Origins Of Health

Origins Of Health Integrative Health Experts help you get better from Lyme, Co-Infections, PANDAS/PANS, Mycotoxin Illne

Origins Of Health is an Osteopathic holistic medical center specializing in the treatment of chronic fatigue, pain and brain fog. By taking the time to get to the root cause of each patient's problems we help you regain your health and live the life you want.

Most doctors are trained to ignore this diagnostic clue.Stretch marks. We see them and think: growth spurts, weight gain...
12/26/2025

Most doctors are trained to ignore this diagnostic clue.

Stretch marks. We see them and think: growth spurts, weight gain, completely normal.

But some stretch marks are different. They're purple-red (not pink). They don't follow normal skin lines. And when you press on them, they blanch—the color disappears temporarily.

These aren't your typical stretch marks.

They can indicate a bacterial infection that causes severe psychiatric symptoms in children. Rage. OCD. Tics. Psychosis. All from an infection that creates these distinctive skin markings.

I've had parents completely stunned when I point these out. They thought it was just from growing. They had no idea it could be connected to their child's sudden behavioral changes.

This is a visual clue right in front of us during every physical exam. Easy to evaluate. Costs nothing to check. But most providers have never been taught to look for it.

Once you know what to look for, you can't unsee it. And it might just be the key to solving a case that's been stumping everyone.

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What if it's not mental illness?I see this pattern constantly in my practice. A patient presents with severe psychiatric...
12/24/2025

What if it's not mental illness?

I see this pattern constantly in my practice. A patient presents with severe psychiatric symptoms. They've tried medication after medication. Nothing works the way it should.

And everyone keeps adding more psychiatric drugs.

But here's what we should be asking first: Is there a treatable underlying cause?

Infections can mimic mental illness. Autoimmune conditions can present as psychiatric disorders. Metabolic dysfunction can look like depression. Inflammation can cause anxiety, rage, even psychosis.

When psychiatric medications aren't working, that's not a sign to add more medications. It's a sign to dig deeper.

We owe it to patients to look beyond the psychiatric diagnosis. To search for the root cause. To ask: What if this is something we can actually fix?

Because sometimes the most compassionate thing we can do is stop treating symptoms and start treating causes.

Comment below: What treatable cause do you wish more doctors screened for?

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Four hospitalizations. Every psychiatric medication failed.This 14-year-old boy was disappearing into psychosis right be...
12/19/2025

Four hospitalizations. Every psychiatric medication failed.

This 14-year-old boy was disappearing into psychosis right before his parents' eyes. The diagnosis seemed obvious—severe mental illness requiring long-term psychiatric care.

Except it wasn't mental illness at all.

It was a bacterial infection causing autoimmune encephalitis. His brain was inflamed from an infection, not a psychiatric disorder. And once they figured this out? Antibiotics cured what antipsychotics never could.

He came off all psychiatric medications. The psychosis resolved completely. He got his life back.

This isn't rare. It's just rarely diagnosed.

How many kids are being treated for mental illness when they actually have an infection? How many families are watching their children suffer on medications that will never work because we're treating the wrong problem?

Before adding another psychiatric medication, we owe it to our patients to ask: Is this really mental illness, or is something else going on?

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Medical school prepares doctors for the easy cases—the 60-70% of patients who get better no matter what treatment you ch...
12/17/2025

Medical school prepares doctors for the easy cases—the 60-70% of patients who get better no matter what treatment you choose.

But what about the other 30-40%?

Those are the patients who don't respond to standard protocols. The ones where textbook medicine falls short. The ones where we have to dig deeper, think differently, and actually investigate what's really going on.

That's where real diagnostic work begins. That's where root cause medicine matters. That's where lives get changed.

If you're in that 30-40%—the patient whose symptoms won't resolve, who's been told "it's all in your head," who's tried everything and nothing works—don't give up.

You're not a medical mystery. You just need a doctor willing to do the detective work.

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12/16/2025

Most doctors would have missed this. One observant clinician saved a child's life.

They were purple-red. Fiery. They didn't follow normal skin planes. And they were blanchable.

Two simple signs that every doctor is trained to ignore.
"Just stretch marks from weight gain," we're taught to say. Move on. Don't think twice.

But these weren't normal stretch marks. They were violaceous tracks that broke this case wide open. When every test came back negative, when four hospitalizations led nowhere, when psychiatric medications all failed — these marks held the answer.

Bartonella.

The diagnosis that explained the unexplainable psychosis.

Save this visual diagnostic clue. After today, you'll never miss it again.

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If a child suddenly seems to need an exorcism—rage, OCD, tics appearing out of nowhere—most doctors miss what's really h...
12/15/2025

If a child suddenly seems to need an exorcism—rage, OCD, tics appearing out of nowhere—most doctors miss what's really happening.

Bartonella-induced PANS.

And there's a visual clue hiding in plain sight that almost every provider is trained to ignore: strange "stretch marks."

Here's what makes them different: Purplish-red (not normal skin tone). Blanch when you press on them. Don't follow normal skin planes. Appear around the same time as behavioral changes.

They're not from growth. They're not from weight gain. They're from infection.

Transmission? Cat scratches/bites, lice, flea bites, spider bites—not just ticks.

Parents are shocked when I point these out. "We thought it was just growing pains."

But here's the best part: With proper treatment, those marks fade. The red-purple disappears—proof in real-time that the infection is leaving and healing is happening.

Once you know this visual clue exists, you can't unsee it.

Early identification changes lives. This could unlock your most difficult cases.

The question is: Are you looking for it?

➡️ Have you noticed these marks on yourself or your child?

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There is no cookbook for treating complex chronic illness.I learned this years ago and it changed everything about how I...
12/12/2025

There is no cookbook for treating complex chronic illness.

I learned this years ago and it changed everything about how I practice medicine.

Treating Lyme, Bartonella, PANS, or any tick-borne illness is like playing chess.

You make a move. You see what happens. You adjust.

Every patient is different. Everybody responds differently. Every immune system has its own quirks.

If your practitioner is doing the exact same protocol for every single patient, they're not helping as many people as they could.

Personalized medicine isn't just a buzzword. It's the ONLY way to truly help people heal.

This is why treatment takes time. Why there's trial and error. Why you can't just Google your way to a cure.

Your healing journey is unique to YOU.

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Stop saying "my Lyme disease."Stop saying "my PANS."Stop saying "I'm a chronic illness warrior."You wouldn't get assault...
12/10/2025

Stop saying "my Lyme disease."

Stop saying "my PANS."

Stop saying "I'm a chronic illness warrior."

You wouldn't get assaulted on the street and take your attacker's last name, would you?

So why are you giving your identity to an infection?

The language you use literally shapes how your nervous system responds to your condition.

When you say "my disease," you're making it part of who you are. You're giving it power. You're identifying as sick.

It's not YOU. It's a THING. It's an enemy.

And you don't make peace with enemies by claiming them as your own.

Start separating yourself from your illness. It's something you're EXPERIENCING, not something you ARE.

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Four psychiatric hospitalizations. Multiple failed medications. Every test came back negative.A 14-year-old boy was disa...
12/08/2025

Four psychiatric hospitalizations. Multiple failed medications. Every test came back negative.

A 14-year-old boy was disappearing into psychosis right in front of his parents' eyes.

No answers. No hope. Just a nightmare that kept getting worse.

Then one observant clinician noticed something everyone else ignored: purplish-red skin lesions that didn't look like normal stretch marks.

Special DNA testing revealed what standard tests missed—Bartonella infection causing autoimmune encephalitis.

After switching to combination antibiotic therapy, his neuropsychiatric symptoms resolved. He came off all psychiatric medications. The skin lesions disappeared. Complete recovery.

This wasn't mental illness. It was an infection in disguise.

Medical school teaches us to treat 60-70% of cases. But what about the other 30-40%?

How many kids are stuck on psych meds right now when the real problem is being completely missed?

It's time to look deeper. The clues are right in front of us.

➡️ Have you or someone you know experienced sudden behavioral changes that psychiatry couldn't explain? Drop your story below 👇

12/08/2025

How many psychiatric diagnoses are actually infectious diseases in disguise?

A 14-year-old with schizophrenia. Four hospitalizations. Multiple psychiatric medications. Isolated autoimmune treatments. All of it failed.

Because it wasn't mental illness.

It was an infection causing autoimmune encephalitis.

When they finally switched to combination antibiotic therapy, everything changed. His symptoms resolved. He came off ALL psychiatric medications. Those purple stretch marks faded. He returned to his pre-illness state.

He was cured of "mental illness."

The longer these infections go untreated, the more damage they do. But when we catch them early and treat them properly, the results are life-changing.

If we're missing Bartonella this often, how many other kids are suffering unnecessarily?

Comment "infection" if you've seen sudden behavioral changes that didn't make sense.

Your kid isn't broken.Let me explain what's really happening when they're fighting you.Imagine being pushed into a cage ...
12/05/2025

Your kid isn't broken.

Let me explain what's really happening when they're fighting you.
Imagine being pushed into a cage with a lion. You'd do ANYTHING to escape, right?

Now imagine the person you trust most is blocking the only exit.

That's what anxiety feels like to your child.

They're not being oppositional. They're not being difficult. They're not trying to make your life harder.

They're TERRIFIED.

And when you try to force them to do the thing that scares them—go to school, eat dinner, take a shower—you become the barrier between them and safety.

Of course they're fighting you.

The solution isn't to push harder. It's to help them see there's no lion.

To show them they're safe. To be the calm in their storm, not another threat.

Your child needs you to understand their fear, not dismiss it.

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12/03/2025

What if "mental illness" was actually an infection hiding in plain sight?

In medical school, we're taught to dismiss Bartonella as harmless cat scratch disease.

Mild. Self-limiting. Nothing to worry about.

But here's what they don't tell you — we're only trained on the 60-70% who get better no matter what. What about the other 30-40%?

I've watched families trapped in a nightmare. Four psychiatric hospitalizations. Every medication failed. Tests came back negative. A 14-year-old boy lost to psychosis with zero answers.

Until one doctor noticed something unusual. Purple-red stretch marks that didn't follow normal skin patterns. That single observation changed everything

If you're treating kids with sudden behavioral changes that don't respond to conventional treatment, this changes everything.

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