Your body will go, whoa, I need to slow down. So our thyroid takes a hit. Our brain function, we get brain fog. We're just tired because our body is screaming. There's something wrong. So you can't supplement yourself out of that. You can't medicate yourself out of that. You have to take a holistic approach. And that's what Dr. and Eric and I, Eric Balcavage and I, we preach that

and we actually do that in our practices. When it came to eating and dieting, I couldn't do it.

I interviewed over a thousand women and I said, what did you do? Breakfast, lunch, and near,

what did you eat? How'd you do it? If you want to learn how to lose weight for life

through intermittent fasting, burn fat, and break the bondage of food, then this podcast is for you.

I'm Shantelle Ray, author of Waste Away, the Chantel Ray Way, and each week I have different guests

answering your questions. Remember, the thoughts and opinions in this podcast do not

constitute medical advice. Hey guys, welcome to this week's episode and today's special guest

is Dr. Kelly Halderman, and she is a clinician. She's a lecturer and researcher. She also serves as an academic dean of students as the Kingdom College of Natural Health.

Her passion is detoxification, nutrition, health care, and she also specializes in Lyme disease.

And you actually had Lyme disease yourself and beat it. Can you just tell us a little bit about that journey and how you became Lyme disease and you actually had Lyme disease yourself and beat it. Can you just tell us

a little bit about that journey and how you became Lyme-free? Sure. And I would just start by saying

that I don't consider myself Lyme-free. I think that our body is, you know, it hosts a terrain of

pathogens. And, you know, we really never, I don't think we completely clear ourselves of anything.

We just learn to live in symbiosis.

We learn to strengthen our natural defenses.

So I, you know, when I got Lyme, I was a train wreck.

I was not eating well.

I was practicing traditional medicine,

just extremely stressed out. And my body was just was not prepared to deal with any infection that I had.

And that really was the key to regaining my health. And I have done so 110%. I'm the healthiest I've

ever been in my entire life because I strengthen my body's natural ability to detox, to combat

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