Restore the Real

Healed People Heal People: Building Somatica Formulas with Melody & Walter Watts

Melody and Walter Watts are the founders of Somatica Formulas, a line of frequency-enhanced somatic blends built at the intersection of flower essences, essential oils, herbals, and targeted emotional frequencies — created because the protocols alone were never enough. What if the reason your cleanses, supplements, and detox protocols keep stalling isn't the protocol at all, but the emotional terrain underneath it? Expect to learn... Why chronic illness, parasite overgrowth, and physical symptoms so often trace back to unresolved emotional patterns stored in the body's tissues, and how changing those patterns changes the physiology What frequency actually means in the context of these formulas, and why emotions, organs, and even pathogens each carry their own energetic signature that either supports or disrupts healing How Melody went from collapsing after exercise for a decade to consistently lifting weights three days a week, not by pushing harder but by shifting the patterns that were depleting her Why awareness of your own patterns is the first thing these formulas tend to surface, and why that awareness is what makes change finally feel natural rather than forced How Walter's experience with a seventeen year old whose digestive system completely reset after releasing stored grief from his father's death illustrates why the emotional terrain has to come first Find the formulas at somaticaformulas.com and use code RANDY10 for 10% off. Free somatic tools, sound frequencies, journal prompts, and practices are available at no cost under the Learn tab on their website.

From Head to Heart: Finding the Present Moment with Chris Bath

Chris Bath studied physics at Oxford, spent a decade in mergers and acquisitions at Rothschild, became CFO then CEO of a healthcare company, and led it through a sale to Goldman Sachs. He also maintained a dedicated spiritual practice for over 20 years. His new book, A to Zen, is the result of both worlds colliding. What happens when someone who has lived entirely inside performance metrics and output measurements finally asks: but who am I underneath all of that? Expect to learn... What mental time travel is, why our minds default to ruminating on the past or catastrophizing about the future, and how simply naming where you are can begin to bring you back Why the breath is the most powerful and accessible tool for returning to the present moment, and why it works on a level that has nothing to do with willpower or intellect How abundance is less about manifesting and more about a conscious decision to stop operating from scarcity, and why that reframe changes everything that follows Why this work is never a destination, and how letting go of the idea of arrival is itself one of the most liberating shifts you can make Find Chris and the book at chrisbath.life or atozen.life, and look for A to Zen on Amazon.

Beyond the Bullseye Rash: Why Lyme Goes Undiagnosed in Children

Dr. Somer DelSignore is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner, CEO, and founder of Hudson Valley Integrative Health who spent 20 years moving from pediatric ICU medicine to becoming one of the few practitioners in the country specializing in complex chronic illness and vector-borne disease in children. When a child changes and nobody can explain why, where do parents even begin? Expect to learn... Why Lyme disease is so frequently missed, why only 20 to 30 percent of people ever get the telltale rash, and why the diagnosis is still dismissed by providers who should know better How Lyme is far more than a tick bite, with lice, fleas, mosquitoes, sandflies, and even congenital transmission all capable of passing Bartonella, Babesia, and Borrelia into the body The distinct symptom profiles of Babesia, Bartonella, and Borrelia and why Bartonella in particular can look like a neurological takeover with gut issues, blood pressure swings, and that internal buzzing sensation patients are afraid to tell anyone about Why mold and Lyme almost always show up together, and how an overwhelmed immune system creates the exact environment these infections need to take hold and spread How the Reset Protocol Dr. DelSignore developed approaches chronic illness through ten categories of immune dysfunction, and why jumping straight to killing pathogens before supporting drainage and detox can make everything worse Find Dr. DelSignore at hudsonvalleyintegrativehealth.com or on Instagram at @drsomerdelsignore

Why SIBO/Candida Symptoms Come Back Every Time

Dr. Nick Ellenson is a chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner working with Cellcore and Redefining Wellness Center who focuses on chronic illness, Lyme, and the toxic accumulations that keep people stuck no matter how many protocols they try. What if the reason nothing is working isn't the protocol itself, but something hiding underneath it all? Expect to learn... What biofilm actually is, what it contains, and why it acts as a fortress that protects pathogens from your immune system, antibiotics, and even the best herbal protocols How quorum sensing allows bacteria, fungus, and parasites to communicate and coordinate the building of biofilm, and what triggers that process Why diving straight into biofilm busting without opening drainage pathways first is like opening Pandora's box, and what to do instead How toxins in your water, air, and environment quietly dim your mitochondria, suppress your hormones, and create the conditions where biofilm thrives Why the emotional and mental work of surrendering the fight against chronic illness can be the linchpin that finally allows the physical detox to move forward

Your Genes Aren't Your Destiny: A Better Way to Understand Your Health and Yourself

Sachin Patel is a functional medicine practitioner, breathwork facilitator, and founder of the Living Proof Institute who has spent decades helping people stop guessing at their health and start understanding who they actually are at a biological level. What if the most powerful health test you could ever take wasn't a blood panel or a stool test, but a map of who you are that never expires? Expect to learn... Why Sachin uses a nutrigenomic test before anything else, and why he won't work with someone until they have it The windshield versus rear view mirror framework for health, and why most people are driving without knowing what car they're in Why the wrong dose of the right supplement can do more harm than good, and how genetics reveals what to stop taking as much as what to start How discovering your biological identity creates a center you can always return to, no matter how far off track life takes you Why knowing yourself is the first step in healing yourself, and what breathwork, plant medicine, and silence all have in common in that process

Healing Beyond the Diagnosis: Dan Carcillo on Psilocybin, Purpose, and Recovery

Dan Carcillo spent 12 years in the NHL, won two Stanley Cups, and walked away with seven concussions and a brain injury diagnosis doctors told him was permanent. A psilocybin ceremony in 2019 changed that, and changed the entire direction of his life. What happens when half a million dollars, every conventional treatment available, and the top neurologists in the field still leave you with no answers? Expect to learn... What happened in Dan's first psilocybin ceremony and the promise he made that has shaped everything since Why mushrooms helped him move from a victimhood mindset of life happening to him into recognizing life as something he creates How psilocybin works on receptors throughout the gut, why that matters for brain health, and what role mushrooms like lion's mane play in recovery Why Dan believes this medicine is for everyone, but not for everyone at every moment, and how he discerns who is and isn't ready The journey from Chapter 5 Foundation to Wasana Health to Experience Onward, and what it took to build one of the first licensed psilocybin service centers in the country Why repetitive head trauma in professional athletes creates damage far beyond the physical, and what a Johns Hopkins study with the NHLPA could mean for former players Find Dan at danielcarcillo.com or learn about his retreat centers at experienceonward.com

Two Dollars and Twenty Seconds: What a Sticker Did That Weeks of Therapy Couldn’t

Troy Olds is the co-founder of Ascend Brain Center in Boise, Idaho, a neurofeedback and wellness practice he built after breaking his own brain and nervous system during the dot-com boom and spending years rebuilding himself from the ground up. What happens when someone who has done hundreds of therapy sessions, thousands of twelve-step meetings, breath work, meditation, and psychedelic therapy still finds a gap and a small sticker fills it? Expect to learn... How the Super Patch works through piezoelectric cells in the skin to send corrective frequency codes directly to the brain without anything transdermal, chemical, or drug-based Why your supplements, peptides, and protocols are only a fraction as effective when your nervous system is stuck in fight or flight, and what has to happen first What Troy experienced after six weeks of wearing the patches that he had never felt in decades of deep personal work and why that shifted his entire business focus How a 14-year-old girl with two years of depression told a stranger she felt better in the patches than she did on her medication Try Super Patch for yourself at generationshealth.superpatch.com Check out Ascend Brain Center

The 7-Minute Appointment Is Failing You Here's the Alternative

May 26 Zach Dancel is the co-founder of Nava Health, a functional medicine platform built after watching the entire modern medical system fail his mother despite having access to the best specialists in the world. What happens when eight top specialists, 15 medications, and years of appointments still can't tell you what's wrong? Expect to learn... Why a seven minute doctor's appointment structurally cannot get to the root of anything, and what a real diagnostic process actually looks like How Nava Health uses AI and a fully collaborative medical team to synthesize data the way no single doctor ever could Why the lab reference ranges your doctor calls normal are based on a population that is 95% metabolically unhealthy What happened when a major insurance company came after Nava for spending too much time with patients and ordering too many labs Why functional medicine saved his mother's life after she was bedridden, written off, and put on 15 medications with no answers NavaCenter

Catherine Clinton - Fascia, Coherence, and the Hidden Language of Healing

Dr. Cathrine Clinton is a naturopathic physician, author, and founder of the Quantum Biology Health Institute who sits at the intersection of biology, physics, and healing and she's here to explain why the body is far more intelligent than most medicine gives it credit for. Expect to learn... What fascia actually is, why it was dismissed as useless scaffolding for decades, and why it may be one of the most important systems in the body How a body-wide network of collagen, electricity, and structured water transmits signals that most doctors have never been taught to consider Why trauma, chronic stress, and unresolved danger signals get embedded as energetic signatures throughout the body and what it actually takes to shift them How incoherence between the heart, brain, and nervous system quietly drives chronic illness and why safety has to come before any protocol will work What the mitochondria have to do with your emotional state, your resilience, and why pushing harder is often the worst thing a dysregulated body can do Dr. Catherine Clinton

Why your Protocols Stopped Working

Randy Michaux is back with a solo episode on why the protocols that worked three years ago are hitting a wall, and what he believes is driving it. Expect to learn... Why post-COVID fear, isolation, and distrust created a population-level physiologic shift that is making bodies resistant to even the gentlest healing protocols What Dr. Robert Naviaux's cell danger response research reveals about why chronically ill bodies get stuck in a loop and cannot receive the all-clear signal needed to heal The critical difference between fight or flight and freeze or fawn, and why freeze and fawn states are why your supplements, diet, and detox protocols have stopped working Why nervous system regulation is no longer optional and must come before or alongside any treatment protocol if real healing is going to happen

Frequency Medicine: The Wearable That's Waking Up Your Immune System

Stephen Davis is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and inventor with 35 years of executive leadership experience who built frequency-based wellness technology after watching his family suffer through years of Lyme disease misdiagnosis with no real solutions. Expect to learn... How 74 simultaneous plant-based frequencies can wake up an immune system that Lyme disease has essentially put to sleep, and why single-frequency devices fall short Why the body only uses what it needs from frequencies, making it impossible to overdose or cause harm the way physical supplements can How the NICCI is helping everyone from chronically ill Lyme patients to university hockey teams sleep deeper, stress less, and perform better Why zero EMF during operation makes this the only wearable of its kind for people who are sensitive to Bluetooth and electromagnetic fields How a new frequency store model brings hundreds of wellness programs to users for as little as $10 a month after the first year

Dr. Katie Patel: Your Body Is Not the Problem

Dr. Katie Patel spent 15 years as a pharmacologist watching people swap one prescription for another, never asking why they got sick in the first place. Now she straddles two worlds as both a VA clinical pharmacologist and a functional medicine practitioner, and she's on a mission to get people building a foundation before they reach for anything else. Her wake-up call didn't come in a clinic. It came at home, watching her kids mirror her own dysregulation back to her. Combined with years of her own symptoms being dismissed by providers and a postpartum slide straight into perimenopause, she realized the system she'd trained in wasn't asking the right questions. So she started asking them herself. What she found changed everything, not just for her patients, but for her marriage, her kids, and the way she shows up every day. Expect to learn... Why pharmacologists are one of the most underused resources in healthcare and what to actually ask them How the nervous system connects to chronic pain, gut issues, hormones, and diseases most people treat as separate problems Why replacing your prescriptions with a pile of supplements is just trading one problem for another The awareness, acceptance, responsibility pattern that underlies all real change How type A perfectionism quietly fuels anxiety, chronic illness, and burnout Why foundational health habits have to come before labs, protocols, or biohacking stacks Find Katie at radiantoriginswellness.com or on Instagram and Facebook at Radiant Origins Wellness.

Finally Heard: A Drug-Free Tool for the Body, Medicine Left Behind

Tara Miller is a psychotherapist, top 5% certified Self-Regulation Therapy practitioner, and nervous system performance coach who helps entrepreneurs and executives build what she calls unstoppable resilience. She's now bringing cutting-edge neuroscience into a form you can literally wear on your skin. Her path into this work wasn't planned. A series of traumatic events, including a car accident with a shoulder injury that wouldn't heal, led her to the co-creator of Self-Regulation Therapy. What started as a search for physical recovery became a complete transformation, healing not just the injury, but patterns she'd carried since childhood. Now she helps others do the same. When she discovered Super Patch, she was skeptical. A grooved adhesive patch communicating with the nervous system through the skin? But the results were consistent, undeniable, and perfectly aligned with everything she already knew about how the body heals. Expect to learn... What Self-Regulation Therapy is and why treating the nervous system first changes everything Why your body can't heal optimally when it's stuck in fight or flight and what to do about it How a drug-free wearable patch communicates with your nervous system through sensory receptors in the skin Why supplement fatigue is real and what this technology offers instead The difference between masking symptoms and actually completing a survival cycle How Randy nearly lost $13,000 to a scam and what happened when he put a Peace patch on immediately after Why chronic illness, Lyme, and mold toxicity create a freeze state that requires a completely different approach What the third-party published research actually shows and why Super Patch commits to publishing results whether they're positive or not Get the SuperPatch! generationshealth.superpatch Want to be a guest on the Restore the Real Podcast?⁠Use this link to apply to be a guest on the show⁠.-----For all media, promotional + affiliate opportunities, please email ⁠podcasts@totalbodywellnessclinic.com

The Hidden Home Threat: What a Mold-Surviving Realtor Finds That No One Else Is Looking For

Christy Hutchison is a realtor, healthy home specialist, and mold survivor who helps people with biotoxin illness and SIRS find homes where they can actually heal. After 15 years of mysterious symptoms and a catastrophic exposure in a Newport Beach beach house that left her unable to walk, Christy rebuilt her health — and her entire approach to real estate. Today she inspects every inch of a home so no one else goes through what she did. Expect to learn... Why mold is just as dangerous in dry climates like Arizona, Nevada, and Idaho — and what actually causes it in low-humidity homes The visual red flags Christy looks for before a single inspector sets foot in a home Why one home inspector isn't enough — and the six specialists Christy brings to every purchase How spray foam insulation, cheap shower boards, and poor wood handling in new construction are creating the next generation of sick homes The hidden relationship between EMFs, cell towers, and mold — and why addressing only one won't get you well How to use your inspection period to protect yourself, what you're legally allowed to test, and when to walk away The PTSD of home buying with biotoxin illness — and how to move forward without making a desperate decision you'll regret healthyhomechristy.com

Stop Fighting Yourself: Understanding Your Design, Energy & Inner Authority

Tami Reed is a Human Design and Quantum Alignment Guide who helps people stop performing and start living as who they actually are. At 14, Tami survived a suicide attempt — and in that moment heard a question that changed everything: "Why are you placing your value in other people's hearts?" That single internal shift sent her on a decades-long search to understand how we're truly designed to operate in the world. Today she uses Human Design — a system she calls your "energetic fingerprint" — to help people decode their patterns, shed inherited identities, and come home to themselves. Expect to learn... What Human Design actually is and why it's not just another personality test The 5 energy types, how each one is designed to operate, and why most people are living as the wrong type Why 70% of the population walks around constantly trying to prove their worth (and how to stop) How your open energy centers are both your spiritual gifts and the source of your deepest false beliefs The PAIN framework for using discomfort as a compass instead of something to numb or escape Why accepting where you are isn't giving up — it's the only real starting point for change What it means to stop collecting other people's emotions, thoughts, and pain as your own mylovelydesign.com Want to be a guest on the Restore the Real Podcast?⁠Use this link to apply to be a guest on the show⁠.-----For all media, promotional + affiliate opportunities, please email ⁠podcasts@totalbodywellnessclinic.com

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Breaking Through Chronic Illness at the Cellular Level

Dr. Melanie Stein is a licensed naturopathic physician in Portland, Oregon, a leading clinician in cell membrane therapy for complex and chronic illness, and the author of Breaking Through Chronic Illness. After waking up paralyzed in naturopathic medical school, then being told her symptoms were “all in her head” before eventually being diagnosed with Lyme disease and mold toxicity, she built a practice around restoring health at the cellular level. The role of limbic system retraining, trauma work, and nervous‑system safety in healing when your brain has learned to see everything—even supplements—as a threat. How waking up paralyzed in naturopathic school—and being told it was “all in her head”—pushed Dr. Melanie into treating Lyme and complex illness at the cellular level.​ Why damaged cell membranes and mitochondria sit at the root of chronic symptoms, blocking detox, scrambling cell “antennas,” and leaving the immune system offline.​ How Lyme, mold, and co‑infections hijack cells differently in acute vs. chronic cases—and why being in mold makes almost any Lyme protocol fail.​

Katie Hardie: When Rest Makes You Stronger

Katie Hardie is a board-certified holistic nutritionist and FDN practitioner who helps high performers reclaim their energy, optimize nutrition, and achieve sustainable results through bio‑individual, science‑driven programs.​ How 90s “low‑fat, more cardio” culture pushed Katie into overtraining, and hypothalamic dysfunction. Why more minutes and miles don’t equal better performance—and how intelligent intensity, volume, and recovery transform strength, speed, and body composition.​ The real role of rest: sleep, micro‑breaks, and nervous‑system regulation as performance tools, not signs of laziness.​ How chronic stress, overtraining, and “hustle” living wreck cortisol, sex hormones, and gut health long before your labs look “broken.”​ Why fasting insulin matters more than you think, and how dysregulated blood sugar drives fat storage, anxiety, and hormone imbalances (including estrogen dominance and PMS‑like symptoms).[]​ Practical daily anchors—like breath work, HeartMath, walking, and boundaries—that make metabolic health and recovery actually sustainable for real people with real lives.​ This episode is about redefining what it means to be a high performer: not the person grinding 24/7, but the one who can hit 100% output because they’ve learned to respect recovery, metabolism, and their nervous system. Through Katie’s story and clinical experience, we unpack how rest, smart training, and metabolic focus turn “always tired, always pushing” into a body and brain that actually have the capacity to live—and work—at a higher level. Katie Hardie

Lyme, Mold, and the Mindset to Heal

From chronically ill patient to the strategist behind 9-figure wellness brands, this conversation with Allie Chandler is about what it really takes to heal when your body. Allie is the founder and CEO of Upsell Health, a marketing agency helping functional medicine practitioners and supplement companies scale to 60–100M in revenue, after years as the “mystery patient” navigating chronic Lyme, mold toxicity, and hyperadrenergic POTS.​ How a tick bite in Switzerland led to years of debilitating symptoms and delayed Lyme diagnosis.​ The emotional toll of medical gaslighting—and the words patients actually need to hear.​ Why drainage, parasites, and mold often have to come before “going after Lyme.”​ How perfectionism, self-talk, and nervous-system work can either block or unlock healing.​

Veenu Keller: Healing Our Wounds, Healing Our Kids

Veenu Keller is an entrepreneur, behavior specialist, and “Parent–Child Whisperer” who helps families heal patterns of self-harm, suicidal ideation, anxiety and much more, by addressing the root emotional wounds between parents and children. How unhealed wounds in parents quietly shape their kids’ behavior and mental health, and how curiosity, regulation, and root-cause work can transform “problem kids” into connected, resilient humans. Topics: Veenu’s story of bullying, suicidality, a psych hospital at 15, and choosing to live How parents unconsciously parent from their own unresolved wounds Curiosity vs. criticism as the foundation of emotional safety Respect, boundaries, and raising kids who feel both seen and accountable Letting kids struggle, self-regulate, and become resourceful instead of rescuing them Veenu Keller