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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 to help you with allergies today. So if you’re suffering from them, or know someone who is, or can’t hear us because you can’t get the clog out of your head, this show is for you. We are going to educate you a little bit about where they come from, what to do about them, and what might stop them from happening to start with.
	So we are Green Wisdom Health, home of the Low Cost Lab work, and Dr. Lewis is going to tell you all about allergies today. Take it away.
Dr. Lewis:	Yep, as soon as I get through sneezing, I will be right with you. There’s a lot to be said about this. Usually an allergy is an inappropriate or maybe an exaggerated response to your body’s immune system, or by the body’s immune system to different substances.
	And there are some references, that say that allergies once you have them as an adult, will never go away, while children will generally outgrow them. And I kind of disagree with that, I’ve seen major allergic responses get much better if not go away completely over the years, and it’s about fixing the GI Tract, the Microbiome, and your body’s Detoxification Pathways.
	And I was just talking to a sweet lady, in West Virginia, I would just like to say this, the BRAC-1, the BRAC-2, which is the breast cancer genes, they’re tumor suppressors, and when you have a mutation in those, then you have a much higher likelihood of getting breast cancer. But most of that’s actually more influenced by the environment and your diet. Which means toxins, and that kind of, believe it or not, does have a lot to do with our allergies too.
	How your body responds to it. Sometimes you have food allergies, and sometimes it’s just you’re allergic versus you’re sensitive to different foods. And that has to do with mobilizing your body’s white blood cells to fight them. Sometimes the white blood cells overreact and actually can create more damage to the body, than the invader itself.
	But then the allergic response becomes a disease, before I get into that I’ll tell you this, I used to go and bush hog on the tractor at the deer lease through ragweed, and goatweed, and golden rod, and I would feel like somebody nailed me to the cross, right there in my bronchi. And you all can tell that’s a weak area, because I will have to clear my throat if I’ve eaten anything in kind of cause a problem, which for me mostly is dairy.
	But the nail that I fixed my gut and microbiome, or greatly improved it, I can bush hog through all sorts of goatweed, and clog up the tractor’s filter system, golden rod, and ragweed, and I’m really pretty good the next day, it’s at least a 90% reduction in my body’s allergic response, and again that gets tied back to the GI Tract. Some of the allergic responses are nasal congestion, and we’ve got a really, really good product for that. Kind of a new product, you can have coughing, wheezing, itching, shortness of breath, headaches, fatigue, hives, and other skin rashes.
	Or you can just have a mucous come through, and there’s this man up in Michigan, he’s done everything I’ve told him to do, for I’m guessing about three -four years, and he says I love what you do Doc, but you fixed everything except the original thing that I came to you, and that was a constant mucous production.
	And he’s gone to see the Ear, Nose, and Throat Doctors, which I think he should. That’s a good thing, he’s done that, most of the time that’s a fungal infection, but it’s also in response to an allergic reaction to something. Usually in the diet, or possibly an airborne allergy.
	And so I sent him a bottle of one thing, and didn’t work. I didn’t hear from him. Then I sent him a sample pack of another thing, and he wrote the most inspiring email about he couldn’t believe how much I would do for him, and we finally got to the, I guess to the root cause. Maybe not the root cause, but to deal with it. And that’s the D-hist is a natural histamine product. Or it deals with the histamine reaction.
Janet Lewis:	Well that’s got Quercetin in it. Which is the big one that they say is for allergies?
Dr. Lewis:	Right.
Janet Lewis:	And I think the thing that makes this work so well, it’s something you actually have to load up on, you have a loading dose, where you do two capsules three times per day for 7-10 days, and then as it’s in your system, you don’t have to take so much of it because, I guess you start building up an immunity toward the allergens using it.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, you know, and some people do a loading dose of five right of the bat, and then for congestion, you know you’ve got the Sinatrol, which we’ve had some incredible results with my favorite gun dealer, because he always has nasal congestion, because of prior broken nose, I’m sure that was … he wasn’t in a bad place I’m sure, but he got a broken nose, so he has massive congestion. And he gets incredible, incredible results from the Sinatrol.
	So depending on what’s going on, whether the D-hist would work, or the Sinatrol, and there’s other things that will work, folks I want to tell you that if you’re not an established patient with lab and all that, we have a lot of different products that cannot see on the website.
	So it might behoove you from time to time to give us a call, so we can hook you up with better products, we’ve got this … some incredible things. We’ve got some massive, massive probiotics, and you know you’ve got to fix the gut, and here’s something that’s missing. You hear a lot about prebiotics, one of the best things I’ve ever seen is called Opti-Fiber Lean, and it’s natural and soluble propolomanin, and fiber. That is a really good prebiotic, to let the probiotics begin to work.
	But if you’re not an established patient, you’re not going to see that on the website, so if you’re interested in that, and a holy cow, incredibly big probiotic, you gotta call us.
Janet Lewis:	Well they can also just send me an email to janet@greenwisdomhealth.com, and just tell me that you heard the show, so that we know you’re listening out there, and make an account on our website, at greenwisdomhealth.com, and I can upgrade you where you can actually see those products Dr. Lewis is talking about. Because we do want to make sure that some of these things, are really potent, and we don’t want them being sold to people that don’t know how to use them.
Dr. Lewis:	That’s true.
Janet Lewis:	But the natural D-hist, if you put it in the search bar, just put in D-hist, and that’s the one for the runny nose. And the Sinatrol is the one for congestion in the chest, so we have different people with different things.
Dr. Lewis:	Oh yeah, absolutely. And there’s different, you know I’ve always said you can read research, that says so many conflicting things, but some of the more common allergens are pollen, dust, certain metals, cosmetics, yeah well we’re getting into that one too. Dust mites, animal hair, animal dander, insect venom, the last time I got stung by a bee, it’s like holy cow. I thought I was going to die. And sometimes drugs, and food additives are a big one, and that’s where people trouble figuring that out, I promise you there’s something very, very exciting coming in the near future about figuring that out.
	Many of the chemicals that are found in different soaps, cleaning supplies, you want to avoid a lot of that, and I’ve seen a lot of people have allergies to mold, but it can be airborne, or it can be food. Some of the things, I wanted to go over some of the common allergies, that things that cause allergies, in certain conditions, the most common.
	Just for example, if you have migraines, and I hear all over Facebook, oh I wish there was a cure for migraines. Well you can pretty much control it, but if it’s an allergy, wheat is 78% the culprit in migraines. Nobody should eat wheat. For a lot of different reasons. Oranges, I hate that, but it’s 65% of the time, then eggs, I hate that too. Tea and Coffee, man that really hurts, and chocolate and milk. That really hurts too.
	Sometimes beef, but you wonder is it really this particular food that you’re allergic to, or is it the toxic chemicals and antibiotics, and hormones that may be in some of these? So those are just some of the few. For those that have Colitis, or IBS, some of the bad diseases like that. That’s the one that need to call us, to get onto this really, really huge probiotic, and then there’s something called SBI protect, and it’s immunoglobulins, and these immunoglobulins go in and take these loosened junctions because of poor digestion, poor gut health, and tighten the junctions.
	So if you’ve ever heard of Leaky Gut Syndrome, and we have people buying SBI, and SBI protect like crazy, but really and truly you should do the massive probiotics with the SBI protect. So thank you for your orders of the SBI protect, thank you for the feedback, because there’s several people that have said, oh my god, it’s working miracles, put the Pro-Bio Max with it. And that’s something you got to call us to get.
	So the Colitis, and IBS, it’s almost always dairy or wheat. It’s number one or number two. Then chocolate, god I hate that, because I love chocolate, and coffee’s a big thing, barley and hops, well if you’re beer drinkers, that’s tough to take. But you want to think about that. The gallbladder, people have gallbladder problems, it’s almost always refined sugars, and what that does to your metabolic syndrome, and how that messes with cholesterol, you form cholesterol stones, and then you have gall bladder problems.
	But it can be something as uncommon, as beets, or spinach, or eggs, or pork, or onions. Oh I hate that too. Now for the people, and I talked to a lady this morning about this, about ADD, ADHD. Well if you looked at what they eat in Europe versus what we eat here, you would wonder why our kids do, they could do a lot better. But you wonder, actually mental health has a lot to do with what you put in your GI Tract, and that’s one of the problems we’re having in America today, that’s manifesting in some horrible ways.
	But for ADD the worst thing you can put in your child’s mouth, or yours is anything with artificial colors, preservatives, dye, corn, sorbitol, refined sugars, and that includes high fructose corn syrup, wheat caffeine, and soy. But dairy’s also a big one there. So if you want some young person feel better, take that out of their diet, add these probiotics, and they’re easy to slip in to a young child’s diet, fish oil also helps too because it’s very, very, very anti-inflammatory.
	So there’s, I could go on and on, but I think I’ll get out of that. And just go more into the allergies.
Janet Lewis:	Well and I also wanted to mention, your parents are out there struggling, trying to find something healthy to feed their kids.
Dr. Lewis:	Or grandparents because a lot of times, they get stuck with the kids, because … anyway.
Janet Lewis:	That’s another story.
Dr. Lewis:	You know I’m sorry folks, I’m trying to stay off the soap box.
Janet Lewis:	But you they go and they buy them the gummy type multi-vitamins at the Big Box stores.
Dr. Lewis:	That has cancer causing dyes in it.
Janet Lewis:	Right, right. And they taste awesome because they’re so full of dyes, and sugars.
Dr. Lewis:	High fructose corn syrup.
Janet Lewis:	Yes. And honestly a natural product that is a good quality is very, very hard to come by for a multi-vitamin. And believe me we have gone through a bunch of them, trying to figure out one that’s good.
Dr. Lewis:	It may be a good one, but it’s not palatable, if you can’t get the kid to chew it up and take it, what good is it?
Janet Lewis:	And I’m pretty excited to tell you that we just go a new one in, and I had to open the bottle to try it, and if you mind a sample of it, I’ll send you one in a package.
Dr. Lewis:	See if you’re kid will take it. I took it and I felt four years old all over again. It actually tasted pretty good.
Janet Lewis:	It was really, really good. And it’s called Super-Nutes, I have no idea how they come up with that.
Dr. Lewis:	We’re going to try it on our grandkids too.
Janet Lewis:	It’s Super and then Nutes, N-U-T-E-S. So I do have that in stock now, so for you that are looking for a good vitamin, that don’t have all the dyes and chemicals in it, I think your kids will actually like it. It’s doesn’t taste like the nasty little B vitamins that always follow them a lot of times. And like I said, I’ll be happy to send you a sample of it you just ask me about it, because I think that’s a big part of what’s missing with kids, and if you can’t feed them something good. At least give them a great multi-vitamin. And this particular company, that’s making that is Ortho Molecular who is the same one that’s making a lot of these wonderful other products we have, including that SBI Protect.
Dr. Lewis:	We’re selling it all over the country. Because people have the IBS, and Crone’s Disease, and the Leaky Gut, and the symptoms from that. But if you do SBI Protect, for god’s sake talk to us about a probiotic, because you can get things, that’s one of those if one plus one it doesn’t equal two. It equals three in the way that it actually helps you. It’s faster.
Janet Lewis:	And if you’re too shy to talk to us, you can always get the Ortho Biotic a hundred billion, you just have to take three of them. You know Dr. Lewis is telling you there’s a 350 here, you need three of those to equal that. So either way.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, more’s better.
Janet Lewis:	I wanted you to talk a little bit, because I think it’s kind of interesting about things that help your allergies. Like the increase of animal based Omega-3 fats, but to reduce your intake of Omega-6 fats, and I think a lot of people may not know what the difference is between the different kinds of Omegas. So they think they’re taking that as a fish oil, Omega-3, and sixes, and I hear them come in and go, Can I have Omega 6’s. I don’t think people really know the difference, so can you explain why they should take Omega 3’s and not Omega-6 for allergies?
Dr. Lewis:	You know I think it’s wonder how good a salesman I am, that Janet actually thinks I know all this because I don’t. The Omega-3. The inflammatory Omega-6’s are the vegetable oils, for example, if it’s hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated, stay the heck away from it. Soy bean oil, stay away from it. Cottonseed, no. Corn oil, heck no. But if you take enough of the Omega-3’s and the easiest, quickest way to get Omega-3’s is fish oil, you’ve already let the liver of the fish do the work for you. And all fish oils are not alike. Because now we’re dealing in fish oils that are three to four times more absorbable, so you get to take less of them, which means it costs less for the output, the outcome.
	But stay away from vegetable fats. Now, Avocado’s good, Coconut oil is awesome, I like Grape seed, I like Walnut oil, Peanut oil is questionable, but I like Pecan oil. So just kind of stay away from … I’m not afraid of animal fats, if that fat comes off a rib eye steak that is really, really, good for you, if that cow was raised … is pasture fed, grass raised. Not the ones in a feed lot. Fed genetically modified corn, that’s not a good thing, but grass fed, pasture raised, yeah that’s much more important. So stay away from the vegetable oil, corn and soy mostly.
Janet Lewis:	And then you want to optimize your vitamin D levels, you need to make sure that they’re higher because that actually does help with allergies.
Dr. Lewis:	Yep.
Janet Lewis:	And then hot peppers. Eat hot peppers.
Dr. Lewis:	That’s good, but I’ve got something to say about that. Yes pepper’s good, but you hear people they get on internet, and they get a little bit of information, and not a lot of understanding. And they say, I’m taking my curcumin tumeric with black pepper.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, that’s a good point.
Dr. Lewis:	Folks, just because they say it’s true, you’ve heard of smoke mirrors, fluff, and bull. What happens, if you put curcumin tumeric with black pepper, it actually binds with your globulin, and generally will end up with an allergy to pepper, to tumeric, and curcumin. And it does not enhance absorption, it makes it almost bio-unavailable. So don’t fall for that, put pepper with it, for increased blood flow.
Janet Lewis:	That’s why I like our Curcuplex-95, because they do not have black pepper in it.
Dr. Lewis:	So don’t fall for some of these smoke and mirror, oh well they were a good advertiser, therefore this is a good product. Not necessarily.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, and the other thing, Curcuplex-95, you got to sign in, you have to have a special account upgrade, to see that product because, again-
Dr. Lewis:	Good health is available, you just kind of have to side-step a couple of the rules to get the really good stuff. But it’s worth it, I’ve seen people have miracles, it’s like even I was, Holy Cow that really happened?!
Janet Lewis:	Yeah.
Dr. Lewis:	People were persistent.
Janet Lewis:	And then I’ve noticed in people when their allergies seem to quote, flair up, of course in East Texas, we have the green mist that comes across East Texas.
Dr. Lewis:	We don’t get snow, we get pollened.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, we get pollened. And our cars are all green, it doesn’t matter what kind of color you have, they’re all green. And so it does make it worse, but it does seem to be a correlation between how bad it is, and when you’re eating grains, and sugars.
	So it seems like, and maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like when you’ve had like a steak and vegetables and that kind of thing, your allergies don’t seem to bother you nearly as bad as when you might have had –
Dr. Lewis:	Ice cream for supper.
Janet Lewis:	Well some people are telling on themselves.
Dr. Lewis:	I didn’t say anything about you doing that. She doesn’t eat ice cream folks. She doesn’t.
Janet Lewis:	Like enchilada’s or-
Dr. Lewis:	Corn.
Janet Lewis:	Corn. Yes, any kind of a grain product, it just seems like it makes it really worse the allergies, so is that a correlation, or a causation?
Dr. Lewis:	Causation. Not just a correlation. Yeah that’s true, and sometimes it’s hard to figure out where these things come from, I mean just smoking one cigarette takes up about 50 milligrams of Vitamin C. Which is the recommended daily allowance, that’s why folks don’t pay attention to recommended daily allowance. That’s very, very minimal. And it’s a matter of oxidation and inflammation in the lungs and the bronchi. And the GI Tract.
	One of the biggest problems in America, one of the most toxic things in America is heavy metals. And lead is a big one, you hear about it in Flint, Michigan, but we all have it because, back when I was plumbing in the 70’s, we were soldering copper pipe with lead solder. So lead is in most people’s drinking water.
	And do you know what? The only thing that I know of that crosses the blood brain barrier to bind with lead, are those with high iron to protect the brain, is something called Magnesium Threonate. And that’s pretty good, Janet gives it to me, so I can think a little more clearly. One of the most toxic things that you can do, is cleaning your house. It’s like, well how can it be toxic if you’re cleaning your house?
Janet Lewis:	That’s one of our questions actually from a Amanda, she lives here locally, and so Amanda R., or Amanda C., whichever name she’s been both names.
Dr. Lewis:	I bet she got married.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, she’s from Texas, and she wondered, because she always hears us talking about not using Clorox and that kind of thing, and walking through the chemicals, and it creates problems, but what you’re talking about there, natural deodorants, and natural cleaners, are there any recommendations for such things? Is there a natural deodorant that will work?
Dr. Lewis:	Primal Pit Paste is the only natural one I’ve seen that seems to work real well on me. I’m not seeing anybody turn up their nose.
Janet Lewis:	And then we use in our house, I use a lot of the Zum cleaners, Z-U-M, because I think they smell good, they’ve got different things, they got laundry detergent.
Dr. Lewis:	The essential oil based different ones, I think Melaleuca’s probably a good one also.
Janet Lewis:	Our cleaning lady actually comes in and uses Melaleuca products, because believe it or not Clorox burned her nose so bad, she can no longer smell. So it’s not just us making this up about the chemicals. She said I can’t use that anymore, I said, that’s awesome because I don’t want that.
	So there are natural things. As far as shampoos, I’m a big fan of the Monet Hair Products, because I really think they’re great.
Dr. Lewis:	She had no intention of selling it, be we’ve got a lot of patients that says, oh my god your hair looks really good, it’s thicker than it used to be. She selling it here locally, and selling it 500 miles away to different people too. So you know, if you want to try it, let us know.
Janet Lewis:	And then I always tell people to use a natural soap, you need to try to stay away from the soap’s that are so full of chemicals, even though they’re supposed to be clean.
Dr. Lewis:	And moisturizing.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, and moisturizing. Many times we will find that those people have Urinary Tract Infections on their lab, because of the soap that they’re using.
Dr. Lewis:	Constant irritation, that’s not a good thing to have irritation on your yee-haw.
Janet Lewis:	Yes on they’re taking baths in the tub and using this special deodorized soaps, and they wind up with Urinary Tract Infections. So just get some natural, natural soaps. I use some called, I think they’re called Giovanni, their body wash thing, they’re really great. But you can pick them up at any kind of health food store, whatever. I just try to stay away from the harsh chemicals as much as you can, because you’re getting inundated with them every day anyway in other ways.
	Hair color, I don’t want to talk about. I have hair color, my hair color is brown.
Dr. Lewis:	Very beautiful brunette.
Janet Lewis:	Somebody said, well what do you put on your hair? I’m like Monet Shampoo. Anyway, the labs that we’re recommending in case you’ve got these allergies, and don’t know what’s going on in your gut. Is our comprehensive lab panel, and for you people out there that don’t know what we do, we do very low cost lab across the United States. There’s generally a quest lab location close to you that we send you to, we do 12 panels of lab, with what we’re talking about today that would the GWH-3. If you’re on our website, the featured lab panels it’s $298, and that does include speaking with Dr. Lewis, and a functional medicine report, and 12 lab panels.
	So you’re not guessing at what’s going on. So if you’re having these allergies, and can’t get rid of them, you know many times on the lab on a CBC we will see something in there called Eos. Which means when they’re high, you’ve got allergies in the gut. So there are specific products that we use to help fight those, and get that back down to a good level.
Dr. Lewis:	And that’s the white blood cell immune response I was talking about.
Janet Lewis:	Okay without the lab it’s really kind of hard to know, where to start.
Dr. Lewis:	Stop guessing.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah so basically the things we’re telling you about to help with the runny nose, and the congestion help, but to get to the root cause of why it’s doing it, you might want to consider doing lab work.
Dr. Lewis:	And you know, one of the things that I want to stress here. Some of these studies that I’ve read, and I do read a massive amount of research, some of them are done on kids, but it’s still very appropriate in the adults. Intestinal flora is incredibly important, that’s why we do a lot of the Opti-fiber Lean. The prebiotic that helps the probiotics kind of hang around and flourish better. But an imbalance in your intestinal flora, causes allergies, and that’s from Journal of Annals of Medicine, Treatment with Probiotics for Allergies. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
	Asthma’s associated with Colitis, which links the allergies in Asthma to the Colon which I think it’s pretty good. That’s Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine. Probiotics for the treatment of allergies, helps to reverse intestinal permeability. And that’s why we sell so much of that SBI Protect, and those that do with the probiotics get a synergistic effect. One plus one equals three. So that’s intestinal permeability, and anybody that’s heard of Leaky Gut understands what I mean.
	And there’s a study that said that children with allergies have increased intestinal permeability. And folks, within the next month or so we’re going to have some new tests that are coming out, that can test that, can test allergies to intestinal permeability, and-
Janet Lewis:	You talk about children with allergies, you know milk and dairy are an allergy, but a lot of people don’t think about cheese. Cheese is a big allergen, and our granddaughter would eat these little pretty cheeses, that are in little red round packages, I don’t want to say their name-
Dr. Lewis:	Smart, we don’t need a lawsuit.
Janet Lewis:	But she would eat them like crazy, and low and behold the allergies would start with a runny nose, so consider that when we’re telling you dairy, and sugar and that kind of thing. Cheese is dairy.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah some people don’t make that connection. But milk’s the worst source of food allergies, and that’s coming from Journal of Respiratory Disease, and Journal of Allergies and Clinical Immunology.
	So Janet knows what she’s talking about. I talk about how much research I read, sometimes she gets on and reads research, and it’s like holy cow, I’m impressed. I’ve got to have that product.
	So there’s so many different things you can do, if you’re exposed to mold, that’s a bad thing, but one I’d increase your body’s ability to fight that. So folks we have so many answers and all you need is intestinal fortitude or courage to get on there and give us a call or write us.
Janet Lewis:	And better yet, go on our website, to greenwisdomhealth.com, fill out the health survey, and that way we can assess what way to best guide you to get started to having a life worth living.
	We very much enjoy that the time out of your day to listen to our show, we will be here next week, with another show.
Dr. Lewis:	And you the people that say, Oh my god you did this, you did that. People that say nice things to us, encourage us to do more of it. So thank you, you make our life much worth. Better and life worth living, just because you give us good feedback. So thank you. We appreciate it.
Janet Lewis:	Amen. And we’ll talk to you here next time.

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

Running on Empty?

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 the low-cost lab work, where we help you get your health goals back in line with having a life worth living. We’re very excited about this week’s show because we are going to be talking to you about running on empty, as many people are. They’re tired, sick, overweight, don’t know what’s wrong with them, depending on that next cup of coffee to make sure that they can get through the whole day.
Dr. Lewis:	She looked at me when she said “coffee”.
Janet Lewis:	No, not really. I’m actually talking about a girl named Teresa, and I’m sure you all know a girl named Teresa, but she was running on empty. She was 40 years old, 68 pounds heavier than her wedding day, and still adding almost a pound per month despite eating smaller and smaller portions. “But a lot of people gain weight as they age,” she had reasoned. She often felt very nauseous instead of hungry. After she eat, she said the nausea would return, sometimes much worse, and she had developed a hard knot in the core of her stomach. She just thought, “It’s probably just a little bit of stress.”
	She was so tired, bone tired, all the time. Even basic household chores left her exhausted. She’d start a load of laundry, then take a rest on the couch just to gather enough energy to move it to the dryer. I know some of us can relate to that. She didn’t sleep well and often had headaches, so of course she was tired, she assumed. But that wasn’t all. She felt bloated, crampy, constipated most days, even when she wasn’t about to start her period. But when her period did arrive, Teresa often had to take 12 ibuprofen capsules to survive the first day.
	She had visited doctors. Everything checked out fine. Normal, average, as many of you can probably relate. She told herself it was normal and just a part of getting older, but when she looked in the mirror she didn’t feel normal. She just felt old. Her skin was flat, her eyes were dull, her hair was brittle and graying and falling out. She had lost her spark. Quick to irritation, short on patience, and often unable to concentrate, Teresa was frustrated but a little resigned with her situation. “After all,” she thought, “nothing’s really wrong. I’m perfectly normal, especially given this crazy life.”
	She was manager of a software company, she traveled frequently, she had family life, church commitments. Everything kept her on the go, so she had very little time for exercise, less for rest, and meals were always a hassle. She did her best with nutrition. She tried to grab an apple in the afternoon, tried to remember to take a multivitamin now and then, but it didn’t make any difference. Teresa admits it now, she was overcommitted and overweight, but undernourished, perfectly normal for today’s average busy person. Right? Is that right, Dr. Lewis?
Dr. Lewis:	Just because it’s common don’t mean it’s normal.
Janet Lewis:	That’s right. It’s wrong. If you feel at all like Teresa, we must tell you it’s unacceptable.
Dr. Lewis:	Don’t be Teresa.
Janet Lewis:	It isn’t right. So what we’re going to help you understand today is that there is joy and a productive life coming, more than just getting through the day, and that we’re here to help you figure out why and what to do about it and that you don’t have to live in a desperate despair of waiting to die. So Dr. Lewis, with that I will let you take it, and you tell people what Teresa should be doing or what happened along the way, and how to get it back.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, I’m going to take you through a few little rabbit trails and rabbit holes to honor Dr. Amanda, because she loves it when I do that. I’m going to talk about a lot of things, which is not uncommon at all. Fatigue, we hear that all the time, and sometimes we’re too tired to do these things because we work, work, work, work. But we do take a lot of time to play, and sometimes we’re guilty of playing too hard. So folks, don’t forget, some of the best things you can do is get quiet and be still. That’s a very important thing.
	Far as fatigue, there’s a long list of symptoms that goes with fatigue, and I’m sure Janet will get further into it than me, but you have to be careful about looking at a list and saying, “Well, that means I have adrenal problems,” or, “That means I have a thyroid problem,” because those same lists can go to a lot of other potential problems. But the things that cause us to have a long-term loss of energy or fatigue is anger, fear, anxiety, guilt, people are depressed, and all kinds of negative emotions.
	Now, a lot of that can come physiologically because you don’t have the right kind of nutrients in there for your body to work correctly. Much of that can come because you don’t have the proper probiotics, and you’ve heard me talk about how different types of probiotics can lower your stress levels and lower your cortisol levels. But there’s so many people that create their own negative emotions. They’re constantly worried or they look for what can possibly go wrong, and then they blow it up and make it worse than what it is, which gives you a bad response from your adrenal glands, which eventually will tear up your thyroid too.
	You know me. I try to think more about the people that we have that are wonderful and beautiful and make our lives better, but I can’t help but to feel sorry for or to mourn over people that had the answer and died too early. Okay, I’m trying to be nice here. Got one laying in the mortuary now that it’s like, “Well, it ain’t like you didn’t have the answers,” but she didn’t love herself enough to do it. She’s much younger than me. Very, very lovely lady.
	How do we get to the point where we love yourselves enough to be able to do some of these things? Be aware of negative emotions. You’ve heard me talk before about different books. I read several dozen, many dozens, per year. Janet just ordered me, I don’t know, six or eight. One of the best books you can read is called Negaholics, and it’s how you get into a negative feedback loop.
	People, other ways they get fatigue is over work, which can be physical or mental. I promise you, Janet and I are guilty of that too. We love our job, and sometimes it gets to be quite taxing. So we have to focus on the people that are good and the people that bring us joy, bring us laughter, bring us up. We’re surprised today because we had some from quite a long way away drop by, so thank you, Carl and Leslie. It was seriously a pleasure to meet you. We’ve dealt with this family over the phone for a long time. One of the things that make them winners is they’re consistent. So thank you for dropping by, because I like it. It made me feel better. Thank you.
	So focus on what brings you up. I see people that do excessive exercise and destroy their body. Sleep deprivation, we’re going to talk a little bit about sleep. We’ve done that before, and that’s an issue with me. We do have all kinds of new, exciting things about that. Any kind of trauma, surgery, injuries, even minor car wrecks six to eight miles per hour can give you a lot of trauma. Chronic inflammation, and that’s usually gastrointestinal, although it can be other ways. We test the CRP, which is more cardiovascular specific, but that can be kind of a cascade of things that come from …
Janet Lewis:	Chronic inflammation.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. Sometimes I’ll stutter and I know I go down rabbit trails, but sometimes it is just because I’m really, really tired. There have been many, many, many real research articles that connect different types of inflammation to different kinds of diseases like cancer, that’s chronic disease, is a major contributing factor, heart attacks and cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s.
Janet Lewis:	So you’re saying inflammation is the leading culprit there in all of those.
Dr. Lewis:	Absolutely. You know, the inflammatory cytokines can almost always be a major contributing factor or cause to some of the autoimmune diseases, psoriasis, lupus, asthma, pancreatitis can do that, psoriasis. Oh, Lord. Those people, they think you’re a hero when you fix them, and that takes time and certainly takes a certain measure of faith to pull that off. We’ve got some new allergy supplements.
	Of course, we can’t say any of this is meant to treat a symptom or disease because, according to the FDA, the only thing that can heal is a drug. I think the only thing that can heal is God, but it pays, I think, to put some different nutrition and building blocks for your body to do the job. So inflammation, and it means you don’t have enough antioxidants. I can tell all kinds of stories. It’s just where do you want me to go with it. But you have to constantly do this. Well, I’ll just tell a quick story.
	Over the weekend, Janet and I went to a seminar on brain function. It was really, really, extremely brilliant people teaching this thing. I was quite impressed. They said to keep the brain healthy, you have to keep the GI tract healthy. The night before we went to this seminar, Janet literally begged me to allow her to take me to the hospital because I’d had a round of diverticulitis. I said, “No, I’m not going to the hospital.” I was very, very ill, but I toughed it out and went, and they said, “Oh, if you want your brain healthy you got to keep your guts healthy.” Of course, that’s a very oversimplification.
	We learned a lot, and part of that is the microbiome, or the good probiotics and how to get them in there, and the prebiotics, which I think is a pretty misunderstood term. They showed us research where … You know how they’re talking about these athletes that go into the CTE disease, the brain problems, after post concussion syndrome? They said the ones that just spontaneously went away were the ones that had a good gut microbiome and a healthy GI tract, and the brain healed because of that. So maybe we should pay attention. I’m not saying it’s because you have your head up your rectum, it’s because they really, really are connected. Janet bought me a book on that one too. There are some really, really interesting books that people should pay attention to.
	But fatigue is a pretty serious issue. I always think, look for lack of nutrients. Look for too many toxins in the environment. Look to the GI tract. I’ve had people come in literally with tears in their eyes and say, “Do you believe in chronic fatigue syndrome? Do you believe in fibromyalgia?” When I say, “Yes, ma’am,” they cry even more and I think it’s because they think my mustache is ugly. I don’t know, but it’s like they finally had somebody that actually believed that their symptoms are real. I’d say, “Yes ma’am, but we have to normalize your GI tract and we have to do this and this and this, and you cannot do it alone. You have to have a dear friend or spouse or somebody to help you through this, because it took you years to get into that condition and it’s going to take you months to get out of it.”
Janet Lewis:	Well, does that have anything to do with adrenal fatigue as well? Because I know as you get more inflamed and your body gets more stressed, aren’t your adrenals involved in it?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. Usually they go really, really high. I talked to a young lady this morning, and her cortisol was at 22.5, which is like … She says, “What does that mean?” I said, “Do you know how dangerous Interstate 20 is when it’s raining? There’s always somebody has wrecks. There’s deaths very, very commonly between here and Dallas.” Something wrong with I-20, I’m sure. I said, “You’re going 135 miles per hour on a slick I-20 with your cortisol right at a 22.5. You’re going to crash and burn. It’s just a matter of when, so you need to learn to get still, you need to learn to nourish your adrenal glands.” One of the things that Janet doesn’t know that I’m going to talk about is something we use called Adrenall.
Janet Lewis:	I do know about Adrenall because I forgot to put it in my menagerie of pills that I take, and I do mean menagerie. I take all kind of things to try to stay up and make sure you guys have everything you need, because it’s a pretty big job keeping up with all of this and doing it in a timely manner, which we try to do.
Dr. Lewis:	She didn’t know I was going to talk about it, though.
Janet Lewis:	I did not know that, but for a couple of days I accidentally left it out of my supplements and I thought, “What is going on with me?” It’s like I just wanted to go to sleep on my desk. I realized that I had left Adrenall out, which it says only do two a day. Well, I decided to start taking two of them in the morning and two of them at lunch. It’s like instantly peppy again, because it has a lot of adaptogenic herbs in it that make your adrenals feel good.
Dr. Lewis:	It’s real popular. I mean, people get a really good response. We’re always trying to find bigger, better products, ones that are more absorbable and that cost less. Adrenall seems to be the big kahuna, and I don’t know that we’ll ever get any better than that but we’re always working. But yeah, you have to support your adrenals because if they go to heck in a bucket sooner or later your thyroid is too. Another product that, and this may not even be the time to talk about products. I don’t know, but Janet let me talk so here we go.
Janet Lewis:	I let him ramble.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. Rabbit hole, Amanda. She knows who she is. There’s something called Mitocore, which is a product that we just now decided to get in. We’re getting like oh my God results from it, like people that work super, super hard in a toxic environment, like people that work on the pipeline, welding the pipes so they’re inhaling the welding gases, which is full of heavy metals. I’m saying heavy metals because that’s one of the questions that we have that’s going to come up. We’re getting reports back like, “Oh my God, Dr. Lewis. I can’t believe how good I feel. I feel like I was 25 again,” and I’d say, “Well, Jimmy, you’re late 50s and you don’t look 25.” “Well, I’m still big enough to whip you.” I said, “Yep, you really are.”
	But it’s got some really, really good stuff, and not just to nourish the body but to extract some of the things that can interfere with the energy production in the cell. The mitochondria’s where the energy’s actually produced. That’s been very, very popular. We can tell if it’s going to be a good product if we get it in and one, two, three weeks later people are saying, “Oh my God, I can tell a huge difference.” Yes, Janet takes a lot of stuff, but literally she looks better than she did 10 years ago and she looked really, really good back then, of course.
Janet Lewis:	That’s good.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah. But she has to work at it, because if you’re going to work at the pace that we work, you have to supplement your body and you have to be kind to the temple. You have to be willing to spend the time, the energy, the effort, and the money. People don’t mind spending money on things that destroy the temple, but they sure kick and scream about doing something that’s going to make it probably last longer but certainly have a better quality of life. If you don’t have that self love, look to your spouse because they should build you up with that.
Janet Lewis:	One of the reasons we decided to do this show, because there’s a lot of Teresas out there, like the story we told. We met one yesterday that told me that, she said, “Isn’t it normal to take your kids down to the bus stop and take a nap before you go back home?” I said, “Come again?” She goes, “Oh, yeah. Many times I have to take a nap before I can walk back up to my house from where I just dropped them off at the bus stop.”
	Those are signs of adrenal fatigue, and in case you don’t know what some of the signs are, I’m going to give you a few of them so you’ll know. Fatigue and weakness, especially in the morning or afternoon, like you just can’t make it through the day. A suppressed immune system, so for those of you that we run lab on and we’ve told you your immune system’s low, I had that issue. Immune system, your white blood cell count, should optimally be about a seven to an eight. There are many of you out there that are operating at a three to a five on that, so your body’s extremely tired. Increased allergies, and I know many people who go, “Oh, it’s pollen. It’s that time of the year.” Yeah, that does aggravate it but if you’ve already got that going on to start with that’s just like icing on the cake that puts you over the top.
Dr. Lewis:	Think food allergies, and we do have some new testing coming up that’s going to be really, really good.
Janet Lewis:	Yes. We don’t want to get you too excited about that yet, but yes we do. We’re going to lunch with a new lab company next week and we’re going to learn about all of the different testing we can do to find out what you are allergic to.
Dr. Lewis:	For intestinal permeability, for heavy metal testing, for allergies and immunoglobulins. It’s going to be really, really super.
Janet Lewis:	Then, more signs of adrenal fatigue are muscle and bone loss and muscular weakness.
Dr. Lewis:	Oops. Must be me.
Janet Lewis:	Depression is actually a sign of adrenal fatigue. Cravings for foods high in salt, sugar, or fat.
Dr. Lewis:	I got the stink eye on that one.
Janet Lewis:	I think you took that and ran. Hormonal imbalances. Skin problems.
Dr. Lewis:	Keep your mouth shut, guys, if you think your wife has a hormonal imbalance because women that have hormonal imbalances live a lot longer than men that talk about it.
Janet Lewis:	That’s right. Don’t you forget it. Autoimmune disorders. Increased PMS or menopausal symptoms in women.
Dr. Lewis:	Keep your mouth shut, men.
Janet Lewis:	Low sex drive, and that can go for either side. Lightheadedness when getting up from sitting or lying down.
Dr. Lewis:	If you’re not a ditsy blonde and that is happening, then there may be an issue.
Janet Lewis:	Decreased ability to handle stress. If that person is getting on your last nerve and they shouldn’t be there yet, there could be an adrenal issue.
Dr. Lewis:	It’s probably not them. It could be you.
Janet Lewis:	That’s right. Trouble waking up in the morning despite a full night’s sleep.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, if you get up in the morning thinking about when you can get back on the couch, you might be a redneck.
Janet Lewis:	And poor memory.
Dr. Lewis:	What’d you say? Nevermind.
Janet Lewis:	The one thing we’d tell you always, always, don’t guess about what’s going on with your health, because so many people are going to go, “Oh, this is me. I have all this.” Yes, it can be. But there could be so many other things going on also, like the lady I told you about yesterday that had to take a nap on her way back from the bus stop. She actually had an autoimmune problem in her thyroid that she did now know she had. So had she not run lab, we would have never known that and neither would she.
	So if you’re going, “Oh, lab’s expensive,” well, not through us. When we’re talking about this, you literally could run what we call our comprehensive panel. It’s $298. It includes 12 panels of lab, a functional medicine report, and your complimentary consultation with Dr. Lewis, as well as what we would recommend for supplements so that you would not guess at what you need to take.
Dr. Lewis:	I put on my cheerleading outfit and cheer you into better health.
Janet Lewis:	Yes. So if you don’t know what’s wrong, please don’t guess and just go, “Hey, let me just try this.” Or if you try it and it doesn’t work for you, there’s probably some underlying problem there that you’re missing out on. We can order this lab in all but two states in the United States.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, two or three. It vacillates between the two.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, so there’s generally one close to you, so there’s no need for you to guess any longer. Go on our website, greenwisdomhealth.com, and fill out our health survey, and quit living like this because it’s not worth it. That’s what Teresa wound up doing. She wound up getting herself healthy, because I know you’re all wondering what happened to her. Then, we got a couple of questions Dr. Lewis is going to answer for you too.
	But Teresa wound up seeing a nutritionist, and she got a reputable nutritional company, which that’s important, and she began eating less meat and cutting out her sugar, and detoxifying her system and pushing out the years of pollution from prescription drugs, processed food, and stress. She started working to cleanse first and then build her damaged digestive tract.
	After about four months of gentle, consistent cleansing, she started feeling better, her skin began to glow, her hair regained its luster and body, and I know all you women are always asking me about that, and her hair was thicker, and some of the gray hairs even started to turn brown. So you can start looking youthful again instead of like something in a petrified forest. Teresa got her life back, and that what we want for you too. Dr. Lewis, we have a couple of questions that we need to answer about cleansing. We have Alice that asked about what testing do we have if you have heavy metals in your system. Does that go to our new lab panels that we’re doing?
Dr. Lewis:	Well, you can get on Ulta Lab. They’re on our website, and go to the lab. They’re a different heavy metal test that we can do. Then, as Janet said, we’re going to lunch next week with a guy to Dallas to open up our options about other testing. Heavy metals, yes. There’s so many different possibilities, and if there’s anybody that’s connected to a hair analysis company put me to the challenge because I’ve done hair analysis two different times. I’ve done two different names, two different sets of symptoms but the same hair. One time, they matched 40%. The other time, they matched 50% but it’s the same hair. They should’ve matched 100%. I’m not sure about hair analysis for that reason, so if you’ve had that company, challenge me. I’ll go through it again.
	But we’re about to be hooked up with an even more extensive heavy metal test. Some of the things if you think you may be exposed would be toxic element exposure, which is all of us, but hairdressers, nail techs, people that spray pesticides, welders, etc. Balding hair, bone density problems, cardiovascular disease can definitely be connected to their depression. Dermatitis or skin diseases-
Janet Lewis:	That’s interesting you say that, because the lady I was telling you about that we found had the autoimmune problem in her thyroid was a cleaning lady. She did cleaning with chemicals.
Dr. Lewis:	Bad chemicals.
Janet Lewis:	And they say many times that creates an autoimmune problem.
Dr. Lewis:	She had the most bizarre … I looked at the lab and said … I won’t tell you what I said, but it’s like it scared me.
Janet Lewis:	We said, “We can help you.”
Dr. Lewis:	It was so, so scary what she had, I begged her to share treatment with an endocrinologist. I don’t think what we do is treating everything. I just say throw it in and let God sort it out. But other potential signs of heavy metal toxicity is fatigue. But again, you know that fatigue can be so many other things. But it can be the heavy metals, GI symptoms, high blood pressure, immune function issues, impaired glucose tolerance, which is all of us, with high insulin and/or high blood sugar. Kidney function. That’s almost always a heavy metal. I shouldn’t say almost always. Many times it is. And nutritional deficiencies, because your body’s taking what few nutrients you have, trying to detox the stuff, just not enough of it to do it.
Janet Lewis:	Cool. Okay. Hopefully that answered Alice’s question. Then we have one from Trisha that said, “Can regular blood work indicate if there is underlying cancer or disease processes that have yet to become symptomatic?”
Dr. Lewis:	I got a similar question from Maggie also. There are some tests that you can do that would check for antigens, for, say, prostate cancer or breast cancer or ovarian and uterine cancer. I’m certainly not an expert on cancer. I always suggest that you go to a specialist, an oncologist or hematologist. I definitely prefer the ones that will help you do the natural stuff too. But yeah, you can see underlying things before they get symptomatic. Some people say, “But I don’t feel it.” I say, “Well, there’s so many people that didn’t feel their heart disease til five minutes before their heart attack killed them.” Feelings is a very small amount of what’s really going on.
	Let me tell you real quick, can these things help? We said earlier about the guy that had 35 on his PSA and he’s got full blown prostatic cancer that’s metastasized into the bone. Well, his PSA, his daughter was crying when she talked to Janet and said, “Well, it went down to, I think it was about a 9, within three weeks. I just got his lab back today and it’s down to 4.27.”
Janet Lewis:	Oh, that’s awesome. I didn’t even know that.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, they left the lab at lunch. So folks, I’m not curing cancer. I’m not treating cancer, but you throw things in that your body needs to work with and God can bless it and make you better, hopefully have a longer life, but for sure you can have a higher quality life. So yes, Trisha, you’re doing a good job getting your lab work and a couple of glasses of wine and you won’t have to worry about anything. I love teasing Trisha.
Janet Lewis:	So I guess the answer to that question is there are markers that you can tell. If you don’t get something under control, you have a better chance of having cancer down the road. Would that be an accurate statement on blood work?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, and maybe we need to go back and finish the podcast we didn’t finish on cancer and some of the statistics. I’d like to do that, because that was the one I didn’t get in enough Stevenisms. I got a lot of smart aleck Stevenisms I’d like to put in on that one.
Janet Lewis:	We just know if the body stays in an inflamed state for a long period of time and a lot of the lab values are not getting help, the body can only go so long on a wing and a prayer, literally. At some point, it can’t take any more, so that’s when you get cancer and those kind of things.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, disease is just adaptive physiology, and it’s adapted to bad situation. But yes, Trisha, I think you can see some of this coming. I mean, I know you can see a lot of it coming. It’s not necessarily what you feel.
Janet Lewis:	And the issue with nutrition is you don’t know what you missed out on if you start taking something because people say, “Well, I don’t know if I had that or not.” Well, none of us do. We just know that when people walk into this office you can always tell the ones that’s been taking nutrition for many years, because they look completely different than people that are just learning about it.
Dr. Lewis:	Amen.
Janet Lewis:	So on that note, we hope you’ve enjoyed the show. We hope you’re not tired, and if you are tired, you know how to now get help, so there’s no need to live like that in quiet desperation. We hope you guys have a very blessed week, and we’ll talk to you here next time on the Green Wisdom Health Show. Have a blessed week.

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Running on Empty? | The Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis

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Burning it Up…… Kidneys and Arthritis

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 the low-cost lab work where, now, you don’t have to guess at what’s going on with your health, but get tested with low-cost lab work across the United States to find out what’s really missing with your health needs. Today, we are burning it up with kidneys and arthritis. Although that was a very popular Elvis song many years ago, I don’t think the topic today has got to do with having fun. It doesn’t sound really fun to burn it up with kidneys and arthritis, does it, Dr. Lewis?
Dr. Lewis:	It’s not a hunk, a hunk of burning love?
Janet Lewis:	Well, it might’ve been at one point, but I’m not sure what happens to it after that. Actually, this title came from one of our long term clients, Trisha M. that wanted to know about kidney health, and I think the longer we started talking about it and rolling it back and forth, it turned into arthritis because all these things kind of relate, and we want to tell you how they do that. Her question was that she reads more about liver and detox, but not a lot about kidneys, and I think there’s more to helping that system than just drinking water, which is a great question. That really is, and that is something that really is not discussed. Kidneys, I know, when they’re not happy, make people kind of, for lack of a better word for it, pissy?
Dr. Lewis:	I can’t believe you said that.
Janet Lewis:	That’s only in a medical context, which I’m sure that’s a medical context word.
Dr. Lewis:	Right.
Janet Lewis:	Whenever they have a very short fuse like that … I told you before it can be liver but, many times, it’s kidneys also. One way you can tell that is if you’re having to go to the bathroom frequently and it’s very scanty when you go, like you’re not going near as much as what it felt like it should be. Can you explain to us why we need to take care of our kidneys and how that correlates to arthritis?
Dr. Lewis:	It’s true kidneys, Trisha, they don’t get much press, and they’re extremely important because they have to do with filtering all the oxidation that happens in the body. They’re free radicals and things like that. Kidneys are very, very incredibly delicate. They have to do with making red blood cells and putting out things that control your blood pressure, too.
	You don’t want to tax them too much, and some people have a little bit of knowledge, but not much understanding. They say, “Well, I’m going to save my kidneys and not drink enough water. That way, they don’t have to filter as much water.” That’s about the worst thing you could do. The things that can adversely affect kidneys are all the toxins I keep talking about, but lead and mercury and aluminum and cadmium and manganese, all the bad heavy metals.
	For example, I talked to a dentist one time, and I said I wanted the mercury amalgams taken out of my mouth, and her and another dentist said, “Well, you’re crazy, but we’ll do it.” I said, “But the mercury’s incredibly toxic.” She said, “No, no, not really, but I’ll do it for you.” I said, “What’d you’re daddy die from?” She said, “Kidney cancer.” That’s the number one cause, mercury toxicity. He was a dentist. She said, “Well, that’s back when they were mixing up the amalgam by hand. They do it with a machine now.” I said, “It’s still toxic.”
	Sometimes, people have good detoxification systems, and sometimes people don’t. Of course, we always touch on that. If you have urinary frequency, pain upon urination, scanty urine rather than copious amounts, it could be that you have kidney insufficiency, and we test that on our labs and look for optimal, not just within range, and how does it relate to arthritis? There’s a lot of different types of arthritis, but if you’re not filtering out all the toxins in your system, they have to settle somewhere, and they tend to settle in your joints. If it’s osteoarthritis, so that’s wear and tear traumatic arthritis, it tends to settle there, and it can go into psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus and things like that.
	I want to talk about osteoarthritis to start with just because I’m a chiropractor and that’s the bulk of what we treat or by treatment slows down the progression of arthritis, which did you know … I’m going to go down another rabbit trail for Amanda.
Janet Lewis:	We weren’t expecting anything different, Dr. We hear this all the time from many of our patients. They can’t quite keep up with you and your thoughts.
Dr. Lewis:	I can’t either. That’s the issue. Where was I going with that?
Janet Lewis:	Down the other rabbit hole. Arthritis.
Dr. Lewis:	I do that all the time. As you get traumatic events that will damage the cartilage, the ligaments, the disk spaces, one of the things … This is kind of a shameless plus. One of the things that is working is the chondroitin/MSM, but the main thing we have already had ‘Oh, my God good results’ with this collagen that we talked about that Eddie, from I think that’s Illinois, asked about. The reason I know it works, and Janet can tell you the difference of type 1, type 2, it doesn’t matter. Just take it. We’ve been taking it a few times, so I’m going to make a long funny story very short and boring. This week, I got caught up in doing something very, very stupid. I know that surprises you.
Janet Lewis:	Can I tell the story because people love stories. Since some of them are not here to actually see you in person, I know they would love to know what you’ve done. He doesn’t want me to share this story.
Dr. Lewis:	You know, she’s got a grin. I can’t tell you what it really is, but it’s kind of like a possum eating … Never mind. Go ahead.
Janet Lewis:	He did it for everyone’s welfare out there so they could all hear, too. I want people to know out there that Testoplex Plus works which, for you guys who don’t know what that is, it is the testosterone builder that we have in our office. The reason I know it works is because my husband, sweet Dr. Lewis, decided that … He initially decided that he would refrain from lifting a couple of supposedly 44-pound boxes that came from Amazon to us that were minerals for his garden that had gotten wet, so they weighed more than 44 pounds, so they were extremely heavy, and they were on our office floor when we came to work Monday.
	He said, “I will wait until I get a young strapping man in here to help me lift these so that I don’t hurt myself.” A few days goes by, and in comes a friend of his, a friend that is younger than him.
Dr. Lewis:	Ten years.
Janet Lewis:	Only ten years. Dr. Lewis actually used to practice adjusting him whenever he was in chiropractic college. He would use him as a guinea pig.
Dr. Lewis:	I’d come home and adjust him on the Pennzoil cases at his uncle’s gas station, so that’s probably why his head’s not on straight because I wasn’t a good chiropractor back then.
Janet Lewis:	This is the strapping man that comes in to pick up these boxes. I guess because the Testoplex Plus must be working, this guy, Donald offered to pick the boxes up and carry them out for him.
Dr. Lewis:	He didn’t offer. He just picked it up and slung it over his shoulder.
Janet Lewis:	Okay, that’s what did it. Then Dr. Lewis decided, “I can do this, too.”
Dr. Lewis:	It was pride and stupidity. It had nothing to do with testosterone.
Janet Lewis:	I had no idea this was going on other than I see Donald come flying through with one of the boxes, and behind him is Dr. Lewis, coming along slower with a head that looked like it was going to explode because it looked like a tomato because of his blood pressure.
Dr. Lewis:	I got the heavier … I know mine was the heavier box, right?
Janet Lewis:	I’m sure it was, which they proceeded to carry out to the vehicle. For the last however many days this has been now, my husband’s been not feeling so great from back problems from carrying out this box.
Dr. Lewis:	The point is, it did not crater my back because I’ve been on the collagen. Normally, that would’ve put me down for about two or three or four days because of past trauma, which is stupid car wrecks when I was 16 and 19 and 20-something and because of a gunshot wound that boo-booed a lot of things in my low back and because I fell off a roof one time, helping a friend roof a shed.
Janet Lewis:	More funny stories. Not so funny anymore. The point is, yes, …
Dr. Lewis:	The collagen’s working.
Janet Lewis:	… The collagen is working because I know what that would’ve done to him before, and he did recover quickly.
Dr. Lewis:	I started out talking about the collagen, and she got into the testosterone stuff.
Janet Lewis:	I had to explain why you thought you needed to lift the box which, if your testosterone wasn’t up, you’d have been like, “Here, let him take both of them.” That’s why I know it’s working.
Dr. Lewis:	I got the look, folks. I have to shut up.
Janet Lewis:	Go ahead. Now tell them your story about kidneys and arthritis.
Dr. Lewis:	You can talk about kidneys. I’ll talk about arthritis because, if you talk about kidneys, you’ll get that word that you said I can’t believe you’d say. The thing about it is, in today’s society, we get a lot of people that are anti-medical, which I do not understand. I mean, our medical profession is the best in the world. There’s no doubt in my mind about that, but you kind of have to wonder where arthritis comes from, whether it’s osteo or rheumatoid.
	The normal thing is take an NSAID, which is nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, which is generally ibuprofen or Tylenol, aspirin, naproxen, that kind of thing. Did you know that they actually speed up joint degeneration? That’s what the research says. We’re talking about inflammation, whether it’s the osteoarthritis, which is the wear and tear arthritis or the lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, which is gastrointestinal.
	You have to think taking drugs is good. It’s a noble thing to try to get pain down in a person and make their life better, but it just addresses the symptoms. Even methotrexate, I’ve seen people get on methotrexate, but they know more about drugs than I do, and then they die early because it killed their liver and kidneys. Janet and I do a lot of little adventurous trips every chance we get, and we were going through a podunk little town down in South Texas the other day, and I said, “You know, it’s a shame …” I cleaned that up. I said, “It’s a shame that in this little podunk, two-horse town that the most expensive building was the dialysis center.
Janet Lewis:	You notice there’s one of those in every little town there is now.
Dr. Lewis:	When you’ve got as many dialysis centers as you got Baptist churches and Church’s Fried Chickens, there’s a problem, folks. What is causing this kidney failure? There’s a lot of different things that cause that, but you need them. I’ve got three kidneys, and I tried to give one of them to this cute little girl that Janet kept out of dialysis for 22 months before she got her kidney transplant that she needed. Children’s Hospital in Dallas says, “We have never seen anybody with this particular condition that didn’t have dialysis and throw up and have all kinds of nasty things.” They said, “But it wasn’t those supplements that you were taking, but we’ve never seen this happen any other time.”
	I told her, I said, “Well, Baby, I’ve got three kidneys. If we’re a match, I’ll give you one. She comes back … Now, she’s originally from Holland, so she has the most beautiful little accent. She said, “Dr. Lewis, that is very sweet that you would give me a kidney, but the doctors in Dallas said your kidneys are too old.” Well, they’re pre-broken in with plenty of beer and whiskey, so they wouldn’t take my kidney. I’d have given it to her. She’s a sweet little girl.
	Part of the reason we have kidney problems and arthritis, it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about one or the other. All this applies. One of the things is drugs. Some of the things that I talked about, glucosamine sulfate, chondroitin, MSM, they do provide symptomatic relief, and there are different qualities of these things, but it also opens up the sulfation pathway in the liver. Lack of vitamin C puts you at higher risk for arthritis because it compromises the liver and their ability to detox, as well as the kidney, too. That’s true, very, very true with acetaminophen or Tylenol.
Janet Lewis:	I’m pretty excited about that collagen because, for women out there, that is the fountain of youth powder because it helps keep the wrinkles away.
Dr. Lewis:	If you saw her hair, you’d know it works.
Janet Lewis:	And then to know that it also helps with arthritis symptoms and pain is just awesome. The other big one that’s missing is the fish oil. A lot of people don’t talk about fish oil, but kidneys really do like fish oil.
Dr. Lewis:	It has huge anti-inflammatory properties, although it generally takes about two weeks for that to begin to work. I had a guy come in here yesterday, and he’s 60-something, has tremors and all that and has all kind of problems. I said, “Well, your problem’s really in your GI tract, according to your lab because of this, this, this.” He kind of challenged me, “Well, why’s your supplements better than any others?” I told him stories about $10 ladies of the evening down on the certain highway, and his wife was sitting there. She’s a sweet lady.
	He finally got convinced because I showed him research. I said, “This is the preferred omega-3 fish oil.” He says, “Why is it preferred?” I said, “Because it’s a triglyceride ester instead of an ethyl ester,” and I’m not a chemist. I don’t know that means, but the research, and I referred him to that, which he was not interested in once he saw it, said this is 393% better absorbed, and it doesn’t cost 390% more money. That’s the Orthomega. It’s some oh-my-God real stuff. It’s not for sale on Amazon because that’s where that people take advantage and take the opportunity to try to counterfeit this stuff. Orthomega, that’s what I take if that tells you anything.
Janet Lewis:	We’re excited about it because you only have to take two of those per day where, every other fish oil that we’ve had here, there were four per day.
Dr. Lewis:	They were still better absorbed than most of the fish oils, but this one is the king.
Janet Lewis:	Right.
Dr. Lewis:	Except I’ve got Stanley that I talked to today, great guy. He just does what I tell him to do, and he gets great love. He still takes four. He said, “Well, isn’t more better?” I said, “Yeah, because it helps rebuild your brain. That’s why you’re 56 and still very, very sharp and running marathons.”
	The intestines, whether that’s with rheumatoid arthritis or even kidney disease or whether that has to do with osteoarthritis, it’s the bacteria in your intestines, and it takes a long time and a lot of work to get the probiotics correct there because the bad bacteria, what happens, they produce toxic products, which is called inflammatory interleukins from the Journal of Immunology and Journal of Free Radical Biology Medicine. Yes, Jonathan, I read this stuff.
Janet Lewis:	I think the important thing with kidneys and arthritis is a lot of people are drinking diet cokes, cokes, things that are very high acid, so that the kidneys can stay in a more alkaline state because they’re being dumped all this acid on. They’re getting out of balance, so the kidneys are going, “Hey, I need to stay alkaline. Where can I get me some quick calcium?” Well, it starts coming out of the bone, and that’s what starts correlating between the arthritis and kidneys. That’s why they go hand in hand because you have to keep your body at an alkaline state, so eating things with high sugar and, like I said, caffeine, coffee, a lot of coffee …
Dr. Lewis:	She’s looking at my hot chocolate over here.
Janet Lewis:	No, no, no. Just speaking in general.
Dr. Lewis:	Right. You guys believe it, don’t you?
Janet Lewis:	Acid forming will make the kidneys very unhappy.
Dr. Lewis:	That’s what makes me excited because she’s as smart as she is beautiful and, God, I fooled her somehow into marrying me.
Janet Lewis:	Now, we’re up to our question segment, which thank you, guys, for writing in the questions. We really enjoy your input here because it just inspires us to just, I don’t know. We hear this so much, and we talk about it so much, we forget what people want to know, and it really helps for people to ask. Any time Dr. Lewis asks for these questions, which he does that on his Shootin Straight with Dr. Lewis on Facebook, so if you guys want to add him as a friend here, he will accept your friend request and you can get in on all of his Dr. Lewis-isms for free and chime in on the comments and add to these conversations and get ideas about shows for us, and we can help answer.
Dr. Lewis:	I told Trish Maples use wine for her kidneys, and she said she ought to be good then, so thank you, Trish.
Janet Lewis:	We have a question from, I hope I say her name correctly, Marlena S. She’s asking about asthma and other breathing issues. What do you recommend, I guess why do people have asthma, what are you recommending for them to take to help with that?
Dr. Lewis:	Number one, go to a respiratory specialist. Of course, as a chiropractor, many, many times if you get the nerve supply balance, you have sympathetic and parasympathetic, some that speed up, some that slow down, some that dilate, and some that constrict. I’ve seen so many people under chiropractic care get better with asthma and breathing problems, and there’s different nerves for different things. The number one mineral that’s usually missing is magnesium, which we’re all deficient. Even our government, and we know how smart our government is, our government says we’re deficient. Magnesium helps muscles relax, so magnesium and chiropractic care is good.
	There’s one lady drive all the way from Dallas to get an adjustment for her knee and for her asthma. She says, “I threw my inhaler away.” I said, “No, no, no, no. That might save your life. Don’t do that,” but she did it anyway. I don’t think you should throw away medicine. They do some really good things. Other things, you have to have good betaine hydrochloric acid, which that’s stomach acid, most of us don’t because that is actually a methyl donor which helps to detox.
Janet Lewis:	Asthma, also another big one as product-wise in addition to chiropractic is something called DMG, like dog, man, girl.
Dr. Lewis:	Dimethylglycine, which is similar to hydrochloric acid, which is trimethylglycine.
Janet Lewis:	It helps oxygen utilization. Actually, a lot of people that have the coughing … There was a guy one time in a restaurant that, oh, my gosh, he just kept coughing and coughing and coughing and coughing, and I had some of these DMG tablets. Now, we carry it as a liquid.
Dr. Lewis:	It’s stronger.
Janet Lewis:	I gave him a couple of them just so I could finish my meal. He thought I was trying to help him, which I was.
Dr. Lewis:	She didn’t want him coughing on her meal.
Janet Lewis:	Within about three minutes, his coughing subsided, but it also, for an asthmatic, it really helps them take a deeper breath, so that’s a great product, and then Dr. Lewis always mentions magnesium. It’s a very important product for asthma.
Dr. Lewis:	You really need to talk to us to determine the best kind of magnesium and, again, fish oil because of its anti-inflammatory things, pantothenic acid, which is a destresser. Janet takes pantothenic acid because it makes me prettier or maybe it just makes her able to live with me. I’m not sure. Selenium. There’s lots of them that, if you just throw in there, that God will bless your body because of it, but those are the main ones. Then, bee pollen since I’m a beekeeper. I’m moving beehives tonight. Bee pollen really does work, and I think you should support your local beekeeper, not buy the fake stuff that’s in the grocery store. That should help. I hope that helps. Good respiratory specialist and probably a chiropractor.
Janet Lewis:	The next one is all yours because I have no clue what this is. Debbie B., and I’m with her, it says, “Tinnitus, what the heck?” What is that and, I guess, how do you treat it?
Dr. Lewis:	I’ve been flirting with her on Facebook. I did that today. Debbie’s a girl I grew up with, the one that her family was kind of a cornerstone, a good family, somebody to look up to, and she wrote a thing on Facebook the other day about ‘shout-out to Dr. Lewis’ and talked about my family and ethics and hard work. Now that I’m coupled with Janet, well, Debbie, you know I’m just a good salesman. Why is it we grew up together and you still call me doctor? It’s really okay. She remembers me as Stephen, who was a little bit impish.
Janet Lewis:	Impish? That’s a great word we both came up at the same time with.
Dr. Lewis:	While she was making straight A’s, I’d look at her and some of the other good-looking girls, and I’d say, “You know, I’ve been here three days in a row. I’ll see you next week,” and I’d skip school. The principal would say, “Was the hunting or fishing good?” Sometimes, I was working to support the family, so … The thing about tinnitus, there’s a lot of possibilities. I think it affects about 25 million people, and it’s ringing, buzzing, hissing noises that has nothing to do with the external environment so, again, fish oil helps. CoQ10 can help. There’s one thing I’m going to get to in a minute, but magnesium and manganese. Manganese is not a very well-publicized mineral, but you need it.
	Once upon a time, I had really bad tinnitus, ringing in the ears. It is horrible. Of course, again, I’ve done stupid stuff and had plenty of trauma. I took something called vinpocetine. I’m a man. We’re brilliant. If one’s good, two’s better. If a little bit’s good, more’s better, so I overloaded on it, which was good. I did vinpocetine and [inaudible 00:23:28] A, and all the ringing in my ears went away because that will help re-vascularize inner and middle ear and brain, too. Me, back when we had some acreage, I was burning some stuff in a burn barrel. I think that’s a southern thing.
	It wasn’t getting good air flow so, Debbie, your friend took the 38 out of the boot, and I shot it through the side of the barrel where it would go through the bottom and exit and create air holes. I did it five times, only because my 38 only had five bullets in it, but I did it without hearing protection, and my ears have been ringing like crazy ever since. There’s two morals to that story. You can pick whichever one you want. Also, a good vitamin E. Most vitamin E’s are not good, but a good vitamin E is really, really good for that and lowers your chance of heart attack, I think, by about 75%, I think is the percentage on that, so that’s the story on that.
Janet Lewis:	So you guys are getting a big insight today into Dr. Lewis’ personal life, things you don’t see all the time.
Dr. Lewis:	That’s why they call it Shootin Straight. I used to shoot straight.
Janet Lewis:	Eddie S. has a question. Are you able to touch on dry skin? I get massive dryness on my hands, to a point where the skin cracks and bleeds. I would like to know if I’m deficient in anything or if there is a way to heal that. I remember having that myself.
Dr. Lewis:	Eddie, I love your questions and, frankly, I love your posts on Facebook. I appreciate the spiritual side that you promote. In my opinion, that makes you a better person, or maybe just more advanced. I’m not sure. Dry skin can be a lot of things, and can I touch on dry skin? I’d rather not touch dry skin, but … Okay.
Janet Lewis:	Dry skin, kidneys.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, it can be.
Janet Lewis:	Fish oil.
Dr. Lewis:	Fish oil’s the number one thing. There’s two different things that we have to think about. Sometimes, there’s not enough moisture, which the collagen actually helps maintain and hold the moisture, but we are oil deficient. We’re so full of the bad oils, which is canola, corn, safflower, soy, cottonseed, that kind of yucky oils, and it’s time for an oil change. The omega 3’s are good, and it’s better if you can add borage oil and evening primrose oil, flaxseed oil. When Janet had her LASIK surgery, I don’t know why because she’s still young, maybe it’s to make me look better …
Janet Lewis:	So I can see you better, Dear.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, y’all know BS when you hear it. That stands for belief system. We got her some fish oil with borage oil in it, and her dry eyes got better and better and better and better. That was a good thing. The same with dry skin, you have to add the oils, and I’m a real big fan of coconut.
Janet Lewis:	Eddie, I’m going to tell you the one that really helped mine is the Orthomega liquid because I take a teaspoon of it a day, and I can immediately tell my eye dryness is better, which is skin and hands and cracks.
Dr. Lewis:	If you get enough of the oil in there, avocado, walnut, grape seed, pecan oil, and butter, and I am not afraid of animal fat, even though they say it’s saturated. That is not a bad oil. The bad oils is the trans hydrogenated fats, so stay away from those. More and more oil. Do that. You can take the supplements, and then you can add it to your diet.
Janet Lewis:	One last question we’re going to touch on briefly here is, Laura D. wants to know about CBD oil.
Dr. Lewis:	Does it work? In my opinion, absolutely. Is it a miracle cure? No, I think everybody should stay away from anybody that says this one product will make you young, rich, and good looking and famous all in one fell swoop. They’re full of it. Is it a good thing? Yes. I tried four different companies. Two of them are just total hogwash, smoked mirrors, and bologna. I did not like them, couldn’t tell anything at all. Janet gets good results, probably because she pays better attention to her body, and that’s more of a female trait. I’m not that prone to placebo effect, but maybe I am. I’m not sure. We got one that we have here and, yes, it works. We took it for a while, and it helped with stress and da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Does it take care of everything? I think not. I think all these CBD companies are raping the public with the price. We currently have a guy, friend of mine, that’s negotiating with a CBD oil company that they’re telling him they will give us the same strength at one-third of the price.
Janet Lewis:	The strength is where you have to watch it. I had a lady bring one in yesterday, and she had a 50 mg cream, and she said, “I can’t tell this does anything.” I said, “Probably not.” The one that we have is a 300 mg cream. Again, it’s expensive.
Dr. Lewis:	Six times higher, but it wasn’t six times the price, and it’s still too expensive. I think they’re raping us.
Janet Lewis:	But people in pain say that it’s still worth it because I still have them coming in here and buying it because some people are in extreme pain. It really does help. We have a topical cream. We also have a 750 mg.
Dr. Lewis:	It comes out to 25 mg per dose. 25’s the kicker right there.
Janet Lewis:	An oral one, or a total body. Again, it’s not something that we … We try to do it with other things just because the price is, like Dr. Lewis said, I think they’re just taking advantage of us Texans. I don’t know if they’re doing that to y’all in Colorado, but they are here, so we haven’t really played that up very much just because of the price.
Dr. Lewis:	You could spend that kind of money and get many, many, many supplements that, overall, would do your body a lot more good.
Janet Lewis:	I do want to mention one more thing if you guys are now very confused. I know you’re not because we’ve explained everything so well, but people that don’t know what’s going on with their health and don’t know if it’s their kidneys or what’s happening, today’s panel that we’re talking about, to at least check your kidneys is our Advanced Health Check that includes our consultation. If you go on our website to greenwisdomhealth.com and look at the featured lab panels, it’s GWH6. It’s $195. That does include talking to Dr. Lewis, so do not pick the extra consultation fee at the end. That will be a good way to find out what’s going on with your health to get started. That’s something you can order yourself online directly.
	If you have a Health Savings Account, they do accept those cards also. They look like a credit card and are used the same way. We appreciate you listening to our show today. Please share this with someone that needs it, and we’ll be back here next week with you for another exciting show on the Green Wisdom Health channel. Thank you so much, and have a blessed week.

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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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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.