I had been poisoning myself right through my skin, and I got angry. Why was my government allowing me to be poisoned? And I mentioned that because I can’t tell you how many people along the course of my journey said my government wouldn’t allow me to get poisoned. Oh yeah, it is every day, and so I decided I found a man named Howard Lyman, who wants us all to be an army of one and own it ourselves, and and search for what we need, and I decided I was going to be an army of one, so I dug it, I found a woman named Dr. Deanna Minnich, who believes in eating the rainbow of all the different colors of organic food, because each color has different gifts for the body. So I started going to farmers markets, buying my food as close to the farm as I could, because things like spinach lose 30% of their potency within three days. I wanted to get stuff into my body, on my body, and around my environment, that would stop poisoning me, so that I could. I was determined I was going to get well, and I never doubted that I would find what I needed to reverse what was going on with my body. So that’s important too, because as I work with clients now, I have learned that if they don’t believe it’s possible, then it’s not going to happen. I’m working with someone with MS right now whose doctor keeps telling him his disease is going to progress.

 

Manon Bolliger  07:54

Yeah, and I

 

Cheryl Meyer  07:55

said, “Okay, your tour this week is to have a conversation with him to stop saying that, because as long as he says it and you believe it, guess what, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. You have to believe that you are the captain of your ship, you are the creator, and you can change the direction of your health if you start to change your environment. One of the people I started following was Dr. Bruce Lipton, who discovered and formed the theory of epigenetics that our genetics have nothing to do with what we get, it has to do with our body and what the environment is like that genetics is sitting in. So, if you’re constantly putting in toxins, which are poison. Guess what, you’re going to get sick if you’re constantly eating the ultra-processed diet, which is fake food. You’re not giving your body anything to run on, so guess what, you’re going to get sick. So you have to change your environment and start doing things that give your body the opportunity to return back to balance that really became the key. It didn’t happen overnight. It took me five years to eliminate every toxin I could find in my air, in my perfume, in the cleaning materials that I had, in my food, in my pots and pans, and the things that I was cooking with, and what I was storing my food in, in the water coming out of my tap. It took me five years to get rid of all of that poison, and so I’ll tell you, it’s not easy. You have to have an intention, you have to stay focused. I did it systematically, category by category, but in five years I started to feel pretty darn good again, and I went on Medicare and found my own functional doctor, and even that wasn’t easy. There is a site called ifm.org where you can put in your zip code and they pop up, but none of them at the time took any kind of insurance. Yes, and so I ended up driving two hours to the person who I thought could help me, and it was worth it, because she took me to the next level. She knew things that I hadn’t found, like that I had all kinds of food sensitivities, and it ended up I had 19 of them, and by eliminating those, wow, it was instant pain relief, and I stopped having flares every other day. So it’s like finding your jigsaw puzzles, but you stay so focused and so convinced that you’re going to find all your puzzle pieces, you just keep going until you start feeling great, and that’s the goal. I had felt lousy for years, and thought that was the way I was supposed to feel, because by the time I got sick, I was already 63 Well, today I’m 77 and I feel way better than I did in my 40s and my 50s. So it’s not age, it has to do with how I live my life and what I’ve done with my environment to create a life that’s clean that supports me and it is so worth it

 

Manon Bolliger  11:12

right now. How did you get that like deep knowing that you’re going to find a solution and you just need to keep going.

 

Cheryl Meyer  11:22

Well, in a lot of ways, I was lucky because I grew up with two parents whose favorite thing to say to me was I could do anything I set my mind to.

 

Manon Bolliger  11:30

Okay, okay. Both

 

Cheryl Meyer  11:32

of my parents got unusual diseases. My father got a very rare epilepsy, and he was a scientist, so he was constantly researching because he wanted to help himself with that, and then my mother got something called multiple system atrophy, which is related to Parkinson’s, but not Parkinson’s, so nobody in the heck out there in the doctor field had a clue what to do with her, and so I started digging into medical journals and finding things myself, so when I would go to medical appointments with them, I would raise questions. Have you thought of this? Could we try that? And the response in the beginning from their doctors was, Who’s the doctor here? And my response was, Who’s the daughter? My mother’s doctor, I said, How many patients do you have? He said, several 100. I said, Well, I only have one mother, so could we do this together, because I can concentrate on things that might help her that you’re not going to find, because you have 200 of her, and she was supposed to only live two years, and she lived 10, and when she died, he called me and said, I wish everybody had a daughter like you, he said, because our success was because we did do it together.

 

Manon Bolliger  12:44

Yeah,

 

Cheryl Meyer  12:45

so I knew that if I dug into whatever was going on with my body, which was not even given a diagnosis,

 

Manon Bolliger  12:52

yeah,

 

Cheryl Meyer  12:53

that I was going to find it, and I was determined that I was going to find it. Ended up, I had fibromyalgia, Hashimotos, IBS. I had type two diabetes that my doctor had missed, and it was bad. My A 1c was 7.7 I mean it was high. And so, and then as I started working with my functional doctor, I also discovered by accident that I had a fatty liver,

 

Manon Bolliger  13:24

right?

 

Cheryl Meyer  13:24

So, and that wasn’t a surprise, since I had the diabetes, and I had eaten poorly for 63 years of my life. So that became a concentration to learn everything I could learn about the liver, which is the workhorse of the body. So, if your liver isn’t healthy, it impacts everything else going on in your body, and it actually ends up, it’s the number one cause of heart disease.

 

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Cheryl Meyer  14:57

so you need to follow the threads that. You discover as you research, and you need to take it seriously that each of these little gems is going to get you one step closer to feeling great, and that’s what I did. I am now 14 years away from starting this journey. I still have some puzzle pieces I’m looking for. Somebody who follows me on Facebook said, ‘Are you really as healthy as you say you are? I feel great every day. I pop out of bed happy as heck, because the food I eat turns on all my happiness. I am as healthy as I tell you I am, but that doesn’t, as it is, and you never stop looking for your pieces,

 

Manon Bolliger  15:43

right? Right now, so how in your search, right? So I understand the background, where you knew that researching was something that could be done, right? So that’s a lot of people just think that somehow doctors know everything, and they don’t research, and you know part of it is true, they, they don’t research, because a lot of times now you know it’s like they’re overwhelmed by crazy, silly hours where you don’t get to know your patient or client at all, and and then they have these, you know, reps that tell them, well, this will fix that and that, and so it’s like, it’s like, okay, you know what, I’ll just use the cookbook rather than use my brain and go deeper, and so I think a lot of the art of really asking questions and getting to the root of things has been lost, you know. Not everyone.

 

Cheryl Meyer  16:46

I actually read that from when something new gets discovered. It’s discovered in whatever it’s minute field is in, and it can take as long as 15 years before it will get into the general medical journal that your doctor might read it, so your thing is you want to find it early. If there’s something new that you want to pull the thread on and question, and I’ve had formed partnerships with every doctor I have had, and I will go to anybody who can help me. I have a naturopath, I have a functional doctor. I have a regular doctor, and they all know I’m in charge of my health. You are my partner, you are my advisor, and we’re going to take care of my health together. And I currently have a conventionally trained doctor who lives holistically, so he gets it, and his theory is, you do the least invasive first, and then, if you have to, then you can go to taking that serious medication, or doing that surgery, or whatever it is, but we always start with the least invasive, and you need to find those doctors that you believe will support your body in finding holistic solutions, and it doesn’t mean I don’t take drugs, because the drug can mitigate whatever is going on in my body until I can change my lifestyle enough to start to cure it, and the doctor knows if I’m going to take a drug, I’m going to research it, I’m going to know what the downside is, because they all come with gifts, both good and bad, and so if I start to get better, then he’s going to help me wean off of that medication, because I’m not taking it forever, and one of the first things I had to learn is there is no magic pill, you are the magic pill, people my age think they’re going to find the magic pill, and they’re going to feel better and be able to live out life. It doesn’t exist. You are the magic pill, and your lifestyle changes are the magic that your body can convert to wellness. So, you have to own it. You have to question, you have to research, and there’s probably some bad information out there, as well as good information. So, I found doctors that I trusted, and that’s where I would start as I researched each subject, but you can do it, and then you go to whoever your care taker is, and you have a robust conversation with them, so that you’re sure you stay on track for getting the best possible solution for your body, no, not in your body, he doesn’t know how you feel,

 

Manon Bolliger  19:25

no, no, exactly, so, so the, the research part I get, the, the, the drive that you’re going to get on top of this, and that, well, no, that, not that one, sorry, because I think that you were an entrepreneur before, so I know where drive comes from, and

 

Cheryl Meyer  19:45

I’m a personality, because my stress level was so out of control, I shot up and used up all my cortisol and was borderline Addison’s disease when I got sick, that was one of the. First places I had to dig in and get under control.

 

Manon Bolliger  20:02

Okay, so actually that’s interesting. Let’s go there for one moment. How did you choose to get that under control out of all the technologies out there and things? What did you do?

 

Cheryl Meyer  20:17

Well, I decided I was going to take a yoga class.

 

Manon Bolliger  20:21

Okay,

 

Cheryl Meyer  20:22

but I don’t like yoga where they’re going to tie me into a knot.

 

Manon Bolliger  20:25

Okay,

 

Cheryl Meyer  20:26

so I looked until I found a local class, which was by a company called Body and Brain, and they’re all over the country, and they do a towel yoga that’s a combination of some yoga, some isometric, some general wellness, mind over body. It was a combination of everything, and I have to add to it. While I was looking for this yoga class, I had also been in a long-term relationship with a man who wasn’t going to change for me. He was not going to let me dictate how he was going to eat. He was not going to adopt any healthy habits, and so after many years we had to break, which was just all additional stress, which didn’t help the situation. So I found my yoga class, and then I dug in what were other solutions, and I found a man who started integrative medicine, called Dr. Andrew Weil, and he had come up at that point, which was 15 years ago. Now, there are all kinds of breathing exercises, but I do his breathing exercise, which takes four minutes to go through the rounds, and it releases all the tension in your nervous system, and lets you take the top off your stress, so you can function again.

 

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