As the host of a health and wellness podcast people write me all the time via

email via social media asking for health advice and whenever I can I help out

but of course I'm not a medical doctor and I'm certainly not here to treat

or diagnose anyone over the internet that's way beyond my pay grade but I try to

point people in the right direction whenever I can and without a doubt the time I

get most stumped is when I get people who are dealing with

auto-immune conditions. And the way that autoimmune conditions often show up in anecdotally, from what I've seen,

people express to me, is all kinds of weird ghosting symptoms that are

inconsistent often fleeting often changing in their body so one week it seems like

they have arthritis the next week they have a you know irritable bowel the next week

they have chronic migraines then they're not sleeping and then they're not

menstruating all kinds of very strange ghosting symptoms and it's often

multi symptom inconsistent very difficult to diagnose to

complicate things even more a lot of autoimmune conditions are not that easy to

diagnose they don't have a blood test some of the actual diagnoses are subjective meaning you need a

train professional just to decide that you have that now that's not always the

case people with rheumatoid arthritis for example which is a classic autoimmune

condition where your body starts attacking its own joints.

That's relatively easy to get a diagnosis for, but other conditions, not so much.

My guest on this week's show is someone who had a very rare form of auto immunity that actually

made her go mad actually caused it was the impetus for mental illness that was

quite scary and who knows how far things would have gone but she was literally losing her mind.

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