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Posted on October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 by Green Wisdom Health

This Broke My Heart

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In this episode, This Broke My Heart, Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis discuss the importance of heart health and how to best support your heart. They discuss what lifestyle changes, dietary changes, and supplements can help support your heart to keep it happy for the long-term.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Nitric Oxide Revive – Extended-release nitric oxide precursor to support cardiovascular health.

Co-Q10 300mg – The antioxidant CoQ-10 helps to support cellular energy production and provide wide-ranging cardiovascular support.

Nattokinase – All-natural, potent enzyme that support healthy blood circulation and heart health.

Show Notes

Welcome to the Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now here are your hosts, Dr. Steven and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the Green Wisdom Health Show. I’m Janet Lewis and I’m Dr. Lewis, and we’re excited that you guys have joined us again. I know it’s been a bit since we’ve been here, got so many things to tell you as usual. And I’m sure you’re really wondering of why this show is called This Broke My Heart. Uh, Dr. Lewis has decided that he would like to go on air and tell his story, which is partially my story too. It just didn’t happen to me, but it could have. Um, I wanted to call this show, This Broke My Heart. Really I wanted to call it My Husband’s an Idiot, but I still love him. But Janet said no on that. That’s not exactly what she said. She prefaced that with heck no. Because your wife’s not an idiot and I didn’t want to be in that title. So. Well, you married me. Okay. Um, well, the point is that, you know, we have so many of you people that, uh, listen to me in spite of my Texas draw, which abhors me, but, uh, I take lots of supplements and I believe in them and we go through all kinds of convoluted inside out to get the right ones at the best price. But I’m pretty bad about just showing up and shooting from the hip. Y ‘all kind of know that. And we’re almost like a mechanic, right? It’s like we’re really great at fixing other people’s cars, but sometimes ignore our own. Yeah. I used to go to court. They pay me big bucks to go testify in court and I wouldn’t study cause I love embarrassing the hell out of insurance companies, attorneys. But anyway, I didn’t target things that I kind of sort of knew I needed to target. And I’m like everybody else. I’m just cheating a little bit when I’m eating that a Hershey bar or ice cream or whatever. And how long had it been since you’ve done your last lab? Four and a half years and you you’ve gone five years. Okay. I’m not, I’m not saying that you did that. I’m just trying to divert the attention off me. But anyway, I screwed around, had a heart attack. So the point is folks that I understand that the world’s gone through some really difficult times and people, you know, the inflation and that includes the supplements to, uh, some people have a tendency to drop out and, you know, there’s, you know, double down and go for it. And, um, anyway, I don’t know how deep you want to get into this heart attack thing. Well, the one, basically we had run, we’ve been extremely stressed, you know, Brandy was our right hand and she’s not been here for quite some time now, even though she still works with us remotely, but not physically in the store, which is a lot of work. And, um, we were under tremendous stress and, you know, and all this things going on in the country’s not really helping it either. And so we just kept taking everything we always knew to take, you know, which was, I took half the store. I mean, it wasn’t like we weren’t taking anything. Well, well, we were taking lots of stuff. Well, uh, we just are joining or we’re partner partnering now with a triple board certified pain management doctor. And because of that, we decided we’d run our lab and see what was going on and see what she thought about our lab. Cause see, you need an authority figure. Um, and so we had run it and it had been about two weeks prior to Dr. Lewis’s heart attack that we had the results back. Both of our labs, we should have been spanked over because they were bad. And if we had run that yearly, we would have caught it in time. But we thought we knew a lot about supplements and you know, if you’re taking this and you know, I was on it once, it had to be good from now on. Well, if we would have seen our lab before that happened, we would have targeted it differently. And we had just started exercising again, walking.

Well, what did you feel exactly? What had, how did you know you were having one? Cause didn’t it happen? You say it happened in the middle of the night. Oh, I don’t know. It’s kind of nonspecific, you know, just, you know, you kind of cough to, there’s a reflex that tries to lower your chance of, you know, put your heart back in rhythm. I heard you had jaw pain, arm pain. I’ve had jaw pain, arm pain for years. And I don’t know if that’s musculoskeletal cause of the stupid stuff I did. The heart attack hurt worse than the, uh, than getting shot and while I was in the hospital and I got up about two o ‘clock. So about three 30 that afternoon, Janet. Hold, hold on. This was in the morning, right? You had this. So what Dr. Lewis is missing the point here of what I’m trying to get him to say, purposely, he decided to come to work the whole day first and just told me he didn’t feel good, but I knew something wasn’t right with him because we have a product in here called liquid capsicum and what it is, it’s for open wounds and we pour it on open wounds to help them heal because it does sear them together. Well, Dr. Lewis started drinking it straight at our house and it’s a vasodilator. And I was like, are you sure you’re supposed to do that? He goes, listen, this makes me feel good. And I thought, this is really weird. So does bourbon, but I didn’t drink it. And I thought he didn’t look right, but of course he had not been, uh, informing me of the stuff that happened the night before. So, you know, I gave him magnesium. We’d always heard that if you opened a capsule of magnesium that and put it in your lip and let it dissolve there, um, that it would stop a heart attack. We were trained that way. We didn’t know if it worked cause we’ve never been around anybody that’s having an actual heart attack, but I was giving them to Dr. Lewis all day long, off and on. And he was drinking this liquid capsicum. And we’re not saying don’t go to the hospital. Don’t have a cardiologist because you didn’t, you need to. Yes. I’m just saying when you’re thinking, Oh, Hey, these supplements don’t work. Yeah, they kind of really did because the story gets really good after this. Um, so anyway, at about three 30, he asked me if I’ll drive him to the emergency room. So we went to the emergency room, the, uh, the doctor there said, put him on some machines and said, are you sure he’s having a heart attack? Cause it’s not really showing. And I said, well he is, I’ve been given a magnesium, so it’s probably slowed it down. He goes, you’ve done what? And I said, magnesium. And he goes, Oh, well then we’re going to need to run a magnesium test because he’s probably overdosed on it. I said, Oh dear Lord. I said, no, he’s not. I said, I’m just trying to save his life. Well, I’m, I’m always trying to be Joe cool and make their life better and their, their boring stress field shift better. I said, no, if you get overdosed magnesium, I’d be pooping in my pants. And, uh, it got worse and worse and worse. And Janet said, aren’t you supposed to give him nitro like in the movies? He said, well, I’ve got procedure. I’ve got to go through and it’s, it’s getting worse and worse and worse. And uh, meanwhile, meanwhile, they, um, finally decide he’s having a heart attack because our magnesium caps comes wore off and, uh, they give him the nitro and morphine. And on that, he still has a 212 over something blood pressure and something 65 or something like that. Something crazy high. And I’m thinking, you know, God told me outside he was going to be fine. So I knew he was that, we’ll just get this done. He’ll, he’ll, he’ll be done. Well, cardiologists came in super nice as we’re going to take you back to surgery. If it all goes well, we’ll go through your wrist. Uh, w you do have a blockage. Um, so he said, we’re going to go and try to put a stent in. And so then they decided that there was a man that had come in ahead of him that was really bad, like near death. He coded. Yeah, he did code. So they took him ahead of Dr. Lewis. So, um, Dr. Lewis had to wait two and a half more hours to get into the surgery room, which made him start having more problems because he says it in a calm tone of voice. If he says it’s a 10, it’s a 10. And I said, have you ever heard this song? Everybody wants to see Jesus, but nobody wants to go now. Right. And so two and a half hours later, anyway, uh, the cardiologist come out and said, you know, we, we saved the other guy. And so they took Dr. Lewis back and they said, we’re on a roll today. Um, he’s going to be fine. He was, Dr. Lewis was back to 35 minutes and they were done with him. They were able to go through the rest. He had one blockage. It was 100 % blocked. He did get a stent and a balloon, which my brother calls party favors. Uh, so, uh, but the rest of the arteries were not blocked at all, but the one that was blocked was to his lung, which was to his brain. So he was not, uh, he wasn’t thinking real clearly for a little while. So, um, yeah, under the second shot of morphine to decrease the pain, I said, well, yeah, no, I’m not going to renew my bowels, even though I’ve never broken them, but yeah, I will.

00:10:05 – 00:15:01

So it’s, it might be goofy. So anyway, it all went well. Somehow it got out all over long view. I do not know how that, that he’d had a heart attack while he was having a heart attack, uh, in our small town here. I know how celebrities must feel on some very small text, phone calls and emails before I even got to the 10 out of a 10 in pain. And you know, anyway, so it, but anyway, people all knew about it. And Dr. Lewis really wasn’t sure if he want, what he wanted to say, because, you know, we run a natural health store. And when you’ve gone through something like that, you’ve, you’ve partially feel like, well, you failed. You’re telling all these people to do this stuff and you failed. Well, please note the supplements didn’t fail. I failed to pay attention to it. And the other part is we’re all human and things are going to happen to you. And sometimes it’s just genetic. And sometimes, you know, you’re, you’re slowing things down or not do anything by speeding something up. So you can’t stop everything, but you can slow it down. So for about two weeks there, he was kind of like, you know, I, I don’t really understand. I took all the stuff. Well, then we went back for his checkup with the cardiologist and, um, the cardiologist when he was in the hospital told him absolutely no, no, and no to any kind of supplement he would ever think about taking, uh, because they wanted him on drugs. And, uh, we’re not saying the drugs are bad. We’re just saying the side effects I cannot live with. Yes. We’re, we’re just like, Oh, this is not good. And then they took things away that made him feel better, like fish oil and turmeric and weird things. Um, but when he got in to have his checkup, they did an EKG on him and said, I don’t know what you did, but you have absolutely no scar tissue to your heart and no permanent damage, which we knew God was not done with the story then because the supplements we had given him stopped it. So the whole moral of the story here is, and why we’re on here today is to tell you, don’t ignore your health. Don’t assume just because you are a patient of ours and have been for many years and are buying the better supplements that you don’t need yearly lab, because it is extremely important. At this point, we’re going to be doing ours every six months for a while to make sure everything is, uh, better. And then we’re also, because of the way this is, uh, what happened, we’ve decided to put our labs on sale and we have made a couple of cardiac panels because of Dr. Lewis. I can thank him for that. Um, but we’re given 10 % off the labs and, and some of you guys don’t listen right away. So I apologize, but hopefully you’re listening right away because this is only good until, um, no, the end of November, 2023, but it’s 10 % off. If you buy it online, you can put it in the code word health, H E A L T H and get yourself checked. We don’t care which panel you pick, but if you have heart problems in your family or suspect you’re having an issue of some sort, pick the cardiac panel. So Dr. Lewis, how would you like to, uh, what people need to know? What do you wish you’d have done different? What wish you to, what do you wish you’d have known? What do you wish you to take in more of? So many times, and again, I never use names because I don’t want everybody in Longview. We had people from Hughes Springs to Houston that knew about this before I was even gone into surgery, which is, you know, uh, I’m glad you care that much, but you know, quieten it down. Anyway, I tell the story about a dear, dear friend of mine that knew she had a high CRP and she ignored it for four years, had a heart attack and she always had money for beer, cigarettes and marijuana, but she never had money for supplements. And she’s had massive problems and died now. Uh, wonderful, wonderful person. And you know, I wasn’t guilty of ignoring it. I was guilty of not looking for it. And, uh, And we thought, you know, cause in Texas this year, uh, it has been extremely hot during the summer. I mean like 106, 110, just unbearable. And we knew he was having trouble, uh, getting air, maybe is a good way to say it. He just looked, uh, fatigued. She said, I looked like a guppy out of water or a carp. I thought maybe this is what getting older looks like. Carps are ugly and she’s calling me a carp. No, no, here, here’s the deal. Uh, there’s a scripture in the Bible. I think it’s out of Proverbs. It says, a wise man foresees danger and takes precautions.

00:15:01 – 00:20:02

Well, apparently I wasn’t wise, but a simpleton or a fool ignores this and suffers the consequences. And that’s out of Proverbs. So, you know, look it up. So the toxic environment, you know, I’ve talked about polluted air raises blood pressure. My blood pressure has always been sky high, always tease. When a mosquito bites me, it blows his butt out. Cause it’s, you know, so, uh, the blood pressure is so high, toxic air affects the heart through the olfactory. Nerve norepinephrine raises and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. Uh, let’s see. And I’m looking through some research and notes that I’ve made. You know, I’ve read thousands of research articles, uh, environment in flames endothelium. Well, guess what? Janet says our Dyson air purifier, which is over where I sit by the, uh, couch. She said, God, they must be dropping chemtrails on us. Well, see Dyson, which I have this humidifier deal every year, it seems like in December it it’s suddenly due. Like it’s says it’s full, you know, you never know if this things are true, but the, the filter is extremely high. And so I think, well, are they just setting me up for buying another filter every year? And that filter has been running in our house since we moved in there, uh, a year and a half, two years ago. And it had been on low, uh, like, like it was like the particulates in the air was low. Yeah. And because it was interrupting the volume on my TV and I thought, what’s wrong with this thing? It just keeps being higher. And then, and then the, the bearings, I guess started squealing in our air conditioner about two months ago, Dr. Lewis said, I think that’s bearings on there going out. Well, I noticed when that started happening, the Dyson air filter went up to critical levels and I thought, well, that’s probably a fluke and it’s getting close to December. You know, we’re, we’re getting a new filter. Um, but ironically we had to have our inside unit replaced on our air conditioner during all this also. But the minute it happened, the Dyson went back down to no noise at all. So we were in Halen Freon. That’s why I talked to you about the environment and toxic air affects the heart through the olfactory nerve. And you know, here’s the other thing, I’m going to get into some specifics here in a minute, but, and I told my cardiologist, which I very, very much like, I was luck luck, lucked out because hand of God always is on me. He was a good guy, but they said, no, no, no. And heck no, don’t take any homeopathics, nothing, no vitamins, no minerals. And I’m like, I told him, I said, I’m gonna submit to authority cause I came in asking for your help. And I said, I appreciate you saving my life. He said, I didn’t save your life. God did, which made me like him even more. But then it talks about, coenzyme Q 10 is an energy field for your heart statins, deplete coenzyme Q 10. Then you’ve got L carnitine. I love, love, love, love our L carnitine. Uh, it’s, it’s, uh, supplementation of L carnitine after a heart attack increases the survival rate and makes it much less likely that you’ll suffer a second heart attack. Magnesium relaxes arterial walls, reduces blood pressure, makes it easier for the heart to pump blood nice and will lower your triglycerides and the bad kind of the LDLs and most specific, the VLDLs, omega threes. They said, no, no, no. Hey, oh no, don’t take a maga threes. And it’s like, well, we got the good fish oil is three times more absorbable. And uh, and you’ve gone back to adding to it. I know the bottle says one, but if you’re a cardiac risk, you really are to consider doing two of them. Show me the research says one’s good. So dr. Lewis takes two. Okay. There’s a reason for that. And we’ve added because since dr. Lewis’s incident, uh, we’ve added back in our CoQ 10, 300 milligram. And I can tell a difference when I take it. That’s a huge thing for people with heart issues at all or heart problems. And you got NATO kinase, which is a clot buster, other supplements, and I’m taking them all now is vitamin C, curcumin, resveratrol, uh, and different flavanols, flavonoids and polyphenols, uh, which would be Cuse and bromelain. Uh, so that that’s the general. And, and this is, this is out of a book, you know, research. One of the best things you can do is called nitric oxide revive. And it’s like, there’s other reasons you should take it, but it’s a time release to l -arginine doesn’t work on women though, just on men. Right. I mean, for other reasons, you should take it. It does work on heart stuff for women. It decreases the inflammation of the endotheliums, which means less likely to clot. And then you get a better blood flow to areas. Nitric oxide is what makes Viagra work.

00:20:02 – 00:25:01

You’ve heard me say that. Does it work on women? Sometimes when you get other things engorged, it makes things a lot better. So nitric oxide revive has massive cardiovascular circulatory benefits, but it also helps detoxify ammonia, uh, hormone secretion and immune health. Okay. This is a good one and it’s been real popular amongst the people taking it. A coenzyme Q 10 is really, really good. Uh, it plays a major role in energy production, which is ATP. There is one thing we want to say about dr. Lewis is heart attack because I know half of you out there are wondering and we would wonder ourselves. So we’re just going to put it to bed. Did he do a jibby jab? No, he did not. It was not any jibby jab related. They asked me in the hospital, did you get this vaccination? I said, oh, hell no. Uh, I, I, a bourbon shot and they said, you take shingle shot. I said, oh hell no. Bourbon shot. Did you get your flu shot? I said, bourbon shot. Now here’s the thing. Also, you know, I’m trying to be a little bit rough and tough because if I don’t, I’ll cry. He is sensitive to after this. So sometimes I have to talk for him. Yeah. The lady at the hospital, I talked about the major HIPAA noncompliance there. She called me later and she said, uh, how are you doing? Are you having, and it’s real common to have depression after heart attacks and other things. I said, well, I came to you mad as a wet hand, and now I’m crying like a woman at a lifetime movie. So I said, I’m doing fine. Just forget about the HIPAA noncompliance. And I said, you saved my life. Good God, I’m happy. Uh, there’s another thing in Proverbs that says above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it. Keep your mouth free of perversity. So I’m sorry, I don’t some days, but you know, you kind of have to, to get over the crying like a woman at a lifetime movie. But the other thing we wanted to mention also, you know, we told you we’re sort of told you we’re going to get more into another podcast about this when we have, uh, the actual steps to do it. But we’re, uh, now because we’re partnered with a triple board certified, uh, MD, uh, she’s also, uh, uh, board of pain medicine and she’s also certified in the Academy of cosmetic surgery. So she’s, um, got lots of certifications. And she’s really easy to talk to. She will put your spirit at peace. Now this only includes five States where she’s licensed. Yeah. We’re going to offer integrated medical and nutrition services in horse, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia. Uh, people that are doing the nutrition and the supplements that we put them on, um, will also be offered if Dr. Lewis sees fit for you, the ability to talk to her about semi -glutide shots, uh, the compounding pharmacies will send it directly in the mail to you because it turns out that semi -glutide shots can actually help reduce your rate of heart attack by up to 20 % and also kidney problems up to 20%. And again, as I’ve said a million times, it depends on what research you read because there’s plenty of research that says, well, if you do this, you decrease your chance of heart attack 50 to 75%, you know, like just taking a good vitamin E most of it’s not, but yeah, there, there’s so many things. And I want you to understand that, you know, this may be a hodgepodge of information. I’m sorry about, you know, getting weepy on you, but you know, the, the fact that you started with us in the first place means that there are hope in your heart that you can change or we can help you change. This is true in our experience, even when the family members are not aware of it, but it helps if you have the family support. So your presence here is a reflection of your hope and believe at some level that you’re capable of change. And I told the guys and I don’t mind dying. I don’t mind seeing Jesus, but today’s not a good day. Cause frankly, I could have checked out. My spirit was right there. And I said, you know, the last 24, 25 years with Janet’s been kind of a lot of fun and I think I’m good for another 25 years. And that’s the reason I chose to live. It was that close and you know, yeah, now I’m fine. I’m fine. Yeah. Y ‘all quit worrying about me. My friends are still calling and texting. I said, but it hurt way, way worse than getting shot. It kind of surprised me.

00:25:02 – 00:30:01

But uh, you know, two days later I was back in the office. Yeah. People would go, I won’t tell anybody, Dr. Lewis. And I thought, you know, you know, BS stands for bacon sandwich and belief systems. There was a, there was a game we used to play when we were kid called rumors or I think it was rumors or something where you told something and by the time it got back to somebody else, Oh my God, you know, they, they might as well been on fire. Uh, so we thought we’d just come on here and tell, let him tell you it himself. You know, he is fine, but I believe in my heart without a doubt that he went through this experience because it came into play right at the time we integrated with this medical doctor. And you know, she’s easy to talk to y ‘all, y ‘all people that will qualify to see her. You’ll love her. But Dr. Lewis, because of the way he lost his dad under medical care or his perception of it because he was a young kid, has never been a great fan of it. And there is a time and a place for all of it, not just part of it. You know that they need to save your life. You need to be down there. You don’t need to wait. And we’ve seen several people decide to wait. And it’s, that’s not a great outcome. So the whole, I think, I think maybe Dr. Lewis’s journey was about him marrying the medical stuff to the nutrition so that you guys get a better outcome. And I know he didn’t think he was going to live, but God told me when it happened, he would. So. I didn’t say that. I said I had a choice. Oh yeah, he did have a choice, but I knew his choice he was going to make before he chose. Janet’s always known more about my opinion than I know. Y ‘all know that. So, you know, I’m sorry, this, this podcast didn’t turn out exactly the way we wanted. We had all kinds of signs and symptoms and a lot of other research, but, uh, who knows? Was it the Freon? Was it this? Was it that? Was it because I was eating too much candy because during the stress, you know, my drug of choice is sugar. Caffeine is number one. Alcohol is a distant third, but I’ve cut the sugar out and most of the alcohol. So eight days after the heart attack, I said, Hey baby, can I, do you think it’d be okay if I had a drink? She said, well, you’re eight days older than you would have been. So yeah, go ahead and celebrate. But I I’ve never drank much far as volume never, but you know, folks, it, it is, it is so much, we saw a bill that’s not mine yet, but this lady had a bill for a stamp, $158 ,000. Do you know what 20 % of that is? It’s a almost $32 ,000. You can buy a whole lot of supplements from years and years and years and years and years for that. So folks, let’s make a wise choice so that while we’re here, we can be as healthy as we should be as healthy as we can be. Uh, you know, trouble is in East Texas, most, most of us rednecks take better care of our truck than we do the temple of the Holy Spirit. So maybe it’s time we kind of changed our priorities and I’ll be the first to say I should have. Hey, but you know, the supplements did work too. So it wasn’t like, you weren’t doing anything and we kind of knew how to slow it down for a while. So, you know, that magnesium under the lip does really work. Why are the rest of the coronary arteries a hundred percent, uh, clear? The supplements didn’t fail. I failed. And you know, it’s my responsibility and I admit it reluctantly. However, since everybody in their damn dog knows it, I got a text yesterday from Midland, Texas. Well, good God, that’s 500 miles away saying, well, I was told in confidence, it’s like, yeah, that’s 17 steps past. Anyway, here, here’s the thing. Yes, I’ll talk about it now. Yes. I want you to, uh, take good, good care. I love you guys that are very consistent with what you do and thank God there’s a lot of them in the labs have been improved, but maybe we should get a successful. So, you know, I’m going to go ahead to the inspirational part that Janet usually asked me about, and then she can follow up with whatever she wants success in your life or in your health requires people. So choose wisely, whether that’s choosing Janet and me, or whether it’s choosing a spouse that’s supportive, uh, the atmosphere you’re in will create the health that you have or the health that you want. Don’t be careful. Be bold. Don’t be stupid. Like I was, you know, be wise. I missed the wise part. Are you a viewer or a doer? Good question. Your thought life controls the rest of your life, what you think and what you speak. And that’s why I said, keep corrupt talk from your lips. That’s negative talk. And I’m preaching to me. So, you know, y ‘all be blessed. We will help you in whatever way. Take advantage of the 10 % off. Cause believe it or not, that really is a big deal.

00:30:01 – 00:32:44

And, uh, we can do more, uh, to get you healthier, to increase your energy level, uh, make your life happier because you feel better physically. It spills over in your mental and your physical, your spiritual life. And deep down inside, you do know whether or not you feel at your peak or not. I knew I’d wasn’t at my peak and I thought it’ll pass. It’ll pass. It’ll be fine. My, my lab numbers actually looked worse than Dr. Lewis’s and whenever the heart attack happened for him and that machine was going off in the background of his room after his surgery, I called our, one of our practice management, uh, nutritionist and talked to him and he said, you had the heart attack, didn’t you? I said, wasn’t me. It was Dr. Lewis. So, you know, in your gut, you know, you’re not right. So if you’ve not done your lab recently, this is a great opportunity to do that. It’s coming up toward the end of the year. A lot of you guys have health savings account money you have not used. So it’d be a good opportunity to get yourself back in peak condition. And we appreciate you listening to our show. Again, the code word is health, H E A L T H. It’s all lowercase letters per the coupon. It is good until the end of November and it is just on the lab. And, uh, if you’ve not done our lab, go to greenwisdomehealth .com, fill out the health survey. It’ll direct you or should direct you to the correct panel. And if you don’t like that, Dr. Lewis is really good about calling people and talking to them as well. And Dr. Lewis has one final thing to say. You know, you were born to live big, to love to create and to really express the miracle that you are. And I’ve got one thing to say about miracles. Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. So take that action and let’s create a miracle. And we’ll be here next time on the Green Wisdom Health Show. Once again, our show has come to an end, but your hope and your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a step and go to our website and fill out the health survey, please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share this show with your friends and family. You’re only one step away from a life worth living.

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Hormone Weight Loss Nutrition System

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In today’s episode, Dr. Lewis discusses his new book all about how to optimize hormone levels that could be making it difficult for you to lose weight. This book is the perfect roadmap to start your new year off right with tips, meal plans, grocery lists, and supplement recommendations to help you achieve better health. You can also read the full book, Hormone Weight Loss Nutrition System, by clicking on this link here.

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ProbioTrim – Contains healthy bacteria that has been shown to assist with healthy body composition by improving gut barrier function, supporting the reduction of body fat mass, and promoting less calorie consumption.*

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Transcript:

Hormone Weight Loss Nutrition System

00:00:01 – 00:05:15

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with doctor Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Steven and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s show. We are very excited for our next presentation of what we’ve been up to, doctor Lewis. You want to tell them what we’ve been up to? Yeah, I hear from quite a few of my patients that we’re going dark are going silent because we haven’t been putting out podcasts. Well, we’re going to introduce you to our hormone balancing and weight loss book. And I’d like to say thank you for your patience. Thank you for your loyalty. Thank you for your trust because we’ve been really, really busy making reformulations to some things so that they can work better or where one nude reformulation could take the place of two products. So the patients that have experienced this already are very, very happy and excited and I think you’ll find this weight loss book much different than any other dot book on the market because our approach is different. And if you’re wondering where you can find this, but this is the first I believe for now that he’s working on. We only have the one out. Well, you know, it takes a lot of effort for Janet to keep me off the rabbit trails and keep me focused. So he has to keep writing different books till he comes up with what he likes. So my first one is about thyroid and hormones and weight loss and all of those kind of things nutrient based eating, which is probably something you’ve not heard of before. If you like looking at the book, there’s many recipes in the back. It is available right now on our page of our website at green wisdom health dot com toward the bottom. There’s an online ebook. Some people prefer not to read. We hear that too. So doctor Lewis has completed the audio version of it, which we are delighted to share with you today. So doctor Lewis, anything else you’d like to add in before we let him hear the audio version. Yeah, buckle up your seat belt and notice where the notches are because if you follow this book, you’re going to have to type up if you’re not just because if you will follow the program, you will lose weight and then you’ll start feeling more energetic and be the best person that you can possibly be. Not only for yourself, but for your family. So without further ado, here is doctor Lewis. This hormone weight loss book. Hello, everyone. My name is doctor Steven Lewis. I’m a chiropractor, and today we’re going to be reviewing one of my favorite topics and functional medicine. Hormone imbalances and nutrient deficiencies as they relate to weight loss. I’ve worked with hundreds of patients over the years in their struggles to lose weight to boost energy to improve how they feel in their own bodies and who doesn’t need that. And unfortunately, many times these patients suffered from severe hormone imbalances and nutrient deficiencies which usually went undetected in their journey to better health. So over the next half hour or so, we’re going to explore which hormones are directly associated with weight gain and weight loss, the specific nutrients needed to naturally balance these hormones, the foods that are abundant with these nutrients. And then lastly, how to get started in balancing hormones and losing weight. But first, I want to go over the various weight loss programs you might have experimented with in some of the symptoms of hormone imbalances. In trying to lose weight, have you ever been frustrated with all the dietary rules you had to follow? By eliminating every type of food, complained about how awful the prepackaged meals tasted. Become bored with counting calories for every meal, experiencing unwanted side effects from the weight loss meds, contemplated or undergone bariatric surgery. Have you ever worked with a personal trainer that didn’t provide realistic workouts? I like to ask these questions to my patients because most often they’ve tried more than one way to lose weight, but they were unsuccessful and sometimes they get very discouraged and attempting another way to lose weight. Each type of weight loss program out there dropping pounds quickly or just taking a peel to miraculously see the weight dipping on the scale is usually promised, but almost never delivered. Plus all the rules and restrictions which accompany the program usually leave you feeling deprived and having no quality of life. If you look at my screen, I ask you, have you ever tried one of the weight loss programs or products before? Everything from fat burning supplements to the miracle diet out there, the weight loss industry is a $78 billion industry.

00:05:15 – 00:10:27

Yes, billion with a B and the list is an even complete. I just took the top weight loss categories that are often see people try. So what I’d like you to do in order to get you involved is ask yourself, did any of these weight loss methods successfully keep the weight off, did any of these weight loss methods address why you were gaining weight in the first place? Is your health better today than it was ten years ago? Dig deep and be honest on that one. Do you feel right in your own body? I know. It’s frustrating. Each year and even every other year, sometimes we try to lose weight and feel better. We will experiment with a weight loss program. We read about or seen one of our friends try. And we might get results for the first few weeks and then stop. Nothing happens. We plateau. We feel measurable and we’re just left wondering, why can’t I just start feeling right in my own body? Does this sound like you’ve. Do you suffer from any of the following? Depression, anxiety, diabetes, hypothyroidism, low libido. If you’ve lost that loving feeling, chronic fatigue, poor slate brain fog stress and PMS. You know, that sounds like the beginning of a good country western song. Most of the time I hear from my patients and their frustrated in their journey to losing weight and feeling better, but I often hear them say that I previously been diagnosed or suffer with one of these medical conditions or unwanted symptoms. Have you been diagnosed or suffer from any of these conditions? If you answered yes to any of these ten medical conditions or symptoms, then you most likely have an underlying hormone imbalance or micronutrient deficiency, which is contributing to weight gain and poor health. The top two reasons why most people do not lose weight. Yes, I’m a boil it down to two. The reason they don’t lose weight and keep it off is because of hormonal imbalances and nutrient deficiencies. The analyst weight loss supplements the diets, the medications are out on the market that most people try but usually never address the reason why they’re gaining weight in the first place. There are over 50 hormones in the body, which control hundreds and hundreds of daily metabolic processes at the core of these hormones are chemical messengers that help different glands and organs and the body talk to each other. Each hormone requires specific nutrients without the hormone balance and nutrition, optimization, no matter what you do to lose weight, it must often will not work long term. Specific nutrients and levels are needed to properly feel hormone production, balance and weight loss. Let’s take, for example, you’re trying to lose weight, but you’re hitting a plot to feel like your metabolism is to blame and it’s just sluggish. I’ve heard that so many times. The top hormone from metabolism is your thyroid, but thyroid gland controls so many metabolic functions, but for weight loss, it helps manage the metabolism and the burning of calories. The secret most people don’t know about it is that thyroid gland needs specific nutrients to function and selenium and tyrosine are just a good start and just some of the required no chance that the thyroid needs in order to produce these thyroid hormones. So you see, if you want to boost your metabolism, you need to focus on the thyroid hormones. But you also need adequate level of specific nutrients for the thyroid gland to actually work. The same holds true for appetite. Specific treats are needed to balance leptin hormones, which are the hormones needed to suppress hunger. And for testosterone hormones, zinc and magnesium are just two of many nutrients needed for proper testosterone hormone balance. Testosterone hormone balance is needed for both men and women to help improve lean body, composition. The top ten weight loss hormones because out of the 50 plus hormones in the body that Jan hormones which directly affect our ability to lose weight and keep it off, plus these hormones are also responsible in controlling how we feel each day, anxiety, stress, depression, fatigue, poor sleep, and various other unwanted symptoms are associated with these hormones.

00:10:29 – 00:15:02

There’s leptin, which is for satiety, satisfaction, so if you’re not getting any satisfaction, so to speak, that’s a good song. But it’s leptin. Greenland is the hunger hormone cortisol is the stress hormone. And there’s many things that can cause those stresses, insulin is the blood sugar hormone, estrogen is the belly and hip fat hormone, progesterone is the water retention hormone testosterone, lean, muscle, hormone, DHEA is the helper hormone in the precursor to some of these other ones. The hyrule is metabolism hormone, growth hormone is the muscle growth hormone. So what is each weight loss hormone mean in your overall journey to losing weight and feeling better? I get this question a lot when I talk about the top ten weight loss hormones. Let’s simplify it even further. I took the ten weight loss hormones, a categorized them into four compartments to make them easier to understand. Leptin and Greenland hormones are the yin and Yang for appetite and craving control. If you’ve started any weight loss program or not before, you know one of the first sabotages in failing on the diet is uncontrollable appetite. We must balance our leptin at Greenland hormones in order to set us up for success in losing weight. Fat storage release. This is the next stage for losing weight. It’s just stopping the body from accumulating more fat. You can’t lose fat if you keep gaining it. The stress hormone cortisol and blood sugar hormone insulin are directly responsible for storing more fat in the body, especially around the belly area. The third category and very often overlooked is bad detoxification. Once we stop accumulating fat, we must focus on detoxifying esque excess fat from the body, and this is where the pounds really start coming up. Getting your liver kidney and digestive systems kicked into gear along with deep detoxifying xenoestrogen toxins from the body can not only help with the weight loss, but it’s where we actually start feeling so much better. More energy, better digestion and more. Fat burning. Lastly, we want to turn up the heat and boost our metabolism and preserve lean muscle mass to accelerate the weight loss process and begin tone in the body by avoid DHEA testosterone. Human growth hormones need to be regulated and balanced. The four step process is synergistic to losing weight. The reason why most people do not get the best results on weight loss progress is because they only focus their adverse one area. For example, patients take appetite suppressant medications, they’re only focused on controlling appetite, but they never address the accumulation, the detoxification, or the burning of excess fat, and other examples patients take fat burning supplements. They’re only focusing on metabolism, but yet their appetite is most likely insatiable along with fat storage and fat detoxification impairments. Losing weight is multi factorial, multifaceted in attacking weight loss and mouse and hormones from every possible direction is needed for the best weight loss in feel good results. Appetite control, the first reason why most people stop a weight loss program or die is because of uncontrollable appetite and cravings. When we begin to eliminate addictive foods and drop our daily calorie amounts to fit within a program, our body sends signals of feed me now. We’ve all had those. Withdrawal symptoms of headaches, irritability, or chronic fatigue, also sets in and it makes all that much more difficult. Just given in and eating those cookies or slice of pizza to shut down these cravings is way too easy. There are two hormones and two neurotransmitter brain chemicals I call neurotransmitters the happy hormones.

00:15:04 – 00:20:00

These are associated with appetite and cravings. Greeting hormones tell our body that we’re hungry and leptin hormones tell our body that we’re full. When there’s an unbalanced in these two hormones, it leaves us with an insatiable appetite that we constantly must eat, even if we don’t need to. Now, Sarah Tony and dopamine, the so called happy hormones, their neurotransmitter brain chemicals, their responsible for our cravings, appetite, and cravings are two separate issues. Appetite is where there’s grumbling in our stomach and we just have to eat. Insatiable cravings are when we crave specific foods to make us feel happy. The serotonin and dopamine effect can self sabotage our weight loss efforts. If you’ve ever cried specific foods such as cookies, chocolate, ice cream pizza, or anything else, then you’re most likely to have a serotonin and dopamine imbalance. Serotonin is the so called feel good, Brian chemical, and dopamine is the rewards or pleasure Brian chemical. Now we’re all goals to give our body the necessary nutrients to suppress hunger and shut down the cravings. So we don’t have these insatiable appetites ruining our weight loss efforts. Now there’s quite a few different appetite control nutrients. One of the ones that’s missing in most people’s diet is fiber. And that the benefit of that is leptin and Greenland hormone balance tryptophan for serotonin balance, which is the whole food source for that would be turkey chicken and beef. And that’s why when we eat a lot of turkey at Thanksgiving, we all get tired and sleepy and want a nap because the tryptophan and the turkey has turned to serotonin. Magnesium, that is incredibly important in our neurotransmitter synthesis and for blood sugar regulation. The top foods for that is Spanish tune in avocado. And it goes on and on and on and on. That storage. The next step in hormone, weight loss system is stopping the body from storing more fat. There are two hormones that contribute to fat storage, which is cortisol and insulin. There’s a direct cause and effect on how these hormones pack on the pounds, especially around the belly area. Stress, and this day and age who doesn’t suffer from some type of stress. Stress from finance is stressed from a relationship stress from work, stress from even other health problems, stress from what you hear on the knees. All these different types of stress when they’re compounded on top of one another can lead to chronic stress and elevated cortisol, stress, hormone levels. You see, when we’re suffered, suffering from periods of stress, our body begins to ramp up cortisol hormone production to help calm the body and reduce stress levels. Unfortunately, when we experience prolonged stress, the signal to stop cortisol hormone production never stops. A ramp up in cortisol, hormone production has a direct effect on the body producing more blood sugar glucose which deals the body to deal with more stress. Then another reaction in the body is the need to produce more insulin hormones because of the excessive blood sugar glucose levels. The insulin hormones help usher, the glucose in the cells for energy. However, when we get too much glucose or too much glucose is being produced or consumed, our bodies become insulin resistant and as a result, the excess glucose in the bloodstream gets converted into fat and think triglycerides to be stored for later use. And this can clog up the liver, which causes further malfunction. And then it begins to put these fats around the belly and other areas and store it as that. I’m sorry about the medical explanation about how fat keeps getting stored in the body, but it’s really important that you understand how chronic stress leads to barely fat and weight gain. For example, more stress equals more cortisol hormones, which equals more glucose production, which equals more stored fat. The positive aspect to control and cortisol stress and insulin blood sugar hormone levels is the fact that specific nutrients can actually help balance these hormones. There are many clinically researched nutrients which have shown a benefit in decreasing stress levels and balancing insulin hormone levels. So let’s review just a few of these.

00:20:05 – 00:25:11

By that storage release nutrients. And there are many of them. But let’s just talk about a few. Vitamin C, we can’t produce our own vitamin C so you have to have a dietary source of that, which the benefit is stress reduction, you get more vitamin C from bell pepper, strawberries, and broccoli, for example, probiotics are incredibly important. And they help block blood sugar, absorption, and they help in the detoxification process. You can get that from Apple cider vinegar and good yogurt or I tell my patients just to learn to breathe your own. Vitamin B one, which is imperative for blood sugar metabolism, the main food sources are pork chops, salmon, and black seed. And when you’re low on that, you usually have brain fog. How many of that or how many can relate to that? But detox vacation. Headaches, low energy poor sleep, brain fog constipation, and other unwanted symptoms can be a risk. A direct result of too much toxicity in the body. In the next step, the hormone weight loss system, we really need to focus on eliminating fat toxins from the body, particularly xenoestrogen toxins. These toxins not only increase the plants, but they’re often the culprit to negative symptoms which impact our quality of life. You’ve probably noticed in your skin care shampoo and other self improvement products that they are saying no parabens, no flights, et cetera, et cetera. Even when you go to the grocery store, you may have noticed words on the food packaging of non GMO antibiotic free organic or other similar statements. But yet we have thousands of chemicals which often find our way into our food supply, cosmetics, carpeting, furniture, and other household atoms that are very harmful to your body. These chemicals at a higher level, especially if you can’t detox them, can’t cause an array of symptoms. Astral weight loss and hormone balance and there’s one toxin that we must focus on and that’s called xenoestrogens. Toxins that mimic our natural estrogen hormones can trick our body into storing more fat, the xenoestrogens on a molecular level are very similar to the estrogen hormones, and when they’re abundant in the body, they can tell the body to store more fat. The need to eliminate these xenoestrogens through proper liver, kidney, and digestive detoxification can greatly impact our weight loss efforts. Along with detoxifying these xenoestrogens, it will help bring about estrogen and progesterone hormone balance, which further improve how you feel the result most of the time will be more energy better sleep and improve digestion, glowing skin are the top benefits as well as getting your libido back. The incomes the weight loss and further detoxification of these xenoestrogens. Now for fat detoxification nutrients, there are so many of them. One of my favorites is in acetylcysteine, which the benefit is detoxification, glutathione production. It really helps deliver clean up the body. The top food source is beef pork chops and chicken. Fiber that we talked about before, but one of the major benefits is it binds to toxins. You get more fiber at a, for example, avocado, chia seeds, and broccoli. Folate, which helps with methylation, and that’s one of the many detoxification pathways of the liver. You get greater amounts of folate out of asparagus broccoli and spinach. The next step in losing weight in hormone balancing is fat burning. Many times my patients have started on a weight loss program before. And they plateaued. And that’s where they get discouraged. A number one reason to weight loss plateauing is slow, metabolism, caused by metabolic hormone imbalance. If this has happened to you before, you’re not alone, but more importantly, there is an answer. As we age, there are three metabolism based hormones which dramatically decrease testosterone, DHEA and human growth hormone are the hormones responsible for lame muscle mass and better body composition. Think about it if you wait a 170 pounds when you were 20 years old and a 170 pounds when you’re 50 years old does your body look the same, the answer is probably not.

00:25:11 – 00:30:03

You’ll notice more sagging skin, more fat around the midsection and just a different overall body shape. By focusing just on the number on the scale, you’re not really taking into account the complete weight loss picture. You need to boost testosterone, DHEA, and human growth hormone so that that can help preserve lean muscle mass in the tone and the shape of our bodies and make that better. Plus, having more muscle mass has been shown to boost metabolism rates, the other hormone, which I like to consider, our main metabolism hormone is the thyroid hormone. This hormone as well can become much more dysfunctional as we age, but the thyroid hormone can also become imbalanced for many other reasons. One of the reasons it’s poor dietary habits, then you have genetics autoimmune disorders, and there are various other factors that can stop our thyroid working at optimal levels. When there’s not sufficient thyroid hormone production or poor conversion between the types of thyroid hormones, such as T four to T three, our metabolism begins to slow down. As a result, we’re not burning off the calories in those excess calories in the body turn into fat. Just like the other three steps in hormone light loss system, there is good news on how specific nutrients can boost metabolism and balance the fat burning hormones. Some of the fat burning nutrients are iodine. The benefit is thyroid hormone production. Top health food source is cod shrimp and seaweed. Magnesium, tea, forward to T three conversion. You get that mostly, out of spinach, tuna, and avocado. Omega threes are incredibly important because they’re anti inflammatory. Some of the top food sources are salmon chia seeds and pumpkin seeds. And then carnitine, which helps improve lean muscle mass and the top halted sources beef, pork, and cod. Are you consuming the right no chance in the right delivery form at the right dosage to balance the right hormones? If not, then you may be suffering from a macro nutrient deficiency, which is causing a hormone imbalance and unwanted weight gain. When I work with my patients on losing weight and bouncing hormones are immediately start thinking of which nutrient deficient deficiencies can maybe suffer from that are contributing to the hormone imbalances and then lastly, weight gain. My focus and more upstream on the problem you can get to the root cause of the issue. So for weight loss, we need to have adequate levels of nutrients which help balance hormones and then lastly, weight loss becomes easier. So let’s look at this in a more visual way. Losing weight and feeling better comes down to an easy system. No more fab based dots with severe restrictions or taking endless amounts of supplements which don’t address the underlying hormone in nutrient issues to conquer weight loss and feel better. We need to focus more upstream on the calls of the problem. Step one, micronutrient optimization specific vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids that are imperative for the body to have in order to use to get healthy and shed those unwanted pounds. You can’t increase metabolism if you have a sluggish style weight and you can improve thyroid health unless you have the right amounts of iodine, selenium, tyrosine, and several other nutrients in the body. And I’m not just talking adequate, where you go to the store and take a 100% of the recommended RDA of a nutrient. This is the bare minimum amount needed not to have a nutrient based disease. These levels are far too low for nutrition, optimization in the body. For example, the RDA for vitamin D is about 600 I use a day. Most clinically, when most clinical studies show that 2004 thousand or even 10,000 a day is the amount needed to have true health benefit. We must have optimized levels of nutrients in the bodies. So our hormones become balanced. Step two is the hormone balance itself. At least theta body, the right foods with nutrient dense ingredients.

00:30:04 – 00:35:10

Then we can begin the journey to nutrition optimization. However, just eating the right foods is not always going to get us across the dough and unfortunately. The amount found the mouths of nutrients found in our page today are a lot lower than what they were 50 years ago. How we grow the foods, how we fertilize the foods, and even how we cook them, all take away from the nutrient benefits, the need to induce specific nutritional supplements that are daily lives, it’s needed to truly optimize the level of nutrients. By combining both food and supplemental sources of specific nutrients, then we can naturally restore hormone balance. Then step three is weight loss. By focusing on nutrition, optimization in the body, we can begin to balance the hormones. And once we balance the hormones, we can start the process of effortlessly losing weight. Yes, you heard me, Brad, effortlessly. And another added benefit to nutrition optimization in hormone balance is feeling better. Who doesn’t want to feel better and lose ten, 20, or even 50 pounds, and the bonus of having more energy, better sleep, improved digestion, health, and in most cases you just feel better mentally. You lose that stress anxiety and depression. So how do you start balancing your hormones and lose some weight? We just discussed how specific nutrient deficiencies and hormone imbalances can lead to insatiable appetites, fat accumulation, slow metabolism, which all impact weight gain or weight loss, the next step we have to ask ourselves is what are we going to do about it? Just knowing what could be causing the problem is one thing, but taking action steps to eliminate the problem is the next thing we must do to take back control of our bodies. In just three easy steps, you’ll have everything you need in balancing hormones and losing weight. I took the guesswork out of what to eat and do every day in my complete hormone weight loss system. For nutritional supplement perspective, personally designed a synergistic protocol, a specific nutrients which target the top weight loss hormones and possible nutrient deficiencies that could cause these hormone imbalances. And then from what 8 I created a hormone weight loss dietary plan which focuses on all the foods you can eat rather than what you can’t. I’ve identified the clinically researched nutrients that promote hormone balance and weight loss, then I discovered the top whole food sources of these foods and designed meal plants and grocery lists which infuses these foods and nutrients into 30 minutes or less a recipe. And that’s really good to save that time. It takes off a lot of stress. We hope you’ve enjoyed listening to doctor Lewis hormone weight loss nutrition system, audiobook. And because of this book, we’ve added in a couple of nude lab panels. One is a men’s hormone weight loss panel and the other is a women’s hormone weight loss panel. It is specific to this book. And for a limited time, we are offering a $150 off of the program. So that program would include the 60 plus biomarker lab test, a 15 page functional health lab report, a nutrition interpretation of lab results, and of course doctor Lewis consultation with supplement recommendations, just like he’s always giving you, but it is just on these two lab panels and these are lab panels you’ve never had in the past. So if you’re thinking it’s time to get started losing weight in the new year, we want to help you and say thank you for your loyalty and for being a part of our family for all these years as we make all these changes and our lives continue to grow and hopefully do as well. So if you’d like to take advantage of this as offers good till the end of February, it is a $150 off the $499 lab panel. So that would make it $349, but you have to use the promo code get fit. It’s GET FIT when you check out with the lab panels. So we appreciate you guys and doctor Lewis. Would you like to add anything else? Yeah, the only thing I’d like to add is the thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the world to try it and the faith to believe it’s possible.

00:35:11 – 00:35:50

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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired?

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A large number of Americans experience fatigue and brain fog on a daily basis, and these issues can take a toll on your health and mind over time. There are many potential reasons for the prevalence of fatigue, several of which we will discuss in today’s show, Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired?. We’ll also give you some guidance on how to support healthy energy levels and detoxification processes with supplements and lifestyle changes.

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L-Carnitine – L-carnitine is an amino acid essential for the transport of fatty acids into the cell mitochondria. Research has shown that L-carnitine stimulates the use of fat for fuel and boosts metabolism, which plays a key role in weight management. L-carnitine has also been found to support cardiovascular health and to increase aerobic capacity during exercise.

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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired?

00:00:01 – 00:05:01

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with doctor Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And we thought we would come to you today with a couple of exciting things. One is we have some false savings coming up for you, so stay tuned for this. But the name of this show is called are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? We decided to do a podcast doctor Lewis has been very busy writing some books for you guys on how to eat correctly nutrient based eating. He’s also doing some webinar. So I’ve had him very busy, so I apologize for the lack of podcasts coming on. But we cause people are getting another round of being sick again and for some people it’s the third or fourth time. We thought we should come on the air and talk to you a little bit about what may be causing that, some things you could take to help you beside the common things like vitamin D and that sort of thing. And why it’s so important that we see about going into fall with health. So doctor Lewis would you like to talk to the audience? I think they might have missed you. Yeah, well, first of all, I’d like to say thank you, Melinda from Nederland, Texas from being so compliant and getting such great results. It’s funny, fact of life, but secret that you get out of it, what you put into it. So sweet little lady done in southeast Texas. And thank you, Eric, for sending her and dozens of others. Here’s the deal. I would love for y’all to do me a favor and write me Doc at green wisdom health dot com. Is that right? It is because he’s actually had a little problem with Facebook and his shooting straight page. So he’s not getting any direct messages on that now. He’s still checking it, but Facebook has their own rules and they decided to make one. So we still have the page. He just doesn’t see the post right away, so I don’t think he’s ignoring you. He will be on there to answer. Yeah, Doc, green wisdom, health dot com. Email me and I’d like to know your opinion. Do you like the podcast? Should we do more should we do less? Because I have been busy. And we can do more if we need to, but we want to know what it takes to reach you. So I’m going to ramble normally I’m just slow, slow, slow, about everything, but we have a short show in saying a long way to go in a short time to get there. We’re going to talk about, are you sick and tired of being sick and tired and there’s so many different reasons. And I want to talk just a little bit about the relationship between cortisol and DHEA and those of you that patients will you remember me saying well, DHEA is responsible for at least a 150 different processes in the body to heal your brain. Heal your body and brain. And it’s the youth hormone. You get less as you get older, not because you’re older, but because you have extra decades of toxins which slow that down. And there’s a relationship between that and cortisol, which are two of the things you don’t normally see on lab that Janet and I routinely do. Suboptimal levels of DHEA have, they’ve been demonstrating patients with numerous chronic disease states, which includes inflammatory diseases, which is IBD or rheumatoid mode disorders who in the heck has not been stressed. These last two, three years. And chronic pain syndromes, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and DHEA has been shown to reverse the classic stress induced physiological responses. It varies with age, and I have mine about two to three times higher than what my age says in the reference intervals. And it, I mean, I feel about 30 years younger than what I am, and that’s part of it. Cortisol should be at a very optimal level, not too low, not too high. Which cortisol affects so many things, heart, your vasculature, your blood pressure, water excretion, electrolyte balance, and the thing about that is you can be super stressed and it goes high, but then sooner or later those little adrenal glands, which put out cortisol and DHEA. They blow, they get fatigued, and then it’s worse if it’s lower than if it’s high. It’s harder to deal with. Which turns into chronic fatigue syndrome. And some of the symptoms for that are fatigued that doesn’t go away even after getting good sleep.

00:05:02 – 00:10:07

That you can’t fall asleep or stay asleep, and we hear that a lot. Muscle and joint pain. And that’s one of the things doctor Lewis is actually working on as a webinar about how pain correlates to different problems besides just showing it to you on lab. I think it’s pretty cool we’re going to do it in a little bit different way, you know, because he’s a chiropractor and because of that, he is able to actually put together the pain elements of some of the dysfunction going on internally like chronic fatigue. How musculoskeletal can be adversely affected if your thyroid hormone draw off or if this is off if that’s off. And there’s a huge, huge correlation. It’s just indisputable. Yeah, besides the muscle and joint pain, people get frequent headaches. They’re frequently getting sick, like we’re seeing now having sore throat, cold, or flu like symptoms, they’re gaining weight. Melinda said or headaches. Which she had every day of her life. Now she only has one once in a while. So God, I hope you’re listening down there and need her land, Texas. Digestive problems like constipation or cramps, mental fogginess and trouble concentrating or remembering things clearly. And you talk about cortisol being right or wrong, we have a lady that called in the other day. I think it’s the coolest story ever. She’s walking the Appalachian trail. She’s on our supplements. Thank you, Bridget. She’s been walking since March from Maine to Georgia or Georgia to Maine. I didn’t ask her which direction she’s going, but she says she’s almost at the end. But she reached a high point. One of the mountains and decided to call me and place her order. So a product would get to her on time. So I thought, super cool. It works. People that have good results are the ones that don’t make up excuses. They just do it. As far as the ratio of cortisol and DHEA, that can affect, as I said, musculoskeletal health, osteoporosis, osteopenia, renal calculi, which basically means calcium oxalate stones, which we’ve talked about on many of the patients, muscle wasting I hear that more and more for some reason the last two years or two and a half years we’ve seen more muscle wasting more livers going to heck in a bucket more kidneys going crazy for some strange reason. And if you put in the nutrition to allow your body to begin to work, how it knows it’s already should be working your body has an innate intelligence. But our food does not have the proper amount of supplements are nutrients in it. We can ligament and cartilaginous tissues, think bulging disc. Aggressive. Neural health, which, you know, that’s depression anxiety that we talked about. And Janet can tell you all about that. That’s why this is successful business because she’s a little OCD and I mean, not crazy. I’m sorry. Sorry. You’re not crazy. Sorry, honey. Okay. Insomnia as she talked about the mood swings. I talked about, but a lot of the different pain syndromes. Easy bruising and vascular fragility. Yeah, I’m hearing that more and more people say I’m raising like an old man I’m coming in and I’m not on COVID and so yeah, that’s part of it. What’s doing that? Well, the wrong Reich of cortisol to DHEA. Oh, interesting. And also causes yeast overgrowth as well as well as frequent infections. And hormonal deficiencies that are sometimes overlooked in your regular blood test. Thyroid problems, and maybe that’s a good time to mention now, I know that times are tough or a lot of people out there monetarily. And a lot of things are going up. What we have decided to do is go backwards with that and have it go down. So what we are offering for the next couple of about a month, it ends October 17th. We are offering you 20% off of your lab work. So if you’ve never done lab work, that’s a huge deal. It’s already super cheap anyway. Right, but that includes doctor Lewis. You still get everything. We’re not taking anything off. We’re actually giving you all the lab. We’re giving you a consultation with doctor Lewis functional medicine report and supplement recommendations. And for those of you that hadn’t done it in a year or two, Janet’s well, we’re adding more. We have more than we did a couple of years ago. And she added the TPO and thyroid anti globulin antibodies for the women and the D dimer to the men and the price didn’t go up. Now she’s taking 20% off, which means I probably won’t get a Christmas present. And so I added a thyroid panel. So if there’s a lot of people that just want to see what their thyroid’s doing, doctor Lewis, don’t talk to him about it because he’ll tell you, I like to see more because he really does and many times it’s not your thyroid.

00:10:07 – 00:15:03

But if you think it is your thyroid or you know it has been in the past, there is now a thyroid panel, that one’s also 20% off through October the 17th. You just need to go on our website, green wisdom health dot com. There will be a promo code in the box and you need to type in the words fall savings and it’s a capital F ALL space savings with the capital SAV. And that will take 20% off instantly. You’ll be able to see the price and then just finish the checkout process. And then I will put your lab order in your little portal that we’ve come up with. So pretty good deal, we’ve never been able to do that since we’ve partnered with a different lab company. We’re able to offer this periodically. So we thought it was a great time now because people really need to know their numbers and not just guess or just stay on the same things they’ve been on forever. I didn’t think it was a lab coming out about Janet was crazy, good negotiator. I’ve heard crazy twice this morning. This is beginning to offend me. Is this one of the symptoms? Yeah, well, something to do with bad excrement, something like that. Andrew can dysfunction, heavy metal toxicity, which we talked about before. It helps increase liver detoxification. I’m talking back on cortisol. DHEA. Hypothyroidism is just mentioned. It has to do with T four to T three conversion premenstrual syndrome, man, if you’re smart, you’ll never mention that infertility. I can not tell you how many babies across America that women could not get pregnant and then boom all of a sudden they get their body healthy through us and they start having babies, but nobody’s named one Stephen yet. Severe menopause, insulin resistance. And I’m really big on insulin resistant because people say, I can’t lose weight, and it’s like, well, it takes a long time to reverse it, speeding freight train of disease and stop it and reverse it, going toward health. And insulin resistance is one of the big deals. Yeah, and then there’s some natural things that you can do because I know you take maybe you take supplements and you still feel this way. So has it got something to do with what you’re eating or drinking. So you need to change your diet to solve adrenal fatigue by avoiding caffeine. Oh, God. You go. Preaching to getting personal, honey. Someone’s got a cup of coffee going over here. And she made it for me. Because I know he needs it. So he talks a little faster during the podcast. Have you noticed he goes a little slower, so if I give him caffeine to speeding, his voice picks up. Avoid excess sugar in carbohydrates. Oh, Jesus. That’s most of us. Hydrogenated oils. That’s the big thing in that helps create insulin resistance. And if you eat out cannibalism, if it’s processed food, you’re taking them and people say, what do I do about it? And I said, besides cutting it way back, eat more and more and more of the good fish oil, all fish almost, not the same. Good. Processed and packaged foods. Not good. It may be driving through the fast food lane. And we did hair funny story about that yesterday. You get caught at hardee’s. You might be eating the wrong thing. That’d be embarrassed. If the FBI stole my phone and I was in the party’s line, it’s like, holy cow. Yeah, it more embarrassing that you were in the hardys line than the phone got stolen. Yeah, from this. Healthy eat healthy fats and do proteins and plenty of fresh vegetables. And that is fish oil, but that’s also a coconut oil walnut oil. Avocado oil stay the heck away from corn vegetable, canola is poison, peanuts, questionable, sunflower is better. Interesting little tidbit. I always learn something new from doctor Lewis because he’s like some sort of walking and cyclopedia. I had a lady yesterday asked me about prebiotics and probiotics. And we don’t carry prebiotics. We carry probiotics. And she want to know, well, why don’t we carry them? And I thought, well, I don’t know. I’ll ask him why we don’t carry him. So he said, why would we do that? He said, most pre boards come from your vegetables. There’s fiber. It’s fiber. And I thought, oh, cool. And I said, so you can just literally vegetables at your prebiotics. There’s a lot of people out there that get caught up in the smoke mirrors and sizzle and no steak. And because there’s people, everybody’s trying to sell us all something.

00:15:03 – 00:20:01

So if you’re eating your vegetable in this place, well, I don’t eat beets and that’s what you come back with. Because why you’re not in bikini stage every year. I need to get skinny for my bikini and she’s sweet light yellow, but that was the last thing she pushed. She goes to vegetables. Yeah, she goes, I just don’t eat them, and I’m thinking. Well, I can’t do that for you, but isn’t it interesting that you can eat a vegetable and that’s a prebiotic and then you take your probiotics. So little tidbit learned? The fibers, you know, kind of the staging area. And people say, well, you’ve got to have annual in it. It’s like, yeah, well, I’ve seen it. And it’s not a bad thing. But I’ve seen people take the probiotics with inulin and then they blow up when they take it and wonder why they’re bloated and have massive amounts of gas. It’s because they can’t data or overgrowth of yeast is going ballistic on that stuff. So it needs to be done in stages. It needs to be done wisely. Yeah, you talk about a yeast and overgrowth, that sort of thing. I had a lady that called, she was a chef. And a restaurant that we must have eaten at ten years ago. I do not remember really eating there. We have memory pills. That was ten years ago. She called me the other day, and she said, oh my gosh, you’re Janet Lewis. I said, I am. And she said, I finally found your name ten years later on a piece of paper where you had given me olive leaf as a product because I had a type two tick bite lime type two limes. I think it was, and I said, how did you get that? She said, from a mosquito, she said she said there was actually two or three people there in that little town that got them. Two of them died. She did not die, and she’s crediting us with saving her life over all of life. And all of leif is a huge antibiotic. And up a limes came from TX. I don’t know. Janet, thanks so much. I don’t know, but she’s, she said that she survived because of it, and she offered to pay me for those products that I gave her ten years ago to get better. And I said, you know what? Calling me ten years later, I don’t even think you could give me enough money to compensate that. Just this just call it good and be glide your back. We don’t even remember it. So but we get a free meal out of it. She’s building another restaurant and going back to work. And the people that come back and say something positive later. Thank you, thank you. It keeps us encouraged because we need that too. Yes. So there’s other causes of being sick and tired of being sick and tired. Everybody’s going to love this one. I said and Terry lifestyle. Having a desk job, having lack of movement. Having back problems, chronic pain, sitting all the time, and lack of motivation. I will tell you, Brandi is not working for us any longer. She went back to school. She’s working on a degree in nutrition. I guess where she’s going to end up later. Right. She’ll be back here. But it’s caused doctor Lewis and I to get a lot of exercise and moving all these products around and getting up on the shelves and stuff, and I thought, man, I’ve been sitting a lot. She actually was very active. That little problem. So now we’re energetic. He’s still having coffee. So he’s thinking about that. No, he is telling me when it’s time to talk. Well, you can talk about depression. How’s that? Well, I can do that. If you have an overgrowth of yeast and so you have brain fog brain focus almost always because of yeast put out some call foundation stops your absorption and famine, which you don’t get enough of anyway. And so I will get to that in just a second, but causes of fatigue is the, I think it’s called an acronym called dead tired depression, environment, anxiety, anemia, asthma, diabetes, thyroid, and tumors. Infections, rheumatologic, which means arthritis, endocarditis, heart inflammation, but we’ve seen the holy heck out of that last couple of years for some reason and drugs. This comes from journal of family practice recertification. So one of the best things you can do and oh my God, I do it. Is L carnitine in the form we’ve got. You get about a 100% of it rather than the best you could do before that was 65% of it. It does require other optimal amounts of nutrients. And that’s why I tell people take them multi. It’s a super, super good one in cost about half as much as it should be. But you need that. Carnitine is transported mostly to the cardiac and skeletal muscle. That’s wise copper. I’m interested. And 98% of the total body of carnitine is stored muscle and heart. It’s an essential nutrient.

00:20:02 – 00:25:00

It helps transportation of long chain fatty acids. That’s why Janice said eat good fats. But it goes to the mitochondria matrix mitochondria. Remember, we talked about that to some powerhouse that you have a Julian of men ever sell jillions over. Stated. There’s a lot of in each cell. And it’s the energy producer in each cell. There are certain things that can cause you to have carnitine deficiency, but for the most part, it plays a big, big, big central role in the metabolism and production of energy from fatty acids. So you have to have the good fatty acids. It actually gives you more energy than a cup of coffee. I’ve tried it both ways, just having coffee. And I do both. Well, yeah, if you do the coffee, then do the carnitine, it’s like, wow, what a kick. Again, I’m seriously feel about 30 years younger than I am. Right. I overdid the carnitine at first because that’s what I do. She was doing three a day. Oh, good God. I said you’re a 132 pounds. She said, Steven, I’m not that fat. Okay, I don’t know how much you weigh honey. I’m sure it’s a 120, but I don’t know what she was, but that’s right. One 20. Oh, they’re about. Maybe one 19. Anyway, the carnitine also wanted you to talk about the other one that we have that’s kind of a new product for us. Yeah, but it’s been really popular. It’s called ageless cell revive. And I thought, it’s a powder. You can put it in your coffee. It does, not make your coffee taste bad, it tastes a little bit like a creamer. But it helps support healthy cellular structure function and cellular signaling. It was actually manufactured more for brain health, but then they found out it works with the mitochondria and helps you have energy all through the system. So it supports the mitochondria. It supports your immune system. Pay attention folks. Yeah, as people have been getting more sick. Supports G barrier health, think leaky gut, which leads to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Well, it’s sunflower, less thin, but there’s all kinds of lesser than out there. And I personally think you can avoid the holy heck out of soy lesser than Gopher sunflower. And this is the good stuff, but it helps digest and process fats. So it helps with your focus. It helps with cognitive function. It helps with overall brain health. My mother already had dementia when she was younger than I am. And me and my brother, doctor James Lewis, who’s dean slash chiropractor. We threw supplements and my mother and she was a willing participant. So we put off dementia for about 25 years. She had it in her early 60s. And it didn’t really kick her butt till about 88 to 92. After 92, she was kind of out of there, but what is 25 years worth of better cognitive function worth? That means what she made more. Chocolate chip cookies and cherry pie. And things like that. And now we’re working on my 80 5 year old dad. So he’s still going, just got him a new heart valve from a cow. He’s a pro mistake now, but his mind is good because I keep giving him all these things. He said, I know if it had not been for your supplements that I would not be where I am now. He said, I have no doubt about it. And he is so religious. He was not as religious for a long time and whenever his heart valve started going bad, he realized he was in deep trouble. And then it’s two surgeons came in and said, we do not understand what happened. This was the smoothest easiest, quickest surgery we’ve ever done, especially being 85. So what we’re telling you to do and more and more people are stocking up now is a really, really smart time to stock up in this ageless cell revived. The phospholipids actually, they’re recognized like a T cell. Now T cells are killer cell, which can kill yeast fungus virus. And pathogenic bacteria. So it’s very, very important because it triggers that innate immune defense. And I wanted to mention another thing of being sick and tired. Could be anemia. We’ve had a couple of people that have said, oh no, I had my lab work run, and my red blood cell counts just fine. My hemoglobin hematocrit is just fine. I said, did they run a ferritin? And they were like, I don’t know what that is. I said, right. It’s stored iron. Because the iron they run that you think is fine, is that in your bloodstream, but it’s not what stored. Looking at hemoglobin and hematocrit is not a bad thing, but that’s like looking at a junkyard full of cars or a brand new parking lot full of cars.

00:25:00 – 00:29:33

You don’t know which one you’re really looking at. It’s not specific or space, civic. Right. And so that’s why I’m telling you the lab work is imperative. That is on our comprehensive panel. If you have never run a lab at our office, it’s super simple. All you do because people go, I need an appointment. You don’t really need an appointment. All you need to do is go to our website because I have this totally automated now. Green wisdom health dot com. Fill out the health survey cross off everything going on with you and all the medications you’re on. And it will tell you which panel is the correct panel for you whenever you do it when you’re done. It hits submit. It picks a lab panel. If you want a lab panel that’s got more in it than that, that’s all fine, but that’s going to be the minimum panel it recommends for you. And like I said, put in the code Fall Savings through October 17th. So you can get 20% off of that. And then you can have a thing on the comprehensive is 12 different lab panels. So most people come in here from their doctor, they bring us one to three panels and ask us what’s wrong and we’re like, I don’t know. You don’t have enough lab. Do you want us to just guess? Because I don’t seem to be working well. Which is why we don’t do that. So. But if you throw it in, God gave your body an innate intelligence. It will take the supplements or nutrients and work with them. And there’s so many toxins that we’ve talked about and I’ve talked about that a lot. One of the most popular relatively new supplements we have is called enviro detox. It has the zealot clay activated charcoal, which is from which is the bar golly most absorbable there is, which is full of acid and humic acid. And there’s even research talking about cleaning agents, trigger flu like symptoms and fatigue, and this is just very, very brief. Some of the things that can help with chronic fatigue syndrome and just fatigue in general is B vitamins from journal and neurology talks about it. Minerals, strip to fan, which 5 HTP works wonders for me. Amino acids, CoQ10, essential fatty acids. We talked about the good fats. Malic acid with magnesium. Oh my God, if you’re not on magnesium, you need to be in corella detoxification is good. An acetylcysteine, lipoic acid. We sell a lot of an acetylcysteine in L glutathione or reduce glutathione. Lipoic acid is in the berberine alpha a, so it goes on and on and on. And then there’s even, oh my God, the CDC and I don’t trust them either. But they have endorsement manipulation of the intestinal flora to treat diseases, journal of modern medicine. So robotics. So we are glad you listened to this show. Like doctor Lewis said, we’d appreciate feedback to tell us if you’re enjoying, if you still are enjoying the podcast. Should we do them? Actually, we’d like to know if you’d like to see him on a webinar as well, because he’s super excited about that. And then he keeps telling you guys to go read these books. So he’s just decided to ride his own. So keep a lookout on those. They should be out in probably a month or so. And I’m sorry our show has come to an end, but it has, so doctor Lewis, could you leave us with just a few words, please, as we end this show. Just be words that’s tough. In your health, don’t be careful be bold. The atmosphere you’re in always will create the health you have or the health you want. You have to take action. Living big requires taking action as we get older and older and older, you know, I want to take more action. So God bless you. And we’ll see you later. All right, you guys have a great week. We’ll be here next time on the green wisdom health show. Once again, our show has come to an end, but you’re hoping your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a brighter future, take the first step and go to our website and fill out the health survey. Please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share the show with your friends and family. You are only one step away from a life worth living.

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Symptoms of Heavy Metal Toxicity

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The symptoms of heavy metal toxicity can manifest in many different ways including diarrhea, nausea, chills, etc. Because of the many different symptoms that often mimic other conditions, it can be difficult to determine if you have heavy metal toxicity. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take now that can help support your body’s detoxification pathways in filtering out metals and other toxins.

Show Notes:

00:00:01 – 00:05:03

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with Doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And today we are going to discuss heavy metal toxicity. The name of this show is called symptoms of heavy metal toxicity. Doctor Lewis, can you tell us why you felt the need to discuss heavy metals? He’s thinking about why he’s discussing heavy metals. It goes back to the 70s in the music, but no, not really. Well, you know, I’ve talked about being toxic off and on for many, many years, even before we got into this. And I noticed that as I tried to fix people’s joint pain, nerve pain, musculoskeletal pain, that if I would put people on something that could displace toxins, heavy metals and others, that their pain would get much, much better. Much more quickly, they could achieve or we could achieve the goals with fewer adjustments and less time. So I think we should always be taking up new trends to help our bodies detox, not just metals, but other things. And the side effect of being cleaner is deep sleep. You know, most of us don’t get the deep restorative sleep, which not having good sleep actually helps induce leaky gut, which we’ve talked about. And that can lead to insulin resistance. So when we talk insulin resistance, we’re talking about pre diabetic or diabetic. And it can lack of the sleep can lead to actually autoimmune disorders. We’re seeing more and more autoimmune disorders and people say, well, what’s chiropractor doing? Talking about, oh, no immune disorders. Well, guess what? That has a lot to do with osteoarthritis, which I’ve already gotten most of that podcast written for the future about how osteoarthritis can be helped with nutrients as well as the chiropractic adjustments. But to get deep restorative sleep puts you in a better position to detox and heavy metal is a big part of that. You know, I think a lot of people out there don’t really realize they’re even exposed to heavy metals and they’re probably thinking, well, I’m not around any of that. So, I’m not really sure how it pertains to me, but there’s good metals like zinc and copper and iron that are beneficial for your health, but there’s also some very toxic ones like cadmium, arsenic, chromium, lead mercury, you know, and people are like. Yeah, and where do you get those bad ones from? Is everyone exposed to one or more of those? Absolutely. And people say, I’m not exposed to that. It’s like, yeah, you are, you just don’t know it. I mean, if you walked into a newly sprayed build and has had pesticides in it, or even new building materials or the outgassing of carpets and those are not necessarily metals, but they can be seen in styrene and Styrofoam cups. There’re so many toxins in the world. If you’re not exposed to it, one of the polar bears have thyroid problems in osteoporosis. We don’t spray anything up there. And we’ll probably go over a list today. And I’ve always said, please don’t try to diagnose yourself at all, but if you don’t diagnose yourself off this list because of these lists, we may say, well, this is hypothyroidism. Well, it could also be leaky good. It can be chronic fatigue, syndrome. And you know, I had a kid one-time, young man who was not very developed, and you could tell he had some problems. And he brought me a book and says, here, what do you think about it? And it was only focused on mercury. Well, mercury is a bad thing. And if you’re drinking or eating anything with high fructose corn syrup, you are getting mercury. It’s that bad. High fructose corn syrup. And it’s not just people say, but I don’t drink soft drinks. Well, it’s in your ketchup and barbecue sauce. Check the ingredients. But it’s got too much mercury in it. So, I told this guy a young man. I said, yeah, taken out the mercury is a good thing. And I read the book. It was a pretty good book, but I said, the problem is there’s so many chemicals in our environment. And there’s about 5 new ones each day that join the 80 to 85,000 in that includes anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics and that can have a very negative effect on the health of your intestinal flora.

00:05:04 – 00:10:20

So when we talk about detox, I try to skim over it because Janet says sometimes I get too technical. They’re smarter people than me, but I’m really good practitioner. So we talk about liver methylation sulfation, acetylation, there’s a lot of different liver detox pathways. We don’t talk about the P450 cytochrome pathway very much, but you have to have extra nutrients in order to allow your body to kick that in gear because you do not get enough nutrients inside of your food. It’s impossible. You can not do it. So 80 to 85,000 different toxins in our environment in many of those are metals. Well, and then to make it in little simpler form for some of us that don’t understand all the scientific words like myself, there are some common symptoms that you could experience if your body is high and toxic metals. One of them is headaches. Abdominal pain, especially the headaches in the morning. Oh, really? Why the morning? Because that’s when the body is geared to dump. Especially in bladder. And most of us are behind. That’s why Janice is famous for her. Well, if you’ve got three trains going into a tunnel, have any trains should come out. That means if you’re eating three meals, you need to have two or three baobabs per day. That makes sense because that’s 5 to 7 in the morning. Chinese body clock. Yeah, that’s the meridian. And the thing about it is it’s complicated and I’m not being glib when I tell people we’ve made an intelligent educated decision about what you should take when you should take it. But then you need to throw it in and let God sort it out because one of the things that’s killing us faster than anything is the stress over trying to do it perfectly or the stress over trying to do it halfway. So will make a good decision and I tell my patients use your discerning spirit or your intuition. And then follow up and never lose your faith. Some more symptoms of toxic toxicity in your body from heavy metals is nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, chills, and a general feeling of weakness. One of the complaints that I’ve heard just a few times, well, I got on your supplements, and I had diarrhea, or I had a loose stools, and I said, well, you know, we can slow it down, but can you realize that that’s your body trying it has the nutritional aspect to increase detoxification that your body tried to detox? Now, we can slow it down and make it comfortable. That’s very important. But for God’s sight, don’t quit. That’s a good thing. People say, but I’m not comfortable taking this this, this. I said, well, you know, throwing up makes me sick. I mean, I’m ugly. UGLY I’m ugly when I throw up. But I know that’s a good thing because my body’s getting rid of toxins. Yeah, that is something that a lot of our clients say is like, well, this made me uncomfortable. I’m having a little more diarrhea it smells bad. I’m not used to going to the bathroom this much. It is very common that our supplements will start dragging out toxic things. You have to think about if it’s not coming out and it’s just sitting there and then you don’t do anything with it for years. What does what does that lead to down the road? We had a lady I don’t know if his early this week late last week. My urine stinks to high heaven. And she was kind of embarrassing that. And slime well, that’s a good thing. Here’s the thing. People signed by my son. I heard this. My son has acne. I said, well, he’s not pooping enough. Well, he poops once or twice a week. I said, well, the primary channels of elimination is the colon and through the bladder, urinary tract and Cullen. And if you’re not getting an out fast enough, it’s going to try to come out through the skin. That’s a secondary path of elimination. It’s true. And more severe and chronic cases of heavy metal poisoning include burning and tingling sensations, brain fog, insomnia, paralysis, and chronic infections, and that seems to be we’re hearing more and more people telling us they’re having the burning and tingling sensation and a lot of brain fog. So possibly it’s heavy metal issues that need to have need to be dealt with. So I guess if you have this in your body, is there a way to pull these things out? Do you have certain supplements that pull those type things out? Doctor Lewis? We talked the other day when I think it was Casey that was here that there are definitely some things that you can take.

00:10:21 – 00:15:04

The environmental detox is very, very popular with our people. It’s got the Z a lot clay, the activated charcoal, shallow sheet, which is fully fulvic acid in humic acid. It’s a really incredible product. That works really, really well. And I tell people, then you need to go through the Malta minerals, but you want to do it at a different time because you want to make sure that the activated charcoal and zealots not getting the good minerals. I’m a big fan of our active mega multi and it’s got some good minerals in it. But just as a matter of real estate, so to speak, the amount of room that it takes, it’s good to take not just the multi vitamin, but the multi minerals also ours has calcium magnesium zinc, selenium, manganese, chromium, potassium, sulfate, which is great for blood sugar and insulin resistance. And in boron, folks, if you don’t get it up on, you can’t have strong bones, especially if you’re a woman. Man, if you don’t have enough boron, which is almost impossible to get out of your diet, you can’t build testosterone. They perked up when they heard testosterone. So the minerals are a really, really good thing. It’s a smart thing, but it helps to bind with these heavy metals. And I said manganese. Well, manganese, it depends on the form. You know, I’ve talked about research where a welders that were exposed to the fumes had higher levels of manganese and in higher neurodegenerative effects. Abnormal effects on the nervous system. But it’s the wrong form of manganese. So you have to be careful. And I’ve talked about this over and over again. I’m going to keep doing it when it says tracks, TRA, CS, which are in every time that it’s possible that stands for the real amino acid chelate system. And you get up to 20 times more absorbable. One of my favorite ones is our reduced glutathione. And doctor Lewis can tell you exactly why it works, but I know that it helps immune system also by detoxifying and gives energy. So that one is really good. It’s quick. I know that if you do too much of it and you don’t do something about it, it can build up and not come out well. I mean, I know that. It’s like you can overdo glutathione as well, right? Well, you have to make sure you’re drinking a lot of water. The water is the universal solvent. They taught me that in chemistry a million years ago. Alcohol is a solution, but waters the universal solvent so don’t think vodka is the other clear drink. It’s water, water, water, and it needs to be filtered. Reverse osmosis is my preference. But so you have to make sure that when you’re giving your body the nutrition for it to crank up the mitochondria or the energy producers, so that it binds these toxins or conjugates them that happens in the liver, that’s why I always pay attention to liver for those of you that are patients. You’ve got to make sure that it’s going through. So if you have thick bile, then I will recommend terrain because that thins the bowel and if you thin it, then it goes through your fatty liver, which many of us have. Because of decades of too much high fructose corn syrup and mercury. When it ends the body goes through the liver through the gallbladder and squishes out into the small intestine. More readily, so it detoxes a lot faster, but you have to have a massive amount of good probiotics in the small intestine because the probiotics actually affect. In a good way. When the microbiome of the small intestine and that has to do with conjugating and keeping these conjugated harmful products from unconjugated and becoming toxic and be in reabsorbed, so that’s why good bowel movements and fiber is super, super important because this glutathione, some people call it the master, antioxidant. I think we’ll get in trouble for this, but I think sometimes Janet has a tendency too.

00:15:05 – 00:20:01

Oh yeah, she’s looking at me. Waiting to see what I’ve done now. Wait to see what kind of trouble I’m creating for myself. But I think sometimes she overdoses on things she gets really excited. She was taken, I said, you know, you’re 5, 430 pounds. And she says, Steven, I’m not that fat. Okay, well, I think three glutathione might be a bit much, honey. Please, I’m sorry for whatever I did. But glutathione is incredible for detoxification. And as you detoxify, you increase your immune system health. Immune activation and as you do that, you’re less prone to have the autoimmune diseases that we see develop more and more and more. That really does help brain fog though. I can tell you that the reduced glutathione really helps quickly to reduce the brain fog. Yeah, and to tie this together because many of you that are listening are already patients. I tell people, well, if you have brain fog, it’s usually because you have too much candy. They create something called foundation, steel, or have you had the inability to utilize thymine that you don’t get enough of anyway. So that goes back to if you have all these things going on and bad metals are famous for adversely affecting the microbiome. And that’s why I candida can go into overgrowth and that’s why you have to promote the use of and the growth of good probiotics and you have to be consistent with it because even glyphosate that people say on glyphosate is not bad for you. We got most Vietnam veterans or dead because of H and orange, look up glyphosate and H and orange and compare the two. It changes the glyphosate in our foods. Changes the microbiome, which lets the candida go ballistic, which steals your thumb in, which causes brain fog and brain fog can be just from, oh my God, I got too much aluminum. You get aluminum because we’re consuming it out of our canned goods. These fast foods hang on. I have a sneeze. I thought he was going to whisper two weeks. Most of these pre package that I’m trying to sneeze. That’s another avenue of detoxification. But most of our foods that we buy better prepackaged are cooked in huge aluminum vats. Think about that for a minute. Mercury, I had two different dentists that would get the amalgam mercury fillings, mercury amalgam fillings, out of teeth, and both on us bat crazy. But I felt better. Now, what’s that all in my head or was it because I got more mercury out of my system. Now, one of them just took it out, drilled it out, and of course you’re inhaling those vapors and I got 6, 6, 6, and my liver enzymes went crazy high. The other dentist was much more meticulous. She loves that word, and she’s an incredible person, perfectionist, meticulous dentist. She used the rubber dam and got the rest of my amalgam fillings out. And I didn’t get sick at all. So I got the mercury out. Now, whether it’s in my head or real, I don’t know, but I felt better. And my headaches went way, way down in frequency, Janet mentioned, headaches, and my blood pressure went way down. Well, and you get a lot of the mercury two out of the different kinds of fish that you eat. I know like the larger fish like swordfish, king mackerel, tuna, Marlin, are all bigger carriers of mercury. Because I have more time to bow accumulate as they’re eating the little fish, and it just accumulates in the body. And I kind of like tuna, but we make sure we buy the young. Smaller tuna. The young tuna? Yeah. We do. I don’t know. I never looked at, I guess, I always let you pick that out. So I guess we’re buying baby tuna. I don’t know. Maybe tuna. I know on salmon that little fat. That Brown thing at the bottom, I used to think you were supposed to eat that. And the first time I was even, I first started dating, he goes, what do you eat in that? And I said, it was part of the same and he goes, that’s where all the metals are stored all the toxins. And I was like, oh my God. Now I can’t stand it. It’s that little colored brown strip. And I don’t know why these chefs don’t scoop it out with a spoon, but I cut it out. You’re going to help yourself.

00:20:01 – 00:25:06

If you just do that much and you know I like research polluted air causes high blood pressure and in the polluted air are many, many of these heavy metals. And even the American journal of public health says that polluted air racist blood pressure, there’s actually a lot of studies done on even low doses of heavy metals and how they disrupt the structure and the function of platelets. And platelets are about clotting. It helps plaque occur much more likely. And that’s not a good thing. That’s from journal of environmental pathology, toxicology and oncology. So even low doses and we get the mercury, we get from high fructose corn syrup from big fish, we get a lot of aluminum from processed foods. And arsenic is actually in high levels of it are in rice. You know, it really is. And I do more rice now because I found out how horrible gluten treats me, but I still try to reduce it somewhat. Arsenic is bioaccumulated in the Ross fields. And then your cosmetics and body care products are, they have numerous heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and aluminum, you know, you always hear about that in the deodorants. That you’re putting aluminum right in a soft tissue of your arm. And he’s going right into your body. So we always try to use something different. We use pretty pretty Frank deodorant. We get it our local natural health food store here. You just need to try to avoid as much of the chemical stuff that you’re putting on the outside of your body. It was soaps and all of that kind of stuff because that’s just toxins you’re trying to get rid of. And there’s some people that would tell you that the aluminum has a lot to do with breast cancer. I’m not going to say that’s true, but I’ve read things that had a pretty good case to that effect. Because it’ll be absorbed and not be pushed through the lymphatic system. And I see people cooking with aluminum pans still, and I’m thinking, are they still really around? Because I remember my grandmother used to have aluminum pans. Lord only knows what they got. Got from that. Yeah, the Teflon pans. That’s another one because they’re full of a bunch of chemicals also, and then you look at the pan later and there’s like pieces of the pan miss. And so you’ve not only got some of that. You also, you also ate it. And people are like, well, how’s she supposed to keep things from sticking to your pans without those? Oh, lord, you stainless steel. Or glass. Yeah, and then there’s also foods that can help you detoxify naturally like cilantro. We have a lot of cilantro in Texas. We like it. And it’s really good. And that’s because the Hispanic influence. And Janet mentioned cadmium. Well, we have cadmium batteries, welders, fabricated metal products, those people have about four times the increased incident of prostate cancer compared to the average gap. And that’s because of the cadmium, which also you get if you smoke. Who are these people? What people? People that fabricate metal products and welders. They smelled the inhaled all of that for all that time. Yeah, four times the incident. And that means that welders, people at fabricate, need to tighten more the heavy metals are then borrowed detox, the multi minerals, the glutathione, really is they say the master antioxidant. And folks, it’s prostate. Only one R people say prostrate is like no, no, no. That’s a whole different word. I’m sorry. You’re not supposed to correct people. And the bug exterminator people are full of them also. I know that. Yeah, and they have more but Tennessee toward neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and different types of dementia. And a spraying the inside of our House with those things also. Yeah, which we pretty generally don’t happen except she saw roach this morning. It’s like holy gs, if we do have them spray with chemicals, we take the dog and go along trip and then we have some air cleaners and then we have a holistic, more natural, cleaning products that are made uses. So some of the things that happen because of these excess metals and again, we’re talking about 80 something thousand different toxins, which is not just metals, but that creates what you think is a disease of aging.

00:25:06 – 00:30:00

It’s not really a disease of aging. It’s a disease of accumulation. So I use things like cilantro, garlic, lemon water, drink green tea, all of those things are really good at detoxifying heavy metals and doctor Lisa, I also know we got several things happening here, but we’ve had some people ask about our new programs. We just we just got it put on our website. There are 30 day programs, I guess you can explain what you decided. Do you want the reason you added these in? We’ve got four of them. One for white loss. There’s one for energy. There’s one for hormones. And there’s one for thyroid. And can you explain why you decided that maybe people needed help and added these programs to our to our site? Yeah, because those of you that have used our services and thank God, literally, I have so many people that continually do this. You know, like Richard and Rebecca and California like Alan from Maine, I could go on and on talking about people that do that. But some people say, well, what should I eat? What should I not eat? It’s like, you know, I’m like read a book. A lot of them want to know if we have a dietician. I’m incredibly busy. And I’m glad because there are people that are getting well. So instead of telling you all to read a book, we have created an integrative nutrition concierge team. That’s the technical term. So you don’t have to read a book. That’s it for you. Yeah, yeah. These people that we’ve employed teamed up with, what it is, a functional medicine registered dietitian and a certified nutrition coach and we have ways that you can take pictures of your food and own this app. It saves you time, and it’s not really so much a diet, but it’s a way of eating that will have more than nutrients that will support, for example, weight loss or energy or hormone thyroid, whichever one you choose. We have a few supplements to go with that to get you going because there’s some people say, well, I don’t want to take 8 or ten or 12 different nutritional supplements like the smart ones, the ones that get the best results are the ones that do this program and take even more nutritional supplements. And that way well, it helps you shop for the right foods. It’s cost effective way to eat. Because a lot of the people when we do their labs, they’re trying to eat right. They’re trying to do the right things, and they honestly don’t know which things are not good for their particular issue. Or hormones, and these nutrient plans are based on you getting those particular issues under control. So it’s not really such a diet, but it’s nutrient dense eating. And it makes it easier, the meal plans, the recipes, they’re all quick, easy, and inexpensive. You get weekly calls with the coaches, you get in app messaging any time that you take pictures of your food, they help you figure out well, why did I not feel good that day or maybe you’ve got a big party or something coming up and you’re trying to do the right things, but you don’t know what it is you can eat there to help you and the people that are overseeing this. Right. Yeah, that’s why I would say that people had already doing our programs. There’s couples out there that do our programs together. If you’re having the same issues, you could literally get one program and both of you learn how to eat differently and have recipes and that kind of thing. You don’t do it forever. It’s 30 days. You learn how to change your habits. And then you can go forward with that and do the right kinds of food and things. And it’ll help you get better with the nutrition that we’re doing on this side. Even faster and with each of these programs we have some complementary products that come in the packages that are different for each of the programs. But you can go on green wisdom, health dot com, there’s a tab there that says 30-day programs you can read about it. They’re pretty outstanding. We’re pretty impressed with all the people we’ve employed, and it takes a lot to impress me. I promise you; we’ve had many, many, many people try to team with us, and I’m like, nah, isn’t going to happen. You’re getting a whole lot of value for what it cost.

00:30:00 – 00:33:43

Is that I guess that’s a good way to put it. That’s a better way than I was going to say. I was going to say I’m blown away with what they can add to your life and your health and your energy and your thyroid function, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, and we literally have some patients that are due for lab work again. And we’re telling them, hey, we really think this 30-day program might behoove you to do that. Before you do lab, because you can see tendencies that the people don’t really know what to eat or what to purchase and we don’t want you to keep making the same wrong choices and then having to buy more products all the time, we’d like you to learn how to change that. So that’s what all this is about. And gosh, we’ve come to the end of our show, doctor Lewis. I can’t believe it. So along with not being toxic from heavy metals anymore and getting a new lease on life here with eating. Is there any final words that you’d like to leave for us this week? Well, you know, one thing I’d like to say is that we’re doing our best to get back to doing more podcast. We have people saying I wish you’d put out more podcasts and it’s like, yeah, it’s been a crazy two years and then my dad’s had some health issues, so we were trying to make sure we were there for that, but he’s all good now. Got him a new heart valve and ready to roll. So, we hopefully get back on schedule with some of that. And his sergeants at Baylor Scott and white. And I love the medical profession. I always have, but they said, you know, we don’t understand why this win as quickly and as smoothly. On an 85-year-old man, he’s 85 going on 60. But we know for a fact, it’s because genetic keeps him jacked up on some really good supplements all the time. Folks, yeah, two more things. Number one, I can see things coming months. Sometimes years before they happen, there is, and there’s been plenty of people that stocked up because of the supply chain issues and it turned out to be a really wide choice on your part. Here’s the other thing. We talked briefly about autoimmune diseases. Folks, it’s really, really time to get serious with your health. You need to make an investment in your health for reasons I won’t go into. Now is the time and the opportunity to get started and get a healthier immune system. It’s getting to the point where it may be too late, really quick. So, get started now so that you can make it through any challenges that may be thrown our way. And I want you to understand, even though it’s been a crazy stressful two years or two and a half years, our stress should not be embalmed, it should be cremated, so burn it and let it go. And I like that. We thank you for listening to this week’s show. If you’re new to our podcast, please go to green wisdom health dot com. You can click on the health survey and get started. If you have questions about what you need to do, let doctor list give you a call. We can help you through any of that. It will recommend you a lab panel and we try to make it as easy as possible for you. We will be here next time on the green wisdom health show. Once again, our show has come to an end, but your hope in your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a brighter future, take the first step and go to our website and fill out the health survey. Please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share the show with your friends and family. You are only one step away from a life worth living.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Enviro Detox – Broad-spectrum binding formula containing natural ingredients from the purest sources to support enhanced clearance of heavy metals, unwanted organisms and organic compounds from the GI tract.

Reduced L-Glutathione – Glutathione is the master antioxidant in the body and is heavily concentrated in tissues such as the liver, spleen and heart. Therefore, it plays a crucial role in immune function, detoxification capacity and protection against oxidative stress. This formulation is preformed, reduced glutathione (GSH) and provides a 250 mg dose in a one-capsule serving.

Multi Minerals Ultra – Provides an ideal balance of highly-absorbed minerals combined with the benefits of betaine HCl to prime digestion and improve the absorption of vitamins and minerals. This formula provides mineral amino acid chelates in optimal ratios to help the body maintain mineral balance and avoid competition between minerals for absorption.

You can also listen to Symptoms of Heavy Metal Toxicity on our Spotify here.

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Supporting Long-Haul Syndrome

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Many people have been experiencing long-lasting symptoms after going through an illness. The cause of these lingering symptoms is still unknown, but some people have reported that certain supplements and lifestyle changes have reduced some of their symptoms like fatigue and brain fog. In this week’s episode, Supporting Long-Haul Syndrome, we’ll discuss some things you can do that may help support your body in dealing with these symptoms.

Show Notes:

00:00:01 – 00:05:15

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with doctor Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And today we are going to discuss a topic you guys keep asking us about that we keep trying to dance around. So we’re going to keep dancing, but we’re going to give you our best shot at explaining what we do and what’s going on. Now that we have your curiosity, you’re wondering what it is. I know. But we can’t tell you. We have to just kind of talk in code. The name of the show is called treating long, I’m sorry. It’s not treating. We’re supporting long haul syndrome. So we do not treat that. We just give you things that might help you get over long term chronic sickness. And you’ll just have to fill in the blank on what that is. But, you know, many things can help with that sort of thing. And we also have a symptom list of you figuring out if you have these long haul symptoms or the syndrome. So chronic immune system depletion. There you go. So we’re going to tell you the things that we do, the things we recommend because we’re getting another round of people getting sick and we want to make sure you stay healthy, especially going into this fall, you know, we’ve got Saharan dust attacking us now and people have a bunch of allergies. And then you have this virus stuff that just seems to be on the loose. So doctor Lewis, I think you should go ahead and explain what we’re doing. You know, before we started this, we asked God to help organize my mind. You know if you’ve listened to me before organization in my mind is pretty much nonexistent and I’m way off the charts today. I’ve got too much to say and not enough time to get there. So what we’re talking about is helping your body boost immune system. I’m a chiropractor, so I always approach you from a musculoskeletal sense. But if you support musculoskeletal, you’re supporting all the cells, which are supporting your immune system. So we’ll get into that. I wanted to talk about mushrooms and Janet kind of changed that. I’m going to talk about mushrooms anyway. Maybe he’s wanting to smoke mushrooms. I’m not sure which one, but we’re using them for immune system. Yeah, and I do not treat cancer, God knows you need a hematologist that understands natural stuff too, but when Janet’s first said, we talk about mushrooms and she changed her mind. She never changes her mind about me, but everything else may be. There’s a lot of cancer books. And again, I don’t treat cancer, of course, but mushroom extracts are used sometimes it’s mataki, sometimes shiitake, a turkey tail lines made. And the beta glucans that you can get from that. And this is in some of the books that talk about how some people natural doctors treat cancer. And that’s certainly not the only thing you should be doing if you have cancer, but other things that are anti proliferative, which means they kind of help keep the cancer and if it works for cancer, it’s going to work for immune system. And you people that have chronic fatigue, some of the anti prolific agents are selenium, fish oil, garlic, cat’s claw, mataki, diffraction vitamin a, vitamin K, of course, in bovine cartilage, which actually we’ve been proved our collagen has just come in again. Thank you. But that all might assist the cancer patient in this manner. There’s also a lot of studies that said, these nutrition supplements do not interfere with chemo. And there’s a lot of controversy and sometimes lies are told so much that people actually start to believe it. Which gets into one other lie. And I want you to think about it. There’s this big long line that’s been going around for years that says cancer can’t live in an alkaline environment. Folks, you know what BS stands for? Belief systems. There’s plenty of research and I’m saying this because if this is true of this, therefore it’s true in your chronic fatigue, long haul symptoms. The optimal PH medium for growth, the optimal PH for staff is 7.4. That’s alkaline, streptococcus, pneumococcus, diphtheria, tetanus, influence, gonococcus, meningococcus, brucella, abortus, and H pylori, all of those prefer and alkaline environment, and people are doing their dead level best to get alkaline.

00:05:16 – 00:10:00

God has alkaline acid alkaline acid buffers in the body. You need to quit trying to manipulate that. A good, healthy flora, which means the microbiome, the good bacteria needs and loves acid, pathogens, love, and need alkalinity. And then there’s a study that it’s a very good study. I read it. It says cancer thrives in an alkaline environment. Well, you get on the Internet, it’ll tell you the opposite. Quit believing everything you read on the Internet. I’ve told people, I was just Satan tissues, is that control you manipulate you, put fear and doubt in there and people look at me. It’s like, well, what do you believe in sight or not? I don’t know. There’s negative entities, so. Well, it ain’t even that. You’re seeing what they want you to see too. So you don’t get the whole picture of other truths that could be out there that doesn’t fit into what they would like you to know. So you only get to hear what they want you to hear. So don’t believe everything you read because I mean, maybe that is a one sided deal, but there’s also a bunch of other opinions that don’t ever get published or get taken down. Because they don’t like the research. And what everybody should do in my opinion, let’s go get a good picture of the food pyramid and then eat exactly the opposite of how it says because on the base of the pyramid it says 6 to 11 servings. A brand cereal RAS pasta dot, and usually there’s a massive amount of weight in there and weight and H pylori go together. Yes, it does. People say, oh, I have GERD or acid reflux. I said, well, it’s weight or H pylori or lack of stomach acid, which goes back to the lack of stomach acid would be alkalinity. So folks, just because it’s been promoted for 75 years, you don’t have to believe it. And I had a call the other day, lady says, well, my MD tested my B 12, and it was 1300 something, and it was so high that I got off your methyl B 12. Folks, a bad B 12, Sino cobalamin can cause and will cause your lab to go high on your B 12 test. It doesn’t mean it’s being absorbed. And it has to be in large amounts for your body. Especially this lady’s age. For your body to have a lot in order for it to be available to be absorbed. So be careful who you listen to and even when I sit down to somebody here locally or own zoom or phone calls, I say, listen with a discerning spirit. Use your intuition, even when I’m speaking, you need to always listen to that. So owning, again, I’ve got about three four hours worth of notes and we’re going to try to cram most of it in 30 minutes. So there is some common symptoms of long haul syndrome. They are fatigue, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing, and we’re just telling you, we’re going over all this because we have many people walking into our store now that are emailing us, some are on shooting straight with doctor Lewis on Facebook. They’re all asking what can we do, what can we do? We felt like it’s our job to try to help you through it because I guess it isn’t going anywhere for a while and you need to be strong enough so whenever these other illnesses come along that you can withstand some of this and not be brought down. So if you don’t know what some of the symptoms of it are, there’s a chronic cough joint pain, chest pain, memory, lots of people say they’ve got tons of brain fog concentration or sleep problems. Muscle pains or headaches, they have a faster pounding heartbeat. They have lost their smell or taste, and I mean for many months, depression or anxiety, fever, dizziness when you stand. And your worst after physical or mental activities and they result if you keep these things and you don’t do anything to try to help it, the result of the damage is the following to these body systems. Your pulmonary lungs will be permanently injured, your immune, allergy response. Your mitochondria energy system, your heart, and your central peripheral nervous system. So doctor Lewis, I’d like maybe you could discuss some things that someone could take to help maintain or get better from many of those things. Tell us what mitochondria energy is.

00:10:00 – 00:15:01

I mean, what are you trying to achieve with these products? Well, the mitochondrion each cell has a lot of them in there. And it’s like the spark plug that ignites the gasoline vapor or which releases the energy, so mitochondria are the powerhouses. And there’s a lot of different facets to good health. It can be community purpose. We’ve talked about doing good for others, diet, nutrition, and they’re signals the macronutrients and micronutrients total energy, glycemic impact. Signals, environmental signals. We’ve talked about the toxins and chronicity, whether it’s long-term shift workers, seasonal regular rest vacation, sleeping time, stress response signals and we do a lot of that with your cortisol. Some of the things you just have to throw it in and let God sort it out. And I’m sorry that people that are trying to get you healthier more and more being silenced. And I work with the medical profession. I tell people get lab and a guy came in and he had a horrible lab. I’m not an MD, I can’t judge this, but I knew he was within a week or two or very close to death. And I said, well, you need to go to your MD because of this, this, this, and this, he said, I’ve been to several of them, including the VA, and they won’t pay attention to me. I said my supplements are not going to help you as too little too late. There are limitations to time and there’s limitations to matter and call me back after his medical doctors paid attention to him. He says, you saved my life because he had some stuff going on. So the first thing you should do is get lab. Yeah, and I wanted to get there too because there’s an important test on there that we run now, but I wanted to talk a little bit more about the supplements you’re using and why the people, a lot of people already know about vitamin D, you’ve heard about vitamin D, you’ve heard about zinc. A lot of them are taken that, but zinc, vitamin C, because it comes down inflammation, the D is prevention. And it helps the long haul symptoms. But there’s a few other ones that people have not heard of. The mushrooms are one, like you spoke about. Which is the immune essentials we have, especially for people who have weak lungs, I take that every day because I know I’d be dead without it. Yeah, cordyceps is absolutely incredible. And there’s several others in there like turkey tail racing talking shiitake, like I talked about earlier. But there’s things like glutathione and in acetylcysteine or neck that I know people don’t really hear much about that maybe you could tell us why that’s necessary and if you have something that has that in it or is that like is that something you do daily or is that just when you’re sick or what do you do? Some people do it just when they need to. I’m more like, I don’t get my toe in the water. I die then and I try to live life a 110%. Complete is really, really, really popular. It’s got some good vitamin D zinc. And people say about zinc displaces copper. Not if it’s attracts zinc, TRA, CS, the real amino acid chelate system. So it goes through a different pathway and does not displace copper. And it has an acetylcysteine in the quercetin dihydrate. One of the things, if you want to get simple, multi element buffered, say, and it’s got it’s got some minerals to buffer it. But it has a copper manganese potassium quercetin and glutathione. Explain why that one is because it says multi element buffered C, you know, people are going to buy vitamin C much cheaper than that at the drugstore. What makes that different as a product? Because it is kind of expensive. But what’s in it? Three to 6 months worth depending on dependent on how you take it. What do you take to a day or four? Well, one of the things calcium, we don’t talk about calcium a lot because she’s sometimes usually you can get enough out of your diet. But did you know calcium lowers cholesterol helps prevent cardiovascular disease and bat along with the pulmonary issues or some of the things that are going out has to do with muscle growth and contraction can or may lower blood pressure, although I push magnesium more for that. But lower calcium or calcium deficiency can cause brittle nails, eczema, elevated blood, cholesterol, insomnia, muscle cramps, nervousness, numbness, and arms, but now one thing you’ve got to realize, you’ve got to have stomach acid to assimilate calcium.

00:15:02 – 00:20:01

Now, this in the multi element buffered C yeah, okay. And some of the other things I like to talk about copper because you don’t hear much about it. Lack of copper, and I’ve seen this a few times. But copper has, well, if you have a deficiency, so you can have a dysfunction in hemoglobin and red blood cell formation. It works to balance with zinc and vitamin C to form elastin and this is not the most important thing about it lasting, but ladies, that means if you have all that, you’ll have fewer wrinkles. And it’s important, well, it’s skin protein. Healing process, energy, hair and skin coloring, taste sensitivity, it doesn’t mean you won’t get gray, but I’m getting gray very, very slowly. I just have my driver’s license. Oh, go ahead, go right ahead. Renewed. And Janet put brown gray on the form and I couldn’t decide. I couldn’t decide if it was brown or gray. And the lady said, we couldn’t pick both. You gotta pick one. I said, well, honey, you pick it. She’s just Brown. I said, I love you. So everybody’s hearing. Batman. Copper is essential for the formation of collagen and once again, the really good holy gs the best in the world college in his back in stock. You don’t want to type too much. Without taking out anything from it. That was the main thing. That’s why it was out of stock so long is because they did not want to change the formula because it worked. And we had Casey explaining that. It has magnesium and you hear me talk a lot about magnesium so I’ll try to be quick, but it’s a catalyst in enzyme activity. You’ve heard of, say, 300 different enzymes. I’ve read as many as 600. And it’s the enzymes involved in energy production assist in calcium and potassium uptake. So it’s like holy cow, important. But it has manganese in it. You don’t hear much about manganese. And it’s needed for utilization of B one, B one is the one that will stop brain fog almost all the time because you have too much east in your guts. It helps in the utilization of vitamin a and it has to be a good vitamin E, not the rector DL alpha to go for all that’s not a good one. And it has manganese has to do with overall feeling of well-being. Oh my God, people sit and pay attention on that one. A lack of manganese can cause high cholesterol, hypertension, irritability, so if your spouse is irritable, it might actually be you. But memory loss I forgot, honey. Muscle contraction. Pancreatic damage profuse perspiration. So there’s a lot of good things that’s in the multi element buffered C and then you have potassium potassium can help prevent stroke aids in proper muscle contraction works with sodium for the water, the body’s water balance, so to speak. It’s a significant factor in the development of high blood pressure if it’s missing. Now you got to be careful with potassium for God’s sake, don’t take too much because that could be dangerous. So yeah, the multi element buffer sees the simple place to start. I love the environmental detox. Which I tell people, take that at night because you’ve got to do two things. One, you’ve got to clean out too. You got to build. So you want to take some of these things at slightly different times. And the amino plate is good. The immune essentials, well, I think I’m going to die of old age with a smile on my face, but we’ll say. Because they say this long haul problem is clearly a GI syndrome issue as well. So that’s why you’re saying the environmental detox, right? Where you help pull off some of those toxins. I’m glad you mentioned GI and this is not planned and I have different notes and we don’t know where we’re going. We kind of think that adds to the excitement of doing this. But yeah, it has a lot to do with inflammation and intestines. Inflammation creates leakiness, which includes diverticulosis, but it can be a lot of other things. I’ve talked about. Nick it off. I can’t pronounce it. One word you can’t say. I’ve never known you to not be able to do that. I can’t say Nicaragua either. The Nobel Prize in medicine was 1908 for work in probiotics and we’re still not practiced in that over a hundred years later. There’s about ten times more. Biotics are probiotics or microorganisms than our cells in our body. So it’s very, very good. Inflammation in GI always go together. And that’s always a common factor. I don’t give a flying flip. What you’ve got, your intestines and inflammation are part of the equation.

00:20:02 – 00:25:02

The intestines can actually affect gene expression. So think flora, flora, more flora, good probiotics. And one thing I wanted to mention on that multi element buffered C that is one product I’ve heard several people tell me they’ve gotten their taste back to the smell and taste. Just wouldn’t do it. I shouldn’t say never, but it’s usually not that simple. Right. That’s why we do the lab work. And some of the things about getting healthy would include weight loss. You’ve heard me talk about 40% of us are obese and a total of 72% of the American population are overweight. We’re going to get to that exciting feature at the end. We have something about weight loss at the end. But I also want to ask you about a new blood test that you’ve added on. It’s on the men’s panels, specifically because men have an issue more so with this, but a lot of people have probably never heard of this test. It’s called a D dimer test. And since we’ve had this long haul syndrome come out, that test has been a very important lab panel that needs to be added on, especially if you have these symptoms and women he can do it on YouTube if you have those symptoms we can add it, but can you tell us what it is, why you would need to know about that? Yeah, well, let me back up. You know, I can’t say it simply soaked. We made an executive decision to add that to the comprehensive plus male hormones and the super panel. For men, because we have a little bit more of a tendency to have the pulmonary embolisms, the strokes, the heart attacks and all that. And we decided to add the thyroid anti globulin antibodies and the TPO to the women’s because they have a little bit more Tennessee to have a thyroid autoimmune disease. And Janet threw her incredible negotiation. I don’t know how the heck she pulled it off. She got the lab to add those tests and we didn’t go up on the price because they came down. One of them used to be a $140 just in and of itself. And she negotiated. And I said, how did you do that? She looks at me with that little sparkle in her eyes as you didn’t have a chance, so just trust me. And God is good. He helps us. Every chance we get in everybody out there that is asking. That’s right. The D dimer and I’ve heard it pronounced dimmer, but I think diamonds. It’s a protein fragment. It’s found in the blood once a clot becomes degraded. And that can help in the assessment of thrombosis. That’s why I told it one guy said, man, you need to go back to your doctor. I’m sorry, they’re not paying attention to you, but you need to demand that because it’s D dimer and was like holy Jesus. And he went and got medical care. Again, we work with the body’s innate ability to heal itself and we work with the medical profession. Which if that comes back high at the doctor, many times they’re just told to take an aspirin, can you explain if you’ve got anything different if you think that’s what you’d use on somebody as an aspirin or could you tell us about anything you may have different beside an aspirin or what makes aspirin where I always think this story is great about what does my gasparin work? Am I going down all these rabbit holes now? Yeah, I’m not sure we have time for all that. Well, basically, if I had a high D dimer and I don’t, but I take these two things anyway. I take the vitamin E and I take the NATO canace and NATO kinase is a pretty serious serious enzyme used to support normal blood flow circulation in blood pressure levels. For example, that was the one we told you about our 70, 71 year old patient, and they said, well, you’re about 3% away from having to put stance in your carotid artery because it’s so plaqued up, and I put him on that O and vitamin E and the day with the vitamin K, the magic numbers, 180 micrograms or above. Oh, and we have a new vitamin D now also for you out there that are taking two. Two of the fat two 5 two. We now have one called D three K two max. So we don’t have a picture yet, but we have the product. So that’s 10,000 D plus the magical 180 micrograms of them. Okay, but anyway, this guy took his stuff. The E, the NATO and the proper amount of K and a year or so later, he has zero plaquing, and he’s, I don’t know, he’s 70 or 71. Of course he takes a lot of stuff, and he’s super healthy. He acts like he’s more like 40. But the D dimer is a very indicative if it goes high.

00:25:02 – 00:30:01

You have the possibility or maybe possibility of blood clots. It’s a protein fragment produced by the body when a blood clot dissolves. Well, it can indicate the possibility of intravascular coagulation, pulmonary embolism that I mentioned deep vein thrombosis. Trauma bleeding, pregnancy. It goes higher. Liver disease and chronic high per coagulation, which means more than what you should. Now, I do the narrow I do the vitamin E I do not make medical decisions so I’ll never take I don’t give advice about medicines, but I can show you research that says aspirin. Double your risk of stroke and there was 84 85 different studies that said aspirin did nothing for heart health. And then Bayer in their infinite wisdom. Yeah, wisdom. That goes back to BS, but belief systems. They added a little bit, I think it’s 15 milligrams of magnesium oxide. And it magnesium is so needed for heart health that even the oxide, which is not a good form. Made the heart work better, even with a bad magnesium. And so because of that one study that it was actually the magnesium that helped cardiac function. Now they’re selling a billion a day or whatever they sell 1 billion 2, 3 billion aspirin a day. Now, would I take it? No. But we’re not telling you to not take it if your doctors told you to take it by all means you do what your doctor tells you. We’re just telling you the history of aspirin. And how it got there. But I read research and I have a good memory and yes, I take stuff from a memory and it makes a huge difference when I take it versus not taking it. And I read probably, I don’t know, a thousand research articles a year. I’m making a number up, but I usually read 50, 75 books a year. And not all books are good. Some of the books that are read are like total horsemen here. And I would like to say that if you guys are having problems out there finding a doctor that will help you with these long haul symptoms that they look at you like you’re crazy. There is a group of doctors across the country called the front line doctors. They won’t look at you like you’re crazy. You can follow standard of care. They actually practice. And again, I’m not an MD, so that’s just what they are MDs. They RMDs and they’re a group of them that are trying to help people be healthy. So don’t think outside the box at work with functional medicine doctors like what we do. Yes, so look them up. They may be an answer to someone’s prayers out there. Also want to mention doctor Lewis, you know, I can’t tell you the number of times we’ve had people call here or they’ll ask doctor Lewis. What do I eat? We’ll do lab work on them. We gave them some supplements. Doctor list loves to read. And so he always recommends a book to them. Well, there’s a lot of people that don’t like to read. They want this shortcut. They want hand holding. Think Trish from Pennsylvania. I love you. Just call me and tell me you’re still around. And they don’t know what to eat. They may something bad one day. They don’t know if it’s good or bad. They’re going to reunion. They want to know what they can have. And frankly, with what we have going here is enough to keep us busy enough. Too busy. Too busy that we want to be able to give everybody the care they need and doctor Lewis is not able to just hand hold like that. But what he has decided to do is very careful consideration and research out. In the different programs and finding the absolute best for the money. We are adding in an integrative nutrition concierge team. To our staff. And what that will allow you to do over the next few weeks, you’ll start noticing it on the website. It will offer you 30 day programs to work with our functional medicine registered dietitian and certified nutrition coach via weekly phone calls and in app messaging through our new program by neutrino body. So you will start seeing that show up on the website. We’ve selected about right now about four different programs, ones for and it’s not a diet plan. It’s a nutrient based meal plan. So we’re not taking anything away from you, but we’re actually going to be adding in the nutrients that doctor Lewis is giving you through supplements with blood work and combining those together so that you’re actually eating the things of some of the products that he’s been giving you. So it’s a complete.

00:30:01 – 00:34:00

It’s a win win. One plus one equals three because synergistically they’re going to work together very, very well. For those of you that have wanted to lose weight and even a few that wanted to gain weight. Yeah, there’s one that’s going to be one for white. There’s one for thyroid. There’s one for energy. And I can’t remember what the other one is, but we’ve got a memory loss. What we’re talking about. But they’ll be on the side. I said they’re 30 day programs. They’re reasonably priced. You’re going to be able to just take pictures of all your food and just send it instantly. They make it easy for you. You don’t have to journal it, just take a picture and send it. There’s a lot of communication going on. And I think we’re going to put one of them on sale for a limited time too to just let people dip their toe in the water. So stay tuned for that. And we’ve come to the end of our show again. I can’t believe it. Hopefully you’ve learned something today with us dancing around subject matter. I hope that you got out of it. What you’ve been asking us and if we can help you anyway, sometimes just pick up the phone and call us because it might be easier than emailing or you can now if you’re in our healthy app. If you’ve downloaded the healthy app and all the people out there that don’t know what I’m talking about, if you’ve been a patient of ours, you are in our new program called healthy it’s where we share our lab documents with you now and we also share any kind of nutritional programs doctor Lewis. It’s giving you. But there’s also in app messaging. So you’re able to speak to doctor Liz, leave him a message. He’ll chat back with you because some people are saying, I wrote you an email, you never responded to my email. He does actually respond. We had a problem with our email at one point and some of that was going in spam for people, so they thought he wasn’t answering. He’s actually answering till 8, 9, 10 o’clock at night on the couch because I watch him do it. So we moved to this app to kind of keep it all inclusive in that way. We can keep up with everybody’s conversation a bit better. It’s healthy. If you have been a patient of ours, all you have to do is change your password, you’re in, and then you’ll be able to talk to him also, new ones that’s how we process our lab orders from now on. So you might as well get it now. Doctor Lewis, would you like to leave us with closing words or maybe help people go to the website and tell them how to get started if they’ve not done lab? Yeah, I always tell Janet, thanks for helping me be technologically more confident. Thanks for dragging me into the 20th century. She said Steven is the 21st. So yeah, go to green wisdom health and look at over and what I’d like to tell you is difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations, don’t quit. And in the happy moment, we should price God in difficult moments. We should seek God in the quiet moments. We should worship God in every moment. We should thank God. I like that. And like you said, go to green wisdom health dot com, click on the health survey, get started. If you don’t know what lab panels are best for you, it will actually recommend the lab panel that it decides his best for you based on what you fill out. And we appreciate you listening to our show. We hope you stay healthy. And we’ll be here next time on the green wisdom health show. Once again, our show has come to an end, but you’re hoping your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a brighter future, take the first step and go to our website and fill out the health survey. Please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share the show with your friends and family. You are only one step away from a life worth living.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Nattokinase – Nattokinase is a powerful enzyme used to support normal blood flow, circulation, and blood pressure levels. Maintaining healthy blood circulation and balanced coagulation is a key part of supporting cardiovascular health. Fibrinolytic enzymes, such as plasmin, produced in the endothelial cells are responsible for ensuring proper blood flow. However, production of these enzymes decreases with age, which can result in increased fibrin levels. In vitro studies have highlighted that nattokinase triggers the release of substances that lead to production of other important enzymes, like plasmin, which help regulate fibrin formation.

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Immune Essentials – Immune Essentials supports immune health with a blend of highly researched and effectively concentrated mushroom extracts combined with the polyphenol nutrient support of green tea.^† This formula provides beta 1,3/1,6 d-glucan and a range of bioactive compounds that have been shown to potentiate immune response.^†

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Ageless Mind and Increased Energy

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Our special guest, Casey, is back this week to discuss the exciting new product Ageless Cell Revive. In this week’s episode, Ageless Mind and Increased Energy, Janet, Dr. Lewis and Casey will discuss how the phospholipids in this formulation help support the brain, healthy aging, and energy levels. They will also discuss a few other products and some lifestyle changes you can implement to support healthy aging.

Show Transcript

00:00:01 – 00:05:05

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with doctor Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the green wisdom health show. I am Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And we have our very special speaker back with us today. Casey, who works with one of our manufacturers to bring you the wonderful products that we currently have. Including the new one that we just started carrying called ageless cell revive. So the name of this show, and he’s going to tell us why it works. It’s called ageless mind. And increased energy. And those of you that are having the bad side effects of the long-term COVID symptoms, you probably want to listen up to this because this is going to have a lot of information pertaining to that in ways that you can get your energy back, your mind back, get rid of a lot of your fatigue. So doctor Lewis, what would you like to tell us before we add Casey to it? Well, since it’s so good for the brain, I would like to ask you, if you can remember to take it, do you really need it? Thanks. Go ahead, guys. Take and run with it. Yeah, thank you for having me again. It’s always, it’s always a pleasure to be back out in east Texas. Being that you’re from. Yeah, exactly. We want to talk about where I’m from. But over Dallas way. But yeah, this is a we gave him his green card to get him into Texas. I’m doctor Lewis approved, hopefully. Yep. But yeah, this is a really exciting new product. There’s been a lot of ageless cell revive that is. There’s a lot of chatter right now. I would say over the last couple of years around this idea of membrane lipid replacement therapy. And what I mean by that. So what ageless cell revive is is it’s a sunflower, lecithin derived phospholipid complex. And why that is so important is that phospholipids are an extremely critical component to all biological membranes. In the body, from the membrane that lines your digestive tract, the membrane that lines your bronchial passages, the membranes that make up the membranes that protect and house your both your cells and then also membrane intermembrane that houses your mitochondria. So and that goes along with the podcast we did earlier about diabetes and metabolic syndrome or syndrome X. The main cause of stroke, for example, is syndrome X, which is the same thing as metabolic syndrome leading to diabetes or type two diabetes. And as chiropractor I was always interested in the demyelination, things that DeMille are like infections, trauma, which is what I took care of as a chiropractor. Inflammation, which specifically diabetes, but any kind of inflammation, lack of thyroid function that you people with low thyroid, it goes further than just checking your thyroid. Nutritional deficiencies and that’s where Casey just shines like a brand new penny. Lack of vitamin B and allergies such as gluten. So we’re happy to have him here because he kind of has the intelligence and the knowledge to get technical. So I’m just like throw it in like God sorted out. Yeah, so all those things you just mentioned is that like the simpler version of what Casey’s saying about the mitochondrial function. Yeah, because Janet told me I get two technical and one case it gets technical. She didn’t say anything to him. She just smiled and said, hey, Casey. Well, I invite him to the show because he tells me all of this when we talk and I’m like, I don’t even know what you said and doctor Liz will probably decide for that. He needs to come tell everybody. Well, the whole point of it is that we do have people like Casey and other scientists that keep us surprised of what’s going on and why the products that were efficacy matters. Yes. We do have a great support team behind the scenes that you don’t know about. Efficacy matters is the deal. Are you noticing now that a lot of the brands you were previously buying you trusted are suddenly out of all kind of things? And have you noticed? I hear people say brand doesn’t matter. Why aren’t you in your third wife, all women are like, all supplements are like, okay, I give. That’s brand is really important. Efficacy is ultimately all that matters. I mean, we talk about this all the time, but we manufacture exclusively through for licensed healthcare providers.

00:05:06 – 00:10:02

The only way that we sell a product is when a license provider recommends our product. And in the clinical setting, products have to work. No fake stuff on Amazon. And you know what that really means is that you’re not about just making money, you’re actually about getting people well because the ones that aren’t doing that and claim to be selling to professionals, but also go on Amazon and all these different places. They’re bottom line, well, let’s just make some money because the practitioners aren’t doing it fast enough. Even though one of the big companies says we know 40% of everything we sell on Amazon is counterfeited. And that’s one of the big companies we used to carry. And it’s not as good as it used to be. It used to be good when we were selling it. But when we saw that change, we started drifting away from that particular company, which used to be the big dog. So we try to make sure we bring you what it says in that bottle. Which is why Casey’s here with his ageless cell revived. I mean, it kind of going back to what doctor Lewis mentioned when he was kind of listing off those health issues at the crux of a lot of these things is mitochondria dysfunction. Yes. And kind of getting back, your mitochondria, they are the powerhouses of every cell. They are what literally drives life. They also act as kind of this canary in the coal mine. So they’re the first ones to kind of sound alarm in the presence of danger. And this is a lot of what is being talked about now in the functional immunology space. Is this idea of just a better understanding of what’s really going on in some of these different chronic inflammatory response syndromes. And what I’m talking about when I say when I say chronic inflammatory response syndrome or serfs for short are these historically been considered fibromyalgia, chronic lime, environmental illness, like mold toxins, chronic fatigue, syndrome, but a predominant symptom of a lot of these issues. And now you can throw long haulers. People with persistent COVID infections. And if the numbers are right on that, we are going to see a massive wave of people dealing with these types of issues if that 20 to 30% of people who are infected with COVID do wind up having persistent issues. This is going to become a really big deal because this is the newest one of those conditions that you can kind of throw into that sirs bucket. And we have a little bit better understanding from a cellular cellular level of what’s actually going on in these issues. And it’s a researcher out of Southern California, doctor Robert navio, who coined the term cell danger response. And this is really important and membranes are a critical component of this and why supplementing with phospholipids is kind of from a in building out these protocols to treat these conditions or just fatigue and in general why lipids are so important to maintaining the health of the cell membranes because the first thing that kind of goes when a patient is or a person is exposed to and I’m not talking about a viral illness like COVID, but there’s environmental toxins. There’s trauma, there’s stress, different pathogens, there’s injury. There’s a lot of issues that are a lot of environmental stressors, and there’s some kind of getting long winded here, but basically there’s a physiological response that’s designed to help mitochondria and cells survive the stressors. And that can be self induced by the way you think, and that’s why I always try to influence you to get quiet, look at your spirit, what are you speaking versus what are you getting because the insult to the brain is stressed because the adrenals are stressed in that releases cortisol and that has an effect on the hypothalamus and hypothalamus gets into the brain, which is why Casey’s talking about the age is ageless cell revived, and I’m going to talk about a couple of other things, but you have to support the brain. And keep in mind, one of the worst things you can do is lower your fat intake because 60% of your brain is white matter, which is fat. You need the fat, you need the phospholipids, you need the fish oil, you need the good, even animal fats are good for you. I think the only fats that are bad are the vegetable fats, like corn, soy, canola, cottonseed. So this is a fat. It’s a fat. I know you mentioned you could put it in your coffee, which it’s primarily polyunsaturated and monounsaturated, so these healthy fats that are rich in these phospholipids. They’re sexy. Can you say that again? Do that again, do it a little later.

00:10:03 – 00:15:01

And these monounsaturated fats that play an integral part in the health of your membranes. So kind of getting back to the cell danger response when cells are exposed to these stressors. And COVID or coronavirus being one of them, what happens is imagine imagine you’re out here in east Texas and there’s a big storm coming. Right. What do people do? They get inside. You’ve been reading our mail. No, not Texas. They don’t get inside. Some of them get a drink in their hand and go stand and wait for the tornado. Yes, I do. Like a double. You pull the vehicles into the garage, you shut the garage door, you close all the windows. You basically you isolate yourself. And really like the little economy that is these towns stops. The same thing kind of happens with your cells. There’s a really important dynamic cellular communication that happens. If you can imagine like busy highways, hustling and bustling. But in a presence of danger, these cells isolate themselves, right? So they kind of, they use danger signals to alarm surrounding cells. They harden all their membranes, and they basically cut off communication with each other. The priority shifts away from energy production and just daily function to make life happen. Shifts away from that to surviving that immediate stressor. In normal folks, I’m not saying you’re abnormal, but in most people, the danger passes our immune system does what it’s supposed to do and cells return to normal. In some people, though, who generally who have these persistent types of issues and again to fatigue is generally at the top of their complaints, this doesn’t resolve. And so we have to use tactics to kind of kickstart kickstart re-engage mitochondria. It’s okay to come back out. Restore normal fluidity of membranes to allow these types of functions to happen. Membranes are really, really important. And they kind of get overlooked for a long time. They were just thought to kind of be this structure that houses your cells. Remember, I talked about the membrane says they get hard, then you get insulin resistant. So let’s dumb it down for just a second. Hey folks out there, there’s like putting start and fluid in an old tractor that hadn’t been cranked in 30 years, starting fluid. This is what the ageless sale river have tennis just laughing and giving me the look. On an animal this time yet. Well, it’s going to be. Right, so these phospholipids phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidyl ethyl alamin, phosphatidylserine, are all used to restore the health of your membranes and membranes are really important to be as doctor Lewis was just alluding to. Not only do they act as environmental sensors, they kind of keep tabs on what’s going on around them inside of the body. They’re really, really important for. Nutrient absorption. They have to get these things into cells. They’re really important for receptor activity, being able to affect tissue sensitivity to hormones and other chemical messengers that the body produces. They have to be open like all of us men are open to whatever our website because we always hear it. We may not respond, but we are open to that Janet really rolled her eyes on that. I learned it. I learned it from you, it is a Lewis trite. Especially. She said be here, I’m sure that stands for bacon sandwich. I have a question because I know people are listening out there, they’re going to ask me this. Yeah. You said it’s a fact. They’re going to say, well, then do I have to do fish oil also since it’s also a fat or does this replace this? Are they different? It doesn’t really, it doesn’t replace it, they’re different. EPA and DHA, which is incorporated into cell membranes are just another form of fat that is found in found in cellular membranes. Remember need more that to replace the bad fats that they put in safe potato chips in the process footage you need a lot of different types of good fat to replace that. So, so to speak, give your cell membranes and will change. More fat you have of different varieties, the better off you are that are good. The good fats. Okay, very good. And the more you get into fat, the easier it is to lose weight, but that’s an entirely different subject. So if we take more of this because it is a powder with a scoop. And it doesn’t taste bad. I don’t know. I take it in water, it tastes great. It actually tastes sort of like a protein to me for some reason. Right. Is it a protein? No. No, it’s a fat.

00:15:01 – 00:20:03

But I mean general, general fat, fatty things taste good too. Like you think about a fatty cut of fatty cutter beef or ribbon ribs. Yeah, generally fat adds a really nice flavor. So that’s why we gave him his green card when he came to Texas because he talks about ribs and barbecue and rib eyes. That’s what we relate to here. But that’s what’s great about this is implementation and to just your daily regimen is so easy. A lot of folks use it as a coffee creamer and replaces their current dairy based creamer. You can throw it right into whatever shakes and smoothies you might already be making. So if you’re doing a keto diet or it would be good for keto. People? Absolutely. Like you just said, you can just mix it in water and it tastes fine. Well, I don’t really eat much for breakfast and for some reason it makes me feel like I’ve it’s extremely filling. The benefits and fats is they’re very the very calorie dense. So you can consume a small amount of them and you’re going to feel full. And I can I can tell you if the company that Casey manufacturers, these four, if they’re making this product, they have done some extensive research to come out with a new product about what’s going on with the fatigue and everything because they don’t put out tons of new products all the time. So there must have been a lot of thought into this before you actually came out with it. It is so this whole idea around lipid replacement therapy, which this technically is, like I said, it’s kind of all the, it’s all the rage right now in the functional immunology world as we better understand the roles of these membranes, especially in as it relates to immune health, which is a huge obviously a huge topic. Did y’all hear that? Immune health. Pay attention rate between the lens. Well, because you know there’s more coming down the line. This particular issue in the United States is not over. So as fall comes in again. So yes, yes. We need to really, really ramp up our immune health. Now’s the time to buy an extra bottle or two of these things and put it in your body where it can manifest as blessings with better immune health and I’d like you to address that a little bit as well because as this keeps unfolding more and more companies are like, we just don’t have this product anymore. We don’t have that product anymore. So far, you all have really kept it together. Other than the one product of college in which I’m going to have you speak about and why you don’t have that, but how is it looking for what you all have going on? Do you see that we’re beginning to run out? Is it getting harder to get a hold of these things? There’s a few things depending where they come from in the world that are a little bit more challenging. Than others, I think a lot of raw material vendors had kind of we’re really now starting to feel the effects of diminished manufacturing capacity. And this is obviously been manifesting for a couple of years now as it relates to different countries policies around COVID. But for a really long time, these raw material vendors couldn’t, they’re manufacturing hours and manpower were cut back significantly. Collagens are collagens really unique in that it’s not just, it’s not just collagen, right? It’s a combination of three trademarked raw materials. And when we’re considering putting formulas together, we’re seeking out the absolute best individual raw materials that we have available from around the world. And we were very transparent about the raw materials that we source. So in that particular product, we actually we created all of the labeling, all of the marketing, all of the things that went along with our product around these three trademarked raw materials. And that’s obviously a really good thing because you know that what you’re getting has demonstrated safety and efficacy in human clinical trials. But at the same time from a manufacturer’s perspective, you can really put yourself in a bind if one of these vendors is having an issue with their raw material. Because they might not be the only supplier of that, particular you know, there’s more than one vendor of vitamin B 12. But there’s one or two that are probably the best. And we’re sourcing the absolute best, and like I said, we branded everything with that particular trademark.

00:20:03 – 00:25:13

So as it relates to the collagen, the oral hyaluronic acid has it comes from Barcelona, Spain, a lab called bio iberica for whatever reasons they’re just significantly challenged on the manufacturing front and they have zero raw material available and have for some time now. We could. If we were more disingenuous company, we could just go source another oral hyaluronic acid. And nobody would probably ever know. But that’s just not the way that we function. So while it’s it pains me and I know it’s frustrating for all of you who have been getting the benefits of that product to not be able to get access to it. We would rather back order a product than go source an inferior raw material. So let me repeat that in case you said, if we were not disingenuous, is that a correct term? Well, there are some companies that have more ways to take your money that are really full of lawyers, Casey and his company are not like that. It’s the real deal and that’s why B 12 methyl supreme. They have Quattro folic. Because that’s the better, more absorbable, more utilized folic acid for those of you that have the 5 MTHFR genetic SNP. And that’s why you guys fill this stuff work. And I’m addressing this again. We talked about it on our last show, but I can’t tell you the people that’s called up and says, well, just tell me something else that we can buy. I can’t tell you something else you can buy because I’d be telling you a story. I don’t know of anything that works that well. And me with my great intelligence and clarity of mind, I saved like going back to your ex-wife. We don’t want to go backwards. And so we’re going to wait on the good stuff with the college. And if y’all don’t mind. And we’re going to wait on our company to tell us for Casey to tell us which way to go with it because I trust his judgment. I trust how they lead us. They have not ever let us wrong. And we don’t have it, then we just don’t have it. We’ll wait for what comes in. Hopefully it’s back much sooner than later. I’ve got a lot of people upset with me right now. Including my wife who takes it daily and we don’t even have any. So I’m on my last jar and I’m like, just putting a little bitty bit in there. We had a patient called the other day and she goes, okay, this is it. She goes, I have waited. I am now in pain. Again, give it to me. I said, I don’t have it. And she goes, then tell me which brand I can get in the meantime. And we’re like, I don’t know, you know, there’s some popular names of some out there that have their name on the bottle, but who knows if they work? I don’t know. Just pick one. I don’t really know. Yeah. Yeah. I wish I had some more. I wish I had better news on that on that front. I think we’re working behind the scenes to potentially mitigate some of the issues that we’re having with that particular raw material and maybe get something out there sooner than later. But we just have to go through all the proper proper channels and make sure that again it’s just there’s a lot that goes into using trademarked raw materials and we’re just we put ourselves in binds from time to time because of it, but it doesn’t give us that flexibility just to go grab another raw material. And again, that’s why you have a great reputation and that’s why the things work because you don’t just give in to something different. Right. And the best I can tell you guys out there and a lot of you already have, you can go to our website that product is still online and we have it as where you can put your email in to sign up for when there’s something that’s there. We will let you know. And that’s the best we can do. I don’t know how many people I’ve got waiting for it right now. I’m gonna need your entire truck once it gets here. So maybe they won’t remember if they’re not taking this ageless cell and things. Doctor Lewis, you had a couple of other products you wanted to talk about as well. Yeah, the B 12 methyl supreme. And I figured out about the 5 MTHF R genetic SNP that some experts say, 20% of us to 80% of us have, I think the consensus is about 50% of us have that genetic snip. And I started taking this B 12 methyl. And I felt kind of bad because that helps your liver detoxify through all kinds of different pathways, but on the 6 day Jesus part of the clouds and angels sort of singing Janet can tell you about 3 o’clock. I don’t take this one pill a day. Oh my God. She says, well, you’re not happy. You’re not energetic. I said, I’m always happy. She says, you didn’t take it. I said, well, you know that or you wouldn’t ask the question. So the other thing that I love, love, love, love, love, is GPC, glycerophospholipid, and folks you can’t take it once and think it’s going to do anything for your memory, but it makes a huge, huge difference.

00:25:14 – 00:30:11

It improves memory mental focus, reaction time, and elderly individuals, which I’m not, but it also says in the janitor. You’re not. Janet’s giving me the look. The mind you’re at a childlike abilities of a 13 year old. Yeah, I’m chill. I know that. And some people say it might compensate for acetyl acetylcholine declined to aging, estrogen deficiency. So if you menopause, think about you need it. It increases production of dopamine serotonin and gaba. So these are neurotransmitters that generally come out of the GI tract, but if you get more than neurotransmitters up into your brain, you’re happier person. That’s one thing that the B 12 methyl supreme helps with because of its activated B 6 and that helps the neurotransmitters cross the blood brain barrier. It does this GPC does things like brain repair in Alzheimer’s and dementia support. And I won’t go into it. You just need to take it before you start acting like you get dementia. And I’m much, much mentally sharper than I was before I started taking these products. Yes, I’d like to throw in something about that. Oh God. It’s a good thing. I can tell you if he doesn’t do that GPC liquid. He is searching for words and answers, and you saw how fast he heard, just how fast all that just came out. Yeah, usually when I hesitate is because I’m trying to find a more gentlemanly, a better Christian way of saying it because I’m real good about saying half ass and BS. Well, we shouldn’t. We were around his siblings this weekend, which have that MTHF. Problem. So that’s the B 12 he talked to. And I’ll have foot drop, which is a neurological issue. I thought that say he knows these things because they’re still in his head now, because of his brain. Yeah, but I’ve done my brain out to play with it. It’s not in my head anymore. It’s my back pocket. But every one of them, when you ask them a question, they’d go like they had to search for the answer. But doctor Lewis is quoting the books from 1956 of the research article that was in it regarding those 1895 and 1825, actually. There you go. I know he told me about diabetes back in the day. I was like, wow, okay. And over 200, almost 200 years ago and we’re still not practicing what the book said in 1825. There. I don’t know which things doing it. I know that he does the methyl B 12. I know he does the GPC liquid. My dad is 85. He’s doing both of those also. And it’s helped him with a long COVID symptoms. Yes. And he knows, you know, streets and other states when we’re on it. I can tell him a store I’m at and he’ll tell me the intersection and the number. And how many miles it takes to get to blue Al Missouri. And he lost all that before we started adding all this in. So I’m going to say choline in general for that memory cognition. Looking at cognitive tests and seeing improvements and people with cognitive decline is pretty significant as a direct precursor to acetylcholine, which is a neurotransmitter that’s heavily involved in all of those factors of cognitive health. So I’m thinking, adding in the ageless cell revive, you know, I’ve not been on it long enough to differentiate whether it’s what it’s doing. You can take straight colon and you take GPC, you can take phosphatidylcholine, all are going to help in that regards. And some of them are faster than others too. You want to go for the fast one. And then you want to go for the slow one. So that you get that effect very steadily from now on. The one thing I want to say about GPC liquid, it is very expensive and people go, oh, it says two dropper folds. I’ll just do one. It’s for some reason does not work, which is one. You’re not able to tell it as fast. I mean, maybe it’s working. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I do four and very expensive is a relative term. If you’ve ever had a loved one in Alzheimer dementia care, TPC is not expensive at all compared to what you’re going to do when you put your loved one in a nursing home that specializes in memory care. Or what if you need it for your job and you can’t work anymore because you don’t have a mind. So that’s true. We gave my mother about 25 extra years of not having to mention a site way as me and my brother, the chiropractor, doctor Lewis, and then Janet came on the scene and you could see it and when she was in her mid 60s. And Alzheimer’s or dementia didn’t really kick her butt till about 88 to 92. So we gave over 25 more good years mentally. Well, Casey, would you like to add anything else into our show we’re coming to the end of it? Was there anything that because you drive a really long way to come be with us today? And we really do appreciate it.

00:30:12 – 00:33:48

Our listeners appreciate it. They tell us they really like you showing up and adding something to our chaos. Maybe they understand you better. I don’t know what would you like to add in? I mean, as it relates to ageless cell revive. Consider, again, we’re trying to kind of whether it’s from just a general aging process or some type of stressor that’s induced dysfunction, membrane dysfunction, a critical and one of the primary complaints in patients who come in is just debilitating fatigue and when you consider what allopathic medicine has to offer if you come into that complaint, or you go see your PCP with that complaint. It’s antidepressants. It’s stimulants. It’s well, maybe try taking a walk. Maybe try going to bed an hour earlier. There’s really nothing, there’s nothing really helpful there. And they didn’t have the energy to do that. Right. This is really kind of that foundational kind of like one a long-term strategy to reviving cellular health membrane health, allowing them, allowing your cells or providing your cells with that critical nutrition that they need to perform at their optimal levels. Doctor Lewis, you got would you like to add something to our you hear now? Last two years more than anything, don’t question the science. And again, I think that’s BS, which stands for belief systems. Science was never questioned. We’d still be drinking cocaine in our coat given kids. Cough syrup with heroin in it. We’d still be spraying people with DDT for lies and we’d still be smoking the brand of cigarettes that your doctor recommended. It is normal and it’s wise wisdom being the principal thing to question the science. So it’s time for you to think for yourself, put good nutrients into the temple of the Holy Spirit so that it can function closer to a 100% of what God intended us to do. And then when you start feeling good, mentally, spiritually and physically, then your greatest triumph is when you’re able to bless someone while you’re going through your own storm. So let’s do it, folks. It’s well worth it. And let’s do it. Go to green wisdom health. Dot com and fill out the health survey. If you have not, you will see all of our wonderful new lab panels. We have just renovated on our site. You now can see everything that’s in them. It’s pretty exciting. Our new portal of healthy that everything blows into. So all of your documents are in one place. I’m still working on some of it. There are more features to come. But we have some very exciting changes as everyone thinks they’re stuck and nothing new is happening is a lot happening here. So get started today, go do your lab again and make sure you’re healthy going into this small. We hope you have a good week. Thank you, Casey, for being here. Thank you for having me. Welcome, and we’ll be here next time on the green wisdom health show. Once again, our show has come to an end, but you’re hoping your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a brighter future, take the first step and go to our website and fill out the health survey. Please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share the show with your friends and family. You are only one step away from a life worth living.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Ageless Cell Revive – High-dose phospholipid complex for powerful immune and mitochondrial support. Phospholipids or phosphatides are an integral part of biological membranes, and they tend to decrease as we age. They are critical for cell and mitochondrial membrane shape, repair, and growth. Proper cell membrane function facilitates healthy cell signaling, which is important for energy production, immune function and regulating inflammatory cascades.

B-12 Methyl Supreme – Comprehensive formula that includes targeted amounts of five key nutrients designed to support methylation and homocysteine balance in the body.

GPC Liquid – GPC (glycerophosphocholine) is a supportive nutrient for the brain, kidneys, muscles, testes and other organs, and is a building block for cell membrane phospholipids.** Without the presence of this nutrient in the brain, individuals could not think, sleep or remember. GPC has a naturally delicious, sweet taste on its own so no additional sweeteners were added to this product.

You can also listen to Ageless Mind and Increased Energy on our Spotify here.

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The Secret Enemy of Weight Loss

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One of the most common issues we see in people today is difficulty maintaining a healthy weight. Weight loss is a hot topic and a booming industry, but so many products just don’t work. Unfortunately, there is no magic fix for this, but there is one often overlooked aspect of weight management, and that is insulin. Insulin is an extremely important hormone responsible for regulating several metabolic processes and ensuring cells get the energy they need. Due to this, insulin has a strong influence on weight management. When the body begins to respond less to insulin, it could indicate that you are developing insulin resistance, which can contribute to a variety of health issues. In this week’s episode, The Secret Enemy of Weight Loss, we’ll discuss insulin’s role in metabolism and weight management, as well as some positive lifestyle changes you could make.

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The Secret Enemy of Weight Loss

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Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with doctor Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And we are here to give you some inspiring helpful healthful hope. So in a world full of a lot of chaos, hopefully we’re bringing you a lot of joy and information and news you can use. So we today are going to talk a little bit about the secret enemy of weight loss because it’s summertime and who’s not trying to get into that bikini for the beach. But having a little bit of white problems or a lot of weight problems and we’re going to talk about what that secret and me is, doctor Lewis has got him captured over here behind the door and he’s going to let him loose a little bit and tell us what the enemy has been. He’s good at corralling things. So also, we want to mention our collagen people have been asking a lot about when is collagen coming back in. We do not know. The ingredient in there that’s a registered trademark called mobily, which is one of the several ingredients in that product that make it work wonderfully and that is the reason why it is so missed, we can not get from the manufacturer because it’s trapped in Spain. It is rooster comb. I guess they have special roosters there. I don’t know, but they’re organic. They’re organic rooster combs. Hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid can heal in big ways. So I won’t go into too many stories there, but it’s not here. So that’s the bottom line. We don’t know what it’s coming. People ask if we have a replacement. Not yet. We’re waiting for the person that makes that product for us to tell us what they’re going to do. They have very high standards. And they don’t want to take something out that they may get in. I don’t know. If we do it, you’re going to know it and we’re going to tell you, hey, it didn’t come in with this. I don’t know what we’re going to do. So for the time being that’s out and people say, well, what brand should I take? We don’t know. I know that they have designs for help, has a pretty good one. I just haven’t gotten any kind of feedback from anybody that’s just had miraculous results with collagen other than the powdered one we carry. So sorry about that. You know how it is nowadays, so hopefully that’s the only product that’s doesn’t come in for a while, but you know, there could be others. So anyway, doctor Lewis picked this subject today because he is passionate about helping people regain their health and would you like to let the enemy out of the closet you’re keeping him in and tell us who the secret enemy of weight loss is. Well, I’ve had so many people talk bad about me because I’m so blunt and it’s like, well you made a sugar coat it and the answer to that is most people would rather have it sugar coated. The active, the real enemy is insulin and I will get into that. I promise you in big ways. The problem in our country is we’re overfed and undernourished. That’s a fact. And national health and nutrition examination study. And this is a pretty new and I think that was 2017, 18 said 42% of Americans adults had obesity. The other 30.7% were overweight. So it puts us at over 72% of us are not at our ideal weight. And it’s not just that simple. That reflects our overall health, which is pretty much stinky. And I want you to live life to have life that you can live, you need to be consistent. I want you to have a life worth living and then there was, you know, I read a lot of research and thank God I have a good memory and I take a lot of stuff for that. Journal of American medical association said our healthcare system, healthcare and parentheses. Only address is 10% of the issues that lead to preventable death. That’s scary. The other 90% is our lifestyle, our diet, our environmental exposures like hidden poisons in our foods, chemicals, cleaning products, mold, and workplace exposures. So what Janet and I do, we bridge the gap for the other 90%. And for the people that stick with it, you get great results.

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I get a lot of good feedback and thank you. I love it. Thanks for taking the time, like Debbie said, oh, I entertained myself all the way from Comanche Texas to Midland. I said, how in the world can you have fun and Comanche Texas? And she says, one of her best friends lives there. That’s where a lot of Janice relatives are from. But it’s the people like Kelly and Alabama, her friend Lee and Jesse, Allen and Maine, Brian and Florida night in Iowa that just keep on doing the right thing. Thank you and God bless you. I love to be your leader. So let’s talk about insulin. That’s why we run it on our lab and that’s pretty pretty unusual. I’m sorry for those that need to know what that is. What is insulin? Well, insulin comes from the pancreas and it’s designed to carry and burn the glucose. And again, I read a lot and the two most dangerous things in our bodies are fat and insulin and one of the research I reached says fats a hormone is like well, I’ve never really studied it being that way, but insulin goes around and says, oh, well, they have too much high fructose corn syrup too many carbs. I’m alternate in to triglycerides. And I’m going to screw up the HDL to total cholesterol ratio. Whale, let’s just store those bad track glycerides in the liver, which you start getting the non alcoholic fatty liver syndrome. And then the body says, well, you know, he’s not burning enough of the glucose into muscles, so I can’t keep it in the liver too much because I don’t want to kill the person, even though the liver enzymes start to go. Then insulin does a funny thing. It stores glucose slash triglyceride slash cholesterol as fat. Yeah. And they’re good fats, right? The only good fats in bacon, I think, really no avocados and coconut. The fat shows up on the outside of the body. Is that what you’re trying to say? Yeah, something like that. Something like that. I’ve got a lot to say. Sometimes I do these things just off the top of my head today I have about 5 hours worth of notes, so pardon me. But we’re doing this in 30 minutes. Yeah, the slow talking Texan. If I’m at hurry and I start talking fast, it’s because I have a lot to say. You know, the problem is that most doctors. And I love all our doctors and our medical professions really, really good, but the bitter truth is they address the symptoms but not the cause of disease. That in and of itself is scary and that’s why I read about that article where we’re bridging the gap that other 90%. They say it and it’s still it’s stupid. Jack Jack sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean. Well, that implies that fat is fattening in that is not the truth. It is sugar and carbs that turn to sugar that makes us fat. And we’ve already seen for several decades that the high fat diet is the most effective at losing weight. But for fallacies, they hang on for a long time. What about processed vegetable oils that parse staple ingredients in processed food? That’s funny you should mention that. And again, Janet and I have different notes. So she tries to stomp me, which is. I think it’s fun. Pretty easy. She likes to say the deer in the headlines. No, I know it’s all up there. So I know it’s going to come out so I can’t wait. That’s one of the worst things. And some of our government entities and we’ll get too deep into that. But say that certain companies can put all kinds of trans fats in things and call it zero and there’s a minimum okay amount of trans or hydrogenated fatty acids where the limit should be zero and I love potato chips, but that’s one of the worst things you do because all this transhydrogenase fat causes your cell walls to be rigid so you can not get nutrients in and out and we’ll talk about mitochondria and ATP and all that kind of stuff. But insulin starts getting where oh it can’t go into the cell. So you get what’s called insulin resistance or metabolic syndrome. Which can lead to diabetes. Well, you know you read the ingredients on things and it says soybean oil and you think soy’s better for you, so you would assume soy being oil would be. No? You know, I say many times successfully leaves closed, but so does failure. I’m trying to be sweet. But I’m asking about soybean oil.

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Our son just made from Germany to Alaska and he says, mom, they’re so large, large. Large smell what he said. She said, welcome to America. We’ve been to China. We’ve been to different places in Europe. We spent a couple of days in St. Petersburg, Russia. That was pretty cool. And it’s not that America doesn’t have some great grand and glorious things to be thankful for, but eating soybean and wheat and grains is not where health resides. That’s good. That’s as clean as I can do it. Here’s the thing, some people say, count your calories, other people’s like calories don’t count. And I remember back when I was a tiny, tiny kid, there’s a guy that says calories don’t count, he wrote a book and boy, he gave him holy heck over that. What do you think the calories out of a pancake is going to work the same as calories out of a piece of fresh coconut or berries? No, the calories are different in the way that they are treated and utilized by the body metabolically. Usually say sugar rich diets generate excessive reward signals in your brain that can override normal self control mechanisms, and I found that the fact is that a single week of binging on fast foods impaired appetite control, making the volunteers more likely to desire more junk food even if they just eaten. So I’m blown away. So the minute that you think that you’re hungry again, is it because you just ate something that wasn’t good, you’ve got no you got no nutritional value out of it. So the body’s actually still starving. Yeah, and hopefully I’ll have time to get in some of the bad heavy metals or minerals. Like arsenic. But I’ve said this on a different podcast, too much sugar equals fewer vegetables equals last name equals four taste equals more sugar, so it gets to be a vicious cycle to try to hit those reward centers in the brain. Yeah, the more added sugar, your diet contains the lower your intake of important micronutrients such as calcium, folate, iron, magnesium, potassium, selenium, vitamin C, vitamin D, that you all guys, you guys have heard a lot. And zinc. So could that be a reason why minerals and things like that are so low on lab work whenever we run that? Well, young they’re not in the soil. So the plants not really take them up. One of the lies is milk is good for you. No milk is bad for you. And somebody told me he says, well, Stevie, do you need to get more fact? Well, I’ve been quote and researched for 20 years. Male can increase risk of insulin resistance. Yep, milk does not do a body good. That’s from British of journal nutrition. So that’s a fact. It creates, it does create a lot of mucus in the body. I know that. And insulin resistance, which means as much as I talk about blue bell and Snickers, I’m about 90% teasing, we were at the grocery store the other day. And she said, you know, some more aspirin, I said, no, and she looked at me like I was going to drop dead. And what Janet was talking about, the acidic diet, sugar, meat, soda pop. It must have been a must been a Yankee, said soda pop, because we call them cokes down here in the south. Causes calcium to go from the bones to the pancreas and triggers osteoporosis, but also jams up the pancreas, which leads to less insulin as a result. And that’s journal of the American medical association. So that’s a fact. People said, you need to put more facts. I have been folks. I just didn’t say fat. I’m gonna give you another fact, according to the 2019 state of obesity report. 18.5% of American children ages two to 19 and 39.6% of adults are now obese, not just overweight. And we did talk about that causing depression in children and depression can manifest in many different ways and hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder is just to the many. And the adult obesity rate rose over 70% and the childhood obesity rate rose over 85%. Here’s the deal. You want to get healthy, go on our reviews and read Cowell. Kyle wrote. Cow’s awesome. Oh, but you know what he did something different. Yeah. He did it. Action. He totally changed his diet. I mean, the first day we went over his lab work, he was like, doctor Lewis, what can I do? What can I do? And he said, you know, doctor Lewis said, we might try doing a keto diet. And he said, okay, okay, he called me as soon as he left here and he goes, I’m getting keto strips.

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Ketone strips. And he goes, how long does it take before I’m in ketosis? And I said, jeez, I don’t know it. I have to ask doctor Lewis. How long it takes? He goes, can I speed it up? Is there any way to double something to speed it up? And I think he’s lost like 30 something pounds now. 30, 32 when he wrote the review. And that was three weeks now. It was three weeks into this program. And here’s the other thing. And it’s like, I love these people. You know, they told us this doctors don’t hug your patients. Well, I’m going to hug you. But anyway, I hug this got to people say, I’m taking all these settlements and I didn’t lose weight. Well, you didn’t change the way you eat. You know, you got to quit eating the same old junk as I successfully closed it if you don’t see success. It’s failure. So you’ve got to eat differently, Janet, and I just ate at a very good restaurant, good food, but you know what? We didn’t eat it all. Janet I ate about half of hers and I ate about two thirds. Here’s another interesting fact. You were talking about potato chips earlier, right? Yeah, no, I like them. Yeah, it’s like one of the most bliss has the most, it’s the most bliss inducing thing there is because it has sugar. But you can’t eat just one. Right. Sugar from the potato salt and fat. The fact is, in the research published in 2007, showed 94% of rats allowed to choose between sugar, water, and cocaine chose sugar. Even the cocaine addicted rats quickly switched their preference to sugar once it was offered as an alternative. The rats were also more willing to work for sugar than for cocaine. Huh. So the moral of the story is, don’t be a rap. Insulin sensitivity, regulates the autonomic autonomic, which means automatic, or the subconscious control of the heart rate, even normal non obese non diabetic people. And it’s even worse if you are obese and you are toward metabolic syndrome and diabetes. If you eat a fast food burger, you can easily take in close to half of your daily caloric requirements. And in fries and a soda and you may be nearing an entire day’s worth of required calories. No, I got the look on that one. You’ve heard people distort and delete. Did you know the right of thyroid deficiency and diabetes has doubled? Journal from clinical diabetes, fact we like the word fact. We’re just playing with each other, but the thyroid that has a lot to do with it. And here’s millions of dollars are spent treating the ravages of diabetes, but very little is done to prevent it. That’s from journal of the American medical association. Fact, we’ll get off this back kick. Trans hydrogenated processed fats increase insulin resistance. That’s from journal of diabetes. So we’re talking about that. And then here’s another one of lipoic acid cofactor of the crib cycle. I think energy. Is inside a cell has been shown to improve diabetes and it does so by improving function of cell membranes where insulin resistance becomes a problem that’s from diabetic logic. So lipoic acid, that’s why I love, love, love, love, love, berberine, alpha a, which is full of, it’s got a little bit of vitamin C enough to do some good. Now what does this do? It’s berberine and alpha lipoic acid. And what was the reason someone would take that? Excuse me, it’s a cofactor in the krebs cycle. It helps make energy inside a cell. This has been shown to improve diabetes. It also does so by improving the function of cell membranes where insulin resistance becomes a problem, say I can go back and rebound notes. Remembering in berberine is a really, really good kick, but good product too. So are you saying if they are, you know, most people don’t know what their insulin levels are, but they go to our health certain go to our website, Janice says you’ve got to learn this technological stuff. Go to green with some help. They’ll tell survey and get your lab. Don’t guess test. Good job. Good job. I’m getting brownie points. We’re having too much fun. We’re trying to portray our speaking parts here. Yes, insulin is on our test. But for most people, it is not if they have lab work at the doctor, how would they how would they assume their insulin may be high or another test that might be run? It won’t be triglycerides or real high compared to your cholesterol and the ratios are bad. That’s it. But A1C. 90 to a 120 day test of what your glucose is.

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And we talked about alpha lipoic acid. The berberine is a phytochemical, has antifungal action, that’s why I give that to a lot of people with intestinal dysbiosis. Oh, and the breaking it down where his so smart telling you this, for those that don’t grasp what he’s saying, what he’s saying is because you’re eating all these things like fries and chips and things like that. It’s feeding me in the body. And so many people go, I think I have candida. You probably do. Everybody does. It’s just a matter of to what degree. And those books were written 30, 40 years ago. And if you start killing the yeast, which is what he’s talking about with the berberine, then you click craving the bad stuff so much. That’s when I can go to the grocery store and not care whether she buys blue bell or not because I rarely eat it anymore. Sorry, it’s a Texas company, but I don’t hardly ever eat it. Because he’s taking the supplements that help kill those things off read as it crave it. And so if you get all this under control and there’s a lot of reasons, a lot of ways to do it. You start feeling better, you start gaining energy in one of the biggest complaints we hear as people say I have fatigue. Well, let me tell you another story. There’s a guy that comes in, he looks really, really good. He’s about 70 and he has actually probably 5 pounds less gut than me. So he does look good. He said he had X amount percentage of carotid artery, plaquing, and I don’t know how many years ago, two or three years ago, whatever it was. And then he started taking our stuff and that kind of nice was one. Natto and the K in the day and he’s on he’s on our fish. He’s a compliant man. Yeah, and most men aren’t, but I’ve just mentioned several that were. But he went and had the ultrasound all the testing and he went from almost ready to do stance from his cardiologist to zero zero zero plaquing and he said the technician couldn’t believe it. He was shocked. He came in at this bump, doctor Lewis. He was like, I just knew they were going to call and say, it’s this much worse. See how it’s time for surgery. And they said they couldn’t see any in there. And he takes too much stuff. He’s 70, but he acts like he’s 35 or 40. He takes a lot of the supplements. He says, well, doctor Lewis, it’s so much easier and so much less expensive to take this stuff than it is to pay several 100,000 to several million for a disease and you’ve lost your quality of life. And I said, well, Rick, that makes you wash her than most people. The Bible says in all these things get wisdom, which means gathering of knowledge. And what kind of money did he just say by not having that surgery? And if the plaquing broke off and it cost a stroke, I know a chiropractor that at 62 had that done, he died. And in no fault of the medical profession, there’s just some risk to all things. It’s easier to be healthy than it is to get back your disease. And I’m glad our medical profession does what they do. I mean, they’ll save you bacon. They’re really, really good. Watch episodes of grace anatomy and be like, oh God, I think it’s easier to stay healthy. So I wanted to mention something about processed food and ultra processed food. Oh good. Americans not only eat a preponderance of processed food, I love that we’re thank you. But 60% is ultra processed. Products that are at the far end of this significantly altered spectrum, or what you typically purchase at a gas station. I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen some of those hot dogs rolling around in there and I’m like, oh my, I have not seen the person that purchased it to eat it. But really don’t. Any food that isn’t directly from the vine ground bush or tree is considered processed. For instance, frozen fruit is usually minimally processed while pizza. Soda, chips, microwave meals are ultra processed. And they found the difference in the amount of sugar between foods that are ultra processed and minimally processed was dramatic. 20, the fact is. 21% of calories and ultra processed foods come from added sugar compared to just 2.4% of the calories and processed food. And none in unprocessed food. Looked at me this morning in amazement when I said something I’ll lead up, which is going to reinforce what she just said. You’ve heard me if you’ve listened to my podcast.

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I read from a book late 1800s, early 1900s about how flour can cause. Yeah, that was interesting. That was interesting. Why don’t you get better? Okay. What I quoted this morning was 1825, and no, I’m not that old. Her brother said I am. There’s a book called physiology of taste, 18, 25, and it was written the second of the chief causes of obesity is the flowery and starchy substances. 1825, okay, so almost 200 years ago and we have not changed the way we eat. We’ve actually increased the stupid I mean, did I say that? The way we, the bad ways that we eat. I mean, get away from it. Well, that’s what I was talking to my brother about because, you know, one of the things that motivated me to do this was watching my grandfather lose his legs. I mean, he basically was a torso that they carried around. And they did it a little bit at a time. It’s like they chop off a foot. Will it get worse? He’d get more of it cut off until they made it all the way up his legs. Well I was talking to him about that and he goes, well, you know, his mother died of that also. And I was like, no, because you’re a lot older than me. A few years. I said, I knew she was blind, but I did not know why, and he said, because she was diabetic and they also chopped parts off of her. I was really little and she was blind and she reached for me. It scared me to death. And I was done. But I was talking about she said that to me once. And Stephen, I’m like, why would people back that were farmers? I mean, they were outside work, and they weren’t overweight. So just so to speak, how would they get diabetes back then and have that happen? And he’s quoted me that book about how flour has been the culprit. My grandfather also liked to drink like beer. A lot of it. So that could have been a culprit. If you don’t drink beer or drink real stuff, the good stuff. He was still drinking the beer even missing his legs. But I thought it was very interesting that that’s been going on for so long and I guess our genes just can’t handle anymore. So I don’t know. So if you have the insulin resistance and insulin, the ranges go up around 19 to 22, there should be two to 7. So if you get around 7, 8, 9 on your insulin, you have an issue. If you will take our glucose support and it’s got the biotin chromium vanadium, some other stuff in it. It helps and it helps with the insulin sensitivity. And let me just talk just a little bit about bites and people don’t know anything about bite and it helps grow nails and hair. But it helps the metabolism of the carbohydrates the fats and the proteins. A deficiency can cause anemia of depression, hair loss, high blood sugar high blood sugar, inflammation, of the skin and mucous membranes and who doesn’t have insomnia. There’s a lot of possibility reasons loss of appetite. We don’t see much of that. Muscular pain, fibromyalgia, soreness of the tongue. Other things that’s in this glucose support is the chromium and it has to be the right kinds of chromium, not the stuff that’s on your bumper or your trailer hitch. And it’s caused its worse because it’s not in our soul. It’s not an a water supply, but it’s worsened by a diet high in refined, white sugar, flour, and junk food, which is most people. Deficiency and chromium can lead to anxiety. We hear people have that all time. Fatigue, glucose intolerance, people with diabetes in inadequate metabolism of amino acids, so your muscles are going to be breaking down. Vanadium, you don’t hear much about, but it’s in the glucose support. It’s very incredibly important. It’s for cellular metabolism formation of bones and teeth, but it has a rolling growth in reproduction. Inhibits cholesterol synthesis, improves insulin, utilization, deficiency can be linked to cardiovascular and kidney disease. And one of the reasons you’ve got to put these good minerals in there is to offset the heavy metals that I said I was going to get to, but I don’t think I’m going to. Well, one thing about glucose support, the thing that does that I really know that I can tell is if you don’t like eating a heavy breakfast in the morning or you don’t eat protein, people that have diabetic type tendencies or blood sugar problems start getting really mean around lunchtime. And we’re hungry. All right, are they getting nauseous? Because they’ve not eaten in that because their blood sugar is taken huge swings. Glucose support helps keep it stable so that that doesn’t happen to you. So that’s on them.

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Note of something you might understand. I also wanted to mention because we’re coming toward the end of this show. So fast. We have a new blood work system in place. And doctor Lewis has graciously giving you the website to green wisdom health dot com. I got brownie points on that one. I know. For those of you that have already been our patients, those are the new patients, we’ve changed the process a little bit where we are now able to order LabCorp across the United States. It was quest outside the state of Texas and we did LabCorp inside of Texas, but we’ve made a special new deal with LabCorp where we can actually order outside the state of Texas and because of this new deal, some of our panels actually have another couple of panels of lab added in at no extra charge. And I like quest quest did a good job, but just for consistency sake. It makes it easier on us and it saves us time, which means we’re going to serve you better. We’ve actually have so many people have come in and ask if we have any way to see if they have any kind of damage because they’re concerned about because I’ve had a COVID. They’ve had COVID. That they want to say if they’ve got any kind of issues going on, we have a D dimer test in some of our lab tests now that we added that to some of the men’s, but we added the TPO to some of the women’s because I’m seeing high TPO, which would indicate probability of having Hashimoto’s more so in women. So we’ve added that with no extra charge. Right. And we’ve also added, and it’s a brilliant negotiator. And I’m also working, I’m still in the process of working on it, but we’re now putting your documents into an app called healthy. It’s with an IE and if you’ve already been a patient, you’re already made in that system, you’ll just have to change your password, but we’ll start dumping your labs and any kind of correspondence, doctor Alice will be able to talk to you inside that app. If that freaks you out, which it has some of our people, they’re like, please. She says the old elderly and then looks at me. We can correspond with you other ways as well. So don’t think it has to be that way, but we’re trying to make it worse, convenient for everyone, and they can have all the records in one place. Those that are techno savvy. Yeah, and there’s some really cool features coming with that down the road too. So those are the new things we’ve done. Doctor Lewis, ah, jeez, we were at the end of our show. Would you like to lead us into a prayer is what I wanted to say. We might need that too. I told Jan and I said, I think I’m gonna quit this and be a preacher. She looked at me really, really funny. He says, you cost too much. I don’t cost much, but it’s appropriate. It’s a sentence in hanser when I do it. You know, one of the best things we can do as human beings is to find the spirit and the definition of spirit is the nature of and we have to uplift our spirit. We have to speak about what’s good because you create more of it. If you speak about what’s bad, you create more of that. So different things don’t dwell on what went wrong instead focus on what to do next, what to do, action. Spend your energy on moving forward and finding the answer in as always Janet doing that. Your greatest Trump in life is when you’re able to bless somebody else while you’re going through your own storm. And there’s a lot of that going on. And I’m noticing more and more random acts of kindness because I think people are more stressed. And it just makes them feel good to uplift and bless somebody else. It’s good. We thank you for listening to our show. We hope you have a blessed week. We are here to help you when you need the help. We’ll talk soon. Once again, our show has come to an end, but your hope in your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a brighter future, take the first step and go to our website and fill out the health survey. Please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share the show with your friends and family. You are only one step away from a life worth living.

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How Supplements Play a Role in Long-Term Health

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Dr. Lewis’ Interview with Sandy Robinson of The Hashimoto’s Connection

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Hello, welcome to the Hashimoto’s Connection. On today’s show, I have the pleasure of interviewing doctor Stephen Lewis of Green Wisdom Health. Doctor Lewis has a long history of helping people achieve their optimal health by using extensive but affordable lab work. He stays current on the latest research, pertaining to nutritional supplements and optimal health, and he has a unique perspective on all alternative and complementary nutrition from studying with numerous national leading alternative health experts. Doctor Lewis was a joy to interview and has a refreshing straight to the point type of personality that I’m sure you will enjoy as much as I did. Listen in to hear his approach to wellness and how supplements play a role in long-term health. I’m sandy Robinson. I’m a wife, mother, health coach, personal trainer, personal fitness chef, and entrepreneur. Through my own personal challenges with being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, I discovered the dire need for a better support system. Join me as I bridge the information and communication gap between patients, caregivers, family members, Friends, and coworkers, through helpful tips, inspiring stories and motivating interviews. I call this the Hashimoto’s connection. How did you get involved in chiropractic care and in functional medicine? You know, I was asked that question on a very large podcast one time and I started crying because I saw my daddy died when I was 15 years old. Maybe from ulcerative colitis, but maybe from the drugs they gave him for that. And I knew right then at 15, I was smarter than that. I developed ulcerative colitis whether it was physical or psychological, whatever. And I went to 5 different MDs. I had 5 different diagnoses and 5 different treatments, not one of them that worked. And I love her MDH. Don’t misunderstand me. They did a lot of really good things, but so I pursued chiropractic and we look at things in a musculoskeletal arena and I figured that what I thought through some good nutrients, notice I said good. That even if it’s four musculoskeletal things, other things got better. Well, if it’s turmeric, will it help their brain to help their cognitive factors that help their eyesight and help decrease inflammation? I did it people do things for two reasons. You make a decision to do something because you’re moving away from pain. Are you making a decision to do something because you’re moving toward pleasure? And the story about my daddy died leaving 5 kids at home and a mother that didn’t have any skills, that’s what motivated me to go on and hopefully bless thousands and thousands of lives in the meantime and provide information on how supplements play a role in long-term health. I’m so sorry you had to go through that, but thank you for sharing that really means a lot. It’s a big part of your journey. I’m sure, so when you are treating patients and they come to you for back pain, but then you realize there’s a lot more to their story. How do you address that with them? What is that like? Because most people do see chiropractors as the back doctors, where you go when you’re in back pain. For the most part, I’ve quit chiropractic, and I don’t do insurance because, you know, lack the healthcare in America, only covers 10% of what affects us with healthcare. They don’t talk about structure and function. They don’t talk about the environmental factors. They don’t talk about the exposures to the poisons that we have every day. They don’t talk about lifestyle. And they don’t talk about being happy and finding joy, which if you don’t have that faith joy, hope you don’t have anything anyway. So I don’t really do the chiropractic. I just morphed into functional medicine, basically and informing patients on how supplements play a role in long-term health. So what is the process for your clients as they come to you and they’re seeking to get well? What is the typical process look like? We do very extensive lab work minimum suggested panel is like 12 different panels on your average doctor you get two or three. And I really prefer to go up from the 12 and get into, say, female hormones, which would be estradiol, progesterone, DHEA, and testosterone. And I think that’s very important. And even people that say, well, I don’t have sexual dysfunction. I said, well, we’re not talking about sexual dysfunction because these hormones, they play in what your thyroid’s doing.

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They play into what your hypothalamus, your pituitary, your adrenal glands are doing. You have to see the big picture. So, in America, we’ve become a reductionist system. Doctors look at you like, well, they’re sandy, the Hashimoto’s patient. No, you’re not. You’re a whole person, and you have to be looked at as a whole person. And I don’t charge for the consultation, get 30 minutes for free and I do it very, very inexpensively. And the lab works super, super cheap, many times people try to be cheap. And get this lab through their MD and they come to me and say, holy God, my 20% was more than what you were charging. I know, honey, but you’d have to learn the hard way. So, I’m trying to deliver good value for the money. Because I really do care. Right. I see that. So what is your ultimate goal when someone comes in to you to discuss what they’re trying to achieve or do you inspire them on what they should try to achieve? What is the goal look like when it comes to treating your patients? How do you explain how supplements play a role in long-term health? There’s two things that’s pretty common in talking to me. I’ll ask them to always listen with the discerning spirit, your gut, feeling your intuition, your discerning spirit. And then the other thing that’s pretty common is I say, do you want me to sugarcoat or shoot straight? And one time I had a guy said, I want you to sugarcoat it and I said, this first time in 30 years, I’ve been speechless. I don’t know how to sugarcoat anything. This is not a bakery. I just try to make them comfortable where they feel like they can open up to me. What makes it successful when someone comes to you and they’re not feeling well, what does success look like? I want to share for different people. Sometimes I get people that cry and I’ll say yep. I see that frustration. I see your desperation. I fear. I’m pretty good listener. Someone asked this. I listened very, very carefully. When I get help. Now, there doesn’t seem to be many doctors that take this approach. Why do you feel that this is appropriate? You know you’re opening up a can of worms, right? Yes. Our country as a whole were overfed and undernourished. And there’s about 72% of us that’s overweight. If not obese, and that’s from the national health and nutrition examination study why is it where the fatty sick is nation on the base of their earth. And I’ve seen several different companies. Countries in Europe, I’ve been to China to study. We’re the sickest nation on the face of the earth. According to the Commonwealth fund, according to the New England New England Journal of Medicine, there’s all kinds of studies. Why are we so sick? Why don’t we understand how supplements play a role in long-term health? We have the best medical profession, but again, they cover 10% of what makes us healthy. And I bridge the gap to get to that other 90%. So, we have to change our diet. And again, you know, you’re the Hashimoto specialist in because you’ve lived it. And what does that grind? And if you look at we need fiber, something will say, well, we need fiber in the grain. It’s like, well, fresh and vegetables have two to 8 times more fiber than a grain does. Yes. Right. You’re deciding to make cows with fat. I don’t need marble to make tender rib eye steak. Grind you’re not good. They’re not good for us. Yes. I have found my best results have definitely come through. Organic produce and really grass fed well cared for meats. Without any of those additives or the animals also being given the diet that’s ideal for them and that filling them up on the wrong thing. That’s very true. And I’d like to say, you know, you’re probably going to help many, many, many people just because you have not been educated into a box. And I think that’s what’s happened. You know, I talk about reductionist the white people doctors think that you’re a thyroid problem, your heart problem, your high blood pressure. You don’t think inside that box you haven’t been educated into a box. I’ve had to uneducated myself to be more and more holistic. So you’re doing a lot of good just right where you are. Oh, thank you. I hope so. I really feel like this journey has been harder than it should have been.

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I had to learn a lot of hard lessons, you know? And I don’t want people to have to learn that way. And I really feel like ultimately God allows us to walk a journey for a reason. And I don’t feel it’s supposed to go void. So my journey, my story, the things that I go through, the good and the bad. I want to learn from it and then help others. So that is 100% why I do what I do. I really want to make a difference. And allow the people that listen, the people that come to me, the people that come to you, they ultimately want to they want to feel well. And so if we’ve learned how to do that, we should share it. We should explain to them how supplements play a role in long-term health. And we should also be open minded that there might be new information as we go on this journey that might change the path a little bit too. That’s something else that I’ve seen in conventional medicine, there’s that box that you talk about where there’s a certain amount of training, there’s a certain way of thinking, and then there’s a lot of closed mindedness to any other options around that. And so constantly educating yourself and being open. You know, that goes back to the journal of the American medical association where it says, well, we only addressed 10% of the issues that lead to preventable death. Now, notice they said preventable death. They only addressed 10% of that. And that’s why it’s committed to bridge that gap. And you said, you know, the tough journey, well, the Bible says, all things work for good, and that’s very, very true, but you got to look for it. Right. Yeah. And you don’t know what good is unless you’ve experienced that, right? So you really do have to have a little bit of both. You need that contract. That’s right. So when it comes to people that are trying to change the health, a lot of people think that all they have to do is just change their diet, everything should be fine. Where do you stand in that? Trying to be polite. I think it’s for I use the term BS a lot, stands for beaches and sunshine belief systems. I think you need, I think when I say BS, you need to change your belief systems. Diet, you can’t eat a bad diet and taking up supplements to get toward a 100%, but you can’t do it with your diet alone. It can not happen. There’s studies about how bad our food was in the 1970s. And then from 1976, I think it was to the year 2000, the nutrient level went down 6 to 76% from 70 something to the year 2000. And it’s worse now. Wow. I trade organic farmers in up to 18 or 20 different states and although they eat totally organic. They say, oh my God, I feel so much better on your supplements. Oh my God, I can’t believe it. I only eat organic, but it’s grown on mentally depleted soil. And our world is so toxic, toxicities will want to part of that 90% very few people use to bridge the gap. They don’t address that. Did you know we’re absorbing DDT now, even though we’ve America banded, I think in 1974, we’re still getting DDT from the gesturing and now the Saharan dust is coming our way. DDT from where they’re spraying it, trying to get rid of the mosquito to get rid of malaria. We have DDT, our polar bears have osteoporosis, and thyroid problems, hypothyroidism in our polar bears. So it’s not just get out of gluten, which is imperative. Yes, you’ve got to change your diet, but I don’t think it’s complete. I’m sorry, I’ll go off on these rabbit trails about how supplements play a role in long-term health. We only back in. That’s good. I agree. My eyes have been opened to toxins on a whole new level in my studies lately. And I’ve actually done some shows on that recently, and I intend to do more because it has been very eye opening and depending on what generation you’re in, you’ve been exposed to even more toxins because they don’t really just go away. And one of the things that was really mind-blowing to me was the lead talks and lead exposure. I grew up around lead paint. And I do remember touching walls and that top coming off and thinking that was kind of fun, you know? And that, you know, that’s something that I was exposed to. I never dealt with it. I didn’t know to deal with it. And then I had children. Well, I’ve done research that suggests that that now has been passed on to my children. And they likely have some level of lead exposure as a result of that, which, again, I would have never known to check that tested or even think about it because lead has not been a part of our culture for so long.

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So that is just one example, but like you said, there are certain toxins and chemicals that were used decades ago that are still somehow showing up in our soil or showing up in our blood, even studies with newborns, umbilical cords. Their blood and the umbilical cord had toxins from their mother that was just toxins from the cosmetics and shampoos at the mother was using never even thought twice about it. And now here, a newborn baby is born with this. So I don’t see all that to bring fear, but it’s more of like this really profound awareness of we really are exposed to a lot. So what can we do to try to combat that? How can we get rid of it? How can we eat? How can we live? And in your case, you’ve really talked a lot about supplements being a big part of that journey too. Tell us a little bit about what a supplement plan might look like with somebody comes in, they’re not feeling well, you do. Some functional labs, you find out some deficiencies. Where do you go from there? How do you show them the role supplements play in long-term health? Well, let me preface that by asking the audience a question. Sure. And have you ever been to a doctor and he said you’re fine, but you didn’t feel fine? Oh, yes. Okay. That’s where people like me and you come in. You know, you can’t get any big group to agree on everything. But generally speaking, the people in the nutritional field say that you need a good multi. And again, most of them are not good. About a good multi, good fish oil, probiotics, digestive enzymes, and then they say fiber. Well, if you’re eating fruits and vegetables, you don’t need to fiber and argue that you need vitamin D and magnesium because our governments and you know how smart our government is. Best you can do on magnesium out of your diets, 40% of what you need every day. So I think the basic, you know, I think there’s a foundational 5, 6 or 7, but then when I test people and they have hypothyroidism, which is two out of three or three out of four, you know, we have different natural desiccated thyroid supplements. We have a couple of them that are very, very effective. Then we’ll put them on the selenium the zinc. The tyrosine to convert T four to T three, and iodine, if you have Hashimoto’s, you want to stay under that 200 microgram. And then you need B vitamins. And here’s something you don’t hear much about. You know as well as I do that hypothyroidism part, a big part of the equation is leaky gut or pre celiac disease. Yes, increased intestinal permeability is the term doctors like to hear. Exactly. Well, I use a product that’s a bovine derived immunoglobulin, which goes in sales lady God, it provides immunoglobulin G, which is super important. I’ve had people at which is full Blum celiac. Which, you know, I was found to be real close. I didn’t know it was gluten, but and when I take this, I do really, really well. And I tell my patients, yeah, Janet puts one scoop a day in my drink and Janice to start to lose to know what he gets. I get him two or three students just to keep him healthy. But it helps my God function because I’ve had those decades to accumulate the toxins and to have that permeability problem. The other thing is most people not heard of saccharomyces bellardi, that’s a yeast that takes bad yeast fungus and virus and it provides immunoglobulin a, which most people don’t know that. Well, I didn’t know what ten or 20 years ago either. You know, we’re always learning like you say. Right. You know, we’re going to be smart when we get 94. I hope so. I hope one day I can say I’m smart. That’s awesome. Listen to you’re really smart. I can tell you that because you had to be because you learned the hard way. Well, thank you. I appreciate it. It is a learning journey for sure. And I do enjoy reading about it. I geek out on this stuff all the time. So, well, all my Friends are reading really cool fiction books and enjoying themselves and reading all the medical stuff and it’s fun. So hopefully it will continue to pay off and help others. So when it comes to supplements, there’s so many different brands and I know, you know, I have a certain favorite brand at you have your favorite brand and some of that where the same on that, I think.

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I have done episodes on this before, but help listeners understand why you actually have to be careful about what supplements you choose. You don’t want to just buy just anything at Walmart or just anything on Amazon. There’s some regulation there that you need to pay attention to. You want to explain that a little bit? Do you want me to? Yeah. Yeah, help them understand how to pick because it’s hard. There’s so many, and they don’t want to spend a lot of money. But the most expensive, most expensive supplement in the world is the cheap one that won’t work. There’s a special investigator for the FDA. He said 40% of everything on Amazon is fake. Counterfeited. And they said, about the labels, the same, and you know, I’m a country boy from east Texas, okay, I like to shoot straight as they say. People say, well, it says this. I said, well, your first wife said she’d love on her by Mario lab number 5. All women are not the same and neither are all supplements. People are different. You have to find the right fit. And I synthetic supplement the molecule rotates in the wrong direction. It’s like putting a left handed threaded knot on the right handed threaded bolt. It’s a mirror’s image, but it won’t fit. And then not only does your body have to use energy to detoxify it with a liver that’s already overburdened. It has to use several times as much energy to do that. And then it ties it up to where it can’t get rid of the other toxic exposures. But to digestion. So yeah, you know, the supplements I get, I have to have an active license. If I let my license expire, they don’t sell to me. And if I have a question, I can text my rep, I can get in touch with the scientists, the PhDs, very, very quickly. And when they beat me down with knowledge, I just say yes, ma’am. Thank you very much. But I’m satisfied by show me the research to prove what they’re saying and how supplements play a role in long-term health. So, you know, the old saying of trust, but verify. Yeah, I’ve got access to the scientists behind these things. That’s wonderful. It is important because there are a lot of studies that have come across over the years. And just stories of people purchasing supplements, Amazon’s one of them, but you can purchase just online. You have access to a lot. And even there’s supplements that gas stations now, you know, where they are making claims that, you know, it’s going to do something for you. And the thing is it’s not regulated. And it has been found in some cases to be deadly, not just not effective, but actually harmful. And so it is important that when listeners are choosing supplements that they’re not just choosing it based on the price that you’re looking at making sure that it’s regulated in some way that there’s quality ingredients. And that they’re actually able to work for your body because there might be some supplements to make planks that might not be the right one for you. It might be counterproductive. There’s certain things you should not take depending on the conditions you have. So having your supervision, having someone that’s trained, like you are, like I am, to walk that journey with them is important as well. So they don’t just start taking every random thing that they see a commercial for. So that’s very helpful when explaining how supplements play a role in long-term health. Now, there’s a really common concern that people have as they’re going through health journeys. There’s the stress and anxiety that depression that kind of comes along with this brain fog. Those types of symptoms, of course, there’s so many different things that can cause that. We’re not counselors. We can’t go into counseling sessions. We’re not qualified to do that. But what I have found on my journey and you may have found the same thing that a lot of times, someone might go to counseling to get that immediate help with depression anxiety, things like that. But then they can start working with us and work on that root cause. Like, what’s maybe the imbalance? What’s some of your experience with that? How have you managed that with your patients? Well, I think there’s two commonalities that it’s always part of the equation. It’s inflammation and guts dysfunction. And people say, I want to say giant track have to do with Brian and how I feel. I said, well, that’s where the neurotransmitters are made. The happy hormones. And then I’ll look at their library enzymes, and if their liver enzymes are sub optimal, number one, you’re not getting good digestion, which contributes to poor gut function. Number two, the liver can’t methylate and you don’t have good B 6. When it takes good be 6 to allow the neurotransmitters to cross the blood brain barrier to be happy.

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And the other thing is because of our S.A.D., standard American diet. We overgrow yeast in that is part of the intestinal permeability problem. And the yeast put out an enzyme called thiaminase, which means it steals your thiamine. And people say all my anti form, brain fog. So I just give them a big dose of fat soluble thiamine, and within two days to two or three weeks, they’ll write me, call me email and say, oh my God, my brain folks down on us. And we’ll tell your husband, bring me chocolates to say thank you. But then you starve the yeast. You put in some killers and then you put in good, good, good probiotics, especially the ones including the saccharomyces bellardi. Once you have a healthy GI tract, everything else gets healthy, but now stress anxiety and depression can be an adrenal problem if thyroid problem they bounce off each other if your thyroid’s low, you’re free T three is low. Then your adrenals have to get in more cortisol, which puts your pituitary and hypothalamus in your brain makes them crazy. But you have to balance. It’s about looking at the entire thing as a whole, so that’s why, you know, you’re looking at a minimum of 5, 6, 7 minimum, different types of supplements to get the critical mass of nutrients so that your body can work with the better food that you’re eating. So it takes a lot, it takes persistence. It takes that hope. Faith without works is dead. Works means you have to take the action step and you have to be patient. Right. Do you have a certain time frame that you usually recommend for people to just to kind of be patient with the process? When you’re going in and you’re trying to kind of stabilize things. Is there a kind of a generalized amount of time that it takes to get people to a really good point? They might not be a 100% yet, but you know. Yeah, you know, Jen and I have taken lots and lots and lots of lots of courses about the role supplements play in long-term health. And some of the naturopathic doctors that we’ve taken courses with say that three months plus a month for every year you’re sick. I think it’s like pregnancy, you know, the first trimester of three months. You can start to tell changes. The second trimester, even greater changes. And then the third trimester. So I think three months is reasonable. And we usually will renew lab work there and again, I do, you know, 12 to 20 different panels. I don’t just check your CBC. We’ve just added the TPO on the other 5 parts of the thyroid that we check or we’ve done that for women. The D dimer for the men because my wife, she’s a very good negotiator and she got the lab to come down on the price where we, our process, the same, which is rock, bottom, low. And we can throw in another test. The day dimer used to be a $160 and now, I don’t know what they charge us, but it’s a fraction of that because we’re trying to give the most value to the patient. So that they can down that TPO, you’ll find that that’s very, very useful because of the journey you’ve gone through. Right. I don’t know. This is too much fun not to practice is what it is. It’s fun. Yeah, I agree. I don’t ever see myself stopping really, you know? There might be a point where maybe I’m not an asset to the industry anymore because just, you know, there’s a point where you maybe get tired and you don’t research as much or you aren’t as relevant. I don’t know. I hope I’ve never at that point, but I love it. I do love helping people. So I’m glad that you do too. So I feel like one of the other questions it’s really common in supplements is and there’s people think on this differently. So there’s no really wrong answer with it. But when it comes to adding supplements in, is this like a lifelong thing, you’re gonna be on supplements forever, take in 20 pills, or is it a temporary thing in the goal to come off? Where do you stand on that? Well, I do analogies. So you’re going down the road in your car and all that comes up, so in our system are so called healthcare system, we just pull the fuse out so the whole line goes up. So we keep running down the road and all of a sudden, a hundred miles down the road, you’re in just starts to smoke.

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And he’s all it’ll be fine. It’ll be fine. Just roll down the wind as, you know, get rid of the symptom. And then on hundred miles further down the road, your car catches on fire. That’s when we go into the old change place and say, I think I need an all change. And that’s what we’re doing to our bodies. Do you need to take supplements? And I can get this question. How long do I have to take them? As long as you want to be toward a 100% of what God intends for you to be. When can I get off of when you want to go back and be as sick as you are now? Yes, you still need it like you need a continuous wall change to keep your engine running before it needs an overhaul. Right. I mean, I’ve got to take a lot of supplements to feel 30 years younger than I am and I have this much crazy energy and I run down rabbit trails with my thoughts. It’s supplements that pull that off. So I think it’s a continual thing. You have to work toward health or wait till disease and then move away from the pain of disease or you can move toward health, like I talked about moving away from or moving toward pleasure. This is how supplements play a role in long-term health. Right. I’m more of a sacred Sunday things for the pleasure in the future rather than the sad story of something bad happening. Right. Have you found that by doing this that you’ve been able to have a lot of your patients come off their prescription medications as a result of balancing these underlying root causes? Yes, but being a chiropractor, I never encourage them to do anything with their medicines, but I’ll tell you a favorite story. There’s this guy and he was about my age and he was really, really grumpy and I loved him because I can relate to him. I just remember I said, you better get your blood pressure under control. You can do it naturally or you can do it medically. I don’t care your blood pressure’s too high anymore. I said, hey, do it. And then two or three years later, he comes in with stage three kidney disease. Oh, well, Dan, he’s moving away from pain. He wants to take a lot of supplements all of a sudden. He went from stage three kidney disease down to perfect in his doctor. His kidney specialist was scratching his head. Problems down, so he quit his supplements. Right? It comes in two or three years after that in stage four. Kidney disease because he never fixed the underlying cause. And, you know, you have to meet a patient where they are. And he’s a little huffy. And I love it. I love it. I said, you got to be a $1 million to spend. He said, you know, I said, well, you better give it to your daughter, because buddy, you ain’t going to be able to spend it. I said, you better take this serious. And he took it serious. And he took lots and lots and lots and lots of my supplements. And he never went on dialysis until he could because he let it go too far. He had, he got a donor, a donor kidney. And I was sitting in here the other day with a couple of patients and he came in to the office and we went out and we hugged each other’s necks and he says, thank you. It brought out soft, sweet side. You know, how some men are a little overly tough. But he never went through dialysis. And we worked with his kidney specialist. But yes, they can get off. If you get help, all in these that I’ve ever known, if you’re healthy, they don’t want you on the drug. So yeah. They get off their medicine. They’re metformin glucophage. Sometimes they get fired with stuff. Now, I don’t suggest this. I always tell them work with your doctor. As you get better, here’s the lab, take it to them. Yeah. We’re not supposed to be on drugs. Right. Yeah. I hope to be able to come off of them, right? There’s certain ones that you do have to take. And if you have a health condition that requires that or if you don’t have a thyroid anymore, there’s certain things you’re just going to have to take that medication. But if there are ones that you’re taking that are trading symptoms and your doctor is good with you, trying to come off of it and treat it naturally, then that’s a win on both sides because now you’re getting the supplement that’s helping you with your baseline levels and then you don’t have the medication that might have those negative side effects. This is how supplements play a role in long-term health. You know, not every medication has bad side effects. But a lot of them do. So it’s good to come off of that if you can. So that’s a good thing. Where do you stand on hormones? How does that work when you have women that are reaching that stage of life when they’re testosterone levels are really drop in their approaching menopause? It’s pretty miserable.

00:35:05 – 00:40:01

There’s a lot of hormone treatment places everywhere you go. Some are just worthy summer not. Do you have any way to provide clarity on that for listeners? Well, for women, usually even young women, they usually have a bad ratio of estrogen to progesterone because the environmental estrogens, the plastics, the pesticides, you know, I mean, we’re just inundated with those things that act like estrogen. And that’s why me and have low testosterone because we have the environmental estrogens. So, we put them on a natural progesterone where your body can make its own progesterone and most women and I’m talking about high 90%. Say, oh my God, my hair stopped falling out. I’m sleeping better. I’m losing a little weight. My headaches have gone away. My heart stopped fluttering. These are just a few examples of how supplements play a role in long-term health. And again, I tell him to tell your husband, bring me chocolates to say thank you. Man, it’s a little tougher. Because we’re inundated with estrogen mimicking four months. And that’s one of the reasons we’re obese. The body doesn’t want to shrink those fat cells to expose you to more xenoestrogens, they’re called endocrine disruptors, the estrogen members, your body doesn’t want to let go of those because your detoxification pathways aren’t turned on anyway. Man, it’s a little tougher. You can take DHEA. You have to play with it on a lab to find the best level for that particular person. And you generally put them on things that unbind the testosterone to make it free, testosterone. Yeah, we get some really good results. But again, it takes time. It’s usually not instant. A lot of people that are happy. If they stick with it, you know, the older I get the more I think, well, if you put it in, got a blessed, but you got to be patient. Yeah. That’s true. The hormone situation is definitely a journey of trial and error. So it is. Yeah. But once you get it figured out, you really do feel a 100% better. It’s definitely something to it’s worth the work. It’s worth that effort to figure it out and learn how supplements play a role in long-term health. So listeners are curious about your particular practice. They really want to work with you. How does that work? You’re in Texas. Our listeners there, we have a huge base, all the reunited states, Australia, really all over the world. But they are primary listeners are in the United States, so I think that’s a good thing because they will have the easiest access to you. How would they go about that? Again, I’m parenting what my wife tells me. It’s go to green wisdom, dot com and click on the health service. I fill out the health survey. It’ll tell you what lab that we recommend, which is usually one or two of my favorites. And again, if you want to talk to me before you do that, that’s fine too. We can order labs in 47 states. And I do zoom and phone calls all day long. And I tell people, well, you need this. This is what’s on your lab and in a functional nutritional functional medicine type way of looking at it, you need this because of this. Very good. So that’s pretty easy to do. It’s easy to reach you. And then just Zoom calls after that. And then are you able to work with their doctors if they are, if they have another medical condition where they’re under a doctor’s care, do you talk directly to their doctor or do you just give them kind of advice on how to communicate with their doctor on what you’re doing? How does that part work? It’s more tell them how to communicate with their doctor because most doctors are too busy. We don’t need one more thing. They were one more place to be. You know, I’ll say, well, you know, you have a high C reactive protein, which, according to the Cleveland clinic, is four times better indicator of future heart attack or stroke than your cholesterol number. So if we put you on these things and decrease that inflammation and your blood pressure begins to go down then you will talk to your doctor that prescribed the blood pressure lowering medicine. You’re ace inhibitor beta blocker, whatever. If your blood pressure goes down because you’re starting to get healthier, you talk to that doctor about, do they think it’s appropriate to change your meds, change the dosage. But yeah, I don’t play doctor to them. I play nutritional chiropractor from a function of medicine, but yeah, I’ve never had any medical doctor that wasn’t anything, but very sincere and very nice.

00:40:02 – 00:43:46

That’s awesome. That’s good. A lot of this patients to. You know, I think the more this type of care is made mainstream, the more people realize that this is available, I really do think we’re going to be seen as an asset to doctors because we need each other. There are certain things that you can’t handle just from the supplement standpoint. You need intervention. You need true lifesaving intervention. And then there is the thing where we’re going to be able to work with patients on the daily. You know, those encouraging phone calls. Those moments when they just feel bad and they need the supplements to kind of give them the nutrition that they need or the diet or the planning of how to manage their lifestyle in a way that’s less toxic or less stressful. All of those things that are part of the journey, but doctors can not implement in their practice. We’re able to supplement that and inform people on how supplements play a role in long-term health. So I’m really hopeful that we will continue building really great relationships with conventional medicine so that we all work together and ultimately have really healthy people, healthy patients. Thank you for sharing your wisdom today. Thank you very much for the opportunity and, you know, if nothing else, we can give people hope. Yes. Most definitely. Special thanks to doctor Lewis today for being a guest on our show. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Now, based on what you learned from today’s episode, how can you help yourself? Well, I know you’ve heard it before, but test don’t guess. Yes, I know you’ve heard it, but it’s the best place to start. Get your functional lab work done so that you know what you’re working with. If you want to purchase your own at home lab kits, you can find a link on my show notes as well as on my website to help you get started. How to help others encourage them to also get regular checkups and testing. Our health and wellness can change over time with stress, aging, exposure to toxins, and our own genetic makeup. Don’t waste time trying to figure it out by guessing, just start testing. And last how to dig deeper. If you felt like that you really connected with Dr. Lewis today and you would like to learn more about his practice, you can reach his office at green wisdom health dot com to get more info on how to work with him. Also, if you’re interested in reading any of the research that he mentioned in today’s show, I will have the links in my show notes as well as on my website at coach sandy Robinson dot com. Well, that is all for today. For those of you who are listening and you’re feeling overwhelmed with how to navigate all the things, I would love to walk alongside you and help you on your journey. Schedule a free consultation with me through my website at coach sandy Robinson dot com or you can also find me on Instagram @coachsandyrobinson. Don’t forget we also have a Facebook group called the Hashimoto’s connection where you can meet other listeners, find community and meet some of the guests from the show. Thank you so much for listening today. I hope you feel empowered and encouraged with what you’ve learned. If you liked this episode, please show your support by sharing this podcast with friends and leaving a 5 star review. Until next time, thanks for listening to the Hashimoto’s connection.

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Is Your Gut Healthy? How to Tell

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Many experts believe that a healthy gut is the foundation for overall health, and that keeping your digestive system healthy should be a priority. However, maintaining a healthy gut can be more difficult than it seems due to the toxins we encounter every day. There are many things that can disrupt the delicate balance in your gut, and an imbalanced gut can have many different symptoms. Some of the most common symptoms of poor gut health can include food sensitivities, bloating, poor digestion, and much more. If gut health is not addressed and corrected, it can contribute to the development of certain health conditions over time. In this week’s episode, Is Your Gut Healthy? How to Tell, Janet and Dr. Stephen E. Lewis, D.C. discuss how our lifestyles affect gut health, how to know if you probably have a gut issue, and some tips on how to support a healthy gut.

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Is Your Gut Healthy? How to Tell

00:00:01 – 00:05:09

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with doctor Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And today we are going to talk to you about your gut, which is one of my favorite subjects. It seems everything goes back to it. The name of this show is called is your gut, healthy, and how to tell. And then toward the end of the show, we’re going to tell you a very exciting story about one of our patients and his journey with us. So hang on tight, we got a lot to cover. But we wanted to get started with gut health because immune system is out of the gut and people don’t understand that. And I’m hoping doctor Lewis will explain to us how that’s possible and why it is compromised and what we can do about it. So doctor Lewis, would you tell us what you want us to know about is your gut healthy? Yeah, the quick answer is no it’s not. It’s just how unhealthy is it. The reason I pretty much say everybody has a gut problem is because we have horrible food. It’s not nutrient dense. And yes, food is important, but it’s not complete. So the presence of glyphosate and all these chemicals they put on it. One of the things that messes with gut health and causes leaky gut, and I’ll get into those symptoms in a minute. Is the presence of gluten, but gluten’s not the only bad protein that’s in wheat and barley and hops and rye. What is happening is we fertilize our crops with NPK. The plants say, oh my God, I’ve got this burst of energy. And since I have this, it’s like we’re feeding our food fast food when we’re feeding it NPK. And it grows at an accelerated rate, and it says, oh, I’ve got to put it out in protein, and people think protein is a good thing. Well, that protein is gluten and other bad proteins. And we have four to 40 times more gluten in our food. In our wheat, especially, than we did just a few short decades ago. Gluten is not a good thing, and we test people. It’s like, oh my God, no wonder you can’t get well. You got to cut this out. And it’s just a varying degrees, but we’re seeing more and more of it. Nailed, then we saw, say, 20 years ago, autoimmunity is getting to be it’s definitely on the rise in that starts into gut, even if the autoimmune disease is Hashimoto’s or Socrates or rheumatoid arthritis. So the excess gluten and glutenin and all kinds of other things. When it causes a leaky gut syndrome, what it really causes is what we say, microbial dysbiosis, which means you don’t have the right kind of bacteria yeast and fungus in your guts or the rat ratio. Things that cause leaky gut, we talked about gluten. That’s the main thing. Medications, people that do NSAIDs forever, and I just talked to real sweet men. It says, well, I’ve done all the acid reducers for many, many, many years. Well, that’s covering up the problem, but not really fixing it. Food allergies that goes back to gluten, but there’s a lot of other gluten problems caused by the leaky gut. Chemical sensitivity that’s getting much, much, much, well, it’s way more prevalent because we have more chemicals and the body’s getting in more than it can actually detox out. Celiac disease, I thought head gut cancer, it hurts the bad and did the testing. They said, no, you’re just one tiny step away from being celiac, which causes malabsorption. So Janet gives me gobs of stuff. We’ll talk about today. And it makes me better and leaky gut can help you lead to autoimmune digestive insufficiencies, poor diet. Nutritional deficiencies. And all those kind of things stress, which can be alcohol. It can be too much coffee. All kinds of things. But I’m trying not to tell them myself. Ice cream. Sugar. So the food allergies creates a vicious cycle. And so does the chemical sensitivities. When you start getting brain fog or I think the technical term for that is toxic and cephalopod or something like that. Well, the simple answer is just take some benfotiamine and get the percentage of candida way, way down from 85% down to under 15% in your gut.

00:05:11 – 00:10:03

Nutritional deficiencies we all have them. There’s no way in the world you can even just eat totally organic and have all the nutrition you need and organics is certainly an improvement, but it’s not complete. So if you’ve got that chronic fatigue syndrome, IBS, depression is depression is most of the time, it may not be caused by the gut, although it can be, but that is always part of the equation, is the gut and inflammation in chronic depression. And it’s interesting because when you go to the doctor, they give you something for depression. And doctors are wonderful. They do many lifesaving things, but they take the body apart and they take one area and they treat it. They never think about the body as a whole and why you’re having depression to start with so they give you this pill to cover that up. But you haven’t gotten to the root of it, which doctor Lewis is saying could possibly be your gut. And I wanted to talk a little bit about transit time with the colon because that’s one of my favorite things for you guys have already heard this story. You just have to sit through it. But we have, I had a lady that actually drove up to the office the other day. She drove by and was filming our office and it was almost 5 when we were getting ready to get off and I thought, this is, what is she doing? My curious self had to go outside and see what was up and she parked and she said, oh, somebody gave me your information. And I’m just filming your place here so that I can look it up online with a website and I’ll and I said, well, what’s going on? And she said, well, she said, I’m real bloated. I’m taking the skinny gut shots and I just got myself a vitamin D shot. And I just needed to know why I’m so bloated. And I can’t go to the bathroom. I said, well, what do you mean you can’t go to the bathroom? She goes, oh, I only go about every week and a half. And I said, okay, I said, well, you know, there’s things that help that. And she goes, oh no, I can’t take anything. I don’t digest it. And so I’m going to go every week and a half. How many meals a day do you eat? Oh, I have three. I said, oh, okay. I said, so if you had a train and it had three cars on it, and it went through a tunnel. And none of those trains came through the tunnel for a week and a half. What are they doing? And she said, well, I don’t know. I said, well, they’re obviously stuck in there and every meal you put behind it’s getting attached to that last car. So you’ve got a big clog, and she said, oh no, I do meant a musil. It helps me pass it. I said, yeah, you should look at the ingredients on that. And she said, well, what would you give me because I can’t digest? I said, no, I said it’s not, you can’t digest. You are, you have leaky gut, what doctor Lewis is talking about. I said, you’ve lost the ability for your colon to push those things through. And so we talked about digestive enzymes, and we talked about SBI support, which I’m going to get doctor Lewis to talk a little bit about because she really thought that was her best life, even though she felt horrible. She said, I just don’t know what to do. I said, well, I’m trying to give you answers at low cost lab work would really help because we could see why. Again, thyroid could be involved in some of that. But you know, there are so many people out there suffering thinking that’s a normal way to live. You should be going to the bathroom within 30 minutes to an hour after you eat. Every meal, not every other day, I’ve always done it all my life. That’s the way I’ve been all my life. I can’t tell you the times we’ve heard that. Well, I want to see people are arguing for their limitations. If you’re doing that, change the narrative because whatever you speak is what you’re calling in to existence. Right. And so I brought her in here. I stood in here with her 30 minutes. I tried to explain to her how everything was connected. She looked at me like I had three heads. And she kept arguing for the limitation. She said, I just don’t think I can swallow any of this because I don’t think I can get I can pass it. I said, well, we know you can’t pass it. I said, but you’ve got to start somewhere. So maybe she’ll come back, I don’t know, but that’s a lot of the population out there. That’s the knowledge they have of what’s supposed to happen with their bodies. So that’s why I want doctor Louis to give a little bit of hope here.

00:10:05 – 00:15:07

Can you fix leaky gut? Is that just like, I mean, it sounds so devastating ending, is it a sick body produced? Do you think a healthy body with God’s innate wisdom can fix it? Depending on how you answer that. And it’s amazing to me how many people sitting on a toilet having a bowel movement tell me, I think of your wife every time I have a bowel movement to train you coming through. Well, I bet that’s good. But then I’m gonna give them something else to think about. The perfect poop. Yeah. I bet you’ve never noticed. Oh, I actually had one lady who said, I will not look at my poop. I said, you don’t look at your poop? No, I don’t want to see it once it’s gone. It’s gone. Okay. Well, you might want to observe it to see some healthy indicators to look for. Because that’s actually a good indication of your intestinal health. The Bristol stool scale provides an easy visual reference. Some key things to look for are if the texture, the texture of it, should be smooth. Hard, lumpy poops often indicate constipation. If it looks like a baby Ruth, you’ve got a problem. If you’ve got time to read Facebook thoroughly or to read a magazine, you may have, you may be having issues, right? Yeah, pretty much. The shape, sausage shape is ideal. Overly liquid is typically a sign of diarrhea and pellet shapes or a sign of constipation. Actually, I think you get pellet shapes as you are getting the little pockets in the colon. That’s a possibility. It diverticulosis. Right. Buoyancy. You didn’t know you needed to see if they floated first, did you? Do they sink in the toilet? Poop, that floats, maybe may contain undigested fats. Isn’t this interesting? What about people don’t have a gallbladder? I wonder if they still have if it’s buoyant? Yeah, because it’s not digested in the fat. It’s the way if you’ve had your gallbladder out you well, we all need digestive enzymes to different degrees. But if you’ve had your gallbladder out, you definitely need our digestive essentials. And people had even had their tonsils out, have chronic fatigue. I know that soft subject, but you know how I am. Yeah, any straining or experiencing any pain during bowel movements should be investigated as should any blood. And I’ve had people come in and go have some blood in my stool. I’m like, it’s in your stool like it was dark or was it bright red? What’s bright red? Well, doctor Lewis always says that generally hemorrhoids. Or pals, but I always tell them, go see your GI doctor. They have some really good tests to see if you’re bleeding internally, especially if you’re anemic. So that’s just some stool health there for you that you did not know, or maybe did not want to know. Now that it’s all icky, we can get on something else, maybe. Constipation. And most of us are constipated because we’re too busy and we’ve taught at school. No, you can’t go till the as well. It’s usually constipation is a combination of a lot of things, but it’s the bad bugs that I talked about. And they put out bad toxins that actually intoxicate in almost pretty much paralyzed normal nerve to muscle function. Think vagus nerve. Food allergies, they inflamed the gut lining, peeps, I’m not inflamed. Well, if you’re overweight, you have a chronic inflammatory issue. Nutrient deficiencies, especially magnesium. I take magnesium citrate because it gathers water and helps the stool, but also take the magnesium ultra for other reasons. Processed overcooked fiber poor foods, so to speak is a bad thing. The candidate diet is really necessary for most people to get rid of candida. I think it’s easier to kill it, but easier to kill it than starve it out. But here’s the other thing. The guy that just told me, well, I’ve taken antacids for many, many years, and he said, but I said, well, that’s probably a big part of your problem, but what they don’t realize is the gastric reflux stuff it’s usually because there’s too much alkali from the pyloric sphincter not closing because alkaline comes up from the duodenum. It’s not usually too much as it is too little acid and too much alkali. And they don’t know that symptoms are the same. And if you get the chest pain and chest burning, you have to see a cardiologist for that, but people sometimes say, well, I feel nauseous. Well, there can be a lot of reasons for that. Use this lack of digestive enzymes, and maybe probably food allergies. But especially pregnant women, when they start having the pregnancy, it’s almost always a lack of be 6.

00:15:08 – 00:20:03

Now it needs to be a good B 6. We have the activated P 5 P and most women say, oh my God, my nauseousness is gone. So you don’t have to suffer through pregnancy for that. I wish I would have known that many years ago before I was in nutrition. There’s so many women that need to know that about not having to be nauseous during pregnancy. That is like the flu that doesn’t stop for three months. So B vitamins, that what you’re saying for that? Yeah, goodbye. I’ll take the PPP, but for other reasons, but it’s always good to start with a good multivitamin. I think it’s better to be well rounded. So we’re going to move from stool since we don’t want to talk about that anymore. How about we move to gas? Gas good, maybe not good. Depends on what you read on Facebook, but that’s actually a sign that you may have something going on. Miss in your gut. A little bit of gas is not a bad thing. But yeah, if you have a lot of gas, it could be undigested, proteins, undigested, a battle between the candida and the good bacteria. Right. Black beans. You can help reduce your gassiness by chewing your food slowly and thoroughly. Doctor Lewis and I are usually the last people at a table when we go to when we eat with any of the reps that come to see us learning. I don’t know why. We were so slow. I think we’ve just read so much stuff. It’s just like we want to make sure we’re digesting our food people in hail food. Maybe they’re on a time crunch. Maybe three times faster than we do. You need to make sure you’re slowing down and chewing thoroughly because the more you break down food in the mouth that easier it is to further digest. You need to keep a food diary to identify triggers. Common culprits include legumes and dairy products. Well, that’s the truth. Yeah, and you know, I love the research part, but if you do prolong cow’s milk, it actually challenges the intestinal permeability, which you have to counteract by lactobacillus from journal of gastroenterology. Bugs in the gut, breaking barriers to understanding, you know? Try to take a short walk after a large meal since movement helps stimulate Paris. I remember when I said, I think it was the last podcast that if you exercise and you feel better, it’s usually a low thyroid, if you exercise and feel tired, it’s adrenal issues. So keep that in the back of your head too. Limit your consumption of carbonated drinks. Because that’ll make you gassy. And you know, I was reading something yesterday in a book that I have always thought was kind of more fluff and smoke and mirrors and BS than most of them goes just because it’s in a book that might get true. And it was talking about a high carbohydrate diet was the best for you. It’s like, well, that’s what’s made us all fat and metabolic syndrome and diabetic. And cholesterol too high and the ratios are wrong is the high carbohydrates. So, and I’m more of a keto paleo primal, but that’s not even good for everybody. The point is, it’s not one size fits all. Now, I do lean a little bit toward keto and staying away from the carbs and the sugars. But you have to kind of tone that with what works best for you. And then they say, well, gee, read that book. Eat route for your blood type. Yeah, I read it. I think it’s about 10% true. But we have digestive enzymes that are more geared toward how you ate. Digestive enzymes help the gassiness situation as well, right? Well, especially our chewable digestive enzymes, essentials V, which stands for more vegetables or vegetarian because it has the different things to break down the cell walls of the fruits and vegetables. Most tastes good, I can even get our 8 year old granddaughter to take those. She didn’t believe me. I broke them out at lunch one day. She goes, what are you doing, Nina? I said, I’m getting ready to take my enzymes before my meal. She goes, I want to try one. I said, okay, so I gave everyone she goes, she tells like a piece of candy, ’cause they’re sweet. They taste really good. Probiotics, don’t probiotics also help gassy situations. Yeah, it really does. And let’s get a little deep for just a second. The inflamed intestines causes something called cytokines or cytokines. It’s a chemical associated with inflammation. And it’s not a bad thing, but when you get a prolonged cytokine storm, that’s what they’re seeing in COVID.

00:20:03 – 00:25:07

That’s what they see in cancer. You have to have a way to decrease these cytokines. And by doing that, and the interleukins also, which is inflammatory chemicals, but gut bacteria can induce or repress depending on what type of gut bacteria the P450 pathway of liberty classification, which we talked about with Casey one time. So yes, a good probiotics decrease all of that and causes less fermentation so therefore less gas. So if your husband traps you under the sheet because he thinks it’s funny, he’s passing gas just giving digestive enzymes, which leads me to another question. Janet, do you give me digestive enzymes? Because you love me and keep me healthy or just protecting yourself from gas. I plead the 5th. Oh, and we’re going to change the subject here a little bit and get back to the products that we’d use for this, but we just have to tell you the wonderful story we just had that came in our office. It was this is literally why we do this. Every day, you know, there’s so many people out there that are lives if they just had a little bit of help could be changed forever. We just had a man that’s coming here. I guess he’s known as now for. I don’t know how long doctor Lewis has been practicing, but a very long time when he was doing chiropractic care. And the man came in 5, 6 years ago, and he said my kidneys are failing. And he said, I don’t know what to do. And we put him on some products to help to help strengthen them to give them what they needed trying to help him through that process. And to lower the blood pressure and I’ve always told him you can do it medically, you can do it naturally by cleaning up your diet and putting in some day drinks, but you’ve got to get that blood pressure down because it will kill your kidneys. And that is what happened. He had high blood pressure for a very long time. Don’t ignore it, man. Yeah. And he took a few things, and then you wouldn’t see him again for a little while. He just came in here, well, let me back up about three years ago or so. That probably went on for a few years. And he’d take a few things, still back and forth, about three years, so he came in here and he said, well, if I don’t get this really under control, I’m gonna die. My kidneys are shutting down. You heard that 15 years ago. Why did you ignore it? Because he waited for the car to be on fire first. So his car is on fire. So he came in here. We put him on a bunch of things, doctor was saying him at that point. He was going back and forth. Every time we saw him, he looked more and more gaunt. But he consistently at that point stayed on the products we gave him. And I can’t tell you that lab every time it starts really dipping. I’m like, man, you’re real close to needing a kidney transplant or dialysis. And he’s like, nope, didn’t dialysis because I understand dialysis is very painful. I hope it’s something I never have to experience. But we managed through the supplementation and the lab work to keep him just high enough that he didn’t have to have dialysis. Keep in mind, this is not in replacement of medical care. Medical care in conjunction with that, you can live a healthier happier life and still hang around for your kids and grandkids. He just came in here today and he got a kidney. He told me he went on the transplant list in September. They called him in November. It was the day before deer hunting season. He had already gone the day before to pick out the deer. He wanted. So he was sure he was going to get to shoot it. That was in Coleman, Texas. You don’t tie them steer to a tree. They still free. Range? He said that they called him the night before the season opened. And he said you should have seen how fast I drove to Dallas. He said, I was on the tollway. He said, you know, you’re supposed to have two people in the car. All he had one didn’t care. They sent me a ticket. He said, I was going for my kidney. And he got one from a 19 year old kid. We had not seen him since he got the transplant in November. And like I said, he just came in today and he wanted to thank us for all the help we gave him to not go on dialysis. So he thanked us for not letting him die. And I said, well you know that’s God that we just kind of helped support what needed to be there to try to make it through. We didn’t know how it was going to turn out. He goes, I don’t know why I’m still here. He said, but I’m beginning to gain weight again. He goes, I’m back to feeling like myself. And he said, I even had a bottle of y’all’s vitamins in the hospital and he said, I had him there and the doctor told me not to take those because they were too strong for me.

00:25:08 – 00:30:00

And he said, I’ve been taking these all along, and he said they said they were too strong and he would just peel them out. And doctor Luis always has a great story to go for that peeing it out thing. Which is eating good steak. Well, will because I think God’s a lot smarter than we are. So I was on his podcast as a guest 250,000 listeners. And he says, it just makes expensive urine. So I just had a $42 rib. I did not create expensive excrement, and I said, no, that was reputed 75 years ago, but it’s amazing how much distortion will kind of hang around. Your body with the wisdom of God knows what to take. And yes, we excrete it out once it’s no longer needed or no longer utilized, but you have to put it in there because you have impaired absorption because of these gut problems that we talk about. Right. And so in James knew that because he’d been doing both things, you know, for a long time, so he knew to take that with a grain of salt. He said he got back out. He ran out of the vitamins. And he said, I noticed that my fingernails were not growing back the way they should be. They were very brittle. And fingernails always linked to kidneys as well. And so he said, I came down. He said y’all weren’t here that day. He said I came down, got another bottle of vitamins, and he said, my fingernails are growing back just fine now. So he came in here to give us a hug today to thank us. Well, we gave him one. Yeah, we wanted it or not. We stole it. We stole this hug. Because 5 years, we’ve been going through this. So that’s what makes what we do, why we come to work. But you’ve got to keep in mind, even supplementation, even if you have good ones and there’s a whole lot of not so good ones mediocre ones out there. If you’ve had a transplant, you have to be very careful because you don’t want to boost your immune system at that point and reject the organ. So you have to use these things very wisely. Yeah, you have to get help. From a professional that can help you with it. And speaking of helping, would you go or a little bit a couple of the products that would repair or help leaky gut? I’m especially interested in you talking about SBI of support because people don’t know what that is, but I was in my general lame understanding of it. It’s like putting we always say it’s kind of like putting silly putty in the holes of the guts. Because she says it smells like what? It smells like it smells like play doh. Play doh, the play doh used to play with as a kid and it gets sticky kind of like that. I didn’t hate to ask, I don’t know. I didn’t eat it. I’m just saying it smells that way. The SBI has a serum derived bovine immunoglobulin concentrate. And it gives you the immunoglobulin gs. So immunoglobulin think immune health because as I said earlier, autoimmunity is definitely on the rise. And there’s a link between autoimmunity and intestinal permeability. So since this leaky gut seems to be so prevalent and the gut barrier has to be fueled for lack of a better term to help seal it in the probiotics, which I hope I got a chance to get back to that. But the SBI health has everything to do with good health and I tell my patients when I get a scoop every day and Janice says he don’t know what he gets. I give him two scoops and his drink. And then one thing I really, really, really, really like is GI support. What that does is D glycerides licorice root. It’s aloe Vera leaf gel extract. Glutamine. Now glutamine is kind of a fuel for the cells of the small intestine and it helps the replication of good cells and tissue repair starting in the guts, but then that goes through the body basically. It’s a powder. It tastes fine. And then it’s got the in acetyl glucosamine, which is a really, really good thing. I like it. I take a lot of it. So and while you’re taking these things and people are talking about fasting, you want to take the right thing, even when you’re fast, there’s a way to speed up the gut healing and you’ve got to do the probiotics because this is going to be quick. Allergies and eczema can be caused by an imbalance of flora journal from analysts of medicine, asthma associated with colitis, healthy gut bacteria is used to treat skin infections, folks. That’s from journal of science and journal plants.

00:30:02 – 00:33:05

Probiotics are good for systemic diseases, such as gastrointestinal urinary colon, cancer, cholesterol, et cetera, et cetera. And it goes into the gluten and wait intolerance. The best thing you can do is just cut out weight. That’s the number one bad actor. In our poor health. Well, I hope you guys learned something you’ve learned about bowel movements, stool size, what they’re supposed to do. And if it’s a baby Ruth, something’s not right. So with that, would you like to leave us with any closing words or opinions of yours today, which you have many? Yeah. You know, I’m getting more and more opinionated and I should apologize, but I tell people, it’s not going to get any better because I’m getting a little bit older, but 30 years I’ll be out, but there’s a lot of people out there that need to be healed. And I get so many referrals. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Because you’re helping people get well. And whatever you do to help somebody get better, it’s going to come back. And be a blessing for you in ways that you may not necessarily recognize, but in this time of stress, strife and struggles, we really need to be kinder. But be more urgent in getting well. Don’t wait to get well at 11 o’clock and diet ten 30. You matter, you’re here for a reason. And that’s to uplift and bless other people. So if you want to get started or need to do it again and it’s been a long time, go to our website, green wisdom, health dot com, click on the health survey tab that will allow you to take a little short quiz and it will suggest to you the appropriate lab panel. We guys, we hope you guys have learned something today. We’ll be here for another exciting show. We never know what’s coming next, but we do have some interesting things in the pipe coming down. I think you’re really going to like as soon as I get it together. Yeah, we’re making some really, really good changes to help streamline it for us. So we can handle the business. But more importantly, to take better care of you. It’s going to give you a whole lot more than what you’ve had in the past, which I think we’ve given a lot anyway, but we’re going to get ready to give a whole lot more. If you guys have a blessed week, we’ll be here next time on the green wisdom health show. Once again, our show has come to an end, but you’re hoping your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a brighter future, take the first step and go to our website and fill out the health survey. Please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share the show with your friends and family. You are only one step away from a life worth living.

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The Thyroid’s Connection to Weight Loss

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Thyroid issues are one of the most common health issues in America, and it can have many different symptoms. One of the most common symptoms of a thyroid imbalance is poor weight management. In this week’s episode, Dr. Lewis will discuss the thyroid’s connection to weight loss and offer some tips on how you can help support your thyroid.

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00:00:01 – 00:05:06

Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with doctor Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the green wisdom health show. I’m Janet Lewis. And I’m doctor Lewis. And we are here to help you with all of your weight loss and thyroid questions I know that you have. This week’s episode is called the thyroid connection to weight loss because many of you out there are struggling with weight loss and it is the season for bikinis. So we want to make sure that we’re able to get into those and look really good. So we’re going to tell you today some shortcuts or maybe some long cuts to getting that body back the way you want it to be and what the thyroid has to do with it because we all know that thyroid’s got everything to do with weight loss, doesn’t it, doctor Lewis? I don’t know about everything, but it’s certainly a huge, huge player there. So what is it you would like for us to learn today about thyroid? What does it got to do with you losing weight? Well, first of all, it usually is the thyroid and the statistics vary depending on the book you read or the research or the doctor you talk to, but I’d say about two out of three or three out of four people. That we do are low cost lab work on probably three, four, 7 have a suboptimal thyroid. Well, wait a minute. When you say low cost lab work, why do you run lab work? I mean, don’t the doctor do it. I mean, haven’t they been told they’re okay? Why do you do that? I’m just asking. Okay. Asking for a friend. Well, you know, I love the whole profession, the medical profession and chiropractic may be in a chiropractor. Of course, I look at it more holistically, structure function, nerf supply. But let me just tell you a story. There’s this really wonderful medical doctor that came in. He wanted to talk to us and Janet and I was off gallivanting around the country like we do a lot in the RV. And Janet, my sweet darling a little wife says, I do not want to talk to this MD. I said, I’ll talk to him. He’s an ass guy. I’ve never met an MD that wasn’t a nice person and have good intentions. And so he came in, he was a real quiet shy, soft spoken, very, very nice man. He says, you’re getting our patients well, and we don’t understand how you’re doing it. And I said, well, God’s a lot smarter than you and me. And we’re trying to help people. We’re just doing it differently. I just throw in nutrients that your body uses for the greater good. And he says, okay. And so I asked Janet to go get this particular lab. Once she got here, my sweet wife said she didn’t want to talk to the sim day, but I said, now you’re here, what do you tell the stock for about thyroid? And she gave me the look. I have no idea what the look is. You eyes out there, have no idea what the look is. In any way, this light he had a three point something on her TSH. And that’s what most people run TSH, which is not thyroid. That is the thyroid stimulating hormone. It comes out of the pituitary in the brain. And it was a three. And the range goes up to 4.5 in Janice says, what would you do with this person? He says nothing. She’s my patient, too. I don’t do anything. It’s well within the range it’s normal. And I’m thinking it’s not normal, it’s common. There is a difference. And Janet says, well, if it doesn’t go down around 1.5, that means the brain is putting out the signal and the thyroid’s not using it. And she will be overweight. Can’t lose weight and be thyroid crazy. And he said, I’m noticing my practice, it has to be about a two or below before people can begin to lose weight. And then it said, what would you do with this T three uptake, which was the 27? He’s just not, and that’s within the range from 24 to 35. And Janice says, well, that’s usually environmental estrogen mimickers, which we’ll get to the toxins in why that stops or slows our weight loss. She says, why is it it’s okay down to 24, but holy Jesus, you’ve got to treat it at a 23. She said it’s just degrees of stress caused by estrogen mimicking plastics pesticides fire retardants et cetera. And if she’s got this, this light will be thyroid crazy. You can’t live whether she’ll be fat. Can’t lose weight and she’ll have no desire for sex and a guy wonderful man. Uncross his arms took his glasses off leaned across the desk and looked at Janet in the eyes and said, can I bring my wife in to see you? Yeah, and you know the reason I knew that was a problem is because of my own personal health issues of them telling me that my thyroid was right from a hysterectomy, they looked at it and said, oh no, your thyroid looks great. I thought then why am I a size 12 and I’ve gone from a 130 pounds up to a 149 in like 6 months.

00:05:06 – 00:10:05

I thought there is something not right here, but that’s fine, which led me on a journey to figure out why. And like doctor Lewis said the different parts of the thyroid, the TSH is just your brain getting the signal. Yes, getting a signal. That’s not your true thyroid function. My thyroid function, which probably don’t mean much to you right now, but when I had my lab run, it was a 2.8 free T three. It looks okay. That looks in the normal range, but I was huge at that point. Optimizing it to over three caused me to go back down to a size 6 8 and back to my 130 pound weight. So that is a huge difference in on a marker that doesn’t look that big. And I’m confused here because I used to tell people Janice 5 foot 432 pounds. She says, Steven, I’m not that fat. Of course. A lot of pounds. Might have been when she was thyroid crazy, but I would never say that. And that’s what it causes. It causes things like slow metabolism, heart functions, not right. So you have heart palpitations. Poor digestion. So you have more constipation issues. You have a lack of energy. And so many people are suffering with that right now. It’s like, no energy. Their appetite is not good. But there’s another part to that though. It usually if you feel better after exercise, you probably have a low thyroid. Well, you’d have said low energy. What’s the other part of that? The other party is if you feel worse after exercise, that’s usually a sign of your adrenals have in poor function. How interesting you have to nourish incorrect adrenal function before taking on your thyroid healing because the thyroid will not heal until you have your adrenals working. They run off of each other. They can’t HPA axis. Thyroid pituitary. You know, it’s cool. That’s why I like it. That’s why I like listening, aka being a part of the show. Because I learned things from you that I’ve never heard before. It’s like this little dictionary of knowledge. It’s usually slamming Perkins. I’ve never heard that about the exercise thing about what is it again if you want to exercise? Well, if you feel better after exercising, you probably have a low thyroid. But if you feel worse, it’s probably you need to heal your adrenals and the problem is here’s the issue folks. If you want to get well, you have to commit time to it because not everybody gets well because there are limitations, physiologically, there’s limitations to time. And you have to give your body time and people unfortunately, people quit way too soon. It usually takes a couple of years just to fix your adrenals because you have to get rid of a lot of the stressors, which can be mental that you create yourself, but it’s many, many times it’s mold, you’re don’t know you’re getting it. It’s the story we tell about us being crop dusted in Mississippi and Louisiana, two different times. Thyroid things that cause thyroid inflammation or the cytokines that create that in an unrelenting cytokine storm can lead to cancer and a lot of other things. The best thing you can do for your thyroids give up grains and people say, I had a friend says, well, you United States Department of Agriculture says you should eat 6 to 11. Servings of grain per day. Of course, he was about a hundred pounds more than me. Ten years younger and sitting on a heart attack. And I said, when you had your FA calf. What did you do to make it fat? He said it grain, he’s oh crap, you call me. And I totally message you’re sitting on a heart attack. Now keep in mind, I’m not an MD, but about three weeks later, when he had his heart attack, which he refuses to say heart attack, he causes instant his girlfriend says please don’t tell him I told you so. And I said, you know, I’m a rub his nose in it. Grain grain grain is not good for you. Those books have been written and you have to get rid of grain. There’s no such thing as almost gluten free. And I had a sweet darling lady say, well, you can get Ezekiel bread. It’s gluten free. No, I looked at him yesterday. They’re not gluten free. No, no. But I couldn’t tell her she’s a sweetheart. Processed junk food, which is most of us. And people, I have people say, well, I can’t lose weight, and I’m taking all your supplements. Well, you’ve got to change the way you eat. You have to change what you eat, you have to change how much you eat, you have to be realistic. And that’s why I quit friending patients on Facebook is because they would show me pictures of their cinnabon or their meals that they’re eating. And then they grab at me about not losing weight, and it’s like, you know, you eat 14 times more than I do. Artificial sweeteners and colors. People say, well, sweet, sweet darling lady down around Fortnite, so I just talked to her a couple of days ago.

00:10:06 – 00:15:02

She says, well, I’m taking this supplement and I’ll quit it if you want me to, which I love you, Melinda for being that way. But what’s your take and has aspartame or sucralose in it, which actually tricks the brain into depositing four times more fat than sugar and sugar is not good for you in high fructose corn syrup is horrible for you. Wait, wait, wait. You were talking so fast today. I know. So like, man, you’re putting out information here that I’m not absorbing well. What did you say about sucralose against fluid down the Texas way, please? Oh, you want me to talk like Sam Elliott, but my voice won’t go that low. Tell me about sucralose actually being worse for you than sugar. Oh, big time. It tricks your brain. It causes neuro excitatory hormones and it causes you to want more and more and more and more. And basically helps your forces or stimulates your body to put down four times more fat than sugar. And sugar, we, way too much here in America. Okay, so is that like diet drinks? The worst you can do if you’re going to drink a drink, drink the one with high fructose corn syrup, and that is not good for you. Interesting. All these people think they’re losing weight doing diet drinks and things with Superman. This is diet. You need to stay the heck away from it. And tap water contaminants. Hey folks, people say, but I’m drinking well water. I said, have you ever tested it? At one point we lived in a place had 300 foot whales and peeps. Do you drink the wealth of water? I said, not after it not until it goes through reverse osmosis. And I said, why? Because I’ve got a friend that’s a dairy farmer for miles away. I don’t know what he’s putting into water that’s coming to us. And that was another thing I learned from you, just this weekend. You talk about tap water. This is, you know, it don’t have anything to do with weight loss. But it does have to do with wildlife and tap water. I was buying this expensive sugar stuff to give our hummingbirds because they’re coming up now. And you go through it really fast when you get a lot of hummingbirds, we live on the like. And doctor Lewis said just by some sugar and put it in water and give it to them while I was reading the recipe because I’m going to be a CD I have to do it right. And it said. Will you marry me? That’s variable in. So I could handle. And it said to boil the water with the sugar, bowl the water, and then put the sugar in there, I guess, and let it dissolve, and I thought, oh my God, this is time consuming. Maybe I should just buy the expensive stuff. And doctor Liz said, why are you why are you bowling the water? And I said, does that too? He said, well, if you’re using tap water, because it’s even contaminating the hummingbirds. And people know that. So it kills them. And so he said, if you’ll just use reverse osmosis. And don’t use the one with the red, that’s not good for the hummingbirds. Yeah, and it’s like, well, even they tell you that, knowing it’s killing the birds, but we’re over here drinking that like it’s fine. Yeah, if you understood what fluoride did you revolt against the government, I’m not saying you should, but you would. Go ahead. Vegetable oil. Horribly horribly inflammatory. It causes the cells to become rigid and that’s why fish oil borage oil flaxseed oil. Some of the other ones. And it has to be a good quality. But they make the cells more flexible rather than the corn, canal is poison. That’s why fried foods are so bad for you. But the vegetable will cause your cell walls to be rigid and then you become insulin resistance. Now, there’s books written the race in your fats because you have insulin resistance. And I don’t mean to be offensive. By saying that word, but I’m here to help you. And if I can say something that will change your life and oh, thank you, folks. That’s been given us reviews on Google and the three that lined up to do videos and I think there’s three or four more comment. Brian was the first one to do it. Got a he was awesome. I loved him before, but then Allen from Maine. Oh my God, this guy’s incredible. And then we get Debbie from Midland, Texas. And that’s a long way from here. Debbie said, well, my first one is 14 minutes long, but I was telling stories about me and you growing up how you require the rascal. The best that didn’t make it all the way through. Yeah, she grew up with me and still trust me as a doctor. Thank you, Debbie. I love you dearly. But you would not believe what that is done for people to inspire them to get help because, you know, we tell people this all day long, but it’s like, oh yeah, yeah, you’re selling something. We’re selling good health. Yeah, but to have people that it’s changed their lives and they go, they’re kind enough to put that on Google for us. Or a video one coming from Eric down in Fortnite is Texas. And we got one coming from Brenda who’s here local.

00:15:02 – 00:20:00

And we’re talking about videos. Yeah, and it’s like, well, we have new people that are calling in now and they’re like, well, I’ve watched some of these videos, and that is so cool. So you are inspiring other people to get help and help, even if you can’t do it in your own family circle, which we all have problems with. I don’t care from Indiana, said she would do it too. And the thing is, she says, well, I’m telling everybody I can. I said, yeah, well, your influence and people you don’t even know. To get better to get healthier. We need to walk through this life together and be kind and be happy and lift each other up. And let people have help to the best degree they can because this is hard enough. And when you feel bad, you’re depressed, you don’t see the point. There is a point. I’m writing a new I said PowerPoint, but my preacher says that they don’t exist anymore, but I’m riding one of basically if you’re a Christian, why you should be healthier than the rest of the people, not that we can’t get sick too. And the thing is that we were offered to be a national platforms that’s plural platforms to give this talk. So we’ll see. Pray for him. Pray for him. Yeah, I got a rain in some of my thoughts. No, they have to be Christian thoughts. They get to make sure this what we call in or preacher because we’re not sure what you quote sometimes because it’s, I think it’s scripture, but it’s sometimes it’s job and sometimes it’s Shakespeare. Sometimes it’s a distorted scripture. It’s a Texas. But the point is that we should all help each other. So for those of you that’s helping us to help others by inspiring them, God bless you and keep you safe and healthy. And thank you for the maple syrup Allen from Maine. You’re awesome. Oh yeah, I’m excited. The candy. He said I could put it on blue bell. We’re only doing it in small portions. Other things are plasticizers that’s drinking from bottled water and it’s not that we don’t do that, but we, for the most part, just do reverse osmosis. Dairy, which is the casein, the protein and dairy soy and soybean foods that also includes the is this what stops thyroid? Yeah, cows is the cytokine storm. Undiagnosed infections. H pylori. Why would you have H pylori because you don’t have enough stomach acid? Why don’t you have enough stomach acid? Because they poo pooed salt years ago and you need the chloride to make hydrochloric acid. And if you have higher hydrochloric acid, even though you have the symptoms of it, you’re really almost always too low. But if the hydrochloric acid is higher, then you’re going to be able to kill H pylori disease and parasites and strap and all those can create cytokine storms in the thyroid. And he won’t be bloated. Let’s sign of H pylori that you’re completely bloated and you can’t go to the bathroom. You’re very constipated. And water hurts your stomach. If you drink water, and it hurts your stomach, you can always go to your MD and get the H pylori test, and there’s have drugs for that. We use supplements that according to the FDA, we can’t cure anything, but if you throw it in there, God can’t. What you’re saying, like increasing your hydrochloric acid, like we use hydrochloric acid on a lot of patients here. Yeah, digestive essentials and B ten hydrochloric acid. If it’s super low and you can see that on chloride on the lab. Speed your bowel movements up. Yep, and we’re going to get to that too. Other things. Other things that can hurt your thyroid and actually cause inability to lose weight is exercising vigorously. Oh no, you’re supposed to exercise. Yeah, but not bigger asleep because you don’t. Some people don’t give your body time to heal after breaking down that imbalanced hormones. I could go on and on and on and on and on about that. And that’s the indirect and disrupting estrogen mimicking plastics pesticides. And all that. And Janice said the other day, God, is there not a man left in the world, they’re all Sam Elliott, and there’s no more Clint Eastwood. There’s no more John Wang’s. I mean, they’re so rare. There’s not that much masculinity. Well, it’s because most people, men have low testosterone and that takes a long time to clean your body out so you can begin to make more of it. That’s true because we see on lab how low the testosterone is in young men and brandy that works for us here. She sees the lab as it comes through too, and then her grandfather sent his lab in and she goes, oh my gosh, his testosterone tie. She goes, why is his so high and no one else has high testosterone? I said, because of the age. Actually, the older man has higher testosterone. Yeah, but they usually have not enough free.

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So that’s why we check that and check DHEA. We do a lot of checking, but people that smoke cigarettes, alcohol, especially in excess, fluoride messes with it. Most white breads, but no, that’s not true. Most bread, if it’s not gluten free, I would avoid it like crazy. So well, you know the reason they want bread to start with is usually because they’re full of yeast and they have leaky gut. Leaky gut, I was gonna get to that, which I got so many notes here, I won’t get to about 90% of it, but yeah, you’re absolutely right. But one of the things you should do and the saccharomyces bellardi, what is that? That is a good yeast that goes in. It does not colonize in your GI tract. It grabs it hugs, candida, bad bacteria, yeast fungus virus. Hugs it and when you have your bowel movement, as we increase balm motility, it carries out some of the things. This does interfere with weight loss. This does interfere with proper thyroid function. I’ve seen people that were dying from C diff infection. And again, I’m not saying any of this cures anything. I’m not going to go there, but I’ve put them on massive doses of saccharomyces polarity and within three or four days I said, oh my God, you saved my life. I said, now God, did you’re just giving him something to work with. And I get in trouble for saying God, but I guess I’m not going to stop. Well, that’s over or coming off an antibiotic over antibiotic use too, right? It’s got something to do with using saccharomyces. Yeah, and you know why I’m so smart about this because I had some bad antibiotics and I had to after a bad spider by well for 6 years I bled out a fingertips armpits and places I won’t talk about for 6 years and Janet and I got really good at this because it was either that or me croak and thank God Janet is a good nursemaid and very patient and nice to look at too. But the other thing we’re talking about bowel movements one of the things that absolutely most people could really really benefit from is increasing bowel motility. Well, a lot of people don’t understand why you’re talking about bowel motility. Folks, if you’re eating three meals a day, there should be three trains or bowel movements coming through. So if you had three trains that go through a tunnel, are you getting three that come out on the other side or are you getting one or are you getting one every four or 5 days or maybe all the trains don’t come through or the cars and you have slept behind? Well that’s where the digestive enzymes come in. Most people really, really I’m talking about the large majority should do the modal Sue. Then it has artichoke leaf extract in it. And this is a relatively mild product. But it stimulates bile secretion. Well, what’s it going to do? It’s going to help your liver work more effectively to get rid of the toxins and we had Casey on here one time talking about the two hydroxy four hydroxy 16 hydroxy detoxification pathway. So I won’t go into that. But it enhances the liver function. It helps restore gut motility and improved digestion. And the other thing it has is Ginger root. Let me talk about Ginger root for just a minute. I love Ginger root. And the Asian when I started using that thousands and thousands of years ago, it helps that inflammation cleanses the colon reduces spasms and cramps, stimulates circulation, strong antioxidant, and effective antimicrobial agent. Protects the liver, the stomach, useful for bowel disorders, circulatory problems, arthritis, fever, headache, hot flashes, and man, if you’re wife has a hot flash, don’t talk about it. You might be a flash in a pan if you do that. You sure might. You need to keep that air cold at night too. Indigestion. So that’s why I went after a meal most people of Asian descent will cut off a piece of Ginger and eat it. So the modal suit is a kick, but no tent, no pun intended thing to do. The saccharomyces Bologna. I take some pretty much every day. It’s really incredible. And that once you take away the burden of the excess toxins, your thyroid’s freed up to use the vitamins and minerals that it needs, which we sell a lot of what’s called thyroid essentials. But it’s got the AC and E, the good ones. It’s got the zinc. And yes, there’s plenty of research that says, even if you have Hashimoto’s, which is a thyroid autoimmune disease that up to 200 micrograms is safe. And I know there’s some controversy about that. I’ve had really, really good luck, even with Hashimoto’s putting people on this thyroid essentials they’ve done real good.

00:25:01 – 00:30:04

But zinc is the tracks vitamin, which means up to or tracks mineral, up to 20 times more absorbable. It’s got the selenium right about selenium. 8 pumpkin seeds for zinc and Brazil nuts for selenium and I’ll take zinc and selenium on top of that and my MD says my prostate the size of a 25 year old. And it’s got an acetylcysteine, tyrosine, ashwagandha, Google, resin, which really helps the cholesterol profile to maric root. Right. Is that something that someone can just take without lab? So that’s a safe product that they could take without having to have lab work. And it’s really important because these vitamins and minerals, they’re not just for thyroid, even though it’s kind of what it’s targeting things that the thyroid needs. I will tell you that one does give you energy though. You probably don’t want to take it at night, right? It gives you energy because you’re a high functioning. What is it? High functioning anxiety. I didn’t say it. All right. And it’s got two American it’s like, well, what’s turmeric got to do? Thyroid. You know, maybe in a chiropractor I used to put gobs of people along to marry because of the anti inflammatory effects on the musculoskeletal system, but other things it does. Turmeric fat free radicals. We need more of that. And protects the liver against different toxins, helps it detox much more quickly, inhibits platelet aggregation, which means you’re going to have a healthier cardiovascular system. It is anti inflammatory in the way that it decreases COX-2 enzyme. That’s a deep study. I won’t go there, but it’s really, really good for arthritic conditions. And I just want to start using it as a chiropractor. But it has shown to be stopped proliferation of rapidly dividing cancer cells. I’m not saying scaring cancer folks. But if you throw it in there, that’s why we change the world. Our car before it starts smoking. Janet’s got a really good analogy about that. You can read about it later. But it’s super, super good, even helps with psoriasis. And somewhat in Alzheimer’s and that’s why I take that every night. So I can have good cognitive brain function. Hopefully it’s working. It is so you talked about detox for weight loss. How do you detox for weight loss? Well, that’s different for, you know, we’ve talked about a lot of it. I used the environmental detox because it has the zealot clay, which bonds to a lot of different toxins. It has activated charcoal. The shallow sheet, which is probably, which is the good one, which is basically it’s full of acid and humic acid. And that’ll bind toxins like crazy. So pulling off the toxins and being free from things that make you crave bad stuff. Will help. And the saccharomyces does it too, because as it kills yeast, you’ll notice you don’t want bread as much, right? Yeah, bread, blue bell, Snickers, soft drinks, because it’s really that lowers your zinc and that messes with your taste. So you want to stimulate those taste buds and that’s why we mentioned aspartame and sucralose. And it really, really helps actually, I eat about 90% less sugar than I used to because I don’t have the yeast, but as I’ve told a lot of people, if you have too much yeast, you get brain fog because yeast will steal your thiamine or put out an enzyme to stop your thymine that you don’t get enough of anyway. And when I put people on things for that, they’ll call me within two days to two weeks and say, oh my God. My brain folks gone. And Anna women out there, you know, one of the first things they come in and tell me is that, oh my fingernails are cracking my skin is correct. My menstrual cycles are heavy or they’re real irregular. A lot of really heavy cycles. Some of those are anemic then, which compounds the problem. Or they’re bound, are brittle like they break bones easily. Those are things that you can tell all the outside, mostly. That you may have a problem with your thyroid, right? Yeah, and it takes time. There’s the thing, it can take two years to fix a fatigued adrenals. It takes time, folks. The people that win are the ones that don’t stop digging when there are three feet from gold. They keep going. And that’s why one of our podcasts. We said, for those that want to get well on the 11th hour, usually die at ten 30. You got to keep trying. Every day you’re up here, our job is to help you be healthy enough and have the energetic outlook on life so that you can feel good so that you can go get more accomplished. So you can be a better husband, father, grandfather, doctor, my case.

00:30:05 – 00:33:20

So you mean taking step for one week and then feeling good a few days and then you get a few days that are bad. You don’t stop. I filled up my trip last week. I’ll never have to fill it up again, huh? I know I have stupid analogies, but still it’s consistent action that always wins. Always. And, you know, doctor Liz talks about these tests. I’m telling you these tests are not something your doctor generally runs. They’re going to give you a TSH, I can’t tell you how many times we’ve seen a TSH. Would we run the lab work? And we do it across the United States, so it’s not like you have to come to Texas to do it. You not only get a TSH, you get the T three uptake, like he was talking about. You get 5 different parts of the thyroid, not just a TSH. And for those of you that have been told you may have Hashimoto’s or an autoimmune problem with your thyroid, we can add that thyroid peroxidase antibody on to the lab to see what it’s doing. And we actually have products that will help stabilize your immune system. And then from my perspective, your musculoskeletal system. Hey, this is a thing that holds you up and makes you able to move. There gets better. And cortisol is also a part of that test. So if you heard something in the podcast about exercise and you’re thinking, oh, I hadn’t heard about cortisol. That’s all a part of our test. So go to our website, green wisdom health dot com, click on the health survey, fill it out, it will recommend for you the correct lab panel most closely matched to what you filled out. And that way you don’t have to guess or just get some things and hope you feel better. And doctor Lewis, would you like to leave us with any words of wisdom for this week? My God, he’s out of loss. Now he’s not lost. He’s never had a loss. Here he comes. I’m never at a loss. There are some scripture that says, a wise man for sea danger and takes precautions. But a fool or a simpleton sees the danger and ignores it and suffers the consequences. We’re only here for a short time. I think it’s very important and we make it very where you feel good, where you have that deep restorative sleep where you wake up with twice as much energy as you had. When you wake up and you have the mental capacity, oh my God, my anxiety’s gone. I can go be a better mother or grandmother or better sister. This is not about physical health as much as it is about mental and spiritual health too because you can’t separate want from the other two. Yeah, make life easy again. That’s what it does when you have the right stuff. Yeah, if you focus on the good, it’s funny, the universe multiplies it. You guys have a blessed week. We’ll be here next time on the green wisdom health show. Once again, our show has come to an end, but your hope in your health is only beginning. If you or a loved one are in need of a different outcome and are waiting for a brighter future, take the first step and go to our website and fill out the health survey. Please don’t keep us a secret. If you know someone that could benefit from this podcast, please share the show with your friends and family. You are only one step away from a life worth living.

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