Episode 284: My Multi-Therapeutic Approach to Gain Back Health
with Tamara Jarrett
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Today I welcome my client and success story, Tamara Jarrett. She is here to share her healing journey and inspire you to stay hopeful when you feel hopeless. Tamara got her life back utilizing my Multi-Therapeutic Approach (MTA) and you will learn exactly what that means and how it can heal.
If you're someone seeking to get your health back from autoimmunity, irregular hormones, brain fog, food intolerances, gut issues, and neurological conditions, you will learn how to look upstream and discover sources that will change everything for you.
Tamara is now living a joyful like inspiring others to find true health, and she’s here to share her story with you all today – and please listen for a special surprise at the end!
More about Tamara Jarrett:
Tamara has a loving husband of 10 years and is the mother of two amazing boys, ages 5 and 3. She works as a dental hygienist in Washington state and has made discovering and living out the truth behind real health a priority in her life.
After birthing her second child, the struggles began with digestive problems, unexplained weight loss, hormonal imbalances, hair loss, vertigo, vision changes, energy loss, cognitive issues, extreme food intolerances, and consistent abdominal pain. After meeting with specialist after specialist, test after test, even traveling and testing for weeks at some of the best clinics in the country- she was left with diagnosis that seemed to be a life sentence of medications with no hopes of healing and fulfilling a life free of symptoms. After exploring both western and naturopathic modalities she was still confused in finding a clear plan to health.
Then God opened a door when she connected with a health podcast featuring Dr Pompa. This was the turning point in Tamara’s journey. By seeing the big picture and how to heal the entire body, by finding root causes and utilizing multi therapeutic approaches Dr Pompa was able to coach Tamara to look upstream and find breakthroughs along the way. Through various techniques, removal of health obstacles, and the latest natural treatment methods, she has gained her physicality back, all but rid herself of digestive devastation, and gained a whole new perspective on living a healthy lifestyle. 2 years later, Tamara is living a disciplined but overjoying life and inspiring others to find true health.
Tamara hopes to help and encourage others searching for solutions when they are feeling hopeless like she did just 2 years ago.
Transcript:
Dr. Pompa:
This is an exciting show because you’re going to hear a true story of one of my clients who got her life back. If you’re someone seeking your health like I was at one point, like so many watching this, hormone imbalance—I can go down a long list of symptoms, gut issues, food intolerances, brain fog; unbelievable recovery. You have to hear this story, autoimmune of all types. I don’t remember how many autoimmune.
She had done everything from the Mayo Clinic. She saw everybody. Wait until you hear the hidden causes that we found upstream. The reason I’m excited for you to watch the show is because there are some amazing surprises, and there’s a big one at the end. It’s a good one. This show is going to give you a lot of hope, and this is going to be a show that you’re going to want to share. Wait until you hear this life journey.
Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith. Today we have a very special guest. Her name is Tamara Jarrett. She’s a client and success story of Dr. Pompa’s who utilized his own multi-therapeutic approach to gain back her health.
Tamara made upstream discoveries of toxicity that changed everything for her. It made real health a priority for her and her family. Tamara is now living a joyful life inspiring others to find true health, and she’s here to share her journey with all of you today. Let’s get started. Welcome, Tamara Jarrett, and, of course, Dr. Pompa. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV.
Dr. Pompa:
Tamara, I have been looking forward to this show because there are so many lessons in this show. You were the same person that watches Cell TV, listens to other podcasts, looking and seeking your health back. That was you, right? That was, in fact, how we found you. Is that correct? You ended up a client of mine.
Tamara:
Absolutely.
Dr. Pompa:
Let’s go back. You said something right before the interview. I forget half of the things I have going on. I was like okay, good. I went back and had to remind myself to the first day of when we had a consult. By the way, I’m virtual. All of my clients are from all over the place. I coach virtually.
We did the first consult over the phone. I went back and read my notes. Even I was like oh, my gosh. I forgot all this. I’m just going to remind you that you can fill in the gaps.
You came to me with a major complaint of major hormone imbalance was one of the topics that you put in. You had no period at that time for over two years, almost three years. As a matter of fact, you were on bioidentical hormones at this point for three months, you had said. You were playing the hormone game trying to find some balance. I don’t recall how that was working at the time, but you realized it wasn’t a long-term win.
You had on your blood work an increase in thyroid antibodies. Your hair was thinning and falling out. Your hands were cold, all the typical thyroid symptoms. You had migraines and dizziness that was one of the big concerns for you at that point. Your gut issues, I believe, you had been battling for a long time, doing a lot of things. You had a positive autoimmune diagnosis of your gut.
You had infections on many different tests. You were diagnosed with lesions in your bile, food intolerance test, reflux. Gastroparesis was another diagnosis, meaning your food just lays there and doesn’t move. You had body aches. You had muscle weakness, numbness, tremors in your hands, brain fog, poor memory. Did I miss anything?
Tamara:
You said vision, right? I had some vision changes.
Dr. Pompa:
I missed that. You had vision changes.
Tamara:
I had some vision changes. I had eczema. That’s one thing. I think you nailed it.
Dr. Pompa:
Before you got to me, you were the type of person that the reason I decided to work with you—I choose specific cases. I don’t have to work with everybody, but I also choose specific people. I can tell someone who is willing to do whatever it takes. I take someone through an interview process. I could tell you were that person. You had already done just about everything. You had made every dietary change. Share with where you were coming to me. How did you get there?
Tamara:
I think like everybody else in this world, we get sick. You don’t feel good. You go to the doctor. I went to the doctor. To back up, at the time where the floor fell out for me, I had taken an antibiotic to treat something called SIBO, so small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. I was three months postpartum with my second baby.
I took the antibiotic just to treat something that was more localized to my stomach, or so I thought, and all of a sudden all these symptoms just started coming out. Daily a new symptom would start. Of that lengthy list you just listed, I started spiraling out of control. Then I would start to go to the doctor. This doctor would refer me to another doctor, and that doctor would refer me to another doctor. All these diagnoses started coming out, but nobody was going to uncover what happened and why all these things started coming out.
You get frustrated because they just want to give you this medication, this medication, and this medication. You try them and you don’t really feel a whole lot better. Then I kind of started thinking how do I get to the bottom of this? Then I thought let’s try naturopathic medicine. By this point I had been literally to the Mayo Clinic. I had been all over my state to different doctors. They had wanted to put a PICC line in me. I forgot there was one more thing, extreme weight loss.
Dr. Pompa:
When you came in you were about 110 pounds at 5’8”.
Tamara:
That was three or four months after a baby. I just started losing a lot of weight. The doctors wanted to put a PICC line in so I could get some nutrition. I just thought there’s got to be more to this. I was “okay” a month ago, and I took this antibiotic and all of this started happening. I started going into natural medicine.
Even with the natural side of things, I felt like a lot of them understood a lot more on how to not symptom treat, but how to try to get a little bit more upstream. Nobody really got the big picture. It was just kind of a consistent research and trying to figure out how to make myself feel better. I was pretty miserable.
I stumbled upon your podcast and reading some articles and stuff. At this point it probably had been close to a year into that journey. For the first time I felt like somebody understands every aspect of what I am going through and how I feel and how to get upstream and address the cause. If you address the cause, you remove the source. Then the innate intelligence of your body will take care of the rest.
Dr. Pompa:
We’ve had a lot of success stories on Cell TV about this. It’s always that. They had been to the best. They had been here and there, alternative, allopathic, and no one really asked the same questions you asked me, going upstream to the cause. What we mean by that because I’ve had other people ask me that is if you think of a river, there’s some toxin or some stressor upstream poisoning, and all the fish are dying downstream. We’re downstream trying to put new fish in and get the algae blooms to be successful again and the microorganisms.
The problem is 20 miles upstream we have a factory dumping mercury in. Obviously, I started asking a lot of those questions. Talk a little bit about your childhood because it never starts when we think. It didn’t start when you thought it started, so tell a little bit about that. That was some of the first stuff that we really uncovered.
Tamara:
No doubt. Really I would say it sped up after I took the antibiotic for the SIBO, but I had SIBO first. There’s a sign that things were not right. I think a lot of people have little red flags, but they don’t associate that until it’s really unbearable.
Dr. Pompa:
That was me. My bottom fell out, but looking back I had little red flags along the way. Then the bottom fell out. Go ahead.
Tamara:
I think we all have a bucket, and my bucket started filling when I was a child. No offense to my family, but we grew up in a really rainy, moldy area. I remember constantly there being leaks in my house and my dad going and patching them up and fixing them and doing the best he could. You would see mold in different areas of the house and stuff. No doubt looking back that was an issue.
My diet was definitely pretty extreme as far as in the negative. It was lots of candy, lots of sugar, lots of pop, lots of fast convenient food. I was always thin to begin with, so I would eat it and think I’m staying thin. I’m fine. There’s not big deal. That’s kind of that mentality and mindset.
You’ve told me multiple times sometimes the skinniest people are the most ill. I wholeheartedly believe that. I would say I took multiple rounds of antibiotics. I got really sick when I was young, pneumonia several times, but lots of antibiotics. That was definitely something that was kind of my—
Dr. Pompa:
That set up your microbiome for the small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, meaning bacteria that shouldn’t be in your small intestine. It causes bloating, chronic reflux, a lot of the symptoms you had.
Tamara:
Like every 16-year-old, you get your wisdom teeth taken out. After that I remember looking back, I developed my first two autoimmune diseases, a bladder disease and an eye disease as well. Those were red flags once again, but I didn’t associate that at the time. You just kind of symptom treat and get your way around them.
Then I go into dental hygiene and was in the dental hygiene program. You’re sitting in lab with a ton of other students. Everybody is sitting there drilling out amalgam fillings because we have to practice all day long.
Dr. Pompa:
Amalgam fillings are 50% mercury. You were in the lab working with it too, right?
Tamara:
Yeah. You’re a poor college student, so you don’t wear gloves and you don’t wear a mask. You sit there and drill it out. You’re inhaling all of those aerosols. For years we would sit in lab and do one after another to practice.
Then you go in private practice and the doctors, even though I might not be directly placing it or my office might not be placing it, they are still drilling them out. That aerosol is still going. I’m ten years in my career now, so I’ve been in that environment for quite awhile as well. I never had any amalgam fillings myself, but my mom did.
Dr. Pompa:
You got mercury there. The dental field statistically health-wise is the sickest profession. It leaves women who work in the dental offices number one infertility, hormone imbalance, which you had all that. After those babies then you lost your period. You weren’t able to have kids anymore. We’re going to see that dramatically all changes.
The bottom line is you were being exposed. We knew your heavy metals were high. I think you had some other tests before you even got to me that signified you had high heavy metals when I read through my notes. That was a big deal. The mold exposures were a big deal.
When I looked at my notes before today, I reminded myself I had question marks. It looks like biotoxins from mold. That’s something we’re going to have to deal with. Obviously, the mercury we’re going to have to deal with. You had some potential lead exposures. You were in some houses that were remodeled, which give off a lot of lead.
Right there you had some major metal exposures. We start into the detox. Talk about that process as we go. We had some other surprises, which we’ll get to. Talk about that where we start.
Tamara:
One of the things I love that you say is the perfect diet will not get you well, but you will not get well without the perfect diet. I felt like pulling my hair out. I would try everything under the sun. One thing would set well one day. The next day it would make me feel awful. You can go through all sorts of things that way.
Dr. Pompa:
You had major food intolerances. When you came to me, you were eating very well because you had to. It helped this, but I’m sick. To your point, the perfect diet won’t get you well, but you won’t get well without the perfect diet.
Tamara:
I had bile reflux that was one of my biggest things because my stomach was so slow to empty. The bile would reflux back up and cause this burning sensation. Early in the detox we went through opening up those pathways so finally stuff would start to move and clear out of my system. I started noticing little differences with that. Then we slowly ramped up into that prep phase to get your body ready to be able to detox, which mine was very clearly unable to at the beginning. Then the body phase where you start to pull from a little bit deeper tissue and the brain phase is where you get that mercury and start going after it in your brain.
Dr. Pompa:
There were some breakthroughs and then not. We were kind of back and forth. Describe that a little bit.
Tamara:
I would get some relief, and then I would email you this symptom and this symptom. From where I still was gaining some ground. I would feel a lot better for a little while, but then I would just keep going backwards or my SIBO would keep flaring up. Some of those nagging symptoms, I would get a little bit of relief, and then it would keep coming back. That’s where we both started putting our heads together and were like usually in that case you have not truly removed the source or one of the sources that’s compromising your immune system.
Dr. Pompa:
You can tell she watches a lot of my stuff. That’s exactly right. If someone is not breaking through like we expect, there’s something else upstream. There’s a causative factor we’ve forgotten about. I looked back and even asked you this question before this show, what made us take so long before we did something called a cone beam, which shows hidden infections in the jaw?
Day one I asked you about these hidden infections. I said did you have wisdom teeth out, which is an indicator that you could have hidden infections that create a lot of the gut problems that don’t heal and autoimmune. Because you’re in the dental field, you assured me I don’t have any of those.
Tamara:
I said I floss every day. I floss twice a day. I have no issues in my mouth. I ended up watching an interview between you and Dr. Curatola, a dentist out of New York. The light bulb went off.
Dr. Pompa:
Episode 210, just so people can watch it.
Tamara:
I’m like oh, cavitations. I get it. It’s where you take a tooth out and they don’t plug that with bone afterwards. If your body doesn’t regenerate and fill in that socket with bone, then you have anaerobic bacteria that is going to start hanging out down there. Those are the gnarlies that cause all sorts of problems.
Then the tissue heals over that and it’s out of sight, out of mind. Your body is fighting that, and that bacteria is able to go throughout the rest of your body. It’s that hidden infection. Over the course of time that is in direct correlation with your bloodstream. Then you can start to have all sorts of issues from that.
Dr. Pompa:
There’s links with hormone imbalance, cancer, autoimmune. There was the movie Root Cause that got pulled off Netflix. It was a documentary based on all this, root canals and cavitations from wisdom teeth and other teeth that were extracted and how they leave behind infections with no symptoms. There is no pain. You don’t have pain or anything.
That’s why you were insistent that this is good. My x-rays are good. This is good. You can’t see these on a plain film, and they most often don’t have symptoms. I said okay. I start asking you more questions, and you saw the show. Then we ended up saying we have to get a cone beam, which showed that your two lower ones both had cavitations. You had two major cavitations.
Tamara:
I could see them right away. Once I knew what I was looking for, I knew those are going to be an issue. I just sent them to Dr. Curatola. He took a look at them and we made a plan. It was pretty cool because I’m into that. I’m interested.
We went to New York, and he took care of them for me. I had them take pictures all along the way so I could see what it looked like when he got in there. He flaps that tissue back and there’s big, gaping holes in your jaw. It’s pretty amazing.
He said as he was cleaning those out, some black goop was just coming out of there. I left his office afterwards, and I hadn’t taken anything at that point, but broke out in hives on my side. It just shows what kind of a bees’ nest you’re stirring up when you go in there.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s why we have a post protocol. The same thing happened to my wife after she got hers out. She had hives that broke out showing those infections were just going. We could have treated your gut for the next whatever years and you would have still been up and down. We weren’t going to fix it until we got upstream to the cause what was being dumped in the river, so to speak.
There were other major symptom changes that happened after the cavitation surgery. There’s one more thing that I blame myself on this one. It’s a good thing because to this day because of you, I ask this question all the time. The doctors that I train always ask this question. Don’t just expect them to write it in. It’s breast implants.
Since your time I’ve had other women who have had breast implants and issues and autoimmune, etc., and other problems come on and we’ve done a show on it. I think we have another one coming up. Talk about that. There were some amazing breakthroughs that happened after you had breast implant extraction.
Tamara:
I think me and a large percentage of women out there get them and you don’t have symptoms. You’re asymptomatic and you just move on. They’re out of sight, out of mind. You don’t really think anything of it, especially when you start going through a health crisis ten years later after getting them. You just don’t even correlate at all.
I had gotten those when I was in dental hygiene school, so just showing you how I was filling up my bucket quickly. When we discussed it, I finally got those removed. No symptoms whatsoever, but I knew at that point we for sure have to take these out. I searched high and low for the right doctor to be able to take care of not only removing them, but removing them correctly so you get the entire capsule. There’s a scar tissue capsule that forms around those. That’s where a lot of the toxic material will hide in.
Dr. Pompa:
We had an expert say just that. You have to get to that whole capsule. I believe, and correct me if I’m wrong, they found a lot of things in there. They found bad bacteria. I think they found mold in at least one of them. Am I remembering correctly?
Tamara:
You could visually see when I was home afterwards the mold inside the implant and the valve of the implant. They test it for two weeks after the explants, the bacteria that they scoped in the capsule. Day five the bacteria started growing. A lot of doctors will test it right away and say it was negative, no big deal. Mine started growing five days after, and that’s when she was able to say this is associated a lot of times with those autoimmune shenanigans.
Dr. Pompa:
Just like any upstream cause. With each cause that we discovered and removed, you had different symptoms that went away. With this one, you tell me when. It was shortly after you got this done that you got your period back. Was it the next month?
Tamara:
No, I literally was waking up from anesthesia. It was quite the long procedure, and was waking up from anesthesia, and all I could say to my husband was, “Period cramps, period cramps,” over, and over, and over, and had my period that night. I've been [on a] cycle ever since.
Dr. Pompa:
That's incredible. I've had that happen with—same with women walking out of the chair after cavitization. I had a woman find amalgam underneath a crown. She got it out. The next day, she was bleeding. She had her period, which she hadn't had in six years. That was actually someone who worked with me.
That just shows you, folks. I hope you're hearing this. When you go upstream—she had been, Tamara had been to the best. She was taking a lot of things. She had changed her diet. She did everything that people would do to get their life back. These hidden things were upstream.
I can tell you, it was just peeling back these causative factors lead to where you actually are now. Matter of fact, let's tell them the next thing. You end up getting the cavitations done. A lot of your pain and weird things disappeared after that, correct?
Tamara:
Actually, the implants I got removed before the cavitations.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly, yep.
Tamara:
I had seen a significant improvement, once again, in some symptoms, after the implants were removed. I still kept saying, why is my stomach? Why can't I get my gut right? I was much better. I was much more—I was able to—I think we traveled more that summer than we had in a really long time.
Dr. Pompa:
Which you were never be able to do, oh my God, yeah.
Tamara:
I gained a significant amount of weight. In fact, to do the reconstruction for the implants, they had to do fat grafting, which at a 110 pounds would not have been possible. I was 135 at that point. I had made some huge strides in my journey, but there were still just some lingering stomach symptoms. That's when we went and discovered the cavitations and stuff. We did that. My SIBO made a night and day turn-around after the cavitations were removed.
Dr. Pompa:
Hormonally, we watched this change. After the cavitations, hormonally, what happened?
Tamara:
Hormonally, I was, I would say, definitely my cycles were super-consistent. My thyroid numbers came back testing really well.
Dr. Pompa:
All your autoimmune—I mean, even through the detox, getting rid of heavy metals, we saw the hormones changing. Your autoimmune tests were coming back. I mean, now all of those are normal. Something even more miraculous happened. I remember the email. you can just show the audience. Go ahead.
Tamara:
Yeah, I think somewhere in the past, what was it, four months or so, I sent you an email and I said—it was right after we had a conversation. Still, it's years not months. I'm still on this journey. I'm still working to detox. I love it. I work for my kids. I'm working on my kids.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah because you learned enough from me to do it with your kids. That's my goal is to teach you the process because it's years not months.
Tamara:
Exactly. I enjoy feeling better. We just had set a new protocol. We were going to do this new thing. I started having some symptoms. I told my husband. I said, “I think you need to go to the store and get a pregnancy test.” He's looking at me wide-eyed. Took a pregnancy test, and it was positive. We were definitely not trying.
I should have mentioned, too, my first pregnancy they told me I would never get to—be able to be pregnant without their fertility medicine and stuff like that. I was struggling to get pregnant with my first two. I had a miscarriage in there. Had very difficult pregnancies with my—
Dr. Pompa:
Again, common for people who work in dental offices.
Tamara:
Lots of issues in my pregnancies. Lots of complications getting pregnant, miscarriages. Yeah, it's been—
Dr. Pompa:
Stand up. That's where you're at. I want to make you do it. Look, there she is, right there. That's the first I saw that in the beginning, so it's awesome.
Tamara:
This pregnancy, really, honestly, I don't want to jinx anything, but it's gone the best, so far, out of my three.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, it's an expression of health. I mean, of course, I mean all those things that we talked about in the beginning. You have your brain back. I mean, there's so many. I didn't even remember, like I said, as I wrote them down. I was like, oh my gosh, I forgot how sick you were.
Remember when I saw you in New York. I actually saw you at Jerry's office, and I—I spoke to you over the phone. It was a virtual relationship. Then Merily and I saw you and your husband. I was like, “Oh my God!” She was like—you're like, oh, she's so cute. You were just different than what I thought. You were bubbling with excitement because you just came out of the thing.
Tamara:
Like I said—I finally was able to—I mean, we've traveled a lot. We've done things that I would never, ever been—
Dr. Pompa:
You were like, “We just walked.” You walked for days around New York. You're like, “Dr. Pompa, I would never be able to do this.”
Tamara:
I probably cheated a little bit on my diet, as well. I was able to tolerate it better than I would have ever in the past. Yeah, it's a horrible place to have jaw surgery, though.
Dr. Pompa:
It's true. Come on, man, I've done that so many times in my life. I'm in New York, all the good food. Are you kidding?
Tamara:
Next time I got back, I will be—
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that's what I keep saying. I just want to go without having to see Jerry except on a social level. Jerry's the dentist, episode 210. The reason I wanted to have you on is because your story just tells how important it is to go upstream. There's so many people watching this show. They're like you and I. I mean, I was you too, right? I mean, I was searching and seeking to get my health back. I was a health seeker. We look here. We look there.
How did I get my life back? How did you get your life back? Hundreds and thousands of not just myself but the doctors I train, how do they get their lives back. We get to the cause. There's no other way. I fear that functional medicine is becoming more popular because of the failures of—our standard allopathic medicine just pushing more drugs. There's a time and a place, so the criticism’s not too deep there.
The chronic conditions, that you have, that I have, and so many people watching this have. It's not the answer, but the problem is is that they're going to functional medicine that doctors are running a lot of expensive tests and putting people on a lot of supplements. The problem, there's nothing wrong with the supplements except that you have to get upstream to the cause. That was the difference in your case. You'd still be sick with all the same issues if we didn't dig for these causative factors.
Tamara:
Yeah, we had to go deep and just keep peeling that onion back. With every year that we peeled back, I kept getting more and more results. I am forever grateful because I would have—I would not be sitting here. I would not be having another baby.
Dr. Pompa:
That's awesome. I was a part of it to. I was like, gosh, your story just gives people so much hope. Again, you went through so much, and now you just express health.
Tamara:
When I started this spiral downward, I had a three-month old little boy. It's been a very difficult journey. Two little rambunctious kids and feeling like that. Now he's three, going on three and a half. I'm able to apply. I'm thankful. I'm so thankful for it. I am a totally different person now than I was. I look at life differently. I'm able to look at my kids and go, okay, let's—we all know that they get their mother's [gut]. I knew it was only a matter of time before they started expressing that. They have.
I've been able to work them through little protocols and stuff that are manageable for their body size. My three-and-a-half-year-old, he didn't talk. He didn't talk, I mean, not even hardly momma or dada until over two. He was over two before—and everybody was concerned, everybody.
At that point I started—because at that point it was far enough into my journey where I started feeling confident enough to detox him. I started detoxing him. After every single detox I did, more and more started coming out of him as far as—like I said, he's three and three months. He can recite the United States in alphabetical order. It's night and day.
Dr. Pompa:
That makes me feel so good right there because I say this to everybody that I coach. I'm not going to treat you. I'm going to teach you the process. It is years, not months. If you learn the process, therein lies the power. Doctors are treating people. With these chronic conditions, you don't need treated. It's a failure. You have to [00:35:16] the process. To hear how that—and this is the way it works.
To hear how that went down into your kids and the family, it's just—man, it's a different paradigm of what medicine is doing right now, even alternative, honestly. I want to do something different. I'm going to bring Ashley on, who starts the show, and then sits silently. I feel like I want Ashley to—maybe she has some questions she wants to ask you. I feel like if I were the person sitting out there, gosh, what would I want to ask while I have you? Ashley, what are some questions that you would ask? You're the average lay person out there. What would you ask Kim?
Ashley:
It is so fascinating because I speak to so many women who are dealing with so many hormonal issues. They really just don't know where to begin. I guess my first question would be, what would be the first thing you would tell somebody to do if it's a female who just loses her period. I guess that would be a start. That would be a symptom. Their periods just are irregular, or they can't get pregnant, where do you think the first thing they—place they should look would be?
Tamara:
I definitely think looking—you've got to look upstream, like we've said. Those major things would be hidden infections. Doctor, would you say—hidden infections, mercury, so medals, heavy medals, any kind of heavy medal. Mold would be the other one. A lot of times, too, parasites.
Dr. Pompa:
Tell some of your parasite stories very quickly. We had some drama there. By the way, and again, this is what alternative medicine—they treat just the parasites, what I taught you. Parasites are just a downstream, just like candida effect. There's something upstream allowing the parasites. We want to kill the parasites, but if that's the end of our treatment, we're dead in the water. You did a lot of parasite treatments.
Tamara:
Yeah, no, I definitely—I did a lot of parasite treatments. I had gotten sick in Mexico between my SIBO time where I took that antibiotic and when I was in dental school or freshly graduating from dental. I know you fill your bucket up so full, and then all of a sudden it allows for those opportunistic infections to take hold. That's where you'll hear a lot of people, especially in the natural side saying, “Oh, I have X, Y, and Z as far as these little opportunistic infections, H pylori or parasites.
Until you deal with that upstream, you're not going to take care of the downstream, the parasites. Things that are just able to live and survive because your immune system is so compromised. Definitely looking at those big guys. Implants with women is so common. Looking upstream and finding those things, I think it's got to be the first place to start. I'm a perfect example because we were only able to get so far in my treatment. We scratched our heads and said, “What else are we missing?” We had to keep going back to the drawing board and finding those things that we were missing.
Ashley:
Yeah, definitely, also working with somebody who understands that there might be things that are missing as well. I'm sure it can be really frustrating when people work with practitioners who do a lot of testing and they say, “You're fine. There's nothing there.”
Tamara:
No doubt. It's very hard when you have friends and colleagues going through struggles. You see it. You don't know all the answers, but you know there's so much more to it. It is such a—it's an exhausting, long, drawn-out process to truly get your health back. Like he said, I had to do just about everything, pull out every stop that I possibly could to make it happen. When you're really sick and miserable, you will do just about anything.
Dr. Pompa:
Terry, we tell the story, and we make it sound like, oh, it was so easy. I mean, there was so much emotion along the way. I mean, I could even feel it from your husband when I met him, actually, in person, in Jerry's office. He was just so elated. “We're [00:39:52] to walk around New York, Dr. Pompa.” It was that type of emotion because you realize what you've been through.
I remember, I think, you were telling me an emotional story. You were underweight. Of course you eat this perfect diet. Your friends were thinking you were just this anorexic eating too overboard, right? People just don't understand. When I was sick, I hid it from people. People just don't get it. It's a sad thing.
Tamara:
It's definitely a lot easier being on the other side of it and having those conversations now. When you're in it, especially in the very beginning when you're so confused, and you have no direction, it's the most depressing. It's the most depressing thing. Then you have people tell you you're depressed, and that's your problem.
Dr. Pompa:
Oh, I had that, yep.
Tamara:
Of course I'm depressed because I feel like this, and nobody seems to understand. Nobody can relate, especially your friends. God really blessed me. I guess I should definitely mention God in this. I'm 100% confident he's who lead me to you. He's who has sustained me throughout this entire process. I've had some amazing, amazing support, my friends through this.
One gal, who is a friend of my moms, when I was down at the Mayo Clinic early in my journey, she reached out to me. She's just a prayer warrior. She has messaged me to this day, multiple times a day, for three and a half years just inspirational text messages. It's people like that that I don't think they realize how big of an impact they really, truly make in somebody's life when they're going through something this big. I'm forever grateful for that.
Dr. Pompa:
My wife and I pray all the time for God to send us the ones we can help, and the ones He wants us to help. I thank God for those opportunities, honestly. If I didn't get sick, I wouldn't have been able to help you. How many people are you impacting, even just with this show, so people watching into purpose?
I mean, honestly, I do these shows just because there's help. God will use it. God will use the battles, the hard stuff in our life to make us better in so many ways. You just testified to that today. It takes a lot of guts to come onto this show. I always make light of it. That's just a conversation. It still takes a lot of guts. Thank you for being on the show, honestly, and sharing your story. It's hard.
Tamara:
It's easy to talk about because I am so passionate about it now. I know so many people in this journey. After seeing me get to the other side of it, so many people have reached out to me and want that help. No doubt, I know that in my future I will try to [00:42:52] platform where I can help more people.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, honestly, if you had a platform right now, give people your website or your whatever. I mean, you're welcome to do that or not. I mean, I don't want to inundate you, but I think you need to have some type of blog or something. People want to reach out to you. I'm sure they want to talk to you.
Tamara:
Yeah, no, I definitely—it was on the plan. Then God obviously had a different plan. He's like, “You're going to have another baby first.”
Dr. Pompa:
It's true. Yeah, you've got to have your baby first.
Tamara:
[00:43:22] to detox I guess. I don't know.
Dr. Pompa:
You're called to it. You're a warrior. I can't wait to see what God does in your life with it. I'm sure you'll end up at my seminars, one day like so many people that I've helped have been. Right, Ash, aren't they?
Ashley:
Oh yeah, you have to make it to one.
Dr. Pompa:
They're coming. Now we're even having—we're certifying the public in some things. There are so many warriors like you, and people that just want to share their story from not just myself, but the doctors I train, who have been helped, that they want to do this from pain to purpose. They want to help people now. Thanks again, Tamara, and I know that we're going to see you in the future. Thanks.
Tamara:
Awesome. Thank you so much
Ashley:
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