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The Obesity Crisis

Janet Lewis:                  Hello, and welcome to this week’s show. I’m Janet Lewis.

Dr. Lewis:                     And I’m Dr. Lewis.

Janet Lewis:                  And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of you low cost lab work, where you don’t have to guess at what’s going on with your health. We actually test by using lab work to assess where you are with your nutritional values. Speaking of nutritional values, we have a very exciting show today about obesity, because it is prevalent in our society. Today’s show is called The Obesity Crisis, because it literally is a crisis here in America. For those of you listening in other countries, I know it’s not that big of a crisis for you there, because you guys get better food. So Dr. Lewis is going to talk to us today a little bit about why so many of our children are now overweight, when that used to be a very rare thing, and why America itself is so much overweight. With that being said, Dr. Lewis, I’m hoping you’re going to educate us and help us all get skinny.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, I don’t know about that. I promise you today I’m going to go down a lot of rabbit trails. I appreciate your phone calls and emails and the people that drop by locally. We just got an email from a lady named Lisa that said, “I enjoy the information that you and Janet give on these podcasts, and because of that, my son has da da da.” Thank you for listening, for folks out there, thank you for sharing.

Dr. Lewis:                     The best thing sometimes you can do for yourself to get healthy is to help others get healthy. It’s more of a matter of mind and spirit and how you focus that. Yes, you have to do some things physically, too, and I’ve been on a lot of podcasts lately. Going on another one in about 30 minutes. This will be down the rabbit trail I promise you, but what started this was this week we had this thing, you know, it scrolls across Good Morning, America, which Jan and I have trouble listening to, because they’re always very negative. But it scrolled about before long cancer is going to be the second leading killer, behind obesity.

Janet Lewis:                  Wow, really? That’s scary.

Dr. Lewis:                     But there’s a big link between the two. We get people that come in here and say, “Well, if I can just lose weight, everything else will take care of itself.” I said, “Well, if you take care of everything else and get healthy, you’ll lose weight.” The problem is, we’ve become a society where we want it instantly, and we’re not willing to suffer. It’s like, “I’m hungry.” It’s like, “So what? Have you never been hungry?” It’s about courage. Sometimes you just have to have the courage. Like the old thing that says nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. It’s like, well, sugar is my issue, too. I relate it to Mother’s love, when I got off the school bus a million years ago.

Dr. Lewis:                     Cancer is probably the scariest diagnosis you can get, but obesity is like, “Well, we’re not going to do any body shaming. This is healthy, and I’m happy.” It’s like, “Well, I’m glad you’re happy. Yeah, you can get along and do good, but if you’re over weight, you’re not healthy. You’re lying to yourself.”

Janet Lewis:                  Well, I think a lot of it is so many people are overweight that when someone sees someone else that is, they just assume that that’s normal, because so many people are overweight. Where we used to look at it differently. It was like, “Oh, wow. What’s going on with them? Because they’ve gained a lot of weight.” Now it’s just common place to see everybody being large.

Dr. Lewis:                     So our perception has changed. Sometimes we mix up what’s common versus what’s normal. We say, “Well, that’s common, therefore it’s normal.” No, it’s not really.

Dr. Lewis:                     So I’m going to go down a lot of rabbit trails. My apologies to Amanda and to Jonathan. I’m going to do it anyway. I hear this all the time. People say, “But I eat good.” Of course, I’m a Lewis, so I roll my eyes and say, “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” If eating good is getting you this way, you need to start eating Snickers and ice cream. I’m never that impolite, but I gain weight over stress and how I eat incorrectly. Janet, not so much. But people say, “I’m doing everything right.” Some of the people really are. They get at the end of the rope, and they need to lose 40 pounds, but then they come in … Since they’re at the end of the rope, they don’t have the patience to kind of hang in there a lot of times.

Dr. Lewis:                     Sometimes people make food choices, and they’re not really as good as you think they are. Sometimes it makes you bloated and tired. Well, that’s a big indicator you need digestive enzymes. Sometimes people use a butter substitute, and they don’t realize that is super inflammatory oils that you don’t need. They do grains. You want to lose weight? Quit eating grains. You’re supposed to keep your sugars or the high glycemic vegetables down to where you’re only getting about 25 grams. Or you get it under 50 grams a day of simple carbohydrates and sugars, you’ll most likely lose weight.

Dr. Lewis:                     What people do, they say, “Well, I like the salad dressing. I’m eating a healthy salad.” But the little packages of salad dressing, they taste good, so let’s go for two or three. What happens is, it’s full of inflammatory oils, even though you think it’s healthy. Then wash it down with a diet soda. Well, you’ve heard me say aspartame not only contributes to obesity but dementia and all kinds of other things as well. We’ve known that since the 1970s. Why that stuff is on the market, I don’t know. Go talk to your congress about it. These people that are trying to eat healthy, and I applaud the effort, but you still get hungry. Sometimes I can eat a meal, and it’s like I’m hungry later. I find out, well, maybe that meal wasn’t that healthy, and, oh, probiotics. Which I hope I have time to get into.

Dr. Lewis:                     Sometimes people are eating too much and too many calories, but they’re still malnourished. You have to make sure they’re nutrient dense, not calorie dense, but nutrient dense. If you’re lacking in minerals and vitamins and enzymes, you kind of stay a little bit hungrier than you should. One of the things I tell people is you have a life force, you have a spirit, but you’ve got to encourage it and not succumb to discouragement. That’s the big kicker. I’m subject to that, too. Janet’s been a really good help for me.

Dr. Lewis:                     But these diets, they’re pro-inflammatory. Breakfast, sometimes it’s a roll. Well there you go. You’ve got your grains. If you’re eating grains, that’s terrible. If it’s a butter substitute. When I eat butter, I eat real butter. And I mean I eat the holy heck out of it, because the fake butter is 60-something percent inflammatory omega-6 oils. I refuse to eat that stuff. Maybe on the sandwich the meat might be okay, if it’s not full of the nitrates and nitrites. Stay away from grains. I said that, I know.

Dr. Lewis:                     For example, I’ve got this friend. Wonderful, wonderful guy. He goes out and he blesses people right and left. He has a happy, happy life. He said, “But I’m overweight.” I said, “You eat bad stuff.” I said, “Well, you need to quit eating grains.” He says, “Nope. United States Department of Agriculture says do 6 to 11 servings of grains a day.” I said, “When you had an FFA calf, what did you feed it to get it fat?” He said, “Grain. Oh my god, you caught me.” I said, “You’re about to have some sort of heart incident. You need to change your diet, see a cardiologist.”

Dr. Lewis:                     About three weeks later, his girlfriend called me and says, “Dr. Lewis, he’s in the hospital. He had an incident.” Most of us men don’t have heart attacks. We have incidents with our heart. That’s another way we lie to ourselves. She says, “Please don’t tell him I told you so.” I said, “Honey, you know I’m going to tell him I told you so.” He finally did lose, I don’t know, 7500 pounds, but he had to go through his incident before it scared the holy heck of him for him to give up drinking that 18-pack of beer a day and eating all those grains. Yes, beer is made from grain. It’s not really a healthy thing, either. Man, I’m getting personal.

Janet Lewis:                  So is cereal.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s the other thing that people think they can eat every morning, is cereal. I don’t know how many people go, “Really, is that a grain?” Okay, yes.

Dr. Lewis:                     They think corn is a vegetable. No, corn is a grain. I like corn. I do better with corn than I do with wheat. Wheat is one of the nastiest things you can put in your body, for a lot of different reasons. We’re here in east Texas, it’s a heavy Hispanic influence so it’s a give me some chips and salsa. Yeah, it hurts. You can get by with stuff like quinoa and brown rice, and that has some issues. How many people really and truly eat broccoli, spinach, kale, asparagus, and string beans?

Janet Lewis:                  I do! I have it in my smoothie mix that we have here, with all of our greens.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, the Deeper Greens.

Janet Lewis:                  Mm-hmm (affirmative)-

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, that stuff tastes good, too.

Janet Lewis:                  Because if you can’t eat it. Many places don’t serve good vegetables. If you go … I hate to name it. We have a cafeteria here in town that we ate at today, and I looked at their food. They had something called a spinach soufflé, and it was a big square about the size of-

Dr. Lewis:                     She’s saying we. It was me that did it.

Janet Lewis:                  It was about the size of a iPhone, and I thought, “What is in that?” Dr. Lewis ordered it because it looked large and healthy, I guess.

Dr. Lewis:                     It was different. Like a big, big iPhone or two of them.

Janet Lewis:                  I ask them, I said, “What is in a spinach soufflé?” He said, “I think it’s a bunch of cheese.” Which, cheese is good for something.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then I cut into it, and it was like a piece of Wonder bread in the middle of it.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah, I’m like … These vegetables you’re serving here are just not healthy. So that’s why I drink mine.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and we eat good vegetables when we can. I mean, who knows how much of this stuff I’m going to get around to, but butter, yes. Eat butter. Eat butter. Eat all kinds of butter. Make sure it’s good butter. It’s better if it’s grass fed. Organic is much, much better. We eat Kerry Gold. It’s not organic, but that’s about as good as you can get I think, without going organic. Some of the oils that are poison and/or inflammatory is canola, corn oil, vegetable oil. Kind of the jury is out on peanut oil. It’s probably not good. Soy bean oil, oh my god. Stay away from that. Margarine is terrible, terrible. Olive oil would be great, except it’s about 70% of them they say is adulterated, mixed with vegetable oil or canola. So I don’t know what the really good olive oils are. Stay away from canola. That’s terrible.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, let me ramble. Where do you want me to go now? Oh. One of the best things you can do to lose weight, restrict your calories. I had an article up on my wall about 20 years ago that said rats that were left to eat as much as they want lived half the lifespan as rats that had their food restricted to half of the normal calories, and the rats that restricted their diet continued into old age having a really vigorous sex life. Where the ones that ate everything they wanted, they got impotent. Yes, they talk about rats and impotence.

Janet Lewis:                  Wow.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. You should see the look on Janet’s face. Don’t get me started.

Janet Lewis:                  I never know what he’s going to come out with. I don’t know what he reads. He reads all the time.

Dr. Lewis:                     And I got a memory that once in a while works.

Janet Lewis:                  I can tell you, though, from experience, about eating. People say, “Well, I’m just really hungry.” What I’ve noticed, and Dr. Lewis explained this, and I think it’d be great for you to explain it to the audience-

Dr. Lewis:                     I don’t know where she’s going. I hope to god I can bring that up in my memory.

Janet Lewis:                  I hope he does, too. We were eating the other day, and we were eating a healthy taco, as healthy as a taco can be.

Dr. Lewis:                     Minus the corn tortilla, but everything else was great.

Janet Lewis:                  I ordered one taco, and after I got it, I was really disappointed because it was really tiny, because it was a healthier taco. I thought, “Well, okay, I’m going to eat this and then I’m going to go back up and get one more taco, because I just know I’m not going to be full from this.” So I had the taco, and then Dr. Lewis and I started talking. Maybe 10 or 12 minutes went by, or something like that. I thought, “I’m not hungry anymore. I don’t need a second taco.” I told him. I said, “Why is that? I sat here for a little while, and now I’m full.” So would you explain what happens? This is free advice. You don’t have to buy anything. This is something that you can learn to do.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m glad I remembered what she thought I was talking about. Physiologically, it takes about 15 or 20 minutes for all of that to digest to the point that it sends signals to the brain that makes you feel satisfied. That’s why they, you know they is a big word that means nothing, but they tell you to chew very thoroughly, chew many times, eat slowly. Have a conversation with whoever you’re dining with. Slow down. Eat slowly. That way you eat half as much. That’s one of the reasons that I eat a lot less, is because it takes me a long time to swallow pills for some physical and some psychological reasons I guess. By the time I get through swallowing my digestive enzymes in the middle of my meal, I eat a whole lot less just because I’ve spent all that time swishing and swashing and making it go down.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, you know, I’ve tried the thing where you chew so many times. That’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of work, where you can’t hold a conversation with someone and then sit and count how many times you’re chewing this food.

Dr. Lewis:                     But then you get better digestion because digestion starts in the mouth. Most people don’t leave it there long enough for their saliva to begin the digestive processes.

Janet Lewis:                  So maybe if you’re eating by yourself and having lunch, eat some food, read a good book, or read something on your phone. God knows we’re always on our phones. Take some time and read a little something on your phone, and then come back and decide, “Hey, am I really still hungry?” I bet you won’t be. It was really interesting, how much food you really don’t need if you just give it a little time to digest.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, and when you restrict the calories, it doesn’t just work with mice and rats. You know, that works with all sorts of organisms. Even ameba live twice as long if they restrict the calories. The problem is, and I’ve said this before, it’s not a sin to die. It’s a sin to not live while you’re here. It’s I think worse to die young, because it takes so blooming long to learn how to live. You’ve gotta make those stupid mistakes so you can be wise in your older age.

Dr. Lewis:                     Health is in your hands. It’s about responsibility, and it’s about … Responsibility, at least in my definition, means the ability to respond. I said the other day on a podcast, I’ve been a guest on a lot of podcasts lately, but-

Janet Lewis:                  I keep him talking.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh, lord. I’m tired. I need a drink. The guy says, “Well, aren’t you what you eat?” I said no. He was flabbergasted. He was speechless. I said, “It’s not what you eat. It’s what you absorb.” I said, “It’s not what you know. It’s what you do.” Knowing what to do is not the issue. Doing what you know is the issue.” Yes, it takes a little work, and it takes a little courage. You have to kind of put off the pleasure, but the rewards are so much greater further down the road. You have to think about things at the functional age. Your life expectancy is like, there’s so much. If you’re susceptible to disease, the researchers say that you can actually influence your genetic expression. So if you have bad genes, you can influence it by around 90% by changing your environment and changing your diet. Which means get the toxins out, because you’re going to get them in your diet.

Dr. Lewis:                     The keto thing, I’m sorry Janet, I’m going to jump off the rail here for a minute. I had a patient that asked me to explain why they’re having issues with keto. I said, “Well, okay.” The main thing about keto, and I more commonly … I like keto even better than paleo, but I’m more for the high fat, moderate protein, and then copious amounts of vegetables. These percentages will vary. Some people in keto say 70% fat. I’m more like 50% fat, 30% really, really good vegetables, and 20% clean grass-fed or organic or pasteurized meat. People say, “Oh my god, no. Fat makes you fat.” Then I ask them, “Well, 53% fat in your diet is bad?” They say, “It’s a horrible thing. Of course. It’s terrible.” I said, “That’s your mother’s breast milk. So get over the fat thing. Fat is not bad for you if it’s the right fat.”

Dr. Lewis:                     To the two or three people that wanted me to go over the mistakes of keto. Some people think it’s just a quick fix, and you have to kind of make it more of a lifestyle. Which I’ll get into that, another question, in a minute. You obsess over the scale. Most people don’t have the patience. Janet got a text while we were eating that healthy taco about, “I’ve done this for two weeks, and I’m not young, rich, and good-looking. I haven’t got my results.” It’s like, good lord, it’s been going on 15 years and you’re mad because in two weeks your physiology is not changed?

Janet Lewis:                  I think a lot of people are at the end of their rope whenever they come to see us, to start with. The time element is really different for them, because they’ve been-

Dr. Lewis:                     Their patience is less.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah, because they’ve been experiencing it for so long.

Dr. Lewis:                     And I’ve been that way. We all have. I’m just telling you what to do. A keto mistake is eating too much protein. When you eat more fat and you start burning fat for fuel, burning a gram of fat is nine calories, versus burning sugar is I think two or something like that. So your body actually burns more energy, uses more calories to burn fat. Then your brain starts working better. Being afraid of fats, which we talked about. The wrong fats we talked about. Not drinking enough water. My wife reminded me of that this morning. Thank you, honey.

Janet Lewis:                  Sure.

Dr. Lewis:                     Not enough sleep. That’s a tough one. I’ve had some people that say, “Well, I can’t sleep very well.” I say, “Well, try this product.” Some people say it worked real well. Other people say it didn’t work. The ones that say it didn’t work, let’s try something different, are the ones we get good results with. We’ve got some new stuff that is like oh my god. It’s called Kavinace Ultra PM which creates serotonin. We’ll get all into that some day, with the neurotransmitters in the brain.

Dr. Lewis:                     You gotta mix your meals up. I see keto people that they’re on a kick of this is the only meal I eat. Well, you need a little variety. That’s kind of I think physiologically programmed in us, to have differences. Not different spouses, but different meals. Don’t compare yourself to other people. Does that make sense?

Janet Lewis:                  It does. One other thing you might want to mention is people that think that they’re just not able to choose their food because their food, they look at something and the food chooses them.

Dr. Lewis:                     Shiner and Blue Bell and Snickers.

Janet Lewis:                  It’s amazing how much of that comes out of your gut in the wrong probiotics and bacteria. I can tell you, many years ago when the moon would be full, it was like bring on the Mexican food, bring on anything that has sugar.

Dr. Lewis:                     We don’t mean to be racist. We love our Hispanic brothers and sisters.

Janet Lewis:                  Love Mexican food, but you also know when you’re doing too much of it, but you’re craving it and you can’t stop.

Dr. Lewis:                     But it’s high in carbs.

Janet Lewis:                  Right, because it’s a problem in the gut.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s usually yeast making more cravings. That’s a good point. Janet just ordered me a book about the importance of the microbiome and how it influences us. I’ve got a lot of notes here on probiotics. I don’t know if I’ll get around to it.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, that’s what people don’t know. It’s not their fault that they’re craving those kind of things.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh no.

Janet Lewis:                  If you stick with something long enough and actually change the gut bacteria, you’ll actually start making healthier choices. When the full moon rolled around this time, I wanted vinegary things. So I know something is better, because I’m not wanting yeasty things. That just takes a long time to make those choices.

Dr. Lewis:                     Folks, I want you to know that took so much restraint not to say anything. Okay, let’s-

Janet Lewis:                  His eyes rolled. Go ahead. Just throwing my two cents in. Go ahead with your story.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know, I’ve told some people, and they wanted me to explain the difference between dieting versus being healthy. It goes back to the mental focus. I can tell who’s going to get well by whether they’re focusing on what can be or the ones that won’t get as good of results because they’re focusing on what they have, the ones that have, oh, I was diagnosed 47 years ago. It’s like if you’re still hanging onto your diagnosis, you’re never going to get well.

Dr. Lewis:                     To be healthy, you have to have the mentality that focuses on food for fuel, not food as the enemy. There’s a difference in what you think versus outcomes you get. You have to focus on your good habits, rather than your bad habits. You have to think, “Oh, I’m going to do this forever.” Where if you’re just on a diet, “Oh, I’m going to do this temporarily.” You have to focus and speak things that you want for yourself, versus things you don’t like for yourself. If I do this, I can be a blessing to my family. Versus, oh, well I’m selfish, I want the extra piece of pie that’s in the fridge. Daily choices is you just make a one choice, versus people that says, “Well, I’m going to get on the scale, and if it didn’t change I’m going to give up.”

Dr. Lewis:                     You have to think in being healthy it’s a lifelong journey that pays dividends, versus the people that go on a diet and it’s like, “When can I cross the finish line?” Then they go right back into exactly the problem they had before. Did you know 95%, 95% of people that go on a diet lose weight, end up gaining it back plus some? Which I talked in detail about that on another podcast. So don’t go on a diet. Choose a lifestyle.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, and honestly there are people out there that are eating correctly. They’re doing all the things that you’re talking about and I’m talking about. They really do have something else wrong on their lab.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yes.

Janet Lewis:                  We’ve had several come in here just this week, and they were a little bit overweight. They were wondering, “Well, why do I have all this anxiety? Why am I not losing weight?” Run the lab. We ran several people’s labs. I’m just talking about several in the last week that I’m thinking of, that were trying to lose weight. They came back with thyroids that were not optimal, which means, yeah, your doctor told you is was in range, but it’s not optimal. I had one girl ask me yesterday. She said, “Well, why do they tell you it’s okay?” I said, “Because the range is so large that anywhere in there, if it falls in there, they tell you it’s normal.” Well, that doesn’t make it optimal.

Dr. Lewis:                     They’re confusing what’s common with what’s normal now.

Janet Lewis:                  Correct. Seriously, there are times on the lab that it is really not your fault. You’re doing everything. You’re exercising, you’re doing everything. You’re eating right. We see people with perfect A1Cs, which is a three month blood sugar. They think, “There’s something wrong with my diet.” There’s nothing wrong with their diet. It’s because their thyroid wasn’t right.

Dr. Lewis:                     Or their digestion is terrible.

Janet Lewis:                  Right, or some of them have underlying viruses going on, that their body is trying to fight off, so they’re gaining weight. Some of them are anemic and don’t know they are, so they have high anxiety and then they can’t lose weight because they have no energy at all. Simply fixing their iron, which did not show up on the regular panel because no one ran a ferritin, which is the stored iron. If you’re in that category and you’re thinking, “Hey, I’m doing all these things, and I still have a problem.” You’re not alone. Do the lab.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s why we do it at low cost. We run 12 lab panels right now. It’s available on our website. I put it in the show notes. It’s called the comprehensive panel. It includes Dr. Lewis’s consultation to go over everything going on with you. We include what to take to fix it, and we also give you a functional medicine report so you can see it in black and white with red and green checks on good and bad, about what’s going on with your health. So there’s no reason not to know. If you’re thinking, “Hey, well y’all are in Texas. We can’t do that.” Yes, you can. We do it across the United States. There’s generally a lab that is close to you. We use Quest. All you have to do is go on our website, to GreenWisdomHealth.com, fill out the health survey. Dr. Lewis generally calls you and talks to you about what’s best for you.

Dr. Lewis:                     Because Janet’s working her butt off, and she has less time than I do.

Janet Lewis:                  He’s just so much more knowledgeable.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh, you’re full of it.

Janet Lewis:                  And he can help figure out which way to guide you or which lab panel is best for you. Then we can figure out, well, why are you not losing weight? So when you put a combination of the right products in, and you keep doing the good things that you’re doing, you start seeing the results that you’re looking for. To see someone’s face whenever that happens is the best feeling for us, because we’ve had another couple of them that’s come in this week that have said, “I’m finally losing weight. I’m not even really having to try. I’m just doing what I normally do, and it’s beginning to really come off.” So you know, there’s two sides to this. There’s people that need to change what they’re eating, and there’s people that are really trying to do the right thing and can’t get over the finish line. So that’s the lab.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s true. So folks, if you have to look at the ingredients, you’re eating the wrong stuff. I’m going to read just a few ingredients here. This is out of a list of 37. Enriched bleach white flour, corn syrup, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated vegetable and/or animal shortening, soy bean, cotton seed, and/or canola oil, beef fat, dextrose, leavenings, glucose, corn starch. Let’s see. Monocalcium phosphate, soy protein isolate. That’ll give you man boobs. Polysorbate 60, soy lecithin, soy flour, cornstarch, cellulose gum, sodium sterol, natural and artificial flavorings, sorbic acid, yellow 5 and red 40, which are known to cause cancer.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s just a partial list. If you have to read something like that, you need to, oh my god, stay away from it. Because that’s a partial list of Twinkies. Never go bad on the shelf, and once on your lips, forever on your hips. So stay the heck away from it.

Janet Lewis:                  If you’re craving that kind of stuff, we have something called five HTP, which is-

Dr. Lewis:                     This is a specially absorbable type, here.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. You’ve probably seen it over the counter, but it’s not this five HTP. This is a pharmaceutical grade which we call the peace of God in a bottle. It really does help cravings. It helps you not want the bad stuff.

Dr. Lewis:                     Many men get it stirred in their coffee, and they do not know it. Honey, are you doing it to me?

Janet Lewis:                  No. And it really helps with OCD.

Dr. Lewis:                     Her eyes said yes.

Janet Lewis:                  No. I personally take up to three of these per day, and it really does help the cravings. It mentally helps you make better choices.

Dr. Lewis:                     Help her put up with me.

Janet Lewis:                  It also helps you lose weight.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, because your mind feels satisfied.

Janet Lewis:                  Right, so we do have magic pills.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. It may not be that easy, and you may need help. You may need some encouragement, and I’m very happy to do that. We all need help from time to time, so the best way for you to lose weight is go out and bless somebody else. Do something really, really healthy. Get your kick out of helping somebody. I don’t-

Janet Lewis:                  Slow down when you’re eating, and visit with people. Put your phone down and have a conversation with someone when you’re having dinner. That’ll help you digest better.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  With that, I hope you’ve digested our show this week. We are open for any ideas you may have about other shows you would like to hear topics on, because we’re full of them.

Dr. Lewis:                     Full of it, yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  We look forward to talking with you.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, we’re full of it.

Janet Lewis:                  We are. You guys have a blessed week.

 

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The Obesity Crisis | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

The obesity epidemic is directly related to excessive sugar consumption.

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Heavy Metal and Mold Detox

 

Janet Lewis:                  Hello and welcome to this week’s show. I am Janet Lewis.

Dr. Lewis:                     And I’m Dr. Lewis.

Janet Lewis:                  And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low-cost lab work, here to bring you a show about heavy metal and mold detox. This sounds like something we might’ve should’ve saved for Halloween, but … Sounds a little creepy, but Dr. Lewis is going to make it fun and interesting. And we’ve also got a bunch of questions that we will be answering at the end of the show. So if heavy metal and mold is not your thing, I bet there some other things that you will find very interesting.

Dr. Lewis:                     But it’s kinda funny though that a lot of the questions go hand in hand with exactly what we had already decided to talk about.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. Apparently, this is a big topic that’s trending right now about heavy metals and mold. I guess a lot of people are in the middle of worrying about whether or not they’re filled with them or exposed to mold.

Dr. Lewis:                     You should be. You should be.

Janet Lewis:                  And yeah, it’s kinda different. I wouldn’t expect that people would be interested that much in this. So I’m really excited to hear this show.

Dr. Lewis:                     You’re excited to hear it? You’re part of it.

Janet Lewis:                  I’m excited to hear what you have to say. Because you never know what’s coming out.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s scary. After 18 years of marriage, she’s still in the surprise mode. Sometimes she puts a muffler on. Well, the mold thing is still happening down around Houston because of Hurricane Katrina. Now that Hurricane Joseph, What’s her … Who is it?

Janet Lewis:                  Florence.

Dr. Lewis:                     Florence. Yeah, Josephine, that’s what I thought. Is bearing down on the East Coast, and there’s gonna be a lot of flooding, and our thoughts and prayers go to them. But I tell people your thoughts and prayers are good, but send your money too, or go there and do action. The action step. And the same thing applies in your health. Last time I did my lab I got spanked, and now I’m taking more action. So hopefully we’ll say something that makes sense to you to move you to act so that you know that you’re health and your body can be a blessing to your friends and family.

Dr. Lewis:                     Mold really is a big thing, and it’s not as easy to get rid of, but it’s just painting over it, I suggest you go to professionals and check out several different ones to do that. One of the things that I’ve found, and this has been going on for decades, but some people that have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, infections they can never get over, and Lyme’s disease is growing like crazy. And then you’ve got the Epstein Barr, and all sorts of diseases or infections. It seems to me, and the research supports this, that the people are so full of mold and/or heavy metals that their body can’t take care of the disease or the infection itself. And there’s a lot of research that does support that.

Dr. Lewis:                     So we’re going to go and we’re going to talk a little bit about some of the heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, mercury, lead, et cetera et cetera. I think I’ll include ballium there because very few people know what that is.

Dr. Lewis:                     The heavy metals actually block some of the enzyme system or production, and it causes oxidative stress or reactive oxidative … What’s the word? ROS species, I think is what they usually term. But it stops the mitochondria, and the mitochondria is the energy producing substance inside the cell. It really wreaks havoc on all of that. When the mitochondria is blocked, or maybe it’s full of cadmium, maybe it’s full of lead or aluminum or mercury, it really can’t do its job, and then you get chronic fatigue. And you wake up … And I hear this all the time.

Dr. Lewis:                     The thing about it is, I have people that stick with it, and they may say, “Well, I don’t feel any better. It’s been three months.” Hopefully, I’ll get to this, but somewhere in these notes of the different research articles I’ve read, when I make these notes it says usually it’s a year or more by the time you get your body so detoxified that it actually can begin to function more promptly.

Dr. Lewis:                     And the reason it takes so long is that even though you’re getting out a lot of toxins every day if you’re doing the right things, then the environment puts it back in. And that’s one of the questions that this lady asked. We start with … Well, we’ll talk all about different kinds of things. You take enough nutrients and properly targeted nutrients, your body really can take it and run with it. Then some people call me or email me and say, “Well, this supplement and this supplement and this supplement. You’re adding up and you’re getting so much of this one vitamin or mineral.” I said, “Yeah, but it’s not what you put in, it’s what you absorb.” “Oh, okay.” And then they start getting better because they stick with it.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, I talked about the mitochondrial function, and we’re getting great success with something called Mito Core, or Core Restore. Just remember those, because I don’t think she’s going to tag them. She does the hard, heavy work over there. When it blocks that enzyme, halts the production, creates more oxidative stress, and I can see potential signs of that on the lab.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the things I’ll talk about is we know about the lead paint. Don’t lick the walls, and don’t let your kids eat two led chips. And they don’t put lead in the paint anymore, but it’s still very prevalent. And also mercury. And both lead and mercury cross the blood-brain barrier. Well, aluminum dust too, and it goes into Alzheimer’s or one of the many possible reasons for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and degenerative, neurodegenerative diseases. But it crosses the blood-brain barrier.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the things that Janet puts in my drink every morning is something called magnesium threonate, because it’s only magnesium known that actually crosses the blood-brain barrier and helps displace things like aluminum, lead, and mercury, and gives you a better functioning brain.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve seen people that talk about anxiety. And I get phone calls and emails and then that. It’s like, “I have anxiety, what do I do? There are certain things that can help your body create the neurotransmitters, but at the same time, while you’re doing that and quelling the fire of anxiety, you also want to take some things that will bond with these metals and carry them out of the body.

Dr. Lewis:                     You’ve heard of the Mad Hatter in, what is that? Alice in Wonderland or something like that. That’s … A long time ago, the people that made hats, you know, those felt hats, but it was full of mercury. And there are people that have died because the cans, the canned goods were sealed together, soldered with lead. And after a time of extra exposure, then it got to be too much.

Dr. Lewis:                     The question is … And our government tries to tell you how much is safe and it’s like well, none of it safe. I don’t know why you have an upper limit of that. But why is it some people can be exposed and not have a problem, at least obvious, and other people can be exposed and all of a sudden they start losing her IQ points, they get dementia, they get brain fog, they get anxiety, they get chronic fatigue syndrome. Well, that’s because people … Those people do not have enough nutrients to detoxify their body.

Dr. Lewis:                     Arsenic … I love arsenic. It’s really good. I’ve got a friend that raises chickens. And he says, “I would never eat one of the chickens that I raise.” I said, “Why not?” He says, “Well, they won’t tell us what is in the feed and they won’t tell us what’s in a lot of the things,” because the chicken farmers do not own the chickens. They just raise the chickens. He’ll eat chicken that’s raised in his backyard, but not the ones that’s raised in his chicken houses. What people don’t know is it’s in the water supply, and it’s in chickens, it’s sprayed on the chickens to fight against the mites. It’s in the feed.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve got another friend that has made millions going and pumping chemicals into the water supply, the chicken houses, because these particular chemicals cause the chickens to bloat up and get fat faster. It’s not that I don’t eat chicken, and I try to do the organic and free range and all that when I can. But when I can’t, Janet and I are taken enough digestive enzymes and vitamins and minerals to displace or offset the things that we take in, because you have to eat something. So I tell people, “Don’t get paranoid, just take positive steps to do something about it.”

Dr. Lewis:                     Some of these heavy metals interfere with – maybe all of them – interfere with the GI tract and interfere with your microbiome. And that means your GI tract is not full of good probiotics like it should be, and that will improperly mess with tumor suppressor pathways. That’s scary because, oh well, if you don’t have that working, you’re more prone to grow tumors.

Dr. Lewis:                     All of these things deplete something called glutathione, because glutathione is kind of the master antioxidant that comes from the liver. And you can take things besides glutathione to help your liver make it. But when it depletes glutathione, you’ll feel sluggish. And sometimes if Janet and I feel a little sluggish, she’ll give me a shot of Liposomal Recharge. And that tastes nasty, nasty, nasty. Actually, I like the taste of it, but most people say, “Oh my god.” But boy, about 30 minutes later I get such an incredible burst of energy. You can just take NAC or inositol cysteine that helps the liver make glutathione. And again, glutathione is the major antioxidant. So it will take these heavy metals, grab them, and allow your body to transport it out or detox.

Dr. Lewis:                     Aluminum is a big one. I talked about that in Alzheimer’s. What people don’t really realize is it binds to glyphosate, or Roundup, and Roundup is in everything. It’s already been known to be in some of your so called organic flowers. People that act like they’re organic, and they probably are better than the regular flour, but … I mean, they even spray glyphosate on cotton for god’s sake to defoliate it because it’s easier to go through, and the combines have less trouble because there are no leaves on it. And that does all kinds of things, and that messes with your gut barrier, deposits in your kidneys and your brain.

Dr. Lewis:                     Think about that folks. If it’s messing with your kidneys, have you not noticed in the last 10, 20, 30 years the great proliferation of dialysis centers? There’s a reason for that. And that’s not the only reason, but that’s one of the more obvious reasons.

Dr. Lewis:  There are many, many, many things you can do. And I can’t wait to get to those questions too. It’s going to be kind of interesting.

Dr. Lewis:                     I guess we should talk about mold maybe for a little while.

Janet Lewis:                  I think mold is kind of interesting and scary all at the same time. I guess I don’t usually think about being inundated with all the toxic a mold and things, but you do look up at your air conditioning system and see the vents and see the little black things that are coming out of the vents.

Dr. Lewis:                     I noticed that in our laundry room the other day. I forgot to tell you. So we need to get somebody check that.

Janet Lewis:                  Well no, I’m noticing that now since you’re talking about this. Because that’s something that’s … It’s’ moisture in the air, which leads to moisture inside the system, which leads to bold growth.

Dr. Lewis:                     So you have to have a good air conditioner man.

Janet Lewis:                  And it spews out mold spores into your living space.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, when you go to your house and you start coughing and hacking, your eyes burning, you’re wheezing, it could be mold exposure. And that’s something you should have checked.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s true. Other signs of mold are headaches.

Dr. Lewis:                     Not your spouse.

Janet Lewis:                  Chronic fatigue, fever-

Dr. Lewis:                     Probably.

Janet Lewis:                  … eye irritation, sneezing and rashes, and chronic coughing. I think that’s kind of interesting that maybe you ought to be looking around for mold and it may be places that you’re not really thinking it is. You always suspect in the bathrooms because you see it on the tile and that kind of stuff.

Dr. Lewis:                     The shower curtain.

Janet Lewis:                  And then what do you do? You spray it with Clorox trying to kill it, and then you walk in on top of that with bare foot, and get those chemicals from the Clorox.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. Well you’re smelling it. One of the things you can do is get into a good essential company and start spraying it down with tea tree oil. There’s a lot of essential oils that do a wonderful job at helping kill that. And mold and fungus and yeast are similar, kind of like first, second, and third cousins I guess. It’s generally hard to recognize and hard to diagnose. And I tell people … You’re wanting to test, and it’s easier and less expensive just to treat it and assume that. It’s less expensive to take the really, really good supplements than it is to test, test, test, and retest. But some people like to do that. They test, but they don’t really do much about it.

Dr. Lewis:                     I would just say, “Okay, well you’ve got all these symptoms that may fit different categories, but it’s obvious because your house got wet in Hurricane Katrina or whatever.” And now we’re going to have that problem on the East Coast of America. And god, I got so many people from Houston just because of that, and Houston area. Now I guess I’ll get more from South Carolina, North Carolina, et cetera, et cetera.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, I know you haven’t mentioned this product, but there’s one that I really like to take, and I take it daily because of that. It’s called HM Complex, because it really does help pull out the heavy metals. It’s not so much mold, but the heavy metals.

Dr. Lewis:                     It creates glutathione though. So yeah, that makes sense to me.

Janet Lewis:                  But Dr. Lewis likes just going right to the heart of the matter.

Dr. Lewis:                     The nasty tasting one. And I don’t think it’s that bad. Sometimes people say, “How does it taste?” And I tell him, I said, “If you have to ask how it tastes, you’re not serious about getting well. Just go glug, glug. Swig it down, say thank you, god, because I’m about to be healed. Have some courage.”

Janet Lewis:                  But there are some natural things that you can do to help with black mold symptoms, like raw garlic.

Dr. Lewis:                     Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Janet Lewis:                  You do two to four grams of fresh garlic per day. Now no one else may want to be around you, but …

Dr. Lewis:                     But now let me just say this. It’s gotta be fresh. You need to crush it first, because that gets all the enzymes going. Most garlic pills do not work. It has to be enteric coated to get beyond the stomach for it to work.

Janet Lewis:                  There you go. Charcoal, which I personally like. I always carry charcoal even when we travel, because it absorbs all kind of nasty stuff.

Dr. Lewis:                     She took some the other day when we were on vacation.

Janet Lewis:                  And it’s interesting later because it’s very hard to pass. So make sure you take something that helps push it through.

Dr. Lewis:                     But you’ll notice when you pass it because it’s the same color.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah, I’ll be kind of black. Chlorophyll. That’s a fun one. Most people don’t realize they can take chlorophyll. We have a liquid chlorophyll that we prefer. It tastes spearminty.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. And makes your tongue green. And it’s full of magnesium, which we’ll get to in a minute.

Janet Lewis:                  Yes. And it really helps clean the blood. Other things you need to do, which I guess this is for everything. Cut out sugar, because it makes black mold worse.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, it feeds mold yeast and fungus. And I’m an expert at that because I had it, and it was a horrible. I bled out of my armpits, my fingertips, and places you don’t want to hear about for six years. And Janet was really, really good. And I took some of those drugs. I’m not anti-medical at all. I took some of those drugs where it almost killed my kidneys, and I was a urinating blood, and Janet’s stepmom, the nurse, said, “Steven, you’re about to die of kidney failure.” I said, “Yeah, I know, but I’ve got an elk tag, and my daughter wants to shoot the elk and tag the elk with my tag.” If you are a game warden, listening, I’m just making that up. We didn’t do anything illegal. And I went and got her and elk in spite of those drugs. Almost killed my kidneys. And it was terrible.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s another thing. There was a big recall of her drug recently, and I’ll be brief. But this drug I got, it was ordered out of Canada because it was less expensive, came out of New Zealand, and boy, my MD was pretty angry at me. He says “It won’t work because they counterfeit it.” You know what? He was absolutely right. So be careful about what drugs you take, and take your physician’s advice about what to get.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, I wish when you had that going on that I would have known about this product. I guess it wasn’t around then. But we have a pretty good product here called Core Support. It’s French vanilla flavored. And if you’re looking for something to help detoxify, we’re recommending that, because it comes with a powder. It’s a detox powder, but there’s actually some fiber in it and protein. So you can use it as a meal replacement. One meal, not every meal, for you weight loss people out there. There are some capsules in it as well. And it’s a kit, and it lasts seven days, and it comes with this cute little hand mixer in there that’s battery operated. We have one at home and we just love it. But you can do this quick little cleanse that’s a week long. And I wish I would’ve known this, and I would’ve put Dr. Lewis on this whenever he was suffering from all of that issue many years ago.

Dr. Lewis:                     But she put me on so much stuff it saved my life.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. But it’s called Core Restore. I want to make sure that we get a chance to answer all these questions, so I think we’re going to jump over to that, and if we get some more time we’ll come back and talk about more mold things, but some of these questions have got to do with mold and heavy metal detox.

Janet Lewis:                  We have Brenda that’s local to us here, and we love Brenda. She’s doing the keto diet but has not found an alternative sweetener that doesn’t leave an aftertaste. One of our other patients, Tara, is kind enough to jump in and help answer that.

Dr. Lewis:                     All the way from Florida. Hi Tara.

Janet Lewis:                  Because she’s doing keto as well. But Dr. Lewis, we’d like your opinion about what a natural sweetener should be for some of the recipes.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, since we very rarely cook, how would I know? And then it’s not sweet stuff. I think monk fruit’s probably okay. And stevia. Of course, some brands taste much better than others. I weened myself off all of that, and I thought I’d never liked coffee without sugar, and then I went to agave nectar. Of course the organic stuff. And then I can’t stand coffee with any kind of sweetener. Your taste buds will change once you change the flora in your GI tract and kick out the yeast that’s a craving that stuff. So just kinda … Sorry Brenda, just suffer through it until your taste buds change a little bit.

Janet Lewis:                  And that’s really true. As you get healthier and kill down the yeast, you don’t want it. Yeah, I was talking to my daughter about that last night. She goes, “You don’t like going to Dairy Queen to get blizzards anymore?” And I said, “I can’t stand them because they’re really sweet.”

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s 20 years ago, we might’ve done that.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. And I was like, “I can’t do it.” And it does. As you get healthier and healthier, you really don’t want the sweet stuff anymore.

Dr. Lewis:                     Brenda is doing a good job. And lord, I love seeing her come in here, because she’s got the prettiest smile in east Texas. Just come on in.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s right. And Tara, I guess because Dr. Lewis is a chiropractor, she would like for you to discuss the benefits and types of adjustments that are best. Why do you go to a chiropractor and what types of adjustments are the best?

Dr. Lewis:                     Depends on what you prefer. I practice Gonstead diversified, you know, the Osseous movement, but not overly rough. You have to be careful about that. Never go beyond the physiological limits of the joint itself. Now all chiropractic techniques work. Some I like, some I don’t. Janet and I were in a horrible boat wreck about 18, 19 years ago. The kind where you sit up all night crying even after taking the Xanax because it almost killed us and a couple of kids. After fighting the river for eight hours in a boat, the raging river. Anyway, we were beat up, I lost my billfold with my elk tag and a whole lot of money. Still in the bottom of the Dowagiac River in Michigan.

Dr. Lewis:                     Anyway, my friend that we were up there with, he was a chiropractor, and he says, “Well, do you want me to adjust you the regular way, or do you want me to do the activator?” Now the activator is a very legitimate, good technique. I said, “You’re the doctor, I submit to you.” And he did the activator thing. Click, click, click, click, click, click. He says, “What do you think?” And again, it’s a very legitimate technique. And I looked at my friend who’s like a brother, and I said, “If that’s all there is to chiropractic, I’ll take a cold beer.”

Dr. Lewis:                     I like the osseous adjustments, but not the rough ones. And activator works. I send people to a lot of activator practitioners here in Longview that are really good at it.

Janet Lewis:                  Very good. My husband happens to be the best. He’s retired now, but he’s still the best. Also, Tara would like to know what are your thoughts on the carnivore diet?

Dr. Lewis:                     I know people that have done it, and believe it or not, their cholesterol gets much better, and I’ve seen the lab before and after.

Janet Lewis:                  Is that just eating all meat? Yeah. Mostly.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m more of a fan of the keto, paleo, South Beach. I think more vegetables are better. Now they need to be the low glycemic, and it’s, for god’s sake, get organic as much as you can. I’m more of a high-fat fan than I am high meat. Fat burns better.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, it’s great for your brain too.

Dr. Lewis:                     Absolutely.

Janet Lewis:                  Okay. Tricia would like to know why does your metabolism slow down when you get older, or is that just a myth? And she’s got a double question here. And is there a way you can enjoy that glass of wine or beer or other carbs, sugar drink without adding a mac belly to your figure? She has a great sense of humor.

Dr. Lewis:                     I can tell Tricia that … I can tell you slowed down because I hadn’t heard from you in a long time. She’s absolutely incredible, sense of humor. I think you slow down not because you’re getting older, I think you slow down because your body has accumulated more toxins. I’m 63 and I feel 35, but I take a lot of supplements for it, I spend a lot of money, and Janet will not tell me how much I spend on myself because I’d probably quit. She can spend anything she wants on her. But it’s worth it. It’s an investment in feeling good. I can just run round and round and round.

Dr. Lewis:                     Can you have alcoholic beverages? I think so. I like a good cold beer. It’s coming up on a weekend. I’m gonna have a couple. But to be healthier, Janet and I use a base of freshly squeezed lime and Perrier water with … She likes a Ciroc vodka with some Grand Marnier. But we don’t do much.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. Beer will make you fat. You can’t keep doing beer because it’ll make you fat because of the grains.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, a little bit. And the light beer has a tendency to give you man boobs if you’re a man because of the way they filter it, and it’s more full of plastics and estrogen mimickers. She’s had bartenders change to dark beer for that reason.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know, Trish, just give me a call. I miss you. Great sense of humor. Then, Maggie, you gotta love Maggie. She is so consistent doing her stuff, and she’s got some incredible results from it. She said, “Do I have any thoughts on Dupuytren’s and diet?” No, I really don’t. Dupuytren’s contracture, or any kind of a scar forming disease, I’ve seen some research that says it can very easily be a deficiency of iodine. And I’ve seen people that would get the scarring, like the keloid scarring. And you get them on the right amount of iodine, most of them do much, much better. And I know that for a fact with two people in my family, up close and personal,

Janet Lewis:                  But Maggie does say on a footnote that her hair cut from her hairdresser for the first time in about a year. She’s been on supplements for a year and a half now.

Dr. Lewis:                     Consistent, folks, Maggie’s the one.

Janet Lewis:                  Her hairdresser told her her hair is thicker and there’s not any more gray in it since the last time she saw her. So see, you can slow down aging. I really think that’s true with doing the right supplements.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, consistently, because it does take a long time to detox because the environment does put it back in. But on iodine, you have to be careful. And there are some so-called experts that say you need to take massive amounts of it. Well, you have to understand, folks, that massive amounts of iodine can actually suppress the thyroid. You have to get with some sort of functional medicine doctor and figure out what’s right for you because no one size fits all. It does not exist that way.

Janet Lewis:                  And Eddie would like to know about red light therapy, the pluses, and minuses, and that goes with our detoxing here.

Dr. Lewis:                     That we didn’t get into. The infrared and far infrared saunas are really, really good for detox for different reasons. The red light therapy, I’m still investigating. And every company says, “Oh, mine’s the best because of this, this, this, and this.” And I don’t know the truth of it. I’m still in the middle of investigating it. I think red light therapy is really good. I had one used on me many years ago when my elbow was dying because I was adjusting too many patients, and it worked. It was developed by NASA. And it helps the mitochondria create energy.

Dr. Lewis:                     I hinted to Janet that I want one for Christmas, and Eddie said he’s been hinting to Evelyn, his wife, too. That question’s all way from Illinois.

Janet Lewis:                  These must be very expensive items.

Dr. Lewis:                     You’ve bought me guns that cost less than that.

Janet Lewis:                  Okay.

Dr. Lewis:                     Okay. Maybe like the cost of an expensive gun, honey.

Janet Lewis:                  Eddie let us know how that works out.

Dr. Lewis:                     I think they’re great, I think it’s a good investment, and they charged 50 or 100 bucks at these salons to do it. Women do it for wrinkles and all that kind of stuff.

Janet Lewis:                  Okay. And our last question, which we sort of answered, Krista asked what is the best and quickest way to detox? Again, we go back to the Core Restore, the seven-day kit, because you don’t have to think about it and it’s all in there, and most people don’t want to do it very long. And that’s a week’s supply of product.

Dr. Lewis:                     But you’re not totally detoxed, but you can normally tell a huge difference in seven days if you do it right. But you want to continue it every day.

Janet Lewis:                  Correct. So you have a few minutes left. Or about a minute left. Would you like to add something in?

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, you know me. Janet got an email from a patient this morning that we just put on a lot of stuff yesterday. It’s a sweet, sweet lady I’ve known for years. She just got on it yesterday and she says, “How long do I have to stay on all these pills?” I’ve had preachers asked me that. “How long do I have to stay on this?” “Well, how long do you have to read the Bible, and how long do you have to pray, and how long do you want your people in your church to put money in the collection plate?” And the preachers look at me and say, “Wow, you’re a little harsh.” I said, “No, it’s just a good analogy.”

Dr. Lewis:                     I think you should do it forever.

Janet Lewis:                  With that being said, we will have many more podcasts, I guess. Again, thank you for listening to this week’s show, and if you guys have topics you would like to hear, please write to us. You can friend us on Facebook with Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis, and he can add you into the conversation. It’s kind of cool.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s where these questions come from. Shooting Straight.

Janet Lewis:                  It is a closed group, so you have to ask to be included. But you guys let us know what you’d like to hear, because we enjoy these questions, and hope you have a very blessed week.

Dr. Lewis:                     Thank you.

 

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Heavy Metal And Mold Detox | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

Everyone should be detoxing by incorporating detox into your healthy lifestyle! Here are some great ideas to help you detoxify:

    Near and Far Infrared Saunas
    Magnesium
    Zinc
    Selenium
    Potassium
    Iodine

Black Mold Symptoms:

    Headaches
    Chronic Fatigue
    Fever
    Eye Irritation
    Sneezing
    Rashes
    Irritation to Mucous Membranes of Mouth, Nose and Throat
    Chronic Coughing

Product Mentioned in Today’s Show:

Core Restore 7-Day Kit

Core Restore is a strategic system designed to safely enhance and promote the primary pathways of detoxification in the liver. The Core Restore kit provides three active formulas – Core Support, Alpha Base, and PhytoCore – which function synergistically to support Phase I and Phase II pathways of liver detoxification to help neutralize environmental pollutants, hormone disruptors, unhealthy estrogen metabolites, xenoestrogens (synthetic compounds that imitate estrogen), and other harmful toxins.

 

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The Miracle Magic of Magnesium

Janet Lewis:                 Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Green Wisdom Health Show. I’m Janet Lewis.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m Dr. Lewis.

Janet Lewis:                 We are bringing you an exciting show about the miracle magic of magnesium. I know you guys have always wanted to know about magnesium, and it’s one of those minerals that’s very important in our health. I believe it does over 300 different functions in your body, and it’s something people desperately need but it is also very important that you get the right kind of magnesium. Dr. Lewis is going to educate us a little bit today about what kinds are out there, what you need, and what it does for the body that you might not know.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, there are a lot of different kinds of magnesium, and I caution people to stay away from the types of supplements that have phosphate, sulfate, oxide. Those are not really good forms of anything. It’d be great if you put them on your plants and let the plants convert it to something that you can deal with. That’s why Janet and I ask so many people, “Well, how many times do you have a bowel movement per day?” If it’s one a day or less, then we put you on magnesium citrate. Citrate is a very good form, but it’s also very hydroscopic, and absorbs or attracts water, which gives you a tendency to have more bowel movements. You do have to be careful, because even if four a day is right for you, if you start out at four a day, you might have to go to the bathroom too much. There’s a lot of different types, and there’s a dimagnesium malate, and then there’s the citrate I talked about, but some of the better minerals are called traacs, T-R-A-A-C-S, and that’s a registered trademark. It’s more absorbable.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then you’ve got magnesium lysinate, magnesium glycinate. They’re a little more gentle. For people that have, say, high blood pressure, well, you need to put them on something that’s a little bit slower to absorb, which would be the glycinate and the lysate. Malate would be good, or a combination of them, so I’m gonna just, and you know me. I’m gonna ramble.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, I think it’s interesting to note that they say there’s an 80% of our American society that is deficient in magnesium, so, while you’re thinking, “Oh, magnesium sounds so boring,” if 80% of you guys out there are deficient in it, we just think maybe you should be educated a little bit about why you need it, and what all it can do. Many times it can do things in place of many of the drugs that you’re taking. It may be something that you’ve just never thought of, or maybe you thought, “Hey, it gives me diarrhea so I don’t want to do that,” so maybe you could discuss a little bit about what forms of that do that, and what we give versus what people are generally used to getting.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, again it depends on how often you have bowel movements, and I always tell people this is complimentary, not alternative, but I’ve had a lot of people, it’s like, well, if you take this and then your blood pressure begins to go down, then you need to talk to the physician that put you on the drugs to make any changes there. Far as in the foods, it’s in dairy products, it’s in fish, meat, and seafood, and I treat a lot of vegans. They just really, they have trouble getting enough nutrition to make them healthy. Other sources of magnesium are like apples, apricots, avocados, and bananas. Now, bananas are known for their potassium, but they have a lot more magnesium too. Many of you have heard the story about my conversation with the organic farmer that said he feels great on my supplements and feels terrible without them. He says, “But I eat totally organic,” and I said, “Yeah, but you still don’t know if it’s one part per million or 16 thousand parts per million of magnesium, molybdenum, manganese,” because you don’t know where they’re grown and how much they’ve lost during the transport of these foods. It’s really, in my opinion, pretty much impossible to get proper nutrition out of your food itself.

Dr. Lewis:                     I read a lot of books and I read massive amounts of research, and then there’s research that’s actually skewed and it’s not real research. It’s just a con job, so you have to be able to discern that. I actually pay a lot of money to go to seminars to help people that are more of a research scientist help me decide what’s real and what’s not, and pay a lot of money to do that too, so I hope you all appreciate that I get knowledge from people that are more knowledgeable than me in certain areas. Actually, I usually quote the research that says, the government said at one point that we were 94% deficient in magnesium, because 94 sounds a little bit more alarming than 80%, and again, you don’t know if you’re getting it or not. Even doing the RBC magnesium test, which is way, way more accurate than the serum, it is rare for somebody, even taking magnesium, to ever come to a point where it’s on the high end of normal. It’s really, really rare, so.

Dr. Lewis:                     Some of the reasons that I think you should try it, it’s a catalyst in the enzymes, the 300 activities that Janet talked about. Not totally, but it’s pretty heavily involved in energy production enzymes. It has a lot to do with absorption of calcium and potassium, and that’s very important too. If you don’t have enough magnesium, then you have like a nerve impulse that doesn’t go as fast as it should. It interferes with nerve impulses, and that can cause irritability. Yes, I’ve seen, even kids with ADD/ADHD, and their mother would sprinkle it in something to get the kid to take it. Usually it’s apple sauce, hopefully organic, or stir it in their yucky yogurt, because most yogurt’s not any good at all, but if you’re going to stir in magnesium, stir in probiotics too, which I hope to get some of that. We usually run out of time before we run out of notes. I make notes for about a three or four hour show, and this is 30 minutes.

Dr. Lewis:                     If you have PMS, you know. I’m a chiropractor, and women would come in and say, “Oh, my menstrual cycle hurts me so bad.” Well, adjusting them and working with the muscles, and that helps a great deal. Even my daughters would come in and say, “Well, I’m about to start my period,” and I’d adjust them and they’d feel better, but I’d also encourage them to take magnesium. Then they would just breeze through their period with about a 90% reduction in pain and cramping.

Janet Lewis:                 Isn’t that interesting, that that can be what’s missing. I know that many times when a young girl or a woman craves chocolate, that it’s usually the magnesium that they’re trying to get from that, and they do that around their cycles.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, magnesium and also serotonin, which is the feel-good, happy hormone. Janet always says I’m the female in the relationship because I jump on chocolate and she doesn’t care on way or the other, so. Yeah, I’ll be the female if you give me chocolate.

Dr. Lewis:                     Depression, dizziness. Yeah, dizziness, muscle weakness, and although we’re talking about magnesium, those people that are out in the hot sun and they get an increase in vitamin D plus they’re trying to sweat and all that, one of the things that happens is you get the intracellular calcium that actually comes out into the bloodstream, and then that’ll cause cramping and heat-strokes and sometimes even death. Since we’re all mineral deficient, people that are out there sweating sure needs to take a lot of different minerals. I got too hot the other day, out messing with the RV, getting it ready for vacation. I came in, I was shaking like crazy, and I told Janet, I said, “Yeah, I got overheated.” She said, “I wondered where you were,” so she immediately fixed me up a concoction of electrolyte energy with extra magnesium and calcium and potassium, and I sat down. I was good to go in about 20 minutes, so minerals are extremely important because you’re just not going to get enough out of your diet. I don’t care if you do eat organic, it’s just not enough.

Dr. Lewis:                     PMS or dizziness or irritability, whether that’s male or female, you might try magnesium. I personally like the reactive magnesium, because it has so many forms. I think that’s better, unless you’re just really chronically constipated. Then I’d go for magnesium citrate. I actually take some at night because it calms you down, and takes a lot of acidity out of the body and you sleep more peacefully. It takes care of many people that have restless leg syndrome. It’s just, you know it’s missing so you might as well just throw it in there.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, I also think it’s interesting that people that have AFib, isn’t that one of the missing things for that, is magnesium as well?

Dr. Lewis:                     You know, in a lot of areas. I put them on magnesium immediately and tell them to go see a cardiologist, but usually, or many times by the time they get to the cardiologist the AFib’s gone away, but there’s a lot of other conditions that can relate to that, so that’s when a cardiologist should be involved. Magnesium, there’s a lot of research that says it will dissolve calcium and phosphate kidney stones, and I see on Facebook all these people have put their woes on Facebook, and I’m thinking, “I’ve got the answer,” but I don’t usually say anything because I’m not asked. We’ve got a friend that’s down there getting his kidney stones blasted today. Nothing like spending two grand to, maybe 10 grand sometimes, to get that done when you could’ve just taken magnesium and sometimes B6 and potassium, to prevent it.

Janet Lewis:                 I think that’s an interesting topic, because there’s a lot of people that have kidney stones and they think that’s just something they suffer with, so you’re saying magnesium is actually a part of that?

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, there’s different research. The quick answer to that is yes, that’s what I’m saying. There’s research that says activated B6 or P5P will help with that, and then there’s research says that if you give them one pill of potassium citrate per day … When people have it bad, they have kidney stones, I say, “Well, see a kidney specialist of course, but take … ” I put them on everything, the P5P, the proper form of magnesium, and the potassium, and one of the big hints is if you have calcium oxalate stones in your urine, it’s like, well, you’re very, very likely to form kidney stones if you don’t have them already.

Janet Lewis:                 You know this how?

Dr. Lewis:                     Calcium oxalate crystals in the urine.

Janet Lewis:                 How do you see that?

Dr. Lewis:                     You’ve got to do lab. You know, guess, guess, guess, and I talked to a jillion people yesterday, and I have about that many to talk to today. You can’t really piecemeal it and halfway do it. One woman said, “Well, I’m doing this person’s because they said this, and I’m doing this other person’s vitamins here and I want your opinion,” and it’s like, you know. Goes back to the old adage of too many cooks spoil the soup. She won’t get as good of results as somebody that says, “Hey, just do my lab work and tell me what to get on.” I had a man yesterday, he’s 81. He says, “I’ll just do whatever you say.” I said … He’s like, “Hey, whatever,” and he actually is a suck-up. He said, “Is that Janet out there? Is that your daughter?” I was like, “Yeah, well, you need a new eye doctor,” but, he was actually flirting with Janet because she does look a lot younger because she takes a lot of supplements, so.

Janet Lewis:                 I believe you just took my compliment away, with an eye doctor. I think his eyes were perfect.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m sorry honey, I was wrong. Yeah. Well, he was messing with me, but, you know. The thing about magnesium, and I talked to a pregnant lady yesterday and she’s going to go ahead and get her lab work and get something done, but there’s a study that’s published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that said there’s a 70% lower incidence of mental retardation in children of mothers who take magnesium supplements during pregnancy. You can reduce the incidence of mental retardation 70% by taking magnesium. Of course, there’s other things you need to take. The incidence of cerebral palsy was 90% lower with magnesium supplements, and again, don’t take magnesium oxide. That’s not a good form at all.

Dr. Lewis:                     One form I have not talked about and probably should, because Janet puts it in my drink … Thank God, she loves me enough to throw stuff in. I generally don’t know what she throws in it, but there’s a patented magnesium called magnesium L-threonate, and that’s very, very important because it’s the only one that they know for a fact can cross the blood-brain barrier. If it crosses the blood-brain barrier, what does it do? Binds with mercury and aluminum, which is very, very common toxins that are injected into us willingly, but I won’t get into that. Aluminum and mercury are massive, massive pollutants and we get it all over the place, so you need to throw in these certain minerals that will bind with the toxic metals and make you healthier. This magnesium threonate … You know, Janet, I don’t think she worries about anything but my brain function and my heart, so I get a dose of that every day. Maybe more than that, I don’t know. It’s very, very important.

Dr. Lewis:                     I read a study one time that said low magnesium levels makes almost all diseases worse, and headed in a direction there, it’s called diabetes, or as Wilfred Brimley would say with his beautiful mustache, I’m jealous because mine’s not that pretty, he said, “Diabetes.” You know, it has a lot to do with how well that functions, and I’ve got some notes over there Janet may get into, but. Even though you’re trying to get it through your food, you might really and truly want to supplement. I’d be afraid not to. I’ve had patients over the years that says, “Well, now that you have me on magnesium, I don’t need to be adjusted nearly as much.” One person said, “Doctor, you’re going to run yourself out of business,” and I said, “Good. I’ll go fishing.” I don’t care. If you’re that healthy, great.

Dr. Lewis:                     As far as picking it up and utilizing it in your GI tract, you know, that’s another thing that we talk about a lot. One guy called, well, a lady called yesterday and said, “I’m taking this much and this much and this much, and all these supplements, it’s all adding up,” and I said, “Yeah, but the problem is, you’re not absorbing it.” In order to help absorption, you have to take the digestive enzymes, and we have some that are definitely our favorites, that’s much, much, much stronger than what we used to get great results with. We’ve improved that, but you have to have probiotics, and more strains is better. We have some that, assays, about three times more than what they sell it for, but one of my favorites, I’ll just go briefly over lactobacillus rhamnosus. It helps enhance cellular immune responses, even in healthy volunteers. It helps the immune system in healthy people. It alleviates clinical signs of gastrointestinal inflammation. How many of you do not have GI inflammation? Yeah, nobody is raising their hands there. Then you got the more well-known lactobacillus, acidophilus, that’s the one that, it’s very important in vaginal health as well as GI health because it creates acid, which leads me to another bone of contention.

Dr. Lewis:                     Some people get on internet, and they read something, and it’s like, “Oh my God.” People are going around now saying, “Well cancer can’t live in an alkaline body,” and they’re doing everything they can to make their body alkaline, and they are really, really, really messing up their health. God, in his infinite wisdom, you know. Saliva should be alkaline. Stomach should be acid, and that’s a big problem because most of us that think you have too much don’t have enough, that’s the problem. In the intestines there’s buffering of alkaline to acid, so the lactobacillus acidophilus, acid, it has a huge antioxidant activity. It’s very effective against the grown of H pylori. It’s been very proven effective against that, and then the vaginosis, or infection of the vaginal area. Then there’s a lactobacillus brevis, which also helps immune responses. It inhibits a lot of bad things to happen because it increases the activity of natural killer cells. That’s pretty important thing, tumor necrosis factor, which means against tumors. Then you’ve got the lactobacillus vulgaris, you’ve got plantarium, which is real good for the people that have seriously irritable bowel syndrome and things like that. It reduces gas, so I can see women saying, “What did he say? Was it lactobacillus plantarium, because my husband has way excessive amounts of gas,” and all of these and many others actually increase the absorption of magnesium and many other things.

Dr. Lewis:                     We’ve talked about the lactobacillus. Then you need to get to the bifidobacterium. The infantis is really, really good. It’s actually antimicrobial against clostridium difficile, the C dif. That’s a really horrible infection to have. Then, bacto-bacterium longum, the casei. There’s all sorts of the … The people that get sore throats, you want to look for a probiotic that has the lactobacillus salivarius in it, and you want to start that out, even if it’s in a capsule. Open it up and put it in your mouth, because the salivarius is really, really important in oral cavity or mouth health and the health of your gums and teeth. It’s also good against H pylori and you know, things like that. It’s important all the way through, but it’s really incredibly important just to make sure there’s enough down there to make the absorption of the magnesium better.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know, I can go on and on. Janet, do you want to get to the questions? I’m going to go down a rabbit trail if you don’t.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, and I will get to the questions also, but I just wanted to say, tell a few more things that Dr. Lewis hasn’t mentioned about magnesium, because there’s many people that ask about these problems. One thing that magnesium helps with is fibromyalgia, believe it or not.

Dr. Lewis:                     Magnesium malate usually is the form there.

Janet Lewis:                 Type two diabetes, which I guess Dr. Lewis would have to explain how that helps, but-

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, I mentioned. Just take it and we’ll monitor your A1C, and your insulin.

Janet Lewis:                 I think a really big one is migraine headaches, because there’s a lot of people suffering from headaches and magnesium, simple magnesium can help stop the migraine headaches. I thought that was very interesting, but yes. We do want to make sure we get to our questions because we love our listeners that always ask them. That way we know what y’all are wanting to hear about. Jonathan from New Mexico is always one of our favorites, and he’s asked-

Dr. Lewis:                     We’re giving him royalty for using his name now.

Janet Lewis:                 Oh yeah, he loves it when we mention his name. He said his son got a, I’m sure I’m saying this wrong, necrotizing fasciitis, aka flesh-eating bacteria, and he lives in New Mexico and I guess they have that out there a lot. He’s healing okay, and if you could talk about this, where it comes from, et cetera, that would be great.

Dr. Lewis:                     Okay. The one I know about that’s most popular is called MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, and my favorite story to that is I got bit twice on the leg by a, theoretically a brown recluse spider. They’re so reclusive I didn’t see him, but, and me being the brilliant man I am, I waited five days until I couldn’t walk before I went in to the see the doctor. I love our medical doctors, because they saved my leg, and … I’ll try to make this a short story, but anyway, the guy cut it out, and they came in. They had swabbed the area and they swabbed my nose, and then they sent in another surgeon. He squeezed it and sniffed it and said, “Is that sore?” I said, “No.” He said, “It should be.” He said, “You do not have MRSA,” which is the one that is the flesh-eating bacteria. “We do not understand why, because the last 50 spider bites, there was one guy that didn’t have it, but he was a young strong man fresh out of the military. Everybody else gets the MRSA bacteria from the spider bite,” and he said, “If you don’t get it from the spider bite you get it from the hospital because we have superbugs in here that get resistant to them trying to kill them. Why don’t you have it?” I said, “It’s nutrition. You wouldn’t really understand.”

Dr. Lewis:                     He was a really great surgeon, better than the one who did the surgery on me, which got fired and run out of Longview, but he did a good job on my leg. I literally gave a lecture to the nurses at 3:00 am, because they don’t let you sleep and get any rest in the hospital, about olive leaf. Now, olive leaf is incredibly important, and that was back before I realized there was some really, really strong olive leaves, which is what we carry now, so. Olive leaf, we did colloidal silver. Janet healed up that hole in my leg you could’ve thrown a golf ball in … It’s funny watching the muscles move up and down, because there wasn’t any skin there, but anyways. Cut in a circle, and the doctor knew better to do that, because he told me, so it wouldn’t heal, and he wanted a $6000 skin graft off my butt to put it over my leg. I said, “No,” and anyway, Janet with her knowledge of herbs, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and essential oils, she healed that up and the surgeon said, “I have never seen one heal like this,” and, you know. “You didn’t get a skin graft.” I said, “Well, no. You cut it wrong, and you said that.” He said, “I’ve never seen this happen. What happened?” I said, “All those supplements you said didn’t work.”

Dr. Lewis:                     See, I needed the medical care and he did a really good job. He saved my leg from rotting off, and probably from early death, but olive leaf and colloidal silver. Be careful with the silver. Don’t make your own.

Janet Lewis:                 That’s something that everybody should just keep in their medicine cabinet, and it has to be a high amount of oleuropein. It’s just not over-the-counter olive leaf like you guys are getting ready to go out and grab. It has to have a high amount of oleuropein, which is what makes it work, and we carry it here.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. I was on one that had a lower amount, but I was taking massive amounts of pills, too. That’s back before I learned as much as I know now, but I’ll know more next year too, so.

Janet Lewis:                 Okay. Our next question comes from Kelly. She wants to know of any supplements that can alleviate symptoms of interstitial cystitis, and that is also known as a painful bladder syndrome, and it’s a chronic condition causing bladder pressure and bladder pain. You guys probably don’t have this, but women do many times.

Dr. Lewis:                     Men suffer too when y’all have it, though.

Janet Lewis:                 That’s true. She knows that coffee, tea, citrus juices and artificial sweeteners and spicy foods can aggravate it, so is there anything else that can help or hurt when it comes to diet?

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and Vicky got on this, Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis. Vicky got on there and said D-Mannose and colloidal silver, and Vicky’s been with us for many years and she’s very intelligent about these things, and that’s a good answer.

Janet Lewis:                 You guys could be added to that. When he said Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis, that is a closed Facebook group, but if you will shoot us an email we will be happy to add you to the group so you can get in on the conversation as well. I can testify to this product personally, for what we, or I use it for. I had a hysterectomy, which made me have that problem. We have something that’s called cystistatin, that is excellent at actually … It’s something you use first. It’s a bottle of, it’s got uva ursi, bearberry, marshmallow, bladderwrack, and celery seed, but you go through a bottle of that, it’s actually like a urinary tract infection type killer. If you’ve got a urinary tract infection, it’ll kill it off, and then when you’re done with that, you go to a bottle of something called UT-defense. It’s for urinary tract, and it has a different set of ingredients.

Dr. Lewis:                     For the ones that have, you know, chronic things, it’s a cranberry concentrate, and there’s a lot of misinformation about cranberry. Then it’s got dandelion leaf and hibiscus flowers, and these are extracts, and we have women that get somewhere close to incredible results, and we have men that just are thrilled because their wife’s not in pain all the time.

Janet Lewis:                 It’s actually, you know, diet is great to clean up as well, but if you do some of these products, you can actually get by with eating or drinking a little bit more of the quote, wrong things that set it off, because it will help keep it under control, and me being who I am thought I’d take both of them at the same time. These are both orthomolecular products, and the rep for them said, “Do not do that.” He said, “There’s a reason why we make one and then the other,” so, it’s cystistatin, it’s C-Y-S-T-I-S-T-A-T-I-N, first, and then you go to UT-defense.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. We thought only men said, “Well, if a little bit’s good, more is better,” but Janet, again. She’s the man in the relationship, because I’m over there eating chocolate, so. She thought more is better, so she did them both.

Janet Lewis:                 Also, getting back to the magnesium thing. You know, a lot of people wonder if they have the right magnesium levels. I wanted to mention that we do offer a super-panel. I’m going to discuss the men’s panel because men primarily are the ones that we see really need to magnesium, when we run it on lab. The super-panel men’s that we run, it includes a magnesium RBC, and you’re wondering what’s an RBC. Many times when you go to the doctor and have your lab run and ask him to run magnesium, they’ll run magnesium-

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s a serum.

Janet Lewis:                 -but it’s not actually what’s getting in on a cell level. It’s just what’s out in the bloodstream, and the RBC one that we run is actually a spun magnesium, where they actually see how much magnesium you’re getting on a cell level.

Dr. Lewis:                     In the red blood cells, itself.

Janet Lewis:                 There’s early signs of magnesium deficiency to keep an eye out for, if you’re deficient, like loss of appetite, and headaches, and nausea and vomiting. Fatigue and weakness, so I just wanted to make sure I covered that a little bit for people, because I felt like magnesium still needed a little bit.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know what interferes with the absorption of magnesium?

Janet Lewis:                 What’s that?

Dr. Lewis:                     Alcohol intake.

Janet Lewis:                 Oh. Really? It blocks it, or you just don’t, it just eats it up?

Dr. Lewis:                     Well actually, a little bit of both, but the use of diuretics, diarrhea. Presence of fluoride. These people said, “Oh, this water out of the tap’s good.” Well, you’re getting enough fluoride in there, you have to greatly increase your magnesium level. Those of us, including me, that take high levels of zinc for our prostate and immune system, need magnesium. When I give a single mineral, I tell people it’s better to take the reacted multi-min, which is the multi-minerals, for balance. It’s really better that way.

Janet Lewis:                 I know certain medications can also eat up your magnesium in the body, so they’re treating you with antibiotics and diuretics and that actually helps you lose your magnesium, so it’s very important that you supplement with that if you’re on any of those medications, because you need that for your heart, because your heart will sometimes cramp too. If your leg muscles are cramping at night like Dr. Lewis mentioned, you just have to remember that your heart is also a muscle and it can cramp the same way.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, so, you know, I’d like to thank you for the ones that shared this, and there’s a lot of that going on. We have an incredible influx of people, so if you want to get our care, you’d better jump on the train, but I would like for you please to let us know, is this helpful that we’re talking about one thing and I’m not going down through too many rabbit trails? I’d really like your feedback, positive or negative. I will listen to it, so we would ask that you always be blessed.

Janet Lewis:                 With laughter on your lips and joy in your eyes. Hope you guys have a great rest of your week, and we’ll be here next time on the Green Wisdom Health Show.

 

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The Miracle Magic of Magnesium | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

There is an estimated 80 percent of Americans that are deficient in this important mineral!

Magnesium is also found in more than 300 different enzymes in your body which are responsible for:

    Creation of ATP
    Proper Formation of Bones and Teeth
    Relaxation of Blood Vessels
    Action of your Heart Muscle
    Promotion of Proper Bowel Function
    Regulation of Blood Sugar Levels
    Heart Function

Product Mentioned In Today’s Show:

Reacted Magnesium: provides three unique forms of highly-absorbed magnesium to ensure maximum absorption of this important macromineral. Most magnesium supplements use only a single source of magnesium, which can easily overwhelm a single pathway of absorption and limit uptake. Reacted Magnesium takes advantage of three unique pathways of absorption by providing magnesium as di-magnesium malate, magnesium citrate and magnesium glycinate for enhanced absorption, improved utilization and gastrointestinal (GI) comfort.

Recommended Lab for Todays Show is:

Super Panel Men’s:

The GWH – 4. Super Panel Plus Men’s Hormones w Consult panel contains 20 tests with 89 biomarkers.

This panel includes Dr. Lewis’ consultation services and recommendations. Please complete the health survey at https://www.greenwisdomhealth.com/health-survey

 

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Acne, Rashes and Wrinkles

Janet Lewis:                 Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of The Green Wisdom Health Show. I’m Janet Lewis.

Dr. Lewis:                     And I’m Dr. Lewis.

Janet Lewis:                 And we are here to bring you exciting information about acne, wrinkles, and rashes. Doesn’t that sound fun? Last week was on skin and gut issues, and today, because of such a great feedback, we are going to talk about acne, and wrinkles, and where rashes come from, because so many people have skin issues. We had a lady that actually just broke out from taking some natural products, she just completely swole up and her whole skin was just a big inflammatory process. So Dr. Lewis is going to talk a little bit, or a lot today about the outside of the body and what’s really the most important culprit, which is the inside of the body. So if you could explain to us how acne and wrinkles and rashes on the outside have anything to do with what’s going on inside, we would appreciate your input.

Dr. Lewis:                     It has everything to do, and really the hardest thing about these podcasts are naming it, except for staying on the right rabbit trail, not jumping on another one, but it doesn’t really matter. If we talk about skin, we’re talking about the GI tract, we’re talking about the detoxification of your kidneys and liver. You got two choices; you can detox or intox. And most people say I want to be intoxed, but you want to give your body enough nutrients that it can detox. I’m just explaining skin because I just got off that rabbit trail and stayed on it a while, still have a lot of information on it, but everything I say about skin is equally applicable to everything in the body.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the things that can make for good skin or bad skin is there’s an immune stimulation that goes on in response to stress, regardless of the cause, and stress can be mental. Most people create their own stress. You know, the old saying of most people create their own storms and then they complain when it rains. Most people that’s stressed, because you think about things incorrectly, and that’s why I tell you to read books, listen to tapes, talk to people that can help you think differently and be less stressful. But it can be chemical stress, financial stress, being married to the wrong person stress. Okay, enough about that.

Dr. Lewis:                     Chronic stress can actually cause the issues, as far as high cortisol, which blows your adrenals and goes to low cortisol, but actually increases your risk of infection, and that’s when it gets moderately prolonged type stress. So people that get infections a lot, it may be because of what would seem to be a totally unrelated stress, and them not dealing with it correctly. And we deal with it nutritionally, but we also try to pump people up and be positive, and give them a reason to live, and make that connection well, if you get healthy therefore your family can be more blessed.

Dr. Lewis:                     The immune system gets ramped up under chronic stress, and then the longer that goes on the more likely you are to have an autoimmune disease. You’ve heard us talk about the different autoimmune diseases and how it’s always partially a part of the answer, a part of the equation is the GI tract, and we talked about gluten, and that’s one of the chronic stresses. I’m not totally gluten free, but I’ve certainly cut it way, way, way back, and Janet just did our lab yesterday morning, and it’s coming in, it’s not final yet. Janet’s doing really, really good. We’ve made some incredible improvements with her immune system. I’m doing real good in some areas, but here’s something I want to talk about.

Dr. Lewis:                     Even if you’re taking the right stuff, you may not be absorbing it, because I take one K-Force, and one to three of our good Vitamin D. So I’m getting at least 10, if not 20 IUs a day of the good Vitamin D, and my Vitamin D tested at 40, and I know that’s in the range, but that’s woefully inadequate. So either I’m not absorbing correctly, and that’s why you have to go to the gut, even if it’s wrinkles in the skin, you’ve got to think gut. So I’m not absorbing, or I’m actually using a lot of my Vitamin D to let my body detox and fight off some kind of major chronic stress. So see, high or low doesn’t always mean, you still have to plug in other pieces of the equation.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, and the other part of that, because people always say, “Can’t you overdose taking too many vitamins? Can’t your system not know what to do with that because you’ve thrown so many?” Honestly, we throw, you wouldn’t believe what I throw in. Like Dr. Lewis said, I’m taking 10,000 IUs of Vitamin D as well. My Vitamin D came back at a 56. It was like, okay, well it’s in the range but it isn’t like it’s high. But the issue is digestion. For both of us, even with us taking everything, it was a lack of an ability to actually break down what we’re putting in. So you can put the good things in, but if you don’t have great digestive enzymes, you may not be absorbing all of that.

Janet Lewis:                 So it actually takes more of it to get in before you absorb it, or in our case, we’re going to a little bit of betaine hydrochloric acid to help the chloride go up, because that actually helps burn up all the things that you’re putting in a little bit better, and help you utilize it, because you start losing your chloride levels the older you get, and we’re both so young, we want to make sure that we keep our chloride. But that’s the main thing, is that you really don’t know without lab, whether or not you’re taking the right products or you’re not, and people say, “Well, I’m taking this, I think it’s this.” I’m like, “You don’t know what it is unless you do lab.” Lab is a big eye opener, and it’s usually not anything you think it is that’s wrong.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, you misdiagnose it on Google mostly.

Janet Lewis:                 Oh yeah, and you wouldn’t believe the people all day long that tell me, “Well, I’m really sure it’s my thyroid.” Everybody has a thyroid problem according to them, and we get thyroids back and they’re beautiful, there’s nothing wrong with it, but there’s other things wrong, like a lot of poor digestion. So that’s what Dr. Lewis is talking about, which leads to all these wrinkles.

Dr. Lewis:                     In order to get a good elimination or detox, you have to have good digestion to start with, because if it’s not really balanced what happens is you create something called free radical, and that causes inflammation, and a toxic accumulation in the matrix of the cells, and that’ll break down the cells. For example, the extra toxins, say of a smoker. A smoker’s almost always have many, many more wrinkles because it breaks down the matrix of the cell. It’s doing that on cells that you can’t see, also, and I talk about the inflammatory cytokines, there’s a lot of research on cytokines, but it’s not bad to have them, it’s just bad to have too many of them at once that the body’s not able to deal with. And when you decrease the matrix because you have too many of the pro-inflammatory cytokines, that alone means, okay, the cells are not detoxifying, and then you start breaking down the sponge like material in there, and we’ll get to more of that in a minute.

Dr. Lewis:                     But the cytokines, they have different messages that they steer the appropriate immune response. The two that I know of are Th1 or Th2, and the Th1 has to do with gamma tumor necrosis factors, and they kill, these types of invaders. When you have Th2, you have antibodies that are made, and people that have autoimmune diseases understand what I mean about antibodies, and it puts out things called interleukin 4, 5, 10, 13, and a lot of others, and that creates more of an allergic response, and we do have a supplement that’ll deal with that too. But they generally are only produced, the cytokines, are generally produced only under response to stress. So it can be anti-inflammatory or pro-inflammatory. So don’t think cytokines are bad, they’re just bad if you have one channel going one way, and the other channel doesn’t go the other way. You’ve got to get the health down to the cellular level, that’s why we’re talking about skin, but that counts for all the cells in your body.

Dr. Lewis:                     At one point, I tell people, “You can change the manifestation of your disease, until you get to a point where it’s past, well it’s passed the point of no return.” And I tell people, because people ask me, “Can you cure cancer?” And I say, “No. You’re past the point of no return. Please see an oncologist. Yes, the supplements can be complimentary, but not an alternative.” Always see a good specialist for whatever you have, and use the complimentary nutrients to help. So there is a point of no return, there is a limitation of matter, so to speak. You can’t do it all instantly like some people would like, it just does not happen that way.

Dr. Lewis:                     So when you talk about the stages of disease, or the stages of skin depredation, you have to think about, number one; detoxification and drainage, and these massage therapists that do lymphatic drainage, highly recommend them, go see them. Then you go into the second stage, which is immunomodulation actually, and that’s where you use the supplements, the Protomorphogens, and what they do they intervene in your, it’s called autoregulatory response, but the immunomodulation, I think the next seriously good step is when you use glandulars. And I had a lady this morning says, “I was doing this other doctor’s protocol and I just couldn’t stand it because it was a glandular and it tasted bad.” I said, “The one I recommended right there is a glandular.” She said, “But it’s in a capsule, it’s not a tablet.” Really and truly, if you can taste it first it stimulates the brain to actually get more out of it.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve had people that said, “I don’t want to get on this because it may affect my hormones. My body should be making it on its own.” And I told one sweet young lady, I said, “I know honey, but you’re 20, and it’s not working. And you know what? If you take these glandulars many, many, many times, it’s a wake up call to your glands and they begin to work again.” So glandulars, if a doctor gives you glandulars, it’s usually a really good thing, and it can help put off the three pillars of disease prevention, if you will allow me to say it that way. I love glandulars, personally, and we use a lot of them for thyroid, for adrenal, for thalamus, for spleen, pituitary, hypothalamus, etc.

Dr. Lewis:                     Here’s what I want you to know, this is kind of a Stephenism. Life’s going to take you down a path, but how much disease do you want to avoid? Because you do have some control. Yep, you’re not going to outrun your genetics, but you can sure greatly, greatly influence genetic expression, and that is written in all sorts of research, including cancer research, that you can alter genetic expression. There’s a lot of people that have not believed or agreed with this type of practice. Most of them are either dead, full of dementia, heart disease, and cancer, because they had the answer years ago and didn’t have the faith to put it into action.

Dr. Lewis:                     Folks, disease is going to reach up and slap you on the butt, but to have good health you have to work for it, and we’re all going to go down, but what kind of life did you have? What kind of energy did you have? How much fun did you have because you put the effort into being healthy? I’m glad I’ve done it, is all I can tell you, and it’s made a huge, huge difference. So remember, when a doctor wants to put you on a glandular, that you can hear me in the back of your mind, “And Dr. Lweis says that’s a kick in the butt for your body to stimulate proper glandular function.” It takes a minimum of two months, and so people say, “Oh, two months.” “No,” I said, “Minimum. That’s when it begins to start to work.” So don’t quit after two months.

Dr. Lewis:                     The lady I talked to this morning that didn’t like the glandular from another functional doctor, she gave it six months, and I said, “That’s fair. Fair shake.” And she said, “But I like your program better, that’s why I’m back.” And she said, “I feel better.” And I know the doctor she was going to, who is a very, very good functional doctor.

Dr. Lewis:                     When you use these glandulars it’s really good for the long term repair for chronic conditions. If it took you many months or years to get in that condition, please allow your body many, many months to get back on track, and when you do the glandulars, it’s best if you do the adipogenic herbs, also. I talked last week about estrogens, like the pig in the parking lot, takes up the space and doesn’t give you a parking space. All different hormones have different parking spaces, for example, cortisol and progesterone, they have two separate parking lots, and the higher your cortisol, meaning high stress, the less your bodies going to create progesterone. I see progesterone inadequacy, it’s rampant, and you need progesterone not just to carry a baby, to keep you pregnant til you have it, but it also helps detoxify those estrogens that are mimicked by plastics and pesticides, etc. etc. They’re interrelated but they have different parking lots.

Dr. Lewis:                     Skin regeneration is, I think, if you work on the skin you’re really working on the inside too, but the skin is probably more important than we give it credit for, it’s really the largest organ of the body. It takes up, I think the number is 16% of your total body weight, and if you were to stretch it out, they say it’d be 16 to 20 square feet. Well, some of us have more than others, that’s for sure. Sometimes the skin regenerates too fast, and it’s response to an autoimmune problem, and those are the ones that have eczema or psoriasis, the dry ones especially. One of the best things you can do is go to the far-infrared sauna and sit in that, because it helps the body sweat out some of the toxins.

Dr. Lewis:                     You kind of have to watch sunlight for the skin, and that’s kind of a confusing thing, because you need sunlight to help your body produce Vitamin D, which actually is a hormone, but it’s the UVA that goes deep, UVB just kind of bounces off, but they create free radicals. And free radicals, people ask me what that is. I said, “It’s like a bumblebee in a jar. It has to come up and out in order for your stress to decrease.” And once they get that bumblebee analogy, they kind of understand a free radical.

Dr. Lewis:                     The regeneration though, it’s a long term thing, and some of us are blessed with prettier skin than others. Janet has genetically much prettier skin. Mine, I didn’t get that good of genetics, but the skin went downhill after I had two spider bites on my leg, it grew together, rotted, and all that. Most of my skin aging came after the trauma, keep in mind free radicals, from the spider bite poison, from the antibiotics that I got, from the candida overgrowth after all those antibiotics, that really hurt me for at least six years. And that’s where most of the aging took place. So see, folks, even though it’s going on internally, it shows on my skin. And it’s getting better with time, but you have to put a little bit of work into it.

Dr. Lewis:                     How many of you have heard of the word histamine? The histamine response, most of it’s made in the liver, but the histamine response, there’s some foods that are high in histamines and those are the ones that create the allergy type factors. The snorting, and snotting, as I would like to say. We do have things that will help with that, called Natural D-Hist, it’s one of the most effective. Then there’s this thing called quercetin, some people pronounce is quercetin, that is one of the best things you can do to reduce some of the histamine reactions, and you get a lot of those from the foods. Even the fermented foods that are super high in probiotics, that’s a good thing and I highly recommend you learn to do that, but they’re also high in histamines, so think about the term quercetin, of quercetin.

Dr. Lewis:                     These cells have a memory of reactions, and it doesn’t take much [inaudible 00:19:07] later to recreate allergies, and the reactions to the toxins, it takes much less of a toxins once those cells have those memories and the hormone imbalances. So barrier, skin’s always a barrier, and people say, “I have acne, eczema,” etc. etc. “Oh, I have wrinkles.” I say, “Well, when you have toxins coming out of the skin, that’s just a very clear sign that you don’t have proper bowel movements, and you’re not drinking enough water to flush the toxins out through the urinary tract.” The skin has a lot of jobs, like regulating body temperature, and it has a lot to do with absorption. Some people try to get their magnesium through skin absorption, that’s not bad, I don’t think that’s the best way to get it, but it certainly can work that way. That’s why the Epsom salts bath will take out some toxins, and you’ll absorb enough of the magnesium to relax the muscles. That’s a really good thing.

Dr. Lewis:                     Some of the worst things you can do for skin is sugar, refined carbohydrates, anything in a box or a bag, anything that’s made from flour. Yeah I know, I hate to say that. Chocolate, that hurts because I love chocolate. Tea, coffee, I love coffee. Alcohol, and when you’re constipated. Lack of exercise. If you have a doctor who doesn’t stay active or exercise mildly, he or she may not be the best guy for you, but there’s certain things you can put in your system that can help with all that, and believe it or not, by putting it in your GI tract then it’s very likely to help clear the skin. We’ve seen many, many examples of that. We see it every day.

Janet Lewis:                 So you mean if you’re going to do bad things like coffee and things like that, you can replace it something that might be less inflammatory, or add to it so you’re not cheating so bad, or aging so fast?

Dr. Lewis:                     She’s looking at me when she’s saying that, cheating so bad.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, the one thing I’m really excited about, I’m actually excited about two things. One of them is InflammaCore. We just got this in, it tastes fantastic, and it is a vanilla chai flavor, and I think it’s because it reminds me of the lattes up at Starbucks, not that I drink those, but it just seems to have some sort of correlation for me when you taste it.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s also young child approved by the taste.

Janet Lewis:                 Oh yeah, they’re some kind of fantastic. But it has tons of things that help cool and calm your gut, like glutamine, and it has the medium change triglycerides, and arabinogalactan for your immune system. Lycine, glycine, quercetin, huge anti-inflammatory properties like tumeric, green tea, ginger, and the best thing about this is that it has rice protein. So if you’re gluten intolerant, you could actually eat this, have this for a meal.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s been very popular, I promise.

Janet Lewis:                 And it has flax seed flour in it.

Dr. Lewis:                     Flax seed has omega-3, the anti-inflammatory omega-3.

Janet Lewis:                 So it’s going to be great as a meal replacement, not that you’re going to replace every meal with it, but you could replace one meal with it, and have something that was very inflammatory. The other one that we have that is actually coming, it should be here within the next couple of days, is our new one for energy, which I think Dr. Lewis needs to do a show about energy, because so many people don’t have it, and I know we’ve done a few shows. But we have a new product coming called Mitocore, and it is in a powder form, and it’s something you can drink as a meal replacement as well. We have the Mitocore capsules right now for energy, but it’s coming as a strawberry protein powder.

Dr. Lewis:                     But you need your spouse to mix it up if you don’t have enough energy. So Janet, would you make it for me?

Janet Lewis:                 Sure. I’m excited. It’s like that’s another meal replacement, so you could vanilla chai for one, you could have strawberry for another. And are you going to talk to us at all about how to not age so quickly, as far as things that we might be able to do to learn how to not age as fast? Because I think everybody wants to not age. Or may I talk about it, because it’s important to women.

Dr. Lewis:                     Let me say this one thing, and this is not all inclusive, but for skin integrity and wrinkles, it’s caused usually by lack of Vitamin A, C, E, selenium, and zinc, but they also boost your immune system. So you have the collagen, different collagens and hyaluronic acid. But I think, Janet, you’d be better about talking about that, because you look, she literally looks 10, maybe 15 years younger than she is, so.

Janet Lewis:                 I do have good skin. But the InflammaCore is huge for wrinkles and taking out the inflammation in your skin. But then there’s other things that you should do, like learn how, like Dr. Lewis said, effectively cope with stress.

Dr. Lewis:                     Be grateful. Grateful people have the least wrinkly skin. The ones that always see something good and smile, they’re easiest, they’re always giving compliments, giving money, giving thank you cards. I think one of the healthiest ways you can, or maintain health, is just spiritually.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, and like you said, take the animal based omega-3 fats, the antioxidants from your foods, or from our new Mitocore powder, or from our new InflammaCore. We have all these new powders, so you don’t have to swallow pills.

Dr. Lewis:                     That would be me she’s looking at.

Janet Lewis:                 Use coconut oil, like MCT oil, or ours is called, we have one, we actually have two. We have one that’s for cooking, the straight MCT oil that you’ve heard of, and then we have another one that has actually got some coconut flavors to it, and it’s really good. Get your resveratrol naturally.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know, I had a patient the other day, and this is not the only time this happened, says, “Well, I drink for resveratrol.” And I said, “Well, the sulfites in it kill all the resveratrol.” I said this to a priest last week. He said, “Yeah, I drink wine for resveratrol.” And I said, “I drink screwdrivers for Vitamin C too.” And his wife just laughed. The new research on Vitamin D though says you should get your Vitamin D to 80 to 100. That’s the new research, and that’s good for the skin, good for detox. It’s hard to get Vitamin D up that high, so you have to kind of crank it up carefully, and check it on lab. Don’t just take it.

Janet Lewis:                 Exactly. The other thing is you want to try avoid as many chemicals, and toxins, and pollutants as possible, like-

Dr. Lewis:                     Toxic people?

Janet Lewis:                 And household cleaners. So many of those smell so great, and they are so toxic. The other thing is they’re always trying to put that stuff on their hands to get rid of bacteria. I can’t tell you how many people come in here and do that. You know, the natural form, or they sell some things, like Myers sells some things that’s pretty good for that, but the one-

Dr. Lewis:                     The hand sanitizer. I’ve always said the biggest ingredient in hand sanitizer is called paranoia. Quit it, it’s not good for you.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, I mean because you’re just putting chemicals in your body.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, alcohol should go on the inside, not on your hands. Oh, I’m sorry.

Janet Lewis:                 Soaps, you have to watch the soaps. And I have a lot of women tell me, I have urinary tract infections all the time. Well, most of them are using perfumed soaps. So you need to watch that, taking sit down baths and using the perfumed soaps will pretty much guarantee you, you’re going to keep a urinary tract infection.

Dr. Lewis:                     Or chemical sensitivity, it’s hard to tell the difference.

Janet Lewis:                 Okay. Air fresheners, how many of us are doing that and hanging them in our cars?

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s an invitation to cancer according to some research scientists.

Janet Lewis:                 Mm-hmm (affirmative). Bug sprays. Now we can mist our yards with them.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, I do diatomaceous earth, throw it out in front of my, you know, electric blow thing that blows, a leaf blower, and diatomaceous earth is not harmful. It’s not harmful to my worms. I have such a beautiful, rich, fertile yard that the armadillo’s tearing up.

Janet Lewis:                 Armadillo loves our yard. He comes and digs every night and he helps us aureate. So he’s trying to help us with-

Dr. Lewis:                     I chased him with a spear the other night, but I didn’t want to go in the neighbor’s yard and get arrested.

Janet Lewis:                 We’ve not caught him yet, as you can tell.

Dr. Lewis:                     Because you can’t shoot where we live, but I think I’m fixing to anyway.

Janet Lewis:                 However, Dr. Lewis is a great hunter. He caught a raccoon in his trap, which we let go. And he caught a possum in his trap, which he felt so sorry for he fed it a can of sardines.

Dr. Lewis:                     And fed it water, because I think he’d been there a little while. He was happy when he left.

Janet Lewis:                 But we still have no armadillo, he’s gotten away.

Dr. Lewis:                     Armadillo’s not going to be so lucky.

Janet Lewis:                 But see, they like our yard because it’s chemical free.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 And that’s the point, you want to make sure that you’re getting rid of as many of these chemicals, because they’re not good for you either.

Dr. Lewis:                     Healthy soil produces healthier food too. So be careful where you buy your food. If you can get it from the local farmer, and you know they’re not using all the chemicals, and herbicides, and pesticides, you would be much, much better off, and that does show in your skin.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. And the big one is pharmaceutical drugs. It is so rare for somebody that’s over 40 years old at this point to not be on a pharmaceutical drug. Not that they are not needed for some things sometimes, but they are very overdone in a whole lot of circumstances, and those will age you quickly.

Dr. Lewis:                     My cardiologist says, “Why are you not on a drug?” I said, “Have you not looked out in your waiting room?”

Janet Lewis:                 I mean literally, you can see when someone’s gone from doing natural health to they’ve got put on pharmaceutical drugs.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve seen friends die much quicker because there was a cascade of this drug caused this system.

Janet Lewis:                 Yes.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, then you get on another one, and on, and on, and on. So think about your hormone level, because that has everything to do with skin too. Alright folks, I hope this is kinda sorta entertaining and enlightening to some degree, but one thing leads to the other, so it’s all connected.

Janet Lewis:                 So rashes, wrinkles, aging.

Dr. Lewis:                     Acne.

Janet Lewis:                 And gut health, all from the gut, fellas. Folks, women, children, whoever’s listening. So make sure we address the gut, and then we’ll be here next time with another show. Hopefully about energy, because we’ll be having a whole bunch of it by then, and we’ll be able to share with you our results of our new Mitocore. So hope you guys have a very blessed week.

 

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Acne Rashes and Wrinkles | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

Anti-Aging Recommendations:

    Eat a Healthy Diet Based on Your Nutritional Type
    Take Your Animal Based Omega-3 Fats
    Get Your Antioxidants from Foods
    Use Coconut Oil like MCT
    Get Your Resveratrol Naturally
    Have a Solid Exercise Program
    Avoid as Many Chemicals, Toxins and Pollutants as Possible
    Avoid Pharmaceutical Drugs

 

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show:

Inflammacore – an advanced nutritional formula built to address immune challenges, maintain a healthy inflammatory response and strengthen gastrointestinal (GI) barrier function. It represents an innovative, multidimensional approach providing powerful phytonutrients to support proper inflammatory control and a unique base of nutrients that promote overall GI health

GI Response – IMPROVE YOUR GASTROINTESTINAL HEALTH – Contains Sustamine, a dipeptide combining pure L-Glutamine and L-Alanine, to support gut health.

 

Lab Panel for Today’s Show:

GWH1-Comprehensive + Womens Hormones

contains 17 tests with 105 biomarkers.

This panel includes Dr. Lewis’ consultation services and recommendations.

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Aging Gracefully | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

Primary Keys to Graceful Aging:

    Proper Food Choices
    High Intensity “Anti-Aging” Exercises
    Stress Reduction and Positive Thinking
    Intermittent Fasting

Secrets to Longevity:

    Keep a Positive Attitude
    Not Smoking or Drinking Excessively
    Living Independently
    Family, Friends
    Good Genes
    Staying Mentally Active and Always Learning Something New
    Faith / Spirituality

Product mentioned in today’s show:

Cosmedix – Collagen, the body’s main structural protein, makes up 70% of the skin and is vital in helping to maintain the skin’s firmness, suppleness and elasticity, as well as the constant renewal of skin cells. Each capsule of Cosmedix contains 325 mg MSM, 100 mg betaine HCl and 240 mg saw palmetto. Added support from vitamin A, D3, folic acid, B12, biotin and selenium provide a full spectrum of skin, hair and nail support. 

Lab Panel Mentioned In Today’s Show:

Comprehensive Panel + Women’s Hormones:

Comprehensive + Women’s Hormones w Consul panel contains 17 tests with 105 biomarkers.

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Doom, Gloom and Despair

 

Janet Lewis:                 Hello and welcome to this week’s show. I am Janet Lewis.

Dr.  Lewis:                    And I’m Dr. Lewis.

Janet Lewis:                 And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low-cost lab work, and pharmaceutical-grade supplements, vitamins and herbs to help you have a life worth living.

Janet Lewis:                 And speaking of a life worth living, many of you out there suffer from depression, anxiety, a feeling of gloom, despair. So today’s show is all about doom, gloom, and despair, and where it comes from, if there’s help, is it out of your head, what do you do, and we’re here to open the door of hope for you.

Janet Lewis:                 So today Dr. Lewis is going to educate us a little bit about what can be done to make you feel good again.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Janet says it comes from here or there. I thought it came from hee-haw, doom, gloom, and misery on me. Something like that.

Janet Lewis:                 You’re dating yourself.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Well, I’m not that bad a date, I’ll tell you that.

Dr.  Lewis:                    The thing about it is if you have this doom, gloom, and depression, you know, sometimes you need the psychotropic drugs, but they have a lot of side effects. I mentioned the other day that there was this lady, whose doctor says, “Well, you can do the natural stuff, or you can do my stuff.” But he says, “If you do the natural stuff, I’m not going to get involved.”

Dr.  Lewis:                    Well, the lady, believe it or not, I’m dealing with her now, and she decided to follow some of my instructions. There’s the key. You can’t do anything half way, and I’m trying to be polite here, but I told her to get off wheat, which she did, and there’s plenty of research that says, you know, many people have wheat sensitivity or allergy.

Dr.  Lewis:                    I’ve talked about how wheat can actually cause schizophrenia, just because it irritates the GI tract, which lets you know that all this misery, brain fog, anxiety, and depression can come out of your GI tract, and it’s almost always part of the equation, if not always, and that research on the schizophrenia came from a journal of biological psychiatry. So you know, we’re talking about well-researched, well-respected entities.

Dr.  Lewis:                    And I’m glad to have that lady back, and you know, trying to whip her depression. You know, you hear me talk about the toxic world. And it’s real, and a lot of people don’t really believe me because they don’t necessarily see it, and that’s why I’m real bad, or real good about quoting research.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Mercury lowers, glutathione in, you know, there’s some companies pushing, saying, “”Oh, you know, this creates glutathione. It will make you young, rich, and good-looking.”

Dr.  Lewis:                    Well, there’s a lot of supplements that do that, but you have to have the glutathione, that mercury, kind of, sideswipes and it helps you make neurotransmitters in your brain, and in your GI tract, and that’s very important to know.

Dr.  Lewis:                    MSG, people that love MSG because it’s neuro-excitatory. Well, the book I think that people should read about the MSG is called ‘The Dorito Effect’. The lady that cuts my hair said she didn’t want to read it. She wanted me to read it and give her the Cliff Notes.

Dr.  Lewis:                    So I did. MSG, we’ve known since the 1970s is absolutely horrible for your brain, and that alone can be the major contributing fact to stress, anxiety, and depression, but there’s probably many other factors, and that’s why you need help, and if you’re depressed you need to get the help of your spouse, your best friend, your preacher, a counselor, psychologist, psychiatrist, you need help, and that’s the point because usually when you get to that point, you need help.

Dr.  Lewis:                    PCB, pesticides effect the uptake of neurotransmitters. Dopamine serotonin, and glutamate, and GABA. That’s from the Journal of Toxicology. So you know, all this has been around for decades and decades and decades. We have the knowledge. So the point is why are we not treating it?

Dr.  Lewis:                    You want me to just ramble, Janet? I can sure do that.

Janet Lewis:                 Just ramble. Well, you know, my question is, you know, we always talk about doing low-cost lab work. Is that something you can see, depression in someone’s lab panel?

Dr.  Lewis:                    No. You can suspect it by what the GI tract’s doing. You can suspect it because the thyroid’s usually not right. You can suspect it, because you have high basophils or eosinophils, you know, you have a GI problem, and most likely a yeast overgrowth. You can suspect a lot of things, and we don’t want to be in the normal reference range ’cause these normal reference ranges aren’t normal. They cover all the weird people.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Anyway, Janet tells me to be more polite about that, but it covers a sick America. You want to be in optimal range, and that’s usually the top of the bell curve in the middle 30 or 40%. Some things, however, need to be either high or low, depending on what it is, and I always explain that and needs to be that way for optimal health.

Dr.  Lewis:                    And yeah, the labs do give you, you know, a lot of hope of me figuring it out, but again, you know, I had a wonderful couple in here yesterday, and the husband loved his wife enough to come in with her, and people that do this together, usually have a much, much better outcome because sometimes you have to hold her hand, while they’re not strong enough to help themselves.

Dr.  Lewis:                    And you know, people say … Oh I had a patient here while back say, “Oh, do you believe in fibromyalgia?” I said, “Well, of course.” And she was just like a … Oh, a relief on her face, and her husband said, “We’ve been to about seven different doctors. They said that was not a reasonable diagnosis.” And I said, “Well, it’s just kind of a general thing, fibromyalgia. It could be, you know, lack of magnesium.” You know, lack of magnesium can very well contribute to depression, anxiety, stress, et cetera, but it can contribute to fibromyalgia. It can be just a low functioning thyroid.

Dr.  Lewis:                    But the doctor says, “Well, it’s in range.” I said, “Well, it’s not in optimal range.” So it’s not easy to figure out and that’s why you need help, whether it’s from your spouse, or a best friend, or a counselor, or you know, some sort of doctor to hold your hand, and be strong, while you’re weak and getting well, and we’ve all needed that, including me.

Dr.  Lewis:                    So I’m just going to ramble on a while on depression. I actually asked Janet several times in the last few months, year or two, if she thought I was depressed, and she says, “No, I don’t think so. Why?” I said, “Well, I’ve lost interest in guns, and I’m kind of a gun nut.” And she said, “Well, the problem is you have so many it’s hard to get excited about it.” And I said, “Maybe that’s true.”

Dr.  Lewis:                    You know, I quit shooting deer many, many, many years ago. I sat and watched one, real pretty, but … And one of the signs of depression can be if you lose interest in the things you used to be interested in, but it’s not necessarily true, and that’s why I asked Janet because I needed something, a more objective opinion.

Dr.  Lewis:                    One of the things that can help contribute to depression is nutrient deficiencies. I think that everybody’s nutrient deficient because you cannot get enough out of your food, even if you eat totally organic, and I treat a lot of organic farmers. I know this is true, and I read the research.

Dr.  Lewis:                    And primal, paleo, ketos, the most popular diet right now, and I personally think they’re correct. Limiting the carbohydrates, but I’ll talk about rice for a little bit. Not that brown rice is necessarily good for you because the excess carbohydrates, but when you form the brown rice into white rice, you grind it, you bleach it. There’s all kinds of other processes. You lose about 80% of the trace minerals that’s not enough in the brown rice, but you’re losing 80% of what’s in there to make white rice, and these minerals are like magnesium, which I just talked about, manganese, which has a lot to do with blood sugar, and other things. Copper and zinc, and zinc is one of the common things that’s low in depression.

Dr.  Lewis:                    And if it goes low and stays low, then your immune system begins to take a hit, and we kind of take a … We can kind of make a good educated guess, if your alkaline and phosphatase is low that you need more zinc. You know, that happens with white flour. We’ve talked about that a lot. They used to, about 100 years ago, fortify with iodine. Now, they fortify with bromine, which is one of the nastiest things you can do to wreck your thyroid, but even over 100 years ago in a book that I have, it talked about how flour is absolutely devastating to people that are diabetics. Now, the medical book said that over 100 years ago, but then we still don’t practice it. So folks, I know you enjoy what you learn here, and thank you very much for sharing because there’s a lot of sharing going on. I get a lot of referrals, and Jonathon says I’m going to have to give him money for mentioning his name, but it’s not what you know, it’s what you do.

Dr.  Lewis:                    You know, faith without works is dead. So faith is a wonderful thing you have to have it. But, you have to have the works or the actions step. So, there’s a lot of vitamins and minerals that is very necessary just for your body to function correctly. Then it can generally fix a lot of the depression. The toxins I talk about. On our health survey many, many, many … it’s extremely common for these people to say I have brain fog. One of the things we’re going to talk about when we get to the supplements is thiamin.

Dr.  Lewis:                    If you have an overcolonization of yeast, they interfere with your uptake of thiamin. If you don’t have enough thiamin, that’s B1, it causes the gut to be more leaky. You’ve heard of leaky gut. What it also causes your brain to become leaky. It allows the toxins in the environment to cross the blood-brain barrier. I don’t normally put people on thiamin. I put them on Benfotiamine, which is the best form of thiamin. And the large majority of the people that said they had brain fog, say later that it went away and their thinking was crystal clear now.

Dr.  Lewis:                    And that helps to get rid of some of the toxins. These toxins come from, your furnishings, building construction, cosmetics, traffic exhaust, pesticides, office supplies. Janet and I just got an RV. I know we talked about this before, but it bears repeating, … and it came out of Canada. Guess what? They don’t allow formaldehyde and you don’t walk in and feel bad or get toxic or your eyes burning. We went into some other RV’s the other day and holy, geez, my eyes were watering and sniffing and snorting and snotting, just from walking in that RV, apparently built in America.

Dr.  Lewis:                    So, folks talk, make a vote with your money. We bought this one out of Canada. And it’s way, way, better. Even though, they only let 60 in America per year. Aluminum and cadmium, if you smoke, you’re just getting a huge dose of cadmium. Then you’re exhaling that and killing everybody in the room with you. So, you probably ought to quit it. Any man that has benign prostatic hypertrophy or swollen prostate, it’s usually full of yeast and/or cadmium. You have to do a lot of magnesium and zinc to help replace that. That comes a lot of times from a poor diet, junk foods. That helps you become even more deficient.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Other things that it can be. Well, chromium. Chromium, if you have a blood sugar handling problem, which feeds yeast, which messes with your GI tract. And most of us do have a chromium deficiency. Because that’s usually for us people that have sugar handling problems. I’m saying, us people, ’cause I have that challenge more so than Janet. When you have the chromium deficiency, it doesn’t just contribute to the hypoglycemia/headed toward metabolic syndrome, or diabetes. It also contributes to mood swings and depression.

Dr.  Lewis:                    High cholesterol can be a chromium deficiency too. People that get cholesterol and they go on statin drugs. And if they stay on statin drugs, they usually get depressed, because the cholesterol gets so low, you don’t really repair your brain, because there’s not enough cholesterol there to do it. I guess, Janet we should do a show on cholesterol some day, you think?

Janet Lewis:                 Oh, yeah, because that leads to depression a whole, lot. There are symptoms and signs, I guess, that people … they may not even realize they’re depressed.

Dr.  Lewis:                    That’s why I ask. Always ask for help, folks.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. And there’s some common things. If you feel, down, empty and numb, that’s a sign that you might be depressed. If you harbor a feeling of guilt or worthlessness, you’re always upset or tearful.

Dr.  Lewis:                    The poor self esteem people that always say “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry”.

Janet Lewis:                 Right. It’s really hard on the other people that always try to bring them up, too. There are some natural products that you can take that help with that. Our favorite one is probably 5-HTP, because it’s the peace of God in a bottle. And it’s the hundred milligram 5-HTP.

Dr.  Lewis:                    But, then people say, “But, I tried it, it didn’t work.”

Janet Lewis:                 Right.

Dr.  Lewis:                    I say “Try mine”. They say “Holy cow, this works.” I’d say “Where did you get your other one?” It’s usually the big box store. Folks supplements are different, just like your wonderful wife you have now, versus your crazy ex. Supplements are all created differently. Although the FDA does check those things, but, they can’t keep up with everything.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. Then there’s other things, with obviously thinking about suicide, or death may mean you’re a little bit depressed.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Then, if you’re thinking about suicide or death, or harming someone, then you run to the emergency room.

Janet Lewis:                 Exactly.

Dr.  Lewis:                    That’s when drugs are great.

Janet Lewis:                 Right. Unable to relate to other people.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Ha, ha. Can I say something about that?

Janet Lewis:                 Sure.

Dr.  Lewis:                    What’s wrong in America today? We got a whole lot of one type of person that’s really angry about the other type of person. The sign of good mental health is how many different types of people that you can get along with. I’ve got friends that are murderers, mountain men, millionaires, and everybody in between. We tease on Facebook, the people that have a political view directly opposed to mine. But, we still like each other at the end of the day. If you can’t stand people, because they’re a little bit different than you, you’re the one that has the mental problem. You need to love people for our sameness, not hate them for our differences. Woops. Did I say too much?

Janet Lewis:                 No. That’s great. A feeling of hopelessness and helplessness. Feeling a sense of unreality. You’re restless, agitated or irritable.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Woops.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. That can be your liver though, sometimes, too, which is something we can see on lab.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah. Very much so.

Janet Lewis:                 If you’re a mean drunk, you can see that on lab, because their liver enzymes will be higher.

Dr.  Lewis:                    If you’re a drunk, you’ve got a problem.

Janet Lewis:                 Like I said, it’s true. That’s numbing yourself, isn’t it.?

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah, escape reality. Reality is what you make it. It’s in your mind, in your attitude, in your spirit. You can control … your minds full and you can control what goes in it.

Janet Lewis:                 And you may actually have some other issues that are a sign of depression. They’re physical symptoms like avoiding social events or other activities that were once enjoyable.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Well, I was going say it would be me, ’cause I’m not a social animal, but they never were enjoyable. I’d rather go fishing, sit on the bank.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, I don’t think that’s a depression thing. I think that’s a personality thing. If you once were social and then you don’t want to be anymore.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 Sleeping too much, or getting no sleep at all. That’s interesting.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Well, yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 That’s cortisol, also. And can be seen on lab.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah. You know a lot of people say “Well, I can’t sleep”. And their cortisol’s at 26. I say “Well, it ought to be about a 12, 15, something like that. You’re running 120 miles an hour on I-20 when it’s raining.” And I-20’s famous for having massive amount of wrecks every time it rains a little bit, something’s wrong with the road. Yeah, cortisol’s incredibly important.

Janet Lewis:                 And all these tests we’re talking about are available on our comprehensive panel. I have it in our show notes. I linked to it. It’s actually 12 different panels and we’ve talked about two of them just now for the depression.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Right.

Janet Lewis:                 Thyroid can actually make you depressed, as well, if its not right. So, there are some markers on lab that you need to make sure are optimal.

Dr.  Lewis:                    If your thyroid ain’t right, it makes your spouse depressed, too. Get it checked and get it fixed.

Janet Lewis:                 Right. If you’re constipated,-

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yep-

Janet Lewis:                 … can be a sign of depression.

Dr.  Lewis:                    … because you’re holding in. There are some psychological and spiritual things that go with physical symptoms. People that are constantly constipated can’t let go. Think about that. People that have type A behavior have more heart attacks. People that harbor anger and fear have higher incidences of cancer. And yes, that’s real. There’s research to back it up. Not an opinion.

Janet Lewis:                 Difficulty speaking or thinking clear … I did not have trouble speaking that. I purposely did that.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah. She’s full of BS. Belief systems.

Janet Lewis:                 Changes in your menstrual cycle.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Go ahead Janet, it says I have PMS quite often, actually.

Janet Lewis:                 It is depressing for a woman to go through mid-life crisis and they don’t have a menstrual cycle anymore.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 That parts happy.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Man just behind your vehicle when we have a mid-life crisis.

Janet Lewis:                 So, changes of that can make you depressed. I understand. Experiencing aches and pains without any physical symptoms.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah, that goes back to the fibromyalgia stuff too, very, very much.

Janet Lewis:                 Losing interest in sexual intercourse, is actually a sign of depression.

Dr.  Lewis:                    I hear that a lot too. And it’s sad, when somebody in their 20s, 30s, and 40s say “I really have problems and I don’t really care.” It’s like “Okay. So, belly up to the bar. Go beyond the comprehensive and add your hormones, that will help.”

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. They need lab. Turning to recreational drugs tobacco use, or alcohol abuse.

Dr.  Lewis:                    My favorite drug is caffeine.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah.

Dr.  Lewis:                    That’s a drug.

Janet Lewis:                 Eating excessively, which leads to the weight gain or no appetite leading to weight loss. You just have to know that depression can come on gradually. So, some people may not immediately notice that something is wrong.

Dr.  Lewis:                    It may be something as simple as you have a 5-MTHF genetic SNP and that’s real common. Some of the so-called experts say there’s 50% of us that have that. That’s why in our formulas, we don’t have folic acid, we have 5-MTHF Quaterefolic. That’s the one that can get in if you have that genetic SNP. Janet can tell when I don’t take my dose of it, because I have one of the four possible genetic SNPs there. And she can tell you the day I don’t take it. 5-MTHF and we got you covered, when you’re getting supplements from us.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, even if you just get the B12 and it contains MTHF.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 It actually will be a life changer to … it will be like no B12 you’ve ever taken before. If you’ve tried B12 in the past and it’s like “Yeah, sort of, kind of”. This one here is like “Yeah. You know when you’ve missed it, because of that MTHF that’s in it.”

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah, and that goes with the zinc deficiency. Result is impaired membrane. Transport and impaired transport of B12, which can go to “Oh, you have low stomach acid.” That by itself can cause depression. So, you see it can be caused by so many different things. You need to find somebody with an objective opinion.

Janet Lewis:                 We do have a few questions here this week that I wan to make sure we acknowledge. One of them, the first one came from our employee here. I told her that I’m going to talk about this on the Podcast. I said, “I won’t mention your name.” She goes “Oh, no, it’s fine.” She goes “I’m going to be famous. Go ahead.”

Dr.  Lewis:                    Okay.

Janet Lewis:                 I said “It’s not going to be in a positive light.”.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Okay. Kendell, here you go.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. Kendell, who we love. She’s our new little energetic employee that works down here. Young little mind and she’s just awesome. She came in and did lab here. That’s kind of how we found her, to have her start working here. I told her “She had a little bit of a blood sugar problem.” She’s like “Well, I watch everything I eat.” And for her age, for where she is, she’s doing fantastic. She does better than half the people I know. She eats gluten free, the whole bit, you know, Natural Grocers is her favorite grocery store. It’s where she shops. She came bee-bopping in here yesterday with a drink she had gotten at the health food store. And she wanted Dr. Lewis to look at it, because she said “I am so proud of this”. She said “It is just full of all kinds of fruit.” She said, “There are no added sugars in here, or any kind of chemicals.” We looked at it. The grams of sugar that it had in it, were off the chart.

New Speaker:               51 grams of sugar or something crazy.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. It was something horribly high.

Dr.  Lewis:                    You know me, I’m so polite, I told her “You’d be better off drinking a beer.”

Janet Lewis:                 She said “But, everything in here is organic. It’s all organic fruit.”

Dr.  Lewis:                    So, is uranium, arsenic and cyanide, go right ahead, honey.

Janet Lewis:                 So, I wanted you to talk to the people out there that are trying to do the right things and they’re having these fruit type juices and they’re eating correctly, but they’re drinking this other stuff. Is that still going to spike your sugar.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Well, yeah, God put it in the fruit, with fiber. And fruits a lot more sweet than it used to be, because it’s been hybridized and genetically modified. You should only eat fruit if it’s in season. Yeah, I don’t totally follow that. When you eat it, you need to eat it with the fiber. If you’re going to juice it, fine. Throw the fiber back in the juice and drink it.

Janet Lewis:                 Because the fiber has to be in it, right? To slow down the-

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah, it stops or slows the glucose spike. Then the fibers, everybody’s they get on this one thing. And they say “Prebiotic, prebiotic, prebiotic.” I say “Well, geez, if you just eat the fiber, that will give your good bacteria something to munch on. When you’re just doing a fruit juice, you’re feeding your yeast. So, cut it out. People, literally, they’re drinking red wine for resveratrol, which the sulfites kill. I say “Yeah, well, I drink screwdrivers for my vitamin C, too” and they look at me funny. I said, “It makes just as much sense.” I’m not a big fan of fruit juice. I guess you can tell.

Janet Lewis:                 I think people correlate the with ‘yeah, I get it out of a can.’ If it’s out of a can, it’s not good. But, there are people that actually believe that if they get it out of the health food store, that it’s got to be good for you, because it says it’s organic. You can still have a blood sugar problem with just drinking your way into it. So, watch your juice. And actually I put her on reactive chromium. I said, if I can get you on chromium, it will stop this craving that you’ve got for sugar, because at about 11:30, she will literally run out of here, to go get something to eat, because she’s crashing, because that sugar has gone up and then it’s beginning to dip down. It’s lunch time, and she’s not eating, and she’s got to eat something fast. If you can stabilize that sugar and stop it from spiking, it helps depression and it helps you-

Dr.  Lewis:                    Quit feeding the yeast, which contributes-

Janet Lewis:                 Yes.

Dr.  Lewis:                    … to her anxiety. Oh, I’m not talking about her.

Janet Lewis:                 No.

Dr.  Lewis:                    It contributes to anxiety.

Janet Lewis:                 Then we have Maggie that is-

Dr.  Lewis:                    She’s a sweetheart. Love talking to her.

Janet Lewis:                 She’s wanting to know, because we have a product called Thyrotain, that is for thyroid primarily. But, it does have a hundred milligrams of tumeric in it. She’s wanting to know if that’s enough tumeric to take, or is it best to add in additional tumeric.

Dr.  Lewis:                    I think more is better.

Janet Lewis:                 Tumeric is what? A big-

Dr.  Lewis:                    Super duper anti-oxidant.

Janet Lewis:                 Okay.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Then there’s some controversy about “Well, you should do the tumeric with black pepper, because it opens up your blood vessels and gets more tumeric in. I don’t think that’s true. We’ve seen research that says if you do the black pepper with the tumeric, it actually helps you create an allergy to both, and you end up not absorbing both. You can read research that says anything and everything … personally I prefer it without the black pepper, because of the research I’ve read.

Janet Lewis:                 Okay. Then Wendy wants to know what are the normal ranges for ferritin. And ferritin is your iron, your stored iron, not your regular iron.

Dr.  Lewis:                    I think on a woman, 30 to 70, I think. 50 is a little more ideal. I think 30 is a little bit towards the low side. On a man, you can go 50, 75, 100. Most men have a lot more, because we don’t have a menstrual cycle, we just have PMS, but we don’t bleed to get rid of some of that blood. You have to. … some people store it, too much. Those people need to drink a lot of tea, quit eating out of cast iron pan. I’m a big fan of cast iron, but you kind of have to watch it, ’cause it can get too thick, also. 30 to 70. 100, 150 on a man’s okay.

Janet Lewis:                 That’s why we run ferritin, because there’s a lot of people, many, most, all come in here with a CBC that’s got their hemoglobin, hematocrit and they’re like “Oh, no. I don’t have an iron problem. I feel like I had an iron problem, but the doctor told me I did not”. We have seen many times that those ranges on the CBC, they’ll actually look great. The person’s lab looks great.

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 Then we run that ferritin, the stored iron, they’re actually anemic, because they don’t have it in the cell. They’ve got it out in the blood stream, but not in the cell. Then the other part, like Dr. Lewis said, or they can be high as well, then they’re rusting out like a gate hinge, because they can’t process all of the extra iron.

Dr.  Lewis:                    It is an oxidizer.

Janet Lewis:                 So, make sure that you’re always having ferritin run in addition to the regular blood panel, so you know exactly what your iron is doing. Then we also want to … it’s not a question. But, we just really loved it and thought we’d mention it. Cricket wanted to say thank you for giving-

Dr.  Lewis:                    From Illinois.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, from Illinois. For giving her the tools to live a better life. She was so sick when she heard our show on Jack Spirko’s Podcast three years ago. Can’t believe we’ve been doing it this long. And had been sick for many years before that. And it is wonderful to feel great again. So, thank you.

Dr.  Lewis:                    But, you know what made Cricket well? She did it.

Janet Lewis:                 Consistent.

Dr.  Lewis:                    And she did it. And she did it. And, her husband is just as much fun to deal with. I’d like to do a quick thank you, cause there are so many people share “I got a great referral” Miss Trisha. She was referred by Rob in Point Orion, Michigan. He’s been doing our stuff forever and a day. He never calls me. He should. Call me Rob. He’s been super consistent. Then you got Brian down in College Grove, Tennessee wonderful guy. Gary in Amarillo, golly. He’s incredible. You got people like Shanna in Tucson, her husband Rafael. Then you have Imani down in Baton Rouge. Folks we can do this in most all different places and the people like, the one’s I mentioned that are just consistent, consistent, consistent, get what? Consistent results. You got to put it into your body for it to create good things. It creates dividends in your health.

Janet Lewis:                 So get started today. There’s no reason to be depressed, gloomy. Go to our website GreenWisdomHealth.com. Fill out the health survey. It will recommend the lab panel that you need. And if you don’t want to do it that way, Dr. Lewis will also give you a call and talk to you personally.

Dr.  Lewis:                    That may be a blessing or a curse. You never know.

Janet Lewis:                 But, you will go to a Quest Lab location, local to where you live. Have it drawn. We do this across the United States. So, there’s no reason to not have a life worth living. We appreciate you listening to this weeks show, and we’ll be back here next time. You guys have a great week.