Amy Offutt, MD: Getting to the Root Causes of Chronic Illness | The Healing Grove Podcast

This week I would like you to meet Dr. Casey Kelley.Dr. Kelley is the Founder and Medical Director of Case Integrative Health in Chicago, IL. While she was earning her medical degree at Ohio State University, Dr. Kelley became increasingly ill. Her symptoms included extreme fatigue, trouble breathing, dizziness, elevated heart rate, and brain fog. Though doctors assured her that her healthy issues were simply due to stress, she knew there was something else at the root of her health crisis. Eventually, Dr. Kelley was able to get a correct diagnosis for both Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and Lyme Disease. She went through treatment and has now been in remission for more than 15 years. This experience is what drives her passion to help others battling chronic illness, and what led her to found Case Integrative Health in 2019. Today she serves patients of all ages across the country, helping get to the root cause of their disease and transforming their health through Functional Medicine. As one of the first physicians to become Board Certified in both Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine, Dr. Kelley uses a whole-body approach to dig underneath symptoms to uncover what's broken. She has studied the causes, effects, and treatments of Lyme Disease extensively, and lectures nationally on this and other topics.You can learn more about Dr. Casey Kelley and her work at Case Integrative Health here: https://www.caseintegrativehealth.com*****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd

I would like you to meet my friend and colleague, Dr. Ann Corson. Ann Corson, MD grew up in Southeastern Pennsylvania and obtained her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA in 1982.  Dr. Corson has residency training in Internal Medicine, Neurology, and Family Medicine and is currently board certified in both FM and Integrative Holistic Medicine in 2011.   Dr. Corson became a member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) in 2003.  She has studied with Dr. Joe Burrascano and Dr. Charles Ray Jones. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience in treating patients suffering from chronic vector borne diseases and environmental illnesses.After listening to this episode, if you are interested in working closely with Dr. Corson, you can contact her directly at [email protected]. *****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd

This week I would like you to meet Tania Elfersy.Tania is a transformative coach and award-winning author, specializing in midlife women's health. Tania has spent years researching what causes and what can relieve symptoms associated with perimenopause and menopause. She became free of her own physical and emotional symptoms, naturally and simply, through insight alone.Tania set up The Wiser Woman project in 2015 to help women transform their experience of midlife change and reach freedom from hot flashes and night sweats, anxiety and mood swings, insomnia and fatigue, and more. Through her coaching, writing and teaching, Tania focuses on connecting women to the innate brilliance of their bodies, having seen that healing occurs with ease when we relax into the divine intelligence within.Tania is the author of The Wiser Woman’s Guide to Perimenopause and Menopause, which upon launch became an Amazon best-seller, and the co-author of an award-winning book on motherhood.Tania offers some online courses. You can learn more about them here:https://www.thewiserwoman.com/coursesIf you are interested in working with Tania one-on-one, you can visit her here :https://www.thewiserwoman.com/coaching She has also written a book called The Wiser Woman's Guide to Perimenopause and Menopause. You can find it here: https://amzn.to/3x24YSP*****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd

This week I would like to introduce you to Dr. Sabine Hazan.Dr. Hazan is a physician, author, world-renowned speaker, and gut microbiome expert. As the first woman accepted into the University of Florida as a Clinical Gastroenterology Fellow, Dr. Sabine Hazan is a pioneer in the medical field. She has published articles in numerous prestigious medical journals, and is the Series Editor on the microbiome for Practical Gastroenterology , a peer review journal that reaches 18,000 gastroenterologists. She is also a speaker for the World Congress of Digestive Disease, MAGI, Microbiome Congress, ILADS, TACA, International Drug Discovery Science and Technology Conference and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). As a specialist in gastroenterology, internal medicine, and hepatology, Dr. Hazan has used her medical expertise in many regards over the last two decades.Dr. Hazan is the CEO of Ventura Clinical Trials, where she has 20+ years experience leading clinical trials for cutting-edge research on various medical issues and has done over 300 clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies. Since March 2020, she has been at the forefront of COVID-19 research, leading ongoing FDA-approved clinical trials for treatment and prophylaxis ON Hydroxychloroquine, Zpack, VIT C D , Zinc And IVMShe is also the founder & CEO of Progenabiome, a genetic sequencing research laboratory, she leads 35+ studies investigating the role of the gut flora in various diseasesThrough their study exploring the role of the gut flora in COVID-19, Progenabiome became the first lab worldwide to detect SARS-CoV-2 from Patient Fecal Samples by Whole Genome Sequencing and the lab that showed a susceptibility marker for COVID in the microbiome.Dr Hazan is mastering Familial fecal transplant showing hope for kids with Autism. She created The Malibu Microbiome meeting where physicians who perform fecal transplant can discuss their findings freely.To get to know Dr. Hazan and her work, you can visit https://sabinehazanmd.comTo learn more about ProgenaBiome, you can visit https://progenabiome.com*****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd

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 entertain others on their healing path.Heather's  personalized approach as a practitioner, podcast host, and author, has helped countless clients reduce inflammation in the body and brain, improve gut health, and achieve optimal wellness.She helps her clients get to the root cause of their symptoms and helps them take control of their health journey. Heather's approach is not only effective but also empowering.If you would like to learn more about Heather's courses, you can check them out here and even get $100 off: http://rhbcourses.com/grove*****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd

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 about in my ebook, or in this talk! Regardless, I hope you will make time for it this week, since it might just be the tool you were looking for to carry you the rest of the fall, winter, spring, and beyond.Kerri has generously offered to share her Parent Guide for Healing Autism with all of you. You can find that here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13gD4EfJslTmJjIbeNO7_HhPejJIvvrYi/view?usp=sharingIf you would like to consult with Kerri privately, you can reach her here: https://ketokerri.com/product/consultations/*****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd

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 about in my ebook, or in this talk! Regardless, I hope you will make time for it this week, since it might just be the tool you were looking for to carry you the rest of the fall, winter, spring, and beyond.Kerri has generously offered to share her Parent Guide for Healing Autism with all of you. You can find that here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13gD4EfJslTmJjIbeNO7_HhPejJIvvrYi/view?usp=sharingIf you would like to consult with Kerri privately, you can reach her here: https://ketokerri.com/product/consultations/*****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd

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 techniques certification in 2023. She continues to study with the institute and with personal mentors to refine the art of CST and SomatoEmotional Release, and also assists with CST classes. She has found over the years, after embarking on her own healing journey, that wholeness and health are addressed on all levels - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. All parts affect the whole. Looking within to do the work with compassion, curiosity, and a dose of bravery, will eventually reveal everything needed for change, and a unique, personal prescription for wellness!If you are local to Bethlehem, PA, and you would like to Anni her for a session, she has graciously offered 20% off of our first session. Just mention this podcast episode. You can reach Anni by calling or texting her at 484-951-0388, or by email at [email protected] can also learn more about Anni at her website: https://annipowellcst.com*****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd

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 hope you find this vulnerable sharing helpful, and not off-putting. I do this in the hopes that someone, somewhere, will find it valuable to hear my story. If you have someone you know who is challenged by a brain not functioning optimally, I would be honored if you would share this episode with them. I would love for you to join me for a FREE week in the Healing Grove as we explore brain health. To register for the Healing Grove Community Week, you can register here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/communityweekforall2024*****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd

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 share their gifts with others. Dr. Offutt was recently appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to the Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome Advisory Council. In addition, she serves on the Board of Directors for ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society).To learn more about Dr. Amy Offutt and her practice, Heart & Soul Integrative Medicine, you can visit: https://www.amyoffuttmd.comIf you are a physician or know one who would be interested in attending an ILADS conference, there is one coming up in November 2024. Learn more here:https://www.ilads.org/ilads-conference/2024-ilads-annual-conference-san-antonio/*****************************************************************************************If you’d like to be the first to hear about new podcast episodes, sign up for our newsletter. I will even send you my "8 Simple Steps to Healing Chronic Lyme" for free:➢ Sign-up Here: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/NewsletterThe Healing Grove Playbook is available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1You can learn more about me if you visit my website below:➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/Other ways to connect and learn:➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd