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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.

 

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Doom Gloom and Despair | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

How to know if you have depression:

    Feeling Down, Empty and Numb
    Harboring a Feeling of Guilt
    Always Upset or Tearful
    Thinking about Suicide
    Lack of Confidence
    Low Self-Esteem
    Unable to Relate to other people
    Hopelessness and helplessness
    Restless, Agitated or Irritable

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Toxic Burden – Why Are We So Toxic?

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 your low-cost lab work and information, here to let you know about some very exciting things about being toxic today. Today’s show is called Toxic Burden, and if you can make toxins exciting, then I guess we’re doing a great job.

Janet Lewis:                 Dr. Lewis is going to thrill us with his knowledge of why we are so toxic, things that make us toxic that we might not be aware of, and then at the end of the show we have some pretty interesting questions that have come up throughout the week that we thought you guys might enjoy hearing the answers to.

Janet Lewis:                 So, Dr. Lewis, are you going to tell us today about what’s happening with why we are so toxic?

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, I’m going to give you an excuse to say that your spouse is toxic, and you can say, “Honey, you’re full of it,” but then you do have to clarify that and make sure you don’t get the frying pan thrown at you.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, we’re full of toxins. You’ve heard me talk about that. And if you’re not actively doing something to up your nutrient level, then you’re just begging to get sick. I can talk. What do you want to talk about? I’ll certainly jump in there.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, I know from my own experience I can always tell when I’m more toxic, and a lot of times that comes from eating incorrectly or being around some toxic fumes.

Dr. Lewis:                     She’s throwing that at me.

Janet Lewis:                 But some of the symptoms that you have when you are toxic is fatigue. You’re excessively tired. You’re more irritable. Your joints start hurting. You have more brain fog. You have digestive problems, and hot flashes can actually be a sign of being toxic.

Janet Lewis:                 I always ask women when they say, “I’m having hot flashes,” I’ll say, “Well is that all day long or is it a certain time of day? Because if it’s a certain time of day, that’s probably more that you’re toxic than a hot flash.”

Janet Lewis:                 Allergic reactions to things. Sneezing and coughing is actually a sign that you’re very toxic. So, again, trains.  If you are not going to the bathroom correctly, which is you’re eating three meals a day and three meals are not appearing in your toilet, then there is something going on with your toxic burden level, which means you’re hanging on to more of them than you’re letting go.

Janet Lewis:                 So maybe you could talk a little bit about why that’s happening. Why are we not digesting? What’s going on that we feel so irritable and tired?

Dr. Lewis:                     She is throwing that at me. She wanted me to calm down before we came in here because she said, “Are you going to be a preacher or a teacher?” because I was on my soapbox just a few minutes ago. Who knows what I’m going to be? Y’all can decide. Y’all can judge that.

Dr. Lewis:                     I printed out, for Janet, an interesting article about environmental toxins being linked to autism. It’s a really good article, but when we talk we’re going to get a few points from that particular article. But there’s going to be information from lots of other places, too. It talks about autism, and autism … When you’re hear that, just say any other symptom or disease because it all applies.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the statements … It said mounting research indicates that brain disorders are a result of excessive exposure to toxins from multiple sources, including the mother while in utero. Well, my answer to that is, “Well, duh.” Mounting research. It’s like, well, they’ve been doing that for decades and decades and proving it. Said mothers of autistic children have much, much lower vitamin D, and that’s just an oversimplification, but vitamin D is one of the best things you can do to help your body detoxify. So if the mother has lower vitamin D, they cannot detoxify, and then these toxins are more prevalent in the baby itself.

Dr. Lewis:                     Once upon a time, I was asked by this group … It was an autism support group. They wanted me to come speak, and I used to speak at places a lot more than I do now, but I said, “Okay. No problem. I’m going to show you the research and show you what you can do to detoxify the body and therefore have people work at a higher function, at a higher level.” And a few days later this group called me and says, “We don’t want you to speak.” I said, “Well, okay. Why?” They said, “Because you’re going to give people hope.”

Dr. Lewis:                     I won’t repeat what I … the question I asked. It’s something on the line of “Are you kidding me? You don’t want this group to have hope? You don’t want this group to have healthier children?” And I know there’s a lot of controversy on whether to vaccinate or not vaccinate because people say, “Well, vaccinations cause autism.” I think that’s an oversimplification because you get a lot of toxins out of the vaccines; there’s no doubt about it, but you get a lot of toxins from other sources. So I don’t think it’s fair to pick out one thing, but I think it’s smart to figure out, “Oh, well, I need to decrease the toxins in all areas of my life.” And today we’re going to tell you how to do that.

Janet Lewis:                 Is not with getting a larger cup of coffee at your fabulous store down the street to get rid of those toxins and make you feel less tired? I saw today that they’re actually going to do double the caffeine in a very well-known coffee brand.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m all for that. I love caffeine. Caffeine’s my favorite drug, although it doesn’t do everybody good. I tease people about that, my favorite drug. And it’s like, well, it really is, but I drink coffee for Janet’s safety, not for mine.

Janet Lewis:                 It seems that that might be a sign of being toxic, though, and then you add in more toxic chemicals.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. And we’re going to … Janet just can’t keep me from going down the rabbit trails, but there’s a good thing that I think people should read. It’s this “Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison.” And I really think if you’re concerned about toxins and you want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that something that is a contributing factor, just get that book. The author, I think it was Jane Hightower. I think, something like that. It’s a really good book, but I don’t think mercury is the only thing.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then there was an article in Associated Press that said mercury-tainted fish are pervasive, study says. Well, I remember these cute little lakes we used to fish on that are full of cypress trees here in East Texas, and boy, you could catch fish like crazy. And very few people would go down these very, very small lakes. And it was absolutely gorgeous, but now you’re not supposed to eat anything out of these lakes. And that’s just because it’s mercury tainted just because the coal-fired power plants that we have here in East Texas, although they have better scrubbers that get most of the pollutants out before it gets into the air, but it wasn’t true a few decades ago.

Dr. Lewis:                     Another thing. Toxins. Mercury, of course, is an incredibly potent neurological toxin, and the exposure to the babies’ brains. They’re damaged even at real, real low doses in the womb itself. Mercury … They use it to produce a lot of the foodstuffs, and that’s why I tell people … I said, “If it’s in a box or a sack or it’s on a shelf and it’ll last a long time, you probably shouldn’t do it.” And it’s in thousands and thousands of different food products. If it says citric acid, sodium benzoate, and high fructose corn syrup, it’s about … I think it’s 80 to 90% chance it’s full of mercury, especially the high fructose corn syrup.

Dr. Lewis:                     So, duh. Why do we do that?

Janet Lewis:                 And people always say, “Well, do you have something to detoxify heavy metals?” like Dr. Lewis is speaking about. We actually use one called HM Complex. It’s a Pure Encapsulations product, and it’s really great at pulling off the heavy metals that he’s talking about. It does take a lot of time, a whole lot more time than what it took for you to put those in.

Dr. Lewis:                     But you can take it out every day, but then you put another load in every day, too, just from your environment. There’s these … I’ll get into this later in a lot more detail, but there are some groups that are very good at studying cancer that says you’ve got about an 80% bad influence from your diet and environmental toxins that influence your cells to create cancer. So you do have a lot more choice.

Dr. Lewis:                     There’s this person; I recommend her books a whole lot, but she talks about a detox cocktail, and it’s, yeah … It’s really a good one, but why not just take it in the HM Complex? It’s a lot easier because it has things in it like zinc, selenium, potassium, but it has something in it called modified citrus pectin. If you’ll look up or google modified citrus pectin, you’ll find research that talks about it being very anti-cancer because it has an incredible ability to bind to some of these toxins. And then chlorella. It needs to be the cracked cell, and it’s got the broccoli, which, that’s our DIM. We have several different forms of that.

Dr. Lewis:                     But something that’s real important is called NAC, or N-acetyl-cysteine, which is the free-form amino acid that helps your body, your liver in particular, and it makes glutathione. And glutathione, not only … It’s known for its energy-producing ability, but it also acts kind of like a claw, and it’ll take these toxins and kind of bind to it and flush it out and create a lot of energy in the meantime.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then there’s methionine. And then there’s alpha lipoic acid, which is in this detox cocktail that some people recommend. Alpha lipoic acid is probably the best, if not one of the best, antioxidants available. Then there’s astaxanthin. We use a lot of resveratrol also, but Janet and I don’t take alpha lipoic acid. We take R-lipoic acid and they’re both good, but R is the reduced form and it actually works better. And I told Janet … I said, “Well, it’s a little more expensive.” And she says, “We need your brain. Here, take it.” And I just say, “Yes ma’am.”

Dr. Lewis:                     So these toxins are real, but the high fructose corn syrup … and I’m guilty of consuming it from time to time, but that’s one of the worst things that you can possibly put in your system. But, that being said, don’t go to diet drinks because the aspartame in the diet drinks are worse than high fructose corn syrup, and how it poisons your brain is one of the most pervasive toxins in our environment. It’s really not, not good for you. So …

Janet Lewis:                 Well, maybe we should talk a little bit about where some of these toxins come from. I know you mentioned heavy metals and obviously …

Dr. Lewis:                     Toxic spouse.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, actually.

Dr. Lewis:                     That could be taken a lot of different ways, so you do have a way out of that.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, actually that is a problem, the emotional part of it as well. Pollution, which we all know of, which we saw a lot of that in China.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh, my God. Five-star hotel. You could cut the smog in the halls with a knife.

Janet Lewis:                 You could see it rolling at you.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s scary.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. Auto exhaust. You never think about that you’re getting those fumes. If you can smell it, it’s in your system.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, let me talk about that for just a second. Back a million years ago, people said, “But I’m taking calcium.” It’s like, well, great. They’re getting it from cow bones that’s been eating off the side of the road where the lead and the gasoline fumes goes and settles in the grass. So a lot of the calcium supplements, and I think that’s true still, are full of lead just because of the toxic fumes coming from the highway down into the grass. And you have to use companies, that have more integrity than some, that make sure that’s cleaned up.

Janet Lewis:                 And I think it’s very interesting to note … We talk about the auto fumes.  We recently purchased a motor home.

Dr. Lewis:                     Janet did.

Janet Lewis:                 And the reason I was drawn to it, out of many different reasons, but a big reason I was drawn to it was because when we walked in, there was no smell of formaldehyde in it. And if any of you own an RV, you know what I’m talking about.

Dr. Lewis:                     Or a trailer house, even.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. My dad has one that he’s had two years, and it still smells like formaldehyde. And I asked the dealer there … I said, “Why does it not have that smell?” He said, “Oh, this is out of Canada.” He said, “They don’t allow that there.”

Dr. Lewis:                     They don’t poison their people.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, they’re only poisoning all of us in the United States, and I thought, “Well, that’s a very interesting concept.”

Dr. Lewis:                     And there was about a 10-month wait for this particular RV, and we just showed up on a Saturday and said okay. It was there. We’ll come pick it up on Thursday, and it’s like God laid it out. So, but we’re just thrilled that your eyes don’t water and you start coughing and hacking and snorting and snotting and blowing your nose because the formaldehyde is not there.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, so all of that has to be detoxified. Pesticides, herbicides, insecticides. It not only kills our poor little bees, but it also kills us as well.

Dr. Lewis:                     She hurts me when she talks about my dead bees.

Janet Lewis:                 Radiation is actually a toxin.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah and electromagnetic fields, but nobody’s going to give up their cell phones, so.

Janet Lewis:                 Dietary choices like fast foods and fried foods contain a lot of lifestyle toxins.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, but it tastes so good. It’s like, well, usually it’s your taste buds that get us in trouble in the first place. So, even lead. You’re always talking about lead in gasoline and in calcium supplements. It’s in paint. It’s in chocolate. Well, that hurts. Toys, batteries, pipes, pottery from Mexico. Some of the stuff comes from China. It’s full of junk. And we’ve been to China. It’s like …

Janet Lewis:                 I know. Remember they tried to sell us a knock-off terra cotta warrior and it accidentally broke and these worms came out of it. And it was like, “Oh. There you go.”

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. They tried to sell me … They said, “Rolex. I give you 10 in a stainless steel case.” It’s like, “Well, first of all it’s a faux-lex.” He said, “What do you mean?” I said, “It’s a fake Rolex.”  There’s 10 of them in an aluminum case, and they wanted 100 bucks for 10 Rolex watches. So, you think counterfeit doesn’t take place, but the number one place to counterfeit is supplements because everybody’s getting on the bandwagon and taking them. So be careful.

Janet Lewis:                 Actually you get toxins from cosmetics. You see more and more about, oh, let’s do the natural. Let’s not do all of the chemical stuff that’s in the cosmetics.

Janet Lewis:                 Unfortunately alcohol is in here as well as a toxic burden.

Dr. Lewis:                     Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Janet Lewis:                 As well as caffeine that we already discussed.

Dr. Lewis:                     Hey. Be nice.

Janet Lewis:                 And then people don’t think about their prescription and over-the-counter drugs being a toxic burden.

Dr. Lewis:                     Or actually a lot of supplements. And it’s like, why in the heck within a drug or a supplement would they put different things in there that are known cancer causers, that they say, “Well, it’s a dyeing agent.” Why do care what color your vitamin or your drugs are? And why would they put something in that’s known to cause cancer? Think about that one for a minute.

Janet Lewis:                 They just did that with a blood pressure medication.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 You probably noticed that they’ve pulled that.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, all drugs steal nutrients that you don’t have enough of anyway. That book’s been written. It’s called “Drug Muggers.” It’s a really good book. I think if you’re concerned about your medications that you’re taking, that you may have to take, at least know what it steals. Whether it steals your vitamin D, your B vitamins, your CoQ10 or magnesium, whatever, at least know what it steals, and then supplement like crazy with a good supplement if you have to take these medications.

Janet Lewis:                 Some of the internal toxins are bacterial and yeast fungal overgrowth that Dr. Lewis talked about. And yeast is actually a parasite, so guess what. As they’re eating what you’re having, they are pooping.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 So that is your die-off from the carbon dioxide and ammonia reactions of the byproducts that they’re producing. So if you’re not going to the bathroom good, they are.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and if your gas that you pass is especially smelly, you probably have issues. Probably.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. Undigested food.

Dr. Lewis:                     You have issues.

Janet Lewis:                 Unresolved trauma or abuse is actually toxic.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and I see a lot of that. And it’s kind of sad that we’re not nice to each other all the time, but once I would get to know some of these patients, back when I practiced chiropractic, and there’s a lot of molestation that would go on and child abuse. And then I talked to this female dentist that’s just sweet and wonderful, and she says, “Yeah.” After you get to know most of her employees, the large majority of them have been abused in one way or another. And it’s like, good God. We’re supposed to protect our children.

Dr. Lewis:                     So those toxic emotions can wreak havoc with your mental health and physical health because not all physical symptoms have a physical origin. So let’s be nice to people and help them heal.

Janet Lewis:                 And there’s a great book if you need help getting through that. It’s by Joyce Meyer, called “Battlefield of the Mind.”

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 Really excellent to help you deal with some of the trauma or abuse and unhappy relationships. So you’re now probably wondering how toxic am I. Have you ever had a course of antibiotics or taken prescription medications?

Dr. Lewis:                     You may be full of it.

Janet Lewis:                 Do you live near a major urban area or near a busy highway?

Dr. Lewis:                     You are full of it.

Janet Lewis:                 Do you eat out frequently or eat pre-packaged foods?

Dr. Lewis:                     Whoops.

Janet Lewis:                 Shop around the edges. Do you experience discomfort after eating certain foods?

Dr. Lewis:                     I experience discomfort if I don’t eat certain foods.

Janet Lewis:                 Gas, bloating, belching is what I was referring to.

Dr. Lewis:                     I apologize.

Janet Lewis:                 Are you overweight or underweight?

Dr. Lewis:                     Doing pretty good.

Janet Lewis:                 Do you use standard household cleaning products in your home?

Dr. Lewis:                     I choose not to clean.

Janet Lewis:                 With that being said, we had a lady that cleaned for us for many years, and I haven’t seen her in about a year and a half now. And she came in the other day with a severe, severe migraine and I looked under her eyes and under, where people say you have bags, she had little black moles on both sides, or about five or six on each side. And I asked her, “Are you still using Fabuloso to clean?” And she said, “Oh yes, yes, and Clorox.”

Dr. Lewis:                     And organochlorines is one of the nastiest things you can be exposed to, so I don’t care whether you smell it or not. You’re getting it, so stay away from it. It’s a killer, which I’ll get into that in a minute I think.

Janet Lewis:                 We did her lab and she was extremely toxic and it wound up being a liver issue and we started cleaning her up and she’s feeling better. So all of those chemicals that you’re using … Like I said, if you’re smelling them or walking barefoot across the floor after you’ve cleaned with them, you are absorbing them.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, okay, liver issue. That’s a good time for me to be diverted off into another rabbit trail.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the things on Good Morning America, and I did have a patient ask me about that. It said … I think it was yesterday … liver cancer death rates surge over the last decade, but obesity was a factor. Well, if you’re obese, then you’re not detoxifying anyway, and it’s the fat cells that hold many, many, most of the toxins. Liver has to detoxify. We have a massive amount of people that come in with incredibly high liver enzymes, and if it’s not happy, you’re not going to detoxify. And again, you’ve got to do it every day because you’re still getting a load of toxins in every day. So …

Janet Lewis:                 And if you’re asking, “Well, how do I check my liver enzymes?” that’s what we do. We run low-cost lab across the United States. We tell you to run the comprehensive panel because it gives us 12 different panels. So if it’s not just your liver … If you’ve got yeast or fungus going on and you’re not digesting, we can see that based on those 12 labs. It’s called our comprehensive panel.

Dr. Lewis:                     And I always try to encourage people, go ahead, at least the first time to belly up to the bar and pay the extra little bitty bill to add your hormones because I just talked to a 20-year-old, gorgeous little girl that is not overweight, but she’s got a massive hormonal imbalance already at age 20. And her liver enzymes looks like, oh my God, looks like she’s an alcoholic for 40 years, and she doesn’t touch alcohol.

Janet Lewis:                 That’s a good point because that same little girl came in here and thought she was anemic. She kept telling me, “I just think I need some iron. I’m just so tired all the time.” And I said, “Well, you really don’t want to take iron unless you’ve had it tested on lab.” And she said, “They’ve tested it on lab, and they said I’m fine.” I said, “Did they run your stored iron, which is ferritin?” And she goes, “No, I don’t think so.”

Janet Lewis:                 So we ran her stored iron. Well, she was right. She was not anemic on the regular panel that they run at the doctor’s office, but on the stored iron, it was high. And at 20 years old, it’s already doing damage to her liver. And I said, “Well, do you have any heart issues in your family?” She goes, “Oh yeah. My mom’s whole side of the family has had some sort of a heart problem.”

Dr. Lewis:                     So has her dad’s side, too.

Janet Lewis:                 So, again, you don’t want to guess at what you think is wrong and just start taking things because if she’d have taken extra iron on top of the already burdened liver and too thick of blood, iron is for building blood.

Dr. Lewis:                     Don’t diagnose yourself.

Janet Lewis:                 Right. She could kill herself just with doing that. She could create having a heart attack. And then if you’re wondering, “Well, you’re telling me all this doom and gloom. How can we fix some of this?” We’ve actually made it very simple. There is a convenient prepackaged plan called Core Restore.

Dr. Lewis:                     And it’s been a big, big hit. It has. People say, “Oh my God. I feel light and lively within the first seven days.” And lighter.

Janet Lewis:                 It includes a vegetable antioxidant blend to support phase two liver detoxification because believe it not, you actually need to do phase two before you do phase one. And you’re going, “What is phase two and phase one?” That’s something Dr. Lewis would know, but in general, you just need … It’s cleaning it kind of backwards because synergistically I think those targeted nutrients enhance the detoxification and hormone disruptors and other harmful toxins by putting them back through phase two before it does phase one.

Janet Lewis:                 It also includes six to seven grams of fiber so that you have a more full feeling, and it also helps bind toxins so that they can be eliminated. Fiber’s a great thing for that. It’s a rice protein in it for sustained nutritional energy, so you can actually use it as a meal replacement for one meal. It has a comprehensive multivitamin, which is Alpha Base, which we absolutely love. We sell that by itself as well, but it is in this kit. It also comes with a patient handbook on step-by-step instructions on reducing toxic burdens through your diet.

Dr. Lewis:                     Just the book is worth the price. It’s awesome.

Janet Lewis:                 And it comes with some delicious and nutritious recipes as well as a convenient shopping guide to help keep you from shopping in the middle of the store. And then it has this really cute little blender, little hand mixer thing that we’ve just gone nuts over. We’ve got one everywhere now. It’s a little battery-operated deal.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s not a far road for Janet to go nuts. I think I keep her on the edge.

Janet Lewis:                 We get excited about very small things in life. That’s one of them, but that helps you with your shakes and smoothies so they’re nice and smooth. But it’s called Core Restore, and we’ve got French Vanilla for the flavor.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. Some of those toxins, though … We talked about lead and arsenic, and that’s pretty big contaminant with fluoride, which fluoride has been known to lower your child’s IQ by seven points. Fluoride’s a deadly poison, but arsenic and what you don’t know is they usually spray it on the chickens for mites in these huge chicken houses with tens of thousands of chickens there where they’re raised in a stressful environment, and it’s in their feed. It keeps them eating so they get fat, quick.

Janet Lewis:                 We talk about chickens having mites. We actually had a lady that … We were talking about parasites and how they harbor and you’re thinking, “Yeah, nobody has that.”

Dr. Lewis:                     “Yeah, my MD says parasites don’t exist.” It’s like, “Yeah, they do.”

Janet Lewis:                 She came into our office the other day and said, “I want y’all to know that I went to the bathroom, wasn’t even going to have a bowel evacuation.” She just sat down to use the bathroom after sleeping all night and passed a tapeworm. It came out on its own. Freaked her out. She said it was … I don’t know how many inches long. It was pretty long.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. She held her hands out like it was about a foot and a half long.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, and so it freaked her out. So she went to the doctor to get a prescription to kill anything else that might be in there, and you guys always talk about, “Hey, this stuff’s so expensive to stay healthy.” Well, it isn’t anything compared to getting four pills to kill parasites. She said this doctor first looked like he didn’t really know what to do with her, but he gave her a prescription, and she said after a coupon for it and her insurance, four pills to kill parasites was $950. And now we’re going to run lab work on her and see what the medicine did to her.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, clean up her liver now, but these toxins are real. And parasites, usually it’s just yeast, but you got the PBDEs, polybrominated diphenyl esters, and that’s in your upholstery, your mattresses, your clothing. You get it out of your pillow every night, and then you’ve got all kinds of stuff that’s in your dry cleaning. I don’t have my dry cleaners do anything but wash and press. They don’t use those.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then one thing I want to talk about is you’ve got too much manganese, and it’s the wrong kind. It’s in your water. It’s in your soy infant formulas, which I probably am not going to get to, but then there’s ethanol. Hey, every time you gas up your car, you’re getting whiffs of ethanol. And in my opinion … I’m full of opinions, but I think ethanol is one of the stupidest things we’ve ever done. Really hurts the engines, especially small engines. You’ve got toluene, which is in your fingernail polish and leather tanning and paint thinners and the mercury, I talked about that’s in the high fructose corn syrup. So if you’re not supplementing with extra nutrients, your food does not have enough of these nutrients to make your body detoxify.

Dr. Lewis:                     Okay, I’m going to get to the soy-based formula for infants, and it can cause massive amount of harm which creates food allergies. How many little babies do you know, they’re already putting them on Prilosec? And it’s because momma’s not breastfeeding, and they develop food allergies which alters their gut, the microbiome, the probiotics there, which causes behavioral problems and anger. Think about the school shootings. What did we do to their guts years before and feeding them wheat that’s full of glyphosate. It … The soy formula can create asthma. It creates thyroid disorders and early puberty and fertility problems and cancer.

Dr. Lewis:                     How many kids are hitting puberty early? They’re hitting it years before they did when I was a kid. One of my long-term patients got on Facebook and asked me, “Is there a supplement that can cure cervical cancer?” The quick answer is no. You need to see your oncologist for that.

Janet Lewis:                 But actually some of these parasitic things that we’re talking about, going left untreated, they burrow their way out and create a lot of the cancers because it kills the organ.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, and there’s a book called “Cancer is a Fungus,” and I think everybody that has it should read that. There’s a lot of good cancer books. I think what we do in diseases like that … I think it’s very complementary, and I’ve seen people get some incredible results, but it’s not an alternative to good medical treatment. You need both.

Dr. Lewis:                     So I hope you’ve learned a little bit here, and I hope I’ve been nice enough because Janet wanted me to get off my soapbox. But folks, the time to heal yourself is before you get sick. Start investing in your health. It doesn’t cost money. It pays dividends in things you don’t have to spend later on disease.

Janet Lewis:                 And that’s a wrap for this week’s show. You guys, don’t be toxic, and we’ll be here next week with another exciting show. Have a blessed week.

 

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Toxic Burden-Why are We So Toxic? | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

Signs of Being Toxic

    Fatigue
    Irritability
    Joint Pain
    Brain Fog
    Digestive Problems
    Hot Flashes
    Allergic Reactions
    Sneezing
    Coughing

 

Products that will help you detoxify

1.HM Complex to detoxify heavy Metals:

https://www.greenwisdomhealth.com/product/hm-complex-formerly-hm-chelate-180-count/

2. Core Restore is our Pre-Packaged Detox Kit with Recipe book and hand Mixer:

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Immune System Compromise and Adrenal Fatigue

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

Doctor Lewis:               And I’m Doctor Lewis.

Janet Lewis:                 We are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low-cost lab work, available across the United States. We are here to educate you a little bit today about a adrenal fatigue and immune compromise. We decided to pick this subject because we just came back from vacation where we decided to buy, well, I decided to buy ourselves a motorhome. A midsize motorhome. Doctor Lewis drove it. We got a little adrenal fatigued over it.

Doctor Lewis:               Against my will, I drove it.

Janet Lewis:                 We drove it through west Texas where it’s just wind. It was … we love the RV. It was a little bit stressful trying to get used to everything and learned so many new things. We took it Colorado and there were a lot of fires going on out there. With came home and have a little bit of adrenal fatigue and I thought, well, you know, there’s probably a lot of people out there that are suffering from the same things that don’t really know what to do about it. Thank you for Doctor Lewis’s knowledge. He does know what to do about it.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, teach Janet how to drive it.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, not yet. But, unfortunately, when you don’t know what to do about it, your immune system also craters with it. Today, we’re going to teach you a little bit about how to get your adrenals back up, normalized to keep your immune system from not being compromised. With that, Doctor Lewis, would you like to enlighten us?

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah. Hopefully, I won’t go down too many rabbit trails. Yeah, okay. You know that’s a lie. Adrenal stress, I think most of us create our own storms and we whine about it when it rains. We create a lot of it by our consumerism, by wanting too much, and I’m guilty of that too. By being in a hurry, you know, as I get older, I realize it’s not slowing down, it’s speeding up and you have more things that you want to get done.

Doctor Lewis:               A lot of adrenal stress is just how you think about things. I always tell my kids, “Show up and smile. It’ll all be fine.” This is actually my fourth podcast this week. I was a guest on three other podcasts. One of which was two hours long, which was enough adrenal stress on its own. I was kind of off the cuff and I was not prepared for it.

Janet Lewis:                 So, we’re really lucky to have a show this week, is that what I’m hearing because I know you’re adrenal’s got a little taxed and plus we’re running a busy practice.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 But, we keep having so many go, “You all need to put out more shows.”

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, you know, the old advertisement of this bud’s for you? Well, Tara, in Jacksonville, Florida, this podcast is for you because Tara has followed my instructions real well and she got some absolutely incredible results on her lab worth. Although, to be honest, didn’t look like she was unhealthy at all when she started. It’s funny, the people that follow instructions get a better quality of life, if not a longer life. It’s by putting nutrients in the body and many of these we’ll talk about how it can boost your immune system and boost your adrenal gland function to normal.

Doctor Lewis:               Unfortunately, in the last few months, I’ve seen more and more and more people die that are, you know, a year or two older than me, or a year or two younger than me. It’s like, they’re always the ones that have the time and money for beer and cigarettes, and you know, no time or money to put good nutrients into the temple of the Holy Spirit. I hate that. We’re going to have a question later on that comes up that one of my sweet long-term patients ask about that.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, we create a lot of our own adrenal stress. The compromise in the immune system, this off the cuff two-hour podcast a couple of nights ago, she says, “Well, don’t you see immune systems going downhill fast?” And she was a very popular practitioner from up in the northwest part of America. I said, “Yeah, it is getting worse.” And she says, “What is that?” I said, “It’s not just one thing, it’s you know, the toxins I always talk about. They’re real, whether you can see them, or sell them, or taste them, or not, they’re real.” Read the research.

Doctor Lewis:               The other thing is our mental attitude. Janet and I are much happier and less stressed if we quit watching the news that kind of skewed the truth into something that’s not necessarily true anymore. Many of it, I think it’s the food that we eat. We don’t really have a choice here in America, but to eat genetically modified foods. I know there’s people that say, they don’t make any difference at all. It’s like, I’ve read book after book after book, and hundreds of research articles, real research, not opinions. I’ve read that genetically modified organisms and how it alters our expression of our genes. How it alters the probiotics in our GI tract. That is incredibly important to get that as balanced as possible so you can have a proper immune system response.

Doctor Lewis:               I have seen people sit in here and cry. They couldn’t talk to me without crying and they think they’re crazy in the head. I’ll say, “Well, the thoughts are in your head, but it originates in your GI tract.” I could go on and on about that. The ones that follow instructions get really really good results because your body has more to work with. You know, the FDA says the only thing that cure is a drug, or radiation, or chemotherapy, you know, that kind of stuff. When did we lose the thought that our body’s smart enough to heal itself? It just needs fewer toxins and more nutrients to do that.

Doctor Lewis:               Your body really is a smart organism, but it needs something to work with. I said in our last podcast, if your doctor says you can get all the nutrients you need out of your food, you need to run like crazy because he’s full of it, or he didn’t read his own research. Here’s a good example, there’s this young lady that I grew up with and I told her, I said, “I’m so sorry that I couldn’t’ get your sister to stick with it long enough.” And her sister’s just a sweet sweet lady and she had a lot of depression and anxiety. It was pretty severe.

Doctor Lewis:               And the sister came to me and says, “Well, I trust you. I grew up with you so, therefore, I’m going to stick it out.” Well, then she went back to her doctor and the doctor says, “Well, you can either do it naturally or you can do it through me. If you’re going to do the natural stuff, I’m withdrawing my care from you.” Well, she chose to go with that doctor and so I asked her sister, I said, “Okay, that’s just a handful years ago, did the extra drugs make her healthier?” And she said, “No. She’s going downhill rapidly.”

Doctor Lewis:               I’m not against drugs. Anytime you feel so stressed that you want to harm someone or harm yourself, go to the emergency room, go to MD, go to your psychiatrist. It’s not a bad thing. But, let’s try to work on the underlying issues that cause your immune system to aray, that can alter the way you feel mentally, and put chronic stress on your adrenal glands, and get into adrenal fatigue, which in and of itself can cause depression and anxiety.

Janet Lewis:                 I think it’s kind of interesting the list of … maybe because I have a lot of these. The list of adrenal issues that are associated with adrenal fatigue. You know, when people always tell you they’re extremely tired. It can be your adrenals and people say, “Well, I take something for my adrenals.” Our question is to you, well how do you know which way the adrenals are going? Are they too high? Are they too low? Well, you don’t know that without lab word.

Doctor Lewis:               Kind of sounds like the three bears and the porridge.

Janet Lewis:                 Exactly.

Doctor Lewis:               Just right.

Janet Lewis:                 It’s exactly right. We check cortisol in the lab to see are your adrenals in the process of cratering or are they so cratered they need to be built up because there’s actually two different products for those and you don’t want to take the wrong one. Don’t take what Aunt Mary tells you what worked for her because it probably won’t work for you.

Janet Lewis:                 Some of the signs that go with adrenal fatigue are fatigue, and weakness, that you’re really tired. Depression, fearfulness, or anxiety, and hormonal imbalance can be a sign of adrenal fatigue.

Doctor Lewis:               Men out there, if you think your wife has a hormonal imbalance, be quiet. It’s not worth saying anything.

Janet Lewis:                 Interesting. The suppressed immune function actually goes with adrenal fatigue.

Doctor Lewis:               Yes.

Janet Lewis:                 You know, we wanted to talk a little bit about, you know, you’re going to say, “Well, what do we take for this because we have this stuff and what are we supposed to be taking for that?” The big one, I guess, that we’ve been using now, that we’ve just been absolutely thrilled with is the SBI Protect because it is for immune gut function because all of these things that we’re telling you are out of the gut, believe it or not. It’s not in your head. It is something that is in your gut.

Doctor Lewis:               We sell so much of it, the company that produces is called us and asked us how do you sell that much? That’s incredible because we’re growing that fast.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, and it’s not we’re selling it, this stuff works.

Doctor Lewis:               Yep.

Janet Lewis:                 People keep coming back.

Doctor Lewis:               People keep coming back, yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 It used to be a prescription. It was $400.00 a month and now it’s …

Doctor Lewis:               Up to $1,200.00, yeah. But, $400.00.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. And now it’s $70.00 something a month.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah. $70.00 to $77.00 depending on what form you get it. It’s the exact same stuff.

Janet Lewis:                 It actually goes and repairs the gut leakiness, and helps with autoimmune, and all of these adrenal things.

Doctor Lewis:               I may get into the immunoglobulins later because Jonathan in Gallup, New Mexico thinks I’m smarter than I really am.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, this is actually an immunoglobulin, so.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, I may try to impress you Jonathan, but I’m glad you’re doing good, but.

Janet Lewis:                 He can only take so much of your knowledge at one time because there’s so much rattling out of there, he said.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, I’m not that smart Jonathan, you’re just really smart for following instruction. You’re the man.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, you talked about people craving bad things to eat. Actually, cravings for foods high in salt, sugar, or fat, are an adrenal fatigue problem.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 Isn’t that amazing? So, it’s like well, you’re feeding your body some more things that there’s going to have a hard time with and your adrenals are already stressed.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah and when you’re craving chocolate, it’s usually you want serotonin or magnesium. Janet always says I’m the female because I’m the chocolate person. I buy her wonderful chocolates for all of her birthday, and Christmas, and anniversary because I get to eat them all.

Janet Lewis:                 Increased allergies are a sign of adrenal fatigue. Skin problems. Lightheadedness when getting up from sitting or lying down.

Doctor Lewis:               That’s an adrenal fatigue because when you stand up very quickly, your adrenals have to have this … it has a biofeedback mechanism and it has to raise your blood pressure temporarily so the blood doesn’t get too little in your head. That also is a bad side effect from some of the drugs because some of the drugs can cause adrenal fatigue. If you stand up, sit up, or suddenly get light headed, and want to go tump over on your head? You know, suspect your drugs, suspect adrenal fatigue.

Janet Lewis:                 Trouble waking up in the morning despite a full night sleep.

Doctor Lewis:               God.

Janet Lewis:                 Low sex drive. So, see if people are getting all of these pellets and creams and all of this stuff, and it may just be their adrenals and they didn’t know that it was just their adrenals. Decreased ability to handle stress. I might go through a little bit of that sometimes.

Doctor Lewis:               She takes those adrenal products she may talk about, but she takes a lot of pantothenic acids also. I thought it’s just because it made me for tolerable to live with.

Janet Lewis:                 Pantothenic acid’s wonderful. If you feel like you’re having an anxiety attack, which I used to feel like I would get that because there was so much coming at you so fast.

Doctor Lewis:               There still is, but we can still handle the stress much better.

Janet Lewis:                 It’ll make your heart race and it’ll make you feel like you’re trying to have a heart attack. Pantothenic acid completely took care of that for me. It was like, that’s great. Poor memory and mental fogginess is actually a sign of adrenal fatigue.

Doctor Lewis:               That sometimes, many times goes back to the GI tract. When you have a GI track full of candida and those books were written 30, 40 years ago, some of them. The Yeast Connection is one of the good ones. The yeast, for some reason, stops the thiaminase inside them, so it eats up your B1. When somebody just says brain fog on their health survey, I pretty much automatically put them on benfotiamine and they will, you know, nine times out of ten say, “I don’t know. My brain fog’s gone.”

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, Benfotiamine’s excellent.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, it’s way more absorbable form of Thiamin.

Janet Lewis:                 There’s a lot of people that tell you, “Well, when you’re that stressed, you should go exercise because it just makes you feel great.” Well, personally, and you know, it’s interesting, I think that’s for people with high cortisol more so. I think they do better exercising. The people with cortisol, they’re already so whipped, it’s like really, you’re going to add one more thing on to my plate. Like, I have to go run?

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, Doctor and Bowen and Doctor Bowen, they do Ironman competitions and they’re really young, good-looking, and in good shape. Doctor Ruth Bowen says, “Well if you’ll just start going out with us and riding bikes, and doing this, and doing this, you’ll get that endorphin rush in your head. It’s like getting high.” I said, “Ruth, when I do that, I get tired, so.”

Janet Lewis:                 I know. That’s because our adrenals are different. When you’re that stressed and your adrenals are that tired and worn out, the key is to focus on gentle activities when you’re exercising like, walking or yoga, or gentle cycling. Huh?

Doctor Lewis:               When you get your sex drive back.

Janet Lewis:                 Is that a gentle exercise?

Doctor Lewis:               It can go either way.

Janet Lewis:                 I’m not going to answer that either. Tai Chi.

Doctor Lewis:               Sorry guys.

Janet Lewis:                 Moving on. Once you’re starting to feel better, you can improve exercise tolerance, gradually beginning to add in some moderate exercise, which may be where that falls under.

Doctor Lewis:               You might be able to tolerate me a little longer.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, that’s all I have to say about that. So, now it’s back to you.

Doctor Lewis:               Are my ears red?

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, your whole heads red.

Doctor Lewis:               You know, I’m just going to ramble. Here I go down Doctor Amanda, down the rabbit trails again and jumping down a rabbit hole. You know you hear me talk about toxins and I think that’s very very prevalent. More so than it was in the 70’s. Some of the things that are toxic is taking a shower in the morning, you’re getting the chloride and fluoride. You’re absorbing from the water through your skin, cosmetics can be horribly toxic, although, we got one or two girls that’s going even carry that to a new dimension where they’ll teach us about it.

Doctor Lewis:               There can be like 100 different chemical compounds just in your shower and in your food that you eat for breakfast. The average person, according to the … there was a report on human exposure to chemicals and this was done by the Center for Disease Control, talked about American’s of all ages are carrying over 219 toxic chemicals in their body in any given time. If the CDC says that, you can take it to the bank, except there’s probably 1,219.

Doctor Lewis:               The immune system, the liver, and the kidneys’ kind of take the hit on that and that’s why we say get the immune system, the gut healed. I’m always helping people with their liver. If their enzymes aren’t just picture perfect, I always give their liver something that it can have building blocks to detox even more rapidly. Again, you know, the FDA says that supplements can’t, you know, do anything for symptoms and diseases and I say, they’re absolutely right. But, if you got three two by fours and seven bricks, what kind of house can you build versus if you have an 18 wheeler load of bricks and 18 wheeler load of two by fours?

Doctor Lewis:               More building blocks you can build a better building or better immune system and more energy. So, you have pretty much an increased toxic burden in your system. Some of the toxins, you know, they come from pollution. I could read you research about that. Auto exhaust and diesel exhaust actually can increase your risk of heart attack when you get behind that smoky diesel guy. Solvents, which is paint and cleaning products. Most cleaning products contain chlorine.

Doctor Lewis:               Pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, radiation, inhalants, toxins that come from your lifestyle. This is in a huge book called, oh, I forget the name of it. It’s a huge book, about 900 pages about cancer. I read that once. The dietary choices, you know, fast foods, and fried foods, you know, the inflammatory chemicals. Although I’m a big proponent of keto and Drew Manning and all that, fat is good, except you need to get the clean fat from the clean animals because if it’s not clean animals, then it’s stored more toxins.

Doctor Lewis:               Cosmetics, nicotine, alcohol, oh, alcohol and caffeine. God, that hurt. Any kind of drug, over the counter, or prescription. They always steal more nutrients of the nutrients you don’t have enough of anyway. Just had a consultation about that about a couple of hours ago. Food additives, coloring, and preservatives. One lady today says, “Well, I’m taking this, my doctor prescribed it.” I said, “Well, it’s got a known cancer causer in it because it’s a dye.” Why do you care what your supplement looks? They put cancer-causing food dye in it. I’d run like crazy. Refined foods and sugars.

Doctor Lewis:               Now, then there’s internal toxins. You know, I mentioned yeast and yeast and fungus overgrowth can wreak havoc. There’s a book called Cancer is a Fungus by Doctor Simoncini, and God forbid I ever get cancer, but I think I’d go to Rome, Italy if I had it to let him treat it. I’m an expert of yeast overgrowth.

Janet Lewis:                 I’m pretty sure that you could take a trip there and be treated for less than they would charge you for their standard American care here for cancer.

Doctor Lewis:               Oh, yeah and then you get to see Rome.

Janet Lewis:                 Exactly. You’d feel way better when you were done.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, one way or the other. I’m an expert on yeast, fungal overgrowth because Janet helped me fight it for six years. It’s a long story. We won’t get into it. Byproducts of your typical metabolic reactions, which is you know like, carbon dioxide and ammonia. Make sure your kidneys are cleaning that real well. Undigested food. It’s amazing how many people don’t have enough digestive enzymes and their chloride’s not high enough to make hydrochloric acid. If you can’t have enough hydrochloric acid, it doesn’t eat the protein sheath off yeast, fungus, or a virus. And then, they go down the small intestine and set up shop and you wonder why you have a belly full of yeast, and you got the belching burping full feeling.

Doctor Lewis:               And then, you get the fibromyalgia or fatigue. Stress, and again, we create a lot of our own stress. So, that’s why you should go pray, meditate, sit on the deer stand, don’t take a gun, [inaudible 00:20:48] don’t shoot anything. Unresolved trauma or abuse. There’s a lot that going around, so in a world where you can be anything you want to be, the best thing you can be is just be kind to other people. Unhappy relationships, yeah, understand that one. Now, that I’ve got a really super one, I really understand how toxic some things used to be in my past.

Doctor Lewis:               We can help with that with the nutritional part of it. If you’re here locally, I’d give you a hug even though I’m not supposed to, I do it anyway. But, the nutrients that you need like, phase one, detoxification, that’s B2 and three, which also help your thyroid enzymes or thyroid hormones to be converted. B12, B6, folic acid and be careful if you have that folic acid, 5-MTHF are a problem. Making glutathione and bioflavonoids. Phase two, methenamine16, magnesium, glutathione, vitamins B5 and that’s the pantothenic acid, B12 and it’s not just B12 folks. It’s got to be methylcobalamin.

Doctor Lewis:               Vitamin C, glycine, taurine, glutamine, folic acid, and choline. If you’ll notice, most of those things, if not all of them are in the formulas that we put you on. We do understand phase one, phase two, and how to clean your body out. It’s not like that infomercial that goes for 30 minutes on TV that detox won’t make you young, rich, and good looking in three weeks, just because they make you poop.

Janet Lewis:                 There are some natural herbs and spices that help build your immune system.

Doctor Lewis:               When we were in Colorado and we didn’t do any of them.

Janet Lewis:                 No, because on the way home there was a million signs that said, “Welcome back to Texas. If you got arrested for picking up some illegal substances.”

Doctor Lewis:               Cannabis.

Janet Lewis:                 “While in another state, call us.” There must be a lot of that going on. We did not partake nor buy.

Doctor Lewis:               Not since 1975.

Janet Lewis:                 I wasn’t hardly even very old then. But, there are some natural spices that you can have because we don’t want to make you feel like we’re trying to sell you something. You can actually do some of this on your own to help your immune system. Like, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum are good antivirals. I don’t know how you’re supposed to eat that. Is that right off the flower?

Doctor Lewis:               You compete with the bees. You get stung on the nose.

Janet Lewis:                 Artemisia.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, artemisia’s actually …

Janet Lewis:                 That’s a wicked like guy.

Doctor Lewis:               That’s good for killing worms and worm eggs too.

Janet Lewis:                 Licorice and that’s not like the …

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, it’s deglycerized licorice.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, it’s not like the good licorice. Turmeric, or turmeric, however, you would like to say that. Black pepper, but don’t do black pepper and turmeric together.

Doctor Lewis:               That’s very good because and a lot of them say, “We put black pepper in our so you can enhance the absorption of turmeric.” No, you usually get allergic or sensitive to both of them and don’t absorb either one of them. You know, there’s a lot of sales hypes out there that go on just a little bit of information and it’s usually misinformation. I’m going to do a podcast here pretty soon about the research that people believe that is somewhere between BS and bologna. BS is belief systems.

Janet Lewis:                 We’ll call that fallacies and fiction.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 We have to clean it up.

Doctor Lewis:               You’re kind.

Janet Lewis:                 Oregano is another big one, actually, for the immune system.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah. Well, that’s really hard on the yeast. It’ll kick them out. That will clean up the GI tract.

Janet Lewis:                 One of my personal favorites, cinnamon. I love cinnamon.

Doctor Lewis:               But, my mama put it with sugar and butter on toast, that’s not the best way to take it, folks.

Janet Lewis:                 No. And cloves. You know, cloves are interesting. They remind me of being in a dental office for some reason, that same smell.

Doctor Lewis:               Well, they used to use it.

Janet Lewis:                 Oh, really.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah. As a deadening agent.

Janet Lewis:                 I swear he is so intelligent. He was actually on another podcast the other day and someone asked him something about what he ate and he said, “Oh, avocados are actually my favorite fruit.” And I said, when it was over, I said, “I think you did that wrong.” I said, “You said avocados were a fruit.” He goes, “They are a fruit.”

Doctor Lewis:               No, I said, I could be wrong honey and I left it that. I’m smart.

Janet Lewis:                 No, he told me to Google it, which I did. It’s actually from the berry family. It is a fruit and I thought, oh my gosh, there’s just so much rattling around up there that’s just very impressive.

Doctor Lewis:               Well, knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom’s not putting it in a fruit salad.

Janet Lewis:                 I did not know tomato was a fruit either until that same conversation, so you just never know what’s coming out.

Doctor Lewis:               I’m not that smart. I read a lot and I remembered a couple of things.

Janet Lewis:                 I do know, we wanted to address the conversation that we had on Facebook about a multi-vitamin that there was a study done, I don’t know what multi-vitamin and we can only assume it was not a good multi-vitamin. They followed these people around for 12 years that had the heart issues. They concluded that taking a daily multi-vitamin did absolutely no good or helped that at all with any kind of cardiovascular risk. Doctor Lewis wanted to address that, so I’m going to let him talk about that.

Doctor Lewis:               She asked me to clean it up. You know, here’s the thing, you will hear studies and again, I’m going to do a podcast on the facts, and the fallacies, and the BS, which is belief systems or bacon sandwich. A lot of people throw out research and then they hang their hat on it. You know, I’ll dispel the aspirin’s good for the heart myth too, while they ignored 84 good studies that said that one, it’s bull, and how they skewed the statistics.

Doctor Lewis:               All right, here’s the thing. First of all, we don’t know if it’s a good multi-vitamin, multi-mineral. Here it says, “Minerals and essential fatty acids help the thyroid, which helps the heart.” That comes from the Journal of Molecular Cellular Endocrinology. Then, there’s one that says, “Fish oil lowers cholesterol and improves the function of sex hormones, which helps the heart.” American College of Nutrition. Let’s see, let’s go to another one. I’ve got a list of about 100 here. You know, I won’t get there.

Doctor Lewis:               “Fruits, vegetable, EFA’s, essential fatty acids, nuts, antioxidants, decrease endothelial inflammation.” That means the covering of the heart. That’s from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  Chocalate lowers lukatrienes which leads to less inflammation.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. That honey is why I like chocolate. See, another one. “I-3-C.” That’s the thing that’s in the cruciferous vegetables that help clean up the hormone imbalance. You know, leads to DIM, which Janet talks about a lot. “Helps in the detoxification of environmental estrogens, which helps balance hormones for those of you with hormonal symptoms ” that’s from Journal of Biology Chemistry.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, I think it is safe to say that that vitamin that they did the testing on was not a pharmaceutical grade vitamin. I’m assuming it was something that was an over the counter product because they’re right. You can take that it’ll do absolutely nothing because we’ve seen it on lab.

Doctor Lewis:               Have you ever kissed a girl and it absolutely did nothing for you? I’m not asking Janet that, but guys out there, have you ever kissed a girl and there was nothing there? That doesn’t mean all girls are that way.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, okay, I don’t even know where to go with that.

Doctor Lewis:               I was just making her speechless. “Homocysteine, which is lack of vitamin B, damages endothelium.” Now, that means you’ve got to have good folic acid, which is probably the F-MTHF, then you got to have B6 and B12. That’s from Journal of Circulation. There’s half of you out there that have that 5-MTHF problem and you got a lower homocysteine. Just saw a lab today. Her homocysteine was a 20. It needs to be under a seven.

Janet Lewis:                 And speaking of lab, would you recommend that for adrenal fatigue and immune system, which lab would you recommend that someone …

Doctor Lewis:               At least the GWH3. That stands for green wisdom help three, that’s comprehensive.

Janet Lewis:                 What’s in that panel that you would be looking for to see someone’s immune system?

Doctor Lewis:               Well, the ratio of lymphocytes to neutrophils, to basophils and eosinophils and the total number of your white blood cells. Then, you’d see the globulins, then you can see the alkaline phosphatase.  And then you can see cortisol, which is going to tell me if your adrenals are running 120 miles an hour down a rainy I20, which people around here know that’s dangerous  to go 70 when it’s raining, or if it’s dragging your butt. If you do your three cups of coffee and go back to bed, you know you have adrenal fatigue.

Doctor Lewis:               We’ll see plenty unless you just want to add your hormones, which I think is a good idea. Then it’s GWH1 for a woman because they’re number one. GWH2 for a man because we’re always number two.

Janet Lewis:                 There you have it, folks. So, if you’re tired, don’t be too tired. Go on our website to greenwisdomhelp.com fill out our health survey, and it will actually recommend which lab panel you need based on what you fill out. You can actually purchase the lab there online and have it drawn somewhere close to you where you don’t have to generally drive very far to have that draw feed done, or the draw accomplished. We get the results back here and Doctor Lewis goes over the lab with you. That is part of the that GWH1 he’s talking about or the three.

Janet Lewis:                 It comes with a functional medicine report, recommendations from him on supplements, and time with him, which is invaluable, as you can tell. I’ve spent 30 minutes of it with him today and it’s been delightful.

Doctor Lewis:               My brilliance smart alack remarks. Thanks, Jonathon, I love talking to you.

Janet Lewis:                 You guys have a blessed week and we’ll be here next time for the Green Wisdom Health Show.

 

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Adrenal Fatigue and Immune Compromise | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

Signs and Symptoms Associated with Adrenal Fatigue:

    Fatigue and Weakness
    Depression, Fearfulness or Anxiety
    Hormonal Imbalance and/or Abnormal Blood Sugar Levels
    Suppressed Immune Function
    Cravings for Foods High in Salt, Sugar or Fat
    Increased Allergies
    Skin Problems
    Autoimmune Disorders
    Low Sex Drive
    Decreased Ability to Handle Stress
    Poor Memory or Mental Fogginess

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SBI Protect Powder:

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Lab Panel Recommended in Today’s Show:

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Do You Have an Iodine Deficiency? | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

Iodine Deficiency Symptoms:

    Depression
    Difficulty Losing Weight
    Dry Skin
    Headaches
    Lethargy or Fatigue
    Menstrual Problems
    Recurrent Infections
    Cold Hands and Feet
    Brain Fog
    Thinning Hair
    Constipation
    Impaired Kidney Function

Foods Rich in Iodine:

    Seaweed
    Baked Cod
    Cranberries
    Shrimp
    Dried Prunes

Product Discussed in Today’s show:

Iodine and Tyrosine:

https://www.greenwisdomhealth.com/product/iodine-and-tyrosine-60-cap/

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Depression and Autism

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

 

Dr. Lewis: And I’m Dr. Lewis.

 

Janet: And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low cost lab work. Where we don’t guess, we test for what’s going on with your health. Instead of just selling you a bottle of pills, like many big box stores do. With that being said, we have a very exciting show for you today about, well I guess, I don’t know if exciting goes with depression but, educational show about depression and autism.

 

  You’re probably wondering how are those two things linked and what do they have to do with each other? But we’re going to tell you today a little bit about both and where some of this is coming from, or where a lot of it’s coming from, and give you some hope out there for people that are depressed or know someone that is. You don’t have to live a live in quiet despair.

 

  With that, Dr. Lewis can you educate us a little bit about how we need to get happy and what’s going on with our kids?

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah you know one of the reasons we can make this link is because we can make this link with any two disease processes. Because the problems that create this is the same, and the solution is generally the same too. We’re going to talk over and over again, and I’m glad. We get a lot of feedback about how much people say they enjoy these podcasts. I feel like, well I’m just talking about the plastics, pesticides, phthalates, heavy metals, you know over and over again. But it’s still very, very true.

 

  We’ve not taken care of the heavy metals in our environment, that we knew was there many, many decades ago. And now the plastics, and phthalates, and fire retardants, and da da da da duh, it’s more prevalent than the heavy metals that can help you change a good physiology into a bad physiology, which might manifest as autism. Which I hope to get to talk about, and depression. And we’re going to talk about detox too. I don’t know where to start, Janet. If you’ve got a question, go for it. If not, I’ll just ramble.

 

Janet: Well, I just think it’s very ironic that we’re having this show today, because I literally just got back from seeing my nail lady, who does the most natural nail polish that she can. But she’s exposed to many chemicals down there, and she’s on depression medication. Many of the depression medications, obviously cause you to gain a lot of weight.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah oh, you don’t want to hear that, then you will get depressed, right?

 

Janet: Right, but I’m just amazed at how quickly someone’s weight can fluctuate just by being on the medications.

 

Dr. Lewis: Because it causes inflammation of the colon or the intestines; the GI tract.

 

Janet: Well I’d like you to talk a little bit about that. Explain that, what exactly, what is it doing? I mean it’s supposed to be helping you not be depressed, but then you get fat instead?

 

Dr. Lewis: Well it’s one of the potential side effects. Many people call us, or email us, and do the health survey, and say, “But I want to lose weight.” Now I say, “That I’m a chiropractor, this is not a weight loss thing. You’re not going to get a bunch of shots, and you’re not going to get the drugs. If you want quick, easy weight loss, go do the drugs.” It’s not necessarily healthy, but it’s quicker and easier. You have to get healthy, and to decrease this inflammation, and to detox your body can take a long time. Well, for example, this is going to fit in good.

 

  There’s this young lady I know, real, real, real well, and she begged me a few years ago to take her on as a patient.  And I said, “No,” and she says, “Why?” I said, “Because you’re not going to do what I tell you to do, and I don’t want to waste my time.” Now, I was not being rude to her, I said it in a very gentle manner. And she says, “Well you changed my husband, his diabetes reversed itself over a period of time, and he lost massive amount of weight.” She said, “He’s actually given me 12 compliments this month, that’s more than he’s given me in the 20 something years of marriage just because we decrease the inflammation and detoxed his body.”

 

  He was very compliant for a while, and I told her, “No, I really don’t think we’re a good mix. We know too much about each other.” She begged me, and I said, “Okay.” She was on Pax-All, Prozac, Wellbutrin, at least two of those, if not three. I said, “You got to go to your MD and let them help you off of that while we fix your gut.” Okay, there’s serotonin, reuptake inhibitors or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Well the reason you’re wanting to spare the serotonin is because your body’s not making enough anyway, because your GI tract’s not right.

 

  If you can go through the bumpy roads of getting off those drugs with the help of the doctor that put you on them, and fix your GI tract … Anyway, this young lady, and she’d been depressed all of her life, pretty severely. She lost, I’m guessing, 50 pounds or so. She got happy for the first time in her 50 something years, and I’ve known her that long. She did really, really, really well and she did get off all her antidepressants. She got off her acid reducer, which that creates it’s own problem. And I’m all for taking drugs, if your MD and you decide it’s a good thing, that’s fine and I’m all for the comfort that it brings. But you’re not really fixing the underlying problem. Anyway, she got great.

 

Janet: Well, and the lady that I saw today, she said, “Well I have to stop my Starbucks drinks, because the ones I’m having, I was told had 1500 calories in it per drink.” I was like, “What are you having?” Because she’s so lethargic I guess, because she’s toxic. She’s having to drink these high powered drinks from Starbucks, and they were literally putting in four shots of espresso in this drink.

 

Dr. Lewis: My hair’s standing on end just hearing about it.

 

Janet: They told her, “The reason it’s so full of calories is because they have to put a whole lot of heavy whipping cream in it to break down the espresso, because she wouldn’t be able to drink it that straight.”

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, to kind of buffer the stomach.

 

Janet: Yeah, so she said, “Oh I don’t believe that. So just cut back on it a little bit with the heavy whipping cream, so I don’t have so many calories.” She said, “I couldn’t drink it.” I said, “I couldn’t drink it anyway.” I think that’s just a sign of your so toxic, it takes that kind of a punch to get you energy.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, that’ll get into adrenals and thyroid. Again, I’m a chiropractor, I don’t prescribe drugs, and I don’t try to get people off drugs. I just try to get people well. There was one study that I read, said there were a lot of military people that had a much, much higher rate of suicide even in the ones that didn’t go into combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Well, unfortunately I’ve known many, many, many people that have committed suicide, and I offhand can’t think of a woman that did, but I can think of a lot of men. There might’ve been one or two, I’m not sure.

 

  The thing about it is to detox, and I’m going to talk about a product that is kind of knocking the socks off, and giving people great hope. Usually if you don’t have hope, you don’t have serotonin. Well, that’s not really true, if you’re not happy, you don’t have serotonin. If you don’t have hope, you need gaba. One of the things to do, and this is also is true of autism, which we’ll get into. Vitamin D deficiency, and that can have a significant effect on a persons mental health, because it has a significant effect on the detoxification pathways. Now it’s best if you can get it out of the sun, although I’ve only seen one person that can do that. You just almost always have to supplement.

 

  To get enough exercise, which that does a whole lot of things. Burns up the excess sugar, and lowers your insulin rate, but it also makes you sweat, and then you’re getting out toxins that you normally wouldn’t have. Eating healthy, and I cannot tell you how many times per day people say, “But I eat good.” I’m in my head saying, “No, you’re really not,” but I can’t really say that. People’s perception of a healthy diet is different than what it used to be. I’m telling you, what we eat is not healthy. We have a diet so full of inflammatory omega-6s, and that’s why you need massive amounts of ant inflammatory omega-3s. There’s a big difference in the fish oils too. Getting enough sleep, and that’s a problem.

 

  People say, “But I don’t sleep,” and I say, “Maybe a cortisol problem.” Sometimes you learn your negative behaviors and sometimes depression is genetic, and I think a lot of times it’s just learned. You can break the cycle by changing and decreasing the inflammation in the GI tract. Reducing your stress, I tell people, “Well you need to pray, you need to meditate. You need to go get quiet.” I’m real guilty of not getting quiet, like I use to. I did sit on the deer stand in December and was texting Janet about this huge nine point buck in front of me. She said, “Are you going to shoot it?” I said, “No, why? Disturb my peace?” I let it go, and it made it through the season, which it’s safe around me anyway.

 

  Some of these supplements that can really help, that reduce your stress and depression, is Saint John’s wort. I want you to be careful with that, because even though it’s been known to be effective with mild to moderate depression, it also can make certain medications not work very well, including birth control pills. If you don’t want to get pregnant and have a baby, that alone can cause stress if you’re taking Saint John’s wort and get pregnant. Zinc, there was a study in biological psychiatry that said low levels in the blood is linked to depression. Well it’s also linked to poor sperm count and swollen prostate, and lower immune system.

 

  Here’s the thing about zinc, we used to sell a 15 milligram zinc, and now we’re selling one that’s 54 milligrams, but it’s more absorbable. It’s the zinc bisgylcinate chelate, and even though it’s about three and half times the amount of the zinc that we used to sell, it’s not three and half times the price. It’s only, I don’t know, maybe 50% or 60% higher, but you’re getting … And this is the TRAACS, T-R-A-A-C-S. That’s the most absorbable stuff you can get, and we’ve had people, oh I had one yesterday. He said, “I don’t know what Dr. Lewis gave me, but now everything’s working good. My prostate’s working good,” and he’s had some pretty major problems with his bladder and prostate recently, so zinc is good.

 

  Something I don’t use much, is called SAMe. Sometimes I do use it, and sometimes Janet gives it to me if I get a little bit overly testy for a long period of time, but you don’t want to take too much of that. The thing we use the most, is 5-HTP, and people say, “Well I tried it, it didn’t work.” I said, “Try a different brand,” and they get on mine and they say, “Oh my god,” usually. That’s not always the answer, but many times it is. We use a 100 milligrams for adults, we have 50 milligrams for children, or very, very small people. It’s a very incredible thing. That’s the one when we give a sample out, people come back and say, “Oh my god, it was a piece of God in a bottle.” I know it works real well.

 

Janet: What about methyl CpG? Is that something that would be great for depression?

 

Dr. Lewis: That’s a good thing for you to bring up, because the next thing I was going to talk about is folate. It depends on who you listen to and what research you read, but there are some people that say, there’s at least 50% of our population have what’s called a 5-MTHFR genetic SNP, that’s S-N-P, for single nucleotide polymorphism. I’m not a geneticists, so. That means you can’t utilize folic acid.

 

  Now, what Janet was talking about, the methyl CpG, not only does it have massive amounts of the methyl B12, it has the 5-MTHF, which is the good folic acid. If you have the genetic SNPS to different degrees, you can actually utilize that. I’ve got a pot full of people taking that stuff, that just does a world of good. It helps methylation, which means it helps detox, which helps decrease depression, which helps decrease autism. I don’t know, Janet can tell when I don’t take that one capsule today, she knows.

 

Janet: That’s the magic word, the one capsule per day, because so many people go, “I don’t want to swallow many pills.” Well that’s one, so it lasts you two months for one bottle.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

 

Janet: It’s like magic.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, and aromatherapy, that’s always listed. I’m a typical man, I didn’t believe in it until we took a course in it, and the lady was very convincing, and we do use some of that. The anxiety and depression can alter your blood pressure. I would like to say this, if a person is depressed and feels like they need to do harm to themselves or other people, you need to seek professional help. We have a lot of licensed counselors, and psychiatrist, and psychologists that you need to see if you feel like you’re going to do harm to yourself or others.

 

Janet: Well a lot of the kids nowadays are being put on medications in the schools for that kind of thing. I know this maybe goes with autism and all that, but there’s a lot of depressed children now.

 

Dr. Lewis: All or almost all of these school shooters have been put on Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin. It’s not to say these drugs may not do some good, but they also have a tendency to create manic problems, and phobias.

 

Janet: I remember back some years, it was Ritalin. They wanted to give all the kids Ritalin back then, and that was just when it was all coming out and we were like, “What are y’all doing to our kids?”

 

Dr. Lewis: That’s speed. We speed them up long enough til they burn out and become zombies, land of the walking dead. Whatever that show is, I don’t watch that kind of stuff, it’s scary. If you have these things, if you’re sad and depressed that’s one thing, but if it lasts, you need to stick with it. There’s questions about why women have it at a much, much higher degree than men. I think, well number one, men are not generally as in tune with their feelings. I think women generally work a lot harder and have more responsibilities. I really think they do. I know men, I had my man card taken away a long time, because I think women do work harder, and I do think they have more responsibilities.

 

  If you have these feelings of constant pessimism or feeling hopeless, there are answers. Again, some of that can be learned behavior, if you’re irritable, and I’ve told you Janet, she’s been known to hand me a pill from time to time because she thinks I’m a little bit irritated. Difficulty concentrating and making decisions. The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is I don’t care, so pay attention to that. Poor memory, can’t sleep, or oversleep.

 

  Fatigue can be that but that can be linked to adrenals, to thyroid, to liver, to kidneys, and digestion. Feeling guilty over things, or the worthless, and aches and pains. Even in a lot of cases, I think of fibromyalgia. The people really are depressed or maybe the fibromyalgia hurts so bad it creates depression, and it doesn’t matter you just got to break the cycle. Even though it’s more common in women, you need to know the signs so that if it’s a man you can recognize that. You want to talk about autism for a minute?

 

Janet: I’m so depressed, I don’t know where to go with it, but yeah.

 

Dr. Lewis: There’s so much hope out there, it’s just incredible the people that’ve gotten good results. Once upon a time a few years ago, I was asked to give a talk to a group of people that had autistic kids. There’s different degrees of autism, autism spectrum disorder. I said, “Sure, I would love to.” I started preparing a PowerPoint presentation, and putting the research down there, and of course one of the patients is the one that asked me to do that. She knew what I was preparing, and in her excitement she told this group, “Oh Dr. Lewis has got this incredible presentation.” She went on, and on, and on, she was excited about it.

 

  The head honcho of the group called me and says, “You know, we don’t want you to give that.” I said, “Okay, but why not?” She says, “Because you’re going to give people hope.” I won’t tell you what I wanted to do. I might’ve been irritated at that. “You’re afraid I’m going to give them hope?” I have seen kids with autism get much, much, much more functional once you increase their detoxification pathways. For example, women that have autistic kids, if you look at the research, they all have lower vitamin D than women who don’t have autistic kids. That’s just one small way to detox the body.

 

  Mercury, and there’s books just written on mercury intoxication. That’s why they say, “Well don’t eat tuna and mackerel,” and all the kind of stuff. Well, the omega-3s in the tuna’s a good thing, but you’re filling them full of mercury. Other people think it’s just vaccines, and I don’t understand why we need to give kids 36 vaccines now when I think it was 10 a few years ago. I don’t think it was that much when I was a kid. I’m not really anti-vaccine, but I’m real, real anti the … I’m sorry Janet, I’m trying to clean this up. I’m anti the junk they put in it. It’s like you’ve got to be kidding me, you’re putting in more than the FDA says is safe.

 

  My question is, “Why would you say any of it’s safe in the first place?” That’s somewhere close to idiocy. Autism’s four times more prevalent in boys than girls, I don’t really know the reason. One of the things, I have read this both ways, so I don’t know the answer because I’ve read different research that said different things. I’ve always told you, “Be careful believing everything you ready,” it says, “Non-Hispanic or black and multi-racial children, have a lower instance for autism than white children.” I’ve read it to be the exact opposite, where Hispanic and blacks have a higher rate of autism.

 

  Well if that’s one true, that would be because just the skin color itself would make for a lower vitamin D level. Who knows what true, because there’s conflicting research, and that’s why I tell people, “Don’t get one research study and believe it. You got to read a whole lot of it, and see what it really says.” Some of it just points just to mercury, some of them point to all kinds of other things. And the fish, well we’ve had coal fired power plants for years, and the places I used to fish as a kid or now, they say, “Don’t eat the fish out of them.” We’re talking about small lakes.

 

Janet: Yeah, didn’t you all used to swim in some ponds that were like this beautiful color of aqua blue?

 

Dr. Lewis: Algae. Yeah, algae.

 

Janet: Yeah.

 

Dr. Lewis: I’m not sure that’s where she’s going with that.

 

Janet: No, I thought it was like a toxin, like a ore or something. Ore mines or something.

 

Dr. Lewis: Oh yeah, sure. The ore mines, they were full of some sort of minerals. They were nice and clear, yeah. Still would if I had a chance. Yeah, I grew up by the ore mines. The mercury’s a very potent neuro toxin, and it doesn’t have to take much.

 

Janet: I know, and what did we use to get? Mercurochrome.

 

Dr. Lewis: Oh yeah, monkey blood.

 

Janet: Yeah, I did not know that was mercury.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

 

Janet: You told me that one day and I thought, “We used to get that all the time, it would stay red for a day and a half.”

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, we were proud of our wounds. Even kids, they’re developing brains or damage when they’re exposed to low dose exposures in the womb before they’re even born folks. There are thousands and thousands of products, food products, that contain mercury. Like citric acid, sodium benzoate, and high fructose corn syrup. If you’re giving your kid a soft drink, down south here we call them all cokes no matter what they are, up north it’s pop.

 

  If it’s got high fructose corn syrup, it’s got a really really high chance of having mercury in it. Even organic high fructose corn syrup uses mercury in the manufacturing process. High fructose corn syrup is real, real prevalent. It’s no wonder we’ve got kids that have lower and lower and lower IQ’s. Even the European Union founded a lot of mercury concentrations in beverages, cereals, yeah cereals, bakery ware, sweeteners which can contain the high fructose corn syrup.

 

  They’re in levels way, way, way beyond that so called safe level, and that safe level’s bull anyway, because there ain’t no safe level. It depends on your ability to detox. I’ve got so much to say I promise you. When I write these things, and gather up research, I always have four, five times. Today I have about ten times more were going to get to. You can look at the blood and talk about autism source, and it’s gone up so dramatically in the last 15, 20 years. You have to realize it’s not your genes, because genes or genetics, does not change that fast. It always points to something in the environment as a trigger.

 

Janet: Yeah they say it’s gone up 23% in the last two years, and 78% in the past five, autism. There’s something happening.

 

Dr. Lewis: If you do the research, in a very few short years, one out of two people in America’s going to have autism, and one out of two people in America’s going to have Alzheimer/dementia. What’s going to happen, mark my word, in a very few years these home healthcare, they’re going to quit paying for the people to get home healthcare, or the insurance companies will. Then, you’re going to have people that are productive in society, that are working a job that are going to have to quit to go out and take care of their loved one. That’s really going to crater our economy.

 

  We need to learn to get healthy, and it’s not so complicated. We can tell you what to do. I’m going to talk about one of the things that we’re selling the holy heck out of, because it works. People talk about it, “Do you have a detox plan?” “Yeah if you’re taking these supplements, you’re detoxing.” There’s one called Core Restore, that’s a seven day product, and yes people lose weight. I know that’s what you’re interested in, but quit worrying about weight loss. This detoxes the heck out of you, it’ll be so bad you can’t hardly stand yourself in the bathroom, because you can smell the toxins coming out.

 

  This one does something special. It ramps up phase two before it ramps up phase one, because most of them do phase one, it goes to phase two, and overloads it. A quick easy analogy is, well if you want to flush out your plumbing, instead of running water through it which is phase one and overloading it, you’ve got to do phase two. Which is get the gunk, and the grease out of it. Phase two is the fat, and one of the reasons people have trouble losing weight is because the fat cells are very reluctant to let go of these toxins, so it’s better than a diet. How much do you want to talk about?

 

Janet: Well it comes with this cute little hand mixer I really like. We’ve started just selling them on the side, because they’re so cute. That way you can mix your little drink in the morning with it.

 

Dr. Lewis: They’re handy. They’re handy for trips to.

 

Janet: Yeah, they’re little portable battery operated hand mixers.

 

Dr. Lewis: This stuff is working better. What happens is people say, “Well my fatigue and irritability is better. My joints pain better. My brain fog, holy cow it’s gone.”

 

Janet: And it even tells you, there’s a book in there that tells you what to eat during the week so that you don’t eat the wrong things, and put your clog back in your pipe.

 

Dr. Lewis: That’s my favorite part, where Janet goes for the gadgets. It’s got some pretty serious nutrients, but phase two is the sulfation, the glucuronidation, the glutathione conjugation, amino acid conjugation, acetylation, methylation. Those are the ones that I’ve talked about for years, about being liver detoxification pathways. You got to, got to, got to take care of that liver.

 

  Your livers like your wife, if you’re wife ain’t happy, ain’t nothing going to be good. Then once that’s kicked into gear … I’m sorry, that’s actually the water soluble. Got that backwards, but phase one is the oxidation reduction of these molecules, and dehalogenation, and you need a lot of different nutrients for that. People are saying, “Oh my god, my digestive problems, I don’t have belching, bloating. Oh my hot flashes are gone. I don’t have allergies anymore.”

 

Janet: And it’s just for a week. Anybody can do a week, and it’s in a box, so it’s not hard to determine what you need. It’s called Core Restore, everything’s in the box.

 

Dr. Lewis: It’s pretty incredible. We’re getting massive people that are saying, “This is the bomb,” and they’re saying, “Oh I feel so good, can I stay on it?” The answer to that is, “Yes.” You’re getting a lot of toxins out, but you’re getting a lot of nutrients in. It’s kind of a shortcut. It’s a good hand holding detox.

 

Janet: Well, when you’re talking about depression and autism, is there a lab that you would recommend for people to do? So we have an idea of where to start with their health?

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, do the comprehensive GWH-3 that’s sent for Green Wisdom Health. We have a lot of things on the website, and I think just a comprehensive for that would just be incredible.

 

Janet: What is it that you can see in there that might help you determine whether or not somebody has depression issues?

 

Dr. Lewis: Well liver enzymes. You can look at the chloride, you can look at the globulin, you can look at the protein. That gives you a good idea of what’s happening with the, well, whether you’re detoxing or not. We look at the kidneys, we look at five parts of the thyroid. Thyroid, course you know I’ve talked about it a lot, that has a lot to do with how you’re doing. We look at cortisol, seeing what your stress levels are, whether too high or too low, or just right. Kind of like that bowl of porridge, this one’s too hot, this one’s too cold, this one’s just right. What’s that, the three bears story?

 

Janet: Goldilocks, yes.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, okay.

 

Janet: Yeah, basically it’s not necessarily in someone’s head, it could actually be in their gut, and you could actually see it on lab perhaps.

 

Dr. Lewis: Everything is not chance, and I’ve told people for years, “Success leaves clues that’s real obvious, but so does failure.” If you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired, you can take control of your health. The best thing you can do, because I hear this all the time, “Well, I want my husband or wife to do this.” I tell them, “The best thing you do is keep your mouth shut, and be a good leader, and go ahead and show them. Not tell them. If you show them by doing it yourself, they’ll jump onboard.” That’s worked real, real well for the majority of people.

 

Janet: I like that. There is hope out there, and if you want to find out more, like Dr. Lewis said, go on our website, greenwisdomhealth.com. He’s suggesting that you do the lab, that is the GWH-3. And the reason it’s the GWH, is because it comes with a 30 minute free consultation with Dr. Lewis, so that he can go over the findings with you. Also, there is a health survey on there. If you don’t know how to get started, or you just to need to talk to him and figure out where to get help, fill out the health survey. Dr. Lewis will call you and try to make contact with you, and see if we can get you going in the right direction. We really appreciate you listening to us today. We want you to know there is hope out there, you don’t have to have a life that’s not worth living. Until next week, we’ll see you then. Take care.

 

 

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Depression and Autism | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

These Lifestyle Changes May Help You Cope with Depression:

    Higher Vitamin D Levels
    Sunlight Exposure
    Get Enough Exercise
    Eating Healthy
    Get Enough Sleep
    Reduce Your Stress

Nutrients that help with Depression:

    Zinc
    Sam-e
    5-HTP
    Folate

Product mentioned in today’s show:

https://www.greenwisdomhealth.com/product/5-htp-100mg-90ct-replaces-dn-5-htp-100mg/

Lab Mentioned in Today’s Show:

https://www.ultalabtests.com/greenwisdomhealth/Shop/Items/Item/GWH-3-Comprehensive-Panel-w-Consult?q=Mg%3D%3D

 

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Thyroid Facts and Follies

 

 

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

And I’m Dr. Lewis.

And we are bringing you another exhilarating show this week on thyroid facts and follies. We are Green Wisdom Health, home of the low-cost lab work, and Dr. Lewis has actually written a book about thyroid called the “Thyroid Sniper” – available on Amazon – where he explains to you in a short story the facts and follies on thyroid. But we thought if you guys couldn’t read the book he would be here in person today to give you some of the information that we know that you’re just dying to hear.

I find it funny they called the Facebook thing “Shoot’n Straight” and then the book is called the “Thyroid Sniper”.

“Thyroid Sniper.”

I don’t know what you’re talking about, Janet. What’s the reference to guns there?

I think it’s the big mustache. In case you’ve not seen him, he has a huge mustache so he looks like a-

Not quite as good as Kurt Russell.

Yes, Wyatt Earp. Pretty close to Wyatt Earp in the-

I wish, I wish.

And we live in East Texas, so there’s a lot of hunting going on around here. And it could have something to do with the Texas slang and the stories that he always correlates to something back in the country.

I’ve still got a whole book of Stephen-isms, and I promise you we’re not going to get around to them today.

With that being said, I know we’ve done some other shows on thyroid, but since we are experts in this field, Dr. Lewis hears so many questions about thyroid, and we hear so many misconceptions about it. We see people’s labs that they always tell ’em they’re fine and they’re nowhere close to being fine. In fact, in Longview, or the town we live in, there’s really only one doctor here that we actually send patients to because we know he understands thyroid when they need something beyond our natural medicine help.

He may not be the only good one in Longview, but he’s the only one that we know of for a fact.

Yeah, we know of a whole lot of other ones that have no clue. So for every one out there that’s doing a great job with the thyroid, there are a bunch of them that are pretty clueless about it.

Yeah, ’cause people come in and say, “Well, my doctor says it’s fine.” And I said, “If it’s fine why are you here?” Whoops, that goes into a Stephen-ism there. It’s like, why is America so sick? And, Janet will kind of have to reel me in and keep me off the rabbit trails.

Well, go down one now and explain to them some of the things that you want to talk about, which I know one of your facts about the thyroid was – which I thought was pretty interesting – is that an underactive thyroid, so that’s a sluggish thyroid-

Right, right.

May put you at an increased risk of a heart attack even if your thyroid is only slightly underactive. That’s pretty scary that that correlates to the heart. Not many people realize that it goes to organ health.

The thyroid has to do with pretty much everything in the body. I think it’s good to get it working correctly. I like to use crazy analogies, and I tell people, “Well yeah, your thyroid’s like you’re on I-20 in the rain.” For those of you that don’t understand I-20 in the rain, it’s notoriously dangerous. I said, “You’re like you’re running 140 miles an hour with your adrenals, but your thyroid’s running 35. Somebody is gonna crash and burn.” So you’ve gotta get it – I don’t care if you’re going down the interstate – you need to go down at a proper speed that’s safe for the weather conditions.

That’s a good analogy. We actually had a lady in our office yesterday that we told her a few years back that she had a thyroid problem. And she said, “Well I took it to my doctor, and my doctor said I didn’t.” Dr. Lewis gave that analogy about being on the highway going really slow. He said, “Well, their ranges are so big you could actually be going down the interstate at 20 miles an hour and that would be okay, but does that mean you’re really at optimal speed?” So, that’s what we’re saying with the thyroid is you really need to make sure it’s optimal because with it being slightly off like it said, you could be increasing your risk of heart attack.

Well, I’m gonna go down so many rabbit trails. The first way to fail is don’t get started. The second way to fail is get started and quit.

I hear this all the time: Well, I read on Google da, da, da, da, da. And it says something different than you. I had a lady that came back after a few years and she was in here yesterday and a couple days before and she said, “But I just don’t know who to listen to.” And I said, “Well, if you’re not gonna listen to me, why are you here?” I said, “You’ve been listening to other people for years and it didn’t work. And you’ve heard me say success leaves clues, but so does failure.”

That’s why God gave us a discerning spirit. I tell that to most of my patients: Listen with your discerning spirit. If your discerning spirit says yes, this is the way to go. Don’t jump off the train, just stick with it, it takes time. But, I’ve got a lot to talk about so maybe Janet will keep me down off the rabbit trails, but I doubt it.

There’s different research and you know you can get on Google and read all kinds of research and most of them can be interpreted incorrectly, but some of the research says there’s up to 40% of the people in America have poor thyroid function. I personally think it’s more than 40% – at least that’s what we see on the labs. It’s linked to health conditions.

These people with IBS and Crohn’s, which we have incredible results with other products, can be linked and very often is linked, to a suboptimal thyroid. Fibromyalgia. One of the most sad moments I’ve ever had is a woman looked at me across the desk and said, “Dr. Lewis, do you believe in fibromyalgia?” And I said, “Yes ma’am.” And she lit up ’cause apparently nobody had taken her serious.

It can be acne, it can be all kinds of skin conditions, it can be infertility. Many, many times it’s autoimmune diseases, and there’s a lot of autoimmune diseases. And you think you can get it out of your food, the answer is no, no, no you cannot. I don’t care how good you eat, although you can’t eat out of the typical trough of America. Okay, Janet’s giving me the stink eye on that one, too. You can’t eat the normal SAD, standard American diet, and be healthy but even those that are eating healthy you need to supplement ’cause you have so many nutrients that are missing in even the organic foods.

So, it’s very incredibly important that you understand the thyroid and what to do about it. It produces hormones that control pretty much every function in your body, if not all of them. And the types are: T3, that’s triiodothyronine, free T3; thyroxine, which is T4; and then there’s a T2 that’s not very well understood. But the T4, you’ve got to have it converted, for the most part, in the liver and that’s one of the things we talk about. You have to have optimal liver function because that’s where it takes these bad chemicals, the bad estrogens, and twists it around to make it a safe place. But it converts T4 to T3. T3 is the one that does the work. On most labs it needs to be a three or higher.

I talked to a lady up in somewhere up in the Northeast, yesterday and hers is T4, but she didn’t want to do our products. She said, “Well, it just didn’t taste good.” I said, “We’re not doing it for taste. We’re doing it because it’s gonna change your life and make you feel 20 years younger.” This lady’s about my age. And I’m telling you, feeling 20 or 30 years younger makes a huge difference, and you can achieve that because I’m sitting here. I’m so hyper I can’t hardly sit here, and that’s because Janet works on my thyroid. She gives me advice because you’re not smart enough to fix yourself. I’m not smart enough to fix myself. You need outside help.

You can read the Bible all day long, and that’s a good thing that you should, but you still need a spiritual leader. I’ve got several of those in my life and they do a really good job. They’re wonderful people, men and women.

But your T3 levels, the one that does most of the work, is disrupted by nutritional imbalances. So you have to have extra nutrition from good supplements. It’s interrupted by allergens, infections, stress – and that can be all kinds of different stresses – and that can lead to a lot of complications including cancer. So when people come in with a swollen thyroid, or a hot thyroid, or a goiter I tell them, “You need to see your medical doctor.” I’m a chiropractor. I’m good at nutrition, but there’s no shame in using Western medicine and the so-called alternative.

Let’s talk about thyroid for a minute and the toxins. There’s so many plastics every day that the government has established an average daily amount that we ingest. That’s pretty bad because nobody should ingest it. But it’s in our systems – we cannot avoid it – and that’s plastics and phthalates. They hook onto the cell parts and they kind of gum up the works, so to speak. They accumulate in the different organs including the thyroid, but it triggers cancer of prostate, breast, lung, thyroid, on, and on, and on, and on. So, that’s the plastics that even the government has recognized is a problem to find out how much we ingest every day.

There have been different, and many, scientists that prove that these plasticizers, or the phthalates, they outgas from even the plastic wrap around your cookies – yeah, I got a look on that one because I bought some the other day – the plastic trays that most of the meats, and fruits, and vegetables are encased in. They migrate into the food itself. And that’s from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. That’s not Dr. Lewis’ opinion.

The problem is they accumulate and it doesn’t just cause a hypothyroid or thyroid cancer, it can cause all kinds of different diseases. So how do we know if it’s your thyroid causing the autoimmune disease, or the autoimmune disease going backwards and creating the thyroid issue? So it can cause these toxins that I talk about all the time, it can cause or help create … I always say diseases, they’re not diseases, they’re adaptive physiology that your body’s adapting to a bad situation. I think that song’s been written and sung, too.

It can contribute to autoimmune diseases like lupus. We have a lot of people that come in that have lupus. High blood pressure – holy cow, we’ve got a bunch of those. Cardiac arrhythmia – man, we’ve had a couple of those this week. I always tell them, well number one, go see a cardiologist. That’s a good thing. But, usually it’s like a magnesium. Magnesium, I think there’s 13,000 different receptor sites on the genes or something ridiculous like that. But these toxins, and that can cause a thyroid problem, can lead to heart attack. Ooh, Janet just said that one. Rheumatoid, inflammation of the thyroid.

Did you know that many, many times your high cholesterol can be because your thyroid’s not working correctly? And then you’re put on statin drugs – and that’s between you and your medical doctor – but if you read about statins you might reconsider it. The book I like the best is called “The Cholesterol Hoax”. The second, probably an easier book for the average person, is called “The Great Cholesterol Myth”. That’s a really good one. Then there’s another one, “The Cholesterol Lie”. And then there’s more and more about cholesterol, so educate yourself.

Parkinson’s disease. I had one of the sweetest guys in the world sitting here yesterday with Parkinson’s and a lot of other problems. I told his wife, I said, this, this, this, and this. And she looked at her husband and says, “We’re doing it all.” I said, “God bless you ma’am. You might keep him another five, 10, 20 years I hope with probably less problems.”

All these things can cause the hypertrophy of the prostate, multiple sclerosis – yes, that is very possibly linked to thyroid issues – osteoporosis, heart failure, joints wearing out like arthritis, all kinds of degenerative diseases. Not because you’re getting old, but you’ve accumulated these toxins that’s wreaking havoc on your thyroid and you’re 40 and feel like you’d like to die. Or, you can be my age and feel 30 years younger than you are. Now, it takes a lot of work to do that, but it’s worth is.

So, I did two things. I got started and I stuck with it. And I’m always learning something new. There’s a huge rapid rise in thyroid medication. Actually, I think it’s the third most commonly prescribed medication in the United States of America. That should tell you something. I could go on, and on, and on. I’ve got about 40 different notes on just the toxins and how it messes with the thyroid, but I guess I won’t go there ’cause we’ll run out of time. Which is normal for me, huh?

Where do you want to go now, Janet, somewhere?

Yep.

Where do you want to go for the weekend? Or are we talking about podcast?

Well, I guess do you want to go fast or slow? Can you? I guess we can give the differences and what fast and slow are.

Yeah, you can do that.

Okay. Basically, whenever you have a very sluggish thyroid the symptoms are: You’re very lethargic, no energy, extreme fatigue, you’re depressed, you don’t want to exercise.

Fatigue and depression can be from other things, but if they’ve diagnosed you with that, for goodness’ sake, let your doctor or me look at your thyroid. Good point, Janet.

Thank you. Feeling like you want to fall asleep as soon as you sit down when you don’t have anything to do.

Whoops.

Hmm. Weight gain.

Whoops.

Easy weight gain or difficulty losing weight. See, it’s not your fault. Make sure you have your thyroid checked. And if you had it checked and they tell you it’s fine, send it to us and let us look at it and make sure they’re right. I’m sorry.

Yeah, really. Find somebody you trust-

Yeah, find somebody you trust.

Use that discerning spirit. That’s a really good thing to always listen to.

Rough and scaly skin, or dry, coarse, and tangled hair.

Yeah, if your skin looks like a lizard it might be a thyroid, or you might be a redneck, as Jeff Foxworthy would say.

Hair loss. You see the women with patches of hair that are coming out, or they-

Alopecia.

Yeah, or they’re receding, like their hairline is receding back.

It’s probably just stress of living with her husband, but stress is stress.

And their eyebrows, like half of their eyebrow on the ends are not there.

It’ll start out with the outer part and generally move in.

Yeah, so your hair on your eyebrows gets less. That could be a sign of a thyroid, and that you’re very sensitive to cold. So, if you can’t stand being in the cold you really need to get your thyroid checked.

On the other hand, if you are having an overactive thyroid, that’s where it’s sped up, the thyroid is moving too fast. You’ll have feelings of being restless, nervous, or emotional, you’re very irritable, and you sleep poorly because you can’t stay asleep, difficulty concentrating.

What’d you say? I forgot.

Frequent bowel movements, so your trains are coming through the tunnel way too fast.

Woohoo!

In women irregular menstrual periods, weight loss. So sometimes people can be too skinny. And they actually, I know women are going, really, you can be too skinny? Well, the women that are too skinny really don’t like it. They’re just as unhappy that way as they are the other direction.

And men, that’s a good time to be quiet.

That’s right. Rapid, forceful, or irregular heartbeats. We hear that a lot, actually, like their heart’s just beating out of their chest. And then also lack of menstrual periods in women, is a sign of the overactive thyroid. Protruding eyes.

Yeah, that’s usually Grave’s disease like Mrs. Barbara Bush had. Some of the things – we’re talking about toxins – it can be a food that you’re allergic to that creates a histamine reaction and when that’s released, because you’re either sensitive or allergic to that food, that can cause problems with the adrenals. Which, if you’ve listened to us very long that’s a direct hookup to messing with the thyroid.

Thyroid has a lot to do with the neurotransmitters. And neurotransmitters like the happy hormones – if you ain’t got ’em, you’re not happy. It has a lot to do with serotonin and dopamine for the most part. Ladies and gentleman, listen to this list: If you have a serotonin deficiency – and this is out of the GI tract, but it’s very intricately hooked to the thyroid – if you’ve lost pleasure in hobbies and interests. I asked Janet that. I said, “Am I depressed because I don’t have any kind of – I’m trying to avoid it – but I don’t have any interest in guns.”

Is that because, are you saying that could be a lack of serotonin?

Yep. Feeling overwhelmed, in a rage, paranoia, depression, not enjoying life, depression with lack of sunlight. You know those people that get the short nights in Alaska. Loss of enthusiasm, not enjoying your favorite foods – well, I’m good there – not enjoying your relationships, feeling of dependency on others. And this generally will make you more susceptible to pain, so that’s usually serotonin deficiency. And, again, you have to get your thyroid fixed and we have things that can help your body create serotonin from your GI tract, and we know the supplements, the nutrients that it takes to cross the blood-brain barrier.

Now, dopamine is a little bit different, even both of these – serotonin and dopamine – have to do with pleasure, but they are different. So a dopamine deficiency could be feeling worthless, feeling hopeless, self-destructive thoughts, inability to handle stress. See, it’s similar to serotonin, but different. Anger and aggression under stress, wanting to become isolated, distracted easily – I’m thinking, well I got distracted on that one.

He forgot what he was gonna say.

Inability to finish tasks, need for caffeine to feel mentally alert. Yeah, I got the look on that too. Low libido, and usually people that have dopamine deficiency that’s usually the addicts, the ones that get the big high. They can be sex addicts, alcoholics, drug addicts. They can be gambling addicts. And again, we have some things that will help your body have the raw material to make dopamine. We have a lady that comes in. She buys this particular product and she says, “My husband won’t take it if he knows it’s for his gambling addiction.” I said, “Well, tell him it’s for sex.”

What’s the particular product so that people can know what that is.

DopaBoost works real well.

Okay.

But, I said, “Tell him it’s for sex.” And she said, “He’s lost his interest.” I said, “Okay, that’s kind of typical of dopamine.” I said, “Stir it in his coffee.” And she did it and he did great. And then she ran out, and he was doing so great. And about a week after she ran out, and he was doing wonderful, so she didn’t think anything about it. He went over to the casinos and spent – she said, “I don’t know what it was – ten or fifteen grand.” She said, “It’s a whole lot cheaper to buy this stuff and stir it in his coffee without him knowing.” It’s like, well, I’ve never had a chance to look at his thyroid but I bet you a hundred dollar bill right now his thyroid needs to be looked at. So, it’s a very intimate connection with the thyroid. Thyroid’s number one thing you should look at.

And if you guys are thinking, well I have a doctor that’s looked at my thyroid and they said I’m fine, but you’re naming off all of these different symptoms that I have and I don’t know who to ask. Well, that’s what we’re here for. We actually can run your lab in all but, I think it’s three states now.

Yeah, three or four. One of ’em is kind of up for grabs.

And we send you to your local Quest Diagnostics draw station, so there’s generally one close to you. The way you can find out is to go on greenwisdomhealth.com and on there you’ll see our lab panels and you can pick a panel. Which, the one we’re recommending today is the comprehensive panel. It’s the GWH, which stands for Green Wisdom Health, number three because that comes with Dr. Lewis’ free consultation, and it comes with a functional medicine report, 12 panels of lab, and supplement recommendations so that you’re not guessing at what’s missing. But you can actually put that GWH3 in your cart and before you go to check out it will ask you for your zip code and it will tell you how close you are to a lab so that you’ll know before you purchase if that’s something by you. Then you’ll have Dr. Lewis himself actually go over the values and make sure that you’re feeling optimal. Because I know there’s a lot of people out there that are going, I want to do this but I have no way of getting help in knowing where to get started.

And the other people, if we’re not close to you, we actually have a product that anyone can take regardless of whether or not their thyroid is sluggish or overactive either one, it does feed the thyroid. Dr. Lewis would like to explain that one.

Yeah, it’s called Thyrotain, and this a gold-rated supplement. There’s many different supplements that are mediocre, and there’s some that’s a lot worse than that. This is gold rated and it’s independent, third-party tested. It has vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E – the right kind. It has iodine and almost all hypothyroidism is an iodine deficiency, because we’ve told you about the bromine cascade, the chlorine, and the fluorine and fluoride that messes … they’re all halides and they take the place of where iodine should go.

But sometimes iodine is controversial. This has only 200 micrograms because there are some so-called experts that say you should never put iodine in a person’s supplement regimen if they have Hashimoto’s. Then you have other so-called experts that says, no, if they have Hashimoto’s you can give them 50 to 75 to 100 mg, which personally I think that’s way beyond overdose. But 200 micrograms will not hurt if you have Hashimoto’s.

Yeah, and I want you to discuss that a little bit because we are, golly, I can’t believe we’re running out of time here so fast. We get excited about thyroid. I had a lot of questions actually, but I do want to make sure we address the one question that we had regarding thyroid and it was the olive leaf. Is that what it was?

Yeah.

What was the question, exactly?

It’s from Maggie up in Kansas. I’ve got a lot of people from there. Yeah, let me get to that in just a second.

It’s got zinc, because zinc, selenium, and iodine are very imperative for proper thyroid function, and it’s the good stuff. It’s got N-acetyl cysteine and tyrosine, ashwagandha which is a stress adaptogenic herb, guggul resin which actually helps lower – guggul does a lot of things – but it helps lower cholesterol, and tumeric. Then the tyrosine I’m gonna talk about, then I’m gonna get to Maggie’s question about the olive leaf.

The tyrosine is incredibly important in making some of these conversions. It’s a precursor of adrenaline and the neurotransmitters of norepinephrine and dopamine – we just talked about that – which helps … it’ll help regulate your mood. It stimulate metabolism. It’ll stimulate your nervous system. It’s a mood elevator and lack of adequate amounts can lead to these deficiencies, which can lead to depression. It’s in here and because it attaches itself to the iodine atoms to form the active thyroid hormone. So, tyrosine’s an incredibly important amino acid.

Maggie, thank you very much for your question. I’m gonna get to the olive leaf and I’m gonna tell a quick story even though we’re running out of time.

She says, what is the deal, I guess how’s it useful for thyroid issues? If you have Hashimoto’s, which is an autoimmune disease, we have found some oh-my-God incredible products that does not stimulate your immune system because it’s already hypersensitive, but it stabilizes it, and that’s the olive leaf and something called SBI Protect.

But, olive leaf does – I made some notes here – it is very, very good treatment against infectious and degenerative diseases. It will kill or suppress almost every type of pathogenic microorganisms – bacterial infections, yeast infections, mold, fungus, and paracytic infections. It’s shown to be very antimicrobial in over 150 different infectious diseases and even HIV infected patients have demonstrated improvement to their immune system – this is HIV, folks. If it’s effective against that can you imagine what it would do for you? Because it increases your T-cells.

Let me tell you a story about olive leaf extract. I’ll try to make it quick. Fifteen years ago I had a couple of spider bites on my leg and I – you know me, it took me five days to go in because I’m not very smart – and I had a surgeon do a really good job of taking the spider out of my leg and they could not understand why I didn’t get the MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the skin-eating bacteria, flesh-eating bacteria. He had another surgeon come in and he squeezed it, sniffed it, swabbed it, swabbed my nose. They said we cannot culture MRSA on you. We do not understand how this happens because the last 50 spider bites only one other person really didn’t have it and he was a young, tough guy fresh out of the military and I wasn’t. They said, why don’t you have MRSA because you get it from the spider, and if you don’t get it from the spider you get it out of the hospital. And I said, olive leaf. And I literally was giving a lecture to the nurses at 3 a.m. about olive leaf and all the pharmaceutical-sponsored research that went into olive leaf.

And the olive leaf we use now, we’re actually able to use less pills because it yields more of the allopurinol, and it doesn’t stink like the old one. So, thanks, Maggie. It’s really, really good stuff. It’s indispensable. We keep it at the house. Any time we think any sort of infection is coming through and we use it, it works incredibly well.

So you’re saying to use that for autoimmune problems that had to do with the thyroid like Hashimoto’s?

Hashimoto’s, but we use it a lot on rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren’s, lupus-

Can you just, if they have an autoimmune problem like that, can they just take olive leaf and that’ll be enough to get it under control?

Nope.

And why?

Well, there’s all kinds of other things you have to consider. What’s this monocyte doing? What’s eosinophils doing? What’s the neutrophils? What’s your chloride? What’s your protein level? What’s your globulin level? There’s so many different things you have to look at. Do not treat yourself. I just told you while ago I wasn’t smart enough to treat myself, and I was such a brilliant man it took me five days to go to the hospital, which was stupid. I only went to the hospital to get the spider bite cut out when I couldn’t walk. That was stupid. You always need help. Our medical doctors will bail you out. And Janet’s the one that healed me from this. So, good nutrition, get your lab. I’m telling you good health, and happiness, and energy can be yours.

And with that, that is today’s show. We appreciate you listening and we’ll be here next time for the Green Wisdom Health Show. You guys have a blessed week.