Real immunity is not gotten from a pill or a needle- it’s not a one time thing that comes from outside us, but an ongoing process that develops over time and springs from the vital intelligence of the human body.
In the Intro:
Love + Immunity
The incredible complexity of the human body
The Health Helix
In the Interview:
How the death of her mother sparked a teenage Cilla's interest in natural health, and how a dream visit from her mom decades later led her to the work she's doing now
How modern medicine disempowers parents and dismisses the instinctive knowing mothers have about their own children
MAMA- no one loves or observes your child as much as you do. You are your child's healer. Trust yourself.
What happened in 1989 that shifted public consciousness around health & self empowerment
The false vaxxer/anti-vaxxer dichotomy
How homeoprophylaxis (HP) educates the immune system by echoing how nature works
We each have particular disease susceptibilities
What happened when I gave my daughters their first dose of homeopathic varicella (chicken pox)
The Pathogen v The Terrain
Microbes have been here a lot longer than we have and we must co-exist with them mindfully
The important healing work of fever, runny nose, and other symptoms and how suppressing these processes shuts down the vital force and drives disease deeper
Cilla shines some light on my constant childhood ear infections
The connection between immunity and emotions- boundaries, repression, and expression
The developmental leaps children make after being allowed to overcome disease on their own
Herd immunity cannot be created artificially
The success that the Indian and Cuban governments have had with HP
Action steps for how to best support innate immune intelligence
In the Outro:
The three myths we assume are true when we talk about vaccines
Cell mediated v humoral immunity
The autoimmune disease epidemic
When measles came to my daughter's school
Our family's recent experience with pertussis (whooping cough)
A deeper look at herd immunity: chicken pox/shingles, pertussis, and measles
Links:
CillaWhatcott.com
My website MythicMedicine.love
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness by Thomas Cowan, MD
Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies by Neil Z. Miller
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History by Suzanne Humphries, MD and Roman Bystrianyk
The Vaccine Trade Off episode of the Wise Traditions podcast
High Dose Vitamin C for Pertussis webpage by Dr. Suzanne Humphries
The Medicine Stories Facebook group
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
110. Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
109. Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride
108. The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly
107. Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn
106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
105. Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand
104. Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
102. The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
101. Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth & Radical Togetherness - Aimee Aroha
100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson
99. Holistic Health & Earth Connected Living in Technological Times - Carly Rose
98. Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone
97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more)
96. Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride
95. Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind
94. Our Trip to Britain: Ancestral Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites
93. Mirrors in the Earth: Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Suler
92. Expansion is Our Nature: a Matriarchal Reframe for Money & How I Went From Broke to Flow
91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
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