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Burning it Up – Kidneys and Arthritis | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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Posted on March 18, 2018March 18, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

To Tired To Sleep?

Janet Lewis:	Hello and welcome to our podcast. I’m Janet Lewis.
Dr. Lewis:	And I’m Dr. Lewis.
Janet Lewis:	And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of the low cost lab work, here to help you with your health goals and educate you about alternative methods of taking care of what you’re looking for with your health. Today we are excited to talk to you about too tired to sleep. With the daylight savings time that just happened to us in Texas, I know some of you guys don’t have that, but for us that do, it becomes a pretty rough week the following week because your time is all off. If you don’t sleep to start with and then you have darkness in the morning, it makes it extra hard to get up in the morning. Dr. Lewis is going to talk with us today about what’s going on, how to stop it, how to get rest when you’re supposed to have it, and how to get a full eight hours of sleep, and why you might not.
Dr. Lewis:	You think I’ve got the answers to that, you’re crazy.
Janet Lewis:	You have the answers to everything, doctor.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, but they’re not always correct.
Janet Lewis:	Won’t you educate us about why we can’t sleep, why we’re up all night, and don’t go to sleep, and what’s happening in between.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, there’s going to be a lot of answers I think to this and it’s going down a rabbit trail. You can kind of … I think if you let your intuition listen, you’ll probably figure out something that may be true for you. Hey, I’m a big fan of talking about toxins, because they’re real and they’re horribly affecting our health, and this has been said for decades, and decades, and decades, but some … Most doctors ignore it. For example, I’ve noticed that some people have trouble sleeping, do better when we put them on a detox, and there are different types of detoxes that you need to consider doing, and I think you should get some outside advice to do that. I think everybody’s deficient in vitamins and minerals. We treat people that are organic farmers in 10, 12, 20 states at any given time, and you don’t have enough vitamins and minerals, fatty acids.
	One of the reasons I say this is because the USDA actually reports statistically speaking, you have greater than 90% chance of being deficient in your vitamins and minerals. For those of you that don’t trust the USDA, so if they’re saying greater than 90%, take it to the bank, it’s closer to 100. Some people are on a big exercise kick and I’m all for moving the body in mild to moderate exercise, but I’ve seen many, many people that deplete their nutrients because they exercise so bad and it creates more of the free radicals. If you do exercise, you automatically need more ACE CoQ10 alpha lipoic acid, because they’re the ones that are trying, or they’re working in your body to reduce the oxidative damage. Just following a diet plan, I read a pretty interesting article the other day that said, and this is from Journal of International Society of Sports Nutrition, said, “For the most popular diet plans, if you followed it very, very strictly, were 56% in essential vitamins and minerals.”
	One of the things … There are all kinds of things out there saying, “Take this protein, this is the best, the latest, the greatest.” Even the best of … I reviewed 10 of them. Even the best of the 10 kinds of stunk because it had magnesium oxide and [inaudible 00:03:38] and those are not very absorbable nutrients. Back to why we can’t sleep because we are full of toxins and there are many, many ways we can help you detoxify. Back in 2005, there was a study done by the American Red Cross. They took fetal cord blood from 10 newborns and they found 287 chemicals inside the samples, which were dioxins, phthalates, pesticides, Teflon byproducts, and flame retardants, etc., etc. Well, I don’t think that baby had any Teflon fried chicken or flame retardants. You’ve got to understand it’s coming from the mother.
	Then there was another study from neurotoxicology, which I think that’s pretty credible. Took the first bowel movements of 426 infants, so that’s a pretty good sample. 84% of them contained mercury. Where’d that come from, folks? 27% contained led. 27% had DDT and that’s a pesticide that’s been banned, I think, since 1970-something when it was breaking the … Or the eagle’s eggs were thin. It’s in the babies, which means it’s in the mother, which means it’s in all of us. Pay attention. I think that’s why people don’t sleep. I read another article that said women had more trouble sleeping than men, and we’re going to talk about depression too, but I think women have more trouble sleeping than men because they’re worried about the crazy antics of their husband.
Janet Lewis:	Well, I think a lot of times for women it comes after having a baby because you’re always not ever in a really deep sleep because you’re worried about your baby crying. It seems like once you become a mother, that seems to kick in also, that you just don’t sleep as deeply.
Dr. Lewis:	I think that’s true.
Janet Lewis:	Maybe we really need to be knocked off so we can sleep through it. Is that what it is?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, I was more nurturing back when I had babies. I was the one that got up and changed diapers and fed them, so I understand that.
Janet Lewis:	That was not me, folks.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, that was not, yeah. Janet’s an incredible mother.
Janet Lewis:	Well, thank you.
Dr. Lewis:	Grandmother now. I don’t know how she can be 32, and really good looking, and be a grandmother, but-
Janet Lewis:	But that’s for another show.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, I think for women it’s a hormonal shift. One of the things I see … I tell people, “Don’t look at the surface. Dig deep, ask more questions.” Hormone problems. Well, so what? Why does almost every woman we do a lab on have a very improper ratio of estradiol, to progesterone, to testosterone? Well, it’s because these phthalates, and Teflon products, and fire retardants, etc., act like estrogen. That’s why we have too much, and that’s why the liver’s so important, and that’s why you have to have proper bowel movements. That’s why you have to have enough fiber. That’s why you have to have probiotics and keep putting them in so that your body can detoxify, and get those bad estrogens out, rather than be reabsorbed. That’s kind of my story on that. I think women do tend to worry too much. Not that Janet does, but a lot of women do.
Janet Lewis:	Well, what about the shifts in hormone levels for a woman, that estrogen and progesterone, because they fluctuate during a woman’s menstrual cycle? Does that affect their sleep as well?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, yeah. It’s not just the estrogens I talked about. Yeah, I think that is true.
Janet Lewis:	Progesterone actually can have a hypnotic property to it, which we sell natural progesterone and I really do think it helps with sleeping issues.
Dr. Lewis:	I think that’s true, but I’m very careful to go to that subject because I’ve had so many women with hormonal imbalances rip my head off when I’m trying to be sympathetic, and try to understand. Yeah, there are fluctuations because there are many women that back when I practiced chiropractic to a great degree, they said, “Well, I have headaches.” I would say, “Well, what part of your cycle were you in?” They look at me dumbfounded and then they, many of them, couldn’t make that correlation. Yeah, I think you’re right Janet. Also, the … Sleep cycles change as you get older and you notice more elderly people, I don’t have a clue who they are, I think somebody old is always somebody 15 years old than whatever I am.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, not us.
Dr. Lewis:	But Janet’s 81 year old daddy thinks the same thing. He’ll talk about old people. Janet says, “Hey dad, what are you talking about? How old do you have to be, to be old?” He said, “15 years older than whatever I am.” He’s 81, he’s still really young in the way that he thinks, and the way that he acts. Having babies, we get a lot of people with post-partum depression. It’s because you’re nutrient deficient anyway and you just gave, or your body just gave your baby everything it could to make a baby as healthy as possible. Menopause, holy geez.
	The hot flashes, that’s one I really, I run for the hills if there’s a woman here to take care of the person that walks in or a phone call. I run because I’ve had my head chopped off more than once trying to talk about that. Stress, anxiety, and depression, which I hope to get into in more depth because I’m always asking questions, “Do you sleep? Or lack of sleep because you’re depressed. Are you depressed?” One way or the other. It can go both directions. Depression, stress, and anxiety are a huge thing nowadays. We’ve all got an opinion and I think most of them are pretty short-sighted, but that’s me.
Janet Lewis:	Well, I think there’s one key ingredient, or one product that you can really take that really does help you stay asleep longer, and it’s good for so many things. They say over 300 functions in the body. That’s our Reacted Magnesium. It’s inexpensive.
Dr. Lewis:	Slowly released, which is good. That means no diarrhea.
Janet Lewis:	Well, it helps, especially women that are pregnant and can’t sleep, they have restless leg syndrome. Any of you that have that at night.
Dr. Lewis:	She’s being sexist. She left out the men, not that we get pregnant, but men have that too.
Janet Lewis:	Restless leg. Magnesium actually helps you really sleep well.
Dr. Lewis:	Helps lower blood pressure, and increases your heart activity, and-
Janet Lewis:	The reason we say the Reacted one is because it has different kinds of magnesium. It’s not just the … People think, “Oh gosh, magnesium. I’m going to go have diarrhea because that’s what it does.” The citrate form of it does that, but not … There is citrate in ours as well, but there are other forms of it that do not cause that, so you can’t take too much of it that makes you go to the bathroom.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, if you use citrate, it’s because you’re a little bit constipated, and that helps, but-
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, and you’re depressed, and can’t go to the … If you’re depressed and aren’t going to the bathroom good, then you need the citrate form of it, because then it will help you go to the bathroom. That helps depression and your restless legs.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, which goes into that’s one of the reasons you’re toxic, but you got magnesium malate. We’ve got [lycinate 00:11:02] and glycinate. They’re just hooked on different amino acids, which makes it better absorbed and more slowly absorbed. I thought Janet was going to talk about 5HTP, which is … It goes from L-tryptophan to 5HTP, five hydroxytryptophans. I’d like to go into a little bit of the research about that and you don’t just take this to sleep, you can take it to chill out. That’s the thing that people say, “I don’t know what he gave me a sample of, but it was a piece of God in a bottle.”
Janet Lewis:	Love 5HTP.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, she gives it to me and says, “I’m nicer when I take it.”
Janet Lewis:	That is one of the only times that I remember that he and I ever had what we would call an altercation, is because both of us needed 5HTP, because it helps you flow, and it helps you be nice, and I remember saying something to him about, “Did you have your 5HTP today?” He said, “Did you have yours?” I thought, “Okay.”
Dr. Lewis:	I don’t remember saying that at all, but … Which I really don’t think I did, but I’m usually like, “Hey.” I don’t rush you. That’d be very rude and impolite and she’s very, very nice to me. She spoils me rotten. All the men are jealous. The L-tryptophan, which I take that, in addition to 5HTP, and I take the time released stuff, and different ones for different people, but there’s plenty of studies that say, “It’s as potent, if not more so than some of … ” It’s a Prozac-like antidepressant. This is a study that was published in Journal of Psychopathology, so it’s real. It also augments the effectiveness of some of the tricyclic antidepressants. That’s from Journal of Archives of General Psychiatry. These are not opinions, folks. This is real research.
	This is not a Google opinion. It’s not … I’m not going to mention that, but there’s one that’s really popular that’s just full of bull. Let’s see, people have fewer relapses of depression when they use the L-tryptophan/5HTP. Journal of Psychiatry review. Glutamine is really, really good. Now glutamine is just famous for helping the cell, the lining of the GI tract to replicate itself and heal. You notice, “Oh, well what’s the GI tract got to do with how you … Whether you’re depressed or not, or whether you sleep or not?” It has everything to do with it. Glutamine, and glycine and glycine are in a lot of our formulas, which is a major cleanser that works on some of these receptors and makes you happier and helps your body to detox. Again, that’s from Journal of Archives of General Psychiatry. Yeah, I read a lot.
	Let me get controversial for just a minute. Low cholesterol’s one of the worst things you can do if you’re depressed because you need that cholesterol to repair your brain, and I know, you can read that low cholesterol will make you young, rich, and good-looking, but most of the research will refute that. Low cholesterol actually increases your risk of suicide. That’s from Journal of Epidemiology. That’s not my opinion and there’s plenty of books on that too. 5HTP is famous for increasing serotonin levels and that’s the one that kind of makes you feel happy, and less likely to snack. Again, it’s not just used for sleep. Use it during the day for depression, stress, anxiety. I don’t know. I just think it’s really, really incredible, and let’s get simple, humor’s one of the best things you can do. That’s from Journal of Psychiatric Medicine too.
Janet Lewis:	Well, you need to talk about the differences in strength as well, because we have two different kinds of 5HTP on the website. One’s a 50 milligram and one is a 100 milligram.
Dr. Lewis:	50’s usually for kids.
Janet Lewis:	Correct.
Dr. Lewis:	Normally an adult should go for the 100 milligrams. I’ve seen a couple of people that take 5HTP and they’d slam them down. They had to take a 30-minute nap. That’s rare, but it does happen. I think it’s one every 500 people. I’ve only seen it twice and one guy just … He said that I don’t think it was true, because he didn’t want to take anything, and that’s why he’s younger than me, he’s already had three heart attacks, but why don’t you throw it in? Throw in the nutrients and ask God to bless it, because it does make a huge, huge difference.
Janet Lewis:	Well, and the 50 milligrams for the kids, we would give that to our teenagers when they were getting ready to go take a test at school because it helped them retain the information that they had learned and helped them focus so that they would get a better grade. When our son was going through high school, he would always take it, and he would always come out a grade average better on the test than what he did without it because he couldn’t stay focused without it. His friends would come over and borrow some.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. His teachers started liking him and he became the teacher’s pet because it calmed him down instead of putting him on Ritalin. When I was a kid, they said, “Don’t do drugs.” Then they’re putting kids on drugs. I don’t want to get too controversial. Y’all, if you’ve listened to me long enough, you know that’s a lie. It is-
Janet Lewis:	controversial.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah.
Janet Lewis:	Speaking of which-
Dr. Lewis:	Well, if you want to be normal, look around, see what normal is. I sure as heck don’t want to be normal.
Janet Lewis:	Okay, go ahead. We do have a few questions though for our listeners today in our question segment. We have a couple of really fun stories to tell you, for one, but our first question comes from Nathaniel R. and he asked about a flaky scalp and what to do about it. Seems like every time he washes his hair, even if it’s with a good shampoo and conditioner, his scalp is still flaky. He’s wondering, “What do you take, or what’s wrong?”
Dr. Lewis:	I think, number one, the omega-3 fish oils. Number two, zinc or maybe it’s switched, but I would try those two. I had a question the other day, a lady really didn’t trust me, you could tell, “What makes your fish oil better than everybody else’s?” I told her what research to read and she gave up, because either she didn’t want to read it, or she muddled through it and the fish oil we have, which it’s a triglyceride. Again, you know if you’ve listened to me a long time, I’m not a biochemist, don’t claim to be. Hated chemistry, but I did have to pass it, so I do know a little bit about it. We sell the really, really good stuff, so you can take less of it, so it’s not more expensive, it’s more absorbable.
Janet Lewis:	Okay, so basically-
Dr. Lewis:	Zinc and-
Janet Lewis:	Zinc and a fish oil.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah.
Janet Lewis:	Okay. Then, we have also a great story. We recently got SBI and they’re capsules or powders. They’re an immunoglobulin that goes in and repairs gut function.
Dr. Lewis:	If you’ve got a leaky gut, you need to be on it.
Janet Lewis:	Yes. We’ve been kind of waiting for feedback because Dr. Lewis and myself have been taking it. Of course, we take so many things, it’s hard for us to tell which things doing it, but we-
Dr. Lewis:	Or we feel better and we don’t know if it’s all in our head, too.
Janet Lewis:	Right, right.
Dr. Lewis:	We want to make sure it’s real.
Janet Lewis:	We had a customer, her name is Karen T., and for a long time now she has had chronic diarrhea, and I mean-
Dr. Lewis:	Like explosive many, many times per day.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah. She’s a teacher.
Dr. Lewis:	She has to lecture students.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, yeah. She’s had every kind of test known to man trying to figure out what’s wrong and how to stop it and-
Dr. Lewis:	Yes, I sent her to her GI doc.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, and she did all those testing, and nothing could stop it. They just … They wanted to put her on some real high powered drug, which she really didn’t want to do, so she’s been holding off, and not doing it, and she said, “Literally, she can’t make it through her class before she has to go to the bathroom.” Well, any of you that have that out there, know that when you go to the bathroom all the time, you get very tired because it takes everything out of you. It takes all the good minerals and everything from you as well, so you’re very depleted of everything. She started on this SBI protect three weeks ago, roughly, and she came in yesterday, and she said, “I have literally gone two weeks now with no diarrhea whatsoever.” She is absolutely thrilled. She looks fantastic because she’s getting the color back in her face. She’s got light back in her eyes again because she’s not so depleted.
Dr. Lewis:	Her husband’s not thrilled, though, because he had to go look at the fully formed bowel movements.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, she was so thrilled to have a fully formed bowel movement, which she’s not had in ages, and I get really excited about bowel movements when you talk about them because that’s my thing. Got to make sure everything’s going through because we don’t want carts … Even though we’ve got trains going through the tunnel, we want them to be filled properly whenever they come through.
Dr. Lewis:	I would say she’s perverted and weird, but then she married me, so I guess she’s not.
Janet Lewis:	Good point. Then we have another question, and then I have another really great story, so this is our fun day. Every day’s our fun day, but we really-
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, you bet.
Janet Lewis:	Love these stories. Because it makes our job worthwhile. We know that we’re helping people’s lives get better and we appreciate you guys’ feedback too. If y’all have any interesting fun stories to tell us about things that you’ve experienced. We have a young girl, her name is Kim K. She has eye floaters and is wondering what could be happening, the reason she’s having these floaters all the time.
Dr. Lewis:	She felt like she needed to take her hand and wipe her eye. The real truth is, I don’t know. I told … I’ve got some ideas, but I asked, “Well, did you go to an optometrist?” “Yes, a couple of them.” “Did you go to an ophthalmologist?” “Yes, a couple of them. They said it’s normal.” I said, “Well, you shouldn’t have to pull off to the side of the road to try to clean your eye out so you can see the road.” I noticed that her pupils were very, very dilated, like a lot of young teenagers because they’re running on empty. I love that expression.
	Dilated pupils, if you’re not on drugs, means you have adrenal exhaustion and that’s really, really common to have adrenal exhaustion. I think we should take stress off these kids, and lack of sleep and depression’s really common in these kids. The other thing, she has a history of anemia, so we’re thinking it’s one of those two. We’ll let you know when the lab work comes back and we’ll see if we get just by throwing in good nutrition, we’ll see if her body can take that and heal with it, which kind of leads us up to what we’re going to talk about in a second.
Janet Lewis:	Well, and also, cholesterol can also be a factor in that. Not so much in young kids, but we’ve had other older middle-aged people that say they have that and it’s high cholesterol.
Dr. Lewis:	That’s true and I forgot about it, so maybe I need more cholesterol to repair my brain.
Janet Lewis:	It could be any of those things, which leads us to, oh, you don’t know what it is.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, I don’t know.
Janet Lewis:	If you don’t know, we recommend lab work. Like I said, we are the home of the low-cost lab work, and based on what Dr. Lewis is talking about today, I think our comprehensive panel is probably the best indicator for finding out why you’re not sleeping if that’s an issue. If you have floaters, cholesterol’s on there also, but-
Dr. Lewis:	Or if you’re depressed, and stress, and have brain fog. I hear that all the time.
Janet Lewis:	Correct. The reason why we say the comprehensive panel because it does come with cortisol, which Dr. Lewis spoke about. It can be high or low and you won’t sleep either direction. It’s like low, you want to sleep all the time, and if it’s too high, you don’t go to bed and you’re one of those people that are filling out health surveys at our place from 12:00 to 3:00 in the morning because you’re not asleep.
Dr. Lewis:	We see a lot of that too.
Janet Lewis:	Yes. That would be what we would recommend is do the … Order the comprehensive panel. It’s GWH number three when you go on the website, and the reason you need to pick that one, is because it does come with a complimentary consultation, a functional medicine report, and Dr. Lewis’s recommended supplement schedule so you’re not guessing at what products you need, and you get to speak with him directly, and he gets to discuss with you what’s going on with your lab findings.
	For those that are thinking, “Oh, well Y’all are in Texas and can’t help me.” Well, yes we can. We are available across the United States. If you go on our website, there’s actually a map that you can click on and put in your zip code and it will tell you the closest Quest Diagnostic Lab Station to draw the lab. You basically pay for it on the website. You go there and have it drawn. All the results come back to Dr. Lewis and then we can go over everything with you via the phone, and now we’ve added in Zoom, so you can actually look at him if you’d like, which is a great feature for some.
Dr. Lewis:	Well … Yeah, right. I got a beautiful face for audio, not for video.
Janet Lewis:	We can help you anywhere you are, so don’t think that you are beyond help. We are here to help you wherever you are. Dr. Lewis, would you like to tell us the really fun story, which the other one was fun too, they’re just different, but about the man?
Dr. Lewis:	No, I don’t want to. You took the call.
Janet Lewis:	Okay. All right, all right. Well, then I’ll tell the story.
Dr. Lewis:	Janet was crying.
Janet Lewis:	Well, it didn’t start out that way. We have a patient of ours that is having … He’s full-blown cancer, prostate cancer. It’s already metastasized to other organs. Basically, his PSA was very high. Before he came in here, it was a 30, and I think the cutoff on it is a five.
Dr. Lewis:	Four.
Janet Lewis:	A four. See. See, Dr. Lewis should tell this story. It’s a four, but before he came here it was a 30 and then the week that he came in to see us, it was a 35 at his doctor’s office. Of course, we ran lab again on him and based on the recommendations we put him on … This has been about three weeks ago, I guess. We put him on Prostatrol, Dim Detox and PolyResveratrol. We told the daughter of the man that we’re no way curing cancer. We’re not stopping this. If anything, we’re probably just buying him a little bit of time, which she understood that.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, and the wife understood. I don’t treat cancer.
Janet Lewis:	Right.
Dr. Lewis:	You go to a cancer doctor for that.
Janet Lewis:	Right. Anyway, three weeks, fast-forward, the young lady, the daughter calls me yesterday. She’s balling on the phone when I answer the phone and she said, “I’m so sorry I’m crying.” I said, “What’s wrong?” She said, “It’s my dad.” She said, “We just went to the doctor and I had asked the doctor previously, ‘Will a PSA ever go back down?'” That doctor told her, “I’ve seen it happen one time in my whole career, so it’s … Your odds of that are very slim that it’ll ever go back down.” This was at a 35 at that time. Well, when the doctor ran the lab on him a couple of days ago, his PSA was at a nine, which four is the cutoff, so it was five points over normal with him being on those three products for three weeks. Then I started crying because that’s just cool. I mean, that’s, again, something God does. We were just here to direct it through and like I told her, “I hope you don’t think we’re reversing cancer because we’re not, but he now maybe has some quality of life, which is, for him, was what he wanted.”
Dr. Lewis:	Well, sometimes they have two or three months to live and they die three years later. Don’t think that you can cure cancer, but your body can give you a higher quality of life and a longer life because of it … Our ticket’s going to be up sooner or later, but hopefully it’s later with a better quality of life, and the reason I say that is because we have so many nutrient deficiencies, and then we’re smart, we take brown rice, which is not very nutrient dense anyway, and we form white rice by grinding it, and you lose 80% of the trace minerals like magnesium, manganese, copper, zinc, and many more, so it’s deficient anyway. Then you throw away 80% and you wonder why we’re running on empty and getting diseases. Diseases are adaptive physiology.
Janet Lewis:	We were pretty excited about that. That young lady had held Dr. Lewis’s hand through this last three weeks and tried to help him, direct him, more like it, of what she wanted her dad to have, and after she saw the results, Dr. Lewis said, “I’m so thrilled that he’s getting good results. Now maybe she’ll trust me and let me do what I need to do to help him regain even more of his health.” We were pretty excited. That was probably our grand story for the week and that’s what we’re here for is to help you have a life that’s worth living, and if you know of anybody that needs to hear this, or needs help, or if it’s you, please share this with them and tell them about us, because we don’t want to be kept a secret. We’re here to help as many people as we can and if you don’t know where to start, go on our website, fill out the health survey. Generally, Dr. Lewis will call you directly and he will help guide you on what’s best to get started for your health goals.
Dr. Lewis:	If you don’t answer, then you’re out of luck because we’ll play phone tag. You might have to talk to Janet, which is a better outcome for you anyway. She’s the sweet one. She said all that about the prostate cancer much sweeter than I would’ve said it, or about the direction of the daughter.
Janet Lewis:	Well, we thank you for listening to our show and if you have any ideas and would like to hear a certain subject, please email us or talk with Dr. Lewis on his Shooting Straight Facebook page. If you’re not a fan of that, you can just ask him to add you and he can include you with any information that he has every day because he has some pretty good things that come up on that, that Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis. We’ll talk to you here next time on the Green Wisdom Health Show. Thank you.

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Too Tired to Sleep? The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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Why do women have more problems sleeping than men?

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Posted on March 11, 2018March 11, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Detoxify to Live!

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

And I’m Dr. Lewis.

And we are here to bring you another interesting and intriguing and knowledgeable show about detoxification. This one is called Detoxify to Live because we at Green Wisdom Health want you to live and be the best that you can be, and a lot of times that includes pulling off ugly little toxins that come into our body. With this time of the year, Spring cleaning, we think it’s a great idea to Spring clean your body. Dr. Lewis is going to tell you a little bit about why you need to detoxify, what are some of the symptoms of needing to detoxify, and then we’re going to answer you guys’ questions towards the end of the show. Get ready, put your seatbelt on, he’s ready to roll.

Yeah, the only time I ever talk fast is during this podcast.

Symptoms of knowing that you need to detoxify. Any symptom you have. Does that clue you in?

What do you mean? Anytime you have any kind of bad symptom you need to be detoxified?

Yeah, pretty much. I think if you boil it down it’s either too many toxins, not enough nutrients, or both, and I think it’s always both. We’ve kind of blended theme together. We talk about detoxification and headaches and allergies. Well, the kind of all intermingle, kind of the same thing, same difference. What I’m saying is symptoms can manifest themselves in many, many different ways and yet it be the same underlying cause. So many different times the cause may be 10, 20, 30 years prior to you having a problem. Again, I’m gonna talk about a whole lot. Amanda said she thought I was cute because I was trying not to go down rabbit trails, and she said, “You just can’t help yourself.” It’s like, “Yep, you’re right.”

We just had a call from a guy that asked my sister how old I was. It’s like, I feel about 30, so there you go. It takes a lot of work to pull that off. And that’s one reason I feel good is because I take enough stuff every day that my body can detoxify.

And you notice he’s not gonna tell you how old he is. Good job. That’s like a-

I’m 63.

I was fixing to say that’s like a woman, just go around the question.

Well, I’m 39 and change. I’m 63. But I do feel 30 something most of the time. It takes a little bit of work to pull that off, and Janet’s much younger than me, literally, and she says many times, “You’re way too young for me.” I say, “Well, I ain’t getting anybody younger than you because the music sucks when it gets into that era.” She’s shaking her head. Sorry folks.

How do you know if you need to detoxify? Well, if you have diarrhea, your body’s trying to detoxify from something. If you’re constipated, you need to detoxify. If you got a belly full of yeast, you need to detoxify. If you got a mouthful of mercury … And that was a question once upon a time about mercury fillings. Some dentists agree, some don’t, but I think that’s one small part of a bigger picture, the mercury. Coal fired power plants release mercury into the air.

How do you know? Sniffle, snot, sneezes, and we had a show similar to that effect. If you’re tired. If you’re depressed.

Constipated.

Yeah. If you have hormone imbalances.

Stinky gas.

Golly. Man. I’m gonna give her the stink eye on that one. And that’s why she gives me different types of digestive enzymes and she gives me something called sibbzymes. That’s the answer I was trying to think of the other day, Maggie, is sibbzymes because that will keep much of the inflammation down just in case we do eat something that creates that histamine or inflammatory effect. That’s for Maggie up in Kansas. And I think Janet does it to protect herself from stinky gas, so that’s why I got the stink eye on that.

Being in toxic chemicals actually.

Yeah. I looked at a lab the other day and talked to the mother. I think the young man’s 11 or something like that. I said, “Good Lord. Did he get in a bunch of chemicals?” And she says, “Oh yeah. He pulled over a beaker of some kind of weird chemical, and he ingested a lot of it when he was two years old.” I think he’s 11 now, and he’s having a lot of problems, so we’re gonna rev up his detoxification pathways.

And common household cleaners also do it, which I love. I’m not picking on anybody, because Clorox stuff does the best job as far as bleaching out things, but getting that on your skin? You better be detoxifying.

Or just smelling it. You don’t even have to smell it for it to get in there, and chlorine’s one of the biggest things that mess up your thyroid. If you’re drinking water without it being filtered, you’re getting the fluoride in it, that’s messing up your thyroid. If you’re eating any white flour because it has bromine in it you’re messing up your thyroid amongst other things.

The problem is you can’t really avoid these, but you can certainly cut them down somewhat, and you can take enough nutrients to make a difference to your body. You don’t have to understand it all. You just have to throw it in, ask God to bless it, and move on down the line.

Janet talked to a real nice guy the other day and said something like we shouldn’t be ashamed to talk about God. I think it’s pretty obvious my belief because I hear that all the time. “Well, I can tell you’re a believer.” Well, yeah. If you don’t have faith … Have you noticed the people that have the most faith have the most peace? If you’re full of fear, you have chaos in your life. So, yeah. It’s all good. Throw it in, ask God to bless it, and your body will bless it. But it’s more about thinking about what you want rather than what you don’t want, and that is the faith that comes in.

Another thing, if you have sugar cravings, which is what 80% of America, you need to detoxify. Of course, that feeds the yeast that I mentioned earlier. What are other symptoms? Geez, rashes because it’s trying to get the toxins out of the skin.

Acne.

Oh, you’re gonna get personal with somebody out there.

I know. And how many people go take some sort of a drug for that.

Yeah, there’s some research on when you take that drug what it has a tendency to cause later. I’m not anti-drug, I’m just real conservative about it.

That just basically means it can’t come out through the correct channel that it’s supposed to, which is the gastrointestinal tract.

Yeah, urinary and GI tract.

Instead, it comes out through your skin, so you get pimples and rashes.

Halitosis.

Oh yeah, bad breath. That’s a bad one. Yes. Nobody likes that. That’s a very big sign, actually, of needing to detoxify.

When you’re talking about that and you’re saying all these things that are going on, what should someone do or where should they start to start with detoxification? That’s the thing everybody comes in and says, “Hey, I’m ready to clean out”, because it’s springtime and they’ve not done anything else up to this point, but they are ready to clean out. Is that a wise choice to just start cleaning, Doctor?

I don’t think so. I have literally–literally–seen people die because they got on the Internet and found some great, grand, and glorious thing that’s gonna cure them, make them young, rich, good looking, and feel 80 years younger, and I’ve seen them kill themselves. I told one lady, I said, “You’re gonna kill your husband.” She said, “Well, I read it on the Internet.” She killed him. It made me kind of upset because I told her not to.

Don’t believe everything you see, so no, you shouldn’t start unless you have some pretty good information. I hear every day, “I’ve researched it.” Yeah, right. You read it on the Internet, but there’s all kinds of horrible stuff on the Internet, so please be careful. Ask somebody with a little bit more experience.

We do have a product thought that we recommend for people that want to just kind of get things going, get a bit more energy. What it does is it offers [keyano 00:08:43] oxidant glutathione, which Dr. Lewis is gonna tell you all about glutathione.

A little bit because that’s all I know. I just throw it in.

In a liposomal liquid form, so for you that are not knowing what I’m talking about, glutathione is a big liver detoxifier and in the liposomal form it’s in a fat derived substance so that it can absorb easier into your cells. Your cells recognize it easier and can accept it, and it goes in and cleans that out. It also combines NAC, which if you’ve never had NAC, NAC is a very stinky little sulfur like amino acid that actually goes in and thins mucus, but it actually cleans your liver as well. During the wintertime and even during this time of the year, it’s a huge one to thin mucus and expel anything you have. So, that coming up from the liver is a great, great thing. It also has the vitamin C in it, so it’s in one liquid form, and you just do a big squirt of it. I do it in water. Some people can’t stand the NAC the way it tastes, so you put it in a little bit of juice. We tell you like apple or grape juice, and it does give you a big shot of energy because it’s cleaning up the liver. Can you explain a little bit about glutathione?

I think you just explained it all, actually. It’s really not an amino acid technically, but it’s kind of a combination of cysteine glutamic acid in glycine. Cysteine, as Janet said, n-acetyl cysteine is the best form of that. What glutathione is, it’s a very big antioxidant. I’m kind of repeating what Janet just said, but it’s produced in the liver, and the largest store of glutathione are in the liver. What it does is help the liver detoxify the compounds that are harmful so you can excrete it through the bile. Those of you that’s had a consultation with me, if your liver enzymes are not just almost picture perfect, I’ll explain how the liver has to take these molecules and conjugate theme or twist them around into the safer form and squish it out through the bile.

And then if your constipated or have a belly full of yeast or bad bacteria and you’re not having those three trains a day like Janet is famous for saying, then those forms of, in this case, safer estrogen goes back to the non-safe. It reabsorbs through the intestinal walls, and that’s a major contributor to cancer. Having a clean health liver is very, very important, and having glutathione in there is very, very important, too.

But I want to caution you. Once upon a time there was this lady and she was my age. This is a few years back, and she was on this one product that was touting glutathione and liver health, and it was not a bad product. She kind of got a little smart with me, and I said, “Okay, let’s do your lab. Let’s see how it works”, because she says, “Oh, this is all you ever need.” If somebody markets their product as this is all you need to be young, rich, and good looking, you need to run for the hills.

We did this lab on this lady, and she was my age, and her lab looked horrible. She was so embarrassed that that one product that somebody had … Have you ever noticed some of these companies will take amateurs and get them excited so they’ll go sell this product but they don’t really have the science or the understanding behind it? She was so embarrassed she never came back.

And then there was another lady, exact same age as me, and she was a big proponent of this one company. It’s a good company, but it’s certainly not complete. I said, “Great, let’s do your lab work.” That one company didn’t put it all together either. The point is that it’s really, really tough with all the different products we have, so don’t think one size fits all. It’s not that easy.

For glutathione, I take a shot of that almost every day, and it seems to protect the liver from alcohol induced damage. But I think if you take a shot of it that you really don’t get that buzz. If you like to get that buzz from alcohol, hopefully that’s in the proper context and not out on the road. But the deficiency of glutathione, it’s pretty interesting. It’ll affect the nervous system, and it can cause symptoms of lack of coordination, different mental disorders, and Lord haven’t we had more than our share in America the last few years. It can cause tremors, difficulty maintaining balance, so maybe a dizzy blonde would fit into that. Oh, Geez. Blonde ladies, don’t write me a letter or an email nowadays.

But here’s this study. Think about this. If this is true in HIV, how important could it be in other life when you’re not that far down in the disease process? There’s a study, and it was sponsored partly by the National Cancer Institute, found that people that had HIV disease had lower glutathione levels, had lower survival rate over a three year period than those whose glutathione levels were normal. Geez, I wonder what would happen if you raised your glutathione levels to where they were higher than normal.

I’m telling you this stuff works, and I take a shot of it about every day almost. Glutathione is cysteine glutamic acid in glycine, but the n-acetyl, NAC, which is n-acetyl cysteine, is very, very important in that and we take that by itself a lot of times just because it helps makes glutathione. That’s just an incredible thing. If you’re fatigued, that’ll help with energy production, and it is a huge detoxifier because it boosts the liver.

Okay. Well, very good. That’s something that anyone could do then and not harm themselves basically. Correct?

Yep. Absolutely.

Cool. Okay. All right. I guess we will go on now to our questions because one of them had to do with actually some of this detoxification stuff here. We have Maggie that was asking about headaches. Her question is how does she keep from feeling like her head is going to crack open and need to peel her face off to let the itches out. Lifelong problem.

It may be liver because sometimes people that have liver issues complain of itching. I don’t really know the answer to that. If it’s sinus problems, I’d try the Sinutrol and I’d try the n-acetyl cysteine or this liposomal …

Recharge.

Yeah, liposomal recharge. That’s the glutathione. As far as I can tell, that’s the most quick and effective. You can try that. Of course me being a chiropractor, I always think, “Well, I wonder what a good adjustment and better nerve supply would take care of there.” I’ve seen that take care of a lot of things.

Well, you know, there’s different types of headaches also. When it’s above the eye, that’s usually a migraine, and that’s usually liver related so to speak most of the time, toxic chemicals, that type of thing.

Or hormonal, possibly.

Yeah. At the back of the head it’s more like hypertension. And then stress is like the band around the head, so you gotta think-

That’s most people.

… high blood pressure or lack of magnesium. Magnesium is a huge one.

Or stress headaches because of accidents. I used to testify in court a lot for people that were in low speed impacts, and it did a lot of damage to the neck according to the American Medical Association. Lawyers love to get me on the stand because I could blow an insurance company’s attorney away and make them turn red. When I testified, almost all the time, people got money because I could explain it. Six to eight miles per hour can cause neck damage, and that can create headaches. It just goes on and on, that’s why it pays to do the nutrition so your body can function at a higher level.

Behind the eye, it’s usually like gut related stuff, so if you start-

Liver, intestine, yeah.

Yeah. But liposomal recharge would be great for that to help if you’re having those type headaches.

If you wake up with a headache it’s because you’re not eliminating and not having enough bowel movements almost all the time.

And then if you have a headache all over your whole head, it’s just all over, that’s probably the church lady perfume where you’ve sat close to someone and there’s no way to escape it.

Yeah. God, I hate that.

The next question comes from Kelly M. there’s so many women opting to remove breast implants for health reasons. They’re confused on how to detoxify after the surgery, like flushing the silicone from your body and lymph nodes, etc. Her question is detoxing after surgeries in general would be beneficial, too. She wants to know about silicone specifically and then about just detoxification from going under anesthesia, which we see that a lot, so maybe talk about the silicone first.

Silicone, I don’t know if your body ever detoxifies. I’ve had a gob of patients get their breast implants taken out.

I know that we had a patient one time, and I know this is probably very common, it’s just something that happened. She actually got to where she could not walk. She was in a wheelchair because the silicone, I guess because it was in a hard form and it doesn’t come out in a liquid form that it went in, it caused her to not be able to walk, and it made her wheelchair bound because it settled in her knees. I don’t know if you guys out there have ever heard of colon hydrotherapy, but it’s actually like an enema where you lay on a table and you expel everything through the colon in hopes of getting rid of a bunch of these toxins. This lady went over there to do that, and in the session she was passing large chunks of silicone from the breast implants.

You gotta understand this is third hand, too. I don’t know how much you detoxify, and I’m not gonna blame the breast implants, but I’ve seen a lot of women get them and then start having very, very bizarre symptoms within a few years that pretty much nobody could figure out. That’s why we push the nutrition.

It’s very hard because it turns into a different kind of material, I guess, where the body can’t easily get rid of it, so it’s very hard to say, hey yeah, take this and that’ll get rid of it. All you could really do probably is just put things in and try to pull it out the best you could.

Hope the surgeon takes it out if the breast implant has ruptured. Hope they scrape enough of it out. Yeah, that’s what I caulked around the commode the other day because it rocked a little bit was silicone.

Far as surgery in general, many people do not detoxify real well, and what happens is they don’t get rid of some of the things that’s used for anesthesia. They’ll come in addle headed even months later and say, “Well, I just can’t remember anything.” I just tell them, “Well, if you can remember you don’t remember, you’re probably very saveable.” And I’m not trying to be a smart aleck, but I was trying to make them laugh. That’s really pretty common. After I had a lot of dental work done, my mind didn’t function quite as well, but we knew to increase my body’s ability to detoxify by taking a whole lot of the different things that I hope I’ll get around to mentioning in a minute. But even at that, my dentist, I’d flinch, and she says, “That hurt?” I said, “Eh, just keep going. It’s fine.” She says, “Nope, I’m not gonna hurt you.” I said, “Well, give me another shot of it.” She said, “I’ve given you enough to kill an elephant. I can’t do any more than that.” I said, “Well, it’s because my liver detoxifies a lot faster than everybody else.”

Some of the things, just in general, to help you detox, chlorella especially the cracked cell. Niacin, but I’m not a huge fan of niacin even though we sell it here, especially if you haven’t had your liver enzymes checked, I don’t suggest niacin even thought that can lower your cholesterol. Drinking lots of water, which we prefer reverse osmosis. The NAC that we talked about, n-acetyl cysteine. Sleeping, most people are sleep deprived. Increasing the bowel movements. And far infrared sauna is an absolutely incredible thing to do. Lipoic acid, alpha lipoic and R lipoic. Vitamin C. We have several different types including liposomal. Upping your vitamin D levels and enzymes. Not just digestive enzymes, which are important, and not just probiotics, which are incredibly important, but systemic enzymes. And that’s the sibbzymes also that Janet gives me. Maggie, there’s your answer again, I hope, for your issue.

Just keep trucking. It’s more important to have a good attitude and having faith than just throwing the things in. And be happy. There was a study the other say said the people that live the longest were the ones that talked to the most people. And I said, “Well, geez. I’ll probably live forever.” The people that were happy and found joy in the small things and quit talking negatively about everything that comes along. And you know. You’ve been around some people like that. We call them energy sucks or energy vampires. If people are that way and they’re constant, run like hell. Get away from them.

Okay. There you have it.

Well, I mean, that’s detoxing is getting rid of toxic relationships. I got rid of one of those once.u

I thought of a different product as well while you were talking about all those-

My toxic relationship I got rid of, and my allergies and headaches, and the pain in the rear went away.

Well, this one’s in a bottle.

Well, I resorted to that when I was in that relationship. It didn’t work.

How we quickly deteriorate around here.

She loves it. You know she does.

You were mentioning now … See, I don’t even know what you said. You were mentioning different ingredients like zinc and NAC and selenium and chlorella, cilantro, that sort of thing to help detoxify. There’s a product that we have that has all of that in there. If you’re writing all this down and you’re going, “He just named off a whole bunch of things and what am I supposed to do, swallow all of this?” But there’s a product called HM Complex that we use for detoxification, and it’s really great at heavy metal detoxification.

Or you can just come by the house. Janet puts a lot of cilantro in her guacamole.

And that’s all I ever make. It’s just guacamole, so I hope you’re not very hungry.

But that is something I actually take every night because it does pull off those nasty toxins like from chemicals and …

The heavy metal. Cilantro’s famous for attaching to that.

It just make you sleep better because you’re not so toxic.

I’ll tell you how powerful it is. I’ve got a daughter that says she can’t eat tuna fish, and it was because of the heavy metals in tuna fish. I’d give her a couple of capsules of cilantro, and I said, “Here, take these and then eat tuna fish.” She didn’t break out at all because the cilantro would help to absorb the mercury.

Hmm. I guess the Hispanics probably really don’t have that much toxic stuff because they eat a lot of cilantro.

Yeah, and then they take a nap in the middle of the afternoon, so sleep’s also a very good thing, too. And then they have something called [spanish 00:25:28]. So, that’s a good thing. If you don’t speak Spanish, don’t worry about it.

He doesn’t really either. No worries there.

Anyway, we have another question.

Sorry folks.

We had a listener that wanted to find out about the lab panels again because I guess I didn’t explain it very well when I explained it in the last podcast about how to order, and we’re talking about all these different things you can do. We don’t like guessing, so if you’re new to the show and you don’t really know what we do, basically we run very low cost lab work, and we run it across the United States so that we’re not guessing at what’s going on with your health. That being said, it is on our website, and we had one person that saw the lab panels on the website, and then they showed up at the Quest location without a lab order. Quest will not draw the lab unless you have purchased the lab first. We have the special pricing online, so you’ll need to pick out a panel and then you want one of the ones that have the GWH in them and pay for it and then print the order out and carry it into your local Quest location, because that’s a contract that Dr. Lewis has with Quest. It’s not a contract that just anybody can walk in and get that special price.

The panel that we’re recommending today for those of you that are just trying to find out if your toxic and just wanna see some basic numbers, which we always look at your CBC to see if you’ve got any kind of viruses going on, if everything looks okay there, if you’ve got any kind of yeast parasitic activity-

White blood cell count goes down, which we see all the time, so low immune system. If it’s yeast, then your eosinophils will go up. We look at these things.

You’d be very toxic from that. And also a metabolic panel because-

Liver enzymes.

Right. And anytime you have those involved then it usually suppresses thyroid function like Dr. Lewis was talking about. So, today we’re recommending our basic health check with Dr. Lewis’ consultation to go over it. It’s $138, so you really can’t beat that because that is actually six different panels of lab, and then you’re not guessing anymore at what’s going on with your health.

To answer the question, make sure you buy it first before you show up at the lab.

Or call us if you’re confused about what you really want. You do have a lot of different options.

And the last question we have is from Eddie, and we’ll make this quick because we’re running out of time, but he’s wanting to know what would be good to take for joints like knees, wrists and support repair. And we’re pretty excited about this product because we’ve had a lot of people waiting for it for a long time, and it’s just now here.

Yeah, it’s called Collagen, and it helps to generate collagen. And we’ve used collagen and hyaluronic acid before with great, great success, but this is a much more advanced, much more absorbable one where it has collagen hydrolysate, and then it has hyaluronic acid extract.

And it has the type one and two.

And the mucopolysaccharides, which that helps with ligaments, fascial tissue. Ladies, that would mean kind of keep the wrinkles away and maybe make them less deep, the ones you have. That’s very, very possible. But the mucopolysaccharides are actually the glue that holds all that together, has some stretch and flex and bend and maintain their resilience, which means less wrinkles.

So, in Eddy’s case he’s looking for joints, knees and wrists in his support repair. The type two is what he would need for that, so you’re actually getting to look younger, and you’re actually getting of pain, so it’s a one stop product for both things.

Yeah, and Johnathan, you can be like me, 63 that feels 36. You really can achieve that. You just have to put the work in. It’s worth it.

And it is a powder, so you just put a scoop of it in your drink and just enjoy, and then you’ll be young, rich, and can move around really, really great.

Is there anything else you want to talk to us briefly about detoxification before we go?

Yeah. The best way to get started is find somebody that knows something about it and follow their lead. It’s easier to do it under the authority of somebody who knows what they’re talking about than just bumbling around and trying it yourself and making too many mistakes. Go where you heart leads you, and we hope you’ve learned something. God bless you, and we’ll see you next week.

And if you find someone else that might need to know about this podcast, please share it with them. Take care.

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Hormones, Thyroid and Prostate Oh My!

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Janet Lewis:	Hello, and welcome to this week’s fun and educational show. I am Janet Lewis.
Dr. Lewis:	And just because I said something about exciting, she won’t say that anymore, so men, there is a time to keep your mouth shut, and that’s usually most of the time.
Janet Lewis:	Oh, we have had such a response from you guys. We are Green Wisdom Heath, by the way. Home of the low cost lab work, in case you’re wondering who we are, coming to you, talking to you. We are here to educate you about your health, and many of you have many questions about your health, and that’s where I was going with this.
	We want to thank everyone for asking all these questions about their health, because it’s prompted Dr. Lewis to read more, which he already does anyway.
Dr. Lewis:	I’ve got bags under my eyes. I think that’s a hormonal issue. I hope my prostate’s not as swollen as my eyes.
Janet Lewis:	We literally … You should see his desk. There must be 10 books open, that’s sitting around, with tons of Postie notes in every one of them. I can’t keep him in Postie notes, because he marks every page like we do in the Bible, where we’re highlighting everything. He does that with his health books.
	This week’s show is going to be fun and entertaining, because we are going to talk about hormones. Men and women’s, because we’ve actually had men asking about theirs, as well. It’s not just for you ladies. We’re going to talk about the thyroid connection to these hormones, and we’re going to discuss swollen prostates, because I know that all fits together.
	Anyway, Dr. Lewis, do you want to start us off with what you’d like people to know, and then we will make sure we get to everyone’s question that they’ve asked, and try to come up with a very educated answer for you.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, you know, I’m just going to give an overview of the questions. We’ll get more into them. Alice said, “How about how hormones and thyroid are related?” Then there’s one I just really, really wanted to get to. Sherry says, “Thyroid, menopause and weight loss.” That’s when a man should shut up and not say anything. Tricia, oh god bless you. You’re the funniest thing on the face of the earth. “Why do some people stink when they sweat and others don’t?” Thanks, Tricia.
Janet Lewis:	I don’t know where that fits into our hormone thing, but we’ll [crosstalk 00:02:21].
Dr. Lewis:	No, I’ve got an answer to that. On the Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis, we’re trying to invite all of you to join.
Janet Lewis:	On Facebook, if you don’t know what he’s talking about. He does have a closed Facebook group, called Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis, so if you’d like to get in on these questions, and ask them also-
Dr. Lewis:	Aks them?
Janet Lewis:	I know, I already …
Dr. Lewis:	Lizzie Borden. Okay. Aks them.
Janet Lewis:	You can ask questions on there, and we will address them in the following week’s podcast.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, and like I said earlier, on previous podcasts, I don’t normally talk this fast, but I have to try and get this in. So when Tricia asked that, about stinking, I said, “You’ve gone from preaching to getting personal, there, Tricia.”
	Here’s one from Jonathon, he’s hilarious. He said, “I know you said, ‘For the ladies’ on this one, but here’s a title for the prostate podcast: Enlarged prostate, gotta go, can’t wait.” Thanks, Jonathon, that’s cute.
Janet Lewis:	It might work for women too, some of those, not just a man’s prostate that has that issue sometimes.
Dr. Lewis:	And Kelly wants to know about PCOS, which I’m going to get briefly into, because that could be a long, long show.
Janet Lewis:	So kind of tell us what’s going on with the hormone situation. Why are we having so many hormonal issues? I know, back in the day, you did not see all of these places around town that were offering pellets and creams and things. That just wasn’t an issue, and now it’s all over the place. What exactly is causing it? What can we do about it? Is there a healthy alternative? Where do we go?
Dr. Lewis:	Well, it’s the plastics and phthalates that I talk about that mimic estrogen. You have to … and I hear this every day … “But I eat good.” No you don’t. You might eat better than the rest of the population, but you cannot eat good, because even organic’s not as nutrient-dense enough to have enough nutrition for your body to detoxify. Yeah, try to eat better, but …
Janet Lewis:	Basically, is having a thyroid issue an indicator … or how do you know you have a thyroid issue, I guess. A, when the doctor tells you don’t, then you know something’s not right. How is that related to the rest of the hormones? Is there a tie between those two?
Dr. Lewis:	I’ve said this about the liver, but it’s probably a little bit more true about the thyroid. If mamma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy, and the thyroid is getting bombarded with bromine, fluorine, and chlorine, which takes the place of iodine. I think it’s controversial if you have Hashimoto’s. Estrogen dominance, though, makes you go into a progesterone deficiency, and we see that about 99 times out of 100. I try to get most women to, at least once, test their hormones, even if they don’t have any kind of signs and symptoms of a hormonal imbalance.
	Men, we have just added a new panel for an expanded lab panel. And it’s Dr. Lewis’s Low T panel, or I think that’s what we’re going to name it, that’s going to even test your estrogen … or estradiol and progesterone, which is really, really important.
	But the symptoms of a low thyroid, which is the majority of the thyroid problems, and I won’t go through all of them, because it’s way too long, can be migraine, muscle pain, your husband doesn’t look good to you anymore, and reduced ability to sweat, Tricia. So if you’re sweating, you’re thyroid’s probably doing better. Hair loss, or thinning on the head, and that can male or female. We’re getting some pretty good results now with people that are sticking with it, and getting more, better, thicker hair. Constipation, depression, disturbed sleep patterns. It has a lot to do with the difficulty or inability to lose weight. Infertility and heavy menstrual flow. That’s where I was trying to go, because it does mess with other hormones, and I’m trying not to go down the rabbit trail for Dr. Amanda. She’s cute. She comes over here and picks on me. I’ve gone down the rabbit trail, Janet. Get me up. I’ve got too much to talk about.
Janet Lewis:	Okay. Well, I think we need to explain to the audience, and people that are new listening, when you talk about the thyroid, are you talking about a TSH, is that what you’re referring to, as far as … Is that on a lab? Is that something they’re seeing? Can you explain a little bit about what is different about the way you look at a thyroid, versus the way the doctors look at it. And for the people out there that have lost hope, and they are looking … and they know they don’t feel good, and they’re overweight, and their hair is falling out, and they’ve got thin eyebrows.
Dr. Lewis:	And not a thin waist.
Janet Lewis:	Yes.
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, I’m sorry. Was that wrong, guys?
Janet Lewis:	And irregular menstrual cycles, and that kind of thing. What are we looking for on lab? What are you running on lab, and what are looking for?
Dr. Lewis:	You don’t want to just rely on TSH, because that is just the signal from the pituitary and the brain. Normally, most of the time, if your thyroid’s working good, the TSH will go on the low end of the range, which usually is a .4 to a 4.5. You want it to be about a 1.5 or below, and that does vary, depending on the patient. Dependent on whether you’re on thyroid meds. The main thing is free T3, although we like to look for T4. It needs to be in the middle to high range, and then we can help T4 convert to T3. But you kind of want to look at al of it as a big picture. I like T3 Uptake, because usually the higher it is, the better, and usually the lower it is, the more estrogen dominant … or you’re on birth control pills that’s causing some of that. Hormone replacement therapy.
	I’m not against anything the medical profession does, because I think they do a really good job in a lot of areas, but why are we not helping … That’s another thing, it just agitates me. People say, “But I research on Google.” And I roll my eyes and say, “Oh, okay. This one’s not going to get well.” I just talked to a sweet lady that’s my age, and she says, “Yeah, my daughter thinks she’s in control, and she’s driving me and my husband nuts. And he doesn’t go want to go and get his cancer treatment just because she’s pushing him.” Well, Google can get you so full of information, but not understanding, so please be careful. I suggest you go to somebody that you can trust for some of these answers, and let them have the final say. But you have to have that gut feeling of trust.
	Just to talk about women’s hormones, in general. And I know I’ve read entire books about how estrogen will make you young, rich, and good looking, and make you feel better, and I understand that. If you and your doctor decides to do that, that’s great. But you’ve got to understand that estrogen supplementation increases your risk for breast cancer, heart disease, and other health problems.
Janet Lewis:	And what is the first thing they give women that are going through menopause, is estrogen, because it makes them feel great.
Dr. Lewis:	For a little while.
Janet Lewis:	And it does. And we see it on lab, because they’ll come in here and it’s like, well their estrogen’s nothing, and then they’ll go get a hormone replacement therapy, and they come in and they go, “Oh my gosh! I feel so good. It’s like I’m back again.” I’m like, “Okay.” About three months into it, they come back again and say, “You know, I don’t know if I’m going to take that next round. I’ve had two rounds of the pellets now, and I’m beginning to think that they’re not working as well as they did the first time.”
Dr. Lewis:	We see women with more testosterone than I have.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, and so we run their lab again, and they’re at an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. They’ve begun to gain weight, which is a big no-no for women. That is what we do not want.

Janet Lewis:	We can feel horrible and be thin, but we do not want to be happy and fat.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, men should never say anything about that. You’ll get your head chewed off.
Janet Lewis:	That’s right.
Dr. Lewis:	Ouch.
Janet Lewis:	And it just … And they’ve still got the problem, so it’s not that … You’re not making those hormones anymore, so the best thing that we give people for that, is to try to get them to … We try to bring out what they have left, and we supplement with natural compounds. We always stay away from estrogen. The only time we ever use an estrogen product, we have something called an E3 cream, that’s the lowest dose possible.
Dr. Lewis:	That’s for you that have dry, painful intercourse.
Janet Lewis:	That’s right.
Dr. Lewis:	Let’s cut to the chase.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, and it’s not for intercourse, it’s just to help start making that not so dry. But as you do more of our supplements, you actually don’t need that anymore, so that’s a short-term, temporary symptomatic fix. The things that we use for it, is things like DIM. The EstroDIM is a huge one, because it goes in and gobbles up all those bad estrogens, and it helps balance out the hormones.
	We have one for the menopausal symptoms now, that we’re really thrilled about. It’s called Femquil, F-E-M-Q-U-I-L.
Dr. Lewis:	We just got that, and it’s already a big hit.
Janet Lewis:	Yes. Women keep telling us, “Well, we have hot flashes.”, but it actually supports and balances the female hormone cycle. It eases symptoms associated with PMS and menopause, and it helps promote estrogen detoxification. That is an important one, because that’s the problem. It also provides antioxidant activity and cellular support. That’s something you can take without lab. You don’t have to have lab to do that. It’s just if you’re suffering from PMS or any kind of female issues.
Dr. Lewis:	Men, wrap it in a red ribbon, put it in the middle of a bunch of chocolates.
Janet Lewis:	Are you saying it helps with sex drive? I guess that would come back if you had that balance. I’m sorry, I’m a little slow. I should get to the chase. Cut through the chase.
Dr. Lewis:	For the women, that may be from the thyroid, itself. Generally, it’s a progesterone deficiency, which is made, for the most part, in the ovaries, and somewhat in the adrenal glands. But if you have these dysfunctions like PMS and depression, decreased libido … Sorry, Janet, I had to put that in there … fibrocystic breast, food cravings, uterine fibroids, irregular and excessive bleeding, endometriosis.
	There was a question about PCOS, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. That’s usually a sugar handling problem, but there’s plenty, plenty, plenty of research that says that’s because you’re also full of the plastics and pesticides and phthalates that cause you to be less likely to handle sugar correctly. We tell you, get off sugar and simple carbs anyway.
Janet Lewis:	Pre-diabetic symptoms-
Dr. Lewis:	Yep.
Janet Lewis:	… is usually what that is. But usually when they have that, they also will have painful menstrual cycles. We actually have one for those girls out there too. I know we’re talking about menopause a lot, but there are a lot of young ladies out there listening, that have painful menstrual cycles, and it’s called Gabanol. It’s G-A-B-A-N-O-L. Because it helps promote muscle relaxation-
Dr. Lewis:	Say that three times fast.
Janet Lewis:	… and it eases … It helps alleviate exercise-related muscle pain.
Dr. Lewis:	And guys, it will make you look better, so put that in the package, surrounded with chocolates.
Janet Lewis:	Okay. Everything’s going with chocolate today, so …
Dr. Lewis:	I’m sorry.
Janet Lewis:	His is the woman in our relationship. He loves the chocolate, and I don’t, so it’s kind of funny.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, she’s a strange woman. That’s what makes her special.
Janet Lewis:	So anyway, make sure the thyroid’s balanced, because if it’s not, you’re going to have problems with all of those things that Dr. Lewis talked about. One of the first signs of having a thyroid imbalance is that you don’t go to the bathroom right. You don’t digest your food correctly, and that’s one of the very first things that we hear when someone gets their thyroid work, and they’re like, “Oh my goodness. I’m going to the bathroom more often than I ever have before.”, and it’s because-
Dr. Lewis:	Feels good, don’t it?
Janet Lewis:	Yes. Because the thyroid has sped up your metabolism and digestion.
Dr. Lewis:	Some of the brain fog went away, because you’re not swimming in your own excrement, and it’s flushed out, so think more clearly.
Janet Lewis:	Yep, so Alice B., we hope you’re enjoying this segment on the hormones and thyroid, and how it’s connected.
Dr. Lewis:	And you got to think about your hypothalamus and your adrenal glands, as well as your pituitary and thyroid. And we do have supplements for that too.
Janet Lewis:	And then the other question was from Sherry R. She wanted to know more about it was so hard to lose weight when they’re post-menopausal.
Dr. Lewis:	Because you’ve low testosterone, to start with. You’ve got bad digestion, bad gut, not enough probiotics, and low vitamin D. You’ve got parasites, which is almost always yeast. I tell people, “The parasites are not your teenagers.” I know it seems that way, but sometimes it’s something different.
Janet Lewis:	Basically, they’re craving more bad stuff because of yeast, virus, that type stuff that’s in the body, that takes over and craves it, and wants more of it. Is that correct?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah.
Janet Lewis:	One way to tell if you have some of that, we’re coming up here on the full moon. When you have the full moon come around, it seems that you crave more of that kind of stuff if you need to kill off parasitic.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. Agitation gets a little bit more acute. It’s like, if you feel agitated and squirmy and wormy … Oh, we’ve done that show. Never mind.
Janet Lewis:	And if you’re … and I’m not picking on it because it’s Texas, but here in Texas, we have a lot of Mexican food.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, I love it.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, and if it seems to be you’re wanting a bunch of that during the time of the full moon, it could be that you have a lot of yeast.
Dr. Lewis:	Feeding the parasitoes. I can’t speak Spanish, but I know cervaza. Does that count?
Janet Lewis:	Which also feeds yeast.
Dr. Lewis:	[foreign language 00:17:08] I got lost in Mexico. I told them, “I know chicken and beer. We’re good.”
Janet Lewis:	The things that Dr. Lewis was talking about, the probiotics actually kill the yeast back down. There’s something called Para-Shield that we use. There’s one called Candicid Forte, because you can take less pills of it, but those are good at detoxifying, they’re good at helping you not crave bad things. They’re good a weight loss, because you’re not eating the bad things.
	Yeah, weight loss is hard for being post-menopausal. A lot of it’s because you are estrogen dominant. I will tell you-
Dr. Lewis:	High estrogen … I’ve got to throw this in. High estrogen can mess up your thyroid, so is thyroid messing up your estrogen, or is it the other way? It can go both ways. Sorry, Janet.
Janet Lewis:	Well again, that goes back to the product I think every woman should be taking. Even a young woman should be taking, and it’s EstroDIM, because it’s going in there and unbinding all of the bad estrogens and helping you lose weight. It actually gets your shape back to the way it was when you were younger.
Dr. Lewis:	Men should take it too, because it would help decrease the propensity towards swollen prostate.
Janet Lewis:	If women can tell that their shirts are not fitting like they used to, through the back, like you’re thicker than what you used to be through the middle. Your hips are bigger than what they used to be, that’s an estrogen problem, because the body doesn’t know what to do with it, so it just stores it as fat. And those are safe places to put it.
Dr. Lewis:	And fat cells actually make estrogen, so the … I know fat’s an offensive word, so … Those men who are fluffier have lower testosterone, because you have fat cells that are actually creating estrogen, not just the estrogen receptor.
Janet Lewis:	DIM is a great thing for that, for young women. One way you can tell if you need it, is because of irregular menstrual cycles. And I know they’re giving you things now, to not have a menstrual cycle for seven months a year, or something. Oh lord, run. Just run from it, because it’s just making everything down the road harder for you, whenever you get older. You’re going to have all kinds of health problems because of that, because that’s not a normal thing, even though that’s a great idea for women at that age, but it actually does create a lot of the things we’re talking about. Down the road, that’s very hard to reverse, at that point.
	DIM, will actually go in there and make that be right again, so if you’re having painful menstrual cycles, and they’re coming too frequently, or not … you can’t count them on the month. When they don’t arrive within 28 days again, the next month, DIM is a big thing to help balance that back out. It’s also something great for women that are trying to conceive. If you’re having conception problems, that is another problem of estrogen being too high, and not balanced. Hopefully, you have learned something about balancing those.
	I’m going to let Dr. Lewis take this, because he just loves these questions that are different. And that did come from Tricia M. She wants to know why some people stink when they sweat, and others do not.
Dr. Lewis:	How close are you getting to their armpits, Tricia?
Janet Lewis:	Of course, that could be my colon story.
Dr. Lewis:	Well you know, there’s actually studies that said women found that men that ate vegetables smelled better than men that ate a lot of meat. Then I actually took a big seminar one time, that said vegans start stinking because that’s not really a healthy way to eat. I know I treat dozens and dozens and dozens of vegans. I’m not trying to be judgemental, but people that eat a lot of meat do stink.
	Part of it is, it’s what the bacteria do with what you’re sweating out, and the other part of it is, you may have the wrong bacteria there. Then there’s when you get afraid, very, very stressed, then sometimes that will tend to be more odor-filled.
	I think if you eat more vegetables, that’s going to alkalize the body, give you more minerals and it will stink less and less. If you’re healthy, you really won’t have that kind of body odor. Sometimes, it’s heavy metals. I can smell some people. Sometimes their breath, and it’ll be metallic. But you put them on a cleanse, after a while, it begins to … the odor changes.
	You can smell different things if you pay attention.
Janet Lewis:	The ones with the big bellies, they seem to smell a little bit more. Those big round bellies [inaudible 00:21:45], because they’re so full of …
Dr. Lewis:	They’re more yeasty.
Janet Lewis:	Well, they’re not eliminating like they should, so their belly’s just getting bigger and bigger. That all starts coming back through the skin. They need to make sure their colon is going every time they eat a meal.
Dr. Lewis:	Same thing with the breath, though. If you have bad breath, that’s partially the probiotics that are lacking in the mouth, which is the salivarius strains, which is lactobacillus salivarius, or streptococcus salivarius. You can re-inoculate that. We do that a lot.
Janet Lewis:	Okay. Now the men have been waiting very patiently to hear about prostate health, so thank you men for going through this whole show and listening about women again.
Dr. Lewis:	We have not been patient, because as Jonathon said, “Enlarged prostate, gotta go, can’t wait.”
Janet Lewis:	Exactly.
Dr. Lewis:	I like that. Jonathon, you’re awesome.
Janet Lewis:	We’ve got questions from Jonathon, that wants to know about it also, because he says he’s on Flomax, and an enlarged prostate. He’s having severe congestion as a side effect. Do we have any alternatives to this medicine, and can you tell us what’s going on with the prostate?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, we have a natural Aromatase inhibitors, and that is normally … In America, we use a lot of Saw Palmetto, and is a difference in the quality of some of the Saw Palmetto you get, and that’s a really good thing. But that’s a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor. Then you want something that has stinging nettles root, which is really, really good, and you’ve got to understand that when I’m talking about prostate, these things also help you unbind the testosterone you have. Say if you have a 400 testosterone, you only have 50 of it unbound, that’s all you can use is 50. It helps unbind it too.
Janet Lewis:	Stinging nettles is really good. We have it by itself as nettles, also, and it’s really great for women’s urinary tract things too. Not just for men, so that’s …
Dr. Lewis:	And then Pygeum bark extract. That really comes from Africa. A lot of these better companies will source it from all over the world, and get the better stuff. The natives actually use this to support urinary tract health, and that has something to do with Lipoxygenase enzyme. Some of this stuff is … I tell people, “I am not a biochemist. Don’t want to be. Don’t like chemistry.”
	I was on a podcast yesterday with a pharmacist, and she was asking me chemistry. And I said, “Oh good lord, you know more about chemistry than I do, but here’s the short answer.”, and she was like, “Oh my god.” So we have that, and then formula should always contain zinc, selenium, and copper. That’s really good for prostate, but also good for being anti-cancer and immune system boosting too. Almost nobody gets enough of these, and these minerals are being displaced by cadmium, mercury, aluminum, lead, that kind of thing.
Janet Lewis:	What’s the name of that product again? That you were talking about, that had all of that in it?
Dr. Lewis:	I’ve got memory pills, but I don’t remember to take it. It’s Prostatrol Forte. Folks, prostate doesn’t not have two R’s in it. It’s prostate. Protatrol Forte, that’s what I take. It says one a day, I take two. But you know, by taking two, I don’t have to get up in the middle of the night to go tinkle. And that’s worth a lot. A little extra deeper sleep.
Janet Lewis:	And the EstroDIM also helps that, as well, correct?
Dr. Lewis:	Every man should take that, but the Prostatrol Forte also helps with testosterone, and unbinding testosterone. That’s really a smart thing to do. I’m going to get off this in just a second, but if you started to gain weight and problems urinating, but men, if you have breast enlargement, you’ve created what you’ve been thinking about all these years, I think. But no, if you have breast enlargement, the man boobs … Janet just shook her head like, “I can’t believe you said that.”
Janet Lewis:	Yes, I can’t believe he says that.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, hey. I’m having a good day. I’m thinking about chocolates.
Janet Lewis:	Maybe you have man boobs too.
Dr. Lewis:	Mine are pretty good. I look pretty good for 168, 170 pounds.
	Yeah, that’s an estrogen thing, so yeah, get on this Prostatrol Forte. It’s really a good thing. But that’s what I take, and I can take anything.
Janet Lewis:	If you’re wondering, “Hey, I don’t know if I have problems with all this. I don’t know if the thyroid’s right. I don’t know what’s going on. I only know what my doctor told me is going on, and many times that lab was not very thorough.”, we do offer low cost lab work for those of you that do not know what we do, which I can’t believe you don’t by now. The new listener’s out there, I would tell you if you’re going to find out what’s happening, the best thing to do with the hormones and everything we discussed today, you need to see what your hormones are doing.
	Probably the best panel that we have for that is our Comprehensive Plus Female Hormone. We’ve got that one, or the Comprehensive Plus Male Hormone. They are on our website. When you go on our website, you want to make sure that you pick the ones that start with GWH, and the one for female is GWH1, and the one for male is GWH2. The reason for that, is that it includes Dr. Lewis’s very thorough consultation with you. He actually calls you and talks to you, and tells you what’s happening with your lab. Now we offer Zoom, where you can see him in person.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, you can see my mustache.
Janet Lewis:	Whichever way you like to have it. If you would like to look at him, and it’s like you’re virtually sitting in the room with him. We offer that, as well. That comes with it. We give you a functional medicine report, and we give you a recommended supplement sheet of what he is suggesting to take to help correct the problems, because with our supplements, it’s not like going down the road and just buying them in a store of something we’ve mentioned. All of our supplements are pharmaceutical grade, which means they’re actually three to five times stronger-
Dr. Lewis:	And more absorbable.
Janet Lewis:	… and pure and absorbable than what you’re buying over the counter. There is a difference. Those of you that are going, “Blah, blah, blah. No, there’s not.”, yes there is, because we see it on lab. Because we see people that try to take what we’ve given them, and they buy the cheapo stuff. And they say, “I’ve been doing just what you said.”, and I said-
Dr. Lewis:	Didn’t work.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah. It’s not moving your lab numbers. You can keep taking it all day long, but it’s actually not helping anything on your lab, so yes, there is a difference.
Dr. Lewis:	I’d like to make a quick mention. When Jonathon finished his question, he said, “I really appreciate all that you do. Thank you.”, and I just talked to a lady up in Oregon that was actually referred out of Texas from Wilson, is the one that referred this lady. Share the podcast, because the more you help other people get well, the more God’s going to bless you with better health. And let’s take this tense nation, and make it into something that’s healthy and happy and have a good time, because now … I’m so sorry, but I’ve gotten so busy, I’ve decided … You know, you’ve got weeds and flowers. And if you’re a weed, and a pain in the butt, I spend my time with flowers. So thank you Jonathon for voicing your appreciation.
Janet Lewis:	Really. Thank you for blooming.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. And then you’ve got people like Louis. He just keeps ordering. I never talk to him, so Louis, you know who you are, I think you’re out of Indiana, call me. I miss you. The more joy you give, the more joy and health you’re going to get back. Let’s try to be the difference that we want to see in America.
Janet Lewis:	I like that. And on that note, we are going to wish you well for another week. And like I said, go to Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis on Facebook. Send him a friend request. He will accept it. And then you can start getting in on the conversations too. You guys have a blessed week.

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Hormones, Thyroid, Prostate …Oh My! The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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What is the connection between the thyroid and hormones?

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Men’s Prostate Health: Help with enlarged prostate

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Women’s Menstrual Support:

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Men’s Panel with Hormones:

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Posted on February 25, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

MTHFR, You cursing me?

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Janet Lewis:	Hello, and welcome to this week’s show. I’m Janet Lewis.
Dr. Lewis:	And I’m Dr. Lewis.
Janet Lewis:	And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low cost lab work, here to bring you another very educational show about, this week, MTHFR, which, if some of you are wondering, no, we’re not cursing you. We want to educate you a little bit about what MTHFR is, what you can do about it if you have it, and what is that? Because is that a disease, or what’s going on? So, Dr. Lewis, can you explain a little bit about MTHFR? I know it’s an enzyme that adds a methyl group to folic acid to make it usable by the body. But much of that is Greek to many of us out there. So, could you enlighten us with what the real deal is with it?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, and I’d like to thank Katie for asking on Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis. If you’re listening and you’re not a member please go ahead and join because it’s, I’ve been told, pretty informational, a good way to pass information back and forth. Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis.
	And Katie asked about 5MTHFR. And Katie’s the sister of Fran. Hi Fran. Yeah, at least half of us have that genetic SNP, and SNP stands for S-N-P, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism. And we can have it to different degrees. It’s on one of the genes called 677, and then there’s another one 1298. And you can a double SNP or a single SNP. And I have a single, it’s not one of the worst ones, but I had read enough to figure out I had it, based on me and my family history.
	So, me being who I am, almost perfect to genetic, but I started out … This is a man thing. If a little bit’s good, more is better. So I started on the most powerful one we have, which … And I tell this story to a lot of people and I tell it the same. I said I felt terrible for five days but I don’t lose faith. So if you have a bad day keep on doing the right thing, for God’s sake don’t bail out.
	So I felt bad for five days. And on the sixth day it was like Jesus parted the clouds and angels started singing. And Janet can tell you the very day I don’t take that one capsule, and that takes care of the 5MTHFR problem that I have, which stands for Methyl Tetra Hydra Folate Reductase. Used to be easier to say that than just the initials.
	We’re going to talk about a lot of things, and as it-
Janet Lewis:	Well, wait. How does someone know whether they have it or not? How do they find that out?
Dr. Lewis:	We can do the lab test, and you can get it on 23andMe, which will tell you a lot of other things, and that’s the way Janet and I did it. I’d already figured that most things out, that 23andMe had told me. They said I’m a slow metabolizer of alcohol, and it’s like, “Well, duh.” Five Miller Lites when I was 19 years old. I figured out real quick I didn’t metabolize alcohol real quick, I never have been a big drinker anyway.
	And it said I had the tendency towards dementia, and it’s like, “Well, duh.” You look at my mama, you can tell that. Although we did put it off about 25 years and made her mental acuity much, much better. You could see it in her in her 60s. And when I say we, it’s me and my brother, Dr. James Lewis, and then Janet came along. And Janet has a way of convincing people in a sweet way to do the right thing. And my mother would do anything for Janet, because I told her, I said, “Well, I finally got a wife like my daddy had.” So my mama loved Janet after that.
	So mama took a lot of stuff, and dementia didn’t really get her until she got … You could see it pretty bad in ’88. And it really started kicking her but about ’92 or so.
Janet Lewis:	It’s interesting that you mention a slow metabolizer of alcohol because actually that’s one of the underlying gene mutations like the MTHFR.
Dr. Lewis:	Janet just thought I was cheap.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, it’s actually lingering fatigue, fogginess, anxiety, sleep issues, and an inability to deal with alcohol and other toxins, effectively, can be a result of that gene mutations.
Dr. Lewis:	Those are bad drunks, I’m a sweet drunk. And it only takes one or two. Two is kind of an overload for me.
Janet Lewis:	Apparently stress has a compounding factor with it as well.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, stress is one of those words that means so much, it means almost nothing. But some of these methylation defects can contribute to or cause diabetes. How many people are diabetic? And that’s reversible about 95% of the time. It contributes or causes fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, like Janet mentioned fatigue, cancer. How many people know you have that genetic predisposition but don’t do anything about it. I hope you listen to our previous podcast about that. Addictive behavior including alcoholism. And I’d like sometime to get into the mental health issue, because I think that’s one of the things that’s not being talked about in some of these bad things that are happening in the country.
	This methylation problem can cause autism, or contribute to autism or Down Syndrome, frequent miscarriages, bipolar or manic depression. Y’all hang on to that because if I do get into the mental health issue, remember this can be causing bipolar or manic depression. Allergies, chemical sensitivities. How many people walk down the cleaning aisle of the grocery store and the chemical smell just drives you out of the store? It can cause autoimmune disorders. And I tell you folks, we’re getting more and more autoimmune disorders by the day.
	And we do have a new product that Janet and I are just incredibly excite about that helps deal with it, and we have just started it, we being Janet and me, because we have to experiment, we don’t sell anything we don’t know in our heart is a good things. And it’s called SBI Protect, and it’s a bovine source of the immunoglobulin. And you have to, with that, increase mucosal immunity, and you have to reset the immune system tolerance.
Janet Lewis:	It’s for people with leaky gut, right?
Dr. Lewis:	Right. Because 80% of our immune system’s in our gut. So the mucosal immunity is one of the big factors in determining your immune system’s health and your body’s ability to function at a higher level.
Janet Lewis:	I’m pretty excited about it because I have that problem, I have leaky gut problems, and people have Crohn’s and that kind of thing, too, there’s a huge product for.
Dr. Lewis:	IBS, celiac.
Janet Lewis:	Apparently, our rep for Ortho Molecular talked to us about it and he said this used to be a $400 per month drug that they gave these people for leaky gut and it really did help. But because it had gone to $400 per month they decided to let the patent go on it and not make it a drug anymore. So Ortho Molecular bought the rights to make it into the natural product that originally starts out anyway as.
	It now, at a, I think it’s $70 or something like that, something around that price, a bottle.
Dr. Lewis:	So we’re having some incredible success with the people that said, “I don’t want to wait for you to experiment I want on it now.” And they’re coming back saying, “Oh my God, I hadn’t felt the peace of God, and my guts don’t hurt.” And we’re just hearing … Because some people don’t want to wait for Janet and me to experiment, they’re jumping on it with us, they’re willing to take the chance. We’re getting some incredible feedback for those that have IBS, etc., gut problems.
Janet Lewis:	And keep in mind, it can take up to two months to make a difference in the gut to heal it if you’re really, really bad. So don’t take a couple scoops of it and you’re going to be one of those people that have that great reaction. But some people just take a little bit longer.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, part of it’s your faith too. Janet feels things quicker. Yeah, you get your peak healing at one to two months. Janet’s absolutely right.
Janet Lewis:	I can tell you that it does change bowel motility.
Dr. Lewis:	In a good way.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, it’s a good way to say it. They say the people that have irritable bowel and they’re going … I think the test was done with these people with this product where they were going to 16 times a day.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, if you’re pooping 16 times a day you need 5 scoops.
Janet Lewis:	Right.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, it’s five milligrams. And anyway, you can go down when your bowel motility slows down. Janet’s laughing. I think I said something that’s … I’m always putting my boot in my mouth.
	Immunoglobulins are very, very important, and we’ve known about them for over 100 years. There’s all kinds of immunological studies and Nobel Prizes given for people over 100 years ago that discovered this, and colostrum back in the 1990s. Colostrum’s still a really good thing. We have to get our colostrum out of New Zealand because they’re happier, leaner cows. But we’ve actually gone beyond the efficacy of colostrum. So if you want a healthy body and your kids or grandkids have issues, this is an easy thing to get into a finicky kid’s diet.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, so can you relate that now back to MTHFR, how that has something to do with the gut health and the MTHFR gene?
Dr. Lewis:	Oh my God, she’s going to tie my thoughts together.
Janet Lewis:	I’m trying.
Dr. Lewis:	Just talked to a sweet lady, Toya, in California. And she said she loved our interview with Drew Manning. And I said, “Well, that’s the one that this other lady says, ‘I didn’t go down the rabbit hole.'” I stay in a rabbit hole or down the rabbit tracks. That’s kind of normal for me.
Janet Lewis:	Well he gets very excited about things, and so his thoughts run randomly. But he does have a method to his madness over there and going to put it all together for you.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. A friend of mine years ago put it real well. He said, “I don’t shoot a pump shotgun because I get so excited I forget to pump the action and miss all the birds.” So, yeah, gut health is very, very, many times, at least half the time, probably a lot more, connected to the MTHFR problem. And some of the things that it can also cause is dementia and Alzheimer’s. Well, okay, 23andMe said I have that tendency, but you know if you listened to the last podcast, thank you Debbie Terri, for telling me how much she enjoyed it. She’s kind of a crazy girl from Midland, grew up together.
	I don’t know where I was going with that because I get dementia and Alzheimer’s. But it can also cause schizophrenia and anxiety. Y’all pay attention to that, we’re trying to lead into mental health, and that is very, very, very connected to the GI tract.
	Janet’s a real sweet lady. She buys me dozens and dozens and dozens of books. And one of my favorites is about the GI tract being the second brain from Dr. Gershorn, it’s actually a lot more technical than I thought it was going to be, so I really kind of enjoyed that. But you have to get the gut healthy to have a healthy mind. Some of the things that interfere with your methylation pathway if you don’t have enough zinc, which is all of us, B2, which is riboflavin, magnesium, B6, B12, which is the good ones, methylcobalamin. People say, “But I’ve got a really good product.” Well, if it’s got methylcobalamin, okay good. If it’s got cyanocobalamin they’re lying to you and you fell for their hype, because cyanocobalamin is not very convertible and it has to be done in the liver. And you can take heavy, heavy doses of cyanocobalamin and still have a B12 deficiency. So people say, “Oh, well this company says they’re the best.” Yeah, look at what they’re putting in it. If it’s cyanocobalamin and magnesium oxide run for the hills, it’s not that good.
	Then there’s folate. Now folate is what this MTHFR is about, methyl tetra hydra folic acid. You have to have a specific kind. If you have that genetic snip and that specific type is MTHFR and the folic acid, we found a new one too, because I read about something called folinic acid that feeds the HIPPA campus of the brain. And Janet gives me lots of stuff to support my heart and the brain. She says, “We need your big brain,” which is not true, but she’s just humoring me. This folinic acid is coupled with TMG, which is tri-methyl glycine, which is a methyl donor, so it helps you methylate. And I swear my memory got really, really good. I can remember codes from our condo in Branson from months ago, I can remember our room con … What do you call it? I can’t remember that. The number they give you to confirm that you have a room rented.
Janet Lewis:	The confirmation number?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. The confirmation. I’m going down another rabbit hole. I can remember some of those from several months ago, and it’s like this folinic acid with TMG, oh my God, I can’t believe it. And I do take a lot of the 5MTHFR, too. But one of the things that can contribute to this problem is poor diet. Well, we all have a poor diet, poor probiotic status, because that does not allow your GI tract to function as effectively as it can.
	Remember back, if y’all listen to any of our podcasts, you remember me saying that there’s certain species of lactobacillus that decreases your anxiety response and the bifidobacterium that increases your gaba, your serotonin. So the lactobacillus and the bifidobacterium are very, very critical, and it takes a very serious effort to get that into your GI tract because you’re just putting one or two capsules a day, but it’s into …
	It’s hard for a small army to overwhelm what it is going into, into the GI tract. So that’s why this SBI protect is real important because it tightens the junctions of a leaky gut so that you don’t get those pathogens, those antigens, that go through that gut mucosal lining and create more of an autoimmune system.
	Medications actually strip you of a lot of the vitamins and minerals that you don’t have enough of anyway. The conditions, like Crohn’s or Celiac, that lowers a lot of your nutrition too.
	So one of the other things is heavy metals and chemical sensitivities. And Joe from Saline, Michigan asked about heavy metals and mercury in your mouth, and I try not to get into that, it’s real controversial, but I did tell you I had those taken out of my mouth because they were in fillings. And if you smoke you’re getting tons of cadmium. We’re full of aluminum, which can create Alzheimer’s or major contributing factor, too high copper, believe it or not, arsonic. “Well my wife doesn’t give me arsonic.” Well if she’s giving you chicken she’s giving you arsonic. If it’s not organic, you’re getting arsonic like crazy. So don’t think you’re immune to this. Acetaldehyde, which is caused by candida actually, but you get the formaldehyde from your carpets, outgassing from your linoleum and things like that.
	I want to talk a little bit about the supplements that can be good, but you have to understand people. I hear this term all the time, brain fog. Well, if you get a hangover, that can be yeast overgrowth, which can go to] health, which is 5MTHFR problem. Or it can be the alcohol intolerance. And it could be that it’s just yeast, or it could be that it’s the methylation problem, migraines, depression, anxiety, irritability. There’s just tons and tons of those things.
	So, for a minute, I’d like to talk about some of the supplements that I think everybody should be taking because you don’t get it out of the diet, I don’t care how good your diet is. So let’s talk about B1, and that’s thymine. And most of the time I put them on benfotiamine, which is generally more effective that thymine because it helps control damage from diabetes, it helps with the brain fog if that’s an overload of yeast. Candida, they have the ability to offset your body’s ability to absorb it, and that’s a scary thing.
	So, if you have a deficiency in B1 or thymine you can have symptoms that can include gastrointestinal disturbances, so who knows where this comes from. Is it from the GI tract to the brain? The brain to the GI tract? Is it a nutrient deficiency? It can cause heart changes. It can cause irritability. It can cause labored breathing, loss of appetite. Well, that would be a good thing for most of us. Muscle atrophy. It can cause nervousness. Notice there’s a lot of mental issues going on here.
	There was a study I read one time about in a prison they gave all the prisoners a dose of B vitamin complex. Now, keep in mind it was probably a lower class, not the best, B vitamin complex. The violence in this bad, bad prison, it’s full of bad boys, violence was cut 50%. Now can you imagine if some of these things that’s going on today that’s horrible, what if these kids had good nutrition. Would their brain function better? Hey, all this research says it does.
Janet Lewis:	And we talk about all of these issues and getting tested. There’s also, if you have depression or, like Dr. Lewis said, any of those symptoms that he named off, there is a product that you can just take and see how it works, because it’s a very high amount of the folate and the B12.
Dr. Lewis:	The right kind of folate.
Janet Lewis:	Right. All in one pill. It’s a quatrofolic five methyl hydra folic acid.
Dr. Lewis:	Ohh, that’s sexy.
Janet Lewis:	Thank you. But you only have to take one pill of these, and you do it one in the morning and it really does make a difference for people that have this mutation. I’m also going to put on the website the testing if you’re interested in seeing which lab test to find out if you have that difficulty, because that’s really something you need to know because you’re more open to a whole lot more problems. But the product’s called Methyl CPG, it’s by Ortho Molecular. And I will put that in the show notes as well if you forget what I said. So that’s a great one.
Dr. Lewis:	That’s the one if felt bad for five days. I stuck with it and on the sixth day it’s like, “Oh my God.” Janet can tell you the day I don’t tell you, she can tell you.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah. And we’ve also promised a couple of people we’d answer some questions, because we do have our question and answer segment that is going on. One of them, because we’re still in the middle of this flu bug sick season and then coming up on allergy season, the question was from Krista R. “Sinus congestion and drainage, even after adding a humidifier. Is there a product that is great for sinus drainage?” So I’ll let Dr. Lewis answer that for us.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, especially if you’re clogged up, the Sinatrol has done an incredible job to open it up and be kind of … It kind of helps dissolve some of those things. It’s full of berberine, which is antiyeast, antifungal. And in the studies, if you read the real research, 96% of all sinus problems are fungal.
Janet Lewis:	I thought that was very interesting. So there’s things in Sinatrol that are big viral killers.
Dr. Lewis:	Berberine. And then it’s got the bromelain, which is from pineapple and it’s a really good enzyme for inflammation in general, and it’s got the tumeric root and it’s the good stuff, which is 95% curcumin, which we’ll get into in another show. Then it’s eleuthero root, which is a very good adaptogenic herb. And them thyme extract, which yeah that’s not just for flavoring things, it’s also very, very medicinal in its use. Then it’s got andrographis, which is adaptogenic herb. And then it has a pretty high dose of something called n-acetylcysteine, which is called Nac. Nac is a mucous thinner, but also it’s an incredible liver detoxifier, and it’s the precursor to glutathione. And glutathione is an incredible energy producer and immune system booster, and that’s why I tell people, “You better take care of your liver because the liver is like a woman, if the liver ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy.” Well, that’s kind of like a woman.
Janet Lewis:	1:00 to 3:00 folks, in the morning. If you’re awake, that’s the hours that it will try to repair. And if you’re just wide awake you’d better suspect mama ain’t happy.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, and people that have a drink, a small alcoholic drink, and then they get mean or depressed-
Janet Lewis:	An MTHFR problem.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, probably so. And it’s like I know people like that, and it’s like they’ve never even had their genetic testing, but it’s like, “God, you’re an idiot when you’re drunk, not that you’re much better when you’re sober.”
	But speaking of alcohol, there is one thing I want to tell you. There is a course given by a guy out of the U.K., it’s called The Truth About Alcohol by Lee Davy, D-A-V-Y. And if you’re interested in taking a course that’s different than Alcoholics Anonymous you might want to talk to Lee Davy. You can look him up on the internet. He’s easy to find.
Janet Lewis:	Okay, then we’ve got Katie L., wanted to know, while traveling, is there anything to keep the bugs away?
Dr. Lewis:	Well, I put a picture of the Shiner’s beer sign and said, “This is my flu shot.” And I got a lot of likes on that. Actually, I don’t think beer is good for sinuses or keeping the flu bug away, I was just teasing.
Janet Lewis:	There’s plenty kind of bugs when you’re traveling, you pick up stuff in the water or whatever.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, we take stuff.
Janet Lewis:	There’s a couple of things that I always take whenever we travel because you never know what you’re getting. One of them is ParaShield, because, believe it or not, parasites exist and sometimes in other places that you travel they exist a little bit more prevalent. So we take ParaShield to try to kill off anything. Olive Leaf Extract is also another great one. It’s got to have a high amount of Oliprin in it, and we carry a great one here if you’ve not ever heard of it.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, there’s good medical research on that one.
Janet Lewis:	That one’s a huge one for a natural antibiotic to carry along.
Dr. Lewis:	I didn’t get MRSA when I got the spider bite. And the surgeon sent another surgeon in and swabbed my spider bites, swabbed my nose, and they said, “You get that, and that’s called MRSA, that’s the flesh eating bacteria.” They said, “We don’t understand, you always get it from the spider bite. If you don’t get it from the spider bite you get it from the hospital.” And they said, “We don’t understand.” And I was giving literally a lecture at 3:00 to the nurses about olive leaf and the research that Upjohn did on it. And they said, “We don’t understand.” I said, “You don’t need to understand, that’s the problem in America, you think you have to understand it. All you have to do is put it in and have faith.” And we need to be a nation of doers not a nation of thinkers.
Janet Lewis:	And then the other product that I’d take along with us is N8, the probiotic, because I know it has it’s supposed to be refrigerated but many times I don’t do that whenever we’re traveling and it’s just fine.
Dr. Lewis:	It’s not that critical.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, it just shortens the shelf life down from four years to two, or something. So I figure I’m gonna take it during that time. But the thing with N8, either the 2014 or the 5014, it will help you with food poisoning, which is why we found it to start with. I actually had food poisoning and that’s how we came across that product.
Dr. Lewis:	She ate some really not so good Japanese food and she’ll never go back to that restaurant.
Janet Lewis:	We were in Mississippi at the time in a hotel, and I told Dr. Lewis, “Just leave me here, I’m going to die. Just come back at another day.”
Dr. Lewis:	You’re not dying in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Ain’t happening.
Janet Lewis:	And I did not know anything about N8 probiotic at that time. And after I could not get over it, which took me two or three weeks before we found this product. A sample was sent to me and I tried it and, oh my gosh, it was like every time I took it I felt better and better. So that’s one thing I am never without when we travel.
	Another question that came in is people keep hearing these shows and they don’t really know what we do. For those of you that don’t know what we do, basically we run low-cost lab work, and we run it across the United States. We have it drawn at a facility close to your home. It’s a special contract that we have, and it’s with Quest Diagnostics across the United States. But now some of you probably know that we do this because we have the lab panels on the website, which has been a huge blessing for everyone because they can look and see what they want.
	The problem is they don’t know what to pick, so one of the questions was, “What panel should we pick when we get started?” So, there’s a couple of ways you can do it. Our favorite is to have you fill out a health survey, and it actually will recommend to you, based on what you filled out, what panel is the best one for you. If you’re not comfortable with that Dr. Lewis actually reads every one of those surveys that come through, and he can make recommendations. And either he or I call you either one and tell you which one we recommend. The safe one, if you don’t want to talk to us, which I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to do that, but some people don’t want to talk to us, they would rather just do it their selves and order. It would be the comprehensive panel. And I’m telling you that the ones that come with Dr. Lewis’s complementary consultation and a recommended supplement sheet and a functional medicine report as well as a copy of your lab, we have exclusive pricing on.
	So we’ve bundled it all together to save you a whole lot of money. And all of those lab panels start, they’ll have numbers in them, they all start with a GWH for Green Wisdom Health, and they’re numbered one through eight. And the easiest, probably simplest one to get started with is the comprehensive, which is GWH3, because that’s just the basic panels. When we say basic, that’s 12 different lab panels. And I know at your doctor’s office basic’s about 1 to 3, but our basic is 12.
Dr. Lewis:	And I would suggest you add the hormones too.
Janet Lewis:	Well, if he’s suggesting to add the hormones you’ll see that it’s either GWH1 or GWH2, depending on whether you’re male or female, because that is a really special price. If you’re not having hormone problems and you want to start in the cheapest way, is the comprehensive one. So hopefully that answers some questions and clears up some confusion about how to get started with all of that.
Dr. Lewis:	And I didn’t get around to a whole lot of things, which is typical. When I write these things I always have about 4 or 5, 10 times more information than I get around to. And that’s why I talk sometimes fast, which is really not in my nature. I bet you Debbie can tell you about that one.
Janet Lewis:	But you get right to the point, that’s what we always enjoy.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, right down that rabbit trail and that rabbit trail and that rabbit trial. So, thank you for helping keep me a little bit straighter. But I hope you get a lot out of it and there’s so many other things I’d like to say and I just can’t get around to all of it in 30 minutes. But we have so many opportunities to get our mental health back, to have better function, and to take care of some of this crazy stuff that’s going on. And it’s not that hard, it’s not that expensive, and we give advice about that. I was asked the other day if I’d go to Dallas and give a talk to a church. And I looked at her and said, “Yeah, for you I will.”
	but there’s so many answers out there. And listen to different podcasts. But for goodness sake, get on it and do it, and we can help guide you if you have any questions. My number here is 903-663-1008. Or get on the website greenwisdomhealth.com.
Janet Lewis:	And we’ll have another entertaining and educational show for you next week. Bless you.

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Hormones, Aging and Cancer

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Janet Lewis:	Hello, and welcome to this week’s show. I’m Janet Lewis.
Dr. Lewis:	And I’m Dr. Lewis.
Janet Lewis:	And we are here, ready to bring you another show. Dr. Lewis always says it’s not exciting, so I’m going to have to change my words to something else because I think it’s supposed to be funny today, from what I understand.
Dr. Lewis:	I hope it’s exciting.
Janet Lewis:	As exciting as we can make this, we’re going to talk about hormones, aging, and cancer. Dr. Lewis, I’m going to let you take it from there and you tell us what you’ve got up your sleeve.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, I was told a couple of time, once by my sweet wife on Facebook and once by Dr. Omara on Facebook that I needed to have filters. Believe it or not, when I get really crazy, that is filtered. I think my biggest frustration is I see people, or I give people answers, and then I see their health go downhill because they choose not to use the answers. It frustrates me because I think we all deserve and are capable of having a healthy, happy life. Healthy and happy, and that goes back to the spiritual side of it. You have to be able to accept it.
	This show’s going to have a lot of Steven-isms in it, like getting old is not the same as aging. Pay attention to that one. I’d like to tell people that being healthy is not a reward for starting. It’s a reward for finishing. It’s the ones that get started and stick with it that get the results. Yeah, I’m going to get into some semi sort of technical stuff too, but for the most part I do want you to have fun. I do want it to be exciting. I just don’t always know that … I don’t necessarily think that I’m exciting, but knowledgeable yes.
	One of the things that Lincoln said one time is if he had eight hours to chop down a tree, he’d spend six hours to sharpen his ax. I think in America for a large degree we’ve forgotten that our bodies are smart and that it’s endowed by God with an innate or inborn intelligence so that if it has the right materials to work with it can actually heal itself. Again, this is going to be kind of all over the place. One of the biggest challenges I have, and Janet, is to name these things because I am so much all over the place.
	I want to talk about priorities a little bit. People are funny with their priorities. We sell a product more because it will help decrease wrinkles and help hold the skin together even though that same collagen-producing supplement or the supplement that helps your body produce its own collagen, even though that’s the matrix for healthy bones. I used to tell people, “If you have bone density test that doesn’t get worse, that’s a positive outcome.” But I have actually seen quite a few that within one, two, three years they actually reversed some of the bone loss.
	Janet and I are learning a lot all the time. That’s why I have bags under my eyes, because I read too much and talk to other people that are scientists, actually. There are some really exciting products that we have and some that are coming very, very soon. So we’re getting better results with the people that have lost a lot of the bone density.
Janet Lewis:	Is there a way for you to tell if you’ve lost bone density for people that don’t go to the doctor or want to have the bone scans done? Can you see that on your lab?
Dr. Lewis:	You can suspect it if you have too much calcium and it’s high, but I personally … We get a lot of people that want to do the natural thing and think that’s the end all and be all and they’re talking bad about the medical profession. I think that’s a big mistake. I think the medical profession does a lot of really good things. I think you should get your bone density test. I’ve never met an MD or a DO that wasn’t a great person that had the best interest at heart. So don’t be anti … This isn’t everything. It’s just I think the biggest missing piece in health in America is what Janet and I do. But please, keep seeing your MD. You need them. They’re great people.
Janet Lewis:	I think bone density tests are great because we’ve had people that have actually had those done several years in a row, and because of the supplements that we put them on, they’re actually reversing the bone loss. The doctor can’t believe it, and it’s beyond Vitamin D.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. If a doctor tells you Vitamin D and calcium, that’s elementary school. Come see us. Sometimes Janet and I will mention different products and you kind of really have to really call us first to get them because you’re not able to see them on our website unless you are a patient and have created an account. If we talk about something you want to know more about, be willing to call us, 903-663-1008, and you’ll get the sexy voice on the other side of the mic, not mine.
Janet Lewis:	Or just send me an email, which is on the website also. Once you’ve created an account, I can upgrade you so that you can see the other products.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. You know, I’m just going to throw out a lot of Steven-isms and hopefully you can get some sort of wisdom out of it. You know, if a drug fixed the problem you could really get off of it when it fixed the problem. But to create health, it takes time, effort, and money. Eating is either an act of nourishment or an act of assisted suicide. Many people get hooked, and they say, “But I don’t like the taste of this,” and I say, “Well, I don’t eat a lot of things because of the taste. I eat it because it’s a good thing, and there are many things that I think taste good that I really don’t eat.” You’ll hear me talk about Girl Scout cookies and ice cream, but I don’t do that very often.
	I had a sweet lady the other day, says, “Well, I knew you were the one I wanted to be my coach because you were real.” I said, “Well, what’s unreal?” She says, “Well, you eat Girl Scout cookies.” I said, “I’m not going to insult my little Girl Scout hookup. I’m going to buy cookies and eat a few.” I give away about 95% of them. But think about this, folks. If you have a disease, that what’s called adaptive physiology. That means your body’s adapted to something that’s missing or maybe too many toxins.
	We were going to talk about male health because many, many males have low testosterone. You see all the ads on TV, and then you see the lawyers’ ads about if you took this testosterone replacement and had a stroke, heart attack, or death call us and we’ll sue them. The point, is why are we losing our testosterone? The answer, to a large degree, is the estrogen-mimicking environmental chemicals. But if you are overweight, you have to understand that fat cells actually take testosterone and converts it to estrogen, which grows your prostate. If you have a prostate … Prostate, there’s only one R, guys. I hear that all day. Prostrate. No, one R.
	When you have the … It converts testosterone to estrogen, and your prostate begins to grow, it increases your blood lipids, cholesterol. Think about it. Getting cholesterol down just for the sake of getting it down’s not good unless you find out what the underlying reason is. That’s usually high blood sugar because we eat too much sugar, too many carbs. Diabetes is not in other disease processes. It’s not your genetics, it’s not germs, and it’s not bad luck. It’s bad habits. People say, “Well, that’s what my daddy told me.” I say, “Well, he was wrong.” Remember, adaptive physiology. When you’re overweight, the adipose tissue is an endocrine organ.
	I just saw on Facebook a while ago that a friend of mine’s getting a shot in his back. He’s quite a few years younger than me. I kind of adopted him when he was a kid to take him hunting and fishing and be a daddy figure to him, and I love this guy. I love this man. But he’s going to get a shot in his back, and he told me three or four months ago, and he says, “Doc, I really wish I’d listened to you.” I said, “What about?” And he said, “I should’ve taken better care of myself.” I said, “Yeah, well you can’t carry an extra 100, 150 pounds and not wonder why your back’s going to heck in a bucket.” That’s filtered, folks. I love the man and it frustrates me to see his life … He’s in his 40s, and his life is not nearly as good as it could be. Yes, it takes effort, and, yes, sometimes we have to do effort that we don’t necessarily like, but the rewards are so great.
	Then there’s another thing that we don’t talk about a lot, is sex hormone-binding globulin and GH, growth hormone. Well, that’s the one that goes low at night if your body’s full of sugar, or glucose. Think the ones that are diabetic and pre-diabetic also and it lowers testosterone on a man. Think about it. You can lose weight. There’s just so much to be said. I don’t know how much I’m going to get around to. Back in 2010, there was three times more Americans that were obese as compared to 1960, so in 50 years we have three times the obesity and six times that are morbidly obese, which is the body mass index of above 40, which is pretty fluffy.
	Let me tell you what, and I’ve been wanting to talk about cancer for a long time. If you have cancer, you always want to see an oncologist, somebody that specializes in cancer. Now, I have some that I suggest because they take an integrative approach. Low testosterone can actually contribute to many of the cancers, and just the excess body fat alone … I’m talking about body fat and cancer because that’s either from low testosterone or helps create low testosterone. The body fat increases 49% of endometrial cancers, 35% of esophageal cancers, 28% of a pancreatic cancers, and that’s a pretty bad fast-moving cancer and that’s why you need a really good cancer doctor, increases 24% of kidney cancers, 21% of gallbladder cancers, 17% of breast cancers, and 9% of colorectal cancers. That’s just one factor, and that’s being obese. I hate it, but here’s the thing. Some will.
Janet Lewis:	Are you saying that low testosterone can contribute to this?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, and obesity, how it ties in. It’s usually not one thing, and people usually get in, “Oh, it’s this one thing.” Well, it’s the reductionist thinking that gets us in trouble in the first place, like, “Oh, I’m a thyroid patient.” No, what’s causing that? Yeah, I want people to look at it. Well, if this therefore what about this and this and this and this? If you think several steps beyond that, you need deductive reasoning but you need inductive reasoning, so a good blend between the two. My body mass index is in the normal range, and there’s a lot of things that I do. I don’t eat the Girl Scout cookies. I don’t eat very many of them, anyway.
Janet Lewis:	You just said you ate Girl Scout cookies. Now you don’t eat Girl Scout cookies.
Dr. Lewis:	I don’t eat many of them so far.
Janet Lewis:	You’re confusing everyone. You’re saying moderation, right?
Dr. Lewis:	Well, I bought … I don’t know how many boxes I got. Do you know, Janet?
Janet Lewis:	A lot of money’s worth. Dr. Lewis is her favorite customer.
Dr. Lewis:	Okay. Well, I got a bunch. I’ve eaten half a box of one type and half a box of the other. I think really I got 50-something boxes.
Janet Lewis:	And he’s had them about three weeks now.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, but we’ve given them to the lady at the cleaner’s and the lady at the bank, and where else?
Janet Lewis:	Anywhere we’d like new patients.
Dr. Lewis:	The AT&T guys that come in here and try to get our phone line. I’m sorry the phone lines have been messed up because AT&T, they have a win-back department. They want us back, and they’re not earning that, but that’s another thing. Your goal should be to die young. Old age, young body. That’s real possible. Most people don’t believe I’m as old as I am, and I certainly don’t act it. Janet will tell you I act about half my age and I act younger than her, which is really surprising because she’s young and hot anyway. One third of all cancers are linked to obesity, poor diet, and inactivity. You know, that’s from the American Cancer Society.
Janet Lewis:	You’re just depressed when you have all that inactivity, poor diet.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. Which causes which? Does inactivity cause depression? I think so. Does depression cause inactivity? I think so.
Janet Lewis:	Cold weather does too.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. It’s kind of gloomy here in Texas. But sometimes you have to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and talk good, because if you talk bad you’re going to get more of it. Although all cancers I think involve your genes, it’s not that all cancer is hereditary, because only about 5% of all cancers are very strongly hereditary. It’s an inherited genetic alteration that creates a higher risk of developing one or more specific types of cancer, but it’s not inherited genes. It’s from the genes that have been damaged, and that’s the toxins that Janet and I consistently talk about. If you up your nutrient level, then your body has more of ability to detox. We had that question … Is it time for questions?
Janet Lewis:	Sure. We have some questions. You want to take questions right now? You’re all over the place. I’m just following your lead, so whatever you’re doing.
Dr. Lewis:	Really? I can dance and lead? Okay. I’m Baptist. I can’t dance until I’ve had enough to drink. I can’t. Inhibits or stops the inhibitory thought of, “I can’t dance.” Lauren asked me, young sweet girl, because she’s reading online about a detox, and she said they said that you should detox once or twice a year. I really agree with that, but there’s different ways to detox and different needs for different people. She says, “What do you think about this product?”
	I said, “Well, we have one that’s almost exactly the same, only it costs half as much.” You have to be real careful because there’s a lot of hooey-hooey, smoke, mirrors. I see all kinds of people doing all kinds of products, and you know, most of them aren’t working and they cost two or three times as much as they should. So be careful about that.
Janet Lewis:	Well, I had a question from a lady that’s been having horrific debt problems, and you were talking about depression and things like that when you’ve got bad digestion-
Dr. Lewis:	Contributes to low testosterone, too.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, but it also causes everything to not function correctly, and we’re pretty excited. This product just came out. It used to be a prescription that, from our understanding, costs the patient $400 a month for this because it helped heal the GI tract and the intestines.
Dr. Lewis:	And immune problems, leaky gut. Yeah.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, and people with Crohn’s and that kind of thing, autoimmune problems in the gut. One of the companies we love, OrthoMolecular, actually, got the patent on it to make it. When drug companies can no longer sell it at that high cost and no one would buy it, they decided to release that patent so-
Dr. Lewis:	But it’s not a drug. That’s the cool part.
Janet Lewis:	Right. Ortho Molecular bought it and made a natural herbal product out of it. It’s called SBI, like Sam boy indigo, SBI Protect. It’s in a powder or capsules, and it will actually … If you’ve got bad leaky gut problems that’s actually a bad immune problem as well because that’s what happens. It starts leaking out, and then your immune system crashes or you can’t get your immune system very high. I’m particularly very happy about it because I have that problem, and it’s the IGGs and the immunoglobulins that make it work.
Dr. Lewis:	If you have any kind of autoimmune disease, this would be really kick butt in a good way.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah. That’s a great product, and the lady that I was going to tell you about, she’s always got horrible digestive problems and she said, “The minute that comes out, please let me know it’s here.” We’ve got her on it now, so she’s really excited about that as well. I’m hoping some other people will let us know how we’re doing on it because it’s going to be a game changer.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, very much so. We always say go to the gut, fix inflammation. There’s a report, 517 pages, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective. It’s the largest study that explored the connection between lifestyle and cancer, and it’s the work of, I think, nine independent research teams that evaluated like 7,000 existing studies. What they found was that lifestyle changes, etc., etc. could prevent at least, at least, 30% of all cancer cases and two thirds of the cancer cases are caused by factors that doesn’t just include genetic predisposition, but it includes ultraviolet light, chemical pollutants, and smoking that Janet and I talk about. Yes, cleanse yourself. Yes, do it correctly. Call us, and we can go from there. I think Janet has another question turned in from someone.
Janet Lewis:	Trisha, which is kind enough to send us different questions. Trisha M. She’s wanting to know about tooth decay. She was sitting at the dentist with four of her children. Two, no dental problems and two had several cavities. Diet and brushing habits are the same, so she’s not sure she trusts the fluoride rinse, because that was supposed to help with the teeth. Her question is, what do you do about tooth decay? Why do some people … Why is it bad, and why is it not bad on some others? I got an answer for that.
Dr. Lewis:	Okay, go right ahead.
Janet Lewis:	I know part of it.
Dr. Lewis:	Go right ahead. She knows.
Janet Lewis:	Because I experienced that too.
Dr. Lewis:	Because she has perfect teeth and she gets younger by the year.
Janet Lewis:	My perfect teeth were beginning to rot at the root. Actually, before I found out about natural medicine-
Dr. Lewis:	Not rotting as in decay, just receding.
Janet Lewis:	Well, I was chewing a piece of gum. I was about 25, and a whole tooth came out. I thought, “Oh my goodness, what’s going on?” Well, it turns out that your teeth, your gums have got everything to do with your gut health. I have always had horrible gut health, and whenever you can’t get the right nutrition then your teeth start disappearing. I have beautiful teeth. The whole tooth just came out. I think a lot of it’s
Dr. Lewis:	I didn’t know that.
Janet Lewis:	I’m sorry. I have a fake one, and I’m not going to tell you where it is.
Dr. Lewis:	Really? I didn’t know that. Geez, I’m a bad husband.
Janet Lewis:	Anyway, as time has gone on my teeth are actually healthier now in this age I am, which is not 25 anymore, and I’m actually getting better dental reports than I have ever gotten. The gum health has got a whole lot to do with it. If they’re bloody and red, that’s a sign of your gut health as well.
Dr. Lewis:	And cardiovascular health too.
Janet Lewis:	Right. Now you can see they’re very light pink and pretty. The thing that we use, and people need to do their own thing, but the big thing that we use for tooth or mouthwash stuff, we very much like Young Living oils. They’ve got a mouthwash called Thieves that we use, and then we get the food-grade hydrogen peroxide and mix the two together. I personally make it a little hotter because of my gum situation, and I don’t like going to the dentist so I do everything I can to make sure I don’t have to go very often. Dr. Lewis doesn’t like it that hot, so-
Dr. Lewis:	And I don’t go to the dentist anyway. That’s not true. I love my dentist. She’s a great lady.
Janet Lewis:	But he doesn’t need it as bad as I do, and so we don’t mix it that hot. But you really need to watch the food-grade hydrogen peroxide because it will burn you. It’s not the stuff you’re buying from the drugstore.
Dr. Lewis:	We have that too, but the other thing, Trish, for your kids is probiotics because I put probiotics in my mouth and we have those. There’s certain types of probiotics that can actually decrease plaquing, and we have those.
Janet Lewis:	We have a toothpaste that we have used for years. It’s got those same probiotics Dr. Lewis is talking about that are loose that you put in the mouth. It’s in their toothpaste also. It’s a Designs for Health product. It’s called Perio Paste, or something like that. I’ll look it up and put it in the show notes, but it’s something we do carry here in the store and we’ve been using that forever. Between those three, the dentist really can’t find anything wrong when I go in now. I’m pretty excited about that, because I’m not real thrilled with doing anything that they have going on there, because it’s usually pretty painful.
Dr. Lewis:	You know, probiotics are so incredibly important, even in the expression of the microbiome in your GI tract to decrease cancer, to increase testosterone, da, da, da, da, da, and to decrease weight. We have one that’s actually a streptococcus salivarius, and that is a good strep. We’ve had so many people that take this. It’s for eye, ear, nose … Well, ear, nose and throat, and people come in and say, “Oh my God, I can’t believe it. My throat is just so much better,” and it kills the bad strep, and sometimes within one or two tablets. It’s kind of an incredible thing.
Janet Lewis:	I’ll let you handle this question when we’re still on the mouth here. Joe L.-
Dr. Lewis:	From Saline, Michigan.
Janet Lewis:	… is asking about mercury fillings. He wants to know if it’s worth it to remove mercury fillings from your mouth.
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, really controversial. Thanks, Joe. The quick answer is I do not know. I talked to two different dentists many years ago, and neither one of them thought it was a big deal. One of them says, “Well, my dad used to do it, and he’d mix the amalgam with his hand.” I said, “Yeah, but mercury is a major contributing factor to kidney cancer. What’d he die from?” She said, “Kidney cancer.” I don’t know. Some dentists think it’s okay.
	I’d say get two or three opinions, but both of these dentists participated just to humor me and took the mercury out of my mouth. One, the more meticulous one, he used a rubber dam and I didn’t get sick at all. The other one is just like, “Yeah, okay,” drilling. I swallowed a lot of that stuff and I got really, really sick. I personally don’t want mercury in my mouth, but you’ve got to understand some of the dental bonding agents like … What is it called? Methylacrylate, I think, has been known to cause sudden heart attacks. There’s toxins everywhere.
Janet Lewis:	Playing with those thermometers when you were a kid, or when you were our age, they were popular. They had mercury in them, we’d break them open, and then …
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, play with it in our hands. The point is, you can’t really avoid all the toxins. I think it’s better if you decrease the toxins, but if you’re going to do that talk to a biological dentist, which I don’t know if they overplay that. I don’t know. But I would sure be jacked up on some liver cleansing stuff, and we have some liposomal glutathione and things that will clean, clean, clean and make you feel good and just so that if it does get in your system that your body can detox that. There’s so many detoxification pathways that we’re going to talk about it the future anyway.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, that liposomal recharge is really excellent for that to detoxify [crosstalk 00:25:50].
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. If I get sluggish and grumpy, she brings it to me and says, “Here, drink it.” It’s like, well, that wasn’t whisky. She says, “No, it wasn’t.”
Janet Lewis:	Okay, what is … This is from Lauren T. from Texas. What is a great occasional cleanse?
Dr. Lewis:	Well, that’s the one I talked about a while back.
Janet Lewis:	CM Core?
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, I didn’t talk about that.
Janet Lewis:	That’s what I’m asking.
Dr. Lewis:	You’re good. That’s a really good one. Again, it’s going to be the different product for different people. I like the CM Core because it has berberine and alpha-lipoic acid. Alpha-lipoic acid is a cleanser like oh my God. You need to get some of that every day in your system. The berberine has a tendency to help the microbiome in the diet or in the GI tract to work correctly.
Janet Lewis:	The berberine also helps you to stop sugar cravings. If you’re craving a lot of dairy-
Dr. Lewis:	Girl Scout cookies.
Janet Lewis:	… Mexican food-
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, don’t be racist.
Janet Lewis:	… and you’re feeling yeasty, CM Core is a great one to clean all of that up.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. So just to go back to, yes, I think cleansing is very, very good but I’ve seen some of those infomercials on TV and I think of the term BS. That stands for belief systems or bacon sandwich, depending on whether you’re talking to me or the preacher that says BS in his pulpit. He says it’s bacon sandwich. I think it’s belief systems. It’s not really so much genetics that cause these problems, whether we’re talking about cancer, low testosterone, or diabetes or whatever.
	The reason I say that is because there was a study, and I’ve read a lot of them, but this one’s from New England Journal of Medicine. They checked 44,788 pairs of twins. This was a huge study. Identical twins did not experience cancer at the same rate so, well, if it was just genetics it would be exactly the same. Then there’s low death rate of breast and colon cancer in Japan, but once a person comes from Japan, within two to three generations they get the same rate of colon cancer and breast cancer as anybody else living in the United States. So that would say food and environment has a lot to do with it.
Janet Lewis:	Well-
Dr. Lewis:	Go ahead.
Janet Lewis:	I wanted to talk a little bit about the food stuff, the food allergies, which was another question here. I don’t know that we’re going to get around to answering it this time, but numerous people have asked us about food allergy testing. We’ve not recommended anything because, frankly, we think it’s really overpriced and we’re trying to find an inexpensive way to include it on our website so that we could get you guys tested for food allergies that wanted to.
Dr. Lewis:	At a much lower cost. But it’s got to be really, really good, so we’re working on it.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah. At the end of March we may have more answers for that, so stay tuned for that. We are going to talk to a company about that and see if we can’t get a really good price and get that added in. So hang on for that one. In the meantime, those of you who have done lab or have not done lab and don’t know what we do, you can always start with lab work because we think ultimately that’s the first place to start to see what’s going on with your health. When you go on our website at greenwisdomhealth.com, you will see the lab panels there. Always make sure that you pick one of the ones that start with GWH. They’ll have a number in them, one through seven, and those all include Dr. Lewis’ complimentary consultation and wit to go over your lab findings and results-
Dr. Lewis:	Or lack of wit.
Janet Lewis:	… and a supplement schedule of his recommendation so that you’re no longer guessing at what’s going on with your health. If you’ve heard a lot of good information today, and hopefully you have and can put it in some sort of order, we have a whole lot of things to talk about.
Dr. Lewis:	So I’ve got notes that I can go three or four more podcasts and it’ll be just as convoluted as this. Look forward to it. Buckle your seat belt. We’ll be back after a little bit.
Janet Lewis:	And we’ll talk to you next time. Have a great day.

Posted on February 21, 2018April 17, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Hormones, Aging and Cancer

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Janet Lewis:	Hello, and welcome to this week’s show. I’m Janet Lewis.
Dr. Lewis:	And I’m Dr. Lewis.
Janet Lewis:	And we are here, ready to bring you another show. Dr. Lewis always says it’s not exciting, so I’m going to have to change my words to something else because I think it’s supposed to be funny today, from what I understand.
Dr. Lewis:	I hope it’s exciting.
Janet Lewis:	As exciting as we can make this, we’re going to talk about hormones, aging, and cancer. Dr. Lewis, I’m going to let you take it from there and you tell us what you’ve got up your sleeve.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, I was told a couple of time, once by my sweet wife on Facebook and once by Dr. Omara on Facebook that I needed to have filters. Believe it or not, when I get really crazy, that is filtered. I think my biggest frustration is I see people, or I give people answers, and then I see their health go downhill because they choose not to use the answers. It frustrates me because I think we all deserve and are capable of having a healthy, happy life. Healthy and happy, and that goes back to the spiritual side of it. You have to be able to accept it.
	This show’s going to have a lot of Steven-isms in it, like getting old is not the same as aging. Pay attention to that one. I’d like to tell people that being healthy is not a reward for starting. It’s a reward for finishing. It’s the ones that get started and stick with it that get the results. Yeah, I’m going to get into some semi sort of technical stuff too, but for the most part I do want you to have fun. I do want it to be exciting. I just don’t always know that … I don’t necessarily think that I’m exciting, but knowledgeable yes.
	One of the things that Lincoln said one time is if he had eight hours to chop down a tree, he’d spend six hours to sharpen his ax. I think in America for a large degree we’ve forgotten that our bodies are smart and that it’s endowed by God with an innate or inborn intelligence so that if it has the right materials to work with it can actually heal itself. Again, this is going to be kind of all over the place. One of the biggest challenges I have, and Janet, is to name these things because I am so much all over the place.
	I want to talk about priorities a little bit. People are funny with their priorities. We sell a product more because it will help decrease wrinkles and help hold the skin together even though that same collagen-producing supplement or the supplement that helps your body produce its own collagen, even though that’s the matrix for healthy bones. I used to tell people, “If you have bone density test that doesn’t get worse, that’s a positive outcome.” But I have actually seen quite a few that within one, two, three years they actually reversed some of the bone loss.
	Janet and I are learning a lot all the time. That’s why I have bags under my eyes, because I read too much and talk to other people that are scientists, actually. There are some really exciting products that we have and some that are coming very, very soon. So we’re getting better results with the people that have lost a lot of the bone density.
Janet Lewis:	Is there a way for you to tell if you’ve lost bone density for people that don’t go to the doctor or want to have the bone scans done? Can you see that on your lab?
Dr. Lewis:	You can suspect it if you have too much calcium and it’s high, but I personally … We get a lot of people that want to do the natural thing and think that’s the end all and be all and they’re talking bad about the medical profession. I think that’s a big mistake. I think the medical profession does a lot of really good things. I think you should get your bone density test. I’ve never met an MD or a DO that wasn’t a great person that had the best interest at heart. So don’t be anti … This isn’t everything. It’s just I think the biggest missing piece in health in America is what Janet and I do. But please, keep seeing your MD. You need them. They’re great people.
Janet Lewis:	I think bone density tests are great because we’ve had people that have actually had those done several years in a row, and because of the supplements that we put them on, they’re actually reversing the bone loss. The doctor can’t believe it, and it’s beyond Vitamin D.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. If a doctor tells you Vitamin D and calcium, that’s elementary school. Come see us. Sometimes Janet and I will mention different products and you kind of really have to really call us first to get them because you’re not able to see them on our website unless you are a patient and have created an account. If we talk about something you want to know more about, be willing to call us, 903-663-1008, and you’ll get the sexy voice on the other side of the mic, not mine.
Janet Lewis:	Or just send me an email, which is on the website also. Once you’ve created an account, I can upgrade you so that you can see the other products.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. You know, I’m just going to throw out a lot of Steven-isms and hopefully you can get some sort of wisdom out of it. You know, if a drug fixed the problem you could really get off of it when it fixed the problem. But to create health, it takes time, effort, and money. Eating is either an act of nourishment or an act of assisted suicide. Many people get hooked, and they say, “But I don’t like the taste of this,” and I say, “Well, I don’t eat a lot of things because of the taste. I eat it because it’s a good thing, and there are many things that I think taste good that I really don’t eat.” You’ll hear me talk about Girl Scout cookies and ice cream, but I don’t do that very often.
	I had a sweet lady the other day, says, “Well, I knew you were the one I wanted to be my coach because you were real.” I said, “Well, what’s unreal?” She says, “Well, you eat Girl Scout cookies.” I said, “I’m not going to insult my little Girl Scout hookup. I’m going to buy cookies and eat a few.” I give away about 95% of them. But think about this, folks. If you have a disease, that what’s called adaptive physiology. That means your body’s adapted to something that’s missing or maybe too many toxins.
	We were going to talk about male health because many, many males have low testosterone. You see all the ads on TV, and then you see the lawyers’ ads about if you took this testosterone replacement and had a stroke, heart attack, or death call us and we’ll sue them. The point, is why are we losing our testosterone? The answer, to a large degree, is the estrogen-mimicking environmental chemicals. But if you are overweight, you have to understand that fat cells actually take testosterone and converts it to estrogen, which grows your prostate. If you have a prostate … Prostate, there’s only one R, guys. I hear that all day. Prostrate. No, one R.
	When you have the … It converts testosterone to estrogen, and your prostate begins to grow, it increases your blood lipids, cholesterol. Think about it. Getting cholesterol down just for the sake of getting it down’s not good unless you find out what the underlying reason is. That’s usually high blood sugar because we eat too much sugar, too many carbs. Diabetes is not in other disease processes. It’s not your genetics, it’s not germs, and it’s not bad luck. It’s bad habits. People say, “Well, that’s what my daddy told me.” I say, “Well, he was wrong.” Remember, adaptive physiology. When you’re overweight, the adipose tissue is an endocrine organ.
	I just saw on Facebook a while ago that a friend of mine’s getting a shot in his back. He’s quite a few years younger than me. I kind of adopted him when he was a kid to take him hunting and fishing and be a daddy figure to him, and I love this guy. I love this man. But he’s going to get a shot in his back, and he told me three or four months ago, and he says, “Doc, I really wish I’d listened to you.” I said, “What about?” And he said, “I should’ve taken better care of myself.” I said, “Yeah, well you can’t carry an extra 100, 150 pounds and not wonder why your back’s going to heck in a bucket.” That’s filtered, folks. I love the man and it frustrates me to see his life … He’s in his 40s, and his life is not nearly as good as it could be. Yes, it takes effort, and, yes, sometimes we have to do effort that we don’t necessarily like, but the rewards are so great.
	Then there’s another thing that we don’t talk about a lot, is sex hormone-binding globulin and GH, growth hormone. Well, that’s the one that goes low at night if your body’s full of sugar, or glucose. Think the ones that are diabetic and pre-diabetic also and it lowers testosterone on a man. Think about it. You can lose weight. There’s just so much to be said. I don’t know how much I’m going to get around to. Back in 2010, there was three times more Americans that were obese as compared to 1960, so in 50 years we have three times the obesity and six times that are morbidly obese, which is the body mass index of above 40, which is pretty fluffy.
	Let me tell you what, and I’ve been wanting to talk about cancer for a long time. If you have cancer, you always want to see an oncologist, somebody that specializes in cancer. Now, I have some that I suggest because they take an integrative approach. Low testosterone can actually contribute to many of the cancers, and just the excess body fat alone … I’m talking about body fat and cancer because that’s either from low testosterone or helps create low testosterone. The body fat increases 49% of endometrial cancers, 35% of esophageal cancers, 28% of a pancreatic cancers, and that’s a pretty bad fast-moving cancer and that’s why you need a really good cancer doctor, increases 24% of kidney cancers, 21% of gallbladder cancers, 17% of breast cancers, and 9% of colorectal cancers. That’s just one factor, and that’s being obese. I hate it, but here’s the thing. Some will.
Janet Lewis:	Are you saying that low testosterone can contribute to this?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, and obesity, how it ties in. It’s usually not one thing, and people usually get in, “Oh, it’s this one thing.” Well, it’s the reductionist thinking that gets us in trouble in the first place, like, “Oh, I’m a thyroid patient.” No, what’s causing that? Yeah, I want people to look at it. Well, if this therefore what about this and this and this and this? If you think several steps beyond that, you need deductive reasoning but you need inductive reasoning, so a good blend between the two. My body mass index is in the normal range, and there’s a lot of things that I do. I don’t eat the Girl Scout cookies. I don’t eat very many of them, anyway.
Janet Lewis:	You just said you ate Girl Scout cookies. Now you don’t eat Girl Scout cookies.
Dr. Lewis:	I don’t eat many of them so far.
Janet Lewis:	You’re confusing everyone. You’re saying moderation, right?
Dr. Lewis:	Well, I bought … I don’t know how many boxes I got. Do you know, Janet?
Janet Lewis:	A lot of money’s worth. Dr. Lewis is her favorite customer.
Dr. Lewis:	Okay. Well, I got a bunch. I’ve eaten half a box of one type and half a box of the other. I think really I got 50-something boxes.
Janet Lewis:	And he’s had them about three weeks now.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, but we’ve given them to the lady at the cleaner’s and the lady at the bank, and where else?
Janet Lewis:	Anywhere we’d like new patients.
Dr. Lewis:	The AT&T guys that come in here and try to get our phone line. I’m sorry the phone lines have been messed up because AT&T, they have a win-back department. They want us back, and they’re not earning that, but that’s another thing. Your goal should be to die young. Old age, young body. That’s real possible. Most people don’t believe I’m as old as I am, and I certainly don’t act it. Janet will tell you I act about half my age and I act younger than her, which is really surprising because she’s young and hot anyway. One third of all cancers are linked to obesity, poor diet, and inactivity. You know, that’s from the American Cancer Society.
Janet Lewis:	You’re just depressed when you have all that inactivity, poor diet.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. Which causes which? Does inactivity cause depression? I think so. Does depression cause inactivity? I think so.
Janet Lewis:	Cold weather does too.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. It’s kind of gloomy here in Texas. But sometimes you have to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and talk good, because if you talk bad you’re going to get more of it. Although all cancers I think involve your genes, it’s not that all cancer is hereditary, because only about 5% of all cancers are very strongly hereditary. It’s an inherited genetic alteration that creates a higher risk of developing one or more specific types of cancer, but it’s not inherited genes. It’s from the genes that have been damaged, and that’s the toxins that Janet and I consistently talk about. If you up your nutrient level, then your body has more of ability to detox. We had that question … Is it time for questions?
Janet Lewis:	Sure. We have some questions. You want to take questions right now? You’re all over the place. I’m just following your lead, so whatever you’re doing.
Dr. Lewis:	Really? I can dance and lead? Okay. I’m Baptist. I can’t dance until I’ve had enough to drink. I can’t. Inhibits or stops the inhibitory thought of, “I can’t dance.” Lauren asked me, young sweet girl, because she’s reading online about a detox, and she said they said that you should detox once or twice a year. I really agree with that, but there’s different ways to detox and different needs for different people. She says, “What do you think about this product?”
	I said, “Well, we have one that’s almost exactly the same, only it costs half as much.” You have to be real careful because there’s a lot of hooey-hooey, smoke, mirrors. I see all kinds of people doing all kinds of products, and you know, most of them aren’t working and they cost two or three times as much as they should. So be careful about that.
Janet Lewis:	Well, I had a question from a lady that’s been having horrific debt problems, and you were talking about depression and things like that when you’ve got bad digestion-
Dr. Lewis:	Contributes to low testosterone, too.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, but it also causes everything to not function correctly, and we’re pretty excited. This product just came out. It used to be a prescription that, from our understanding, costs the patient $400 a month for this because it helped heal the GI tract and the intestines.
Dr. Lewis:	And immune problems, leaky gut. Yeah.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, and people with Crohn’s and that kind of thing, autoimmune problems in the gut. One of the companies we love, OrthoMolecular, actually, got the patent on it to make it. When drug companies can no longer sell it at that high cost and no one would buy it, they decided to release that patent so-
Dr. Lewis:	But it’s not a drug. That’s the cool part.
Janet Lewis:	Right. OrthoMolecular bought it and made a natural herbal product out of it. It’s called SBI, like Sam boy indigo, SBI Protect. It’s in a powder or capsules, and it will actually … If you’ve got bad leaky gut problems that’s actually a bad immune problem as well because that’s what happens. It starts leaking out, and then your immune system crashes or you can’t get your immune system very high. I’m particularly very happy about it because I have that problem, and it’s the IGGs and the immunoglobulins that make it work.
Dr. Lewis:	If you have any kind of autoimmune disease, this would be really kick butt in a good way.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah. That’s a great product, and the lady that I was going to tell you about, she’s always got horrible digestive problems and she said, “The minute that comes out, please let me know it’s here.” We’ve got her on it now, so she’s really excited about that as well. I’m hoping some other people will let us know how we’re doing on it because it’s going to be a game changer.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, very much so. We always say go to the gut, fix inflammation. There’s a report, 517 pages, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective. It’s the largest study that explored the connection between lifestyle and cancer, and it’s the work of, I think, nine independent research teams that evaluated like 7,000 existing studies. What they found was that lifestyle changes, etc., etc. could prevent at least, at least, 30% of all cancer cases and two thirds of the cancer cases are caused by factors that doesn’t just include genetic predisposition, but it includes ultraviolet light, chemical pollutants, and smoking that Janet and I talk about. Yes, cleanse yourself. Yes, do it correctly. Call us, and we can go from there. I think Janet has another question turned in from someone.
Janet Lewis:	Trisha, which is kind enough to send us different questions. Trisha M. She’s wanting to know about tooth decay. She was sitting at the dentist with four of her children. Two, no dental problems and two had several cavities. Diet and brushing habits are the same, so she’s not sure she trusts the fluoride rinse, because that was supposed to help with the teeth. Her question is, what do you do about tooth decay? Why do some people … Why is it bad, and why is it not bad on some others? I got an answer for that.
Dr. Lewis:	Okay, go right ahead.
Janet Lewis:	I know part of it.
Dr. Lewis:	Go right ahead. She knows.
Janet Lewis:	Because I experienced that too.
Dr. Lewis:	Because she has perfect teeth and she gets younger by the year.
Janet Lewis:	My perfect teeth were beginning to rot at the root. Actually, before I found out about natural medicine-
Dr. Lewis:	Not rotting as in decay, just receding.
Janet Lewis:	Well, I was chewing a piece of gum. I was about 25, and a whole tooth came out. I thought, “Oh my goodness, what’s going on?” Well, it turns out that your teeth, your gums have got everything to do with your gut health. I have always had horrible gut health, and whenever you can’t get the right nutrition then your teeth start disappearing. I have beautiful teeth. The whole tooth just came out. I think a lot of it’s
Dr. Lewis:	I didn’t know that.
Janet Lewis:	I’m sorry. I have a fake one, and I’m not going to tell you where it is.
Dr. Lewis:	Really? I didn’t know that. Geez, I’m a bad husband.
Janet Lewis:	Anyway, as time has gone on my teeth are actually healthier now in this age I am, which is not 25 anymore, and I’m actually getting better dental reports than I have ever gotten. The gum health has got a whole lot to do with it. If they’re bloody and red, that’s a sign of your gut health as well.
Dr. Lewis:	And cardiovascular health too.
Janet Lewis:	Right. Now you can see they’re very light pink and pretty. The thing that we use, and people need to do their own thing, but the big thing that we use for tooth or mouthwash stuff, we very much like Young Living oils. They’ve got a mouthwash called Thieves that we use, and then we get the food-grade hydrogen peroxide and mix the two together. I personally make it a little hotter because of my gum situation, and I don’t like going to the dentist so I do everything I can to make sure I don’t have to go very often. Dr. Lewis doesn’t like it that hot, so-
Dr. Lewis:	And I don’t go to the dentist anyway. That’s not true. I love my dentist. She’s a great lady.
Janet Lewis:	But he doesn’t need it as bad as I do, and so we don’t mix it that hot. But you really need to watch the food-grade hydrogen peroxide because it will burn you. It’s not the stuff you’re buying from the drugstore.
Dr. Lewis:	We have that too, but the other thing, Trish, for your kids is probiotics because I put probiotics in my mouth and we have those. There’s certain types of probiotics that can actually decrease plaquing, and we have those.
Janet Lewis:	We have a toothpaste that we have used for years. It’s got those same probiotics Dr. Lewis is talking about that are loose that you put in the mouth. It’s in their toothpaste also. It’s a Designs for Health product. It’s called Perio Paste, or something like that. I’ll look it up and put it in the show notes, but it’s something we do carry here in the store and we’ve been using that forever. Between those three, the dentist really can’t find anything wrong when I go in now. I’m pretty excited about that, because I’m not real thrilled with doing anything that they have going on there, because it’s usually pretty painful.
Dr. Lewis:	You know, probiotics are so incredibly important, even in the expression of the microbiome in your GI tract to decrease cancer, to increase testosterone, da, da, da, da, da, and to decrease weight. We have one that’s actually a streptococcus salivarius, and that is a good strep. We’ve had so many people that take this. It’s for eye, ear, nose … Well, ear, nose and throat, and people come in and say, “Oh my God, I can’t believe it. My throat is just so much better,” and it kills the bad strep, and sometimes within one or two tablets. It’s kind of an incredible thing.
Janet Lewis:	I’ll let you handle this question when we’re still on the mouth here. Joe L.-
Dr. Lewis:	From Saline, Michigan.
Janet Lewis:	… is asking about mercury fillings. He wants to know if it’s worth it to remove mercury fillings from your mouth.
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, really controversial. Thanks, Joe. The quick answer is I do not know. I talked to two different dentists many years ago, and neither one of them thought it was a big deal. One of them says, “Well, my dad used to do it, and he’d mix the amalgam with his hand.” I said, “Yeah, but mercury is a major contributing factor to kidney cancer. What’d he die from?” She said, “Kidney cancer.” I don’t know. Some dentists think it’s okay.
	I’d say get two or three opinions, but both of these dentists participated just to humor me and took the mercury out of my mouth. One, the more meticulous one, he used a rubber dam and I didn’t get sick at all. The other one is just like, “Yeah, okay,” drilling. I swallowed a lot of that stuff and I got really, really sick. I personally don’t want mercury in my mouth, but you’ve got to understand some of the dental bonding agents like … What is it called? Methyl acrylate, I think, has been known to cause sudden heart attacks. There’s toxins everywhere.
Janet Lewis:	Playing with those thermometers when you were a kid, or when you were our age, they were popular. They had mercury in them, we’d break them open, and then …
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, play with it in our hands. The point is, you can’t really avoid all the toxins. I think it’s better if you decrease the toxins, but if you’re going to do that talk to a biological dentist, which I don’t know if they overplay that. I don’t know. But I would sure be jacked up on some liver cleansing stuff, and we have some liposomal glutathione and things that will clean, clean, clean and make you feel good and just so that if it does get in your system that your body can detox that. There’s so many detoxification pathways that we’re going to talk about it the future anyway.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, that liposomal recharge is really excellent for that to detoxify [crosstalk 00:25:50].
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. If I get sluggish and grumpy, she brings it to me and says, “Here, drink it.” It’s like, well, that wasn’t whisky. She says, “No, it wasn’t.”
Janet Lewis:	Okay, what is … This is from Lauren T. from Texas. What is a great occasional cleanse?
Dr. Lewis:	Well, that’s the one I talked about a while back.
Janet Lewis:	CM Core?
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, I didn’t talk about that.
Janet Lewis:	That’s what I’m asking.
Dr. Lewis:	You’re good. That’s a really good one. Again, it’s going to be the different product for different people. I like the CM Core because it has berberine and alpha-lipoic acid. Alpha-lipoic acid is a cleanser like oh my God. You need to get some of that every day in your system. The berberine has a tendency to help the microbiome in the diet or in the GI tract to work correctly.
Janet Lewis:	The berberine also helps you to stop sugar cravings. If you’re craving a lot of dairy-
Dr. Lewis:	Girl Scout cookies.
Janet Lewis:	… Mexican food-
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, don’t be racist.
Janet Lewis:	… and you’re feeling yeasty, CM Core is a great one to clean all of that up.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. So just to go back to, yes, I think cleansing is very, very good but I’ve seen some of those infomercials on TV and I think of the term BS. That stands for belief systems or bacon sandwich, depending on whether you’re talking to me or the preacher that says BS in his pulpit. He says it’s bacon sandwich. I think it’s belief systems. It’s not really so much genetics that cause these problems, whether we’re talking about cancer, low testosterone, or diabetes or whatever.
	The reason I say that is because there was a study, and I’ve read a lot of them, but this one’s from New England Journal of Medicine. They checked 44,788 pairs of twins. This was a huge study. Identical twins did not experience cancer at the same rate so, well, if it was just genetics it would be exactly the same. Then there’s low death rate of breast and colon cancer in Japan, but once a person comes from Japan, within two to three generations they get the same rate of colon cancer and breast cancer as anybody else living in the United States. So that would say food and environment has a lot to do with it.
Janet Lewis:	Well-
Dr. Lewis:	Go ahead.
Janet Lewis:	I wanted to talk a little bit about the food stuff, the food allergies, which was another question here. I don’t know that we’re going to get around to answering it this time, but numerous people have asked us about food allergy testing. We’ve not recommended anything because, frankly, we think it’s really overpriced and we’re trying to find an inexpensive way to include it on our website so that we could get you guys tested for food allergies that wanted to.
Dr. Lewis:	At a much lower cost. But it’s got to be really, really good, so we’re working on it.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah. At the end of March we may have more answers for that, so stay tuned for that. We are going to talk to a company about that and see if we can’t get a really good price and get that added in. So hang on for that one. In the meantime, those of you who have done lab or have not done lab and don’t know what we do, you can always start with lab work because we think ultimately that’s the first place to start to see what’s going on with your health. When you go on our website at greenwisdomhealth.com, you will see the lab panels there. Always make sure that you pick one of the ones that start with GWH. They’ll have a number in them, one through seven, and those all include Dr. Lewis’ complimentary consultation and wit to go over your lab findings and results-
Dr. Lewis:	Or lack of wit.
Janet Lewis:	… and a supplement schedule of his recommendation so that you’re no longer guessing at what’s going on with your health. If you’ve heard a lot of good information today, and hopefully you have and can put it in some sort of order, we have a whole lot of things to talk about.
Dr. Lewis:	So I’ve got notes that I can go three or four more podcasts and it’ll be just as convoluted as this. Look forward to it. Buckle your seat belt. We’ll be back after a little bit.
Janet Lewis:	And we’ll talk to you next time. Have a great day.