From the Inside Out: Building Immunity by Addressing the Root

As winter has come to a close and spring is springing, giving us more energy to figure out our health things with a bit more ferver, I wanted to quick chat through this idea of root causes.  They're everywhere, as THE THING.

You've been trying to figure out your kiddo's health thing or maybe even your own… Is it my mold or is it the food sensitivities, maybe its the MTHFR genes, or maybe it's just perimenopause or her puberty setting in….  SURPRISE: it's everything! (But mostly your immune system).  

Let me introduce one of my favorite teaching tools, taken from: how your body works as one being of many systems. 

I know, I know - but Elizabeth, my hormone labs were actually bad and I DO have heterozygous snp impact to my MTHFR gene and a positive mycotoxin test.  Cool.  Those things matter.

If we go and doctor up or bandaid those specific symptoms without looking at your whole system, as the system it is - we won't achieve wellness for the long haul.  

Why?  Because the mold and mycotoxins may have ignited chronic infections, which will continue to increase reactivity in the body until that layer becomes bigger, creates more toxin load, impacts hormones again, produces increased food sensitive as estrogen increases and receptors are occupied by toxins.  Then the liver will progressively become overburdened and your nutrient needs will increase, multi system function will decrease and we'll start taking on my issues and your immune kettle will bubble over again.

Ok, that last paragraph was clinician speak for - if one of these layers isn't well and is adjusted with only thought and attention to that layer, the other layers receive impact.

Basically:  your/your kiddo's illness and health struggles are not just one root, but your immune system IS impacted by all of these things - making the immune system…the one thing.  

I know that's weird to think about with all the health marketing out there telling us: Just PARASITE cleanse! NO, no…find your MTHFR gene, prop it up with nutrients and you're GOOD TO GO!  Kidding..it's the MOLD YOU'RE IN.  No, if you rewire your nervous system and change your stress factors, you can BEAT THE MOLD, LYME, SIBO…xyz load of autoimmune.  

Unfortunately, none of that is true.  And it's the message I wish I could scream the loudest from the hills.  Health isn't a simple shortcut.  It's not one cause.  If it was, that parasite cleanse would have cured you.  And when we work together, you may have a target issue we talk about a lot - but the way we get our clients well and they stay well: is by cycling through addressing all systems and the ways they interact with one another.  

That's why I insist we call our process “Care”.  And why we start with a healing season.  SO much progress happens for our clients in that initial 4 months.  It's when we learn your body.

We look through each layer in the immune kettle (and some more, not listed), to find your body's weak points.  We support each layer, teach you how to manage and support the places where your body struggles. For some, it's poor nutrient absorption and intake - that lays the foundation for faulty immune.  For others, it was an acute tick bite that started it all, began depleting those nutrient layers, stressing psychsocial factors and together, these parts imploded their immune system.  And still, for our kiddos - they're often a mix of inherited infections and toxins, environmental toxins too large for their body size, the ebb and flow of hormone surges, stressors like increased screens and little downtime, genetic differences and poor diets from chronic infection driven picky eating - that exacerbate nutrient need.  See where I'm going?  

Each of the factors in the immune kettle matter for day-to-day health! For some people one layer will matter more than others and even in different seasons.  Moms, the perimenopause transition can bring a busy hormone imbalance layer that bubbles over the rest and creates immune imbalance, past infections surfacing, less resilience against stress and social factors. And that's cool, because your body is an ever changing being - which also means the body can heal, when strategically supported.  

All this to say…there's not shortcuts.  But there is really great, thorough, loving and empowering care ready to serve you, anytime you want to delve into feeling better and building generational health for yourself and your family.  We love this work and we would love to care for you and yours.

It's always been immune.