The magic pill concept is a fictional or hypothetical medication that can miraculously heal or cure any kind of health issue from a single pill without any side effects or limitations. I think we can all relate to this – we would all love it if there was some magic pill we could swallow that takes away all of our pain, whether physical or emotional, cancer risk, or whatever troubles we’re experiencing in our life. 

Wouldn’t that be amazing if we could just take a pill and it all goes away?

When we get a headache, we immediately think, “Where’s that pill I could take to make the headache go away?” Sometimes it works – we take a pill and the headache disappears. The problem is if we get a headache every day and take that pill every day, eventually that pill can start to have side effects and negative impacts on our bodies. At that point, even if that pill is taking our headache away, it might be causing a stomachache, for example.

This is the limitation of taking a medication or substance we often turn to for a quick fix. As humans, we have to learn to stop ourselves from chasing that one thing is going to fix everything and we’re never going to have to think about it again. 

We need to realize that the reality is that most often, things are not really fixed with a magic pill. They’re more often resolved with true intention and transformation.

In this episode, I talk about HPV-related cancer, specifically cervical cancer in women. But I encourage you to listen in regardless of what health issue you’re dealing with to better understand the mindset, perspective, and paradigm shift that I see my patients making in order to truly transform their health.

Moving Beyond the “Magic Pill” Mindset

I invite you – whatever health issue you might be struggling with, whether it’s fatigue, anxiety, sleep issues, digestive issues, autoimmunity, fertility, perimenopausal symptoms, or maybe you have high-risk HPV and an abnormal pap smear – to consider a different approach. 

I understand the struggle because I’ve had health issues myself. I dealt with HPV at a younger age, suffered from severe chronic migraine headaches for decades, and have joint hypermobility and arthritis. I’ve also been exposed to narcissistic abuse, so I’ve experienced both emotional and physical pain in my life. I know how it feels to want to feel better. 

I’m speaking not just as a naturopathic doctor, clinical nutritionist, and midwife, but also as a human who’s been through pain and the fear of what might happen next, wondering if this could impact my life as I know it. Of course, this can trigger our stress response system, and when our stress response is triggered, that’s when we feel more fear, worry, anxiety, sleeplessness, and hopelessness. It just spirals.

If you’ve found yourself in this spiral of fear, what can happen is we become paralyzed – paralyzed by fear of what other people think and what other people say. Often, when we start looking at what other people say, they might be telling us, “There’s nothing you can do about it,” or “It’s never going to get better.” 

You might be hearing these negative messages, especially if you’ve been dealing with high-risk HPV and abnormal pap smears. Women tell me all the time about the messages they hear, which suggest that HPV will never go away, that it will hide in your body, that it will come back – all kinds of negative messages about how it’s impossible to do anything about it.

People hear similar messages about autoimmunity, heart disease, dementia, diabetes – no matter what health issue, you can end up finding perspectives out there, even from medical doctors, saying there’s nothing you can do. 

I have many friends who are medical doctors, and we’ve talked about this. They’ve explained to me that it’s not that there’s nothing that can be done; it’s that they haven’t learned anything they can do.

Understanding the Limitations of Conventional Medicine

It’s important to keep in mind that any expert is going to provide suggestions or information based on their training and experience. 

The training of a medical doctor

• doesn’t include very much nutrition;
• doesn’t include herbs;
• doesn’t include mind-body connection; and
• certainly doesn’t include looking at underlying causes to prevent health issues.

Their training includes the use of procedures, surgeries, and pharmaceuticals, usually to address acute injuries, life-threatening situations, and to suppress symptoms.

We can take medication to suppress pain, but it’s not getting to the underlying cause of the pain, like a migraine – it’s just suppressing the pain, and then symptoms can recur. Even with autoimmunity, medications suppress or modulate the immune system, but they don’t correct the reason why the autoimmunity issue is there to begin with. 

The same with HPV – you can do a surgery to remove abnormal cells, but it doesn’t take care of the virus, so the virus can cause abnormal cells again.

I’m pointing this out to show more clearly what it’s really like to be able to stand back and say: What really is the intention and purpose of that pill I’m taking? Does it have limitations? Does it have potential side effects? Am I going to become dependent on it? Is it simply suppressing something? Will there be withdrawal symptoms?

Sometimes we take medications for anxiety, but they’re not really solving the underlying cause – they’re simply suppressing the symptoms, and then we become dependent on the substance. The same thing can happen with alcohol or food for that matter. We go toward a substance to help us in the moment, but then it ends up having side effects and being harmful to our health in the long run.

This is something I’m always very aware of for my health and for my patients’ health: How can we stand back and look at this from a different perspective? How can we do this differently? Instead of simply going for a quick fix that’s not really a fix – it’s a quick suppression that leads to perpetuating the issue.

HPV (Human Papillomavirus): Addressing Root Causes

Especially with something like HPV (human papillomavirus), there is no magic pill – a quick fix that’s going to kill HPV. There’s low-risk human papillomavirus that causes warts, and there’s high-risk human papillomavirus that’s associated with cancer risk. We want to address high-risk HPV because we don’t want it to cause cancer. But at this moment in time, there’s no pharmaceutical that you can take to wipe out HPV or even to suppress it.

So we’re forced to think outside the box. We’re forced to ask: Do we just give in and let this virus do what it does, potentially causing abnormal cells and cancer? Or do we decide, as humans in our bodies having this experience, to stand back and get a different perspective?

That’s what I’m encouraging you to do. I’m encouraging you to recognize that there’s a reason why your bodyis not clearing HPV, because the human body can clear it. We have a TH1 immune system that clears viruses, including HPV. So if you have a human immune system, it should be able to clear HPV. If it’s not, it’s not just about being exposed to HPV – it’s about why your body isn’t protecting you from HPV.

I have identified 8 most common underlying causes of why your body’s not clearing HPV. There may be more than 8, but I have identified the most common eight that I have observed in clinical practice, while helping thousands of women with high-risk HPV.

The Bucket with Holes Analogy 

I want to share the classic analogy of a bucket with holes in it. It’s a metaphorical situation where someone is trying to fill a bucket with water, but it constantly leaks out due to holes in the bottom of the bucket.

People often hear about treatments for high-risk HPV – taking a mushroom extract like AHCC (shiitake mushroom extract), for example – and hope it is going to solve everything (and fill the bucket). There is research on AHCC, and it’s partially effective at helping with HPV, but it’s not 100% effective. It’s not a magic pill because it doesn’t solve the problem for everyone, and it may require you to take it long term. So we may include AHCC in a comprehensive protocol, but I don’t recommend putting all of your eggs in that one basket.

If you have a bucket with holes in it and you just keep putting more water in the bucket, the water’s not going to stay in. A lot of times, people take this approach – they keep pouring more water in, and if you keep the water going, you’ll temporarily have some water in the bucket, but it’ll keep draining out the holes. You’re going to lose the water over and over again.

What I see people doing with human papillomavirus and other health issues is they keep thinking they’re going to fill the bucket, but they’re not actually fixing the holes in the bucket. I’m inviting you to pay attention to the holes in the bucket. Once we identify what’s actually depleting your system and fix those holes, then lo and behold, your body starts protecting you from high-risk HPV virus again.

Studies show that the human body can clear this virus, but we need a functioning immune system and microbiome to do that. It’s about looking at the bigger picture, taking a different perspective, and even making a paradigm shift. Sometimes we literally have to realize that if we continue listening to the old way of thinking, we’re never going to get a different outcome.

Eight Common Susceptibilities to HPV (and other health issues)

1. Stress:

We all experience stress – financial stress, relationship stress, work stress – and likely we have trauma, either accumulative small traumas or big traumas. These experiences stick in our system; our stress hormones are affected and get stuck, changing our set point. I wrote about this in my book Master Your Stress Reset Your Health.

Once we do the right test to figure out your stress hormone levels (cortisol and adrenaline), after the stresses you’ve been exposed to in your life, then I can guide you with the appropriate approach – diet, lifestyle, herbs and nutrients, to bring your stress hormones to optimal, and keep them that way.

2. Dietary factors: 

We often choose foods that are less than optimal in terms of nutrient density or that decrease our immune function, like sugar and alcohol. Inflammatory foods – most commonly gluten and dairy – can also be problematic. 

You might be following a diet leading to nutrient deficiencies, or you might have digestive issues causing nutrient deficiencies and leaky gut, leading to inflammation throughout your body, including the vagina, making you susceptible to HPV.

3. Microbiome imbalances: 

Both our gut microbiome and vaginal microbiome are well-established in research now to be communicating with each other. When one is off track, it throws off the other. 

They’re both disrupted by stress, pesticides, antibiotics, and many medications. For women during and after menopause, when estrogen levels drop vaginally, our microbiome changes, making us susceptible to HPV.

4. Hormonal imbalances: 

This includes estrogen being too high or too low, progesterone imbalances, and issues with estrogen detoxification. We need to measure these with specialty urine tests to understand what’s happening with your hormones and detoxification. 

Then we can optimize them using diet changes, nutrients and herbs to protect you from HPV-related cancer, and other cancers and health issues as well.

5. Blood sugar imbalances: 

Research clearly shows that diabetes increases the risk of high-risk HPV and cervical cancer. It also shows that even if you have blood sugar fluctuations that are not severe, it predisposes you to many health issues and cancers, including those associated with high-risk HPV.

There are many ways we can help to re-optimize your glucose and insulin using diet, nutrients, herbs, and movement, and in doing so, improve your immune function and health.

6. Methylation and MTHFR gene variations: 

MTHFR is a gene variation that affects how we convert folic acid to folate, the active form of vitamin B9. 

Stress, toxin exposure, and inflammation make it harder to use B vitamins effectively, and without enough B vitamins and folate, it’s more difficult for the body keep up with making healthy cells, causing us to be more susceptible to HPV.

7. History of abuse: 

Any history of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, including narcissistic abuse, is associated with higher risk of high-risk HPV and cervical cancer. We need to identify any history or current abuse and help women recover from it.

8. Toxin exposure: 

We’re exposed to many toxins in our food, air, water, and environment, including mold toxins in buildings. It is known that toxins have a negative impact on our immune function, making us susceptible to infections and cancer. Infections and medications can also act as toxins that affect our ability to protect ourselves from HPV. We need to help your body detoxify and recover safely and effectively.

The Path Forward: Strategic Testing and Personalized Plans

Now you know the 8 susceptibilities – the holes in the bucket – that make us vulnerable to high-risk HPV. As we systematically address these susceptibilities in your case, we’re not just taking a random bunch of pills. 

So many people are searching and thinking, “This sounds good” or “Someone said I should take this,” and end up with 10 different pills but no plan. They’re essentially guessing and “throwing spaghetti at the wall,” hoping something sticks.

I recommend being strategic. Instead of guessing – “Maybe I have a gluten sensitivity, maybe I have a microbiome issue, maybe I have an estrogen issue” – it’s much better to do specific testing. The testing exists, and we can give you access to this testing so you can know for sure what your cortisol levels are, your microbiome status, your hormone levels, and get help with exactly the safe and effective clinical doses.

I offer online group programs specifically for high-risk HPV, and I work with patients one-on-one to help them figure out exactly what’s happening in their bodies. We can make a very strategic plan and guide you every step of the way. I see case after case – even just this week, I’ve seen at least seven women come back with negative HPV and normal cells after following this process.

If you don’t want to wait for a live workshop, you can watch my HPV Masterclass immediately – it’s about an hour long and available right away. 

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From there, you might choose to join the Heal HPV Kickstart Program, for the initial steps of my protocol, including diet changes and supplements, over the first 30 days. Find the HPV Supplement Bundle here.

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Or you can begin with the comprehensive Say Goodbye to HPV Program, which is 3 months and supports you to implement my full protocol and address all 8 susceptibilities.

If you’ve been struggling, feeling fearful, or even paralyzed by fear, thinking either that healing isn’t possible or looking for that magic pill, I encourage you to stand back and consider whether that’s really what’s going to help you be successful. Connect with your real intention, which is to get HPV to negative and prevent cancer. 

Visit my website at clearhpvnow.com to see testimonials – video after video and story after story of women who have done this – and start to believe that this is possible for you too.

For those needing one-on-one support, I offer consultations via Zoom or phone from anywhere in the world. I’ve worked with patients from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Europe, Dubai, Canada, throughout the United States, and more. My team can help coordinate supplement shipping worldwide, and we can work within your budget to find the right starting point.

You don’t have to figure it out on your own. My team and I are here to help guide you step by step. I recently spoke with a 70-year-old woman who had been testing positive for HPV for over seven years. Her doctor gave her no hope or answers, but after working with me for about 17 months, addressing each of these 8 susceptibilities, she got her negative results. She said she never stopped believing it was possible, and when she saw the results, she was pleasantly surprised yet knew exactly how it happened – by following this proven protocol.

I want that for each and every one of you, and I want you to know that healing is possible for most every health issue. If you’re struggling with HPV or any other health issue, I welcome you to reach out through my website doctordoni.com. 

You can schedule to become a new patient so we can talk through what you’re experiencing and help you know your next steps. Please know that if you’re struggling and frustrated and hoping there’s another way, there likely is, and I’m happy to share that with you and help you find that path to transforming your health and improving your future.

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