Dr. Melanie Stein is a licensed naturopathic physician in Portland, Oregon, a leading clinician in cell membrane therapy for complex and chronic illness, and the author of Breaking Through Chronic Illness. After waking up paralyzed in naturopathic medical school, then being told her symptoms were “all in her head” before eventually being diagnosed with Lyme disease and mold toxicity, she built a practice around restoring health at the cellular level.

• The role of limbic system retraining, trauma work, and nervous‑system safety in healing when your brain has learned to see everything—even supplements—as a threat.

• How waking up paralyzed in naturopathic school—and being told it was “all in her head”—pushed Dr. Melanie into treating Lyme and complex illness at the cellular level.​

• Why damaged cell membranes and mitochondria sit at the root of chronic symptoms, blocking detox, scrambling cell “antennas,” and leaving the immune system offline.​

• How Lyme, mold, and co‑infections hijack cells differently in acute vs. chronic cases—and why being in mold makes almost any Lyme protocol fail.​
  

Katie Hardie is a board-certified holistic nutritionist and FDN practitioner who helps high performers reclaim their energy, optimize nutrition, and achieve sustainable results through bio‑individual, science‑driven programs.​

• How 90s “low‑fat, more cardio” culture pushed Katie into overtraining, and hypothalamic dysfunction.

• Why more minutes and miles don’t equal better performance—and how intelligent intensity, volume, and recovery transform strength, speed, and body composition.​

• The real role of rest: sleep, micro‑breaks, and nervous‑system regulation as performance tools, not signs of laziness.​

• How chronic stress, overtraining, and “hustle” living wreck cortisol, sex hormones, and gut health long before your labs look “broken.”​

• Why fasting insulin matters more than you think, and how dysregulated blood sugar drives fat storage, anxiety, and hormone imbalances (including estrogen dominance and PMS‑like symptoms).[]​

• Practical daily anchors—like breath work, HeartMath, walking, and boundaries—that make metabolic health and recovery actually sustainable for real people with real lives.​

This episode is about redefining what it means to be a high performer: not the person grinding 24/7, but the one who can hit 100% output because they’ve learned to respect recovery, metabolism, and their nervous system. Through Katie’s story and clinical experience, we unpack how rest, smart training, and metabolic focus turn “always tired, always pushing” into a body and brain that actually have the capacity to live—and work—at a higher level.

Katie Hardie

From chronically ill patient to the strategist behind 9-figure wellness brands, this conversation with Allie Chandler is about what it really takes to heal when your body.

Allie is the founder and CEO of Upsell Health, a marketing agency helping functional medicine practitioners and supplement companies scale to 60–100M in revenue, after years as the “mystery patient” navigating chronic Lyme, mold toxicity, and hyperadrenergic POTS.​

• How a tick bite in Switzerland led to years of debilitating symptoms and delayed Lyme diagnosis.​

• The emotional toll of medical gaslighting—and the words patients actually need to hear.​

• Why drainage, parasites, and mold often have to come before “going after Lyme.”​

• How perfectionism, self-talk, and nervous-system work can either block or unlock healing.​