Transcript of Episode 124: How Kim Got Her Life Back
With Dr. Daniel Pompa, Meredith Dykstra and Special Guest, Kim Emrich
Meredith:
Hello, everyone and welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m your host Meredith Dykstra, and we have Dr. Pompa here on the line of course, and today we’re welcoming a very special glass, very special guest. Not a glass, a guest. And we have Kim Emrich here. She is one of Dr. Pompa’s clients, and she’s going to be sharing her testimonial today on where she’s been, where she is now. And she really has an incredible story, and Dr. Pompa wanted her to come onto Cellular Healing TV to share. So before we get started, let me tell you a little bit more about Kim.
Kim Emrich is currently a stay-at-home mom who is in the process of regaining her health without the use of any medications after a decade long journey with Hashimoto’s. Kim has spent several years of her life around the sick and dying. Working in the past as a lab tech, ER tech, and EEG tech. She’s run in-house laboratories for private practice doctors in an inner city hospital emergency room. She provided patient care at one of the largest epilepsy monitoring clinics in the world. In addition, she’s volunteered her time helping to launch and operate remote jungle medical clinics in the Caribbean, South America, and Papua New Guinea.
Most recently, Kim lost her mother after a long battle with poor health. Her mother fought relentlessly and outlived her prognosis by 16 years. She became lovingly known as the “Energizer Bunny.” Kim truly believes her mother would be alive today if more time was spent searching for root causes of her illness and removing the source. Kim believes that both traditional and alternative doctors and researchers all have an important and special role to play in assisting and helping people achieve optimal health, but firmly believes that as individuals, we are ultimately responsible for our own health. It is our job to ask questions, to educate ourselves, to find root causes, and choose our own path to healing. She believes that if you continuously seek, God will always open up new doors, and lead you down sure pathways to improve health, and even cure so-called incurable diseases. So welcome, Kim. Thank you so much for being here today.
Kim:
Thank you.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Well, Kim, I thank you so much because I always—I’ve asked so many of my clients to come on and tell their story, and so few do, right, I’m going to be honest with you, because it’s scary, right? It’s like, oh, my gosh, on the show that they watch to be on. So you’re scared because everyone is, right, but there’s—we always say there’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s just a conversation. But I believe it’s our God duty to tell our story. When we look at biblical times, people told their stories, and that’s how people learned, right? Jesus taught in stories. It’s our story that transforms the world.
We can tell all the facts. We can tell all the science, but ultimately, my story has changed more lives than really any of the facts and amazing shows that we do. Really, I mean, it is our story that gives us the purpose, and it’s not by chance that you’re a world changer just listening to that little bio there. You’re doing amazing things. Because I always tell the doctors that I coach look for your purpose in your pain and so too do you. I’m sure if you looked at your life and said, gosh, look where God brought me from to where I am now, there is amazing purpose, and you wouldn’t be the woman that you are. So thank you for being on this show.
Kim:
Thank you for having me.
Dr. Pompa:
You’re welcome. And I just pulled up, and I just looked at a brief history that I remembered getting day 1 when we—I can’t say sat down. Sat down like this. You said, and this notes it, it all started around 2000, and I’ll let you reiterate on that. You were diagnosed with an autoimmune condition at that time, postpartum depression after having a baby. And by the way, I remember your lead test had high lead, which often comes out of pregnancies. So the lead pours out of the bones, and we see this symptom change after pregnancy. We see autoimmune often times develop after pregnancies. So no surprise there to me.
In 2002, you were diagnosed with Epstein-Barr. You were—had major energy depletion, joint pain, mood swings, depression, heart palpitations, insomnia, PCOS, fibroid cystic breasts, heavy chest, hard to breath, thin skin, bald spots. 2004, joint pains started. You had chronic joint pain, tendonitis, neck/shoulder pain, back. Somewhere in that time your thyroid malfunctioned. Increase in TSH, autoimmune thyroid where your antibodies were up, thyroiditis, inflammation. They showed your thyroid. You had a goiter. Basically, your thyroid was growing. So all of these things I’ll let you reiterate on, but you’re a different woman today.
Kim:
I am.
Dr. Pompa:
Here with us changing the world. So tell us your story.
Kim:
That’s really funny you mentioned about the goiter, and this—you probably can’t see this, this little necklace that I’m wearing. I bought this. I think it was three years ago now. My—it was the day before Mother’s Day, and my husband took me out to this place. We got this as a Mother’s Day gift, and on our way home, got a phone call that my stepfather had suddenly passed away. And my mother was just two days coming out of a diabetic coma.
Dr. Pompa:
Wow.
Kim:
And so she wakes up and finds out that her husband had shot himself, and so I couldn’t wear this necklace. My goiter got so big that I wasn’t able to wear it, and I’m wearing it today. And I’m really pleased that I get to wear it now.
Dr. Pompa:
Wow. That’s a good visual. Because people don’t understand the thyroid literally can grow to that big. I can visually even see now how big that would be.
Kim:
Yeah. And so, I mean, it wasn’t huge or anything, but tight enough that I wouldn’t want to wear a necklace like this, and so yeah, I mean, I grew up pretty healthy. I mean, I was young and active, never had issues with weight, never—and it was—I mean, I really feel like the bottom fell out after I gave birth to my son.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
I did everything that they told me to do in pregnancy, and I had a hearty, wonderful pregnancy. Got very—I had delivered a fairly large baby, especially for my size, and being here in Colorado, I think the average birth weight is around 6½ to 7 pounds just because of the lack of oxygen in the air. I had a 9 pound—almost a 9 pound baby. And instantly, after I delivered this ginormous child, I mean, Raynaud’s disease of the nipples. It just immediately started in, and I—and really, from that time on I struggled.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
And tried many, many, many different things, and I never—the whole pathway, take this drug, do that, I just—somehow, innately, I knew that that was not going to—I’d always say—I’m questioner. Why is my thyroid malfunctioning? Oh, here, just take this Synthroid, and if you had a really nice doctor, they’d say okay. Well, here’s Armour instead. You know? But why does this happen? And they don’t really have an answer. Well, it just happens. There’s no cure for it, and you’re going to have to take this pill for the rest of your life, and I just was not okay with that.
And you turn on your television, and you see these commercials about all these drugs. And they say, oh, by the way—they show everybody having the time of their lives, and they say but you might fall down of sudden cardiac death. But that’s okay. Look, I’m not okay with that.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, right? I know. Yeah. No doubt. No doubt about it. I remember…
Kim:
And so…
Dr. Pompa:
Go ahead. Say it.
Kim:
No. I was just going to say when I turned from—well, so the turning point for me away from the whole conventional thing where I just thought I’ve got to close the door on this for a while was after I had tendonitis so bad in my shoulder. It destroyed the tendon, and I was so desperate. I decided to have the surgery done. Interestingly enough, after the surgery was done, I was in more pain than I was before I had the surgery, and…
Dr. Pompa:
I forgot about that.
Kim:
And it ended up being frozen. I couldn’t even move it anymore. And I resorted to taking narcotic drugs just to take the edge off of the pain, and then I knew that, oh, my gosh, here I would be faced with the possibility of becoming addicted to pain medications. And that’s when I met my chiropractor who eventually then referred me to you, and it’s interesting because in my chiropractic journey, several times over a few years he said, Kim, I really think you’ve got heavy metal issues. But I was the only one in his office who could pass that VCS test or that visual screening for that, and so in my mind, I just dismissed it. But it’s interesting because that seems to be what the problem—what the root cause was.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. When I’ve looked at your history, I mean, just some things I’ve jotted down. You grew up, and you had remodeled homes or at least you grew up in some homes that would be remodeled. I remember in my notes—I’m looking at it now. I said need urine toxic metal test, lead. So I suspected lead just from your history alone. Remodeled homes, lived in old homes, worked—and here’s another thing. I suspected mercury in the brain.
You wore contact lenses from 1978 to the present. Guess who else did that? Me. Yeah, so I had—obviously, I had fillings, and I think you had a filling removed.
Kim:
Mm-hmm.
Dr. Pompa:
You had several in the past, right?
Kim:
I only had one.
Dr. Pompa:
You only had one. Okay, only one. So then you had that removed, and you wore the contact lenses like I did. Through the 70s, the 80s, and early 90s, where would we put mercury? So brain mercury and I told you that that probably won’t show up in the test, but I’m thinking the lead will. It did. So just looking at your history, how you got things changed after the pregnancy. Man, we grew up in the lead generation, in the mercury generation, and the problem is is that it’s deep in those tissues.
As we—I’m looking at my notes. As we went through the detox, that goiter kept shrinking and shrinking and shrinking, and I remember you telling me, my goiter’s shrinking. And then there would be times where it’d increase again. Then it would shrink again. I can’t even see a goiter there today. But yeah, I mean, to fix hormone problems, which you had, to fix aches and pains, which you had, really is impossible without getting to the upstream cause. So yeah, you tried a lot of things. You did a lot of things that were very good and helped you I’m sure even, but ultimately, until we got to that, we weren’t going to get you to where you are today.
Kim:
Mm-hmm.
Dr. Pompa:
And Kim, I’m a—as a reminder, because this is something that I went through, once certain aspects of my life were better again, number one, we forget where we were. Number two, we will go through times that that lead and even mercury will come out, and all of a sudden we revisit certain things or new things even crop up. I went through that for years. I always say seven years, probably, I went through those episodes. I just wanted to be done detoxing. I just wanted to be able to make more exceptions. Maybe, people say, live life normal, right, which I believe I’m living life normal now. I don’t know what we mean by that, but I guess live life like everybody else that got—how we got sick.
However, I would revisit some of those things because the metals would just come out at random. As we age, we lose bone, and out comes—different lead can come from the deep bone. Even stuff will mobilize even from the deep tissues in our nerve tissue like the brain will come out. And I became better at understanding what was going on, and know that, okay, I just needed a cycle.
Right now, you’re still cycling. I mean, we took you through the prep phase. We took you through a body phase. We took you into the brain phase. That’s where you are now.
Kim:
Mm-hmm.
Dr. Pompa:
So I do want you to share because that was journey, right? I remember diarrhea happening with ALA. I remember this happening and just different things. So I don’t know. Think back through that journey, and just what are some of the dietary changes? We now intermittent fast. I remember a time where you couldn’t go without food, right?
Kim:
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Dr. Pompa:
So that’s many people watching this show. We talk about intermittent fasting, and they go I can’t go without food. That was you. So talk a little about that there. Start right there.
Kim:
Yeah. I mean, it’s not an easy journey as all of us who’ve have been through it can testify to that. But boy, I just tell you. If you do it, if you—people would tell me in this journey, Kim, you have so much discipline. You’re such a disciplined person. You can do this. You can do the fasts. You can do this and that, and I’d say no. I don’t really consider myself to be very disciplined at all, but I do consider myself to be very determined.
I was very determined to get to the bottom of the issue, fix it, and then get the health back, and be on my way back up. And I—it was interesting to me. As you had me do—if I couldn’t fast, you would have me do certain things, and it’s like, wow, now I can fast. I was doing so many good things before. Like even with diet, I had cleaned up my diet pretty well a few years before I met you.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Sure.
Kim:
And so a few years before I met you, when I made some of these dietary changes, I cut out wheat and several other grains. I thought I was going to die. I thought that’s it. I mean, eating is my social life. Eating, I’d just—I’d go to restaurants. I’d sit there and not eat and just struggle the whole time. Why can’t I be normal like everybody else around me? And I’m looking. I mean, I’m now to the place where I can sit at a restaurant, and look at what everybody else is eating, and go, ew, I don’t want that anymore. But it takes a while.
It also takes a really good family to walk through you with it. And I remember more towards the beginning. I mean, my husband has blessed us by being able to just financially provide the means for us to try a bunch of different things, and so for that, I’m very grateful. And he would even do it even when he wasn’t sure whether or not it was going to make a difference or not.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s hard.
Kim:
And nobody likes to waste money, and so I think over time, he could see that I was getting better. I think for me, like the mood swings, I wasn’t agitated all the time.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
I wasn’t depressed all the time, and I knew—in my head, I’m like there may not be anything to be agitated or depressed about. I just couldn’t seem to control it. And so as the journey went on with you, I’m like, wow. I actually feel pretty happy today. I can tell people—when they say how are you doing today, I can say I’m doing awesome. I feel great today.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. It’s funny. As you just said that, I looked down, and this was probably seven, six months, seven months into me coaching you. And it was the third brain phase. Okay? And you said, oh, much less severe hot flashes. Yeah. Excess hair loss was less. So your hair wasn’t falling out as much.
But you said right there. Still some mood swings, tiredness at the beginning of each cycle but got better, less brain fog but better mood in general. Not as angry anymore, and you had more stress than ever at that point. So that’s what I wrote down. So you had more stress, but yet, you were tolerating the stress better. And that was after three brain cycles.
Kim:
Yeah. That was a really good test. When the stress doesn’t stop and—I mean, I know—I mean, I told Meredith a few things, maybe a few things about me. But during this whole journey with my health, we had just had—well, my counselor calls it chronic PTSD. Just we’ve had several tragedies in our family, and I’ll never forget returning home from just being—well, it was after I couldn’t wear the necklace. I had left my family to go take care of my mother who eventually died, and I really feel like that was the mercy of God. She was ready to go, so no regrets there. But I left my family for an undetermined amount of time to make sure my mother was taken care of after her husband had passed away, and—I forgot where I was exactly going with that.
So I come back home, and I just—the stress was just so high. I mean, you’d have to manage your family and the relationships there. Marriages get stressed. Kids are like—I have an adopted daughter from China, and I just left her for two months, and she doesn’t know when mommy’s coming home and all of that. And so when I get home, my counsellor said you know what? This is after the second suicide in the family. Things are going to get better. And my husband—the next week my husband broke his neck in a bicycling accident. So I’m like, okay.
But what I could see is that, as I got better, when those kinds of stressful situations would come, I could actually handle them. I actually felt like I had the ability somewhere inside to reach down deep to just know, God, things are going to be okay. And then I would actually be able to walk through some of those horrible situations, and not freak out, and not slip into deep depression. Not get so angry that I just can’t function, and I’m yelling at my children. Of course, if they listen to this, they’ll say, yeah, right, mom. But it is true. I do think that my family is definitely seeing great changes.
You know one of the things I love now? I can dream again. When you go through such a long period of time of having no direction and not knowing where to go with your health and you just kind of—getting worse and worse, you just don’t feel—you start losing your dreams. You start forgetting why you’re even here on this earth, or you forget about what energizes you and those activities that you love to do, and you stop doing them. You don’t even know what you like anymore.
And the most beautiful thing out of this process, I’m like I don’t care about diarrhea. If I can feel good about the day and my life and what’s going on and handle the stress, boy, that’s huge.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. No. It is, and you said it right too. It’s like when I was sick, I couldn’t handle any stress. I couldn’t even handle loud noise, a crying child. Anything too emotional. It’s like we know the emotional stuff in our life is huge, right? But it’s like, when you’re healthy, you can adapt to it, and it doesn’t zap you down.
Again, it’s getting the stress out. This chronic stress of toxins in our nerve system, that’s what kept me from adapting. You too, right? It’s like that’s when—once that started coming out, then we’re realizing, gosh, I can handle it. We all have stress. But it’s like unloading that bucket of chemical stress allows us to deal with the emotional stress so much easier. You can get a handle on it. I’ve watched you go through that. And then hormones, right, so many people focus on different hormones, this hormone thing, that hormone thing, but your hot flashes got better as the detox went forward.
Kim:
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Dr. Pompa:
I forget how many hot flashes you had, but they were severe.
Kim:
Yeah. I would have them all through the night. Every 30 minutes, I would just be drenched in sweat, and I thought—I was never understanding. I was thinking, the whole menopause thing. Wow. Ladies never really said it was this bad, but this was different. It was every 30 minutes just profuse sweating, and the further—I mean, I’ll still go back to those, and I’ll get them, and it’s interesting now. Because as I’ve gone on this journey, I know exactly in the cycles when they’re going to be worse and when they’re going to be better.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
For example, just last week they completely dropped off. They’re gone. They’re gone and I’m feeling fantastic. So there’s a cycle to it too.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, toxin related. How do you feel—I mean, I know in the beginning it’s very typical to feel worse on an on cycle. But did you cross over to where you feel better on on cycles? What’s the difference of on cycles? And for those watching that don’t know what we’re talking about, we’re talking about on a detox cycle. So when I say brain phase, that’s a detox cycle where we’re detoxing the deeper tissues like the brain.
Kim:
Well, I do know at the beginning, whenever I would be out in public in general—let’s just say I’m playing tennis. In the beginning, people could tell something was going on with me, and sometimes I would just explain to them just briefly what I was doing. I would get brain gaps or something. I would just sort of forget where I was supposed to stand, and I still get that once in a while. But yeah, at the beginning of each cycle, I would feel good, and then towards the end of the cycle, I would start feeling really bad. And it has changed over time, and sometimes I have to go through a few cycles to figure out what exactly is going on. I can honestly say I just finished a cycle, an on cycle. I felt fantastic through the whole thing.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
I didn’t even feel like I needed to go off of it whereas before it was like, okay, my body needs a break. It’s been working really hard. There would be times around day 4—and my family knows I never do this. They’d come home. I’m laying on the coach, and I can’t even get up.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
I needed a nap, and I never do that. And so some of those days are gone. I don’t ever get that fatigued or that tired, and life feels more normal. Once in a while, things will cycle around.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
And I know it’s just all part of the healing process. Sometimes I can tell my body is dumping more toxins.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s right.
Kim:
I don’t why it did that, but it does it. The body is ready to release it, and it does it. But for the most part, I didn’t think that people can tell anymore that something different is going on with me.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Yeah. I remember that. I mean, I went through the same thing. It’s like cycles were hard, and then they got easier. But then randomly my body would dump, and then starting a cycle would be like the greatest thing. I’d be like, oh, my god. I’m normal. It’s like—and then if I went too far, I’d say, okay, I’m going to keep it going. Of course, I learned that that didn’t work either.
So my goal is always with every client is to teach them the process. You learned the process. You know now when to do it, how to do it. So I love hearing that.
Kim:
Yeah. I think there’s got to be a place out there—as you and others start making this more known out there, I just feel like there’s a place for people like me who would love to get out there and help more people. I mean, unfortunately, I think people—you have to get sick and become symptomatic before anybody will even consider what you’re saying to them, and I’ve learned how to just back off. You can tell when a person is ready to get well or not, or you can tell that if someone isn’t symptomatic yet, that they’re not really interested. And I’m okay with that now. I used to think that I had to push it on people.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, me too.
Kim:
But I feel like you know what? There are plenty of people out there now, which—as I’ve gone through this journey, now I have people coming to me saying wow. How are you doing this? I’m like do you really—do you want to hear it? And so I’ve been open to sharing with—I mean, I’m a little more selective on who I really jump in and dive into exactly what is this program that I’m doing, and how is it helping me? So I just think that people like me really have a desire to get out there and just raise awareness. That you know what? You don’t have to take drugs to fix those problems. There are other viable ways of, better ways of actually getting healthy and here’s how.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
And it’s not going to be easy. It’s not the easy road. It’s not the magic pill, the magic bullet. It’s not that. But if you’re willing to—you don’t have to be disciplined, but if you can find the determination, you can do this.
And so I don’t know if you can see this. This is something I found in my mother’s home right before she died. I mean when I was cleaning out her house. Sorry. And this was the motto of her life, and it’s become mine as well. And I don’t know if you can see this. I don’t know. Have you ever seen this?
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Never ever give up.
Meredith:
I have. I love that picture. I’ve seen that before. It’s wonderful.
Kim:
So that was my mom’s story and her testimony, and I feel like the key was as I was watching her literally dying in a nursing home—she was in skilled care, had a giant gapping gangrene wound on her leg. They wanted to amputate it. It just was a really heartbreaking situation. And one of the things my mother never did is she never laid in that bed—and she’d be moaning in pain and groaning. And she would never say, God, why? Why does this happen to me? Why? Why this? And you want to just blame this or blame-why, God? It’s your fault.
And she had a message. She knew that once she ended—when she left this life, she always believed that she had a special place in Heaven. That God had this special place for her to do this special job, and I believe that that’s true. I believe that God had that for her, but I also believe that He has that for us here and now. And so I don’t ask God why? Why? Why? Because I feel like the more we sink into that kind of thinking, the more we want to give up, and the more we just give into fear, or we give into just blaming and saying this isn’t really working. This isn’t doing any good. But now I ask myself, okay, God, how can you work in and through this situation to make me a better person and give me a better stories that I can tell others?
Dr. Pompa:
Kim, what you just said there, when I interview for a client that I’m going to coach, those are the things that I’m looking for. My doctors, we’ve trained them. Look, through my pain, I’ve now coached and trained doctors around the world in this. The world needs what you went through. That’s why thank you for telling your story.
Kim:
Oh, thank you.
Dr. Pompa:
Because there’s so many women, there’s so many people out there I feel need—they were like, oh, my gosh. That was me. That was me. And I’m telling you. You just encouraged them more than me. So already you’re serving. No doubt. Again, now there’s doctors trained in this with cellular detox and cellular healing around the globe because of what I went through.
You chose to take that and say I’m not going to—you learned it from your mom. That I’m not going to just complain. I’ve done it. I’m going to push through for answers. I’m going to do whatever it takes. I’m going to live life. I’m telling you. That’s the healing attitude. Meredith, we call those three percenters. Kim Emrich, you’re a three percenter. That’s why you are where you are.
Those listening, that’s a choice. Being a three percenter, it’s a choice. Saying, darn it, you made that choice that I was going to do whatever it takes. And darn it, I’m going to serve God in it, and I’m going to get better from it, and I’m going to make a difference because of it.
Kim:
Mm-hmm.
Dr. Pompa:
Any one of those choices.
Kim:
Yeah. I was telling Meredith just before this call about how my journey is a long journey. It’s been ten plus years, and there are times I go, man, I just wish my journey could’ve only been three years. I wish it could’ve been one year.
Dr. Pompa:
Right.
Kim:
I feel like sometimes God knows that your journey needs to be—your whole life is your journey. Your story—as long as you’re alive, your story continues.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s right.
Kim:
I feel like had we sped up this process, had I met you five years ago…
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
I might not have been ready, and so I—you say a lot of time trust the process. And just with timing and all that, we have to trust the process, and that whole thing about never giving up, God knows the timeframe. He knows the path. And just trust Him, and let Him do it. And you don’t have to get discouraged if it takes too long. I just feel like, as Americans, we just want that pill now. And I know a lot of people watched me struggle through hard times with my health, and I hope that the testimony is is that they see that I pushed through that and it gets better.
And it—I want to encourage people that it gets overwhelming. You go out there, and you watch your podcasts. It’s just full of so much incredible information. But it can get pretty overwhelming, and I tell people. You know what? Start small. Start small. Cut the grains out. Stop drinking soda.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Yeah.
Kim:
You’ll find that if you don’t ever start somewhere, you’re never going to go anywhere.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Yeah.
Kim:
And that’s how it was with me. It was a journey. I had to start—I had to take baby steps.
Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Kim:
And now I—it’s not that I’m great or anything like that now. It’s just it took baby steps, and it took a long time for me to develop the discipline in order to be successful. I had—I beat myself up all the time when I would fail, but haven’t we all. But you just pick yourself up, and you keep going.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Yeah. You said a lot of amazing things. It’s like it takes us 30, 40 years to get sick, and then everyone just wants the pill. I mean, even beyond the medication. They just want the magic supplement, right? It’s like—you see. You did. You said it. It’s like, look, you did a lot of great dietary changes before you met me. It’s like but yet you still weren’t well.
It took years to bioaccumulate these toxins. You have been persistent, just never missing cycle after cycle, and that’s the key. It’s like I’ve done this long enough to know that people who stick it through just like you did learn the process just like you did. Now they realize that healing takes time just like disease took time, and get the toxins out. The body does the healing. It really does. It’s not magic in that sense. If we remove the interference, then the body does the healing. Your goiter would’ve never went away. Your thyroid condition, everything, the hormones, it will never change.
Meredith, what do I always say? You won’t get well today, with today’s illnesses, with the perfect diet, but you won’t get well without a perfect diet. So now it becomes this thing that’s necessary, but in and itself, we need to get these toxins out. You’re proof positive of that. God has a purpose in it for you, those watching this, right? But you have to ask what is it? You know you’re called to this now. I probably have that written down somewhere because I literally remember writing it. She is called to this mission.
Kim:
Yeah. Yeah. It’s like I’m stuck now. I can’t get out. What’s interesting too is you feel so alone in the journey.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
You feel like there’s no one else out there like you. But you know what? If you stick it out and you hang around long enough, it’s like we all have this similar stories that binds you all together. I’m not alone anymore. I know I’m not alone in this, and it’s a beautiful thing.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. No doubt about it. Tell us a little bit about the fasting. Because, again, I could look down at my notes here and say here’s one, right? It’s like puffy, chubby fingers went away for the first time during a fast, right? I mean, there are some things that happen. Again, you were the gal who could not not eat. I mean and then you were doing these longer fasts.
I remember I put you on a whey water fast in the beginning, and that was probably pretty traumatic. I don’t know. But then you—it became part of what you did. It became easy for you, right?
Kim:
Yeah. Yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
Maybe you could speak to that a little bit.
Kim:
I remember the whey water thing, and I was into that before I even knew you because the Garden of Life people and Jordan Rubin and all that. I tried several of them, and I’m so determined. I forced it into my body, and it just wasn’t happening.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
Then you had me do it. I thought, well, okay. We could—and just—one of the things I like about you is you say okay. Well, if that doesn’t work, it’s okay. Let’s back off on that. Let’s try something different.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
We did a bone broth fast. I never felt better in my life, and I had some road blocks with that the longer we did it. Then we did water, and I’m up to—I can intermittent fast now. I can even do 24 hours. I could do it two, three times a week. I rarely get hungry. It’s pretty easy.
It’s so funny. My husband will say, wow, this diet is really, really expensive. You’re buying the raw milk, the grass-fed beef, the pastured chicken eggs, and the more expensive butter, and all that. And I’m like I don’t even eat two, three days a week. How can that—I’m making up for it. I’m pretty resourceful. So there’s no excuse out there. You can make it work. You can make it happen.
You can—if you want, you can pay on the—later on when you’re in the ICU or like my mother who we had to have skilled nursing care past time that Medicare would pay, and then it’s a hundred-fifty bucks a day out-of-pocket. And so if you keep yourself well upfront, it’s going to pay off.
Dr. Pompa:
Always, always, yeah and that’s amazing. I mean, you do what I do. I went all day yesterday; I didn’t eat at all, honestly. It was just effortless. You encouraged a lot of people though. Because I know a lot of people watching this show, many of my clients, many of the doctors that do cellular detox and their clients, I can’t go without food. I can’t go and do 14 hours. I get—it’s like you started it. It’s like now you said it. It’s like I can do it several times a week without eating.
My wife was that way. It wasn’t easy for her at first, but you get more efficient. The body becomes more efficient at using fat for energy, and that’s part of the healing. It’s like—but we put it all together, the ancient healing strategies and the detox, and that’s what works. Right, Meredith? That’s the multi—part of the multi-therapeutic approach that I see.
Meredith:
Yeah. And that’s what I was going to say too. That all of this does fit into the multi-therapeutic approach: the fasting, the detox, the diet changes. Supplementation, we haven’t really talked a lot about that and then exercise either so maybe if you want to hit on those.
Kim:
Is that for me, or is that for Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Pompa:
No. That was for you.
Meredith:
For either of you, yeah.
Kim:
Oh, go ahead again.
Meredith:
So what was your experience with them, with the supplements first? Maybe if you want to start there.
Kim:
Yeah. Well, before I met Dr. Pompa, I was highly supplemented, but I was on good supplements because…
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. You were.
Kim:
Through my chiropractor, we were doing Systemic Formulas, and it was interesting. Because I felt like, as long as I was doing those religiously, I could become pretty asymptomatic on a lot of my symptoms. But as soon as I would, I’m not kidding you, miss a day, symptoms would come right back, and I just knew something wasn’t right about that. I can’t go the rest of my life taking all these supplements. And I find it interesting now that, as I’ve been working with Dr. Pompa, the number of supplements, it decreases over time.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. That’s true.
Kim:
And there’s a lot of changing and switching, but there’s also—like I remember I needed so much magnesium that I had to carry around a bottle of liquid magnesium. This is before I met you Dr. Pompa. I used to carry it around in my car because I would get heart palpitations so severely.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
And they wouldn’t stop, and I would get—I would start to get—I would start thinking I was going to pass out, even while I was driving. And so I would—it was like having an—like for an asthmatic, having an inhaler. I used to take so much magnesium. It was amazing how much I would take, and never have too much of it, and now I don’t. I don’t really take that much, and I very, very rarely ever get a heart palpitation.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. That’s the thing. It’s getting upstream, right? I mean, it’s just like people taking all these hormones, whether it’s all the supplements. Ultimately, you remove the upstream cause. In your case, no doubt lead and mercury had bioaccumulated deep into the tissue, and that messes with magnesium. It does. It depletes magnesium. You can eat all the magnesium you want, but it’s not going to stay because the heavy metals compete for the same receptors.
So it’s like I hope everyone hears the lesson. You were patient enough to get upstream to it. Determined enough to get upstream at the real cause of why you have mineral deficiencies, why you have hormone trouble, etc.
Kim:
I think too, over the this process—I’m sorry. There’s a delay, and I may be interrupting. I don’t mean to do that. I’m sorry.
Dr. Pompa:
No. No.
Kim:
When Meredith was asking about exercise, there were years that I couldn’t do anything.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
I mean, the time that they said, oh, it’s mono, Epstein-Barr virus. I was having a hard time getting out of bed during those days. But then, for someone who was—I was always very active, played sports my whole life. I could barely run for a very long time, and I used to take my kids to the tennis courts and watch them play and wished so badly that I could be out there. And there were all kinds of things that went through my mind. Oh, I’m just getting too old. You know? I’m in my 40’s now. I can’t do this. It just comes with age. And I’m running out on the tennis courts just like I did when I was a teenager.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Kim:
And so it comes back. It all comes back.
Dr. Pompa:
I couldn’t work out. When I was sick, I couldn’t exercise either. It would just leave me more exhausted and more sleepless nights, honestly, and I, this morning, biked 12 miles. It’s like probably—I did a climb up this mountain out here. You probably won’t see it. But anyways, I finished in my age category in the Top 10 of anyone who ever went up that climb. So that was the guy—where I started was I could not literally ride my bike down the street without becoming exhausted.
I think that—I think both of us just gave a lot of people a lot of hope, honestly. It’s like it can be you. But honestly, you have to choose it. Honestly, it’s not going to come with the magic pill. It’s not going to come by just some dietary changes, just that alone. You see it took all of these things together to get both of our lives back, and that’s the magic.
Kim:
Mm-hmm. I just want to thank you so much, Dr. Pompa, because, I mean, it was very timely. You were a godsend to me. And all the different times in my journey where I just said, God, show me. Open the next door. I’ve tried all these good things, but somehow we just haven’t gotten to the core of the issue. And just at the right time, you came along, and I feel like I’m starting to be able to dream again and do some of the—regain some of the things I’ve lost. And I’m forever grateful for that, and I just want to thank you so much.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. That’s what our story brings us, deeper into that service. You know what? And I guarantee you, just this show alone, you’re changing lives. Obviously, you have people coming to you now going so what did you do?
Kim:
Yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
Meredith, I think she might be at one of our seminars one day.
Meredith:
All right.
Kim:
You might disagree on that one.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Ask Meredith. Her and her family were clients of mine for years, and now she’s a world changer. She’s doing this, and she’s taking people through cellular detox, and she’s an amazing dealer today. And she started exactly where you did, Kim, so some encouragement.
Kim:
Yeah. Thank you.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And honestly, you have—already have an amazing background with helping people in the health field, so God has a purpose for each of us.
Kim:
Yeah. It’s interesting because I was going to go to medical school and become a doctor. And just all—I just thought I’m just not sure they’re doing it the way—I don’t want to say the right way. Because I’m so grateful for all the great doctors that we have out there, but I just felt like for me there was more to it. I wanted to know, well, why are people getting sick? Why?
Dr. Pompa:
Why?
Kim:
If you can’t answer why, I’m not satisfied.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely. The why, right? My brain automatically asks why. My 12-year-old, Simon, asks me why so many times a day that if I—a certain time in the evening I have to say, okay, no more. No more. So but yeah, asking why is a good thing.
Well, Kim, thank you so much for sharing. I told you. It takes a lot of guts to come on here and share your story. And I hope my existing clients and some of our doctors clients get encouraged, and say, okay, I’m going to tell my story too because we have hundreds of you out there.
Kim:
Yeah. I might need EMDR after this. We’ll see.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. That’s awesome.
Meredith:
Well, thank you, Dr. Pompa, and thank you, Kim, so much for sharing your story. You’re a true inspiration to us and to all of those who are watching. And just the progress and changes you’ve made within the multi-therapeutic approach as we’ve discussed, that it’s really magic. It is the synergy in doing all of these different strategies because it’s never just one thing. But you stayed course, and you are just on your way. So thanks so much for sharing.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Yeah. Thank God. Thank you. Thank you, Meredith.
Meredith:
All right, thanks, everyone, and we’ll see you next time. Take care.
