Healing from Lyme, Mold, and Autoimmunity: A Nurse’s Transformational Story

Autoimmunity, Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and years of unanswered symptoms — Holly Niddifer lived the nightmare that thousands of patients face when conventional medicine runs out of answers. In this episode of Nurses Out Loud, Holly shares her journey from being a hospital RN in chronic pain to becoming a functional medicine nurse who now helps patients walk the same healing road she traveled.
🔹 How Lyme disease, mold toxicity, SIRS, and autoimmune pancreatitis nearly ended her career
🔹 The 75–80% improvement she experienced after a year of root-cause treatment
🔹 Why functional medicine succeeds where conventional medicine stalls
🔹 The biotoxin epidemic: What most clinics overlook about chronic illness
🔹 How Holly teaches families to reduce toxic exposure in real, practical ways
🔹 Why nurses are leaving “sick-care” for functional medicine — and how they can get trained
If you’ve battled chronic illness, treat complex patients, or feel the limitations of conventional care, this episode brings clarity, hope, and a path forward.
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