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Is Your Toxic Burden Stopping Weight Loss?

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Many people want to lose weight, and they have often tried diet and lifestyle changes with little results. While there can be several contributing factors to this like hormone imbalances, mold exposure, and imbalanced thyroid function, one of the lesser-known influences is your toxic burden. Toxic burden refers to the cumulative exposure you have had to different toxins from air, water, food, cosmetic products, etc. Many of these toxins build-up in the body and can have lasting effects, affecting many different parts of the body in different ways. Fortunately there are things you can do to help avoid toxins in the future, reduce your current toxin burden and speed up detoxification. In this week’s episode, Is Your Toxic Burden Stopping Weight Loss?, we will discuss some symptoms of a high toxic burden, and give you some solutions to help your body detox.

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Is Your Toxic Burden Stopping Weight Loss?

00:00:01 – 00:05:04

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with doctor Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And today we are going to discuss with our one of our favorite guests that we have come in from time to time, Casey. Apparently it’s one of your favorites too. So thank you for the feedback. Yeah, I know he is good. We learned so much and people are really understanding differences in products because of him. But today he’s going to talk with us about is your toxic burden stopping your weight loss and you’re probably going, what’s toxic burden? Well, many people are very burdened with so many toxins and then they go and try to lose weight and their bodies going, oh please. I can’t do this. So he’s going to discuss why that could be happening. Of course, doctor Lewis is going to chime in with his isms. And hopefully he’s how this together for you with a lot of fun. So Casey, welcome. Thank you. Always, always a pleasure to be here. You know, we learned so much about fish all the last time and I can’t tell you the collagen story has really helped so many people. It walk into the store. They’re like, I take collagen. What makes yours different? I’m like, I know this, I know this was a Casey. That was a huge differentiators that are ultimately going to affect how people feel taking their products. I actually had a lady that came in and said, I’m taking this I’m already on college, ’cause she had knee pain really bad and I said, this is different. She goes, well, why? Collagen’s collagen and I explained to her no it was not. So she purchased it and then she came in two days later. I wasn’t here in a brandy said, she actually walked up to me and said, does this stuff really work? And Brandi said, yes, it works. And she goes, my knee pain is totally gone. And I thought it might be in my head and so yeah, you were absolutely wrong. I also believe in her collagen. Yeah, exactly. So today we’re going to discuss a few products that help with eliminating toxins, I guess. And can help with weight loss and the differences between them. Which one do you want to start with? Well, I think first we should kind of paint the picture of what when you mentioned toxic burden and weight loss and potentially thwarting somebody’s efforts to lose weight, what that actually means. A good picture to have in your head is, I mean, we all have a toxic burden. Our environment is very toxic, our body produces toxins that I say that toxins, there’s byproducts of processes in the body that the body needs to get rid of. These things accumulate in the body, specifically they accumulate in fat. So if you take a, let’s just say a 200 pound frame. And you want to shrink that frame down to a 150 pounds. And you start losing weight and you’re feeling great, weight’s coming off. But you don’t do anything to address that toxic burden that you have. You’ve essentially just condensed that burden from a 200 pound frame down into a 150 pound frame. And now the body is kind of like what’s going on here. We need to take some protective measures and the best thing that the body can do for itself in order to deal with the toxic burden is to put additional fat on. Again, because these toxins are harvested in fat. So if you’re losing weight and you’ve plateaued and can’t lose any more, it’s likely because your body’s gone into its protective state to make sure that we’re not overburdening a smaller frame with that preexisting toxic burden. And that’s one of the reasons that your liver enzymes can go sky high because your liver gets clogged up, phase one, phase two. And can’t really dump it. So it should be kind of a slow process. And people say, well, what’s this got today, your chiropractor? What’s this got to do with musculoskeletal? Everything. So we’ll talk a little bit more about metabolic syndrome and diabetes. And insulin resistance. Well, that goes back with Casey what you said, the lady with the knee pain had actually lost a lot of weight. She had been on this diet that we looked at. That’s a role your eyes got. I can’t believe you’re doing this kind of diet. But they’re still, it was working. They’re losing weight, but they’re eating like these candy bar things and they’re like a hundred calories. I think at a time and that’s all they’re giving up with the candy bars like really bad, this ingredient. It’s got bad ingredients. Right. And she had lost a bunch of weight and then her knees started hurting really bad. So you’re right. I mean, it’s toxins that apparently have gathered and can’t escape. Right. They get freed up and they’re another circulating in the body and they’re looking for other tissues to settle in. And the scary part about that is some of the fattier tissues in the body like you think about the brain.

00:05:04 – 00:10:06

These are the areas that these toxins are looking to seek out. So again, the body’s putting back on fat tissue to protect these vital organs. Nobody cares about to Brian. If you say, well, it’s the fad deposits in your breast and that’s going to or more toxins. Then they go, oh my God, my breast. It’s hair and white. The brain’s a little important too. Oh, yeah. Well, maybe you need to remember why. Yeah, some people need to think with it, but just a little research thrown in. Here’s one about zinc and insulin sensitivity or actually lack of zinc. And I’ve said this many, many times, too much sugar equals spear vegetables equals less than K equals four taste equals more sugar so you want to stimulate that by eating more sugar and it’s a vicious cycle that’s from journal of nutrition. It can be so much different things improved insulin response and action by chronic magnesium administration. And this is from diabetes care. So magnesium is really important. And it has a lot to do with digestive enzymes. And magnesium is one of the major missing minerals and Casey can talk more and more about that. Do the technical stuff. But let’s get into it. And I see what we can figure out here. And what are you missing? That’s the key. So y’all pay attention to this. And I want to thank you. I’m off topic already. But I just talked to a guy in Kansas. You have his own show, just by himself without us getting well, yeah, well, conversation with doctor Lewis. Yeah, I just talked to Jeremy up in Kansas. And Jeremy’s up there has been doing this several years and he’s just really incredible. He’s real nice. He’s real suede. And thank you for your trust. The people that get results are the ones that hear something, they’re intuition speaks. They listen to their discerning spirit. And they just go from there. And so be like Jeremy, Jeremy’s just up there getting better and better results and being very quiet. But it’s consistency of action. And that’s why Janet loves me. It’s not because I told her I loved her. It’s not one kiss. It’s not one hug. It’s consistency. So if you want good health, you have to be consistent. Cool. So all right, thank you for that. So now we’re back over Casey. We were discussing how the weight loss thing has to do with the toxins. Okay, so you’ve lost some white. And now these toxins are stuck. What do we do? Nutritionally, there’s a handful of things that you can do first. I mean, detox happens in two primary phases and actually now there’s a third one that’s being talked about more phase one, essentially you have these little liver enzymes called cytochrome P450 enzymes. They seek out the toxins and they essentially flag them. And in doing so, they create something called an intermediary metabolite. And it’s actually these metabolites that are more dangerous than the original toxin. You think about estrogen metabolism. Estrogen itself is a hormone isn’t necessarily dangerous, but it’s the metabolites generated by your body to get rid of these toxins. They can be pushed down the wrong pathway and create a very dangerous metabolites. The second phase of this phase two of detoxification talks about these liver pathways essentially or conjugation pathways that are then identify these flag toxins and can then turn them kind of push these push them through the pathways and kind of turn them into these water soluble compounds that are then ready to be excreted from the body. Now phase three, which is the emphasis of one of the new products that we introduced in viral detox, is actually so what happens is when we get these when we get these toxins, these are called conjugated consider them conjugated, they’re bound up, they’re dumped into the gut lumen. Now what we want to make sure that they are facilitating the elimination of these things via urine and stool primarily. We don’t want them to become unconjugated and pushed back into circulation. So that’s where using some of the binders, some of the zeolite clays, the activated charcoal, Shiljit, which is just these are minerals have a heavy affinity for different things in the digestive tract that we’re trying to make sure of being bound up and eliminated from the body rather than pushed back into circulation. Oh, I can tell you, since we’ve added in that product, that of course I take all this, I have to try it out, right? Right. The combination of enviro detox and dim plus have been great because the dim plus is pulling out the bad estrogens. Right. And then I guess it’s dim is making sure that estrogen estrogens are being pushed down that right pathway. So there’s three primary metabolites that are generated when your body’s trying to detoxify or metabolize estrogen.

00:10:06 – 00:15:04

You have your two hydroxy, which are your good. You’re good metabolites. You have your four, which are, and then you have your 16 alpha, which are the bad ones that you really want to watch out for. Dim is making sure that we’re promoting the healthy estrogen of those metabolites. And estrogen metabolism and creating those two hydroxy metabolites. And that’s why Janet and I talk about liver function and it has a great deal to do with the microbiome of your gut and Janet talks about bowel movements because if it’s sluggish, these conjugated hydroxy estrogens will unconjugated and go back to the bad one and then you reabsorb it in the small intestine. So that’s why bowel motility is very important and having a bound up so that happens to a lesser degree. And bowel motility means having a bowel movement every time you eat a meal 30 minutes to an hour afterward is optimal. And Janet told me many, many times it quit being so technical. I said, well, if you’re eating three times, you need to be pooping two or three times. Elimination is incredibly important. We can help with that. And the dim detox what Casey is talking about in a very scientific manner for women what it means is that you get your shape back. You, because your body starts store that excess fat around the top, where your shirts don’t fit like they used to. You don’t have that extra lump of fat under your arm and towards your back. And we know this detoxification is working and I’ve said this before because Casey is still uncommonly handsome. It’s working. Well, man, seem to get by. Men don’t be afraid of the dim either. Oh, yeah, because they make sure that we’re not converting testosterone to estrogens. And it helps with prostate function when my MD says, doctor leisure, prostate pale is like a 25 year old and he says, what are you doing? I said nutrition, you wouldn’t understand, get out of there. You’re having too much fun. It was the damn helps keep the prostate healthy, which keeps the musculoskeletal. I go back to that. And it gets rid of the men boobs. Which I don’t have. Because if your boobs are bigger than your wives, then you might want to check out dim because you’re not supposed to have that ’cause you’re drinking light beer. She said that to a guy one time. And he looks and I don’t want my 12 year old to think his dad has man boobs, and then we saw the same guy, you know, months later and he looked at Janice and I’ve gone to dark beer because it has less of those estrogens. Right. But so, I know, scientific, sorry. Who’s getting off the rabbit trail? I’m just making this simple. I can’t talk in these high-tech conversations. I get it what happens whenever you take it and women you also get flatter stomachs from it because it quits storing it there too. So those are important things to consider if you’re trying to lose weight as hey, let’s make sure that we’re doing something to optimize my body’s ability to detoxify. Okay, so then in our detox comes in because it’s pulling off all the bad toxins from what dim all the work, all the work your body is doing to detoxify the conjugate toxins and dumping them in the digestive tract. It’s making sure that we’re getting these things out of the body. As well as helping to pull heavy metals and pull organic or pull agricultural byproducts, things like glyphosate out of the body, get rid of mycotoxins and other things you don’t want hanging out. Okay, so that’s detoxing, so to speak. I want to talk a little bit about carnitine also. Because I know carnitine, I don’t know that stuff just makes you feel good. It gives you so much more stamina. So when you are in the middle of trying to lose weight and stuff, you know, you get kind of sluggish because, well, frankly, you’re cutting back on what you’ve been eating. And you’re not getting the endorphins or whatever from the food. So, but carnitine has just, it’s just been a game changer for us for people with energy for stamina. Our daughter takes it when she goes to work. She’s she works in the hospital. And she’s like, oh my gosh, I have all this stamina from carnitine. And even though she’s recently hired, they’ve already offered her to be the manager over the entire program. Because she could move fast from carnitine. And many other things, she’s just smart. And she had to play the other day and just had the headache from, oh my God, and I said here, it’s like carnitine boom or head pain was going in 30 minutes. Steph’s great. So can you tell us what carnitine does because all I know is it makes you feel really good. Yeah, well, carnitine is something that we consume when the diet, the carnitine deficiencies aren’t necessarily where you do see it more in vegetarian and vegan populations. We can make it inside of our bodies from the amino acids lysine and methionine.

00:15:04 – 00:20:03

But carnitine is really unique. It’s found in heavy concentrations and energy dense tissues. So think of muscle tissue. Think of the heart, think of the liver, think of the brain. And what it does in these tissues is it basically plays shuttle to free fatty acids. And it essentially delivers them to your mitochondria. Your mitochondria are your little batteries that run every single cell in the body. So in car terms, for instance, carnitine is kind of your fuel pump that’s helping to pull gas out of the tank and deliver it to the engine where you actually where you actually need it in your car can use it and produce energy. So it’s a really effective natural way to ramp up energy production at a cellular level by essentially delivering or enriching that fuel source that’s being delivered to your mitochondria. I know one thing there’s times when you could drink like a whole pot of coffee. And it would not affect you the way the carnitine does. As y’all are having coffee over here. But I mean, it’s a different energy. I mean, the coffee is like, yeah, it wakes you up. It’s not a stimulating. It’s not in any means stimulants, so you’re not going to get the jitters. You’re not going to get the crashes. It’s just a really clean, sustained improvement in overall energy production. So everything from neurotransmitter production to your body’s capacity for detoxification. Obviously, tissue repair, cardiac function, endothelial function. These are the areas where you’re seeing weight loss. These are the areas, and even fertility specifically male fertility. These are all the areas where you’ve seen good outcomes with carnitine supplementation. How they help with male smart upper. Really? I’ll put a lot of people on carnitine and a good vitamin a, there’s several others that you can take in their sperm count. And that is a huge problem in America today. We’re down to about barely barely enough sperm count on the average to impregnate a woman, people say, well, it just takes one sperm. Now it takes a lot because of the enzyme system. So we can increase the sperm count for those that have really, really low. And we got babies all over the country. People say, well, I couldn’t get pregnant. Now I am. I didn’t know carnitine. Sperm counts. Yes, positively affected by carnitine supplementation. The testes are very, they’re working hard. And they need the energy and as Casey says that with a grin on his face. That’s trouble. I know for you guys, I have to work so hard. Well, you won’t strong swimmers. Sir. Well, put chalk that one out. I like carnitine. You’re a particular carnitine because it’s pretty. And can you tell us why I thought it was in a white powdery form? And y’alls is not a white powdery form. It’s this pretty little jail and it’s clear and it’s got this liquid floating around. And that’s a little nitrogen bubble just to stabilize the raw material. So we don’t have issues with oxidation. It’s not going rancid. Liquid carnitine is always going to be, as far as the supplementing is concerned, is always going to be the most effective way to get the most carnitine as possible. Into the body, are just a 100% pure L carnitine. So it’s bioidentical to what’s produced in the body. There’s other forms out there, whether it’s acetyl carnitine or carnitine tartrate, carnitine fumarate. These different forms of carnitine, while they might be effective as a supplement, they are not pure carnitine. So essentially you have to take more to get an equivalent dose as if you were taking L carnitine as a liquid. And ours as well as not a liquid that you drink because carnitine tastes terrible for those who have tried carnitine liquid, we actually use a rapidly dissolving capsule that basically quickly breaks down. So it’s like taking a liquid. It is a liquid encapsulated liquid. It’s like taking a liquid, you just don’t have to taste it. I love it. That you don’t want to take that after about 3 o’clock in the afternoon though, because it does ramp you up. You have sustained energy. And what it does help with for weight loss, it allows you to have the energy to get outside and take a walk to do something extra than what you only could get to the couch before to do. And internally, she’s helping with fatty acid oxidation. So it’s helping your body utilize fat as an energy source. So you’re breaking down your breaking down more fat. Cool. Okay. So that’s one y’all probably have not heard about. Another one that we want to talk a little couple of things we want to talk about. Selenium, we have what we call active selenium, which on our lab we give people that whenever we’re trying to raise their T four levels on their thyroid, we also have something called thyroid essentials.

00:20:04 – 00:25:06

Sometimes people get confused about what which one they need to take, which one helps with weight loss, which one’s best. Can you tell us the difference in your selenium, what it does? Versus why you would do that versus the thyroid essential. Well, from a manufacturer’s perspective, our selenium is different in the fact that it’s a yeast derived selenium. So there’s selenium naturally occurs as selenium methionine or selenomethionine, which is how you consume it in your diet. A lot of which you buy in your retail supplements is selenium are synthetic forms. Meaning, meaning they don’t absorb well. Right, your body doesn’t. Your body kind of does not know what to do with them. The selenium that we use as a yeast derives selenium, and this fermentation actually it produces selenium as selenomethionine, and it produces at a very high concentration. So again, the actual selenium content of your product might not be what you think it is, because the you take like a selenium citrate, it might only be 35% actual elemental selenium, where our solano methionine derived from yeast. Is of much higher concentration. Can you talk about a derived from yeast and I have people say, but I have too much east in my GI tract. I said, no, no, no, no, no different thing. And a lot of dietary supplement ingredients. A lot of your drugs that you’re taking are a fermentation manufacturing process, whether they’re using bacteria or they’re using yeast like saccharomyces to ferment, it might be, it might be beets, it might be corn. It might be anything. And in doing this, they’re able to use this process to extract whatever molecule or compound that they’re going after. You’re not adding you’re not adding more yeast into your diet by consuming a yeast based or a yeast derived selenium. Yeah, that’s good because some people, they say, well, I’m allergic to sulfur, so now you’re allergic to sulfa drugs, so you’re okay if you can eat an egg or an onion or something that has high content of sulfur. So just don’t be confused and always go to somebody you can trust to ask the question. Sure. But selenium is a relates to thyroid gland function. Well, just overall in the body, there’s 25 different proteins that your body synthesizes that needs selenium. And it’s a really, really important precursor to different glutathione peroxidases, which the thyroid gland is heavily reliant upon to detoxify a byproduct of thyroid hormone production, which is hydrogen peroxide. If you accumulate too much hydrogen peroxide in your thyroid gland, it can cause issues. So you need selenium to produce this antioxidant. That’s able to kind of clean up these byproducts. It’s also there’s another diode that is selenium dependent that is responsible for or needed to convert inactive T four into active T three. So it might your thyroid issues might be as simple as adding a little bit of additional selenium into your daily regimen. And aren’t those the ones that say, well, I have Hashimoto’s, I can’t take I done. Are you saying instead of thyroid essentials do this active selenium for how people that have Hashimoto’s? Is that what you’re saying? Well, you know, here’s the problem. I’ve read dozens literally dozens of books from so called thyroid experts and outside different things. And some people say you can’t take Aden because if you have Hashimoto’s because it’s like throwing gasoline on the fire. Well, if you put it with the right ratio of tyrosine and selenium, these people do not have any problems with the thyroid essentials. Your body, your thyroid gland specifically needs iodine. Absolutely. Iodine hormone, it needs to produce iodine or sorry. Thyroid hormone to produce thyroid hormone in your body needs two critical components that are iodine and tyrosine. And yes, there is some research out there that suggest that if you throw iodine at somebody who has an autoimmune thyroid condition like Hashimoto’s, you can exacerbate their issues. They think they spin out. They lose their hair. They gain a bunch of weight or they lose a bunch of weight. That is true to some extent in the presence of selenium deficiencies. And it takes different babe out of us to make that conversion from T four to T three, and most people are B deficient.

00:25:06 – 00:30:00

So you’re saying there’s complicated missing B vitamins and selenium, the reason why the iodine would bother an autoimmune problem. Is that very, very often, yes. Oh, very interesting, huh? So if thyroid essentials is a great product, it’s a great kind of, I call it kind of like a thyroid focused, multivitamin, and that there’s a lot of different factors that can influence thyroid gland function or your body’s ability to convert TSH into T three or T four or your body’s ability to convert T four into T three. That’s where thyroid essentials is focused and kind of all of these areas. It’s helping your body not only produce or it’s helping your throat going not only produce hormones, but it’s helping your body convert inactive hormone into active hormone. It’s helping to kind of mitigate some of the other factors that are potentially detrimental, not potentially. That are detrimental to the functioning of the thyroid gland. And some of these or maybe all of these nutrients we’re talking about, it also goes into metabolic syndrome and diabetes and insulin resistance, because that’s true. Selenium from journal of molecular cell biochemistry and it talks about magnesium, which I mentioned, and zinc and copper, calcium, magnesium, chromium, vanadium, it’s a complicated thing. And that’s why we suggest you get your lab work, so we can have some kind of clue of what’s going on. And then be consistent. So you’re saying that just taking selenium by itself if you had like an autoimmune problem might not be as well rounded as doing the thyroid essentials that’s kind of dumping maybe all the other things and you might have been missing to start with. To help the thyroid function right. I personally agree with that, but I take straight magnesium. I take straight zinc. I take straight selenium because it is very, very missing and some other disease processes. So I want to make sure that I take essentials and selenium because I think you need both of them. And I feel better doing about them for some reason. And because as Casey talked about the microvilli in the intestines or the lumen, sometimes you need a lot of product there to get enough absorbed to do the body some good and make that transport into the cells. Especially if you’re insulin resistant or have diabetes because it takes more product to get through that. And that’s why we check insulin on people’s labs, which most doctors don’t, because I don’t care. If you’ve got insulin resistance, you’ve got the musculoskeletal problems. You’ve got the Tennessee toward diseases, and you have poor absorption. So we have to deal with that. And what doctor? Smokers, too, especially. If you smoke, you’re likely selenium deficient. If you have chronic GI issues, IBD, Crohn’s ulcerative colitis, you’re likely selenium, among other minerals among the micronutrients deficient, but there are certain people who might be. Better off with taking more selenium. And we’re talking about weight loss and the diabetes, the insulin resistance, the sugar levels, start going low glycemic foods, and even CoQ10 drop sugar levels, 31% in a diabetic. So will you take CoQ10 for your heart? Well, your heart has to process or the responsibility of shunting more blood through the all the way down to the capillaries to deliver the nutrients that you need for better health. When doctor Lewis is talking about insulin resistance for those of you that are not aware of what we do in our lab work, most of the times when you go to the doctor, they run your glucose levels, and that’s just like what you did the day before, basically. Or that minute. Yeah, that minute. And then some people get an A1C, which is a three month blood sugar average. And we have literally had people that are over 200 pounds come in with a perfect A1C, which means their blood sugar levels look great. But insulin, like doctor Lewis is talking about, which is another test we run, tells us if they’re headed toward being a diabetic because while they may be good with their pancreas now, if it’s on the higher end with the insulin that means the pancreas is running, trying to keep up with your body and at some point it’s going to say, hey, I quit. And then you will be a diabetic. And that’s what we see many times with people that are overweight. They have perfect a-one-cs or insulin is way high. So you know you’re not eating correctly. And it’s just a matter of time before it craters. So that’s what we’re trying to help prevent by using some of these supplements. Guys, yes. Okay.

00:30:02 – 00:34:10

One other one I want to talk about very quickly, because we don’t have much time left in our show. Every time Casey comes here, it’s like, oh my gosh, we have so much to say. It’s stress adapt. Why would someone need stress adapt to help with their weight loss? And energy levels, toxic burden. Well, I don’t think you can talk about thyroid gland function without addressing stress. Talking about two systems in the body between the HPA, which is your stress response and the HPT, which is your thyroid functioning. You’ll notice the two common glands that they share are the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland. If you’re lit up over here, if you’re constantly stressed and we’re talking not just mental and emotional stress, I know we’ve talked about this on the past and the show, but glycemic dysregulation, which you just mentioned, inflammation, sleep issues. There’s a lot of different stressors, toxic burden. That will keep you lit up over here on the HPA side. And if you’re kind of allocating all your resources to your stress response, it doesn’t leave much over here for your thyroid gland to operate correctly. So taking something like stress adapt alongside of thyroid essentials, which is going to help kind of buffer the stress response over here, kind of decrease the overall the overall cortisol response that you have in cortisol again, cortisol is being driven by all of these different all of these different factors. If you can kind of quiet down the HPA axis, it just allows for more optimal functioning of freeze up the resources that allow us for the HPT access to do what it needs to do. So you don’t get set off so easy by little things in life that like gas prices and things that way, right? I don’t know if that’s avoidable, but everything is interconnected. If you want to, if you want to truly address your thyroid issues, we have to take a look at over what are these stressors in your life that can potentially be addressed and something with like stress adapt is something that’s just going to, it’s going to help you do that. Obviously there’s lifestyle modifications that are needed. There’s dietary modifications that are needed. But this is just something again that’s just kind of help you better cope. Your body physiologically better cope and better deal with some of these things. A buffer. So with being overweight and being diabetic or insulin resistant, the inability to lose weight has you so tired that you can’t make it to the Oklahoma line. Then you need to call us. And we’re from Texas. So that’s a cyan down here. Well, I’m so poor. I’m so tired. I can’t make it to the Oklahoma line. You should do something good. So that you can live your best lap right now. Casey, thank you for being a guest on our show again today. We always learn so much and for those of you that have no clue where you’re levels are on your lab because you can’t afford it or they don’t run any of the things that we’re talking about today on the show. Guess what? We do. And we do it all across the United States very inexpensively. And tell you exactly what to take for your nutritional supplements, so we take the guesswork out. You can get started by going to www.greenwisdomhealth.com and fill out the health survey. It will lead you to a lab panel and you can start having a life worth living. And we appreciate you listening to our show. We’ll be here next time on the green wisdom health show you guys have a blessed week. Once again, our show has come to an end, but your hope in your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a brighter future, take the first step and go to our website and fill out the health survey. Please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share the show with your friends and family. You are only one step away from a life worth living.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Thyroid Essentials – Thyroid Essentials is a comprehensive formulation that provides a blend of nutrients and botanicals working in synergy to support thyroid health. Thyroid Essentials includes L-tyrosine and iodine, which make up the backbone of the thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). The addition of zinc, selenium, vitamin A, and the botanical guggulipid activate enzymes that enhance the conversion of T4 into the active thyroid hormone T3.

L-Carnitine – L-carnitine is an amino acid essential for the transport of fatty acids into the cell mitochondria. Research has shown that L-carnitine stimulates the use of fat for fuel and boosts metabolism, which plays a key role in weight management. L-carnitine has also been found to support cardiovascular health and to increase aerobic capacity during exercise. The L-Carnitine formulation provides 500 mg of L-carnitine per capsule, now delivered using quick-release, fast-absorbing Licaps® Technology.

Enviro Detox – Enviro Detox is a broad-spectrum binding formula containing natural ingredients from the purest sources to support enhanced clearance of heavy metals, unwanted organisms and organic compounds from the GI tract.

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Do Natural Thymol Cleaning Products Disinfect as Well as Bleach?

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Recipe for a Plant-Based Sweet Treat, New Volume, and Key Takeaways

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Is Soy Harmful, Harmless, or Helpful for Fibroids?

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Mayo Clinic Tests Shark Cartilage Supplements for Cancer

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Cortisol – Effects on Women’s Health

Balance is the key element when it comes to cortisol, a hormone produced in your adrenal glands. Cortisol performs many vital functions, including:

  • Reducing inflammation
  • Regulating blood pressure
  • Metabolizing glucose
  • Assisting with circadian rhythm regulation
  • Formulating memories

Many of these tasks contribute to cortisol’s role in controlling the “flight or fight response.”  When your body senses danger, cortisol kicks in with the physiological responses that enable you to either flee the danger or fight it. Your heartbeat increases, blood flows to your major muscle groups, your nervous system is on hyper alert – all thanks to cortisol and other hormones like adrenaline. In this state of emergency preparedness, even the clotting ability of your blood increases, in case of injury. To create a fast supply of energy, you metabolize carbohydrates faster.

From an evolutionary perspective, these responses made a lot of sense. Long ago, stressors were often direct threats requiring a fast physical response, one that still serves us well in certain stressful situations.

Now, however, much of the stress in modern life is chronic stress, and we have much more sedentary lives. The cortisol our bodies release in times of stress isn’t necessarily required to initiate a physical response.

How High Cortisol Levels Affect Women

As a result of our more sedentary and stressful lives, many women suffer from an imbalance in their cortisol levels. An excess of cortisol in the body can lead to many troublesome symptoms, including:

  • Hypertension
  • Irritability
  • Weight gain, particularly in the belly and upper back
  • Unexplained fatigue
  • Difficulty focusing
  • Muscle weakness
  • Trouble concentrating
  • Headaches
  • Memory problems
  • Indigestion
  • Insomnia
  • Low libido

For menopausal women, these symptoms can be particularly pronounced. Cortisol levels rise at the end of menstruation, exacerbating menopausal symptoms at what is already a difficult time achieving hormonal balance. This is one of the main contributors to a frequent complaint among menopausal women: excess belly fat.

In menstruating women, excess cortisol can lead to painful, heavy, or absent periods. When estrogen is lowered from continuous stress and cortisol production, all the female hormone imbalance symptoms such as night sweats, sleep problems, and mood swings can get worse.

3 Key Steps to Balance Cortisol Levels

1 – Eat for success

A healthy diet is one of the most effective ways to regulate cortisol levels. Start by implementing these habits into your daily meals.

  • Reduce sugar and simple carbs. Studies show that a diet high in refined carbohydrates and sugar raises cortisol levels. Somewhat paradoxically, a high-sugar diet can also make your body less efficient producing cortisol when in a stressful situation.
  • Drink lots of water. When you’re dehydrated, your cortisol levels rise.
  • Focus on fiber. The gut microbiome influences hormone production. A healthy microbiome requires high fiber intake, in order to stimulate the production of “good’ bacteria in the microbiome,
  • Choose omega-3. The anti-inflammatory qualities in omega-3 fatty acids help reduce cortisol levels. Foods high in omega-3 include fatty fish like salmon, flax and chia seeds, and nuts like walnuts.
  • Fermented foods for gut health. Fermented foods like yogurt, kimchi, and sauerkraut help contribute to healthy bacteria levels in your gut, which helps regulate hormone production.  

2.  Supplement smartly

Supplements that reduce inflammation and improve gut health can support lower cortisol levels. Some to consider include:

  • Fish oil. Boost your consumption of omega-3 fatty acids with high quality fish oil supplements.
  • Ashwagandha. Adaptogens like ashwagandha help your body cope with stress by lowering cortisol production.
  • Chamomile. Tea made with chamomile has been a relaxation treatment for centuries, and new studies suggest it may reduce cortisol levels.

Taking any new supplementation should be discussed with a healthcare practitioner to make sure it’s the right fit for you. We can help you with a personalized wellness plan tailored to your needs.

3. Reduce daily stress

Chronic stress contributes to problems with cortisol because your body is in a constant state of alert. However, reducing stress is often easier said than done. Focus on coping mechanisms to help address the way you respond to stressful situations.

  • Get enough sleep. It’s frustrating: When we’re tired, we produce more cortisol, but that cortisol also keeps us awake! This creates a seemingly endless cycle of exhaustion. Focus on creating a relaxing nighttime routine, including a regular bedtime and a restful sleep environment. Avoid alcohol, screens, large meals, and intense exercise before bed. You want to associate sleep with peace.
  • Spend time in nature. It’s a prescription that has stood the test of time. Being outside lowers your stress responses, including cortisol production. It doesn’t have to be an epic hike – just taking a walk through the neighborhood on a busy day helps.
  • Work on your relaxation responses. Meditation, yoga, and breathwork all condition your body to deal with stressful thoughts while minimizing their physical impact.
  • Be careful with the company you keep. Ever notice that some people are inherently stressful to be around? Although positive social relationships can improve our responses to stress, negative relationships create a sense of chronic stress that isn’t good for your cortisol levels. And, don’t limit your reach to human companionship – studies have found that positive interactions with pets can lower cortisol too!

If you recognize any of the signs of high cortisol levels, it’s time to take a proactive approach to managing your response to stress. Let us know if you want to learn more about controlling cortisol levels – and improving your overall health!

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Health and Wellness Headlines for March 9

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Recipe for a Plant-Based Sweet Treat, New Volume, and Key Takeaways

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Eating a healthy, plant-based diet doesn’t mean depriving yourself of sweet treats! Dates are a great whole-food sweetener. Try them in th… Read the full story on NutritionFacts.org.

Is Soy Harmful, Harmless, or Helpful for Fibroids?

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Mayo Clinic Tests Shark Cartilage Supplements for Cancer

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Vitamin D Recommendations Infographic

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Do Cell Phones Affect Cognitive Function?

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Health and Wellness Headlines for March 2

Is Soy Harmful, Harmless, or Helpful for Fibroids?

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Mayo Clinic Tests Shark Cartilage Supplements for Cancer

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Vitamin D Recommendations Infographic

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Do Cell Phones Affect Cognitive Function?

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Cannabis Brain Damage Reversible in Adults

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Cannabis Brain Damage in Teens May Not Be Reversible

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5 Signs of a Healthy Gut

How’s your gut health? A simple “gut check” is one of the most comprehensive ways to assess your overall well-being. Growing research points to the importance of the microbiome in a wide range of functions, from your immune system, to your weight, to your mental health and more.

The term microbiome refers to the trillions of microorganisms – bacteria, fungi, and other living microorganisms that exist in your gut. It’s a complex world, with hundreds of different kinds of bacteria. Those microorganisms are the foundation of the gut-brain axis, the two-way communication network between your brain and your gut.

Maintaining the microbiome requires a delicate balance of bacteria. The “good” bacteria helps digest food, absorbs nutrients, helps produce vitamins and hormones, and protects against “bad” bacteria. A myriad of factors can impact this balance. High-fiber foods are beneficial – gut bacteria breaks down fiber to digest it, a process which stimulates the production of more bacteria. A varied, nutrient-rich diet is important for a diverse biome, something that isn’t typically possible if you eat a lot of processed food. Stress, alcohol, and many medications may also alter the composition of the microbiome.


Is Your Gut Healthy? 5 Ways To Tell

Scientists are only just beginning to learn about the complexity of the microbiome. Despite the many mysteries still to discover, it’s actually quite easy to do a general check of your gut health. Following are some things to look for.

1 – Transit time

Healthy digestion is the key to maintaining the microbiome, and one indication of that is transit time, which is how long it takes food to pass through your digestive system. Why does this matter? Slower digestion can lead to the formation of harmful bacteria. On the other hand, when food passes through your body too quickly, you may not absorb essential nutrients. Although everyone is slightly different, optimal transit time is from 12 to 24 hours, which, for most of us, means one to two bowel movements a day. If you have no idea how long it takes to digest food, try eating about a half cup of raw beets, then keep an eye on the color of your stool.

How to improve transit time:

  • Foods high in fiber keep things moving through your intestinal tract, so focus on unprocessed fruits and vegetables and whole grains.
  • Many people find that dairy and overly processed foods slow digestion.
  • Movement leads to increased blood flow and stimulates peristalsis, the wavelike contractions that move food through the intestines. Many yoga poses can help with digestion, particularly twisting moves.
  • Some supplements that can speed up digestion include magnesium citrate and supplements with psyllium. However, it’s important to work with a healthcare practitioner to determine the correct use and dose. It’s possible to become dependent on supplements and laxatives, which can ultimately harm your digestive system.

2 – Perfect poops

It’s nobody’s favorite subject, but the condition of your poop actually gives a good indication of your intestinal health. The Bristol Stool Scale provides an easy visual reference. Some key things to look for include:

  • Texture: Should be smooth. Hard, lumpy poops often indicate constipation.
  • Shape: Sausage-shaped is ideal. Overly liquid is typically a sign of diarrhea, and pellet shapes are a sign of constipation.
  • Buoyancy: Sinks in the toilet. Poop that floats may contain undigested fat.

Any straining or experiencing any pain during bowel movements should be investigated, as should any blood.Get to know your own body, and be alert to any changes.

3 – Gas after meals is not disruptive or painful

Some gas is inevitable after a meal, and some foods, like beans and raw veggies, certainly trigger gas more than others. Excess gas, however, can indicate something is amiss in your gut. While everyone has a different baseline, pay attention if you notice changes in your level of gassiness, or if gas causes distress or pain.

Easing gassiness

The following tips can reduce gassiness:

  • Chew food slowly and thoroughly. The more you break down food in the mouth the easier it is to further digest.
  • Keep a food diary to identify triggers. Common culprits include legumes and dairy products.
  • Try a short walk after a large meal since movement helps stimulate peristalsis.
  • Limit the consumption of carbonated drinks.
  • Try probiotic supplements. It’s best to work with a healthcare practitioner, since sometimes excess probiotics can actually cause gas.

4 – Good energy levels

Do you feel rested when you wake up? The answer is a good indicator of your gut health. Since we get energy as food is digested, your gut health is essential to your energy level, and how ready you are to face the day. If you can’t break down food properly, you won’t receive vital essential nutrients. However, the role of your gut in fighting fatigue goes deeper than that. Bacteria in the microbiome produce B vitamins, which are essential for energy. They also regulate the immune system, which is imperative for good energy.

The gut-brain axis also influences your sleep. It’s a two-way communication channel: your sleep influences the balance of bacteria, but bacteria also influences your circadian rhythms.

Low energy can also be a sign of leaky gut syndrome, which happens when the lining of the gut becomes too permeable, which allows unhealthy gut bacteria and inflammatory substances to leak into the bloodstream. People with leaky gut syndrome are at high risk for issues like Crohn’s and Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome, conditions that lead to fatigue.

5 – Your memory, mood, and focus

Growing research points to the impact of gut bacteria on our moods. Up to 90% of your body’s serotonin is produced in the gut, so it’s not surprising that altering the balance within the biome has notable effects on mood. Once again, this is a two-way street, as stress alters gut composition, which in turn can make you even more stressed because the gut’s production of hormones that impact your mood then shifts. It’s ultimately a sign of the importance of recognizing and addressing gut issues early.

The neurochemicals in your gut also impact your ability to learn new information and retain it. If you notice a change in your cognitive abilities, it’s a good idea to evaluate the other signs of a healthy gut to see if there is a connection.

How did your gut check turn out? If any items on this gut health checklist raise concerns for you, don’t hesitate to reach out!

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Rev Up Your Metabolism

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Low energy and difficulty losing weight are common issues that most Americans struggle with. In some cases, the cause can be a simple nutritional deficiency or an unknown food sensitivity, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the cause. In this week’s episode, we’ll discuss how to help rev up your metabolism through supplementation and lifestyle changes. We’ll also go over some of Dr. Lewis’ favorite supplements to help support energy levels and detoxification.

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Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with Dr Stephen and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And we are going to help you rev up your metabolism this week because who doesn’t need energy, weight loss, just all around feeling better. And especially now we’re coming into the spring. It’s time to get cleaned up and get moving, right, doctor Lewis. If you can get me up moving, yes, ma’am. He’s coming along. And he’s developed these fine ideas here of how to do this because he has, he does this himself. Because all of us from time to time experience tiredness and fatigue and coming out of the winter, it seems worse for some reason because we’ve just been sitting on the couch. A lot. And it’s time to get rid of a lot of that stuff. It’s time to shed it, right? Doctor Lewis. Shared is a good word, yes. Yes, okay. So we’re going to help you with tiredness fatigue, drug to lose weight, cold, hands and feet, thinning hair, Lola libido. This depresses me reading it. Irregular periods for women poor slate. For me, I’ve heard PMS belongs to me and also. Bloating and constipation and more. It’s not like an OE hall song. I know. So we want to figure out what’s going on. Get to the root of it and get you feeling better and have a life worth living. So doctor Lewis, what do you want to talk about today as far as that is concerned? Well, we can talk about BMR. Who? BMR. BMR. Yeah, that’s not a big fan revolver, but what is a BMR? It’s called basal metabolic metabolic rate. If I can pronounce it correctly. So tell us about it. Energy sometimes seems to be not enough of it. It seems to be running and hiding from us. For example, the BMR is you’ve got to understand most of your energy is about 50% of it or so is used for the nervous system itself. 27% or so, I think she used for the liver, which is about synthesizing glucose and ketone ketone bodies as fuel for the brain itself. Women usually yeah, I’m going to get hate mail on this one. Women usually have 5 to 10% lower being BMR compared to men and part of that is because when the typical woman has 25% body fat while the typical male has 15% and fat cells in your body for the most part produces no energy at all. Lose weight, people, people want to lose weight, but they’re always looking for the magic peel. There’s not any magic eat, half as much, eat good stuff and eat half as much of it. And I had a sweet lady from Houston come up the other night. She said, but you promised me. I said, I don’t know what I promised you, but I know what you’re eating and it’s not going to work. We should have called this show the magic bullet, right? Yeah, her silver bullet. You’re a product of your choices, and that kind of irks a lot of people. It’s like, well, I didn’t choose this. And I said, yeah, but you’ve made a thousand little bitty choices. That did, you know, I mean, for example, the volume of water, let’s just say, is one, but when you crank it up 1°. From 211° to 212 expands 1700 times. So sometimes you just have to crank it up a little bit to get things going. Sleep decreases BMR by 10%. And Janet, I’m sure I won’t get into some of her notes because I know she’s got notes and sometimes we do funny things like we don’t compare each other’s notes just to see who can stump who. So she usually stumps me. It’s kind of fun. For you. Yeah. So many times people are trying, I don’t know why they think that they are a weight loss clinic. There must be something on Google. I don’t know. Because we’re not overweight and that’s a lot of little bitty choices. And they’ll call here and say, but you do weight loss. I’m like, well, it will turn into weight loss many times if you start doing healthy choices and taking some things and doing low cost lab work and they’re like, what about that shot? I’m looking for that shot. Go to your MD and I’ll tell people I’m a chiropractor.

00:05:02 – 00:10:01

I’m proud of it. I love being a chiropractor. I deal with musculoskeletal system and biomechanical stuff, but if you and I’ll get into that when we talk about mitochondria. If you deal with that and you throw in these supplements to support musculoskeletal system, guess what? Your body uses them all over the body for everything. Every physiological function. As you have so many people want it quick, easy, they don’t want to put any effort into it because when you start telling them that white loss is got to do with more than you just getting a shot because somehow they think that if they get these shots, that they’re magically going to stay thin for the rest of their lives. And I tell them you know that’s like taking speed. That’s what it’s doing. It’s like revving up your metabolism to the point that’s not healthy. We see them be a high risk of heart attack or stroke on lab. But people are still fine with that. Because they’re losing weight. And I guess what we’re trying to teach you here is a lifestyle change altogether as uncomfortable as that may be. But it produces long-term comfort later when you don’t have joints and things that are degenerating and oh my God, if you take care of your body now, it’s just like taking care of your vehicle. Yeah, it’s kind of like when they used to spray the lawn, the lawn, if you took care of it all through the year, it would, it would make a really beautiful lawn in the summertime because you nourished it, but there used to be companies that would go around and just spray the ground green and say, there’s your lawn. And you knew that went along, but it was green and it wasn’t healthy and it didn’t stay. And I guess that’s what we’re trying to teach you is how to make different choices where it stays and it’s not so hard. And it doesn’t come back easy. And I can tell you as a fact, I started taking a different product that we have here in our store thinking that because it was more expensive. It had to be better and it was one of our new deal products and if you don’t know what that is, it helps eat up bad. It takes out some of the estrogen mimickers. Right. For women, if they don’t take enough of it, they get thick through the middle through the belly and then you just this is my story. They get thick through the belly. And their shirts don’t fit like they used to. And I’ve been taking dim ever since I’ve had a hysterectomy about 12, 15 years ago. I guess now. And it got my shape back. It didn’t make you lose weight, but it made your shape come back, so literally I’ve been in a size 8. And she says, I don’t do time. And so I started noticing over the last few weeks. I’m like, I am gaining weight in the middle. And I don’t really grasp wise. I’m getting fat. And he goes, no, you’re not. He said, some of the little skinny girls that worry about it. And I said, well, that’s why we say thin is because we are worried about it. And it took to me when I’m this little, it feels big. And so I started going, what am I doing wrong? And I started looking at our deal. And we have one, you know, we’ve had product changes, which we take all this stuff, it’s not like we’re telling y’all to take stuff that we’re not doing. We have two of them. One’s called CDG ASTRO dim. It’s really expensive. There’s another one that we use a lot more often called dim plus. I never really looked at the label about what had what in it. I just thought it cost more. It’s got to be the better one. I think I’ll just take the big one. So I’ve been taking this big one for about three months now. And the other day, we started comparing the labels on it, and the big one actually has less dim, the registered trademark deal in it than the small dim plus that doesn’t cost as much does. Again, there’s been a lot of product changes because of the supply chain issue. And the calcium D glick right, if you look that up, that increases a different detoxification pathway. Look around a nation of the liver and that’s generally much, much, much more helpful if you have. Family history of cancer of head cancer to help detoxification. Or men’s prostates. The CDG DM, we use more for men. That’s who we get to help somebody testosterone for a man because in all three carbon all that’s in there as well, like a lot of it and that stuff is what’s so expensive. But I didn’t pay attention to that. And I was just taking off state doesn’t hurt. So I was taking half of the amount of DL my use to take is what it came out to be that of what the other product was. And now over about three months, I’m beginning to gain weight. So I had to go back and listen to myself, tell y’all why that was happening. And the minute I realized that I thought, oh my gosh, I’m not hanging enough of the straight deal. And I started doing the dim again, the extra deal, and by golly, it’s beginning to come back off again.

00:10:03 – 00:15:05

And yes, there’s a headache that goes with it. I am suffering through it because it’s actually altering the body’s metabolism, your hormones, but it does make a little bit fast, which we’ll talk about. Totally fine with that. Doesn’t always cause a headache, but it certainly can. And all this time, she told me it was me causing her to have a headache. But see, it’s little stuff like this that people don’t realize of what’s happening. For me, it’s having no hormones. That is the way I keep my hormones balanced is by deal. And people don’t realize that there was a kid the other day that said men’s testosterone levels aren’t lower than what they’re supposed to be. When they’re young. And brandy was arguing with him. It was a relative of hers. And he said, that’s just not true. She said, actually, the older men have higher testosterone levels than the young men. He goes, that’s just not true. She said, will you have those men boobs on you? And he goes so. Lots of guys, my age have that. And she said, because they all have low testosterone. Estrogen. Yes. Environmental estrogen. Estrogen, even in a man. Yeah, so dim goes back into gobbles all that back up and makes you have your shape back. So what we’re trying to teach you here is there are things you can do besides just taking these speed course over to getting his shot, making things worse down the road and having life altering changes in lifestyle here. Right? Right, okay. So the other one that I wanted you to talk about, which is one of our new products because people always associate weight loss with detoxing. And now we finally have something that they can detox with. Deal is one thing that is a detox actually. But there are other products that actually pull out heavy metals in that type of thing. And that’s our new product called enviro detox. So can you tell us why you were so excited about environmental detox? Yeah, I am, but you know, I want to talk about the mitochondria first because they’re the powerhouses in the cells. And it’s different in different cells because this particular part of your body needs higher levels of energy, then you have more of these powerhouses called mitochondria. And they can if you don’t have them, they can’t extract enough energy from the nutrients. And in order to do that, one of the things you have to do is get the bad things. Out of the way. So that it can extract. You know, things can interfere with that. Because the other thing is enzymes and it’s very important in the mitochondrial function by operate kind of in association with oxidative enzymes. The oxidation of the nutrients and form what they do is form carbon dioxide and water. And when they do that, it creates energy and that’s called ATP, adenosine triphosphate. So to help you, and this detox is not something I think you should take all the time. And I’ll tell you why in a minute, but it has a lot clay activated charcoal and something called Shiloh yeet. Yeah, you’ve got to be careful when you look at that and then trying to pronounce you might say something that doesn’t sound particularly good. And one of the things I’m going off on another rabbit trail. One of the things that makes y’all so successful is your faith and your follow through. For example, I talked to Marcia the day and I mentioned her on the last podcast, but she was referred to me by Jennifer and Marsha, you live in Texas, how did Jennifer in, I think, Oregon. And it’s three horse shows now Jennifer’s back in Texas. So it’s people that refer and that bill’s faith and I’m telling you 8 is as important as anything you do. So the zealot clay, notice I changed Jenny’s giving me the I am totally lost. Back to clay. Okay. Well, you know how a dog cocks his head when he’s trying to understand what Janice is doing that. You married me, so. Doctor fiber is very important in dining detoxification. Most of us don’t get enough fiber. Is this in the environmental detox? Yes. Oh, well, you know, I’m talking about in general. I’m being an educator. I hope not an agitator like some people are over there. And so the fiber is like helps bind things and reduce the liver reabsorption of the toxic load. And liver is super, super important. The mineral content is very important because the bad minerals, the bad heavy metals can actually attach themselves.

00:15:06 – 00:20:01

And that’s where the clay comes in. It’s really good to absorb micro toxins, so think mold and fungus. And heavy metals, especially lead and mercury and folks, if you or your kids are drinking sodas or Coke as we call it down to south, everything’s a Coke. You’re getting mercury because it’s full of high fructose corn syrup, and that has mercury in it as well as you get it from other places. But it helps absorb that from the digestive tract and bind to these heavy metals and traps different toxins. And they kind of hold them for safe elimination. Well, I remember the Indian Jews to eat clay to detox, you know, I guess just out of the ground. And it wasn’t just the Indians. A million years ago when I worked at a cattle ranch, pole harford, and F one crosses, they had these people that would come to the edge of the ranch and dig up a certain clay to eat at night. I asked the owner of the ranch, why are they doing it? And they said, I eat it. I didn’t understand. It was probably 16, 17. Seems like that would be, I mean, I realized that it’s pulled off toxins, but that seems like it’s dirty. I know it’s dark, but she didn’t like dirt. I like how this is encapsulated. Oh, it’s clean, dirt. That’s right, I know. So the zealot, it’s purified. So I don’t know, this is the way it shapes, something about being cup shaped, and sort of a magnet for heavy metals. You know, I’m not biochemist. Then it has activated charcoal. And I love, love, love activated charcoal. I entered an email from this wonderful couple in North Carolina. I said, well, do bentonite and charcoal because and I would have said, dude, my environmental detox, but they kind of needed it right then and there. Activated charcoal and we always create on our trips. We carried it to China and so if we got into some yucky stuff, it would help us. It helps in food poisoning that kind of thing. Undesirable toxins. But the problem with charcoal is swati, people don’t do it all the time. It also binds with bad stuff, but it binds with the good stuff too. So it can bind with the minerals. So don’t take it every day. You can take it for a month or two, and then quit. Well, I’m glad you said that because I really like that stuff. But now I’ll quit for a while. Janet has a male attitude. She said, if a little bit is good, more is better. And I’ve seen her overdose on several things. And you know, I can’t tell her anything. She married me, so I just leave it at that. That’s right. And I’m learning from your show here of how to do this. Learning from my show. Thanks. So I’d like to talk about Shiloh jit. And this is the registered trademark one. So it’s good. It’s basically an ancient Arabic powder extracted from the rocks and the Himalayas. I’ll tell people, well, it’s kind of a dark biomass that squishes out through the cracks of the Himalayan mountains. And it’s been noted for its safety and efficacy. We used to have that in a product for testosterone. Right. Except. And here’s another thing with what we do, folks. That was a really, really, really good product, but I just didn’t I just couldn’t believe it’s worth the extra 40 bucks at that particular company charged. We give you great quality stuff, but we try to do it at the most reasonable cost where one light economy says, well, what about the price change? We had several people asking us, well, yeah. 20% because the other company doubled it. Yeah, we can get it back, but that will be an extra $20. They don’t never mind. We’re always shopping. The best stuff, and we’ll never compromise on quality. But there are several different companies out there that will do a really, really good job. But we do the ones that give the best value for what you spend. But there’s some products we never change because we can’t find anything any different. So we just have to go up on the price because there’s just no replacement for it. But if we can find one, we will. But the price is not going up as much as bacon or bullets. Or gas. The strategy really contains different minerals because it’s coming from deep, deep, deep into the himalayans and they say it’s a biomass like the ancient tropical forest. That’s being squished out. But it contains fulvic acid and humic acid.

00:20:01 – 00:25:10

I know you’ve read about that on the Internet and Facebook and all that. And some are better than others, and that’s why we use the registered trademark. It binds to different toxins. Improves endothelial function and helps support a healthy microbiome and your bacteria in your GI tract. Helps better genetic function. Or expression. So it buys with heavy metals pesticides, organic pollutants, we have all of that. But one of the really unique things that it does, it increases the length and the height and the depth of the villa of your intestines. And the villi are little just millions of little finger links, which increases the surface area, which means you can absorb more. Of the nutrients that you put into your body. So that’s one reason it modulates the gut microbiome. So it’s a pretty serious thing. And again, I don’t think you should take it every day all day long. And one of the things with that product, which is also another thing for just losing weight in general, is staying hydrated with water because if you’re going to be using that in your detoxing and then you don’t drink any water that has then gathered up all of these toxins that doctor Lewis is talking about and it has nowhere to go because you’re not flushing it out. It has to be filtered water. Are you just getting lots of chlorine or fluorine and whatever the heck’s in, your normal tap water. So make sure you filter it one way or the other. And even though it may be reverse osmosis in a plastic bottle, try to avoid the plastic bottles. And I know you can’t always, so don’t stress about it, but we put ours in stainless steel as much as we can, bring it to work and take it home and so you’re getting less of the toxins. So that’s half of your body weight in ounces of water is what you’re supposed to be drinking. Not cokes. I would not tea. I wouldn’t say what Janet weighs because I used to say one 32 and she said, I don’t weigh that much, and it’s like, oh, I’m sorry, so let’s just say she weighs one ten, one 20. I like that. Good job. Let’s say one 20, that’d be about 60 ounces of water. Right, that’s right. Can you tell us how sleep helps or keeps you from losing weight? Well, it lowers your BMR. But we need sleep. There are things that crank it up though. I mean, we have to have sleep, you have to get a site deep restored to sleep that you get when you artificially get your vitamin D levels up and of course that helps with calcium going where it should back into the bones. So it helps you muscular skeletal system as well. So how many hours would you say someone needs a regular sleep? Everybody’s different. 7, 8, 9. Okay. So if you’re not getting that, you’re probably not going to lose weight so easily, huh? I’ll be staying at really late. Yeah, I mean, you stunt the detoxification process the time that it’s the body uses to help detoxify. And there’s certain areas that your body works on, the meridians, we talk about the liver being one to three. And if you wake up at one to three L times, probably because your liver is struggling and can’t keep up. And the other thing is you have to understand that people put things in their body that you have to use energy to digest and absorb and won’t tell you who he is, but person that’s probably a little smarter than me. He says, well, I’m not going to take your picture. I’m going to take this other fish oil that I won’t name the name because you get that healthy store and it’s one of the healthiest ones that health food store. He literally had to type four times as much to make the change his own lab and to help his cholesterol triglyceride profile in his HDLs. So we had to use four times as much of that less expensive cheap on us. Well, cheap fish oil. I said, well, you had to use four times as much energy to get it there. So how was that a win and doing four times as much did not make it less expensive? And this man that supposedly is more intelligent than me says, wow, never thought about it. I don’t treat myself, so nobody else should treat themselves either. Which is why we use the lab work, so no one treats ourselves. There’s a difference between subjective and objective in both of them have validity, but you have to put them together. You don’t just use one tool. There’s many different tools that we use to achieve best health. So speaking of that, can you tell me a little bit about why stress stress? Which is your body’s fight or flight response leads to increased production of the hormone cortisol, what does that have to do with losing weight or revving up your metabolism? Well, if it’s super high, the cortisol is super high, super low.

00:25:11 – 00:30:01

You can, because that’s usually an offset of super inflammatory processes. And when you get that stressed, you use way, way too many of your B vitamins that you don’t get enough out of in your diet anyway. And I was reading the other day. Some research about thiamine, which is B one. And it can be, you can be neurotic if you have a lack of that. Anemia depression, sensory neuropathy, sciatica, trigeminal neurologic glaucoma, insomnia, and then the nervousness and anxiety. So when people say I have brain fog, where you probably have too much yeast and that’s causing too much inflammation too much stress. So we kind of override that with been fo domain and then wash you kind of kill off the yeast and replace it with good gut microbiome, then that helps. So that’s thiamine and another fun fact that doctor Lewis told me the other day that he’s probably going to forget to bring well, he wouldn’t bring it up. It’s just something to tell me. And I thought, this is really smart. Women with mornings sickness, a lack of B vitamins. So if you’ve got if you’ve got morning sickness, which I wish I would have known that when I had my children, he and I were not together at that time. Should have been. It should have been, but jeez, I would have skipped 6 months of being sick if I’d have just known about B vitamins. And I was had bad cortisol problems so that makes sense. Well, most of the time. You know, I could say it’s fine, and it might be riboflavin, and many times it’s B 6. That’s one of the reasons why in two rev up your metabolism, I love our B 12 methyl supreme, and I’ve talked about it before. It’s got the riboflavin to be 6. The bow like folate as in Quattro folic, which is the one if you’ve got that 5 MTHFR genetic SNP that will work and then it’s got the right kind of B 12, the methylcobalamin, not the sun, cobalamin. You know, we talk about B 12 and B 6 a lot, so let’s talk about B two, which is the riboflavin. It’s necessary for red blood cell formation. Antibody production, which means boost up your immune system and rev it up. Cell respiration and growth. So that has to do with what we talked about earlier. It helps with the metabolize to metabolize carbohydrates and fats and proteins, but we do too many carbohydrates as a nation. It helps with vitamin a to improve your mucous membranes in the digestive tract. It helps oxygen utilization of the tissues helps with hair skin and nails helps eliminate dandruff and helps absorption of iron and B 6. It’s needed. It’s needed for the metabolism of tryptophan. So if you metabolize tryptophan that turns into 5 hydroxytryptophan, which turns into cert on it, which is one of the neurotransmitters that makes you feel the piece of God. What is B two in? B 12 methyl supreme. Oh, there’s B two in there. It’s kick, but Janet will tell you about 3 o’clock. I forget to take it. It makes that much difference in my energy. And she’ll say, did you take and I said, your woman, you’ve never asked a question you didn’t know the answer to, so how can you tell? She said, you’re not happy. I said, I’m always happy. She’s not as happy. You’re not as animated as you’re not full of energy and I said, okay, well, you know I didn’t take it, or you wouldn’t have asked the question. Why don’t you just say it and still asking a question? I’m being caring. No, she’s not. She’s trying. It’s a trap, guys. When you’re half, I ask you something like that. I promise you, does the spare James make my butt look fat? You are good at those answers. They all look great on you. And you know he’s not telling you that they look great. Now we’re flat out lying. But folks, it’s a trap when your wife asks you that. Speaking of jeans, not looking great on you. We wanted to speak briefly about maybe trying to add a little extra movement into your day besides just sitting on the couch for myself. I have personally started carrying my trash down to our dumpster on our Lake without riding my golf cart. I’m walking it down there with my dog trying to get in the groove of getting a little extra activity. So much time she said it was to keep the dog from being depressed. I didn’t know it’s for Janet. But it does help. You start moving around a little bit more and you start suddenly having a little more energy to do extra things. So we wanted to briefly mention that I know that’s a touchy subject, but getting out and moving a little bit more, not over. We’re doing it, just add a little more activity to your day. We’ll help you with weight loss also. Right? Yes, ma’am.

00:30:01 – 00:32:32

Right. And if you don’t have that energy, I know some people’s immune systems are not very good, so you might consider adding in our product that we have called Immuno Complete because it does help boost your energy some so that you can do those things because when you got a low immune system, you don’t really feel like doing anything extra. But once again, we’re at the end of our show. And if you’re not feeling well or don’t feel like exercising or don’t understand why you’re gaining weight and you’re doing everything right because there are a lot of people that listen to our show ’cause y’all are really smart folks out there that you would pay attention to health, and you can’t figure out what’s causing your white issues. Go to our website, greenwisdomhealth.com and fill out the health survey, which will recommend you a very low-cost flat panel and a complimentary consultation with Dr. Lewis that comes with that, plus a functional medicine report and supplement recommendations so that we can take the guesswork out of what you need to get at life worth living. And Dr. Lewis, would you please leave us with some inspiring words for this week’s show? Well, that’s up to you all to decide or judge if it’s inspiring. But I tell people all the time. There’s not enough room in your mind for worry and faith. You have to decide which one you want to live there. Also, I say, I know right from wrong, wrongs really, the fun. They take me wrong. But when you worry, you’re literally betting against yourself. And this leads me to just part of what’s in Psalms 91. It says he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease. Psalms 91. Awesome. You guys have a blessed week. We’ll be here next time on the green wisdom health show. Once again, our show has come to an end, but your hope in your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a brighter future, take the first step and go to our website and fill out the health survey. Please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share the show with your friends and family. You are only one step away from a life worth living.

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