Ep# 157: My Journey to Health + Healing, Pt. 2
I have to tell you, in the week since last week’s episode aired, the response has been overwhelming!
I have hardly begun to chip away at the amazing responses, emails, DMs, even notes in the mail from people who just wanted to show support and share their own similar experiences.
When it comes to health, it’s never one size fits all. So if it inspires you to start looking under the surface and gives you a starting place, I’m so incredibly happy! And thank you for the immense amount of support and love!
I know that what I’m facing doesn’t even hold a candle to what so many face, to what many of you face. I share it because it’s my experience and I hope it can help someone.
So today, the story continues to unfold.
Today, I share more about the root of my struggles, what I’ve learned that has blown me away and what I’m doing next.
Like I mentioned in part 1, I ain’t yo doctor. Do your own digging and personalize an approach that’s in line with your health needs and your team of experts that you trust.
If you haven’t listened to part 1, I recommend you do that first because this episode won’t make much sense without it.
Thanks for coming along on this journey with me!
To recap, the last two years have been a real B.
All the pain and struggle have led me here… one day out from a root-canaled tooth extraction at the time of this recording, and likely a handful of days after one by the time you’re catching this.
God and my body have been loud throughout this process, telling me what to do next and letting me know what I need. It’s really been so profound and amazing. Even in the lowest points of this process - maybe even especially in those low points - I’ve been guided and haven’t felt shorted. I feel like this is what I needed in my life in this season to tap into my next level of who I’m called to be.
This doesn’t mean I haven’t cussed my way through this mess, but I see all there is to be grateful for. I see the many gifts.
After researching extensively and referencing my journal that tracks my life and my symptoms during these tough stages of my life, things began to come into focus for me.
Some of the symptoms I’ve faced
I’ve had very swollen lymph nodes in my neck, even when I wasn’t sick, and I’ve had perpetual laryngitis. If you listen back to the show, you’ll hear many times where my voice is hoarse, and that was after anywhere from 2-5 days with literally no voice whatsoever. I’d have to cancel all calls and couldn’t even communicate with Michael or the kids.
In one year, this happened 5 times. It was starting to get a little scary for me because no one could tell me what it was stemming from.
Fast forward to learning more about the dangers of root canals
It’s all interconnected.
A root canal is the only procedure in medicine that keeps dead tissue in the body. When the appendix dies, we take it out. When a baby is born, it’s dangerous for any of the placenta to be left inside the mother because that becomes dead tissue, and can cause an infection that can kill the mother.
In tests of thousands and thousands of removed root canals, 100% of them were riddled with dangerous bacteria and inflammatory molecules. Streptococcus, treponema, prevotella, fusobacterium, etc.
When these bacteria grow in the root canal, the conditions in the dead tooth can cause these bacteria to become more dangerous than how they would naturally occur in the mouth.
Many of these, when they spread or further infect, are linked with diseases like Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cancer, Parkinson’s, ALS, MS and other autoimmune diseases like Hashimoto’s.
And because each tooth in your mouth sits on a different meridian in the body, it will affect whatever that meridian is directly connected to.
For example, most women (98%) of women with breast cancer have had a root canal or dental worked tooth on the same side of the body as their breast cancer. Some teeth sit on meridians or energy channels connected to the breast.
Others sit on meridians that connect to the heart, hence why root canals are the top cause of heart attacks in men.
There is no way to completely remove all the dead tissue from the tooth. There is no way to sterilize the tooth, thus leaving bacteria in the tooth. The materials used to fill the hollowed out tooth leak and cause problems “downstream.”
Unfortunately, this isn’t exclusive to root canals
Some fillings have mercury, for example.
Permanent retainers can cause a lot of these symptoms.
Wisdom teeth that were removed even eons ago, can lead to cavitations in the sites of the removal. Sometimes the ligament under the tooth wasn’t fully removed leading to major infection in the jaw.
The symptoms for this can seem like they have nothing to do with your teeth. And no: for ALL of these problems, you don’t have to have any signs or pain in your mouth specifically for there to be a major problem brewing!
Some people have shoulder pain, back pain, hand tingling, stomach issues, or any of the symptoms I’ve mentioned, and so much more!
I’m going in for a root canal removal
They will extract my tooth, clean out my jaw and the infected bone, take my blood, spin it, and inject stem cells back into my jaw to help bone heal.
I will then use ozone therapy and let it heal for a few months.
All of this is being done with a biological dentist.
There are many things contributing to the rise of disease and sickness in our world
Our food system
GMOS and pesticides
Vaccines
Medication
The list is long.
But new to my list as I dive in teeth first, is dental health.
Which is crazy for me, because my hubs always jokes about how crazy I am with my teeth. I floss 1-2x every day and brush 3 times per day.
So what does it look like from here?
I’ve tried a lot of things.
And although I got mostly positive feedback and support, I also get the unresearched comments of “See, none of that natural stuff works,” or, “You can just take a pill.”
Which is fine. Unfortunately, most people are unaware of the power we have in our own bodies.
Every single thing I did was a viable and wise option. But when you have a source of toxins continuously in your body, no matter how much you detox, it’s still going to pull from that source. That’s why I’d feel better initially, but then decline again. Ultimately, until I got to that root cause, the problem would still be there.
And to think they wanted to just put me on meds.
If you’re willing to fight for yourself, there’s always a way to unearth truth for you
It won’t be fast or easy, but it will allow for optimization of your body based on what that looks like for your body, not a one-size-fits-all bandaid.
Since I’ve learned all this, I actually stopped detoxing protocols, knowing that it wouldn’t work for me right now and would draw out more of the toxins from the tooth.
Instead, I have been doing healing protocols to support my body until this tooth is out, and then I will shift back into detoxification: using the sauna, dry brushing, detoxing baths, gallbladder cleanse.
Because I have Hashimoto’s, what I eat is very important too. So no gluten, dairy, sugar or soy, which I don’t typically eat anyway.
That way I can work on healing my leaky gut.
Let me remind you of something…
This process has been long and arduous and completely worth it.
You know why?
Because I know what I want.
I know I want health, vibrance, energy, clarity, life. Not just the absence of disease but to thrive.
It has taken years of effort and strife and failures, only to get up and try something again, even when I’m so damn tired I’m literally crawling to the bathroom.
But I know what I want.
If someone was to tell me this will take me ten years to heal from… would I still fight for it? Heck yes I would.
Because I know what I want, and I know who I am.
Who I am is someone who is willing to take the most unconventional and challenging paths to get to where I’m called to go.
Even when it’s lonely or tiring or expensive or seemingly impossible.
Even when I can’t find the answer on Google.
Even when I have to advocate for myself against the experts who might have more traditional education than I do in this area.
Why do I share that?
Because that is the road to the life YOU claim you want more than anything.
It will be lined with failures and fatigue and people telling you you’re doing it wrong. It will be hard and tiring and time consuming and expensive.
This is why so few people ever actually live the life they say they want.
Be a part of the small percentage of people who actually DO what so few are willing to do. When you come to the end of your road, you’ll know you covered all ground. You did it all. You fought and you set the expectation that it wasn’t just about the destination but who you were becoming in the process.
So yes, I’m years into this journey, and I may have years to go, but I’m all in.
This journey was made for me and I was made for this.
Stay tuned for Part 3 soon where I will talk about life post tooth removal. I will share if I see any changes, how I feel, and the next steps.
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