From Modern Medicine Back to the Roots

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The content provided in this episode of Tongue Not Bitten is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The host holds a MSN , certified Holistic Practitioner, and Educated Herbalist , sharing personal experiences with Lupus, pharmaceuticals, and herbal formulations. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition or autoimmune disease. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking it because of something you heard on this podcast. Always consult your physician or a qualified healthcare professional before stopping, starting, or changing any prescription medications or beginning an herbal health protocol. Statements regarding dietary supplements and botanical herbs have not been evaluated by the FDA.

This episode From Modern Medicine Back to the Roots may not be for everyone and I’m speaking my truth that might make some people uncomfortable. It’s controversial to most .

When Lupus attacked my body, that the system I knew and worked in handed me a dead end.

Between steroids that did not work for me and prescriptions like Plaquenil that threatened my eyesight and messed with my memory—I knew I had to make a choice. I was trading my other body parts for symptoms related to side effects . That isn’t wellness.

So, I did what people  did for thousands of years. I looked to a natural source and selection . 🌿

I went back to school, did the clinical training, and became a certified Holistic Practitioner and educated  Herbalist.

 I took my knowledge and fused it with the calling in my bloodline—the same healing lineage of generations  upon generations . 

Today, I navigate this diagnosis and day to day journey differently. 

In this brand-new episode of Tongue Not Bitten, I am pulling back the curtain on:

👉 The History of the Earth’s Pharmacy: Why herbalism isn't "alternative" medicine—it's the original medicine that predates modern Rx by 60,000 years.

👉 The Clinical Face-Off: How I safely replaced synthetic steroids and Plaquenil with my own handmade blends .

👉 Inside the Holistic Workshop: How I custom-craft my own wellness capsules, organic soaps, oils, tinctures, and teas with zero synthetic fillers or hidden allergens.

It’s time to stop treating symptoms with a synthetic hammer and start bringing the body back into perfect, peaceful balance.

🎧 Listen to the full episode now! Click the link in my bio to tune in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your raw truths.

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Welcome back to Tongue Not Bitten Podcast. Thanks for joining. Before we dive into today's powerful episode, we need to take care of some important legal housekeeping. So, the information shared on Tonegnot Bitten Podcast, including my personal journey as a former healthcare practitioner and a holistic practitioner and an educated herbalist, is for educational, inspirational, and formal purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosing, or treatment. I am sharing my own personal experience and journey managing my lupus, my autoimmune disease, and my choices regarding herbal formulation. However, everyone's body is unique. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Always consult your physician or your healthcare provider before starting any new herbal regimen, taking any supplements or making any changes to your current medication or altering your treatment plan. The statements made about specific herbs, including anything that I take or any ingredients I state on here, have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. My handmade products and formulations are designed for holistic wellness and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any diseases. Alright, so now let's get into this episode. Welcome back again, as I stated. Thanks for listening. Today we are going to be bridging the gap between conventional medicine and holistic ancestral natural wellness. This episode may not be for everyone, and I am speaking my truth, and that might make some people uncomfortable. It's controversial to some and to most. But I spent years in healthcare system. The standard is just handing out prescriptions. You go into an appointment. If you're like me and you have autoimmune disorder disorders or lupus or anything like that, you know, you don't look sick on the outside. Here's some medication. You're lucky if you get a 30-minute, maybe an hour appointment. Maybe. And that's waiting in between so the doctors and nurses can see anybody. And then they barely listen, and they're really not allowed to discuss nutrition habits, etc. My own body was completely allergic to so many prescriptions and things. I'm one of those 1% people that if it's gonna happen, it usually happens in a weird way. Like if that 1% is like, hey, this might cause this, but it's very rare. Um, I promise you, it's gonna happen. It's the weirdest thing. Started during the COVID, but it's been that way my whole life. And my grandmother um was like that too. And I love my grandmother. She was the same way, she was just allergic to a lot of stuff. Um, when I was navigating my lupus, um, they put me on steroids and they tried infusions and a lot of pain medications. They just kept throwing things at me, and everything seemed to just be failing. It failed my system. Um, it made me lose hair. I gained weight, I lost eyebrows. Another reason I got into the permanent makeup knot wasn't just because of working in aesthetics, but was simply also because I had lost my eyebrows and um it and hair, and it was just I was navigating how to feel feminine and myself again. Um, looks are not everything. Beauty comes from inside, but it was playing havoc on my mentality as well. Um, it caused depression, brain fog, speech impairment. I already had stuttered when I was younger, and I noticed that when I got diagnosed with lupus, I started stuttering, mispronouncing words and forgetting things mid-sentences. Just it was just horrible. And you'll hear that on this podcast too, because like I said, this isn't a scripted podcast, this is real. So everything I say is real, it's not scripted. So please give me grace if you hear me mispronounce something or not say it right, or if I stutter or repeat myself over and over. I'm sorry about that. It's just all part of the hand that we were dealt. So just deal with it. But I felt completely abandoned by my healthcare provider. Um, I was even told when I was going through this and feeling horrible, horrible, dragging myself in there, writing down and keeping a journal all my symptoms. I was literally told by this person that also is a personal friend and not my healthcare provider anymore, though, um, that oh, you're fine, you just need to eat some fried chicken. And I was kind of like, mm-hmm, because I don't eat fried food. So, you know, I do every now and then, but not like a lot. So, and I know he was just making light of it, but when you're sick, that's not something to say to somebody. I'm sorry, it just really offended me. And I'm not the type of person to bite my tongue since I am in healthcare and know this game, so it was not good. This conversation did not end well with that being said to me. But the only alternative was go to this specialist, go to this specialist, go to this specialist, and all of them seem to just be focusing on the one thing, and you are a whole person, you have a whole body, it is all combined. We this has got to stop. So I didn't get very far with this. I just kept getting drugs pushed on me, more pain medication, which I will not take. Um, pain medication does not work with me. It makes me so sick and not functional and dizzy and lightheaded and horrible. I feel horrible on it. I cannot deal with it, and it really doesn't take care of the pain. I mean, it might patent, it patents down it for a little bit, but your body kind of has to get used to what it's going through so you know how to handle it and heal from it. And it just wasn't working for me, and nothing was really working for me. So my husband was there. I was basically giving up. I felt abandoned alone. Nobody could really help me, didn't matter what specialist you went to. They only focused abyss, or they'd look at you and go, hey man, your whole body's inflamed. What's going on? And I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do any of these things, I don't take a lot of medications because I never had, never needed to. It just doesn't work for me anyway, or I have allergic reactions. So it's just one of those things, it's horrible. So I looked into the history. I prayed, first of all, dug down deep, prayed, cried, talked to God, was very upset. You know, all the emotional human things you go through. Like, why me? Why am I going through this? This is horrible. I hate this. Um, my husband's having to go through this, my kids having to go through this, they're watching me, my family's watching me suffer. It's horrible. But I prayed and I prayed and I prayed. I dug down deep, and then I started looking into my history and my heritage. I have Native American heritage in my background. My grandfathers were Native American. And the stories about my great-grandmother Mary, who I wish I was knew her a lot more, but feel her presence quite often these days. She was our community, she was her community healer. Um, my dad told me he remembers people bringing their children and themselves to her door for help, and she would heal them the natural way. You know, back then um you couldn't afford doctors, a lot of people couldn't afford doctors, or they was far doctors were far away, and you couldn't just go get to a doctor. So you had your community healers, people that God gave special gifts to, and people that had big hearts and for helping others. And apparently my great-grandmother Mary was that, and that's amazing. Um, but I didn't stop there at just intuition. I started researching. The healthcare provider, me was kind of like, what about this? How's this? I know how the system works, blah, blah, blah. So I started looking into schools for herbalism, and I went back to my ancestral roots. So I did the clinical training, I became a certified holistic practitioner. I got educated in herbalism because anything that you're gonna do natural, that's powerful. Um, if you look around, plants, trees, shrubs, stuff like that, been around forever, but they are resilient, they're powerful. I know for a fact that our medicines come from that, and I'll talk about that, but you got to understand how to use it. You can't just see these things and go, oh, that's what I need. Or if you can't hear me today as well, let me just say this. What I'm gonna share with you on what I do may not be for you. Okay, don't play with fire, just make sure you know your habits are different than mine, your eating is different than mine, your drinking is different than mine, what you take around in your system is different than mine. Everybody's unique, and I own a wellness spa, and I never make a natural unless I know your whole history. I also will tell you to discuss it with your healthcare provider so we can work together on what you're doing if this is the choice you make, okay? So let me just say that right out the gate. Just because you see, oh, this marshmallow root is good for this, okay. It may not be. You need to know. Not everybody is educated in herbalism. A lot of us, when we started going healthier, everybody started jumping on that bandwagon, okay? But it's important to know what you're mixing, what you're taking, and what you're doing because it is powerful. I cannot stress that enough. I have a friend that I love dearly, but if she hears something, she's gonna take it. And it and I'm sitting here going, that is it might work opposite for you, okay? If you have ADHD autism, there's lots of factors going on before you take an herb that you need to know about, okay? Not just an olipop, those things, you know, licorice root can cause high blood pressure. I mean, there's a lot, and I'll be discussing that in later podcasts, but please be safe with what you're doing to your body because it is powerful. Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's less powerful, okay? It is twice as powerful. Trust me when I say it's powerful and resilient. All right, so getting back to that. I'm 52 years old, I still work, and I'm going to discuss this journey with you. And like I said, I understand this journey is not for everybody. It's a con, you know, it gets controversial, this journey. And but it works for me. And um, I still work, I own a wellness spot, beauty spa. Um, today this is still in my heart, it is still in my head. I help others as well, I help my family, and I help myself. I believe in both naturals as well as Western modern healing, but to a certain extent. First and foremost, let's stop calling herbalism alternative medicine, healing, or wellness. Let's get the history straight. For over 60,000 years, plants, herbs, naturals, trees, shrubs were the only medicine our ancestors, yours and mine, stayed alive due to because they understood the soil, they understood the earth, they understood how to survive off what God gave. Every single one of us have ancestry or background. Um, it doesn't matter which ones, every single one of our ancestors, whether they were Native American, African American, European, or Asian, survived because they knew how to use the earth and what it gave them. They knew how to use what they were given. A lot of them didn't get to go to the hospitals, even when hospitals were around and doctors were around, because you know, slaves did not get that choice. They did not, they knew herbalism, they knew how to survive off that, and that is so important. Don't forget your history and those things because that is important to know. Also, our I'll remind you that you know, it didn't come from hospitals. A lot of people couldn't afford it, a lot of people couldn't get to go to it, a lot of people didn't do that. Health for 99% of human history was the natural sources that they had around them and that they knew how to use that God had given them. Like, this is what they did to survive. We all know it, it's history. Medicine, as we know it, has only been dominant for about 100 to 150 years. It's the new kid on the block. It was discovered and formulated from naturals. It took what our ancestors were doing and it synthesized it. When my grandmother Mary was treating her community, she was using a clinical tradition passed down since forever, from generations to generations. And today there are 121 pure chemical compounds in current pharmaceutical use straight from plants. Over 25% of the drugs doctors prescribe to you worldwide are just isolated plant molecules. The difference is that pharmaceutical companies isolate the one chemical so they can patent it, synthesize it, and then sell it. But as a healthcare practitioner and a herbalist, I learned the hard way that when you isolate a compound, you introduce severe side effects and allergies. My body rejected those highly in a lot of different ways. It is a pharmaceutical copy. It forced me to return back to a way that was whole and natural, the way God made it and the way our ancestors used to survive from it. That's my journey. Facts are 25% of all prescription drugs are derivative directly from plants, and that number jumps up to 40% if you start throwing in fungi or broader natural sources or spectrums. Some naturals that you may be familiar with. Okay, so aspirin. For over 3,500 years, Sumerians and Egyptians used willow bark for pain and fevers. Um, Native Americans used black willow bark, and Egyptians and Sumerians used white. Um, white is the most knownly known for the aspirin. In 1897, Bear synthesized it into a little white peel that we buy everywhere now at pharmacies, gas stations, Walmart, Target, everywhere. But it comes from willow bark. And the reason it comes from the willow bark tree is because the willow bark tree contains salicin acid or dilic acid. So they took that and they patented it and they synthesized it. When you're eating bark, of course, you're gonna have stomach upset. But when you formulate it and synthesize it, it's gonna be a little bit milder on your stomach. Therefore, we got aspirin. A chemist called Felix Hoffman um patented it in like 1899 and Bear purchased it. So that's how you got aspirin. It came from a natural and is still used worldwide today. We harvest um willow bark and we do it a natural way. It's a little bit easier on my stomach than actual aspirin is, but I don't barely take aspirin, but that's one. Here's another one heart medicine. Um, a pharmaceutical heart drug called Digoxin um comes straight from the Foxcove plant. It is from that, and it caused it, it was discovered in I think 1785, and it keeps the heart from swelling and causing heart attacks. So that was that, and that's been around forever. And I believe that was not discovered in America. I think that was discovered, if I'm not mistaken, in Britain, but I could be wrong about that. It's been a long time since I studied the herbalism, but I'm pretty sure that's where that comes from. So those might be two of the things that you know about. Also, statins, um, you know, red yeast rice, if you're taking that to lower your buck, bad cholesterol, that can turn into a natural statin, and you got to be careful with those things too. But you hear about these things, and these might be things that you know about. So let's talk about what happens when you go to a conventional doctor for lupus or autoimmune. They hand you usually some type of steroid, usually protasome. Well, that was the first one out the gate for me, or they hook you up to infusions. Um, that also was another thing that I underwent. Now, as a healthcare professional, I understand why protozone is a synthetic hammer. It goes into your body and it completely shuts down your entire immune system. Your immune system, when you have lupus, is attacking everything good, bad, the ugly. It attacks everything, it attacks good things and it makes you feel like horrible. Well, protozone shuts down your immune system completely. And then this leaves you susceptible to catch everything and be super, super vulnerable to everything that's out there. Whether you're grocery shopping, whether you're working like me, I still work. Um that that was a big deal. It also makes you feel like horrible. It made me feel horrible. It didn't work for me. But when you have a hyperactive body system like I do, you also have allergic reactions to it, which I did. That synthetic hammer felt like a personal, horrible attack. Not only was I already going through problems, this made that worse for me. My body rejected that. Then we tried infusions, and no surprise the year, but there again, that did not work for me either. My body rejected that as well. Um, it kept making me sicker and feeling horrible and depressed and not able to get up. It was awful. Um, so what I did as an educated herbalist, I looked into different things and different compounds and found for me, and let me just say this again for me, baswella, sorry, which is a reason from frankincense. Now, there are several different types of boswella, okay? There's not just one, they come from different regions, they have different purposes. The one that I take is cerrata, so that's for me. So instead of crashing my whole immune system, it contains active boswellic acid that specifically goes after an enzyme called five locks. Now I know this is talking a lot medically wise, but bear with me. It is the exact trigger that causes the burning joint pain. Five locks is the it this is what triggers your immune system. It causes joint pain and inflammation, and it causes tissue damage. And in autoimmune disease, this is your five locks is high. Voswellus steps in for me and blocks that specific pathway and it calms my fire down without the toxic side effects, without the weight gain, and without triggering any allergic reaction for me. Okay, that's what's working for me. So that's one thing that I do. This isn't folklore either, and this isn't like, oh, she's a wack-adoodle. Um, a lot of my doctors actually thought that I had I have 13 specialists, okay? Um, and each one, a lot of them looked at me like I was a wack-a-odle and that this was crazy. But when my inflammation pattern started going down, they started looking at me different. This isn't folklore, this is clinical molecular biochemistry. My ancestors didn't know the word five locks, but they knew the bark of the tree could stop the pain. And if you'll look in the history of that, you'll understand that as well. It's even in the Bible, it was given to Jesus, so you know, it's a healer. I took the wisdom that I learned in my education and I used it to formulate my own system, my own capsule. So the other thing that you get given when you have autoimmune disease, AR, or lupus, is a beautiful word prescription called hydroxychloroquine or placard. So it's the absolute baseline gold standard prescription for lupus patients. However, you are highlighting two major issues with this if you're sensitive to it. Now, it works for a lot of people. I'm not saying that it doesn't. Um, my rheumatologist gave it to me, and immediately I started seeing the side effects after about three or four weeks it getting into my system. Um doctors will tell you that lupus that lupus patients are going to be safe on this, that placamil is safe and it's mild. And it is, it's mild on the organs most of the time. Um, I have my my organs, I have SLE lupus, so my organs get attacked. But this is a milder prescription for organs, but it carries also a well-known risk for eye issues. Um, it causes induced retinal toxicity, it deposits in a melanin of the retina and can cause permanent irreversible vision loss. So I started having eye issues. I started seeing spots, had to go to the eye doctor, and he didn't advise me to stay on this because your body's already attacking stuff. Your eyes get attacked just as much as anything else in your body gets attacked, and with this medication, it was causing some issues for me. So That's one of the things I noticed when I was on that prescription. The other thing that's not talked about a lot, because when you have lupus, you already have brain fog, memory problems, and issues with that as well. So you're kind of outweighing, like, hey, is this a medication side effect? As you know, as a healthcare provider, I'm like, okay, wait, is this a side effect or is this part of lupus? Because we're already expecting the worst with that. We have no idea. It just is a day-to-day ritual. Okay. Let's play this game. What is it today? What flair is this? What is it attacking today? Okay, so you stay on it. And I was like, okay, I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but this is crazy. I started having the worst, even prior to this, the worst memory issues. I felt like I was losing my mind. I would go in a room, which we all do, and I would not know why I was there. You know, and and we do all we all do that. This was coming a lot. Not only that, I was for I was misplacing things, I was forgetting stuff. This was crazy. My my central nervous system, my neurodegeneration was declining with this situation, and it was weird. I've left I left my car keys in the refrigerator, okay. The fridge. Why? And searched the house top to bottom. Even got my daughter involved. Like, I don't know where my keys are. Can you help me find them? This is crazy. Could not find them anywhere. They were in the fridge under something, okay? Crazy, crazy, craziness. So I started talking about that. And I have a friend of mine that we sit there and we talked about this and discussed it. And this was this is a side effect people do not talk about. Um, it can cause dizziness, it can cause severe focus problems, and it can cause memory disruption, kind of like Alzheimer's. It was horrible. I hated it. I could not deal with it. And in all honesty, I did not the months that I were on it, I did not see any improvement in pain, in joint, or any of those things, and my inflammation was not changing. So to me, trading one body part for others was not worth the risk of that. So I took myself off that completely. I did talk to my doctor about it, and you know, I was like, this is just not for me. So I took myself off that. So then I had to figure out something else for that or not be able to function through the day. And this is what I do for myself. I started researching something else to combine with what I was taking to help with the inflammation and pain and joint joint problems and deteriorate my joints. So here enters in what I do for me, Devil's Claw. Devil's claw is an incredible root-containing active compound called irididide glycoside. Okay, so while PlanetQL disrupts cells communication systems wide and causes a lot of problems, devil's claw safely steps in as a natural cytokine inhibitor. It blocks the TNFF alpha and IL6, the specific cellular alarms that tell your immune system to attack its own joints and cells. Okay, it blocks that the exact same anti-inflammatory benefit as a pharmaceutical drug, but the only thing is, is it doesn't cross or touch my ocular pathway or cross into a blood-brain barrier to cause congenitive chaos to my system. Works for me by not causing toxicity in my eyes or stealing any of my memory or focus. I don't have the inflammation in the joints or the pain. So that is the power of clinical herbalism over synthetic chemistry. Say this again for everybody in the back row. This is for me. Okay, this is my personal combination. So I take Boswella and Devil's Claw and I combine them in a capsule that I make. By combining them, I am creating a powerful synergistic effect for my system. Boswella blocks the five locks pathway, like we talked about, while Devil's Claw blocks the COX2 F and IL6 pathways that lupus is known for. Together, they attack my lupus inflammation from every angle. Something a single pharmaceutical drug alone cannot do, by the way. Just gonna put that out there. And no side effects for me. I have no side effects from that. But I don't use a single ingredient solution because autoimmune diseases are complex. I blend them to create a synergy. In my workspace, I handcraft my own custom wellness capsules, and that's the process I do for me. All purified reason I extract a Boswella and I blend it directly with a concentrated devil's claw root powder. I put them together in the same exact capsule because of biochemical teamwork that it provides. Lupus doesn't just attack my joints, my memory, or anything else by using one pathway. It uses multiple. Predazone tries to shut down everything like a blackout, and Planacil risk my eyesight and other things. But when I take these capsules that I make and blend myself, it steps in, the Boswell steps in to block the five locks, like we talked about, the inflammatory enzyme. While the Devil's Claw symmetrically blocks the COX2 enzyme and shuts down toxic TNF alpha. I'm hitting the inflammation from the left and the right naturally. Very happy. But when I do help others, I always tell them, like I stated earlier, to discuss this with your medical provider. Always tell your medical provider what you're taking and doing. I'm using the chemistry of God's earth to bring body back to a perfect balance for myself, a peaceful, perfect balance for myself. And like I stated, this may not be for everyone, but this is my journey and this is how it worked for me because trying the other way did not work for me. And here I am today, and I'm feeling pretty good about myself, and I have good days and bad days. There is no cure for any autoimmune disease like lupus, but there are things you can do. Like I don't drink alcohol at all, I don't take in a lot of sugars. Um I have my cheat days, but buddy, do I feel it? I'm very careful with carbohydrates and glutens, um, artificial flavors, dyes, stuff like that. I have to be careful with as well. I don't eat a lot of fried foods. Um, it is a daily balance trying to live and survive with this. And there needs to be more research, I feel like, on it. SLE, um, my kidneys get attacked, um, my liver gets attacked, everything gets attacked. I um I have really, really, really bad days, and you will never know it looking at me. I go to work and I smile through the pain. Um, that's what healthcare providers do. Um, I will laugh and cut up. I will always do my makeup and my hair. I've told my husband, if anything happens to me, you better make sure my makeup and my hair is done. So when I go into the doctor's appointments, I'm not in my pajamas looking horrible. It's that's just not me. That's not my makeup. If that's you, that's great. It's just not me. Um, you do whatever you gotta do to survive. There is no judgment at all there. But as for me, I can be on death's door and I'm still gonna be like, hey, hand me my stuff, hand me my stuff, just because that's who I am. Um, so it frustrates me to no end going into an office and oh, you look fine, you look great, you're in remission. Please don't say those words to me because I've come a long way of surviving, and I've gone through a lot of education trying to figure this out for myself since nobody else would. And it was hard and depressing to see what was out there. Um, when you die from lupus attacks the heart, attacks the kidneys, attacks the liver. So when you die from those things, let's just say you die of a heart attack um from inflammation of the heart, lining, and problems, complications with that, instead of putting on there she died from lupus complications, they typically put on there what you died from heart attack, uh, kidney failure, kidney disease, liver liver disease. So therefore, those things have attention, but the lupus gets put on the back burner. There's not a lot of research for it because of the system the way it is. And I I do hope that changes in the future. But uh, so far, this is the hands were you know were dealt, and you just gotta learn how to play them, and and it's really hard. Learn how to keep going and go on. I am blessed and thankful um that I've had that education and knowledge to do so, and I don't regret a day of learning. I love to learn and I do a lot of different things. Um I had to leave the traditional way to survive my way. And I also live in Alabama, so there's things that I wasn't allowed to do or say, so I had to take down certain titles that I had earned because of it. So I'm at a simplicity life stage now. I do simple things to live the life that I believe in now. Um, I don't I don't regret that at all. I um I'm thankful for the knowledge, but I don't agree with the system. I don't agree with what it looks like. Um, like I said, your body's a whole. I don't agree with insurance dictating health, and I don't agree with some of the people in healthcare that absolutely do not care. Um I don't agree with that at all. So I've changed the way I am, and I am thankful for it. Um, I am surviving, and I am thankful for that that God gives me another breath every day. Um there is no cure for this, like I said. So there are good days and there are bad days. The way I blend my blends, um, and I do a lot of other things besides the two I talked about. I just wanted to talk about the two powerhouses that have helped me the most. Baswella and Devil's Claw have different species, they have different origins and different, and they're widely distributed. So you'll also need to know which one works for you. Um, there are some of swallow that's only for incense and fragrance and chemical um compounds for um skincare. So you need to know those things, and that's where herbalism comes in. That when you're educated in herbalism, you know the difference between the origins, what you need, and what you don't need. Um, that's the other thing I'd like to make sure that I make clear. Just don't take anything, make sure you're talking to someone that knows. And I will also point out that there are a lot of vitamin supplement wellness stores, and the people running those or selling those products are probably usually selling something that someone else makes. Um, sometimes those have chemicals in them. Um, they're usually FDA regulated as well, some of them, and therefore they're gonna have some titanium dioxide or silicone something in them. So, or dyes, or just be careful with that. And most of the time, the people working in those healthcare stores or wellness shops or supplement shops that everybody's jumping on the bandwagon are are not have never been in healthcare or they're not herbalist. Um, they're not educated in herbalism, they're just you know, they mean well and they're and they're doing things, but just please be careful because um that is important to know and distinguish between the the the factors of you can always ask those questions. Um also, you know, my stuff is natural, like I stated, and I do help people, and I and I am thankful for that, but I am very wise and careful with doing that, and I always tell people the truth and the facts about each thing, they're powerful. Um, that is my um story into how I started studying herbalism and got into herbalism. Um, my lupus kind of dealt me there. I always ask my husband, I'm kind of like, when did I decide to do that? I was like, I just kind of woke up and was like, hey, you know what? Um, but I remember like my papa was amazing. I loved my grandpapa junior. I loved my granny and my papa. My papa was the most amazing thing to me. Um I I loved him when his cowboy boots would hit the floor. My cowboy boots would hit the floor. Um I loved being out in Texas with them, growing up with them, and I loved a lot of his natural ways, and he did have that. Now, my mom, on the other hand, um, that's his daughter, but not so much. But my papa, absolutely. That native background in him was like strong, and um he was amazing, and I miss him every day. And I'm I'm thankful for the time that I had with them, and I love them. My great-grandmother Mary, that was my dad's great grandmother, I mean, that was my gr dad's grandmother. Um, I don't remember a whole lot about her. I was very little with her, but I've heard some of her stories from family members, and she was amazing. I would have loved to have sat with her and talked with her more, especially since I know that she does what I do, and she believed in what I believe in, and that's amazing to me. Um, and her helping people and her stories are amazing to me, and I love that history of that. Don't forget your history and your background. Um, it's important and it's in your bloodline, and it it's it's amazing. Um, and like I stated, Western medicine didn't just happen overnight, and naturals are nothing to play with. Um they're they're powerful and strong, and they can do harm just as well as they can do help. So be careful with that. Thank you for listening today and and bearing with me and giving me grace on these. Um, like I said, I'm not professional on this, and but um it's important, and I I do want to get my story out there and and share it. Um, I will share more of my lupus journey with you and my autoimmune disease journeys that I'm still going through. I don't just have one autoimmune disease either, I have others, and we'll discuss that later in the future. I stated I believe in both. I believe in natural and I believe in modern medicine as well, um, when it works and certain things, but to, like I said, also to a certain extent and degree. So um I'm sure this probably offends some people, and I'm sorry, but this is my truth and my journey. Um, it may not be yours, and that's fine if it looks different from you, you know. Um, God bless you as well. But um this is mine, so I'm gonna share that with you. And thanks for listening and giving me grace again. Um, once again, thank you very much for that. It means a lot to me. Um, so next Monday's podcast, I hope um, if time willing and schedules permit, I will have some guest hosts on here with me, and we're gonna talk about um healthcare system and the they're in the healthcare system as well. And we're gonna talk about an inspection for a bill to pass that has been on my heart and on my mind for several, several years now, and I feel like it is time to discuss that, and I'm gonna talk about that structure with others and how to hopefully get this bill to pass in the future with our state. But I don't just hope for our state, I hope for every state. So please stay tuned to that next time. And I also promise that we're gonna have some fun stuff in here, not just the sad stuff or the facts or the craziness. Um, I promise that we will have some fun stuff in there as well. Um, I hope to get my husband on here for some story times because that's a hoot. What the married life. I'm just saying his stories are the best stories, and together we are so hyper, and that's crazy. So um I did those are those are fun to listen to, and I do hope to have some more friends and professionals on here as well to discuss their roles and all the things that they're interested in and all the cool stuff that they do. So thank you for bearing with me. And stay tuned to next Monday. Hopefully, like I stated, if their schedules permit and our schedules permit, and time just kind of lines up. Next Monday, we'll be talking about that um inspection for a bill um and and talking about how that system, what I'm what I'm looking into doing and helping next. I do plan on doing some vlogging. Um, there will be some video up. I did start the YouTube channel and a TikTok channel, but um I have not been able time. My scheduled time permit has not been doing so well with that. Um, like I stated earlier in my a couple episodes back, that we are still building out um the new wellness spa. And my husband's working so hard on making that journey and that dream come true for me, and it is turning into an absolute more than words can say, beauty, beauty to my heart for that. So I'll be glad when that's done. I will also be sharing that on this tongue knot bitten episode from beginning to end with that journey on how that went and how that happened from moving downtown to where we are now, but um, that's in the future episodes. But thank you again for listening and giving me grace, and I hope you stay well and feel beautiful. Thanks for listening to tongue knot bitten. See you next Monday.

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