Joanna Francisco - Naturopath, Certified GAPS Coach

12/19/2025

I have a lot of respect for Dr. Palevsky. I’d love to see more MDs in the world like him.

New Interview: How Conventional Medicine Is Ruining Our Kids

In this episode of The Way Forward Podcast, Dr. Larry Palevsky breaks down the observations that pushed him to question the pediatric model from within. Standard protocols weren’t helping. Some interventions were making symptoms worse. And the infection-based framework he was trained to follow simply didn’t explain the chronic inflammation, neurodevelopmental issues, or immune dysregulation showing up in real kids.

Looking for clarity, he stepped outside the conventional lane—into nutrition, Chinese medicine, chiropractic, reiki, herbology, and other holistic approaches that offered a fuller picture of children’s health. That search opened deeper questions about vaccine ingredients, aluminum adjuvants, immune overload, environmental toxicity, and whether our definition of “infection” actually matches what’s happening inside children’s bodies.

This conversation is for anyone who already knows the system is breaking kids—and wants the language, context, and coherence to understand why, and what truly supports long-term health.

Watch it Here: https://thewayfwrd.com/podcast/ep-208-how-conventional-medicine-is-ruining-our-kids-dr-larry-palevsky/

Or Here: https://odysee.com/:f/How-Conventional-Medicine-Is-Ruining-Our-Kids:d

11/24/2025

The GAPS Diet is a gut healing protocol that eliminates foods that irritate the gut lining and harm the gut microbiome while providing the body that which it needs to rebuild and heal resulting in the restoration of the cellular structure of the gut lining and repopulation of the gut microbiome with a diverse, thriving beneficial bacterial community.

Grains are not used during the healing process. But once healed, grains that have been adequately fermented, like sourdough bread, are usually well tolerated and delicious, especially when loaded with raw grass fed butter, herbed tallow, and/or avocado + mineral salt!

11/19/2025

My hobby, love language, super power:

Presenting Loaded Baked Potato Soup - but no potatoes (carb, starch, not a GAPS food), no bacon (beef instead = biblically clean). This recipe includes gut healing chicken stock, cauliflower, onion, beef “bacon” bits (homemade…it’s all in the seasonings & cooking technique), and probiotic crème fraiche.

I love to take delicious recipes and modify them to make them GAPS-friendly and biblically clean. The other day I made a “sausage” casserole. To pull it off, I simply seasoned my beef as if I were making sausage from scratch. Endless possibilities. Happiness. Healthy gut. 🥰

11/19/2025

11/18/2025

Everyone should have activated charcoal on hand.

11/17/2025

Reach out if you’d like to make this with me in December 🧡♥️🤎

11/17/2025

Making Spiced AppleKraut…Yum! 🦠

11/11/2025

Make your home a place for healing.

A healthy home = a healthy you 🏡✨
Removing toxins from your space—like harsh cleaners, synthetic fragrances, and plastics—is one of the best first steps toward better health. Your home should be a place of healing, not hidden chemicals. Start small, swap wisely, and watch how much lighter you feel 🌿💧

10/23/2025

08/21/2025

Unsafe practice.

It’s not just about the senselessness of injecting toxins into the body to prevent acute illness (a detoxification event). Parents need to be equipped with the knowledge of HOW the body works to understand why we would never want to undermine that essential process! What we’ve been led to believe are problems (symptoms that need to be suppressed) are in reality the mechanisms by which accumulated waste is eliminated. It’s not in your child’s best interest to get in the way of what the body needs to do to survive and thrive.

There’s a reason childhood chronic illness rates are exploding.