Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host Ashley James. This is Episode Oh boy do we have a treat today. We have with us Dr. Christine Schaffner who is a naturopathic

physician, a graduate of Bastier University in 2010.

She started, she's a founder of the Sophia Health Institute with Dr. Klinghart who's actually quite famous and Dr. Christine

loves to treat patients who have seen every doctor under the sun and still have chronic illness and they're not getting better.

So these really mystery illnesses, mystery patients come to see her and she loves to help them recover their health naturally and through

education and through lifestyle change and through all these special testing and

she's got tricks up her sleeve that I've never seen other

and these do so this is going to be a lot of fun. Welcome to the show.

Thank you

and I really appreciate the opportunity to speak with your audience today. Yes, you know, we were discussing some things before we hit record and just really interesting, like for of lab test, which you and

Dr. Klinghart just started using this a different kind of lab test, which you

wanted to make sure that, you know, I was we're talking about chronic illness, you wanted to make sure that you know I was we're talking about chronic illness you

wanted to bring up certain things that hey you know your doctor if you have Lyme disease

for example your doctor should be doing x y z test and you should be looking for

this and so you have all this great information doing X, Y, Z test and you should be looking for this.

And so you have all this great information when it comes to chronic illness,

and we definitely want to get into that,

because I know I have some listeners who are suffering from chronic illness.

But first, let's hear a bit about you. Why did you become a

naturopathic physician? I'd love to hear your story. Well you know that's a you

know great question and I can tell a little bit tell you a little bit about my background. I grew up on the

East Coast outside of Washington DC and my father is actually an oncologist and my mother is she trained as a nurse but she has a background in education and she was a

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