Lorrie Rivers is back with a 7-day “Long Covid and ME/CFS Holistic Healing Virtual Summit“. Online summits are all over the place and Health Rising gets many requests to promote them, but we only promote a few and always promote Lorrie’s. Why? Because Lorrie has personal experience with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID, and has developed her own unique blend of nutritional and mind/body approaches to deal with them.
That means her Summits boast a variety of speakers who poke at these diseases from a multitude of directions. As someone who believes that it will often take a variety of treatments to succeed, this makes sense to me.
Looking at the list of functional medicine disease doctors in the Summit, it’s remarkable how many (Teitelbaum, Hirsh, Krick, Rawls) got into the functional medicine field when traditional medicine failed to help them with their mysterious chronic illnesses.
Bill Rawls MD, an author and former chronic Lyme disease patient, wrote:
“My late 40s were marked by debilitating fatigue, tremendous brain fog, aching all over, burning in my feet and tingling in my hands, skin rashes, joint pain, chest pain, heart palpitations, mood changes, and poor sleep. I know what it’s like to start and end every day feeling like you have a terrible flu. Over several years, I experienced virtually every known symptom of Lyme disease.”
Dr. Hirsh has done over 100 podcasts.
The speakers aren’t johnnie-come-latelys. They’re experienced doctors who’ve been scouring the functional medicine field for years. Dr. Teitelbaum, the author of many books on ME/CFS/FM, will discuss limbic dysfunction. Dr. Evan Hirsh (the “EnergyMD”), who is on his 110th podcast (!) has covered everything under the sun. Drew Kidder’s “Vibrant Wellness” functional medicine podcast is on its 75th session.
Dr. Taylor Krick, autoimmune patient and doctor who now treats autoimmune diseases from a functional medicine perspective,is coming up on his 60th podcast. Dr. John Lieurance, a chiropractic neurologist and naturopath will be speaking on methylene blue and melatonin – two subjects he’s recently been devoting podcasts to.
Along with the functional medicine side are a series of emotional/trauma/healing talks, three of which focus on breathing practices – which are now being embraced by a variety of practitioners including Dr. Putrino at Mt. Sinai. They can help speed oxygen to our tissues, calm down the autonomic nervous system, and reduce fight/flight. Dan Neuffer, Ashok Gupta, and Raelan Aegle – all former patients who have recovered – will talk about how retraining the autonomic nervous system and neuroplastic techniques can assist recovery.
Lorrie Rivers will lead several sessions on her favorite technique – the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) – to help with sleep, emotional well-being, and fatigue. I’m kind of the lone man out – no treatments on offer from me – but I’ll speaking on my usual topic – the latest research – with an emphasis on how our understanding of nociplastic pain is informing these diseases. Several recovery stories dot the Summit as well.
These Summits aren’t for everyone, but if you have an interest in functional medicine and/or mind/body techniques, this one might be for you.
Registering
RegisteringYou probably know how it goes. Register for these Summits for free and you can watch every talk on the day it’s presented. Buy the entire package (for $97) and you can download and watch them at your leisure.
The “Long Covid and ME/CFS Holistic Healing Virtual Summit” runs from Nov 8th to 10th.
You can register and/or buy the entire package here. (Health Rising receives affiliate sales if you buy the package.)
- Also check out some “fatigue freebies” (Hidden Infections, “Beditations”, “11 Self-care practices”, that you can download, as well as some success stories.
No thanks
While I’m unfamiliar with many of the Summit participants, there are a few I easily recognize as longtime members of the ME community, including the host, and I don’t believe they are “scammers” in any sense.
Perhaps it’s an understandable reaction to be frustrated by these kinds of talks when we’re waiting for the “magic bullet” answer to come from medical research or big pharma. However, until that day comes (if it does, in our lifetimes), if able, we’d do well to keep an ear to the ground & maybe give some of these programs a try.
I personally know and trust 2 people who have recovered fully from ME using “brain retraining” programs (at least 2 of the founders of these types of programs are part of the Summit). One was ill for almost 40 years and the other for about 4 years. I find that hopeful!
Just great – brain retraining and breathing techniques. Why are scammers being lifted up?
I wonder what percent of entrenched ME with PESE and fibro cases they work in.
ENOUGH with these snarky comments. With what recently happened to Dr. Eleanor Stein after being falsely discredited, it is time for our community to hold ourselves and each other to higher standards of behavior. https://www.eleanorsteinmd.ca/blog/canmebecuredwithneuroplasticity
If these approaches are not for you, fair enough. Please remember that many, many patients with decades of entrenched illness, knowledge and experience find benefit from these techniques. These verbal assaults aren’t just toward the program providers. They are toward fellow patients. We have suffered enough disrespect from the research and medical communities. There is no need to add further trauma by disrespecting each other. As those of us with experience know, what works for one will not work for another and vice versa. As someone with 18 years of illness who has used mindbody approaches for 11 years, I can say that they haven’t changed the fact that I have ME but they have significantly changed for the better how I experience ME. I wouldn’t be where I am today without them. Please allow grace for each person to decide for themselves what is useful and what is not.
Michele, don’t you dare try to tell people what they can or can’t say. I’ve been Ill for 18 years and tried Annie Hopper’s program and it did nothing. I really don’t know why I thought it would work. After all, it’s nothing more than repeating certain words while standing in different positions and visualization. After I tried it for a while, I felt utterly foolish and stopped. We need real treatments, not mind-body foolishness.
Thank you, Michele. There is no reason to discount the fact that some of these things help people cope, and no reason to treat anyone with disrespect. It’s FREE, and anyone is free not to attend.
Please, let’s not be the monsters some have made us out to be in the past. I can’t imagine wanting to help people who are rude and disrespectful in the face of free information. It’s not like we’re being asked to buy anything unless we want to purchase all the full recordings to watch as many times as we wish.
Thank you to all who have participated and worked to offer this information.
Such a shame nobody believes in what I do, as it actually works, multi dosing low dose naltrexone. One day it will be the normal treatment, 50 yrs from now probably.
I agree with you.
There are so many groups on facebook promoting such methods.
Chronically ill people, that are desperate to recover, are paying thousands of pounds for one or another of these unfounded pseudoscience methods. They shouldn’t be promoted in my opinion.
I went to sign up and it said this summit started yesterday, October 28. Am I late then?
I’d just like to say, mind body stuff is great, it helps me some but dosent stop my ME. Although I’m open to more of it, I’m a bit of a workaholic though, but working on that, only can because of ldn unconventionally, 7mls every 2 hrs, best thing I’ve ever done, hate resting after doing it it for 7 yrs, but I do try. Also Lyme is different to ME, from what I’ve seen. In fact my new dosing is 6mls at the first hour and 3mls at the second, I have zero pain, fatigue, pots and pem, I’m still not normal, but can take short walks, run my business, stand and cook easily for hours if I wish, hang washing, light yoga, ldn opens calcium ion channels.