The truth about chronic illness, and the path back to health and vitality...

The truth about chronic illness, and the path back to health and vitality

You’re not supposed to be sick.

Not like this. Not all the time. Not for years on end.

Waking up tired. Fog in your head. Dragging your body through a day that never ends.

They told you it’s normal. That you’re just getting older. That maybe it’s genetic. Or stress. Or bad luck. They’re lying, or worse, they’ve forgotten the truth.

You were made for vitality.

And yes, healing is possible. Much faster than you think. Much simpler than you’ve been led to believe.

What if the problem wasn’t your body… But your strategy?

What if the real issue is that you’ve been trying to fix your health using the exact methods that broke it?

Expensive treatments. Complicated protocols. Stacks of chemical supplements with names you can’t pronounce. You’ve been pouring time, money, and hope into a system that doesn’t want you well. A system that profits off your illness.

Let’s flip it.

Let’s rebuild the way health was always meant to be, natural, clean, sacred, powerful, accessible.

Here’s what no one told you:

There is nothing normal about being chronically ill. Not in your twenties. Not in your forties. Not even in your seventies.

Yes, we get sick from time to time. But if you’re waking up every day with:

Brain fog

Constant fatigue

Low mood or irritability

Stubborn weight or swelling

Poor digestion or mystery bloating

Sleep that doesn’t restore

Recurrent infections, allergies, or skin rashes

Chronic pain, numbness, tingling, or burning

Low libido, impotence, or infertility

Or that sense that your nervous system is cracking under invisible pressure…

That’s not aging. That’s a system out of equilibrium.

And the truth is simple:

1. No system can burn more energy than it restores and survive.
2. No system can accumulate more toxins than it eliminates and remain in balance.

Two simple principles. If you want to be well again, you have to address both.

I almost died in my bed.

I’ve been there.

Sick. Depleted. Dying by inches. I clawed my way back, slowly, stubbornly, the hard way. I didn’t know then what I know now. But I made it out.

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If I had to do it again… If I were advising someone I love, or guiding a desperate client today… This is exactly where we’d start.

Step 1: Stop digging the hole deeper.

The beginning of healing is not to add things. It’s to stop the bleeding.

In medicine, we call this triage. In life, it means removing what’s killing you faster than your body can recover.

Start here:

Cut off relationships and obligations that drain your soul

Say no to people who use your guilt as fuel

Get out of environments that poison your spirit

Turn down the internal volume of worry, comparison, and imagined obligations

Exit cycles of internet addiction, doomscrolling, and emotional self-harm

Let yourself rest without shame

You don’t have to fix everything overnight. But you must stop feeding the fire that’s burning you alive.

(If you’re deep in psychological burnout, read [https://x.com/NoahRevoy/status/1913643272615927908].)

Step 2: Stop poisoning the body.

Modern life is a toxic swamp. You cannot heal if you keep wading through it every day.

We’d begin by eliminating:

Junk food, seed oils, and processed sugars

Overeating, even of good food, your gut needs rest

Alcohol, recreational drugs, and unnecessary medications

Sitting all day without movement

Synthetic fragrances, mold exposure, and toxic cleaning products

Don’t wait until you have perfect replacements. Just stop. Let your body breathe and recover.

You don’t need to train like a soldier or an athlete. Start walking, ten minutes, then twenty, then as much as you enjoy. Let your lymphatic system move. Let your joints awaken. Let your body remember that it’s alive.

Step 3: Calm the nervous system.

This is the bridge between the body and the mind. You cannot heal physically while living in psychological chaos.

Stop telling yourself that you are sick. You are not a broken person, you are a whole person who is carrying a sickness, and that can change. The story you tell yourself is the path your body and mind will follow. If you frame your life as a tragic tale of decline, your nervous system will follow suit. But if you speak about healing, about temporary imbalance and inevitable recovery, you begin to walk that path. Don’t manipulate yourself into staying sick by romanticizing your suffering.

We begin with the simplest tools:

Gentle breathwork

Meditation, not as escape, but awareness

Guided introspection, hypnosis, self-hypnosis

Long, slow stretches

Somatic tapping

Daily sunlight

Gentle massage, touch, and warmth

Nature immersion—green, living, wild things

And most of all: removal of psychic clutter. You must learn how to organize your mind, your day, your relationships. Without order, there is no peace. Without peace, there is no healing.

Step 4: Nourish and detoxify. Simply.

Forget superfoods. Forget the latest biohacker stack.

If I had to eat to heal, quickly, cleanly, deeply, I’d do this:

Base diet: beef, beans, rice, salt, clean water

Supplements: magnesium (spray on skin), zinc, selenium, molybdenum

Detox support: niacin (100–500mg as tolerated), lactoferrin, powdered charcoal, zeolite

Light therapy: sunlight first, red light second

Movement: walking, rebounding, mild strength work

Sweat: sauna, or make your own with hot baths and blankets

Rest: sleep in full darkness, no screens before bed, protect your evenings

This is not extreme. It’s the healthy human default.

Simple. Inexpensive. Gentle. But potent.

If I was doing it all again

If I had to rebuild my health today, this is how I’d start. But if it were a life-or-death situation? If it were my wife, my child, my best friend?

I’d call my friend Dr. Garrett Smith (@NutriDetect). I’d pay him to build the map so I could walk it faster.

And if the sickness was psychological? If the body was begging for help but the soul was too exhausted to care?

I’d find someone to advise me. An outside opinion. And I have. Mentors, hypnotists, teachers. Friends like @curtdoolittle. Guides like @basedhypnotist. And many others who are not online. Sometimes we don’t need answers. We need anchors.

You don’t have to be sick.

It’s not normal. It’s not your destiny. It’s not something you have to learn to “cope with.”

But healing isn’t found in adding complexity. It’s found in subtraction. In clarity. In courage. In simplicity restored. In nature.

You don’t have to do it alone. But you do have to begin. And have the patience to let it work.

Stop the harm. Start the repair. Reclaim your vitality.

You were never broken. You were just incomplete. And now, you’re ready to be whole again.