What if your anxiety or your child's panic wasn't a mental illness — but your body's natural way of trying to protect you?

In this powerful episode, Dr. Tom Moorcroft sits down with Dr. Scott Antoine, an expert in PANS/PANDAS and complex chronic illness, to reveal how the brain and body miscommunicate during stress and inflammation—and what it takes to retrain the nervous system for safety, calm, and healing.

You'll discover:
✅ Why anxiety and panic are protective responses, not flaws
✅ The connection between infections, toxins, and brain inflammation (PANS/PANDAS, Lyme, etc.)
✅ How laughter, language, and calm connection can rewire the brain
✅ The "20–30% Rule" for nervous system recovery
✅ Simple parenting tools to help kids regulate emotion and behavior
✅ How words, mindset, and environment shape healing outcomes

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⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:12 – Why anxiety isn't a broken system
04:45 – The fight-or-flight response gone wrong
08:22 – PANS, Lyme, and immune-driven behavior changes
13:10 – How laughter resets the nervous system
18:03 – Parenting tools for calm connection
23:45 – The 20–30% rule for nervous system recovery
28:20 – How language shapes healing
32:40 – Closing thoughts

Chronic Lyme disease patients often struggle with treatment-resistant neuropsychiatric symptoms that conventional medicine can't address. In this groundbreaking conversation, discover how microdosing psilocybin is offering new hope for those stuck in rigid thought patterns, depression, anxiety, and cognitive dysfunction.

Can microdosing psilocybin help people with chronic Lyme? While it doesn't treat the infection itself, new case reports show it may ease the mental and emotional patterns that keep people stuck. Here's one published study on psilocybin microdosing and chronic Lyme: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36896410/

You'll learn:
✅ How microdosing differs from recreational psychedelic use
✅ The science behind neuroplasticity and default mode network changes
✅ Why proper coaching and journaling protocols are essential
✅ Case reports showing success in treatment-resistant patients
✅ Safe dosing guidelines and harm reduction practices |
✅ How to integrate mindfulness practices for lasting results
✅ The difference between therapy and coaching approaches
✅ Why "set and setting" matter even with microdoses

Seth Marcus, mindful psychedelic coach and creator of the Microdosing Journal, shares his professional approach to helping high-performers and chronic illness patients use these ancient medicines safely and effectively as tools for healing and personal growth.

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⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction: Microdosing for chronic Lyme brain

02:25 - Meet Seth Marcus: From personal healing to professional coaching

07:04 - Key benefits: Focus, creativity, relationships, and mood

14:19 - The Microdosing Journal: Structure meets flexibility

25:17 - How psychedelics really work: Opening the heart

32:00 - Default mode network and rigid thought patterns

38:11 - Coaching vs therapy: Building your ideal future

44:07 - Why high-performers need coaches

51:23 - Safe microdosing protocols and guidelines

1:03:05 - Prayer, intention, and treating medicine as sacrament

1:14:25 - Debunking lethal dose myths

1:17:20 - Message to healthcare professionals

Are you stuck in your healing journey with Lyme disease, mold illness, long COVID, or another chronic condition? You've tried the protocols, supplements, and treatments—but you're still not getting better. Why? In this powerful conversation, Dr. Tom Moorcroft sits down with Dr. Aimie Apigian, physician, trauma expert, and author of The Biology of Trauma, to explore how unresolved trauma and nervous system dysregulation keep the body stuck in protection mode—blocking true healing.

You'll learn:

Why trauma biology—not just infections—may be the missing link in Lyme and chronic illness recovery. How unresolved trauma imprints on the nervous system, fueling inflammation and autoimmunity.

Why willpower and "trying harder" don't work when the body is stuck in survival.

Simple, science-based steps to reset your nervous system so healing can finally happen.

Whether you're a patient struggling with chronic illness or a clinician looking for better ways to support your patients, this episode will give you a whole new perspective on what it takes to heal.

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00:00 Intro: Why trauma biology matters in Lyme

00:36 Medical gaslighting & trauma in chronic illness

01:37 Actionable, simple tools vs. theory (Dr. Aimie's approach)

03:22 From addiction medicine to somatic exercises 04:24 60-second nervous system shifts you can do anywhere

05:24 Self-reliance: healing tools that don't depend on a practitioner

06:00 Tracking states: the Nervous System Journal & time in safety

07:09 Micro-moments of safety & hormesis (the 20–25% rule)

08:46 Clinicians: regulate first—lead by example 10:38 Over- vs under-reacting: how stored trauma shows up

11:45 What is trauma (really)? Beyond ACE scores

13:16 Crossing the line: "too much too fast" & "too little too long"

14:59 Overwhelm vs. stress: different strategies

16:20 Step One is safety: invite the body, don't force it

17:20 Rebuilding internal safety & restoring intuition

18:55 Worthiness, self-sabotage & Agreement #3: responsibility

20:03 Trauma as survival: a universal pattern

21:00 "The healing is in the living" — living now vs. waiting

22:48 Why she wrote the book: a manual for your nervous system

24:02 Tom's Lyme story: 8 years sick → 13+ years symptom-free

25:01 What changed: choose life first, healing follows

26:28 If I'd had this book, I'd have healed faster