Date Aired: April 4, 2023 // Guest: Dr. Jill Carnahan
Episode Description:
Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her personal story of overcoming breast cancer, chron’s disease and mold toxicity. She is a brilliant integrative medicine doctor that helps thousands of people heal not only their physical body, but heal their relationship with themselves (mind and spirit.) Dr. Jill’s raw and honest account of her own challenges in facing a life-threatening illness, living with autoimmunity and mold toxicity, and working in a medical system that has no tolerance for stepping outside the lines, offers a new path of empowerment for taking control of our own health and wellbeing. Other topics discussed on this episode:
- Keeping up and understanding an anti-inflammatory diet
- Recognizing trauma recovery; physical, emotional, mental
- Mold toxicity
- Cancer
- Gut Health
- Autoimmune conditions
- Lyme disease, and more
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More About The Guest
Dr. Jill Carnahan
Dr. Jill completed her residency at the University of Illinois in Family Medicine at Methodist Medical Center and received her medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
She was dually board certified in Family Medicine in 2006-2016 and in Integrative Holistic Medicine since 2005. She founded the Methodist Center for Integrative Medicine in Peoria, Illinois in 2009 and worked there as medical director. Then in 2010, she moved to Boulder, Colorado and opened Flatiron Functional Medicine where she has a widely sought-after medical practice with a broad range of clinical service including nutritional consultations, chiropractic therapy, naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, and massage therapy.
Dr. Jill is survivor of both breast cancer and Crohn’s disease and passionate about teaching patients how to live well and thrive in the midst of complex and chronic illness. She is also a widely sought-after inspirational speaker and travels around the world to teach physicians the principles of personalized and functional medicine. She is a prolific writer, speaker, and loves to infuse others with her passion for hope, health and healing!
