EnergyMD Podcast

You can do the labs, the supplements and the diet, and still feel stuck. What if a belief about yourself is keeping you sick?
If you've done everything right and your body still won't bounce back, this conversation is for you. Filipa Bellette, PhD has been there. After her first baby, her health got worse month after month. Her doctor said her bloods were fine and she was just stressed. Functional medicine helped for a while. Then COVID hit, and nothing physical moved her symptoms. What changed things was working on the deep beliefs she held about herself, like "I am weak and incapable." Today she and her husband Chris have helped more than 3,500 clients address burnout.
In this conversation, we talk about the core beliefs she sees most in her clients, how to find yours by looking at your patterns, and the daily practice she used to rewire her own. She also explains why the physical side still matters, and how nervous system work fits into her program.
In this episode, you'll learn:
The core beliefs Filipa sees most, like strong or weak, smart or dumb, and normal or weird
How a crash or a flare-up can feel like proof of what you already believe about yourself
How to find your own belief by looking at your patterns, like people pleasing or putting things off
The simple question she asks again and again: "Why is that a problem?"
The daily practice she used for about three months to rewire her belief, including talking kindly to her body
How her program brings together the physical side and nervous system work
Guest: Filipa Bellette is co-founder of award-winning Chris & Filly Functional Medicine and author of Ending Body Burnout. An accredited Clinical Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Practitioner, Coach, Trauma Therapist and PhD Scholar, she has been featured on the Today Show, in Forbes, and Body+Soul.
Together with her husband Chris, she has helped more than 3,500 clients address burnout, drawing on over 30 years of combined experience. Her passion for helping busy people restore energy, improve mood and gut health, and reconnect with life grew from her own experience of burnout while juggling business, family and declining health.
Discover your fatigue score and the root causes keeping you stuck: https://myfatiguescore.com
Free Fatigue Masterclass: https://fixyourfatigue.com
See real results: https://energymdmethod.com/results
Chapters:
00:00 - Filipa's Story of Body Burnout
05:26 - Doing Everything Right, Still Stuck
08:47 - Core Beliefs That Keep People Sick
15:20 - How to Find Your Core Belief
19:15 - Changing Old Stories Day by Day
33:00 - Small Traumas, Big Effects
36:32 - Her Program: Body and Mind Together
Connect with Filipa Bellette, PhD:
Ending Body Burnout Method: https://www.energymdmethod.com/chrisandfillymethod
Body Burnout Scorecard: http://www.energymdmethod.com/chrisandfillygift
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You have viruses sleeping inside you right now. More than 90% of adults do, and COVID can wake them up.
A new study followed 1,154 people for a year. Nearly half of them had one wake back up, and one virus family kept showing up in the people who stayed sick.
Epstein-Barr, cytomegalovirus, HHV6. Most of us picked them up in childhood, and most of the time they just sit there quietly. The new study in Nature tracked what happened when COVID woke them up, across 20 US hospitals. Evan H. Hirsch, MD breaks down why the trigger was inflammation and not a weakened immune system. He gets into why the family with the strongest link to Long COVID is one you have probably never heard of, and why prescription antivirals run into a wall with viruses that go back into hiding. And he shares how a client who was spending more time on the couch than with his kids got back to hiking once all of the Toxic 5 were addressed.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why nearly half of the people in the study had a dormant virus reactivate during their COVID infection, and which two virus families it happened in
What anelloviruses are, why most people have never heard of them, and why they had the strongest link to Long COVID in this study
Why inflammation, not a weakened immune system, is what appears to wake these viruses back up, and why that applies even if you were never hospitalized
The three reasons prescription antivirals run into a wall with latent viruses, and what the SHIELD trial at Mount Sinai is stacking because of it
Why a study panel that does not look for Lyme, bacteria, yeast or parasites does not mean they are not there
What the Toxic 5 are, and how a client got his energy back and the brain fog lifted once all five root causes were addressed
Discover your fatigue score and the root causes keeping you stuck: https://myfatiguescore.com
Free Fatigue Masterclass: https://fixyourfatigue.com
See real results: https://energymdmethod.com/results
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - What the New Study Found
01:45 - The Virus Family You've Never Heard Of
02:52 - Why Dormant Viruses Wake Up
03:42 - The Strongest Link to Long COVID
04:46 - Why Antivirals Fall Short
07:35 - Addressing All of the Toxic 5
09:06 - Case Study: A Client's Recovery
Subscribe to the EnergyMD Podcast for weekly conversations with leading experts on resolving ME/CFS and Long COVID by addressing the real root causes.
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Please note that any information in this episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice.

Paxlovid helped a lot of people get over COVID faster. But what about the people who never got better?
A large NIH-funded trial put that question to the test in almost 1,000 people, and the answer was no.
The 89% reduction that made Paxlovid famous came out of a narrow, high-risk group back in 2021, during the Delta wave. That was a different question, in a different group, at a different point in the pandemic. Evan H. Hirsch, MD, breaks down what the RECOVER-VITAL trial actually found after six months, why trials at Yale and Stanford landed in the same place, and what the drug was designed to do from the start. He also gets into what else is keeping you sick: the spike protein appears to wake up viruses that have been dormant inside you for years, and he shares how a client who took Paxlovid twice only got better once all of the Toxic 5 were addressed.
In this episode, you'll learn:
What Paxlovid was actually approved for, and why the famous 89% reduction in hospitalizations came out of a narrow, high-risk group during the 2021 Delta wave
What the NIH-funded RECOVER-VITAL trial found when almost 1,000 people took extended Paxlovid for six months, and why trials at Yale and Stanford found the same thing
Why the drug is safe to take for that long but still cannot resolve Long COVID on its own
How the spike protein appears to wake up viruses like Epstein-Barr and HHV6 that over 90% of us already carry, and why a new trial at Mount Sinai is stacking antivirals because of it
What the Toxic 5 are, and how a client who took Paxlovid twice recovered only after all five root causes were addressed
How a client recovered by addressing all five root causes together, not just the reactivated virus driving her brain fog
Discover your fatigue score and the root causes keeping you stuck: https://myfatiguescore.com
Free Fatigue Masterclass: https://fixyourfatigue.com
See real results: https://energymdmethod.com/results
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - What Paxlovid Is and What It Was Made For
01:53 - Can Paxlovid Help the Chronic Version?
02:19 - What the RECOVER-VITAL Trial Found
03:13 - Why One Antiviral Was Never Enough
04:24 - The Viruses the Spike Protein Wakes Up
05:39 - Case Study: A Client's Recovery
06:43 - Where That Leaves Paxlovid
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For more information about Evan and his program, Click Here.
 
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Please note that any information in this episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice.

You can work on every physical root cause of Long COVID and still feel stuck. What if part of what's holding you back isn't physical at all?
If you've been working on the physical side of Long COVID for a while and something still feels stuck, this conversation might land differently. Julie Ryan is a medical intuitive who has worked with thousands of people, many of them dealing with Long COVID. She sees the body in a way most of us have never considered, and after all those years one pattern stands out to her: there is always an emotional component in place before an illness sets in. The physical work still matters. But if you're carrying an emotional block, she says, your body can't run on full power.
Julie Ryan is not a physician and this episode is not medical advice. It's a conversation about a different way of looking at the body and the energy around it, so you can decide what resonates with you.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why Julie says there is always an emotional component in place before any illness sets in, and what that means for Long COVID and chronic fatigue
The "energy field membrane" analogy: how an old emotional event, from this life or a past one, can leave your body leaking power
How Julie describes scanning a body like a human MRI, why she always goes in blind first, and what an energetic healing looks like from the client's side
Why she sees energy healing as part of the same healing equation as Western medicine, from radiologists and EKGs to the more than 800 US hospitals with energy healing departments
What Western testing can miss, from mold to EMFs, and the story of a 30-year-old client with osteoporosis
Guest: Julie Ryan is an author, entrepreneur, podcaster, and medical intuitive whose work explores health, spirituality, animals, and life transitions. She hosts Ask Julie Ryan, a weekly call-in show heard in more than 100 countries and ranked in the top 0.05% of podcasts.
Julie is the author of Angelic Attendants and the Angel Messages® children's book series. Her work also includes psychic mediumship and spiritual support around end-of-life questions. A businesswoman and inventor, Julie has founded nine companies across five industries, and her surgical-device inventions are sold globally.
Discover your fatigue score and the root causes keeping you stuck: https://myfatiguescore.com
Free Fatigue Masterclass: https://fixyourfatigue.com
See real results: https://energymdmethod.com/results
Chapters:
00:00 - Healing Beyond the Physical: Meet Julie Ryan
02:08 - What a Medical Intuitive Sees in People With Long COVID
10:43 - Intuition, Energy Healing, and Where Western Medicine Fits In
18:19 - What Standard Testing Misses: Mold, EMFs, and Osteoporosis at 30
26:04 - The Toxic 5, the Emotional Component, and the Energy Field Membrane
33:21 - Past Lives, Ancestral Trauma, and Tuning Into Spirit
44:27 - Julie's Training and her Free Book
Connect with Julie Ryan:
Website: http://askjulieryan.com
Free Resources: http://julieryangift.com
Subscribe to the EnergyMD Podcast for weekly conversations with leading experts on resolving ME/CFS and Long COVID by addressing the real root causes.
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For more information about Evan and his program, Click Here.
 
Prefer to watch on Youtube? Click Here.
 
Please note that any information in this episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice.

A new analysis out of Japan says a dementia drug might ease Long COVID fatigue and depression. But it's basically a reanalysis of the same trial that already failed back in 2025, and even where it helped, results were mixed.
The reanalysis splits people by whether they had a reactivated herpesvirus. Evan H. Hirsch, MD breaks down what that virus is actually doing to your brain, why the drug only helped part of the group and made others worse, and why chasing one virus and one brain chemical never gets to the real cause. He also shares how a client recovered by addressing all of the Toxic 5, the five root causes behind almost every case of Long COVID and chronic fatigue.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why the new Japan analysis is actually a reanalysis of the same JAMA trial that already found no benefit in 110 people, and why results stayed mixed even where it helped
How HHV6B, a herpesvirus that reactivates after COVID, produces a protein called SITH1 that drains acetylcholine and drives brain fog
Why treating one reactivated virus or one brain chemical never resolves Long COVID on its own
What the Toxic 5 are, and why nervous system dysfunction, what Dr. Patrick Porter calls neurological lock, is one of the five root causes
How a client recovered by addressing all five root causes together, not just the reactivated virus driving her brain fog
Discover your fatigue score and the root causes keeping you stuck: https://myfatiguescore.com
Free Fatigue Masterclass: https://fixyourfatigue.com
See real results: https://energymdmethod.com/results
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:25 - What the New Japan Analysis Found
01:39 - Why the Results Were Still Mixed
02:17 - Why Donepezil Misses the Bigger Picture
02:54 - The Toxic 5 and Neurological Lock
04:08 - Case Study: A Client's Recovery
05:55 - Why Full Recovery Takes Time
Subscribe to the EnergyMD Podcast for weekly conversations with leading experts on resolving ME/CFS and Long COVID by addressing the real root causes.
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For more information about Evan and his program, Click Here.
 
Prefer to watch on Youtube? Click Here.
 
Please note that any information in this episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice.