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Episode 12: Shannon Kenitz, Executive Director of the IHA | Grace is Her Superpower
On this episode of Into The Light with Cray Cait, I welcome a force to be reckoned with, a literal superwoman behind all things hyperbaric oxygen, and an amazing advocate for Edna and I and our clinic.


It's Shannon freakin' Kenitz, Executive Director of the International Hyperbaric Association (IHA). 


We are her first stop on a nationwide tour of Hyperbaric Oxygen Clinics to raise awareness for this incredible therapy and to help people take control of their own health. 


The IHA is a non-profit that promotes the use of hyperbaric oxygen for off label indications, focusing on conditions such as autism, cerebral palsy, stroke, and Parkinson's disease. The IHA supports many different types practitioners and clinics in order to help make Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) more accessible to everyone. They also fund research and treatments for families that can't afford HBOT.  


 


Shannon's Story
Shannon's HBOT journey started when her daughter, Grace, was diagnosed with a very rare mitochondrial disease, and her doctors told Shannon to let her daughter go.


But Shannon didn't give up. She knew that she had to do everything she possibly could before she would let Grace go. So she traveled from Wisconsin to Florida to start her daughter on HBOT. 


Although Grace was not expected to live past the age of 2, she just turned 22 this March. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy saved Grace's life, it gave Shannon her family back, and ultimately led her to taking over the IHA. 


There are so many more stories just like Grace's and the experience had led Shannon on a mission of educating the world on the benefits of HBOT and helping people understand that they can, and need to be, advocates for their own health. 


HBOT can help with a wide variety of neurological conditions, mental health conditions, addiction, GI issues, anti-aging, sports injuries, and so much more. Shannon has heard from too many families who have been inspired by her story, that have lost members of their own family, who just wish they had known about HBOT. 


It's time people knew!


 


Episode Links:
Shannon Kenitz


IHA


2021 IHA Conference


In Light Hyperbarics


Business Over Beer 


TH3 Entertainment


Imperfectly thrive in a toxic world


 


Special Thanks to our Episode Sponsor:


This episode is brought to you by Dr. Kate Wiggin, Chief Medical officer of Naturopathic Health ConneXion and In Light Hyperbarics in Vancouver Washington. 


If you are you looking for a doctor that will listen to your concerns and address your unique medical issues, let Dr Kate and her more than 3 decades of medical training help you with your pain, inflammation, auto-immune disease, traumatic brain injury, cancer or any other complex medical issue with services ranging from Naturopathic and Homeopathic Medicine, IV Therapy, Light therapy, and Hyperbaric Oxygen.


Contact Dr. Kate so you can start feeling better today at 360-213-1226 or DrKateWiggin.com


Dr. Kate treats people, not diseases!

Episode 11: Living in a Toxic World & How to Reduce Your Toxic Burden


After my amazing interview with Dr. Alexander Borsand in Episode 10, there was still so much that I wanted to cover about living in a toxic world. The fact is we are surrounded by toxins of all kinds, some we can control and others we can't. 


I know that this may feel like like a dark and gloomy topic, but remember, I am giving you this information so you can be empowered to take control of your health. There is so much that we can control from within and implementing just a few of the suggestions in this episode can make a huge difference in the way you feel.  


And as always, remember, perfection is not the goal. It's about gaining the knowledge to do better for ourselves. 


We have the power friends!


 


Notes to help you tap into your inner healer:


This episode focuses on physical toxins. 

Physical toxins are man made toxins in our environment that might be impacting our health. 

Understanding of the toxins that you encounter on a daily basis, you might realize that some health condition you have been experiencing may be a result of toxic overload that you can work to eliminate. 

More than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic ingredients, nutritional deficiencies, and lack of physical exercise. 

Skin care and household cleaning products fall into three categories: carcinogens, endocrine disrupters, neurotoxins. 

If you can't eat it, don't put it on your skin.

Toxic overload can lead to depression and daily detox habits can have a huge positive impact on mental health. 

Why are we such a sick society? Here are some common toxins to be aware of:
Plastics, food that comes in plastic, aluminum cans, amalgam tooth fillings, microwaves, tap/unfiltered water, processed foods, skin care products, household cleaning products

The Toxic 12





When looking to detoxify, it's best eliminate your toxic intake first, then replace with positive daily detox habits. 

Detox with caution, ease into it. 

Take your power back with daily detox habits:
Start with habits that improve your circulation. 

Repair you gastrointestinal system with probiotics, aloe vera, bone broth, collagen, celery juice, apple cider vinegar and clean water with lemon or cucumber. 

Daily Body Movement, like simple walking or yoga. Sweat promotes the release of toxins from your body. 

Detoxifying foods: Garlic, ginger, onions, turmeric/turmeric lattes, beets, cruciferous vegetables (glutathione), greens (chlorophyll), herbal teas.

Other detoxifying therapies: IV Therapy, chelation therapy, infrared sauna, dry skin brushing, and coffee enema. 







 


Crazy Cait's Apple Cider Vinegar Detox Tea Recipe:


Warm/hot water

1 shot of organic apple cider vinegar

1/2 a fresh lemon squeezed

teaspoon of honey

dash of cinnamon

dash of cayenne pepper (optional)


 


CLICK HERE FOR AN AMAZING RESOURCE that allows you to see what toxic ingredients are in your every day products; beauty, cosmetics, skincare, foods, etc. Also, and can type in your area code to see what contaminants are currently in your tap water!


 


Feed your wellness challenge:


Eliminate/Reduce 2 toxic habits. 

Add in 1 new daily detox habit. 


As always, let me know how it's...

Episode 10 with Dr. Alexander Borsand | Living imperfectly healthy in a toxic world
On this episode of Into The Light with Crazy Cait, I welcome Dr. Alexander Borsand, M.D., a board certified physician in lifestyle medicine (ABLM). Lifestyle Medicine is about preventing, treating, and often times reversing, chronic disease and Dr. Borsand's main goal is working with his patients to get them off medication.  


I met Dr. Borsand recently at a Hyperbaric Oxygen Training Seminar, and we had an amazing discussion about creating daily detoxification habits to managing all the high level of toxins that we are surrounded with on a daily basis.  


Toxins are very real, and unfortunately, very unavoidable, in todays world and contribute to chronic disease. Avoiding and removing certain toxins from our life can have incredible health benefits. We only just scratched the surface, but Dr. Alexander provides a wide range of very practical and actionable steps that you can implement today to help you tap into your inner healer. 


 


Notes to help you Tap Into Your Inner Healer:


Even as an Allopathic trained physician, Dr. Alexander recognizes some of the shortfalls of Western Medicine and has worked with other medical communities on ways to treat root cause.  

When we talk about removing toxins from your life, we're not talking about one time or trendy detox diets, we're talking about daily lifestyle changes. 

Top toxic contributors:
Air pollution - understanding that air pollution can move from state to state, even country to country, and educating ourselves on the causes and effects of air pollution and working with our governmental officials on improving air quality in our communities. 

Water - know what's in your water, choose filtration that works for you, stay hydrated. 

Nutrition - food is medicine, and medicine can be good or bad for you; gut health is extremely important to overall wellness, the gut biome is your second brain. 





Ways to promote your body's natural ability to detoxify:
Sunscreen - the sunscreen that's best for you is the one you'll use. 

Increase antioxidants like vitamin c and vitamin e (especially good for the skin). 

Sweat - Promotes the release of toxins out of your cells and brings them out through your skin. Physical activity, and sauna, especially infrared sauna, which heats you up from the inside out vs a regular steam sauna which heats you up from the outside in. 

Educating ourselves - Increase your awareness of what's going into your body, what is actually good and actually bad. 

Fiber - It is very difficult to get enough fiber from diet alone, use psyllium husk supplpements and add bran fiber to your diet.  

Green tea extract - Helps with enzymes in your liver. 

Chlorophyll -  Helps with the oxygenation of your cells.

The Importance of Oxygen: Our bodies need 3 things to live: food, water, oxygen. If we stop eating food we can live for weeks, maybe months. If we stop drinking water we can live for days. If we stop taking in oxygen, we can only live for minutes, and our body has no reserve for it. 





Understand that balance does not exist; think of a teeter totter, it constantly goes up and down and it never sits there and equalizes; we need to start thinking in terms of harmony, not balance



 


Episode links:


Serenity Hyberbaric Center


Lifestyle Medicine


Dr. Jason Sonners


Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)


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On this episode of Into The Light with Crazy Cait, I welcome back my business partner, Edna Ness, to discuss light therapy, what is it, how it works, who would benefit from it and the history of where it originated from. 


I have always been a sun-worshiper at heart, how it helps the planet and gives us humans the energy to thrive. And in a world where natural therapies of all kinds are definitely on the rise, light therapy is freaking essential. Never would I have imagined that therapeutic sunshine is how I would help impact humanity for the better.


But here I am, so let's freakin' send it!


 


Notes to help you Tap Into Your Inner Healer:


Just like the sun helped to create life on this planet, it was light that brought Edna and I together as business partners as well.

You might think that Light Therapy is kind of woo woo, but the power of light to heal has been around for thousands of years. 

Light increases circulation, decreases pain and inflammation, and promotes energy at the cellular level. 

Light photons are required by every single cellular activity, and provides your body energy to function. 

You should question if any of your health conditions might be connected to a lack of light in your system. 

Lack of natural light combined with overexposure to artificial light can cause a wide variety of health problems.  

Light is the best way to help your nervous system relax, get you into a parasympathetic state, and out of fight or flight mode. 


 


Feed Your Wellness Challenge:


Get more light. Here are a few ideas to help you:


Get outside and enjoy more sunshine

Explore options for therapeutic light. 

It's easy to get stuck in our routines of being indoors, but we need to let the light shine on our bodies. Allow the sun to be absorbed through your skin, take off your sunglasses so you can take it in through your eyes.  

Open your windows to allow natural light to come in and even light candles in the evening. 


Reduce artificial light exposure, including screen time, and especially at night.








As always, let me know how it's going, what's working for you and what's been most challenging.  DM me on Instagram at IntoTheLight.Podcast or email me at hello@intothelightwithcrazycait.com


 


Episode Links:


Into the Light Podcast


In Light Hyperbarics


Dr. Kate Wiggin


The Naked Winery


The Healing Art of Spectro-Chrome


 


This episode is brought to you by:


Dr. Kate Wiggin, Chief Medical officer of Naturopathic Health ConneXion and In Light Hyperbarics in Vancouver Washington. 


If you are you looking for a doctor that will listen to your concerns and address your unique medical issues, let Dr Kate and her more than 3 decades of medical training help you with your pain, inflammation, auto-immune disease, traumatic brain injury, cancer or any other complex medical issue with services ranging from Naturopathic and Homeopathic Medicine, IV Therapy, Light therapy, and Hyperbaric Oxygen.


Contact Dr. Kate so you can start feeling better today at 360-213-1226 or DrKateWiggin.com


Dr. Kate treats people, not diseases!

Speaking your truth is such an important part tapping into your inner healer and this podcast, and the one person who has shown me the importance of speaking my truth is my ex mother-in-law(ish), and my business partner, Edna Ness.

I couldn't be here, sharing this podcast with you, without Edna at my side, and I am so happy to share her with all of you in this episode.

On this episode of Into The Light with Crazy Cait, I am shaking things up a bit and we're going to have some fun talking about Aliens.

First off, what do Aliens have to do with health, wellness and taping into your inner healer?!

Well, this is a topic that I have not always be comfortable talking about, and anytime you prevent yourself from speaking your truth or from showing up as your authentic self, you can negatively impact your wellbeing. 

So today, I am speaking my truth.