The Deeper Healing Podcast

PFAS in the water. Pesticides on the plate. Plastic in nearly everything. Rules about what you're allowed to buy — and even what you're allowed to read — that seem to change every year. The more you learn, the easier it is to feel like nothing you do could possibly matter. Dr. Robert Verkerk has spent roughly 40 years working where health, ecology, and policy collide. His answer isn't...

"When I get a young person across from me, and they're like, 'I have extreme anxiety,' my first thought is: order a mycotoxin test." When a student heads off to college, parents pack the bedding, the mini fridge, and the shower caddy. Few think to look at the building itself. In this episode, Alex Fitzpatrick, PA-C, walks parents through the environments she monitors: college...

For decades, Claudia lived with debilitating chronic migraines that began after a severe car accident in her teens where she struck the dashboard. What started as sporadic headaches escalated into a constant daily struggle, a baseline pain that spiked into agonizing, ice-pack-and-dark-room migraines waking her at 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM. Despite 35 years of yoga, daily meditation, and a clean diet, he...

"I felt like I was truly a shell of a person... Doing the ExoMind treatments, I've completely come off of all medications. I feel like I used to feel. I got my brain back." Rebecca, in her own words. Following a 2020 traumatic assault, Rebecca's life abruptly shifted. Navigating severe PTSD and depression, she became emotionally flat, failed nursing school twice, and was placed on multiple psychia...

When an orthopedic surgeon specializing in knee replacements begins to notice that standard joint wear-and-tear doesn't always correlate with a patient's pain, it sparks a deeper quest for answers. Why do some with severe osteoarthritis report mild discomfort, while others with minimal damage suffer for years? In this episode, Danielle Howley sits down with Dr. Jo Ording, an orthopedic surgeon fro...

When faced with a life-threatening cancer diagnosis, conventional medicine's aggressive treatments can save your life—but they often leave your body reeling from the toxic aftermath. For musician Gino Castillo, leukemia and a fungal infection led to multiple surgeries, a splenectomy, and partial stomach amputation. He needed to "save his life from the treatments" that saved him, turn...

When a 12-year-old boy suddenly becomes overwhelmingly lethargic, it is easy to write it off as just normal teenage hormonal changes or growing pains. However, mother's intuition often knows when a symptom points to something much deeper. In this episode, Danielle Howley sits down with Jennifer, a mother who trusted her intuition when her son, Ham, experienced a dramatic drop in energy. A func...

For decades, the standard advice for reducing exposure to electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) was simply to "unplug the router" or move away from cell towers. Today, with 5G, AI data centers, and high-speed fiber optics, that advice falls short — there are virtually no Wi-Fi-free zones left. In this episode, Danielle Howley talks with Cory Hillis, founder of EMF Solutions. A former holist...

When dealing with a complex chronic illness like mold toxicity or heavy metal overload, the physical toll is often compounded by a massive financial burden. With high-deductible insurance plans routinely denying coverage for root-cause functional medicine, many patients are forced to choose between their health and their livelihood. In this episode, Danielle Howley sits down with Maggie Marlow, a...

When your doctor writes a prescription, you expect your pharmacy to fill it. But what happens when corporate wholesalers and big-box pharmacy executives step in to override your physician’s medical decisions? In this episode of The Deeper Healing Podcast, host Danielle Howley sits down with Chad, an independent pharmacy owner from Phoenix Pharmacy. Together, they pull back the curtain on the moder...

When a patient is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, conventional medicine often focuses primarily on managing symptoms through polypharmacy — prescribing medications to help replace lost dopamine. This episode explores a different question: what may be contributing to the underlying neuron loss in the first place? In this episode of The Deeper Healing Podcast, host Danielle Howley is joined...

Becca shares her personal recovery experience with severe immune suppression, Epstein-Barr Virus, and mold toxicity using the Rejuvenace™ protocol. One person's story. In her 20s, Becca was the picture of health—until COVID-19 sent her into a downward spiral. Her blood work showed alarmingly low immune cells (IgA), mirroring the start of her late mother's journey with severe autoimmunity a...

For over two decades, women and doctors alike have been told to fear estrogen. Following the widely publicized Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study in 2002, hormone therapy was abruptly halted for millions of women. But what if that fear was based on flawed science? In this episode, host Danielle Howley sits down with Dr. Janine Blackman, an MD and PhD with an extensive background in epidemiology...

Ruth Anne grew up in Pennsylvania and built her career around food — she was a young, talented chef who understood nutrition and ingredients better than most people ever will. So when her health began a slow, downward spiral after a back surgery in college, she did everything a food expert would do: she ate clean, she knew the science, and none of it explained why she kept getting sicker. By 2017,...

We are living through a mental health epidemic. ADHD, anxiety, autism, and depression are rising at alarming rates across all ages. Conventional medicine typically manages these conditions with psychiatric medications that suppress symptoms. But what if those symptoms result from severe neuroinflammation — and medications only put out the fire while the arsonist runs free? In this episode, Daniell...

Most people who are suffering from environmental toxicity never make the connection. The fatigue, the brain fog, the feeling that something is just off — it gets attributed to stress, age, or nothing at all. The source stays hidden. Mike had an advantage most people don't: he owned a cleaning company. He knew what he was around every day — the chemicals, the vapors, the plastics — and he suspe...

Angela's health struggles started in high school — unexplained heart palpitations, severe throat infections, chronic fatigue that never quite made sense. As a teacher working in an aging, mold-filled classroom, her symptoms escalated into chronic sinus infections, debilitating exhaustion, and eventually a diagnosis of Graves' disease. Conventional medicine managed the diagnosis. It didn&#3...

At just 12 years old, Nora contracted Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). For decades, she struggled with stamina — but by her 40s, it had developed into debilitating chronic fatigue and depression. She was living in what she calls a fragile box: needing daily naps, requiring days to recover from minor stressors, and watching her standard blood panels return completely normal year after year. In this episod...

Over the last century, tens of thousands of new chemicals have been introduced into our environment, water, and food supply. A landmark article in The Lancet has documented more than 140,000 new environmental chemicals introduced into the modern world. For many navigating chronic illness with no clear conventional diagnosis, this cumulative modern toxic burden may be the missing context behind the...

Kelly's struggle with severe skin sensitivities started when she was young — beginning with reactions to aluminum deodorants and eventually progressing into debilitating eczema on her hands. The condition became so severe that she wore white gloves daily because the skin on her hands would crack and bleed through the fabric. Conventional medicine offered steroid creams, bleach baths, and immun...

At 58 years old, Tim Turner couldn't turn the key in his own car. A healthy, active home builder just weeks earlier, Tim was suddenly unable to walk normally, lift his arms, or perform basic daily tasks. Within weeks of his first symptoms — muscle cramps, swelling, sudden full-body inflammation — he was diagnosed with severe rheumatoid arthritis and told he would likely need lifelong steroids...

Meghan was 16 — an athlete, a high-achiever, a healthy teenager — when her body began doing things no one could explain. What started as a sudden cascade of severe symptoms escalated rapidly into a 32-hour seizure, a ten-day coma, and the loss of her limbs and, for a time, her mind. Over twelve years, Meghan was admitted to the ICU more than 110 times, living with a feeding tube and using a wheelc...

What if the brain fog, fatigue, anxiety, and overwhelm so many people are experiencing today aren't random — but signals that the body has been carrying more than it was meant to hold? In this episode, Danielle Howley sits down with investigative journalist and environmental health expert Nick Pineault — The EMF Guy — for a conversation that is both scientifically substantive and quietly hopef...

Stark was the guy everyone counted on. A logistics consultant whose career was built on moving aircraft, ships, and freight across the globe — sharp, decisive, always three steps ahead. Then the brain fog crept in. Then the anxiety. Then the growing fear that the person he had always been was quietly slipping away. He tried the things people try. Supplements. Specialists. Lifestyle changes. Some h...

In Part 1, Chip shared how advanced testing at Deeper Healing finally identified the root causes behind years of suffering — heavy metal toxicity, gut dysfunction, and systemic inflammation that conventional medicine had completely missed. In Part 2, the conversation goes deeper. Chip is a contractor and cabinetry builder whose occupational history reads like a heavy metal exposure timeline: child...