Keener Intelligence — Body Mastery

Dr. Jessie, My Skin Story

My first chronic ailment was eczema, which would flare up on my face, above my eyes, corners of my mouth and at my ear lobes, itching like crazy. It started when I was around 12, and I was prescribed Cortisone creams on and off until I met my mentor, Dr. Theresa Dale, when I was 26. The situation could be quite painful at times, not to mention embarrassing as it was right there, on my face.

Dr. Dale immediately set me straight about skin care. She explained that there were basically no healthy regulations in the personal care industry in the U.S. and unless an ingredient was banned, it could be used! She went on about the dyes, made with heavy metals and fragrances containing formaldehyde and explained how these would create excitotoxicity to the body, and could even help cause cancer. Theresa even coached us on sunscreens (this was way back in the Eighties) and explained that zinc oxide was the safest, that the chemical ones likely would cause cancer later, over time.

She had me change my deodorant to an all-natural deodorant, so I could start detoxifying all of the aluminum I had storing inside of me, thanks to antiperspirant use since age 14. She explained that even makeup companies like Clinique still used toxic ingredients and that every commercial company out there did! Sadly, there weren't a lot of good options in the beauty industry back then.

Unfortunately, the amount of chemicals in personal care products has only geometrically increased since then. The vast majority of fragrances are still preserved with formaldehyde. Yes, that's right; the stuff mothballs are made of. It is legal, so why not?

I recently found a company that matches my core values on every level when it comes to skincare and beauty products. They have already banned (in-house) 1800 ingredients that are simply NOT safe. How refreshing, and cutting-edge. They are literally leading the way in the industry. They also are huge on responsible sourcing and sustainability, so there is integrity everywhere you look. I know anything they come out with I can use and it will be safe — and even better, these products perform.

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What's Really Eating You?

One of the most mind-blowing things I learned early on in my recovery from my mentor, Dr. Theresa Dale, PhD, was about how parasitic infections are rampant in this country. Not only that, but our medical model completely ignores this fact. Let's take a look at the wide range of symptoms parasites cause in their human hosts. See if you can identify with any of these:

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• Allergies / chronic sinus / stuffy nose / runny nose (airborne, food, pets, etc.)
• Brain Fog
• Cancer and many other chronic diseases
• Chemical Sensitivities
• Depression / Fatigue
• Food Cravings / Sugar and alcohol cravings / Food Sensitivities
• Gut symptoms — IBS / Crohn's / gas / diarrhea / constipation
• Hot flashes / Insomnia
• Joint pain and Arthritis of any kind / Fibromyalgia / wandering pain
• Migraines / Nightmares / Neurological disorders
• Nail biting / cuticle biting / teeth grinding / jaw clenching
• Skin rashes / eczema / dandruff / itchy / flaky / acne

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The list is endless, honestly. In modern medicine, you may have noticed, the goal is to stop the symptom from occurring, using approved medical methods: drugs, surgery or radiation. When you realize why the American Medical Association (A.M.A) was founded by Mr. Rockefeller, it is very easy to see why proper detection and treatment of parasites would be a very large threat to PROFITS. I MEAN, LOOK AT THIS LIST AGAIN. This is most of big pharma's income, right there.

Parasites also excrete ammonia by-products as their waste material. Too much over a longer period of time is a death sentence to well being. The ammonia even penetrates our blood/brain barrier, causing our Serotonin to plummet, which makes us crave sugars! This is part of how they cause cancer, as ammonia is a known carcinogen.

Fortunately, there are really easy treatments to rid the body harmlessly of these beasts. I always coach for a twice per month purge, using gentle but effective ingredients proven over time. We start the formula 2 nights ahead of the New or Full Moon, take it for 5 consecutive nights, and then pause it until 2 nights before the next full or new moon.

The product is available at my portal for Professional Formulas: Botanifuge — made for ages 12 and up, typical dose is 2 pills at bedtime. (Remember, parasites are nocturnal and feed at night!) For children, the same company makes a great vibrational remedy called PURGE formula. Typical adult dose is 15 drops before bed; for children, 2–10 drops depending on age/size/weight. Place under the tongue; do not touch the glass dropper to lips.

Everyone is truly shocked to learn this information, yet we have to quickly get into the habit of tracking the moon cycle, taking our remedies for parasites and avoiding the sugars and dairy products that feed them so well. For nearly 40 years, in my private practice, this was the most common source of people's ailments that I saw!

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The Pandemic in Our Guts!

Over the past 40 years of practicing natural medicine, I have seen some epidemics come and go. When I first started out, as the patient, I was diagnosed with something called "Colon Dysbiosis," or "Intestinal Permeability," by my mentor Theresa Dale, Ph.D. This phraseology has morphed into what today we call "Leaky Gut Syndrome." At that time, Theresa assured me that this was a silent epidemic, and that the medical model didn't believe it was a real condition!

Fast forward to now, where it is the most dangerous and most silent PANDEMIC of them all! Yet it has been written about in medical text books for a hundred years. Hippocrates said, "All disease begins in the gut." More than two thousand years later, scientific research has now proven he was on to something.

So, what is Leaky Gut Syndrome? It is an imbalance between the "healthy" bacteria that inhabit a normal gut lining and "unhealthy" bacteria and germs, producing a great deal of symptoms throughout the body, not just in the intestines. It has been directly linked to autoimmune disease.

When the lining of the cell walls becomes disrupted (man-made drugs — especially antibiotics and birth control pills — NOT being breast-fed, high levels of stress, alcohol, GMO foods, etc.) the cells start to swell in the lining of the gut. As this occurs, the protective membrane becomes "leaky," allowing passage of parasites, yeast-fungus, and even healthy foods that are simply too big for the blood.

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• Celiac disease / gluten intolerance / Gastric ulcers / Joint pain
• Infectious diarrhea / Irritable bowel syndrome
• Inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's, ulcerative colitis)
• Small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)
• Esophageal and colorectal cancer / Allergies and Food Sensitivities
• Thyroid disorders / Respiratory infections
• Obesity-related metabolic diseases (fatty liver, type II diabetes, heart disease)
• Autoimmune diseases (lupus, multiple sclerosis, type I diabetes, Hashimoto's)
• Parkinson's disease / Chronic fatigue syndrome / Weight gain or obesity

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1. Food Sensitivities — Some research suggests that Leaky Gut can cause the immune system to overproduce various antibodies, which may make some more susceptible to antigens in certain foods (especially gluten and dairy). All of my patients had to get off dairy (except grass-fed butter) and gluten, bar none!

2. Inflammation / Dis-Ease / Disease — By now, science has proven that ALL disease starts with inflammation, the silent killer. My experience with this was my chronic Eczema that I had battled for at least 10 years when I met Dr. Dale. Inflammation can be very silent and slowly building up over time, even in the brain, causing BRAIN FOG and mood disorders.

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So let's take a look at how to start the healing process. First, we need excellent probiotics (the healthy bacteria) to populate the gut. These typically are taken upon arising on an empty stomach, and/or at bedtime, again on an empty stomach.

Secondly we need a therapeutic process to start fixing the "leaks," and we have found that l-Glutamine, a simple amino acid, along with some other herbs is fantastic for this job.

We also need to clear our diets of the most common offenders: Anything GMO (or Commercial Grains since they are sprayed with Roundup here in the US!), Dairy (except grass-fed butter) and Gluten (wheat, barley and rye).

If you think you have leaky gut, try these formulas from Systemic Formulas: ABC (their probiotic formula) and LGUT (their comprehensive leaky gut formula). Typical doses are 1 ABC once to twice daily and 2 LGUT also once to twice daily — best taken together on an empty stomach with pure (not tap!) water. Stay on them for at least 3–4 months.

Since science has proven the "Gut/Brain" connection, you can watch your moods and brain chemistry improve as the brain swelling starts to diminish. I would love to hear from you through my X, (x.com/DrJessieKeener). Remember, when you share your results, it encourages someone out there!

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Keener Intelligence — In The Kitchen

Ever since I met my mentor Theresa Dale in 1984, I have been hugely into food, the preparation of it, how to cook, season, combine and even how to grow it.

Dr. Dale was a great mentor in this area, turning me onto organics long before they were popular. But she went farther, showing me how to substitute more inflaming foods for better ingredients and choices. Already back then, I was instructed by her to avoid wheat, dairy (cow), soy, peanuts, yeast and mushrooms.

I learned how to make a lot of my favorite dishes with non-threatening ingredients, and I thrived. She also trained me in proper food combining, which made a huge difference in my digestion and overall energy.

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Let's Talk About Eating…

One of the more important things to consider when wanting to upgrade our energy and wellbeing is HOW we eat. Not just what we eat, but the actual act of eating itself.

Growing up, in our family we raised multiple animals — from goats, pigs, dogs, cats, and horses. They all ate exactly the same way: deliberately, intentionally and undistracted from the act. They chewed, lots, and seemed serene while doing it.

Contrast that image with our contemporary scene for humans eating. It seems a little insane, for many, as we are multi-tasking, watching TV or on our smart phones; barely chewing and washing our mouthful down with a beverage. Speaking of mouthful, often the size of the bite is super large, and if we don't proceed to chew it well, it won't actually digest well.

When we put food in our mouth and start to chew it, our salivary glands get activated, and a real-time communication occurs between those glands and the pancreas. The glands inform the pancreas which types of enzymes will be needed for what is coming down the pike. Proteins require different enzymes than fats or carbs. Failing to chew properly is a recipe for disaster, as the pancreas doesn't get the clear signals, and now instead of fuel, that food becomes a stress for the body.

So chewing well is intelligent. NOT chewing well is essentially saying NO to life in a real way. It is a fact that the first place nutritional deficiencies show up in the body is in the mental/cognitive function of the brain! Let's eat intelligently!

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Simple Food Combining for Optimal Digestion

One of the first things that my mentor, Dr. Theresa Dale taught me was the principles of proper food combining. As she walked me through the basic rules, my mind was truly blown. Here was a way to make sure the proteins digested well, and didn't putrefy the liver.

I had learned in Naturopathic school that fermented animal protein created 10 different toxic gases, one of which I still recall: Cadaverine! So I knew it was important to digest cleanly. However, they did not teach food combining at that institution, so thank goodness I ended up working with Theresa on my health.

The rules are simple, but fly in the face of modern eating. In proper food combining we do not combine protein with starches/carbs/sugars, as they always get broken down first. The enzyme needed for protein, called protease, is a little more challenging for the pancreas, so it gets secreted later. This gives the simple sugars a chance to start fermenting our protein — which is exactly what happens — then toxic gases form, go out into our bloodstreams, and our poor liver has to neutralize them.

What to combine with your protein: Always with vegetables, and I don't mean potatoes, as they are a starch! Always combine protein with a little healthy fat — such as virgin olive oil based salad dressing, avocado, coconut oil or grass-fed butter. Use low-sugar veggies such as greens, asparagus, broccoli, etc.

Another huge controversy: either eat fruit alone, with no other type of food, or leave it alone! Then combine starches (complex carbs) with vegetables and a little healthy fat.

The next rule: do NOT drink beverages with the meal, as it directly dilutes your digestive enzymes, which are also in liquid form. Dr. Dale insisted I drink all of my water in between meals, and had me set a goal of at least 8 ten-ounce glasses of pure water daily.

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The rules in a short list:

• Combine protein with veggies and healthy fats — no starch or carbs!
• Combine Starches/Carbs with veggies and healthy fats.
• No fruit with meals; either eat it alone or leave it alone.
• No beverages with meals except to take your supplements.
• Hydrate thoroughly in between your meals. Aim for 80 fluid ounces or more. Do not drink tap water.

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Nutritional Supplements / Vibrational Remedies

Over the decades I have seen many very good supplement companies come and go. There have been only a few that have withstood the test of both time and tribulations.

Because natural substances cannot be patented, the pharmaceutical companies do not want us to have access to effective remedies from Mother Nature. They actively push to outlaw them! As long as we can have access to these items, here are my links; I have had relationships with these companies for decades. Beyond Intelligent remedies for you and your loved ones!

Go Here — Professional Formulas: open an account and use code CRV697T at checkout.

Go Here — Systemic Formulas: open an account and use code Txcl-01 at checkout.

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Cortisol and Brain Health

There are many ways to accelerate brain health, and one of them is essential for everyone: managing the hormone Cortisol, aka "The stress hormone."

Produced by the adrenal glands, Cortisol is essential for the "flight or fight" response and is critical to our survival. The physical effects of Cortisol are designed to give us that adrenaline rush, push the energy into our extremities, and prepare us literally for the fight of our life or the sprint away from the enemy as fast as we can.

However, modern science has discovered that there are some problems with Cortisol that gets too high, or that doesn't regulate back down after the danger is resolved. The most important distinction as it relates to brain health is that elevated Cortisol causes massive inflammation in the body and in the brain. In fact, high Cortisol causes dementia and even is part of Alzheimer's disease.

All the scientific experts on human evolution agree that the average hunting/gathering human had a very distinct lifestyle — the average man enjoyed only a 23–24 hour work week. The rest of that time was leisure! Furthermore, the size of the adrenal glands (the size of the last joint of our thumbs) has not gotten any bigger since those times. When you look at our cultural norm of a 40-hour work week and the existing culture of fear that dominates our populations, it is quite easy to see that we are all over-working and under-resting our adrenal glands.

Once a body has experienced enough "Cortisol Spikes," or adrenaline bursts without the proper high-level physical activity, the very mechanism for bringing down the high Cortisol breaks. Here is where real problems begin: chronic inflammation, digestion slowing down, fermentation of our foods in the gut tract which over-loads the liver with toxins. Stressing this powerhouse out is a big No-No for brain power.

Think of high Cortisol like the Darth Vader to all of our positive hormones including estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroxin and insulin. It overrides your neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) Serotonin, Dopamine, Gaba and Norepinephrine and causes real changes in how you think and process memories. Hint: High Cortisol suppresses DMT, and keeps us in duality.

The common strategies that work are regular aerobic exercise every day — walking, rebounding, running — for 20 minutes per day, or more. Eating 3 meals per day, focusing on proteins, healthy fats and low-starch vegetables can make a huge difference as it stabilizes blood sugar. Cutting back on or reducing caffeine can make big changes to the body as well.

There are many excellent stress Adaptogens to help the adrenal glands learn to regulate Cortisol better. Professional Formulas makes a great combination in their Stress Adaptogen Complex and their Phyto-Calm supplements. I like taking them together and multiple times per day if I am highly challenged.

There may be other reasons such as yeast-fungus overgrowth, food sensitivities, and side effects from medications, etc. but those are for another article.

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NEORA Beyond Skincare

I am someone who feels pretty darn good about my healthy skin, my lasting youthful appearance — yet up close, it was clear I was aging. Not rapidly, yet, and I wondered if there was a good company out there in the US making high performance, non-toxic youthing topical products (I am not a fan of invasive techniques like Botox). It turns out there is, named NEORA, and they have some WOW products that are safe and effective.

The first product I was curious about was their new FIRM topical body cream. After 3 days of using the FIRM, I actually could see a difference in the mirror! For me that is a home run. Turkey necks, jowls, and all sorts of body parts were firming up, and results were visible.

The second product that made me jump up and say this is a "must have" was their Night Cream. Typically I see nothing from my natural night creams, but this one is like a Botox in a bottle. The more I use it, the better my face looks.

In May of 2025 the company launched their newest WOW product, the NEO-Filler. Made in an easy-to-dispense syringe, this little topical product trains the skin to plump and visibly fill itself in 30 seconds twice per day. It is effective, clean and affordable! I am so grateful to be alive at this time, where science and nature truly work together.

Link: https://drjessie.neora.com/us/en/neoraconnect

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Dimensions of Wellness

One thing that used to stand out for me when I initially met with a new client was how they really didn't have a relationship with well-being. Their relationship with sickness, being overweight, feeling constantly drained was very well developed, but when I asked them about the flip side, they usually only got as far as "relief," or "freedom from __________."

Of course, I was the same way, long ago at the age of around 25, when I learned that health was not "the absence of disease," rather it was "a state of complete physical, mental and spiritual freedom," or years later, as the WHO stated, "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being."

So, in order to have a relationship with our well-being, it is helpful to break wellness down into different dimensions in order to better define it first. Dr. Peggy Swarbrick developed a framework titled "The Eight Dimensions of Wellness," and I find that this interconnected model helps create the proper perspective.

I think you will agree that this is a comprehensive bird's eye view, and one that has a great deal of potential power to it. One of the keys to developing that power is respecting the inter-relatedness of each dimension, as they cannot be separate.

The fuel for this process, what keeps us going, is self-love. That is the cornerstone of how we stay in the game, and without it we only achieve low levels of wellness in the categories. I always told my clients, "It is a game of self-love. It looks like taking supplements, changing our diets, creating different habits but underneath it all, it's a game of self-love."

I personally find that conscious breath work is the magic formula to keep me winning in the self-love game. As long as I am stable and in my flow state, I am operating out of love. The moment I realize I have "fallen from that graceful state," I implement a tool to quickly re-center myself and get back into that exquisite state of well-being.

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The Art of Breathing and Why It Matters

Believe it or not, one of the most fundamental requirements for increasing our intelligence is restoring our natural breathing ability. Between modern birth practices and current high chronic stressors, most of us barely breathe enough to foster more aliveness, a marker of intelligence.

Let's start with our modern birth practice: Once the baby is out of the mother, they are held upside down and whacked on the butt to elicit that first breath. Given the harshness of this physical experience, the infant's first breath is one of terror and intense pain. This immediately registers in the brain as a terrible idea, and a visceral decision gets made: "I will NEVER breathe that fully again!" This begins a tragic series of belief systems about how life works. We call this birthing trauma in the field of conscious breath work.

Contrast that with an indigenous childbirth, or natural child birth. There are no bright lights, no harsh treatments; the infant is with the mother, the umbilical cord attached immediately after birth.

As the cord starts to wane, it sends signals to the infant and they gradually begin the breathing process. When my infant daughter, Karina, took her first breath, she was still in the warm water (we did a water birth) and it actually was an exhale, blowing a slight bubble out of her mouth. She was calm, and relaxed, and never developed that hatred for a full breath.

Now the child with birthing trauma (read: any kid in modern culture) is going off to kindergarten, first grade and starting to socialize and getting taught a ton of rules. By the time they are 8 or 9, all of their breathing has moved up into their chests, with little to no abdominal movement. In other words, they have LOST their belly breathing!

When I began to practice conscious breath work — essentially proper breathing on steroids — I was truly inspired by how much conscious connection came from that practice. We would breathe in and out of the mouth, filling our lungs and bellies, forming a circle with the inhale and exhale. It was called Rebirthing, and also Integrative Breathing. The idea was to lie down, and breathe on a particular limiting belief system. Notions like "My Body is Not Safe" are exactly what we wanted to undo, and neutralize.

I fell in love with my breath. I learned to regulate my moods and mind with my breath, which I am still learning about. My consciousness has increased dramatically. I am still in love with my breath, and will be sharing tons about how you, too, can practice the Art of Breathing.

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