Patti Talks Too Much
Hi. I'm Patti and it's been said - many times - that I talk too much. I'm a teacher, author, nature lover and for ten years I owned a coffeehouse cafe where my faith in the goodness of humans was restored every day. This podcast highlights the awesomeness of humanity - er...outside the warmongers, globalists, tyrants and politicians in general. You know, the rest of us weird, quirky and sometimes hilarious humans.
We'll talk woo, probe mysteries and leave you thinking about something more interesting or entertaining or uplifting than your grocery list, or boss or that oil change your car needs.
I talk too much because I can't help my Gemini moon and Leo Rising nature. I do a podcast because it's cheaper, funnier and more productive than therapy.
Patti Talks Too Much
Reclaiming Health, Parasite Cleanses, and The Journey to Genuine Healing
What if you could overcome rheumatoid arthritis through natural methods rather than conventional medications? Join me, Patti, as I recount my year-long journey of healing rheumatoid arthritis without the common pharmaceutical routes. After 63 years of vibrant health, a sudden diagnosis pushed me to seek alternative healing practices, inspired by the work of functional doctor Susan Blum. I'll share my personal experiences, from the initial shock of symptoms to the empowering decision to strengthen my natural immunity and avoid COVID-19 vaccination. Listen as I unravel the significance of diet, lifestyle changes, and the pressing need for more research into autoimmune conditions.
In this episode, we will explore integrative approaches that combine the wisdom of Susan Blum and Penny Kelly, focusing on the essential processes of parasite cleanses and detoxification. Discover the transformative potential of a 21-day parasite cleanse with Paradex, the benefits of Dr. Clark’s protocol, and the role of coffee enemas in boosting liver function. Get ready to learn the difference between symptom management and genuine healing. If you're committed to addressing the root causes of chronic conditions, this episode provides actionable insights and inspiration. Tune in to follow my journey and perhaps start your own path to holistic wellness.
Hello and thank you for joining me in this second episode of Can I Heal my Rheumatoid Arthritis Naturally? This is Patti with Patti Talks Too Much and these videos are for the purpose of sharing my personal journey and experience with attempting to cure, to heal my rheumatoid arthritis naturally, without any medication. So just a little background Now. The last time it's been a while since I did one of these and you know there are several reasons for that. But let me just jump into a little background. So I am a 65 year old woman who enjoyed and was blessed with a very, very healthy life. For just about all my life I didn't even keep aspirin in the house because I never got headaches or backaches or any kind of ache. So I enjoyed life really with a pain-free body and very good, robust health. I stayed active and, you know, enjoyed that kind of life, so very, very blessed, up until I believe I was just 63, had a hairline fracture in my right ankle and then later found out it had to do with a torn ligament. So in the process of healing that, other conditions began to emerge. I started getting swelling on knuckles on my right hand. That kind of persisted and then kind of migrated over to the other hand, and this is kind of over the course of a year, and because I relocated, I had to wait till, you know, I had a doctor here in North Georgia and finally got some of the testing that I needed to get done in order to get to the bottom of what was going on in my body, and so I've recently been able to kind of nail it down. So I have a bit of osteoarthritis as well as rheumatoid arthritis in my hands and elbows and shoulders, and I decided, because I have never had to be on medication, that I was going to address this without having to get onto some of those arthritis medications where, if you do the research, you find that these are some pretty heavy duty medications and what happens is they do address the symptoms but unfortunately they have a degenerative effect on the actual condition. So, for instance, they can relieve you of the pain and the swelling in your joints but at the same time your joints and the bone around them are degenerating, so the actual condition may worsen while your symptoms are relieved, and that wasn't. That's not okay for me. That's I don't. I don't like that. So I decided that I was going to explore alternative approaches to healing my rheumatoid arthritis. So I did some research. Now what I'll tell you is that what I found out was that two thirds of the people who get rheumatoid arthritis are women. So it's mostly women who get rheumatoid arthritis for some reason, and it's very, very common for women in their 60s to just develop rheumatoid arthritis. So I am part of a growing group, a demographic, that has developed rheumatoid arthritis.
Speaker 1:And the thing is it has been a mystery for me, because I was so or what. I thought I was so healthy for all of those years, all those decades, and then to get something that looks like an autoimmune condition seemed it didn't make a whole lot of sense. Now I will tell you that. You know, some people watching this might say well, are you, did you get vaccinated? And I did not. So, and that's kind of consistent with my attitude about things I'm very much into natural immunity and that's how I have always approached my, you know, dealing with the cold and flu season or really anything else, is that natural immunity is really the best, and so throughout the pandemic, I made sure that I took plenty of vitamin C and vitamin D.
Speaker 1:At the time I was living in Florida. Now the thing is is I am a teacher and so teachers are exposed to an awful lot in our schools and in our classrooms, and so it was inevitable that I was probably going to get COVID. I also had done some research on it's very interesting research about the whole who was more susceptible to getting COVID and who is not. And apparently people with O positive I think, o positive, maybe O positive and negative blood were the least likely to get COVID for some reason. Now I was in the category of most likely because I may be negative my blood type is AB negative but there was a whole it was an interesting research that was being done with like is there, you know? So there's a correlation, make of it what you will. But so I just kind of looked at it that I was inevitably going to get it and I did, and I treated my COVID with ivermectin and other things, but it wasn't. You know, I had like the first round of COVID as it came through that first year. Now you know some people might say, well, you know, maybe that may have some kind of relationship to your development of this autoimmune condition. I don't know. One thing that I will tell you is that you know, these kinds of things don't seem to be researched, and I do think that there needs to be more research done because there certainly does seem to be an increase in these kinds of things. I feel very fortunate that I was not vaccinated, because I think that some of the things that are happening to those who took that vaccine medical intervention are tragic, tragic and unfortunate, and so I'm glad that I kind of went the route that I went. So, but anyway, getting back to my rheumatoid arthritis condition, so I decided I was going to do some research and I came upon a woman her name is Susan Blum A woman, her name is Susan Blum and she is a functional doctor out of Connecticut and she wrote a book called Healing arthritic condition that she addressed, and I think it began with wanting to help her mother at the time, and she began to treat her mother with a certain protocol that had to do with nutrition, like a nutritional intervention.
Speaker 1:Her nutritional intervention is pretty serious and so you really have to have a fair amount of willpower if you are going to follow this. So she really cleans up the diet and this is, you know, it goes in certain phases in her protocol in which she is cleaning up the gut and so, first it's the elimination. So we're talking about eliminating all white flour, sugar gone, alcohol gone, and even red meat I like red meat. So that was probably the toughest for me, believe it or not, even though I'm Italian. And you think, what about that pasta? I was kind of okay with that because I tend to stay away from it anyway, just to kind of keep my weight in check. So that was the initial phase of that protocol. And then, you know, a month on oil of oregano and berberine, and then, you know, waiting she has these products that she recommends and I am currently taking the shake every morning which is full of amino acids and vitamins and things that promote, um, anti-inflammation. So, um, I've been following that for a while Now. I have not seen a decrease in the condition in my hands as I've been on this protocol.
Speaker 1:But the thing about following natural remedies is that you have to accept that anything that you're going to do naturally is going to take a while. So she said it would take about a year using this approach. And you know, and I believe that, so I am using, I'm still going by her protocol. But what's happened since my last video is that I've been introduced to another woman, another naturopath, that also cured her own rheumatoid arthritis, but she did it through a series of cleanses. So what I've decided to do is combine these approaches. So I'm following Susan Blum's protocol, which involves an elimination diet as well as taking certain supplements to support gut health.
Speaker 1:Now there is a bit of an overlap between these two practitioners and so and I'll get into that but the second practitioner is Penny Kelly. Now Penny Kelly has also written a book and it is getting well, naturally, from the soil to the stomach. Okay, so both of these practitioners have a wealth of experience in addressing successfully addressing different forms of arthritis through their protocols. So Penny Kelly promotes a series of cleanses, beginning with a parasite cleanse and then going to a liver flush and then a colon cleanse and then a phase which she calls the purge, which is really just eating raw vegetables for a period of time, a period of time and then, lastly, doing a castor oil, olive oil bath. That, you know, is later on down the road. The parasite cleanse is something that there are people who follow this protocol. They do two or three times a year and I plan on doing that as well.
Speaker 1:Here's the interesting thing about parasites. When I heard this I thought this is really interesting. I think you know, and I have heard, there are a lot of conditions that we have that are related to parasites. Now this is kind of controversial and I'll share a story. When I went to my regular primary care physician and I shared with her that I was going to try this protocol put out by Penny Kelly, you know a naturopath who had cured her or certainly healed her rheumatoid arthritis by doing this series of cleanses, when I mentioned a parasite cleanse, my doctor actually got a little upset and immediately said this is just some social media fad. So she understands people kind of discovering these parasite cleanse as a social media fad, in that parasites we don't have to be concerned about parasites in the West because we have clean water, because we're in the West and you know. So parasites are something you know like if you live in Southern Sudan to worry about parasites, but if you live in the, you know, in the civilized West, you know, with clean drinking water, you don't have to worry about parasites. And I was a little stunned by how adamant she was about this, and so I just listened to her. It was okay it was. You know she's entitled to her opinion as far as I'm concerned, and she has her reasons for it, though that didn't really deter me from wanting to follow this protocol along with Susan Blum's nutritional protocol. So I'm combining both approaches Susan Blum's protocol in terms of really really cleaning up the diet, in terms of really really cleaning up the diet using particular supplements to boost gut health.
Speaker 1:Susan Blum also acknowledges that parasites can be an issue, though she doesn't emphasize it as much as Penny Kelly. Penny Kelly, right out the gate, says the very first thing you should do is a parasite cleanse. So she maintains that when you do parasite cleanse, you know a liver flush and the colon cleanse. That really what you're doing is you are cleaning up your body. So whatever nutrients you're putting into your body you are able to utilize optimally. And all of that makes a lot of sense to me. If we have blockages, if our liver is overwhelmed, if our colon is all clogged up, if we have parasites, then no matter how healthy we might be eating, no matter how many supplements we might be taking, how much of that nutrition is really being absorbed in our body. So the whole thing about cleansing really made a lot of sense to me, and it also makes a lot of sense to do this protocol where I am doing these cleanses and at the same time, taking in these extremely nutritionally dense kinds of products, like the shake that is recommended by Susan Blum and her protocol, doing that all at the same time so that I'm getting the optimal nutrients and amino acids and enzymes that I need to fortify my body.
Speaker 1:I will tell you that I have just started my parasite cleanse and it will go on for about 21 days, and it is a cleanse that you know involves just one product. It's called Paradex, and you can get it through Progressive Labs, and so we'll see how this product works. There's also another parasite cleanse, very, very excellent parasite cleanse, put out by Dr Clark, which involves three, three components to it, and there that is a I believe that's an 18 day parasite cleanse, so I may switch up and do that later on, but at any rate, that is kind of where I'm at right now in terms of my natural approach to healing my rheumatoid arthritis. I've decided that I'm going to combine these two protocols for maximum effect, and I also know that this is going to take a year. So Penny Kelly was very clear. She said you do these and it'll take about a year to heal your rheumatoid arthritis. And Susan Blum said the same thing it's going to take about a year. So I figure I'm in it for the long haul for both of these, for utilizing both of these, and so I imagine next summer I will be feeling quite different when it comes to my rheumatoid arthritis condition. So I may do a recording when my parasite cleanse has finished so I can share that.
Speaker 1:I've been kind of nervous about doing it because nobody wants to see what comes out of you when you do a parasite cleanse. Nobody wants to have to face that reality, that unpleasant, uncomfortable, engrossed reality that, wow, this has been living inside me, this has been living inside me, sapping my energy and my nutrients. Nobody really wants to, wants to face that. So I'm kind of glad to be doing the parasite cleanse first to get it out of the way before I move on to the other. So I'll probably do another video after the parasite cleanse so that I can share what that experience is like.
Speaker 1:I will tell you that the parasite cleanse is coupled with coffee enemas, which are extremely valuable when doing the cleanse, and the purpose of a coffee enema is to really relieve the liver. So as you're doing a cleanse, there are all these toxins that are emptying out into your bloodstream and and your liver's doing its best to deal with all of these toxins. But if you, if you have like a die off, if you have a parasite die off or a candida die off, or you know a die off of you know bacteria and things like that in your in your system that have been there for a while and living there and proliferating for a while, it could be overwhelming for your liver. So coffee enemas as you go along relieve the liver of being overwhelmed by the toxins and the die-offs that it's trying to filter. So most people think that that's a very unpleasant part of the cleanse, but again, it's an important part of the cleanse and I think that if you are going to do a protocol like this and you're going to do a cleanse, you'll probably be very, very uncomfortable if you don't do coffee enemas along the way to give your liver some relief. So that is what I'm doing along the way and and you just get used to it, it just becomes part of your part of your routine. You know it's just part of your routine. So that's it for my update on healing my arthritis, naturally. So it is not just a process of healing my gut. It is now incorporating the process of going through different cleanses for my gut, for my liver, for my colon, and we're going to see what happens in the end. So I'll get back to you in about 21 days when I am finished with this parasite cleanse and, yeah, I'll share how it's going along the way and then I'll do one after the liver cleanse and one after the colon cleanse and so forth, and I'll give you I'll update you on my progress At any rate. Thank you so much for for joining me and, you know, jumping in here and watching my video.
Speaker 1:If you are someone who is contemplating, you're really struggling with how you want to handle some of the things that are that are happening in your body. You know some health concerns. I would I would recommend checking out Susan Blum's work, her books, particularly her book on healing arthritis, and also Penny Kelly Penny Kelly's book on getting well naturally from the soil to the stomach, because both of those have very, very valuable approaches and aren't just about arthritis. Penny Kelly's work actually is very, very helpful, for instance, for people who are dealing with chemotherapy and what you know the effects of chemotherapy. So if you are someone who has had to go through treatments like that or you're dealing with other health issues, you know it's worth checking these books out, checking the work of these two naturopaths and seeing if you would like to handle it in a way that's more natural and not necessarily aligned with Western medicine, which is just pharmaceutical based and often it really is, and I don't have to tell you it really is.
Speaker 1:When it comes to pharmaceutical approaches, it's about handling the symptoms but not necessarily healing the condition. So if you're interested in healing your, your condition, if you're interested in really getting at the root of things and healing and you're willing to put the time and the effort in, then I I strongly recommend you checking out the work of these two women. Anyway, thank you for joining me today. I look forward to my next video and I wish you all much, much health and happiness in the coming days.