Lighting the Path with Gabe Golden

Gabe joins us as a special repeat offender on the show! Gabe Golden is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and producer. He has authored six screenplays and has found creating documentary films to be an essential form of in-depth journalism necessary to communicate all aspects of a subject. Inspired by his 30-year challenge with rheumatoid arthritis, Gabe completed "Lighting the Path," a documentary on alternative medicine who can watch for free! He has also co-written and produced the award-winning "Rangeland" series as well as the "Nevada Mining" series for PBS.

In this wide-ranging look at different healing modalities for chronic pain, Gabe and Freddie discuss how pain is your body trying to communicate to you, the importance of connecting your mind and heart, one common trait Gabe has found in healing stories around the world, and how to use these tools even when you’re healthy.

Episode Highlights

2:03 - Gabe's rheumatoid arthritis journey and how he found success

10:21 - Life is not like a drug commercial (and how insurance practices slow down healing)

14:11 - Pain is always your body requesting something

16:17 - How pain can drive depression and how to mitigate it

19:46 - Powerful methods to connect with your body to help your healing

22:35 - Where Gabe finds himself today on his journey

23:55 - About Gabe's film, Lighting the Path

27:53 - Finding helpful tips for your own life in Gabe's personal story

33:03 - Healing on the next level

35:16 - One common trait in healing stories around the world

36:26 - Optimizing your life when you're healthy

40:55 - Where to view the film

43:23 - What Gabe might take on next

48:07 - A healing rec center in every town

50:57 - What Gabe envisions for health and wellness in 2020

CONNECT WITH GABE

Wath Lighting the Path for free - https://cc760.isrefer.com/go/ltptr/freddiet50/

Support the films - https://www.goldenfilmproductions.com/about

UPGRADE YOUR WELLNESS

Marion Institute BioMed Course: biologicalmedicine.org
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Silver Biotics Wound Healing Gel: https://bit.ly/3JnxyDD
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Medical grade Ozone Therapy: https://lddy.no/1djnh
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CONNECT WITH FREDDIE

Work with Me: https://www.beautifullybroken.world/biological-blueprint

Website and Store: (http://www.beautifullybroken.world) 

Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/freddie.kimmel

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@beautifullybrokenworld 

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Freddie Kimmel and Gabe Golden (00:00.278)
Illness is really about more than just healing. It is about your transformation. you choose to find that in it, if you choose to find the meaning in that, that could be a really wonderful consequence of going through something that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

Freddie Kimmel and Gabe Golden (00:19.874)
Welcome to the Beautifully Broken Podcast brought to you by AmpCoil. I'm your host, Freddie Kimmel, and on this show, we discuss the common thread survivors share after walking through the fire, the practitioners making a difference, and the treatment modalities that deliver healing back into the hands of the people who need it most. Witness the inspiration we gain by navigating the human experience with grace, humility, and a healthy dose of mistakes. Because part of being human is being beautifully broken.

Freddie Kimmel and Gabe Golden (00:52.27)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the beautifully broken podcast. Truly special guest here today and one of two repeat offenders on the show. have Gabe Golden returning to us, documentary filmmaker, health guru and seeker of truth in the wellness space. Gabe, how you doing? I'm great, Freddie. Thank you for having me back. It's excited to be here again. I'm excited that I'm a

a year in and I'm still doing it. And we're still here having these really profound in-depth conversations and trying to get some quality resource to people who are looking for the true, for some light on the path, if you will. Yeah, thank you. And I love what you've done with the podcast. I've really enjoyed it over the last year. Great mix of guests from experts and

and as well as so many people with their own stories, you know, who we all, when we have our own stories become experts in certain ways as well. So I've just really enjoyed that mix that you've brought and your energy and your passion. So thank you for what you're doing. thank you. Without spending too much time on what we did last episode, Gabe, there's going to be people that will listen to this for the first time. And the reason I initially wanted to have you on and

It was to go into your story surrounding rheumatoid arthritis specifically in your recovery, because that was one of my main symptoms with these horribly inflamed joints in my knees and my fingers. And this is something that you had found great success and quite a degree of recovery over your years and digging into your own illness. Can you just go and give people a little bit of a dip in the water around what you went through and some of the, some of the success that you found?

Sure, yeah, I was a very active kid right up until about the age of 14. within a very short period of time, within a few weeks, all of my joints became really inflamed. And so this was feet, knees, shoulders, fingers, wrists, just my whole body just kind of lit up on fire with swelling. And I was pretty quickly diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

Freddie Kimmel and Gabe Golden (03:14.774)
Parents were very concerned, took me to all the best doctors. We ended up at Stanford. And basically, they just offered me a lot of really powerful immunosuppressive drugs. Also, not a great prognosis, especially being diagnosed at such a young age. They said, you will probably be in a wheelchair within 10 to 15 years, depending on how well those medications work for me. So it was a pretty daunting diagnosis and confusing. And as a kid, you really...

don't have a whole lot, especially 30 years ago, didn't have a whole lot of resources to look at in terms of what really might be going on. So you trust the doctors and you go down that path. And I always had an interest in health and diet. And as I got older, I managed to do pretty good on the medications. I tolerated the medications pretty well, even though it took a few years for them to really kind of suppress my immune system enough so that my symptoms weren't so debilitating.

But I was kind of intuitively knew that nutrition was going to be important, that not punishing my body would be very important to tolerate the medications. But into my mid-20s, I had a lot of side effects to the medications and they weren't really working that well for me. So I had dove into research on all the alternatives that I could find. The internet was becoming a much better resource in the early 2000s.

And I found information about how this could be related, of course, to diet, to leaky gut, to food sensitivities, to infection, and sort of took on that challenge of trying to navigate what might be my issue. I did let go of my mainstream rheumatologists. They weren't interested in any of that information. Of course, I tried, but they just wanted to keep increasing medications, give me more cortisone.

managed the symptoms. meanwhile, I was pretty concerned about my health. So I found a really good naturopathic doctor who was very concerned about my thyroid, my liver function. We found that a lot of key components of health were low. My vitamin D level was low. He put me on a really clean diet based on my metabolic type, which even back.

Freddie Kimmel and Gabe Golden (05:38.03)
This is almost 20 years ago. He had me on gluten-free diet, soy-free diet. Very progressive, 23 years ago, very progressive. Yeah, yeah. And a little harder to do back then, you know, not as many gluten-free options and people thought I was a lot stranger than most people trying to do it today. But, you know, was, that was something that actually did make a noticeable difference within a pretty short period of time. But as I went on a natural path where we were

I was taking some antimicrobial herbs. were following also Dr. Brown's protocol. Dr. Thomas MacPherson Brown had identified pulse-dosed antibiotic therapy, particularly using minocycline, being effective for rheumatoid arthritis. And so from there, we incorporated that protocol, which is just a low-dose antibiotic three days a week with some antimicrobial herbs, gluten-free diet, an optimal

you know, just an optimal clean, fairly paleo diet, treated my thyroid, optimized some hormone function. And within, I would say for the next six months, I was pretty miserable. My immune system seemed to just surge and had finally had the opportunity without the medications to kind of go after whatever was the underlying cause. By about month eight, I was doing really well. I could tell something very significant was happening.

And by month nine, I was running to the gym again and had completely recovered. Wow. So that was, you know, that was my first lesson that, that healing was possible from that point on. had no joint pain in any joints, except about a year later, it started coming back in my knees and I would get. One knee would bother me a while and it would kind of go away. Then the other one knee would bother me. And from that point on, I spent a lot of years just kind of going two steps forward and two steps back.

And in that, I also documented most of that in the film where I started filming my journey and seeking out others that were on the path to healing and kind of just gambled on the idea that at some point we would acquire enough good information that might be useful to people and also believing that there would be good endings to the stories because I believed healing was possible. You've got to have that in your heart.

Freddie Kimmel and Gabe Golden (08:00.204)
So that's so inspiring just to hear that not only were you looking a lifetime of living in a wheelchair right in the face, but then you kind of took that, you took that option and you said, no, I'm going to go somewhere else and somewhere else and somewhere else. And you just kept digging and digging and digging until you found success in your own path. I had mentioned on our last podcast that I had also

briefly touched on the low dose antibiotic therapy by Dr. Brown and I did find some success there with some pretty weird side effects at sometimes I would be getting these I would get these horrible hives all over my body and unfortunately it didn't do anything for me, but I've heard a lot but I have heard a lot of stories about LDN so I do know that's an option out there.