• “Well our family has been using THESE products (Tide, Downy, etc) for generations! They can’t be a problem.”
• “But we’ve ALWAYS drank this city water / well water…”
• “But our family has always eaten this way. This is just how we do it.”
• “Well THIS is just how we’re raised to handle conflict/deal with life’s challenges. My parents and grandparents do the same thing”
• “But everyone in my family is a night owl. That’s just how we are.”

But these same individuals can often say, “You know, [chronic fatigue, thyroid issues, bloating, brain fog, insert symptom here] run in my family…”

I see this ALL THE TIME in my clinic . Heck, I used to say things like this all the time.

“Irritable Bowel Syndrome just runs in my family (as I lived on Kaopectate, Imodium, and Tums”

“Depression runs in my family (as every single one of us was on an antidepressant)”.

“The women in my family all have hormone issues (as we all leveraged birth control for balancing hormones, or other meds or surgeries to “resolve” the issue).

It took me decades to realize that just because a health challenge appears to be GENERATIONAL doesn’t mean it’s GENETIC. And even if there is genetic predisposition… there was WAY more to the story.

When I’m working with my private clients and we begin to dive deeper into THEIR personal case history, family health history, symptomatology, and maybe even some lab work, I’m able to more clearly show THEM how “Just because the family used ‘this’ or did ‘that’” for decade after decade, doesn’t mean it came without harm. And it’s not necessarily a coincidence that we’re all using the same products, following similar practices, and ending up with similar health challenges.

After doing a bit of digging together, it often becomes evident that their family members, and even friends or neighbors who can have many of the same practices or toxin exposures, also see generation after generation having similar health challenges to one another like high blood pressure, cancer, eczema or other skin issues, infertility, anxiety, depression, irritable bowel syndrome or other gut issues, autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue, thyroid issues, insomnia, etc.

And we could easily default to saying, “[Insert health issue here] must run in the family.” When in reality, these same toxic practices and exposures are ALSO running in the family🤔

Now, I’m not so ignorant as to say that genetics don’t play a role in our health. But I WILL forever advocate for the fact that we give genetics WAY more credit than they deserve while not talking nearly enough on the lifestyle and environmental choices that change the way these genes are expressed (more on that to come below).

Now, there are also situations where the symptoms that a client is dealing with DON’T appear to be “generational” or “genetic”.

My friend, your body isn’t broken. It’s the health education system that’s broken. 

They’ve overlooked these root causes to weight loss resistance (and countless other health challenges) for far too long. And it’s time to end the gaslighting.

Some clients will say things like….

“I just don’t get how my other family members CAN use those personal care products or cleaners, drink tap water, eat that garbage, and not be as sick as me! Why don’t they have the same symptoms that I do?!”

But again, if we go down that rabbit hole together, they start to realize that their family members, while they may not currently have some of the same symptoms as they do, are not as healthy as they may imagine them to be. Their symptoms are often manifesting in different ways, but the compromised health is indeed still there. Our culture has normalized so many symptoms that we just look at them as “part of life” or “part of getting older” versus being red flags in our health! And this is often the case when we start to look at the health of our family members.

Toxic environments and lifestyles run in families too (but they don’t have to).

• Toxin/pathogen load passed by birth
• Water and air quality
• Eating habits
• Personal care product usage
• Medical practices and choices (medication usage, vaccination choice, etc)
• Generational trauma
• Coping mechanisms 
• Stress Management techniques

All can easily and sometimes subconsciously be passed down to new generations. But, we have [[so much more]] power than we realize.

Ever heard of something called Epigenetics?

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes that occur without changes in DNA sequence. (AKA: The study of how your environment and other factors can actually change the way genes are expressed – they can literally change your DNA)!

Depending on your lifestyle and environmental choices, this can work FOR you or AGAINST you. You can give your genes an “upgrade” and help them to be expressed in a healthier manner by making healthy lifestyle and environmental choices. Or you could have generally healthy genes, but carry out poor quality lifestyle and environmental choices and negatively influence your gene expression (more disease, illness, etc)

The science of epigenetics plays a huge role in health issues that run in families. The way you live your life determines HOW your genes are expressed. 

From the time we are born, we are exposed to the same toxins and pathogens that our parents are exposed to. The average newborn has about 300 toxins in their body at the time of birth! Then we enter this world as our own human being and continue to add more of these same toxins and pathogens into our toxic load bucket.

All of these factors have the ability to change the way that your genes are expressed. Genetics can load the gun, but lifestyle and environment ultimately can determine whether the trigger is even pulled. Our choices have POWER!!

Some people may very much resist this fact because it goes against what they’ve known their entire life, and it puts ownership of our health back into our hands. However, it doesn’t make it any less true.

The toxic cycle can STOP with YOU.

You have the power to take ACTION, and I’m here to teach and equip you with the most effective tools that will break toxic generational cycles!

This is one of the primary reasons why I created the Root Cause Detox Clinic , giving you a step-by-step detox roadmap, teaching you exactly how to identify and address the root causes of YOUR health challenges, helping your learn how to mitigate toxicity in your lifestyle and environment, guiding you through the process of executing a full spectrum detox, speciality detoxes, and more! THIS is your detox toolbox that you will use for years to come to change yours and your family’s health for good!

By embarking on a dedicated detox journey, you’re taking a proactive approach to drastically reducing your toxic load as we live in a world where we are exposed to toxins now more than ever, contributing to more health issues than ever. This process is a crucial step towards healing from chronic health challenges and reclaiming your health long-term!

• Fatigue
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Brain fog
• Skin issues
• Allergies
• Mood swings
• Poor sleep
• Bloating
• Infertility
• Hormone imbalances
• And countless other health issues

…Can all END with you!

It’s up to you to take action now with The Root Cause Detox Clinic.

To your health and happiness,

Allyssa LaScala, IHP

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The reality is…

ALL of these and so many more issues play a MAJOR role in weight gain and weight loss resistance. 

It’s actually quite a common occurrence for a client to initially arrive at our virtual clinic, filled with frustration over explainable weight gain that has accumulated over the course of a few months or a few years. And 99% of the time, they’ve had at least one occurrence with a previous practitioner or coach who focused on the nutrition and fitness pillars of health and weight loss, but only lightly touched on or completely skipped over the deeper root causes at hand. 

When we start to explain how these toxins and pathogens are playing a role in their struggle with their weight, it’s either a light bulb moment (because they’re never heard of such a thing before) or an “I knew it” moment (because they had a hunch that there was more to the story but no “professional” would believe them)!

If you are frustrated with your body composition, whether you’re struggling to breakthrough a weight loss plateau, struggle to lose any weight at all, or you keep gaining unwanted weight unexplainably, you very likely have deeper ROOT CAUSES that have either not been addressed at all or were not addressed properly if they were indeed addressed in the past to some degree. Here are just a few examples of how these toxins and pathogens can play a role:

1. Environmental toxins can alter lipid (fat) metabolism and promote the growth of fat cells. Early-life exposure can play a major role in predisposing animals to insulin resistance, hormone disruptions, and obesity. Ever hear of a category of toxins called Obesogens? This is EXACTLY how they got their name!
2. Organic pollutants have been tied to mitochondrial dysfunction and metabolic syndrome. If your mitochondria within the cells of your muscles, brain, liver, and other organs don’t work well, YOU don’t work well. If your body can’t keep up with energy demands because the mitochondria are impaired, it will often downregulate certain processes within the body to accommodate. This includes the downregulation of your metabolism.
3. Parasites are pathogens that can not only harbor and release toxins in the body that contribute to the issues already listed above. But they can also greatly influence your neurotransmitter levels which can increase cravings and affect your mood and motivation (which clearly has a downstream affect on your food choices, desire to exercise, etc). They impair the function of your various drainage pathways such as your liver which affects your ability to detox, your gut health status, hormonal balance, and more. The list of effects from these pesky critters is endless. And as my friend Dr. Todd Watts says, “If you have a pulse, you have parasites.” 

Yes, caloric intake and energy expenditure absolutely play a primary role in body composition. Those variables should still be acknowledged and accounted for. But they are NOT the sole factors. When our culture and much of the fitness industry endlessly preach this message of “calories in vs calories out”, while you’re sitting there beyond frustrated because your caloric deficit is making ZERO difference in your results, it makes you wonder…

“WHAT THE HECK AM I DOING WRONG?!?!”

My friend, your body isn’t broken. It’s the health education system that’s broken. 

They’ve overlooked these root causes to weight loss resistance (and countless other health challenges) for far too long. And it’s time to end the gaslighting.

It’s time for ROOT CAUSE solutions.

You’ve been stuck on this weight loss roller coaster or in this weight loss purgatory for far too long. Weight loss issues, along with the brain fog, fatigue, and bloating that tend to come along with it do not have to be your fat.

So what’s next?

Start with my Free, On-Demand 3 Day Drainage Clinic where you can equip yourself with the tools and resources to learn how to open your drainage pathways to officially prepare your body for further detox in the future. This is a HUGE first step that so many people miss, and it keeps them sick. (This program is FREE for a limited time!) Get Exclusive Access!

No matter what path you may be leaning towards at this time, I pray that you take action NOW. You deserve to get to the bottom of weight loss resistance and any other health challenges that are influencing your quality of life, your confidence, and your joy. And I’m blessed to be able to be part of your healing journey in whatever way that may be.

To your health and happiness,

Allyssa LaScala, IHP

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• Bloating
• Headaches
• Brain fog
• Diarrhea
• Cramps
• Nausea
• Gas
• Feeling worse after eating sugars
• UTIs
• Yeast infections
• Vaginal itching
• White patches on tongue
• Oral thrush
• Low mood
• Joint pain
• Red spots on tongue
• Jock itch
• Skin fungus
• Athlete’s foot
• Toe nail fungus

These are all potential symptoms of candida/fungal overgrowth. It’s actually an incredibly common issue that I see in many of my clients due to the overwhelming amount of toxicity that we have in today’s world! And we absolutely have simple steps that we can take over time to address it at a root cause level.

The problem is that…

When you see a “conventional medicine” trained practitioner, whether it be your family doctor or nurse practitioner, OB-GYN, podiatrist, etc for candida/fungal issues, they will typically go with some type of anti-fungal medication like nystatin or fluconazole, maybe some Monistat if it’s a vaginal yeast infection, some type of topical anti-fungal cream if its a fungal infection on the foot or elsewhere on the skin.

And it’s not that these things DON’T address the fungal overgrowth, but they’re not getting the root of the issue. They’re not address the other factors that create the perfect environment for the candida to be able to overgrow.

For too many years I too relied on a never-ending cycle of nystatin, fluconazole, etc, to manage my recurring Candida and yeast infections. My Integrative MD had me leverage those products, in addition to countless antifungal herbs to address the never-ending candida overgrowth cycle.

I couldn’t understand why it kept coming back. But my functional MD was there to write a script anytime I needed it. I’d be much more cognizant of my sugar🍪 intake as well until symptoms resolve it, and then when everything appeared to be back to normal, I figured I was in the clear, only to have it become an issue in another few months.

I, like so many others, was stuck in this cycle because I never addressed the other variables.

❌Environmental toxins

❌Parasites

❌Mold

❌Heavy metals

❌Birth control usage

❌Antidepressant usage

❌Adderall usage

❌Poor nervous system regulation

They were all at the root of this never ending cycle. I may have been addressing the candida, but the rest of the terrain in my body still remained ideal for candida overgrowth.

Let’s unpack some of these root cause variables so you can better understand how they can be correlated!

🔺Poor Nervous System Regulation & Stress: Both keep the ileocecal valve open, connecting the small and large intestines, contributing to issues like SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) and gut dysbiosis (imbalanced gut microbiome). Stress and nervous system dysregulation also contribute to gut permeability, inflammation, and often lead to impaired digestion and/or slowed bowel motility that have a downstream affect for candida overgrowth.

🔺Environmental toxins: Toxins like the commonly used pesticide/herbicide, Glyphosate (aka Round Up), affects the lymphatics of the gut and contributes to inflammatory bowel diseases like colitis and  as well as other inflammatory gut conditions like Leaky Gut and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. An inflamed gut creates perfect conditions for fungal overgrowth. Additionally, Glyphosate disrupts the microbial balance of the gut, allowing for fungal overgrowth.

🔺Parasites: Not only do many of them send chemical messengers, slowing bowel motility, causing a downstream effect on bacterial/fungal overgrowth. But they also are sponges for other toxins and pathogens that they harbor and release over time, contributing to a toxic environment that encourages fungal overgrowth

Mold & Heavy Metals: Both of these families of toxins can cause gut permeability, suppress immune system function, be used to create biofilms in the gut to help protect other pathogens who want to take up host in the GI tract, and of course, create the perfect environment for Candida and SIBO!

So now the question is, “What are some of our options we can leverage to address these root causes and break the cycle?”

If you are solely committed to self-navigating the process of addressing candida overgrowth (while also supporting the appropriate drainage pathways and simultaneously addressing some coinciding root causes), CellCore’s Stomach Support Kit Protocol would probably be my go-to product. 

This protocol is a carefully curated 3-month protocol designed to help you open up your drainage pathways to prepare your body for deeper detox and clean up, strategically support specific drainage pathways ongoingly that tend to play the biggest role in fungal overgrowth issues, and move you through the use of proprietary herbal blends, bioactive carbon binders, and probiotics that are specifically geared toward addressing candida and other fungal overgrowth, mold, heavy metals, parasites, and environmental toxins at the mitochondrial level to give you a powerful, comprehensive approach to breaking the candida cycle.

If you don’t already have a CellCore customer account with me, please create one using Patient Direct Code BX35QNDP.

To YOUR Healing,

Allyssa LaScala, IHP

P.S. If you’re dealing with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Crohn’s disease, colitis, ulcerative colitis, acid reflux, GERD, SIBO, SIFO, leaky gut, or other gut diagnoses, keep these variables in mind. The same root causes are at the core of these gut issues!

P.S.S. If you continue to have reoccurring infections, whether it be candida, other gut issues, or even other infections like Lyme Disease or Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), you HAVE to start looking at these other root cause variables like mold, metals, parasites, environmental toxins, nervous system dysregulation, medications, unaddressed dental infections, etc

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Especially in the world of detoxing, this can be incredibly common. And we often don’t want to give up on taking the product altogether, but we’re not a fan of any symptoms that come along with taking that standard dosing and wish there was a way we could easily modify it.

Or maybe you have a child who you want to take the same approach with due to needing to modify their dosage in a way that is more appropriate for their particular age or weight?

It’s very possible that you, a partner, child or other family member may even find it challenging to swallow capsules or tablets altogether and you wish there was an effective way to get the product in your system using some other method.

Or maybe you are similar to myself and so many of my clients and you’ve dealt with compromised gut function for quite some time. So you’re interested in taking some helpful steps to optimize the absorption and utilization of supplements you’re consuming but wondering if your gut is doing a good job at breaking down all of these capsules?!

Well, using specific foods and beverages as delivery vehicles to empty your capsule contents or even ground up tablet contents into can be a GAME-CHANGER!

When it comes to micro-dosing a product for you or a loved one, choose one of these delivery vehicles, take ⅛-¼ capsule of the product (or whatever dosage you or your practitioner has deemed appropriate), shake those capsule

contents or tablet contents into a spoonful or so of that food or a splash of that beverage, and get it down with ease!

For those who do not need to micro-dose but are looking to utilize one of these delivery vehicles to consume the capsule or tablet contents in a “free form” or to help support better absorption, you simply add the full amount into your delivery vehicle and enjoy!

I promise you, these items taste so much better than just adding it to water, but if that’s your thing, go for it! 

In full transparency, most times, I’m simply taking a swig of water and holding it in my mouth, emptying the capsule straight into my mouth and then swallowing it all down! But I’ve been doing this for years and just find this to be the most efficient for me [no pressure LOL].

If size, taste, quantity, etc., are impacting your ability to take a product, then utilizing delivery vehicles like these could be the perfect solution.

Side note – if you are someone who can swallow capsules and would prefer not to open up your capsule contents into a food or beverage but you know you still need to microdose a product, consider purchasing empty hypromellose capsules at your local grocery store or online supplement dispensary and empty part of the original capsule contents into this empty capsule to consume as needed!

These are just a few of many considerations that we can take into account when on our healing journey. If you love the bio-individualized approach to healing and would love to take the next step to link arms as practitioner and client, dive into your case history, symptomatology, and received more customized recommendations for other factors in your protocol.

Can’t wait to chat,

Allyssa LaScala, IHP

P.S. Remember, you always have options—BUT please talk to your practitioner before making adjustments to your detox protocol. Opening up the contents could affect the integrity of the product overall. For example, Betaine HCL is one of the only products I will advise a client NOT to open due to its erosive, acidic properties. Always double-check!

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Have you ever gotten to the point where your symptoms were making your life so uncomfortable that you said to yourself, “At this point, I’ll try anything to try and resolve this!”

That’s where I was when I finally decided to give coffee enemas a try 😂

Did I like the idea of sticking coffee up my butt? No.

Was I eventually so sick and tired of feeling sick and tired that I was willing to try just about anything if it would help move my healing along faster? Absolutely.

Is it my absolute favorite thing in the world to stick coffee up my butt?  Not necessarily. BUT the healing benefits make them one of my favorites, hands down!

During my more comprehensive detox phases, I did them about 1-2 times a week. Like most people, I was resistant when I first learned about them. But I knew they couldn’t be any worse than staying exactly where I was, so I was willing to give it a go!

Even now, I still make them a priority at least 1-2 times a month at minimum as they surely accelerate my overall detoxification and help purge a ton of liver and gallstones, liver flukes (common parasites that love to hide in the liver, clog your bile ducts, and affect digestion, hormone balance, detoxification, and more)!

Here are some of the major benefits:

• A coffee enema can increase your glutathione (a master antioxidant and detoxifier) production by 700%!!
• They increase the rate at which your blood volume is filtered! The average is 2 times per hour, but a 20 min coffee enema filters your blood 6-7 in that 20 min alone! Huge for overall detoxification and kidney support!
• The dilation of the hepatic portal vein from the caffeine in the coffee stimulates bile flow, greatly supporting liver and bile duct function (again, this plays a HUGE role in digestion, overall gut health, hormone metabolism, skin clarity, mental clarity, and detoxification as a whole)!

You can watch a step-by-step video on how to do a coffee enema, as well as written instructions and links to my fav coffee enema products below!

WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Bring 2 cups of distilled or filtered water to a boil. Add water and 4 TBSP of organic, mold-free caffeinated coffee to a French press and let brew for 20 min. *If new to coffee enemas, start with 1 Tbsp of coffee and work your way up over your next few enemas* 
2. Push down the​ ​French Press​ and allow coffee to cool down AT LEAST body temperature. 
3. Take CellCore Bioactive Carbon Binders 20 minutes prior to administering enema.​ ​BioToxin Binder and​ ​ViRadChem Binders​ ​are preferred (see below for how to access) 
4. When coffee is done brewing, add 2 more cups cold, distilled water. Then, pour half of solution (2 cups) into stainless-steel enema bucket (ensure the sterile tubes are already attached and clamped closed so coffee does not pour out!) If adding​ ​HydrOxygen​,​ ​CT Minerals​, and/or Organic Black Strap Molasses to your coffee solution, add them now. 
5. Place or hang bucket at least 3’ above the ground. 
6. Use coconut oil to lubricate first 6” of tube. Laying on your right side, insert tube 6” into rectum.
7. Unlock clamp and allow coffee to begin to slowly flow into your body. Once all coffee has emptied from bucket, do not remove tube. Allow it to stay inserted while you hold the coffee enema for 15-20 min. (You will work your way up to this retention time, so do not get frustrated if you manage to hold it for only a few minutes as you get the swing of things! Watch a video, listen to music, read a book, etc to distract yourself.
8. Sit on toilet to evacuate bowels. 
9. Repeat steps 4-8 to administer second enema. The second enema is always easier and drastically enhances results as the bowels are more open! 
10. Take Bioactive Carbon Binders 20 min after final enema. Drink plenty of water to rehydrate. Add electrolyte blend or some lemon and pink salt to replenish electrolytes. 

LINKS TO MY FAV COFFEE ENEMA PRODUCTS:

✅ Coffee Enema bucket kit

✅ French Press

✅ Kion Coffee – Click here and use code BOMBSHELL for 10%

✅CellCore products (CT Minerals, HydrOxygen, and binders) – Click here and use Patient Direct Code BX35QNDP to create your customer account. Hydroxygen is currently out of stock due to manufacturing issues but hopefully will return soon as Hydroxygen+. CT minerals are now in capsules, but you still an incredible formula! You could add ¼ – ½ cap to each of your enemas!

You can learn more about the coffee enema kit I use, the coffee brands that I recommend, and more in my Coffee Enema IG Story Highlights here.

Coffee enemas are ONE of the many ways to detox as a way to aid in your recovery from chronic fatigue, brain fog, impaired digestion, gut challenges, headaches, migraines, inflammation, insomnia, hormone imbalances, etc. 

Want more tips on how to support your liver, bowels, and other drainage pathways so that you can better prepare your body for a detox protocol OR simply clear some of these pathways so your body can better detox on a daily basis? Find more tools and resources in the free On-demand Drainage Clinic!

Rooting for you,

Lyss

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