Doing Everything Right but Still Feeling Sick? ‘What’s Your Spark’ Has an Uncomfortable Theory

If you’ve ever done everything “right” for your health and still felt off, this episode might feel uncomfortably familiar. On What’s Your Spark, Jordin Sparks sits down with Kim Rogers, founder of RogersHood Apothecary—also known online as the “Worm Queen”—for a conversation that goes way beyond wellness trends.

Rogers spent decades in Western medicine before chronic illness forced her to stop outsourcing answers and start listening inward. As she puts it, “I think people are just really tired of feeling crappy.” That exhaustion pushed her to question what she’d been taught, especially after doctors dismissed parasites as a possibility because, as she was told, “We’re a first world country.”

Parasites and Chronic Illness on ‘What’s Your Spark’

Be curious, spot the patterns, and notice when your body is quietly waving a red flag. The result is a grounded, sometimes shocking, and surprisingly empowering look at how pain can become purpose when you stop ignoring the signals.

The creeping panic of watching yourself disappear

Rogers didn’t question her body because she was lazy, disconnected, or ignoring her health. She questioned it because the math stopped working. She was doing everything she’d been trained to do—working hard, staying disciplined, pushing through—and still watching herself disappear.

“I’m smart, I’m dedicated, I can work hard, and when I started seeing myself not be that person and just a shell, I wanted to figure out what was wrong with me.” The red flag wasn’t pain alone—it was identity loss. 

And what made it harder was that nothing she was told explained the erosion she felt. Symptoms were treated in isolation. Surgeries became routine. The bigger picture never came into focus. Being a “shell” was the heavy grief of realizing the version of yourself you trust is slipping away, and no one can tell you why.

A western medicine insider who started questioning the system

Rogers has worked in Western medicine for two decades, held two healthcare degrees, graduated as valedictorian twice, and helped build medical colleges from the ground up. She’s careful to name what Western medicine does well: “I believe that we need to have some Western medicine. I believe that it’s a good life-saving tool.” But she’s equally clear about where it fell short for her. “But from my 20 years in Western medicine, it’s not here to heal us.”

She explains that the system leaves little room for curiosity or gray areas, where stepping outside protocol comes with fear and liability. Still, she questioned it anyway. Cautiously at first. Then more openly, especially as her own health declined and the solutions offered felt repetitive and incomplete.

Letting go of her license was inevitable. She calls herself a “Western medicine refugee,” someone who still values the tools but refuses to pretend they are the whole answer. The real healing required something medicine rarely encourages—sovereignty, pattern recognition, and the willingness to ask better questions.

Parasites aren’t rare—they’re ignored

Parasites are a blind spot because their symptoms get normalized and dismissed long before anyone looks deeper. According to Rogers, that’s why so many people stay sick without answers.

As she explains, “I think 95 percent of us have parasites.” Not because people are careless, but because exposure is ordinary. Soil, pets, water, food, travel. Life. What isn’t ordinary, she argues, is how little space there is in Western medicine to explore that possibility once symptoms become chronic. Instead, people are told bloating is stress. Brain fog is burnout. Fatigue is aging. Rogers sees those explanations as placeholders, not answers. When discomfort becomes routine, curiosity shuts down—and so does investigation.

Parasites don’t announce themselves dramatically. They drain over time. Nutrients, energy, clarity, you name it. “It was taking my life force,” Rogers says, describing the realization that what felt like personal decline was biological depletion.

Awareness, not panic

“This isn’t a fear-based conversation,” Rogers points out. For her, panic shuts down the very curiosity people need to understand their bodies. Awareness, on the other hand, creates choice.

She doesn’t present parasites or toxins as something to obsess over. She presents them as information. Signals worth paying attention to, especially when symptoms keep repeating and explanations stay vague. Rogers emphasizes that many cultures treat cleansing as routine maintenance, not a crisis response. In that context, checking in with your body becomes preventative rather than reactive. No drama. No urgency spiral. Just a regular practice of listening and responding.

She encourages people to move slowly, notice how they feel, and advocate for themselves without assuming the worst. Awareness gives you agency. Panic gives it away.

Reconnecting body, soul, and signal

When Rogers healed, her goal was restoring communication. Years of chronic illness had trained her to override discomfort and minimize symptoms. Reconnection meant learning how to listen again.

“I know when something’s not right in my body immediately because I’ve reconnected my soul to my body,” she notes. That awareness didn’t come from one protocol or product. It came from slowing down enough to notice patterns instead of silencing them.

Rogers compares the body to a system designed to protect something essential. When external stressors pile up—parasites, toxins, exhaustion—the body stays in defense mode. Rest and clarity become inaccessible. Reconnection happens when that noise is reduced and the signal can finally come through. The body and soul aren’t separate—they’re collaborators. And when the signal gets clear, decisions do too.

To hear Kim Rogers’ full conversation with Jordin Sparks, listen to What’s Your Spark, available now wherever you get your podcasts.

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