What if the illnesses you were told would define your life could actually be reversed? In this conversation, Dr. Fab Mancini sits down with Carrie Drinkwine to explore her powerful journey from struggling with chronic illness to becoming a leader in regenerative and integrative healthcare. Carrie opens up about her childhood health struggles, her shocking diagnoses in early adulthood, and the turning point that led her to reject conventional limits and embrace natural healing. Together, they uncover the principles of reversing chronic disease, the body’s innate ability to heal, and how Carrie now trains providers and empowers patients to reclaim their health.

Highlights:

02:29 – Carrie’s Healing Journey: How she reversed lupus, Hashimoto’s, fibromyalgia, and infertility through natural protocols.

07:56 – First Steps to Natural Healing: The role of diet changes and checking kidney filtration with a simple urine test.

14:35 – Debunking Autoimmune Myths: Why symptoms aren’t the enemy and how Carrie reframes the idea of the body “attacking itself.”

23:49 – Power of Functional Labs: Using mineral and heavy metal panels to uncover root causes and measure real progress.

27:52 – Toxicity and Chronic Disease: The impact of mold, heavy metals, microplastics, and VOCs—and practical detox strategies.

38:37 – Raising Healthier Kids: Tips for parents on nutrition, questioning mainstream narratives, and modeling healthy habits.

About the Guest:

Carrie Drinkwine is the founder of the Institute of Regenerative Health and Wise Wellness Clinic, as well as a highly sought-after Success and Freedom Coach. Her journey began when she reversed three chronic autoimmune conditions and overcame unexplained infertility through the power of regenerative detoxification and mindset work. That transformation revealed a profound truth she now shares with the world: the body has the innate power to heal and regenerate when given the right tools and guidance.

Through her Institute, Carrie trains and certifies accredited regenerative health practitioners, equipping them to address the root causes of illness while building thriving, purpose-driven careers in wellness. Her graduates don’t just transform lives—they also create sustainable online businesses that expand their reach and impact.

As a Success and Freedom Coach, Carrie mentors women to unlock radical wealth while staying fully aligned with their passions and purpose. She believes true abundance is both energetic and practical, guiding her clients to break generational patterns, clear blocks, and embody the vibrational frequency of health, wealth, and freedom.

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One thing I always say is don't be dazzled by the diagnosis. Just do the dang detox, right? And that's because any symptom that you're having is an example of a system that's out of balance. So when we understand the body, then we understand what the body is saying.

Dr. Fab Mancini: Hi everyone. This is Dr Fab Mancini and I'm super excited that you have joined me this time, because this lady has really influenced our lives in so many ways. I've been in the healthcare space for 38 years, as you know, and most of my mission in life is the improvement of the health of humanity, and I have chosen not to go the traditional medical way which I was planning on to in becoming a doctor, a medical doctor and a neurosurgeon, and I chose the world of natural health sciences. And I chose to become a doctor of chiropractic, and then later an acupuncturist, nutritionist, energy medicine expert and many others, and in this space, the paradigm that we live in is so different, but it's full of opportunity and it's full of hope, especially when it comes to reversing chronic disease. So Carrie, drink wine, you have been an inspiration to carry to Karen and I for so many years, you have dedicated your life to bring the awareness of this world of not only regenerative and integrative care, but more importantly, for individuals to recognize. What I've always been saying is that the body has the ability to heal. The body has all the mechanisms and the systems there. We just gotta know what to do and how to trigger them properly, especially approaching it from a natural perspective first and then maybe considering something else, if necessary. So thank you for joining us again.

Yes, thank you so much for having me. It's an honor.

Dr. Fab Mancini: So one of the things that I wanted to ask you, Kerry, is tell us a little bit about your journey, because somebody like you that have not only helped 1000s of patients, you have trained those providers to be able to follow protocols that you have figured out over the years that are actually supporting and helping people when the medical establishment is saying there's nothing else we can do for you. So tell me a little bit. Where did that journey begin and and what? What is it that drives your passion every single day?

Big one. So my journey, I would see it began. You know, as a young girl, I was a sick kid, and I had multiple surgeries. As a child, I was on lots of antibiotics and a lot of medical intervention, and I always knew that it wasn't normal, or that this wasn't health. And so that started my curiosity at a young age, and when I graduated high school, I went into college thinking I was going to be a dietitian to really help people in nutrition, because I knew that nutrition was the way to health, and I quickly realized that that wasn't the industry of health and that that wasn't healing and but regardless, I went through college, did all of that work in dietetics, and then I was diagnosed with early onset lupus, Hashimoto, fibromyalgia and adrenal fatigue, as well as unexplained infertility when I was 30 years old. And so it was really in that moment that, you know, I had this moment of complete disbelief. Like, how does this happen? And I remember asking my doctor that, how does this happen? Like, how do you just develop all these diseases out of nowhere? And I remember her saying, well, we don't know, but if you just take these medications, you'll live a relatively normal, but shorter lifespan. And, you know, like, happy Tuesday day. And I remember kind of sitting in my car with, like, the feeling of shock and sadness, but then I just had this thing come over me, of like, No, this is not going to be the true doctor for me. I'm going to reverse this. And I remember thinking, if this can happen, something shifted in my body and I can unwind it. I don't know how. I didn't even know where to begin, but I just trusted that the right people would be laid out in my path. And so I started working with naturopathy, I worked with endocrinology, I worked with functional medicine doctors, I worked with women's health hormone specialists. And it really wasn't until I kind of curated and found the work of regenerative health and regenerative detox

that I was able to heal myself. And so actually, following a specific protocol in about five and a half months time of some pretty disciplined work, I reversed all three chronic autoimmune conditions, and since that day, I've been so it's I'm 42 now. So 12 years ago, I was diagnosed with this? I reversed it in five and a half months, and within a year and a half of that date, I had a baby. So I've had two babies since that day. So reversed infertility, reversed lupus, reversed non curable, everything. And that really set up my passion. I remember thinking, Okay, why doesn't everybody know this? Like. It's actually, you know, our bodies are brilliant and they're designed to heal themselves, but they're just in the wrong environment. And so when we change the terrain, we change the way our cells behave. And so I started studying as much as I could in alternative medicine and regenerative detoxification, herbalism, microbial studying the microbiome, microbiology, studying soil health, and I started getting deep into energy healing and understanding frequency medicine and how important our emotions are. And so it was about 10 years ago that I opened this clinic that I'm sitting in today, wise wellness. And it was a long road, and I served and had the privilege of actually helping over 10,000 people in this in the last decade, 10,000 appointments we've had in the last 10 years, and just help people reverse chronic conditions naturally. So that's been my passion, my driving force. And in the pandemic, my eyes were really opened very wide, and my clinic was deemed non essential. And I remember being on, you know, several month waiting lists people with very serious conditions, and I'm thinking, Okay, how is McDonald's in the liquor store open? But my clinic is not right, like and it was such a blessing that that happened, because it was in that moment that I realized my work had to live beyond me, and that other people needed to understand this work and know

how to do it, and I've been, you know, so blessed to be given this Wisdom. And so I opened the Institute of Regenerative health and started training and certifying practitioners globally and helping doctors like you, acupuncturists, chiropractors go deeper with their patients so that they can actually get them through healing

Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, you know, and I appreciate you sharing that, because I've always felt that when we experience something ourselves, is so much easier to be able to communicate it to others. For More importantly, have the level of certainty that can bring hope, that can bring strength to individuals that are struggling, where they feel their diagnosis is a life sentence. So let's start from the beginning. There may be people here that maybe never heard of regenerative medicine before, people that don't understand even how is it possible to reverse these conditions that most people that they know have to struggle. They have to live with them for the rest of their lives. What's the first step that somebody can take to begin to enter this world of natural health sciences, this world of recognizing how incredible our bodies really are when it comes to healing, and especially if we can support that natural process with holistic and natural means. So what's the first step that you like to begin with a patient so they can understand what it is that this journey that they're about to embark is all about?

Yeah, very good question. So the first thing I like to help with small changes is first empowering dietary change, because you'll see immediate change in the body. You know what you eat matters. It's, you know, even, even with when it comes to exercise and athletic performance, it's 70% what you eat and 30% where you do so. The moment you start to change your diet, you start to see the body healing itself. And I think the best The first step is, is before I even try to get someone to understand and is like, stop. Start small, right? Start by changing your breakfast to living food, things that are completely alive. So one thing that I do every morning is I eat fruit. And against popular belief, a lot of people eat fruit is sugar. And so I'm gonna, I can teach on all that stuff on fruit is, is Earth's nectar. It's literally the most vibrant, highest angstrom of energy food on the planet. It cleans your cells. It brings in phytonutrients, antioxidants, minerals, enzymes. It's alive, and so are we. And so we need to eat living components. That's the main first thing is, eat more living food. But one thing I can tell you to start your journey in understanding the human body is I like to think of. You know, your body is brilliantly designed. Every cell, every tissue, is designed to detoxify and repair itself. When that stops happening, the reason it stops happening is because of pollution. It's overwhelmed. It's just like, think of when you're so tired and you haven't had any sleep for a few days we've been traveling, and then somebody's like, I want you to go run a marathon. There's no way that's going to happen. You don't have the energy, right? So that's really all dis ease, as I call it. Is, is lack of energy, lack of flow in the body, and lack of electricity. So we have to understand, we have to light up our bodies electrically. We are electric beings, and so when we don't have enough energy at the cellular level, the cells stop being

able to detoxify themselves. They stop being able to activate the NRF two pathway and repair at the body. And the other things are is like when we are constantly adding right say, we're we're just constantly stacking in maybe. Eat toxic supplements. Even a lot of supplements are quite toxic for us. And, you know, eating bad foods and in all these things you think of like a bath. This is how I think about the body. Your blood is your kitchen. It's what you eat. It's everything, everything, single thing you eat is feeding the liquid nectar of Your blood, and that's the results your tissues will only be as healthy as your blood is. So that's number one. Number two is the lymphatic system. Is the bathroom of the body. So it's the sewer system. We all know we flush the toilet at home, same thing in the body, we have to flush the toilet your drains, or your kidneys, are your primary drain. So the kidneys will actually filter out all lymphatic and cellular waste, so when you eat, drink, breathe and put on your skin, all comes into the lymph system. The lymph system brings that to the lymph nodes, lymph vessels, and then excretes the waste out to the kidneys into the urine. So the first thing I tell people to do is check their urine. Actually, is your urine cloudy or is it clear? And against popular belief, doctors believe your urine should be clear, but your urine should actually be consistently, at least a little bit cloudy. That means what's coming in is also coming out, excess sediment, urea, nitrogen, excess proteins, any lymphatic or acid waste, we should be filtering that out. And when that drain is clogged, that's when we start to see the bathwater back up, right? Like, think of bath water getting dirty. You know, you put your kids in the bath and they're full of mud, the bath water is dirty. You need to drain that drain, clean out the tub and put in your bath water. The lymph is exactly the same. So if the kidney drain is closed, you're going

to have systemic backup. So you have waste backing up, then the liver gets overwhelmed. So we see the liver, the kidneys, the lungs, in the skin and in the colon. So if you don't move your bowels every day and your kidneys aren't filtering, these two primary drains are going to cause a systemic backup. So I like to put the power into the hands of the people and tell them, Okay, check your urine. Are you filtering? If you're not filtering? Number one, that gives you a lot of answers about your lymphatic system and your health. So the first thing we do is get your kidneys filtering, get the balls open, and then the second thing we're going to do is start cleaning up the internal terrain with your diet and bringing an electrical current into the body. And surprisingly, our foods are what bring in the current into the body. So if we have 100% dead foods that are in boxes, right, those foods don't have any electrical charge them, they don't have living minerals, they don't have enzymes. So those are some of the basics that I can say to start with is understanding our body is not just, you know, a garbage disposal. We are actually an electrical machine that requires a constant current moving through it.

Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, you know, it's interesting because I love the way you expressed it and you explained it. Because you're such a good educator. One of the things that I wanted to ask you was, you know, if you're an individual that come to you because you're dealing with some very serious issues or conditions that traditional medicine doesn't have. Answer. Many times, people end up with you as a last resort, even though we're seeing more and more people now being proactive, and they're trying to seek this, this paradigm of healthcare in a way that is more early on with the root cause and trying to identify what that is, rather than just to manage the disease process or the symptoms later on. But you also have maybe medical doctors out there that you are training in this process. Now they were trained traditionally, so they were just being told, this is the symptoms. You give it a diagnosis, and then this is the treatment, which is typically a pharmaceutical as far as what our healthcare system is today. So in that regard, what are someone let's just talk about two or three potential myths that you have figured it out, that most people out there because they've been conditioned on the traditional healthcare system that they are the most surprised to find out one that once they start care with you, once they implement your protocols and your teachings as a doctor with their patients, what are two of the three things that they all of the sudden realize that what they were taught was actually not true.

Yeah, this is a good one. I would say we've had a ton of doctors take our program, doctors, nurses, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and they come here because they feel like they've hit a ceiling with their with their clients, with their patients. And truly, I believe that we all enter this field to help and to serve. So the main frustration, or myth that gets broken for for doctors is that symptoms are bad and that they should be suppressed as quickly as possible. That's number one. People like, oh, any symptom is bad. This is your body's communication signal is misfiring, but it's actually not. Communication signals are not our enemy. Obviously, if you listen to your body's whisper, you won't have to hear it scream. So this is regenerative health teaches us to listen to these symptoms and actually support the root cause. So an example would be, say you're having like, indigestion or something, right? And the doctor would say to take Pepto Bismol, right? Okay, that is to not root cause, right? We're taking a symptom. We're prescribing a pharmaceutical for it, and the goal is not to suppress the symptom. The symptom is coming up for a reason, and most of acid reflux is actually not from low acid stomach, or is actually not from high acid stomach. It's from low acid, and it's also from a bacterial overgrowth most of the time. So something like H Pylori, the bacteria will start to release gasses consistently. So So I think that's one of the biggest things. It's like, we're not supposed to mask these symptoms. We're supposed to understand what is the symptom telling us, and how do we actually heal the gastric glands and rebalance the gut microbiome. So that would be the difference between, like Western medicine and regenerative health. And then we have this middle road, which is like naturopathy, whereas they might give you a very organic, healthy hydrochloric acid. But that's also not root cause. Like I shouldn't have to take

hydrochloric acid every day. I should be able to repair the mucous membrane and the gastric lining of my gut and repair my gastric glands. So that's myth. Number one is symptoms are bad and they should be suppressed. And I would say number two is that autoimmune is is this belief that your body is attacking itself, and that's also completely wrong, so the body never attacks itself. Sometimes we have molecular mimicry with pathogens, which means, like, for example, there's a pathogen that can mimic the thyroid cells, and so the body, the idea is that the body is attacking the thyroid and it can't figure out what's the thyroid cells and what's the pathogen. That's actually not really true. It the environment is full of pathogens and toxins. Therefore the body is attacking the environment. It's saying this does not belong. This does not belong. So no matter what, if we defungal, de worm, and get rid of heavy metals, then the body stops the attack, because the pathogen isn't present anymore. So it's this belief that our body just gets confused and starts attacking itself. And then we start to have this victim mentality. And I remember this mentality. I remember being like, Why does my body suck? I used to say that, like, Why does my body suck? Why does everybody else can eat McDonald's? And I'm, I'm cycling and doing yoga and eating organic, and I have autoimmune right? And it was that victim mentality of if believing that my body had made this error, and not understanding that my stress was too high, that I wasn't processing emotions, that I needed to do a parasite cleanse, because I had had so many antibiotics as a little girl, and as soon as I did that work and cleansed out parasites and heavy metals, all of my autobio reversed everything. So I think that that those are the biggest myths, that symptoms are bad and disease is not curable. Autoimmune is your body attacking itself. Those three are on,

Dr. Fab Mancini: well, let's talk a little bit about let's get a little geeky with some science. And I want to talk about a mitochondria, because you talk about it very well. It's the power plan of the sale. Tell me a little bit about how is it that you teach about the importance of mitochondria from going from survival, which is what the state most people come to you into, primarily performance, right? Because right now a lot of this cell healing happens at that level of cellular level, and most people can see that because they're focused primarily in their physical body. When they see in a mirror, they're focused on their particular symptoms. And many times, like you said, they think the symptoms are bad. Instead, they're just the alarm system of the body. It's a wake up call. It's not meant to be a punishment. It's meant to be a reminder. So tell me a little bit about what's the role of mitochondria, in your opinion, in this regenerative process?

Yeah, I love this question. Mitochondria are so much deeper than we understand, and there's a lot of light involvement as well, biophotonic light and mitochondria enzymes, coenzymes, all important part. So I'm going to dive into the basics first. But what I would say is mitochondria are these tiny, purple, little bacteria essentially in every single one of our cells. And a lot of people don't realize that mitochondria are bacteria, but these are the power plant of our cell, and everything you feel in your body is run by this mitochondria the moment you feel low energy, that means you're already at a mitochondrial deficit. So you know, most people, like you said, they come to me as a last resort. They come to me in survival. They come to me and like I've tried everything. And the thing that our saying is charge the cell, clean the cell, and repair the communication. Those are the three pillars. Dollars. So the mitochondria needs to be charged essentially. So mitochondria not only make ATP, they take glucose plus oxygen, and that creates ATP as adenosine triphosphate. That's the most basic explanation of it, but in order for the body to have, say, pure energy, like if we eat a fruit or a vegetable, that is the most bioavailable pure glucose energy right out of the gate is paired with oxygen we get quick ATP. So this is very easy energy for the body. When we eat something really dense, like maybe processed food or whatever, the body has to work really, really hard to make any energy out of this. It actually has to start to secrete cortisol from the adrenal glands in order to convert this complex starch down into usable glucose. The pancreas is secreting excess insulin and lots of excess enzymes in order to break this food down into usable nutrition. So I like to think of your mitochondria and your body as a bank account. You're either constantly withdrawing from the bank account or you're adding right? So if the food you ate takes more

energy to digest than the energy it receives from it, you're always in a deficit, and so the goal is to get out of that deficit, but taking ATP a bit deeper, the mitochondria don't just make ATP. They actually also emit and receive biophotonic light. These are tiny packets of light, essentially the body. And these photons are what coordinate communication between the cells. They guide and repair all of the regenerative process. So if you have a poor light environment internally, you know, think about mold. Where does mold grow? Damp, dark spaces. It's the same in the body. If we don't have enough light internally, we have too much blue light, too much artificial light, not enough sunlight. This disrupts our cell signaling, and so we have to be really intentional about understanding mitochondria. They don't just need glucose, fructose and oxygen. They also need light and they need enzymes, then they need minerals. Like all of these things are precursors to mitochondria actually being able to carry out ATP in the body. So it's like we can be looking at the mitochondria might be deficient. We think it's all food, food, food, but there's so many other components. We are actually light microorganisms of the cellular level.

Dr. Fab Mancini: You know working with you intimately, with our bodies and Karen and Charlie, one of the things that we learned is that the traditional healthcare system is stuck in labs, whether it's blood, urine, maybe it's sometimes they do stool, but these are labs that are very basic. And the world of regenerative medicine came in, and all of the sort of we have now, what we call functional labs, and you have been a very big proponent that in order to find the root cause of the problem right, in order to figure out what could be happening in your body, even before the symptoms show up, even before the disease process even begins, where somebody can diagnose it. Let's talk a little bit about what is the importance of functional labs, in your opinion, that people need to understand that this is essential to get to the root cause. And what could be maybe two or three that you can mention now that you feel are essential for most people to really get a baseline as to where they are when it comes to their health.

Yeah, so I love this question. I one thing I always say is, don't be dazzled by the diagnosis. Just do the dang detox right? And that's because any symptom that you're having is an example of a system that's out of balance. So you know, when we understand the body, then we understand what the body is saying. The blood is helpful, but it's actually a very latent response, essentially. So when you are seeing imbalance in your blood, it's actually means that the lymph has lost control. It means that the lymph, because the lymph is the bathroom, it's supposed to keep all antibodies, pathogens, things out of the blood. The liver is what's filtering the blood. So the moment that we're seeing this in the blood, it's been there a long time. So I kind of go based on symptoms first, and really take that approach of understanding that before you're going to see a biochemical imbalance there, that means there's actually an electrical deficiency First, there's a demineralization process that's happened in the body that is causing that biochemical breakdown. So the way that I like to use Labs is just as markers of improvement, right? So instead of, like, focusing, oh, I have this, or I'm one, first thing is, never accept a diagnosis. It's not yours, right? That's a command over your body. That's the mindset thing. But if you get labs, you know, I think some of that, the helpful labs that, that I would say is, like a comprehensive mineral and heavy metal panel would be more helpful. Than anything, right? Can you get a comprehensive mineral panel show? Where are you? Mineral deficient, copper deficient, iron deficient. And this doesn't mean go take over the counter iron, because if you're iron deficient, you most likely have a parasite overload, because parasites actually eat up iron. And the body's natural process to starving out parasites is to do something called nutrient cycling, right? She pulls iron out of the blood, stores it

in the liver. So oftentimes, people will say, my my ferritin source are fine, but my iron is really though, yes, you have a parasite overload the body's doing what it's supposed to do. So when we feed the body iron, we get into more problems. We actually overload the parasites. So we start feeding we start feeding the parasites. So comprehensive mineral and heavy metal panel would be very helpful. And then you know you could do a comprehensive gut and microbiome panel to see if you're lacking that biodiversity. The others that I generally do ask women to get is a full thyroid and adrenal panel, including reverse t3 and cortisol rhythm and these this is because you might be in a fight or flight state, and if you're in sympathetic and fight or flight, 24/7, I need to get you into parasympathetic for you to heal at all. So if you do Bloods, those are the first ones that I do is what, what is the level of demineralization that's happened inside the body? What is the level of cortisol? How depleted is the thyroid? Right? So those can be very helpful to see before and afters. But you know, just general vitamin panels all those things, is not always as useful as we think. So that's my answer. Is, usually the toxicity is what's creating the deficiency. So when we address the toxicity in the terrain and we start bringing in the right nutrients, everything balances.

Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, let's talk briefly about that, because right now we're seeing a lot of news, and I've been doing a lot of segments lately on toxicity in the environment, in the water, pretty much in your home we have mold, metals, microplastics have become really big. So let's talk a little bit about briefly, why is it important that we understand number one, and maybe what are some of the key toxes that you're seeing that are the most common and prevalent in many of the conditions that people are showing up with right now? But also, why is it that it is important for us to recognize, and I know you alluded to in the beginning, but why must we address toxicity in our bodies at this time in order to really have that health potential that we all deserve?

Yeah, this is, you know, the three main causes of disease, or disease, as I call it, is. Number one is actually toxicity. Number two is acidosis, the uterine getting too acidic. And then number three is genetic involvement. So it's actually the last and so we we believe that in western medicine, it's like, Oh, these are your genetics. You know, when you go to the doctor, you fill out all the genetic history, the family history, and they say you're predisposed to XYZ. First of all, throw that mentality in the garbage, because epigenetics has proven that 95% of our cellular health is related to epigenetics, which means the environment that surrounds the cell. So if you were to receive a diagnosis and they said you have a 95% chance of living you'd be like, great, right? I mean, that's essentially the the relevance of our genetics. It's, it's just an imprint, right? So, you know, you might have an imprint, like, for example, the women in my family all had thyroid disease. So the imprint is the thyroid tends to be weak, whether there's a physical or an energetic reason for that. I also had hypothyroid Hashimoto. I did the detox work. Now I'm the only one of all the girls in my family that don't have a thyroid condition, right? So again, we see genetics not playing out when the environment changes. So that's really, really important to understand. But toxicity is the main reason for physical disease or imbalance. So mold and mycotoxins, like you mentioned, are huge. I think toxicity is a silent driver of chronic conditions that people just don't realize. You know, I was gonna, I was just about to do a reel on this, like, where my teenage girls, you know, they get up in the morning and they're washing their face. I'm like, get that face wash out. And they look at the back, there's 200 chemicals they're exposed to before they leave the door. And you're like, ah, you know, so toxicity is huge. We have, you know, chemicals in our shampoo,

our conditioner, our cleaning products, like all of these things, we need to start to clean up the home. I worked with patients that had lrose Damaris, which is a severe connective tissue disease, and they were, they were cleaners for their lifetime. You know, exposed to toxic chemicals, mold and mycotoxins are in almost 80% of homes. So really making sure that you're checking your home for mold and mycotoxins, these cross the broadband barrier and they disrupt the nervous system. They suppress immunity. Heavy metals, what I usually see is mercury, lead, aluminum, arsenic and cadmium. These are the most common that I see for high on people. Aluminum is usually the highest that i. See, and then Mercury be the second highest. These deeply interfere with the mitochondria the nervous system function, and they can trigger autoimmune responses inside the body, because the body needs them out to function. Microplastics are huge, and they're in everything. So easy switches like we use cleanomic plastic well, they're not plastic bags. They're biodegradable, made from plants. But you know, these microplastics are everywhere. They're in our food packaging, they're in our water, they're in our household dust. Even they leach into our endocrine system, and they are endocrine disrupting chemicals, they also damage our gut lining, and then we have to go the big, bad pesticides and herbicides like glyphosate, right? These not only disrupt the microbiome, but they actually tear holes in the gut lining, and so this increases our intestinal permeability. That means, instead of you having a strong boundary in your gut, your gut has become like a fine mesh strainer, and everything is just pouring through into what system, the bathroom, the lymph system, what organs have to clean that up, the kidneys in the liver, right? So that you get overwhelmed. And then the last one, I would say, is voc. It's follow organic compounds. So these can be in paints, furniture, cleaning

products, these deeply stressed the liver and the respiratory system. So I always tell parents, when you're buying new baby furniture, when you're about to bring a baby home, if you can buy organic please do if you can't, you need to buy it early. Let it air out for months. Bring in household plants that can actually, you know, fill it and runs and Snake plants clean the air, and they, they ride the air from these chemicals. So those are the most common chemicals, and toxicity is the main reason for overwhelm in the physical human body.

Dr. Fab Mancini: Let's talk a little bit about women's health, because we have a lot of women that are listening right now and watching this. In your opinion, I know that you are helping a lot of women be able to maximize their health potential. What are some of the things that you feel that is impacting Hormonal Health and also potentially metabolic health for most women today, what are some of the challenges that they're facing, and what is it that you wish every woman would know today to be able to regain that hope and not feel like they have to live in this miserable body for the rest of their life, especially pre menopause, post menopause and many of the challenges that they're expressing today?

Yeah, this is a big one that's near and dear to my heart, because it is very complex and very deep for women. And I will, I hate to say this when we were talking about the physical body, but primarily its emotions. So a big thing is that emotions are being processed a lot by women. We're sometimes trying to hold the house up, hold the job up, hold the kids up, keep the husband happy, you know. And it's just the role that we're in, and there's a lot of research around our emotions impact our physiology very, very prominently. So like, think of if you've ever gotten fired from a job or you had a breakup, you physically are ill, like you can't get off the couch. This is an exact example of how our emotions impact our biology. And so that's one thing is like women giving yourself permission to have a spa day. Okay? Like, let the husband take care of the kids or whatever. Take a spa day. Go go to a hotel for a day. Get a reboot once a month. These are really important things that we can sleep, rest, cry. That's one thing. The next is, you know, toxic overload and endocrine disrupting chemicals, like we talked about, can you address the home? What's going on in the shampoos, the conditioners, the cleaning products, the day to day. It's all accumulating inside the body, and that's what's causing the hormonal disarray. And so when we you know, women aren't meant to suffer. We aren't supposed to have these crazy, painful, heavy periods or these awful menopause experiences like, God didn't decide to punish us, right, for for being alive. It's, this is not normal. It's unfortunately, it's just common. So when we are actually in a healthy body, and I can speak to this personally, when I had autoimmune, my cycles were so painful and so heavy, and I couldn't go to the store for 20 minutes, and then that completely went away. Now I have no idea when my cycle is coming. It just shows up gently and it leaves and it leaves in a few days. And that's

how it should be. So reducing our toxic load, number one, balancing our minerals. This is huge. So minerals and electrolyte depletion is the precursor to hormone imbalance. So when there's a sodium, potassium, magnesium and trace mineral imbalance, these are what create the electrical charge that actually runs every single hormone signal. So without restoring these foundational nutrients, hormone therapy, HRT, supplements, all worthless, right? It's essentially like trying to run a high tech machine with a dead battery. So you have to address minerals and electrolytes primarily. And then the other thing I look at is chronic stress. Chronic stress, most women are living in a permanent survival mode. We're in a chronic stress chemistry, and that suppresses our reproductive hormone cycles, so it slows our metabolism down. It keeps the body in fat store. Storage mode for protection. So these things are all big things, so toxicity while we're eating and drinking, mineral depletion, chronic stress and emotions kind of govern the body. So if we can start addressing what am I putting in my body? Am I eating organic, whole living foods? Am I getting enough minerals and electrolytes? Can I clean up the toxic load in my environment and make sure I'm not getting in pesticides and endocrine disrupting chemicals, and then can I actually sleep at the right time of day? This is huge. So many people think eight hours of sleep is eight hours of sleep. It's absolutely not. We should be going to bed like nine to 10pm so that's actually the endocrine the endocrine sleep end of her in repair, and nervous system repair, the most important hours are between 10 and midnight. I know most women are in out of sleep during those hours. So then we start to see thyroid problems. We start to see hormone because that actual time where your body's supposed to be working on those hormones, you're awake, and so instead of in repair, you're in cortisol surge. So going to bed early and then

rising with the sun, like getting on your true circadian rhythm and going outside more go outside, get the morning sunlight in your eyes, ground with your bare feet, this is actually setting your circadian rhythm. You will start to see your hormones balance just by going to bed on time and going outside in the morning. So those are some of the things I would say for women.

Dr. Fab Mancini: I mean, it's brilliant, because you you really go in depth as to the awareness that we need to have, because that's what I think many times, like you mentioned, we're so busy taking care of everybody else, we forget to really take care of ourselves, and really, without you taking care of yourself, you're not going to have much to give to anybody else. But let's talk a little bit about raising kids today, especially in a healthy way. As parents, we know that's a big challenge. I mean, I've been doing lately a lot of segments on television and radio and podcasts regarding the new statistics that are showing one of the three teens actually have prediabetes. We know the obesity and the overweight problem is getting to over 82% of Americans now, according to recent studies, we know that chronic disease is present in over 40% of our children. So what tips would you give us as parents that will be great for us to consider as we're setting an environment to raise healthy children, as we are implementing also action steps to ensure that we are leading by example, so our children can model. But what would be some of the best parents advice that you will give us in order to prevent many of these things that we're seeing today, especially now that we know that the statistics on children are alarming, and many other people listening or watching this may be saying to themselves, that's my child right there. I need some help right now.

Yeah, I this is a near and dear topic. I'm a mother of five, so I absolutely love children, and I think there isn't a parent in the world that has a child with the intention to harm it, right? You know, we all mean well, and obviously when we know better, we do better. So I was a young mother of my first two I did everything that I thought was right, brought the kids to get their vaccines, got them on an antibiotic when they were sick, got the topical cream when they had a rash, right? I did everything wrong that I thought was right. So I would say number one is just start to question the narrative. Right? That's number one like question, ask questions, advocate for your child, because yet, doctors will tell you this is just the norm. This is just the schedule you do this or your kid's in danger, and we get into fear based decisions instead of educated based decisions. So I'm a person that says, Make whatever choice you feel is right for your health, but an educated choice is the right choice, right? So if you've educated yourself and you feel sound about going to get a vaccine fly, that's great, like, it's your choice. But do the education? First, empower yourself to do the education, and then understanding, like, like some of the stats you were saying, Dr fab, is, you know, they they say this is the first generation that our children are not expected to outlive their parents, which is absolutely, in my opinion, unacceptable, and it's our responsibility to take this on. So number one is know that everything you do is impacting your child, especially even before you have them. So you know, women are are looking at getting pregnant. I call this conscious conception. In preparation for this child for this life, three to six months prior, you should be really cleaning up your body, cleaning up your diet. In pregnancy, this is not the time to eat whatever you want. That's the worst time to eat whatever you want. They are finding over

250 carcinogenic chemicals in the umbilical cords of babies at birth. So this is the time to clean up your diet, to eat well, to go outside, to breathe, to sleep, to process your emotions. And I will say that our children are deeply impacted by our emotional our emotional states, the level of stress in the home home, and the types of food that are eating. So what I would say is educate your children, because, like my kids that are just turned five and seven a couple weeks ago, they know Mom Is this good for my body. Mom is this healthy, right? They ask these questions. They say, Well, why can't I eat that? Because my job as a mom is to keep you healthy and to keep you safe and to set you up for successful, long, beautiful life. And if I gave you this food, I would not be doing that, and so they understand. So I think education is empowerment, and that really creating that connection of instead of because I said so as a parent, is because I love you and because they care about you and your body. So one thing that we do with our kids is we always have fresh fruits. Is primary. Fresh fruits, fresh vegetables. Kids naturally love fruit. It's it's our primal food actually, you know? And if your kids have stopped liking fruit, it means their their gut bacteria has changed a lot, and so they're craving the byproduct of their bacteria. So if you can get more fruits and vegetables in your kids organic, otherwise you're eating pesticides, getting make sure they're drinking living water, spring water, and just helping them educate their bodies. And I put my kids on ion gut support, which is a great gut support from Dr Zach bush. I know you're nodding, but just helping their biodiversity, helping their gut microbiome, because that determines their immunity, it determines their digestion, it determines their emotional regulation. It also determines so much about their brain development, and one thing that a lot of parents don't know is the first

three years of life. So from conception to three years old, if there is a micronutrient deficiency during that time, you will develop cognitive and sometimes permanent developmental delay in children. So these are things that we have to take responsibility for as parents and I always say, model the lifestyle you want them to live. Walk your talk, right? You exercise, you meditate, you eat well, you process your emotions, you hug your husband in front of your kids, right? Like showing love, these are long term things that will really stay within our children. So to me, the bottom line is that every single choice we make, our children make, every toxin we choose, you know, they also choose. So it's like lead by example, but also always like, do your research. So we know cleaning up chemicals, we know supporting the gut, we know eating organic whole foods and all that stuff is great. But also, when it comes into when you get sick, are we running to get an antibiotic, right? An antibiotic actually means against life. So is it something that we could, you know, actually get rid of with an anti parasitic herb or, like nano silver, and I'll give a quick example. I just had a surgery in Peru and developed a near I almost died in Peru, developed a deadly bacteria that the the whole infectious disease came in. So there's nothing we can do for you write your will. And I was like, there's something I can do, right? So instead of IV antibiotics and all this stuff, I did a high load of anti parasitic herbs. I did zeolites. Zeolites are very powerful to clean up the internal environment. And I also did a high dose of nano silver, and I shield myself. And so I help parents all the time through ear infections now with some nano silver and antimicrobial herbs, and they skip the antibiotic. And I think that a lot of parents don't realize that every antibiotic we give our kid, we increase their risk of autoimmune so they I think Dr zechbush has a statistic of, if you've

had over three antibiotics in childhood, you have almost a 50% increase of autoimmune in your adulthood. So just education and curiosity and doing your best in the home is what I would say

Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, and I love that you say that, because to me, also like you, this is one of the most critical times in humanity's evolution, when this generation of children need our help more today than ever. And if we're going to be able to reverse and actually chase that for the future, we have to start today, and we have to make choices now you have developed some great educational processes and programs and courses briefly tell me a little bit about for the people that are listening and are hearing you and want to go deeper with you, and they want to maybe get trained, either as an individual or potentially many providers that are going to be watching this that would like to actually be trained in some of this information so they can help not only their families, but also their patients, their clients, their their loved ones. What are some of the things that people can engage with you right now?

Yeah, well, there's many paths that you can come in through. So if you you're sitting in the audience, you. Like, I just want to help my kids or I want to help myself. I have a lot of you know, my click is in person and online. So we can, you can work one on one with anybody, but I have a lot of DIY programs online. Like, you can go through a 90 day program, a 90 days to transform your terrain. Is one of my online programs. It's loaded with educational content, videos, recipes, meal plans, protocols, all of it. I have a 16 week longevity program online. But if you want to learn how to do this work, and a lot of people come through our program just to learn for themselves and their families, we have the Institute of Regenerative health. You can go to institute of regenerativehealth.com and on the homepage, you'll actually see all of these different pathways that I can actually pull it up for you, but you can become a certified regenerative health practitioner. We are globally accredited through the International practitioners of holistic medicine, and we are a licensed Career School, so we help people get the deepest level of education possible and build a really thriving practice. And we're not talking one on one clinic, brick and mortar practice. One of my passions was, I believe that the lack of wellness is how much we're working, how imbalanced we are, how much mom guilt we carry while we're at work, right? All of these things. So I actually developed a huge business model where I developed out 20 pre built 20 group programs that people get to sell as their own. So you can work with 3040, 50 women at a time on a zoom call, versus one patient at a time. So the Institute of Regenerative health, I'm not sure if I can share my screen, but I can just drop it in the chat here, see. So these are my little ones, the back of their heads, since we've birthed and reversed those chronic diseases. But this is the

institute. You can book a free discovery call if you have questions. We have a full program to build your career as well. And then this is kind of what we're all about. And then down here we have some do it yourself, pathways that you can look at as well. So it's in many programs, but yeah, our next program begins in October, we are not only online, so you're online, you can be anywhere in the world doing our programs, but the practitioner program is also live, guided by myself and my top coaches, so just tons of support

Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, and for those of you that are well, actually right now, I highly recommend it, because it is in depth. I mean, you can see that Carrie is a walk in library. I mean, she understands this subject matter better than most, and we were seeking some of the best practitioners that were helping us. Her name kept coming up as one of the top ones in the world, not just the nation. So please take a look and maybe consider that. Now to end in a fun note, Carrie, I want to ask you just some rapid questions. I don't want you to think too much. Just give me some rapid answers, and for those of you that are listening, pay attention. Okay, here are the questions. Are you ready? What is one test worth paying out of pocket? Four. How do you know one morning that is a non negotiable. I mean on what is thing that you do in the morning that is a non negotiable meditation? What is one food that you'll remove within the next 30 days? Chocolate? What is 110 minute protocol that changes your day?

10 minute protocol. I actually do a four minute workout. So I do a four minute workout with a quick meditation and then some Kundalini circles. Actually, I do this 10 minute cycle. So I love that you Effa.

Dr. Fab Mancini: Okay, the last one is, what is one belief that you feel, that people have about their bodies, that you want them to retire

Today, your body is not your enemy, it's your best friend.

Dr. Fab Mancini: I love it well. Carrie, thank you so much for joining us and doing this with session with us. And thank you also, not only what you do for us, but also what you do for so many out there, in helping them understand how beautiful and how powerful our bodies really are. And when you leverage some of these techniques and protocols that you have been teaching us during this session, all of the sudden you have one thing that happens automatically. You regain hope, you become empowered, and that is what's missing in healthcare today. We have to stop becoming victims of the philosophies and the beliefs of others. It doesn't matter what training they had, understand there's different trainings out there. You just have to find the one that fits you, the one that you resonate with and don't ever feel like you have to force. Especially we're living at a time right now in the United States where we are celebrating root cause disease. You know that we're trying to find what created them, that we're celebrating freedom of choice, where now, for the first time, you don't have to feel forced to make a decision that you don't feel comfortable, whether it's religious reasons or just personal reasons, your choices should be taken seriously because it's your body. And that's really the bottom line, and health should be your number one priority, because when you take care of your health, pretty much everything follows. So Carrie, thank you so much for having be with us. For those of you listening, I'm going to send you all these links, and I'm going to send you Carrie's bio and information. And please, if you do social media, follow her, because she has some of the most amazing content in Instagram and Facebook. And how would you like to one last thing you want to share with everybody?

Carrie, well, one I was going to say, we'll give a discount through you. So if anybody wants to do the programs, we'll get you a fab discount. I would say one thing is really know that you actually have sovereignty over your own body and your own life, and you're infinitely powerful. And if you struggle with even mindset depression, this is all coming from imbalance in the body. So one of my sayings is, let the body heal the mind, right? Let the body heal the mind. So when you work through the body, you start to open up everything in your life. You start to become more magnetic, more positive, more hopeful. So just, just start somewhere, right? Just start somewhere, little by little, if you can just start okay, this week I'm gonna get rid of cheese or eating so much dairy, and next week, I'm gonna get rid of processed foods and celebrate your wins along the way, start to be your best friend and your advocate instead of you know your enemy.

Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, thanks everybody for making the time. I hope this was valuable. Please share this. We're going to send you the video so you can listen to it again. Share with your loved ones, and most importantly, realize that your health is your choice, so make a good one if you can, God bless you, and I'll see you soon.