Pumping Iron Again, RA & Raynaud’s Turnaround

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Pam has been dealing with worsening symptoms of Raynauds and Rheumatoid arthritis for years. She’s a teacher and noticed pain in her fingers and toes. Which later translated to severe pain in her hands which made it difficult for her to even teach at the board. She used to be really into

fitness and worked out with huge weights that triggered a lot of healthy ribbing from the guys at the gym.

Her pain level 2 months ago was 10/10, her fatigue was career ending, and her irritability felt relationship crushing. She started the program 2 months ago working with Dr.Maggie and her team and today she reports that her pain was gone within days after Foodmapping. Her irritability is gone and her boyfriend even commented, “Do whatever she’s telling you to do!” He

loves the results and so does she. She credits her quick and huge turn around to Foodmapping. It angered her that her rheumatologist told her food didn’t matter when she knew it did. Armed with the data, within days,

her pain was gone and has been gone. Her mother, who’s Italian also looked at the results with her and is now seriously supportive of Pam’s health efforts. Using science and data for results and engagement of family was huge for her.

She said being a scientific background educator, she knew this program was going to work because all the videos and training she saw made perfect scientific sense to her. She questioned her own commitment and time to do the program but said once she started, the fast pace of learning and results became an obsession. She said “who wouldn’t want to feel better, right?” She encourages anyone who cares about their own quality of life and their family’s to join the Facebook Group and watch the trainings. It’s made a huge impact upon her life and she’s now back at the gym and pumping iron again!

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month, pretty regularly . Um, I knew

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He didn't, 'cause he had no idea what

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random acts of violence to him, . Exactly.

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It was what, what's wrong with you today?

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Is this worth the fight?

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What is going on?

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You had several years, or at least

a year of severe, like almost 10.

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Outta 10 pain.

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You said within days it's almost nothing.

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Yes.

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How is that possible?

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I found out what was causing my problems.

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I addressed the problem

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Welcome to Transform with Dr.

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Maggie Yu Podcast, where

education meets results.

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I'm Dr.

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Maggie Yu, your guide with nearly

three decades of experience

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in root cause medicine.

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Here, we dive deeper into the root

causes of chronic disease through

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interviews, case studies, and trainings.

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Hey everybody, welcome to

today's interview with Pam.

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Pam is a teacher educator who, uh,

has been struggling with Ray nodes,

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which a lot of you don't even know.

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It's autoimmune, and your doctors

also don't know this, and it evolved

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and turned into rheumatoid arthritis,

and she was really concerned about

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this having a severe impact upon her

ability to work out and have healthy

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relationships with people around her.

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With her severity of her symptoms and

she struggled massively with food.

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Okay.

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And food clarity.

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And she was fighting her rheumatologist

who felt like food made no difference.

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I'm Meg, U M D, functional and Holistic

Medicine and owner of Transform,

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and we have an online program called

Transform Autoimmune Disease Naturally.

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And we also have a hormone balancing

program called My Hormone Masterclass.

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To learn more, join our Facebook group,

transform autoimmune Disease Naturally,

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or you can go to dr maggie u.com, uh,

to learn more about us in our programs.

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I hope you enjoy this interview, and

this is Pam and this is her journey.

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To her RA and Reno's turnaround.

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Alright, Pam, let's introduce yourself.

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Hi, uh, my name is Pam.

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Um, I was of a few years ago

diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

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Well, it started with the renos.

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Um, I noticed there was some circulation

issues, um, and then probably . Within

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a year or so, I started developing

swelling and inflammation and joint pain.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um, Most of it started in my hands

and then slowly moved to other joints.

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You know, a lot of people, Pam, don't know

that Ray nodes is actually autoimmune.

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And if we even describe what Ray

nodes is, it's actually extreme

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pain in tips of the fingers or toes.

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Mm-hmm.

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and your to fingers and tips and toes

may even turn blue or pale white.

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And it's extremely painful.

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It's made a lot worse by cold,

obviously, but can happen at any time.

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And that is autoimmune.

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And yet a lot of doctors

don't even know that.

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And to me it sounds like this preceded

your actual rheumatoid arthritis

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diagnosis by quite a bit of time.

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Right.

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How severe was your rain notes?

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It's worse, obviously

in the colder months.

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Yeah.

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Um, anything will trigger it.

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That's cold.

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Um, so severe.

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And then what about joint pain?

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At what level would you say your joint

pain has been prior to this program?

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Some days a 10.

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Um, it would come and go

depending on the day, depending

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on what I was doing sometimes.

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Um, , but there were days that I

couldn't move, I would just be in tears

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because I just couldn't move my hands.

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Mm-hmm.

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, um, you know, some days were

better than others, but it got

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to the point where it was bad.

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Have you been able to work while trying

to deal with these severe symptoms?

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I have.

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Um, it's been difficult.

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Mm-hmm.

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, um, I'm a teacher, so writing

on the board, erasing the board.

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right.

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Pulling the marker off of the,

or the cap off the marker.

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Um, not easy.

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What were some of the other symptoms

that you dealt with that you felt

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like was seriously life altering?

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Um, fatigue.

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The fatigue was some days just unbearable.

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I'd come home from work.

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I mean, I have full days, I have busy

days, so I just feel like I was just

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running myself ragged when I didn't

really feel like I was doing that

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much, but I was just constantly going.

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But the minute I would stop, I would

just crash and there was no, you know,

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I'd be in bed early and, I mean, I'd

go to bed early anyway, but there

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would be nights I couldn't stay awake.

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Mm-hmm.

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Watch the evening news . You know,

you know, when you're dealing with

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a lot of those symptoms, a lot of

people don't think about immunity

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as having all these different

targets and affecting everything.

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Not just your fingertips, not

just your joints, but really

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overall sense of fatigue.

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How did it impact upon your mental health

and your general sense of identity?

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It, it was almost like . Demoralizing

because I've always been an active

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person to start to feel like there

were things I just couldn't do

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because I didn't have the energy.

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Mm-hmm.

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, um, things that I'd have to cut back on

because I just, I just couldn't do them.

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And I had no idea that at the time

that it was connected to that mm-hmm.

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Um, and of course then that starts

causing other, you know, you start

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to worry about other things and.

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You know, your mind starts going

into places where you're like, what?

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What's going on?

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What is happening?

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And not even understanding

that it was connected.

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I also heard the boyfriend said there

was a little bit of irritability,

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Um, I, as I started to notice when it

would happen at certain times of the

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month, pretty regularly , um, I knew

. that it was connected to my cycle.

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He didn't, 'cause he had no idea what

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random acts of violence to him, . Exactly.

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It was what, what's wrong with you today?

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Is this worth the fight?

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What is going on?

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And he just, he knew that things were

starting to, but he didn't, he, he had

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no clue why, like to him, he wasn't

seeing what I was going through.

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So you're just two months in here.

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And my question is, where are

you now with these symptoms?

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Almost non-existent . Um, my pain has

improved immensely, and once I started

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realizing specifically where the pain

was coming from, what was causing

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it, within a matter of days, you had

several years, or at least a year of

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severe, like almost 10 outta 10 pain.

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You said within days is almost nothing.

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How is that possible?

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I found out what was causing my problems.

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I addressed the problem.

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. What the hell was causing your problems?

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Just in inquiry, you guys wanna know?

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There was a couple of things.

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Um, hormone imbalances were definitely one

of them that hell yes, we working towards.

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Um, a big one was some of my foods.

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Mm-hmm.

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. Um, I've always had a suspicion, I

couldn't tell exactly what it was because

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I don't eat one thing, so . To figure

out the variables was very difficult.

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, I had some suspicions based on

things I was commonly eating.

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But once I found out

Yep, that's what it is.

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How did you find out?

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People wanna know everybody's

on the elimination diet?

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Hell, . How did you find out?

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Uh, went through the food mapping

process, um, which seemed to be quite

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simple, . Um, and I was just amazed.

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Like, like I said, I had suspicions,

but I had no way of knowing.

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Nobody would . Talk to me about it.

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If I'd ask, I'd mentioned it to my

rheumatologist, like, I know there's

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an issue with my food and I, you

know, no, there's no connection.

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There's no connection.

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Where are you with, um, the

irritability, the fatigue?

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That's a slower process, but

it's definitely improved.

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My boyfriend has noticed . Um, he told me,

he said, I don't know what you're taking.

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I don't know what you're

doing, but keep doing it.

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'cause he's definitely

noticed a difference in my

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mood, in my demeanor, just.

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I'm happier, I feel better.

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I feel more positive.

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Wow.

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It's, it's huge.

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It's refreshing to know that . It's a

pretty simple process and a simple fix.

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It doesn't have to be like this wild

dolled land of the west, which is

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like, I feel like in conventional

medicine, all you do is they talk

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about medication or procedures, right?

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Yep.

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What I love is to bring the

medical science into this

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and say, here's your data.

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Here's the clarity of how you use

each of these natural tools based

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on your data, and it's not hard

once you understand the system.

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Right.

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, you are like simple.

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Yes, simple.

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Not really , right?

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But you gotta learn the system

and then it becomes simple, right?

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I'm, I'm not a doctor, but I'm trained

in biology, so I understand like

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there's a cause and effect to a lot

of things and there has to be some

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type of a reasoning behind things.

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It's that things don't

just spontaneously happen.

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So what you just said defies 99%

of how conventional doctors are

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trained because your rheumatologist

just told you that food has nothing

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to do with your pain or symptoms.

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Right.

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All right.

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Question.

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Um, what's your favorite part

of working with me and my team?

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I love the community.

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Mm.

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Um, it's not just one . Person

trying to figure out one thing.

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Um, you get to work with a whole

bunch of other people that are

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going through similar things.

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You kind of get to see some of their

issues that you don't think apply to

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you, but realize, oh, hey, that, that

could be my problem too, or, yeah, I had

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that question and didn't think about it.

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Just the interaction with

people, the positive community.

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That, to me was a huge

part that was beneficial.

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What was in the program itself?

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You said there's a lot of different

things that really worked.

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What do you think was your biggest

medical aha where you're like,

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Ooh, that was a game changer?

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The food mapping was

a game changer for me.

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Okay.

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Um, that to me, like I said, it's,

it's just one of those things that

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I knew was an issue and I had no way

of knowing how to even address it.

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So like that was huge for me.

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Why did you almost not join the program?

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Honestly, I knew it was a time commitment.

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Um, a lot of people that I'd seen go

through it, you know, they said, well,

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there's homework every week and there's

weekly meetings, and, you know, that

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made me nervous just because it was just

that hesitation of, can I really do this?

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Is it something I can

really make an effort?

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I, I know I needed to, I knew that

in the back of my mind, but there was

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just that hesitation of . You know,

how big of a commitment is this?

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Okay.

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And how did you make it work?

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Like was it as, was it as big

and hard as you thought to

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commit yourself in this way?

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No.

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No.

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It got to the point that once I

got invested in it, and once I

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started getting into the routine, I.

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It, it kind of almost consumed me in a

way where it's like, okay, what's my next

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piece of information I need to address?

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What's my next, next thing I gotta do?

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Well, it's kinda like, who the

hell doesn't wanna feel better in

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a couple days if within a couple

days of knowing your food, mapping

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data, your joint pain went away?

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Like it's almost like, what else is next?

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Right, right.

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It got to the point where I, I

wanted more because it was okay.

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I know.

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All right, I got that information.

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I understand that.

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Let's move on.

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And, and I wanted to do more and

it kept . It became something

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I wanted more of rather than

having to make it a commitment.

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I love that.

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What is something you learned about you

during this process that surprised you?

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I think the mindset piece,

which was a big part.

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Um, I've never, I mean, I guess

everybody has their own critic.

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I've never really thought I was negative

in any way, but I started realizing that.

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It's really easy to have a

negative mindset about Yeah.

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Anything.

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And that can totally spiral and you

don't even realize what it's doing.

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You know, I tell this story, Pam,

where I said, um, one of the things

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like, I think about like how focus

is power and also the language you

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choose, the words that you choose.

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Mm-hmm.

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to describe a talk actually

has a lot of power, right?

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I would wake up and each

morning I would say F M L.

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. You know what that means?

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Yep.

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Which is, you know, my life.

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And not realizing that that

is a very negative mindset.

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I'm also using words

that's cursing myself.

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If you think about that

in my life, and then what?

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And I'm focusing a lot of energy on that.

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Every single fricking morning,

first thought, last thought.

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Mm-hmm.

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. I mean, how powerful is that?

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And then think about what I was

manifesting more and more of.

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Right.

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Or crap.

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Right.

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So, totally.

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So what you're saying is changing how you

think really manifests different results.

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Absolutely.

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And I, that was something that I, I mean,

you know, that, you know, stay positive.

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You know, you hear those things all the

time and, but you never really understand.

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How it affects you until

you really address it.

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Yeah.

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And for me it's like

I call your ass on it.

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. . Yep.

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. We all call your ass on it.

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People in your pod will call

your ass on it and our mindset

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coach will call your ass on it.

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Another question I have is, what

is something that you can do

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today or right now effortlessly?

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I have always been somebody who works out.

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I would go to the gym religiously.

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Um, and as my rheumatoid arthritis

got worse, it got to the point

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where I couldn't pick up.

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A five pound weight.

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You know, I used to swing around

35 pound weights like nothing.

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You know, the men in the gym

would pick on me, call me Helga,

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whatever, like, I, whatever.

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But it got to the point where I just

could not do the simplest of things

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because I just, my grip was horrible.

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My, the weakness, the pain, and it just,

it got to the point where I'm trying to

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figure things out to modify things and.

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It just, it just got to the

point where I almost gave up.

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And so slowly I've been able to

get back into things and I have

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no problem picking up a lot of

things, . Um, I'm still working on it.

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I'm still gaining my

strength back, but, um, I.

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That's huge for me because I feel like

that's something that's part of my day.

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It helps me get started.

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It's just one of those

things that that's my time.

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That's for me, it was something

that was almost taken away from

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me that I am slowly getting back.

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Pam.

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That was part of your identity?

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Yeah.

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It was something that made you

feel like you were a healthy,

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vibrant person in spac.

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Exactly.

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I know you were saying that you were

worried being a busy professional,

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that you wouldn't have the time to be

able to commit to this program, and you

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were able to make the time to do that.

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In hindsight, right now, looking

back, like right now, who would

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you recommend this program for?

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Everybody . Um, I, I look at this and

I, I see friends that I have that have

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Not necessarily an autoimmune

disease, but symptoms of something

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or problems with something.

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And I'm just like, oh my God, you

have to know this information.

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You have to learn this information

because your problem will go away.

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And I feel like it's not just

for autoimmune disorders.

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It's actually not . It's not, I mean,

I just, there's so many things to

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address that are just simple everyday

things that we just brush off and think.

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, oh, it's just an ailment.

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It's no big deal.

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You know, that's how

things started for me.

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Like, oh, no big deal.

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My hands are cold, they're

turning white, whatever.

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Oh, I'm a little puffy.

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Maybe I had too much sodium.

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But no, like, there's so much

behind it that we don't realize

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because we, we ignore it.

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I know that when we improve our own

health and our own mental health,

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it really affects our relationships.

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And just think about the

relationships with maybe the top

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couple closest people to you.

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What do you think is one positive or

fun change that has happened because

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you freaking saved your own life here?

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Well, I've mentioned my boyfriend.

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Um, we are communicating better

because Im able to communicate better

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when I am feeling out of sorts.

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I know what the issues are and

I can say to him, You know,

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this isn't you, you know?

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Give me a minute.

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You know, we can, we

can work through this.

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It's not a problem.

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My mother . I would

put into that category.

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I feel like I can share more with her

about my ailments, about what's going on.

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She's, she understands I, you

know, she's somebody that I can

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say, Hey, this is what's going on.

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This is the issues, these are

the things that I'm addressing.

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Mm-hmm.

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, and, and she knows that because, you

know, I talk about the food and, well,

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I have an Italian mother, so, you know,

figure out the food there and, and it's

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everything I probably shouldn't have.

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And I showed her my results.

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I, I, I physically showed her what

my food mapping results were and she

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understood it because she saw it.

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Like she saw what my data

was, she saw what I had.

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So there was no question.

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It wasn't like, are you

sure you can't have that?

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Are you sure?

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How about just a little bit,

like the data's really powerful.

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Yeah, I was just gonna say, just being

able to talk to her and tell her those

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things, knowing that if she sees what

I'm seeing, she's gonna understand

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and she's gonna be supportive.

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I think one of the things we lose is

self-trust and self-confidence as we

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go through illness, for example, and

one of the things I love is teaching,

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being able to be in an educational

program where I'm actually teaching you

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exactly how to understand this data.

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What are false positive

is false negatives.

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How do you share this data

with other people around you?

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It's incredibly validating for you,

but it's also incredibly validating

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for other people in your life.

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To see that and understand the data

and your confidence is infectious.

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If someone was hesitating to even

click the button to watch the

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our five pillars training, what

would you say to them right now?

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The person who's hesitating to like, click

the button to just watch our training.

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What would you say?

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Just do it.

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Just do it . Just do it.

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. Uh, there's nothing, you

have nothing to lose.

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Just do it.

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I knew just with the information

that I looked at, that . I

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know the data is accurate.

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I know that the information you talk

about, I know this is true because,

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well, you feel better, right?

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And I'm educated, I know that this is,

you know, a lot of people are hesitant

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and say, well, is it really work?

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Is it really true?

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Is it No, I, I, I know it does.

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Before I even got into this, because I.

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Like I said, I, I am, I know the

background, you know the background,

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and we have over a hundred videos

of interviews with people who've

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been through our programs, right?

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I mean, how many, how many programs

or how many doctors have over a

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hundred videos of people talking

about their own experience with it?

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Right.

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You were watching those videos two months

ago and now you are on a one , right?

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. I was too.

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Every day.

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What all?

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What's next?

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What's next?

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. I love it.

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Wow.

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Awesome.

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Well, Pam, thank you

so much for your time.

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This was an incredible share and

I'm really happy for your results.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate everything.

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Boy, that was a crazy good interview

from Pam and there were a couple

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things that I really liked that Pam

pointed out, which is she's somebody

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who is a educated professional.

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She's a teacher trained in the

sciences, and she said that she

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understood the scientific mechanisms

and results that we were talking.

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In our program.

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I am an MD after all with autoimmune

disease, but she said that the

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most impactful thing actually for

her and her family was knowing the

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data, the blood work results from

her food mapping and understanding

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how to understand the data properly.

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So that is key.

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It's a unique process we call

food mapping, and that is

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part of our program Transform

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All right.

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Thanks everybody.

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Thank you for joining us today.

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and work directly with me and my team

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