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Natural Solutions to Remedy Pain

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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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The symptoms of heavy metal toxicity can manifest in many different ways including diarrhea, nausea, chills, etc. Because of the many different symptoms that often mimic other conditions, it can be difficult to determine if you have heavy metal toxicity. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take now that can help support your body’s detoxification pathways in filtering out metals and other toxins.

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00:00:01 – 00:05:03

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with Doctor 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 the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And today we are going to discuss heavy metal toxicity. The name of this show is called symptoms of heavy metal toxicity. Doctor Lewis, can you tell us why you felt the need to discuss heavy metals? He’s thinking about why he’s discussing heavy metals. It goes back to the 70s in the music, but no, not really. Well, you know, I’ve talked about being toxic off and on for many, many years, even before we got into this. And I noticed that as I tried to fix people’s joint pain, nerve pain, musculoskeletal pain, that if I would put people on something that could displace toxins, heavy metals and others, that their pain would get much, much better. Much more quickly, they could achieve or we could achieve the goals with fewer adjustments and less time. So I think we should always be taking up new trends to help our bodies detox, not just metals, but other things. And the side effect of being cleaner is deep sleep. You know, most of us don’t get the deep restorative sleep, which not having good sleep actually helps induce leaky gut, which we’ve talked about. And that can lead to insulin resistance. So when we talk insulin resistance, we’re talking about pre diabetic or diabetic. And it can lack of the sleep can lead to actually autoimmune disorders. We’re seeing more and more autoimmune disorders and people say, well, what’s chiropractor doing? Talking about, oh, no immune disorders. Well, guess what? That has a lot to do with osteoarthritis, which I’ve already gotten most of that podcast written for the future about how osteoarthritis can be helped with nutrients as well as the chiropractic adjustments. But to get deep restorative sleep puts you in a better position to detox and heavy metal is a big part of that. You know, I think a lot of people out there don’t really realize they’re even exposed to heavy metals and they’re probably thinking, well, I’m not around any of that. So, I’m not really sure how it pertains to me, but there’s good metals like zinc and copper and iron that are beneficial for your health, but there’s also some very toxic ones like cadmium, arsenic, chromium, lead mercury, you know, and people are like. Yeah, and where do you get those bad ones from? Is everyone exposed to one or more of those? Absolutely. And people say, I’m not exposed to that. It’s like, yeah, you are, you just don’t know it. I mean, if you walked into a newly sprayed build and has had pesticides in it, or even new building materials or the outgassing of carpets and those are not necessarily metals, but they can be seen in styrene and Styrofoam cups. There’re so many toxins in the world. If you’re not exposed to it, one of the polar bears have thyroid problems in osteoporosis. We don’t spray anything up there. And we’ll probably go over a list today. And I’ve always said, please don’t try to diagnose yourself at all, but if you don’t diagnose yourself off this list because of these lists, we may say, well, this is hypothyroidism. Well, it could also be leaky good. It can be chronic fatigue, syndrome. And you know, I had a kid one-time, young man who was not very developed, and you could tell he had some problems. And he brought me a book and says, here, what do you think about it? And it was only focused on mercury. Well, mercury is a bad thing. And if you’re drinking or eating anything with high fructose corn syrup, you are getting mercury. It’s that bad. High fructose corn syrup. And it’s not just people say, but I don’t drink soft drinks. Well, it’s in your ketchup and barbecue sauce. Check the ingredients. But it’s got too much mercury in it. So, I told this guy a young man. I said, yeah, taken out the mercury is a good thing. And I read the book. It was a pretty good book, but I said, the problem is there’s so many chemicals in our environment. And there’s about 5 new ones each day that join the 80 to 85,000 in that includes anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics and that can have a very negative effect on the health of your intestinal flora.

00:05:04 – 00:10:20

So when we talk about detox, I try to skim over it because Janet says sometimes I get too technical. They’re smarter people than me, but I’m really good practitioner. So we talk about liver methylation sulfation, acetylation, there’s a lot of different liver detox pathways. We don’t talk about the P450 cytochrome pathway very much, but you have to have extra nutrients in order to allow your body to kick that in gear because you do not get enough nutrients inside of your food. It’s impossible. You can not do it. So 80 to 85,000 different toxins in our environment in many of those are metals. Well, and then to make it in little simpler form for some of us that don’t understand all the scientific words like myself, there are some common symptoms that you could experience if your body is high and toxic metals. One of them is headaches. Abdominal pain, especially the headaches in the morning. Oh, really? Why the morning? Because that’s when the body is geared to dump. Especially in bladder. And most of us are behind. That’s why Janice is famous for her. Well, if you’ve got three trains going into a tunnel, have any trains should come out. That means if you’re eating three meals, you need to have two or three baobabs per day. That makes sense because that’s 5 to 7 in the morning. Chinese body clock. Yeah, that’s the meridian. And the thing about it is it’s complicated and I’m not being glib when I tell people we’ve made an intelligent educated decision about what you should take when you should take it. But then you need to throw it in and let God sort it out because one of the things that’s killing us faster than anything is the stress over trying to do it perfectly or the stress over trying to do it halfway. So will make a good decision and I tell my patients use your discerning spirit or your intuition. And then follow up and never lose your faith. Some more symptoms of toxic toxicity in your body from heavy metals is nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, chills, and a general feeling of weakness. One of the complaints that I’ve heard just a few times, well, I got on your supplements, and I had diarrhea, or I had a loose stools, and I said, well, you know, we can slow it down, but can you realize that that’s your body trying it has the nutritional aspect to increase detoxification that your body tried to detox? Now, we can slow it down and make it comfortable. That’s very important. But for God’s sight, don’t quit. That’s a good thing. People say, but I’m not comfortable taking this this, this. I said, well, you know, throwing up makes me sick. I mean, I’m ugly. UGLY I’m ugly when I throw up. But I know that’s a good thing because my body’s getting rid of toxins. Yeah, that is something that a lot of our clients say is like, well, this made me uncomfortable. I’m having a little more diarrhea it smells bad. I’m not used to going to the bathroom this much. It is very common that our supplements will start dragging out toxic things. You have to think about if it’s not coming out and it’s just sitting there and then you don’t do anything with it for years. What does what does that lead to down the road? We had a lady I don’t know if his early this week late last week. My urine stinks to high heaven. And she was kind of embarrassing that. And slime well, that’s a good thing. Here’s the thing. People signed by my son. I heard this. My son has acne. I said, well, he’s not pooping enough. Well, he poops once or twice a week. I said, well, the primary channels of elimination is the colon and through the bladder, urinary tract and Cullen. And if you’re not getting an out fast enough, it’s going to try to come out through the skin. That’s a secondary path of elimination. It’s true. And more severe and chronic cases of heavy metal poisoning include burning and tingling sensations, brain fog, insomnia, paralysis, and chronic infections, and that seems to be we’re hearing more and more people telling us they’re having the burning and tingling sensation and a lot of brain fog. So possibly it’s heavy metal issues that need to have need to be dealt with. So I guess if you have this in your body, is there a way to pull these things out? Do you have certain supplements that pull those type things out? Doctor Lewis? We talked the other day when I think it was Casey that was here that there are definitely some things that you can take.

00:10:21 – 00:15:04

The environmental detox is very, very popular with our people. It’s got the Z a lot clay, the activated charcoal, shallow sheet, which is fully fulvic acid in humic acid. It’s a really incredible product. That works really, really well. And I tell people, then you need to go through the Malta minerals, but you want to do it at a different time because you want to make sure that the activated charcoal and zealots not getting the good minerals. I’m a big fan of our active mega multi and it’s got some good minerals in it. But just as a matter of real estate, so to speak, the amount of room that it takes, it’s good to take not just the multi vitamin, but the multi minerals also ours has calcium magnesium zinc, selenium, manganese, chromium, potassium, sulfate, which is great for blood sugar and insulin resistance. And in boron, folks, if you don’t get it up on, you can’t have strong bones, especially if you’re a woman. Man, if you don’t have enough boron, which is almost impossible to get out of your diet, you can’t build testosterone. They perked up when they heard testosterone. So the minerals are a really, really good thing. It’s a smart thing, but it helps to bind with these heavy metals. And I said manganese. Well, manganese, it depends on the form. You know, I’ve talked about research where a welders that were exposed to the fumes had higher levels of manganese and in higher neurodegenerative effects. Abnormal effects on the nervous system. But it’s the wrong form of manganese. So you have to be careful. And I’ve talked about this over and over again. I’m going to keep doing it when it says tracks, TRA, CS, which are in every time that it’s possible that stands for the real amino acid chelate system. And you get up to 20 times more absorbable. One of my favorite ones is our reduced glutathione. And doctor Lewis can tell you exactly why it works, but I know that it helps immune system also by detoxifying and gives energy. So that one is really good. It’s quick. I know that if you do too much of it and you don’t do something about it, it can build up and not come out well. I mean, I know that. It’s like you can overdo glutathione as well, right? Well, you have to make sure you’re drinking a lot of water. The water is the universal solvent. They taught me that in chemistry a million years ago. Alcohol is a solution, but waters the universal solvent so don’t think vodka is the other clear drink. It’s water, water, water, and it needs to be filtered. Reverse osmosis is my preference. But so you have to make sure that when you’re giving your body the nutrition for it to crank up the mitochondria or the energy producers, so that it binds these toxins or conjugates them that happens in the liver, that’s why I always pay attention to liver for those of you that are patients. You’ve got to make sure that it’s going through. So if you have thick bile, then I will recommend terrain because that thins the bowel and if you thin it, then it goes through your fatty liver, which many of us have. Because of decades of too much high fructose corn syrup and mercury. When it ends the body goes through the liver through the gallbladder and squishes out into the small intestine. More readily, so it detoxes a lot faster, but you have to have a massive amount of good probiotics in the small intestine because the probiotics actually affect. In a good way. When the microbiome of the small intestine and that has to do with conjugating and keeping these conjugated harmful products from unconjugated and becoming toxic and be in reabsorbed, so that’s why good bowel movements and fiber is super, super important because this glutathione, some people call it the master, antioxidant. I think we’ll get in trouble for this, but I think sometimes Janet has a tendency too.

00:15:05 – 00:20:01

Oh yeah, she’s looking at me. Waiting to see what I’ve done now. Wait to see what kind of trouble I’m creating for myself. But I think sometimes she overdoses on things she gets really excited. She was taken, I said, you know, you’re 5, 430 pounds. And she says, Steven, I’m not that fat. Okay, well, I think three glutathione might be a bit much, honey. Please, I’m sorry for whatever I did. But glutathione is incredible for detoxification. And as you detoxify, you increase your immune system health. Immune activation and as you do that, you’re less prone to have the autoimmune diseases that we see develop more and more and more. That really does help brain fog though. I can tell you that the reduced glutathione really helps quickly to reduce the brain fog. Yeah, and to tie this together because many of you that are listening are already patients. I tell people, well, if you have brain fog, it’s usually because you have too much candy. They create something called foundation, steel, or have you had the inability to utilize thymine that you don’t get enough of anyway. So that goes back to if you have all these things going on and bad metals are famous for adversely affecting the microbiome. And that’s why I candida can go into overgrowth and that’s why you have to promote the use of and the growth of good probiotics and you have to be consistent with it because even glyphosate that people say on glyphosate is not bad for you. We got most Vietnam veterans or dead because of H and orange, look up glyphosate and H and orange and compare the two. It changes the glyphosate in our foods. Changes the microbiome, which lets the candida go ballistic, which steals your thumb in, which causes brain fog and brain fog can be just from, oh my God, I got too much aluminum. You get aluminum because we’re consuming it out of our canned goods. These fast foods hang on. I have a sneeze. I thought he was going to whisper two weeks. Most of these pre package that I’m trying to sneeze. That’s another avenue of detoxification. But most of our foods that we buy better prepackaged are cooked in huge aluminum vats. Think about that for a minute. Mercury, I had two different dentists that would get the amalgam mercury fillings, mercury amalgam fillings, out of teeth, and both on us bat crazy. But I felt better. Now, what’s that all in my head or was it because I got more mercury out of my system. Now, one of them just took it out, drilled it out, and of course you’re inhaling those vapors and I got 6, 6, 6, and my liver enzymes went crazy high. The other dentist was much more meticulous. She loves that word, and she’s an incredible person, perfectionist, meticulous dentist. She used the rubber dam and got the rest of my amalgam fillings out. And I didn’t get sick at all. So I got the mercury out. Now, whether it’s in my head or real, I don’t know, but I felt better. And my headaches went way, way down in frequency, Janet mentioned, headaches, and my blood pressure went way down. Well, and you get a lot of the mercury two out of the different kinds of fish that you eat. I know like the larger fish like swordfish, king mackerel, tuna, Marlin, are all bigger carriers of mercury. Because I have more time to bow accumulate as they’re eating the little fish, and it just accumulates in the body. And I kind of like tuna, but we make sure we buy the young. Smaller tuna. The young tuna? Yeah. We do. I don’t know. I never looked at, I guess, I always let you pick that out. So I guess we’re buying baby tuna. I don’t know. Maybe tuna. I know on salmon that little fat. That Brown thing at the bottom, I used to think you were supposed to eat that. And the first time I was even, I first started dating, he goes, what do you eat in that? And I said, it was part of the same and he goes, that’s where all the metals are stored all the toxins. And I was like, oh my God. Now I can’t stand it. It’s that little colored brown strip. And I don’t know why these chefs don’t scoop it out with a spoon, but I cut it out. You’re going to help yourself.

00:20:01 – 00:25:06

If you just do that much and you know I like research polluted air causes high blood pressure and in the polluted air are many, many of these heavy metals. And even the American journal of public health says that polluted air racist blood pressure, there’s actually a lot of studies done on even low doses of heavy metals and how they disrupt the structure and the function of platelets. And platelets are about clotting. It helps plaque occur much more likely. And that’s not a good thing. That’s from journal of environmental pathology, toxicology and oncology. So even low doses and we get the mercury, we get from high fructose corn syrup from big fish, we get a lot of aluminum from processed foods. And arsenic is actually in high levels of it are in rice. You know, it really is. And I do more rice now because I found out how horrible gluten treats me, but I still try to reduce it somewhat. Arsenic is bioaccumulated in the Ross fields. And then your cosmetics and body care products are, they have numerous heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and aluminum, you know, you always hear about that in the deodorants. That you’re putting aluminum right in a soft tissue of your arm. And he’s going right into your body. So we always try to use something different. We use pretty pretty Frank deodorant. We get it our local natural health food store here. You just need to try to avoid as much of the chemical stuff that you’re putting on the outside of your body. It was soaps and all of that kind of stuff because that’s just toxins you’re trying to get rid of. And there’s some people that would tell you that the aluminum has a lot to do with breast cancer. I’m not going to say that’s true, but I’ve read things that had a pretty good case to that effect. Because it’ll be absorbed and not be pushed through the lymphatic system. And I see people cooking with aluminum pans still, and I’m thinking, are they still really around? Because I remember my grandmother used to have aluminum pans. Lord only knows what they got. Got from that. Yeah, the Teflon pans. That’s another one because they’re full of a bunch of chemicals also, and then you look at the pan later and there’s like pieces of the pan miss. And so you’ve not only got some of that. You also, you also ate it. And people are like, well, how’s she supposed to keep things from sticking to your pans without those? Oh, lord, you stainless steel. Or glass. Yeah, and then there’s also foods that can help you detoxify naturally like cilantro. We have a lot of cilantro in Texas. We like it. And it’s really good. And that’s because the Hispanic influence. And Janet mentioned cadmium. Well, we have cadmium batteries, welders, fabricated metal products, those people have about four times the increased incident of prostate cancer compared to the average gap. And that’s because of the cadmium, which also you get if you smoke. Who are these people? What people? People that fabricate metal products and welders. They smelled the inhaled all of that for all that time. Yeah, four times the incident. And that means that welders, people at fabricate, need to tighten more the heavy metals are then borrowed detox, the multi minerals, the glutathione, really is they say the master antioxidant. And folks, it’s prostate. Only one R people say prostrate is like no, no, no. That’s a whole different word. I’m sorry. You’re not supposed to correct people. And the bug exterminator people are full of them also. I know that. Yeah, and they have more but Tennessee toward neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and different types of dementia. And a spraying the inside of our House with those things also. Yeah, which we pretty generally don’t happen except she saw roach this morning. It’s like holy gs, if we do have them spray with chemicals, we take the dog and go along trip and then we have some air cleaners and then we have a holistic, more natural, cleaning products that are made uses. So some of the things that happen because of these excess metals and again, we’re talking about 80 something thousand different toxins, which is not just metals, but that creates what you think is a disease of aging.

00:25:06 – 00:30:00

It’s not really a disease of aging. It’s a disease of accumulation. So I use things like cilantro, garlic, lemon water, drink green tea, all of those things are really good at detoxifying heavy metals and doctor Lisa, I also know we got several things happening here, but we’ve had some people ask about our new programs. We just we just got it put on our website. There are 30 day programs, I guess you can explain what you decided. Do you want the reason you added these in? We’ve got four of them. One for white loss. There’s one for energy. There’s one for hormones. And there’s one for thyroid. And can you explain why you decided that maybe people needed help and added these programs to our to our site? Yeah, because those of you that have used our services and thank God, literally, I have so many people that continually do this. You know, like Richard and Rebecca and California like Alan from Maine, I could go on and on talking about people that do that. But some people say, well, what should I eat? What should I not eat? It’s like, you know, I’m like read a book. A lot of them want to know if we have a dietician. I’m incredibly busy. And I’m glad because there are people that are getting well. So instead of telling you all to read a book, we have created an integrative nutrition concierge team. That’s the technical term. So you don’t have to read a book. That’s it for you. Yeah, yeah. These people that we’ve employed teamed up with, what it is, a functional medicine registered dietitian and a certified nutrition coach and we have ways that you can take pictures of your food and own this app. It saves you time, and it’s not really so much a diet, but it’s a way of eating that will have more than nutrients that will support, for example, weight loss or energy or hormone thyroid, whichever one you choose. We have a few supplements to go with that to get you going because there’s some people say, well, I don’t want to take 8 or ten or 12 different nutritional supplements like the smart ones, the ones that get the best results are the ones that do this program and take even more nutritional supplements. And that way well, it helps you shop for the right foods. It’s cost effective way to eat. Because a lot of the people when we do their labs, they’re trying to eat right. They’re trying to do the right things, and they honestly don’t know which things are not good for their particular issue. Or hormones, and these nutrient plans are based on you getting those particular issues under control. So it’s not really such a diet, but it’s nutrient dense eating. And it makes it easier, the meal plans, the recipes, they’re all quick, easy, and inexpensive. You get weekly calls with the coaches, you get in app messaging any time that you take pictures of your food, they help you figure out well, why did I not feel good that day or maybe you’ve got a big party or something coming up and you’re trying to do the right things, but you don’t know what it is you can eat there to help you and the people that are overseeing this. Right. Yeah, that’s why I would say that people had already doing our programs. There’s couples out there that do our programs together. If you’re having the same issues, you could literally get one program and both of you learn how to eat differently and have recipes and that kind of thing. You don’t do it forever. It’s 30 days. You learn how to change your habits. And then you can go forward with that and do the right kinds of food and things. And it’ll help you get better with the nutrition that we’re doing on this side. Even faster and with each of these programs we have some complementary products that come in the packages that are different for each of the programs. But you can go on green wisdom, health dot com, there’s a tab there that says 30-day programs you can read about it. They’re pretty outstanding. We’re pretty impressed with all the people we’ve employed, and it takes a lot to impress me. I promise you; we’ve had many, many, many people try to team with us, and I’m like, nah, isn’t going to happen. You’re getting a whole lot of value for what it cost.

00:30:00 – 00:33:43

Is that I guess that’s a good way to put it. That’s a better way than I was going to say. I was going to say I’m blown away with what they can add to your life and your health and your energy and your thyroid function, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, and we literally have some patients that are due for lab work again. And we’re telling them, hey, we really think this 30-day program might behoove you to do that. Before you do lab, because you can see tendencies that the people don’t really know what to eat or what to purchase and we don’t want you to keep making the same wrong choices and then having to buy more products all the time, we’d like you to learn how to change that. So that’s what all this is about. And gosh, we’ve come to the end of our show, doctor Lewis. I can’t believe it. So along with not being toxic from heavy metals anymore and getting a new lease on life here with eating. Is there any final words that you’d like to leave for us this week? Well, you know, one thing I’d like to say is that we’re doing our best to get back to doing more podcast. We have people saying I wish you’d put out more podcasts and it’s like, yeah, it’s been a crazy two years and then my dad’s had some health issues, so we were trying to make sure we were there for that, but he’s all good now. Got him a new heart valve and ready to roll. So, we hopefully get back on schedule with some of that. And his sergeants at Baylor Scott and white. And I love the medical profession. I always have, but they said, you know, we don’t understand why this win as quickly and as smoothly. On an 85-year-old man, he’s 85 going on 60. But we know for a fact, it’s because genetic keeps him jacked up on some really good supplements all the time. Folks, yeah, two more things. Number one, I can see things coming months. Sometimes years before they happen, there is, and there’s been plenty of people that stocked up because of the supply chain issues and it turned out to be a really wide choice on your part. Here’s the other thing. We talked briefly about autoimmune diseases. Folks, it’s really, really time to get serious with your health. You need to make an investment in your health for reasons I won’t go into. Now is the time and the opportunity to get started and get a healthier immune system. It’s getting to the point where it may be too late, really quick. So, get started now so that you can make it through any challenges that may be thrown our way. And I want you to understand, even though it’s been a crazy stressful two years or two and a half years, our stress should not be embalmed, it should be cremated, so burn it and let it go. And I like that. We thank you for listening to this week’s show. If you’re new to our podcast, please go to green wisdom health dot com. You can click on the health survey and get started. If you have questions about what you need to do, let doctor list give you a call. We can help you through any of that. It will recommend you a lab panel and we try to make it as easy as possible for you. We 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.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Enviro Detox – 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.

Reduced L-Glutathione – Glutathione is the master antioxidant in the body and is heavily concentrated in tissues such as the liver, spleen and heart. Therefore, it plays a crucial role in immune function, detoxification capacity and protection against oxidative stress. This formulation is preformed, reduced glutathione (GSH) and provides a 250 mg dose in a one-capsule serving.

Multi Minerals Ultra – Provides an ideal balance of highly-absorbed minerals combined with the benefits of betaine HCl to prime digestion and improve the absorption of vitamins and minerals. This formula provides mineral amino acid chelates in optimal ratios to help the body maintain mineral balance and avoid competition between minerals for absorption.

You can also listen to Symptoms of Heavy Metal Toxicity on our Spotify here.

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Brain Fog, Low Energy, Motivation?

Microphone and computer; the thyroid's connection to weight loss
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Have you been struggling to think clearly, or found it difficult to complete the tasks on your to-do list? Low energy and brain fog are issues we see often, and they can have many different causes. Since there are so many potential causes, there are also many potential solutions. In this week’s episode, Brain Fog, Low Energy, Motivation?, we’ll discuss some of the possible causes like food sensitivities, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, thyroid issues, and much more. Dr. Stephen E. Lewis, D.C. and Janet Lewis will also go over some potential solutions to these issues and how to implement some lifestyle changes.

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00:00:01 – 00:05:02

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with doctor Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And today we are going to give you energy and hope you remember it. The name of this show is called brain fog, low energy, motivation. So if you need it or have it, we’re going to we’re going to help you find it. Anyway, so welcome to this week’s show. We’ve had a lot of people telling us they are experiencing brain fog for various reasons, having trouble remembering having trouble staying motivated, very low energy. And doctor Lewis thought it might be a good idea to do a show about things or items that you could take, some things that might be, causing it, what brain fog actually is. If you’re wondering if you have it. So doctor Lewis, welcome. And tell us what’s going on. You know, one of the first things Janet asked when we were ready to come in and do this, do you have your notes? I said, yeah, she said, I’m not saying you’re not, so I said, I can shoot from the hip I’m fine. My wife has such a great faith in me. Thank God. And that’s why I can’t stay on the same rabbit trail. What’s one got to do with the other got to do with all go together, I always tried the musculoskeletal and I found out well, people’s blood pressure got better. My God, their brain fog went away. Oh my God, they got energy. Well, that’s not just muscles and bones and nerves, folks. That’s everything in your body. So what do you want to talk about? Let me go down a rabbit trail that weren’t she didn’t even know. I generally don’t know. I was one of her best choices, however. You just go down whatever trail you’re going. Well, you know, some people talk about, well, my doctor put me on cows at me, it’s like, no, you don’t want calcium all by itself. And excess calcium. And I’m getting to that you need the right proportion of magnesium and vitamin K and there’s plenty of studies that support this that says, if you don’t have enough vitamin K, you can’t shunt the calcium back where it’s supposed to do. So one of the issues with too much calcium is aging all sounds colon, cancer, crowns, which that’s a lot of other things too. Coronary artery disease. I really appreciate the fact that some of my patients have listened to me and gone to their cardiologist and got a coronary calcium scan. Kidney stones, dental plaque, ovarian cysts, hypothyroidism, cataract glaucoma, obesity and diabetes as well. Don’t just take calcium, please ask somebody that’s an expert and I don’t mean doctor Google either. You need to find out what goes with calcium. And well, it’s magnesium, but it’s phosphorus and did you know that bone health has to do with the bone is like 50% protein. Yeah. So you’ve got to get enough K one. And if you can de plaque some of these little bit of arteries in the heart, brain, whatever, then you get better blood flow in better nutrition, plus the ability to drag out the toxins. Which gives you what, more energy and better cognitive function. I have to pause to say, what was I going to say? Cognitive function, thinking of the brain. Janet gave me the look like she knew us baking that one. Oh, so the question is, are you seeing more patients? Is that the reason why you decided to do a show about this that are saying they have brain fog? I know people walking into the office here have talked about how they’re just having trouble concentrating staying focused. Or getting their butt up off the couch because they like motivation. Well, you’ve heard me talk for years about the toxicity in our environment. We really made it bad back with 70 when they started spraying glyphosate. No, I don’t want you to the micro’s around up to see me over that. But there’s plenty of real research that proves I’m right and how do you get past that? Well, you pay off the senators in congressman, I guess, I don’t know. I hate politics. And last two years I’ve hated it even worse. But yeah, we’re seeing more people that are saying, I just don’t have to get up and go, even one of my sweet darling sisters. So I just don’t have the mental capacity at this point to make a good decision. And I said, well, you’re a better Christian. Mate, throw didn’t ask God to bless it, but you got to throw it in faith without works is dead. That means I don’t care how much you pry. If you’re not doing the works, it’s dead.

00:05:03 – 00:10:01

So it takes action and the best thing to do is take massive action in the right direction. But if you’re not going to take massive action, get with somebody that can help you make intelligent decisions and make intelligent action about throwing the right things in. So you can’t get enough of the nutrients out of your food. It does not happen. One of the things I love and Janet can tell you the day I don’t take that one peel. And it’s got a lot of things in it. She’ll get into later, but it has something to call riboflavin. You don’t hear much about that. But riboflavin is one of the B vitamins B two. It has to do with antibody production. What product is that you’re speaking about? Had to be 12 methyl supreme. Oh, okay. All right. You can talk about the big things. I’m talking about the little things now, but the riboflavin, you can not get enough out of your food, even if you’re eating organic. But antibody production, I promise you we’re seeing more and more and more holy cow, autoimmune looking diseases. And since, you know, that includes arthritis, it has to do with cell respiration. What I tell you what to go, where you need the blood flow in to get the nutrients in, but to bring the toxins back out. It helps a fatigue. My eyes are so fatigued and I read this list and I know that’s thyroid. And it can be thyroid, but never diagnose yourself off a list. And I tell you that when we give you a list, it has a lot to do with prevention or cataracts. It helps facilitate the use of oxygen in the tissues and for you women scan nails and hair and eliminates dandruff on a lot of people helps absorption of iron. And B 6. B 6 is one, and I try to always say this simply, but B 6 is the one that helps your neurotransmitters. That’s the happy hormones or they get up and go. The pep in your step. It helps the happy hormones cross from your gut to your brain. So the blood brain barriers, the B 6, but you’ve got to have B two, make it work. That’s why you can’t just pick out one thing. And people say, well, what one supplement can you take? Well, one gallon of gas will get you from here to Montana. Folks, you got to dive in. You can’t dip your toe in the pool. You got to dive in. And I had a lady the other day who’s got super, super, super low iron, I’ve called her and said, you need to go to the hospital right now. And I’m going to call her since I get out here, see how she’s doing, but I said, how is your husband doing this? She says, oh my God, he’s not lazy anymore. All these years, I thought he was lazy. He wasn’t lazy. He didn’t have the energy to produce. We talk about the mitochondria. Those are the little powerhouses that there’s many, many, many of them in every cell. In your body. Now back to B two, it can be the source on the tongue, skin lesions, skin problems, dizziness, hair loss. So maybe bonds aren’t dizzy. Maybe they just need riboflavin. I don’t know. Bad joke. But it goes with poor digestion and slowed mental response. For those that have lost the pep in your step, they get up and go. You’ve lost that love and I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that. If you lost the want to get up and go, I know when Janet gives me the look, but that was a good look. I was trying to do the music that went with that. Maybe, baby. Get down on my knees for you. Keep on going. Where do you want me to go? Well, there’s a lot of things you have to consider, and that’s why I tell you, there’s more and more functional medicine doctors, whether it’s a nature, it’s usually in nitro path or chiropractor. There’s a few MDs and DOs that do it. Find somebody you like and find somebody you trust. You’ve got all sorts of things. To understand the neuroendocrine immune system. And yeah, I can always tie that to musculoskeletal system too. It’s always inflammation. And there was a research article I read from New England Journal of Medicine. And neurology reviews that talked about degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s Lou Gehrig’s Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis or inflammatory diseases. Folks I read a lot of books and not all books are good just because they’re written. Don’t think they’re always good. And I talk a lot of seminars, so about two weeks ago, I was taking a seminar from a lady that holy cow. She was teaching me a whole lot. And I’ve taken a lot of seminars. I was bored to tears because I knew pretty much everything they talked about. This woman was good and she talks about treating people that have MS. Myasthenia gravis, which I’ve got one guy that comes in here. He’s been on our podcast. Yeah, Jimmy.

00:10:02 – 00:15:06

And he’s done real well. And I don’t even treat that, but we throw stuff in, ask God to bless him. It’s amazing how much better people do. So inflammation is a multi splendored thing that could make a song about that too. So some of the symptoms of brain fog, in case you don’t know what they are. I forgot. A brain folk. Low energy or fatigue, including chronic fatigue syndrome. Irritability, trouble concentrating. Headaches. Forgetfulness and trouble remembering information. You’ve lost it, love and feeling. Low motivation, feeling hopeless or mildly depressed. Anxiety is actually a sign of brain fog. Do you know that? Is low libido there? It is not. You need to read something different. Confusion. Yeah, I was confused. Trouble sleeping through the night or insomnia. Yeah, well, that’s me. And a whole lot of other people out there and there’s certain things that you can do to improve that. And it’s kind of a hit and miss thing. That’s not something that always shows on labs. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. And difficulty getting motivated to exercise. So I’ve had that all my life. That’s why we got a dog. So she makes she makes us go outside and walk. In the middle of the night, when she’s barking at him. Brain bog is actually associated with people that have a gluten intolerance, symptoms. Yeah, that’s more people than you think. If you’re overweight, you’ve got good inflammation. And about a 90% chance of it being a gluten issue. Autism spectrum disorders. They have more brain fog. And we’ve seen those get much, much better. They’re handwriting and probably their cognitive function improves because we increase detoxification. And the ability of the body to get the nutrients to the cell to increase the energy coming out of the mitochondria. And other food allergies beside just gluten too can give you brain fog. Blue bell, 8 last night. Fibromyalgia symptoms. And many times that’s a yeast overgrowth, and it’s not that simple. Sometimes it’s like a magnesium, but it’s not that simple. It’s a whole lot of things that go together. And when I’m doing a consultation, period of cinephiles have gone high, same way you probably, and I’m not diagnosing, but you probably have too much ease fungus and virus in the yeast to put out the thymine enzyme that steals your thyme and you don’t get enough of thymine B one, although we were talking about riboflavin B two. And if you don’t get enough B one, you get brain fog and I can not tell you how many people have called me within three days to three weeks or email me and said, holy cow, I can think clearly. I said, well, bring me dark chocolate to say thank you. Because you gave them B one? Yeah, and that’s called benfotiamine. And it’s not going to hurt you if you take a couple of days. And so fat soluble B one. So it absorbs very, very efficiently. If you take it with a little bit of fat, which is fish oil, which you need to be taken no matter what you’re doing, but especially if you have some of these symptoms of stress fatigue, can’t get up and go. Some of the brain fog causes our lack of sleep, our sleep number bed always tells us how to feel the next day. Because we think we’re okay, then we read the number and go, oh. Let’s see how we should feel. Let’s see what the sleep number. That’s it was bad. But then some days you think you did really good and then it said it was bad so you then you have to feel bad again. That’s why I threw away the Fitbit. It lied to me all the time. Poor diet specifically too much sugar, alcohol, caffeine, carbs. Don’t show how you do it when she goes from preaching to getting personal. I’m just, but not the facts here. Cause a little bit of brain fog. And those things also lower your B vitamins that then that’s why I was talking about B one B two and folate and B 12, that’s in the B 12 methyl supreme, which is a holy cow kick, but want a date thing that Janet can tell by 3 o’clock that I did or did not take it. Well, here’s one for doctor Lewis. We’ll see if we can stump him. Yeah, that’s easy. A brain fog cars. Why would this happen? Okay? Having a hormonal imbalance specifically in regard to dopamine. Serotonin and cortisol tell us why that would cause brain fog. Well, she’s already forgotten what I just told you about the neurotransmitters that B 6 can transport from your gut to the brain. So that’s hypo methylation less. Methylation is in regard to the B vitamins and hormonal imbalance. We’ll stress. Stress can be all kinds of things. It can be mental stress, the toxic stress. It can be the out of balance end or consistent stress and that caused by the environmental estrogen mimickers.

00:15:07 – 00:20:00

I’ll tell you another stress I talked to sweet heart of the lady this morning. She says, well, I said, why is your last name changed? She said, well, my husband finally used his pistol. I said, did he hit you? She said, no, he’s just shooting. And I got out and I said, okay, yeah, that’s stressful. But she looked pretty good on lab. And she’s taken a lot of stuff. She said, I’m here. I want to live my best life, and I want to be alive. Until the moment that I die and I said, oh, honey, I love you the way you are because she wants to live. And she has a reason to folks. We have to dig deep sometimes to find out, why do you want to be healthy if you don’t want to be healthy for yourself? Because there’s a lack of self love and a lot of people. Be healthy for your spouse, your kids, your grandkids, the people that are around you, lift them up. Imbalance is super, super, super, it’s all over the place. That’s why there’s low testosterone clinics. And that’s why most women have too much estrogen, which is out of the environment, not enough progesterone, and not enough DHEA to rebuild the body. Well, there’s two things that are not on this list that I will have to say causes bright fog. One of them is having high liver enzymes. Because we’ve seen it on lab. And it’s because their liver is so incredibly toxic that they can’t filter out the toxins. And Janice says I get too technical. So this is going to be really, really technical. There was like a woman if mummy, nobody happy at that liver ain’t happy. And I’ve seen people introduce toxins into their system. Willingly, without thinking about it, and their liver enzymes go to 400, you wonder one hell happened. Folks, they’ve been around something that’s been sprayed. They’ll be in some sort of a chemical or whatever, and or they do that for a living. I tell the story about us getting cropped dusted in Mississippi and Louisiana on two different trips in both states. So I guess we’re going to have to hang out up in Tennessee and Arkansas coming home. I don’t know. But that’ll make you have brain fog. It really did, both those times we did our lab and it’s like, holy cow, it messed up our liver because their liver is trying to detox. And it messed up our thyroids in a big way. So yeah, the hormonal imbalance. Who doesn’t have an intercon imbalance? Because guess what? You’re eating meat that’s full of hormones and antibiotics and the antibiotics kill off. You’re good probiotics. And that’s why I tell people, you got to take probiotics every day. It’s got to be really, really good ones. And more is better. And I take them mostly at night, but it’s really better if you take them two or three times during the day. I mean, at different times, they actually do a lot more good. More is better in most cases. And there are some, even the supplements, even though they’re super duper natural and pure and in the rat form, sometimes you really don’t want to overdo it. I’m a man. I think more is better, but that’s really not true. So get professional advice from your chiropractor, your nitro path, your MD or DO, that practices functional medicine. And I’d also say having a very low immune system will give you brain fog. Also. Big time big time big time. You know, I said earlier that we’re seeing more people that’s having autoimmune type diseases and I always send them to a rheumatologist or a GI specialist. But one of the best things you can do is take some of our stuff like the SBI, which is above vine, derived immunoglobulin, the immunoglobulin G and I like the one. It works so good. Yeah, people that have really bad gut problems like we have a lady that has had part of her colon removed. She takes the powder because it’s real strong. It’s like an intensive formula. We always tell people it’s kind of like putting silly putty back in the holes of the gut. Leaky gut. Right. And then we have another one called SBI spore, so it’s the spore probiotics that I don’t know, doctor will just have to tell you what makes them different than a regular one. They only come to laugh when it’s a good place to party in your intestines. Okay. So they open up in a certain place, I guess. Is that too technical? No, that’s good. I’m trying to I’m trying to go through that. And then it has the SBI to it as well, which as long as I take that, I actually can get away with eating a little bit wrong before it bothers me where it used to be immediate. So you know it’s working, so helping heal leaky gut, which also gives you more energy, which also makes your mind clearer. Yeah, because the head and the gut are connected and I’m not implying you have your head up your rectum. I’m not saying that at all. But here, intricately connected your brain and your gut.

00:20:01 – 00:25:01

Okay, then I think you mentioned a little bit, sorry, honey. I wanted you to tell us about Barbara and alpha a. I know doctor Lewis chose, he loves this product. He puts people on it for different reasons. It helps me with my sugar cravings. Which means I don’t eat as much stuff to feed the yeast, which means it doesn’t steal my thumb and her rabba flavin. What does it do for brain fog? Well, it really one of the major reasons people take it is for cardiovascular health. But that also increases the energy of berberine is a really, really, really good thing. It helps with the healthy LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels compared to the control group, has to do with lower in blood, sugar, and most of us have high blood sugar, and I said, well, I don’t eat any sugar, but you drank dot Dr Pepper’s all day long. Or you do the carbohydrates. Well, it turns to sugar. I don’t know. It’s been used for at least 2500 years in Arabic medicine and Chinese traditional Chinese medicine. It’s in the roots of certain plants like goldenseal and golden thread and Oregon grape things like that. It’s kind of a synergistic one plus one equals three kind of thing, but it helps support healthy heart function, heart rhythm, healthy cholesterol levels, and I just love it, love it, love it, love it. Go see it translates into energy for me, then the alpha lipoic acid. Oh my God. That is one of the strongest antioxidant in the world. And we talk about, well, you’ve got excess oxidation because you have too much iron or your ferritin load is too much. Well, it has to do the apple Boric acid also helps support blood sugar balance to kind of maintain a more healthy level, which believe it or not, helps regulate the energy of the cell. And people I tell you, don’t just take one bottle of something, do it for three months, 6 months, 9 months, because it takes your body physiology time to heal. But it scavenges free radicals and that’s why Janet was talking about the toxic environment. Well, you get free radicals. And if you don’t get those things out, then your body’s overly burdened, trying to, and that’s why she mentioned the liver. Antioxidants. We know about vitamin C vitamin E glutathione, which we take them all. But the alpha lipoic acid is pretty, it’s kind of a king king. King cleaner. It’s a big dog. How about that? Well, I was mentioning the immune system and you mentioned liver again. One of my favorite ones to help detoxify that is a fairly new product. It’s called enviro detox. And the reason for that is because it has the purified zeal light in it. It’s got charcoal activated charcoal, which helps cling to those bad things that I just talked about, those metabolites, you need to get out. It’s got humic and fulvic acids in it. Which helps actually like he said, it’s a binder and they use toxin stick to it. And then they’re able to be pulled out through the colon, and you can dump some of that so that you can feel better. There’s some toxic people on Facebook that says, hey, you don’t need to detox. That’s a fallacy in it’s like, well, if you look at their face, it’s like you need to detox hundred pounds of that stuff, bubba. Like sometimes I’ll do this after which I think shrimp must be one of my not so happy fishes that I eat. For me, I guess the toxins from the bottom feeding fish is not good. I can take this and it’ll pull it right back off because shellfish will make me feel rain fog. So in viral detox is another good one. And then you talked about the methyl CPG, right? I think so. Yes, ma’am. Absolutely incredible. Okay, so I have another question for you. Yes, ma’am. I’m trying to stump you today. So for those of you that don’t know what we do out here, we do low cost lab work so that you don’t guess at what you need. We do it across the United States. Are you able doctor Lewis to see brain fog issues on a lab? Directly know indirectly, yes, you can take a really, really good educated educated decision. You know, if you’re a cinephiles are too high, your base filter too high. If your chloride is too low, we know you’re not digesting if you’re proteins too low.

00:25:01 – 00:30:00

We know you’re not digesting. If your CO2 is too high or too low, and that has to do with mineral balance or lack of such and your alkaline phosphatase, if it’s too low, then you don’t have enough zinc, which has to do. And with a lot of things, zinc is super important in many enzyme systems, but it’s incredibly important in your immune system and your immune system is about 60 to 80% in your GI tract. So see, when I say we’re talking about brain fog, yeah, and I saw a girl the other day. Her nature fails and lipsticks were totally inverted. And they were not in the right ratio and it’s like holy cow, you’ve had this forever. And there’s estimates from different good entities. I try to read the real research, not Internet opinion, but there are entities that say we’re about 95% of us have Epstein Barr virus in us. Well, okay, having a virus innocence is not that big a deal until your immune system gets weakened by too much stress, physical mental, somebody shooting the lights out. Spiritual stress can do it. You can make your own mental stress up, but the toxic stress, the lack of nutrition stress. And then when your immune system goes downhill, these bad bacteria yeast fungus and virus begin to proliferate and it’s not just taking good probiotics that is a good place to start, but you’ve got to take your B vitamins. You’ve got to take your minerals. You’ve got to take the bovine derived immunoglobulins and you’ve got to learn to laugh and have joy. You’ve got to have, you know, not to help people throw it in in prey. It asks God to bless it. And I’m being serious when I say that. But you’re doing the action steps. So prayer without works is dead. You’re doing the works if you’re throwing in the nutrients after looking at the lab. And I tell people, you and I together will make an intelligent educated decision after that, you don’t worry about it, just throw it in and trust. Because there’s a lot of freedom when you learn to trust. Can you see low energy on lab? Again, kind of the same things, CO2, low CO2, blood sugar, being high? Oh, God, that hurts, honey. I’m just asking. Asking for a friend. Yeah, you’re hemoglobin, I want to see. And we test insulin. And there’s people out there who said, I just can’t lose weight and I’m eating good. It’s like, yeah, but you’re insulin too high. Well, the range goes way up into the 19.6 or 20 something. Well, you know, if it goes by on, Beyoncé 7 or 8 on your insulin, then your insulin resistant. And they say you can’t be in some of them. And I read a lot. And I’ve got good retention, but they say it’s because you’re insulin is too high and that creates too much inflammation goes back to that ugly word, inflammation. It’s reared its ugly head again. And oh my God, it turns your cholesterol into big boo boos and wrong rice shows and makes your tracklist rides go ballistic and then it, oh, it sticks it in the liver. And then you get non alcoholic fatty liver disease. And, oh, what we say about liver if liver ain’t working, mama ain’t happy. It ain’t gonna be a happy household and you get your liver working. And if your liver is not working good, you’re not gonna sleep with a flip from one to 3 a.m. that’s shiny traditional medicine and they’re right. They’ve been doing it 5000 years lower and I have, you know what, them rascals know what they’re doing. And we love studying Chinese medicine. Although we don’t want to go back to China right now like we did 20 years ago, but still yeah, you can see a lot of this and this morning, I told this lady, I said, you’re feeling this, this, this, this, this, and Nancy, she had tears rolled down her eyes. She said, how do you know? I said it’s on your lab. So yeah, the cortisol might be an issue also. And you know, if you don’t have good cognitive function, you might have forgotten cortisol. There you go. And a big one, a big, big, big one. Ferritin. Which people go once ferritin got to do with anything. I’ve never really heard a ferritin. What’s love got to do with it? Yeah, well, they know about iron. Ferritin, we’ve had people have really, really low ferritin on their blood work, which means they’re not in a Harley have any iron stored, which will make them bad brain fog, low energy, or they can actually have it really, really high. And they have the same problem. Then it oxidizes and puts massive amount of stress on your brain, your heart, your liver. So I guess the whole point of this is, yes, you can take some products and help feel better. But if that isn’t enough, it sounds to me like lab might be the answer so it would take the guesswork out because it sounds like you’re looking at a lot of things on there, right? I did lab on my dear sweet mother until she passed away. I don’t know, she’s 94, 96, or 95 or 96, I think. And yes, if I loved my mother enough to do it, don’t you think it’s good enough for you? Well, you’d be surprised what came back on there. Besides just thyroid, and thyroid can make you feel that way.

00:30:01 – 00:32:42

Very much can, but there are so many other factors and to hear you put all that together, how the whole body is working together, which I think is more the issue. It’s like it’s all working together. And if you don’t know what it’s doing, then how do you know which things would work best for you, whether you need to build whether you need to cleanse. Everybody thinks they need a cleanse. But if you’re taking our supplements, you’re detoxing every day. Right, and but a lot of people need to build. That’s why they have brain fog, because they have nothing to work with. So I guess the whole moral of the story is, you know, do lab if you have it in a while, I mean, if it’s been over 6 months, a year, it’s probably time to do it again. If you’ve never done it, do it. Because it would be a really good time to figure out what’s going on. And doctor Lewis, I can not believe it. You have been so extremely educational as always. I wonder what she’s going to say after so. I’ve been so what? Could you leave us with some words of wisdom to get us through this next couple of weeks? Yeah, we live in some pretty dark times. And it’s really, really good to have the nutritional wherewithal to feel good, mentally as well as physically. And maybe I’m a Texas boy. You know, sometimes we say it’s close enough for government work. No, you got to get pretty dead gun close with this. You’ve got to make an educated decision. And then I say, can’t dance, never good singing. It’s too wet to plow. So if you understand that, you too can be a country boy. There’s one thing I’d like to tell you about people that are stressed and there’s a lot of that going on and that’s why Janet and I work harder to be healthy so that we can be uplifting to you. Your hearts and disappointments should be cremated. Not embalmed. Let’s get rid of them. Let’s be healthy, have a life worth living. So go to our website, green wisdom health dot com, click on the health survey tab, get started today. 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 you’re hoping 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.

Omega Eye and Joint – This mixed fatty acid supplement supplies important fatty acids that are often difficult to obtain from the diet. Omega Eye and Joint was formulated to favor omega-3 fatty acids over omega-6 fatty acids to help maintain a healthy fatty acid ratio when added to typical diets that tend to be too low in omega-3.† Omega-3 fatty acids are present as alpha-linolenic acid, an essential dietary fatty acid, as well as EPA and DHA, activated forms of omega-3 known for their ability to support a variety of physiological processes, including regulation of inflammation and lipoprotein metabolism, and brain and immune function.†

Berberine Alpha-A – Berberine Alpha-A provides multidimensional support for cardiovascular health by maintaining healthy cholesterol levels and supporting blood sugar balance already within normal levels. Clinical research shows that maintaining optimal cardiovascular health should address multiple metabolic factors. Berberine Alpha-A, a formula backed by extensive clinical research, is designed to address several factors associated with ideal cardiometabolic health. The powerful combination of berberine and alpha lipoic acid (ALA) helps maintain heart function, metabolism, antioxidant status, and lipid and glucose levels.

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Buyer’s Guide to Good Supplements – Part Deux

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In this week’s episode, Buyer’s Guide to Good Supplements – Part Deux, we brought back our special guest, Casey, who was on Part 1. We’ll be discussing more differences between types of vitamins and minerals, and why certain forms are better than others. We’ll also go over some of the differences in the types of probiotics, why we changed our probiotics, and the importance of phytonutrients like turmeric, and answer some other common questions.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Probio 100 – Probio 100 is a high-dose probiotic delivering 100 billion active cultures for cases of gastrointestinal and immune distress. Going beyond the threshold of traditional probiotic support, high-dose probiotics influence gut health and immunity in ways lower-dose probiotics cannot. Shown to activate over 1,700 genes involved in immune and inflammatory signaling, high-dose probiotics improve immune function, maintain a healthy gut-immune barrier, and maintain normal inflammatory balance. Each Probio 100 capsule provides six proven probiotic strains chosen for their ability to survive the harsh GI environment to deliver superior results.

Probio 20 – Probio 20 includes a carefully assembled cast of probiotic organisms to support microflora balance and maintain a healthy environment for vitamin uptake and optimal immune function. Probio 20 is a unique probiotic formula designed to deliver active organisms shown to promote healthy gut microflora, protect intestinal integrity and boost immune function. Included in this formula is Saccharomyces boulardii, an extensively researched microorganism shown to help restore microflora balance by enhancing commensal organism function. Each capsule provides seven proven probiotic strains chosen for their ability to withstand the harsh gastrointestinal (GI) environment and adhere to the intestinal tract to deliver superior results.

Turmeric Complex – Turmeric Complex is a unique combination of phytonutrients designed to enhance antioxidant potential and maintain normal inflammatory balance. Nuclear factor-erythroid-2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a transcription factor that regulates the antioxidant response of the body. It is the primary cellular defense against the cytotoxic effects of oxidative stress. Turmeric Complex is a unique combination of phytonutrients designed to enhance antioxidant potential by stimulating Nrf2, a dynamic pathway known to increase the production of the body’s most important cellular antioxidants. This unique combination of truebroc™, turmeric, andrographis, and resveratrol provides potent free radical scavenging potential, maintaining normal inflammatory balance, and induction of intracellular antioxidant production.

You can also listen to Buyer’s Guide to Good Supplements – Part 2 on our YouTube channel here.

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Don’t Worry Be Happy

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The last few months we’ve received many questions about how to reduce stress and anxiety, worry less, and be happier in spite of all the negativity on the news. There are a few simple changes you can make like watching less tv, practicing being grateful for what you have, stress-reducing activities like meditation and exercise, and even eating a healthier diet to help reduce stress and anxiety. In this week’s show Don’t Worry Be Happy, we’ll go into more detail about how you can reduce stress through some lifestyle changes, as well as some supplements that may help you handle stress better.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

5-HTP – 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) is an amino acid that plays an important role in the production of serotonin, a neurotransmitter known to be associated with the feeling of well-being. In addition to supporting a healthy mental outlook and mood, studies have also shown serotonin to encourage deeper sleep and to support healthy appetite regulation. Unlike oral serotonin, 5-HTP is able to effectively cross the blood-brain barrier and increase synthesis of serotonin in the central nervous system.

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.

You can also listen to Don’t Worry Be Happy on our YouTube channel here.

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Bouncing Back from Stress and Fatigue

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With all of the things happening around the world each day, many people have noticed their stress levels have increased greatly, and we’ve heard many people complain about persistent fatigue. We get lots of questions about how to naturally decrease stress levels and increase energy levels. In this week’s show we’ll discuss how you can bounce back from stress and fatigue using natural supplements and some simple lifestyle changes.

Products Mentioned in This Week’s Show

Melatonin – This melatonin is provided in convenient, peppermint-flavored lozenges. When dissolved in the mouth, melatonin may go directly to the brain and bypass the liver causing it to work quickly and effectively.*

Immuno Complete – Balanced blend of flavonoids and crucial vitamins and minerals that provide safe, long-term immune support for all populations without overstimulating the immune system.

You can also listen to Bouncing Back from Stress and Fatigue on our YouTube channel here.

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Getting a Grip on Fear and Anxiety

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Reports of persistent fear and anxiety in people have increased significantly over the last year. With so much uncertainty in the world, it can be easy to get wrapped up in negative thoughts and allow fear to take over. In this week’s episode we will discuss how to get a grip on fear and anxiety with a special guest, Pastor Rusty Brady, and we will go over some supplements that may help you deal with stress and anxiety better. We will also give you some information on one of our new products, Immuno Complete, that contains quercetin, vitamin D, vitamin C, n-acetyl cysteine, and zinc all in one formula. You can also find the link to Pastor Brady’s church below.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

L-Theanine – L-theanine, a unique amino acid compound found in green tea, is noted for its calming benefits.† Studies show it can stimulate alpha brain wave activity and promote relaxation without drowsiness.†

Pantothenic Acid Complex – This formula contains Cordyceps, Rhodiola Extract, Eleuthero Extract, and Pantothenic Acid to help support adrenal function.

Immuno Complete – A balanced blend of flavonoids and crucial vitamins and minerals that provide safe, long-term immune support for all populations without overstimulating the immune system.

You can also listen to Getting a Grip on Fear and Anxiety on our YouTube channel here.

You can visit Pastor Brady’s website here.

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Is Your Service Engine Light On?

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The human body often gives signs that something is wrong long before most people realize the problem. People often ignore these signs as just a part of life, or have had them so long they think it’s normal to feel the way they do. However, suffering from constipation, diarrhea, fatigue, anxiety, depression, chronic bad breath, joint pain, insomnia, and many other common issues is not normal. These things can be your body’s way of telling you that something is wrong. The problem could be a stealth infection, heavy metal toxicity, an illness related to mold exposure, an unknown food sensitivity, or a number of other things. In this week’s episode we’ll discuss if your service engine light is on and what signs you might be ignoring, and some things you can do to help support your body to be the healthiest it can be.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Turmeric Complex – The herbal extracts in Turmeric Complex contain multiple, beneficial compounds with documented ability to help modulate COX enzymes, scavenge free radicals, and promote physiological balance in susceptible tissues in a safe and harmonious fashion.† Meriva®brand turmeric, a key ingredient in Turmeric Complex, combines turmeric extract with phosphatidylcholine forming a bioavailable turmeric phytosome complex that is significantly better absorbed than regular turmeric extracts.

Stress Adapt – Contains a nootropic and a blend of adaptogenic botanicals and nutrients specifically formulated to counteract the effects of daily stress, improve mental performance, and support healthy energy levels.

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.†

You can also listen to Is Your Service Engine Light On? on our YouTube channel here.

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Hanging on to Anxiety and Stress

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With all the change and turmoil that has happened in the last couple of years, many more people are experiencing anxiety and stress. While these can issues can be more complicated depending on what is causing them, it may help to increase our body’s ability to handle stress. For example, getting enough sleep each night and keeping cortisol levels at a healthy level are great ways to help reduce stress. In this week’s episode we’ll give you some tips on how to stop hanging on to anxiety and stress using supplements that may help you sleep and handle stress better, as well as some lifestyle changes you may want to try.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Adren-Up – Contains a blend of adaptogenic botanicals and adrenal concentrate specifically formulated to support the body’s resistance to fatigue, improves attention and immune function and aids in maintaining balanced cortisol and DHEA levels.

Adrena-Boost – Contains a nootropic and a blend of adaptogenic botanicals and nutrients specifically formulated to counteract the effects of daily stress, improve mental performance, and support healthy energy levels.

Melatonin-SR – This sustained-release formulation delivers melatonin slowly over several hours to maintain blood levels for a longer period of time.

You can also listen to Hanging on to Anxiety and Stress on our YouTube channel here.

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Symptoms and Solutions for Detoxing

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We frequently receive questions about detoxing like what symptoms mean you need to detox, how to detox, how long to detox, how to know if it’s working, etc. In this week’s show, we’ll discuss symptoms and solutions for detoxing, including what supplements and diet changes are beneficial during a detox, some of the different detoxification pathways, and how different detoxes can target different organs.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Vital Detox – This advanced blend of green plant concentrates and enzymes helps protect the body against chemicals ingested in the daily diet and through everyday environmental exposure. 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.†

Kidney Essentials – Champex®, a patented extract from Agaricus bisporus, the common white button mushroom, has been shown to help the body maintain a healthy ratio of creatinine in the blood versus the urine. Red ginseng, a specially processed form of Panax ginseng, also supports healthy kidney function and displays kidney-protective, anti-inflammatory and antioxidative properties. Astragalus provides support for healthy fasting glucose levels, along with healthy albumin levels in the urine.

Reduced L-Glutathione – Glutathione is the master antioxidant in the body and is heavily concentrated in tissues such as the liver, spleen and heart. Therefore, it plays a crucial role in immune function, detoxification capacity and protection against oxidative stress. This formulation is preformed, reduced glutathione (GSH) and provides a 250 mg dose in a one-capsule serving.

You can also listen to Symptoms and Solutions for Detoxing on our YouTube channel here.