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Oh No Not The Flu | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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Natural Ways to Protect Against Cold and Flu

    Optimizing Vitamin D levels
    Getting Enough Sleep
    Regular Exercise
    Face Steam
    Hydrate and Rest
    Remove White Foods
    Coconut Oil
    Apple Cider Vinegar

 

Product Mentioned In Today’s Show:

Viracid – Includes a powerful combination of key nutrients and botanical extracts that provide immediate support for immune challenges. Viracid boosts immune defenses by providing nutrients such as L-lysine vitamin A, C, pantothenic acid, B12 and zinc, as well as the synergistic blend of botanical extracts black elderberry, astragalus, echinacea and andrographis that have been used traditionally for their clinically effective immunomodulating properties.

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Comprehensive Lab Panel  – The GWH – 3. Comprehensive Panel w Consult panel contains 13 tests with 101 biomarkers. This panel includes Dr. Lewis’ consultation services and recommendations. Please complete the health survey at https://www.greenwisdomhealth.com/health-survey/

 

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All About Anxiety | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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Lifestyle Factors That Can Trigger Anxiety Disorders:

    Exposure to Cell Phones
    Food Additives
    Food Dyes
    GMOs and Glyphosate
    Gut Dysfunction Due to an Imbalanced Microflora
    Deficiencies of Magnesium, Vitamin D and animal-based Omega-3 deficiencies.
    Excessive Consumption of Artificial Sweetners Like Sugar and Junk Food
    Exposure to Toxic Mold
    Improper Breathing

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Hemp Oil+ – Hemp Oil + uses the purest hemp stalk oil possible – certified organic and legal in all 50 states – to help modulate the body’s response to stress and fear, physical discomfort, GI distress, and more.

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All About Anxiety

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  We are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low-cost lab work and answers to why you may not be feeling good, here with another exciting show about anxiety, because I know anxiety is an exciting subject.

Dr. Lewis:                     There’s a difference between excitement and enjoyment, however.

Janet Lewis:                  There are so many people full of anxiety.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and full of other things.

Janet Lewis:                  It’s rampant, and there are people that have no clue what to do about it, how to get rid of it. “Why does it keep hanging around? Where does it come from?” It’s making me anxious thinking about it. So Dr. Lewis-

Dr. Lewis:                     Sometimes you have to blow the whistle and call the play dead, and start something different, which I just did recently.

Janet Lewis:                  And he’s here to tell you all about it, and why we are so full of anxiety, and what can we do about it? Because it does seem to be all over the place now.

Dr. Lewis:                     The reason we did this, I had another subject to do a podcast on, but we’ve had a lot of anxiety recently that was brought into the office, and I blew the whistle, called the play dead, and it’s like you don’t tolerate it. I call people like, they’re crazy-makers. No matter what you say, they go to the negative, and I tell them, “Read the book Negaholics. You’re negative. You never won’t read it,” but just quit it, and we’re gonna talk about it. It may be because of thyroid. It may be because of adrenals. It may be because of PMS. It may be because, “Oh, you’re just missing neurotransmitters.” Maybe because you’re toxic in your bowel. That could be a lot of different things, but one of the things I’ve seen is it’s how you choose, folks.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s a choice. How you choose to think about things. If you think about what the worst case scenario is, it just gets worse and worse. If you think about what’s good, great, grand, and glorious, and can be healthy, happy, bright, lively, and prosperous, then anxiety goes away. To a large degree, it’s a choice. You just have to overcome all this other stuff.

Janet Lewis:                  I think a great book to read also is Joyce Meyer’s Battlefield of the Mind, because that really does help a lot with explaining where all of this comes from, and ways that you can get around, or thinking differently, learning to think differently, and speak differently, because that has a lot to do with it, too, right?

Dr. Lewis:                     Absolutely. I think that’s the most of it. I think it’s a choice. Maybe you say, “Well, everybody in my family’s that way.” Well, just because they did it doesn’t mean you have to do it. You can step outside the circle, and I live outside the circle, but you don’t have to think that. I’ve seen people that all the family was negative, negative, negative, and I’ve seen some people say, “I’m not gonna live this way.” They choose, again, a choice, to do something different. But we’re gonna tell you in our opinion, at least, how it’s kind of easier to break the cycle if you deal with the lack of neurotransmitters or lack of nutritious things that can calm the nerves and ease the bowels’ irritation.

Janet Lewis:                  I have found that it seems that people that have more anxiety disorder, it’s got a lot to do with what they eat, correct?

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s a big part of it.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. The food additives, food dyes.

Dr. Lewis:                     All that’s been proven in ADD, ADHD, so they’re agitated and anxious, even though it may not come out as anxiety. Yes, absolutely. Why do they put it in some of these stupid cheap vitamins? Why do they put it in your drugs? Do you care if it’s got a cancer-causing red lake dye? That’s crazy. Why are they doing that to you? You should ask your congressman that.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, that is the problem we run into here a lot with especially children’s multivitamins, and the chewable forms of the pills. People are used to going to a big box store and buying the gummy vitamins for their kids, because they taste good, and that’s a way that their kid will get them down, but if you read on the back of those labels, many of them have the dyes in it, like Dr. Lewis is talking about. They look great, they taste great, but there’s a reason why they do, and it’s because of those chemicals, and it’s very hard naturally to make something that tastes great without all the synthetic chemicals that go in it. I get you guys, coming from not having a kid that will swallow anything. We try to mix our stuff up in applesauce, or something like that that makes it sweeter. We have a children’s multi that tastes pretty good now. People are going, “Pretty good.” Well, again, it’s not got any kind of synthetic dyes or sweeteners or colorings to it, and I always tell people, “It tastes great at first, and then just chase it with something, and it’s fine.” But it’s called SuperNutes, and-

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. It’s been pretty popular, too.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah.

Dr. Lewis:                     It is what you eat because I just now thought of this. I had ice cream for supper last night, and I’m pretty agitated today, and I dealt with the anxiety, and I eat ice cream out of stress, and I won’t get into that, but I’d rather have ice cream than alcohol. It is what you eat, and it’s what you put in your body. Again, it’s a choice, and you’ve got to make a good choice. I won’t do it tonight, I promise.

Dr. Lewis:                     Some of the things that are missing, I’m gonna get into the different neurotransmitters. Usually, it’s calcium and magnesium. Now, you know I’m not a huge fan of just calcium by itself, but calcium, if it’s in a form that you can tolerate, is a natural tranquilizer. People say, “Well, I want this coral calcium.” Well, that’s calcium carbonate, and it’s not water soluble, or else the moisture shells would dissolve in the water. That is not a good form. It’s one of the most expensive farces they’ve ever put on you, and there are other better forms of calcium.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then you’ve got magnesium. Well, depends on what you need versus how many bowel movements per day you have. Sometimes you need iron. Some people have too much or too little. Most people do not have enough B12, even if they’ve got good digestion because it’s over-utilized trying to detoxify your body. If you’re taking any kind of drugs, over the counter or prescribed, you’re already nutrient deficient, or you wouldn’t have the problem most likely, and then you’re putting in drugs that are depleting the nutrients even more, so you really have to go way beyond the RDA. And B1. B1. Brain fog. It’s the candida in your gut that’s using that thiamine, and, oh, I get some incredible results with this lipid soluble B1. You can use SAMe. Janet loves it when I take it. She says that I’m a better person when I take it. She’s given it-

Janet Lewis:                  I don’t know what he’s talking about. He’s great all the time.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, well. It’ll be set out tonight, I’m sure. B complex, B6, I prefer the activated form, P5P. Vitamin C, and vitamin C doesn’t get a lot of press anymore, because it’s an old vitamin. We knew about it 30, 40, 50 years ago. We like the liposomal, because I think it’s 92% to 94% absorbable, versus the 12% to 13% of the other vitamin Cs. Believe it or not, vitamin E can do it, although it helps oxygen utilization to the brain. And zinc, everybody’s zinc deficient. Man, I give a lot of zinc to people, but I think it’s best if you kind of buffer it with our Reacted MultiMin minerals. You don’t want to just do one unless it’s very super obvious.

Dr. Lewis:                     If you want, I’ll talk a little bit about panic attacks, anxiety disorders, and stress, and some of that’s how you choose to react to stress.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. Are panic attacks and anxiety issues the same thing, or are they different?

Dr. Lewis:                     I think they’re pretty close. It’s hard to differentiate between the two. Some people might argue that point a little bit. Everybody’s got an opinion, and sometimes they vary quite a bit. Many times it’s the neurotransmitters, and one thing you don’t hear a lot of is norepinephrine. That’s actually secreted by the brain itself, and it increases the level of wakefulness, and most people that are obese have very, very low norepinephrine. People say, “But I eat nuts, and then I still gain weight.” Well, you could have a neurotransmitter problem, and you kind of have to let us work on it and be patient, because we’re finding more people when we do their labs, cheap labs, you need to get it here, and we’re finding things, “Well, this and this and this probably relate to the inability of your hypothalamus and-or pituitary putting out the right signals.” I see more of the evidence of that every day, and the people that stick with it, of course, they get more and better results.

Dr. Lewis:                     You got dopamine. Well, let me be more specific, I guess. Norepinephrine deficiency. Usually, those are the people that feel hungry through the day. They have an insatiable appetite, they eat large meals, don’t know when to stop eating, never feel full or satisfied, can eat almost anything in sight, feel out of control, especially with their appetite, think about food all the time, and I have people says, “But I just dream about food.” If you’re craving the bread and pastas, the starches, rather than sweets, I’m more of the sweet craver, ADD, ADHD, hungry in the late afternoon, and it just goes on and on and on and on, so that’s norepinephrine.

Dr. Lewis:                     If it’s a serotonin deficiency, and that’s the one I think is most common, even though other sources say it’s the second most common, those are the people that crave sweets or starches in the afternoon and evening. That’s the people that go home under stress and eat Bluebell. Crave chocolate. Janet always teases that I’m the female in the relationship because I’m the one that’ll eat the chocolate. She will not, and I love it. “Is it irresistible?” Yeah. I don’t know. I’ve never tried to resist it. “Do you eat when you’re stressed, anxious, lonely, or depressed? Anger, because you’ve experienced something that’s distressing? That can be surgery, some kind of long-term trauma, the death of a loved one?” And the answer to that’s “yeah,” you probably have a serotonin deficiency.

Dr. Lewis:                     “Do you eat when you’re not hungry?” Maybe not so much, but, “When you binge on foods or eat massive quantities …” Yep, that’s true of ice cream. “Do you wake up in the middle of the night to eat?” No. That’s not what I’m doing in the middle of the night, but okay. “Are you depressed, irritable, frustrated, or moody?” Sometimes I get irritated. Men get what we could call PMS. Janet’s got a really funny look, like, “Yup, he’s really telling the truth.” It’s like, I’m very polite when everybody around me has this also. It’s not just me. “Do you have trouble falling asleep once you’re awake?” I hear that from so many people. We do have a time-released serotonin, or time-released 5-Htp to create serotonin.

Dr. Lewis:                     Dopamine. These people that have a low dopamine are really interesting. I love them. They’re usually the addicts. Sex addicts, gambling addicts, alcoholics, drug addicts. They usually crave the salty foods or fatty foods. They’d rather eat steak, and bologna, and bacon, or meat lover’s pizza, so to speak. If you feel depressed, then do you lack an interest in life? I hear that. They say, “Well, I just don’t care.” The opposite of love is not to hate. The opposite of love is, “I don’t care.” When people say they have no interest in life and they don’t care, you need to worry about them and see if you can help them. Difficult getting motivated. Well, I’m gonna skip talking about millennials that don’t want to drive for some strange reason. These are the ones that, as I said before, they’re addicted to alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, sex, gambling, or sometimes food. That kind of runs in families, too. Decreased sex drive, tired. Well, that could be any of them.

Dr. Lewis:                     The best thing to do is find somebody that you trust and follow their advice, and one of the biggest problems I’ve ever seen is people think they have to understand, and that gets you in trouble, and it’s like, I said this to Janet yesterday. “Well, jeez. I don’t understand how the transmission on my truck works. I don’t understand how the engine works, but I know when to push a button, it goes and put it in gear.” We don’t need to understand. We have to have a little faith, have a little trust. That’s why I tell you, find somebody you really trust, follow their directions. Use your discerning spirit. Your spirit will tell you if it’s good or bad, even if you’re in the middle of anxiety. That’s kind of the short course on that.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, I think we already talked about a few products that might help people if they have those things because I heard you mention a few things that could have related to me.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, because she’s married to it today. I’ll be better … I’m already better. Never mind.

Janet Lewis:                  But there are actually products that we have that’ll help you through anxiety type issues. A couple of girls that are close to us have anxiety pretty bad, and one of them actually says now that her anxiety is almost completely gone, and it’s just been from taking some of the supplements, some of the right supplements, because she did the lab work, and she didn’t guess at what was wrong. Having a bad thyroid can create anxiety. We always tell people, “Do our comprehensive panel. It’s 12 different panels, the lab.” Having cortisol that’s too high can create anxiety. You just really don’t know where it’s coming from unless you run the lab. It could be from a toxic liver. It can be from a lack of iron, actually. You can actually be anemic and have anxious thoughts and think you have anxiety, which you do, but you may just need iron, but don’t guess.

Janet Lewis:                  We’re able to run lab all across the United States. It isn’t like you need to live here locally. Basically, you would fill out a health survey on GreenWisdomHealth.com, and from there, Dr. Lewis calls you and helps you figure out which lab panel is the right lab panel for you, and like I said, we have you draw it close to your home. All the results come back to us. We do everything via email and over the phone, and people that want to see what he looks like, we use Zoom video, so he can actually talk to you. There’s no need to feel that way because when you have anxiety, you don’t really know where to go, what to do. I know a young girl that just lost it in the middle of Target, and just sat her stuff all down, all of her [inaudible 00:16:03], and just started bawling, because she was so filled with anxiety. There’s no need to live like that. There’s actually answers for it. If you could get on some products, and get the right lab, and know what’s wrong with you, you can start feeling better.

Janet Lewis:                  Some of the basic products that you can use that you don’t even need a lab for, which we’re pretty excited about now, we have a Hemp Oil Plus, is what it’s called. You’re going, “Oh my god. Y’all are selling illegal drugs down there.” Well, no. This one’s actually not. This one’s from the stalk of … It’s from the purest hemp stock oil possible. It’s certified organic, and it’s legal in all 50 states.

Dr. Lewis:                     It being organic means you’re not getting the pesticides that can cause a lot of the problems in the first place.

Janet Lewis:                  Literally, we’ve been waiting for a company that would bring us something that we knew we could trust to sell. There have been so many people that have said, “Hey, why don’t you carry hemp oil in your clinic or CBD oil.” I’m like, “No. Not until I get it from the source that I know-”

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve tried five different companies, and this is … I’ve only seen two that work.

Janet Lewis:                  Right.

Dr. Lewis:                     There’s a lot of fake companies.

Janet Lewis:                  We’ve waited, and it was literally on back order for like six months, and it just came back in again, and it’s from a reputable company that we trust called Thorne. You guys that have shopped with us now know some of the products from Thorne that we carry, like their Pepti-Guard and Choleast and things like that. Their new one now is called Hemp Oil Plus, and as I said, it is all organic, and it’s coming from the stalk, which is not common for them to make it from. The thing with that is, if you’re going, “Well, is it gonna cause me to fail a drug test?” Well, because of where it’s coming from, the answer to that is a very low, “No, it should not do that.” Because you’re getting minimal-

Dr. Lewis:                     You’re not getting any THC.

Janet Lewis:                  Correct. There’s nothing that should show up on a drug test, but what it does do is it helps a whole lot with regulating the body’s response to stress and fear. It actually helps with GI distress, which is a lot of where anxiety comes from, and physical discomfort. People that are in pain, and have a hard time moving around, it really does help with that as well. Then they have also put some other ingredients in it as well to help the hemp work better, like clove extract is in it, black pepper, hops, and rosemary. That’s the “plus” side of it. It’s called Hemp Oil Plus. As I said, we’re really excited to finally have a product that we can back and sell to people, knowing we feel good about that.

Janet Lewis:                  Other things that are great for anxiety. GABA, which you’ve probably heard of. We have one here that is great for kids, and it tastes great.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. It actually does.

Janet Lewis:                  It’s called Pharma GABA, and it’s P-H-A-R-M-A, and they can suck on it, and it actually helps with ADD, ADHD, anxiety type things.

Dr. Lewis:                     We have a lot of kids on it with good reports coming back from their parents and teachers.

Janet Lewis:                  Or people that can’t swallow well, they like the ones they can suck on. For adults, we kind of tell them, “Just go with the straight GABA,” because it’s-

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s stronger.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. It’s stronger. Then Dr. Lewis’ personal favorite that he puts all kind of people on is something that’s called Neurolink. Why do you like that one?

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, because it has that activated B6 that I talked about, the P5P, and it has tyrosine, which is really, really good for helping your body, your brain make neurotransmitters, but it also helps with the thyroid, because sometimes if your thyroid is not functioning correctly, it can cause anxiety and panic attacks. Then it has the GABA, which is a pretty big amount, then glutamine, which your brain actually puts out glutamate. That’s one of the things the body uses and uses a lot of glycines too, amino acids. It has inositol, taurine. Taurine’s really good for the brain, but it also helps your body detox fine. It’s really good for brain fog, too. Then it has 5-HTP. It’s really good. It says six capsules a day, and I only know two people that have to take six. Most people take three with really, really good results. It’s a bottle full of … It’s got 180 in it, so it could last a long time.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve never taken it, but Janet will give me the 5-HTP. Once in a while, I’ll take GABA, and the hemp oil does work really well, and I take it because of my irritated, agitated GI tract, because I have some diverticulitis, and it does help calm down the GI tract. The reason why that’s important is that 95% of your serotonin is in your GI tract. It’s not really in your brain. You have to have good gut health, and stop all that dysfunction. That’s what the P5P activated B6 is for, so it’ll cross the blood-brain barrier. We’re careful to give you the nutrients that really will work and help your body work without having to expend more energy to change the forms.

Janet Lewis:                  Right. Your job is just to take it and let everybody else tell you how much more wonderful you are when you’re on it.

Dr. Lewis:                     And smile.

Janet Lewis:                  Because we hear that a whole lot. Other things that have got to do with anxiety, or having bad anxiety is a lack of magnesium, believe it or not. I always tell people, because they always go, “Well, your stuff’s so expensive.” Well, it’s not expensive. It’s different than what they’ve experienced in a store because our stuff is stronger.

Dr. Lewis:                     We’ve been to places that people think are the bastions of organic, and they’re not, and we see their vitamins, and it’s like, our stuff usually is actually less expensive, but if you compare milligrams to milligrams, ours is way less expensive. It’s just high-quality, so don’t let your perception be fooled.

Janet Lewis:                  Exactly. Magnesium is one of the least expensive things you can do. I think a bottle of it here is like $17 or something.

Dr. Lewis:                     And that’s the good, absorbable type. It’s not magnesium oxide, which most people try to sell you.

Janet Lewis:                  It is not the stuff that gives you diarrhea. It’s reacted magnesium. It has different forms of it, so you can take as much as you need. Magnesium actually does over 300 functions in the body, so if you’re gonna just get one thing, you really need to add in magnesium. Vitamin D being low actually creates anxiety. Did you know that? Dr. Lewis knows everything, so I’m sure you do.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. Well, I did a couple of podcasts yesterday as a guest, and one of them says, “Well, I’m taking 1,000 IUs of Vitamin D a day.” I said, “Well, that’s a really good thing, but it takes 8,000 for the average person to get it up where it should be.” Then I said on a previous podcast that 1,000 units a day will normally lower your chance of flu 70%. 2,000 units a day will normally lower your chances of flu close to 100%. That’s just 2,000 IUs. Then we’ve got a question we’ll get to in a minute. I was on another podcast about Lyme’s disease, so we’ll get to that.

Janet Lewis:                  But low vitamin D levels also can trigger the seasonal affective disorder.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. One of those guys says, “Well, isn’t it just natural? Your natural depression?” I said, “I don’t think depression is natural, but you can accept that.” Again, he’s speaking it into existence, so it’s true for him, but no, depression and-or anxiety, they’re not natural.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s linked to the sunshine deficiency, which does depress you, so take more vitamin D. Also, omega-3 fats, like the fish oils, which we always use Orthomega because of the high EPA and DHA in it, which is what you need to improve your emotional health.

Dr. Lewis:                     And the high absorbability.

Janet Lewis:                  A study proved that medical students who took omega-3s lowered their anxiety by 20%, so see there, it’s not all in your head. There are things you can do to help the gut. Yes, Dr. Lewis wants to make sure that we answer this question because we have people on our Shooting Straight With Dr. Lewis. If you’re not familiar with that group, it’s on Facebook.

Dr. Lewis:                     Sign up with Shoot Straight.

Janet Lewis:                  It is a closed group, but you can ask to be a member, and you can learn all kind of information here. Today’s question comes from Kay, and she wants to know about migratory pain and inflammation from Lyme.

Dr. Lewis:                     Again, I was a guest on a podcast about Lyme’s disease. He said it’s gonna air somewhere around Thanksgiving. I’m a guest on a lot of podcasts. I don’t really know why, but I think we’re doing three or four this week as a guest. I guess there’s a reason for that. Lyme’s disease, you have to go on a low-allergen diet, and there’s a lot of different things you can be allergic to. We do have some weird tests that will determine that. We have weird tests that will determine your neurotransmitter deficiencies, too.

Dr. Lewis:                     You can go on a stealth pathogen protocol, so we can make them little things come out and hit them hard, and then quit doing it, and then they’ll come back out. You can do a purification program. You have to do a leaky gut protocol so that your body will stop absorbing some of the toxins associated with Lyme’s disease and all the weird little [inaudible 00:26:05] that cause that. You kind of have to add joint and cognitive nutrients also, and you pretty much have to go on a lifetime of immune system support for maintenance. We can do that. It’s just absolutely imperative, or it’s quicker, easier, less expensive just to do the lab rather than guess.

Janet Lewis:                  The big one for Lyme that we have really had a lot of success with is Lauricidin.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. That guy knew about Lauricidin, and I told him we can do colloidal silver, and he thought I was crazy because I don’t like using colloidal silver unless there’s a last resort. We use a lot of olive leaf, and berberine, and Pau D’Arco , and artemisia, black walnut, and on and on and on, but there are some things that will definitely help.

Dr. Lewis:                     As far as the migratory pain syndrome, it may be from the toxins from the Lyme disease. It very well could be, but as a chiropractor, when people come in, they say, “Well, I have this parasthesia here and here and here,” and it’s like, “Okay, well that does not correlate with the structure-function aspect of chiropractic.” That’s when I would hit them with the right amount, hopefully, in most cases the right amount of the right supplements.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the things and this is just, you can look this research up, there are so many toxins that you have to deal with, and dealing with it means you have to take the supplemental things that will help your body. For example, just benzene. Now, benzene is known to cause leukemia, and our exposure to it is not just the carpets, and it gases out of the carpets like crazy, but you get a big dose of benzene every time you fuel your car up, and then you got styrene that comes out of the carpet, but how many of you are drinking out of styrofoam cups? And how many of you microwave something in a styrofoam food tray? You’re asking for cancer, but it’s been proven over and over and over again it’ll cause neurotoxic symptoms, and that goes into the migratory pain that you’re asking about, which is numbness and tingling, loss of sensation. Very bizarre pain syndromes. Brain fog, encephalopathy, mood swings, and memory loss.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s why it takes time for us to do our job because it takes your body time to detoxify this stuff, and it can be paralysis, convulsions, tremors, blurred visions. I’ve seen people that had Parkinson’s symptoms. Their tremors would get better and better and better, especially the guys that went through Vietnam and were exposed to Agent Orange. You want to consider that it may be the toxins from the Lyme’s disease, or it can be toxins that were already there, and now you’re overly burdened. Just to prove the point, carpet workers, for example, have increased rates of cancers, and especially leukemias. That research is by Anderson, so you can Google that and look it up.

Janet Lewis:                  So do those people that spray for pests. You know, when they come around and do-

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  Those people are always sick, and they have some sort of leukemia or cancers also.

Dr. Lewis:                     Or early-onset dementia. We see that a lot.

Janet Lewis:                  Oh, yeah. Yeah, because of all the chemicals that are in them.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s not like everybody doesn’t get exposed to those things, but people that are more exposed to it, for example, welders, they get a lot of manganese, and in the wrong form. Nail techs and hairdressers are people that are exposed to chemicals more than the average person, and you know, just hair dye is known to cause bladder cancer.

Janet Lewis:                  None of us women use hair dye, so I don’t think that’s an issue for any of us.

Dr. Lewis:                     No, Janet never has.

Janet Lewis:                  No.

Dr. Lewis:                     God’s gonna get me for lying.

Janet Lewis:                  Looks like we’ve come to the end of our show. He’s getting personal now, so hopefully, we have helped your anxiety lessen a little bit with this show, and given you hope to have a healthy, happy, prosperous life since that’s what we’re all here for. We appreciate you joining us, and we’ll be back next week with another fascinating show. Have a blessed week.

 

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Help I’m So Exhausted!

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  We are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low-cost lab work here to educate you again about another very exciting or tiring topic. I’m not sure which one. It’s so dreary now outside, it is here in Texas, which doesn’t happen for us very often. But it has started early this year, which I’m sure everyone else now is having the same thing going on. You’re going into fall, and you’re tired, and you don’t know why.

Janet Lewis:                  The name of this show is Help, I’m so exhausted. Like I said, with the weather the way it is just makes it worse. We’ve lost our sunshine and reason to get up and go outside and go walk, or be out in the fresh air.

Janet Lewis:                  With that, Dr. Lewis is going to help us today understand more about our adrenals and the role that they play in our health and making us feel better, as well as many other educational items that might fly out of his head that will make you feel better, as well.

Janet Lewis:                  Dr. Lewis, do you want to tell us about why we feel this way during this time of the year, and why we’re so exhausted to start with, and we probably weren’t feeling that great when we got here. What’s going on that we’re just not chipper, and peppy, and happy?

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, thank you to Larry who called and said, “Tell Janet we should name this Down The Rabbit Hole, and should have a website called downtrabbithole.com,” which is true. I guess I’ll never get to where I can corral my thoughts and go in one direction at any given time. I think that’s not gonna change.

Dr. Lewis:                     The main thing about being healthy is create a mental and spiritual image of what healthy would be, and start talking about, thinking about, and giving thanks for the good things that’s happening. Rather than talking about the problem.

Dr. Lewis:                     Sometimes Janet and I get challenges, people that just won’t get out of their own way. We try to help them, but there comes a time where you have to kind of tell them, “You’re creating this. I got to ditch you and go to somebody that’s more productive and just taking it and running with it, and giving thanks for it.”

Dr. Lewis:                     We’re so grateful for the people that give us the five-star reviews and understand how much work we put into helping people get well. Janet and I have been very, very blessed. There’s so many people that kind of stick with it, of course, they’re the ones that get the biggest results.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then there’s those that feel better, and then they’ll quit for a while, and then they’ll come back. We’re very, very grateful. We just want to say thank you.

Janet Lewis:                  Yes-

Dr. Lewis:                     That makes a big difference to us.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s good, and you talk about five-star reviews. Please give us those on iTunes, because that helps us go up in ratings, and where other people can start finding our shows, as well, and helping them find help. If you got really something bad to say just call us directly, don’t put it on there.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and I’ll tell ya that’s your perception. We work really hard to help you get well. I wanted to talk about adrenals because that’s come up several times in the last couple of days. You know, you have to understand, to Larry and the rabbit hole statement … God, I love talking to this guy, he’s funny.

Dr. Lewis:                     If you just support the adrenals then you’re gonna be incomplete. Some people will get a little bit of information and not have enough understanding, and they actually do more harm than good. Here comes your first rabbit hole: this is why you can’t just take our information, I hope we give a lot of it, and good information, but you can’t take it and just run with it, because there is such a complicated way the body works. I try to simplify: take the toxins out, put the supplements, the good nutrition in, and have a healthy, happy, positive attitude, and that helps a lot.

Dr. Lewis:                     Just for example: most people have impaired digestion. Why are you talking about impaired digestion? We’re talking about adrenals. I’ll get to that, that’s another rabbit hole. Oh, you have acid reflux, so you take an acid reducer, or Tums, and then you get slow stomach acid, and then you get reduced B12, and then your B12 lowers your energy level, lowers your brain function, you get brain fog.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then impaired digestion can create leaky gut, more nutrient deficiencies, then it creates more acid reflux, and then it gets impaired absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. That can lead to anemia, low iron, it can cause all kinds of problems, and that can cause anxiety. Oh, not just the brain fog but anxiety, and that can create more thyroid produced, but it’s stuck in limbo, it can’t convert. Then the adrenals have to take over, because the thyroid can’t really do it by itself. That creates hypothyroidism, which puts pressure on the adrenal glands.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then it creates toxins and triggers because you’re not digesting and eliminating, which creates inflammation, which creates autoimmune destruction of the thyroid and other autoimmune diseases, like lupus and rheumatoid [inaudible 00:05:42] and things like that.

Dr. Lewis:                     From that leaky gut, which creates food intolerance, which creates blood sugar spikes, especially the carbs and the sugars, which alter the gut flora, and especially if you’re doing the artificial stuff like Sucralose and Aspartame, and all that kind of stuff. Then you skip meals, then you get more blood sugar spikes, and then that creates more stress, which puts more pressure on the adrenal glands, that increases cortisol.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh, if you have long-term increased cortisol, sooner or later it’s gonna get tired, because you don’t have enough nutrients to support that. I kind of use the analogy of, well, you’re going down I-20 in the rain … Since it’s raining I’ll talk about it … I-20, if it’s raining I don’t even get on it, it’s extremely dangerous between Longview and Dallas, or Shreveport and Dallas. But the increased cortisol, oh my god, you’re going 117 miles and hour.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then, oh, you run over somebody, you run off in the ditch, or your engine blows up, and that’s what you’re doing to your adrenals when you stay constantly stressed. That decreases steroids, then you get your immune system overloaded, which goes back into creating food intolerances, and more inflammation. You know, inflammation and gut is always part of the equation.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then, and finally, it goes into adrenal insufficiency, which feeds the thyroid. Yeah. How about that for a rabbit hole? It took me a while to write that, so I hope you all appreciate it. That’s why … Don’t get a little bit of information and do it yourself.

Dr. Lewis:                     You cannot really understand the big picture, and I can’t even fix myself. I hate to say it, because I think I’m brilliant. I’ve read hundreds of books, usually dozens and dozens per year, I read thousands of research articles over the years, and probably several hundred a year. Real research, not the internet stuff, and I can’t even fix myself.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know what that does? It stresses me out, and causes adrenal exhaustion. God, I hope you like that rabbit hole, because, actually I like that term, so that’s why I keep mentioning it. Thanks, Larry, you’re not the first one to say rabbit hole. That started with Dr. Amanda. She knows all about adrenal exhaustion and why she was working on her PhD. I have several people right now working on their PhD, and for God’s sake, we have a lot of work to do to keep you up and going.

Dr. Lewis:                     But you know what, the regular people that are not working on a PhD have all kinds of stress, also. That’s what I want to get to, talk about, and hopefully I haven’t wasted too much time there, Janet. You want to ask any kind of questions here, get me back off the rabbit hole?

Janet Lewis:                  Well.

Dr. Lewis:                     That was exhausting.

Janet Lewis:                  That was exhausting. I’m tired just trying to put it all into the right perspective here. How about some classic signs and symptoms of adrenal fatigue? Because a lot of people don’t even realize if that’s what’s wrong with them.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s not just tired.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s right, and it’s really kind of interesting some of these things. Like Dr. Lewis mentioned, fatigue and weakness especially in the morning and afternoon. A suppressed immune system, actually.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, how many people have that. It’s getting more common, so folks, pay attention.

Janet Lewis:                  Increased allergies.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and if you’re sneezing. I talked to a doctor yesterday, and he’s doing a lot of stuff. He’s … He said, “They didn’t even put me on a Z pack, they put me on some high-class, long-term prednisone.” I said, “Well, is it working?” He says, “No.” I said, “You’re dripping snot all over your patients, aren’t you?” And he says, “How did you know?” I said, “I can tell over the phone. We’ll clear that up very quickly.”

Janet Lewis:                  I thought this was interesting, muscle and bone loss, and muscular weakness have got to do with adrenal fatigue sometimes.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, pretty much. Some of these lists of symptoms can be attached to adrenals, thyroid, low testosterone, hormonal imbalance, so it can be anything, but, yes, it’s not just low testosterone, guys. It can be your adrenals are exhausted. It’s not from putting up with your wife, because she’s not the stress person, you’re the one that creates it. It’s never a woman’s fault.

Janet Lewis:                  Exactly. You’re right. See why he’s been married to me so long?

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, I just bailed myself out of that rabbit hole.

Janet Lewis:                  Depression is actually a sign of adrenal fatigue, so when people come into the fall like this, and they start getting depressed, it may actually be an adrenal problem.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh, oh, oh. Can I jump in?

Janet Lewis:                  Oh, please.

Dr. Lewis:                     Because I’ve talked to several people lately. I just got off the phone with a lady, another person that’s working on a PhD, and she said, “I have brain fog.” Well, we talked about the poor digestion, and it creates autoimmune disease, and it creates leaky gut, and it creates food allergies.

Dr. Lewis:                     Anytime somebody says brain fog, and this lady does have adrenal exhaustion, because of trying to help raise a toddler, and get pregnant, and work on a PhD. I always put them on B1. It’s better to do the fat-soluble, benfotiamine, because not only does that help take care of the thiaminase enzyme that the extra candida works on, but it helps your body to make hydrochloric acid.

Dr. Lewis:                     Most people have too little, even those of you that have burping, belching, acid reflux, it’s almost always too little. B1 helps the hydrochloric acid production and helps with carb metabolism. A deficiency in B1, and keep in mind, it’s not usually that simple, but a deficiency can cause a GI disturbance, irritability.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, if your husband’s irritable stir it in their coffee. Labored breathing, muscle atrophy, which Janet had just talked about, and even hand and foot pain, and numbness. And me, being a chiropractor, when people would come in, “Well, I’ve got numbness here, or here, or here,” I didn’t always assume it was a bad nerve. I also was aware that it could also be a nutrient deficiency.

Dr. Lewis:                     Thanks for letting me jump in there, because that’s perfect, Janet.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, good. Okay. Also, cravings for foods high in salt, sugar, or fat. So, see, when people come in here and go, “Well, do you have something to help me stop craving those things?” That’s why it’s so complex for us. We’re like, “Huh, where is that coming from? Is that because they’re full of yeast? Do they have an adrenal problem?” That’s why we don’t guess, because the lab work will tell us exactly what’s wrong.

Janet Lewis:                  I’ll talk more about that in a minute, but I want to address some of these other problems here that go with having adrenal fatigue. I think Dr. Lewis already mentioned autoimmune disorders. Skin problems, actually-

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, we have a question about that coming up, too. Thanks for your questions.

Janet Lewis:                  Why don’t you go ahead and address the skin … We’ll address the skin one since this has got to do with this anyway.

Dr. Lewis:                     Okay.

Janet Lewis:                  This is from Tiffany, and she was listening to our podcast on acne, wrinkles and rashes. Thank you, Tiffany.

Dr. Lewis:                     We have one person listening.

Janet Lewis:                  She’s just started taking some of our recommended supplements, and, “Is it normal for your skin to flare up a little at the beginning?”

Dr. Lewis:                     Read what Lauren, her answer to that was.

Janet Lewis:                  Lauren answered this question for us, which I love it when our patients get involved. If you’re wondering where we’re getting this from, this is on Dr. Lewis’ … Shooting straight to Dr. Lewis on Facebook, which you can ask to be a member of, and then you can be involved in some of these discussions, they’re pretty fun.

Janet Lewis:                  Lauren’s answer to this about the skin was, “I’ve had the keratosis on the back of my arms since I was little, and the only time I got it to completely go away was when I cut out gluten entirely. It could be related to a sensitivity, but I think it’s 100% a gut issue.”

Janet Lewis:                  So, we’ve educated Lauren really well. She’s been with us a few years.

Dr. Lewis:                     Lauren’s a young lady, and she’s brilliant, cute and sweet. Love talking to her. Of course, her mamma, [Sonia 00:14:36], is one of our favorites, too. They have the whole family getting healthy here, and investing in better health, and it shows.

Janet Lewis:                  The answer to Tiffany’s question about the skin flaring up at the beginning?

Dr. Lewis:                     I do think its possible gluten. I think Lauren’s right. You’ve heard me say I don’t think gluten’s the main issue. I think it’s gluten with the glyphosate, the Monsanto Roundup stuff. The other thing is, once you start taking a lot of supplements, I think you get challenged, because, “Oh my god, here comes a symptom,” and some people are so skeered, that’s an east Texas term … you’re so scared of something’s changed so you quit.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s like, that’s when you need to stick with it, because when you get an increase of nutrients you also get increased detoxification. Many times these toxins are beginning to come out, and go into the bloodstream, or being excreted through the bowel, through the liver, the bowel, and into the small intestine.

Dr. Lewis:                     If your body is not really getting rid of it fast enough then it starts to come out through the skin. Just kind of bare with us there. Is it a toxin of gluten, glyphosate, or just increased detoxification your body has not caught up with. We’ve got a lot of products for that.

Janet Lewis:                  Very good. Okay. That fit in very nicely. Also, signs of classic adrenal fatigue or increased PMS or menopausal symptoms.

Dr. Lewis:                     Men, shut up. Don’t even go there.

Janet Lewis:                  At least the men get out of that one. I mean-

Dr. Lewis:                     No, we don’t.

Janet Lewis:                  Us poor women, we’re just bombarded with so much.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh, bull.

Janet Lewis:                  Then the next one-

Dr. Lewis:                     Us men have to suffer … Okay, men, shut up. I got the shut up look.

Janet Lewis:                  The next one, low sex drive. Again, women, have got to go through that.

Dr. Lewis:                     I hear that a lot, and it’s not just women, it’s men, too. That’s the hormonal imbalance. You kind of have to invest a lot.

Janet Lewis:                  I love how they tell you though that they don’t have that. They’ll walk up to me and go, “Oh, no, I don’t have a problem with that whatsoever. I’m perfectly fine.”

Dr. Lewis:                     Plus, Janet’s really, really gorgeous, and they’re saying, “Oh, no, I’m good, I’m good.”

Janet Lewis:                  Then they’ll walk over to Dr. Lewis and they’re singing a different tune.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. Well, nobody wants to admit it in front of somebody that good looking.

Janet Lewis:                  Oh, women admit it all the time.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, they tell me, and when I turn red they kind of back off.

Janet Lewis:                  More signs of adrenal fatigue. Isn’t this one interesting: “Lightheadedness when getting up from sitting or lying down.”

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, well, there’s a lot of … more technical stuff I won’t get into, but the adrenals have to do with putting out all kinds of different things: mineral, corticoids, and it has to do with blood pressure. If your adrenals are tired, simply put, when you get up quickly from laying down or sitting, and the adrenals are … their task is to raise your blood pressure temporarily.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, if they’re tired and can’t do that, then the blood pressure will drop in your head temporarily, because they can’t keep up, and it will make you dizzy or lightheaded, or see stars sometimes. You can get that from taking different medications, also. Be careful with that.

Janet Lewis:                  Also, a decreased ability to handle stress. If you think you’re starting out really great in the morning, and 30 minutes after you’re at work it’s gone, and you’re not doing so great, it could be that you have an adrenal problem.

Dr. Lewis:                     It sounds like a good Jeff Foxworthy joke.

Janet Lewis:                  Poor memory.

Dr. Lewis:                     What did you say?

Janet Lewis:                  Basically you’re just checked out. Interestingly enough, people with adrenal fatigue often get a burst of energy around 6:00 at night, and then they’re really-

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s not from the alcohol when you get home? It’s from your adrenals?

Janet Lewis:                  Nope. Followed by sleepiness at 9:00 or 10:00, which is often resisted. Then you get a second wind at 11:00, which is then common that you do not fall asleep until 1:00 AM. Furthermore, those with adrenal fatigue often have abnormal blood sugar levels and mental disturbances, such as increased fears, and anxiety, and they rely on coffee, soda, and other forms of caffeine to keep them going.

Dr. Lewis:                     I love my Contigo, because it hides what’s in it.

Janet Lewis:                  This is so revealing. Unfortunately, because … Like Dr. Lewis said, all of these things can be so many different things, and that’s why we never guess, because we would be no better than you walking into your local health food store, because-

Dr. Lewis:                     Except our supplements are better quality, but-

Janet Lewis:                  Correct, but, I mean-

Dr. Lewis:                     You’d still be guessing.

Janet Lewis:                  There’s still so many people that are coming in here and go, “Well, can you just pick like a couple of things of where to start?” and they give us a list of this kind of stuff.

Dr. Lewis:                     Let me go down the rabbit hole and pick something for you.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah.

Dr. Lewis:                     We’ll pull it out of the rabbit hole.

Janet Lewis:                  I mean, it’s really-

Dr. Lewis:                     I love that.

Janet Lewis:                  I would hate to guide you in the wrong direction. That’s why we do the lab, because it will tell us exactly. Because I can tell you, “Hey, you got an adrenal problem,” but does that mean your adrenal, your cortisol is high? Or is it low? You don’t know, you don’t know without running lab. That’s why we run cortisol on our lab, because we have specific supplements for either direction.

Dr. Lewis:                     It can be just slightly below or above optimal, and still create a problem. People say, “But, I’m not stressed.” I said, “Well, you just went through a major surgery, or somebody in your family did, or you’ve gone through a divorce.” Or, “Oh, you just got married. Yes, getting married’s stressful, even though it’s a wonderful thing, honey.” Having a baby is stressful even though it’s a big blessing, you’ve got to understand that these changes stress your adrenal glands.

Dr. Lewis:                     When it stays chronically, stressed or fatigued, it promotes weight gain. You know, that’s a big thing. Women say, “Can you help me lose weight?” Yeah, 50% of you that do my program lose weigh like crazy. The other 50% it’s hard, it’s slow, you got to really make some big changes, and you have to be comfortable with those changes. That’s the hard part, because change is generally uncomfortable.

Dr. Lewis:                     Excess stress creates the imbalance, and if you’re not energized that will alter your gut integrity, and that was that list that I went on, and on, and on about. I hope you got something out of there. Run this back and play it slowly. But the gut integrity has a lot to do with the leaky gut. That creates the inflammation that I talked about, and that’s a big major factor in weight gain, obesity, and fat retention.

Dr. Lewis:                     That alone will alter the microbiome, or the good bacteria there, and create just kind of a rampage, vicious cycle, so to speak. For people that have trouble losing weight, when you get stressed your body shuts down digestion for the most part, because it shunts everything it can to the muscles for the fight or flight … You’ve heard of that, I’m sure.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the biggest stresses that our ancestors a long time ago faced was lack of food. It was feast or famine, and so when there was a feast we started developing over a period of tens of thousands of years, the genetic response was, “Oh, if I can spare the calories, put it into fat, then this person is gonna make it through the famine.”

Dr. Lewis:                     So, the fat-sparing genes were altered over time, and that’s why you can eat very, very little and not lose weight. You have to be able to stick with it, and hit all of these different avenues to help your body adapt, and feel like it’s safe to let go of the fat cells. That’s scary.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, you know, the other thing about adrenals is, like Dr. Lewis said, so many things can cause you to go into a state of being stressed. But the adrenals do try to handle it up to a certain point, and that’s when the cortisol goes high, because it’s trying to handle it.

Janet Lewis:                  After a point in time when it doesn’t get any help, you keep staying under stress, the adrenals say, “Hey, I quit.” So then they drop really low with the cortisol. That takes a longer time to get those back to where they should be, because it took them a long time to get there.

Janet Lewis:                  When you’re listening to the show, and you’re going, “Hey, I think this is me, and I think I want to try this.” You really need to know where your cortisol levels are.

Dr. Lewis:                     You don’t need to try it, you need to jump in and do it. There’s a difference between trying and doing.

Janet Lewis:                  You need to know. We always recommend that you do the comprehensive lab panel that we have, because it has 12 different lab panels, and one of them is cortisol. Many of the things that Dr. Lewis is reading off here can be other things, as well.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s why we run 12 different lab panels, not the common one to three lab panels that we see people bring us that they think are complete. They are not complete, they’re not even close to being complete. We like a thorough picture of where your health is going.

Janet Lewis:                  You’re thinking, “Hey, I don’t live here. We’re in Longview, Texas.” You’re right, you don’t live here, but you don’t have to. We can do this throughout the United States, and it works very simply. You go to greenwisdomhealth.com, you fill out a health survey. It will actually recommend you the right lab panels. So, if you don’t want to talk to us, I can’t imagine why, but you might not want to talk to us, and you might want to just go right on and order the lab. You could actually do it right there. Everything’s set up online where it lets you see what the lab location is that’s close to you.

Janet Lewis:                  You print out the lab order, you take it into your local lab draw station, whatever state that is, and the results come back here to us. When you select the comprehensive lab panel it includes going over the details of that with Dr. Lewis. You also get a supplement recommendation, to where to start so that you’re not alone, that you have a roadmap of how to get there, you get a functional medicine report. We just don’t believe in leaving you in the dark. We would like you to start having a map to get your health back, to get hope back, to get life back.

Dr. Lewis:                     There was a lady I talked to in California the other day, and I said, “Well, how did you find us?” She said, “On somebody else’s podcast,” and she said, “My husband and I listened to yours, and you’re just like a real person.” I said, “I don’t know what unreal is, but I just kind of call it the way I see it.” She says, “Well, I just don’t want to take a bunch of supplements and not know what to do. And that’s why I came to you, because it sounds like you can target that.” I said, “Yes, ma’am, absolutely.”

Dr. Lewis:                     She says, “Well, I don’t really have any problems. I just want to help do it to perhaps prevent problems. It’s, like, “Well, you are a wise and beautiful woman.” Now, her husband, I’m gonna get to talk to him pretty shortly.

Dr. Lewis:                     Some of the things, and this is gonna be brief … One of the things to get rid of some of the bad yeast, fungus, viruses is … We’re having incredible results with, it’s called Candicid Forte. That’ll clean up and kill off, suppress the bad bacteria, yeast and all that.

Dr. Lewis:                     If your adrenals are low, which most people have gone into adrenal exhaustion before they get here, we use a product called Adren-All, and that is absolutely incredible. It has the little bit of vitamin A, C, E, some other things. But it has a glandular in it, which I’m very, very … I got some really incredible results with the glandulars. And it has eleuthero root, rhodiola, schizandra, licorice root extract, and all of those are known both historically, clinically, and through research to work to help support the adrenal glands.

Dr. Lewis:                     There’s other things that are very important. The B complex is very important, the pantothenic acid, which is B5. Adrenal glands basically can’t function adequately without pantothenic acid. Believe it or not, you can’t get enough of that out of your diet. It’s impossible.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then the raw adrenal glandular, which I talked about, which that can be cortex, different parts of the adrenal glands. COQ10, the multivitamins. Some people actually need copper. That doesn’t come up much, but almost everybody needs zinc and selenium, and that’s very, very important.

Janet Lewis:                  We do want to make sure we address the other question that we had from Eddie. We love Eddie.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  He’s always got great insight and great questions. His question is about parasites, which no one wants to talk about. We believe that our dogs can only get them, but believe it or not, if you have a dog or a cat, you probably have them, too.

Janet Lewis:                  But he wants to know if there are such things as good parasites in our intestines. I don’t know that we really classified good bug as a parasite, because-

Dr. Lewis:                     No, because parasite would be a taker and not a giver. Many bacteria, yeast, also there are good yeast, there are so many different microorganisms. If it’s parasitic that means it’s taking and not giving back. I think no, a good one, no.

Dr. Lewis:                     Is it possible we have them? I’ve had several different types of doctors, naturopathic, chiropractic, dentist, and MDs, that said they don’t exist. It’s like, well, “Why do you worm your dogs, cats, horses, and cows?” “Well, they don’t exist here.” It’s like, “You’re so full of it. Read your research.”

Dr. Lewis:                     There’s all kinds of research that says we have them. We just think we don’t have them because when you go to Mexico you get Montezuma’s Revenge, and it’s, like, well, maybe when the Mexicans come up here they get it from America, too. We got a bad bug when we were in China.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, that’s why the Candicid Forte is a really good thing.

Janet Lewis:                  Actually, yeast is a parasite.

Dr. Lewis:                     Candida is. That’s why one of our favorite probiotics includes saccharomyces boulardii, which is a probiotic yeast, a good yeast, so there’s good and bad, just like there’s good and bad women.

Dr. Lewis:                     Okay, no, they’re all good. I’m sorry.

Janet Lewis:                  This show always digresses to this.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, hey, you know, give me a cold beer.

Janet Lewis:                  Speaking of which, we are at the end of our time. I sure hope you guys have learned something about your adrenals this week, and how to take care of them, and how to feel great during the fall.

Dr. Lewis:                     Lap, and play, and have fun, and choose to think happy thoughts, and look over at all the things you should be grateful for. We’re very, very grateful for you.

 

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Help I’m So Exhausted | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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Classic Signs and Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue Include:

    Fatigue and weakness, especially in the morning and afternoon
    A suppressed immune system
    Increased allergies
    Muscle and bone loss
    Depression
    Cravings for foods high in salt, sugar and fat
    Hormonal Imbalance
    Skin Problems
    Autoimmune Disorders
    Increased PMS or menopausal symptoms
    Low sex drive
    Lightheadedness when getting up from sitting or lying down
    Decreased ability to handle stress
    Trouble waking up in the morning, despite a full night’s sleep
    Poor Memory

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Adren-All -Stress is defined as any disturbance–extreme cold or heat, psychological stress, sleep deprivation, work overload, physical trauma, as well as toxic exposure, that can trigger the stress response. The body’s stress response system is comprised of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Prolonged stress triggers the HPA axis and consists of three stages: stage 1: alarm; stage 2: resistance; and stage 3: exhaustion

Get to the root of adrenal exhaustion with this recommended Comprehensive Lab Panel – Includes 12 different lab panels INCLUDING cortisol! Also, a free consultation with Dr. Lewis is included with this panel!

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Fish Oil Fat or Fiction

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

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

Janet Lewis:                        And we are bringing you an exciting show about fish oil, which I’m sure all of you know something about or at least have heard of so this is not a random vitamin that you’ve never heard of. This is actually something that’s very commonplace; however, the differences in them are vast. So, this show is titled, “Fish Oil – Fat or Fiction,” and that’s not misenunciated, that is Dr. Lewis’ title. So, with that, Dr. Lewis can you tell us what we’re talking about? What has fat got to do with fish oil?

Dr. Lewis:                            God, I don’t even want to go there yet. It’s kine of like fast food. It’s funny how they slipped the “s” in there instead of calling it what it is, fat food, but we’ll get to that and how that’s related to fish oil in a minute. Where do you want me to start, Janet?

Janet Lewis:                        I want you to educate people about what they’re buying over-the-counter and what fish oil does and is it all the same?

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, I’m going to talk about what fish oil does. Some people don’t believe me and they’ll go get the cheap stuff and we’ve literally seen labs go to heck in a bucket because a person would change and go to a different cheap fish oil that may be contaminated. It’s like I go back to the thing you’ve heard so many times. You know, all women are not the same, I guarantee you. I’ve had the best in the world in Janet and I’ve had … okay, let’s go to fish oil. There’s a lot of things that you need to know and it’s very, very, very important. Sometimes on the internet, you can read anything on the internet. Now they’re saying all fish oil is not helpful, it’s this, it’s that, it’s that they always come back and poo-poo something that’s good. I wouldn’t say be careful what you read, but I’d definitely say be really, really careful what you believe because there’s a lot of people that say things that aren’t true.

Dr. Lewis:                            They used to say smoking actually helped your digestion. They used to have cocaine in Coca-Cola and I’m not sure they shouldn’t bring that back, but you know, that’s another topic. They used to say sugar is good for you. They used to say butter is bad and now they’re saying, no, margarine is bad. They used to say eggs are bad and I don’t know how anybody could believe that, but okay.

Janet Lewis:                        Well, that’s the problem. You hear such positive and negative things from everything now. How do you know what to believe?

Dr. Lewis:                            Believe me.

Janet Lewis:                        I guess research.

Dr. Lewis:                            I do a lot of research and then on that subject, you can get on the internet and read anything you want, good, bad, ugly and in-between. You know, God gave us discerning spirit and I think … I may be wrong, but I think some people have forgotten they have a discerning spirit and they’ve gotten to where they don’t trust their intuition. Intuition, to a big degree comes out of the GI tract, your gut feeling and our guts are so messed up, which we’re going to get into because Eddie, from up there close to Chicago asked a question and we’ll get into that in a minute. But just a few facts on fish oil. You know me. I’m going to go down rabbit trails and I hope you can make sense because I write about two or three hours worth of stuff that we try to cram into a 30-minute show and that’s why I talk fast and that’s the only time I talk fast.

Dr. Lewis:                            This has nothing to do with fish oil, but I’ll lead up to it and this is from some really good sources that says Ritalin is essentially the same as cocaine. Then I’m going to go into why should you take fish oil. The anti-inflammatory properties of fish oil with antioxidants, that’s important. I take the big dog vitamin E, but the antioxidant vitamin E added to it, prevents or helps to prevent immune and autoimmune diseases. There is research out of Harvard that says omega-three fatty acids are vital for the treatment of depression and we’ll get into a lot of different disease processes or symptoms that fish oil could potentially help your body help itself. Of course, the FDA disclaimer, none of this affects your symptoms or disease. Not intended to cure diseases and all that kind of stuff. It’s like, well, of course not, but we have forgotten that our body can.

Dr. Lewis:                            Omega-three fatty acids, and they need to be a good one. The one we use is 393% more absorption than the regular fish oil because of the form and the purity. One thing, it does have antioxidants in it. One thing people don’t really know is some of these places say well it comes from Sweden and Norway and a lot of the good fish oil does, but they catch them little rascals down around, some of them, Central America and South America and by the time they ship it up to Sweden and Norway, all that’s rancid and then they have to use all kinds … you want to say a plethora, that’s a word … I don’t know if that’s correct, of chemicals to decrease the rancid part and then what are you really, really getting?

Dr. Lewis:                            So, there’s also a study that said omega-three fatty acids are a better option than the NSAIDS, that’s non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs which is aspirin, Advil, Tylenol, Naproxen Sodium. It’s a better option than NSAIDS because they have no side effects and they help prevent autoimmune diseases and they also have curative effects. This is also out of Harvard and I keep mentioning autoimmune because that’s going to go back to Eddie’s question on leaky gut.

Janet Lewis:                        Can I talk a little bit about what they’re looking for in a fish oil because I think people would be completely flabbergasted at what the ingredients are in the fish oil and then the next question is well, yours is expensive, but it’s not.

Dr. Lewis:                            No, it’s really not.

Janet Lewis:                        Not when you compare what you’re getting. One of our soft gels, what you want to look for is the ratio of the EPA and DHA ratio on fish oil and if it don’t break it down and it just says it’s combined and makes this amount, you don’t want that. You want it broke down. On our bottle it actually says, which I’m talking about the Orthomega, one soft gel is 950 milligrams. It is broke down by EPA of being 430 milligrams and DHA 390 milligrams and then the additional omega is 130 milligrams so it makes 950.

Dr. Lewis:                            But, keep in mind, that it’s also the ones that through research are 393% more absorbable. And we can get them stronger than that, but we always have a good blend of what you spend versus what you get. If you want it more powerful, we can get it, but this for the price is the best bet by far and that’s what Janet and I take, except I take the liquid.

Janet Lewis:                        The reason we recommend this is because you can see the breakdown on it. You can see that it’s extremely strong. I would ask that you go to your health food store and look and find one that’s equally as strong and I could almost bet you a $100 bill you will not.

Dr. Lewis:                            And then, is it the fake stuff coming from South and Central America.

Janet Lewis:                        And then what we’re wanting to use this for is actually to help move lab values because believe it or not when you’re running your cholesterol panel, which we run on our lab panel, if you’re HDLs on the cholesterol are lower, you’re lacking a good fish oil. A good fish oil will actually help bring that up higher and it’ll actually help put your triglycerides lower. So, you need diet changes as well, but a good fish oil on its own will help bring that down into a normal range, so it’s not about masking it with cholesterol medication. It’s actually about getting the different levels of the cholesterol correct and LDLs on there are more about hormonal imbalances and we’re educating them now a little bit about labs, so when somebody’s running cholesterol, you know, their whole deal is let’s just give you a pill and let’s just make it all right.

Dr. Lewis:                            We use lab because how do you know where you’re going if you don’t have a map or if you don’t have a destination and this will tell you where you are so you know where you want to go and where you need to go. And people say, “But I feel good.” I don’t care how you feel. You can drop dead tomorrow and not ever feel it.

Janet Lewis:                        But I can tell you on our lab and we give them this fish oil, the numbers start getting back right like they’re supposed to be, so that’s what you’re looking for when he’s talking to you about that.

Dr. Lewis:                            And we’ll talk about all kinds of different things, but there’s the differences in DHA. DHA is like, I think it’s a 22 carbon long essential fatty acid and it says essential because your body cannot produce it. And then I treat a lot of vegans and you know, if you want to eat that way that’s fine, but you can’t get this from flaxseed and flaxseed is probably your best plant source of omega threes.

Janet Lewis:                        And explain that a little bit, too, because people do come in here and say, “Well, how about I just take flaxseed?”

Dr. Lewis:                            Well, you better eat a bale of it every day and then you couldn’t digest it and assimilate it and flaxseed is not a bad thing. Well, it’s better if you get it organic and better if you grind it right before you consume it because it can go rancid and I don’t think taking flaxseed’s a bad thing, I take it, but it’s just not complete.

Janet Lewis:                        Well, we just use fish oil because the fish has already broken it down.

Dr. Lewis:                            Oh, good point and I was going to talk about that sometime, about cows. Why not let them use the energy to make the omega threes and that’s the difference between and I might get into it more later, but that’s the difference between grass fed versus grass finished or grain fed. The grass fed beef has extremely higher percentages of the omega threes and the problem in today’s society is we have about a 1:20 ratio of omega threes to the inflammatory omega sixes and nines. It needs to be about a 1:2 ratio to 2:1. We need more omega threes by a long-shot to offset the inflammatory oils and they come hidden in all kinds of things. So, DHA is the one that helps build the brain. If you want a healthier baby, you need to eat the holy heck out of it. Take digestive enzymes. Use probiotics, because you will develop a healthier baby that has a healthier, more well-developed brain and central nervous system, plus higher immune system.

Dr. Lewis:                            There’s a really good book called, “Smart Fats.” There’s another book called, “The Miracle Brain.” And then there’s one, “Eating Well For Optimal Health.” They’re all really, really good books and there’s just tons and tons of studies. I won’t take too much time. I won’t say too much about that, just because I have two or three hours of stuff to talk about and I’ll never get around to it. The linoleic acid which is something that most people say, “Oh, well that’ll turn into-” and the answer is, “No, it doesn’t.” That’s the stuff you get from corn oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower, safflower, peanut, soy and canola. I think you should avoid the holy heck out of all of them except, I’m not so sure about sunflower oil. I kind of like it, when you can get organic sources of it and since socialism works so well, that’s why we can’t get organic sunflower oil much because Venezuela and socialism’s working so good, so beware of what you ask for. You might become Venezuela. But, there’s a lot of chemical processes as it goes through this … some of it’s beyond me.

Dr. Lewis:                            Some of these inflammatory acids, arachidonic acid, is actually inhibited by the EPA in the fish oil, so it stops a lot of the inflammation. Then, if it goes into too much arachidonic acid, then you get into the COX-1, COX-2, COX-3, which causes pain that’s activated by insulin. It just goes on and on and on and the end result is inflammation, immune system dysfunction, vascular disease, pain, degenerative joint disease, fibrosis, fibromyalgia and an increase in free radicals. Okay, enough chemistry, because frankly that’s all I know. You can go to alpha linoleic acid and that’s back into chemistry … that’s the one you get from flaxseed oil and it is converted to EPAs slightly, but it’s better if you get it from the cold water fatty fish because they’ve already used energy to create it through their livers, but it’s incredibly anti-inflammatory and then it’s converted into DHA which is incredible to build the brain, the synapsis, increases the production of serotonin and dopamine. If you’ve got enough serotonin and dopamine, hey you’re a happy camper. Give it to your spouse if they’re grumpy as heck.

Dr. Lewis:                            Okay, this is a Stevenism, so pay attention. Classic inflammation hurts. Silent inflammation kills slowly. Stevenism 101. And that’s the toxic fat. Waiting for Janet to jump in here. I think once she sees me on my soapbox, she doesn’t want me to step down from the pulpit.

Janet Lewis:                        I’m just looking for my opportunity.

Dr. Lewis:                            Go ahead.

Janet Lewis:                        I just wondered if you guys know about all the different things that fish oil does, actually, that’s very good. In fact, actually there’s 13 different things that we have listed here that it helps with and a couple of them I really didn’t know so it was kind of intriguing.

Dr. Lewis:                            It may be a little bit beyond what I just said. I think Janet has a very, very good list.

Janet Lewis:                        Yeah, there’s ADHD which I think you mentioned.

Dr. Lewis:                            And sometimes I have it.

Janet Lewis:                        Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Lewis:                            And Alzheimer’s, not just Alzheimer’s, but any neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson’s, dementia, brain fog, brain fart … oh, I didn’t say it … chronic headaches.

Janet Lewis:                        Anxiety.

Dr. Lewis:                            I’m anxious about it, baby.

Janet Lewis:                        Arthritis. I know it helps joints a lot.

Dr. Lewis:                            Big time.

Janet Lewis:                        Cancer, actually.

Dr. Lewis:                            And since it helps joints, it also helps rheumatoid arthritis because of the autoimmune connection.

Janet Lewis:                        The cancer, it’s been proven that it makes conventional cancer drugs more effective.

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, absolutely.

Janet Lewis:                        But it’s also an effective standalone therapy and natural cancer treatment, believe it or not.

Dr. Lewis:                            And there’s more and more doctors that are being very cooperative with me. I just got a referral from Shreveport from a gastroenterologist and it’s getting better. The MDs and DOs are good people. They do a lot of good things and they’re getting better and better about sending their patients to people like me, not as an alternative to medicine, but as an adjunct and complementary. I’m impressed with the medical profession for doing that.

Janet Lewis:                        It helps with cardiovascular disease which we kind of already knew that a little bit.

Dr. Lewis:                            Janet does like to keep my blood pressure down.

Janet Lewis:                        Diabetes.

Dr. Lewis:                            Say it like Wilfred Brimley. Diabetes.

Janet Lewis:                        Diabetes, or diabet-ees, that’s what they usually say. Eye disorders and I can tell you for a fact when I miss my Orthomega, I know my eyes are more dry. It really does help dry eyes.

Dr. Lewis:                            And after her LASIK surgery, which nobody knows she got, I started looking prettier, but she had dry eyes, so I told her to add borage oil with it and that did a really good job to enhance the EPAs and the DHAs from the fish oil.

Janet Lewis:                        It helps with immune system function because when the antioxidant astaxanthin is combined with fish oil, the immune boosting power is multiplied.

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, and we don’t sell a lot of it because some people they get to their limit before that, but Janet and I take it and she’s way prettier than me, so I think she takes more of it, but astaxanthin’s probably one of the best antioxidants you can take.

Janet Lewis:                        In women, fish oil helps skin and hair, which is the only thing we really care about.

Dr. Lewis:                            I don’t know about testosterone, that’s all men care about.

Janet Lewis:                        All they care about. Women don’t want to lose their hair and they want their skin to look good.

Dr. Lewis:                            But they don’t care if their man has testosterone. Go figure. They just want to look pretty and … never mind.

Janet Lewis:                        It helps with fertility and pregnancy, actually. DHA and EPA play key roles in sperm health and mobility, so somehow it makes them move faster.

Dr. Lewis:                            You make stronger swimmers.

Janet Lewis:                        I guess, along with increasing female fertility and also you need it when you’re pregnant because your baby is taking all of yours and that’s a lot of times what makes women go kind of nutty in the head afterwards.

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, but men, you’ll live longer if you don’t say anything about it.

Janet Lewis:                        Yeah, but give them fish oil because that’s what the baby just took from you and plus you need it when you feed the baby, when you’re breastfeeding because it’ll actually be smarter if it takes it. And the big one, which I think is pretty darned exciting, number 13, is weight loss which Dr. Lewis keeps alluding to in his-

Dr. Lewis:                            You ever seen a fat fish?

Janet Lewis:                        Well, that’s because they’re swimming. Is it not?

Dr. Lewis:                            I don’t know. Next time I catch a catfish I’ll ask him.

Janet Lewis:                        Well, I figured a fish was thin because it’s swimming all the time.

Dr. Lewis:                            Sorry, people. You know, this is the South and we have people that listen from all different kind of countries, so in the south, my friend from Michigan said, “I don’t understand how you catch and eat a catfish.” I said, “Well, you go bow hunting for carp and you eat that nasty thing,” so there are a lot of regional differences, so pardon me if I don’t eat a carp, but I will eat a catfish, the bottom feeder.

Janet Lewis:                        Well, it actually showed the effects of weight loss in fish oil and the combination with diet and exercise in the May 2000 issue of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the results showed that a combination of fish oil supplements and a regular exercise program can reduce body fat while also improving heart and metabolic health.

Dr. Lewis:                            Well, also, it’s because the higher fat content, the more your body feels full and happy and that’s why I’m a big fan of keto. Paleo is okay, but I like keto, because it’s higher fat. It has to be the good fats, though, and it keeps your brain happier and is very anti-inflammatory.

Janet Lewis:                        Yup, it actually helps stimulate the use of fatty acids for the production of energy in healthy adults.

Dr. Lewis:                            And I’ve heard this a couple of times once today and once I think yesterday. Well, I’m on keto and I’m tired. Listen, that’s normal. Your body has to do a lot of conversion to go from burning glucose to burning fat, so just hang with the lack of energy and that’s why we have sold out of Mitocore, which is energy producer, but we’ll get some more and if we don’t get to the questions, we won’t get to the questions, but-

Janet Lewis:                        Oh, no, we’re getting to questions.

Dr. Lewis:                            Oh, okay.

Janet Lewis:                        Because we had several of them and we always asked you guys which, if you’re not a fan on our Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis on Facebook, just either send me an email to janet@greenwisdomhealth.com and we can include you that way or just go on Facebook and ask to be a friend of Shoot’n Straight and that has no “i” in it and no “g.” It’s S-H-O-O-T apostrophe “n.”

Dr. Lewis:                            There we go talking southern for you people that aren’t southerners.

Janet Lewis:                        Right, but we always ask the people in that group give us questions for the show so we can educate you on the things that you’re most interested in. And we have one from Carl, who happens to be a local client of ours and he wants to know how toxins affect vision?

Dr. Lewis:                            You know, there are a lot of toxins that affect vision and I still tell people go to a good optometrist or if that’s not appropriate, go to an ophthalmologist, but I’ve seen people that seem to have a lot of mold intoxication, you know, a dirty building or dirty house, something like that, that can work. Then I had a 94-year-old missionary in here this week. He got toxins from his drugs and woke up blind. Of course, that was just temporary, so worry about drug reactions. But I think seeing an eye specialist and my suggestion is take a lot of vitamin C. We like the liposomal kind because it’s greatly enhanced absorption and take NAC, acetylcysteine, because that helps the liver detoxify, helps create glutathione, helps create energy and with the glutathione it begins to take a lot of the toxins out. I’ve had several people say well, since you put me on this NAC, I see better. It’s like, “Go to your optometrist and measure it, but that’s very possible.”

Janet Lewis:                        And one way you can tell if you’re full of toxins which we always suggest people do lab work, when your liver enzymes are high, your eyes obviously won’t work as well because you’re toxic, but there’s no way for you to know that without seeing it on lab. That’s why we were talking about the cholesterol panel and liver enzymes now. One of the most easy ways is to do the low cost lab panel that we have. It’s 12 different panels, which you don’t ever see that happening at your doctor’s office because they are, by law, not allowed to do that because of insurance. We don’t do insurance and that’s why we run what we want to run because we want to see the body as a whole and not just one to three panels. So we run 12 and one of those 12 panels is a CMP which is a complete metabolic panel and it does have liver enzymes in it, so we’re able to tell if you’re toxic or not. And if the liver enzymes get right, then your eyes will feel much better as well.

Janet Lewis:                        If you’re thinking, hey y’all are in Texas and that’s a heck of a deal, we’re actually able to do that across the United States, so go to our website, greenwisdomhealth.com. You’ll see it on there. It says GWH3 because that includes Dr. Lewis’ consultation to go over the results so he can tell you if you’re toxic.

Dr. Lewis:                            Thirty minutes of lab explanations and Stevenisms.

Janet Lewis:                        That’s right. Also comes with a functional medicine report. It comes with a supplement recommendation sheet so we don’t just leave you in the closet and say, “Hey, good luck to you.” We actually tell you what to take and how to take it and for how long and actually show you on followup lab that it’s better. So, you can’t beat it. There’s usually a lab local to you because like I said, we can run it anywhere. You just have it drawn somewhere close to you and the results come back to us and Dr. Lewis takes it from there.

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, unless you live in someplace like Wyoming. I talked to a lady in Iowa. Sometimes the labs are little bit further, but they’re used to driving a hundred miles. She’s about to ask another question, but I’m going to throw this in. It’s off the subject. It’s the flu season. Everybody wants you to get a flu shot and you can or not, that’s up to you, but there are major studies that said over a 3 year period, so that’s a good study, three years, taking 800 IUs of vitamin D and that’s not much vitamin D, not enough, but 800 IUs of vitamin D reduce colds and flu by 70%, so why are they not screaming to high heaven about take vitamin D? And then people went from 800 to 2,000 IUs and that’s still not enough for 99% of the people, 2,000 IUs reduced the instance of colds and flu to nearly zero. There was only one case in 104 users. Vitamin D, folks. And that’s from Epidemiology and Infection. That’s not my opinion. This is from high class medical research.

Janet Lewis:                        Oh, not just the thing you find randomly on the internet?

Dr. Lewis:                            Nope.

Janet Lewis:                        Okay.

Dr. Lewis:                            I don’t listen to that.

Janet Lewis:                        We have just a few minutes left and this next question is from Eddie and he would like to know how to heal leaky gut and how long does it take to heal and how do you know you’re healed?

Dr. Lewis:                            Do you want to answer that?

Janet Lewis:                        Actually, leaky gut is a big problem for a lot of people.

Dr. Lewis:                            A lot of people. Anybody eating genetically-modified grains.

Janet Lewis:                        Yeah, it’s a modern day plague that’s killing us from the inside out. It’s actually caused by food, stress, environmental exposures and a combination of other factors. Basically the large molecules pass through the small intestine into the bloodstream and then the large molecules aren’t sufficiently broken down and are not meant to enter the bloodstream quite yet. They’re supposed to be broken down by the celia in the small intestine, so in essence, the large molecules have escaped the small intestine through leaks between the cells. That causes things like autoimmune problems, debilitating autoimmune problems which, over the last 30 years, have become increased exponentially.

Dr. Lewis:                            Obvious to us. We see more people have it. And Floyd kind of answered this. I answered Eddie with an article from his herbal studies and this is actually from a different study, but you know, Floyd gave a really, really good answer, so thank you for that.

Janet Lewis:                        But we actually have a product now that we are really excited about that goes in and helps to repair leaky gut. I know that it works because I take it myself. The problem is, it’s relatively new. I think we’ve only had it about six or eight months now, so to answer Eddie’s question, I don’t know how long you have to take it before you’re well. I just know when I don’t take it, I feel horrible, so.

Dr. Lewis:                            I’m not sure you’re ever really healed, but you can certainly be greatly, greatly … most of it can be healed and then you can maintain because we get people that have celiac and Crohn’s and they say, “Oh, my God, this better. Oh, my God, they noticed at Thanksgiving how much better I was.”

Janet Lewis:                        Well, it used to be that we only had colostrum, which is an IgG. It protects the intestines by blocking and binding toxins in the gut. The problem with colostrum is that it’s from cows and some people are sensitive and they can’t tolerate even trace amounts of dairy, so we have the new product called SBI. It’s from bovine.

Dr. Lewis:                            Well, even though that is a cow, it seems to be a cleaner source. It seems to be better tolerated and we do have another one if you need to, that comes from eggs. So we use the cow first.

Janet Lewis:                        Yes, but basically it helps things like the leaky gut, colitis, ulcerative colitis, IBS, Crohn’s disease and diarrhea associated with celiac disease, so you have people that tell you they have irritable bowel, the SBI Protect really helps control that.

Dr. Lewis:                            With massive amounts of good probiotics and we have some pretty major probiotics. It works faster.

Janet Lewis:                        And it’s even being used with C-diff and HIV enteropathy infections.

Dr. Lewis:                            And you know one of the other things? We use a lot of Glutashield with great success. There’s another product called Inflammacore for those that want to make a drink in the morning. It’s one of the things I have and I don’t have enough time to read all of the ingredients here, but it has some great immune-boosting products here and we get super, super results. We kind of sell out from time to time. I guess we’re going to have to up the stock we keep.

Janet Lewis:                        The SBI Protect, though, is from a completely non-dairy source of immunoglobulin-G.

Dr. Lewis:                            So, I don’t really know, Eddie, when you know you’re healed, but Eddie also told me his mother-in-law is a whole new person. Because I was talking to Eddie as Janet and I were driving the new RV back from Colorado. This was what? Two or three months ago and I said, put your mother-in-law on this, this and this and he says she’s a whole different person. She can eat. She’s smiling and happy, where she wasn’t before and her personality shines for the better and it’s like, “Well, she’s your mother-in-law, she’s supposed to be lovely,” and he says, “Yes, and now she is.”

Janet Lewis:                        Well, one rule of thumb with healing? It takes a minimum of three months before you begin to heal and then it’s a month for every year you’ve had the problem, so that’s why I tell you, I don’t know how long because I’ve had this all my life and I’m only 29 now, I know, but for the last 20 years of it, I’ve had-

Dr. Lewis:                            There’s a time when I should always keep my mouth shut and I usually don’t.

Janet Lewis:                        So, I haven’t been on it long enough yet to get to that complete healing stage, so we’ll keep you posted on it. And with that being said, we have come to the conclusion of our show again. This goes by so fast. We really appreciate that you’re listening to us and we really appreciate you guys’ questions. Maggie, I know you had a question. I promise we’ll get to it next week. I’ll have Dr. Lewis all sharpened up and honed in.

Dr. Lewis:                            And Brian sent in a good question and that’s a good reason you need to join Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis because you get a lot of information, a lot of experience for other people, so just sign up for Shoot’n Straight and you’ll learn a lot. It’ll be worth it.

Janet Lewis:                        You guys have a blessed week.

 

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Fish Oil Fat or Fiction | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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    ADHD
    Alzheimer’s Disease
    Anxiety
    Arthritis
    Cancer
    Cardiovascular Disease
    Depression
    Diabetes
    Eye Disorders
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    Skin and Hair
    Fertility and Pregnancy
    Weight Loss

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The Obesity Crisis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  So is cereal.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, the Deeper Greens.

Janet Lewis:                  Mm-hmm (affirmative)-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  Wow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  I keep him talking.

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Their patience is less.

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  Sure.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Shiner and Blue Bell and Snickers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh no.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Yes.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Or their digestion is terrible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Her eyes said yes.

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Help her put up with me.

Janet Lewis:                  It also helps you lose weight.

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Full of it, yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  We look forward to talking with you.

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

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

 

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

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Heavy Metal and Mold Detox

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  Florence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Not your spouse.

Janet Lewis:                  Chronic fatigue, fever-

Dr. Lewis:                     Probably.

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

Dr. Lewis:                     The shower curtain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Absolutely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  These must be very expensive items.

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

Janet Lewis:                  Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis:                     Thank you.