The Silent Language of the Body: Rethinking Chronic Illness, Pain, and Autoimmunity with Isabelle Amigues, MD

What if your patient’s persistent symptoms aren’t fully explained by labs, imaging, or even your best root-cause protocols? In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie sits down with rheumatologist-turned-integrative-healer Dr. Isabelle Amigues to explore the deeper messages the body is trying to send—through pain, illness, and resistance to healing. 

Drawing from her unique lens as both a Western-trained physician and a stage IV cancer thriver, Dr. Amigues unpacks the emotional and energetic patterns she believes often underlie autoimmune disease, chronic pain, and unexplainable fatigue. This conversation challenges conventional clinical thinking and invites practitioners to go beyond the physical and into the subtle—but powerful—world of body-based wisdom.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

• What Traditional Labs Are Missing
• The surprising clues hiding in plain sight when test results don’t explain your client’s symptoms.
• A Hidden Language of Healing
• Why some patients respond to treatments others don’t—and how the answer may lie beyond the physical.
• The Unexpected Roots of Chronic Illness
• A silent influence that can drive inflammation, fatigue, and autoimmunity—without ever showing up on a lab report.
• A Case Study That Changes Everything
• What happened when one physician applied this overlooked approach to her own life-threatening diagnosis.
• How to Listen When the Body Speaks
• The skillset every practitioner needs to uncover what standard protocols never address.

Resources and Links:

• Download the transcript here
• Download our FREE Guide: Immune Modulation Strategies Guide
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here
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Dr. Isabelle Amigues’ Resources & Links:

• Visit Isabelle’s website at www.unabridgedMD.com
• Get her free meditation resource
• Follow her on Instagram
• Check out her TEDx talk
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Bio

Isabelle Amigues, MD, is a rheumatologist based in Denver, Colorado. She honed her expertise by studying in Paris, as well as at Columbia University in New York City. At age 40, she was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. A timely meeting with a non-traditionally trained practitioner taught her a different approach to disease, where she experienced the power of meditation,...