Marissa Shepherd (speaker) describes a multi-decade history of chronic health problems beginning around ages 8–9, including seasonal and food allergies, hormonal imbalances, severe blood-sugar swings, chronic GI problems, headaches, poor sleep, mood instability, and symptoms she attributes to mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) and adrenal dysfunction. After discovering the Gupta Program via her practitioner, she reports rapid improvements in emotional stability and nervous-system calm, reduced motion sickness on a mountain drive, progressively deeper sleep, near-resolution of eight years of chronic acid reflux, and being able to wean off long-term adrenal and thyroid supplements as her adrenals recover.
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My name is Marissa Shepherd. Probably around the time. Around the time I was 8 or 9 years old is when things started going kind of unraveling for me, health wise. I've had a lot of chronic issues with seasonal. A lot of seasonal allergies and food allergies and food sensitivities and hormonal imbalances. Pretty much my whole life. That. That just has been snowballing because, you know, snowballing into what I think is mast cell activation syndrome, for sure. Pretty extreme blood sugar imbalances, a lot of adrenal crashing through the day, very low energy, terrible sleep, chronic headaches, chronic GI symptoms. Oh, extreme irritability, lot of mood, you know, instability. And really wasn't able to be the kind of mom I wanted to be. You know, I wanted to be able to do fun things with my kids and take them places. And it was very debilitating to where I had to conserve my energy all the time, you know, just to make it. Just to make it through the day. And then after I had my second child, just really, really went downhill after that to the point where I was barely functional for a while. And then I found the Gupta program through my health practitioner. Well, immediately I noticed more emotional stability. That was. I think that was the first thing I noticed. So much more relaxed through the day. Nervous system was definitely calming down. And one of the first big things I noticed was we went on a little trip up to the mountains and we were on this windy road, and normally I would have gotten extremely car sick, and I had no problem whatsoever. And I never really connected before that. That was probably a neurological thing, you know, that had been going on for so long. And so that was amazing. Just that. And I didn't, you know, I didn't think about it until after it happened. I thought I didn't get sick that whole time. I would have been so miserable most, you know, any other time in my life. And so that was huge. Sleep improved over time, for sure. Over time to where? Now I'm sleeping very deeply, probably the most deeply I can remember in my adult life. I've had chronic reflux. That's another one I didn't. I didn't mention chronic acid reflux for seven plus, more like eight years now. And that has almost completely gone away now. It's minimal and very rare now since I started the Gupta program and my adrenals. This is real. This is probably the biggest thing that's. That's happened since I started the Gupta program. I've been on a lot of adrenal support from, you know, my holistic practitioners for five years now, and I've been able to completely wean off of that. So my adrenals are actually healing now and recovering, and they're not chronically stressed anymore, and I'm so happy about that. And as well as my thigh, I've had some thyroid supports that I've been taking, too, for many years now, and I'm down to very little now.
