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Are You a Pre-Diabetic?

Microphone and computer; exercising consistent health habits.

The Standard American Diet (SAD) typically consists of foods high in sugar, calories, carbohydrates, and bad fats, and low in fiber, vitamins, minerals, and protein. This diet has been linked to the development of many different health issues like diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and certain cancers. A diet high in sugar is especially harmful to someone with a family history of diabetes as they are usually at a higher risk of developing diabetes. With how common blood sugar issues are, you may be wondering if you are a pre-diabetic. In this episode we’ll discuss some common symptoms of blood sugar issues, and what you may be able to do help balance them.

Symptoms of Hypoglycemia:

  • Intense Hunger
  • Anxiety
  • Sweating, Including Night Sweats
  • Feeling Dizzy or Lightheaded
  • Becoming Fatigued
  • Trouble Sleeping
  • Feeling Irritable
  • Paleness in the Face
  • Headaches
  • Muscle Weakness
  • Brain Fog

One of the best things you can do to decrease your risk of developing diabetes (and for increased health overall) is to cut out processed and sugary foods, and replace them with whole foods like nuts and seeds, grass-fed meats, fruits and vegetables, and good fats like coconut and olive oil. You should also be as active as you can which can mean going to the gym, doing a workout or yoga routine at home, or going for a walk a few times a week. Eating a healthy, balanced diet and exercising regularly may also help you maintain a healthy weight which may further decrease your risk of developing diabetes and other health conditions.

Product Mentioned on Today’s Show:

Gluco Support – Supplies a powerful mix of nutrients and botanicals that efficiently help support normal glucose metabolism, structure and function of basement membranes such as nerve tissue, and insulin sensitivity.

Lab Mentioned in Today’s Show:

Comprehensive Panel – Comprehensive Panel w Consult panel contains 13 tests with 102 biomarkers.

You can also listen to our Are You A Pre-Diabetic? episode on our YouTube channel here.

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The Aging Effects of Stress

Stress is affecting your quality of life by:

  • It is messing with your brain
  • Increases risk of heart attack, heart disease and stroke
  • Stress dials down your immune system
  • Chronic stress contributes to aging
  • Contributing to weight gain and digestive disorders
  • Chronic stress affects your mood and relationships
  • Stress increases pain
  • Stress affects sexuality and reproductive functions
  • Chronic stress affects your skin, hair and teeth
  • Stress contributes to addiction

Product mentioned in today’s show:

Core Support – Core Support helps maintain Phase II detoxification by providing protein, fiber and nutrients to promote normal detoxification function.

Lab Mentioned in Today’s Show:

Comprehensive Panel – Comprehensive Panel w Consult panel contains 13 tests with 102 biomarkers.

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Is it SIBO or IBS?

Symptoms of SIBO and IBS include:

  • Nausea
  • Bloating
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Malnutrition
  • Weight Loss
  • Joint Pain
  • Fatigue
  • Rashes
  • Acne
  • Eczema
  • Asthma
  • Depression
  • Rosacea

Lab Mentioned in Today’s Show:

Comprehensive Panel – The GWH – 3. Comprehensive Panel w Consult panel contains 13 tests with 102 biomarkers.

Product Mentioned in Today’s Show:

Lauricidin – Monolaurin is a natural, plant-based medium chain saturated fatty acid extracted from coconut oil that offers unique health-promoting properties.* When taken on an ongoing basis, Lauricidin® may help support a strong immune defense*, support a natural balance of healthy bacteria*, and promote a healthy balance of yeast*.

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Oxalates, Lectins and Nightshades…Oh, My!

An oxalate are chemical compounds found in many green vegetables and other “healthy” foods. Your body produces them as waste products as well.

Glutathione is your body’s master antioxidant and detoxifier. It is vital for metabolizing the toxins.

Some examples of the damage that can be done by glutathione deficiency include:

  • Inability to repair DNA
  • Toxin and heavy metal accumulation
  • Greatly reduced ability to detoxify
  • Reduced oxygen and nutrient supply to cells

Lack of glutathione and too many oxalates can create the following symptoms:

  • Kidney Stones
  • Burning Urination
  • Interstitial Cystitis
  • Chronic Candida
  • COPD/Asthma
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Hormonal Balance
  • Child Developmental Disorders, including Autism

Products mentioned in today’s show:

GlutaShield – The ingredients in GlutaShield help regenerate and maintain GI enterocytes while supporting the health of the intestinal mucosal barrier.

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Probiotics – The Next Big Thing!

5 Benefits of a Probiotic Supplement:

  • Improves Mental Health
  • Supports Digestion
  • Boosts Immune Function
  • Promote Weight Loss
  • Enhances Skin Health

How do you choose the right probiotic?

  • Brand Quality
  • High CFU count
  • Survivability and strain diversity
  • Prebiotics and supplementary ingredients
  • Stability and organism types
  • Sugar
  • Living vs. dead

Probiotics mentioned in todays show:

Probiotic 225 – is a maximum-strength probiotic for cases of acute gastrointestinal (GI) and immune challenges. Going beyond the threshold of traditional probiotic support, high dose probiotics influence gut health and immunity in ways lower-dose probiotics cannot. Shown to activate over 1,700 genes involved in immune and inflammatory signaling, high-dose probiotics support a healthy, balanced immune response. Delivering 225 billion active probiotic cultures per packet, Probiotic 225 creates a rapid response to reset the immune system and maintain normal inflammatory balance.

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All About Anxiety

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  We are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low-cost lab work and answers to why you may not be feeling good, here with another exciting show about anxiety, because I know anxiety is an exciting subject.

Dr. Lewis:                     There’s a difference between excitement and enjoyment, however.

Janet Lewis:                  There are so many people full of anxiety.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and full of other things.

Janet Lewis:                  It’s rampant, and there are people that have no clue what to do about it, how to get rid of it. “Why does it keep hanging around? Where does it come from?” It’s making me anxious thinking about it. So Dr. Lewis-

Dr. Lewis:                     Sometimes you have to blow the whistle and call the play dead, and start something different, which I just did recently.

Janet Lewis:                  And he’s here to tell you all about it, and why we are so full of anxiety, and what can we do about it? Because it does seem to be all over the place now.

Dr. Lewis:                     The reason we did this, I had another subject to do a podcast on, but we’ve had a lot of anxiety recently that was brought into the office, and I blew the whistle, called the play dead, and it’s like you don’t tolerate it. I call people like, they’re crazy-makers. No matter what you say, they go to the negative, and I tell them, “Read the book Negaholics. You’re negative. You never won’t read it,” but just quit it, and we’re gonna talk about it. It may be because of thyroid. It may be because of adrenals. It may be because of PMS. It may be because, “Oh, you’re just missing neurotransmitters.” Maybe because you’re toxic in your bowel. That could be a lot of different things, but one of the things I’ve seen is it’s how you choose, folks.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s a choice. How you choose to think about things. If you think about what the worst case scenario is, it just gets worse and worse. If you think about what’s good, great, grand, and glorious, and can be healthy, happy, bright, lively, and prosperous, then anxiety goes away. To a large degree, it’s a choice. You just have to overcome all this other stuff.

Janet Lewis:                  I think a great book to read also is Joyce Meyer’s Battlefield of the Mind, because that really does help a lot with explaining where all of this comes from, and ways that you can get around, or thinking differently, learning to think differently, and speak differently, because that has a lot to do with it, too, right?

Dr. Lewis:                     Absolutely. I think that’s the most of it. I think it’s a choice. Maybe you say, “Well, everybody in my family’s that way.” Well, just because they did it doesn’t mean you have to do it. You can step outside the circle, and I live outside the circle, but you don’t have to think that. I’ve seen people that all the family was negative, negative, negative, and I’ve seen some people say, “I’m not gonna live this way.” They choose, again, a choice, to do something different. But we’re gonna tell you in our opinion, at least, how it’s kind of easier to break the cycle if you deal with the lack of neurotransmitters or lack of nutritious things that can calm the nerves and ease the bowels’ irritation.

Janet Lewis:                  I have found that it seems that people that have more anxiety disorder, it’s got a lot to do with what they eat, correct?

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s a big part of it.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. The food additives, food dyes.

Dr. Lewis:                     All that’s been proven in ADD, ADHD, so they’re agitated and anxious, even though it may not come out as anxiety. Yes, absolutely. Why do they put it in some of these stupid cheap vitamins? Why do they put it in your drugs? Do you care if it’s got a cancer-causing red lake dye? That’s crazy. Why are they doing that to you? You should ask your congressman that.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, that is the problem we run into here a lot with especially children’s multivitamins, and the chewable forms of the pills. People are used to going to a big box store and buying the gummy vitamins for their kids, because they taste good, and that’s a way that their kid will get them down, but if you read on the back of those labels, many of them have the dyes in it, like Dr. Lewis is talking about. They look great, they taste great, but there’s a reason why they do, and it’s because of those chemicals, and it’s very hard naturally to make something that tastes great without all the synthetic chemicals that go in it. I get you guys, coming from not having a kid that will swallow anything. We try to mix our stuff up in applesauce, or something like that that makes it sweeter. We have a children’s multi that tastes pretty good now. People are going, “Pretty good.” Well, again, it’s not got any kind of synthetic dyes or sweeteners or colorings to it, and I always tell people, “It tastes great at first, and then just chase it with something, and it’s fine.” But it’s called SuperNutes, and-

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. It’s been pretty popular, too.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah.

Dr. Lewis:                     It is what you eat because I just now thought of this. I had ice cream for supper last night, and I’m pretty agitated today, and I dealt with the anxiety, and I eat ice cream out of stress, and I won’t get into that, but I’d rather have ice cream than alcohol. It is what you eat, and it’s what you put in your body. Again, it’s a choice, and you’ve got to make a good choice. I won’t do it tonight, I promise.

Dr. Lewis:                     Some of the things that are missing, I’m gonna get into the different neurotransmitters. Usually, it’s calcium and magnesium. Now, you know I’m not a huge fan of just calcium by itself, but calcium, if it’s in a form that you can tolerate, is a natural tranquilizer. People say, “Well, I want this coral calcium.” Well, that’s calcium carbonate, and it’s not water soluble, or else the moisture shells would dissolve in the water. That is not a good form. It’s one of the most expensive farces they’ve ever put on you, and there are other better forms of calcium.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then you’ve got magnesium. Well, depends on what you need versus how many bowel movements per day you have. Sometimes you need iron. Some people have too much or too little. Most people do not have enough B12, even if they’ve got good digestion because it’s over-utilized trying to detoxify your body. If you’re taking any kind of drugs, over the counter or prescribed, you’re already nutrient deficient, or you wouldn’t have the problem most likely, and then you’re putting in drugs that are depleting the nutrients even more, so you really have to go way beyond the RDA. And B1. B1. Brain fog. It’s the candida in your gut that’s using that thiamine, and, oh, I get some incredible results with this lipid soluble B1. You can use SAMe. Janet loves it when I take it. She says that I’m a better person when I take it. She’s given it-

Janet Lewis:                  I don’t know what he’s talking about. He’s great all the time.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, well. It’ll be set out tonight, I’m sure. B complex, B6, I prefer the activated form, P5P. Vitamin C, and vitamin C doesn’t get a lot of press anymore, because it’s an old vitamin. We knew about it 30, 40, 50 years ago. We like the liposomal, because I think it’s 92% to 94% absorbable, versus the 12% to 13% of the other vitamin Cs. Believe it or not, vitamin E can do it, although it helps oxygen utilization to the brain. And zinc, everybody’s zinc deficient. Man, I give a lot of zinc to people, but I think it’s best if you kind of buffer it with our Reacted MultiMin minerals. You don’t want to just do one unless it’s very super obvious.

Dr. Lewis:                     If you want, I’ll talk a little bit about panic attacks, anxiety disorders, and stress, and some of that’s how you choose to react to stress.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. Are panic attacks and anxiety issues the same thing, or are they different?

Dr. Lewis:                     I think they’re pretty close. It’s hard to differentiate between the two. Some people might argue that point a little bit. Everybody’s got an opinion, and sometimes they vary quite a bit. Many times it’s the neurotransmitters, and one thing you don’t hear a lot of is norepinephrine. That’s actually secreted by the brain itself, and it increases the level of wakefulness, and most people that are obese have very, very low norepinephrine. People say, “But I eat nuts, and then I still gain weight.” Well, you could have a neurotransmitter problem, and you kind of have to let us work on it and be patient, because we’re finding more people when we do their labs, cheap labs, you need to get it here, and we’re finding things, “Well, this and this and this probably relate to the inability of your hypothalamus and-or pituitary putting out the right signals.” I see more of the evidence of that every day, and the people that stick with it, of course, they get more and better results.

Dr. Lewis:                     You got dopamine. Well, let me be more specific, I guess. Norepinephrine deficiency. Usually, those are the people that feel hungry through the day. They have an insatiable appetite, they eat large meals, don’t know when to stop eating, never feel full or satisfied, can eat almost anything in sight, feel out of control, especially with their appetite, think about food all the time, and I have people says, “But I just dream about food.” If you’re craving the bread and pastas, the starches, rather than sweets, I’m more of the sweet craver, ADD, ADHD, hungry in the late afternoon, and it just goes on and on and on and on, so that’s norepinephrine.

Dr. Lewis:                     If it’s a serotonin deficiency, and that’s the one I think is most common, even though other sources say it’s the second most common, those are the people that crave sweets or starches in the afternoon and evening. That’s the people that go home under stress and eat Bluebell. Crave chocolate. Janet always teases that I’m the female in the relationship because I’m the one that’ll eat the chocolate. She will not, and I love it. “Is it irresistible?” Yeah. I don’t know. I’ve never tried to resist it. “Do you eat when you’re stressed, anxious, lonely, or depressed? Anger, because you’ve experienced something that’s distressing? That can be surgery, some kind of long-term trauma, the death of a loved one?” And the answer to that’s “yeah,” you probably have a serotonin deficiency.

Dr. Lewis:                     “Do you eat when you’re not hungry?” Maybe not so much, but, “When you binge on foods or eat massive quantities …” Yep, that’s true of ice cream. “Do you wake up in the middle of the night to eat?” No. That’s not what I’m doing in the middle of the night, but okay. “Are you depressed, irritable, frustrated, or moody?” Sometimes I get irritated. Men get what we could call PMS. Janet’s got a really funny look, like, “Yup, he’s really telling the truth.” It’s like, I’m very polite when everybody around me has this also. It’s not just me. “Do you have trouble falling asleep once you’re awake?” I hear that from so many people. We do have a time-released serotonin, or time-released 5-Htp to create serotonin.

Dr. Lewis:                     Dopamine. These people that have a low dopamine are really interesting. I love them. They’re usually the addicts. Sex addicts, gambling addicts, alcoholics, drug addicts. They usually crave the salty foods or fatty foods. They’d rather eat steak, and bologna, and bacon, or meat lover’s pizza, so to speak. If you feel depressed, then do you lack an interest in life? I hear that. They say, “Well, I just don’t care.” The opposite of love is not to hate. The opposite of love is, “I don’t care.” When people say they have no interest in life and they don’t care, you need to worry about them and see if you can help them. Difficult getting motivated. Well, I’m gonna skip talking about millennials that don’t want to drive for some strange reason. These are the ones that, as I said before, they’re addicted to alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, sex, gambling, or sometimes food. That kind of runs in families, too. Decreased sex drive, tired. Well, that could be any of them.

Dr. Lewis:                     The best thing to do is find somebody that you trust and follow their advice, and one of the biggest problems I’ve ever seen is people think they have to understand, and that gets you in trouble, and it’s like, I said this to Janet yesterday. “Well, jeez. I don’t understand how the transmission on my truck works. I don’t understand how the engine works, but I know when to push a button, it goes and put it in gear.” We don’t need to understand. We have to have a little faith, have a little trust. That’s why I tell you, find somebody you really trust, follow their directions. Use your discerning spirit. Your spirit will tell you if it’s good or bad, even if you’re in the middle of anxiety. That’s kind of the short course on that.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, I think we already talked about a few products that might help people if they have those things because I heard you mention a few things that could have related to me.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, because she’s married to it today. I’ll be better … I’m already better. Never mind.

Janet Lewis:                  But there are actually products that we have that’ll help you through anxiety type issues. A couple of girls that are close to us have anxiety pretty bad, and one of them actually says now that her anxiety is almost completely gone, and it’s just been from taking some of the supplements, some of the right supplements, because she did the lab work, and she didn’t guess at what was wrong. Having a bad thyroid can create anxiety. We always tell people, “Do our comprehensive panel. It’s 12 different panels, the lab.” Having cortisol that’s too high can create anxiety. You just really don’t know where it’s coming from unless you run the lab. It could be from a toxic liver. It can be from a lack of iron, actually. You can actually be anemic and have anxious thoughts and think you have anxiety, which you do, but you may just need iron, but don’t guess.

Janet Lewis:                  We’re able to run lab all across the United States. It isn’t like you need to live here locally. Basically, you would fill out a health survey on GreenWisdomHealth.com, and from there, Dr. Lewis calls you and helps you figure out which lab panel is the right lab panel for you, and like I said, we have you draw it close to your home. All the results come back to us. We do everything via email and over the phone, and people that want to see what he looks like, we use Zoom video, so he can actually talk to you. There’s no need to feel that way because when you have anxiety, you don’t really know where to go, what to do. I know a young girl that just lost it in the middle of Target, and just sat her stuff all down, all of her [inaudible 00:16:03], and just started bawling, because she was so filled with anxiety. There’s no need to live like that. There’s actually answers for it. If you could get on some products, and get the right lab, and know what’s wrong with you, you can start feeling better.

Janet Lewis:                  Some of the basic products that you can use that you don’t even need a lab for, which we’re pretty excited about now, we have a Hemp Oil Plus, is what it’s called. You’re going, “Oh my god. Y’all are selling illegal drugs down there.” Well, no. This one’s actually not. This one’s from the stalk of … It’s from the purest hemp stock oil possible. It’s certified organic, and it’s legal in all 50 states.

Dr. Lewis:                     It being organic means you’re not getting the pesticides that can cause a lot of the problems in the first place.

Janet Lewis:                  Literally, we’ve been waiting for a company that would bring us something that we knew we could trust to sell. There have been so many people that have said, “Hey, why don’t you carry hemp oil in your clinic or CBD oil.” I’m like, “No. Not until I get it from the source that I know-”

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve tried five different companies, and this is … I’ve only seen two that work.

Janet Lewis:                  Right.

Dr. Lewis:                     There’s a lot of fake companies.

Janet Lewis:                  We’ve waited, and it was literally on back order for like six months, and it just came back in again, and it’s from a reputable company that we trust called Thorne. You guys that have shopped with us now know some of the products from Thorne that we carry, like their Pepti-Guard and Choleast and things like that. Their new one now is called Hemp Oil Plus, and as I said, it is all organic, and it’s coming from the stalk, which is not common for them to make it from. The thing with that is, if you’re going, “Well, is it gonna cause me to fail a drug test?” Well, because of where it’s coming from, the answer to that is a very low, “No, it should not do that.” Because you’re getting minimal-

Dr. Lewis:                     You’re not getting any THC.

Janet Lewis:                  Correct. There’s nothing that should show up on a drug test, but what it does do is it helps a whole lot with regulating the body’s response to stress and fear. It actually helps with GI distress, which is a lot of where anxiety comes from, and physical discomfort. People that are in pain, and have a hard time moving around, it really does help with that as well. Then they have also put some other ingredients in it as well to help the hemp work better, like clove extract is in it, black pepper, hops, and rosemary. That’s the “plus” side of it. It’s called Hemp Oil Plus. As I said, we’re really excited to finally have a product that we can back and sell to people, knowing we feel good about that.

Janet Lewis:                  Other things that are great for anxiety. GABA, which you’ve probably heard of. We have one here that is great for kids, and it tastes great.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. It actually does.

Janet Lewis:                  It’s called Pharma GABA, and it’s P-H-A-R-M-A, and they can suck on it, and it actually helps with ADD, ADHD, anxiety type things.

Dr. Lewis:                     We have a lot of kids on it with good reports coming back from their parents and teachers.

Janet Lewis:                  Or people that can’t swallow well, they like the ones they can suck on. For adults, we kind of tell them, “Just go with the straight GABA,” because it’s-

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s stronger.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. It’s stronger. Then Dr. Lewis’ personal favorite that he puts all kind of people on is something that’s called Neurolink. Why do you like that one?

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, because it has that activated B6 that I talked about, the P5P, and it has tyrosine, which is really, really good for helping your body, your brain make neurotransmitters, but it also helps with the thyroid, because sometimes if your thyroid is not functioning correctly, it can cause anxiety and panic attacks. Then it has the GABA, which is a pretty big amount, then glutamine, which your brain actually puts out glutamate. That’s one of the things the body uses and uses a lot of glycines too, amino acids. It has inositol, taurine. Taurine’s really good for the brain, but it also helps your body detox fine. It’s really good for brain fog, too. Then it has 5-HTP. It’s really good. It says six capsules a day, and I only know two people that have to take six. Most people take three with really, really good results. It’s a bottle full of … It’s got 180 in it, so it could last a long time.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve never taken it, but Janet will give me the 5-HTP. Once in a while, I’ll take GABA, and the hemp oil does work really well, and I take it because of my irritated, agitated GI tract, because I have some diverticulitis, and it does help calm down the GI tract. The reason why that’s important is that 95% of your serotonin is in your GI tract. It’s not really in your brain. You have to have good gut health, and stop all that dysfunction. That’s what the P5P activated B6 is for, so it’ll cross the blood-brain barrier. We’re careful to give you the nutrients that really will work and help your body work without having to expend more energy to change the forms.

Janet Lewis:                  Right. Your job is just to take it and let everybody else tell you how much more wonderful you are when you’re on it.

Dr. Lewis:                     And smile.

Janet Lewis:                  Because we hear that a whole lot. Other things that have got to do with anxiety, or having bad anxiety is a lack of magnesium, believe it or not. I always tell people, because they always go, “Well, your stuff’s so expensive.” Well, it’s not expensive. It’s different than what they’ve experienced in a store because our stuff is stronger.

Dr. Lewis:                     We’ve been to places that people think are the bastions of organic, and they’re not, and we see their vitamins, and it’s like, our stuff usually is actually less expensive, but if you compare milligrams to milligrams, ours is way less expensive. It’s just high-quality, so don’t let your perception be fooled.

Janet Lewis:                  Exactly. Magnesium is one of the least expensive things you can do. I think a bottle of it here is like $17 or something.

Dr. Lewis:                     And that’s the good, absorbable type. It’s not magnesium oxide, which most people try to sell you.

Janet Lewis:                  It is not the stuff that gives you diarrhea. It’s reacted magnesium. It has different forms of it, so you can take as much as you need. Magnesium actually does over 300 functions in the body, so if you’re gonna just get one thing, you really need to add in magnesium. Vitamin D being low actually creates anxiety. Did you know that? Dr. Lewis knows everything, so I’m sure you do.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. Well, I did a couple of podcasts yesterday as a guest, and one of them says, “Well, I’m taking 1,000 IUs of Vitamin D a day.” I said, “Well, that’s a really good thing, but it takes 8,000 for the average person to get it up where it should be.” Then I said on a previous podcast that 1,000 units a day will normally lower your chance of flu 70%. 2,000 units a day will normally lower your chances of flu close to 100%. That’s just 2,000 IUs. Then we’ve got a question we’ll get to in a minute. I was on another podcast about Lyme’s disease, so we’ll get to that.

Janet Lewis:                  But low vitamin D levels also can trigger the seasonal affective disorder.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. One of those guys says, “Well, isn’t it just natural? Your natural depression?” I said, “I don’t think depression is natural, but you can accept that.” Again, he’s speaking it into existence, so it’s true for him, but no, depression and-or anxiety, they’re not natural.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s linked to the sunshine deficiency, which does depress you, so take more vitamin D. Also, omega-3 fats, like the fish oils, which we always use Orthomega because of the high EPA and DHA in it, which is what you need to improve your emotional health.

Dr. Lewis:                     And the high absorbability.

Janet Lewis:                  A study proved that medical students who took omega-3s lowered their anxiety by 20%, so see there, it’s not all in your head. There are things you can do to help the gut. Yes, Dr. Lewis wants to make sure that we answer this question because we have people on our Shooting Straight With Dr. Lewis. If you’re not familiar with that group, it’s on Facebook.

Dr. Lewis:                     Sign up with Shoot Straight.

Janet Lewis:                  It is a closed group, but you can ask to be a member, and you can learn all kind of information here. Today’s question comes from Kay, and she wants to know about migratory pain and inflammation from Lyme.

Dr. Lewis:                     Again, I was a guest on a podcast about Lyme’s disease. He said it’s gonna air somewhere around Thanksgiving. I’m a guest on a lot of podcasts. I don’t really know why, but I think we’re doing three or four this week as a guest. I guess there’s a reason for that. Lyme’s disease, you have to go on a low-allergen diet, and there’s a lot of different things you can be allergic to. We do have some weird tests that will determine that. We have weird tests that will determine your neurotransmitter deficiencies, too.

Dr. Lewis:                     You can go on a stealth pathogen protocol, so we can make them little things come out and hit them hard, and then quit doing it, and then they’ll come back out. You can do a purification program. You have to do a leaky gut protocol so that your body will stop absorbing some of the toxins associated with Lyme’s disease and all the weird little [inaudible 00:26:05] that cause that. You kind of have to add joint and cognitive nutrients also, and you pretty much have to go on a lifetime of immune system support for maintenance. We can do that. It’s just absolutely imperative, or it’s quicker, easier, less expensive just to do the lab rather than guess.

Janet Lewis:                  The big one for Lyme that we have really had a lot of success with is Lauricidin.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. That guy knew about Lauricidin, and I told him we can do colloidal silver, and he thought I was crazy because I don’t like using colloidal silver unless there’s a last resort. We use a lot of olive leaf, and berberine, and Pau D’Arco , and artemisia, black walnut, and on and on and on, but there are some things that will definitely help.

Dr. Lewis:                     As far as the migratory pain syndrome, it may be from the toxins from the Lyme disease. It very well could be, but as a chiropractor, when people come in, they say, “Well, I have this parasthesia here and here and here,” and it’s like, “Okay, well that does not correlate with the structure-function aspect of chiropractic.” That’s when I would hit them with the right amount, hopefully, in most cases the right amount of the right supplements.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the things and this is just, you can look this research up, there are so many toxins that you have to deal with, and dealing with it means you have to take the supplemental things that will help your body. For example, just benzene. Now, benzene is known to cause leukemia, and our exposure to it is not just the carpets, and it gases out of the carpets like crazy, but you get a big dose of benzene every time you fuel your car up, and then you got styrene that comes out of the carpet, but how many of you are drinking out of styrofoam cups? And how many of you microwave something in a styrofoam food tray? You’re asking for cancer, but it’s been proven over and over and over again it’ll cause neurotoxic symptoms, and that goes into the migratory pain that you’re asking about, which is numbness and tingling, loss of sensation. Very bizarre pain syndromes. Brain fog, encephalopathy, mood swings, and memory loss.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s why it takes time for us to do our job because it takes your body time to detoxify this stuff, and it can be paralysis, convulsions, tremors, blurred visions. I’ve seen people that had Parkinson’s symptoms. Their tremors would get better and better and better, especially the guys that went through Vietnam and were exposed to Agent Orange. You want to consider that it may be the toxins from the Lyme’s disease, or it can be toxins that were already there, and now you’re overly burdened. Just to prove the point, carpet workers, for example, have increased rates of cancers, and especially leukemias. That research is by Anderson, so you can Google that and look it up.

Janet Lewis:                  So do those people that spray for pests. You know, when they come around and do-

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  Those people are always sick, and they have some sort of leukemia or cancers also.

Dr. Lewis:                     Or early-onset dementia. We see that a lot.

Janet Lewis:                  Oh, yeah. Yeah, because of all the chemicals that are in them.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s not like everybody doesn’t get exposed to those things, but people that are more exposed to it, for example, welders, they get a lot of manganese, and in the wrong form. Nail techs and hairdressers are people that are exposed to chemicals more than the average person, and you know, just hair dye is known to cause bladder cancer.

Janet Lewis:                  None of us women use hair dye, so I don’t think that’s an issue for any of us.

Dr. Lewis:                     No, Janet never has.

Janet Lewis:                  No.

Dr. Lewis:                     God’s gonna get me for lying.

Janet Lewis:                  Looks like we’ve come to the end of our show. He’s getting personal now, so hopefully, we have helped your anxiety lessen a little bit with this show, and given you hope to have a healthy, happy, prosperous life since that’s what we’re all here for. We appreciate you joining us, and we’ll be back next week with another fascinating show. Have a blessed week.

 

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Doom, Gloom and Despair

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 You’re dating yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Right.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Exactly.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Sure.

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Woops.

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah. Very much so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Well, yeah.

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Right.

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yep-

Janet Lewis:                 … can be a sign of depression.

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Changes in your menstrual cycle.

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 That parts happy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    My favorite drug is caffeine.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah.

Dr.  Lewis:                    That’s a drug.

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Okay.

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

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

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

New Speaker:               51 grams of sugar or something crazy.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. It was something horribly high.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Yes.

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

Janet Lewis:                 No.

Dr.  Lewis:                    It contributes to anxiety.

Janet Lewis:                 Then we have Maggie that is-

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    I think more is better.

Janet Lewis:                 Tumeric is what? A big-

Dr.  Lewis:                    Super duper anti-oxidant.

Janet Lewis:                 Okay.

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

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

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

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    Yeah.

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    It is an oxidizer.

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

Dr.  Lewis:                    From Illinois.

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

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

Janet Lewis:                 Consistent.

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

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

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

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

 

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Depression and Autism

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

 

Dr. Lewis: And I’m Dr. Lewis.

 

Janet: And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low cost lab work. Where we don’t guess, we test for what’s going on with your health. Instead of just selling you a bottle of pills, like many big box stores do. With that being said, we have a very exciting show for you today about, well I guess, I don’t know if exciting goes with depression but, educational show about depression and autism.

 

  You’re probably wondering how are those two things linked and what do they have to do with each other? But we’re going to tell you today a little bit about both and where some of this is coming from, or where a lot of it’s coming from, and give you some hope out there for people that are depressed or know someone that is. You don’t have to live a live in quiet despair.

 

  With that, Dr. Lewis can you educate us a little bit about how we need to get happy and what’s going on with our kids?

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah you know one of the reasons we can make this link is because we can make this link with any two disease processes. Because the problems that create this is the same, and the solution is generally the same too. We’re going to talk over and over again, and I’m glad. We get a lot of feedback about how much people say they enjoy these podcasts. I feel like, well I’m just talking about the plastics, pesticides, phthalates, heavy metals, you know over and over again. But it’s still very, very true.

 

  We’ve not taken care of the heavy metals in our environment, that we knew was there many, many decades ago. And now the plastics, and phthalates, and fire retardants, and da da da da duh, it’s more prevalent than the heavy metals that can help you change a good physiology into a bad physiology, which might manifest as autism. Which I hope to get to talk about, and depression. And we’re going to talk about detox too. I don’t know where to start, Janet. If you’ve got a question, go for it. If not, I’ll just ramble.

 

Janet: Well, I just think it’s very ironic that we’re having this show today, because I literally just got back from seeing my nail lady, who does the most natural nail polish that she can. But she’s exposed to many chemicals down there, and she’s on depression medication. Many of the depression medications, obviously cause you to gain a lot of weight.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah oh, you don’t want to hear that, then you will get depressed, right?

 

Janet: Right, but I’m just amazed at how quickly someone’s weight can fluctuate just by being on the medications.

 

Dr. Lewis: Because it causes inflammation of the colon or the intestines; the GI tract.

 

Janet: Well I’d like you to talk a little bit about that. Explain that, what exactly, what is it doing? I mean it’s supposed to be helping you not be depressed, but then you get fat instead?

 

Dr. Lewis: Well it’s one of the potential side effects. Many people call us, or email us, and do the health survey, and say, “But I want to lose weight.” Now I say, “That I’m a chiropractor, this is not a weight loss thing. You’re not going to get a bunch of shots, and you’re not going to get the drugs. If you want quick, easy weight loss, go do the drugs.” It’s not necessarily healthy, but it’s quicker and easier. You have to get healthy, and to decrease this inflammation, and to detox your body can take a long time. Well, for example, this is going to fit in good.

 

  There’s this young lady I know, real, real, real well, and she begged me a few years ago to take her on as a patient.  And I said, “No,” and she says, “Why?” I said, “Because you’re not going to do what I tell you to do, and I don’t want to waste my time.” Now, I was not being rude to her, I said it in a very gentle manner. And she says, “Well you changed my husband, his diabetes reversed itself over a period of time, and he lost massive amount of weight.” She said, “He’s actually given me 12 compliments this month, that’s more than he’s given me in the 20 something years of marriage just because we decrease the inflammation and detoxed his body.”

 

  He was very compliant for a while, and I told her, “No, I really don’t think we’re a good mix. We know too much about each other.” She begged me, and I said, “Okay.” She was on Pax-All, Prozac, Wellbutrin, at least two of those, if not three. I said, “You got to go to your MD and let them help you off of that while we fix your gut.” Okay, there’s serotonin, reuptake inhibitors or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Well the reason you’re wanting to spare the serotonin is because your body’s not making enough anyway, because your GI tract’s not right.

 

  If you can go through the bumpy roads of getting off those drugs with the help of the doctor that put you on them, and fix your GI tract … Anyway, this young lady, and she’d been depressed all of her life, pretty severely. She lost, I’m guessing, 50 pounds or so. She got happy for the first time in her 50 something years, and I’ve known her that long. She did really, really, really well and she did get off all her antidepressants. She got off her acid reducer, which that creates it’s own problem. And I’m all for taking drugs, if your MD and you decide it’s a good thing, that’s fine and I’m all for the comfort that it brings. But you’re not really fixing the underlying problem. Anyway, she got great.

 

Janet: Well, and the lady that I saw today, she said, “Well I have to stop my Starbucks drinks, because the ones I’m having, I was told had 1500 calories in it per drink.” I was like, “What are you having?” Because she’s so lethargic I guess, because she’s toxic. She’s having to drink these high powered drinks from Starbucks, and they were literally putting in four shots of espresso in this drink.

 

Dr. Lewis: My hair’s standing on end just hearing about it.

 

Janet: They told her, “The reason it’s so full of calories is because they have to put a whole lot of heavy whipping cream in it to break down the espresso, because she wouldn’t be able to drink it that straight.”

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, to kind of buffer the stomach.

 

Janet: Yeah, so she said, “Oh I don’t believe that. So just cut back on it a little bit with the heavy whipping cream, so I don’t have so many calories.” She said, “I couldn’t drink it.” I said, “I couldn’t drink it anyway.” I think that’s just a sign of your so toxic, it takes that kind of a punch to get you energy.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, that’ll get into adrenals and thyroid. Again, I’m a chiropractor, I don’t prescribe drugs, and I don’t try to get people off drugs. I just try to get people well. There was one study that I read, said there were a lot of military people that had a much, much higher rate of suicide even in the ones that didn’t go into combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Well, unfortunately I’ve known many, many, many people that have committed suicide, and I offhand can’t think of a woman that did, but I can think of a lot of men. There might’ve been one or two, I’m not sure.

 

  The thing about it is to detox, and I’m going to talk about a product that is kind of knocking the socks off, and giving people great hope. Usually if you don’t have hope, you don’t have serotonin. Well, that’s not really true, if you’re not happy, you don’t have serotonin. If you don’t have hope, you need gaba. One of the things to do, and this is also is true of autism, which we’ll get into. Vitamin D deficiency, and that can have a significant effect on a persons mental health, because it has a significant effect on the detoxification pathways. Now it’s best if you can get it out of the sun, although I’ve only seen one person that can do that. You just almost always have to supplement.

 

  To get enough exercise, which that does a whole lot of things. Burns up the excess sugar, and lowers your insulin rate, but it also makes you sweat, and then you’re getting out toxins that you normally wouldn’t have. Eating healthy, and I cannot tell you how many times per day people say, “But I eat good.” I’m in my head saying, “No, you’re really not,” but I can’t really say that. People’s perception of a healthy diet is different than what it used to be. I’m telling you, what we eat is not healthy. We have a diet so full of inflammatory omega-6s, and that’s why you need massive amounts of ant inflammatory omega-3s. There’s a big difference in the fish oils too. Getting enough sleep, and that’s a problem.

 

  People say, “But I don’t sleep,” and I say, “Maybe a cortisol problem.” Sometimes you learn your negative behaviors and sometimes depression is genetic, and I think a lot of times it’s just learned. You can break the cycle by changing and decreasing the inflammation in the GI tract. Reducing your stress, I tell people, “Well you need to pray, you need to meditate. You need to go get quiet.” I’m real guilty of not getting quiet, like I use to. I did sit on the deer stand in December and was texting Janet about this huge nine point buck in front of me. She said, “Are you going to shoot it?” I said, “No, why? Disturb my peace?” I let it go, and it made it through the season, which it’s safe around me anyway.

 

  Some of these supplements that can really help, that reduce your stress and depression, is Saint John’s wort. I want you to be careful with that, because even though it’s been known to be effective with mild to moderate depression, it also can make certain medications not work very well, including birth control pills. If you don’t want to get pregnant and have a baby, that alone can cause stress if you’re taking Saint John’s wort and get pregnant. Zinc, there was a study in biological psychiatry that said low levels in the blood is linked to depression. Well it’s also linked to poor sperm count and swollen prostate, and lower immune system.

 

  Here’s the thing about zinc, we used to sell a 15 milligram zinc, and now we’re selling one that’s 54 milligrams, but it’s more absorbable. It’s the zinc bisgylcinate chelate, and even though it’s about three and half times the amount of the zinc that we used to sell, it’s not three and half times the price. It’s only, I don’t know, maybe 50% or 60% higher, but you’re getting … And this is the TRAACS, T-R-A-A-C-S. That’s the most absorbable stuff you can get, and we’ve had people, oh I had one yesterday. He said, “I don’t know what Dr. Lewis gave me, but now everything’s working good. My prostate’s working good,” and he’s had some pretty major problems with his bladder and prostate recently, so zinc is good.

 

  Something I don’t use much, is called SAMe. Sometimes I do use it, and sometimes Janet gives it to me if I get a little bit overly testy for a long period of time, but you don’t want to take too much of that. The thing we use the most, is 5-HTP, and people say, “Well I tried it, it didn’t work.” I said, “Try a different brand,” and they get on mine and they say, “Oh my god,” usually. That’s not always the answer, but many times it is. We use a 100 milligrams for adults, we have 50 milligrams for children, or very, very small people. It’s a very incredible thing. That’s the one when we give a sample out, people come back and say, “Oh my god, it was a piece of God in a bottle.” I know it works real well.

 

Janet: What about methyl CpG? Is that something that would be great for depression?

 

Dr. Lewis: That’s a good thing for you to bring up, because the next thing I was going to talk about is folate. It depends on who you listen to and what research you read, but there are some people that say, there’s at least 50% of our population have what’s called a 5-MTHFR genetic SNP, that’s S-N-P, for single nucleotide polymorphism. I’m not a geneticists, so. That means you can’t utilize folic acid.

 

  Now, what Janet was talking about, the methyl CpG, not only does it have massive amounts of the methyl B12, it has the 5-MTHF, which is the good folic acid. If you have the genetic SNPS to different degrees, you can actually utilize that. I’ve got a pot full of people taking that stuff, that just does a world of good. It helps methylation, which means it helps detox, which helps decrease depression, which helps decrease autism. I don’t know, Janet can tell when I don’t take that one capsule today, she knows.

 

Janet: That’s the magic word, the one capsule per day, because so many people go, “I don’t want to swallow many pills.” Well that’s one, so it lasts you two months for one bottle.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

 

Janet: It’s like magic.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, and aromatherapy, that’s always listed. I’m a typical man, I didn’t believe in it until we took a course in it, and the lady was very convincing, and we do use some of that. The anxiety and depression can alter your blood pressure. I would like to say this, if a person is depressed and feels like they need to do harm to themselves or other people, you need to seek professional help. We have a lot of licensed counselors, and psychiatrist, and psychologists that you need to see if you feel like you’re going to do harm to yourself or others.

 

Janet: Well a lot of the kids nowadays are being put on medications in the schools for that kind of thing. I know this maybe goes with autism and all that, but there’s a lot of depressed children now.

 

Dr. Lewis: All or almost all of these school shooters have been put on Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin. It’s not to say these drugs may not do some good, but they also have a tendency to create manic problems, and phobias.

 

Janet: I remember back some years, it was Ritalin. They wanted to give all the kids Ritalin back then, and that was just when it was all coming out and we were like, “What are y’all doing to our kids?”

 

Dr. Lewis: That’s speed. We speed them up long enough til they burn out and become zombies, land of the walking dead. Whatever that show is, I don’t watch that kind of stuff, it’s scary. If you have these things, if you’re sad and depressed that’s one thing, but if it lasts, you need to stick with it. There’s questions about why women have it at a much, much higher degree than men. I think, well number one, men are not generally as in tune with their feelings. I think women generally work a lot harder and have more responsibilities. I really think they do. I know men, I had my man card taken away a long time, because I think women do work harder, and I do think they have more responsibilities.

 

  If you have these feelings of constant pessimism or feeling hopeless, there are answers. Again, some of that can be learned behavior, if you’re irritable, and I’ve told you Janet, she’s been known to hand me a pill from time to time because she thinks I’m a little bit irritated. Difficulty concentrating and making decisions. The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is I don’t care, so pay attention to that. Poor memory, can’t sleep, or oversleep.

 

  Fatigue can be that but that can be linked to adrenals, to thyroid, to liver, to kidneys, and digestion. Feeling guilty over things, or the worthless, and aches and pains. Even in a lot of cases, I think of fibromyalgia. The people really are depressed or maybe the fibromyalgia hurts so bad it creates depression, and it doesn’t matter you just got to break the cycle. Even though it’s more common in women, you need to know the signs so that if it’s a man you can recognize that. You want to talk about autism for a minute?

 

Janet: I’m so depressed, I don’t know where to go with it, but yeah.

 

Dr. Lewis: There’s so much hope out there, it’s just incredible the people that’ve gotten good results. Once upon a time a few years ago, I was asked to give a talk to a group of people that had autistic kids. There’s different degrees of autism, autism spectrum disorder. I said, “Sure, I would love to.” I started preparing a PowerPoint presentation, and putting the research down there, and of course one of the patients is the one that asked me to do that. She knew what I was preparing, and in her excitement she told this group, “Oh Dr. Lewis has got this incredible presentation.” She went on, and on, and on, she was excited about it.

 

  The head honcho of the group called me and says, “You know, we don’t want you to give that.” I said, “Okay, but why not?” She says, “Because you’re going to give people hope.” I won’t tell you what I wanted to do. I might’ve been irritated at that. “You’re afraid I’m going to give them hope?” I have seen kids with autism get much, much, much more functional once you increase their detoxification pathways. For example, women that have autistic kids, if you look at the research, they all have lower vitamin D than women who don’t have autistic kids. That’s just one small way to detox the body.

 

  Mercury, and there’s books just written on mercury intoxication. That’s why they say, “Well don’t eat tuna and mackerel,” and all the kind of stuff. Well, the omega-3s in the tuna’s a good thing, but you’re filling them full of mercury. Other people think it’s just vaccines, and I don’t understand why we need to give kids 36 vaccines now when I think it was 10 a few years ago. I don’t think it was that much when I was a kid. I’m not really anti-vaccine, but I’m real, real anti the … I’m sorry Janet, I’m trying to clean this up. I’m anti the junk they put in it. It’s like you’ve got to be kidding me, you’re putting in more than the FDA says is safe.

 

  My question is, “Why would you say any of it’s safe in the first place?” That’s somewhere close to idiocy. Autism’s four times more prevalent in boys than girls, I don’t really know the reason. One of the things, I have read this both ways, so I don’t know the answer because I’ve read different research that said different things. I’ve always told you, “Be careful believing everything you ready,” it says, “Non-Hispanic or black and multi-racial children, have a lower instance for autism than white children.” I’ve read it to be the exact opposite, where Hispanic and blacks have a higher rate of autism.

 

  Well if that’s one true, that would be because just the skin color itself would make for a lower vitamin D level. Who knows what true, because there’s conflicting research, and that’s why I tell people, “Don’t get one research study and believe it. You got to read a whole lot of it, and see what it really says.” Some of it just points just to mercury, some of them point to all kinds of other things. And the fish, well we’ve had coal fired power plants for years, and the places I used to fish as a kid or now, they say, “Don’t eat the fish out of them.” We’re talking about small lakes.

 

Janet: Yeah, didn’t you all used to swim in some ponds that were like this beautiful color of aqua blue?

 

Dr. Lewis: Algae. Yeah, algae.

 

Janet: Yeah.

 

Dr. Lewis: I’m not sure that’s where she’s going with that.

 

Janet: No, I thought it was like a toxin, like a ore or something. Ore mines or something.

 

Dr. Lewis: Oh yeah, sure. The ore mines, they were full of some sort of minerals. They were nice and clear, yeah. Still would if I had a chance. Yeah, I grew up by the ore mines. The mercury’s a very potent neuro toxin, and it doesn’t have to take much.

 

Janet: I know, and what did we use to get? Mercurochrome.

 

Dr. Lewis: Oh yeah, monkey blood.

 

Janet: Yeah, I did not know that was mercury.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah.

 

Janet: You told me that one day and I thought, “We used to get that all the time, it would stay red for a day and a half.”

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, we were proud of our wounds. Even kids, they’re developing brains or damage when they’re exposed to low dose exposures in the womb before they’re even born folks. There are thousands and thousands of products, food products, that contain mercury. Like citric acid, sodium benzoate, and high fructose corn syrup. If you’re giving your kid a soft drink, down south here we call them all cokes no matter what they are, up north it’s pop.

 

  If it’s got high fructose corn syrup, it’s got a really really high chance of having mercury in it. Even organic high fructose corn syrup uses mercury in the manufacturing process. High fructose corn syrup is real, real prevalent. It’s no wonder we’ve got kids that have lower and lower and lower IQ’s. Even the European Union founded a lot of mercury concentrations in beverages, cereals, yeah cereals, bakery ware, sweeteners which can contain the high fructose corn syrup.

 

  They’re in levels way, way, way beyond that so called safe level, and that safe level’s bull anyway, because there ain’t no safe level. It depends on your ability to detox. I’ve got so much to say I promise you. When I write these things, and gather up research, I always have four, five times. Today I have about ten times more were going to get to. You can look at the blood and talk about autism source, and it’s gone up so dramatically in the last 15, 20 years. You have to realize it’s not your genes, because genes or genetics, does not change that fast. It always points to something in the environment as a trigger.

 

Janet: Yeah they say it’s gone up 23% in the last two years, and 78% in the past five, autism. There’s something happening.

 

Dr. Lewis: If you do the research, in a very few short years, one out of two people in America’s going to have autism, and one out of two people in America’s going to have Alzheimer/dementia. What’s going to happen, mark my word, in a very few years these home healthcare, they’re going to quit paying for the people to get home healthcare, or the insurance companies will. Then, you’re going to have people that are productive in society, that are working a job that are going to have to quit to go out and take care of their loved one. That’s really going to crater our economy.

 

  We need to learn to get healthy, and it’s not so complicated. We can tell you what to do. I’m going to talk about one of the things that we’re selling the holy heck out of, because it works. People talk about it, “Do you have a detox plan?” “Yeah if you’re taking these supplements, you’re detoxing.” There’s one called Core Restore, that’s a seven day product, and yes people lose weight. I know that’s what you’re interested in, but quit worrying about weight loss. This detoxes the heck out of you, it’ll be so bad you can’t hardly stand yourself in the bathroom, because you can smell the toxins coming out.

 

  This one does something special. It ramps up phase two before it ramps up phase one, because most of them do phase one, it goes to phase two, and overloads it. A quick easy analogy is, well if you want to flush out your plumbing, instead of running water through it which is phase one and overloading it, you’ve got to do phase two. Which is get the gunk, and the grease out of it. Phase two is the fat, and one of the reasons people have trouble losing weight is because the fat cells are very reluctant to let go of these toxins, so it’s better than a diet. How much do you want to talk about?

 

Janet: Well it comes with this cute little hand mixer I really like. We’ve started just selling them on the side, because they’re so cute. That way you can mix your little drink in the morning with it.

 

Dr. Lewis: They’re handy. They’re handy for trips to.

 

Janet: Yeah, they’re little portable battery operated hand mixers.

 

Dr. Lewis: This stuff is working better. What happens is people say, “Well my fatigue and irritability is better. My joints pain better. My brain fog, holy cow it’s gone.”

 

Janet: And it even tells you, there’s a book in there that tells you what to eat during the week so that you don’t eat the wrong things, and put your clog back in your pipe.

 

Dr. Lewis: That’s my favorite part, where Janet goes for the gadgets. It’s got some pretty serious nutrients, but phase two is the sulfation, the glucuronidation, the glutathione conjugation, amino acid conjugation, acetylation, methylation. Those are the ones that I’ve talked about for years, about being liver detoxification pathways. You got to, got to, got to take care of that liver.

 

  Your livers like your wife, if you’re wife ain’t happy, ain’t nothing going to be good. Then once that’s kicked into gear … I’m sorry, that’s actually the water soluble. Got that backwards, but phase one is the oxidation reduction of these molecules, and dehalogenation, and you need a lot of different nutrients for that. People are saying, “Oh my god, my digestive problems, I don’t have belching, bloating. Oh my hot flashes are gone. I don’t have allergies anymore.”

 

Janet: And it’s just for a week. Anybody can do a week, and it’s in a box, so it’s not hard to determine what you need. It’s called Core Restore, everything’s in the box.

 

Dr. Lewis: It’s pretty incredible. We’re getting massive people that are saying, “This is the bomb,” and they’re saying, “Oh I feel so good, can I stay on it?” The answer to that is, “Yes.” You’re getting a lot of toxins out, but you’re getting a lot of nutrients in. It’s kind of a shortcut. It’s a good hand holding detox.

 

Janet: Well, when you’re talking about depression and autism, is there a lab that you would recommend for people to do? So we have an idea of where to start with their health?

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, do the comprehensive GWH-3 that’s sent for Green Wisdom Health. We have a lot of things on the website, and I think just a comprehensive for that would just be incredible.

 

Janet: What is it that you can see in there that might help you determine whether or not somebody has depression issues?

 

Dr. Lewis: Well liver enzymes. You can look at the chloride, you can look at the globulin, you can look at the protein. That gives you a good idea of what’s happening with the, well, whether you’re detoxing or not. We look at the kidneys, we look at five parts of the thyroid. Thyroid, course you know I’ve talked about it a lot, that has a lot to do with how you’re doing. We look at cortisol, seeing what your stress levels are, whether too high or too low, or just right. Kind of like that bowl of porridge, this one’s too hot, this one’s too cold, this one’s just right. What’s that, the three bears story?

 

Janet: Goldilocks, yes.

 

Dr. Lewis: Yeah, okay.

 

Janet: Yeah, basically it’s not necessarily in someone’s head, it could actually be in their gut, and you could actually see it on lab perhaps.

 

Dr. Lewis: Everything is not chance, and I’ve told people for years, “Success leaves clues that’s real obvious, but so does failure.” If you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired, you can take control of your health. The best thing you can do, because I hear this all the time, “Well, I want my husband or wife to do this.” I tell them, “The best thing you do is keep your mouth shut, and be a good leader, and go ahead and show them. Not tell them. If you show them by doing it yourself, they’ll jump onboard.” That’s worked real, real well for the majority of people.

 

Janet: I like that. There is hope out there, and if you want to find out more, like Dr. Lewis said, go on our website, greenwisdomhealth.com. He’s suggesting that you do the lab, that is the GWH-3. And the reason it’s the GWH, is because it comes with a 30 minute free consultation with Dr. Lewis, so that he can go over the findings with you. Also, there is a health survey on there. If you don’t know how to get started, or you just to need to talk to him and figure out where to get help, fill out the health survey. Dr. Lewis will call you and try to make contact with you, and see if we can get you going in the right direction. We really appreciate you listening to us today. We want you to know there is hope out there, you don’t have to have a life that’s not worth living. Until next week, we’ll see you then. Take care.