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What is Detoxing and How Do You Do It?

Lemon and water; what is detoxing and how do you do it?

Detoxing has become a buzzword frequently used to market certain teas, supplements, foods, and fad diets, but it’s not as simple as drinking a cup of “detox” tea every day. While there are herbs and vitamins that can aid in detoxification, your body works constantly to detoxify. The liver and kidneys are filtering your blood all the time, working to metabolize medications and environmental toxins, and preparing them to be excreted. So, taking a product labeled as a “detox” won’t magically remove all the toxins from your body. This is a complicated process that your body has perfected, but it does need the right nutrients and herbs to keep this process functioning optimally. Let’s take a look at what detoxing is, and how you can do it every day.

Detoxification

When people hear the word ‘detoxification’, most people imagine all the toxins being pulled from the body, and having increased energy and less brain fog. While this is partially true in that toxins are pulled from the body, this is done automatically, and if these processes are functioning optimally then you may have increased energy and less brain fog. While the body is great at detoxing, it can’t detox all toxins at once. It is a continual process that happens day and night, and the liver and kidneys in particular do a great job with this. However, these processes are dependent on healthy liver and kidney function. Having decreased liver or kidney function is much more common today than it has been throughout human history. Researchers have estimated that the average person can come into contact with as few as 120, to as many as 700,000 different potentially toxic chemicals each day. These chemicals can reach you through the air, water, food, skin care products, soaps, perfumes, air fresheners, furniture, mattresses, hair dye, makeup, etc. So, the average person’s liver and kidneys are having to filter through far more toxins than ever before in human history. This is believed to be one of the main causes of the sharp increases in liver damage and liver cancers over the last few decades, as well as kidney issues.

How to Support It

Although the body is very good at detoxifying by itself, we are now exposed to more chemicals than our livers and kidneys were really meant to handle. This means that they often need extra help to continue to carry out these vital processes correctly. These processes require enough vitamins and minerals to allow for proper organ function, but in some cases certain minerals are also needed to bind to certain toxins to ensure they are excreted properly. With so many people eating a diet that is lacking in essential nutrients, the body may not have enough of these nutrients from diet alone. This is why supplements have become more commonly recommended over the years, because it’s difficult to get enough key nutrients from our diets alone due to depleted soils, decreased absorption due to poor gut health, and processed foods often displacing healthy foods in a person’s diet. In addition to eating a varied diet full of organic fruits and vegetables, it is often recommended that you take supplements to help support your liver. Our Liver Support contains milk thistle which is one of the most popular herbs for liver health, along with several other ingredients designed to help support the health of your liver.

There are also certain herbs that aid in eliminating specific things like heavy metals. Several studies have found that chlorella and cilantro can remove the majority of lead, aluminum and mercury from the body within a few months with daily consumption. These herbs also help aid in the elimination of other toxins, but are well-known for their ability to help eliminate heavy metals. Our product Vital Detox contains chlorella and several other ingredients that may help support phase 2 liver detoxification and heavy metal elimination.

Although your body detoxifies constantly, it can use all the help it can get considering the incredible amount of toxins we encounter each day. Take good care of your liver and kidneys because they are responsible for detoxification and hundreds of other vital processes in the body. Remember to drink plenty of water each day, switch to natural products and organic foods whenever possible, and engage in stress-reducing activities each day to help keep your body and mind healthy.

You can listen to our Detox Your Way to Energy podcast episode here. You can also listen to it on our YouTube channel here.

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When Should You Detox?

Detoxing is a popular topic with detox drinks, foods, and supplements being found in almost every health food store, but how important is it? Detoxing is actually very important, but many people don’t know when or how they should detox. We encounter hundreds to thousands of different chemicals every day in our air, food, water, beauty products, and workplaces, and helping your body rid itself of those chemicals can make a big difference.

Toxic Burden

Toxic burden refers to the amount of toxins your body is currently dealing with, and everyone’s burden is different. Certain professions that expose you to chemicals – like welding and cosmetology – can increase your toxic burden, as well as the kinds of beauty and cleaning products you use, the water you drink, and the food you eat. Decreasing your toxic burden can make a big difference in your overall health and the way you feel. Start by eating only organic produce to reduce pesticide consumption, and switching to all natural products whenever possible. Switch to natural makeup, soap, and cleaning products by making some things yourself with natural ingredients, and/or buying from a company that’s committed to non-toxic products. Decreasing your toxic burden can benefit your entire body, but it can especially ease the burden on your liver.

Liver Function

The liver plays a role in over 500 critical functions in the body. One of its main functions is to filter the blood and rid it of drugs, alcohol, and other toxins. Keeping your liver healthy and functioning at optimal levels is critical for proper detoxification, but many people have a sluggish liver and most don’t realize it. A sluggish liver usually doesn’t have noticeable symptoms until liver function becomes severely impaired, this is why routine blood work is important because it allows you to see your liver enzyme levels which can show a sluggish liver before symptoms become apparent.

Detoxing

Detoxing is very important, but it needs to be done the right way so you can reap the most benefits. People often need to fix deficiencies like anemia before beginning a detox. You should also take some time to increase your nutrient intake through vitamin and mineral supplements, and organic whole foods before attempting a detox. You want your body to be nourished and strong enough to effectively handle it, especially if it’s an intensive detox protocol.

Most detox protocols usually last from a few days to a few weeks, but some people view it as a way of life. They eat detoxifying foods every day, and may take supplements designed for a mild detox daily. In general, you should complete one to three detoxes per year, with some people needing more or less. Someone who is exposed to more chemicals than the average person may need more per year, or may do better with a mild daily detox. Regardless of the detox you choose to do, you should eat plenty of organic produce, and good quality meats and fats every day.

How to Know You Need to Detox

Fortunately there are some easy ways to know if you need to detox. The most common signs that you need to detox include:

Fatigue and Brain Fog: Low physical and mental energy means something isn’t right. It may be something simple like sleep deprivation, or it could be a sluggish liver. Try getting more sleep and if the problem doesn’t improve, then a detox may improve your energy levels.

Allergies and Digestive Issues: Leaky Gut Syndrome is very common and often overlooked, but it can contribute to the development of several health issues including allergies and autoimmune disorders. If you have frequent heartburn, diarrhea, constipation, bloating, gas, or food or seasonal allergies, you should look into a detox protocol that focuses on gut health.

Hormonal Issues and Stress: The liver plays a critical role in hormone regulation by producing certain hormones, and binding up excess estrogen for excretion. When the liver is not functioning properly, these functions may be reduced, leading to hormonal imbalances and elevated stress levels.

Anxiety, Depression, and Insomnia: Mood disorders are often due to a hormonal imbalance, a gut microbiome imbalance, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and/or a high toxic burden. Detoxing may help some of these issues by reducing the toxic burden and helping to balance hormones.

Supplements

There are some supplements you can take to help your body detox, especially your liver. We listed the supplements designed for liver detoxification because the liver is so important and almost always needs to be detoxed.

PhytoCore – Contains dandelion root extract, milk thistle seed extract, and other ingredients that may increase the liver’s ability to detoxify. These ingredients work together to aid the liver during Phase 1 and Phase 2 detoxification.

Core Support – Powder designed to help the liver with Phase 2 detoxification. It contains magnesium, rice protein, taurine, l-glutamine, green tea leaf extract, and many other ingredients that may help heal the gut, and help the liver detoxify. Available in French Vanilla or Chocolate.

Detoxing may help you achieve your health goals, but you should listen to your body. Do not do more than your body can handle, and give your body time to get the nutrients it needs to handle a detox. You should also eat only organic produce, and switch to all-natural products whenever possible. Change is possible, but it’s up to you!

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Doom, Gloom and Despair

 

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    And I’m Dr. Lewis.

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 You’re dating yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Right.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Exactly.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Sure.

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Woops.

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah. Very much so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Well, yeah.

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Right.

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yep-

Janet Lewis:                 … can be a sign of depression.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Changes in your menstrual cycle.

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 That parts happy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    My favorite drug is caffeine.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah.

Dr.  Lewis:                    That’s a drug.

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Okay.

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

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

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

New Speaker:               51 grams of sugar or something crazy.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. It was something horribly high.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Yes.

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

Janet Lewis:                 No.

Dr.  Lewis:                    It contributes to anxiety.

Janet Lewis:                 Then we have Maggie that is-

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    I think more is better.

Janet Lewis:                 Tumeric is what? A big-

Dr.  Lewis:                    Super duper anti-oxidant.

Janet Lewis:                 Okay.

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

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    It is an oxidizer.

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    From Illinois.

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Consistent.

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

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

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

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

 

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Detoxify to Live!

 

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

 
And I’m Dr. Lewis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
I’m 63.

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

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

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

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

 
Constipated.

 
Yeah. If you have hormone imbalances.

 
Stinky gas.

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

 
Being in toxic chemicals actually.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
Acne.

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

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

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

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

 
Yeah, urinary and GI tract.

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

 
Halitosis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
Yep. Absolutely.

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

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

 
Recharge.

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

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

 
Or hormonal, possibly.

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

 
That’s most people.

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

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

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

 
Liver, intestine, yeah.

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

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

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

 
Yeah. God, I hate that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
Okay. There you have it.

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

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

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

 
Well, this one’s in a bottle.

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

 
How we quickly deteriorate around here.

 
She loves it. You know she does.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
He doesn’t really either. No worries there.

 
Anyway, we have another question.

 
Sorry folks.

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

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

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

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

 
Liver enzymes.

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

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

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

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

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

 
And it has the type one and two.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
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