Healing with Confidence

From agony to answers—Andrew's 2-year GAPS journey and what finally brought lasting gut relief.

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Andrew holds a Master's in Couple and Family Therapy and brings a relational and systems-based perspective, along with hands-on experience in organic agriculture and traditional food preparation.

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Allison Chi-Tsen Wu, founder of Forge Wellness DC™, supports clients in healing through behavioral health coaching and lifestyle change. Informed by Mary Ruddick's work, she empowers others to address root causes and reclaim self-mastery in their healing journey.

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After years of bipolar depression, binge eating, and failed treatments, Donika found root cause healing through keto. Trained by Dr. Georgia Ede and inspired by Dr. Chris Palmer, she now helps others use food and mindset to restore mental health.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Meet Donika: From bipolar struggle to mental health coach

1:36 The diagnosis that changed everything

13:03 Inside bipolar depression: Anxiety, brain fog & constant self-doubt

18:14 Six years on medication - This can't be the only answer

27:26 The YouTube video that sparked hope

35:44 First steps to freedom: How fasting changed her brain function

50:32 Keto as medicine: The 2-year commitment that replaced medication

58:31 My body was saying no more keto

1:17:14 Beyond diet: The mindfulness practices that transformed her life

1:22:56 Helping others heal: I haven't seen anyone who didn't benefit

1:26:08 Resources & final advice for overcoming negative self-talk

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Dr. Shami Barathan is an integrative GP with over 24 years of experience, specializing in nutritional and environmental medicine. After feeling disillusioned with conventional medicine, she discovered the power of integrative approaches to address chronic stress, gut health, hormonal imbalances, and more. This led her to found MINT, a natural therapies clinic dedicated to helping patients achieve lasting wellness. She's also a podcaster, blogger, and speaker, passionate about educating others on the impact of stress and holistic healing.

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Natalie Earle is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner with a Bachelor's degree in Physics. In 2013, she was diagnosed with prediabetes, skin issues, and severe PMS symptoms. By 2015, Natalie began following the GAPS diet, and over the subsequent years, she successfully reversed her prediabetes and brought her other symptoms into remission. For the past six years, she has worked with hundreds of clients, supporting individuals with autoimmune disorders, cancer, PCOS, endometriosis, and nervous system disorders.

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Wayne Knight is the Executive Director of Holistic Management International (HMI), bringing over 27 years of ranching experience utilizing holistic management practices. Before assuming his current role, he ran a successful livestock operation in South Africa, where he implemented regenerative agriculture techniques to improve soil health and land productivity. Wayne has been actively involved in training and mentoring farmers, speaking at numerous conferences, and hosting educational events to promote sustainable agriculture.

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Neil Nathan, MD, has been practicing medicine for over 50 years, specializing in chronic complex illnesses, mold toxicity, and Lyme disease. A founding diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and ISEAI, he has authored several books, including Toxic and The Sensitive Patient's Healing Guide. He lectures internationally on environmental illnesses and has mentored over 200 physicians in treating chronic inflammatory conditions. Dr. Nathan continues to pioneer new approaches for patients who are highly sensitive and unable to tolerate conventional treatments.

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Alex Woodworth is a qualified health coach and histamine specialist with a background in Nutrition from NAU and has a personal healing journey that transformed her life. After battling histamine intolerance, sulfur intolerance, severe gut issues, hair loss, anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, and joint pain, she found relief through diet, lifestyle changes, and ancestral nutrition.

Now, Alex helps clients overcome histamine intolerance, gut disorders, hormone imbalances, and chronic symptoms using therapeutic ancestral diets like Carnivore and GAPS, mindset coaching, toxin reduction, and mindfulness. She believes that the body is meant to heal—it just needs the right fuel.

Her clinical specialty includes histamine intolerance recovery, gut healing, low-histamine diets, Carnivore and GAPS for autoimmune support, toxin-free living and detox strategies, hormone and nervous system balance, and mindset and lifestyle coaching for long-term health.

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Timestamps:

0:00:00 Intro

0:02:11 - Definition of histamine intolerance and the "histamine bucket" concept

0:03:48 - Alex's personal health struggles (chronic issues, Kawasaki syndrome, knee issues, surgeries)

0:07:16 - How histamine intolerance is diagnosed

0:10:35 - Alex's turning point in her healing journey

0:12:13 - Experience with the carnivore diet and working with Mary Ruddick

0:14:33 - Psychological challenges of following a carnivore diet

0:18:17 - Initial improvements after dietary changes

0:21:00 - Importance of borrowing hope from practitioners and surrendering to the healing process

0:21:58 - Dealing with perfectionism during healing

0:25:00 - Using curiosity as a mindset tool for healing

0:28:32 - Common symptoms of histamine intolerance beyond Alex's personal experience

0:32:15 - Root causes of histamine intolerance

0:35:49 - Reintroducing foods after healing the gut

0:38:04 - The importance of mindset in preventing histamine reactions

0:39:41 - Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and its connection to histamine issues

0:45:56 - Balancing dietary restrictions with nourishment

0:51:52 - Exercise considerations for people with histamine intolerance

0:56:11 - Connection between hormones and histamine (especially for women)

0:59:37 - Alex's experience with being diagnosed with Asperger's and sensory sensitivities

1:03:44 - Strategies for nervous system regulation and body scanning

1:08:38 - Alex's morning and evening routines during healing vs. now

1:13:01 - Books and reading as a form of enjoyment and escape

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Dr. Sarah Myhill is a renowned British physician specializing in chronic fatigue syndrome, ecological medicine, and nutrition-based healthcare. With decades of experience, she has authored numerous books, including Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Sustainable Medicine, which challenge conventional medical approaches. Dr. Myhill advocates for patient empowerment, emphasizing diet, lifestyle, and mitochondrial health as foundations for healing. Her work is centered on addressing root causes of illness rather than merely managing symptoms.

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Dr. Bill Schindler is the author of Eat Like a Human: Nourishing Foods and Ancient Ways of Cooking to Revolutionize Your Health and is an internationally known archaeologist, primitive technologist, and chef. He explores the role of technology in our ancestral dietary past by combining archaeological research with global ethnographic fieldwork. He founded and directs the Eastern Shore Food Lab with a mission to preserve and teach ancestral dietary approaches to food in order to empower people to live a more nourishing, ethical, and sustainable food lifestyle. Bill and his wife, Christina operate the Modern Stone Age Kitchen, a restaurant designed to provide nourishing food created using ancestral approaches maximizing safety, nutrient density and bioavailability to the community where he serves as the executive chef. He was the focus of Wired magazine's YouTube series, Basic Instincts and Food Science, and he co-starred in the National Geographic Channel series The Great Human Race, which aired in 2016 in 171 countries.

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