Joannes-Story
Joanne Moore Gavlick · 72 years old
They booked the scan to look for tumors on her adrenal glands. Then they called it off.
Four years ago Joanne was in the emergency room two and three times a week. Six months of that. Every doctor she asked told her it had nothing to do with COVID. Nobody was coming to help her, so she went and got herself.
Before 2021, she wasn't on a single medication.
Almost seventy years old and taking nothing.
Then she was hospitalized with COVID, and what came back out of that hospital was a different body. Myocarditis. Epstein-Barr. Blood pressure spikes that would not come down no matter what anyone gave her. There was so much of it, arriving so fast, that she started writing it down to keep track.
The AFib is what took over.
Two to three times a week. For six months. In and out of the ER until the drive stopped feeling like an emergency and started feeling like a commute.
"I can't even put it into words. It's trauma. It's traumatizing."
Joanne
And every single time, the same sentence from the people who were supposed to know: no, there's no such thing from COVID.
Four years later her cardiologist admits it. He's the only one who ever has.
So she stopped waiting to be rescued.
Joanne got out of the traditional box a long time ago, and not on principle. On necessity. Nobody could help her, so she learned to be her own advocate — which is a polite way of saying she learned that if she didn't go find the answer herself, nobody was going to hand it to her.
She found a rehab center offering laser therapy. That one wasn't a leap; she'd had it back in San Diego in 2010 and already knew what it felt like when energy does something a pill can't.
From there she found Dr. Monzo — "so under the radar," she says. She heard him talk about frequency and what it does in the body. She prayed about it. She became a patient in November 2022 and has been one ever since.
It helped. She was still landing in the ER on the bad spikes. Still exhausted. Still living with migraines, and with pain from three spinal surgeries that predate all of this by twenty years.
Then she was scrolling Instagram, and two ads found her.
Good old algorithms, she calls it. One of them was ours.
The other was about aldosterone — a hormone the adrenal glands make. In four years of cardiologists, nobody had checked it. Not one.
So Joanne researched it herself, and then she went to her primary care doctor and asked for the blood work by name.
It was there. Elevated. It had been sitting there the entire time, quietly driving the blood pressure that four maximum-dose medications couldn't hold down. It took a University of Florida cardiologist to even raise the words tumors on the adrenals. The imaging got scheduled.
"No doctor ever offered that. No cardiologist."
Joanne
Remember that she is 72, that she is doing this alone, and that at this point in the story not one person in her life has told her she's on the right track.
She bought the VIBE in March. Then she called us before she turned it on.
Not to complain — to ask which protocols to run in the morning and which ones at night. She wasn't going to guess with her body. She never has.
Here's what she was walking in with. Some nights, two hours of sleep. Some nights none at all. On medication that is supposed to put a person out cold.
It took about a week.
Two hours a night became six and seven.
"I actually got a full night's sleep, and I was so grateful, so ecstatic. I'm like, this is amazing. People need to know about this."
Joanne
Ask her why she leads with sleep and she'll tell you it was never really about sleep:
"Of all the things you can measure, number one is going to be sleep. No matter what condition you have — if you're getting good sleep, that means you're going in the direction of goodness. It's giving your body more time to repair. That's when it's going to repair."
Joanne
A month later, they ran the aldosterone and renin test again.
It came back normal.
The endocrinologist was baffled. She asked the obvious question — had Joanne started any new medication?
No, Joanne said. But she'd been doing this therapy. This Resona device.
And the room went the way those rooms always go.
"Oh. Well, maybe it's a mistake. Let's test you again in a month."
Her endocrinologist
The MRI was called off. The CAT scan was called off.
The one measurable, documented, black-and-white win Joanne had gotten in four years of fighting for her own life, and the specialist holding the paper said it was probably a lab error.
It's on her from the time she gets up.
"I don't go anywhere without this device on me."
Joanne
Not running end to end — the protocols run in sessions, and she moves through them across the day depending on what her body is telling her. But it's on her. She told us she thinks she's going to wear it out, and then she asked what the warranty was.
Sleep
Where she started. Run faithfully, every night, about an hour before bed.
Vagus Nerve
Nervous system regulation. Part of the nightly stack from day one.
Relax & Balance
The third leg of the evening routine.
Brainwave Delta
What she reaches for when blood pressure climbs.
Delta Theta
Daytime. Also her headache protocol.
Theta Alpha
Migraines. Sometimes gone almost immediately after; sometimes it takes the full run.
Beta
Immune support.
Lymphatic
"This one is huge." Three spinal surgeries left the pathways blocked. She notices when her nodes get sore, and she runs it.
She keeps a log. Date, protocol, how she felt. That's how she caught the changes that were too small to feel.
"You notice the progress even though sometimes you don't notice it in a dramatic way. You notice a change, just ever so slight. And some are almost immediate."
Joanne
Four blood pressure medications. Maximum dose. The strongest there are.
She's been able to cut them in half.
Joanne isn't anti-medicine about it. She'll tell you straight that we need those drugs in a life-or-death situation, and hers was one. What she'll also tell you is this:
"Who wants to stay on that forever? Because you know what — they cause problems."
Joanne
She did that with her doctors, over time, watching her own numbers. Not alone in a bathroom with a pill cutter. If you're on those medications, that distinction is the whole ballgame — talk to your prescriber.
She used to be down for days.
Out again. This is what "down for days" was costing her.
The pain was never going to fully leave. Cervical and thoracic laminectomies in 1999 to remove a staph infection pressing on her spinal cord. An L1 compression. A fractured tailbone. Inflammation she describes as all through her body — press the wrong spot and she'll tell you precisely where it is.
She's still sensitive to every bit of it. She just isn't losing days to it anymore.
"I've got energy. I'm out there. I'm 72 years old and I can keep up with people 10, 15 years younger than me."
Joanne
And she is not finished. Ask her what's on her mind at 72 and she doesn't talk about symptoms at all.
"I want to leave a legacy. There are things I desire to fulfill in my life that I have not been able to — and I have the confidence now to be able to do that."
Joanne
Here is the part that should make you angry.
Joanne got her life back. And she can't get anyone to listen to how.
Her kids are out of state. That generation only texts, she says, and she hardly hears from them — they're estranged, pretty much. Her friends sit there when she tells them, in her words, "like they were hit with a stun gun." Nobody asks a single follow-up question. The people at church don't even ask.
One daughter gets it. A nurse. Not because she's a nurse — because she happens to value anything that isn't pharmaceutical.
That's the whole audience. One person.
So think about what it took to keep going anyway. Four years of ER trips nobody could explain. A hormone she had to find herself and request by name. A device she bought off an Instagram ad because she was out of other ideas. A lab result her own specialist waved off as a mistake. And a circle of people who, when she finally had good news, changed the subject.
She kept going because she was paying attention to her own body, and her own body was telling her the truth.
We asked her what she'd say to someone skeptical.
"You have nothing to lose by trying it. There's a return policy. But how can you know unless you try?"
Joanne
And then she said this, and we haven't stopped thinking about it since.
"Do you value your pocket more than your health? Do you value your pocket more than your quality of life — especially as we age?"
Joanne
We asked her to sum it up. She didn't take long.
"It's changed my life. It's changed my life."
Joanne — she said it twice
The VIBE.
A 2.4-ounce wearable PEMF device. The one Joanne has had on nearly every waking hour since March, and the one she thinks she's going to wear out.
Backed by the return policy she mentions above.
The story above is Joanne Moore Gavlick's personal experience, told in her own words. Individual experiences vary and results are not guaranteed. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and nothing here is a claim that the VIBE treats, cures, or prevents any disease or condition. Do not start, stop, or change any medication without your physician.
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