Losing 10lb within 1 week, without Ozempic!

Marilyn returned for an appointment after an absence of two years. She had taken two courses of antibiotics back to back recently, and they messed with her memory. She's a sharp gal — she noticed these lapses! She was also very upset about her recent perimenopausal weight gain. Her hearing was starting to deteriorate. She wanted to get back on track.

I started her on potent probioticˆand a combination postbiotic/probiotic. Probiotics are living bacteria that support health when they are in healthy community. Akkermansia muciniphila lives in the mucin layer of our gut to maintain the mucous lining of the gut and act as a gatekeeper of our immune system. It works with bacteria in the gut to reduce inflammation and promote metabolic and neurological health.

Marilyn also gets homeopathic remedies to boost these gut supplements and her memory.

The very night she took the supplement Akkermansia, Marilyn felt less hungry. Within two days, she has no more sugar cravings. Her previous attempts to cut out sugar were painful. This time, it was effortless. She already feels much better.

She was also detoxing. Her urine smells of chemicals.

Four days later, she emails me, "Wow! It gets better!" She'd lost 7lb in 4 days. Her waist was smaller. By then, she had started taking the homeopathic remedies.

She started coughing up mucous — lots of it — that the antibiotics had suppressed. It was dramatic, scary and exhausting. She had been struggling with lung congestion for months, and the phlegm finally came out. Tried and true remedies like Arsenicum Album and Antimonium Tartaricum helped.

And as soon as her lungs started to clear, she felt lighter, happier and more energetic than she had felt in a long time. Her brain became clearer. She had a piece of cheese, and it didn’t make her sick, the way it used to. She also weighed 10 lb less after a week!

Rediscovering the Joy of Life as she Heals her Gut (Stock picture)

In Chinese medicine, the lungs correlate with the Gold Phase. Respiratory issues and dry skin are symptoms of an imbalance of the Gold phase. Marilyn is a poster child of the Gold archetype. She is superb with details, very efficient and holds herself to the highest standards. Like many, she has seen the familiar structures of her life — work, home, family — crumble in the wake of the pandemic. By the time she saw me, she was holding in enormous grief and her body was crying through her lungs.

My decision to use a remedy to restore the gut barrier was exactly what Marilyn needed. The Gold personality respects and craves boundaries. Marilyn's healing takes place at the junction between the Gold and Earth phases.

Earth supports Gold. I see the microbiome as the Earth phase within us. It's a fertile compost pit that simmers the food we ingest into life-giving nutrients. Akkermansia helps to contain the goodness and trap toxins and pathogens for elimination. Gold has the power of refining and discriminating, and a healthy colon has that power!

It also promotes communication within the body. This is the intelligence of the network that scientists call “cross-talk” among bacteria and our genome.

It also helps Marilyn to push back on deterioration of her hearing — a Water phase pathology. Gold supports Water, and Earth channels the flow of Water, the essence of the individual.

Marilyn put it best:

“I want to engage in life. I want to go out and do all the things I’ve put on hold.”

She is calling in a playful synthesis of Fire (fun and joy feed the heart) and Gold!