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The Journey Of The Chronically Ill

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Main theme (1–2 sentences)

Chronic illness is not your fault—self-blame, confusion, and misinformation keep people stuck, while clear understanding of root causes and immune support creates real momentum toward healing.  



Core Tools to Use

Correct Information About Root Causes

Why: Confidence and consistency come from knowing why symptoms exist (e.g., viral activity, neurotoxins), instead of cycling through guesses.

How: Commit to one coherent framework and stay with it long enough to see results; avoid bouncing between contradictory explanations.

Compassionate Self-Talk

Why: Self-blame creates an emotional sinkhole that drains healing capacity.

How: Actively replace “this is my fault” with “this is not my fault” whenever symptoms persist or worsen.

Immune System Protection

Why: Chronic illness already weakens resilience; additional stressors slow recovery.

How: Reduce unnecessary strain (over-testing, extreme protocols) and prioritize supportive nutrition and rest.



Things to Avoid (and Why)

Self-Blame for Symptoms

Why: Keeps you trapped emotionally and mentally, delaying progress.

How: Stop comparing your recovery to others; different exposures and histories produce different outcomes.

Over-Testing and Excessive Blood Draws

Why: Large or frequent blood draws can weaken someone already struggling.

How: If testing is needed, do it sparingly and strategically.

Raw Fish

Why: Increases risk of illness now or later.

How: Choose cooked or plant-based alternatives (e.g., vegetable or millet sushi).

Diagnosis Hopping / Internet Scouring

Why: Creates confusion and anxiety without resolving root causes.

How: Stop chasing every new theory; simplify.



Daily / Supportive Practices

Simple, Healing-Focused Meals

Why: Nourishes without burdening the system.

How: Emphasize clean, plant-based dishes; avoid extreme or trendy diets if they don’t align with your chosen framework.

Rest Without Guilt

Why: Insomnia and fatigue are forms of suffering, not personal failure.

How: Rest whenever the body allows; remove pressure to “sleep perfectly.”

Confidence Reinforcement

Why: Healing accelerates when you trust the path you’re on.

How: Daily reminder: “I understand what’s happening, and I know how to heal.”



Targeted Protocols (Step-by-Step)


Mental Reset When Symptoms Persist

1. Notice the blame thought (“This is my fault”).

2. Interrupt it immediately.

3. Replace with: “This came from exposures, inheritance, or infection—not me.”

4. Refocus on your chosen healing plan.


When Facing Conflicting Advice

1. Pause new interventions.

2. Return to your core explanation of why you’re sick.

3. Only add tools that clearly support that explanation.



Situations to Use These Tools

When recovery is slower than expected

When comparing yourself to others who “got better faster”

After new or worsening symptoms appear

Before starting another test, cleanse, or protocol

When feeling discouraged, ashamed, or confused



Key Information to Anchor On

Chronic illness often stems from exposures, inherited burdens, and infections, not personal failure.

The lack of clear education fuels confusion and self-hatred.

Healing progress depends on clarity + confidence + consistency, not complexity.

Empowerment begins when you truly understand what’s holding you back and how to protect your immune system.

Full Transcript

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0:00 And I hear it all the time when somebody
0:01 gets sick out there. First thing they
0:04 think is it's their fault. They did
0:08 something wrong. Like why is this
0:11 happening? And then if it doesn't go
0:14 away, if it doesn't get better fast,
0:18 then the doubt comes,
0:20 I must have done something wrong. This
0:22 must be my fault in some way.
0:27 And it happens to everybody. There's no
0:29 one that doesn't believe that when
0:32 they're sick
0:34 and they're sick too long and
0:36 something's not changing and something's
0:38 not getting better that it's got to be
0:41 them that did it. Now, it's different
0:43 with like a flu, you're like, "Well,
0:45 wait a minute. Even even though with a
0:47 flu or COVID or something, even with
0:50 that, they still might be like, all
0:52 right, I must have like deserve this. My
0:55 body needs this right now." you know,
0:57 they'll do something like that. But if
0:59 they're sick too long with the flu or CO
1:01 now they're like, "What is wrong with
1:02 me? What is wrong with me? Do I have
1:04 long CO? Do I have something?" And it's
1:08 the biggest problem when we get sick is
1:11 that we blame ourselves. I know society
1:13 created that.
1:16 I know the industries help to feed that
1:18 whole belief system because the
1:21 industries don't want to be blamed. You
1:22 know, they don't want to be blamed. all
1:24 the toxins, the poisons, and everything
1:26 else. If it's okay, I'm hungry and I'm
1:29 doing a little talk on the chronically
1:31 ill and being sick. But I also
1:34 have a whole bunch of food here
1:38 that I want to just take a look at and
1:40 get out here. I just don't know really
1:42 what I want to eat yet.
1:46 Oh, yeah.
1:49 All right, I got some more stuff, but
1:53 this is pretty good. If you don't mind,
1:54 I'm gonna
1:56 take a little sip here of a HMDS.
2:00 I'm going to pop the cap off is what I'm
2:02 going to do
2:05 here.
2:08 Pop this in here.
2:14 That is so stellar.
2:17 just is stellar. Um, that's my dessert.
2:22 Is that bad? They have dessert. That
2:24 one's Cafe Gratitude is not bad. It's so
2:27 healthy. It's ridiculous. This is the
2:28 Medical Medium menu. So, let's talk
2:30 about this again. When people get sick,
2:32 they blame themselves. They just do. And
2:35 if you're sick for like a month and you
2:38 really can't get a grip on it, you got
2:40 these symptoms. Maybe you got tremors
2:41 for the first time in your life and you
2:43 got the tremors. Maybe you got restless
2:45 legs that's starting to kick up. Maybe
2:46 insomnia.
2:48 You're just not sleeping good. Then it
2:49 gets worse and then you have your first
2:52 allnighter. Like as if you partied all
2:54 night, but you didn't party. You laid in
2:56 bed suffering because anyone who can't
2:59 sleep at all and they're tossing and
3:00 turning and they're laying in bed
3:02 struggling. They're suffering. Let's
3:04 face it. And there's a lot of people
3:05 that can't sleep at night at all and
3:07 they just sleep whenever they can when
3:09 their body just collapses. But
3:13 regardless of what it is, we tend to
3:16 just go after ourselves. But that was an
3:18 industry thing for sure because we're
3:21 not allowed to blame anything else. Now
3:24 it's shifting now and the work over the
3:26 decades medical meme information getting
3:28 out there and the work I've done
3:30 spreading the message and being a
3:32 messenger of spirit of compassion.
3:35 The industry is changing you know like
3:36 autism being toxic heavy metals ADHD
3:39 toxic heavy metals. its original medical
3:41 medium information
3:43 and then science grabs it and then you
3:45 know people in the industry and doctors
3:46 grab it and so forth.
3:49 But the tide is shifting there. But
3:52 regardless, no one's being educated
3:54 actually in the direction of it's not
3:57 your fault. They're just not. It doesn't
4:00 exist. And medical meme information is
4:04 is about that. It's about you not
4:07 getting the blame. you because really
4:10 it's not your fault. There's all these
4:12 other reasons
4:15 why you got sick and everybody has
4:18 different circumstances. They have
4:19 different problems and different
4:22 challenges and and all of that. That
4:26 plays a role too.
4:29 Still, it's not your fault.
4:32 But even today, a new person gets sick,
4:36 it's the same old thing.
4:38 They're told it's their fault. Many
4:41 times they believe it is and then you
4:43 hold on to it emotionally and now you're
4:45 in that trap. Now you're in that
4:47 emotional sinkhole, you know.
4:51 Just um having some sushi. This is
4:53 without the fish right here. Just have a
4:55 little bit. Dip this in here. If this is
4:57 okay, you guys.
5:04 So good.
5:06 I'm going to grab a little bit of this
5:08 wasabi and put this over here. There's
5:11 no raw fish in here. Do not eat raw
5:13 fish. Do not eat raw fish. This is not
5:16 raw fish.
5:24 If you want to eat raw fish,
5:31 you're going to get sick.
5:34 And you may not get sick that day or
5:38 that year,
5:40 but you're going to get raw fish one day
5:44 and then you're going to get real sick.
5:47 You just are. And that's not what this
5:49 is. This is incredible. Absolutely
5:51 incredible.
6:01 So good. It's a medical medium millet
6:03 sushi. Nori rolls the millet nori rolls
6:07 without raw fish at Cafe Gratitude.
6:10 [snorts] So,
6:12 as I was saying before, if you catch
6:14 COVID or are, you know, some kind of
6:15 respiratory infection from a flu,
6:17 [snorts]
6:18 you're down and out. If you can't crawl
6:21 out of it and get out of it, you'll
6:23 start saying, "Well, it's my fault
6:24 because somebody else, they got out of
6:26 it.
6:27 How did that other person get better?"
6:30 And then you run into people who
6:33 on social media, you think they're
6:35 really sick, maybe an influence or
6:37 something like that, but they've learned
6:38 to also speak. They've learned to speak
6:41 to the chronically ill because they get
6:43 a lot of traction.
6:46 So they'd be like, "I had that, too, and
6:47 I had that, too." But meanwhile, they
6:49 were nowhere near sick as so many people
6:50 on Mattress Island that are bedridden.
6:56 Going
7:06 to have the kelp noodles. A little bit
7:07 of that. There's just some nories right
7:10 there.
7:12 Going to pop that in here. I didn't have
7:14 a piece of ginger yet. I should have.
7:16 I'll do that in a little bit. Here we
7:19 go. Right here. This the kelp noodles.
7:24 This is so tasty. This just pops. It's
7:27 another very tasty dish.
7:36 The problem is though when you get sick
7:39 but you don't know really what it is and
7:40 then you're going and searching and one
7:42 person says it's parasites. Another
7:44 person says it's something else. Another
7:46 person says it's adrenals when it's not
7:47 your adrenals. Another person says you
7:49 got autoimmune, but they don't really
7:51 have any idea what's going on. Another
7:53 doctor says this. Then you get the blood
7:54 draw thing.
7:57 People are so sensitive when you got
7:59 chronic illness. You have an immune
8:00 system problem already. And then you go
8:02 and get like three vials of blood, five
8:04 vials of blood taken out. Then
8:06 [clears throat] you two days later
8:08 you're really down and out. You're in
8:09 bed. You're sick.
8:13 You know, you call the doctor. I don't
8:14 feel good. I'm even sicker. we better
8:16 get to a specialist and need to get
8:17 another five vials or seven or 10 or 20.
8:20 You can get 20 vials. So many people
8:22 doing that. There's so many different
8:24 doctors doing that now. They just order
8:25 so much blood and it just sends somebody
8:28 even backwards more. It's not that I'm
8:30 anti- blood work. I mean, you can get
8:31 blood work. Yeah. And it's good. It's
8:33 just got to do it smartly to protect
8:35 yourself if you got chronic illness. And
8:38 you know, if you know Medical Medium
8:39 information, you know all about that. if
8:41 you've listened to Medical Medium
8:43 information and and read the books, but
8:46 anyone who's struggling with chronic
8:48 illness, they they get themselves in
8:52 this quagmire. And that quagmire is, I'm
8:55 not getting better fast enough. I'm
8:57 trying all these different things. I got
9:00 all these different diagnosis. And then
9:02 they're on the internet and they're
9:03 scouring the internet.
9:07 And then they're hating on themselves
9:08 eventually because ooh man, you can't
9:11 get back to work or you feel like you
9:12 can't function or the people around you
9:14 think something's wrong and or the
9:16 people around you just think it's
9:20 Oh man, you can really start hating
9:21 yourself pretty fast. Chronic illness is
9:24 no joke. It is such a trap. But the
9:27 thing is, it's not your fault if you got
9:29 sick.
9:37 Getting a little dark outside, but it
9:38 it's my dinner.
9:48 This is really good. This is so
9:49 delicious.
9:51 The kelp noodle and green papaya kelp
9:55 noodle. It's got the carrots.
10:03 I might try something else if that's
10:05 okay. Take a look.
10:10 There's a lot of great dishes here.
10:13 That's a beautiful pesto [music] potato
10:16 salad over there at Cafe Gratitude
10:18 Medical
10:20 Collaboration. [music]
10:23 Oh my god. That's the pumpkin pasta.
10:28 [music] That's the pumpkin pasta right
10:29 there.
10:32 >> [music]
10:32 >> These are so good. I'm going to go into
10:35 a little bit of a pasta right now. You
10:37 guys are okay. This is the pumpkin pasta
10:39 dish. Beautiful salad with it. And this
10:42 is takeout.
10:45 Oh, wa. I think it's hard when there's
10:49 so many people suffering and struggling
10:50 out there.
10:52 It's worse than it's ever been ever
10:54 before. But you think about it, how many
10:56 people are doing organic? How many
10:57 people are eating, you know, healthier?
10:59 They're doing keto, carnivore, they're
11:01 juicing too out there. Not a lot of
11:03 that, but they're doing it out there.
11:06 And
11:08 with all of that and being concerned
11:11 about ultra, you know, ultra, you know,
11:13 processed foods, ultrarocessed foods and
11:15 everything else that they're concerned
11:17 about, it's amazing how chronic illness
11:20 just keeps on just rising, rising,
11:22 rising. And in about 10 years, where are
11:24 we going to be? It's not going to be
11:26 much different. And anyone who decides
11:29 to start eating better,
11:32 they might turn the corner a little bit,
11:34 but they might end up back to being sick
11:36 again, unless they really get to the
11:38 root of why they're sick and suffering,
11:40 getting the answers they need. Because
11:42 the confidence part really matters.
11:45 Being confident about what you're doing
11:47 and getting a result, and then sticking
11:49 to it and having it make sense and
11:51 understanding why they're sick and
11:53 what's causing that sickness. So if you
11:56 got fatigue,
11:58 having the answer to why you have
12:00 fatigue like Epstein bar virus,
12:02 understanding the neurotoxins,
12:04 understanding the different aspects of a
12:06 viral infection, low-grade viral
12:07 infection, medical medium information,
12:10 understanding those stealth viruses and
12:13 understanding where you are with your
12:14 fatigue, neurological fatigue, your
12:16 nervous system, then you can really hang
12:19 on for the ride and be like, "But I know
12:21 what I'm doing, you know? I know how to
12:24 heal. And you start getting those
12:26 results when you stick with it.
12:30 And the problem is out there because
12:31 nobody really knows why anybody's sick
12:33 and they don't understand autoimmune and
12:35 they don't understand how it works. You
12:37 can just play in that garden of madness.
12:41 Sea of confusion is what I've always
12:44 said. You can play in that for a decade
12:46 and a decade will go by fast. It will go
12:50 by fast. When you're younger, a decade
12:51 is 100 years.
12:54 And I'm not just saying this because I'm
12:55 an older guy and I'm I'm an older person
12:58 and and I'm saying that because hey,
13:00 younger people think that time goes by
13:04 so much slower or feel that time goes by
13:06 slower, but 10 years will go by really
13:09 quick when you're sick. So when you're
13:11 younger and sick,
13:13 it goes by and flies by and you're just
13:17 like, "Oh my god." and you're on the
13:18 other side of this and now I'm 30. Now
13:21 I'm still sick. Now I'm still suffering.
13:23 I never really got better. And you have
13:25 this history of trying so many different
13:27 things and and dealing with the struggle
13:31 emotionally, physically, and mentally
13:33 and spiritually for those 10 years.
13:39 And in the end, you'll end up still
13:41 blaming yourself because why isn't
13:43 someone else sick? There's always going
13:45 to be that one person out there that you
13:47 see or that somebody that you lock on
13:49 to. It's like, they're fine. They're not
13:51 suffering like this. What are they
13:53 doing? Right. It's like, no, that's not
13:55 it. It's what happened to you. The
13:57 exposures, what you were born with.
13:59 Yeah. Passed down from generation to
14:01 generation, what you may have
14:03 contracted, what you may have been
14:05 exposed to, and then your immune system
14:08 struggles to really truly understand
14:10 them. And I'm noticing alternative
14:11 medicine is trying to get more
14:13 complicated and even more complicated
14:15 than it ever was before
14:18 instead of simplifying it and getting
14:20 into the place of this is why you're
14:22 sick because they still don't know yet.
14:25 So they're just complicating it more and
14:27 more out there. Making the person with a
14:30 an intelligent mind think they have it
14:33 all together. So there's alternative
14:35 systems and healing being built
14:39 all around the world and you're like,
14:41 "Okay, let me go do that. Let me do the
14:43 plasma. Let me do this. Let me do that.
14:45 And let me inject this. Let me try
14:47 this." And it's just on the search for,
14:50 "Wo, science really knows what's going
14:52 on. I can heal." But then you're back to
14:55 square one. You're still sick and nobody
14:58 really explained or taught you what the
15:02 problem really is. Just a little
15:04 nighttime dinner talk right here. Having
15:07 some pumpkin pasta
15:11 using chopsticks.
15:18 So good. And [snorts] let me take a look
15:20 at some of the other things here. If I
15:21 could give a message to
15:24 anyone,
15:26 it's once you have the correct
15:28 information
15:30 about what's bogging you down, what's
15:34 holding you down, holding you back from
15:35 healing, what's preventing you from
15:38 healing.
15:40 Once you have the correct information
15:42 about your immune system and how it
15:43 works and how to protect your immune
15:46 system, once you become empowered and
15:49 have this information,
15:54 then you can move forward in leaps and
15:56 bounds and really push forward, push
15:58 ahead. Anyway,
16:01 these are the tahini cookies right here.
16:05 Oh my god, these are so so good.
16:09 These don't even stay in stock. They run
16:13 out of these so fast, faster than they
16:16 can make them. I can't think gratitude.
16:19 These are so amazing, these cookies.
16:33 I got a lot of food here.
16:37 I have the HMDS. I got a celery juice
16:40 right here. I'm going to save that for
16:42 the morning.
16:46 I got the I am precious antioxidant
16:49 smoothie.
16:51 It's so good.
16:53 I still got the nori rolls.
17:01 Delicious, you guys. Delicious.
17:05 I have two cookies here. Anyway, just
17:08 know I care and we'll we'll do more
17:09 talks about this.