 Hey, everybody, we're live. Please put in your questions. I'll be starting in just a minute or so while we're waiting for the audio here. Feel free to stop in, say hello, tell me where you're from. And I'm looking forward to your questions today live for the next 30 to 40 minutes. I'm here looking forward to hearing from you. Hey, Kimberly welcome. Everyone else is just joining us. I'm here live today to answer your questions this Friday afternoon. Go ahead and stop in, say hello, tell me where you're from. And I am looking forward to answering as many questions as I can in the next 30 to 40 minutes. It's great to see you all here. Please stop in say hello, tell me where you're from. And we are live. I wanted to start while you're all popping in and saying hello with just a little bit. Of an intro, I don't know if you've all heard, but my new book. Unexpected finding resilience through functional medicine science and faith is now available on Amazon Barnes and Noble target anywhere you get books. I am so excited for this. Again, if you've been following me, you know I've been working on this for a long time, literally years. And it's funny because when I went to the publisher, they said, you know, you're an unknown relative to famous people you can't tell your story you can't tell a memoir, you can't write a prescriptive memoir and I said, you know what, when we go through difficulties in life, we learn so much in the journey I know any of you who are listening can understand this. I have learned so much I've been through cancer in my 20s and Crohn's disease and auto meanity and mold related about tax and illness and so much of what I share in my passion for helping you as friend listener client patient whoever you are out there listening to me. First of all, thank you for joining me stop in say hello tell me where you're from. But so much of what I do is based on the fact that I've been there I have suffered I've been through lost all my hair through chemotherapy. And I just really have this depth of passion for bringing hope and healing to those of you are suffering. And so I share my journey here in the book. Very personal very raw, very deep into my journey what I've learned, but the great thing is there's all these places called sidebars. I'll show you an example here, where you just have really, really specific see the sidebar here. This is a specific carbohydrate diet so if you're suffering from Crohn's or colitis you can see here starts in this page it gets you really good ideas on like what to eat what to do how to cure that. So lots and lots of really practical advice as well for you in that state. And I wanted to share as we're just your guys are popping on here just a couple of tips and tricks and things. I want to talk a little bit about flow, but I also know I lost my place. But I wanted to talk a little bit about tips for reducing toxic stress. So many of us have toxic stress in our life now stress can be good because it can motivate us, it can encourage us to rise up to the occasion like stress is not all bad. The truth is that stress can be good and I want to talk a little bit about ways to reduce the toxic stress the stuff that feels overwhelming, the things that feel like we're drowning in here and I'm going to share that in just a minute. Continue to pop on say hello tell me where you're from. Hi Ruth, Hi Jeannie, Hi Angela, Hi Kimberly, Elizabeth Hello, Tamara Hello. Welcome everybody keep going ahead and put your questions in now because I will get to those in just a minute I promise I will jump right in there and get to those questions. If you want to get your own copy. I just started talking about the book. It's out March 7 you can pre order now. I've got tons of free bonuses, a free lecture, a free secret audio chapter a free coloring journal. If you've heard me talk at all you know how much I love coloring and how much it's helped me embrace my playful more childlike side, it's helped me be creative with writing and I literally created a coloring journal to go along with this and it's yours free with a purchase. You can go to read unexpected.com. So that's read unexpected.com and purchase from any retailer whichever one you like. And then, once you purchase you can go back and get all the freebies they're downloadable instantly. So please grab those. But anyway, today before we start I want to share just a little bit about reducing toxic stress. First, first thing to do is turn it down. Limiting social media and news consumption is such a big deal years ago. I used to read the I was in Chicago so it's a Chicago Tribune like cover to cover. And then one day I realized you know 90% of the news in the newspaper and on the television is negative or, or traumatic or difficult you know wars and killings and murders and all this awful stuff and as a sensitive person I realized why am I putting myself through that and I stopped watching the news and I stopped reading the newspaper. And I was like, it has changed my life in a really positive way. Same with social media there's so much filters and all these things that make us feel not enough, you know, like, oh my gosh so and so they live this beautiful life and we all know that's not true there's you know just these snippets from people's lives but I think social media in general can be really discouraging so when they get encouraged you to decrease toxic stress, reduce your time on the phone scrolling through social media, usually reduce your satisfaction, and then cut out the news, as much as possible don't subject yourself to those stories. Stay present. This is so huge and one of the reasons why I love writing my motorcycle and rock climbing and these adventurous things because in some of these kinds of adventures you absolutely like you're going to die if you don't stay present when you're writing your motorcycle or when you're climbing a rock and I actually like those kinds of adventures. Maybe some of you go surfing or maybe you walk on the beach or just anything you do to stay present. Hi, Cindy. Hello, Jeannie. Hello everybody who's joining us just now. I'm just going through a couple of tips and tricks and my new book to reduce stress it's called unexpected you can get your copy at redoneexpected.com. And then I promise I'm going to get right to your questions but I just want to give you guys some time to pop in and say hello and then putting your questions. Put it down stay present set boundaries. This is something I had to learn the hard way because I was terrible at setting boundaries. I was the people pleaser how many of you raise your hand say hello. If you're a people pleaser out there like me. I had to really learn to set boundaries, because what happens when we're highly sensitive we take on all the energy and if we don't have healthy boundaries. We tend to overwhelm ourselves right and that's toxic stress and this can be with loved ones, family members, all kinds of people that we love in our life, but setting those healthy boundaries. And one thing that I learned that was kind of a hard lesson was, I want people to be happy and I don't want to upset anyone right, but what I learned with healthy boundaries is usually a good boundary you're going to upset someone. That actually helped me set boundaries because I knew that you know if I set a good boundary like you know what no I'm sorry I can't do that for you or no I'm sorry you can't stay for three weeks at my house, or whatever it is whatever kind of boundary you set, often you upset people and just knowing that even though I hate upsetting people was helpful because I knew, oh this is just part of boundary setting. Hi Sandy. Hi Cindy, move your body this is another I'm just talking through if you're just joining me tips to reduce toxic stress. Another way is to we learn this with Peter Levine's work. And after a trauma often animals they shake their bodies you've ever seen your dog shake you know after they get wet or if they come in from the snow. They'll just shake, and it's almost like shaking off that trauma. So dancing walking moving hiking. These are all wonderful ways to basically discharge that stress from our bodies. If you haven't joined me on Instagram, it's Dr Jill Carnahan, you will see a hilarious video from about a week ago where I had some girlfriends over. We all put on these silly Dr Franz mask which makes which makes this look like we're like Friday the 13 characters or zombies. And then we were dancing around like totally shuffling in my living room and you can see that on my Instagram account just being totally silly but you know what we went home that night all of us. And we just had so much joy because we were able to just be with each other, you know be with good friends that company be present, and just dance and be silly and that's a really good way to decrease toxic stress choose to surrender. This is a hard one. But what part of my definition of faith in this book is being comfortable with the inevitable uncertainty of life of medicine of your health of your career of your relationships. It's really hard. And that uncertainty though is really when we get comfortable with that uncertainty and we can just surrender and trust that the divine has our back and that good things are coming. This is such a powerful way to reduce stress because most of the time at the root of stress is our a desire to control to hold tight to things and to like want to control the outcome and I am right with you if you're resonating I am a recovering control freak recovering perfectionist, but what I've learned in life is if I really let go. The kinds of magic and unexpected miracles that happen usually happen when I really surrender, even my book I'll tell you guys, I had on my heart to write my book and my story years ago like almost seven or eight years ago, and I had to really surrender the timetable to God and really just trust that it would work out in the right time. And here it is, almost eight years later my book is finally being published but that surrender allowed me to go through so many more experiences that I can share with you. So many more difficult relationships and things that I learned along the way, and the depth of the knowledge and the richness of this book would have never been that way had I not surrendered the timetable to the divine. And I said, Oh, I've got to do this in 2016 or 18 or whatever year that I first started to think about it I think it was 2016. So I'm just encouraging you this is tips for my book to reduce toxic stress surrender is a huge huge piece of it. Practice gratitude. This is a big one. Wake up every morning and life isn't always perfect right I'm human just like you with suffering and difficulty. But when I wake up I just, I'm so often like, who am I to get to live this life to get to impact patients to get to have friends to get to have wonderful family. Life is not perfect by any means, but I am so grateful for the things that I have the health the relationships, and any of you listening know if you've struggled with losing a job losing a loved one. It's hard, but there's always times no matter what you're going through where you can find things to be grateful for, and it really does shift perspective. And if any of you have been suffering from an illness, and you maybe go to the hospital one day or you talk to someone one day and realize oh my goodness they are way worse off than me that perspective sometimes allows you to shift and realize you know there's good. I remember being getting treated for cancer and being so sick, and yet I would see these people who are even more sick than I was and they were facing you know, even more dire straits. And that always just gave me perspective for compassion for their lot but also just gratitude so practice gratitude seek sunshine this is a pretty simple one. I'm in Illinois where I grew up where it's gray for six months of the year, you know not quite but out here in Colorado we have lots of sunshine the sunshine is such an uplifter of mood, and I'll tell you what's helped me. I've been wanting to get up earlier because I got in this habit of sleeping in a little bit more than I used to my dreamers have been tired, and what I did. I stepped out or can just got me this light that's you know, sunlight, and basically I turn that on when I get out of bed at 6am and I go sit by my light artificial light but it's like, it's like natural sunlight and it's amazing what it does to your circadian rhythms my mood changes my energy changes it's almost as good as a cup of coffee. So, those are my tips from unexpected stay tuned because every time I come on I'm going to be sharing some tips from here. And if you missed the first part of this, you can get your own copy at read unexpected calm order from any bookseller it's available now, and I've got tons of free bonuses on that page for you coloring journal audio secret chapter recorded and also a mass cell lecture, so lots of good stuff there okay hey everybody I'm going back to your questions now you're probably like Jill, get on with it let's get to our questions, please stop and say hello thanks for joining me and put your questions in. So, let's see. I'm just asked what kind of doctor am I I'm a medical doctor I'm actually trained in allopathic you know conventional medicine, but I have a much more heart of a holistic healer I like to find ways to help you heal and transform and reverse disease instead of just using drugs and surgery. I think there's a place for that but there's a lot more available so I am actually a real medical doctor. Hi Elizabeth, you're asking about oxalates how they might be tied to systemic fungal infections and mold. Oxalates are super common, if any of you haven't heard the term oxalates you can actually measure these in organic gases in your urine, order through a functional doctor and see if they're high. Now the thing about oxalates is these are the things that cause kidney stones so many of you who've had kidney stones might know well about these, and you might know from your doctor to reduce oxalates in your diet. What you might not know is what Elizabeth is asking about, and that is that oxalates typically come from either fungal Candida overgrowth in your body or mold exposure or mold in the body like aspergillus. Sometimes they can come from things like clostridia as well, but reducing oxalates is usually going to the root to the fungal issue or the mold issue, versus just reducing oxalates in the diet. There's a little shards of glass in your body so they can contribute to fibromyalgia to bladder pain or interstitial cystitis to joint pain fatigue I mean they can cause all kinds of symptoms. If you can imagine having little shards of glass in your body it's pretty painful not very fun, and they really do produce symptoms all over the body. So reducing oxalates in the diet can help, but oxalates are in really healthy good foods like almonds and spinach and blueberries. So I generally recommend don't cut them out and if you do cut them out you're going to feel a lot worse because you're going to be dumping oxalates. You may just want to reduce by 10 or 20% your oxalate consumption and then root work on the root cause and try to get that oxalate load down by treating the underlying fungal or mold overgrowth. Great question Elizabeth. Hi Patrick can mold excrete it's on its own without binder so yes, our body is created without binders without glutathione. First of all we produce glutathione but without any binders we do go through the process of phase one phase two in the liver excreting those toxins in the bile and excreting them out through the bowel sometimes we sweat them out there's many ways. So we do naturally excrete toxins without binders but here's the deal, your internal hepatic circulation what that means is that's the reabsorption so bile secreted from the gallbladder to help emulsify fats in the small bowel but it also contains cholesterol and contains mycotoxins and different toxins it's one of our storage places for toxic load. So when that bile goes into the intestine, it does some good things for our gut it helps you know digest fats it helps sterilize the small bowel. However, if we're just letting it go without binders we're very efficient at reabsorbing that bile like up to 95%. So it's like a miracle round if we don't use binders were more likely to just reabsorb that toxic load, and especially if you're prone to constipation or small intestinal liver growth. So I'm a huge fan of binders because it basically grabs with the electrostatic charge those toxins and helps escort them out through the stool, do you get increased efficiency of getting rid of the toxic load. So that's a great question. Hi Elizabeth again thanks for sharing. Oh thanks for your welcome thank you guys for listening. Hi Barbara. Hi Janice. If you treat marquans will it help with math. She's asking if marquans treating will help with chemical sensitivity. So, this is a little tricky marquans is an infection that co ag negative staff that gets in the nose, often with a mold exposure it can be from other causes. And for years and years with like shoemaker protocol we were trying to eradicate the marquans in the nose. We can use compound silver spray you may have heard of BeG, which is a compounded antibiotic spray with EDTA. EDTA is a natural chelating biofilm disruptor. And part of the reason that's so important to clear out the marquans from the sinuses is marquans itself will cause the MSH in your pituitary to drop MSH is incredibly important for gut integrity. We saw studies in mice that show the low MSH was associated with development of inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn's and colitis and many many other symptoms it also makes dysregulation of your hormones worse like aromatase up regulation with excess estrogen issues with adrenals and thyroid. So this MSH melanocyte stimulating hormone is often very low due to the marquans so eradicating marquans in that sense is very helpful, but many of the docs like myself and others at ICI one of the great organizations of docs treating mold, we believe that you do not have to eradicate marquans in order for a patient to get well. But your question, Jeannie, is will it help with chemical sensitivity? Really any lowering of the toxic load and lowering of infectious burden will help chemical sensitivity. But I would say just treating marquans may or may not make a direct big difference for multiple chemical sensitivity. Cindy from Pennsylvania, Tamara, what would you advise a person that has mast cells so bad they've stopped tolerating most foods react to everything close bed linens. Oh gosh this is so sad and so true she's feel like she'd been gaslighted by most doctors even her family. Okay, so, Tamara, this is a great question and first of all to your friend, or if any of you listening or suffering from that. I am so sorry. This is such a difficult thing and literally this is one of the reasons why the docs like myself who treat mold and lime and mass selectivation. We always start with a mass selectivation because this is such a key in order for us to be able to even tolerate you know foods or basic types of supplements or nutrition. The biggest thing I think here is our limbic system, we obviously can have trauma and other things that activate our limbic system to fight or flight and treating that maybe the first step for someone like this without any supplements or any herbs or anything like that. And it's not her fault, but what happens is that chemical inhalation of different chemicals or molds will actually trigger the limbic system independently of any trauma. So what I've experienced is all patients who've had mold or mass selectivation have some degree of limbic activation and trauma just from the chemical response in the limbic system. So the first step I would do is any sort of limbic retraining. There's programs out there like gupta program, any hoppers DNRS. Those are the two most popular but porches Stephen porches has a safe and sound protocol. You can do cranial sacral therapy, you can do thought field therapy, you can do EMDR, you can do binaural beats, which is a type of music that changes hurts on right and left ear and it's a calm nervous system one of my new favorites is brain tap. And if you haven't seen my interview on my YouTube channel with Dr. Porter, this is a great interview he's the founder of brain tap and it talks a lot about that. And you could do heart math, which is heart rate variability training, you could do neuro linguistic programming or NLP, and I could go on and on but some form that fits with you for limbic retraining would be essential and someone like this. And then the other thing is the nutrition that she needs often just basic nutrition is impaired because they have trouble like you said, if you get a copy my book, you'll notice one of my favorite things and most sad precious things in this book is a preface. I treated a girl named Alex and she passed away in her 20s. It's such a sad story. But one of the reasons I love telling your stories because she was transformed in the process and has gone on before her death to create a line foundation and to help people suffering with cancer. And I love telling your story because she lives on through her foundation, and she was someone like that that was suffered with such such severe mass selectivation that she literally couldn't get nutrition and she passed away. So this is very serious and my heart absolutely goes out to your friend Tamara. Okay, whitewater rafting I think this is a court, I was talking about stress and ways to adapt to stress and be present and you think you're mentioning whitewater rafting that sounds like fun I'm here in Colorado so I have gone before but it's been years I think Cindy I'm going to take you up on that this summer and we'll have to go Hi Sandy from Colorado, Katie, hi Katie, severe OCD and anxiety from Bartanelle and Lyme with an SSRI be safer than Addivan. So, Katie, OCD from Bartanelle is really common, and it's a really tricky thing. In fact I just read on one of the newsletter reports that OCD is the seventh leading cause of disability among all illnesses, including like cancer and heart disease and auto disease. So when you suffer with OCD it's absolutely can be debilitating. So first of all I'm so sorry for for that for you. SSRIs can be very powerful, it depends on the person but serotonin I have had many clinical cases that respond incredibly well to SSRIs, especially, you know lexapro or some of the more mild soul often. I don't want to go either way because it's also dopamine antagonist, but I would absolutely talk to your doctor about that, because I think that might be a really good place to start. There are natural ways to increase serotonin like giving P5P or B6 or 5 HDP or tryptophan. But again you'd want to talk to your doctor about the other meds you're on and how that would interact and make sure you're doing something safe. Again, what's your best advice for someone who is severe in multiple chemical sensitivity. So that's what I just answered about the limbic system and the limbic activation because this is getting more and more common. The other thing that underlies chemical sensitivity is that our toxic load, our bucket, you probably heard me talk about that starts to get full and spill over and then that presents with symptoms and signs of disease and illness. And so this is one of those things where we need to decrease that toxic load, but the first step is calming that limbic system down because so often it's in such overdrive that anything is difficult to tolerate. Thyroxin is slightly low, it can cause this. So that's free T4. That would be a thyroid hormone. If that's low in your blood, that means you're hypothyroid. So the best thing you can, tyrosine and iodine are precursors to tyroids. You could try that, but in someone like that, if it's really been low and you know more than one reading, a levothyroxine would be a great choice. The favorite form of levothyroxine is a new form called tyrosine. The reason is because it's just pure T4 with MCT oil. It's about the cleanest form of thyroid you can get. I have been switching most all my patients from other brands and kinds to that because it works so well with guts and issues like that. It's just very highly absorbable. But again, talk to your doctor, Ruth, I'm not giving medical advice. If it's low, you probably need medication. And I'm going to try to get a couple more questions before the top of the hour. Hi, Ruth. Let's see, we talked about your question. Lauren, hello. Migrating tooth pain and sensitivity on the right side. Lyme, co-infections and mold. So migrating, there may be a lot of people have cavitations or hidden infections in the jaw, whether there's an old root canal or some sort of cavitation area where bacteria can still be. I would go to your dentist and get a cone CT, which is an imaging to look for cavitations and start there because that's often the issue. If there's a cavitation, you need cavitation surgery and that will really help. Renea, I'm sorry, I'm probably pronouncing that wrong. What best binders to use. So I love clay and charcoal. I've got a new binder that I really like because it's got a little bit of zeolite, which is extra good for heavy metals and really gentle. If you go to my website, drjilhealth.com, and just look for ZO bind plus, Z-E-O-B-I-N-D plus. It's a really great binder that kind of combines the best of everything. And I feel like it's gentle enough for almost anyone to start. Usually you would take like two caps and an empty stomach once or twice a day, but that's probably my new favorite. But plain old charcoal can work too. Deanna, hello. How do I treat patients going through chemotherapy treatments? Okay, that's tough. Chemotherapy, I've been there in my 20s. I went through three drug chemotherapy with my breast cancer. It was incredibly toxic and it disrupted my gut, caused massive pain, it caused hair loss. I mean, I was really, really sick. So I'm sorry if you're going through the right now, depending on what kind of chemo it can be really, really toxic and detrimental to rapidly dividing cells, which means your ovaries, your testes, your skin, your gut, all kinds of things in your hair. So first thing is I would just support. I would not do any detox or any major treatment during chemo. It's just too much for your body. But what you could do is something like algalutamine to support the gut, butyrate is also supported for the gut. Things that are just supportive and gentle. I would make sure you're eating easy to digest foods like low in sugar but easy to digest, even like rice or quinoa or roasted vegetables or soups. Just be nourishing to your body during that time. And then later when you're done, you can heal the gut and you can work on detox. Hi, Lewis. What would you recommend for central sensitization syndrome? Okay, so this is also kind of an activation of the nerves where you get some chronic pain and sensitization and sometimes you can even have, you know, phantom pain where there's no logical explanation. But this is again, this is a loop, the limbic loop, the system, the nervous system gets in a track where it's, you know, using, it has that pain and it difficult to. I would look at underlying causes for that. So it's hard to explain here because there's many, many different things, but toxic load like mold and infectious load like Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia, those are big on my list to make sure if someone has central sensitization, if they have small fiber neuropathy, or if they have auto encephalopathy, these are all big terms, but they're like nervous system dysfunction and pain. I would check for underlying Lyme and co-infections. Thanks, Deanna. Love, brain tap. And you're welcome, Katie. Thank you, Tamara. Thank you, Jillian. One last question. Ruth's asking about armor. I think this is because I mentioned the T4 low. So if you're, this is a great question. So I'm assuming, Ruth, I may have this wrong, but it's a good question for everybody because they might relate. If you're checking your labs and you're on armor or WB thyroid or natural thyroid or any sort of glandular, it has a set ratio of T3 and T4 and it's not a bad option. Many people are on that. But it's not a physiological human ratio. It's from PIG, usually porcine source. So because of that, often your ratios of T3 or T4 are not right. Your T4 will be too low. And that's what it sounds like you're seeing, Ruth. And you might want to switch to tyrosine or plain T4. And most of the patients I have on either tyrosine or T4, which is that highly absorbable MCT-based thyroid medication that I love, and some sort of T3, and actually then can manipulate the T3, T4 to be exactly what that individual needs. And I've actually had much better luck with that combination than a natural thyroid because that PIG thyroid, even though it's good, it's clean, it's a great source, is not human as far as the ratios. I recommend talking to your doctor about that. I just got to keep going. One more question. Hi, cholesterol and recent gallbladder removal, bile salts to help. Yeah, so if you had your gallbladder removed, you don't have the sac that stores the bile acids, and you still drip bile acid from the common bile duct. And what you want to do is make sure that you do have bile production. And so what you can do is take bile salts, often I'll give like betaine with pancreatin with bile acid salts or a combo, and especially with a diarrhea or mal-digestion or indigestion, those can be helpful. Now I will say some people react and get heartburn or get irritation in their gut from bile salts. So just try them and see. And if you get irritation, you'd want to stop. Oh gosh, today I would love to go on and on everyone. Thank you so much for taking the time to join me. I hope you'll continue putting in comments. I can come back later and make some, you know, answer those for you. Join me again. I'll be back next month. I'll be posting the date. And in the meantime, if you haven't heard, go on over to readunexpected.com, grab a copy of my new book, and lots of love to each of you today. Thanks so much for joining me.