The ‘Worm Queen’ Exposes What’s in Your Tap Water

When Kim “The Worm Queen” Rogers tested her Seattle water, she found nematodes — actual worms — swimming in the sample. What she discovered next shocked her: over 75% of U.S. water sources she tested came back positive for nematodes.

A former Western medicine professional turned health investigator, Kim shares how her battle with chronic illness, surgeries, and endometriosis led her to uncover the hidden epidemic of parasites in the U.S. and create RogersHood.com, a platform helping people detox safely.

💡 In this episode:

• Why most U.S. water systems don’t test for nematodes
• The difference between protozoa vs. nematodes (and why both matter)
• How parasites and mold can mimic chronic illness
• What happens during a parasite cleanse (and Kim’s viral story that hit 10 million views)
• How our food and water may be silently affecting our health

🧫 Watch this before your next glass of tap water.

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Transcript

0:00:00 - (Kim Rogers): I tested our water here in Seattle and it tested positive for nematodes. And I work with a lab who tests water around the country, and 75% of the country's water came back with nematodes. What? So our country doesn't test for nematodes. They only test for protozoas.

0:00:27 - (Josh Bellieu): Hey, everybody. Welcome to Ultra Life today. We have a really, really fun interview today. I'm Josh Bellew.

0:00:35 - (Adam Payne): I'm Adam Payne.

0:00:36 - (Josh Bellieu): And we have Kim the Worm Queen Rogers today on Ultra Life Today. Yes. I love this name. She's got the best branding in the world and it so fits her passion. Kim, welcome to Ultra Life Today. Our mutual friend Logan Duvall of Sewing Prosperity connected us, and we've been working this and had some tech challenges. Here we are finally. I love it.

0:01:02 - (Adam Payne): I'm really, I'm really looking forward to.

0:01:03 - (Josh Bellieu): And by the way, Kim, you're everywhere. I find you on podcasts everywhere. You've done some phenomenal interviews.

0:01:11 - (Kim Rogers): Thanks. I mean, I definitely didn't want to be known as the worm Queen, so I. I tried to pick a name. My community crowned me Worm Queen, so I'm so grateful that I'm not running around.

0:01:23 - (Josh Bellieu): Worm lady, right? Yeah, exactly.

0:01:28 - (Kim Rogers): All of my merch has, like, a worm with a crown on its head.

0:01:32 - (Adam Payne): And that's cool.

0:01:33 - (Kim Rogers): I've really made something that could have been so gross and embarrassing to go viral over, I think very cool. I think that it's awesome just knowing that, like, these things live in our bodies and having a solution, staying solution based has been the most important thing about all of this. I think that people don't really understand the concept of parasites and worms.

0:02:00 - (Josh Bellieu): Absolutely.

0:02:00 - (Kim Rogers): At least the three top countries, the United States, Canada, and Australia, those are the three top countries that we sell our product to the. The most. And the other countries look at us and laugh because they. They a hundred percent know that we have worms and that humans can get worms. So it was definitely a concept that I was taken aback by as well. And so I think that's why I'm so loud about it, because it really did take me to the, like, the depths of despair with my. My health.

0:02:34 - (Kim Rogers): And I should have known better, you know?

0:02:37 - (Josh Bellieu): Yeah. So tell us about your personal journey, because that's where your passion and conviction for doing what you do came from.

0:02:43 - (Kim Rogers): So I come from Western medicine. I've been in western medicine since 2004. I hold two healthcare degrees and I ran 25 medical colleges in my time that I was in Western medicine, worked in the emergency room. I worked in Family care. I was an EKG tech, insurance and coding. So I really have been lab technician. I really have been around for 18 years. And I just love the human body. I love learning and I love medicine. And so in 2019, my health took a serious turn and it was really scary for Jeremy and me, my husband.

0:03:21 - (Kim Rogers): We decided to try and figure out what was wrong with me because my health declined so rapidly that we had to sell everything. And we had a piece of recreational property out in Hoodsport, Washington. And so we decided to move out there and build a log home, just the two of us, and try and figure out what was wrong with my body. I had had 13 surgeries and a hysterectomy, and I couldn't have any more surgeries. I had stage four endometriosis.

0:03:48 - (Adam Payne): Wow.

0:03:49 - (Kim Rogers): And so I really was at the end of my life and my rope because I could not figure out. And they could not figure it out. They meaning western medicine, doctors. So we really had to take it into our own hands to really get an idea of what was going on with me. So we did that for about a year and a half. We got me to a point where I was stable and I was not still having a great quality of life, but it was to a point where now we weren't really, like, in a fear that I was dying, my organs were somewhat shutting down.

0:04:25 - (Kim Rogers): So it was a really scary time for Jeremy and me. I came across a video on Tick Tock. This girl had done a parasite cleanse. And she said I almost unalived myself over worms and it stopped me. And I was like, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute. So I thought I had parasites. A few years before, my doctors had told me there's no way. I thought that I had some mold in my body. My doctors again were like, yeah, no, you'd be way sicker.

0:04:55 - (Kim Rogers): That is so not the truth.

0:04:57 - (Josh Bellieu): Right.

0:04:58 - (Kim Rogers): It's so not the truth. And I found out. I found out because I did exactly what that girl on that Tick Tock tried. And within three days, I saw roundworm flukes and pinworms in the toilet. And I was shook. And I've talked about it every day since that day.

0:05:15 - (Adam Payne): So. So what was on that. That video that you saw? What was this? What was there? What was her answer?

0:05:21 - (Kim Rogers): Well, she popped up and said, I've been very depressed and I cannot get my anxiety under control, and so I'm willing to try anything. And she said that she literally almost unalived herself. And so. Right.

0:05:35 - (Adam Payne): Wow.

0:05:36 - (Kim Rogers): When she did it, she said she felt relief immediately. Well, I had been working on my body and I'd been working on my ptsd, and so just to try something new, I mean, I did a lot of mushrooms. I really did get my health in a good stuff space when I first tried my first parasite cleanse. And so I really felt like, well, what's the worst that's going to happen, right? It's not going to hurt me. It's going to maybe make me feel better. And I'm already doing very unconventional things. I'm doing mushrooms, all the mushrooms.

0:06:09 - (Kim Rogers): So really, what, What. What's it going to harm?

0:06:13 - (Adam Payne): And, yeah, I mean, and. And you've never done this before, so it was. It was certainly novel. And my gosh, to see the results. These dead worms or half alive worms coming out of your body, was it first a shock? I mean, were you astonished for a second and then like, oh, my gosh, there's this huge connection you're making to your condition and these parasites that are in your body.

0:06:39 - (Kim Rogers): All of it, all of it, all.

0:06:41 - (Adam Payne): Of it all at once came crashing down.

0:06:43 - (Josh Bellieu): And so you were totally shocked what you were seeing in the stool.

0:06:47 - (Kim Rogers): Yeah.

0:06:47 - (Josh Bellieu): Talked about it every day since. But how quickly, from where you'd stabilize, how quickly did you all, all of a sudden begin to climb that stairway to actually having optimum health like you do now?

0:07:02 - (Kim Rogers): Immediately.

0:07:03 - (Josh Bellieu): No way.

0:07:04 - (Kim Rogers): It sounds crazy, but I think that the hardest part is not knowing and really internalizing what else is wrong with me and creating this narrative inside of my head that, you know, I've got the sea and I've got all these things, and it was 2020, so it was really hard to even get help. Right. And so the. The narrative in my mind switched immediately. And it wasn't even in the stool. It literally was floating on the top of the water.

0:07:34 - (Kim Rogers): I mean, there was no way you could avoid what I saw in that toilet. Like, you would just have had to flush and not ever. I mean, even wiping, looking down, it was like right there, you know, so it was immediate. And I had this pain on my right side that would indicate I needed to have another surgery. So every two years I would have surgery.

0:07:53 - (Adam Payne): Wow.

0:07:53 - (Kim Rogers): And that pain was the indicator I hadn't really pooped in a month. And so that's really what pushed me. Yeah, that's what pushed me to do mushrooms and to then take this into my own hands. But as soon as I saw what was floating at the top on that water, I was. It was. And I've had that happen to me a few Times where it's not even in my stool. I don't have to dig when it want. When whatever's in my body wants to come out, it comes out. And I don't ever have to dig.

0:08:22 - (Kim Rogers): I just have to look and go like it's a wild scenario that the United States doesn't think that we can have worms or have worms.

0:08:31 - (Adam Payne): You know, I mean, why are we so naive? I mean, I mean, seriously, we're.

0:08:37 - (Josh Bellieu): We're.

0:08:37 - (Adam Payne): We as a culture have adopted eating sushi, which is uncooked food. And guess what? These fish have endemic parasites. I mean, I can't. I think most of us do.

0:08:52 - (Josh Bellieu): As we dig into this, she'll end up talking about how she does whole house water systems and things. Because certain areas of the country, especially just the normal water supply, has parasites in it.

0:09:04 - (Kim Rogers): Mine. So Seattle, Washington, the state of Washington. I've tested the water in the state of Washington in multiple cities, and they both come back positive for nematodes. And doing further research, our country doesn't test for nematodes, which are physical worms. It only tests for parasites. And it's not on a consistent basis. Parasites being protozoas like giardia D. Fragiles and crypto. And I had Cryptosporidium parvium, which is part parvo, which kills puppies, and it was shutting my organs down.

0:09:38 - (Kim Rogers): That's what parvo does. That's what ends up aliving the puppies. Right. And so I had that in our water. We also had nematodes in our water, and it was a well that was for our community that was regulated by our HOA and the state of Washington. And then I moved to Seattle so I could finish our log home with my husband. And I tested our water here in Seattle, and it tested positive for nematodes. And I work with a lab who tests water around the country, and 75% of the country's water came back with nematodes.

0:10:10 - (Adam Payne): What?

0:10:11 - (Kim Rogers): So our country doesn't test for nematodes. They only test for protozoas. And most of the time, they only test for that when there's a break in the pipes.

0:10:20 - (Adam Payne): Okay, well, so help us understand. Can people get sick from nematodes?

0:10:24 - (Kim Rogers): Yes.

0:10:25 - (Adam Payne): So what's the difference between a nematode and a protozoa?

0:10:30 - (Kim Rogers): Basically, the way that it holds inside of your body. So a protozoa is a microscopic parasite, and the definition of a parasite is anything that feeds off the host. And in Latin terms, it's an unwanted dinner guest. So it's gross. It's so gross. And so protozoas and nematodes both feed off the host. That's why it's under the umbrella parasite. Nematodes will grow into a physical worm like whip worm, tapeworm, flukes, roundworm.

0:11:05 - (Kim Rogers): Those are nematodes, parasites. Protozoas are giardia, which you can't see. And so they have to look at under a microscope, a zoologist. And then you can take the water and look for a physical worm. And it's just knowing and how to identify what you're looking at.

0:11:24 - (Adam Payne): Interesting. So all of these are really infectious agents. And I've heard of. Does giardia fit into this definition?

0:11:33 - (Kim Rogers): That's a protozoa. And that's why we normally have to boil our water when there is a water break.

0:11:39 - (Adam Payne): Understand? Yeah. Because St. Petersburg, Russia is known to have endemic giardia. If you fly or go to St. Petersburg and you get anywhere near the water, you'll get a.

0:11:55 - (Josh Bellieu): You go home with extra passengers.

0:11:57 - (Adam Payne): Yes.

0:11:57 - (Josh Bellieu): Okay.

0:11:58 - (Adam Payne): And most of the people that live there are just. Are living with it. Right. It's just part of their. But it's, I guess, not a commensal relationship, but it's certainly not a very friendly relationship.

0:12:10 - (Josh Bellieu): So I think you've established, especially with these three countries that you. You do your purify kits into and you sell your product into that we have this ridiculous mindset and we're totally overlooking something that we learned just now from you. So viewers, pay attention. It's a foundational cornerstone of health that can actually degrade your health to the point of passing away from what's happening with parasites.

0:12:43 - (Josh Bellieu): So, Kim, give us a little history because you obviously decided I'm going to. And we'll wrap this segment up, this episode up in about three minutes and start another one. Tell me a little bit about how you began to look at the history of traditional use of herbs and things like that for parasite cleanses and then how that then became. And we'll cover this in the next segment, but set it up for us.

0:13:13 - (Josh Bellieu): How did you get on this quest once this happened to you? Your health is improving immediately. How did you all of a sudden go, you know, I need to become the evangelist for this stuff.

0:13:25 - (Kim Rogers): I went viral. I did a video and I have a crazy personality. And I just popped on there and I said, I've been in Western medicine for over 18 years. I've never dewormed myself until now. And they came out my skin and my urine. And I said that on the 60 second video and it changed my life within two hours. One million people had watched that video. And over a few days, around 10.5 million people watched that video.

0:13:54 - (Kim Rogers): And I saw something that needed to be talked about. And so I've run with it. I feel like it's something that I thought a few years before I had going on with me. I found out I had mold poisoning. So we're exposed to mold. I figured out my environmental toxin bucket and my body was overflowing and that this was my real problem. And people were in the comments talking about it. They were like, you need to bind. You need to take this. You need to heavy metal cleanse.

0:14:22 - (Adam Payne): Like.

0:14:22 - (Kim Rogers): And I'm reading all these comments and I'm thinking, oh, my gosh, one Western medicine missed this.

0:14:29 - (Josh Bellieu): How?

0:14:30 - (Kim Rogers): Right? Like, this is such a big deal. And then I started thinking, I've been to Mexico. Well, I wouldn't drink their water. And then I'm like, oh, my gosh. Like all these things. It was an epiphany. As soon as I saw what I saw on the toilet and then I went and made a video, I realized that this was something that was missing in society and it for sure was my root cause at the time.

0:14:52 - (Josh Bellieu): Perfect. Hey, you're listening to Kim Rogers, the warm queen. What a great stopping point for us as we move into more of her journey in our second episode. I'm sure you are already interested in getting in touch with this lady and finding out how you can actually do a parasite cleanse. It's real easy. Rogers Hood. R O G E R S H o o d.com she's got some cool things going on there. You have to check her out.

0:15:21 - (Josh Bellieu): This is Ultra Life today.

0:15:23 - (Adam Payne): Thanks for joining us.

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