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Cheryl and I break down where to start when dealing with chronic illness, and why diet and environment come before testing and protocols. We discuss how an elimination diet helps quiet inflammation, why symptoms should guide your healing approach, and how factors like mold, detox pathways, and undereating can stall progress. Make sure to listen to the full interview to learn more.

Cheryl is a lead practitioner at Empower Functional Health, specializing in root cause healing through personalized health plans and functional nutrition. She works closely with clients to analyze complex chronic illness cases, focusing on diet, environment, and symptom patterns rather than isolated diagnoses. With years of clinical experience, Cheryl helps individuals navigate nuanced healing strategies tailored to their unique health history.

• Where to start first
• Next steps in treatment process
• When to address deeper issues
• Environment as root cause driver
• Prioritizing root causes in healing
• Why blood work comes later
• Overwhelm from excessive testing
• Looking beyond primary concerns
• Working without strict carnivore
• Nutrient deficiencies and metabolism
• How to start carnivore

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• Personalized Health Plan
• Carnivore Elimination Diet Cheat Sheet
• Cheryl’s Bio
• How Much to Eat on a Carnivore Diet (for Hormones and Thyroid): Macros, Calories, Protein & Fats
• CIRS Treatment Mistakes That Keep You Sick & What to Do Instead
• Finding Root Cause Healing in Chronic Illness: Your Perfect Carnivore Diet - Interview with Cheryl
• Lessons Learned from our Carnivore Patients: Tracking, Supplements, and Perfect Carnivore
  
  

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Is eating a limited diet, such as a Carnivore diet, or avoiding certain foods because they harm you unbiblical? This episode explores what Scripture actually says about food, freedom, and caring for the body. The Bible does not treat medically necessary or health-based food avoidance as sin. Instead, it emphasizes stewardship, wisdom, self-control, and honoring God with your body. While the New Testament removes ceremonial food restrictions, it does not require people to eat everything indiscriminately. Rather than condemning dietary limits, Scripture consistently calls for honoring God with your body and recognizing that something may be permitted yet still not be beneficial to you personally.

• Introduction
• Is Plant-Based the Ideal Diet Based on Biblical Doctrine?
• Body as a Temple and You as a Steward
• Biblical Mentions of Food, Drunkards, Glutton and Sin
• Paul and the Need of Discipline, Self-Control and the Fruit of the Spirit
• Thoughts on Communion
• Romans 14, The Weak and the Strong
• Real Talk: What Really Matters with Faith

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- Is Plant-Based the Ideal Christian Diet
- My Faith Journey
- Jesus and Wellness Article
- Did Jesus Eat Meat Article
- Stewarding the Body as God’s Temple (1 Corinthians 6:19–20, 1 Corinthians 3:16–17)
- Not Everything Is Beneficial (1 Corinthians 6:12, 1 Corinthians 10:23)
- What Enters the Body (Proverbs 23:20–21, Proverbs 25:16, Philippians 3:19
- Acting According to Conscience (Romans 14:14–23, Romans 14:2–3 1 Corinthians 8)
- Self-Control as a Spiritual Virtue (Galatians 5:22–23, 1 Corinthians 9:27
- Biblical Principle of Prudence (Proverbs 27:12, Ephesians 5:29)
- The Garden of Eden Diet (Genesis 1–2)
- The Daniel Diet (Daniel 1 and 10)
- Old Testament Dietary Laws (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14)
- Jesus and the Food Laws (Matthew 5:17; Mark 7:18–19, Matthew 15:11)

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Is a plant-based pattern like the Garden of Eden diet or the “Daniel diet” the ideal biblical way to eat? This episode looks at what the Bible actually shows about food across different periods: from the plant foods in Eden, to the permission to eat animals after the Flood, to Israel’s dietary laws, and finally to the New Testament's focus on faith rather than food rules. It also considers whether Jesus ate meat and why early Christians were told not to divide over diet. Instead of promoting a single required “biblical diet,” the episode explores how Scripture shifts attention from specific foods to the condition of the heart and to freedom under the new covenant.

• Garden of Eden diet
• Noah’s Dietary Changes
• Daniel’s Dietary Story
• Pork, Shellfish. Clean and unclean kids
• How Ceremonial Laws Changed When Jesus Came (Examples)
• Did Jesus Eat Meat?
• Real Talk Thoughts on 613 Laws in the Old Testament

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• My Faith Journey
• Jesus and Wellness Article
• Did Jesus Eat Meat Article
• The Garden of Eden Diet (Genesis 1–2)
• The Daniel Diet (Daniel 1 and 10)
• Old Testament Dietary Laws (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14)
• 613 commandments (mitzvot)
• Passover Lamb (Matthew 26:17–30; Luke 22, Exodus 12)
• Fish Consumption (Luke 24:41–43; John 21:9–13)
• Feeding Miracles (Matthew 14; 15)
• Jesus and the Food Laws (Matthew 5:17; Mark 7:18–19, Matthew 15:11)
• Instructions to Eat What Is Set Before You (Romans 14, 1 Corinthians 10:27, 1 Corinthians 8)
• Removal of Dietary Restrictions for Gentile Believers (Acts 10; 15; Romans 14; 1 Timothy 4:3-5; Colossians 2:16)
• Law, Faith, and the New Covenant (Ephesians 2:8–9; Galatians 2:16; Matthew 5:17)
• The Enemy (Lies, Deception, Stealing, Destruction, Disguise, Accusation, Sabotage)
  - “He is a liar and the father of lies.” (John 8:44)
  - “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” (John 10:10)
  - “Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.” (2 Corinthians 11:14)
  - “The accuser of our brothers and sisters.” (Revelation 12:10)
  - “Stand against the schemes of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:11)
  
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