About Jared · Founder of Burch Bear Holistic Care
I rebuilt my own body. Then I helped over a thousand people rebuild theirs.
The root-cause story behind Burch Bear Holistic Care.
In 2019, my wife and I moved into a home in Phoenix that was quietly making us sick. We couldn't see the mold, and for almost 3 years, we had no idea it was there or how it was allowing for other toxicities to take hold. Finding our way out of that is how Burch Bear was born. I'm not a guru, I'm someone who was exactly where you might be right now, and clawed his way back.
Before & After · 315 lbs → ~220 lbs in 18 Months
How My Brain Is Wired
I ask "why" until I find the answer
I'm built to chase a problem all the way to its root. I ask why, and I keep asking until I get a real answer to then plug in to a kind of mental map and keep building on it. Allowing me to spot patterns and connections most people walk right past. From the time I was twelve, that wiring had me pointed at becoming a naturopath and a chiropractor with my fascination and natural inclination for human biology.
Life took a detour. I fell into entrepreneurship and spent years building businesses, systems and consulting, until my wife's health and mine took a turn I couldn't ignore. That same relentless "why" is what pulled me back into health and wellness and is the engine behind everything Burch Bear teaches today.
The House That Was Making Us Sick
Years of damage we couldn't see.
From 2019 to 2021 we had no idea anything was wrong. Then in July 2021, my wife had her first seizure with no explanation anyone could give us, followed by a few more, including while medicated. Her body started shutting down and I was heading the wrong way too: the scale kept climbing, and my body was breaking down a little more every month.
Between the two of us, we were dealing with MCAS, POTS-like symptoms, histamine intolerance, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, liver dysfunction, renal issues, depression, anxiety, and full-blown immune dysfunction. By October 2022, I reached 275 pounds, while my wife was fading away to below 120. By January 2023, I tipped over 315+ lbs, developed shingles across my left eye, and caught COVID back-to-back inside ninety days. I had no immune system left to speak of.
Refusing the Answer "We Don't Know"
I went looking for the root cause, and I found it.
My wife's neurologist told us that 70% of seizures go undiagnosed and that we might simply never know why, but here's your medication for the rest of your life. I said no. That was not an answer I was willing to accept. So I dug in, and I dug in hard and found a few doctors online that stepped away from their Western practice and into functional medicine and one of them mentioned seizures. They started talking about quite a few mold toxic clients that they have worked with through the years and how after cleaning up both their environment and body, their seizure-like activity never returned. That's when the light bulb went off. The symptoms we have been dealing with all along almost all lined up. And by mid 2022, I had the house tested and what we thought was dust was Aspergillus niger, a mold that produces ochratoxin A, a potent mycotoxin. That was the primary driver. The toxic load it created was driving the candida overgrowth, the scalp psoriasis, and the immune collapse underneath everything. What started as mold first, cascaded into nearly every deficiency and breakdown that followed once our bodies could no longer keep up the fight.
By April of 2023, we had the opportunity to move out and into a brand new build rental. Now before I simply jumped head first into cleansing the toxins, I spent months opening drainage pathways and supporting my lymphatic system. Getting the exits open and the system pumping and dumping first. Only then did I start strategically cycling through cleanse protocols including: heavy metals, candida, parasites, and mold all while binding and removing.
What That Year Taught Me
A clean environment plus the right order of operations let my body heal rapidly and not just weight loss, but actually rebuilt from the bottom up. The sequence mattered as much as the work itself.
The Idea That Came Out of It
This is where the whole Burch Bear framework was born. A body that's both toxic and deficient gets riddled with dis-ease. Deficient alone, it can usually cope. But combine the two and the system can't keep up, and the cup runs over.
What Unwinding the Toxicity Taught Me
Clear the toxins, and the deficiencies start to resolve
Here's what surprised me most: when I took care of the toxicities, a lot of the deficiencies took care of themselves. Toxicities and deficiencies aren't two separate problems to solve in isolation. Solve the first in the right order, and the second often follows.
Digestion came back online
Removing the mold, mycotoxin, heavy metals, candida overgrowth and parasitic load allowed my stomach, liver, and gallbladder to work again. Stomach acid returned, bile started flowing again, digestion improved and suddenly I was actually absorbing my food.
My lymph started moving
Toxicity drives lymphatic stagnation. Clearing it cut that stagnation, so that flow can regain and my drainage network could finally do its job instead of backing up. Making me resiliant to inevitable environmental exposures and toxins again.
Nutrients finally absorbed
With the combination of proper digestion and a working lymph, I started absorbing fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, K, and E again. Helping rebuild my body healthfully from the root up.
The Real Test
We've lived in mold since and yet, we're not going backwards
Since healing, my wife and I have lived in 2 more rental homes that also had mold. We're in one right now (as of Jun 2026). And yet we're not sliding back into that level of dysfunction and disease again, because we learned how to keep the exits open, the system actively clearing, and the active exposure reduced so the cup never gets the chance to run over.
That's the difference between a one-time detox and actually knowing how to keep your body well for the long haul. It's the difference I want for you, too.
Where the Name Comes From
Burch Bear was my own holistic care first
The name is simple and personal. Burch is my last name. And when I started this, I was a 315-pound bear. Burch Bear Holistic Care was literally the name I gave my own healing. It was the holistic care I was doing to put my own body back together.
I started posting it all publicly in 2022, as Burch Bear, showing people exactly what I was doing including buying a microscope and documenting my own parasite cleanse, sharing everything I found along the way. Doing my best to walk the path out loud so others could walk theirs.
Where I Am Now
Over a thousand people, back in their lives
In the last 2+ years, I've helped more than a thousand people heal their bodies through this same holistic lens. Toxicities + deficiencies, unwound in the right order. If you've been dismissed by doctors, told your labs look "fine" while you feel anything but, or you suspect there's a root cause no one has named, you're probably right. And you're not broken, you're most likely overloaded.
Ready to start in the right order?
The 60-Day Detox Kit is the map I wish I'd had. Open drainage first, support the detox pathways, disrupt the ecosystem, then cleanse while fully supported the whole way through. If you'd rather have a guide in your corner, I work with people one-on-one too.