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link: www.biocidin.com
SIBO, candida, mold, viral infections be gone! Antimicrobial herbs can help re-set your gut and immune health…when used appropriately. Dr. Rachel Fresco, acupuncturist, herbalist, and founder of Biocidin shares all you need to know about using herbs to support and heal your gut and boost your immune system.
BIO
Dr. Rachel Fresco is the founder and CEO of Bio-Botanical Research, located adjacent to Silicon Valley on the Monterey Bay. Her company has been delivering innovative botanical formulas to health care professionals since 1989.
These cutting-edge formulations are utilized as key support in the most challenging clinical presentations. Her focus in product development has been addressing concerns relating to GI health, Lyme disease, Autism Spectrum Disorders, as well as oral care and systemic infections. The flagship formula Biocidin®️. is recommended by noted authors, clinics, and laboratories worldwide.
University-based research and published studies on her formulas include Borreliosis, pathogenic biofilms, and immune response in elite athletes. Other ongoing clinical trials include SIBO, H. pylori, periodontal disease, mycotoxins, and other topics.
Dr. Rachel Fresco lectures at medical conferences both in the US and internationally, in addition to appearing on many podcasts and online summits relating to health and wellness. She “walks the talk” empowering and inspiring others to lead healthy and organic lifestyles, and modeling a new paradigm of the corporate culture.
Show Transcription
Dr. Lauryn: [00:00:00] Hello. Hello. Hello. Welcome to another edition of the Break the Rules podcast, where we talk about quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. And today I’m super honored to have Dr. Rachel Fresco in the house, and she is the founder and CEO of one of my favorite companies out there, Bio-Botanical Research, that just so happens to help individuals support their immune systems, supporting people with gut issues, longterm Lyme disease co-infections, mold illness, you name it. This company has been around the block and is supporting individuals, maybe worldwide, I know US-wide, and practitioners as well to be able to immune proof ourselves from the inside out.
So, Dr. Rachel Fresco, thanks so much for coming on. And if you could just give us a little bit of background about who you are and what got you doing the work you’re doing in the world.
Dr. Rachel: [00:01:22] Thank you, Dr. Lauryn. I started out as an acupuncturist actually. I graduated from acupuncture school in 1987 and I was working at Connor Company, which is a Chinese herb company, helping the practitioners understand how to use the Chinese herbs. Right at that time, the beginning of the AIDS epidemic was happening and suddenly people were dealing with opportunistic infections. And so I had some formulas that I’ve been working with and one of the doctors that I had sent it to Genova Diagnostics, which is back then called Great Smokies Diagnostic Labs.
And the owner of the lab called me up and he goes, you know, I don’t know who you are, or what this is, but it kills everything. And we want to put it on our comprehensive digestive stool analysis panel. And so he explained to me about how the culture, the stool from the patient’s sample, and find out what yeast and bacteria that patients might have.
And then they use different candidate substances,