This week I would like you to meet Heather Gray, a Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist and Bioenergetic Practitioner specializing in supporting clients with chronic and complex illnesses such as Lyme disease, mold toxicity and autoimmune diseases. With over 32 years of personal experience, she understands the struggles of living with these conditions and is dedicated to helping others find relief. As an author, speaker, and stand-up comedian, she wants to inspire, educate and enterta...

This week, Kerri Rivera is back to continue the conversation about chlorine dioxide, recovering kids from autism, and so much more. I learned about Kerri's work using chlorine dioxide (aka CD, aka MMS) to help children recover from autism in 2012, at which point I decided I needed to know more. After digging into the research, I became convinced of its safety and potential benefit for complex, chronic infections, and I decided to use it on myself. The rest is...well, the rest you can learn ab...

Kerri Rivera is a homeopath, a mother of a brain-injured child, and a maelstrom of controversy.She is also one of my personal heroes.I learned about Kerri's work using chlorine dioxide (aka CD, aka MMS) to help children recover from autism in 2012, at which point I decided I needed to know more. After digging into the research, I became convinced of its safety and potential benefit for complex, chronic infections, and I decided to use it on myself. The rest is...well, the rest you can learn a...

This week I would like to introduce you to Anni Powell.Anni Powell is a registered nurse, lifetime musician, CranioSacral therapist, and nature lover. She has practiced as an RN since 2011 with a background in cardiac intensive care, progressive step down care, family medicine, and currently serves as a hospice nurse, certified CranioSacral therapist, and music performer. She began studying CST in 2020 with the Upledger Institute, opened her own practice in 2022, and completed the CST techniq...

Over the past week I have shared some of what happened to my brain in 2022, during or shortly after an elective surgery on my neck. As I was crafting those emails, I was thinking about how we've never had a guest on the Podcast who'd recovered their brain after such an injury. Given my close work with brain-injured kids and Lymies with brain fog, it dawned on me that hey, we need one! And then it dawned on me that maybe I am that guest. So that's who you're getting this week. I hop...

This week I am excited to introduce you to my new friend, Dr. Amy Offutt.Dr. Offutt is an extensively trained Integrative Medicine physician who treats patients with complex health issues using a wide array of individualized strategies for healing. She cherishes her relationships with her patients and approaches her care, viewing each patient as a whole person. Her goal is to partner with patients to empower them to regain vitality, strength, mental clarity, energy, purpose, and a desire to s...

This week I want you to meet one of my favorite people on the planet, Dr. Kristann Heinz.Dr. Heinz is a medical doctor (MD) board-certified with the American Academy of Family Medicine, the American Board of Integrative-Holistic Medicine and the American Board of Physician Specialties in Integrative Medicine. She is also a registered dietician (RD), a physician acupuncturist and a certified practitioner with the Institute for Functional Medicine. She received her B.S. in Nutrition Science at ...

I am absolutely delighted to have you meet this week's guest, Dr. Heather Sandison.Dr. Heather Sandison is a distinguished naturopathic doctor who has devoted her career to providing compassionate care and innovative solutions to those affected by dementia. Renowned for her pioneering work, Dr. Sandison has integrated groundbreaking, holistic, and multimodal interventions, seamlessly creating clinical, residential, research, and educational platforms. Her dedication has not only transformed t...

This week I am delighted for you to meet my new friend, Kat Romett. Kat Romett is a Licensed Reflexology Practitioner, musician, & mother of 2 boys. She and her family currently reside in Montgomery County, PA. Through her journey with parenting a child with special needs, Kat has learned the importance of self care & holistic health. She sees the benefits reflexology has in creating peace in the body, which in turn creates peace in stress-filled environments. Kat has a special intere...

This week I am delighted for you to meet one of my mentors, Dr. Neil Nathan. Neil Nathan, MD has been practicing medicine for over 50 years, and has been Board Certified in Family Practice and Pain Management and is a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and a Founding Diplomate of ISEAI. He is also the author of several books, including Healing is Possible: New Hope for Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Persistent Pain, and Other Chronic Illnesses...

This week I am super excited to introduce you to my new friend, Caroline Alan.Caroline Alan is the co-founder and CEO of BEAM Minerals, but like many of my guests on the podcast, she came to her current focus on health and wellness through a debilitating mystery illness that shook her on all limbs of her tree. Coming from a career in the corporate world, Caroline found herself struggling physically, mentally and energetically. During her circuitous journey back to health, Caroline encoun...

This week I would like to introduce you to Stephen Davis.For years Stephen Davis tried everything to find help for his daughterand her two children. Huge amounts of time and money did little tobring results. So he began his own search, which ultimately led him to frequencies, the topic of our episode today.As an innovator and entrepreneur, he started his journey with science.He discovered the connection between good health and the fact that thecells in our bodies communicate through frequenci...

This week I am excited to share the seventh interview I had with Meghan Tveit, who is now a fourth year medical student (MS4). In this conversation she tells us about her family medicine rotation, her last rotation as a third year student. She also gives us a glimpse into what her fourth year will look like. It has been awhile since we have heard from Meghan, so in case you need a reminder of who she is, and what she is up to, read on!Meghan Tveit is now a fourth year medical student at Georg...

This week's talk is with Chloe Weber, a dear friend who I met several years ago in my work as the Medical Director of the Family Hope Center. Our meeting was not coincidental. Chloe's son, Remy, suffers from an extremely rare genetic disorder that causes seizures, and she had sought us out to explore unconventional options to heal her child's brain.Remy, like so many of the kids I see at the FHC, chose his mom wisely. He chose a mom who would go to bat for him, doggedly searching for the root...

Dr. Klinghardt has been a leader in the field of tick-borne infections, autoimmunity, and complex medically mysterious illnesses for over 30 years.Dr. Klinghardt is a physician of incredible brilliance, scientific rigor, compassion, and intuition: a rare combination in today's doctors. His annual seminars, which I attended regularly before the pandemic, brought together the most cutting-edge researchers and practitioners from the fields of Lyme, autism, mold injury, PANS and PANDAS, chemical ...

This week I brought in my longtime friend fellow Yale Swammer, Nicole DeBoom. You may remember Nicole because she interviewed me for the trailer of the Healing Grove Podcast way back when. Well, she is back to interview me again because, at the time of this conversation, I was about to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to swim through the Greek Cyclades islands with some swim buddies from college. This opportunity came to me seemingly out of the blue last fall, and though I can't say...

Over the past several years, a number of programs for retraining the limbic portion of the brain have popped up. I've leaned into a few of them, including the Gupta Program, DNRS with Annie Hopper, and my friend, Liz Stanley's MMFT. All of these are great programs, and have helped countless people regain their health using tools that fall under the category of "limbic retraining."Recently, I came across a new kid on the block: Primal Trust, created by Cathleen King, DPT--aka, "Dr. Cat."Even t...

This week I want to introduce you to my friend, Lisa Markovits. Lisa is a singer, musician, and activist, who has made it her life's mission to help women who have suffered through trauma and unhealthy relationships to journey back to self-love through art and self-expression. She is doing that through her company Own It Baby! and her newly launched course From Caterpillar to Butterfly: Shepherding Women from Trauma to Joy.You can learn more about that course right here:https://kristinreihman...

This week I want you to meet my friend, Dr. Emily Kostelnik, the Vestibular Psychologist. Vestibular disorders are very debilitating and I see them all too often in my practice. I found Emily on Instagram several months ago and realized very quickly that I needed to have her come talk to my audience. If you are suffering from chronic dizziness or balance issues, my hope is that you will be encouraged and empowered listening to Emily share her story of healing. Here is more about Em...

This week I want you to meet my friend and colleague, Beth Shirley. Beth is a pharmacist and certified clinical nutritionist who has been a pioneer in the field of Integrative Pharmacy. Through her work in this field, she has developed an in-depth knowledge of the use of nitric oxide. It turns out that this molecule is quite beneficial to everyone’s health and in this talk Beth gives us a full run-down on how it works and who should be using it. To order nitric oxide products at a discount,...

This week I am thrilled to introduce you to my new friend, Irma Jennings. Irma is a Holistic Bone Coach, but I like to think of her as a "bone whisperer," because she really understands the deepest desires of our skeletal scaffold. Moreover, she is really, really expert at explaining things in ways that are simple, clear, and medically accurate.   With over 13 years of specialized experience in bone health, she provides comprehensive, evidence-based education to her coaching clients so that...

This week I am excited to share the sixth interview I had with Meghan Tveit, MS3. In contrast to previous episodes, some of which involved Meg looking like she would rather have been horizontal, this time we caught up with her during a 4 week elective rotation, as she studies for her Step 2 Medical Exam. In our conversation, Meghan reflected back on her 8-week rotation in internal medicine, and also gave us a synopsis of what she is hoping that her fourth year as a medical student will look...

In honor of celebrating the release of our 75th episode of the Healing Grove Podcast, I have a very special guest to introduce to you: Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD.   Dr. Klinghardt has been a leader in the field of tick-borne infections, autoimmunity, and complex medically mysterious illnesses for over 30 years.   If you've been in my circle for any length of time, or read my e-book, then you know that Dr. Klinghardt was one of my earliest teachers in the Lyme and complex mystery illness...