Golden Girl

About Golden Girl

Health, wellness, and healing insights from Becca Golden on Golden Girl. Join Becca Golden on Golden Girl, where we dive into health, healing, and community. Each episode discusses topics like health, trauma therapy, work/life balance, relationships, community, and finding more aliveness and presence every day. Make sure to leave a comment on the episodes that resonate with you - and don't forget to hit the notification bell to be notified of new episodes each week! Send Becca a DM on Instagram to let her know what you think of the podcast @TheGoldenGirlPodcast

Publisher

Becca Golden | Health and Healing Advocate

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Nov 2024

Latest episode

18 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Mold & CIRS Protocols: Shoemaker vs Azoles, Testing, MARCoNS, and Bio-Individuality, with Awais Spall

   Becca speaks with Awais Spall of Integrative Oasis about mold illness and CIRS, highlighting how different patient presentations and bio-individuality can require different approaches. Awais shares his personal chronic-illness journey and explains why he respects Shoemaker’s CIRS framework and research base while also exploring other clinical philosophies, including azole antifungal-based treatment and debates about fungal colonization. They discuss common CIRS labs (including markers like MMP-9, C4a, osmolality, and often HLA-DR), additional immune and gut-permeability testing, and why he’s not a fan of urine mycotoxin tests but may use urinary metabolomics/organic acids. The conversation covers binders like cholestyramine, rare severe intolerance cases, sinus-focused controversies around MARCoNS, and ENT Dr. Don Dennis’s clinical observations. 00:00 Mold and CIRS Intro01:36 Meet Awais Spall03:29 CIRS vs Mold Framework04:58 Testing and Biomarkers08:36 Organic Acids Explained10:30 Two Camps in Treatment16:30 Binders vs Azoles Debate25:03 When Binders Fail29:09 Colonization and Biofilms34:47 Fungi in the Microbiome35:26 Mycobiome Debate Basics36:00 Commensal vs Pathogenic38:00 CIRS Sinus Framework39:57 MARCoNS vs Fungi43:34 Surgery Findings Clarified46:16 Antifungal Strategy Risks51:52 Hope and Next Steps

2. 

   9 Jun 2026

   Balancing Minerals and Detoxing Heavy Metals with Jeff Lioon

   Mineral Balancing and Heavy Metal Detox: Oligo Scan Insights with Jeff Lioon This episode discusses how minerals are the building blocks for producing vitamins, antioxidants, proteins, hormones, and enzymes, while heavy metals are generally unnecessary and can block mineral absorption through “ionic mimicry.” Jeff Lioon, creative director for Oligo Scan and co-founder of Ionome Labs, shares his background in holistic health, personal improvement through diet and lifestyle changes, and experience performing thousands of scans. The conversation explains mineral–metal antagonist/synergist relationships (e.g., aluminum with silica/boron/magnesium/lithium; mercury with selenium/iodine/zinc), and outlines three detox principles: reduce heavy-metal exposure, provide needed minerals, and maximize excretion. We cover common trends seen in clients (low zinc, copper, iodine, boron, magnesium; high aluminum, fluoride, mercury), issues with depleted soils and non-regenerative farming, and practical tools like Chronometer, plus nutrient-dense foods (liver, oysters) and sourcing considerations. Connect with Jeff Lioon Instagram: @jefflioon Website: https://ionomelabs.com/ Oligo Scan: https://www.theoligoscan.com/ Episode Chapters 01:20 Podcast Intro and Guest 02:32 Jeff’s Origin Story 06:23 What Minerals Actually Do 08:42 Hormones Downstream 10:43 Minerals and Metals 14:19 Ionic Mimicry Explained 16:54 Mercury Fillings and Storage1 8:30 Cadmium vs Zinc Example 21:34 Three Detox Principles 25:10 Soil Depletion Problem 27:55 Tracking Intake and Safeguards 29:26 Carnivore and Scan Results 30:35 Organ Meats and Metals 31:12 Carnivore to Fruit Timing 32:41 Women Carbs and Cycles 33:49 Common Mineral Deficiencies 35:44 Halogens Mercury Aluminum 38:51 Detox Minerals Silica Boron 42:43 Magnesium and Cadmium 44:15 Oligo Scan Testing Explained 46:27 Tracking Diet and Liver 48:43 Supplements Oysters vs Liver 52:28 Open Mind Health Trends 55:12 Root Cause Wrap Up

3. 

   20 May 2026

   Understanding CIRS: Genetics, Biotoxin Exposure, Evidence-Based Testing, and the Shoemaker Protocol, with Dr. Eric Dorninger

   This episode focuses on Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). We talk about what it is, and how to identify and treat it. CIRS is a multi-symptom, multi-system illness driven by biotoxin exposures (including water-damaged buildings/mold, actinobacteria, endotoxin, algae blooms, tick co-infections, and recluse spider venom) interacting with immune-response genetics (HLA, present in most CIRS cases). In this episode, we talk about screening via symptom clusters and the visual contrast sensitivity test, confirmatory labs, and treatment with the Shoemaker/CIRS Protocol—prioritizing removal from exposure, prescription binders, and, when indicated, VIP to address brain effects—while discussing remediation standards, CIRSx, and the role of trauma/loneliness without reducing CIRS to “nervous system” issues alone. Connect with Dr. Dorninger Instagram: @drdorninger Roots and Branches: https://drdorninger.com/ Attend CIRSx https://www.cirsx.com/ CIRS Protocol Paper by Dr. D https://esmed.org/cirs-protocol-evidence-based-treatment-for-biotoxins/ Episode Overview 00:00 Welcome and CIRS Focus 01:52 Dr Dorninger Origin Story 11:23 Shoemaker Training and Proof 16:08 Teaching and CIRSx Mission 25:18 What CIRS Really Is 27:55 Triggers and Biotoxin Sources 36:19 Screening and Confirmatory Labs 42:05 Mycotoxin Test Myth 42:54 Innate Immunity Explained 43:37 Cheap CIRS Screening 44:14 Symptom Cluster Test 47:43 Supplements vs. CIRS Protocol 48:51 CIRS Lifestyle Reality 50:59 Exposure or Dysregulation 53:00 Home Testing Benchmarks 56:51 Plumber Smoke Test 59:26 Genie Transcriptomics 01:02:08 Trauma Gene Insights 01:08:04 Community And Loneliness 01:13:05 Shoemaker One Two Punch 01:14:37 VIP And Brain Regrowth 01:15:43 Parkinsons Prevention Clues 01:17:23 Building The CIRS Army

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

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