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

Sweet Death and Nutritional Deficiencies

Janet Lewis:	Hello and welcome to this weeks show. I am Janet Lewis.
Dr. Lewis:	And I’m Dr. Lewis.
Janet Lewis:	We are here to bring you a very exciting show about sugar. Well sugary things called The Sweet Death and Nutritional Deficiencies. I think we’ve gathered this show based on some things we’ve been hearing and seeing lately on TV. We are Green Wisdom Health, home of the Low Cost Lab Work here to educate you about things you may not know or things you want to know more of. I’m not sure which one. This all started because of an ad or something that we saw about Coca-Cola or Diet Coca-Cola, and people thinking that they were losing weight because they were drinking a Diet Coke. Oh I remember it was a Facebook deal where someone was eating all this bad food but they had a-
Dr. Lewis:	Aspartame messes with your memory too Janet.
Janet Lewis:	Yes and they had a Diet Coke so that everything was going to be great. Dr. Lewis if you could kind of just tell us what we’re here to learn today would be great.
Dr. Lewis:	Yes you ever notice I always have somebody that’s young, rich, and good looking and all that, and I’ve said that about beer commercials too. If they showed you on the ditch, down in the gutter throwing up beer might not be as attractive. I even taught my kids when they were tiny, tiny don’t succumb to advertisement because they’re not necessarily telling the truth, they’re just projecting it in a light that’s more positive than what it really is.
	When I talk bad about aspartame, same goes with sucralose. Have you ever noticed that people say, “Well I want a double bacon cheeseburger, super-size the fries, and give me a Diet Coke please.” Actually there’s plenty of research and it goes on and on and on about how this stuff actually tricks your brain into putting down more fat than if you ate the real thing. One of the things it does is it is sweet, then what happens is it doesn’t deliver the calorie load so your body gets confused, and that is one of the cascade of things that makes you start to gain weight.
	There’s a lot of studies, one of them they followed I think it’s close to 500 diet soda drinkers for about 10 years and found that the diet soda drinkers-
Janet Lewis:	Yes, their waist grew by 70%.
Dr. Lewis:	More than the ones that drank regular sodas, 70% more. Two drinks or more per day had like a 500% greater increase in waist size. When I read that article it’s like well you’re putting it very nicely, I’m not always this nice and I’ve been told that a lot lately so I’ll try to be very polite today. I apologize to people that I’ve hurt their feelings, but at least it comes out of passion. There’s a big correlation between the consumption of sucralose and aspartame to waist circumference and how much you weight, it’s terrible. If it says low calorie, zero sugar, or diet I run like crazy. I would not consume it, and I’ve been in people houses and they’ll say, “Hey doc, got this sugar free thing here,” and it’s like oh God I don’t want to hurt this sweet lady’s feelings but I don’t want to eat this poison either. It kind of puts you in a bind there.
	The artificial sweeteners they kind of mess with your metabolism. Like I said it’s usually sweeter than sugar the way it hits your tongue, but it doesn’t deliver the calories that your food would provide. That helps increase your appetite is what it does, it tricks your brain. It increases your risk of diabetes and metabolic diseases, but when I say the word diabetes I always think of Wilford Brimley, “I got diabetes,” with that big old beautiful mustache of his. When you eat something sweet we usually eat because it releases one of the neurotransmitters or the happy hormones, which is dopamine and that kind of causes your brain to feel like it’s rewarded. I told people when I get stressed I’d rather have Blue Bell ice cream than Shiner Bock beer, Texas companies for those of you that are listening outside of Texas.
	Since it messes with your leptin, it doesn’t tell your brain that you’re full because you haven’t had enough of the calories ingested. I’d say stay away from it because it’s horrible to you. I don’t know, I just look at it like you’ve been eating that stuff and you just get bigger and bigger and bigger and you get more arthritic, you get more joint pain, you get more irritable. I’d say stop it.
Janet Lewis:	Well I think it’s interesting that aspartame is actually a synthetic chemical composed of the amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid with a methyl ester.
Dr. Lewis:	Say it three times fast, that’s sexy.
Janet Lewis:	I got it out once. When that’s consumed methyl ester breaks down into methanol, which may be converted into formaldehyde.
Dr. Lewis:	Well methanol’s not a good thing either.
Janet Lewis:	Isn’t that what they embalm people with?
Dr. Lewis:	Yes, well-
Janet Lewis:	I don’t know, that’s just spooky.
Dr. Lewis:	Okay, some will say something real gross, please forgive me. I was trying to be nice here but you know I’ve treated a lot of people that served in Vietnam, and as gross as this is, I’m sorry to say it, the people that came back and I’ve treated they said, “Well our soldiers didn’t decompose nearly as fast as the Vietnamese or Viet Cong soldiers because we were so full of some sort of toxins.” You wonder if that’s not part of it and I don’t know that that’s a fact and I’m sorry if that freaks you all out, but this is what many of the Vietnam veterans have told me. We need to detoxify our body, which we’re going to talk a little bit about that. You know I talk about that all the time too and the importance of taking the nutrients that will help do that and other ways to do it.
	There’s plenty of researchers that says that it increases your cancer risk. One of the articles said it had a high incidence of brain tumors that were identified in aspartame fed rats and it’s like, well the moral of the story is don’t be a rat, and it’s like no it’s not really true because there was somebody that testified in front of Congress, I think it was back in the late 90s that said that aspartame definitely contributed to brain tumors in humans. Well if they testified before Congress, why does Congress still let that stuff be put in our food? It’s in over 6,000 products. A lot of times it’s in stuff that you don’t know that you’re consuming. From Harvard they reported in 2012 that there was a positive association between aspartame intake and increased risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and multiple myeloma in men and leukemia in men and women. Shouldn’t that scare you away? And heart disease, here’s a good one. This study checked about 60,000 post-menopausal women, they followed them for about 10 years and drinking just two diet drinks a day increased their risk of early death from heart disease.
	Next time you go somewhere, you’re probably eating in the wrong place if they serve diet drinks anyway and don’t supersize the french fries, fried in all kinds of nasty grease.
Janet Lewis:	The new thing now because people are going to go, “Oh I don’t drink Diet Cokes anymore. I changed to Coke Zero.”
Dr. Lewis:	You’ve just been fooled by the advertisements that my children, when they were three, four, five years old, were smart enough to know better.
Janet Lewis:	Well can you tell us the difference between the zero calorie Coca-Cola plus or the Coca-Cola Zero? What makes it different?
Dr. Lewis:	They’re just rebranding it so people won’t think about it. A Diet Coke got a bad name so now they’re naming it Coke Zero and hoping people don’t make that association. There’s also been other correlations made between dementia, other brain diseases, and aspartame. I’ve noticed that, that the people, not all of them but a higher incidence of people that have early onset dementia were the ones that consumed the most diet drinks, so dementia and stroke, brain diseases.
Janet Lewis:	Well how about Splenda? Isn’t that a great choice? I just love setting him up over here for the answers. If you all could see his face it’s just priceless.
Dr. Lewis:	If you could see what’s going through my head it’d be priceless but you’d have to beep me. I think of the term BS, and that stands for belief systems or bacon sandwich to one of my favorite preachers. He said, “I say bacon sandwich in the pulpit, they know what it means.” Which I admire him for being that way. No, don’t do it.
Janet Lewis:	Because Splenda, if this is correct, has also been linked to health effects like increased calorie consumption also right? It makes you gain weight.
Dr. Lewis:	It messes with your brain, it messes with your leptin, it messes with … We used to have this lady who worked for us named Jena Lee, it’s adiponectin, adiponectin. There’s a lot of chemical and hormonal reactions that just trust me, don’t do it.
Janet Lewis:	Well it increases the risk of cancer in mice and it disrupted insulin response.
Dr. Lewis:	Don’t be a mouse.
Janet Lewis:	Then a ladder case when study participants drank that Splenda sweetened beverage, their insulin levels rose about 20% higher than when they consumed only water prior to taking a glucose challenge test.
Dr. Lewis:	Yes their pancreas puts out insulin, says, “I’m all dressed up, with no where to go,” which means insulin has nothing to work on, which is a bad thing.
Janet Lewis:	Then it also showed that a 12 weeks of consuming Splenda, these rats led to significant alterations in their gut micro flora, including reductions in beneficial micro flora.
Dr. Lewis:	Okay, Janet got into something I’d forgotten about. Yes, you know that not having the right bacteria in your GI tract can alter genetic expression, so you want to do as much as you can to go with these non-Splenda, non-aspartame, non-sucralose things. Put in prebiotics, put in a massive amount of probiotics, it’s very, very important. I’m going to try to change the subject. I hear all the time, and people say it almost everyday, but my doctor or my aunt, or my cousin, or my momma, or my daddy says you can get everything you need out of the food. If they say that you need to run because they don’t know what they’re talking about. I’m going to present a case for why you cannot get it out of your food, so Janet I think is okay that I switch gears here.
	Why should you take vitamins, but they’ve got to be good vitamins because the vitamins they put in and fortify your food are not good vitamins, they’re synthetic. For example, there is a Senate document in 1936 and you can look it up, I forget the number on it, but they said back then, 1936 that’s way before me, that our soils were depleted of minerals. Think about it. American’s are, for the most part, the most well fed but undernourished people in the history of the world, and that’s because it’s depleted, our soils are depleted of the nutrients. Our soils are depleted of the micro organisms and is saturated with pesticides. The way we fertilize our plants are not good. For example, but vegetables in the 1990s had lower nutrient contents than those grown in the 1950s, which depending on what they were testing and where they were testing it, it had 6% less nutrients up to 76% less nutrients and folks that includes organic. Organic you’re not getting all the pesticides and that’s a good thing, but don’t think that you’re getting everything you need to do.
	Then think about this. You’re eating animals that are fed genetically modified plants, grains and it’s full of glyphosate, which does the same thing and then it stresses them out, then you’re getting your stress hormones are ramped up just from eating that pig or cow or chicken. They get fewer nutrients in their feed and then you think that it’s making you healthier. The mineral content is very, very important and that’s why you really, really need to supplement. It’s got to be good, and many people have heard me say this that you don’t know if it was one part per million of this or 16,000 parts per million. Sometimes one of the things it said, there’s one that says 68 parts per million, but the lowest had one part per million, but the 68 parts per million was very, very deficient in the first place and that was testing copper and manganese.
	The ammonium nitrate, for example, that’s what makes the leaves grow, replaces other nutrients like calcium, magnesium, potassium, and making plant tissue. How many times have you heard me say, “You might as well just take magnesium, there’s no way in the world you can get it out of your food.” Pretty much the same thing with potassium. Calcium a little bit, that’s a little bit true. We think about I’m gluten sensitive or I’m allergic to gluten, well because the way we feed our plants, the fast food that we feed them, it increases their protein content and this aberrant protein is caused by the synthetic fertilizers, but that protein is gluten. In our plants we have four to 40 times more gluten than we had even back in the 1970s and yes I was around for that. It’s getting to be a bad situation, so you just have to, have to, have to supplement.
	One of the biggest things that we’re toxic about, and we’re going to get into that, we have some questions there, there’s generally an average of around 200 different pesticide residues detected on all foods. That’s pretty good because that’s over 100,000 tests and they averaged it out. These pesticides have been linked to cancer, asthma, respiratory diseases, damage to nervous system including Parkinson’s, damage to the reproductive system, hormonal imbalances, how many people are getting bioidentical hormones because they have a hormone imbalance? Bunches, more and more, and it’s because we’re doing something wrong in our society the way we’re growing our food. You think about that for a little bit and I guarantee we’re not going to get around to everything I have written here.
Janet Lewis:	We have lots of things.
Dr. Lewis:	Yes, where do you want to go next Janet?
Janet Lewis:	Oh, well basically I wanted to talk a little bit about the product that helps with this insulin resistance issue because … Well let me rephrase that. As you’re having all these sweeteners and things you’re creating insulin resistance, correct?
Dr. Lewis:	Yes.
Janet Lewis:	Okay, then aren’t you essentially depleting the calcium from your bones when the sugar gets high because-
Dr. Lewis:	It buffers the acidity yes.
Janet Lewis:	Okay, so we have a new product that we are so excited about called K-FORCE, and for you guys that are patients of ours you’re used to it being called something like K2-D3, 80K2. This K-FORCE-
Dr. Lewis:	Which were good products but this is better.
Janet Lewis:	They were great. This is like those on steroids, and the reason why that is is because I didn’t know much about vitamin K, but when we started learning about it, why is it important to go with vitamin D? A lot of people are just used to getting vitamin D. The vitamin K is actually, when calcium … Just say calcium is coming to a hotel and he needs a place to stay. He enters the door of the hotel, well there’s a doorman there that’s waiting for him, which is vitamin D, it’s waiting to help him out. Vitamin D says, “Hey calcium, just hang out here in the lobby and look around.” Well calcium goes on into the lobby and he doesn’t know which room is his so he just stays in the lobby. Along comes the bellhop who is vitamin K that comes to take calcium, the luggage, up to the room so that it goes into the correct room. I know that’s a very simple way of looking at it but for me I get that, and Dr. Lewis can explain why, with the science behind it, that it works so much better than just taking the straight vitamin D.
Dr. Lewis:	Well I think what you said was really good. There’s a lot of research that says the higher concentrations at 100 micrograms per day of vitamin K, now it’s got to be the right kind, this is Menaquinone-7 or MK-7. It actually helps with optimal support for bone and for cardiovascular health, and there is a lot of vitamin K depletion because we don’t get it in our diet and about 70% of the Western population is deficient. That’s one of the reasons why we have clogged, i.e. calcium riddled arteries and osteoporosis has gone ballistic. We’re getting very, very good results. The MK-7 is much more active, has a longer half-life, and it actually accumulates at higher concentrations in the serum than vitamin K1. It’s a really good thing.
	Not only is it good for cardiovascular health, it’s good for blood sugar balance, which Janet kind of alluded to there. Vitamin K, since it helps the blood sugar metabolism, it slows down the metabolic syndrome that I talk about a lot and it helps with health elasticity of the arteries and the cardiovascular function. Anyway it’s a good thing, I take it.
Janet Lewis:	Basically it gets directed where it needs to go, and for you guys that aren’t even taking the prior products we had for that, this actually has twice the amount of K in it, so that’s why we were really excited about it because it’s like, “Hey we got a big bell hop to take us to the room now.”
Dr. Lewis:	It’s the perfect amount, it’s the studied amount where it gets the most effectiveness.
Janet Lewis:	If you’re new to our show and just now listening and we’re going to get to our questions here in a minute, but some of you have no clue what we do. Some days we have no clue what we do, but-
Dr. Lewis:	That’s everyday.
Janet Lewis:	Basically we run very low cost lab work so that we’re not guessing at what’s wrong with your health. If you hear something on our show today and wonder, “Hey, I wonder if my sugar is high? Hey, I wonder if my vitamin D is low? Hey, I wonder if I’m hurting myself with these diet things I’m having?” The lab panel that we’re recommending for today’s show is our comprehensive panel, it’s the GWH3 and I tell you that because when you get on our website at GreenWisdomHealth.com they are featured lab panels that are on our webpage because with that panel you not only get that lab that is 12 different panels a lab, which is about $3,500 normally at your doctors office. Right now it’s $298 and it comes with Dr. Lewis’ consultation that comes with that for up to a 30 minute going over those lab results so you’re not guessing at what’s wrong.
Dr. Lewis:	Might be a good thing but it might not.
Janet Lewis:	You get a functional medicine report to show you where numbers are optimal, not just in range and Dr. Lewis tells you that also but it’s a pretty green, yellow, and red chart that you can see for yourself. We also give you a list of recommended supplements of what he’s recommending to get you back on track so you can start having a life worth living. That is the comprehensive GWH3, and now we are going to try to make it through these questions because we didn’t have a show last week so we’ve got a lot this week. We’re going to try to move through them. Dr. Lewis might not go into too many rabbit holes so we’ll get him to answer them.
	First there were a couple of things he wanted to mention that he saw on some different TV shows that kind of struck a nerve with him.
Dr. Lewis:	A lot of things strike my nerve.
Janet Lewis:	One of them was the CDC says that diseases from mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas have tripled since 2004.
Dr. Lewis:	What does that tell you? That tells you our immune system has gone to heck in a bucket. Why is that? Well we can go into the genetically modified food, the altered micro biome. I’m freaking Janet out because I’m telling people we’re getting some new, better, oh my God incredible lab test. You’ll know about them soon as soon as we can get our IT guy to get them up.
Janet Lewis:	That’s why he’s freaking me out because he’s making me work harder.
Dr. Lewis:	Yes, everybody knows she does a lot more work than me, but we can better test your immune function and know what to do about it. It’s not that there’s more mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, or fleas and ticks, or I call them flicks and teas, but it’s because our immune system has gone to heck in a bucket. Okay next.
Janet Lewis:	Cool.
Dr. Lewis:	Sorry, I never talk fast until this show.
Janet Lewis:	That was really good.
Dr. Lewis:	Thanks, a rabbit hole.
Janet Lewis:	A study finds loneliness is at epidemic proportions in America.
Dr. Lewis:	Well I’ve talked about that too. We’ve become a nation of consumers. I mean you know I’m a big gun nut, sorry for you that aren’t, but I used to get great grin and glorious pleasure out of buying stuff and I said back in the 80s I said, “Having a BMW the thrill goes away a lot sooner than the payment does.” We’ve become a nation of we get our thrill from consuming things rather than creating friends. We’re getting, I see it everyday, people are stuck on information. Get on Facebook, what’s next, what’s next, what’s next? Let’s get on Google, let’s get on email. We’ve gotten hooked on information. We are a nation of too much information and too little action, I think that’s going to be the name of a show coming up too. Build relationships folks.
Janet Lewis:	Regular sauna visits lower your risk of strokes.
Dr. Lewis:	Yes this was on Good Morning America and that’s one of the things that I’ve said for years. Far infrared saunas one of the easiest ways to detox. Maybe Janet will get me a far infrared sauna sometime for my birthday or Christmas so I can be less toxic to live with.
Janet Lewis:	Sure, okay. Now we have a, well actually it’s a-
Dr. Lewis:	Statement?
Janet Lewis:	A statement from a lady named Alice B. She says, “So I’ve been on a regimen that Dr. Lewis suggested to help detox me as I go through getting my amalgam fillings out, and about two weeks in my skin is amazing. The firmness and wrinkles are noticeably improved. What gives Dr. Lewis? I will now need to stay on this miracle concoction.
Dr. Lewis:	I always put them on something for their skin because women don’t care about anything but pretty skin, hair, and nails, and men don’t care about anything but testosterone. She told me she was taking HM complex, which stands for heavy metal. Lipotropic detox to help your liver detox in different ways and liposomal C to help grab onto the amalgams if there was that mercury coming out of the mouth. She got more firm skin and yes we sell a lot of the collagen, the patented studied human trial study collagen type 1 and type 2 that were getting some pretty serious good results from. Yes, if you throw it in there your body can definitely detox it.
Janet Lewis:	Very good, so the HM complex what does that do exactly? Somebody else asked me about that today.
Dr. Lewis:	Well it’s kind of a daily detox cocktail with all the different things in it too.
Janet Lewis:	That helps pull out heavy metals and-
Dr. Lewis:	Yes it binds with it. Some of the higher levels of zinc, selenium, alpha lipoic acid, etc., etc.
Janet Lewis:	Now we have Joe L. that wants to know is Colon Max, which is a product we have here for constipation, okay to use for kids who have constipation in replacement of the often prescribed MiraLax?
Dr. Lewis:	I think Colon Max is probably too strong. I would suggest Super Aloe 250, and getting their gut function better and that would be probiotics and fish oil helps with that. Probiotics and a lot of fiber, make them eat more vegetables and fruits and drink a lot of water.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, the Super Aloe is just aloe vera so it’s not anything.
Dr. Lewis:	It’s not one of those bad ones the GI doctors warn you about, it’s not cascara.
Janet Lewis:	Well isn’t MiraLax got some pretty bad stuff in there.
Dr. Lewis:	It’s controversial, let’s just leave it at that.
Janet Lewis:	Then the last question we have here is still from Joe. Do you have any ideas for bedtime snacks for kids? They often want cereal but I’m guessing this is probably not the best option.
Dr. Lewis:	When I was a kid I had two choices, take it, leave it, or get daddy’s belt. Other than that.
Janet Lewis:	That doesn’t sound like a very good bedtime snack to me.
Dr. Lewis:	Okay, I was going to be polite the whole time. I can’t make it. I think apples are good. I think avocados are incredible. Our little four year old granddaughter will come in, “Papa, avocado.” She also asks for chips and hot sauce but I try to steer toward the avocado. Boiled eggs, I peel a lot of those for her. If you get them a good protein and a good fat usually that will make their hunger go away and they’ll feel more full and more satisfied and helps their behavior too.
Janet Lewis:	Yes because I think actually the cereals and things actually make them hungrier because it’s making them want to eat more.
Dr. Lewis:	It does.
Janet Lewis:	We’ve noticed that. If our grandkids will eat cereal then an hour later they’re hungry again, and I think a bunch of it is the yeast, it’s craving something else really bad because that kind of feeds it a bunch of times and it’s pretty empty. It’s not protein so it’s not really filling them up.
Dr. Lewis:	You know how polite I always am? I had a friend 10 years younger than me and he says, I need to lose weight and I said, “You need to quit eating grain.” He said, “No, the United States Department of Agriculture says eat seven to 11 servings of grain per day.” I said, “Donald, when you were in FFA and you wanted to fatten up your calf what did you feed him?” He says, “Grain.” He says, “Oh my God you caught me.” He needed to lose a whole lot of weight. Finally years later another doctor told him the same thing and he’s following this other doctor’s advice and he’s lost 50, 75 pounds. Looks great and probably going to live longer because his heart was getting kind of questionable. Grain is not a good thing. If you can make cows fat with it. The only thing I think grain is good for is maybe making beer and then that’s kind of questionable too.
Janet Lewis:	Basically having a protein at night would help them sleep better?
Dr. Lewis:	Yes but I like high fat, good fat, which avocados, coconut oil, butter. That helps too, fat and protein.
Janet Lewis:	Well very good. We hope you guys have been educated once again and Dr. Lewis you have anything else that we left out?
Dr. Lewis:	Real quickly, you know we were talking about nutrient deficiency and people they say no you can get it all out of your food. I’m going to read something real quick. It says lack of B vitamin is common and this is from New England Journal of Medicine. Lack of thiamin makes blood brain barrier more leaky. Journal of Experimental of Neurology and the lack of thiamine, that’s the Benfotiamine I put you all on. Lack of B vitamin cause psychosis, British Journal of Psychiatrists. B vitamin is needed to convert amino acid tryptophan to serotonin, the neurotransmitter, Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine. Post-partum depression is due to low levels of B vitamins, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Then PMS becomes worse with a lack of vitamin D, Journal of Lancet.
	Folks, if we can get all this out of the food why are these medical journals publishing this? This is some B vitamins, I could go on for hours.
Janet Lewis:	Unfortunately we don’t have hours to go over all of it. You guys go out and get you something that’s not aspartame for a drink today like-
Dr. Lewis:	Cold beer.
Janet Lewis:	Water with lemon or a lime.
Dr. Lewis:	Yes, water with lemon or lime.
Janet Lewis:	Because that actually helps stop your cravings for sweets. If you have questions please email us. We also have a Facebook group that you can be a part of called Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis. Just shoot us an email or give us a call and we’ll be happy to add you to that group and Dr. Lewis will enlighten you with his Dr. Lewisisms on there as well. We hope you guys have a very blessed week and we’ll see you right here next time.

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

B12 and Chinese Medicine

Janet Lewis:	Hello, and welcome to this week’s show. I’m Janet Lewis.
Dr. Lewis:	And I’m Dr. Lewis.
Janet Lewis:	And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low cost lab work and knowledge beyond comparison, so educating you today with a very fun show about B12 and the tongue called B12 and Chinese medicine.
Dr. Lewis:	I wanted to name it B12 and B-52. They’re both the bomb but I got outvoted.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah, figured he’d have to talk about B-52s and I’m not sure he knows a whole lot about those, other than he likes war movies, so I thought we better stick with B12 and Chinese medicine, and what’s going on with the tongue, because we’ve noticed that some people have different issues with their tongue, and we didn’t know if you knew it or not, but there are correlations between the tongue markers and different organs of the body, so Dr. Lewis is going to educate us about both today. So Dr. Lewis, I’ll let you take it away and tell us all about it.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, where do you want to start, B12 or the tongue?
Janet Lewis:	Whichever one comes first, the chicken or the egg.
Dr. Lewis:	Okay. Okay. I got something to say about that but I won’t go there. I was doing a podcast as a guest yesterday, and the guy knew that Janet and I’d gone to China, and he wanted to know about our experience there, and he wanted to talk a little bit more extensively about traditional Chinese medicine. Of course, a few days over in China does not make me qualified to be a traditional Chinese doctor, but we did learn a lot while we were over there. We actually attended some lectures and went to the world’s oldest herbal pharmacy, and did all sorts of things, but-
Janet Lewis:	And actually took courses in Chinese medicine as well.
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, that’s true. I must’ve forgotten because B12 is so important in memory. We’ll get to that. I don’t know where this idea about the tongue came from, that we should talk about it, but it does tell a lot about your general health, and I don’t care. It’s always gut related, GI related, how your GI absorption is going and what to do from there. One of the things that it’s important to keep your GI tract in perfect health is because it’ll bind toxins. It’ll bind microbes and we have a very large percentage of people that have intestinal dysbiosis or too many bad bugs versus good bugs. So there are things that we can do that will help bind those toxins, and there are immunoglobulins and we’re getting into some more new, better different extensive but not expensive lab work to talk about intestinal permeability. But it’s very important that you maintain the gut barrier protection and balance inflammation. And I like to tell people inflammation is not a bad thing because if you weren’t having inflammation, you wouldn’t even be alive. Your physiology would be fizzled out and then some.
	And that will optimize nutrient absorption. What’s that got to do with the tongue? Hey, good question. I sounded like my brother when I said that, the smart one. The tongue can give you a big, big hint as to what’s going on in the GI tract, so back to traditional Chinese medicine. You look at the color of the tongue, whether it’s pale, pink, or red. You look at the condition, whether it’s withered or swollen, which is actually normal. You have something called geographic tongue, and I have seen people. They’ll say, “we’ll my tongue did this …” I’m tongue tied. “It does this” and it’s oh, my God. I’d look at it and I’d try not to cringe. The moss coating. Now, most people have a light coating. Some people have none, a few, and many, many people have heavy which is more indicative of a slow moving bowel that has a tendency to have that intestinal dysbiosis or generally just too much yeast.
	There’ve been good books written 20, 30, 40 years ago about yeast, and it’s still a problem in society because our GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, which is the plants that we eat actually makes it really hard on the good bacteria, and it makes it more prevalent, or a better environment for the pathological bacteria and yeast to grow. So then you look at the moss color, the coating, but then you look at the color, white, yellow, or other. I’ve seen some that were very, very dark. And then whether it’s dry, moist, or damp. Yeah, this is a lot to look at, and you know, after you see enough tongues-
Janet Lewis:	How do you tell if your tongue is dry, moist, or damp?
Dr. Lewis:	Well, those are the people that are always sipping water because it’s kind of too dry and generally, not always, folks, but it can be related to something called Sjogrens, and that is an autoimmune disease that we actually see, and I don’t diagnose since I’m a chiropractor, but when you see these things or people come in and say, “Well, the doctor says I have Sjogren’s Syndrome.” I said, “Yep, okay.” Dry eyes, dry tongue, dry mucus membranes, and one of the best things for that is not just fish oil but fish oil with borage oil, and that helps moisturize things.
Janet Lewis:	Oh, so when like that commercial that says, “Dry eyes,” that means those people have dry tongues probably.
Dr. Lewis:	That’s a possibility, yeah.
Janet Lewis:	Cool.
Dr. Lewis:	So on the tongue color, a normal tongue is kind of a healthy pink, darker pink. If it’s more anemic it’s light pink or even white. The whiteness would indicate, as I said earlier cold, depressed condition, which would be a generally slow moving GI tract. That way if you see that, you will go on blood building and herbs that would tonify would be indicated, and if you’re anemic, think about that, but I do not recommend that you take iron unless you have lab work. If it’s bright red, like very, very bright red or scarlet, that would be indicative of the GI tract having a hot or irritated condition. You see that a lot in alcoholics along with the red nose, but it can be many things other than alcoholism too. And then you can talk about the cleansing or heat reducing herbs. In Chinese medicine, it kind of boils down to it’s a hot condition, a cold condition, a dry condition, or a wet condition, so you kind of think in those terms. Then you can begin to kind of make a decision about which way to go. The normal tongue is plump, not really swollen but relatively thick. It’s not really shriveled.
Janet Lewis:	You know, and I think we became interested in the tongue … as many of you know, we have health issues ourself is why we do Green Wisdom Health to start with because we’re always looking for natural ways to make our health better, so naturally because we’ve figured out how to do that, we can now help you. And a lot of people go, “Well, you’re healthy. That’s why you own a health food store.” I think you get into things because you need help and that’s a passion of ours to help other people because of the issues that we’ve had. But I’ve always had really poor digestive issues, and before we started getting healthy, my tongue was white, like you said, and on the sides, they were raw. The sides of the tongue were raw because that was where the gut was.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, and on the side of the tongue also indicates what’s happening in the liver area too, the liver meridian also.
Janet Lewis:	Well, I could never figure out why my tongue hurt all the time and when we started learning about Chinese medicine, we realized, hey. That’s a marker for your health to know whether or not it’s good or bad, and like the tip of your tongue … I know Dr. Lewis is talking about B12 but that’s heart related.
Dr. Lewis:	Heart and mind and they’re very, very connected.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah. Yeah, so when you’re overworked or you’re really stressed out, the tip of your tongue will start hurting if you don’t have proper supplementation.
Dr. Lewis:	You know how the tip of the tongue, and the heart, and the mind are related? If you fall in love with your heart, your mind goes out the door.
Janet Lewis:	Well, good. I always thought it was a B12 connection, but what do I know?
Dr. Lewis:	It can be. It usually is. Most of us are actually deficient in B12 because even if you eat the right things, which is almost completely … B12 comes out of meat. Even if you eat that, the question is are you digesting it and did that piece of meat come from CAFO, confined animal feeding operation? Were they eating genetically modified grains? And that’s why it ell people it’s much, much better to get a pasture raised beef from your neighbor and you know they’re feeding it better stuff, mostly grass fed.
Janet Lewis:	Well, and I know with myself, when my tongue was coated white, it meant it was a cold environment. It was sluggish. It was not circulating like it should.
Dr. Lewis:	That song was written too, Too Cold at Home.
Janet Lewis:	Oh.
Dr. Lewis:	I’m sorry.
Janet Lewis:	I thought you were going to tell me you had a forked tongue or something. I didn’t know where this was going. We never know where it’s going. But anyway, the tongue is very interesting and has a lot to do with heart and mind stuff also, which I know Dr. Lewis is talking there about B12. He was about to anyway.
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, I will. I’ll get around to it. A little bit of light moss coating is actually normal, but if it’s heavy, it’s congestion, as Janet said, and usually these people have a tendency to be constipated, and you know from listening to us that you better check your thyroid on that one too and your digestive enzymes. If you don’t have any kind of moss coating or a dry tongue, and have that dry condition, you couldn’t be a good singer because you notice the cameras get up and get close, and I don’t know what all those singers do to make their tongue look perfect. It may have something to do with their $20,000 worth of dental work to make their teeth look perfect too. I don’t know. But kind of look at that and I guess an extreme example would be when your baby gets thrush, and it’s a yeast overgrowth, and it can go way beyond the tongue and get all around the mouth also. And any time you take antibiotics, and sometimes antibiotics will actually save your life, but you always want to immediately start massive amount of probiotics.
	Now, I’m kind of a big fan. We have about … I don’t know … 14, 15 different types but there’s one out there that they tout it as being 20 billion, but they never encapsulate it unless it goes 40 or better, and they say it averages about 60 to 62 billion, and it has a probiotic yeast, and it calls Saccharomyces boulardii, and we do have a lot of other ones too. And as your GI tract gets healthier, then your tongue will change colors. It will change textures. That heavy moss coating will generally go and become much lighter. Your tongue will get a darker pink. I’m like Forrest Gump. That’s about all I want to say about that or that’s all I got to say about that, but I can talk about pulse too, because the reason I want to do that is because while we were in China, we had a consultation with a traditional Chinese medical doctor and of course they couldn’t speak English, and they would talk to us through an interpreter, and they’d check the pulse. They’d look at the tongue. They’d look at the nose and maybe a little bit in the eyes, and this cute little interpreter after the Chinese medical doctors said something about cancer, and of course, there’s always a language barrier.
	And I said, “Does he say I have cancer?” I have the tendency toward cancer. And she spoke in Chinese and he never answered back. He just went … and then he said that I drank too much, and it’s like I really don’t drink much. I talk about it more than I do it. And I said, “Why would he say that?” I said, “Is it because my nose is a little bit red,” which is one of those irritated, hot conditions and the tendency towards high blood pressure. And once you get a really good magnesium and get it in and be steady, most blood pressures will go down, and if you clean up the GI condition, especially the cold sluggish conditions, then that will take care of itself too. But the pulse is really, really interesting and they taught much different than I was taught in chiropractic college. You pay attention to the rate, whether it’s fast, normal, or slow, but there’s other things that you need to pay attention to.
	It’s whether the strength is hard or strong, normal, or weak, and well, I don’t think I was ever taught that too much. Whether it’s superficial or whether it’s very deep, whether it’s hard, whether it’s thin, whether it rolls by like marbles passing by, and that can tell you a great deal about the cardiovascular system. I think I’m in better shape than I was when we were in China, but it was a good time and we did learn a lot. They talk about the catabolic and anabolic conditions, whether it’s building or whether it’s tearing down, and you can determine that and decide whether you want to build a person or cleanse a person. A lot of the people that contact us are trying to do both at the same time. “Well, I’m going to go on a eight day fast, and how hard should I work out at the gym?” I said, “You shouldn’t work out at all. You’re trying to cleanse and then you’re trying to build. They don’t compute. Don’t try to do them both at the same time.”
	Back to the wet or dry system, the cold or hot system. In Chinese medicine, they talk about air, fire, earth, and water, and if it’s too far into the air system, they think you need a major change. If you have fire, or the hot or red condition, think a red hot tongue indicating red hot GI tract, but if you have that fire, then you need to cleanse. If it’s earth, that means you need to activate the energy that’s there, but it’s dormant, and if it’s water and that goes with wet and cold, then you know you need to build. And if you;; start paying attention to the pulse, and the eyes, and the nose, and the tongue, then you’ll know when it’s time to build versus time to cleanse, and it does make a hug difference when you do it, how long you do it, and don’t do both of them at the same time. Off to B12, is it time?
Janet Lewis:	I believe so.
Dr. Lewis:	Okay.
Janet Lewis:	B12 is not getting its place in the limelight here.
Dr. Lewis:	Janet and I went to a college ballgame one time where our son was doing the honor guard in the Air Force, and he said a B-52 is going to fly over. Well, they’re stationed, for the most part in Barksdale Air Force base, which is about 70 miles from here, and so we’re at this college ball game mostly just to see our son do the honor guard even though we needed binoculars to see him, and here comes the plane. It wasn’t a B-52. It was a B-25, so you have to be careful with your Bs. I’m going to talk about B12 and some other stuff. B-25 was kind of a big disappointment because it’s a little bitty plane used in World War II and B-52 is kind of a big behemoth of a jet plane, incredible, incredible. They’re older than Janet but they’re still as pretty as Janet. They’ve been upgraded. Janet has not had any upgrades and she still looks good, so B12. Let’s see. What do you want to hear about?
Janet Lewis:	I want to know why it’s important and why that people that take iron don’t absorb iron.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, sometimes it is a B12 anemia. It can be a B6 anemia. It can be a iron deficiency anemia and it’s very, very important that you get these things balanced. Don’t say, “Oh, my doctor says I’m anemic. I’m going to go chew on nails,” because it probably won’t do it. One thing I’d like to caution you about is there are so many supplement companies out there that says, “We have B12.” Well, if you will look you can kind of judge sort of the integrity of the company if they say they have B12 but it’s cyanocobalamin, and people can take large doses of cyanocobalamin and continue to be deficient in B12, so yes. Technically they pt B12 in there but they’re, I think, lying to you because you’re not going to absorb it, and then I would question the company’s integrity completely because it’s inexpensive and that’s why they do it. The best form of B12 is methylcobalamin, and there’s other forms, and that has to be put with other B vitamins. I don’t really like a straight B12. Our B12s for the most part have things with them like B6, paroxetine, hydrochloric acid, or hydrochloride, but-
Janet Lewis:	Well, would you explain a little bit about MTHF that goes with it in our product, why you need that, or why just straight B12 doesn’t do what it’s supposed to.
Dr. Lewis:	I’ve heard conflicting reports on how many of us have that MTHFR problem, and that stands for methylenetetrahydrofolate. It used to be easier to say that and to remember the letters to it I’ve heard 50%, 80%, 20% of us have that genetic SNP, and the SNP is SNP. Stands for single nucleotide polymorphism, and you can have that, but you can have it to different degrees on the 677 gene or the 1298 gene. I have one SNP on the 677, which is not the worst one, but when I started taking this 5-MTHF, which is the form of folate that will be absorbed if you have these genetic SNPS. When I started taking it … I’m not always the wisest person in the world. I figured out I needed it so I thought, well, if a little bit’s good, more is better, and I started with, oh, my God, huge, huge, huge dose and I’ve told the story to a lot of you. I felt horrible for about five days, but I don’t lose my faith if I feel bad. I don’t worry about it because I know it’ll pass, and on the sixth day it was like Jesus parted the clouds, and the angels started singing because it was beginning to methylate, or clean out.
	Well, once I started really, my detoxification path was caught up, oh, my God. I feel so good taking this stuff, and Janet can tell you the very day I don’t take it, she can absolutely tell you. She’ll say, “Did you take your methyl CpG?” And I’ll say, “Well, you know I didn’t or you wouldn’t ask the question. How can you tell.” She says, “You’re not happy.” I said, “I’m always happy.”
Janet Lewis:	That’s right, and that’s methyl CpG. That’s one of the things we recommend when we do lab and Dr. Lewis is talking about B12. If you don’t really know if your B12 is low, we actually recommend that you do our cardiac panel because if you think you have a B12 issue, you probably also are maybe concerned that you have a cardiovascular issue as well from inherited weaknesses or being really tired, but in our cardiac panel, it’s called GWH8 for those of you that are wanting the special pricing on it. It includes 10 lab tests. One of them is homocysteine, so it kind of takes B12 to the next degree, wouldn’t you say, Dr. Lewis?
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, well, the methylcobalamin, the good B12, what it does, it converts homocysteine, which is a bad thing and it makes you way more at risk for cardiovascular problems like heart attack and stroke, but it converts the homocysteine into something called methionine, which is used to build proteins, so that’s a good thing. And the one thing I want to caution you about, if you’re taking even high doses, or even moderate doses of the bad, or less absorbable cyanocobalamin, you can still test high on the B12 test. People say, “Well, it’s 2000. My doctor told me to get off of it.” It’s like, well, just because it’s there doesn’t mean you’re absorbing it, so don’t be fooled by that. It needs to be done cautiously, and judiciously, and wisely.
Janet Lewis:	And that’s why we run the other panels with it because it’s more indicative of a heart issue based on homocysteine. There’s a C-reactive protein in it that shows cardiac specific inflammation. There’s a fibrinogen that shows the break down of whether you’re-
Dr. Lewis:	Well, the higher the fibrinogen, the more likely you are to form a clot, which could go, cause you to have a stroke, or heart attack, or a pulmonary embolism.
Janet Lewis:	There’s a spun magnesium in it so it’s not just magnesium at your bloodstream, but it’s actually how much you’re getting in on a cell level, so we kind of look at all of it, and not just the one test, and-
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, well … Go ahead.
Janet Lewis:	I do want to make sure that we address these questions that we have here because we’re running out of time. I don’t know why.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, because I went down another rabbit trail, so let me say this real quick. B12 has been known to reverse symptoms of different neurological diseases like Bell’s Palsy, carpel tunnel … it just goes on, and on, and on. It begins to protect fatty sheaths and help protect your nervous system, assist in memory and learning, and happiness, and can help with depression, fatigue, constipation, digestive disorders, dizziness-
Janet Lewis:	And in metabolizing fats and carbs, which is important.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, let’s have some B12 and go get some ice cream, honey. Yeah, go ahead.
Janet Lewis:	All right. We have a couple of questions here for you. There is a guy named Tony A. That asked about tinnitus, which I guess, we need to know what is tinnitus, and how do you fix it? I guess for people that have it, they know what it is, but for those of you that don’t, maybe you have it and you don’t know that’s what it’s called.
Dr. Lewis:	You know, I get that question a lot so I really appreciated the email. It’s a condition that, it effects a lot of people. I think it’s up into the 20, 30 million people range with hearing loss, and I’ve told a story about me shooting a gun without … I’d gotten rid of my tinnitus with something called vinpocetine. Now, does that always work? No, it does not.
Janet Lewis:	What is tinnitus? Is it like ringing in the ears? That kind of thing? Yeah, a high-
Dr. Lewis:	Yeah, I have it all the time.
Janet Lewis:	High pitched frequencies.
Dr. Lewis:	And it’s real common with people that are around a lot of noise, like many, many, many years ago, I worked at Lone Star Steel, people that work around railroads, and factories, and things like that. It used to be thought that that’s coming out of the inner and middle ear, and then there’s other train of thought that says they think it originates in the brain, and you know you’ve heard me talk about, you have to fix your guts to have a healthy brain. I’ve seen it be fixed by fixing the guy’s testosterone. I’ve seen it because it was high cholesterol. You know I don’t really worry about cholesterol much, but it can be too high if you have those other factors that Janet mentioned, C-reactive protein, high homocysteine and fibrinogen, but I’ve seen cholesterol do it. Vinpocetine can work. Coenzyme Q10, if it’s a good one. There’s a lot of really, really not good fake ones out there, can work. Magnesium, magnesium, magnesium. I don’t care who you are. You need to be taking magnesium. Really sometimes the B vitamin complex, vitamin E if it’s a good one. The D-alpha tocopherol, but I like the mixed tocopherols. The one I take has really high levels of gamma and delta tocopherols.
	Vitamin A can do it. Potassium can do it, but manganese. Manganese is a very common deficiency that’s been linked to that, but it’s also linked to another question that Janet’s going to ask.
Janet Lewis:	Okay. I hope I ask the right one.
Dr. Lewis:	I love doing this.
Janet Lewis:	We only have time for one more probably here, so. Betsy B. Wants to know about rotator cuff torn after surgery. She had a rotator cuff torn after she had surgery.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, they fixed it and then it’s beginning to tear worse. You-
Janet Lewis:	And what supplements help it heal?
Dr. Lewis:	Well, the supplement is manganese, and I think the hyaluronic acid, I love, love, love the thing we have called collagen. It’s both type one and type two, don’t have time to explain all that, but that’s very important that you go to a really incredible massage therapist, chiropractor, or physical therapist that understand the muscle balance of the shoulder, and that’s a pretty complicated study, folks. But manganese and mostly the hyaluronic acid and the collagen.
Janet Lewis:	Oh, well he answered that really fast so we got time for one more. What is the best product for bowel stimulation. This is coming from Bronda M.
Dr. Lewis:	Well, you know, you always want to work on it with the probiotics and digestive enzymes, but the one that we … I guess our favorites is called super aloe 450 and if that’s too strong, we have a aloe 250. That seems to be the best and most easily tolerated, and I talked to a GI doctor one time, and I have the greatest respect for a medical profession. Boy, they’ll bail you out when you get yourself in trouble, but the GI doctor said, “Well, you shouldn’t give them a laxative every day.” I said, “I understand but we’re working on fixing the GI tract problem,” which probiotics and the right digestive enzymes can help tremendously. But I said, “Would you rather have them constipated where they’re growing polyps that turn into cancer?” He says, “Okay, point taken.” So folks, if you’re not having two or three trains moving through the tunnel every day like you’re eating two or three meals, you do have a problem. If you’re just pooping once a day, you’re constipated.
Janet Lewis:	And the super aloe, the 450 or the 250, that’s just aloe. It’s not anything that’s going to be … because a lot of people worry that it’s something that their colon won’t move at all if they are not taking it, and it’s not that way. It doesn’t cause it to lose the elasticity.
Dr. Lewis:	It doesn’t cause the discoloration in the colon, which is not pathogenic, but some people worry about it.
Janet Lewis:	Well, and it’s not addictive, like almost all of them over the counter have a form of antifreeze in there to make them go to the bathroom.
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, yeah.
Janet Lewis:	We’re not giving you that. We’re giving you something healthy that just helps bowel motility, so okay. That’s super aloe 450, and the other part of that is they need to make sure that they’re doing some sort of a fiber to help pass things through so-
Dr. Lewis:	What do you put in my drink for fiber?
Janet Lewis:	All kind of stuff actually.
Dr. Lewis:	Arsenic and cyanide, I think.
Janet Lewis:	I do deeper greens.
Dr. Lewis:	Oh, yeah,
Janet Lewis:	The deeper greens taste delicious. I think it’s-
Dr. Lewis:	The best we’ve ever had as far as taste. Incredible.
Janet Lewis:	Yes, and it’s fruits and vegetables, so if you can’t eat fruits and vegetables or don’t have time, that’s a really great product to try.
Dr. Lewis:	And it’s organic. It tastes almost chocolatey. I love it and so do the grandkids.
Janet Lewis:	Yeah. Anything else you want to say about B12 or we can take this very last question. We’ve got about a minute and a half.
Dr. Lewis:	B12, just call us, and okay. Go ahead with the question.
Janet Lewis:	Lord, I can’t even keep him on track with that. Okay-
Dr. Lewis:	Never could.
Janet Lewis:	We have a question about what causes acne around the mouth and chin.
Dr. Lewis:	It’s usually a hormonal imbalance, which we’re finding more and more people, or women are way, way high in estrogen because the environmental estrogen, way, way low in progesterone.
Janet Lewis:	Okay, so if it’s not on the top of your face then it’s generally not liver. Usually when it’s all over your face, it’s a gut liver issue, and when it’s on from the nose down through the neck area, then it’s a hormone imbalance issue.
Dr. Lewis:	You would suspect that, yes.
Janet Lewis:	Okay. So make sure you have your hormones tested and make sure that they’re all in balance, and especially the women out there that tell us they have that going on have generally been on birth control pills at some point.
Dr. Lewis:	And that’s not a bad thing. We’re not knocking it, but you do have to clean up your body after a while.
Janet Lewis:	Even if you’ve not been on them in a long time, but once again, we are out of time, and hope you have learned something again on our show. If you have questions or would like to be a part of Dr. Lewis’ closed Facebook group, just shoot him a message at Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis and we can include you in our daily conversations that we have on there with our patients and friends.
Dr. Lewis:	I’ve been shot and lived through it. I must be immune to it, so don’t shoot me.
Janet Lewis:	And we’ll catch you here next time on the Green Wisdom Health Show.

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Allergies or Intolerance?

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.

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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.

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

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.

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Hormones, Thyroid and Prostate Oh My!

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

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

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

MTHFR, You cursing me?

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

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

Hormones, Aging and Cancer

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