Episode 76-Kristen Nagle-Reclaiming Our Birthrights

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The only solution is to get out of it and move forward because the idea of health is that you don't need it.

1. Medicine Girl Podcast Episode 76 centers on Kristen Nagle’s path from NICU nursing to reclaiming birth and bodily autonomy. 2. Robyn Stebbins hosts Kristen Nagle, who names herself a former NICU nurse of 14 years, a recovering holistic nutritionist, and a retired freedom activist. 3. The episode asks what changes when a nurse stops trusting the medical system and starts trusting her body, her faith, and her own birth experiences. 4. Kristen says her first son pushed her into researching food, including fortified rice cereals, homogenized milk, and the documentaries Food Inc. and Michael Pollan. 5. She says she went back to school in 2016 to become a holistic nutritionist after realizing she did not know what to feed her baby. 6. Kristen explains that she first studied childhood illnesses like diphtheria and rubella before looking at ingredients in injections. 7. She says her pediatrician warned her that if her son did not get vaccinated, “he’s gonna die,” which pushed her toward a fear-based decision rule. 8. Kristen says her second son, born in 2018, received no vaccinations and marked a deeper shift into germ theory, contagion, and viruses. 9. She says bacteria are “not the bad guys” and describes her current view as germ new medicine. 10. Kristen says she could no longer work in the industry because she saw herself as part of the harms done to mothers and babies. 11. She describes the medical-industrial complex as a system that creates “customers for life” through pills, procedures, and repeat interventions. 12. Kristen says the Rockefellers helped turn medical institutions toward petrochemicals and made natural healers into “quacks.” 13. She says symptoms like rashes and fevers are signs of healing, not enemies, and that stopping them with antibiotics or Tylenol interrupts the body’s work. 14. Kristen says she is especially skeptical of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, methylene blue, chlorine dioxide, and natural supplements as fixes. 15. She says vitamin D3 is “rat poison,” and she argues that plants, sunlight, movement, laughter, and relationships are the real medicines. 16. Kristen describes her later pregnancy as “the most peaceful” because she did nothing, trusted her body, and had an out-of-system home birth. 17. Her tone is direct, personal, and openly oppositional, with Robyn repeatedly prompting her to expand on examples and convictions. 18. The format is an interview built around lived experience, with Robyn sharing her own nursing and birth story as a point of comparison. 19. Best for listeners interested in birth autonomy, nursing dissent, and faith-based healing language. 20. Less useful for listeners looking for conventional obstetrics or neutral medical consensus.

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