POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC
March 9, 2026
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5 min readDr. Charlie Fagenholz, a chiropractor and frequency medicine practitioner, sees patients who have been everywhere—Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, functional medicine doctors—and still feel unwell. His waitlist has reached 30,000 people. The tool he uses that sets him apart is muscle testing, a form of neurological communication that he says can detect dysfunction at 3 to 5 percent, long before blood work shows anything. He calls it a stethoscope: the tool is only as good as the person interpreting it. What follows is a rapid-fire tour through the conditions that leave people feeling sick while their labs look normal, and the layered, bioindividual approach he uses to find what conventional medicine misses.
Frequency Medicine and Muscle Testing
The core of Fagenholz's practice is frequency medicine, which he describes as the only approach he knows that truly treats the biochemical individual as they are—structurally, chemically, and emotionally. The diagnostic tool is muscle testing. He uses small vials of water that have been homeopathically charged with the frequency of a substance—an infection, a food, an emotion, a toxin. When held near the body, the nervous system either adapts (tests strong) or does not (tests weak). A weak response means the body is not adapting to that stressor, and that becomes the starting point for treatment.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Glyphosate, Collagen & The Pesticide Shell Game** - Glyphosate depletes glycine, harming collagen and causing joint, hair, skin, and nail issues; the replacement pesticides are even worse.
- 2 (02:15) **What Is Frequency Medicine?** - Dr. Charlie defines frequency medicine as a tool to treat the biochemical individual by identifying and removing roadblocks to healing.
- 3 (03:54) **Example: Anxiety Caused by a Parasite** - A case where a parasite in the small intestine was the root cause of severe anxiety, discovered only through frequency testing.
- 4 (06:08) **Frequency Medicine for Veterans & The Muscle Testing Tool** - Why frequency medicine is ideal for complex, multifactorial cases like PTSD in veterans.
- 5 (10:48) **Managing Autoimmune Without Medication** - Autoimmune is a "nonlinear layered healing" process; it's about finding the right tools for the individual.
- 6 (16:08) **Tools for Autoimmune: Laser & Frequency-Specific Microcurrent** - How these devices target specific tissues and frequencies (e.g., 40 Hz for inflammation, 116 Hz for the immune system) to accelerate healing.
- 7 (22:14) **Gluten & Hashimoto's: Is It Always a Trigger?** - Dr. Charlie's clinical experience shows gluten is almost always a problem for autoimmune patients, even without glyphosate.
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Show Notes
Your fave is back for round two! Dr. Charlie Fagenholz is back to break down why so many people are told they’re “fine” when they feel anything but. We dive into POTS, autoimmune disease, PANDAS, MCAS, histamine intolerance, anxiety, UTIs, and what glyphosate may be stripping from the body. We also get into frequency medicine—and why thousands of people are on a waitlist to see him.
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