Today on Green Wisdom Health, Dr. Stephen Lewis and Janet Lewis dive deep into the world of supplement quality, unraveling the mysteries behind why some supplements may benefit you more than others and how you can ensure you’re getting the most bang for your buck. We know that even with the best diet, additional support from high-quality supplements can be paramount in achieving optimal health, and supplement quality is critical.
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“As you age, your body’s production of digestive enzymes decreases, which is why supplementing with them, along with probiotics, is crucial for gut health.” – Dr. Stephen Lewis
Today on the Green Wisdom Health Show:
• Understanding Gut Health The role of digestive enzymes and probiotics The impact of age on gut health Essential nutrients for gut health: magnesium and vitamin D
• Lifestyle and Gut Health Influences of modern lifestyle factors: medications, water quality, diet The importance of digestion and nutrient absorption
• The Importance of Fish Oil Discussion of average age and quality of fish oil Benefits of triglyceride form of fish oil for various health aspects
• Differences Between Probiotics and Digestive Enzymes Explanation of probiotic strains and stability testing Issues of probiotic potency and viability over time Endorsement of the product “Probiol 20”
• Bioavailability of Supplements Significance of vitamin and mineral bioavailability Janet’s personal story of heart rate change linked to vitamin quality Preference for chelated mineral forms
• Practical Solutions for Supplement Regimens Efforts to provide convenient vitamin and mineral packs Considerations in selecting high-quality supplements
• Fish Oil Quality and Market Navigation Challenges in finding pure and fresh fish oil products The problem of oxidation due to long storage times Unusual experiment demonstrating fish oil quality
• Supplement Industry Challenges and Practices Low barrier to entry for supplement manufacturers The issue of insufficient FDA oversight Importance of high-quality raw materials and testing
• The Efficacy and Patient Trust Importance of healthcare professionals’ endorsement of quality products The influence of supplement quality on patient outcomes
• Transparency and Consumer Navigation The lack of clear information in the supplement industry How patients should evaluate and choose supplements Shipping practices and service standards, including international service to places like Australia
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Balancing hormones is essential for achieving and maintaining healthy weight. Hormonal imbalances can be caused by a variety of factors, including stress, poor diet, and lack of exercise. In order to maximize weight loss efforts, it is important to understand how hormones affect metabolism and appetite. By recognizing the role of hormones in weight loss, individuals can take steps to restore balance and achieve lasting results. In this week’s episode, Unlocking Secrets of Hormones and Weight Loss, Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis will talk about the connection between hormones and weight loss, and what you can do to balance your hormones naturally.
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Show Notes
In this podcast episode, Dr. Stephen andJanet Lewis discuss the four-step hormone weight loss to nutrition, emphasizing the importance of achieving weight loss in a healthy manner that benefits the physical, spiritual, and mental body. We discuss the role of different hormones in weight loss, such as cortisol and ghrelin, and the importance of gut health for detoxification and weight loss. We also talk about the benefits of supplements like Stress Adapt and the role of fiber in weight loss and fat detoxification. We offer personalized lab tests and packs, meal plans, and grocery lists to help people succeed in their weight loss journey. Finally, we discuss the benefits of positive thinking and acts of kindness on mental health and weight loss.
In this episode, Natural Solutions to Remedy Pain, Janet and Dr. Lewis discuss chronic pain and its potential causes. Chronic pain can mean anything from headaches and joint pain to unexplained stomach aches and muscles aches. It can be a symptom of many different conditions, or it can be present without an obvious cause. Because the root cause of chronic pain can be so elusive, it can be difficult to narrow it down and find a path to healing. In this week’s eipsode, Dr. Lewis and Janet will do a deep dive on chronic pain and show you how you can find your path toward less pain and better quality of life.
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Show Notes
Natural Solutions to Remedy Pain
00:00:01 – 00:05:00
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 Steven 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 here to bring you an exciting show about pain. Doesn’t everybody like pain? Actually, we’re going to bring you to show about natural solutions to remedy pain. Now that sounds better, doesn’t it? Anyway, we are very excited and blessed to be able to bring you some new options to our office. We have all been working diligently on per the past few months. I know you’ve not heard a podcast from us for a while. So we are back, we have been busy, doctor Lewis, the most busy, but it takes all of us to put it together. Doctor Lewis has been in the middle of creating a bunch of books and one of them is on pain. So doctor Lewis, would you like to tell us a little bit about what you’ve been doing? Well, I used to recommend so many different books and in January says Stephen quit recommending those Rachel book. It’s like, I don’t want to write my book. So anyway, we had to develop my answer to that was yes, ma’am. Whatever you want, ma’am. But we want you to know it’s really an honor and responsibility for when you come to us for a so called natural solution to common ailments. And I get in a lot of controversy by saying, well, your body’s made by God, and it knows what to do. It just needs the tools to work with. So we have developed a what I would call a very ingenious program, but then that would sound like I’m bragging on myself and really and truly Janet’s name should be on this book more than me. But we’re going to talk a lot about what you should do. And you know, as a chiropractor, I started out with musculoskeletal conditions with all my patients and they would say, and I’d say, well, you need this supplement you need that supplement. So your body can, you know, it’s going to decrease the inflammatory cytokines, et cetera, et cetera, and some of them say, but I like tacos, and it’s like, yeah, well, you need to do something different or people say, well, I have fibromyalgia, it’s like, well, I can teach you to eat differently. So this is we have programs now that we’re getting some phenomenal success with because it teaches you how to eat and it’s not a book about what not to eat. It’s about what a and we make it simple where it’s you have the grocery list. It’s easy to prepare. And they’re actually super delicious. You feel healthy after you eat these things. So we’ve got a lot to say, sorry, I only had 30 minutes to say it. I was going to say, what is food have to do with pain? Everything. Just asking. Well, if you’re in chronic pain and you’ve tried all these things, including chiropractic care, physical therapy massage acupuncture stretching over the counter, pain relief medicine. Supplements it didn’t work and you have to be careful because there’s a huge difference in quality there. If you try to diet, it’s like, not the right one. If you’re trying medication, steroid injections and some of my patients that they’d go for back surgery and they said, well, that $100,000 back surgery didn’t work. And I said, well, you’ve never done anything for what’s causing the inflammation in the first place. So that’s what food has to do with it. So if you’re eating incorrectly and then you’re just taking over the counter medications to cover it up, you’re never going to really fix it, right? And there’s plenty of research that says, you know, if you take these over the counter NSAIDs, so to speak, you’re actually speeding up the joint degeneration. And pain’s not necessarily all from joints. There’s muscle pain, nerve pain, joint pain, et cetera, et cetera, lack of neurotransmitter pain, the neurotransmitters, is fancy way of saying the happy hormones. And that’s what I address very specifically is how to eat correctly which foods are high in this nutrient that nutrient, which can help you create neurotransmitters, which can help you, oh, where’s the highest level of tyrosine so that can help with thyroid conversion because when we do lab work about three out of four people out there have a thyroid issue. And we do have a new pain panel now. So people that have been following this forever, we really do appreciate you. We know there’s been a lot of changes, but we’ve made changes to lab also. We still have those labs that we had, but we also have specific labs based on doctor Lewis’s new books.
00:05:01 – 00:10:02
So we’re going to go through different ones, but our first one is about pain. So the pain lab has over 60 plus biomarkers in it. He developed it based on the different things in the body so that we could see, I guess, in a blood based level. Different angles to see I tell people, well, if I’ll roads lead to Rome, you know we’re going to Rome, let’s Mike Rome, a happy fun place, but you have to feel good to have all that kind of fun. And we’ve been honored to have so many people that’s done our program before we have a YouTube video that’s coming from Kara up in Indiana. She’s an absolute doll. And she’ll tell you about weight loss and decrease the pain. And then we have one from Vicky down sugarland, down around Houston. She’s a sweetheart. And we have others that have given us video reviews and I invite you to go to YouTube and listen to some of these. So what we’ve done, we’ve come up with our pain panel, and then doctor Lewis takes it and analyzes it and figures out what’s the very best plan for you. Based on the lab, we can now and I know you guys have been waiting for this and we’re really excited about it. We could make personalized packs for you. You don’t have to buy bottles any longer. You can still buy bottles, but we have them individualized for you based on the lab and their packs and their two packs a day. Their morning in the evening or daily. However you do it, but it’s twice a day. You take the recommended supplements that doctor Lewis puts in these personalized packs for you. And since it’s so convenient, even I’m taking three times more supplements than I used to because I didn’t have to graze with this bottle of that bottle. And oh my God, I feel good, Janet says, you know, you’re way too young and energetic for me and it’s like, well, I’m not getting a younger woman because the music begins to really stink when you get younger than what Janet is. But the point is that these packs make it so easy, so convenient. You feel kind of sort of obligated to know what other I’ve taken in the morning when I need to take the afternoon. And you’re getting more down and I’m telling you, your body, I know it’s designed by God, but it needs something to work with. You need nutrients that are not in our food and you’ve heard me talk about that many, many times, and we just saw a thing this morning on television that said it’s getting worse. The lack of nutrients in the food. So basically, we’ve been trying this out for a few months on some different patients and some different programs and seeing how they do with the packs because we don’t want to put anything out there until we know and we see results and we see what’s working and what’s not. So basically I can tell you there’s a lot of men that take a lot of things the right way and bottles. But in general, our man patients don’t like opening bottles and taking out pills every day. Most of them have really good wives that do it for them. I’ve heard. But if these are convenient enough to just grab twice a day, they are more apt to stick with it like doctor Lewis said they are. And I can tell you from the men we’ve had doing the packages with us. That is the one thing they say. They say, I’m not always right, but I take my pills twice a day and they’re doing it now for like three months straight, so I’m thinking, well this is pretty good, pretty good change for people because that’s what’s happened in the past is like, we’ll give people a program a lab program. They’re excited. They get a month or maybe two months of the supplements and then they kind of fall off because it is a lot of work to be healthy. Well, you have to change habits and that’s the hard part is not succumbing to your fear and doubt and going back into the same thing that got you in the bad situation. So I asked people many times two questions. Number one, are you a teachable spirit? Number two, are you willing to give up the thing that got you in this bad situation in the first place? But these books are not about giving up. It’s about what to do instead of what to give up. And so it’s more encouraging and more positive. Right. The other part of the package is doctor Liz’s book. He has a pain book, but their recipes and their easy recipes are made in under 30 minutes or less. The food is inexpensive. There is weekly shopping list in it. Well, relatively considered the times in society. We’re expensive, but it’s the least expensive. You don’t have to buy a specialty foods is what we’re trying to say. That’s not Caviar. And it’s not about it’s not about a diet. It’s about nutrient based eating. So it’s based on what’s wrong on your lab.
00:10:02 – 00:15:01
The whole goal is that you take less supplements down the road because you’ve learned to change how you eat. And I think to get the nutrients out of your food. Right, I think you’ll have to agree we don’t really know how to eat. So that’s what we’re trying to teach. Well, how to eat as much different than it was when I was a kid. No, no, I’m super, super young, but back when I was a kid, they wouldn’t let you have but one starch per meal which now we call them carbohydrates. So we teach you things like, well, if you have a problem with your thyroid hormone and you need iodine, which helps benefit TSH production, while you find out the top whole food sources is card cranberries and seaweed if it’s tyrosine for TSH production, it’s beef pork and salmon. And now if you’re talking about cortisol and who doesn’t have a cortisol problem, it goes super, super high, because you’re stressed and you can’t shut your brain down and not. And then it finally fatigues, and it goes downhill big time well. You need vitamin B three, which you don’t hear much about, which is about cortisol production and energy. You get that mostly from tuna chicken and pork chops. B 5, B 5 has been called by one of my favorite preachers that has done the video review. He said, it’s the piece of God in the bottle. That helps with cortisol production, energy, and that’s from shiitake mushroom, salmon, and avocado. And you know, we teach you these things. And it’s a pretty relatively easy to read and read book. But more than that, it’s easy to understand. And the other part of it is that we also have a certified health coach. We actually have several health coaches that are working with us now. We have a whole team of people that are helping us. So the redneck word is concierge nutrition team. Oh, great. Is that right? We never heard that in these Texas. I don’t know. If that’s right. Basically, you just take pictures of your food and you send it to our health coach team and they help you figure out what you could change, what’s best for you because you know some people can eat some kinds of foods and that bothers them and some don’t and you don’t ever know until you get into it, but the coach is there to help you through all of that. They see what you’re taking or what you’re eating, what symptoms you’re having because of what you’re eating, how to change what you’re having, and the good thing with the programs are three month programs as you move along through the program, they supplements can get changed monthly. They come in 30 day supplies. But if the coach feels like, hey, you know, you’re not doing well on this program. We need to change it over to one of the other books that doctor Lewis has is the gut protocol or the thyroid protocol. Right. You can change those products as you go so that you get the best results. So we’re pretty excited about that. Those of you that are in pain and pain almost always goes with stress anxiety and depression and can you imagine? That is interesting. That pain goes with stress, anxiety and depression. Or maybe stress anxiety and depression cause pain. It can go either direction. You never think about that. Can you imagine for a minute? I want you to really, really think about this. Can you imagine for a minute you’re on the program for three weeks in you call me crying? It’s first time in my life. I felt like I’ve been hard is the first time in my life. I’ve gotten up and have energy and I look forward to going to my job or seeing my husband or interacting with my kid because my kids need my time. This is after we’re hearing things like this after three weeks and course brings tears to my eyes because they’re crying and I’m pretty sensitive. Janice says I’m the female and the relationship. I’m very sensitive, but this is Mike and a huge difference in people’s lives and we’re just, again, we had to play with it and experiment with it and we can not sell anything that we don’t own in our heart. The other part we’re making and I’ve still I’m in the process of putting those on the website now. I have people that go, okay, well, I don’t want to have health coaching. I don’t want to have a lab draw it. I don’t like being poked with needles. Because we do have a few of those. I don’t really like it either, but it is a lot more accurate because it gives it personalized. But some people just want to buy the products that are in the pack for pain. You’re offering that as well, correct? You can do that because there’s a certain percentage of society that are just self starters. And I’m one of those. Yeah, yeah, yeah, give me a book. And I’ll do it myself. But then there’s a larger segment of society that needs the hand holding, so to speak. You’ve heard Janet and past podcasts.
00:15:02 – 00:20:07
Doctor Lewis, don’t want to do any hand holding it’s like, well, it’s not that I want to, but I’m too dad gum busy as it is. And instead of retiring, we decided to stick with it because we’re changing lives. And you know, you get an email from, for example, care back in Indiana and she makes me cry every time she writes me a letter and talks about how much she loves Janet and what she’s done and how much we’ve helped her. And then we have our local people. And it’s like, it’s very humbling. And it’s very, that’s why we’re hanging around and doing this instead of retiring. Right. So my daughter has done the one for white in which was a huge deal because she needed the help because she wasn’t the self starter. She always knew, I mean, I mean, look how long we’ve been doing this. Oh, you want to say how long we’ve been doing this. Maybe 20 years. I guess now, I’ll do a nutrition, doctor. But you’re only 30. I know. I’m just talking about you doing it. Not me. Not me specifically. But she’s been watching us do this all of our lives, but she never was one into just opening bottles appeals and taking things. Well, when she found out, we had this hormone weight loss program. She asked me if she could do it and that started new year’s New Year’s Eve is actually when she told me that we’ve been working with her now. It’s going on her fourth month, I guess. And she’s dropping white. She has energy. She said, mom, I feel really good. And she talked to our health coaches. They helped her through some rough patches, some things that just come up weird. You know, when people start taking supplements, of course, they always want to go, oh, it’s a supplement. That’s what’s caused me to have this or that. If it’s figuring out it’s not from God, so if it’s bearing down, that’s why our health coaches can help you through that by holding your hand by making sure that you feel like it’s all right or maybe you need to change this or that. And our daughter’s a brand new girl and I won’t tell you that her significant other is living a healthier relationship because of it. But he would make, he would make all the recipes in the book and what was funny is he really didn’t he wasn’t trying to lose weight. He was just trying to help. He didn’t need to. Yeah, he was just trying to help her and he loves to cook. So he was making, they would make these meals for the week because people are going, oh, this has to be done every night. I have to cook every night. What they did is they made them up for the week, and they put them in the fridge, and they partitioned them, and they looked like little school lunches. And he would actually make me and doctor Lewis a little lunch to come by and we’d come pick it up and take it home and I was like, this stuff is really good. But we’d say we only won’t have as much because that’s another thing. Once you get your gut right, you start wanting less than you did before. So we eat half as much as we used to. Yeah, so. And feel full. Yeah, so but there’s some things that, you know, I guess people don’t even associate that has got to do with pain. Maybe they’re so used to living with it like restless leg syndrome. A lot of people have restless leg syndrome, depression, and anxiety. Like he said, the fatigue and sleep issues. Yeah, digestive disorders and, you know, well, what does this have to do with migraines? Everything. Neck pain, back pain. And we’ll tie it together so that you understand. You know, that was always funny because, you know, I started, you know, I’m a chiropractor, I treat musculoskeletal conditions, it’s like, well, why are you dealing with my insulin resistance metabolic syndrome? I say because that creates and inflammatory cytokines. And it causes your muscle pine, your joint stiffness. That’s causing your headaches. And if you do this and this and this, your migraines could very easily not only go away, but not come back, or at least not as often or not as severe. And that’s really, really common. You know, and there’s hormone imbalances that are associated with pain also, like thyroid, cortisol, and they just don’t really think about it being a pain related symptom, but it is insulin, DHEA, testosterone, which doctor Lewis has a new testosterone book too, by the way. Estrogen and progesterone. And it’s funny, we were testing all of those on our comprehensive plus the mailer female hormones. We were doing that years and years and years before this book came along before the system came along. So we were kind of really sort of ahead of the curve. Well, I got tired of him telling everybody, go read this book. Go check out this book. So I just, doctor Liz, please write your own book. So now we’ve got a complete system. So we’re very excited about having the whole thing put together instead of just, you know, try to do it yourself, because so many people ask if they could eat different things.
00:20:08 – 00:25:02
If we had a nutritionist that went with this, we never had that. So we’ve decided to just put this in to apply, we also have the regular way. I mean, we’re not through doing the regular way also. If you want to do the things like you used to do and do the regular lab and buy the bottles, that’s great too. We just led great success there. That way too. It’s not one size fits all. It’s what is best for you individually. And you may have a different program or a different approach than your spouse, even. We just, we just want you to have the best results, whatever that is for your personality. We want to offer different ways that you can achieve those things. If you’re don’t want to talk to us, don’t want to meet us, just won’t listen to us, we’ll buy stuff, great. That’s there, too. That’s why we’re doing just the packs by themselves with the books, or the company, the book. The whole thing is that you can piecemeal it the way you want or have the full concierge service, however it works for you, but so another way of saying it is, you know, you’re in the driver’s seat of your life and your health, and you can point your lap down any road, but we want to help you get there as quickly and as easily as you want and which way you want to travel, getting your health back, getting your mental motivation, getting your physical health by getting your spiritual health back because if you have a problem in one, you’re going to have a problem in the others because they all tied together. So you can make this change. As fast or slow as you want. But we’re here to make it better. And so you don’t waste time going down dead ends like we talked about from the start. And honestly, if you’re getting off of some of this over the counter pain relief medicine, you’ve had back surgeries or you’ve had injections. You’re going to have a little bit of a rough time trying to switch over to get well and get healthy because the body’s been so used to being in that state. That you get weird things that come up from it. That’s why we hired help. That’s right. And they’re incredibly educated. And that’s right. That’s what I was going to say. That’s why you really need the help to get through some of that because you think it’s okay. And then something comes along and it’s like, I don’t know what’s causing it. I don’t know what to do. And that’s why the health coach lets you do the, you can message them any time and they will answer it, some of them lighter than others. Maybe not at midnight, but we have people trying to eat snack food and stuff like that. And they’re like, I don’t know what to eat, and they’ll text our health coach and they get help, and they’re like, well, if you’ve got to eat at night, then try this. I even had the one guy that was doing the weight loss program. And he said, you know, I don’t get up in the middle of the night now and go get something out of the fridge. He said, I always got up in the middle of the night and got something out of the fridge. She goes, something happened. And I don’t want it. And I was like, yeah, the nutrition kicked in and you don’t want it anymore. I’m not bleeding that last grain is freezer burned in the freezer because I haven’t touched it in months, and I mean that literally. I want to talk to maybe a little bit different segment to the population. We talked about briefly the neurotransmitter imbalance and how it has to deal with pain. How many of you are depressed? Even if you don’t tell people that and you’re always on the edge of stress or you’re full of anxiety, yeah, okay, we’ve created a stress field nation or society, but you can take different avenues to decrease that. So if you’re always on that age, and these neurotransmitters are tiny chemical messages, messengers, some inhibit and some excite. And you have to have those balanced. Serotonin, for example, that’s what some people call the piece of God. Dopamine, if you’re missing at your usually some sort of addict, trying to get that response. Alcoholics or narcotics or gambling or even sex addicts are usually low on dopamine. Then you’ve got glutamate, gaba, which stands for gamma aminobutyric acid, this really good norepinephrine and epinephrine. Once you balance these things, oh my God, you get happy and I’ve had, I’ve had specially women, they’ll say, my husband’s nice to me. I’ve never had him be nice to me. He gave me 12 compliments last month. I thought, well, maybe you’re more receptive to maybe your age will live with oh, I can’t say that. Balance in serotonin and these other ones. Yeah, while you’re talking about that, I wanted you to talk about easy relax.
00:25:03 – 00:30:06
Because for several reasons, it’s been reformulated. We’ve always had easy relax. This formulation was put together differently based on what doctor Lewis is reading here. So would you tell them why you changed it? How this helps with pain, maybe. Yeah, we’ve had once sweet lady that was kind of slightly upset because the other one worked real well and it’s like, I understand. And she’s a sweetheart, but then we had another guy that had the inquiry about, well, it’s not doesn’t have this and it’s an easy relax we have now. God, it’s the vitamins minerals and amino acids for number one, first generation mood support. And in the right amount, the ratios are very, very important. What this does is it enhances the synthesis or the making of these chemical messages that supports calmness, healthy mood, better sleep, and to calm down that jittery nervous system. You know, it helps with methylation. You’ve heard me in the past, talk about methylation. Well, if you’re not methylene, and you’re not getting all the bad things out of your body and there’s about a 100,000 chemicals that we are involved with every day, which are not good. So you have to have methylation to get rid of some of these bad things that come into our bodies. And that has to do with production of serotonin and gaba for the most part. Then there’s magnesium magnesium, those of you that have headaches musculoskeletal pain, joint pain. We’re all low in magnesium, even our government says the best you can do out of your diet, it’s 40% of what you need every day. And while this is a specialized magnesium, it’s an Albion tracks glycinate key light that means you get up to 20 times better absorption. Magnesium magnesium and serotonin are the two things I can take when I feel a migraine coming on. I get the visual migraines where I can’t see to read and can’t see to drive. I’m take the magnesium and serotonin. Or I just pop an easy relaxing 30 minutes. I’m good to go. It’s gone. Then it’s got the vitamin C, which supports enzyme activity. Of copper. Gaba, 5 HTP, which creates that serotonin. I talked about then it has terrain terrains and amino acids that, oh my God, it’s neuro protective. So basically you put all this together to that goes with the pain protocol. The other one was a really, really good product, but this one, for what we’re doing, we can’t hardly keep it on the shelf. That tells you anything. Yeah, I have one guy. I had one guy 5 bottles of it at a time the other day. So it’s done. It has showed itself to be very good so far. In one personal but being the next day or two and say, oh God, I want one for my spouse. Oh, I’ve got to have one for my college age kid this stressed. And the other thing I wanted you to talk about, which believe it or not, gut health has got to do with pain, and so we developed another new product called GI soothe. Because it helps the inflammatory process and the gut. And it really does work well. For people with constipation because stress, people won’t go to the bathroom. So I don’t know anything about that. But doctor Lewis can tell you all about it. I’ve ever seen. And there’s books written about the gut brain connection. There’s people that’s won the Nobel Prize for understanding the gut microbiome and what that has to do with neurotransmitters. It has everything to do with that. It’s got all sorts of things in it that soothe and calm the gut that takes those leaky gut, you know, wide gaps and begins to bring them back closer to where it should be. And decreases the inflammatory cytokines helps you rebuild the villi, which create the surface area. And it’s got all kinds of other things and it just too much for me to mention, but zinc carnosine, and that’s a very specific type of zinc, which is pretty much known to enhance the mucosal integrity of the stomach and beyond, but it’s shown in vivo animal models and clinical trials that it pretty much, I can’t say it kills bad bacteria. I can’t say that, but read the studies. Slippery on prune powder, marshmallow, which is mucilage containing ingredient, which is smooth and smooth, smooth move can kind of deal.
00:30:07 – 00:34:35
Chamomile cat’s claw cat’s claw is something you don’t see a lot. It’s very incredibly anti inflammatory because it comes out of Central and South America. So it’s not as popular here, but we might sure that it helps. Okra, believe it or not, it’s not just good for you and gumbo. We have a little Cajun influence here. An acetyl glucosamine coarse in which is a really strange and incredibly powerful antioxidant and then glutamine, which helps build the lining of the gut. Anyway, it’s good, good, good, good. And when I have a belly ache, which nowadays is pretty rare. General, give me a couple of those. I’ll swallow in 30 minutes. Oh man, I’m good to go. And when your gut feels good, your brain feels good. When that happens, and it begins to increase the detoxification of all these things that your body is dealing with. Oh, guess what? The pain of your muscles can go away for you fibromyalgia type patients. For you arthritic patients that have joint pain, it can go away for those of you that have pain because of stress anxiety and depression. Oh my God, the gut connection is there and it gets better and better and better. You’re living in a wondrous body, but it just needs a little help in order to decrease that. And I tell people, you can glorify God if you’re sick, but it’s a whole heck of a lot easier if you feel good. And we’re going to give you a little help to get started. With our new pain panel lab, which we’ve not done in a long time and you probably won’t see it again for a very long time. But for the whole month of May. And starting now, if you listen to the podcast early, we are offering 10% off on the pain lab panel. And this is my 2023. If you listen to it in 2024, you missed the boat. Yeah, you need to listen faster. But May of 2023, if you will put in the coupon box, the word pain, PAIN, a lower case letters, it will take 10% off of the pain panel relief lab. So take advantage of that, that’s our way of trying to reach out to you to get you started to give you a life worth living. And sadly, we have come to the end of our show, but we promise we won’t be strangers long, we are going to start our podcast back. And you’ll be hearing from us more often and like I said, I really appreciate that you guys have been waiting to hear from us. We hear a lot of feedback that you miss it. So, but we just had to make sure all this worked really great before we started putting it out here. And we wanted to see some results with it. So we’re pleased with what we’re seeing. So we’re offering it to you now. So doctor Lewis, do you have any what wait a minute, you do need to go to our website, green wisdom, health dot com, fill out our health survey if you don’t know which lab panel you need that will help make a decision. And if you’re uncomfortable buying a lab based on what it says, will actually contact you directly and discuss with you your options. Okay, doctor Lewis, now you can tell us anything that you would like to close with. Oh, that’s not good, and bob made a speak my mind. The real thing, the spirit of self help is kind of the root of all genuine growth, but we help you with the self help. So it’s not just we made the decision to get back into the podcast, so thank you for your feedback. So we are accountable for that. And one other thing I want to say is tears and sweat or salty. But they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you changed. Let us help you with that. And we hope you have a very blessed week. It will 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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In today’s episode, Dr. Lewis discusses his new book all about how to optimize hormone levels that could be making it difficult for you to lose weight. This book is the perfect roadmap to start your new year off right with tips, meal plans, grocery lists, and supplement recommendations to help you achieve better health. You can also read the full book, Hormone Weight Loss Nutrition System, by clicking on this link here.
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Transcript:
Hormone Weight Loss Nutrition System
00:00:01 – 00:05:15
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 Steven and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s show. We are very excited for our next presentation of what we’ve been up to, doctor Lewis. You want to tell them what we’ve been up to? Yeah, I hear from quite a few of my patients that we’re going dark are going silent because we haven’t been putting out podcasts. Well, we’re going to introduce you to our hormone balancing and weight loss book. And I’d like to say thank you for your patience. Thank you for your loyalty. Thank you for your trust because we’ve been really, really busy making reformulations to some things so that they can work better or where one nude reformulation could take the place of two products. So the patients that have experienced this already are very, very happy and excited and I think you’ll find this weight loss book much different than any other dot book on the market because our approach is different. And if you’re wondering where you can find this, but this is the first I believe for now that he’s working on. We only have the one out. Well, you know, it takes a lot of effort for Janet to keep me off the rabbit trails and keep me focused. So he has to keep writing different books till he comes up with what he likes. So my first one is about thyroid and hormones and weight loss and all of those kind of things nutrient based eating, which is probably something you’ve not heard of before. If you like looking at the book, there’s many recipes in the back. It is available right now on our page of our website at green wisdom health dot com toward the bottom. There’s an online ebook. Some people prefer not to read. We hear that too. So doctor Lewis has completed the audio version of it, which we are delighted to share with you today. So doctor Lewis, anything else you’d like to add in before we let him hear the audio version. Yeah, buckle up your seat belt and notice where the notches are because if you follow this book, you’re going to have to type up if you’re not just because if you will follow the program, you will lose weight and then you’ll start feeling more energetic and be the best person that you can possibly be. Not only for yourself, but for your family. So without further ado, here is doctor Lewis. This hormone weight loss book. Hello, everyone. My name is doctor Steven Lewis. I’m a chiropractor, and today we’re going to be reviewing one of my favorite topics and functional medicine. Hormone imbalances and nutrient deficiencies as they relate to weight loss. I’ve worked with hundreds of patients over the years in their struggles to lose weight to boost energy to improve how they feel in their own bodies and who doesn’t need that. And unfortunately, many times these patients suffered from severe hormone imbalances and nutrient deficiencies which usually went undetected in their journey to better health. So over the next half hour or so, we’re going to explore which hormones are directly associated with weight gain and weight loss, the specific nutrients needed to naturally balance these hormones, the foods that are abundant with these nutrients. And then lastly, how to get started in balancing hormones and losing weight. But first, I want to go over the various weight loss programs you might have experimented with in some of the symptoms of hormone imbalances. In trying to lose weight, have you ever been frustrated with all the dietary rules you had to follow? By eliminating every type of food, complained about how awful the prepackaged meals tasted. Become bored with counting calories for every meal, experiencing unwanted side effects from the weight loss meds, contemplated or undergone bariatric surgery. Have you ever worked with a personal trainer that didn’t provide realistic workouts? I like to ask these questions to my patients because most often they’ve tried more than one way to lose weight, but they were unsuccessful and sometimes they get very discouraged and attempting another way to lose weight. Each type of weight loss program out there dropping pounds quickly or just taking a peel to miraculously see the weight dipping on the scale is usually promised, but almost never delivered. Plus all the rules and restrictions which accompany the program usually leave you feeling deprived and having no quality of life. If you look at my screen, I ask you, have you ever tried one of the weight loss programs or products before? Everything from fat burning supplements to the miracle diet out there, the weight loss industry is a $78 billion industry.
00:05:15 – 00:10:27
Yes, billion with a B and the list is an even complete. I just took the top weight loss categories that are often see people try. So what I’d like you to do in order to get you involved is ask yourself, did any of these weight loss methods successfully keep the weight off, did any of these weight loss methods address why you were gaining weight in the first place? Is your health better today than it was ten years ago? Dig deep and be honest on that one. Do you feel right in your own body? I know. It’s frustrating. Each year and even every other year, sometimes we try to lose weight and feel better. We will experiment with a weight loss program. We read about or seen one of our friends try. And we might get results for the first few weeks and then stop. Nothing happens. We plateau. We feel measurable and we’re just left wondering, why can’t I just start feeling right in my own body? Does this sound like you’ve. Do you suffer from any of the following? Depression, anxiety, diabetes, hypothyroidism, low libido. If you’ve lost that loving feeling, chronic fatigue, poor slate brain fog stress and PMS. You know, that sounds like the beginning of a good country western song. Most of the time I hear from my patients and their frustrated in their journey to losing weight and feeling better, but I often hear them say that I previously been diagnosed or suffer with one of these medical conditions or unwanted symptoms. Have you been diagnosed or suffer from any of these conditions? If you answered yes to any of these ten medical conditions or symptoms, then you most likely have an underlying hormone imbalance or micronutrient deficiency, which is contributing to weight gain and poor health. The top two reasons why most people do not lose weight. Yes, I’m a boil it down to two. The reason they don’t lose weight and keep it off is because of hormonal imbalances and nutrient deficiencies. The analyst weight loss supplements the diets, the medications are out on the market that most people try but usually never address the reason why they’re gaining weight in the first place. There are over 50 hormones in the body, which control hundreds and hundreds of daily metabolic processes at the core of these hormones are chemical messengers that help different glands and organs and the body talk to each other. Each hormone requires specific nutrients without the hormone balance and nutrition, optimization, no matter what you do to lose weight, it must often will not work long term. Specific nutrients and levels are needed to properly feel hormone production, balance and weight loss. Let’s take, for example, you’re trying to lose weight, but you’re hitting a plot to feel like your metabolism is to blame and it’s just sluggish. I’ve heard that so many times. The top hormone from metabolism is your thyroid, but thyroid gland controls so many metabolic functions, but for weight loss, it helps manage the metabolism and the burning of calories. The secret most people don’t know about it is that thyroid gland needs specific nutrients to function and selenium and tyrosine are just a good start and just some of the required no chance that the thyroid needs in order to produce these thyroid hormones. So you see, if you want to boost your metabolism, you need to focus on the thyroid hormones. But you also need adequate level of specific nutrients for the thyroid gland to actually work. The same holds true for appetite. Specific treats are needed to balance leptin hormones, which are the hormones needed to suppress hunger. And for testosterone hormones, zinc and magnesium are just two of many nutrients needed for proper testosterone hormone balance. Testosterone hormone balance is needed for both men and women to help improve lean body, composition. The top ten weight loss hormones because out of the 50 plus hormones in the body that Jan hormones which directly affect our ability to lose weight and keep it off, plus these hormones are also responsible in controlling how we feel each day, anxiety, stress, depression, fatigue, poor sleep, and various other unwanted symptoms are associated with these hormones.
00:10:29 – 00:15:02
There’s leptin, which is for satiety, satisfaction, so if you’re not getting any satisfaction, so to speak, that’s a good song. But it’s leptin. Greenland is the hunger hormone cortisol is the stress hormone. And there’s many things that can cause those stresses, insulin is the blood sugar hormone, estrogen is the belly and hip fat hormone, progesterone is the water retention hormone testosterone, lean, muscle, hormone, DHEA is the helper hormone in the precursor to some of these other ones. The hyrule is metabolism hormone, growth hormone is the muscle growth hormone. So what is each weight loss hormone mean in your overall journey to losing weight and feeling better? I get this question a lot when I talk about the top ten weight loss hormones. Let’s simplify it even further. I took the ten weight loss hormones, a categorized them into four compartments to make them easier to understand. Leptin and Greenland hormones are the yin and Yang for appetite and craving control. If you’ve started any weight loss program or not before, you know one of the first sabotages in failing on the diet is uncontrollable appetite. We must balance our leptin at Greenland hormones in order to set us up for success in losing weight. Fat storage release. This is the next stage for losing weight. It’s just stopping the body from accumulating more fat. You can’t lose fat if you keep gaining it. The stress hormone cortisol and blood sugar hormone insulin are directly responsible for storing more fat in the body, especially around the belly area. The third category and very often overlooked is bad detoxification. Once we stop accumulating fat, we must focus on detoxifying esque excess fat from the body, and this is where the pounds really start coming up. Getting your liver kidney and digestive systems kicked into gear along with deep detoxifying xenoestrogen toxins from the body can not only help with the weight loss, but it’s where we actually start feeling so much better. More energy, better digestion and more. Fat burning. Lastly, we want to turn up the heat and boost our metabolism and preserve lean muscle mass to accelerate the weight loss process and begin tone in the body by avoid DHEA testosterone. Human growth hormones need to be regulated and balanced. The four step process is synergistic to losing weight. The reason why most people do not get the best results on weight loss progress is because they only focus their adverse one area. For example, patients take appetite suppressant medications, they’re only focused on controlling appetite, but they never address the accumulation, the detoxification, or the burning of excess fat, and other examples patients take fat burning supplements. They’re only focusing on metabolism, but yet their appetite is most likely insatiable along with fat storage and fat detoxification impairments. Losing weight is multi factorial, multifaceted in attacking weight loss and mouse and hormones from every possible direction is needed for the best weight loss in feel good results. Appetite control, the first reason why most people stop a weight loss program or die is because of uncontrollable appetite and cravings. When we begin to eliminate addictive foods and drop our daily calorie amounts to fit within a program, our body sends signals of feed me now. We’ve all had those. Withdrawal symptoms of headaches, irritability, or chronic fatigue, also sets in and it makes all that much more difficult. Just given in and eating those cookies or slice of pizza to shut down these cravings is way too easy. There are two hormones and two neurotransmitter brain chemicals I call neurotransmitters the happy hormones.
00:15:04 – 00:20:00
These are associated with appetite and cravings. Greeting hormones tell our body that we’re hungry and leptin hormones tell our body that we’re full. When there’s an unbalanced in these two hormones, it leaves us with an insatiable appetite that we constantly must eat, even if we don’t need to. Now, Sarah Tony and dopamine, the so called happy hormones, their neurotransmitter brain chemicals, their responsible for our cravings, appetite, and cravings are two separate issues. Appetite is where there’s grumbling in our stomach and we just have to eat. Insatiable cravings are when we crave specific foods to make us feel happy. The serotonin and dopamine effect can self sabotage our weight loss efforts. If you’ve ever cried specific foods such as cookies, chocolate, ice cream pizza, or anything else, then you’re most likely to have a serotonin and dopamine imbalance. Serotonin is the so called feel good, Brian chemical, and dopamine is the rewards or pleasure Brian chemical. Now we’re all goals to give our body the necessary nutrients to suppress hunger and shut down the cravings. So we don’t have these insatiable appetites ruining our weight loss efforts. Now there’s quite a few different appetite control nutrients. One of the ones that’s missing in most people’s diet is fiber. And that the benefit of that is leptin and Greenland hormone balance tryptophan for serotonin balance, which is the whole food source for that would be turkey chicken and beef. And that’s why when we eat a lot of turkey at Thanksgiving, we all get tired and sleepy and want a nap because the tryptophan and the turkey has turned to serotonin. Magnesium, that is incredibly important in our neurotransmitter synthesis and for blood sugar regulation. The top foods for that is Spanish tune in avocado. And it goes on and on and on and on. That storage. The next step in hormone, weight loss system is stopping the body from storing more fat. There are two hormones that contribute to fat storage, which is cortisol and insulin. There’s a direct cause and effect on how these hormones pack on the pounds, especially around the belly area. Stress, and this day and age who doesn’t suffer from some type of stress. Stress from finance is stressed from a relationship stress from work, stress from even other health problems, stress from what you hear on the knees. All these different types of stress when they’re compounded on top of one another can lead to chronic stress and elevated cortisol, stress, hormone levels. You see, when we’re suffered, suffering from periods of stress, our body begins to ramp up cortisol hormone production to help calm the body and reduce stress levels. Unfortunately, when we experience prolonged stress, the signal to stop cortisol hormone production never stops. A ramp up in cortisol, hormone production has a direct effect on the body producing more blood sugar glucose which deals the body to deal with more stress. Then another reaction in the body is the need to produce more insulin hormones because of the excessive blood sugar glucose levels. The insulin hormones help usher, the glucose in the cells for energy. However, when we get too much glucose or too much glucose is being produced or consumed, our bodies become insulin resistant and as a result, the excess glucose in the bloodstream gets converted into fat and think triglycerides to be stored for later use. And this can clog up the liver, which causes further malfunction. And then it begins to put these fats around the belly and other areas and store it as that. I’m sorry about the medical explanation about how fat keeps getting stored in the body, but it’s really important that you understand how chronic stress leads to barely fat and weight gain. For example, more stress equals more cortisol hormones, which equals more glucose production, which equals more stored fat. The positive aspect to control and cortisol stress and insulin blood sugar hormone levels is the fact that specific nutrients can actually help balance these hormones. There are many clinically researched nutrients which have shown a benefit in decreasing stress levels and balancing insulin hormone levels. So let’s review just a few of these.
00:20:05 – 00:25:11
By that storage release nutrients. And there are many of them. But let’s just talk about a few. Vitamin C, we can’t produce our own vitamin C so you have to have a dietary source of that, which the benefit is stress reduction, you get more vitamin C from bell pepper, strawberries, and broccoli, for example, probiotics are incredibly important. And they help block blood sugar, absorption, and they help in the detoxification process. You can get that from Apple cider vinegar and good yogurt or I tell my patients just to learn to breathe your own. Vitamin B one, which is imperative for blood sugar metabolism, the main food sources are pork chops, salmon, and black seed. And when you’re low on that, you usually have brain fog. How many of that or how many can relate to that? But detox vacation. Headaches, low energy poor sleep, brain fog constipation, and other unwanted symptoms can be a risk. A direct result of too much toxicity in the body. In the next step, the hormone weight loss system, we really need to focus on eliminating fat toxins from the body, particularly xenoestrogen toxins. These toxins not only increase the plants, but they’re often the culprit to negative symptoms which impact our quality of life. You’ve probably noticed in your skin care shampoo and other self improvement products that they are saying no parabens, no flights, et cetera, et cetera. Even when you go to the grocery store, you may have noticed words on the food packaging of non GMO antibiotic free organic or other similar statements. But yet we have thousands of chemicals which often find our way into our food supply, cosmetics, carpeting, furniture, and other household atoms that are very harmful to your body. These chemicals at a higher level, especially if you can’t detox them, can’t cause an array of symptoms. Astral weight loss and hormone balance and there’s one toxin that we must focus on and that’s called xenoestrogens. Toxins that mimic our natural estrogen hormones can trick our body into storing more fat, the xenoestrogens on a molecular level are very similar to the estrogen hormones, and when they’re abundant in the body, they can tell the body to store more fat. The need to eliminate these xenoestrogens through proper liver, kidney, and digestive detoxification can greatly impact our weight loss efforts. Along with detoxifying these xenoestrogens, it will help bring about estrogen and progesterone hormone balance, which further improve how you feel the result most of the time will be more energy better sleep and improve digestion, glowing skin are the top benefits as well as getting your libido back. The incomes the weight loss and further detoxification of these xenoestrogens. Now for fat detoxification nutrients, there are so many of them. One of my favorites is in acetylcysteine, which the benefit is detoxification, glutathione production. It really helps deliver clean up the body. The top food source is beef pork chops and chicken. Fiber that we talked about before, but one of the major benefits is it binds to toxins. You get more fiber at a, for example, avocado, chia seeds, and broccoli. Folate, which helps with methylation, and that’s one of the many detoxification pathways of the liver. You get greater amounts of folate out of asparagus broccoli and spinach. The next step in losing weight in hormone balancing is fat burning. Many times my patients have started on a weight loss program before. And they plateaued. And that’s where they get discouraged. A number one reason to weight loss plateauing is slow, metabolism, caused by metabolic hormone imbalance. If this has happened to you before, you’re not alone, but more importantly, there is an answer. As we age, there are three metabolism based hormones which dramatically decrease testosterone, DHEA and human growth hormone are the hormones responsible for lame muscle mass and better body composition. Think about it if you wait a 170 pounds when you were 20 years old and a 170 pounds when you’re 50 years old does your body look the same, the answer is probably not.
00:25:11 – 00:30:03
You’ll notice more sagging skin, more fat around the midsection and just a different overall body shape. By focusing just on the number on the scale, you’re not really taking into account the complete weight loss picture. You need to boost testosterone, DHEA, and human growth hormone so that that can help preserve lean muscle mass in the tone and the shape of our bodies and make that better. Plus, having more muscle mass has been shown to boost metabolism rates, the other hormone, which I like to consider, our main metabolism hormone is the thyroid hormone. This hormone as well can become much more dysfunctional as we age, but the thyroid hormone can also become imbalanced for many other reasons. One of the reasons it’s poor dietary habits, then you have genetics autoimmune disorders, and there are various other factors that can stop our thyroid working at optimal levels. When there’s not sufficient thyroid hormone production or poor conversion between the types of thyroid hormones, such as T four to T three, our metabolism begins to slow down. As a result, we’re not burning off the calories in those excess calories in the body turn into fat. Just like the other three steps in hormone light loss system, there is good news on how specific nutrients can boost metabolism and balance the fat burning hormones. Some of the fat burning nutrients are iodine. The benefit is thyroid hormone production. Top health food source is cod shrimp and seaweed. Magnesium, tea, forward to T three conversion. You get that mostly, out of spinach, tuna, and avocado. Omega threes are incredibly important because they’re anti inflammatory. Some of the top food sources are salmon chia seeds and pumpkin seeds. And then carnitine, which helps improve lean muscle mass and the top halted sources beef, pork, and cod. Are you consuming the right no chance in the right delivery form at the right dosage to balance the right hormones? If not, then you may be suffering from a macro nutrient deficiency, which is causing a hormone imbalance and unwanted weight gain. When I work with my patients on losing weight and bouncing hormones are immediately start thinking of which nutrient deficient deficiencies can maybe suffer from that are contributing to the hormone imbalances and then lastly, weight gain. My focus and more upstream on the problem you can get to the root cause of the issue. So for weight loss, we need to have adequate levels of nutrients which help balance hormones and then lastly, weight loss becomes easier. So let’s look at this in a more visual way. Losing weight and feeling better comes down to an easy system. No more fab based dots with severe restrictions or taking endless amounts of supplements which don’t address the underlying hormone in nutrient issues to conquer weight loss and feel better. We need to focus more upstream on the calls of the problem. Step one, micronutrient optimization specific vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids that are imperative for the body to have in order to use to get healthy and shed those unwanted pounds. You can’t increase metabolism if you have a sluggish style weight and you can improve thyroid health unless you have the right amounts of iodine, selenium, tyrosine, and several other nutrients in the body. And I’m not just talking adequate, where you go to the store and take a 100% of the recommended RDA of a nutrient. This is the bare minimum amount needed not to have a nutrient based disease. These levels are far too low for nutrition, optimization in the body. For example, the RDA for vitamin D is about 600 I use a day. Most clinically, when most clinical studies show that 2004 thousand or even 10,000 a day is the amount needed to have true health benefit. We must have optimized levels of nutrients in the bodies. So our hormones become balanced. Step two is the hormone balance itself. At least theta body, the right foods with nutrient dense ingredients.
00:30:04 – 00:35:10
Then we can begin the journey to nutrition optimization. However, just eating the right foods is not always going to get us across the dough and unfortunately. The amount found the mouths of nutrients found in our page today are a lot lower than what they were 50 years ago. How we grow the foods, how we fertilize the foods, and even how we cook them, all take away from the nutrient benefits, the need to induce specific nutritional supplements that are daily lives, it’s needed to truly optimize the level of nutrients. By combining both food and supplemental sources of specific nutrients, then we can naturally restore hormone balance. Then step three is weight loss. By focusing on nutrition, optimization in the body, we can begin to balance the hormones. And once we balance the hormones, we can start the process of effortlessly losing weight. Yes, you heard me, Brad, effortlessly. And another added benefit to nutrition optimization in hormone balance is feeling better. Who doesn’t want to feel better and lose ten, 20, or even 50 pounds, and the bonus of having more energy, better sleep, improved digestion, health, and in most cases you just feel better mentally. You lose that stress anxiety and depression. So how do you start balancing your hormones and lose some weight? We just discussed how specific nutrient deficiencies and hormone imbalances can lead to insatiable appetites, fat accumulation, slow metabolism, which all impact weight gain or weight loss, the next step we have to ask ourselves is what are we going to do about it? Just knowing what could be causing the problem is one thing, but taking action steps to eliminate the problem is the next thing we must do to take back control of our bodies. In just three easy steps, you’ll have everything you need in balancing hormones and losing weight. I took the guesswork out of what to eat and do every day in my complete hormone weight loss system. For nutritional supplement perspective, personally designed a synergistic protocol, a specific nutrients which target the top weight loss hormones and possible nutrient deficiencies that could cause these hormone imbalances. And then from what 8 I created a hormone weight loss dietary plan which focuses on all the foods you can eat rather than what you can’t. I’ve identified the clinically researched nutrients that promote hormone balance and weight loss, then I discovered the top whole food sources of these foods and designed meal plants and grocery lists which infuses these foods and nutrients into 30 minutes or less a recipe. And that’s really good to save that time. It takes off a lot of stress. We hope you’ve enjoyed listening to doctor Lewis hormone weight loss nutrition system, audiobook. And because of this book, we’ve added in a couple of nude lab panels. One is a men’s hormone weight loss panel and the other is a women’s hormone weight loss panel. It is specific to this book. And for a limited time, we are offering a $150 off of the program. So that program would include the 60 plus biomarker lab test, a 15 page functional health lab report, a nutrition interpretation of lab results, and of course doctor Lewis consultation with supplement recommendations, just like he’s always giving you, but it is just on these two lab panels and these are lab panels you’ve never had in the past. So if you’re thinking it’s time to get started losing weight in the new year, we want to help you and say thank you for your loyalty and for being a part of our family for all these years as we make all these changes and our lives continue to grow and hopefully do as well. So if you’d like to take advantage of this as offers good till the end of February, it is a $150 off the $499 lab panel. So that would make it $349, but you have to use the promo code get fit. It’s GET FIT when you check out with the lab panels. So we appreciate you guys and doctor Lewis. Would you like to add anything else? Yeah, the only thing I’d like to add is the thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the world to try it and the faith to believe it’s possible.
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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.
Show Transcription
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.
Products Mentioned in Today’s Show
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.
B-12 Methyl Supreme – B-12 Methyl Supreme is a comprehensive formula that includes targeted amounts of five key nutrients designed to support methylation and homocysteine balance in the body.
You can also listen to Rev Up Your Metabolism on our YouTube channel here.
Difficulty losing weight is one of the most common issues plaguing the U.S. There are many things that influence weight such as diet, activity level, hormones, genetics, food sensitivities, environment, and much more. However, one of the lesser-known influences on weight are lectins. Lectins are found in many different foods like beans, peanuts, whole grains, etc. Lectins are often called antinutrients because they are typically difficult to digest and can hinder the absorption of some nutrients. In this week’s episode, Could This Be Causing Your Weight Gain?, we’ll discuss how lectins affect your body, including the thyroid, and what you can do to help make them easier to digest.
Products Mentioned in Today’s Show
Chewable Digestive Essentials V – Chewable Digestive Essentials V is a good choice for administering enzymes to children or adults who may prefer a chewable tablet. This product can assist in the breakdown of a wide range of proteins, peptides, fats, complex carbohydrates, sugars, and fibers.† Serratia peptidase, a unique endopeptidase enzyme, helps protect sensitive GI tissue from irritation that can affect tissue health and intestinal comfort.
Probio 100 – Probio 100 is a high-dose probiotic delivering 100 billion active cultures for cases of gastrointestinal and immune distress.
You can also listen to Could This Be Causing Your Weight Gain? on our YouTube channel here.
Brain fog is a very common problem that can have many different causes. It could be caused by food sensitivities, sleep deprivation, dehydration, nutritional deficiencies, and certain medications and health conditions. Fortunately there are many things you can do to help reduce brain fog like taking supplements to correct any nutritional deficiencies, removing foods from your diet that you are sensitive to, getting enough sleep each night, etc. In this episode we’ll go over some basic things you can do to reduce brain fog and get a clearer mind.
Products Mentioned in Today’s Show
GPC Liquid – GPC Liquid is a good choice when higher doses of GPC are desired, and the dropper is calibrated to allow for easy titration. GPC has a naturally delicious, sweet taste on its own so no additional sweeteners were added to this product.
Stress Response – A comprehensive formula of nutrients and botanicals with demonstrated and unique neurosupportive effects creates a robust and multifactorial approach to support daily brain health and function.†
Optimum Memory – Optimum Memory provides vinpocetine and ginkgo biloba to support cerebral blood circulation, decrease excitotoxicity and scavenge damaging free radicals. In addition, vinpocetine has specifically been shown to inhibit phosphodiesterase, and therefore helps increase cerebrvascular blood flow and improve memory. Together with huperzine A, a potent acetylcholine sparing nutrient, Optimum Memory provides optimal dosages of three of the most well-studied ingredients for targeted, multidimensional cognitive support.
You can also listen to Can You Reduce Brain Fog? on our YouTube channel here. Be sure to check out our in-depth article about brain fog here.
With chronic conditions affecting almost half of the U.S. population, health experts have started to consider other potential causes of these conditions. Exposure to environmental toxins, stress, trauma, and genetic predispositions can all play a role in the development of certain chronic health conditions, but food sensitivities could also have a big influence. Food sensitivities and allergies are much more common than they used to be, and the symptoms are often minimal or mimic other conditions and can be difficult to diagnose without proper testing. Gluten is one of the more common sensitivities, and we are finding more people have a gluten sensitivity than previously thought. In this week’s show we’ll discuss some of the potential symptoms and effects a gluten sensitivity could cause to see if gluten could be the hidden cause of your health issues. We’ll also go over how to test for food sensitivities, and what you can do to help heal your gut.
Products Mentioned in Today’s Show
GI Support – Provides extensive support for the entire GI tract by addressing energy requirements of intestinal mucosa, structural composition of intestinal and colonic cells, microorganism balance, and production of protective intestinal mucus secretions.†
Chewable Digestive Essentials V – This product can assist in the breakdown of a wide range of proteins, peptides, fats, complex carbohydrates, sugars, and fibers.† Serratia peptidase, a unique endopeptidase enzyme, helps protect sensitive GI tissue from irritation that can affect tissue health and intestinal comfort.† Enzymes with DPP-IV activity and a full range of disaccharidases are included.†
Probio-Ease – This shelf-stable, 50 billion CFU formulation contains a blend of 7 select probiotic species with Sunfiber®, a low-FODMAP certified prebiotic. This formulation provides comprehensive microbiome, immune, and healthy inflammation support in one convenient capsule.†
You can also listen to Is Gluten the Hidden Cause? on our YouTube channel here.
The average American eats a large amount of processed foods that are typically full of chemicals, grains, simple carbohydrates, and unhealthy fats. These foods are usually low in essential vitamins and minerals, and can contribute to inflammation, and one of the biggest offenders in the American diet today is gluten. With so many people unaware that they have a gluten sensitivity, there are many people eating gluten every day that are actually sensitive to it. Eating foods you have a sensitivity to can cause an inflammatory response and can damage the lining of your gut, as well as affect other organs. This chronic inflammation can wreak havoc throughout your body, and can cause symptoms that may be misdiagnosed as a medical condition in some cases. You cannot take enough supplements or exercise enough to compensate for continuing to eat something your body is sensitive to, which is why we say you can’t outrun your fork because you must fix your diet. However, many people don’t want to cut foods out of their diet until they are sure they are sensitive or allergic to them. So, in this week’s podcast episode we’ll go over some symptoms of food sensitivities, and discuss our new test that tests for gluten sensitivities as well as a couple of other food groups.
Products Mentioned in Today’s Show
Wheat Zoomer/Leaky Gut/Food Sensitivity Panel Profile 1 – Vibrant’s Wheat Zoomer is a health analytics tool built to assist in the detection of wheat and gluten related disorders. It aids in the specific recognition of antibodies to wheat peptides, including gluten and non-gluten components along with intestinal permeability. The Wheat Zoomer allows detection of protein antibodies associated with wheat and gluten sensitivities for information to reduce, monitor and manage the inflammatory effects of those sensitivities.
Digest Ease – Digest Ease is a cinnamon flavored chewable tablet containing DGL (deglycyrrhizinated licorice root and rhizome extract) and mastic gum to support healthy digestion and gastrointestinal function.† This product may help alleviate gastrointestinal discomfort associated with occasional indigestion.†
EZ Relax – We’ve teamed nature’s greatest stress management ingredients to create a uniquely effective combination. Formulated with Ashwagandha, valerian extract, L-theanine, and GABA.
Probio Ease – Probio-Ease is the next evolution in gut-health supplements. This shelf-stable, 50 billion CFU formulation contains a blend of 7 select probiotic species with Sunfiber®, a low-FODMAP certified prebiotic. This formulation provides comprehensive microbiome, immune, and healthy inflammation support in one convenient capsule.†
You can also listen to You Can’t Outrun Your Fork on our YouTube channel here.
Many people have experienced an increase in stress, anxiety, and depression over the last few weeks. There have also been reports of increases in the consumption of alcohol and unhealthy foods. These things can all take a toll on your health, and it’s important to give your body the support it needs to recover. Stress affects nearly every part of your body, but especially the adrenal glands. Alcohol consumption can decrease liver function, as well as affect the brain and increase your risk of developing depression. Eating unhealthy foods can affect your energy levels, gut health, immune health, and could lead to nutrient deficiencies. So, this week we will discuss what you can do to start supporting your liver and adrenals, and we’ll also discuss the importance of having lab work done. It’s time to reset your health, and we want to help show you how.
Products Mentioned in Today’s Show
Iodine Forte – Iodine is an essential element. Although its main function is in the production of thyroid hormones T3 and T4, other organs in the body have a need for iodine in order to function normally.
Active Selenium – Active Selenium uses L-selenomethionine, a highly bioavailable, yeast-free form of organically bound selenium chelated with methionine to support glutathione activity. Unlike inorganic forms of selenium, Active Selenium is not adversely affected by vitamin C.
Vital Detox – This formulation is rich in chlorophylls from Chlorella and contains a unique broccoli extract with glucosinolates. The chlorophylls in Chlorella form tight molecular complexes with a wide variety of everyday toxic chemical compounds, reducing their absorption from the gastrointestinal tract. A high-strength enzyme blend also breaks down dietary antigens and may support assimilation of beneficial constituents of Chlorella.† Glucosinolate compounds in broccoli are powerful inducers of natural phase 2 detoxification processes in the liver. Most substances detoxified by the liver are released into the bile for excretion through the intestinal tract. Chlorella helps trap these toxins to reduce reabsorption.†
You can also listen to Time to Reset Your Health podcast episode on our YouTube channel here.
