Monica Hershaft is a nationally recognized wellness advocate, bestselling author, motivational speaker, and founder of the Mystery Illness Movement. Raised Vegan, for ethical reasons, by a father who co-founded the Animal Rights Movement in the USA, After starting a detox program in 2000, she began experiencing debilitating symptoms— heart palpitations, digestive issues, severe insomnia, fatigue, and brain fog -that no doctor could explain. Despite years of testing, her lab results always came back normal, and she was repeatedly told her symptoms were “in her head.” The doctors suggested antidepressants as the only solution.


Refusing to accept that answer, Monica began exploring holistic approaches. Eventually, a holistic nutrition practitioner told her there was nothing that could be done to help her unless she was willing to eat animal protein. Though deeply difficult, that decision became the turning point in her healing journey leading to a complete recovery of her Mystery Illness.


Monica went on to become a holistic health & nutrition practitioner and opened a wellness center in Los Angeles. Realizing that Mystery Illness develops from many different underlying issues in different people, she now delivers a program and treatment plan that identifies the real underlying source of the imbalance causing symptoms. She uses applied kinesiology to determine the interference in the body, which is corrected with customized glandular support supplementation combined with organic, Paleo-based nutrition principles and lifestyle changes to eliminate the toxic burden.


Her work centers on the idea that healing begins when you identify and remove the true physiological blocks to healing before symptoms become disease. Her framework, the 5 Layers to Illness, outlines how most people today are experiencing symptoms far earlier on the disease chain than conventional medicine can detect—or validate—resulting in medical gaslighting for so many.

What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know: The 5 Layers to Illness and Why You’re Still Sick

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