Andrew Abrahams and his media company Open Eye Pictures are currently in post production for the film “Complicated – The Movie.” They are the same company that brought us “Under Our Skin,” a 2008 film about the untold story of Lyme disease and co-infections. “Complicated” is a harrowing journey of young people and their families navigating failing medical and child protective systems that cannot handle rare and complex illness like Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a serious inherited connective tissue disorder. Many of us know what it’s like not to believed by our doctors and to be told our conditions are “all in our head” but when children are involved, it becomes much more dangerous, as many parents are losing custody of their sick children and their children are being denied appropriate medical care for their conditions. You can view the initial teaser here and stay tuned for the final version coming soon.
Julie's life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.
A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.
She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.
In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.
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