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Dr. Jill is a board-certified Integrative Holistic Medicine specialist, known as Your Functional Medicine Expert® and often referred to as “The Sherlock Holmes of Medicine,” for solving medical mysteries. She uses state-of-the-art lab testing and biochemical analysis; she helps patients identify the root causes of their illness by identifying nutritional or metabolic imbalances; and then she uses nutritional protocols, supplements, and lifestyle changes to improve function, always seeking the gentlest way to restore health and optimize function.
In this episode we discuss Dr. Jill’s powerful healing stories from multiple health challenges including breast cancer, Crohn’s, celiac, and Hashimoto’s, and finally, mold illness. Her new book, Unexpected, is part autobiography and part prescriptive wisdom from her many years as both patient and practitioner. I loved it and encourage you to read it too.
“My experiences with illness taught me far more than any medical textbooks about what really happens in our body and how we can cure and overcome illness.”
01:40 Why Dr. Jill’s book is called Unexpected
03:35 At age 25 while she was in med school, Dr. Jill finds a lump in her breast…
08:00 Whichever decision you make, don’t second guess it or ruminate about what ifs.
10:21 Post chemo during a rotation in the ER, Dr. Jill collapses… and is diagnosed with Crohn’s disease
13:43 Her doctor poo pooed food as medicine, but Dr. Jill found a healing food plan that worked
17:25 What were Dr. Jill’s root causes that filled her toxin bucket?
24:05 As girls we were raised to stuff our emotions
26:04 How Dr. Jill turned this around, and how you can too.
31:15 The fear and the opportunity to get quiet and still
37:06 Mold illness follows flooding in Boulder, CO in 2013
48:56 What is the best way to change your habits?
If you live in the continental U.S. and are ready, willing, and able to invest in your best health, I offer Functional Medicine Total Health Transformation Programs over Zoom in collaboration with a skilled naturopathic doctor (ND). Get on my calendar for a free 30-minute discovery call.
This comprehensive book is the first to explore all six of the critical lifestyle factors that are the root causes of autoimmune conditions – and the sources of regaining health. Foreword by Mark Hyman, MD
Palmer is a certified Functional Medicine Health Coach who has helped thousands of people reverse autoimmune conditions based on her own two-decade battle to successfully beat multiple sclerosis (MS). She’s the author of the Amazon #1 bestselling book, Beat Autoimmune, which has a powerful foreword by Functional Medicine pioneer, Mark Hyman, MD.