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Immune System Compromise and Adrenal Fatigue

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

Doctor Lewis:               And I’m Doctor Lewis.

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

Doctor Lewis:               Against my will, I drove it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Exactly.

Doctor Lewis:               Just right.

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

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               Yes.

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               Yep.

Janet Lewis:                 People keep coming back.

Doctor Lewis:               People keep coming back, yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, Benfotiamine’s excellent.

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

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               When you get your sex drive back.

Janet Lewis:                 Is that a gentle exercise?

Doctor Lewis:               It can go either way.

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

Doctor Lewis:               Sorry guys.

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               Are my ears red?

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, your whole heads red.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               Cannabis.

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

Doctor Lewis:               Not since 1975.

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Artemisia.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, artemisia’s actually …

Janet Lewis:                 That’s a wicked like guy.

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, it’s deglycerized licorice.

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 We have to clean it up.

Doctor Lewis:               You’re kind.

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor Lewis:               Well, they used to use it.

Janet Lewis:                 Oh, really.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah. As a deadening agent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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Signs and Symptoms Associated with Adrenal Fatigue:

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

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

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Iodine Deficiency Symptoms:

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

Foods Rich in Iodine:

    Seaweed
    Baked Cod
    Cranberries
    Shrimp
    Dried Prunes

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Depression and Autism

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

 
Dr. Lewis: And I’m Dr. Lewis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

 
Janet: It’s like magic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
Dr. Lewis: Algae. Yeah, algae.

 
Janet: Yeah.

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

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

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

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

 
Dr. Lewis: Oh yeah, monkey blood.

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

 
Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
Janet: Goldilocks, yes.

 
Dr. Lewis: Yeah, okay.

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

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

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

 

 

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

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These Lifestyle Changes May Help You Cope with Depression:

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

Nutrients that help with Depression:

    Zinc
    Sam-e
    5-HTP
    Folate

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Thyroid Facts and Follies

 

 

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

And I’m Dr. Lewis.

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

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

“Thyroid Sniper.”

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

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

Not quite as good as Kurt Russell.

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

I wish, I wish.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Right, right.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yep.

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

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

Yeah, you can do that.

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

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

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

Whoops.

Hmm. Weight gain.

Whoops.

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

Yeah, really. Find somebody you trust-

Yeah, find somebody you trust.

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

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

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

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

Alopecia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What’d you say? I forgot.

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

Woohoo!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He forgot what he was gonna say.

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

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

DopaBoost works real well.

Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah.

What was the question, exactly?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nope.

And why?

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

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

 

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Thyroid Facts and Follies | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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Fact: Underactive Thyroid may put you at an increased risk of heart attack – even if your thyroid is only slightly underactive.

Follie: All doctor’s understand the optimal range your thyroid should be in for proper thyroid function

Signs of Sluggish Thyroid:

    Lethargy – Fatigue and Lack of Energy
    Weight Gain
    Rough and Scaly Skin
    Dry, Coarse or tangled hair
    Hair Loss
    Sensitivity to Cold

Signs of Overactive Thyroid:

    Feeling Restless, nervous or emotional
    Feeling Irritable and Sleeping Poorly
    Difficulty Concentrating
    Frequent Bowel Movements
    Irregular Menstrual Periods in Women
    Weight Loss
    Rapid, Forceful or Irregular Heartbeat
    Lack of Menstrual Periods
    Protruding Eyes

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Keto Reloaded

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

And, I’m Dr. Lewis.

And we are here bringing you another exciting show this week about keto. Apparently y’all didn’t get enough of it last week. So, we’re going to do it again and it’s called Keto Reloaded. And Dr. Lewis is going to tell us more about who needs it, what is it, why do it, and what are the health benefits. So, Dr. Lewis, it’s all yours.

Well, that’s scary. She gave me the look and that smile like yeah, you really have it now.

I do want to redo it. I don’t think we quite got into as much as we should. So, the question is: How do you know if you need to do keto? If you need to lose weight, that’d be one thing. If you have metabolic syndrome, high insulin, high A1C, or high glucose. If you have liver issues, and that doesn’t mean within parameters, that means anything above a 25, or so, with AST and ALT. If your triglycerides are high.

But, here’s a list of I think generally it would help people if they go on keto: I think keto for the large majority of people, that’s the way to go. But if you have abdominal pain, if you think you’re aging too rapidly – and that’s going to be brought back up by a question Debbie asked us – allergies, anxiety, arthritis. If you have bloating, belching, or gas – then you’ll have a sweet, darling wife like mine that gives me digestive enzymes to protect herself. If you have brain fog. We hear brain fog quite a bit. I’m surprised how many people have brain fog, and folks if it’s that, it’s all in your GI tract, and I think the best way to get your GI tracts healthy is, really and truly, do keto.

If you have a depressed mood. If you have diarrhea or constipation, difficulty focusing, difficulty keeping your thoughts in order – which is always me – dry skin and eczema, which is a question we got from Eddie up around Chicago. We’re gonna get into that, too. Fatigue. If you feel too full whether you eat a lot or not, and just like your stomach has something in it but it’s not digesting. Hair loss, dull lifeless hair. I hear that a lot. People say, well, I’m losing my hair or hair is getting thin.

Headaches can be a sign that you need to do keto because once you go into the fat-burning mode you begin to detoxify much more quickly. Joint pain, low energy. God, I can’t remember. Memory problems, muscle pain and nausea, poor skin color, rashes and skin problems.

Sexual dysfunction, lowered sex drive. I hear that a lot. And, unfortunately, I tell people, I say, “Well, you know you could take this and it could help this and your body can … It does this, this, this, this and increased libido.” And so many people say yeah, but my husband or wife doesn’t care or cannot. Well, put them on it, too, because a healthy sex life is actually good for a lot of things other than just feeling good. It helps you emotionally and spiritually, too. But, that’s a lot of symptoms. And they can be symptoms of a thyroid disorder or adrenal disorder, but I think if you have these the quickest, easiest way to do this is go keto.

I think the biggest, best guru about ketogenesis is Drew Manning, Fit2Fat2Fit. I think he is probably the best coach to help you go through it, and I really think people should buy into his program and get that guidance. Just like I tell people I would love to do your lab and let me be the guide because I can help you. The lab I like the most is a comprehensive plus the hormones, male or female, depending on who you are.

Explain that a little bit, when you say you like that lab the most. Why do you like that lab?

Because it covers so bloomin’ much. It goes on and on and on. It goes way beyond what your average doctor will order. And, I love our medical profession. They do a lot of really good things. It’d be a much sadder, less healthy world without them. But, they have their constraints with the insurance companies. And we do beyond the CBC and CMP. We do the cholesterol panel. We don’t just do the TSH. We do five parts of the thyroid. We do insulin. We do ferritin. We do A1C. We do c-reactive protein, cardiac specific. Vitamin D, and urinalysis, and cortisol, and then the hormones. And it just goes on and on and on. I probably left out one or two because I have memory problems, too, trying to keep all this straight in my head which is way beyond anything I could ever do.

So, I just think, make a decision. Get on the train and stay with it. That’s the key, is sticking with it. And you will always be challenged, whether you want to call that a mental or spiritual challenge, you will always be tempted to walk in disbelief or unbelief. Yes, I did this good thing, but I had this symptom so, therefore, it must be this good thing. Well, something just destroyed your courage, your faith, and your trust – the very thing that could get you well. So, you kind of have to dig deep sometimes to get well.

People that have gluten intolerances, well, I think the keto diet would be really good because they, for the most part, get you off, they encourage you to get off all the grains. I’ve always been a fan of Atkins, Paleo, Primal, Beyond Primal, and now the keto. I really prefer keto a little bit better just because I prefer the higher fat and the lower but moderate protein.

It is very important that you understand that there are a few people that should not do that. And that’d be the people that have kidney problems because of the extra protein. People that have digestive problems could almost always do it, but they have to have probiotics and digestive enzymes, and they have to be the correct ones. And, Lord knows, there’s a lot of incorrect ones. If you’re pregnant or nursing I wouldn’t suggest it. But, in my opinion, the fastest, easiest, and healthiest way to burn fat is keto.

When you are talking about keto, some of the various benefits of the ketogenic diet are obviously weight loss, which they’re looking for.

Yeah.

It’s a huge antiinflammatory.

Big time.

It increases your muscle mass.

Woohoo!

And, actually reduces your appetite. I’m assuming because you’re killing off all the little yeast people in there that aren’t getting anything to eat. So, you’re not giving them any bad stuff. It can actually lower your insulin levels and some people have backed out of being a diabetic.

That’s real common, by the way. It’s not a death sentence.

And it may help lower your risk of cancer. So, again, you’re not feeding all the things with sugar that the cancer loves to live on.

See, that’s why I hang around Janet ’cause she brings up things I forgot about.

Yeah, that’s it. That’s why he hangs around me.

Yeah, it’s that beautiful smile.

Johns Hopkins University. Read that about how sugar causes cancer. Just go to Johns Hopkins and Google it.

Yeah, also when you’re getting ready to do the keto diet you want to make sure that you remove the sugars from your diet, obviously.

Artificial sweeteners.

Diet things.

If it says no sugar, low sugar, low fat stay away from it.

Remove starches. What kind of starches?

I don’t know. The only starch I know about I have in my jeans.

I think that’s like potatoes and that sort of thing.

Pasta, rice. Some of the other things that you might not think that’s associated with ketogenesis, once you get into it, ADD, ADHD is normally improved. Of course, the metabolic function. Blood pressure is normally lowered like crazy.

I talked to a guy older than me yesterday. He said he’s cut his lisinopril in half. I said I hope that’s with the knowledge and permission of your MD. And he lost 21 pounds. And he’s an old guy ’cause he’s older than me.

Irritable bowel syndrome almost always improves.

And we also had a lady that should not have been doing keto that came in here.

Yeah, kidney issues.

Yeah, she had a kidney issue. And what are you doing whenever you’re doing keto? You’re having high amounts of protein, correct?

Depends on, there’s different types of keto. And I like it ’cause it’s high fat but, yes, it’s usually increased protein and she doesn’t digest it real well and has the kidney issues.

And she came in and her legs were really swollen down at the bottom. She goes, “Look what’s happened to my legs. They look like elephant trunks.” And I told her, “Well, I don’t believe this diet is for you.” So, there are people that don’t need it also, even though it is great, but it is a lot of protein and a lot of fats and if you have digestive problems then it’s really hard to break down sometimes. And, obviously, if you have a kidney problem you really need to watch that.

Migraines usually get better. And, you know, there’s been neurologists for many, many, many years that if you have any kind of neurodegenerative brain problems like Parkinson, et cetera, they’ll put you on a ketogenic diet and you usually get better. It can get very much improved, if not totally cleared up, in some cases. Dementia, if it’s mild to moderate, generally gets completely cleared up. Mental illnesses, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, usually get improved. But I want to throw in a little thing about that.

By doing the keto diet?

Yes. But, you folks that have followed us for a long time, how many have you heard me quote out of that research article that says wheat can cause schizophrenia. So, on the keto diet they tell you to stay away from wheat. And you need to stay away from corn. Now, we’re here in East Texas and we have a pretty heavy Hispanic influence, some Western, some Southern, a lot of Hispanic, a little Cajun thrown in. I would prefer corn. But, now corn, you know what they use corn for? To make cows and chickens fat. So, just because you’re staying away from wheat doesn’t mean – you know, it’s still high glycemic. So, stay away from those things. But that’s one of the reason ketogenic diet works for mental illnesses is because you’re staying away from the wheat that can cause that. I’ve seen a lot of people get off wheat and their depression goes away completely, even if they’ve had it several decades.

Fibromyalgia. Those people are pitiful. They hurt so bad and I just want to reach around and hug them even though they always tell us you’re not supposed to hug your patients. It’s like, I’ll hug you – male, female, doesn’t matter to me. Acne usually will clear up, but again you’ve got to watch the digestive system and we’re really, really good at that. Autoimmune diseases generally improve. And we’re seeing more and more autoimmune diseases and there’s a lot of that linked to the grains. Maybe not the grains, maybe it’s the lectins or maybe it’s the glyphosate or Roundup.

For example, people say but I’m not toxic, I’m not in any toxin. We were driving to work and there was the Texas Highway Department, it said just on the side of the truck “herbicides.” What do you think they were spraying? And they were spraying the holy, oh my God out of it. So, we got a big dose of whatever they’re spraying this morning because you could smell it when we passed them.

Heartburn, the GERD, the things that can contribute to Barrett esophagus can be very much improved. Especially if you get it early before it gets there. Enlarged prostate. Wow, I don’t know about that.

And I sure don’t know about that.

Sometimes liver issues and gallstones are improved, or sometimes completely cleared up, but you’ve gotta watch it because on keto when you start mobilizing all these fats your cholesterol can go way up and your liver has to process that. And that’s why we’re going to talk about one product today that covers a lot of these sins.

And that product is? Drum roll …

I was just waiting to see if Janet would give me permission. You know, she kind of has to control me ’cause I’m pretty much uncontrollable. And I was looking for her permission to talk about it.

It’s called bergamot or bergamot – B E R G A M O T. And the best one comes out of Italy and this company, we sell their products, has about 95% of the entire good crop in Italy wrapped up. And what it does, it’s used a lot for cardiovascular health, but it also does a lot of things that lowers insulin, lowers glucose, lowers A1C, helps mobilize cholesterol. I advise my patients to take two at night because it’s nighttime when most of the cholesterol and the conversions are taking place in the liver, so take it then. It’s very, very incredibly clinically tested and it dampens those mechanisms of cholesterol production. So it helps to support heart function, blood flow, healthy arteries, circulatory health, as well as other things. And men that have lost that lovin’ feeling, it’s usually circulatory health to certain areas.

And you’re mentioning that because on the lab with people on keto …

The cholesterol usually goes up for a while and then after your body gets used to it, people that are on keto generally have much, much lower cholesterol, but more importantly, lower triglycerides, higher HDL, lower LDL and VLDL. It gets healthier than most people that are vegan.

So why does it go up if they’re doing something healthy? Why does the cholesterol go higher?

Well, because the body switches from burning sugar or glucose to burning fats.

Okay.

But once it acclimates it does a really good job.

Yeah, because I know we’ve seen their liver enzymes also start going up, which that’s gotta be broke down through the liver, correct?

Exactly, because there’s so many different ways to detox in the liver and we know what to do to help detox it.

And that bergamot is a big-

Big time, big time.

Liver cleanser.

Oh my God, it’s sitting on my nightstand so I can take it at night when I’m supposed to.

So you can’t take it at night?

I can.

You can take it at night.

I’m supp-

He just looks at it at night, folks.

Well.

You take … well, he tells you that because you’re supposed to take two at bed. That’s when you do it. You do it right before you go to bed because that’s-

Well, Janet’s picking on me.

I am. It just seems to be when it works the best.

She told somebody yesterday, she said, “Well yeah, he takes four or five pills in the morning.” And it’s like, well she makes me a drink full of powders, and liquids, and God only knows, pretty much everything we have in the store. And, so after she said four or five – that’s our new cleaning lady that she told that to – I counted them and I put about 30 capsules I open up and put in my drink every morning and that’s why I feel about half of my age. It takes a little work and a little effort. Folks, you can’t get something for nothing. If you want to get good results you’ve got to plant healthy seeds and that’s what my friend Debbie said on Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis – which I wish all of you would sign up for – Debbie’s complimented us.

Well, what is that exactly? The Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis? How do they sign up for that?

You know, Janet’s trying to challenge me-

No.

Because, you know, I told her one time, I said, “Geez, I really appreciate you dragging me into the 20th Century with all this technology.” She said, “Stephen, it is the 21st Century.

It is called a closed Facebook group.

That is correct.

Or Spacebook, I’m not sure which.

He does great. It is closed Facebook group.

Yeah, I’m a parrot. I don’t know what those words means.

If you shoot him an email, if you’re not his friend already on Facebook, he can add you in and there he discusses all kind of health issues. He asks for all kinds of questions for the podcast. And you learn a whole bunch. And the people that are already patients of ours, it helps inspire them to keep going and not give up whenever they feel like they want to throw in the towel because they’re not getting instant results.

Yep.

It really helps being in a group of other people. But it is called Shoot’n, without a G on the end, because we are from East Texas and obviously-

‘Cause I shot the G off. Well, she was talking to a teacher, scheduling her appointment the other day, and she says something and used at the end of it. And I said you’re talking to an English teacher and you’re ending the sentence with a preposition, or proposition, or whatever those little things are.

It just wears off on you after a while.

Yeah, I stole her from the big city of Forth Worth where she was high class.

Well, we have a few questions here I want to make sure we get to and then we can get back to some of the foods maybe that’s on the keto diet if we get time for that.

Absolutely.

Okay. First off, we want to make sure we answer Eddie. You mentioned him earlier. Eddie S. He has a question about thoughts on supplements to help with colitis and IBS. And that’s a great question because it really does kind of go with keto, too, correct?

Yeah, usually your GI tract gets better. Well, first of all you’ve got to think about probiotics. And we have probiotics here that are actually 350 billion, although that’s not really true. They’re made at 650. I sell them all over the country. People absolutely love ’em. The first thing you have to do, Eddie, is get a good digestive enzyme. I love the Ortho Digestzyme. I think that’s the bomb for most people. I use something called Physicians Elemental Diet. I use that ProbioMax, which is the 350 billion that’s made at 650.

And SBI Protect is one of our really favorites right now.

That is so, so, so, oh my God important because it’s bovine derived immunoglobulins.

And we had a lady that was literally having diarrhea every day for the last 6 months that ever since we’ve got this product in, which was about three months ago, she started taking it immediately. She has not had any diarrhea since she’s been on it.

And, you know, she did all the medical care and she did everything I told her to. She was very cooperative. And I, of course, I told her to go to a GI doctor and she went and got the colonoscopy. And, again, I really do love the medical profession. I’m really proud that there’s so many of them around here locally that cooperate with us because the patient wins. And, this lady was a teacher and she says I can’t afford to have 17 bowel movements a day, unexpected and unexplainable. And now she is so, so happy.  So, those products-

Well, I think that SBI Protect, people look at it and go, “Oh my gosh, it’s expensive.” Because it’s like 70-something dollars. And that product actually was a drug at one point and they were getting $400 for that drug.

Well, when another company had it.

Yeah, when another company had it. Well, the patent ran out on it and so Ortho Molecular picked it up and made it into a natural product, so the 70-something dollars is a value, especially when you have gut problems like that.

Yeah, to reduce it six times less than what it was. And Eddie, I love talking to this guy. He puts some really good inspirational posts on Facebook, too. But he wanted to know about causes or deficiencies in the body that could cause dryness of skin on the face and/or psoriasis. Psoriasis or eczema, you always have to look to the gut. So you have to recede with the probiotics. But, one of the things I like to tell people is do the high levels of good fat, omega 3 are always the best place to start. Borage oil is really good. CLA, which actually the good bacteria can help make CLA, conjugated linoleic acid. Borage oil. Let’s see, flax oil, black currant oil, primrose oil. All of those are very, very good. And this Orthomega is a triglyceride ester, which I’ve seen the research on it. It’s 393% more absorbable.

So we like that because you only have to take two of those. They’re a fish oil.

Instead of four to six.

They’re the non-burpy fish oil.

Yep.

They have the good stuff in them and you only have to do two. Taking two of them is like taking four of a lesser fish oil.

At least.

Normal one.

Yeah, at least. Then there was Debbie.

Debbie P.

That wanted to know about supplements for help with saggy skin, nails, and hair. And me being the very serious guy I am, says, “Yes, ma’am, we sell them by the bucket load, but why is it mostly women buy them?” And she says, “Men don’t seem to mind getting wrinkly. LOL.” We sell a lot of something called CollaGEN, which is the type one, type two, highly researched and, God, even people with joint pain are buying that.

Which, is one of the types of collagen that’s in it. When you say type one or type two. One of them helps with more inflammatory and the other helps more with skin and-

Yeah, it fills out the gaps-

Hair.

And it’s hygroscopic, so it makes your wrinkles less deep. We sell a lot of product called Hair/Skin/Nails and Liposomal C, which is about 92-94% absorption versus any other vitamin C. And vitamin C is very incredibly important in making collagen, which not only holds your skin together and makes you less wrinkly for you beautiful women, but it also helps bad disks, bad joints because being hygroscopic it brings more moisture into those joints and lubricates it, or greases the ole ball joints, so to speak. If you guys understand a ball joint on a car. So, hopefully that will answer your questions.

Well, one thing we noticed about taking CollaGEN – I love the way they do it, they spell it with the GEN capitalized on the end – but, we notice that we can work out in our yard twice as long without actually hurting.

Took twice as much beer. I’m sorry. Just in my mind.

Just in his mind.

Oh, yeah.

We were-

She won’t let me take a break.

We were much more limber than what we would have been without it.

And I was not beat up the next day in my low back, which is my low back is kind of cratered and not degenerated, just from an old gunshot wound accident, but the collagen is working wonders on my old decrepit joints, but they’re not worn out. It’s just there was a lot of damage to them.

So that was really a big positive.

Yeah, big time.

So, you want to mention some of the foods that are ideal to eat on a ketogenic diet. For those of you that don’t really know what they’re supposed to be having on this and what the difference is. It’s about eat a lot of fats, correct?

Good fat.

Okay.

Uh, the … Go ahead.

I was gonna name off a few of them.

Okay, go right ahead.

The animal-based omega 3 fats – they especially say from Alaskan salmon, sardines, anchovies, and krill.

Yep.

So, you gotta like fish to be on this, huh. Well, that helps. Olives and olive oil.

You have to … I don’t know how to find a good olive oil. I think it’s supposed to be third-party certified so they don’t fake them.

Yeah, because a lot of them are diluted with vegetable oil.

And, you know, the vegetable oil that’s a good thing. That’s one of the things that is very highly inflammatory, the stuff like corn, soybeans, safflower, canola – no, don’t ever do canola.

And we always recommend just doing MCT oil.

Yeah.

Which is a medium-chain triglyceride oil. We have one here that is coconut tasting. We have one that you can actually cook with that-

It tastes like a pina colada.

Yeah, and then you have one that you can mix with your shakes, which tastes really good. So it’s MCT colada for the one that tastes really good you take just by itself. And then straight MCT oil is a great one to cook with.

Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Raw, grass-fed butter is excellent for this particular diet.

Or grass fed the cow that they got the butter from, one way or the other. But it really matters if the cows out in the pasture they actually create more CLA that I talked about before, and that’s the one that burns the fat around the viscera, or the middle. Very important.

Raw nuts like macadamia, almonds, and pecans.

I do walnuts when I get home almost every day.

And then various seeds such as pumpkin, sesame, and hemp.

That’s controversial, but I think that’s very, very true.

Avocados are a big one.

Love ’em, love ’em.

The grass-fed meats, not the ones filled with all the antibiotics that you’re probably going to the local grocery store to look at. ‘Cause then you’ve got a whole other set of problems trying to digest out the antibiotics from the bad meat.

And don’t think this is bad ’cause fat’s got kind of a bad rap and they said it’s saturated fats are bad. Saturated fats are not bad. It’s the trans hydrogenated or hydrogenated fats that you need to avoid like the plague.

And organic pastured eggs.

Yep.

The big thing to do is water. But you can also, with this diet, add in organic black coffee without sweeteners or milk.

Whoops.  Our heavy whipping cream is organic that we do put in it.

But you can use can use coconut milk and you can put coconut milk in your coffee.

Or the butter. You know, the Bulletproof Coffee, that’s good.

And ghee is actually something you can put in there, too.

Yeah.

Which is the clarified butter.

So there’s actually no correlation between the intake of saturated fat and heart disease. Just because they told that lie loud and long, don’t believe everything you hear or read. It is not unusual for people to lose 50 or 100 pounds in six months to a year on this keto. So, I’d say get started. Talk to Drew Manning at Fit2Fat2Fit. And then it’s very incredibly important that you do the lab that we do with it so that you will have success with it. Whether you have a kidney issue, a liver issue, a cholesterol issue, a detoxification issue, low vitamin D, and your insulin and all that. So, we can kind of help you have a much more successful ketogenic diet and get better results from that.

And the good news is about that lab, the one that Dr. Lewis is recommending, is the GWH3 is the comprehensive one. Of course, if you want to add hormones to it, it would either be GWH1 or 2.

One is for the women because they’re always number one and right.

And two is for the males because they’re coming in behind us. But, anyway, the reason he recommends that is because you actually get to speak to Dr. Lewis about your lab results. It’s not like we go, hey we ran some labs, which is minimum of 12 panels here, and here you go, I hope you figure it out. Dr. Lewis actually is involved in this lab panel. You get to discuss all the lab findings with him and the recommendations that he has for you. So, if you’re trying to do the keto diet and you’re coming into issue like, I know constipation is a big one. You just kind of quit going to the bathroom because all the fat, or you’ve had your gallbladder removed, you might want to consider doing the lab. But you actually get to talk to him.

You get a functional medicine report that goes with it to help show you where the numbers are optimal. Because just because your doctor told you you were fine and it was all great, you might not be optimal, which is what we find many times on the lab. And then we also give you a list of recommended supplements and that can help you process doing the diet in a better, faster, efficient way. So, that’s our recommendations on keto. I think we’re pretty reloaded unless Dr. Lewis has anything he’d like to add in.

No, but sometimes – not that I want to write another book, it’s take a lot of time – sometimes I want to write a book that says if your doctor says you’re fine but you don’t feel fine … I think that’d be a really good smart aleck way to start. The only thing I’d like to say is that we always hope that God gives you joy in your eyes, love in your heart, and laughter on your lips. Find some reason to feel good and stick with it long enough to be healthy so that it’s easier to feel good and give joy to other people.

Amen. And with that, you guys have a blessed week and we’ll be here next time on the Green Wisdom Health Show.

 

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Keto Reloaded Various Benefits of The Ketogenic Diet | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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Various Benefits of The Ketogenic Diet:

    Weight Loss
    Anti-Inflammatory
    Increase Muscle Mass
    Reduces Appetite
    Lowers Insulin Levels
    May help lower your risk of cancer

Put Away These Foods Before Going on a Ketogenic Diet:

    Remove Sugars
    Remove Starches
    Remove Packaged and Processed Foods from your Diet
    Avoid Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Canola)
    Avoid Soy Products
    Avoid Sodas

 

Product discussed in Today’s show:

Bergamot to help bring Cholesterol levels in line:

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Down The Rabbit Hole with Keto and other Health Issues

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

And I’m Dr. Lewis.

And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low cost lab work, here to educate you and entertain you with another interesting, fascinating show. We are going to talk today a little bit about going down the rabbit hole with keto and other health issues, and we’ve specifically named it this because we have a very special guest with us today from locally here. I know you guys think that we only help people across the United States, but we actually have a very large patient base in Longview, Texas and the surrounding area. She’s been a patient of ours for about almost five years now. Many of you, I think you hear us, but you don’t really know whether or not what we tell you is true or if we’re just the same as somebody else or we’re just tootin’ our own horn.

Hey, I do that all the time.

I know. You toot your horn.

We thought we’d bring you a live person that is unpaid to come in here and tell us all about her experience and what she went through, and why she chose us, and why she continues to choose us. So, with that being said, we’d like to welcome Amanda from Troup, Texas to tell us all about where she has come from, where she’s going.

Well, thank you so much. I’m excited to be here, and yes, I have to let the audience know I’m not getting paid and nobody coached me on what to say. I really wanted to come in and talk about my experience because I think it’s important to know the patient perspective and how people can really benefit from doing their lab work consistently, sticking with good supplements that really help, your supplement, your diet. It’s just been a wonderful process for me.

When you say supplement, do you really think they are different than what you just pick up somewhere?

Absolutely. I was telling you all before, I grew up taking Flintstone vitamins and those little orange vitamin C’s that were chewable. I loved those. I would sneak extra.

It’s so hard for us to get kids off of those, too. They’re like, “They’re not the gummies like we’re used to.”

Yeah, we grew up with vitamins from Walmart or wherever, but the thing about what you all are doing here is that the supplements are obviously high quality, and we can prove that through the lab work. It’s just very important for me to have that proof and to be able to see progress being made.

Without going into detail about what’s on your lab, can you give us a rough idea of why you came in to start with and kind of where you are now with things.

Sure. I really heard about you all because at one point you all had a local show a couple years back, about five years ago. I’m a big fan of talk radio, and so I came across the show. I heard what Dr. Lewis was saying. It made a lot of sense, and I started to listen consistently. Then I decided I’ll go on the website, I’ll fill out the health survey, and I’ll just see what happens. I think the thing that really sold me on the process is that there’s this lab work that we can prove or we can see what’s going on. So, I had my lab work done and got a baseline, and met with Dr. Lewis, and felt very welcomed. I started taking the recommended list of supplements and just went from there and stayed consistent with it. Then the second lab was what was really exciting, when I had that second lab.

Why were you consistent? What was your motivation?

I guess I’m a rule follower, and so I like to see if a process is going to work. As I was taking these, sometimes there’s a lot to swallow, literally, and it’s …

Well, that’s how we intended.

We’ve done better at that. We’ve changed some products so things are better, so not so many.

I just wanted to get to the second lab, the six-month checkpoint, so to speak. I just wanted to see what would happen. Some numbers moved, and that was exciting. I made progress, and so I just continued on.

When she’s talking about numbers moving, when we do lab panels, our minimum panel is 12 different panels which is what we call our comprehensive panel, and we’re looking for things like viruses that are underlying in the lab, digestion, liver enzymes, three-month blood sugar to see if you really are becoming a diabetic before it happens or if you are one. Many times had backed out of it. High risk of heart attack or stroke. That’s something that’s not run very often. We run stored iron. We run vitamin D. Five parts of your thyroid looking for optimal levels and maybe Amanda will talk a little bit about that, and cortisol levels. Were any of those things that you remember?

Absolutely. Just about all of those things. I didn’t really come into this with a lot of major health issues, but I could see some things starting to happen and some things on the horizon that could cause problems. I know I have a family history of heart attack and stroke, and so what I found out from my lab was that my thyroid levels were off, and I was at a relatively high risk for a future cardiac event which was quite scary and just cortisol issues. When I started, I was in the middle of a PhD program and just caused a lot of stress.

So, see she’s actually smart, you all.

Not only very intelligent, but very educated, and maybe that could lead you into what it did to your cortisol, all the excess stress.

I would not have made it through that PhD program without the … What was it, the 5-MTF or …?

The 5-HTP?

Yes, and then the pantothenic acid, I don’t know what you all gave me, but I just could not have done it. I get pretty stressed out pretty easily, as my sweet husband can attest, and that really helped me.

5-HTP is the piece of God in a bottle.

Yes. Not to say I didn’t feel stress along the way, but that made me stay focused on what I was doing and it really provided … Without really even realizing it, it provided me some steadiness. I don’t know how to explain it really.

We tell people it helps you flow instead of hanging onto the sides of the river as you’re going down. It helps you flow.

Yes, and when you’re in a big project like a dissertation or a medical residency, or something like that, it is a high stress longterm marathon, and there’s small breaks in between big projects, and you really need something to help with that. I don’t know how everyone faces things like that, but it definitely helped me. I was looking back at my labs in preparation for today’s podcast, and looking at my cardiac … What is it, C-reactive protein?

Right.

I’m kind of speaking the language now that I’ve been doing this for five years. I came in some risk for cardiac event and then I could track it. As I got closer to my comprehensive exams, which is the big exam in my doctoral program, two day exam, you cover everything you’ve learned in the past two ye- Very stressful. I could see six months out and then a month before I took that test, my C-reactive protein jumped way, way up and my cortisol was just … You have to adjust. Just because you get on some supplements doesn’t mean that things are automatically going to improve, but you’ve got to keep track of things because life changes. So, you get on it for a while and you feel good and you say, “Okay, I’ve had enough.” No, you can’t do that. You have to keep going because life keeps changing, whether it’s stress levels, environmental factors, toxicity, all of these things that we come in contact with, this is going to keep happening, and so you need to keep account of your health.

I think Dr. Lewis puts it really good when people say, “Oh, this is all going all with my lab. Well, which couple of things can I pick out?” He always says, “Well, how ’bout we just put a little bit of gas in your vehicle. How far do you want to go? Where would you like to run out, at what place?” That’s kind of what it is with the natural medicine. You have to keep putting it in because I think people are so conditioned to medications that it, you don’t want to say heals their problem, but at some point it looks like it’s fixed because it’s a medication when that’s not necessarily true. I think they think that with natural medicine, it’s like it should be fixed at some point, and I stop. It’s like well, yes, some things get better and you don’t take as much or it changes, but just like you said, it’s kind of like eating food. It just is a different terrain and different products, and you just keep progressing. You just keep getting better and better.

Right. You’re supplementing your nutrients and the need for that never runs out. I’m not saying that just to say, “Hey, you gotta buy more products here,” but it’s really something that makes sense if you think about it from a non-medical model, and you think about it from a nutrition model. If you look at supplementing your diet, yeah, there’s supplements that I’ve gotten off of because levels have improved or whatever the case is. Then there’s also things that I’ve gotten back on because life changes.

Life changes.

That’s one of the points I always try to make is people say, “Well, what do I have to take?” I say, “Well, you know, it’s up to you. When I go to Montana, I fill the tank up. I don’t go with just one gallon of gas.” Some people say, “Well, don’t you think my body is gonna get confused with all this?” It’s like if you eat a sandwich and drink something, your body is smart enough to sort it out. I say things in a real smart aleck answer just to make people think about it differently. We actually did a podcast on Steven-isms, and I didn’t get around to many. I have a whole book full of them, folks. It’s not to be a smart aleck. It’s just to help impress upon you the need.

There’s this preacher that comes in here, and I just love him dearly. He says, “Well, Doc, how long do I have to stay on this?” I said, “How long do I need to read my bible and keep putting money in your offering plate?” He says, “Okay, that was harsh.”

So, to the degree that you want to or can, and that depends … I take less than Janet does and she says, “Well, you don’t need another new gun. You’re spending money on supplements.” I said, “You don’t need another pair of shoes,” at which point I knew I had messed up, and I’m still apologizing for it, so …

Big mistake.

Do it to the degree that you feel comfortable, whether there’s two or three things or many, many, many things.

My degree I feel comfortable at is filling the whole tank up and carrying a spare along just in case I run out. I take everything.

Well, both Janet and Amanda take a lot more than I do, but that’s why women outlive men 7.8 years on the average.

Well, we have to take care of you all, so we have to take more to keep up with that.

That’s right, honey.

So, with your thyroid, you did mention that you had some thyroid issues. A lot of people think, “Well, I don’t feel great, but my doctor has told me my thyroid is fine.” Did that happen to you also? Were you ever told your thyroid was fine or had you ever had it checked before you came here?

I don’t think I ever really had it checked. I thought maybe that’s an issue because of how the symptoms of a low thyro- I don’t even know the correct terminology, but how the symptoms of a low thyroid were described, and so I was dragging quite a bit. I remember as a kid we’d go to town. We lived 30 minutes outside of Tyler. We’d go to town to shop, grocery shopping, and I’d get so tired just as a 10 year old. Get so tired. I guess I’ve always been a little draggy. Dr. Lewis could probably speak more to my thyroid journey than I could, but I’ve notice a difference in the way I feel, but also it was important that I realized that the thyroid affects so many other things just like the gut affects so many things. The major thing that I’ve learned from this is that everything is speaking to other area … It’s all interconnected, and once you realize this, you start to understand that one pill doesn’t fix all. There’s things going on that you don’t know about that could be affecting things that are quite obvious to you.

That’s another thing. A lot of people say, “Well, I’ve had this since I was young, so it’s normal.” Well, just because you felt bad all your life or haven’t had the energy doesn’t mean it’s normal. It may mean you’ve really had a problem all your life.

Right.

When we’re looking at thyroid, we’re looking for where the numbers are optimal, not just in range. If your doctors told you that, “Hey, you look great,” which is usually a TSH which is not even the thyroid. It’s the thyroid stimulating hormone. You might want to consider getting some different parts of the thyroid run because when we run it, it’s the free T3 which is the big one, and making that optimal that actually boosts metabolism, weight loss. I think Dr. Lewis is going to talk a little bit about keto. Hashimoto’s, that’s a whole other subject. There’s things that can be really wrong with your thyroid that’s creating all kind of things including risk of heart attack or stroke. It does increase that, too.

It can be your toxic load. There’s research now that says we have 10,000 times more plastics in us than the heavy metals that we’ve never taken out. So, like Janet and Amanda do, they take a lot of supplements longterm so you up your nutrient level so your body can actually increase the different detoxification pathways. It doesn’t matter that you’re taking a lot out every day because you have to realize that the environment is actually putting these toxins back in, so the net gain decrease in your toxins is actually pretty small. So, that’s why time and consistency means so very, very much, and that’s why some people are very reluctant to lose weight because the fat cells don’t want to let go of the toxins unless you have the detoxification pathways going through. I just gained back 14 pounds just to experiment with some other things to see if I can create some weight loss there.

We were pretty blessed … We got on Drew Manning’s podcast, the fit-to-fat-to-fit guy, and I think he is the number one guru on keto and what you should do there, and actually the reason we named this podcast, “Down the Rabbit Hole,” was because Amanda said she thought I did a really good job on that podcast, and actually I didn’t because I felt bad. So, she is the one who started the rabbit trail or rabbit hole stories.

Keto is a big thing I think everybody should do it. I’ve been a big fan of Atkins paleo, primal, keto. I really prefer keto over paleo. There are some differences. Some of the things that we hear about, though, is well, if you have these symptoms, and there are symptoms that are associated with getting well, you can take more salt. They recommend the Himalayan, the pink salt, because of the mineral profile. Then they recommend different electrolytes.

There are many, many differences in what you’re taking. We use things called Reacted magnesium, Reacted multi-men’s, because they actually chelate them to different amino acids which makes them much more bioavailable so your body can absorb it, and that’s another thing some people don’t understand. Just because you put it in your body doesn’t mean you’re absorbing it because we have a gastrointestinal problem with the leaky gut. We were having great experience with some new products that actually helped to heal leaky gut which actually helps to heal leaky brain and you get better brain function by getting better colon function which should tell you about … Well, nevermind. I don’t want to go there. I’ll get in trouble.

Well, I know some people have talked about when they go on a keto diet that they start getting irritable bowel-type stuff. Is that product you’re talking about something that would help with that?

Very much. I love Drew Manning. I think what he’s doing really is good. I think for those that have other issues that the best thing they can do is get the lab work and reveal the issues because you’re starting to mobilize … You’re eating high fat, so you’re going to mobilize that and begin to burn it, but you have to have good digestive enzymes and that’s not always easy. It does matter where you buy them.

You have to watch the liver because if the liver doesn’t have all of its 11 detoxification pathways going through, you can get a clogged up liver and you can see that with your liver enzymes. The AST and ALTs will begin to go higher and higher, and if you don’t do something about it before it gets bad, you get what’s called non-alcoholic fatty liver. You don’t want that. And muscle cramps. People say, “Well, I have Hashimoto’s. Is keto gonna fix it?” Keto eventually is going to fix a lot of things, but you have to address these issues. It’s wise, I think, to watch these things and increase the detoxification pathways.

We’ve got a great new product which is 10 times higher in calcium D-glucarate than anything we’ve ever seen, and that is a major, major opening or helps the liver detoxify in a glucuronidation pathway, so we’re getting good, good, good results and we just started using it. Janet took a bottle home and said, “This is for you.” She didn’t give me a choice, so, “Yes, ma’am, I’m taking it.”

Well, what we’ve seen is that it’s really increasing hormone function in both men and women. It doubled a guy’s testosterone in three months.

And opened up more of it for availability, and it’s like I don’t know if his wife is going to say, “Thank you,” or say, “Cut him off. He’s too frisky now.” I don’t know, but …

Yeah. It’s DHEA for a man. It was a DHEA 25 mg and then this CDG EstroDIM.

And the Prostatrol Forte for the natural aromatase inhibitors. But, people say, “But I’m taking 25 mg of DHEA another brand.” Yeah, well it’s not working because I can see it on your lab. Not all supplements are equal and sometimes you’re taking a good supplement, but your body is not absorbing it.

For women, I’m being the Guinea pig here because women need testosterone, too, so I thought take it on the chin and I’ll take it.

Yeah, if she grows a mustache like mine, I’m moving out.

We might put Amanda on it pretty soon here.

Men, if you’ve got a woman, her sex drive has gone away, this CBG …

I’m waiting to hear what’s coming because you’ve got two women here, so go ahead.

Maybe I should leave.

No, no. This is going to be good.

No, I don’t have enough testosterone to talk about it in front of women, but once a woman’s testosterone comes up, they tend to have a better ability to lose weight, but their libido increases. I told one woman, I said, “When your husband realizes that you’re back to the girl he married, I want some Shiner Bock beer and dark chocolate.” He stopped us, he really did, at a restaurant and said, “Are you Dr. Lewis?” I said, “Yeah. He said, “I owe you some Shiner Bock and dark chocolate.” I said, “Hey, your wife’s a good listener.”

So, folks, these hormones can be altered by opening up these detox pathways. That calcium D-glucarate in much larger amount than anything we’ve seen before so far is working real, real well.

With this keto diet, isn’t it true they’re supposed to eat a whole lot of fats? Is that right?

Yes. That’s why I said you have to have the enzymes to do it because most of us don’t have the proper enzymes. Amanda, she stuck with us long enough. She used to take one digestive enzyme. We had really good results from it, and she actually won a bottle of it by answering correctly a question we had on the show. Now we have digestive enzymes that have … What’s the difference? I think the old one that worked so well had like 16 units to digest fat and the new one has 1008 units. Do the math on that. So, we have better enzymes to digest the fat. The more you digest the fat, then the more the body can start burning fat.

So, that’s part of what’s wrong when people tell you they’re on the keto diet but they feel like it’s not working or they feel like they’re getting constipated and they’re …

Gas, belching, bloating, constipation.

Some slow moving trains.

Amanda, what made you willing to go from one product that worked to another one? You know, she’s hung around a long time, and she’s been part of our experiment. We’re always getting better and more knowledgeable.

Well, I trust you and so if you say you’ve got a better product … You’ve never steered me wrong before, and so part of it is just the credibility that I perceive in you and just the understanding that there’s always going to be new discoveries or different products come about that improve on what’s been done. You’ve got to be open to a little bit of experimentation, and it’s always nice to have options.

That’s why they call it practicing.

That’s right.

You know what’s really scary. I’m in here with two really wonderful women, and God, if I knew I had that much power when I was 16, I’d have gotten in trouble.

You probably were in trouble. We probably don’t want to talk about it on this show.

No, it’s a G-rated show.

We do have a couple of questions, though. One of them was a commentary, I guess, from Dr. Lewis about vitamin D and how it could help treat diabetes. What did you want to tell us about that?

Well, one of the things I want to make … I am. I’ll get in trouble again. Oh, let’s go back to G-rated. That was scrolling across Good Morning America, “Vitamin D can help with diabetes,” and my answer to that is, “Duh.” I’ve been saying it 35 years and now all of a sudden after they poo-pooed nutritional supplements for so many years, now even Good Morning America is getting in on the deal.

Think about it. Two hundred years ago when we weren’t full of plastics and heavy metals, the sun was shining down on you at a very strong angle. You could burn 10,000 calories for energy and muscle while we were out playing with our cows and plowing the fields. In the innate wisdom of the human body, when the sun started going at a different angle because of autumn, the body would go down in vitamin D and say, “Hmm, I’m gonna have less calories ’cause we’re going into the seasons where there’s not as much food, so I can take not 10,000 calories, but I have to take 1,000 calories and actually put it into fat.”

We have low vitamin D because sunshine cannot be converted as much because we’ve lowered our cholesterol which is absolutely incredibly important to make vitamin D which is not even a vitamin. It’s actually a hormone. All these things is duh. There’s plenty of research that says you have to have this supplement, this supplement, this supplement because it’s not in your food, folks. Even organic food is a very good thing to invest in. I don’t care if it costs an average of 30% more. It has more nutrition in it and less pesticides, but to function toward 100%, you have to up your nutritional intake, and that has to be done by supplements and it has to be quality supplements like you want a quality spouse. There are differences, folks.

Interesting. As usual.

I got the look on that one from two women.

You leave us speechless many times.

Yeah, I wish that were true.

We both have similar spouses, too.

That’s why I like you.

Amanda’s spouse is absolutely awesome. I love him.

We also had a question about someone, and you briefly touched on this, but I don’t think they completely understand the answer. They ask about doing the keto diet, but they have Hashimoto’s, which for you that don’t know what that is, that’s an autoimmune problem in the thyroid. Does it mess with Hashimoto’s or can someone with Hashimoto’s do a keto diet? Do you have any weird symptoms because you have Hashimoto’s?

Wow. Can I take my memory pill and remember all that? I think keto diet is fine for Hashimoto’s, but there’s certain other issues you need to address, and the best thing to do is get the lab. Let’s find out exactly what’s going on and let’s address that so you can have better success with the keto diet.

When you’re saying diet, usually you’re telling the body something is going to change with it, and it’s going to starve, basically, or change drastically. If you have Hashimoto’s and it’s not in check, which a lot of people don’t realize there is a natural way to make it in check. We have two products that actually help with that one. It’s called Olive Leaf and the other one is IG26. One stabilizes the thyroid and the other one supports the immune system, so it quits doing the rollercoaster ride that it does on lab with your thyroid panels.

So, if your doctor keeps running your thyroid and they keep saying, “We can’t get this right. It’s all over the place,” and they keep changing your medicine, there could be a really good chance you have Hashimoto’s. Then you try to diet on top of it. Then the body already is sick and then you’re trying to make it lose weight, too. It’s a really great idea if you get the thyroid under control first and then address trying to lose weight because you really may have some issues and then you’re not going to know, “Hey, is this keto doing this to me? Is this my thyroid being wacky?”

They would make that correlation, but it would not be a causation.

Right, and that’s what …

Keto is good.

Right, keto is good.

For most people.

We don’t want you thinking, “Hey, there’s something wrong with this diet because there actually may be something wrong with the thyroid that needs to be fixed also.

Not to say too much out of place, but Amanda’s thyroid, she didn’t have Hashimoto’s, but it’s definitely gotten better over the years whether she feels it or not. Do you have an opinion about that?

Yeah, I definitely feel better, I think. To me it was subtle, so the only way I could track was just do the labs, but yeah, I’m very pleased with my progress. In fact, last time I had lab, you said, “You know, you could probably go a whole year without lab instead of coming in every six months.” I may still do the six months just because I like the check, you know?

That’s a great point because you should mention that about the … People ask that all the time. “How many times do I have to run this lab?”

Well, I think when you hit your sweet spot, that’s my term for it, of what you want to take as far as supplements, you’ve addressed the issues and given enough nutrition so your body could fight its own battles, then the lab work gets less and less important. Janet and I do our lab about every year. Amanda could go a year, but if she wants to knows more, six months is certainly not unreasonable at all. I probably should go more, but I’m a sissy and I get stuck, and I pass out sometimes when they do that. Yes, I’m that big a sissy, but it’s a really good thing. Yeah, that’s a good point about Hashimoto’s, too. It’s like well you have a GI problem. Therefore, you’ll have an absorption problem. It’s probably leaky gut. We do need to address that so you can have better success in weight loss, in energy production, in memory, in reversing or helping your body deal with diabetes, etc., etc.

Or people that have digestive problems like a bad gallbladder or no gallbladder are probably initially going to experience a lot of concerns when they start doing keto.

Yeah, you should have seen the look when she said, “concerns.” Yeah, you really need to know what’s going on and digestive enzymes would be incredibly important there to help digest that because without that gallbladder holding the reservoir of bowel, then those are the ones that get up in the middle of the meal and rush to the bathroom because it just runs right through, so you really need to have the digestive enzymes.

We used to do that for fun. I don’t know, we’re very sick individuals. We go to a restroom and go, “That one’s gallbladder is gone. That one’s gallbladder is gone,” because they couldn’t make it through the whole meal before they had to go to the bathroom.

That was sick of us, but it was fun. We like to go to the airport and have a beer and talk … “That’s person is doing this and that person is doing that.”

With the digestive enzyme, of course.

Yeah, and that person needs its sacroiliac adjusted. It’s like, you know, look at them like that. It’s like holy cow they could really be healthy if they had this nutrition or this kind of an adjustment, but yeah, I’m weird that way.

If they just listen to this show, they would learn so much. Speaking of that, if you guys have someone that needs to hear this show, please share us with them and do not keep us a secret because we like to be passed around. We have come to the close of another exciting show. I can’t believe that 30 minutes flies by. We want to thank Amanda again for her input and being our guest today. We’re very thrilled. We may have you back.

Well, thank you. I enjoyed it.

She’s very eloquent, too, unlike me with all the Steven-isms, so we can have Amanda-isms.

Sure.

If you have questions or anything that you would like to have answered, please join our Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis, and he’ll be happy to add you to his group and answer questions for you. If you want to get started feeling better, go to our website, GreenWisdomHealth.com. Fill out the health survey. We’re recommending for this show to do the comprehensive lab panel to see what’s going on with your health, and you can get started just like Amanda did. We’ll catch you guys here next time, or next week, with another exciting show. You guys have a blessed week.