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I felt like I was just always sick in my childhood. I was always covered in, like, rashes and hives, and I was allergic to everything. Got addicted to painkillers right after knee surgery. Went through, like a six and a half year battle with that started, like, having these rashes come back on my arms, like these kind of chronic hives. I would wake up in the morning with, like, profound brain fog. And it didn't feel like it was like a burnout thing because I loved what I was doing. I felt like I still had, like, tons of emotional and mental energy, but I felt like physically something was off. I went from pretty much a whole early adult life into teenage and very early 20s of, like, absolute chaos, into, like, peace for the first time in my life. Her name is Thais Gibson. Thais Gibson. Thais Gibson. Thais Gibson. Thais Gibson. Thais Gibson. I hope I pronounce her name properly. Thais Gibson. I am so excited for you to be here with me today. Thank you for joining us. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Thais Gibson podcast. Today I want to have a conversation that is completely different than anything I've ever really shared before on here. And the number one reason I'm actually doing this is because this was something. I mean, I. I started putting this work out into the world around attachment styles and the subconscious mind and healing years ago because, you know, the number one thing was to share with people and to help people on their journey going through something similar. And, you know, over the years, as I've learned and grown and developed as a person, I'm definitely the type of person who when something really deeply helps me, I'm like, oh, my gosh, I have to tell everybody how helpful this is so they can try it too, and so that they can heal as well. And I've sort of always been that way where something works for me and I'm like, oh, my gosh, I want everybody in my life to try it. And, you know, for the past few years, I have been on this health journey that is definitely the result of going through a lot of, I think, challenges with my health since being a little kid and not really understanding what that was all about or why that was happening and something that I've always just been so accustomed to. I don't even, like, think of it too much consciously. But in today's video, I'm going to really share about this stuff, starting with challenges I went through as a kid in regards to my physical health. Some of what that actually ended up becoming as an adult. And some of these things that I have learned over the past decade that have literally been so profound, profoundly life changing and just helpful from a physical health, a well being and energetic point of view in terms of how I wake up every day. And really the main reason for doing this, I'm not gonna lie, some of this is gonna be like really personal and vulnerable. But my main reason for doing this is that I think there's probably a whole bunch of people out there like me and maybe going through similar things or struggling with similar issues. And my hope is that by sharing this here with you today, it is going to help you on your journey, clock things, notice things that might be showing up in your own life and could really changing. So let me just say a quick disclaimer here before I start. I am not a functional medicine doctor. I'm not a naturopathic doctor or a medical doctor. Nothing I'm sharing here today will be actual health advice for you in terms of like I'm telling you to go do this. What I'm hoping is that you'll just hear yourself if you're going through any of this in some of this story and it might be helpful in just you putting pieces together in your own journey. And I'll also say one other thing. This episode today will definitely be for people who have an interest in functional medicine and root cause medicine in older lab testing, a whole bunch of different things and getting to new answers. If you are somebody who doesn't really like functional medicine or naturopathic medicine, that's totally okay. It may not be an episode for you, but these are the people who are probably going to resonate the most with us. So let me start by just telling you a little bit of my, my own childhood experiences and I'll try to keep it pretty brief because a lot of these things will actually tie into the nitty gritty of like how this is maybe going to be helpful for you if you're struggling with health symptoms as an adult. I was a very sickly kid, so I grew up and at a really young age I was like, I felt like I was just always sick in my childhood. I was always covered in like rashes and hives and I was allergic to everything. I was hospitalized for pneumonia a few times when I was a kid. I remember being in the hospital and you know, being left there overnight and you know, your parents weren't allowed to stay. And I think I was like five or six and I remember being like, oh no, they're leaving me alone. But they had to. I don't think they were too happy about it either. And I felt like I was just always allergic to everything. I remember taking one of those allergy tests when you're a kid and they prick your arm. And when they pricked all of my arm, I was allergic to, like, cats, dogs, horses, grass, pollen, like, you name it. Like, I think everything on there that they tested for, I was, like, allergic to. I was just used to that as a kid. That was me. And I would, you know, be sneezing all the time, always wiping my eyes, always just having, like, chronic allergies. Was diagnosed with asthma at a young age. Always getting, like, croup as a kid, pneumonia, coughing all the time. Just a lot of these really chronic things. I would say, okay, so I grew up being used to that in retrospect. And this is actually gonna be really meaningful later. And maybe this is kind of like a cutting edge thing or a new thing that I think will probably gain more momentum and acceptance over time. But, like, that. I've seen this firsthand in my own life. In hindsight. Something that's really interesting is I lived not too far from a lake when I was a kid, and our basement would frequently flood. And in Canada, a lot of people have basements. We had a basement, and I had a playroom down there with, like, a little. A dollhouse and my toys. And I would always be playing in that. That basement. But to this day, I can remember, like, this very specific smell because the basement would flood so frequently, and I would spend all this time there. And that smell, I now know, is mold. And there was this always, like, musky, musty smell in the basement. And I spent a ton of time there. Okay. Grew up like that. Always struggling with allergies, chronic health issues. I played a lot of sports. I played a lot of soccer, ran around. That seemed to actually really me. And it's kind of counterintuitive because, like, I would have asthma attacks all the time when I was playing soccer. But I think it was good for me in a sense. Like, I was obviously probably sweating more and doing more things that helped clear out some things that will make sense in a little bit when I tell you. But I just was used to that. I was used to being kind of sickly. Went off, moved homes in high school, and interestingly, my health improved physically. Okay. I started having less asthma. I. You know, we chalked it up to, like, I grew out of my asthma and allergies and. Which is so funny because you hear that all the time. But interestingly it coincided with moving out of the house that had mold and like my house was clean. Nobody knew what like that mold was a serious thing back then. I think some people still don't realize how impactful mold is to your health now. Which I want to talk about in detail in my own experience. But moved to high school, health got better, started, you know, stopped having all these like hives and allergies and asthma and what I did then start doing though by 10th grade was becoming addicted to painkillers. So a lot of you know my backstory there. I've talked about it a lot on this channel. I'm probably not going to get too far into that today though. I'm happy to share it. It's just that would take forever to publish this whole episode. But soccer was my outlet. Got knee surgery after a bad injury and got addicted to painkillers right after knee surgery. Went through a six and a half year battle with that. Eventually got sober. Anyways, the point of that is to say that that was something that obviously further destroyed my health. Okay. So obviously not taking care of my body as many addicts do. You know, obviously painkillers were my drug of choice, but I drank a ton. I tried a lot of other drugs. I really was on a six year period of time in my life that everything was chaos and everything I put into my body was not healthy. I definitely had no sense of how to care for myself and my own body at all. I felt like I just kind of threw myself into things and was very destructive to my body, which I'm sad about now. I feel sad to my poor body that I put it through that. But I've definitely made a lot of strides as an adult later in life to really care for my body and come full circle there, but didn't take care of my health all of my teenage years and into early adulthood. Eventually got sober just before 21 years old and really turned my life around. And like, so, so grateful for that experience. Found God, you know. Got into a lot of the mental health work that I do today. Like really diving deep into the subconscious mind and how we harbor our patterns and our attachment traumas and how to rewire them and regulate our nervous system and all these things had such a profound impact on me mentally, emotionally that I went from pretty much a whole life style and like early adult life into teenage and, and very early twenties of like absolute chaos into like peace for the first time in my life and felt peaceful, felt peaceful inside of myself. Felt like I had all this mental, emotional real estate back for things was pretty healthy for a while, like was doing really, really well. And then interestingly, you know, came to a place where I started my business and started working with people. And as many of you know, it was kind of by accident. I was so excited at like 22 years old to have healed so much and gone through a lot of like really powerful changes. By understanding about the subconscious mind and understanding our core wounds and triggers and our unmet needs from childhood and how our nervous system operates and about boundaries and how we communicate. Like, it was so helpful for me. I started teaching and sharing about these things at a really young age for free, just because I wanted to share them and tell them to people. And that's what eventually started my client practice. And then that got built up and it was so busy I had to move into the online space and create like online tailored programs, et cetera. Right. So that was that sort of like period of time. Now the first few years that I worked in client based practice that was really interesting is I loved it. Like, I could not believe that people wanted to pay me for me sharing things that I would joyfully, gladly just talk about all day, every day for free. Like I remember the first few years, I was like, I cannot even believe this. And I was still in school when I started my client practice. I would tell people like, hey, I'm like still going to school at the same time taking all these different certifications. People would be like, I don't care. I loved your workshop. Let's, let's please see me as a client. So I was really, really blessed with like an abundance of like business and just flow and all these things early on. And I think I was sort of in a point in my own life. I was so focused on this and so amazed that I got to do this that I kind of like wasn't paying attention to my external environment. So a couple years into working with people, I met my now husband. We've been together for almost 11 years. We moved in together into this condo sort of by the lake in downtown Toronto. This might just sound so random, but I promise you it will all come really full circle into health in just a few minutes. This condo building had this big balcony and these big like sliding glass doors by the balcony. And there would always be around the edges of the windows, like this brown, black kind of staining around the windows. I thought, oh, it's like because we're near the lake. I never even thought about it. Didn't Think twice. However, my health started getting bad, and I had been working with clients for a few years already. Things were great. I just felt like I was, like, so happy, and I kind of didn't notice. But I remember I started drinking more coffee. I wouldn't feel very good during the day. Coffee seemed to help. I would drink more coffee during the day, and I felt like coffee was really helping in ways that were beyond just the caffeine, which was one of the more surprising things I learned later on in my journey. That will mean. Mean something in a few minutes, but start drinking more coffee. Started, like, having these rashes come back on my arms, like these kind of chronic hives. I would wake up in the morning with, like, profound brain fog. And it didn't feel like it was like a burnout thing because I loved what I was doing. I felt like I still had, like, tons of emotional and mental energy and care, but I. And I, like, was in a good place in my mind. Like, I didn't have a lot of really negative internal dialogue like I had when I was younger. Like, I didn't feel like I was coping from something, but I felt like physically something was off. And I was pretty clear at the point at being able to differentiate between, like, physical and mental emotional, because I had done a lot of mental, emotional work. I knew my thoughts were right. I knew I wasn't, like, in fear or projecting all these things. I knew I wasn't, like, in dramas in my life. And I knew that I would come home and I would, like, meditate and I would feel calm, but, like, physically something was off. And I remember my eyes would always be a lot more red again. And I had been so used to growing up like that that I just kind of was like. It was almost like on the periphery. Like, oh, yeah, I'm getting these weird hives. Yeah, I have brain fog in the morning. But when I leave the house and drink some coffee, it kind of goes away. Just didn't think much of it. Now, remember, like, at this time in my life, I'm in my mid-20s. And so, I don't know, looking back now at that time in my life, I think when most people in there are in their mid-20s, you kind of, like, fly by the seat of your pants a little bit more or you get really invested in what you're doing. Maybe that's just me, but I. I wasn't, like, thinking about, like, what, why am I having these arm rashes? Why am I having these chronic sort of weird feelings of brain fog why are my eyes itchy? Like, I just was like, oh, I'm used to this, and kind of moved on. Anyways, in retrospect, that was mold. I learned that later on. But what then happened next is that I was walking to a place in Toronto with my mother and we were going for lunch and we were walking across the street, literally, like walking. And a Ford F150 truck came and actually hit us while we were walking. And it wasn't like driving super, super fast or anything like that. It was like one of those two lane kind of busy streets where there's like two lanes here, two lanes here, and a little median in between in sort of a downtown core area. So it wasn't like it like was this crazy thing. But when I actually did get hit, it was so funny. I had these shoes on that were like these kind of wedges. And I remember my shoes were like on one side of the two lanes and I landed on the other side, like enough to like lift us and we flew. And my poor mother was injured a lot worse. Broke her pelvis, had to get her watch pulled out of her arm, like just all because it was like so plastered into her arm. It was this whole thing. And why that's actually relevant to this whole conversation is because after that, for the first time, I started having more severe and chronic gut health issues. I would wake up in the morning, I would just feel terrible. I noticed that a lot of foods I was eating, especially at that period of time in my life, because I was also trying to be a vegan, which was a part of what I think was not helpful for my health at all. But I was eating more like high carb, high sugar diet. A lot of fruits, a lot of. A lot of vegetables, but a ton of fruit was this huge staple. I'd eat so much pineapple and watermelon, sweet potatoes and a lot of high carb, starchy foods. And I just started feeling really unwell. What started as those sort of rashes and my eyes are always red and itchy and a lot of these things became more severe allergies, more trouble breathing again, like some of those sort of asthmatic type symptoms coming back, I felt like things were kind of unraveling. I was not feeling good. I was waking up with such severe brain fog at that point in time that I was like, what the heck is going on? Like, what is this? This is too much. And so I started really looking into stuff. And I'm the type of person, as most people are who are fearful, avoidant or were fearful, avoidant. If you've been on this channel and doing the work, who I would, like, eat, live, breathe, research. Like, if I didn't know what's going on and I needed an answer to something, I was going to find it. And I remember, um, a medical doctor at the time and doing, you know, a checkup and testing and just not really feeling like I was getting answers, which I think is something that a lot of people struggle with and feeling like, you know, I was told, okay, your thyroid's a little bit low, like just slightly out of range. And I remember thinking that that's like, not enough to explain everything else. Like, the other really big issue I was having with chronic inflammation, my hands would puff, my face would get really. I just felt like I was retaining all this water. I would get on the scale sometimes and I would see that, like, if I ate foods that seemed to make me feel uncomfortable the day before, a lot of really niche foods like pea protein would upset my stomach terribly. All kinds of random things. Red meat was really difficult for me to eat. I would get a lot of, like, deep headaches and chronic inflammation after eating red meat. There was a lot of, like, really random things I learned later had a lot of histamine in them, but I'm going to come to that in just a few minutes. And the sort of diagnosis of everything and how a lot of these things came together. But what was really interesting is I would go through these chronic issues and I wasn't really getting answers. Like, I was like, somebody told me, okay, yeah, your thyroid's a little low. Okay. I was prescribed thyroid medication and I was sort of like, well, why is this happening? Like, why is this happening? Why is this happening? All of a sudden I don't quite understand it, and I just wanted more answers. So after kind of feeling, like, frustrated by the traditional system of not getting answers, the other thing, and maybe this is a little gross, but the thing is, like, my gut was constantly upset and I started getting thrush on my tongue. So I wake up and I would have this kind of coating or paste on my tongue. And I was like, what is going on? Like, what does this mean? So learned at that point in time that I should try seeking out other options. So got really into functional medicine. Now, if you're not familiar with what functional medicine is, I like to think of it as like root cause medicine where they test everything in your life. Now I'm going to kind of fast track this part of my journey because I went through and I Could go into so many details. But I went through these ups and downs through learning and learning what to test for from a functional medicine perspective. And tests got a lot more in depth over the past few years. But in summary, went through a lot of testing. I'm actually going to show you some of these different tests and take you through some of these things. I'm hoping that this will just be so helpful for anybody. But went through a lot of testing for different things, trying to figure out like at the root level what was actually going wrong with me. Went through highs and lows with this. Actually lived back in a home with more molds at one point as well, which was crazy because it was a brand new home. Did a home inspection when I before I moved in and it turns out they didn't inspect. Like the top boards of the attic and the top boards of the attic were covered. Were covered in mold and turns out okay. And this is what I'm hoping will be like, extremely helpful for you is that it turns out for me, I had gone through repeated mold exposure in my life and the first test that helped me so much was a test for mycotoxins. So I actually at a time, so I'm sort of fast tracking this part because I could just go into details forever and I don't want to bore anybody. I want to get to like the exciting, important part. But eventually moved into a home where found out that I had mold. I had come a pretty long way at that point and been pretty healthy for a while because I had moved out of the original place and started taking a lot of supplements and things that were helping my gut and sort of felt like I was like in check for. For quite a few years, but then lived back in the house with mold and just started feeling terrible again. Like, all these symptoms almost came slamming back and I was like, I need to test for literally everything. And it's so interesting. So I did a mycotoxin test and I remember the doctor, I was on a telemedicine, like phone consultation with them and she was like, you have mycotox. Your mycotoxin levels are extremely high. Like, which is mold toxicity, right? And I remember being like, like, but how? Like, I live in a house with no mold. There's no way there's mold in my house. It's a new house, it's not possible. And the doctor was like, do you spend a lot of time somewhere else? Like, do you spend a lot of time outside of your house at work? Long hours? And I'm like, I work from home. And she was like, I'm telling you right now, you. You need to get a whole mold test specifically done by, like, a mold person for your home, because you're being exposed to mold, and it's where you're spending the most time. And if you're spending most of your time at home, it's gotta be there. And I remember being like. Like, there's no way. But also being like, well, what the heck else is going on? Like, why do I feel like this? A lot of that brain fog back. I felt so tired, so physically tired at that point, and all these flares of these weird things again. I would also wake up, and you can probably even hear this on videos. A few years ago, I would wake up with the scratchiest voice. Like, my voice would sound like a little frog all the time. And I was like, why is this happening to me? Like, what is going on? Long story short, got a mold inspector to come into my house, and you go for a traditional house inspection before you purchase the house, and they don't look at like they look at to make sure everything's working right. A mold inspector is very unique and specific, and I wish I knew this long ago, but they inspected, like, four mold, and they found all of, like, the top parts that got on a ladder in our attic, went to, like, the top parts of where there were these baseboards, and then on the top parts, there was just, like, covered in. In mold. And what happened, I think, is because the house that we bought was sitting on the market for a couple of years, not getting proper ventilation, and it was by the water. It was just. There we go. There was, like, the humidity source and the mold. I just want to let you know if you're struggling with a breakup or struggling with getting over somebody, even if it was a situationship somebody you were just dating for a short period of time, and you really want to do the deep inner work to heal. I have a course called how to heal from a Breakup, and you can check it out fully for free. It goes through four major pillars of actually healing from a breakup so much faster. Learning to sit with your pain, Learning to regulate your nervous system. Understanding what grief is actually made up of. 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You can see that some things in here. But it was actually the craziest part. The craziest part of this is that these very things. When we actually got the mold inspection back, the types of mold that were in our attic was literally matching with these types of mold that were high on this report. And I can't find where that other one is. I guess it's just at the top. But obviously these are on the high limit of the high. Right. And so this was like the first thing that was, like, just so life changing and helpful for me because I'm sitting there going like, okay, like this, this makes sense. And then looking back in that moment and realizing, oh, my gosh, when I was in that condo by the lake and I wasn't feel feeling good, and there was that staining around the sliding glass doors to the balcony, like, oh, my gosh, that must have been mold. And then learning so much about mold and being like, oh, my gosh. And so another thing I did was a genetic test. And I actually forgot to pull this up before we started. And. And I'm going to share these different tests that I took and how they were all extremely freaking helpful for me. And again, hoping that these are helpful for you. I have no, like, anything in here that's connecting to somebody. Like, there's no. I'm not trying to push anything on anybody. I have no vested interest in anyone. But again, just here to share this, hoping that this helps you. But another test I did was a genetic test. And what was so crazy to me was that I learned I do not methylate properly. Now, if you're not familiar with methylation, you can think of, in a way, your methylation cycle to process. One of the biggest things it affects is your. Your body's ability to turn B vitamins into their active form, specifically something called cyan cobal turning into methylcobalamin, which is like the active form of a type of B vitamin and folic acid into folate. And this is actually really significant because those types of B vitamins your body literally needs so badly to support your liver to clear toxins. There's so many different functions. And what I found is when you test all of your different methylation pathways, three out of the four major methylation pathways in my, in me genetically are broken. And so what this means is that my body just struggles to clear things. I am like a perfect candidate to have mold exposure and have it deeply affect me, have a hard time with like chronic pathogens in society. I learned as well that my body doesn't break down histamine properly, which is like when you take allergy medication, which I literally grew up on taking. There are antihistamines, right, to help reduce histamine levels in your body or at least, least I think block receptor sites is probably how they actually work. But what I learned is that like, oh my goodness. So these chronic allergies, asthma, all of these chronic rashes, hives, all these things I was experiencing so much were because I was being exposed to things like mold that my body couldn't clear properly. That was resulting in this sort of toxin overload in my body that was then causing me to produce extra histamine or excess histamine that my body also couldn't clear properly. And histamine is a big part of why, what is creating these allergic reactions to things. Now I want to say something else that was really unique to my experience and this will hopefully help people because I've learned that I think 40% of people don't actually methylate properly, but roughly 17% of people struggle with this. And let me actually backtrack first on this health journey that I've been on over my pretty much whole life. I was diagnosed with pcos. And I know people, when they hear this stuff, they're like, I don't know, hopefully you're open minded enough to hear this, but I was diagnosed with pcos, hypothyroid, candida, overgrowth. A lot of things over the years, all of which I have reversed completely through functional medicine. So do not have any PCOS symptoms anymore. All my hormones at one point were like chaos, like all out of range, all over the map. All of those through nervous system regulation, through a lot of mental emotional work too, for sure, because that was a much earlier on my journey. But, but I think Especially like, actually understanding my physical health as well, and genetics. Those things all reversed. Hormones and balance in a really good place. A lot of PCOS symptoms I was struggling with gone. My insulin levels are extremely healthy. Went from eating a vegan diet to eating pretty much a Mediterranean ketogenic, and over the years, more paleo diet, because that's what works for me. And really learned a lot about that because, you know, I think I went through this cycle of being vegan because a lot of people around me were being vegan, and I thought I should be doing that. And I looked up to some of the people I was around and was like, they're eating vegan. I should do it too. And for 14 months that I tried to be vegan, I didn't listen to my own body that was literally screaming like, stop eating so many carbs and sugars, because that was not working for me. And I'm gonna come full circle to something else. But so reverse pcos. My thyroid levels were really badly out of range for a couple of years as well, like extremely hypothyroid, specifically my T3 more than anything. And ended up reversing that, bringing my thyroid levels naturally back into range. One of the ways that I did that that was so helpful was through taking something called an organic acids test, through a functional medicine doctor. And what that did is it helps you. Actually. It's so cool. I'm going to show you a snapshot of this, too. It tells you a little bit about your mitochondria function and your Krebs cycle and really your metabolic profile. But it also tells you you a lot about any nutrients that you're low on. So there's a great analogy. I heard somebody say once that said. And I haven't told you my formal thing that I actually got diagnosed with at the end. I'll tell you in a minute. But this analogy of if you see a tree and the tree is sick, the arborist doesn't go and look at the tree and look at the leaves. It goes. And it looks like at the soil around the tree. And the analogy is. Is there to describe the fact that, you know, sometimes what we're missing is nutrients in our own soil, right? Sometimes there's things at a macronutrient level, micronutrient level, that we're actually missing more than anything. And so you can take an organic acids test, which is a urine test, they send this to a lab, and they tell you all of these things. They tell you about your. And I'll show this to You. And I thought this was just so amazing. Like, I don't. I loved learning about this stuff. It just. As somebody, I guess, who struggled with health my entire life, to, like, actually see this snapshot into my own body and what was happening and some of the things that I was, like, predisposed to and some of the things that I could work on and work through was like, like, so helpful. But I'll share this with you. So you'll see here, yeast and fungal markers. It tells you if anything's in range, out of range, bacterial markers, anything that's too high, too low, other types of bacterial markers. It tells you everything. And I, I like that it maps it all out, but it also tells you this goes on and on, honestly. But it also tells you some of your different nutritional markers, where you stand on different things. This is wild to me because at this point in my journey, I was taking. Taking so much vitamin B12. It says methylmalonic here, but it's also. There's a. You take it as methylcobalamin. And I couldn't believe that it was still on the low side. I was like, what do you mean? I take so much of this, but you can see so many of these things. I learned through a genetic test that I actually don't even really have nac. Like, I don't really. My body doesn't really produce it, which is crazy because glutathione, nac, these are things that are really important for opening your DNA detox pathways in your body. So just learning so much of this, my biotin was super low. You get to see all of these things that are happening. And you can see here, like, my actual glutathione and methylation markers are pretty good because I was literally actively supplementing so much for them. And that helped me feel so much better. Like, just doing that was wild. And so you can see all these things on this test. It goes on and on. But what's really interesting is that you can see, like, okay, what's your soil? Like, what's going on in terms of you not feeling well or feeling right, like, what's actually happening in the soil around you. And you can start supplementing for things that you need more of. You can stop taking things that you. You don't need, or things that are. Maybe you're really high in certain nutrients, which is probably more unlikely because of our food supply nowadays, but just so incredible to learn about. And so I started taking and supplementing for things even more that I needed checked back to see if these things were better in range like this, so phenomenal for me to learn about. And that actually was what helped me reverse my thyroid issues. So then I got to a point where was able to literally reverse a lot of thyroid issues that I was struggling with. Brought my thyroid levels, my T3 levels naturally back into range. Didn't have any PCOS symptoms, hormonal issues any longer. A lot of that changed when I started taking glutathione, nac, higher dose vitamin C, which was interesting, and active B vitamins. So methylated B vitamins, both folate instead of folic acid and methylcobalamin, thiamine too. A whole bunch of things, lots of B vitamins as a whole. And this was already so life changing anyways. Was doing really well, doing a lot of those things. That's when I then eventually moved into a house that I found out had molded. It was crazy. And then had some of these issues come back. And then at that point in time did a mycotoxin test and at that point in time was able to test my genetics, my histamine levels, my body's ability to actually break down histamine and learned that. And this was the biggest, most like, well, setting diagnosis, which I've also, you know, since really reversed the symptoms of, but something called mast cell activation syndrome. If anybody has ever been diagnosed with this or learned about this prior, you probably heard all of the themes in this. One of my actual biggest symptoms that I struggled with the most. And I'm just like putting it all out here, hoping that if anybody's struggling with this, it was just. It took me so many years to like get to the point of figuring this all out and like just feeling like I really came through to the other side. And I'll tell you at the end of this too, like what I take now in supplements. And obviously you should do your own testing. You should consult with your own naturopathic doctor, functional medicine doctor or medical doctor. But I'll tell you at the end what I've taken and what I've just found been like so incredible for me. But I would say the biggest symptoms I chronically struggled with on and off over my whole life were allergies, asthma, rashes, especially like along my arms, like kind of like hives. Brain fog was so intense for me. Sometimes I would have to like fast through my mornings. Sometimes if I had to do something important in the afternoon, just cause my biggest, I would say probably my biggest thing out of everything or anything at least tied for first and second was chronic food sensitivities. Food sensitivities would give me so much inflammation and so much brain fog and honestly this like sick feeling, just unwell feeling, GI issues on and off kind of in peak times and then years without GI issues as well. But food sensitivities until like the most random foods, like people are like, oh, I'm celiac, I struggle with gluten. Oh, I, I'm, you know, I, I don't process meats well. I don't eat a lot of meat. For me it was like the randomest stuff. It would be like strawberries, pea protein, tomatoes, pea protein. Cause I try to drink a lot of like protein shakes when I didn't know what to eat. Dairy was terrible for me. Normal stuff too. Wheat gluten didn't sit well with me. Eggs were one of the hardest things for me. I would eat eggs and feel like I needed to like take a 24 hour nap. Like it would just like suck the life out of me. And I would look around at me or around me at all these people and I'd be like, how do they eat foods like that and survive? Like, how do they eat these normal foods? And looking back on this, I remember actually being in high school and looking around at people after lunch, be like in class and talking and energetic and I would be like, how are people not struggling to stay awake? Like, we just ate lunch and I would be so tired, tired after eating lunch. And it's because I was actually having food sensitivities for so long and didn't realize it and really like food affected me a ton. I lived before I actually learned about histamine and the body. And by the way, this is, this affects 17% of the population, data shows, and it's predominantly women. And so for me, I tried so many things over the years and I learned so much. Like, I have learned so, so, so much. I'm actually looking back on this whole, whole chaos of on and off chronic, weird autoimmune type health issues that I've had forever. There have been things that have been extremely helpful and like, I'll tell you just everything in summary right now, starting with the mental emotional stuff that I did first. Working through my core wounds obviously was huge because it stopped me from being so chronically dysregulated, then pairing that with nervous system regulation and somatic experiencing tools so that if something did come up, I knew how to process it. Also at the body level level, I do want to say that a lot of times when you're triggered. It's because your subconscious mind is projecting core wounds first. So you need both of those together. If you do one without the other, it's incomplete. Learning to meet my own needs, learning to have better boundaries. I mean all of those things are obviously massive. Learning to communicate and take up space and let people in and lean on people and ask for help, like all of those things are huge right from the mental emotional space. But I talk about those things so much on this channel that I'm trying to do something a little different, not do something different. I'm not going to change what I talk about here. I'm just trying to share this, this because it was helpful for me. Hopefully it's helpful to anybody listening. These supplements that help me the most. So. So from a physical perspective, intermittent fasting. Huge for me because I had so many food sensitivities that like I just lived on an elimination diet for years and I was just fine with that. I was like, I feel so bad when I eat certain foods that like, fine, I'll eat like the same 12 foods for the rest of my life every day, I don't care. And actually function like that for quite a long time before I learned, learned that the foods that were affecting me the most and the reasons they were is because they were high in histamine or they were histamine liberators. So for example, and I won't go too far into it because it'll just be all this technicality but, but basically foods that are high in histamine, a lot of things like leftover foods or higher in histamines, like red meat would kill me if I ate leftover red meat. I would feel terrible for like two days, like headaches and just like this bad feeling in my body. So that was so helpful to just be like, okay, here are high histamine foods. Avoid those foods. I started taking something called dao, which helps your body break down histamines. I just take that regularly. It was very, very helpful. Methylated B vitamins have been like, I have like five top things that's been crazy for me. Methylated B vitamins. One of the biggest ones by far, glutathione, Nac to open my detox pathways. Massive for me. Another big thing that helped so much, so much with chronic inflammation and thus helped brain fog and headaches and just a lot of like heat and inflammation that I would get in my hands and my feet. I know that sounds so random, but I just have like the hottest hands and feet at night all the Time. Black seed oil. Black seed oil was like it. Like, as soon as I started taking a thousand milligrams of black seed oil a day, all my chronic inflammation just went away. Like, just went away, just stopped. And I was like, really? After years of that, like, I could have just done this earlier. It was wild Again, again, this is not me saying that everybody should take this, but I'll just tell you exactly what I take, and you can do the research, speak to a medical practitioner yourself. Go get your own actual personalized medical advice. I highly recommend doing all the lab testing. I think it's so beneficial to learn how your body works. It's not extremely cheap, obviously, but you make that money, back off, less sick days or just how you show up the energy you have to bring into the world. It's so phenomenal in terms of the change. So I take black seed oil, organic black seed oil. I take a supplement called mors, which I can't even find anymore. They've discontinued it, but that was amazing. It was like methylated B vitamins from a company called Systemic Formulas. Again, I'm not affiliated at all with any of these companies. When that was discontinued, I started taking. Well, I was taking this the whole time to close second to Moore's called G cell, and I'm like, should I pull these up? I don't even know. But G cell, a whole bunch of methylated B vitamins, glutathione nac precursors in there, all those things. And it's kind of like a super multivitamin with activated B vitamins in there. So that's been extremely helpful for me. Organic black seed oil, ashwagandha, life changing for me. People say that that was going through, like, the PCOS journey and a lot of something called an adaptogenic herb. So adaptogens are they help your body kind of regulate. And a lot of people, when they take Ashwagandha, they feel a sedative effect. They like. Not sedative effect. That's way too strong of a word. But they feel more relaxed, like Ashwagandha, supposed to help your body reduce cortisol levels. And then there's people like me who I think my body has just been through, like, years of mold exposure, chronic inflammation for years, drug addiction for years. Just, you know, all these poor things that I put my poor body through growing up and being much younger. And adaptogens also help with adrenal fatigue. And I think I was probably struggling a little bit with that and not really even realizing. Ashwagandha gave Me so much clarity and reduced my brain fog so much and actually were one of the biggest things that helped me with mcas. So MCAS being MAST cell activation syndrome. Again, your body kind of overproduces histamines and overreacts to everything, hence the food sensitivities, the chronic allergies, the chronic asthma, the chronic brain fog, all these kind of chronic autoimmunity type issues, again, which I experienced none of any longer to be pretty clear. Other than that a lot of chronic foods and sensitivities, brain fog, chronic inflammation, a lot of those things are gone completely for me. So Dao, glutathione, methylated B vitamins, black seed oil, Ashwagandha and then mitochondrial support supplements. So one of the big things I learned in my own experience was that my mitochondria wasn't functioning very well. One of the organic acids tests I did went through and actually shows your like Krebs cycle and mitochondrial function and what, what that's kind of all looking like and how that's doing. And I actually, you know, mitochondria are sort of your energy centers of your cell and mine were not doing so well. So a lot of mitochondrial support supplements that have things like CoQ10 in them, ubiquinol, a lot of these types of things, and they're essentially like nutrients to support your mitochondrial function. So have taken those for quite some time. Another thing, I guess I would say the last thing that's just been really helpful overall is doing proper gut health cleansing is like essentially prescribed by a functional medicine doctor because there's a lot of like random stuff out there that you don't really know how well sourced things are. But doing that along with specifically probiotics, I mean, probiotics have been so great for me. And another test that I did that I also recommend doing is taking tests that will go through in detail for you. You do a stool sample. So they actually take a sample of your stool and what ends up happening is they, they send it to a lab and they dissect it. They tell you like, if you have an overgrowth of bad bacteria in your gut, which I did have a good bit of, and if you are missing fundamental keystone bacteria. So for me, for example, I was really low on certain strains of gut microbes, so things like Akkermansia, things that actually really help you with things like brain fog. And I saw that I was really low on some of those, those things and could supplement for those and high on others and could do a proper detox from my functional medicine doctor to reduce those levels of things. And so being able to pair these things together and like change my gut health completely, change the way my body was able to clear and open up detox pathways to reduce toxins, support my liver, support my kidneys with adaptogenic herbs and my hormones, support chronic inflammation with black seed oil, which is like literally the best natural, natural anti inflammatory that exists and one of the strongest. And then really get into a place where I could take probiotics to repopulate the good gut microbes that I did need after doing cleanses and sort of doing them in, in periods of time. All of these things were like so profoundly life changing to the point where I used to have to take these, these natural histamine reduction supplements as well beyond dao. So things that were helping like quercetin, a lot of things to re. They're like natural, natural antihistam, natural anti allergy medicines or medications and which they're just supplements are not actual medications. But I used to have to take those so much and I don't take them anymore. And like I eat like a range of foods. I can eat red meat again, I can eat fruits and not feel terrible for, for a few days. I can eat dairy, which is crazy because years ago I couldn't even eat dairy at all. I can eat eggs now. I don't go like over the overloading these foods. Like I know that my body has historically been more sensitive to these things. So I'm not like out there eating eggs and dairy and I don't and pea protein and wheat and gluten every day or all the time. But I'll eat them once a week or sometimes twice a week. And I don't notice a difference to my life anymore, which is wild because years ago that would have been something that was just so not on the table for me. And I am not on this. I can Only eat these 12 foods elimination diet it so that I can feel good and show up for my life the way that I'd like to. So all of this has just been so helpful for me. And I do think that there's things in here as individuals, I do think that like, you know, there can be a lot of mental emotional stuff that leads to this for sure. But I also think there can just be physiological stuff. And I think that just like when we're trying to heal mentally, emotionally, we want to bring certain things together. I think the brain and body go very well together. And I know that in my own journey I felt a lot Better and came such a long way mentally, emotionally and feeling regulated and how I showed up. But like my body was still struggling with certain things and there were still certain things that I was having mold exposure and didn't realize it. Like there was things that could not be ignored and no matter. And you may be able to notice this in yourself. I knew as somebody who had done so much mental, emotional work, I knew that like I wasn't going to regulate my nervous system system more and suddenly not get rashes on my arms or suddenly not have itchy runny eyes and nose all day, every day and constantly have to take Claritin or Allegra or other antihistamines. Like I knew that there was something else. And so by really diving in and testing for some of these things and getting to the root cause, it was absolutely life changing. In summary, I wish I had gotten to a functional medicine doctor way earlier. I mean, I still have done this like years ago and started this journey I, I guess in 2016, so almost a decade ago. But that would have been nice if I just went to a functional medicine doctor first and did all of the root cause lab testing that I could have done. An organic acids test was really, really fundamentally helpful for me. It's called a GI map where they do a stool sample and they go through everything. I also learned, by the way, that I had H. Pylori, which can lead to stomach ulcers or stomach cancer long term if not treated properly. Thank goodness I didn't have any of those issues. Issues. But again, really important to, to test for very common for people. Again, I, I think off the top of my head and again this, I'm not a functional medicine doctor myself. This is just all anecdotal, but I believe the, the stats are that like 60 of people of H. Pylori or 50, it's a very high number and don't even know it. So that was amazing to know. And just to see all of the different, like overgrowth of certain bacteria, not having enough of certain gut bacteria or microbes and being able to do a proper reduction of the not so great ones and then repopulate the healthy gut microbes and then with like specific strains of probiotics that you can get, it's so cool. And then going more deeply into understanding histamine. I mean like the histamine stuff was just like the big thing for me. And understanding like, oh, I keep ending up in these mold environments. No wonder. This is crazy. And taking a mycotoxin test that was Absolutely massive. Again, it's a urine sample, they send it to of a lot lab, they check for mycotoxins in your urine. And then also doing a genetic test and seeing my actual genes, like, oh my goodness, genetically I literally do not methylate properly. All these ways of clearing things from my body since I was a little kid and exposed to all of these things has not been functioning optimally. No wonder. And by actually working with each of those main things, knowing my genetic predisposition to things, being able to work through and support my body and what it needed, knowing where I was lacking certain nutrients and from the organic acids test point of view, and being able to supplement for the right things and not go into taking things that I didn't need more of was so helpful for me. Yet again, a GI map. Learning all those things was so helpful for me. And I really took the time and care and effort. Like I definitely was like, I want to really show up for myself as a person. And so I did. And you know, being able to really help myself and support my body in those things, especially after years of like really not taking care of myself, myself all through my early childhood and into my very early 20s, I was like, I gotta make up for this now and come full circle. And so I did. And all of those things collectively from that like mind and physical body side have been so powerful and empowering. And proper supplements and again, of course always like consulting with a functional medicine doctor and going through things, all of that was just absolutely amazing for me. So I hope this is helpful for you. I don't know if anybody here is struggling with this things, chronic, weird symptoms that you're not sure about, probably less acute things, but more chronic things, maybe things that you almost have just gotten so used to that you don't even realize are there. And just maybe wanting to hear somebody who has a similar story who's kind of come through to the other side. I hope this is helpful for you. And if you have questions, let me know in the comments down below on YouTube or if you're listening to this one on a podcast, you're welcome to reach out to us at Info Personal development in school, I'll try to come up with some like, resources of doctors, people that I know, people that I saw that I think highly of, that I could always share with people if people are interested. Again, like, I have no monetary or like any type of affiliation like that at all with anybody. But yeah, if, if I can help you on your journey in any way just by giving proper resources or, you know, people I know. I'm so happy to do so and hopefully this was helpful for you and you feel less alone if you're going through any of this because it kind of sucks when you're going through it at the time time. So that's it for today. This is a totally different type of episode. Come back next week for more full length episodes about attachment styles and the subconscious mind and and all of that kind of stuff. And I'll go back to the normal content, but really grateful that you listened to this and hoping that you're hanging in if if any of this affects you too. And we'll see you next time. If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to subscribe, Rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, share it with friends and family who are on their journey of personal development and growth and thank you for listening. 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