Unfiltered Healing
Welcome to the UNfiltered Healing Podcast with Dr. Rachel Hamel. We'll talk with alternative medicine innovators, bringing to light all the ways to create balance naturally, while uncovering what they aren't telling you in medicine. Topics to challenge and empower you, balancing your body and mind. It's raw, it's real and it's unfiltered.
Unfiltered Healing
Thermography Exposed with Danielle Benham: What Your Body’s Heat Patterns Really Reveal
In this episode, Dr. Rachel sits down with Danielle Frain Benham, a Certified Clinical Thermography Technician and Functional Nutrition Counselor, to uncover what thermography truly reveals about the body long before symptoms appear. Danielle breaks down how heat patterns reflect inflammation, circulation, lymphatic congestion, hormonal stress, and emotional load and why learning to read these signals can be one of the most powerful tools for preventive health.
Together, they explore how thermography differs from conventional imaging, why it’s especially valuable for breast health, and how thermal patterns can point to estrogen dominance, metabolic stress, toxin burden, and nervous system dysregulation. Danielle explains how inflammation often shows up years before disease and why thermography serves as a functional screening tool rather than a diagnostic endpoint.
The conversation also dives into the emotional and energetic dimensions of healing. Danielle shares how unresolved emotions, chronic stress, and lifestyle patterns can directly influence lymphatic flow and tissue congestion. From caffeine sensitivity to clothing choices and daily habits, this episode offers practical, grounded insights for reconnecting with your body’s signals and restoring healthy flow.
With clarity, compassion, and data-driven insight, Danielle encourages listeners to stop outsourcing their intuition and start listening to what their bodies have been communicating all along.
Highlights:
- What thermography measures and how heat patterns reflect inflammation
- Thermography vs. mammograms: differences, benefits, and limitations
- Why inflammation often precedes symptoms and diagnoses
- Breast thermography and early indicators of hormonal imbalance
- The role of lymphatic congestion in chronic health patterns
- How emotions and stress influence tissue inflammation
- Estrogen dominance, caffeine sensitivity, and metabolic heat
- Why self-breast exams and body awareness matter
- Clothing, fabrics, and environmental toxins affecting circulation
- Using thermography as a preventive and educational health tool
About Danielle Benham
Danielle Frain Benham is a Certified Clinical Thermography Technician, Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor, and Emotion Code Practitioner who helps clients identify and address inflammation through an individualized, whole-body approach. Danielle integrates diet, movement, emotional regulation, and lifestyle awareness to support lymphatic flow, hormonal balance, and nervous system health, empowering clients to listen to their bodies and respond before imbalance becomes disease.
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