Hello
My name is Isabel Rose. Join me as I experiment with alternative health treatments and lifestyle shifts in my mission to cure chronic illness—because following prescriptions hasn’t healed me, just made me really good at refilling them.
My Story
I’m a writer/performer/singer/mother, wife, gardener, and card-carrying member of the chronic inflammation club.
I’m not thrilled to be a member, but I know I’m not alone.
There’re millions of us. You know—the ones with hard-to-cure (or supposedly incurable) infections, viruses, bacteria, and fungi. The ones overloaded with toxic pollutants, heavy metals, mold, chemicals, plastics. The ones wearing masks on planes and running out of perfumed Ubers. Basically, if it can poison you, it’s probably in our bloodstream.
And it’s not just our bodies that are inflamed. Our rage is chronic, too:
at healthcare systems that have failed us; at the outrageous price of a supplements and medicines we desperately need; at jobs that won’t let us take time off to see the one specialist we’ve pinned all our hopes on.
Chronic inflammation is debilitating at best, incapacitating at worst. We have brain fog so thick we get lost on familiar roads and forget words mid-sentence. Some of us are in wheelchairs, others told they will die soon with no cure in sight. All of us have, at some point, felt completely and utterly defeated.
Like most chronic illness sufferers, I started my journey with a doctor. If I wasn’t gaslit out of the gate, I was handed an Rx—a prescription for a drug, therapy, or test, that would supposedly solve the problem.
It never did.
So, after half a century of chasing one useless Rx after another, I did the unthinkable: I left the known, the safe, the sanctioned path and started searching for another way forward because hope is not something I’ve ever considered relinquishing. I’m not just searching for another treatment. (though I will feature plenty here). What I’m after, my friends, is a cure.
Beyond the Rx is where I share my experiences as I test-drive unconventional health treatments, alternative medicine, and lifestyle shifts in an effort to heal for good.
Once I get there, I’ll tackle the next big question: How do we stay in the land of the healthy?
This journey isn’t just about me. Nothing is more healing than community. So, if you’ve ever wandered off the beaten path in search of better health, I want to hear your stories. And if you’re looking for alternative ways to heal yourselves, you’ve come to the right place.
Let’s do this out together.