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What Nobody Tells You About Living With Chronic Pain
Ep 94 · Aug 14, 2026 · 28 min
Davis Bain sustained a concussion during a soccer game in his senior year of college. Nine prior concussions had healed. This one didn't. Nearly four years later, he still lives with post-concussion syndrome, and he's turned that experience into Chronic Pain Warrior, a compassionate and practical guide for anyone facing chronic pain, illness, or invisible disability. In this episode, Davis joins Kim Nash to talk about what it's really like to live inside an invisible condition, what medical dism…
Epilepsy Doesn't Own Your Life
Ep 93 · Aug 7, 2026 · 24 min
Epilepsy advocate and founder of The Epilepsy Network, Tiffany Kairos, shares her journey through nearly 18 years of living with epilepsy, from an unexpected diagnosis to becoming a beacon of hope for thousands. She and Kim Nash have an honest conversation about seizures, stigma, self-advocacy, and the power of community. A moving reminder that a diagnosis doesn't get to own your life. CHAPTERS / TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Living with Epilepsy: A Journey of Resilience 10:01 Community and Advoc…
The Tick Bite Nobody Treated | Adison Woods on Late-Stage Lyme and the Diagnosis 25 Years Late
Ep 92 · Jul 31, 2026 · 27 min
Adison Woods has been navigating chronic illness since childhood: fainting, migraines, back surgeries, and a tick bite at summer camp that nobody connected to anything for 25 years. When her mother finally said, "You have Lyme disease," Adison rolled her eyes. Then the labs came back positive. An infectious disease doctor told her the test was wrong because she'd never been to the Northeast. She got treatment anyway, built a community called Sick and Shining, and is writing a book. She joins Kim…
Survive or Heal: What Elite Athletes Know About Injury That Chronic Pain Patients Need to Hear
Ep 91 · Jul 24, 2026 · 24 min
Dr. Tommy Rhee spent years watching elite athletes at UCLA and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers survive injuries instead of heal them, numbing the pain to play through the season and saving surgery for the off-season. He developed Regen, a needle-free topical that delivers stem cell signaling through the skin to reduce inflammation and trigger regeneration without injections, downtime, or immune response risk. He joins Kim Nash to break down the science in plain language: what regenerative medicine actu…
Wildfire Smoke, Rising Temperatures & the Chronic Health Crisis Nobody's Connecting the Dots On
Ep 90 · Jul 17, 2026 · 22 min
Dr. Debra Hendrickson is a pediatrician in Reno, the fastest-warming city in the U.S., and the author of The Air They Breathe. She joins Kim Nash to talk about something most chronic illness patients and caregivers aren't warned about: how common medications impair your body's ability to cope with heat, and how rising temperatures and wildfire smoke are quietly compounding the health burden for anyone already managing a chronic condition. Practical, urgent, and packed with information you can ac…
"Hepatitis Cannot Wait" | Kenneth Kabagambe on 13 Years of Advocacy, Policy Wins & Gaps That Remain
Ep 89 · Jul 10, 2026 · 37 min
Kenneth Kabagambe founded Uganda's National Organization for People Living with Hepatitis B after watching a friend die of a disease nobody around him had heard of, and then being diagnosed himself. In 13 years, he has secured government funding, free birth dose vaccination for every newborn in Uganda, a Triple Elimination Conference for Africa, and ongoing advocacy at the highest levels of health policy. He joins Kim Nash for a conversation about stigma that still breaks families, clinical tria…
Born With It, Diagnosed at 50: Dwayne Wilson on Pompe Disease and Why Early Testing Saves Muscle
Ep 88 · Jul 3, 2026 · 44 min
Dwayne Wilson was born with Pompe disease and didn't find out until he was 50 years old, when he couldn't climb a staircase, couldn't get off the toilet, and felt like someone was standing on his chest in a swimming pool. Eight years later, he's on biweekly infusion #194, rolled his Dolphin-stickered electric wheelchair to 14 Anaheim Ducks games this season, and posted a laser show video that got 4.1 million views and counting. He returns to The Chronic Truth to talk about treatment, mental heal…
What Conventional Eye Care Gets Wrong
Ep 87 · Jun 26, 2026 · 24 min
Dr. Edward Kondrot was a conventional eye surgeon until adult-onset asthma and the tremors caused by his medication forced him to find another way. Homeopathy cured his asthma. It also changed who he was as a doctor. Now he integrates homeopathy, microcurrent stimulation, and whole-person care into his ophthalmology practice and gives away his bestselling book for free because no book helps anyone sitting on a shelf. He joins Kim Nash for a conversation about treating the person instead of the d…
"FAP Is So Much More Than the Colon"
Ep 86 · Jun 19, 2026 · 31 min
Jenny Jones is back, and a lot has changed. Since her last visit, she lost her mother to FAP complications, launched Life's Apolyp Foundation as a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, and is correcting the record on something she got wrong last time: FAP is not just a colon disease. It's a whole-body condition that can show up in the eyes, skin, teeth, liver, and more, and the gaps in that understanding are delaying diagnosis and putting families at risk. This conversation covers the foundation, the research…
Cognitive Decline, Tough Exteriors & the Breaking Point: The Real Face of Multiple Sclerosis
Ep 85 · Jun 12, 2026 · 20 min
Mara Fowler has lived with multiple sclerosis for 26 years, diagnosed just after her 21st birthday, after being misdiagnosed with complex migraines. She's been through plasmapheresis, eight and a half months of not walking, seizures, a torn labrum, and the kind of cognitive decline that quietly dismantles the life you built. She joins Kim Nash, who is currently going through the McDonald MS diagnostic criteria herself, for a deeply personal conversation about resilience, relearning your limits,…
HIV Long-Term Survivors Were Never Supposed to Exist
Ep 84 · Jun 5, 2026 · 50 min
Jesus Guillen has been an HIV survivor for 41 years since 1985, when a nurse at UCLA told him he was positive and walked out. He arrived in the U.S. in 1984 with no papers, no community, and no roadmap. What he built in the decades that followed Aguilas in San Francisco, the HIV Long-Term Survivors International Network, a global speaking career, and an Emmy-winning documentary came from the same impulse: nobody should have to think they're the only one left. This episode airs on HIV Long-Term S…
Singing Through Fire: What Joy Looks Like When You've Lost Your Health, Your Career & Your Husband
Ep 83 · May 29, 2026 · 28 min
Lara Silverman was two weeks into her dream job as a federal prosecutor when a rare neurological condition turned her world literally upside down. Eight years later, she's still largely bedridden with severe chronic vertigo, a widow, and the author of Singing Through Fire — an Amazon #1 bestseller she wrote flat on her back in six months. Her story includes a love story with a man facing terminal cancer, a wedding with a chemo pump in the room, and a faith that has been tested, broken, rebuilt,…
Diabetes Burnout, Workplace Stigma & Why the Right Community Changes Everything
Ep 82 · May 22, 2026 · 25 min
Chelcie Rice has had Type 1 diabetes since the late 1980s, diagnosed at 25, with no technology, no community, and a pamphlet for guidance. By 2005, he'd lost vision in one eye. Instead of retreating, he built a platform using comedy and storytelling to break the stigma and reach the people who are still navigating it alone. He joins Kim Nash to talk about diabetes burnout, the landmines inside online support groups, how workplaces fail their diabetic employees, and why humor might be the most un…
The Prepared Patient: Three Things Every Chronic Illness Patient Needs Before a Specialist Visit
Ep 81 · May 15, 2026 · 25 min
Eric Butcher was told to get his affairs in order at 38. He had cirrhosis, Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency, and five years. That was 15 years ago. His MELD score has dropped from 15 to 8 through lifestyle changes, community, and getting off medications that were quietly compounding the damage. Now he's built The Prepared Patient, a navigation framework for chronic illness patients who are tired of 15-minute appointments that go nowhere. He joins Kim Nash to talk Alpha-1, insurance gatekeeping, ho…
"Recovery Doesn't Mean Cured" | Two Decades of Schizoaffective Disorder
Ep 80 · May 8, 2026 · 40 min
Jason Jepson was 19 when he had a psychotic break at an Army base in the Mojave Desert. He's 45 now, living independently, volunteering, writing a blog cited by academic journals, and traveling to Portugal with his family. His mother, Maye, is a trained counselor who became an expert in schizoaffective disorder overnight, started a Facebook group called Parenting Through Mental Illness, and trains law enforcement through NAMI on how to respond to mental health crises. Together, they join Kim Nas…
Stress Is Your Teacher, Not Your Enemy
Ep 79 · May 1, 2026 · 30 min
Dean Graves has spent 20+ years teaching one idea: the condition of the body is a manifestation of the mind. As a meditation teacher, mental health counselor, and author, he works with veterans, trauma patients, and chronic pain sufferers who are ready to stop fighting their bodies and start understanding them. This conversation covers consciousness, the ego mind, how stress works as a teacher, and a set of trauma-clearing techniques he learned from a Serbian psychologist that can dissolve a lif…
11 Years to Diagnose, 7 Organs Fused: The Endometriosis Reality Nobody Warned You About
Ep 78 · Apr 24, 2026 · 30 min
Ruthy spent years being dismissed before passing out from pain and finally landing in the office of a surgeon whose bio said: If you're in pain, please come see me. The MRI showed seven internal organs fused. She built The Yellow Hub: a global specialist map with over half a million views so no one else would have to find the right doctor by accident. Now, as co-founder of Ma Pott Health, she's bringing AI-powered symptom forecasting to endometriosis patients so they can manage their lives aroun…
From Billion-Dollar Projects to End-Stage Liver Disease: How Lorrinda Gray-Davis Became an Advocate
Ep 77 · Apr 17, 2026 · 31 min
Lorrinda Gray-Davis went from managing billion-dollar construction projects to crash-landing in an ER with end-stage liver disease, then inoperable liver cancer, then a high-risk transplant that was only possible because of clinical trials. As president of TRIO and vice chair of OPTN's Patient Affairs Committee, she's turned that journey into systems that actually help: a peer-to-peer transplant support meeting running six years online, and the Transplant Medication Navigator, which has taken me…
How Chronic Illness Changes Everything in a Relationship and How to Navigate It
Ep 76 · Apr 10, 2026 · 28 min
When chronic illness enters a relationship, it doesn't ask permission, and no one gives you a manual for what comes next. Lisa Gray is a licensed marriage and family therapist, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome patient, and author of Thriving in a Relationship When You Have a Chronic Illness. She joins Kim Nash to talk about why both partners are grieving (just differently), how to stop fighting each other and start fighting the illness together, and what to do when your partner won't accept your diagnosis…
65 Million Americans Have Chronic Pain and Most Don't Know the Real Cause
Ep 75 · Apr 3, 2026 · 38 min
Dr. Bruce Gillis spent over a decade proving what too many doctors still refuse to accept: fibromyalgia is a real, diagnosable immune deficiency — not a made-up condition affecting neurotic women. His FM1 blood test, covered by Medicare and most major insurers, gives patients a definitive rule-in diagnosis. His supplement Imbix targets the gut-brain axis and has helped people off wheelchairs, off anti-psychotics, and out of decades of suffering — with zero confirmed adverse effects. This convers…
She Was Dying and Didn't Know It: One Woman's Liver Transplant Story
Ep 74 · Mar 27, 2026 · 24 min
Eileen Flynn Wagner survived five Hep C treatments, a near-fatal liver failure, and a transplant she almost didn't live to receive, and eight years later, she's still navigating the aftermath. Her kidneys are now at 20% function, she gets stents replaced every three months, and she carries a partially collapsed lung she's never once felt. She joins Kim Nash to speak candidly about why a combined kidney-liver transplant should have been done from the start, the anti-rejection medications patients…
Epilepsy and Mental Health: Severe Depression, Anxiety, and the Healing Power of Sharing Your Story
Ep 73 · Mar 20, 2026 · 19 min
At 14, Allany Muniz had her first seizure right before freshman year of high school. During basketball tryouts, she had another—and became known as "the seizure girl" for the rest of high school. Years of severe depression, suppressed trauma, and silence followed until a fractured ankle in November 2020 left her bedridden with visions in her head that wouldn't stop. She started filming videos (still under anesthesia) and created Diary of an Epileptic—a platform breaking the stigma around epileps…
If You've Tried All the Drugs and You're Still Not Happy, Try Something Different
Ep 72 · Mar 13, 2026 · 25 min
Your treatment plan is decided before you walk into the doctor's office by an insurance actuary in another city who limits your doctor to 12 drugs. Dr. Kevin Smith, founder of Chronic Condition Center, has spent 25 years proving functional medicine works differently: asking why instead of chasing symptoms, testing 10 thyroid markers instead of just TSH, and investigating toxic load, hormone imbalances, and the 27 anemia patterns traditional medicine ignores. If you've tried all the drugs and you…
Not Without A Fight: My Journey Through Illness to Purpose
Ep 71 · Mar 6, 2026 · 9 min
Kim Nash was the first baby born to a kidney transplant recipient in the United States and unknowingly contracted Hepatitis C at birth. Diagnosed at 37 with young kids, she faced end-stage liver disease, treatment failure, and crushing depression before a 2014 clinical trial cured her and changed her purpose. Now navigating dystonia, neuropathy, and MS diagnosis while her liver regenerates, Kim shares the raw truth about surviving chronic illness: seeking therapy, starting a gratitude journal wi…
From Misdiagnosis to Meaning: How 200,000 Patients Drive Clinical Trials and Get Compensated
Ep 70 · Feb 27, 2026 · 16 min
Seven to ten years, that's how long most people wait for an accurate rare disease diagnosis, cycling through treatments that don't work and doctors who've never seen their condition. Pam Cusick, VP of Rare Patient Voice, has built a community of 200,000 patients across 1,500 conditions who get paid $120/hour to shape clinical trials, test medical devices, and ensure research reflects real patient experiences. With over $18 million paid to participants and 300+ active studies, this is how patient…
Eating Disorders and Chronic Illness: Why Emotional Capacity Matters as Much as What's on Your Plate
Ep 69 · Feb 20, 2026 · 25 min
Nine out of ten people with eating disorders never receive specialty care. They're sitting right next to you, walking wounded in a diet culture designed to keep them that way. Eating disorder dietitian Jessica Setnick has spent 28 years uncovering the intergenerational food stories, unconscious childhood rules, and emotional programming that drive disordered eating long before anyone thinks to ask for help. From the language to use when a friend is struggling to the childhood circle exercise tha…
Multiple Sclerosis Without Meds: Emotional Capacity, Nervous System Resonance, and Organic Transformation
Ep 68 · Feb 13, 2026 · 34 min
After healing her multiple sclerosis naturally over 20 years, Christine Ruch discovered the missing piece that no diet, supplement, or lifestyle change could address: nervous system dysregulation. Her journey from Boulder holistic chef to transformation guide reveals why emotional capacity matters as much as nutrition, how unconscious patterns keep us sick, and the radical difference between forcing healing through rules versus trusting your body's innate wisdom. For anyone managing MS, autoimmu…
Schizophrenia: When Plan A Crumbles and You Build an Army of Helpers
Ep 67 · Feb 6, 2026 · 41 min
The day Maye Jepson's son called from a psychiatric hospital in California with a schizophrenia diagnosis, everything changed. Over 20 years later, she's transformed that fear into fierce advocacy—co-presenting Crisis Intervention Team training with Jason, founding Parenting Through Mental Illness, and giving parents the hope and practical tools they desperately need. From becoming a "trust partner" to knowing when to call the police, Maye shares what actually works when serious mental illness e…
Chronic Health Conditions: Why Grains, Sleep Deprivation, and Omega-6 Oils Are Sabotaging Your Recovery
Ep 66 · Jan 30, 2026 · 40 min
What if the "healthy" grains you're eating are actually fueling inflammation and disrupting your sleep? Board-certified clinical nutritionist Beverly Meyer pioneered the Paleo diet decades before it had a name, and her ancestral approach to healing reveals why chronic conditions improve when we stop fighting our biology. From batch cooking strategies to the hidden truth about olive oil fraud, discover practical nutrition that actually works for chronic illness. CHAPTERS / TIMESTAMPS 00:00…
Is Type 2 Diabetes Really Reversible?
Ep 65 · Jan 23, 2026 · 19 min
Is type 2 diabetes truly reversible, or are we being told the wrong story? Kim welcomes professional chef and diabetes advocate Jeff Grundy for an honest conversation about the confusion, fear, and misinformation surrounding type 2 diabetes. After spending years relying on medication alone, Jeff experienced a wake-up call that changed everything. Today, he helps others understand that real change doesn’t come from extreme diets or quick fixes but from mindset shifts, identity change, and small,…
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