Rebuilding My Health Radio

We're kicking off the year with a powerful and inspiring interview. When Heather struggled with life-threatening mental health challenges at 15, absolutely no one suspected Lyme disease - despite her being bitten by a tick two years earlier. That was accompanied by bodywide pain, overwhelming fatigue, brain fog and memory loss, and gut dysfunction. It would take more than 20 years of struggle, inc...

If you are someone you know is struggling with hair loss, this episode will offer lots of insights. Today I'm talking with Julie Olson about her personal natural health success story and particularly about women's hair loss. Julie was working in her dream job in California when health challenges upended that. First, her mom was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. Then Julie hit her own health ro...

Have you ever been told that, despite feeling bad, your labwork looks totally normal? Today's episode will be particularly insightful for women in their 30s-50s, but also holds some essential health insights no matter what stage of life you're in. Today I'm talking with Dr. Inna Lozinskaya, MD. Like many women, Dr. Inna began experiencing health issues in her 30s, including fatigue, sleeplessness,...

Today's episode is one of the most touching and transformative stories we've had the honor of capturing. We originally featured today's guest, Shannon Pickering, in our online magazine , and boy, does she have a story. Health challenges began for her at age 12 and progressed from there. By the time she was 44, she had been diagnosed with systemic lupus, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, endometriosis, a...

I'm excited to bring you today's guest, Maria Rickert Hong. In the last episode we spoke with a mom who found resolutions for her sons' autism, and PANS/PANDAS. Today's guest, Maria, also helped guide her sons out of multiple health struggles. Long story short, early on, one of her sons showed signs of sensory processing disorder, digestive issues, developmental delays and other health concerns. A...

I'm excited to bring you today's guest, Lauren Lee Stone. It's a really honest and insightful discussion about how she navigated health challenges for two of her sons, who are both thriving adults today. It's a story of finding the root causes behind her son's autism diagnosis and then later PANS and PANDAS diagnoses for two of her sons. In my talk with Lauren, you'll hear… The health concerns tha...

Today we've brought back Angela Privin. We've featured her IBS story on our site at rebuildingmyhealth.com and captured her anxiety success story in episode #5. Today, Angela is sharing more about her IBS story. She was a reporter in her late 20s in NYC when her digestion started slowing down with constipation and bloating. Doctors diagnosed her with IBS - and told her it was incurable - but Angel...

In this week's episode, I'm talking with another inspiring woman, Lori Balue. These days, Lori does half marathons and hikes the Grand Canyon. She's aging adventurously and beautifully as she approaches 60. But in her 30s, she never could have imagined she would feel well enough to do any of this. Back then, she had asthma, allergies, polycystic ovarian syndrome, infertility, brain fog, pre-diabet...

I'm excited to bring you our second interview with a long-hauler. If you missed the last one, check out episode 35 for my interview with Beth O'Hara. Today I'm talking with Jessica Drummond, who is founder and CEO of the Integrative Women's Health Institute. She's here to share her personal long-haul story. At the time she caught the virus, she was super active and fit. But it left her with extrem...

In this episode, I talk with Beth O'Hara, who shares her personal long-haul recovery story. What's unique is that she's also a naturopath who brings a lot of knowledge to the situation. In January of 2020, before anyone thought the virus was in the US, Beth became really ill with what was later confirmed to be COVID-19. She had difficulty breathing, achiness, and severe fatigue that lasted about t...

In this episode, I'm talking with Jill Foos, who generously shares her hair loss and regrowth journey with us – the ups and downs, what worked and what didn't work in ultimately getting solid hair regrowth. Hair loss is surprisingly common in women and can be a very frustrating experience that's difficult to solve. Jill has been on this journey for more than 20 years, but in the past year, has fou...

In this episode, I talk with Leigh Schoener, a mom and health coach who's discussing the ways that her daughter, Lauren, found relief from POTS symptoms. POTS stands for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a condition characterized by a heart rate increase of 30 beats per minute (bpm) or more, or over 120 bpm, soon after standing. But a number of other symptoms are associated with th...

In this episode, I'm talking with Kimberly Anne Richardson, who recovered from mold toxicity, Lyme disease and other health challenges. What a journey she's been on from bedbound to now helping others recover from environmental illnesses like Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and heavy metal toxicity. In my talk with Kimberly, you'll hear… How she eventually uncovered mold toxicity as a primary cause o...

In this episode, I'm talking with Marc Isaacson, who shares his family's fascinating personal story around epilepsy. At age 8, his daughter Tess suddenly had a frightening Grand Mal seizure. Then, she continued experiencing seizures regularly, mostly at night. As the owner of an integrative pharmacy, Marc vowed to find out why the seizures had come on so suddenly. It took several years, and exhaus...

In this episode, I'm talking with Dr. Judy Seeger, a naturopath who stopped her own migraines, healed Lyme disease, and resolved a number of other health struggles naturally. Judy's many health challenges started at an early age. And after seeing four family members die of cancer, she chose a different path. Judy Seeger has been in alternative medicine for 30 years, and as a naturopath, ran two ho...

In this episode, I'm talking with Shivan Sarna, who's a leading voice in educating others about SIBO, or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. We've captured several episodes about SIBO to show how folks treat it differently. It's a really common cause of diarrhea, constipation, gas and bloating. Shivan Sarna is the author of Healing SIBO, TV Host, and the creator of the SIBO SOS® Summits and Com...

In this week's episode, we're talking with Margaret Romero, who shares her stunning lupus turnaround story. After a sudden and dramatic health crash, she received a lupus nephritis diagnosis and was told she would likely be on the kidney transplant list in five years. Instead, she's thriving and no longer has any signs of lupus. She can even be in the sun again, which is something that lupus patie...

In this episode, I talk with Alison Marras, who shares her personal story of reaching remission from Hashimoto's disease, along with healing SIBO and parasites. In her mid-20s, Alison was working long hours in the corporate world in New York City, was newly married and hoping to start a family. But soon, she experienced frustrating health issues such as hair loss and digestive distress. At one poi...

Today we have an information-packed, inspiring episode with Dana Kay. It's another example of how finding underlying root causes can turn around a seemingly chronic condition. When Dana's son was young, she knew he seemed more active and energetic than other kids. But it was more than that. He was impulsive, defiant and had frequent meltdowns that left the entire family feeling overwhelmed and hop...

Feel like you need a dictionary to read food labels? Well, this week's guest has made a career out of educating others on which sneaky food additives and ingredients to avoid to reclaim and protect their health. These days, Mira Dessy is known as The Ingredient Guru. But she was once happily working as a database administrator. Then, health issues snowballed to the point where she could no longer...

Alissa Frazier was in college when she first began experiencing odd symptoms. She felt an electrical-type shock run down her neck along her spine and developed optic neuritis. Plus she had aches and pains that seemed odd for someone in her early 20s. After extensive testing, doctors diagnosed her with the autoimmune disorder, multiple sclerosis, or MS. To manage symptoms, she tried daily injection...

Elizabeth Yarnell was two weeks shy of her 30th bday when she woke up suddenly blind in one eye. She went through testing, and very rapidly, was diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder, multiple sclerosis. She was told she would probably be in a wheelchair within 10 years. Her health crash was sudden and stunning. Leading up to that, she had experienced tingling in her fingers, but hadn't thought a...

Is it possible to see clearly without glasses, contacts or surgery? Today's guest personally fixed her poor vision multiple times – naturally – and has gone on to help countless others do the same. Claudia Muehlenweg began wearing glasses at age 3…then no longer needed them in her teens. When her vision deteriorated two more times later on, again she turned to natural practices to correct it. Her...

Could symptoms such as extreme fatigue, difficulty losing weight and brain fog be related to your thyroid? For Dr. Emily Kiberd, the cause was Hashimoto's disease, an autoimmune thyroid condition. Though she had endured tons of testing, she didn't discover Hashimoto's until a functional medicine doctor tested for thyroid antibodies. Emily made lifestyle changes to begin repairing and reversing Has...

If you have struggled with endometriosis or know someone who has, this episode offers tons of insight into how to treat endometriosis naturally – and effectively. Today, I'm talking with Dr. Erika Gray, who experienced life-limiting endometriosis beginning in her teens. That's when endometriosis began causing extreme pain and exhaustion for her. Surgery followed by birth control pills brought very...