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Why Progress Can Feel Slow in CDR2 (Phase 2) of Salugenesis
If you’ve been doing “all the right things” and still feel like your recovery is crawling, there’s a very real (and often overlooked) reason: CDR2 is the rebuild phase —and rebuilding is resource-heavy, subtle, and rarely linear. In Dr. Robert Naviaux’s salugenesis model, healing moves through three required stages (CDR1 → CDR2 → CDR3). Importantly, the steps can’t be skipped or reversed —your system has to complete each phase in sequence. Let’s break down what’s happening
Brandon Drabek
Feb 113 min read


The Health Continuum: From Illness to High-Level Wellness
Most people were taught to think about health in binary terms: Sick → go to the doctor Not sick → you’re “fine” But real life doesn’t work like that. The Health Continuum —also called the Illness-to-Wellness Continuum —is a simple way to understand what you already feel in your body: health is a spectrum , and you can move in either direction over time. What is the Illness-to-Wellness Continuum? The Illness-to-Wellness Continuum was developed to show that “no diagnosis” isn
Brandon Drabek
Feb 103 min read


From “What’s Wrong?” to “How Do We Rebuild?”
Two powerful frameworks we use at GHRI for chronic health concerns. If you’ve been dealing with stubborn health concerns—like elevated cholesterol markers, blood sugar swings, extra weight that won’t budge, fatigue, inflammation, or “mystery symptoms”—you’ve probably noticed something frustrating: You can do “all the right things” and still feel stuck. At Geauga Holistic Rehabilitation Institute, we use two complementary models to make sense of chronic, complex patterns and t
Brandon Drabek
Jan 274 min read
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