Rosanne interviews Dr. Kim D'Eramo, DO, a physician and mind-body medicine expert who healed her own autoimmune disease after being told she'd be on medication for life. They explore the science behind how thoughts create physiological changes affecting fertility, hormones, and overall health.
Mind-body medicine and psychoneuroimmunology
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Actionable Advice
Dr. D'Eramo explains psychoneuroimmunology - how subconscious beliefs create hormonal signals affecting fertility. She shares her personal story of reversing severe autoimmune disease after being told she'd need lifelong medication, demonstrating how changing consciousness can create measurable physiological changes.
Both women discuss how conception requires feminine receptivity rather than masculine control. Dr. D'Eramo conceived naturally at almost 45, and Rosanne at 43, after shifting from white-knuckling their journeys to asking what their bodies needed to rebalance.
Dr. D'Eramo reveals that electromagnetic fields extend 8-10 feet from the body and can be measured to detect emotional states. She shares how children's severe medical conditions resolved when mothers released emotional repression, showing the far-reaching impact of our internal states.
The conversation covers actionable approaches including breath work to transmute trauma, choosing joy over restriction, and practicing receiving. Dr. D'Eramo emphasizes that the body knows how to heal when we create the right conditions rather than forcing outcomes.
“Your subconscious actually creates hormonal signals that affect the endocrine system, the immune system, unbeknownst to us. We're not even aware we're having these thoughts. And that can create all of this inflammation and disease and certainly fertility or problems with fertility.”
— Dr. Kim D'Eramo▶ 20:31
Your subconscious thoughts create hormonal signals that directly affect your endocrine and reproductive systems. Childhood programming and beliefs can suppress ovarian function without your awareness, while states of joy and receiving create physiological conditions that support conception.
“I got pregnant, like, out of nowhere, both times, both pregnancies. The second one, I was almost forty five when I delivered our second child.”
— Dr. Kim D'Eramo▶ 27:44
Yes, mind-body medicine addresses subconscious programming that can suppress reproductive function. By releasing emotional trauma and shifting from controlling to receiving states, many women with unexplained infertility have conceived naturally even at advanced ages.
“I'd studied and practiced mind body medicine for decades... how your subconscious actually creates hormonal signals that affect the endocrine system, the immune system, unbeknownst to us.”
— Dr. Kim D'Eramo▶ 12:01
Psychoneuroimmunology studies how your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions create neurological signals that affect your immune and endocrine systems. This directly impacts fertility by influencing hormone production, ovulation, and reproductive function through subconscious programming.
“We absolutely cannot opt out of the feminine energy. It's not gonna happen. And so how do we find our way into the balance of honoring the masculine and the feminine?”
— Dr. Kim D'Eramo▶ 15:02
Move from achieving and controlling (masculine) to receiving and feeling (feminine). Practice asking what your body needs rather than forcing outcomes. Use breath work to release stored trauma and allow natural receptivity required for conception.
“When we're in a state of joy... it opens your energy. So there is more heart rate variability, which is a marker of resilience. There is a higher vibrational frequency... You're gonna have better brain functioning, better immune functioning, and better endocrine and reproductive functioning.”
— Dr. Kim D'Eramo▶ 24:27
Yes, chronic stress and emotional suppression create inflammatory signals that can suppress ovarian function and reproductive cycles. Shifting to states of joy and receiving creates heart rate variability and higher frequencies that support fertility.
“The whole illness reversed within a very, very short time. I no longer had pain. I no longer had inflammation. My joints got better... And my labs returned to normal. My white count returned to normal.”
— Dr. Kim D'Eramo▶ 8:23
Dr. D'Eramo completely reversed severe rheumatoid arthritis by changing her relationship with her body and releasing emotional patterns. Her inflammation markers, white count, and joint function all returned to normal without medication.
Dr. D'Eramo's approach to shifting from fight-or-flight to receptive states that support conception
Ask a different question
Instead of 'What's wrong with me?' ask 'What does my body need in order to rebalance?' This shifts you from problem-focused to solution-focused thinking.
Practice openness and curiosity
Let go of white-knuckling your way to pregnancy. Get curious about what your body is trying to show you rather than forcing outcomes.
Use breath work to transmute trauma
Bring feeling and sensation into the body with conscious breathing to release stored emotional patterns and trauma from your nervous system.
Choose joy over restriction
Follow your natural desires and what brings you genuine joy rather than suppressing them out of fear or control.
Shift to receiving energy
Practice receiving rather than constantly achieving. Ask for help, accept support, and allow your partner and others to care for you.
Your subconscious programming creates hormonal signals that directly affect your endocrine and immune systems, influencing fertility without your conscious awareness
Dr. Kim D'Eramo explains how psychoneuroimmunology shows our beliefs and thoughts transmit neurologic signals to the immune and endocrine systems. She conceived naturally at almost 45 despite being told she had only a 13% chance of natural conception.
Fertility requires embracing feminine energy of receiving rather than masculine energy of achieving and controlling
Dr. D'Eramo conceived twice naturally, including at almost 45, after letting go of white-knuckling her way through fertility. Rosanne conceived naturally at 43 after 7 years of struggle when she stopped trying to out-medicate and out-diet her internal state.
Your electromagnetic field extends 8-10 feet from your body and can be detected to reveal your emotional state, affecting those around you including unborn children
Dr. D'Eramo explains that electromagnetic measurements show emotional states create detectable frequency patterns. She's seen children's severe medical conditions including Crohn's disease, neurologic problems, and inflammatory bowel disease resolve when mothers released emotional repression.
Childhood programming creates subconscious beliefs that suppress ovarian function and reproductive cycles without conscious awareness
Dr. D'Eramo describes how early programming creates beliefs like 'I must achieve to be loved' that send traumatic messages to cells, literally suppressing brain function, memory, and ovarian function. This programming affects vitamin D processing and hormone levels.
Following your joy creates heart rate variability and higher vibrational frequencies that improve immune, brain, and reproductive functioning
Rosanne conceived naturally after she and her husband said their biggest yeses to joy, returning from an incredible European vacation. A sports medicine physician she coached conceived after going skiing two days post-transfer despite being told not to, and her son is now 18 months old.
Conceiving is all about receiving, but women are taught to fight and be perfect rather than lean back and receive
Rosanne conceived naturally at almost 44 after 7 years of struggle when she stopped white-knuckling her fertility journey. Dr. D'Eramo conceived at almost 45 when she moved from white-knuckling self-healing to asking what her body needed to rebalance.
The body can reverse disease, rebalance hormones, and regenerate organs when you create the right conditions for self-healing
Dr. D'Eramo reversed severe rheumatoid arthritis, returning all inflammation markers and white count to normal. She's seen children's Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, severe neurologic problems, and behavioral issues resolve when mothers released emotional repression.
Most healing is mental, with 99.99% of healing being influenced by mental and emotional states rather than purely physical interventions
Dr. D'Eramo completely reversed severe autoimmune disease, joint degeneration, and allergic reactions to almost all antigens through changing her consciousness and relationship with her body, with all lab markers returning to normal.
Your subconscious programming creates hormonal signals that directly affect your endocrine and immune systems, influencing fertility without your conscious awareness
▶ 21:01Fertility requires embracing feminine energy of receiving rather than masculine energy of achieving and controlling
▶ 14:11Your electromagnetic field extends 8-10 feet from your body and can be detected to reveal your emotional state, affecting those around you including unborn children
▶ 22:36Childhood programming creates subconscious beliefs that suppress ovarian function and reproductive cycles without conscious awareness
▶ 20:33Following your joy creates heart rate variability and higher vibrational frequencies that improve immune, brain, and reproductive functioning
▶ 23:47Conceiving is all about receiving, but women are taught to fight and be perfect rather than lean back and receive
▶ 13:50The body can reverse disease, rebalance hormones, and regenerate organs when you create the right conditions for self-healing
▶ 18:28Most healing is mental, with 99.99% of healing being influenced by mental and emotional states rather than purely physical interventions
▶ 19:31“Mind-body medicine is just woo-woo nonsense without real scientific backing”
CONSIDER: Mind-body medicine is backed by psychoneuroimmunology research showing how thoughts create measurable physiological changes
“Your thoughts and emotions don't affect your fertility or physical health”
CONSIDER: Your subconscious programming creates hormonal signals that directly affect your endocrine and reproductive systems
“If you can't get pregnant naturally, you need more medical intervention”
CONSIDER: Ask what your body needs to rebalance rather than what you can do to force pregnancy
“Conceiving is all about receiving. And when I look back on my own journey and when I look at the journeys of the thousands of women that my work has touched, it's insane how we have we're just not taught to be receiving.”
“Your subconscious actually creates hormonal signals that affect the endocrine system, the immune system, unbeknownst to us. We're not even aware we're having these thoughts. And that can create all of this inflammation and disease and certainly fertility or problems with fertility.”
“Mind body medicine is gangster, people. And if you are not leveraging it, you are fucking missing out. You got a gaping hole in your strategies.”
“We absolutely cannot opt out of the feminine energy. It's not gonna happen. And so how do we find our way into the balance of honoring the masculine and the feminine?”
“The idea that mind body medicine, that your mindset has nothing to do with what's going on in your body is just I'm gonna say it straight up fucking ignorant.”
“Your cells have received that message. Like, any society that you're in that basically puts your power outside of you or makes being loved conditioned on, like, your success and your achievements is going to send a traumatic message cellularly.”
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Taking time off from fertility pressure at 45+ can actually increase your chances rather than decrease them
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