Posted on September 13, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

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

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Posted on August 22, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

The Miracle Magic of Magnesium

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

Dr. Lewis: I’m Dr. Lewis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: You know this how?

Dr. Lewis: Calcium oxalate crystals in the urine.

Janet Lewis: How do you see that?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: It’s a serum.

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: What’s that?

Dr. Lewis: Alcohol intake.

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

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

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

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

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

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

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

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

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

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Acne, Rashes and Wrinkles

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

Dr. Lewis: And I’m Dr. Lewis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Toxic people?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: Yes.

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

Janet Lewis: So rashes, wrinkles, aging.

Dr. Lewis: Acne.

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

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

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

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Doom, Gloom and Despair

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

Dr. Lewis: And I’m Dr. Lewis.

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: You’re dating yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: Right.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: Exactly.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: Sure.

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Woops.

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

Dr. Lewis: Yeah. Very much so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

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

Dr. Lewis: Well, yeah.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Right.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Yep-

Janet Lewis: … can be a sign of depression.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: Changes in your menstrual cycle.

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

Janet Lewis: That parts happy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: My favorite drug is caffeine.

Janet Lewis: Yeah.

Dr. Lewis: That’s a drug.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Okay.

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

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

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

New Speaker: 51 grams of sugar or something crazy.

Janet Lewis: Yeah. It was something horribly high.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: Yes.

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

Janet Lewis: No.

Dr. Lewis: It contributes to anxiety.

Janet Lewis: Then we have Maggie that is-

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

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

Dr. Lewis: I think more is better.

Janet Lewis: Tumeric is what? A big-

Dr. Lewis: Super duper anti-oxidant.

Janet Lewis: Okay.

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

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

Dr. Lewis: It is an oxidizer.

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

Dr. Lewis: From Illinois.

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

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

Janet Lewis: Consistent.

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

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

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

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

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Toxic Burden – Why Are We So Toxic?

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

Dr. Lewis: And I’m Dr. Lewis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: She’s throwing that at me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Toxic spouse.

Janet Lewis: Yeah, actually.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: You could see it rolling at you.

Dr. Lewis: It’s scary.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Janet did.

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

Dr. Lewis: Or a trailer house, even.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis: Radiation is actually a toxin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Hey. Be nice.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

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

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

Janet Lewis: Yeah. Undigested food.

Dr. Lewis: You have issues.

Janet Lewis: Unresolved trauma or abuse is actually toxic.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

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

Dr. Lewis: You may be full of it.

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

Dr. Lewis: You are full of it.

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

Dr. Lewis: Whoops.

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: I apologize.

Janet Lewis: Are you overweight or underweight?

Dr. Lewis: Doing pretty good.

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

Dr. Lewis: I choose not to clean.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Lewis: Don’t diagnose yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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