense of identity?
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:It, it was almost like . Demoralizing
because I've always been an active
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:person to start to feel like there
were things I just couldn't do
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:because I didn't have the energy.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:, um, things that I'd have to cut back on
because I just, I just couldn't do them.
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:And I had no idea that at the time
that it was connected to that mm-hmm.
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:Um, and of course then that starts
causing other, you know, you start
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:to worry about other things and.
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:You know, your mind starts going
into places where you're like, what?
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:What is happening?
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:And not even understanding
that it was connected.
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:I also heard the boyfriend said there
was a little bit of irritability,
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:Um, I, as I started to notice when it
would happen at certain times of the
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:month, pretty regularly , um, I knew
. that it was connected to my cycle.
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:He didn't, 'cause he had no idea what
was going on, but he knew it was just
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:random acts of violence to him, . Exactly.
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:It was what, what's wrong with you today?
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:Is this worth the fight?
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:What is going on?
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:And he just, he knew that things were
starting to, but he didn't, he, he had
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:no clue why, like to him, he wasn't
seeing what I was going through.
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:So you're just two months in here.
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:And my question is, where are
you now with these symptoms?
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:Almost non-existent . Um, my pain has
improved immensely, and once I started
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:realizing specifically where the pain
was coming from, what was causing
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:it, within a matter of days, you had
several years, or at least a year of
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:severe, like almost 10 outta 10 pain.
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:You said within days is almost nothing.
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:How is that possible?
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:I found out what was causing my problems.
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:I addressed the problem.
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:. What the hell was causing your problems?
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:Just in inquiry, you guys wanna know?
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:There was a couple of things.
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:Um, hormone imbalances were definitely one
of them that hell yes, we working towards.
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:Um, a big one was some of my foods.
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:. Um, I've always had a suspicion, I
couldn't tell exactly what it was because
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:I don't eat one thing, so . To figure
out the variables was very difficult.
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:, I had some suspicions based on
things I was commonly eating.
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:But once I found out
Yep, that's what it is.
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:How did you find out?
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:People wanna know everybody's
on the elimination diet?
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:Hell, . How did you find out?
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:Uh, went through the food mapping
process, um, which seemed to be quite
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:simple, . Um, and I was just amazed.
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:Like, like I said, I had suspicions,
but I had no way of knowing.
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:Nobody would . Talk to me about it.
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:If I'd ask, I'd mentioned it to my
rheumatologist, like, I know there's
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:an issue with my food and I, you
know, no, there's no connection.
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:There's no connection.
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:Where are you with, um, the
irritability, the fatigue?
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:That's a slower process, but
it's definitely improved.
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:My boyfriend has noticed . Um, he told me,
he said, I don't know what you're taking.
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:I don't know what you're
doing, but keep doing it.
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noticed a difference in my
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:It's refreshing to know that . It's a
pretty simple process and a simple fix.
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:It doesn't have to be like this wild
dolled land of the west, which is
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:like, I feel like in conventional
medicine, all you do is they talk
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:about medication or procedures, right?
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:What I love is to bring the
medical science into this
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:and say, here's your data.
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:Here's the clarity of how you use
each of these natural tools based
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:on your data, and it's not hard
once you understand the system.
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:, you are like simple.
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:Yes, simple.
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:Not really , right?
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:But you gotta learn the system
and then it becomes simple, right?
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:I'm, I'm not a doctor, but I'm trained
in biology, so I understand like
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:there's a cause and effect to a lot
of things and there has to be some
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:type of a reasoning behind things.
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:It's that things don't
just spontaneously happen.
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:So what you just said defies 99%
of how conventional doctors are
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:trained because your rheumatologist
just told you that food has nothing
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:to do with your pain or symptoms.
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:Question.
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:Um, what's your favorite part
of working with me and my team?
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:I love the community.
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:Mm.
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:Um, it's not just one . Person
trying to figure out one thing.
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:Um, you get to work with a whole
bunch of other people that are
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:going through similar things.
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issues that you don't think apply to
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:you, but realize, oh, hey, that, that
could be my problem too, or, yeah, I had
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:that question and didn't think about it.
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:Just the interaction with
people, the positive community.
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:That, to me was a huge
part that was beneficial.
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:What was in the program itself?
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:You said there's a lot of different
things that really worked.
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:What do you think was your biggest
medical aha where you're like,
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:The food mapping was
a game changer for me.
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:Um, that to me, like I said, it's,
it's just one of those things that
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:I knew was an issue and I had no way
of knowing how to even address it.
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:So like that was huge for me.
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:Why did you almost not join the program?
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:Honestly, I knew it was a time commitment.
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:Um, a lot of people that I'd seen go
through it, you know, they said, well,
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:there's homework every week and there's
weekly meetings, and, you know, that
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:made me nervous just because it was just
that hesitation of, can I really do this?
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:Is it something I can
really make an effort?
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:I, I know I needed to, I knew that
in the back of my mind, but there was
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:just that hesitation of . You know,
how big of a commitment is this?
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and hard as you thought to
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:It got to the point that once I
got invested in it, and once I
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:It, it kind of almost consumed me in a
way where it's like, okay, what's my next
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:piece of information I need to address?
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:What's my next, next thing I gotta do?
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:Well, it's kinda like, who the
hell doesn't wanna feel better in
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days of knowing your food, mapping
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:data, your joint pain went away?
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:Like it's almost like, what else is next?
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:It got to the point where I, I
wanted more because it was okay.
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:I know.
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:All right, I got that information.
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:I understand that.
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:And, and I wanted to do more and
it kept . It became something
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having to make it a commitment.
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:I love that.
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:What is something you learned about you
during this process that surprised you?
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:I think the mindset piece,
which was a big part.
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everybody has their own critic.
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in any way, but I started realizing that.
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:It's really easy to have a
negative mindset about Yeah.
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:Anything.
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:And that can totally spiral and you
don't even realize what it's doing.
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:You know, I tell this story, Pam,
where I said, um, one of the things
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:like, I think about like how focus
is power and also the language you
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:to describe a talk actually
has a lot of power, right?
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:I would wake up and each
morning I would say F M L.
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:Which is, you know, my life.
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is a very negative mindset.
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:I'm also using words
that's cursing myself.
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:If you think about that
in my life, and then what?
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first thought, last thought.
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:And then think about what I was
manifesting more and more of.
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:So what you're saying is changing how you
think really manifests different results.
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:And I, that was something that I, I mean,
you know, that, you know, stay positive.
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:You know, you hear those things all the
time and, but you never really understand.
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you really address it.
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I call your ass on it.
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:People in your pod will call
your ass on it and our mindset
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:coach will call your ass on it.
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:Another question I have is, what
is something that you can do
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:I have always been somebody who works out.
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:Um, and as my rheumatoid arthritis
got worse, it got to the point
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:A five pound weight.
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35 pound weights like nothing.
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would pick on me, call me Helga,
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could not do the simplest of things
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it got to the point where I'm trying to
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point where I almost gave up.
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get back into things and I have
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things, . Um, I'm still working on it.
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strength back, but, um, I.
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that's something that's part of my day.
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things that that's my time.
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that was almost taken away from
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feel like you were a healthy,
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:vibrant person in spac.
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worried being a busy professional,
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able to commit to this program, and you
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back, like right now, who would
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:Everybody . Um, I, I look at this and
I, I see friends that I have that have
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disease, but symptoms of something
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have to know this information.
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because your problem will go away.
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for autoimmune disorders.
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I just, there's so many things to
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things that we just brush off and think.
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things started for me.
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turning white, whatever.
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behind it that we don't realize
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health and our own mental health,
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relationships with maybe the top
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:What do you think is one positive or
fun change that has happened because
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because Im able to communicate better
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I can say to him, You know,
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can work through this.
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:My mother . I would
put into that category.
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about my ailments, about what's going on.
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know, she's somebody that I can
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the things that I'm addressing.
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know, I talk about the food and, well,
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figure out the food there and, and it's
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my food mapping results were and she
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was, she saw what I had.
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sure you can't have that?
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like the data's really powerful.
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able to talk to her and tell her those
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I'm seeing, she's gonna understand
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self-trust and self-confidence as we
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one of the things I love is teaching,
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program where I'm actually teaching you
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is false negatives.
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with other people around you?
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but it's also incredibly validating
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and your confidence is infectious.
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:If someone was hesitating to even
click the button to watch the
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:our five pillars training, what
would you say to them right now?
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the button to just watch our training.
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have nothing to lose.
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that I looked at, that . I
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about, I know this is true because,
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you know, a lot of people are hesitant
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background, you know the background,
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of interviews with people who've
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:I mean, how many, how many programs
or how many doctors have over a
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:hundred videos of people talking
about their own experience with it?
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ago and now you are on a one , right?
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:Well, Pam, thank you
so much for your time.
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:This was an incredible share and
I'm really happy for your results.
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:Boy, that was a crazy good interview
from Pam and there were a couple
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pointed out, which is she's somebody
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sciences, and she said that she
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and results that we were talking.
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:I am an MD after all with autoimmune
disease, but she said that the
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her and her family was knowing the
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her food mapping and understanding
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food mapping, and that is
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