Joseph Smith; AAS, CHWC, Microbiome Analyst & Biomesight Practitioner

CAD Tech, Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Biomesight Practitioner, and an avid citizen scientist who has been learning and healing from all sorts of chronic disease since 2018.

My Story

Three months after my initial onset of symptoms on January 15, 2018, I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. I underwent antibiotic therapy, which is the standard of medical care, and I experienced only a worsening of my symptoms. After 6 months of failure-to-treat I was then told, by my treating physicians, that whatever sickness I was still experiencing must be “all in my head”. I was floored, though in hindsight I understand, they are not trained to accept that Lyme Disease can become a chronic condition. This utterly terminated my relationship with most modern medical doctors, or at least the role I thought they were supposed to play. This is when I embarked on my journey to become the healer I needed – to become what I expected my doctors to be.

I began learning and testing, which is when I not only found the Lyme Disease, but three other common co-infections, Bartonella, Babesia, and Rickettsia, each of which can be lethal on their own. Then, I later found various heavy metal toxicities like Thorium, Beryllium, Cesium, Mercury, Tellurium, and Tungsten. Most of these were likely from working in a metal fabrication shop, fresh out of college. I also found high levels, or toxicities of various environmental toxins like Glyphosate, Diethyldithiophosphate, Phenyl Glioxylic Acid, Perchlorate, Butylparaben, and N-Acetyl (Propyl) Cysteine. This is likely from a simple but costly mistake to trust a water source, explicitly, for 6 months leading up to my health collapse. I also found what I believe to be the main progenitor, or culprit of the collapse of my bodily systems, the most toxic of all natural and man-made toxins, mycotoxins from toxigenic molds. The mycotoxins I found were Ochratoxin A, T2 Toxin, Diacetoxyscirpenol, Deoxynivalenol, Patulin, Verrucarin J, Aflatoxin G1, and Citrinin. These exposures most likely came from toxigenic molds like Aspergillus, Stachybotrus, and Penicillium, all of which are common in water damaged buildings. While there’s no way to know the exact exposure, like when or where it happened, one thing is for certain, I was exposed and in large ways.

Quite an impressive list, huh? Please note, these findings are from two tests taken a year apart. After the first test mostly showed large amounts of mycotoxins and few metals, I deployed many therapeutic agents to help my body release, or detoxify itself of the mycotoxins. As I progressed through detoxification that year, what was being excreted and detected in the urine sample a year later had shifted away from mycotoxins and toward heavy metals, and I was also feeling much, much better.

I have slowly been crafted by my circumstances, as we all are. I am a professional computer-aided designer by day, for the last 17 years, and avid wood worker and builder in my spare time. Due to my engineering curiosity, I like to build, tear down, and rebuild in an attempt to understand how all things work — due to my health circumstances I turned that curiosity inward, toward understanding the human body, and began deconstructing and reconstructing my health — becoming my own self-healer.

By consuming all manners of content I could find, I’ve learned a lot about medicine, pharmacology, biochemistry, microbiology, herbs, diet and nutrition, anatomy and physiology, movement, and the mental and spiritual aspects of health and wellness. I’ve read countless books, scientific journals and studies, spent tens of thousands of dollars on wacky therapies, special doctors and practitioners, and wildly surprising supplementation products. I have also solo-traveled across the country for treatments, met some the best people ever, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Sickness and healing is a very, very ugly business, but it doesn’t have to be – chin up, it gets better! I have used the conglomeration of these experiences to help myself get better when nobody else could help me. This is when I realized others could benefit from the knowledge I have accrued, and so now I’m making an effort to share it with others.

I’m an open book and willing to provide my various resources as I’m able. Consider joining my various social media groups to join in on the journey of self-healing, and consider checking out my Fullscript supplement store for 20% off the best practitioner grade nutraceuticals. Be on the lookout for books I’m writing, as well as any other wild ventures I get into.

I want to thank you for taking the time to read about me, and I want to leave you with a final message. Reach out and connect with people, it is the best thing you can do for your health. Reach out to me, or to whomever, just reach out — reach out to the world, and keep reaching out, you never know the kind of help you’ll receive. My goal and motto is to replace the “i” in “illness” with “we”, to make “wellness”. This whole journey is about having the right kind of support. It’s crushing to feel alone, to be told it’s all in your head, to be ignored or forgotten. Let my story be a confidence booster. You aren’t doomed, you don’t have to be helplessly sick forever — we can help ourselves, we can find others who want to help us. You can join my Facebook support group right now, for free, and share your story and ask for feedback from others. You can also schedule a consultation with me, and I will help to support your journey the best I can.