About Me
Hey, hun! I’m Samantha.
(I always have dark chocolate on my face.)
Certified Paleo Nutritional and Holistic Wellness Coach, former restaurant and wellness diets private chef, mother to one awesome kiddo, and multiple chronic illness warrior.
I’m the author of the Animal-Based Comfort Food Cookbook, AIP by Season, Whole Food Paleo Reset for the Instant Pot and also AIP Sheet Pan Recipes Volume 1 and Volume 2. I also create done-for-you content for health coaches and wellness influencers so that they can better share the message of primal and quantum health at Primal Content PLR.
I love photography, digital art, writing, and making new friends who fight the good fight for freedom and advocate for their rights to personalized wellness!
You can find tips and recipes here on my blog, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and TikTok as well as occasional videos with holistic tips, cooking tips and primal lifestyle ramblings on YouTube.
My complicated health journey
Between the years of 2004 and 2008, I had my appendix, tonsils, and gallbladder surgically removed. Unbeknownst to me at the time, this was a sign of an under-functioning and overburdened immune system.
In 2014 I discovered that I likely have Celiac disease, but I am unable to safely get officially tested for it to confirm.
In 2017 I self-confirmed (and was later officially diagnosed) with Hashimoto’s disease, a thyroid autoimmune condition.
In 2018 I was diagnosed with Hypogammaglobulinemia, a primary immunodeficiency that causes chronic infections and increased susceptibility to viruses. Though, later in 2022, a new immunologist discovered I was again making enough immunoglobulins on my own. So it may likely have been a misdiagnosis…and one day I may find the right answer!
After 2018 I was diagnosed with PCOS, endometriosis, and adenomyosis. I chose in 2020 to have a hysterectomy (one that left my ovaries in place) for relief from debilitating dysmennorhea.
In the midst of these years I also discovered – thanks to my wonderful chiropractor – that my chronic back and knee pain were due to scoliosis and chondromalacia patella.
Currently (as of 2023) I am working on putting recently-confirmed reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus, chronic Lyme disease, and other co-infections that had been covertly keeping me in a hypothyroid state since 2019 into remission.
Join me on this Primal journey!
I owe my improved quality of life, reduced pain, and remission of many of my illnesses to an ANCESTRAL DIET & LIFESTYLE & QUANTUM MODALITIES.
I’d love if you join me in this radical biohacking journey and live with intention, purpose, and joy!
To True Health & Happiness,
7 Comments
Joleah Kunkel
Thank you for dedicating your precious time and energy to sharing your journey and all the helpful resources you have found. It is soo very comforting to hear other peoples stories, so similar to my own. xoxo
Samantha Jo Teague
Joleah,
It’s definitely helped to keep me sane during this whole journey! Knowing that in some way my story can help others really makes me so happy. Big hugs to you, hun. Stay strong. <3
Lisa
Hi there! My husband was recently diagnosed with auto-immune disease. Thankfully, we found an amazing functional medicine doctor and he’s strictly following the AI protocol. Your recipes look amazing and I can’t wait to start making them!. What a wonderful website you’ve created. Thank you for making such a warm community and helpful resource to those of us navigating new territory.
Samantha
Hey there Lisa!
Thank goodness y’all have found a great doctor to help his autoimmune journey. <3 It can be overwhelming trying to do it all alone! You're awesome for supporting your hubs.
Thanks so much for the compliment! I try to keep it both fun and informative up in here. 😉
Here is my newest recipe that I just posted today that y'all may enjoy! https://www.theunskilledcavewoman.com/aip-brisket-elotes/
Melissa
hi Samantha,
I just read your mini bio and couldn’t believe what I saw… you had/have hypogammaglobulinemia?! How did/do you treat it?
I ask because I was diagnosed with it when I was somewhere around 12-18 months old, in 1967. This was the result of being treated for a bacterial infection with an antibiotic called Chloramphenicol (more commonly known as Chloromycetin). (If you look it up, you will see that it’s quite a serious antibiotic and probably should never have been used the way that it was.) I was in the hospital for a couple weeks and then had monthly injections of gammaglobulin which were horribly painful. But, I lived! 🙂 I now wonder whether this had anything to do with my now ongoing fight with autoimmune disease… hashimoto’s, vitiligo, lichen simplex chronicus, and most recently, autoimmune atrophic gastritis (which I DO NOT recommend). Needless to say… AIP has become my best buddy in my daily fight.
All best to you, and *thank you* for recipes!
Melissa
Samantha
Hey there Melissa,
Wow you are such a warrior! You’ve been through so much. I’m glad you found the AIP, too! 🙂
So the hypogammaglobulinemia (man I wish there was a short version for that, LOL! Maybe we can start a trend and call it “Hypo-G” bc it sounds cool) was treated for about a year (cir. 2019) with IG (immunoglobulin) replacement therapy. Since I had no insurance at the time, I qualified at the time for free medication through a patient assistance program for the medication “Hizentra”. It brought my IG-G levels up and for the first time in years I was no longer sick allllll the time.
Unfortunately (this is where it gets grey) when I qualified later for Medicaid, I no longer qualified for the assistance program. This is because I had to switch to a Medicaid-covered doctor to re-prescribe Hizentra to me, and at the time when he re-checked my IG levels he said they were within normal range, despite being off the medication for 3 months to be able to re-test my levels accurately. He decide that because of this I did not have Hypo-G and that I did not need IG replacement therapy.
The good news in all of this is that during this whole process I switched from working in people’s homes to working at home for myself…and maybe this is another reason why I am not getting sick all the time as I am not exposed to daycare-attending small children anymore!
Though I wish I had better data to share with you from my personal story, DO take a look into subcutaneous IG replacement therapy and see with your doc if it a good fit for you! Here’s Hizentra’s patient assistance info if you need it! https://www.hizentra.com/hcp/igiq-support
Kimberly Ann Ward
I now own all your cookbooks having just purchased the The Animal Based Comfort Food one 🙂 Just wondering if you have a recipe index for that book? I like to print off recipe indexes for easy referral so I don’t have to print the whole book. Thanks so much for your time and attention.
Kim 🙂