I have autoimmune issues, hashimotos to be exact, along with fibromyalgia, high cholesterol and now high blood pressure as well as some other health issues. This past year, I've been doing good, almost symptomatic free until recently.

The cholesterol I’ve been dealing with since I was a teen, and getting it under control with exercise and food, doesn’t make a damn of difference.. however, it hasn’t been so high it’s a concern. High cholesterol can be a hereditary thing.

Over the last 9 months I've lost 45lbs which brought my BP down to almost normal levels until recently where my blood pressure decided to shoot up to concerning levels.

Last year, I found out that high blood pressure and heart failure is a thing on my father’s side, which combined with the high cholesterol, does make me a little concerned for my heart health.

Both high cholesterol and high blood pressure can be cause by Hashimoto’s and other autoimmune disorders. I have reason to believe I have struggled with autoimmune since a kid.

Also, I’ve read that just because one may be prone to developing specific health issues, it takes an outside stimulus to activate that DNA that makes one prone.

How is this post related to Human Design?

I'm a 3/5 splenic projector, with kitchens environment, hope motivation and theist trajectory... personal view.

In human design, the theory is that if one is not living as authentic self, based on ones design, one would potentially have health issues. I personally lived as a generator which for me as a projector is not self and cause burn out. I also, after having kids, quit living authentically me and struggled to keep my self as myself. For a while I completely lost who I am altogether. It stems to reason, that it would be then that I start having symptoms of autoimmune and in particular thyroid which is related to throat center and not self.

Okay, so back to current situation…..

I initially took the BP meds given with lots of side effects and no relief from high BP. So I decided to take it into my own hands because I am not typical medically. I continually, have issues with medications, antibiotics and do not present normally symptomatically, therefore, my spleen, said I needed to do this different and so based on my spleen I decided to try natural remedies to lower blood pressure.

I've been researching which I know is 1st line stuff, but have some help in the research department from a 1st line. Based on that and my intuition (splenic and probably a few gates too) I have started taking some supplements.
I also made my own CBD tincture. Which this fits nicely for my kitchens environment lol... I've only had CBD that has worked on pain and sleep help that I got from a shaman.. who I also studied under and have transitioned into a shaman myself... theist in action I suppose.

So, since I'm a shaman, I am using that to experiment on myself. The CBD has been blessed, and then my 3rd line gets to experiment and my 5th Gate gets to find the patterns.

All of it being tracked and monitored, currently using apps for my phone but next week I will have a watch that I can use to track more stuff. Not only the supplements, but exercise, food, moods, BP , heart rate ect ect which over time I should be able to see patterns and tweak if necessary. I already, found that my next CBD batch needs to be tweaked.

I have switched BP medication which I haven't taken yet but have in case my BP gets worse...

Here's to 3rd line experimentation to find what works, my environment which only helps with the experimentation... kitchens being that which does not stay the same, or transformation of ..... at some point I guess I may utilize my 5th line of universilization ... if ever invited and recognized to do so. Hope motivation which is the faith ... but do think this could potentially ride a line of transference into fixing (guilt)... but maybe my gate 18 is able to handle the correction part for myself.

I’m learning a lot. My mom who does have HBP, is having the same results with the supplements as she had taking pharmaceutical blood pressure meds, but without side effects. I’ve been toying around the idea of having an apothecary. This is giving me some idea of what that would entail from a herbalist stand point. My human design, cross of service…. Maybe this is how I can be of service. I don’t know. I probably won’t know until I’m actually doing it or not.

Hopefully, this is helpful. Really the only reason I share what I do publicly, is the hope that my stories, help… even if it’s just one person. I may never know if it does, but if I don’t share, then for certain, I’m not helping.