Wellness Education

Education Library

Sacred ministry education rooted in research, tradition, and truth.

This library is produced by Kuleana Integrative Wellness Priory 1007 as part of our ministry education. The materials here are not medical advice — they are sacred health education rooted in research, indigenous tradition, and monastic medicine, offered to help covenant participants understand what the conventional system rarely explains.

All articles are written by Rev. Allie Johnson, Kuleana Integrative Wellness Priory 1007.

Environment

Article + Action Guide

Non-Native EMF

The most overlooked environmental toxin. What it does to cells, hormones, sleep, and the nervous system — and how to reduce your exposure.

Article + Resources

Water

What's in your tap water, what's been removed, and why structured water changes everything.

Article

Fluoride

64+ studies on IQ and neurological effects. What accumulates in the brain, bones, and thyroid.

Article

GMOs & Pesticides

Glyphosate, Bt toxins, and what happens when you switch to organic for two weeks.

Article + Action Guide

Toxic Home

Fragrance loophole, laundry chemicals, cleaning products, toothpaste, and how to detox your home room by room.

Article

Toxic Beds

Flame retardants, off-gassing, and what you're breathing for 8 hours every night.

Article

Dental Toxins

Mercury amalgams, root canals, fluoride treatments, and biological dentistry as an alternative.

Article

The Ground Beneath You

Superfund sites, cancer clusters, high-voltage power lines, solar fields — the environmental exposures that explain why you feel sick in some places.

Article

Public Radiation Exposures

Airport scanners, CT scans, X-rays, dental imaging — cumulative radiation exposure from routine procedures most people don't think twice about.

Article

Sick Buildings

Mold, EMF, fiber optic infrastructure, and radiant heat — how the buildings you live and work in make you sick.

Article

What's in Your Toothpaste

Fluoride, triclosan, SLS, carrageenan, titanium dioxide — what goes in your mouth twice a day and absorbs directly through oral mucosa.

Nutrition & Body

Hormones & Women's Health

5-Tab Guide

The Hormone System

HPA/HPT/HPG axes, pregnenolone steal, circadian-hormone connection, women's and men's hormone cycles.

Article

HRT & Bioidentical Hormones

Rhythmic vs. static dosing, hormone disruptors, adrenal recovery, and the full context for bioidentical HRT.

Article

Mammograms & Breast Health

Nordic Cochrane overdiagnosis data, DCIS, dense breasts, and phone-in-bra case series.

Article

Breast Implant Illness

Systemic symptoms, immune mechanisms, EMF precautions, and the redox-before-detox protocol.

Article

Men's Health & Hormones

52% sperm count decline since 1973. Testosterone, seed oils, plastics, EMF, and what men are rarely told.

Article

Feminine Care

Dioxins, pesticide residue, synthetic fragrance, and plastics in conventional period products.

Article

Bras & Breast Lymphatics

Underwire, lymphatic compression, metal as RF antenna — what is touching the breast for 8 hours a day and what the research shows.

Article

Birth Control: The Chemistry Nobody Explains

Synthetic progestins, nutrient depletions, libido suppression, post-pill syndrome, and the informed consent conversation most OBs skip.

Article

Fertility & Informed Consent

What the fertility industry doesn't tell you — environmental contributors, cycle literacy, and alternatives to IVF most couples are never offered.

Article

Thyroid & Liver: The Hidden Connection

Your thyroid labs are normal. Your thyroid isn't. How liver congestion, T4-to-T3 conversion, and nutrient depletion explain what the TSH misses.

Article

Pap Smears & Gynecological Procedures

LEEP, colposcopy, CryoTherapy — what the procedures involve, what they don't tell you beforehand, and what informed consent actually requires.

Mind & Consciousness

Substances & Exposure

Article

Alcohol

IARC Group 1 carcinogen. How social conditioning normalized daily consumption of a known toxin.

Article

Marijuana

The endocannabinoid system, what chronic use does to it, and the difference between healing and dependency.

Article

Caffeine

Where it hides in OTC drugs, the adrenal burden of daily use, and the WHO classification you weren't told about.

Article

Vaping & Nicotine

Heavy metals from coil degradation, diacetyl, EVALI, and who owns the vaping industry.

Article

Wellness Traps

IoB wearables, EMF shielding pendants, red light panels, grounding mats — when the solution becomes the problem.

Reference

Pharmacology

What drugs actually do to the body, nutrient depletions, drug interactions, and the iatrogenic loop.

Article

Piercings: Meridians & Metal

Acupuncture meridian disruption, nickel toxicity, biofilm, and the informed consent conversation studios don't have.

Article + Reference

Polypharmacy

When the drugs stack up — interaction cascades, nutrient depletions, and what happens when five medications become fifteen.

Article

GLP-1 Drugs: Ozempic & Wegovy

Thyroid C-cell tumors, muscle loss, rebound weight gain, and the informed consent conversation around GLP-1 receptor agonists.

Article

The Iatrogenic Loop

Drugs that cause what they treat — how side effects become diagnoses and diagnoses become more prescriptions.

Article

Drugs That Change Who You Are

SSRIs, benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, stimulants — the documented personality and behavioral changes that aren't in the informed consent.

Article

Plant Medicine & Psychedelics

What wellness culture isn't telling you about psilocybin, ayahuasca, and microdosing — set, setting, contraindications, and the commercialization of ceremony.

Article

Tattoos: What's in the Ink

Heavy metals, azo dyes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and nanoparticles — what ink contains and where it migrates in the body.

Healing Modalities

Children & Families

Curriculum

Parent Curriculum

Structured education for families navigating informed consent, environment, and children's health.

Article + Action Guide

Undoctored Children

11 practical steps to reduce carcinogen and neurotoxin exposure for children.

Article

Ultrasound

Not a sound — a form of radiation. False positive rates, Doppler concerns, and informed consent.

Article

Vaccines in Pregnancy

What's in them, what the studies show, and the informed consent conversation most OBs don't have.

Article

Birth Trauma

Vitamin K injection, circumcision, RhoGAM, and the interventions every parent deserves to understand.

Article

Vaccines

Ingredients, adjuvants, and the informed consent conversation that rarely happens in a 15-minute visit.

Article + Interactive

What Is Driving the Rise in Autism?

Environmental, medical, and toxic contributors to the autism epidemic — organized by timing window from conception through infancy.

Article + Action Guide

EMF & Your Baby

Why developing skulls and nervous systems are especially vulnerable to wireless radiation, and a practical guide to a low-EMF nursery.

Article

Caffeine & Pregnancy

What the research actually shows — miscarriage risk, fetal growth restriction, and why there is no established safe dose.

Article

Vitamin K & the Newborn

What the vitamin K injection contains, what VKDB actually is, the oral alternative, and the informed consent conversation every new parent deserves.

Article

The RhoGAM Shot

Who actually needs it, what it contains, thimerosal, timing, and the risk/benefit conversation most Rh-negative women are never given.

Article + Reference Guide

Herbs in Pregnancy & Nursing

What the label doesn't tell you — herbs that are safe, herbs that are contraindicated, and how to navigate herbal medicine during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Article

Informed Consent: Your Child's Education

Compulsory schooling history, neurodiversity, learning outside institutional frameworks, and what educational autonomy actually looks like.

Special Topics

Article + Protocol

TBI & Concussion

The most underdiagnosed injury in medicine. Post-concussion syndrome, nutritional recovery, and long-term protocols.

Article + Resources

Vision & Eye Health

Blue light, screen exposure, prism glasses risks, and why pure glass lenses matter.

Reference Guide

Testing & Labs

Heavy metals, mycotoxins, DUTCH hormones, GI-MAP, organic acids, thyroid — what to test and why.

Reference

Disease & Mortality Data

Documented chronic disease trends, mortality data, and what the numbers actually show.

Article + Guide

Hospice & Death Walking

What hospice medications do, comfort care vs. palliation, and how to walk alongside a loved one at end of life.

Article + Data

The Chronic Disease Epidemic

What 40 years of data have been showing — the documented rise in chronic illness and the pattern that runs through all of it.

Article

Medical Procedures: The Informed Consent Gap

Echocardiograms, MRI contrast, anesthesia, surgical interventions — the risks that are documented but rarely disclosed.

Article

Heart Disease: A New Lens

The cholesterol hypothesis was wrong. Inflammation, oxidized LDL, homocysteine, seed oils, and what cardiovascular research actually shows.

Article

Seizures: Environmental Triggers Nobody Maps

EMF, excitotoxins, nutrient depletion, mold, and the environmental load that can push a susceptible nervous system into seizure activity.

Article

Sleep Apnea: What You're Not Being Told

Why CPAP treats the symptom but not the cause — jaw development, myofunctional therapy, airway anatomy, and what actually resolves sleep-disordered breathing.