Olivia Audrey - A Week to Change Your Life: Harness the Power of Your Birthday and the 7-Day Cycle That Rules Your Health

Dr. Olivia Audrey with Sarah Toland

A Week to Change Your Life

Harness the Power of Your Birthday and the 7-Day Cycle that Rules Your Health

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Whether the universe is a concourse of atoms,

or nature is a system, let this first be established,

that I am a part of the whole which is governed by nature.

Marcus Aurelius

N o matter who you are or how you feel right now, nothing in your body is permanentI promise. Any pain, illness, or upsetting symptoms youre experiencing are only temporary. Nothing in nature ever stays the sameyour body, like everything else in the forests, oceans, deserts, and universe at large, is always changing, every second, every minute, every day, every week. With every change, you have an opportunity to feel better and heal. And thats what your body wants to doto survive and thrive. Every organism, from the single-cell amoeba to the complicated trillions of cells that make up the human body, wants to survive. This means your body is designed to heal itself. All you have to do is let your body work its innate, universe-given magic that exists in every one of your cells.

Heres the truth: Your body knows what to do to be well. Every cell and organ inside you was created to resist disease, find balance, and maintain health and well-being. Your body is the smartest supercomputer humankind has ever known, constantly processing, using, and uploading data to create new neural pathways, cells, muscle adaptations, and emotional experiences that will help preserve and grow the expression of you in your environment. These are your bodys biorhythms, the ancient wisdom that runs through each of us. All we have to do is stop, take a moment, and listen to these age-old rhythms. And while they may be quiet, the bodys biorhythms are loud and clear once you know what to look for.

I started to learn about the bodys biorhythms years ago, when I was just a little girl. I grew up in rural Maine in an off-the-grid communal living group where we grew our own food, carried our own water, and didnt have electricityand where people used backwoods medicine, relying on plants, herbs, and intuitive healing to help make the body well. My mother, who gave birth to me home alone without even a midwife on hand, didnt take me to the doctor whenever I had an infection or took a nasty fall off a horseinstead, I was taught that my body would self-regulate and heal. You can imagine how surprised I was, then, when I started going to public school as a teen and saw all my friends popping Midol the minute they felt a cramp or seeing a doctor every time they had a cough or sore throat. The discrepancy between what had made me so healthy and what I saw in society sparked my interest in health care, and after graduating from high school, I enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a premed major.

Once at college, I was surprised that none of what I had experienced about the bodys innate ability to heal was being taughtor even acknowledged. Instead, I got a deeper education on how conventional medicine treats illness: by using toxic drugs and invasive procedures to override the bodys ability to self-regulate. In every fiber of my being, I knew this wasnt healing. To me, this wasnt preventative careit was sick care. Conventional medicine only used and espoused techniques to treat people after they were seriously ill. I couldnt go forward with this kind of education in good conscience, and I dropped out of UNC.

My interest in medicine and healing didnt wane, though. After leaving UNC, I traveled around Central and South America, learning as much as I could about plant medicine and indigenous healing. Around the same time, my godmother suffered a heart attack. She was hospitalized and underwent a quadruple bypassher first time ever being treated by Western medicine. As I learned about her rapid deterioration in conventional care, I knew I had to go back to my original mission to become a trained professional who could help the body heal on its own. I didnt want to go back to the school in the States, so I enrolled in Trinity College in Dublin, where I graduated with a degree in premed. Afterward, I went back to the US to study at the Trinity School of Natural Health in Indiana, where I became a board-certified naturopath. This means I have similar training as conventional doctors do, but I use natural medicine, not drugs and invasive interventions, to help treat disease or keep people feeling well before they ever get sick.

After I became a board-certified doctor, it was time for me to go home. I moved back to Maine, where I started treating friends, family, and other people I knew out of their homes. Many of my initial patients had difficult-to-treat conditions like hormone imbalances or stubborn weight gain. Some were very sick. As I started to help them overcome these seemingly incurable issues, usually without drugs or other conventional treatments, I earned a reputation as an out-of-the-box but highly effective healer. As demand for my kind of medicine increased, I opened two naturopathic clinicsone in Maine, the other in New Hampshireand hired acupuncturists, massage therapists, Reiki healers, and similar alternative practitioners to help me use the power inherent in every patients body to heal itself.

Both practices were immediately busy, primarily with patients who had serious illnesses like cancer and heart disease. These people wanted my help after conventional medicine had failed to treat their conditions or left them stuck feeling okay but never truly well. Many of them were receiving treatments that required frequent blood work, and as I drew more and more blood and reviewed their results over the years, I began to notice a really fascinating trend: Their inflammation levels seemed to spike one day each week, every week, after having been baseline only a few days prior, with no explainable change in disease progression. Whats more, this inflammation spike occurred on the same day of the week for each patient, even though that day, whether it was a Monday or Friday, was wholly unique to them.