EPI 64 - Why Aren't We Healthier? And No, I'm Not Going to Mention Food!

In this episode, I explore why so many of us struggle with our health despite following all the right advice. This isn’t about food, diets, or political issues like healthcare—it's about the deeper, often overlooked issues in our healthcare system.

In my 15 years as a physician assistant, I've seen countless patients go from doctor to doctor, following all the prescribed treatments, yet still not feeling better. Why is this? What’s missing?

I share my personal story of how I broke free from unhealthy habits and why that experience made me rethink our approach to health. It’s not just about body treatments—it’s about understanding the connection between our minds, bodies, and emotions.

I dive into the limitations of modern healthcare, especially when it comes to chronic symptoms without clear diagnoses. So often, people get caught in a loop of tests and medications, but the real solutions are rarely found that way. Health isn't just about pills; it's about shifting our mindset and integrating our body, mind, and emotions for real healing.

If you're tired of feeling stuck in the healthcare system and want a more holistic approach to health, this episode is for you. Let’s break free from the cycle and explore how we can truly take control of our well-being.

Key Takeaways:

• Why the healthcare system often misses the mark in addressing the root causes of illness.
• The power of mindset and belief in achieving health transformation.
• How a holistic approach—body, mind, and emotions—leads to lasting healing.
• Why chasing treatments without considering the whole person doesn’t always work.
• My personal journey of breaking unhealthy habits and embracing true health.

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Transcript

My heart is just breaking that people Get sick and then they stay sick and it's very hard to break free not to mention how complicated our medical system is to navigate with insurance and Even when you have symptoms and you get bounced around from this specialist to another specialist Welcome to the habit within this podcast is for high achieving women 35 and older who seem to have it all together But feel like they're constantly running on fumes Struggling to balance it all and losing sight of the woman. They used to be i'm camille kensler a former physician assistant Turned transformational coach blending science positive psychology and a metaphysical approach to habits health and vitality If you've ever asked yourself, why am I so exhausted even after a full night's sleep or I feel like i'm juggling so much But i'm just barely keeping my head above water. You are in the right place each week We'll explore the real reasons behind feeling overwhelmed trapped in the cycle of overworking and constantly running low on energy And how to break free from the patterns keeping you stuck in survival mode It's time to stop living on autopilot and to start feeling like yourself again.

Let's dive in. Hey y'all This is camille with the habit within I am your host and I am a little bit fired up about this topic and it really is About our health care system in the united states and it could be other places in the world, but i'm just so Exhausted and I feel so my heart is just breaking that people Get sick and then they stay sick and it's very hard to break free not to mention how complicated our medical System is to navigate with insurance and even when you have symptoms and you get bounced around from this specialist to another specialist you're given Multiple medications from different specialists. You have what's called poly pharmacies You're on a bunch of different medications that could be interacting with one another But no one's really monitoring you over all the overall systems But this conversation really isn't about you know insurance companies or it's not about Political talking points about health care or vaccines or anything like that.

It's just really trying to Talk about something that's deeper within the medical system and It's something that I saw over and over and over again as a Pa as working in direct patient care for 15 years is that people would come in and they would be diagnosed with something and then they would show up every three months because I had patients who Love to come to their medical appointments, but they would stay the same or they would get worse over the years and this is with following all of the What's called Gold standard of treatment it was talking with them about lifestyle changes It was you know increasing medications if needed and these people really did want to change or why would they come to their appointment? Some of them every three months and so that's when I really kind of stepped away from western allopathic medicine sort of diving into why people Have a difficulty changing even though they so desperately want to and so then I got wrapped up into It must be around their belief system. It must be around their mindset It must be around their habits And so I dove really deeply into the habit formation and really what that looked like I used it in my own life when I broke my drinking habit because I had a pretty Regular drinking habit of every couple days drinking a bottle of wine with my husband or more than that and so I was able to like practice what I was preaching and really Establishing that into my own life and then I helped many other women also break their drinking habits So that was a really big piece, but still even then The clients that I would be seeing they would still have some of these medical symptoms they'd have symptoms of a potential diagnosis, but yet they would go and see their medical provider and they were not There wasn't a diagnosis that could be found. They were sent to specialists the specialist would do diagnostic tests and those diagnostic tests wouldn't come up with anything or They would see something that was kind of unrelated and then they would have to go Track that down so it was going down the rabbit hole trying to see if that one thing had to do with this other thing which typically it didn't because it was just something that was found on um found on a procedure or found on imaging and That's what's called an incidental finding and then you have to kind of chase down that incidental finding so my point is the reason why i'm super fired up is without a broken system and I'm, just oh and being in that system and having worked in that system and then also having been a patient in that system and Having grown up in western medicine having grown up with the physician father we are all so Ingrained in this belief that the people who are prescribing as medications or creating medications or creating vaccines or Creating a diagnosis for something so it can be in the dsm-5 so we can bill for it That it's all with intention for a better outcome for us And what i'm learning is relearning is that what is the indicator? What's the outcome we're looking for? So I would assume the outcome would be better health less illness less death And that's just not What we're seeing so I think i'm fired up especially because in this Moment right now.

I just got off an interview with um a speaker who is talking about german new medicine and she's a chiropractor and Well, she has she wears a lot of different hats and she's extremely knowledgeable but she is just one of 20 other experts that i'm interviewing in this series called holistic practices for Energy vitality and confidence and perimenopause and beyond and what I am Trying to get to with this series is i'm trying to help people like shift perspective in myself I'm learning new things every day. I didn't know a lot about german new medicine prior to this But it allows us to shift perspective. Maybe learn something else that could potentially Save us in a way that could allow us to actually change evolve and heal In such a beautiful way without this like struggle without medications and surgeries and all of that.

So yeah, I mean gosh, it's just like So when I saw patients that would come in with chronic utis or chronic pelvic pain or chronic fatigue or chronic muscle pain and After we would do the initial workup and nothing would be found in a family practice Then we would send them off to a specialist and that's always so tough And then I get all the results back. I review them either put on medications for symptoms But yet nothing is shown on the labs. It's really hard when you're when you're dealing with that with a patient it's even worse when you have friends and family members that have these chronic Medical symptoms that don't have a diagnosis Attached to them too And so and then you see them going through this whole process and and that's why a lot of people end up going And searching for other types of modalities.

They look into holistic and integrative and functional medicine, which Kind of is the same thing as allopathic insurance medicine. You just have to pay a lot more It kind of goes down the same route We're just looking at disease and treating disease with a medication or with a supplement not saying that any of this is wrong So, please hear me. I'm not saying that any of this is wrong Sometimes we have to go through all of these paths But what is the outcome the outcome should be health should be feeling better And even if that is just a mindset shift of like these are the symptoms symptomology i'm having right now I will one day feel better or Just really not getting like Wrapped up in the diagnosis wrapped up in the symptoms, but how can we actually live and expand? And I don't know i'm going off on a tangent.

I know I didn't really Write much down when I was thinking about this, but I just i'm so passionate about it Right now and really pretty much always I think what's happening is that i'm Stepping into my voice around it that I was I was in that breakup process where I was still disillusioned, you know, I was still like maybe we'll get back together So that's how I was feeling around um Healthcare and medicine allopathic medicine is maybe one day We'll get back together and i'll be in a clinic again and da da da and I just can't there's just there's just so much broken There's so much disconnect between the body and the mind and our emotions and we're not only this Biological system or this spiritual system or this energetic system? and We just have to incorporate all three of those things and trust me y'all listen i'm working on I'm working on more of what is I feel like is truly a holistic approach to health and healing And you know, it's not our fault. We've all been taught that we are these isolated parts You know, we see a specialist they look at the heart or somebody looks at the liver or somebody looks at the bladder and Even though you know, you think that they would look at the systems together. I just don't and I think that you know a functional medicine provider who really is trying to dive more deeply into your symptoms is so is Is good But i've always had like this big issue with Ordering thousands of dollars in tests and then They look at the test and then there are certain markers that you're looking at and they start treating you towards the towards the lab result versus your symptoms and Recently i've gotten really gutsy and when i'm speaking with functional medicine medicine providers Who order lots of tests and have a lot of diagnostic tools? I ask what is your success rate? So if people come in and you're treating to labs then i'm like well How are they getting better? And most of them respond.

Yeah. Yes on their labs the markers go down and Then I ask again But how are they doing? Like how are their symptoms? What's the percent resolution of their symptoms? Then they say some people don't follow my protocol or they fall off or it gets too hard which I get I get it's it's interesting when you have a Recommendation and then your patient doesn't follow it. It happens all of the time And yet it still shows me that they're looking at the labs And really excited about the lab numbers changing when still the person Might still have the symptoms and again, it's like thousands of dollars and You're more than likely are taking truckloads of supplements and there are these complex protocols and I don't know I think it's still a better way Potentially, but I still think something massive is missing I think that there's a lot of functional medicine providers who really do a thorough health and history that really look at environment And toxins and look at your stress level and talk about all that and of course Implementing that and your lifestyle changes is hard because we're so set in our ways like this whole podcast Is about it's about how we still live on automation.

So how do we get out of automation? So to take a deep breath with me i'm just like i'm just so on fire about this and I think One of the other reasons why i'm so on fire about it is because well seeing my friends also suffer and being sent through all of these tests and diagnosis and supplements and Yada, yada, yada, but I went through it too. I went through it with my diagnosis of ductal cystic ductal cystic carcinoma and site to stage zero cancer where I was put through that conveyor belt once I was diagnosed on mammogram with an abnormal mammogram I was sent for a biopsy. Then I had two revisions and then after the two revisions a double mastectomy and reconstruction and tamoxifen were recommended and this is for something that is Contained within the duct until you break it open.

So it's a contained slow slow growing cellular growth and Now so once I put a hold on it where I said i'm not going to go forward with having the additional treatments I Did more research into dcis and during the time that I was diagnosed There were there was a massive study with thousands of people studying whether dcis Ductal cystic carcinoma and site two should be treated at all Or if it should just be monitored because here is the deal our body is always trying to change So we have an abnormal cell that the abnormal cell can either die Because it's abnormal our bodies want to just destroy it get rid of it Or that abnormal cell can become healthy again, or that abnormal cell can have cell growth now when that abnormal cell has Growth then it depends on how fast that abnormal cell has growth and if it has slow growth then the healthy cells can kind of push out the Unhealthy cells now there are some types of unhealthy cells that can replicate At a very very fast level which is different. That is actually a very small percentage And this is another thing while i've been alive and in medicine The diagnosis and treatment of Abnormal pap smears have changed when I was first in practice. It would immediately go from an abnormal pap smear to a colposcopy Where they dye the cells and then they remove any abnormal cells And then if they and if your repeat pap smear came back abnormal again Then they would do a comb biopsy where they would move a portion of your cervix And during my lifetime they had recognized that they were being too aggressive with the biopsy and then treatment and so they've come back and They've allowed for there to be repeat pap smears, which is relatively Uninvasive, I mean except for the pap smear part, but I mean it doesn't it's not you don't have to cut anything open or off in order for you to test for cervical cancer and Yeah, and Because what they were recognizing is that even when you have these abnormal cells and these abnormal cells that could potentially grow They they oftentimes Corrected themselves your body healed those abnormal cells But as somebody who had been has been through this on the patient side with dcis there is a Lot of trauma that happens when you're diagnosed with something and you think You think the worst case scenario because that's human nature.

We tend to start dress rehearsing the pain And yeah, so we have to really consider that. I don't want to hear this term early detection through screening it drives me absolutely bonkers because to me that means that If we have early detection we have early intervention, which means more procedures more surgeries more operations more medications more trauma to our psyche that something Tragic is going to happen and not really the slow Medicine of watching and waiting and see how our body resolves. I don't feel like in western medicine The idea of self-healing is a thing And it's wild to me because our cells are doing it all the time Billions of times probably as i'm sitting here recording this podcast and that's not something that we revere in western medicine and I'm not gonna sit here and apologize that it's because it's not what we learned in medical school It's really the basis of Physiology I don't know.

So i'm here sharing my thoughts You may disagree you may agree and both of those things Are absolutely fine because just as much as i'm on this journey to find the truth I'm on a quest a personal quest to figure out really the truth behind healing How we restore homeostasis and what do we do to actually thrive? In our bodies and not just survive and as one of my Speakers recently said she goes 60. What'd she say? She goes, um, 65 is the new 85. So just plan on living to be a hundred She was talking about finances and really how we can get our finances in order in midlife to have enough money to um have all the things we want in health and relationships and And in wealth and she shares her amazing story about how she was really ill And lost everything because of her health and um had to grow back her empire.

So Y'all it's gonna be an amazing series. It airs at the end of the month. And of course, you'll be the first to know when I released the Registration it's all free.

These 21 days are free and every single one of the Speakers gives away something free as a way To yeah to as an offering to the community. So i'm so excited anyway At one point. I know i'm gonna be able to Talk to you guys more coherently with less energy packed behind it And really talking about how we can like move forward with all of this and have a better understanding of how We ourselves can have a better understanding about how our part what our personal healing journey is And maybe create a protocol that's not complicated nor requires a bunch of supplements or flap desks in order for You and I and all of us to thrive i'm not just on this quest for the truth for you and for me, but for my kids and for their kids and Yeah It just has to be Simpler It has to be more simple.

Anyway, I would love to know your thoughts except if they're Negative they can be Contrary to mine. They just can't be like negative There's a difference You get there you can respectfully disagree and I will 100% Take that and I would love to hear your perspective and i'll see you in the next episode The world needs the vibrance and wisdom of a woman's intuition to help heal the world When we learn to trust ourselves through leaning into and through discomfort We learn to trust ourselves and in that space is our power and clarity