We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Chloe Scott a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Chloe, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today. We’d love to hear about the best advice you’ve ever given to a client? (Please note this response is for education/entertainment purposes only and shouldn’t be construed as advice for the reader)

This is a tough one to answer because I have so many great stories, and I put the same effort into all of my patients and each one has great success in their own way. I have some favorites though that I’ll never forget.
My first patient ever was a little three year old girl. She dealt with eczema so bad she would itch her skin until she bled. Doctors didn’t give her mom any recommendations other than to use steroid cream. The doctors didn’t have any answers so they were going to test her for leukemia. This little girl’s mom contacted us nearly in tears and asked if we could help her daughter. We tested her food allergies and her gut health and got her started on her healing journey to restore her internal environment. Within a short time she was seeing relief for her skin and she was so happy she didn’t have “the itchies” anymore. My husband and I were the first doctors she ever saw that she liked to see. This felt so incredible to me. We were this family’s first experience with natural health care and we helped them open their minds to the natural health world. This felt really special because she was my first patient. On top of that, one of my main goals is to work with kids. I love working with kids. When you heal someone’s child I think you change generational health. You help make sure that a child doesn’t grow up feeling sick all of the time. Sure, when you heal an adult they are grateful and generally keep up with the new lifestyle. Sometimes their kids will jump on board if they are young enough and this is a way to change generational health. When you heal children though, the parents jump on board and are all in, and then the children are raised that way and it’s their normal way of life. Then hopefully someday those kids will raise their kids that way.

I’ve had a couple of fertility cases that have really tugged at my heart strings. I’ve had a few women who had went though multiple rounds of IVF with no success. After working with me and really focusing on their gut, hormones and lifestyle, they were able to have a full term successful pregnancy. One gal was was so funny, she said “Man, after spending so many thousands of dollars on IVF, who knew all I had to do was give up gluten!!” Now of course there is more to it than that. We looked at ways to improve her eating habits, but on top to that, we were actually healing her gut and supporting her hormones using herbs, rather than using supplements to cover up a problem. When her body started healing she was finally able to become pregnant.

Another one I’ll never forget is a 62 year old patient who had a major flare up of the autoimmune condition called PMR. He was never medically diagnosed, but he had lot of family members who were diagnosed with PMF and he was experiencing the same symptoms. PMR usually flares up after a major viral infection, and sure enough he had a dental infection just a few months prior to the flare up. For anyone who isn’t familiar with PMR, it can and often presents as terrible, terrible joint pain in the neck, shoulders and hips. This man lived a very active lifestyle. Always outside working on a project or biking or walking. After his flare up, he could hardly do any of his normal activities. He felt miserable because he was nearly bed ridden some days. When this man came to see me, he was already living a very healthy life. He explained his eating habits and they were on par with what I teach my patients. We tested his stool and his immune system. We worked on healing his gut, supporting his immune system and made a few lifestyle adjustments along the way. Anytime someone is dealing with an autoimmune condition you can expect it to take a little longer to resolution, but this man was seeing incredible improvement in just 6 months and was back to feeling better than he was before the PMR flare up within a year of working together.

I feel like my list could go on. Nothing feels better to me than getting people back to enjoying their life to the fullest!

Chloe, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My health journey began at a very young age. At just 13 years old I had already undergone two emergency intestinal surgeries resulting in about 3 feet of intestine being removed. The cause of the first surgery was unknown at the time. The second surgery was due to a severe bowel obstruction caused by the scar tissue from the first surgery. After my second intestinal surgery I was left with nearly debilitating digestive issues that I was told time and time again by my medical doctors that I would simply have to live with. About a year after surgery, my chiropractor suggested that I have my food allergies tested to see if there were foods contributing to chronic inflammation.

I went to have extensive testing done by another chiropractor and found out that I had 93 food allergies and my kidneys and liver were functioning far below what they should be. Essentially everything I was eating was creating massive amounts of inflammation in my body and no one knew. I eliminated all of these foods (and foods in the same families) and did extensive gut healing through various providers and was moving towards health each day. My whole lifestyle had to change in the blink of an eye, from everything I was eating to the soaps and lotions used in our home. We eliminated all of the toxins that were in our household.

Further testing showed that I had serious heavy metal toxicity. This toxicity was likely present from a very young age and was likely a major contributor to the systemic inflammation that lead to my surgeries in the first place. This lead to an intense heavy metal detox. This detox was key in my healing, because had I not addressed this major inflammatory stressor, I would have been simply putting a band aid on the problem.

After two years of healing and major lifestyle changes, I was finally feeling better than I had in years. I knew that this was the path to true health. Through my struggles and life experience, I learned that there is always a source or multiple sources of inflammation causing dis-ease, and with the right testing to identify the issues and lifestyle education, anyone can move back towards health!

During this time I knew in my heart that I was going to be a chiropractor. Not only had I been adjusted my whole life and knew about the importance of regular adjustments, but I also loved how all of the great providers I saw looked at the body as a whole and wanted to find the sources of inflammation. Their goal was to support the body and allow it to heal itself.

After high school I attended the University of Minnesota – Duluth and received my Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science. From there I went to Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa to earn my Doctor of Chiropractic degree.
I am excited to take my life experiences and passion and be able to teach those searching for answers regarding their health concerns.

Since graduating from chiropractic school, I have been fortunate to have had a few associate chiropractic positions. One of those gave me the opportunity to help patients heal utilizing similar methods I used when I was 13. Since this position, I have opened up my own holistic health practice, which has been my dream since I was 13 years old.

In my current practice, I help people all over the world with a variety of complaints including but not limited to, chronic pain and fatigue, digestive symptoms, hormonal imbalances, infertility, autoimmune conditions, thyroid problems and chronic headaches. The most important piece of info I love to teach my patients is that the body is amazing and when given the chance, it will always move towards health. When a body presents with symptoms or “disease” it is not broken and meant to stay that way. Our bodies adapt to the environment they are subjected to on a daily basis. Our bodies can handle many inflammatory stressors and adapt in ways we cannot imagine. However when these stressors are constantly bombarding us, eventually our body will reach a breaking point. This is why symptoms start to arise. With that said, lack of symptoms does not mean a person is healthy either.

I feel that what sets my practice apart from others is the testing I utilize for my patients. Everyone is different and dealing with different stressors. My most common tests include a Comprehensive GI Profile (stool test), the DUTCH Hormone Test, and a food allergy test, however I have many other lab tests I can run depending on what that patient is dealing with. Proper gut health is vital for overall health and the GI Comprehensive Profile provides us information on the health of your GI. It shows a snapshot of your microbiome, how various organs are functioning, or if you are dealing with parasites or an opportunistic pathogen. This information can be pivotal information in many people’s health journey, because they can see exactly what they are dealing with and then we act accordingly. Using this info, we can help their body achieve balance and change the internal environment so these problems don’t return. The hormone test I use not only shows your hormone levels, but it also shows hormone production and conversion. This piece of information is often the missing link in ones’ struggle with hormone imbalances. Too many women are told that their hormone levels are “normal”, but they deal with symptoms daily.

Regardless of what tests we run, I always make lifestyle recommendations. Health starts in the home. It starts with your daily habits and how you treat your body. Next, I recommend supplements to support your physiology based off of the test results. A supplement to simply “cover up” the problem won’t help you in the long run. The key is changing the environment inside your body, so it is not suitable for dis-ease, and then maintaining the healthy habits that you have developed.

If you could go back in time, do you think you would have chosen a different profession or specialty?

If I could go back, I would always choose this profession. I am so thankful for the chiropractic profession. Number one, it was chiropractors who saved my life and completely changed the trajectory of not only my health but also the health of my family members. Both of my parents are 65 years old and have never been on medications. Chiropractic is one of the few professions that teaches how the body has the ability to adapt to stressors and heal itself. It teaches that the body heals from the inside out. It does not heal from the outside in. Chiropractic isn’t just “cracking backs” or pushing on spots on the back. We adjust subluxations and when we provide the adjustment, we are removing interference from the nervous system. The nervous system has to be functioning properly to maintain well rounded health. Think about it, if there is diminished communication to and from your immune system, do you think it’s going to function at top notch? Same can be said for your digestive system and every other organ system in your body. When we adjust the spine and remove subluxations the body responds better to surrounding stressors.

DD Palmer, the founder of chiropractic explained that thoughts, traumas and toxins contribute to the spinal subluxation. Thoughts, being your mental well being. Traumas being the obvious one, you sleep wrong and your neck hurts or you fall down the steps, or even just consistently terrible posture. Toxins are the chemical stressors we are introduced to everyday, the foods you eat, what you put on your skin, air quality, water quality, the list goes on. Our body has the incredible ability to adapt to all of these things. However, in the modern world, there are an overwhelming amount of toxins and additional life stressors. Think about it – the Standard American diet that is loaded up with highly processed foods and fake chemicals. Most beauty and hygiene products are loaded with carcinogens and hormone disruptors. Many people have subpar posture the entire day and don’t get nearly enough movement. Humans weren’t meant to sit in a chair all day and then go home and sit on the couch. On top of all that pretty terrible mental health practices. All of these stressors are a form of abuse for our bodies. I have seen it in practice tons of times, a patient wants to come get adjusted every week. They complain every week that their back hurts, their neck hurts, they have headaches all day every day, or they have bowel trouble that they have normalized, the list goes on. In theory, if this person is well adjusted they should be adapting to their outside stressors, but when a person has a lifestyle that is filled with inflammatory stressors something is going to give. This is where symptoms start to come in. These symptoms have been normalized and most say it’s just be a part of growing old. That isn’t the case, growing old wasn’t supposed to be this terrible life event. This is a result of a lifetime filled with inflammatory stressors, and this is where the additional functional care I provide comes in. After a lifetime of inflammatory stressors bombarding the body, most people’s gut is in terrible shape. This has the ability to impact hormones, the adrenals, the immune system, the skin, the list goes on. All of the body systems impact each other. When we identify the root causes of the stress and clean up the lifestyle, this reduces the inflammatory load on the body tremendously. This is when the body can really focus on healing. We as a society need to learn that we need to take care of our body so it can do what it was innately designed to do, keep us healthy.

Not only do I love teaching people about the power of the body, and how they can take back control of their health naturally and totally change their lives, I also met my husband, Matt in chiropractic school! We run our business together. I see patients and he coaches other chiropractors and health providers how to provide the detailed care that we provide. Our goal is to show as many people as possible how it’s possible to heal, stay healthy as we age and to live a vibrant and healthy life. So if all of the above wasn’t enough to make me choose the chiropractic profession time and time again, meeting him in chiropractic school is reason enough to keep going back.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

I’m sure there are many times in my life where I have shown resilience. We have all been there and had to get through some stuff. I don’t necessarily think any of those times would relate well to my business, and I’ve already described some of my health journey and how that pushed me into this profession. If someone has started and maintained their own business, that shows incredible resilience. It’s not something I was prepared for. I’m not even sure I would have been prepared if someone had warned me. It’s so different going from a job where you have a paycheck coming every two weeks to working on your own business. When you have your own business you’re relying on yourself and just knowing that a paycheck wasn’t guaranteed was a new source of stress for me. That would feel heavy at times. In chiropractic school they teach you how to be a chiropractor. The don’t teach you how to run a business. It’s a work in progress.

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