Treating the Cause, Not the Symptoms: A Listener's Life-Changing Lifestyle Story
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, at thirty-eight, Tim Hennessey looked like the picture of health. He lifted weights, played racquetball, and kept a busy schedule. But inside, his body was breaking down. Chronic pain, migraines, and high blood pressure left him desperate for answers. A doctor diagnosed an autoimmune condition and prescribed medication for life, but one look at the side effects made Tim pause. Instead, he chose to start over. Here’s Tim with the story of how he turned his life around—and how he’s feeling better than ever almost two decades later.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, the show where America is the star and the American people. |
| 0:22.8 | Up next, a story by Tim Hennessy. |
| 0:25.5 | He's an IT professional from Texas, and like so many families in America, |
| 0:29.3 | grappled with his own health issues, primarily pain. |
| 0:33.3 | Here is Tim Hennessy on the story of his own health journey. |
| 0:37.0 | Music Here is Tim Hennessy on the story of his own health journey. |
| 0:43.3 | The late 90s, I was in my late 30s, and I had all kind of health problems. |
| 0:49.3 | On the outside, physically, I look pretty darn good. |
| 0:52.3 | You know, I worked out a couple hours a day. |
| 0:55.3 | I played racquetball for two or three hours. |
| 0:57.1 | I lifted weights. |
| 0:58.2 | So on the outside, it looked pretty good. |
| 0:59.7 | But on the inside, I felt like I was dying because I had chronic pains all day long. |
| 1:05.5 | My elbow, my knees, my back. |
| 1:08.6 | I had hard time sleeping. |
| 1:09.7 | I had migraines literally a couple times a month. |
| 1:13.6 | The kind of migraines were you got to shut the light out from your eyes. |
| 1:16.6 | I used to put ice on my neck, lay down. |
| 1:19.6 | I had this pulsing, almost like you hear a drum, boom, boom, boom. |
| 1:25.6 | I had higher blood pressure. had skin issues I would play |
| 1:30.1 | racquetball and the next day I could barely walk down the stairs and I'm in my |
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