Children's Health Defense Tea Time: My Journey with Parkinson's + The Microbiome
by Martha Carlin December 22, 2023
When Martha’s husband, John, received his diagnosis, she sought out to find natural, viable answers for his condition. As a result, she build a system of research and therapy that works for many individuals with chronic illness. Today, on ‘Tea Time,’ she shares her journey of discovery and how what she has learned can benefit viewers, like you.
Let’s be completely honest: When was the last time you actually looked inside the bowl before you flushed? If your immediate reaction is to cringey-laugh and say, "Ugh, never," you are throwing away the single most valuable health report your body produces daily.
A chronic diagnosis is almost always delivered as a final sentence, completely devoid of hope. In the conventional medical model, patients are given a label—whether it’s Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, or chronic fatigue—and told, “There is no cure. This is progressive. Take this pill.”
The path to vibrant health is rarely a straight line. Often, it takes a deeply personal disruption to force us to look at the human body through a completely different lens. For Martha Carlin, a former corporate auditor and turnaround expert, that disruption came in 2002 when her healthy 44-year-old husband, John, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
A chronic health diagnosis is almost always delivered as a rigid, downward equation. In the conventional medical model, when a condition like Parkinson’s disease presents itself, it is frequently treated as an absolute finality—a steady downward slope accompanied by a prescription and a lack of baseline options.