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Toxic Burden – Why Are We So Toxic?

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 information, here to let you know about some very exciting things about being toxic today. Today’s show is called Toxic Burden, and if you can make toxins exciting, then I guess we’re doing a great job.

Janet Lewis:                 Dr. Lewis is going to thrill us with his knowledge of why we are so toxic, things that make us toxic that we might not be aware of, and then at the end of the show we have some pretty interesting questions that have come up throughout the week that we thought you guys might enjoy hearing the answers to.

Janet Lewis:                 So, Dr. Lewis, are you going to tell us today about what’s happening with why we are so toxic?

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, I’m going to give you an excuse to say that your spouse is toxic, and you can say, “Honey, you’re full of it,” but then you do have to clarify that and make sure you don’t get the frying pan thrown at you.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, we’re full of toxins. You’ve heard me talk about that. And if you’re not actively doing something to up your nutrient level, then you’re just begging to get sick. I can talk. What do you want to talk about? I’ll certainly jump in there.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, I know from my own experience I can always tell when I’m more toxic, and a lot of times that comes from eating incorrectly or being around some toxic fumes.

Dr. Lewis:                     She’s throwing that at me.

Janet Lewis:                 But some of the symptoms that you have when you are toxic is fatigue. You’re excessively tired. You’re more irritable. Your joints start hurting. You have more brain fog. You have digestive problems, and hot flashes can actually be a sign of being toxic.

Janet Lewis:                 I always ask women when they say, “I’m having hot flashes,” I’ll say, “Well is that all day long or is it a certain time of day? Because if it’s a certain time of day, that’s probably more that you’re toxic than a hot flash.”

Janet Lewis:                 Allergic reactions to things. Sneezing and coughing is actually a sign that you’re very toxic. So, again, trains.  If you are not going to the bathroom correctly, which is you’re eating three meals a day and three meals are not appearing in your toilet, then there is something going on with your toxic burden level, which means you’re hanging on to more of them than you’re letting go.

Janet Lewis:                 So maybe you could talk a little bit about why that’s happening. Why are we not digesting? What’s going on that we feel so irritable and tired?

Dr. Lewis:                     She is throwing that at me. She wanted me to calm down before we came in here because she said, “Are you going to be a preacher or a teacher?” because I was on my soapbox just a few minutes ago. Who knows what I’m going to be? Y’all can decide. Y’all can judge that.

Dr. Lewis:                     I printed out, for Janet, an interesting article about environmental toxins being linked to autism. It’s a really good article, but when we talk we’re going to get a few points from that particular article. But there’s going to be information from lots of other places, too. It talks about autism, and autism … When you’re hear that, just say any other symptom or disease because it all applies.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the statements … It said mounting research indicates that brain disorders are a result of excessive exposure to toxins from multiple sources, including the mother while in utero. Well, my answer to that is, “Well, duh.” Mounting research. It’s like, well, they’ve been doing that for decades and decades and proving it. Said mothers of autistic children have much, much lower vitamin D, and that’s just an oversimplification, but vitamin D is one of the best things you can do to help your body detoxify. So if the mother has lower vitamin D, they cannot detoxify, and then these toxins are more prevalent in the baby itself.

Dr. Lewis:                     Once upon a time, I was asked by this group … It was an autism support group. They wanted me to come speak, and I used to speak at places a lot more than I do now, but I said, “Okay. No problem. I’m going to show you the research and show you what you can do to detoxify the body and therefore have people work at a higher function, at a higher level.” And a few days later this group called me and says, “We don’t want you to speak.” I said, “Well, okay. Why?” They said, “Because you’re going to give people hope.”

Dr. Lewis:                     I won’t repeat what I … the question I asked. It’s something on the line of “Are you kidding me? You don’t want this group to have hope? You don’t want this group to have healthier children?” And I know there’s a lot of controversy on whether to vaccinate or not vaccinate because people say, “Well, vaccinations cause autism.” I think that’s an oversimplification because you get a lot of toxins out of the vaccines; there’s no doubt about it, but you get a lot of toxins from other sources. So I don’t think it’s fair to pick out one thing, but I think it’s smart to figure out, “Oh, well, I need to decrease the toxins in all areas of my life.” And today we’re going to tell you how to do that.

Janet Lewis:                 Is not with getting a larger cup of coffee at your fabulous store down the street to get rid of those toxins and make you feel less tired? I saw today that they’re actually going to do double the caffeine in a very well-known coffee brand.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m all for that. I love caffeine. Caffeine’s my favorite drug, although it doesn’t do everybody good. I tease people about that, my favorite drug. And it’s like, well, it really is, but I drink coffee for Janet’s safety, not for mine.

Janet Lewis:                 It seems that that might be a sign of being toxic, though, and then you add in more toxic chemicals.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. And we’re going to … Janet just can’t keep me from going down the rabbit trails, but there’s a good thing that I think people should read. It’s this “Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison.” And I really think if you’re concerned about toxins and you want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that something that is a contributing factor, just get that book. The author, I think it was Jane Hightower. I think, something like that. It’s a really good book, but I don’t think mercury is the only thing.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then there was an article in Associated Press that said mercury-tainted fish are pervasive, study says. Well, I remember these cute little lakes we used to fish on that are full of cypress trees here in East Texas, and boy, you could catch fish like crazy. And very few people would go down these very, very small lakes. And it was absolutely gorgeous, but now you’re not supposed to eat anything out of these lakes. And that’s just because it’s mercury tainted just because the coal-fired power plants that we have here in East Texas, although they have better scrubbers that get most of the pollutants out before it gets into the air, but it wasn’t true a few decades ago.

Dr. Lewis:                     Another thing. Toxins. Mercury, of course, is an incredibly potent neurological toxin, and the exposure to the babies’ brains. They’re damaged even at real, real low doses in the womb itself. Mercury … They use it to produce a lot of the foodstuffs, and that’s why I tell people … I said, “If it’s in a box or a sack or it’s on a shelf and it’ll last a long time, you probably shouldn’t do it.” And it’s in thousands and thousands of different food products. If it says citric acid, sodium benzoate, and high fructose corn syrup, it’s about … I think it’s 80 to 90% chance it’s full of mercury, especially the high fructose corn syrup.

Dr. Lewis:                     So, duh. Why do we do that?

Janet Lewis:                 And people always say, “Well, do you have something to detoxify heavy metals?” like Dr. Lewis is speaking about. We actually use one called HM Complex. It’s a Pure Encapsulations product, and it’s really great at pulling off the heavy metals that he’s talking about. It does take a lot of time, a whole lot more time than what it took for you to put those in.

Dr. Lewis:                     But you can take it out every day, but then you put another load in every day, too, just from your environment. There’s these … I’ll get into this later in a lot more detail, but there are some groups that are very good at studying cancer that says you’ve got about an 80% bad influence from your diet and environmental toxins that influence your cells to create cancer. So you do have a lot more choice.

Dr. Lewis:                     There’s this person; I recommend her books a whole lot, but she talks about a detox cocktail, and it’s, yeah … It’s really a good one, but why not just take it in the HM Complex? It’s a lot easier because it has things in it like zinc, selenium, potassium, but it has something in it called modified citrus pectin. If you’ll look up or google modified citrus pectin, you’ll find research that talks about it being very anti-cancer because it has an incredible ability to bind to some of these toxins. And then chlorella. It needs to be the cracked cell, and it’s got the broccoli, which, that’s our DIM. We have several different forms of that.

Dr. Lewis:                     But something that’s real important is called NAC, or N-acetyl-cysteine, which is the free-form amino acid that helps your body, your liver in particular, and it makes glutathione. And glutathione, not only … It’s known for its energy-producing ability, but it also acts kind of like a claw, and it’ll take these toxins and kind of bind to it and flush it out and create a lot of energy in the meantime.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then there’s methionine. And then there’s alpha lipoic acid, which is in this detox cocktail that some people recommend. Alpha lipoic acid is probably the best, if not one of the best, antioxidants available. Then there’s astaxanthin. We use a lot of resveratrol also, but Janet and I don’t take alpha lipoic acid. We take R-lipoic acid and they’re both good, but R is the reduced form and it actually works better. And I told Janet … I said, “Well, it’s a little more expensive.” And she says, “We need your brain. Here, take it.” And I just say, “Yes ma’am.”

Dr. Lewis:                     So these toxins are real, but the high fructose corn syrup … and I’m guilty of consuming it from time to time, but that’s one of the worst things that you can possibly put in your system. But, that being said, don’t go to diet drinks because the aspartame in the diet drinks are worse than high fructose corn syrup, and how it poisons your brain is one of the most pervasive toxins in our environment. It’s really not, not good for you. So …

Janet Lewis:                 Well, maybe we should talk a little bit about where some of these toxins come from. I know you mentioned heavy metals and obviously …

Dr. Lewis:                     Toxic spouse.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, actually.

Dr. Lewis:                     That could be taken a lot of different ways, so you do have a way out of that.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, actually that is a problem, the emotional part of it as well. Pollution, which we all know of, which we saw a lot of that in China.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh, my God. Five-star hotel. You could cut the smog in the halls with a knife.

Janet Lewis:                 You could see it rolling at you.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s scary.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. Auto exhaust. You never think about that you’re getting those fumes. If you can smell it, it’s in your system.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, let me talk about that for just a second. Back a million years ago, people said, “But I’m taking calcium.” It’s like, well, great. They’re getting it from cow bones that’s been eating off the side of the road where the lead and the gasoline fumes goes and settles in the grass. So a lot of the calcium supplements, and I think that’s true still, are full of lead just because of the toxic fumes coming from the highway down into the grass. And you have to use companies, that have more integrity than some, that make sure that’s cleaned up.

Janet Lewis:                 And I think it’s very interesting to note … We talk about the auto fumes.  We recently purchased a motor home.

Dr. Lewis:                     Janet did.

Janet Lewis:                 And the reason I was drawn to it, out of many different reasons, but a big reason I was drawn to it was because when we walked in, there was no smell of formaldehyde in it. And if any of you own an RV, you know what I’m talking about.

Dr. Lewis:                     Or a trailer house, even.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. My dad has one that he’s had two years, and it still smells like formaldehyde. And I asked the dealer there … I said, “Why does it not have that smell?” He said, “Oh, this is out of Canada.” He said, “They don’t allow that there.”

Dr. Lewis:                     They don’t poison their people.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, they’re only poisoning all of us in the United States, and I thought, “Well, that’s a very interesting concept.”

Dr. Lewis:                     And there was about a 10-month wait for this particular RV, and we just showed up on a Saturday and said okay. It was there. We’ll come pick it up on Thursday, and it’s like God laid it out. So, but we’re just thrilled that your eyes don’t water and you start coughing and hacking and snorting and snotting and blowing your nose because the formaldehyde is not there.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, so all of that has to be detoxified. Pesticides, herbicides, insecticides. It not only kills our poor little bees, but it also kills us as well.

Dr. Lewis:                     She hurts me when she talks about my dead bees.

Janet Lewis:                 Radiation is actually a toxin.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah and electromagnetic fields, but nobody’s going to give up their cell phones, so.

Janet Lewis:                 Dietary choices like fast foods and fried foods contain a lot of lifestyle toxins.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, but it tastes so good. It’s like, well, usually it’s your taste buds that get us in trouble in the first place. So, even lead. You’re always talking about lead in gasoline and in calcium supplements. It’s in paint. It’s in chocolate. Well, that hurts. Toys, batteries, pipes, pottery from Mexico. Some of the stuff comes from China. It’s full of junk. And we’ve been to China. It’s like …

Janet Lewis:                 I know. Remember they tried to sell us a knock-off terra cotta warrior and it accidentally broke and these worms came out of it. And it was like, “Oh. There you go.”

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. They tried to sell me … They said, “Rolex. I give you 10 in a stainless steel case.” It’s like, “Well, first of all it’s a faux-lex.” He said, “What do you mean?” I said, “It’s a fake Rolex.”  There’s 10 of them in an aluminum case, and they wanted 100 bucks for 10 Rolex watches. So, you think counterfeit doesn’t take place, but the number one place to counterfeit is supplements because everybody’s getting on the bandwagon and taking them. So be careful.

Janet Lewis:                 Actually you get toxins from cosmetics. You see more and more about, oh, let’s do the natural. Let’s not do all of the chemical stuff that’s in the cosmetics.

Janet Lewis:                 Unfortunately alcohol is in here as well as a toxic burden.

Dr. Lewis:                     Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Janet Lewis:                 As well as caffeine that we already discussed.

Dr. Lewis:                     Hey. Be nice.

Janet Lewis:                 And then people don’t think about their prescription and over-the-counter drugs being a toxic burden.

Dr. Lewis:                     Or actually a lot of supplements. And it’s like, why in the heck within a drug or a supplement would they put different things in there that are known cancer causers, that they say, “Well, it’s a dyeing agent.” Why do care what color your vitamin or your drugs are? And why would they put something in that’s known to cause cancer? Think about that one for a minute.

Janet Lewis:                 They just did that with a blood pressure medication.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 You probably noticed that they’ve pulled that.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, all drugs steal nutrients that you don’t have enough of anyway. That book’s been written. It’s called “Drug Muggers.” It’s a really good book. I think if you’re concerned about your medications that you’re taking, that you may have to take, at least know what it steals. Whether it steals your vitamin D, your B vitamins, your CoQ10 or magnesium, whatever, at least know what it steals, and then supplement like crazy with a good supplement if you have to take these medications.

Janet Lewis:                 Some of the internal toxins are bacterial and yeast fungal overgrowth that Dr. Lewis talked about. And yeast is actually a parasite, so guess what. As they’re eating what you’re having, they are pooping.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 So that is your die-off from the carbon dioxide and ammonia reactions of the byproducts that they’re producing. So if you’re not going to the bathroom good, they are.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and if your gas that you pass is especially smelly, you probably have issues. Probably.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. Undigested food.

Dr. Lewis:                     You have issues.

Janet Lewis:                 Unresolved trauma or abuse is actually toxic.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and I see a lot of that. And it’s kind of sad that we’re not nice to each other all the time, but once I would get to know some of these patients, back when I practiced chiropractic, and there’s a lot of molestation that would go on and child abuse. And then I talked to this female dentist that’s just sweet and wonderful, and she says, “Yeah.” After you get to know most of her employees, the large majority of them have been abused in one way or another. And it’s like, good God. We’re supposed to protect our children.

Dr. Lewis:                     So those toxic emotions can wreak havoc with your mental health and physical health because not all physical symptoms have a physical origin. So let’s be nice to people and help them heal.

Janet Lewis:                 And there’s a great book if you need help getting through that. It’s by Joyce Meyer, called “Battlefield of the Mind.”

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 Really excellent to help you deal with some of the trauma or abuse and unhappy relationships. So you’re now probably wondering how toxic am I. Have you ever had a course of antibiotics or taken prescription medications?

Dr. Lewis:                     You may be full of it.

Janet Lewis:                 Do you live near a major urban area or near a busy highway?

Dr. Lewis:                     You are full of it.

Janet Lewis:                 Do you eat out frequently or eat pre-packaged foods?

Dr. Lewis:                     Whoops.

Janet Lewis:                 Shop around the edges. Do you experience discomfort after eating certain foods?

Dr. Lewis:                     I experience discomfort if I don’t eat certain foods.

Janet Lewis:                 Gas, bloating, belching is what I was referring to.

Dr. Lewis:                     I apologize.

Janet Lewis:                 Are you overweight or underweight?

Dr. Lewis:                     Doing pretty good.

Janet Lewis:                 Do you use standard household cleaning products in your home?

Dr. Lewis:                     I choose not to clean.

Janet Lewis:                 With that being said, we had a lady that cleaned for us for many years, and I haven’t seen her in about a year and a half now. And she came in the other day with a severe, severe migraine and I looked under her eyes and under, where people say you have bags, she had little black moles on both sides, or about five or six on each side. And I asked her, “Are you still using Fabuloso to clean?” And she said, “Oh yes, yes, and Clorox.”

Dr. Lewis:                     And organochlorines is one of the nastiest things you can be exposed to, so I don’t care whether you smell it or not. You’re getting it, so stay away from it. It’s a killer, which I’ll get into that in a minute I think.

Janet Lewis:                 We did her lab and she was extremely toxic and it wound up being a liver issue and we started cleaning her up and she’s feeling better. So all of those chemicals that you’re using … Like I said, if you’re smelling them or walking barefoot across the floor after you’ve cleaned with them, you are absorbing them.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, okay, liver issue. That’s a good time for me to be diverted off into another rabbit trail.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the things on Good Morning America, and I did have a patient ask me about that. It said … I think it was yesterday … liver cancer death rates surge over the last decade, but obesity was a factor. Well, if you’re obese, then you’re not detoxifying anyway, and it’s the fat cells that hold many, many, most of the toxins. Liver has to detoxify. We have a massive amount of people that come in with incredibly high liver enzymes, and if it’s not happy, you’re not going to detoxify. And again, you’ve got to do it every day because you’re still getting a load of toxins in every day. So …

Janet Lewis:                 And if you’re asking, “Well, how do I check my liver enzymes?” that’s what we do. We run low-cost lab across the United States. We tell you to run the comprehensive panel because it gives us 12 different panels. So if it’s not just your liver … If you’ve got yeast or fungus going on and you’re not digesting, we can see that based on those 12 labs. It’s called our comprehensive panel.

Dr. Lewis:                     And I always try to encourage people, go ahead, at least the first time to belly up to the bar and pay the extra little bitty bill to add your hormones because I just talked to a 20-year-old, gorgeous little girl that is not overweight, but she’s got a massive hormonal imbalance already at age 20. And her liver enzymes looks like, oh my God, looks like she’s an alcoholic for 40 years, and she doesn’t touch alcohol.

Janet Lewis:                 That’s a good point because that same little girl came in here and thought she was anemic. She kept telling me, “I just think I need some iron. I’m just so tired all the time.” And I said, “Well, you really don’t want to take iron unless you’ve had it tested on lab.” And she said, “They’ve tested it on lab, and they said I’m fine.” I said, “Did they run your stored iron, which is ferritin?” And she goes, “No, I don’t think so.”

Janet Lewis:                 So we ran her stored iron. Well, she was right. She was not anemic on the regular panel that they run at the doctor’s office, but on the stored iron, it was high. And at 20 years old, it’s already doing damage to her liver. And I said, “Well, do you have any heart issues in your family?” She goes, “Oh yeah. My mom’s whole side of the family has had some sort of a heart problem.”

Dr. Lewis:                     So has her dad’s side, too.

Janet Lewis:                 So, again, you don’t want to guess at what you think is wrong and just start taking things because if she’d have taken extra iron on top of the already burdened liver and too thick of blood, iron is for building blood.

Dr. Lewis:                     Don’t diagnose yourself.

Janet Lewis:                 Right. She could kill herself just with doing that. She could create having a heart attack. And then if you’re wondering, “Well, you’re telling me all this doom and gloom. How can we fix some of this?” We’ve actually made it very simple. There is a convenient prepackaged plan called Core Restore.

Dr. Lewis:                     And it’s been a big, big hit. It has. People say, “Oh my God. I feel light and lively within the first seven days.” And lighter.

Janet Lewis:                 It includes a vegetable antioxidant blend to support phase two liver detoxification because believe it not, you actually need to do phase two before you do phase one. And you’re going, “What is phase two and phase one?” That’s something Dr. Lewis would know, but in general, you just need … It’s cleaning it kind of backwards because synergistically I think those targeted nutrients enhance the detoxification and hormone disruptors and other harmful toxins by putting them back through phase two before it does phase one.

Janet Lewis:                 It also includes six to seven grams of fiber so that you have a more full feeling, and it also helps bind toxins so that they can be eliminated. Fiber’s a great thing for that. It’s a rice protein in it for sustained nutritional energy, so you can actually use it as a meal replacement for one meal. It has a comprehensive multivitamin, which is Alpha Base, which we absolutely love. We sell that by itself as well, but it is in this kit. It also comes with a patient handbook on step-by-step instructions on reducing toxic burdens through your diet.

Dr. Lewis:                     Just the book is worth the price. It’s awesome.

Janet Lewis:                 And it comes with some delicious and nutritious recipes as well as a convenient shopping guide to help keep you from shopping in the middle of the store. And then it has this really cute little blender, little hand mixer thing that we’ve just gone nuts over. We’ve got one everywhere now. It’s a little battery-operated deal.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s not a far road for Janet to go nuts. I think I keep her on the edge.

Janet Lewis:                 We get excited about very small things in life. That’s one of them, but that helps you with your shakes and smoothies so they’re nice and smooth. But it’s called Core Restore, and we’ve got French Vanilla for the flavor.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. Some of those toxins, though … We talked about lead and arsenic, and that’s pretty big contaminant with fluoride, which fluoride has been known to lower your child’s IQ by seven points. Fluoride’s a deadly poison, but arsenic and what you don’t know is they usually spray it on the chickens for mites in these huge chicken houses with tens of thousands of chickens there where they’re raised in a stressful environment, and it’s in their feed. It keeps them eating so they get fat, quick.

Janet Lewis:                 We talk about chickens having mites. We actually had a lady that … We were talking about parasites and how they harbor and you’re thinking, “Yeah, nobody has that.”

Dr. Lewis:                     “Yeah, my MD says parasites don’t exist.” It’s like, “Yeah, they do.”

Janet Lewis:                 She came into our office the other day and said, “I want y’all to know that I went to the bathroom, wasn’t even going to have a bowel evacuation.” She just sat down to use the bathroom after sleeping all night and passed a tapeworm. It came out on its own. Freaked her out. She said it was … I don’t know how many inches long. It was pretty long.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. She held her hands out like it was about a foot and a half long.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, and so it freaked her out. So she went to the doctor to get a prescription to kill anything else that might be in there, and you guys always talk about, “Hey, this stuff’s so expensive to stay healthy.” Well, it isn’t anything compared to getting four pills to kill parasites. She said this doctor first looked like he didn’t really know what to do with her, but he gave her a prescription, and she said after a coupon for it and her insurance, four pills to kill parasites was $950. And now we’re going to run lab work on her and see what the medicine did to her.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, clean up her liver now, but these toxins are real. And parasites, usually it’s just yeast, but you got the PBDEs, polybrominated diphenyl esters, and that’s in your upholstery, your mattresses, your clothing. You get it out of your pillow every night, and then you’ve got all kinds of stuff that’s in your dry cleaning. I don’t have my dry cleaners do anything but wash and press. They don’t use those.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then one thing I want to talk about is you’ve got too much manganese, and it’s the wrong kind. It’s in your water. It’s in your soy infant formulas, which I probably am not going to get to, but then there’s ethanol. Hey, every time you gas up your car, you’re getting whiffs of ethanol. And in my opinion … I’m full of opinions, but I think ethanol is one of the stupidest things we’ve ever done. Really hurts the engines, especially small engines. You’ve got toluene, which is in your fingernail polish and leather tanning and paint thinners and the mercury, I talked about that’s in the high fructose corn syrup. So if you’re not supplementing with extra nutrients, your food does not have enough of these nutrients to make your body detoxify.

Dr. Lewis:                     Okay, I’m going to get to the soy-based formula for infants, and it can cause massive amount of harm which creates food allergies. How many little babies do you know, they’re already putting them on Prilosec? And it’s because momma’s not breastfeeding, and they develop food allergies which alters their gut, the microbiome, the probiotics there, which causes behavioral problems and anger. Think about the school shootings. What did we do to their guts years before and feeding them wheat that’s full of glyphosate. It … The soy formula can create asthma. It creates thyroid disorders and early puberty and fertility problems and cancer.

Dr. Lewis:                     How many kids are hitting puberty early? They’re hitting it years before they did when I was a kid. One of my long-term patients got on Facebook and asked me, “Is there a supplement that can cure cervical cancer?” The quick answer is no. You need to see your oncologist for that.

Janet Lewis:                 But actually some of these parasitic things that we’re talking about, going left untreated, they burrow their way out and create a lot of the cancers because it kills the organ.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, and there’s a book called “Cancer is a Fungus,” and I think everybody that has it should read that. There’s a lot of good cancer books. I think what we do in diseases like that … I think it’s very complementary, and I’ve seen people get some incredible results, but it’s not an alternative to good medical treatment. You need both.

Dr. Lewis:                     So I hope you’ve learned a little bit here, and I hope I’ve been nice enough because Janet wanted me to get off my soapbox. But folks, the time to heal yourself is before you get sick. Start investing in your health. It doesn’t cost money. It pays dividends in things you don’t have to spend later on disease.

Janet Lewis:                 And that’s a wrap for this week’s show. You guys, don’t be toxic, and we’ll be here next week with another exciting show. Have a blessed 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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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.

 
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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.