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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.

Show Transcription

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.

00:20:01 – 00:25:00

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.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Thyroid Essentials – Comprehensive formulation that provides a blend of nutrients and botanicals working in synergy to support thyroid health.

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.

You can also listen to The Thyroid’s Connection to Weight Loss on Spotify here.

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Brain Fog, Low Energy, Motivation?

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Have you been struggling to think clearly, or found it difficult to complete the tasks on your to-do list? Low energy and brain fog are issues we see often, and they can have many different causes. Since there are so many potential causes, there are also many potential solutions. In this week’s episode, Brain Fog, Low Energy, Motivation?, we’ll discuss some of the possible causes like food sensitivities, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, thyroid issues, and much more. Dr. Stephen E. Lewis, D.C. and Janet Lewis will also go over some potential solutions to these issues and how to implement some lifestyle changes.

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00:00:01 – 00:05:02

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 give you energy and hope you remember it. The name of this show is called brain fog, low energy, motivation. So if you need it or have it, we’re going to we’re going to help you find it. Anyway, so welcome to this week’s show. We’ve had a lot of people telling us they are experiencing brain fog for various reasons, having trouble remembering having trouble staying motivated, very low energy. And doctor Lewis thought it might be a good idea to do a show about things or items that you could take, some things that might be, causing it, what brain fog actually is. If you’re wondering if you have it. So doctor Lewis, welcome. And tell us what’s going on. You know, one of the first things Janet asked when we were ready to come in and do this, do you have your notes? I said, yeah, she said, I’m not saying you’re not, so I said, I can shoot from the hip I’m fine. My wife has such a great faith in me. Thank God. And that’s why I can’t stay on the same rabbit trail. What’s one got to do with the other got to do with all go together, I always tried the musculoskeletal and I found out well, people’s blood pressure got better. My God, their brain fog went away. Oh my God, they got energy. Well, that’s not just muscles and bones and nerves, folks. That’s everything in your body. So what do you want to talk about? Let me go down a rabbit trail that weren’t she didn’t even know. I generally don’t know. I was one of her best choices, however. You just go down whatever trail you’re going. Well, you know, some people talk about, well, my doctor put me on cows at me, it’s like, no, you don’t want calcium all by itself. And excess calcium. And I’m getting to that you need the right proportion of magnesium and vitamin K and there’s plenty of studies that support this that says, if you don’t have enough vitamin K, you can’t shunt the calcium back where it’s supposed to do. So one of the issues with too much calcium is aging all sounds colon, cancer, crowns, which that’s a lot of other things too. Coronary artery disease. I really appreciate the fact that some of my patients have listened to me and gone to their cardiologist and got a coronary calcium scan. Kidney stones, dental plaque, ovarian cysts, hypothyroidism, cataract glaucoma, obesity and diabetes as well. Don’t just take calcium, please ask somebody that’s an expert and I don’t mean doctor Google either. You need to find out what goes with calcium. And well, it’s magnesium, but it’s phosphorus and did you know that bone health has to do with the bone is like 50% protein. Yeah. So you’ve got to get enough K one. And if you can de plaque some of these little bit of arteries in the heart, brain, whatever, then you get better blood flow in better nutrition, plus the ability to drag out the toxins. Which gives you what, more energy and better cognitive function. I have to pause to say, what was I going to say? Cognitive function, thinking of the brain. Janet gave me the look like she knew us baking that one. Oh, so the question is, are you seeing more patients? Is that the reason why you decided to do a show about this that are saying they have brain fog? I know people walking into the office here have talked about how they’re just having trouble concentrating staying focused. Or getting their butt up off the couch because they like motivation. Well, you’ve heard me talk for years about the toxicity in our environment. We really made it bad back with 70 when they started spraying glyphosate. No, I don’t want you to the micro’s around up to see me over that. But there’s plenty of real research that proves I’m right and how do you get past that? Well, you pay off the senators in congressman, I guess, I don’t know. I hate politics. And last two years I’ve hated it even worse. But yeah, we’re seeing more people that are saying, I just don’t have to get up and go, even one of my sweet darling sisters. So I just don’t have the mental capacity at this point to make a good decision. And I said, well, you’re a better Christian. Mate, throw didn’t ask God to bless it, but you got to throw it in faith without works is dead. That means I don’t care how much you pry. If you’re not doing the works, it’s dead.

00:05:03 – 00:10:01

So it takes action and the best thing to do is take massive action in the right direction. But if you’re not going to take massive action, get with somebody that can help you make intelligent decisions and make intelligent action about throwing the right things in. So you can’t get enough of the nutrients out of your food. It does not happen. One of the things I love and Janet can tell you the day I don’t take that one peel. And it’s got a lot of things in it. She’ll get into later, but it has something to call riboflavin. You don’t hear much about that. But riboflavin is one of the B vitamins B two. It has to do with antibody production. What product is that you’re speaking about? Had to be 12 methyl supreme. Oh, okay. All right. You can talk about the big things. I’m talking about the little things now, but the riboflavin, you can not get enough out of your food, even if you’re eating organic. But antibody production, I promise you we’re seeing more and more and more holy cow, autoimmune looking diseases. And since, you know, that includes arthritis, it has to do with cell respiration. What I tell you what to go, where you need the blood flow in to get the nutrients in, but to bring the toxins back out. It helps a fatigue. My eyes are so fatigued and I read this list and I know that’s thyroid. And it can be thyroid, but never diagnose yourself off a list. And I tell you that when we give you a list, it has a lot to do with prevention or cataracts. It helps facilitate the use of oxygen in the tissues and for you women scan nails and hair and eliminates dandruff on a lot of people helps absorption of iron. And B 6. B 6 is one, and I try to always say this simply, but B 6 is the one that helps your neurotransmitters. That’s the happy hormones or they get up and go. The pep in your step. It helps the happy hormones cross from your gut to your brain. So the blood brain barriers, the B 6, but you’ve got to have B two, make it work. That’s why you can’t just pick out one thing. And people say, well, what one supplement can you take? Well, one gallon of gas will get you from here to Montana. Folks, you got to dive in. You can’t dip your toe in the pool. You got to dive in. And I had a lady the other day who’s got super, super, super low iron, I’ve called her and said, you need to go to the hospital right now. And I’m going to call her since I get out here, see how she’s doing, but I said, how is your husband doing this? She says, oh my God, he’s not lazy anymore. All these years, I thought he was lazy. He wasn’t lazy. He didn’t have the energy to produce. We talk about the mitochondria. Those are the little powerhouses that there’s many, many, many of them in every cell. In your body. Now back to B two, it can be the source on the tongue, skin lesions, skin problems, dizziness, hair loss. So maybe bonds aren’t dizzy. Maybe they just need riboflavin. I don’t know. Bad joke. But it goes with poor digestion and slowed mental response. For those that have lost the pep in your step, they get up and go. You’ve lost that love and I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that. If you lost the want to get up and go, I know when Janet gives me the look, but that was a good look. I was trying to do the music that went with that. Maybe, baby. Get down on my knees for you. Keep on going. Where do you want me to go? Well, there’s a lot of things you have to consider, and that’s why I tell you, there’s more and more functional medicine doctors, whether it’s a nature, it’s usually in nitro path or chiropractor. There’s a few MDs and DOs that do it. Find somebody you like and find somebody you trust. You’ve got all sorts of things. To understand the neuroendocrine immune system. And yeah, I can always tie that to musculoskeletal system too. It’s always inflammation. And there was a research article I read from New England Journal of Medicine. And neurology reviews that talked about degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s Lou Gehrig’s Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis or inflammatory diseases. Folks I read a lot of books and not all books are good just because they’re written. Don’t think they’re always good. And I talk a lot of seminars, so about two weeks ago, I was taking a seminar from a lady that holy cow. She was teaching me a whole lot. And I’ve taken a lot of seminars. I was bored to tears because I knew pretty much everything they talked about. This woman was good and she talks about treating people that have MS. Myasthenia gravis, which I’ve got one guy that comes in here. He’s been on our podcast. Yeah, Jimmy.

00:10:02 – 00:15:06

And he’s done real well. And I don’t even treat that, but we throw stuff in, ask God to bless him. It’s amazing how much better people do. So inflammation is a multi splendored thing that could make a song about that too. So some of the symptoms of brain fog, in case you don’t know what they are. I forgot. A brain folk. Low energy or fatigue, including chronic fatigue syndrome. Irritability, trouble concentrating. Headaches. Forgetfulness and trouble remembering information. You’ve lost it, love and feeling. Low motivation, feeling hopeless or mildly depressed. Anxiety is actually a sign of brain fog. Do you know that? Is low libido there? It is not. You need to read something different. Confusion. Yeah, I was confused. Trouble sleeping through the night or insomnia. Yeah, well, that’s me. And a whole lot of other people out there and there’s certain things that you can do to improve that. And it’s kind of a hit and miss thing. That’s not something that always shows on labs. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. And difficulty getting motivated to exercise. So I’ve had that all my life. That’s why we got a dog. So she makes she makes us go outside and walk. In the middle of the night, when she’s barking at him. Brain bog is actually associated with people that have a gluten intolerance, symptoms. Yeah, that’s more people than you think. If you’re overweight, you’ve got good inflammation. And about a 90% chance of it being a gluten issue. Autism spectrum disorders. They have more brain fog. And we’ve seen those get much, much better. They’re handwriting and probably their cognitive function improves because we increase detoxification. And the ability of the body to get the nutrients to the cell to increase the energy coming out of the mitochondria. And other food allergies beside just gluten too can give you brain fog. Blue bell, 8 last night. Fibromyalgia symptoms. And many times that’s a yeast overgrowth, and it’s not that simple. Sometimes it’s like a magnesium, but it’s not that simple. It’s a whole lot of things that go together. And when I’m doing a consultation, period of cinephiles have gone high, same way you probably, and I’m not diagnosing, but you probably have too much ease fungus and virus in the yeast to put out the thymine enzyme that steals your thyme and you don’t get enough of thymine B one, although we were talking about riboflavin B two. And if you don’t get enough B one, you get brain fog and I can not tell you how many people have called me within three days to three weeks or email me and said, holy cow, I can think clearly. I said, well, bring me dark chocolate to say thank you. Because you gave them B one? Yeah, and that’s called benfotiamine. And it’s not going to hurt you if you take a couple of days. And so fat soluble B one. So it absorbs very, very efficiently. If you take it with a little bit of fat, which is fish oil, which you need to be taken no matter what you’re doing, but especially if you have some of these symptoms of stress fatigue, can’t get up and go. Some of the brain fog causes our lack of sleep, our sleep number bed always tells us how to feel the next day. Because we think we’re okay, then we read the number and go, oh. Let’s see how we should feel. Let’s see what the sleep number. That’s it was bad. But then some days you think you did really good and then it said it was bad so you then you have to feel bad again. That’s why I threw away the Fitbit. It lied to me all the time. Poor diet specifically too much sugar, alcohol, caffeine, carbs. Don’t show how you do it when she goes from preaching to getting personal. I’m just, but not the facts here. Cause a little bit of brain fog. And those things also lower your B vitamins that then that’s why I was talking about B one B two and folate and B 12, that’s in the B 12 methyl supreme, which is a holy cow kick, but want a date thing that Janet can tell by 3 o’clock that I did or did not take it. Well, here’s one for doctor Lewis. We’ll see if we can stump him. Yeah, that’s easy. A brain fog cars. Why would this happen? Okay? Having a hormonal imbalance specifically in regard to dopamine. Serotonin and cortisol tell us why that would cause brain fog. Well, she’s already forgotten what I just told you about the neurotransmitters that B 6 can transport from your gut to the brain. So that’s hypo methylation less. Methylation is in regard to the B vitamins and hormonal imbalance. We’ll stress. Stress can be all kinds of things. It can be mental stress, the toxic stress. It can be the out of balance end or consistent stress and that caused by the environmental estrogen mimickers.

00:15:07 – 00:20:00

I’ll tell you another stress I talked to sweet heart of the lady this morning. She says, well, I said, why is your last name changed? She said, well, my husband finally used his pistol. I said, did he hit you? She said, no, he’s just shooting. And I got out and I said, okay, yeah, that’s stressful. But she looked pretty good on lab. And she’s taken a lot of stuff. She said, I’m here. I want to live my best life, and I want to be alive. Until the moment that I die and I said, oh, honey, I love you the way you are because she wants to live. And she has a reason to folks. We have to dig deep sometimes to find out, why do you want to be healthy if you don’t want to be healthy for yourself? Because there’s a lack of self love and a lot of people. Be healthy for your spouse, your kids, your grandkids, the people that are around you, lift them up. Imbalance is super, super, super, it’s all over the place. That’s why there’s low testosterone clinics. And that’s why most women have too much estrogen, which is out of the environment, not enough progesterone, and not enough DHEA to rebuild the body. Well, there’s two things that are not on this list that I will have to say causes bright fog. One of them is having high liver enzymes. Because we’ve seen it on lab. And it’s because their liver is so incredibly toxic that they can’t filter out the toxins. And Janice says I get too technical. So this is going to be really, really technical. There was like a woman if mummy, nobody happy at that liver ain’t happy. And I’ve seen people introduce toxins into their system. Willingly, without thinking about it, and their liver enzymes go to 400, you wonder one hell happened. Folks, they’ve been around something that’s been sprayed. They’ll be in some sort of a chemical or whatever, and or they do that for a living. I tell the story about us getting cropped dusted in Mississippi and Louisiana on two different trips in both states. So I guess we’re going to have to hang out up in Tennessee and Arkansas coming home. I don’t know. But that’ll make you have brain fog. It really did, both those times we did our lab and it’s like, holy cow, it messed up our liver because their liver is trying to detox. And it messed up our thyroids in a big way. So yeah, the hormonal imbalance. Who doesn’t have an intercon imbalance? Because guess what? You’re eating meat that’s full of hormones and antibiotics and the antibiotics kill off. You’re good probiotics. And that’s why I tell people, you got to take probiotics every day. It’s got to be really, really good ones. And more is better. And I take them mostly at night, but it’s really better if you take them two or three times during the day. I mean, at different times, they actually do a lot more good. More is better in most cases. And there are some, even the supplements, even though they’re super duper natural and pure and in the rat form, sometimes you really don’t want to overdo it. I’m a man. I think more is better, but that’s really not true. So get professional advice from your chiropractor, your nitro path, your MD or DO, that practices functional medicine. And I’d also say having a very low immune system will give you brain fog. Also. Big time big time big time. You know, I said earlier that we’re seeing more people that’s having autoimmune type diseases and I always send them to a rheumatologist or a GI specialist. But one of the best things you can do is take some of our stuff like the SBI, which is above vine, derived immunoglobulin, the immunoglobulin G and I like the one. It works so good. Yeah, people that have really bad gut problems like we have a lady that has had part of her colon removed. She takes the powder because it’s real strong. It’s like an intensive formula. We always tell people it’s kind of like putting silly putty back in the holes of the gut. Leaky gut. Right. And then we have another one called SBI spore, so it’s the spore probiotics that I don’t know, doctor will just have to tell you what makes them different than a regular one. They only come to laugh when it’s a good place to party in your intestines. Okay. So they open up in a certain place, I guess. Is that too technical? No, that’s good. I’m trying to I’m trying to go through that. And then it has the SBI to it as well, which as long as I take that, I actually can get away with eating a little bit wrong before it bothers me where it used to be immediate. So you know it’s working, so helping heal leaky gut, which also gives you more energy, which also makes your mind clearer. Yeah, because the head and the gut are connected and I’m not implying you have your head up your rectum. I’m not saying that at all. But here, intricately connected your brain and your gut.

00:20:01 – 00:25:01

Okay, then I think you mentioned a little bit, sorry, honey. I wanted you to tell us about Barbara and alpha a. I know doctor Lewis chose, he loves this product. He puts people on it for different reasons. It helps me with my sugar cravings. Which means I don’t eat as much stuff to feed the yeast, which means it doesn’t steal my thumb and her rabba flavin. What does it do for brain fog? Well, it really one of the major reasons people take it is for cardiovascular health. But that also increases the energy of berberine is a really, really, really good thing. It helps with the healthy LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels compared to the control group, has to do with lower in blood, sugar, and most of us have high blood sugar, and I said, well, I don’t eat any sugar, but you drank dot Dr Pepper’s all day long. Or you do the carbohydrates. Well, it turns to sugar. I don’t know. It’s been used for at least 2500 years in Arabic medicine and Chinese traditional Chinese medicine. It’s in the roots of certain plants like goldenseal and golden thread and Oregon grape things like that. It’s kind of a synergistic one plus one equals three kind of thing, but it helps support healthy heart function, heart rhythm, healthy cholesterol levels, and I just love it, love it, love it, love it. Go see it translates into energy for me, then the alpha lipoic acid. Oh my God. That is one of the strongest antioxidant in the world. And we talk about, well, you’ve got excess oxidation because you have too much iron or your ferritin load is too much. Well, it has to do the apple Boric acid also helps support blood sugar balance to kind of maintain a more healthy level, which believe it or not, helps regulate the energy of the cell. And people I tell you, don’t just take one bottle of something, do it for three months, 6 months, 9 months, because it takes your body physiology time to heal. But it scavenges free radicals and that’s why Janet was talking about the toxic environment. Well, you get free radicals. And if you don’t get those things out, then your body’s overly burdened, trying to, and that’s why she mentioned the liver. Antioxidants. We know about vitamin C vitamin E glutathione, which we take them all. But the alpha lipoic acid is pretty, it’s kind of a king king. King cleaner. It’s a big dog. How about that? Well, I was mentioning the immune system and you mentioned liver again. One of my favorite ones to help detoxify that is a fairly new product. It’s called enviro detox. And the reason for that is because it has the purified zeal light in it. It’s got charcoal activated charcoal, which helps cling to those bad things that I just talked about, those metabolites, you need to get out. It’s got humic and fulvic acids in it. Which helps actually like he said, it’s a binder and they use toxin stick to it. And then they’re able to be pulled out through the colon, and you can dump some of that so that you can feel better. There’s some toxic people on Facebook that says, hey, you don’t need to detox. That’s a fallacy in it’s like, well, if you look at their face, it’s like you need to detox hundred pounds of that stuff, bubba. Like sometimes I’ll do this after which I think shrimp must be one of my not so happy fishes that I eat. For me, I guess the toxins from the bottom feeding fish is not good. I can take this and it’ll pull it right back off because shellfish will make me feel rain fog. So in viral detox is another good one. And then you talked about the methyl CPG, right? I think so. Yes, ma’am. Absolutely incredible. Okay, so I have another question for you. Yes, ma’am. I’m trying to stump you today. So for those of you that don’t know what we do out here, we do low cost lab work so that you don’t guess at what you need. We do it across the United States. Are you able doctor Lewis to see brain fog issues on a lab? Directly know indirectly, yes, you can take a really, really good educated educated decision. You know, if you’re a cinephiles are too high, your base filter too high. If your chloride is too low, we know you’re not digesting if you’re proteins too low.

00:25:01 – 00:30:00

We know you’re not digesting. If your CO2 is too high or too low, and that has to do with mineral balance or lack of such and your alkaline phosphatase, if it’s too low, then you don’t have enough zinc, which has to do. And with a lot of things, zinc is super important in many enzyme systems, but it’s incredibly important in your immune system and your immune system is about 60 to 80% in your GI tract. So see, when I say we’re talking about brain fog, yeah, and I saw a girl the other day. Her nature fails and lipsticks were totally inverted. And they were not in the right ratio and it’s like holy cow, you’ve had this forever. And there’s estimates from different good entities. I try to read the real research, not Internet opinion, but there are entities that say we’re about 95% of us have Epstein Barr virus in us. Well, okay, having a virus innocence is not that big a deal until your immune system gets weakened by too much stress, physical mental, somebody shooting the lights out. Spiritual stress can do it. You can make your own mental stress up, but the toxic stress, the lack of nutrition stress. And then when your immune system goes downhill, these bad bacteria yeast fungus and virus begin to proliferate and it’s not just taking good probiotics that is a good place to start, but you’ve got to take your B vitamins. You’ve got to take your minerals. You’ve got to take the bovine derived immunoglobulins and you’ve got to learn to laugh and have joy. You’ve got to have, you know, not to help people throw it in in prey. It asks God to bless it. And I’m being serious when I say that. But you’re doing the action steps. So prayer without works is dead. You’re doing the works if you’re throwing in the nutrients after looking at the lab. And I tell people, you and I together will make an intelligent educated decision after that, you don’t worry about it, just throw it in and trust. Because there’s a lot of freedom when you learn to trust. Can you see low energy on lab? Again, kind of the same things, CO2, low CO2, blood sugar, being high? Oh, God, that hurts, honey. I’m just asking. Asking for a friend. Yeah, you’re hemoglobin, I want to see. And we test insulin. And there’s people out there who said, I just can’t lose weight and I’m eating good. It’s like, yeah, but you’re insulin too high. Well, the range goes way up into the 19.6 or 20 something. Well, you know, if it goes by on, Beyoncé 7 or 8 on your insulin, then your insulin resistant. And they say you can’t be in some of them. And I read a lot. And I’ve got good retention, but they say it’s because you’re insulin is too high and that creates too much inflammation goes back to that ugly word, inflammation. It’s reared its ugly head again. And oh my God, it turns your cholesterol into big boo boos and wrong rice shows and makes your tracklist rides go ballistic and then it, oh, it sticks it in the liver. And then you get non alcoholic fatty liver disease. And, oh, what we say about liver if liver ain’t working, mama ain’t happy. It ain’t gonna be a happy household and you get your liver working. And if your liver is not working good, you’re not gonna sleep with a flip from one to 3 a.m. that’s shiny traditional medicine and they’re right. They’ve been doing it 5000 years lower and I have, you know what, them rascals know what they’re doing. And we love studying Chinese medicine. Although we don’t want to go back to China right now like we did 20 years ago, but still yeah, you can see a lot of this and this morning, I told this lady, I said, you’re feeling this, this, this, this, this, and Nancy, she had tears rolled down her eyes. She said, how do you know? I said it’s on your lab. So yeah, the cortisol might be an issue also. And you know, if you don’t have good cognitive function, you might have forgotten cortisol. There you go. And a big one, a big, big, big one. Ferritin. Which people go once ferritin got to do with anything. I’ve never really heard a ferritin. What’s love got to do with it? Yeah, well, they know about iron. Ferritin, we’ve had people have really, really low ferritin on their blood work, which means they’re not in a Harley have any iron stored, which will make them bad brain fog, low energy, or they can actually have it really, really high. And they have the same problem. Then it oxidizes and puts massive amount of stress on your brain, your heart, your liver. So I guess the whole point of this is, yes, you can take some products and help feel better. But if that isn’t enough, it sounds to me like lab might be the answer so it would take the guesswork out because it sounds like you’re looking at a lot of things on there, right? I did lab on my dear sweet mother until she passed away. I don’t know, she’s 94, 96, or 95 or 96, I think. And yes, if I loved my mother enough to do it, don’t you think it’s good enough for you? Well, you’d be surprised what came back on there. Besides just thyroid, and thyroid can make you feel that way.

00:30:01 – 00:32:42

Very much can, but there are so many other factors and to hear you put all that together, how the whole body is working together, which I think is more the issue. It’s like it’s all working together. And if you don’t know what it’s doing, then how do you know which things would work best for you, whether you need to build whether you need to cleanse. Everybody thinks they need a cleanse. But if you’re taking our supplements, you’re detoxing every day. Right, and but a lot of people need to build. That’s why they have brain fog, because they have nothing to work with. So I guess the whole moral of the story is, you know, do lab if you have it in a while, I mean, if it’s been over 6 months, a year, it’s probably time to do it again. If you’ve never done it, do it. Because it would be a really good time to figure out what’s going on. And doctor Lewis, I can not believe it. You have been so extremely educational as always. I wonder what she’s going to say after so. I’ve been so what? Could you leave us with some words of wisdom to get us through this next couple of weeks? Yeah, we live in some pretty dark times. And it’s really, really good to have the nutritional wherewithal to feel good, mentally as well as physically. And maybe I’m a Texas boy. You know, sometimes we say it’s close enough for government work. No, you got to get pretty dead gun close with this. You’ve got to make an educated decision. And then I say, can’t dance, never good singing. It’s too wet to plow. So if you understand that, you too can be a country boy. There’s one thing I’d like to tell you about people that are stressed and there’s a lot of that going on and that’s why Janet and I work harder to be healthy so that we can be uplifting to you. Your hearts and disappointments should be cremated. Not embalmed. Let’s get rid of them. Let’s be healthy, have a life worth living. So go to our website, green wisdom health dot com, click on the health survey tab, get started today. 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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Is Your Toxic Burden Stopping Weight Loss?

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Many people want to lose weight, and they have often tried diet and lifestyle changes with little results. While there can be several contributing factors to this like hormone imbalances, mold exposure, and imbalanced thyroid function, one of the lesser-known influences is your toxic burden. Toxic burden refers to the cumulative exposure you have had to different toxins from air, water, food, cosmetic products, etc. Many of these toxins build-up in the body and can have lasting effects, affecting many different parts of the body in different ways. Fortunately there are things you can do to help avoid toxins in the future, reduce your current toxin burden and speed up detoxification. In this week’s episode, Is Your Toxic Burden Stopping Weight Loss?, we will discuss some symptoms of a high toxic burden, and give you some solutions to help your body detox.

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Is Your Toxic Burden Stopping 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 today we are going to discuss with our one of our favorite guests that we have come in from time to time, Casey. Apparently it’s one of your favorites too. So thank you for the feedback. Yeah, I know he is good. We learned so much and people are really understanding differences in products because of him. But today he’s going to talk with us about is your toxic burden stopping your weight loss and you’re probably going, what’s toxic burden? Well, many people are very burdened with so many toxins and then they go and try to lose weight and their bodies going, oh please. I can’t do this. So he’s going to discuss why that could be happening. Of course, doctor Lewis is going to chime in with his isms. And hopefully he’s how this together for you with a lot of fun. So Casey, welcome. Thank you. Always, always a pleasure to be here. You know, we learned so much about fish all the last time and I can’t tell you the collagen story has really helped so many people. It walk into the store. They’re like, I take collagen. What makes yours different? I’m like, I know this, I know this was a Casey. That was a huge differentiators that are ultimately going to affect how people feel taking their products. I actually had a lady that came in and said, I’m taking this I’m already on college, ’cause she had knee pain really bad and I said, this is different. She goes, well, why? Collagen’s collagen and I explained to her no it was not. So she purchased it and then she came in two days later. I wasn’t here in a brandy said, she actually walked up to me and said, does this stuff really work? And Brandi said, yes, it works. And she goes, my knee pain is totally gone. And I thought it might be in my head and so yeah, you were absolutely wrong. I also believe in her collagen. Yeah, exactly. So today we’re going to discuss a few products that help with eliminating toxins, I guess. And can help with weight loss and the differences between them. Which one do you want to start with? Well, I think first we should kind of paint the picture of what when you mentioned toxic burden and weight loss and potentially thwarting somebody’s efforts to lose weight, what that actually means. A good picture to have in your head is, I mean, we all have a toxic burden. Our environment is very toxic, our body produces toxins that I say that toxins, there’s byproducts of processes in the body that the body needs to get rid of. These things accumulate in the body, specifically they accumulate in fat. So if you take a, let’s just say a 200 pound frame. And you want to shrink that frame down to a 150 pounds. And you start losing weight and you’re feeling great, weight’s coming off. But you don’t do anything to address that toxic burden that you have. You’ve essentially just condensed that burden from a 200 pound frame down into a 150 pound frame. And now the body is kind of like what’s going on here. We need to take some protective measures and the best thing that the body can do for itself in order to deal with the toxic burden is to put additional fat on. Again, because these toxins are harvested in fat. So if you’re losing weight and you’ve plateaued and can’t lose any more, it’s likely because your body’s gone into its protective state to make sure that we’re not overburdening a smaller frame with that preexisting toxic burden. And that’s one of the reasons that your liver enzymes can go sky high because your liver gets clogged up, phase one, phase two. And can’t really dump it. So it should be kind of a slow process. And people say, well, what’s this got today, your chiropractor? What’s this got to do with musculoskeletal? Everything. So we’ll talk a little bit more about metabolic syndrome and diabetes. And insulin resistance. Well, that goes back with Casey what you said, the lady with the knee pain had actually lost a lot of weight. She had been on this diet that we looked at. That’s a role your eyes got. I can’t believe you’re doing this kind of diet. But they’re still, it was working. They’re losing weight, but they’re eating like these candy bar things and they’re like a hundred calories. I think at a time and that’s all they’re giving up with the candy bars like really bad, this ingredient. It’s got bad ingredients. Right. And she had lost a bunch of weight and then her knees started hurting really bad. So you’re right. I mean, it’s toxins that apparently have gathered and can’t escape. Right. They get freed up and they’re another circulating in the body and they’re looking for other tissues to settle in. And the scary part about that is some of the fattier tissues in the body like you think about the brain.

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These are the areas that these toxins are looking to seek out. So again, the body’s putting back on fat tissue to protect these vital organs. Nobody cares about to Brian. If you say, well, it’s the fad deposits in your breast and that’s going to or more toxins. Then they go, oh my God, my breast. It’s hair and white. The brain’s a little important too. Oh, yeah. Well, maybe you need to remember why. Yeah, some people need to think with it, but just a little research thrown in. Here’s one about zinc and insulin sensitivity or actually lack of zinc. And I’ve said this many, many times, too much sugar equals spear vegetables equals less than K equals four taste equals more sugar so you want to stimulate that by eating more sugar and it’s a vicious cycle that’s from journal of nutrition. It can be so much different things improved insulin response and action by chronic magnesium administration. And this is from diabetes care. So magnesium is really important. And it has a lot to do with digestive enzymes. And magnesium is one of the major missing minerals and Casey can talk more and more about that. Do the technical stuff. But let’s get into it. And I see what we can figure out here. And what are you missing? That’s the key. So y’all pay attention to this. And I want to thank you. I’m off topic already. But I just talked to a guy in Kansas. You have his own show, just by himself without us getting well, yeah, well, conversation with doctor Lewis. Yeah, I just talked to Jeremy up in Kansas. And Jeremy’s up there has been doing this several years and he’s just really incredible. He’s real nice. He’s real suede. And thank you for your trust. The people that get results are the ones that hear something, they’re intuition speaks. They listen to their discerning spirit. And they just go from there. And so be like Jeremy, Jeremy’s just up there getting better and better results and being very quiet. But it’s consistency of action. And that’s why Janet loves me. It’s not because I told her I loved her. It’s not one kiss. It’s not one hug. It’s consistency. So if you want good health, you have to be consistent. Cool. So all right, thank you for that. So now we’re back over Casey. We were discussing how the weight loss thing has to do with the toxins. Okay, so you’ve lost some white. And now these toxins are stuck. What do we do? Nutritionally, there’s a handful of things that you can do first. I mean, detox happens in two primary phases and actually now there’s a third one that’s being talked about more phase one, essentially you have these little liver enzymes called cytochrome P450 enzymes. They seek out the toxins and they essentially flag them. And in doing so, they create something called an intermediary metabolite. And it’s actually these metabolites that are more dangerous than the original toxin. You think about estrogen metabolism. Estrogen itself is a hormone isn’t necessarily dangerous, but it’s the metabolites generated by your body to get rid of these toxins. They can be pushed down the wrong pathway and create a very dangerous metabolites. The second phase of this phase two of detoxification talks about these liver pathways essentially or conjugation pathways that are then identify these flag toxins and can then turn them kind of push these push them through the pathways and kind of turn them into these water soluble compounds that are then ready to be excreted from the body. Now phase three, which is the emphasis of one of the new products that we introduced in viral detox, is actually so what happens is when we get these when we get these toxins, these are called conjugated consider them conjugated, they’re bound up, they’re dumped into the gut lumen. Now what we want to make sure that they are facilitating the elimination of these things via urine and stool primarily. We don’t want them to become unconjugated and pushed back into circulation. So that’s where using some of the binders, some of the zeolite clays, the activated charcoal, Shiljit, which is just these are minerals have a heavy affinity for different things in the digestive tract that we’re trying to make sure of being bound up and eliminated from the body rather than pushed back into circulation. Oh, I can tell you, since we’ve added in that product, that of course I take all this, I have to try it out, right? Right. The combination of enviro detox and dim plus have been great because the dim plus is pulling out the bad estrogens. Right. And then I guess it’s dim is making sure that estrogen estrogens are being pushed down that right pathway. So there’s three primary metabolites that are generated when your body’s trying to detoxify or metabolize estrogen.

00:10:06 – 00:15:04

You have your two hydroxy, which are your good. You’re good metabolites. You have your four, which are, and then you have your 16 alpha, which are the bad ones that you really want to watch out for. Dim is making sure that we’re promoting the healthy estrogen of those metabolites. And estrogen metabolism and creating those two hydroxy metabolites. And that’s why Janet and I talk about liver function and it has a great deal to do with the microbiome of your gut and Janet talks about bowel movements because if it’s sluggish, these conjugated hydroxy estrogens will unconjugated and go back to the bad one and then you reabsorb it in the small intestine. So that’s why bowel motility is very important and having a bound up so that happens to a lesser degree. And bowel motility means having a bowel movement every time you eat a meal 30 minutes to an hour afterward is optimal. And Janet told me many, many times it quit being so technical. I said, well, if you’re eating three times, you need to be pooping two or three times. Elimination is incredibly important. We can help with that. And the dim detox what Casey is talking about in a very scientific manner for women what it means is that you get your shape back. You, because your body starts store that excess fat around the top, where your shirts don’t fit like they used to. You don’t have that extra lump of fat under your arm and towards your back. And we know this detoxification is working and I’ve said this before because Casey is still uncommonly handsome. It’s working. Well, man, seem to get by. Men don’t be afraid of the dim either. Oh, yeah, because they make sure that we’re not converting testosterone to estrogens. And it helps with prostate function when my MD says, doctor leisure, prostate pale is like a 25 year old and he says, what are you doing? I said nutrition, you wouldn’t understand, get out of there. You’re having too much fun. It was the damn helps keep the prostate healthy, which keeps the musculoskeletal. I go back to that. And it gets rid of the men boobs. Which I don’t have. Because if your boobs are bigger than your wives, then you might want to check out dim because you’re not supposed to have that ’cause you’re drinking light beer. She said that to a guy one time. And he looks and I don’t want my 12 year old to think his dad has man boobs, and then we saw the same guy, you know, months later and he looked at Janice and I’ve gone to dark beer because it has less of those estrogens. Right. But so, I know, scientific, sorry. Who’s getting off the rabbit trail? I’m just making this simple. I can’t talk in these high-tech conversations. I get it what happens whenever you take it and women you also get flatter stomachs from it because it quits storing it there too. So those are important things to consider if you’re trying to lose weight as hey, let’s make sure that we’re doing something to optimize my body’s ability to detoxify. Okay, so then in our detox comes in because it’s pulling off all the bad toxins from what dim all the work, all the work your body is doing to detoxify the conjugate toxins and dumping them in the digestive tract. It’s making sure that we’re getting these things out of the body. As well as helping to pull heavy metals and pull organic or pull agricultural byproducts, things like glyphosate out of the body, get rid of mycotoxins and other things you don’t want hanging out. Okay, so that’s detoxing, so to speak. I want to talk a little bit about carnitine also. Because I know carnitine, I don’t know that stuff just makes you feel good. It gives you so much more stamina. So when you are in the middle of trying to lose weight and stuff, you know, you get kind of sluggish because, well, frankly, you’re cutting back on what you’ve been eating. And you’re not getting the endorphins or whatever from the food. So, but carnitine has just, it’s just been a game changer for us for people with energy for stamina. Our daughter takes it when she goes to work. She’s she works in the hospital. And she’s like, oh my gosh, I have all this stamina from carnitine. And even though she’s recently hired, they’ve already offered her to be the manager over the entire program. Because she could move fast from carnitine. And many other things, she’s just smart. And she had to play the other day and just had the headache from, oh my God, and I said here, it’s like carnitine boom or head pain was going in 30 minutes. Steph’s great. So can you tell us what carnitine does because all I know is it makes you feel really good. Yeah, well, carnitine is something that we consume when the diet, the carnitine deficiencies aren’t necessarily where you do see it more in vegetarian and vegan populations. We can make it inside of our bodies from the amino acids lysine and methionine.

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But carnitine is really unique. It’s found in heavy concentrations and energy dense tissues. So think of muscle tissue. Think of the heart, think of the liver, think of the brain. And what it does in these tissues is it basically plays shuttle to free fatty acids. And it essentially delivers them to your mitochondria. Your mitochondria are your little batteries that run every single cell in the body. So in car terms, for instance, carnitine is kind of your fuel pump that’s helping to pull gas out of the tank and deliver it to the engine where you actually where you actually need it in your car can use it and produce energy. So it’s a really effective natural way to ramp up energy production at a cellular level by essentially delivering or enriching that fuel source that’s being delivered to your mitochondria. I know one thing there’s times when you could drink like a whole pot of coffee. And it would not affect you the way the carnitine does. As y’all are having coffee over here. But I mean, it’s a different energy. I mean, the coffee is like, yeah, it wakes you up. It’s not a stimulating. It’s not in any means stimulants, so you’re not going to get the jitters. You’re not going to get the crashes. It’s just a really clean, sustained improvement in overall energy production. So everything from neurotransmitter production to your body’s capacity for detoxification. Obviously, tissue repair, cardiac function, endothelial function. These are the areas where you’re seeing weight loss. These are the areas, and even fertility specifically male fertility. These are all the areas where you’ve seen good outcomes with carnitine supplementation. How they help with male smart upper. Really? I’ll put a lot of people on carnitine and a good vitamin a, there’s several others that you can take in their sperm count. And that is a huge problem in America today. We’re down to about barely barely enough sperm count on the average to impregnate a woman, people say, well, it just takes one sperm. Now it takes a lot because of the enzyme system. So we can increase the sperm count for those that have really, really low. And we got babies all over the country. People say, well, I couldn’t get pregnant. Now I am. I didn’t know carnitine. Sperm counts. Yes, positively affected by carnitine supplementation. The testes are very, they’re working hard. And they need the energy and as Casey says that with a grin on his face. That’s trouble. I know for you guys, I have to work so hard. Well, you won’t strong swimmers. Sir. Well, put chalk that one out. I like carnitine. You’re a particular carnitine because it’s pretty. And can you tell us why I thought it was in a white powdery form? And y’alls is not a white powdery form. It’s this pretty little jail and it’s clear and it’s got this liquid floating around. And that’s a little nitrogen bubble just to stabilize the raw material. So we don’t have issues with oxidation. It’s not going rancid. Liquid carnitine is always going to be, as far as the supplementing is concerned, is always going to be the most effective way to get the most carnitine as possible. Into the body, are just a 100% pure L carnitine. So it’s bioidentical to what’s produced in the body. There’s other forms out there, whether it’s acetyl carnitine or carnitine tartrate, carnitine fumarate. These different forms of carnitine, while they might be effective as a supplement, they are not pure carnitine. So essentially you have to take more to get an equivalent dose as if you were taking L carnitine as a liquid. And ours as well as not a liquid that you drink because carnitine tastes terrible for those who have tried carnitine liquid, we actually use a rapidly dissolving capsule that basically quickly breaks down. So it’s like taking a liquid. It is a liquid encapsulated liquid. It’s like taking a liquid, you just don’t have to taste it. I love it. That you don’t want to take that after about 3 o’clock in the afternoon though, because it does ramp you up. You have sustained energy. And what it does help with for weight loss, it allows you to have the energy to get outside and take a walk to do something extra than what you only could get to the couch before to do. And internally, she’s helping with fatty acid oxidation. So it’s helping your body utilize fat as an energy source. So you’re breaking down your breaking down more fat. Cool. Okay. So that’s one y’all probably have not heard about. Another one that we want to talk a little couple of things we want to talk about. Selenium, we have what we call active selenium, which on our lab we give people that whenever we’re trying to raise their T four levels on their thyroid, we also have something called thyroid essentials.

00:20:04 – 00:25:06

Sometimes people get confused about what which one they need to take, which one helps with weight loss, which one’s best. Can you tell us the difference in your selenium, what it does? Versus why you would do that versus the thyroid essential. Well, from a manufacturer’s perspective, our selenium is different in the fact that it’s a yeast derived selenium. So there’s selenium naturally occurs as selenium methionine or selenomethionine, which is how you consume it in your diet. A lot of which you buy in your retail supplements is selenium are synthetic forms. Meaning, meaning they don’t absorb well. Right, your body doesn’t. Your body kind of does not know what to do with them. The selenium that we use as a yeast derives selenium, and this fermentation actually it produces selenium as selenomethionine, and it produces at a very high concentration. So again, the actual selenium content of your product might not be what you think it is, because the you take like a selenium citrate, it might only be 35% actual elemental selenium, where our solano methionine derived from yeast. Is of much higher concentration. Can you talk about a derived from yeast and I have people say, but I have too much east in my GI tract. I said, no, no, no, no, no different thing. And a lot of dietary supplement ingredients. A lot of your drugs that you’re taking are a fermentation manufacturing process, whether they’re using bacteria or they’re using yeast like saccharomyces to ferment, it might be, it might be beets, it might be corn. It might be anything. And in doing this, they’re able to use this process to extract whatever molecule or compound that they’re going after. You’re not adding you’re not adding more yeast into your diet by consuming a yeast based or a yeast derived selenium. Yeah, that’s good because some people, they say, well, I’m allergic to sulfur, so now you’re allergic to sulfa drugs, so you’re okay if you can eat an egg or an onion or something that has high content of sulfur. So just don’t be confused and always go to somebody you can trust to ask the question. Sure. But selenium is a relates to thyroid gland function. Well, just overall in the body, there’s 25 different proteins that your body synthesizes that needs selenium. And it’s a really, really important precursor to different glutathione peroxidases, which the thyroid gland is heavily reliant upon to detoxify a byproduct of thyroid hormone production, which is hydrogen peroxide. If you accumulate too much hydrogen peroxide in your thyroid gland, it can cause issues. So you need selenium to produce this antioxidant. That’s able to kind of clean up these byproducts. It’s also there’s another diode that is selenium dependent that is responsible for or needed to convert inactive T four into active T three. So it might your thyroid issues might be as simple as adding a little bit of additional selenium into your daily regimen. And aren’t those the ones that say, well, I have Hashimoto’s, I can’t take I done. Are you saying instead of thyroid essentials do this active selenium for how people that have Hashimoto’s? Is that what you’re saying? Well, you know, here’s the problem. I’ve read dozens literally dozens of books from so called thyroid experts and outside different things. And some people say you can’t take Aden because if you have Hashimoto’s because it’s like throwing gasoline on the fire. Well, if you put it with the right ratio of tyrosine and selenium, these people do not have any problems with the thyroid essentials. Your body, your thyroid gland specifically needs iodine. Absolutely. Iodine hormone, it needs to produce iodine or sorry. Thyroid hormone to produce thyroid hormone in your body needs two critical components that are iodine and tyrosine. And yes, there is some research out there that suggest that if you throw iodine at somebody who has an autoimmune thyroid condition like Hashimoto’s, you can exacerbate their issues. They think they spin out. They lose their hair. They gain a bunch of weight or they lose a bunch of weight. That is true to some extent in the presence of selenium deficiencies. And it takes different babe out of us to make that conversion from T four to T three, and most people are B deficient.

00:25:06 – 00:30:00

So you’re saying there’s complicated missing B vitamins and selenium, the reason why the iodine would bother an autoimmune problem. Is that very, very often, yes. Oh, very interesting, huh? So if thyroid essentials is a great product, it’s a great kind of, I call it kind of like a thyroid focused, multivitamin, and that there’s a lot of different factors that can influence thyroid gland function or your body’s ability to convert TSH into T three or T four or your body’s ability to convert T four into T three. That’s where thyroid essentials is focused and kind of all of these areas. It’s helping your body not only produce or it’s helping your throat going not only produce hormones, but it’s helping your body convert inactive hormone into active hormone. It’s helping to kind of mitigate some of the other factors that are potentially detrimental, not potentially. That are detrimental to the functioning of the thyroid gland. And some of these or maybe all of these nutrients we’re talking about, it also goes into metabolic syndrome and diabetes and insulin resistance, because that’s true. Selenium from journal of molecular cell biochemistry and it talks about magnesium, which I mentioned, and zinc and copper, calcium, magnesium, chromium, vanadium, it’s a complicated thing. And that’s why we suggest you get your lab work, so we can have some kind of clue of what’s going on. And then be consistent. So you’re saying that just taking selenium by itself if you had like an autoimmune problem might not be as well rounded as doing the thyroid essentials that’s kind of dumping maybe all the other things and you might have been missing to start with. To help the thyroid function right. I personally agree with that, but I take straight magnesium. I take straight zinc. I take straight selenium because it is very, very missing and some other disease processes. So I want to make sure that I take essentials and selenium because I think you need both of them. And I feel better doing about them for some reason. And because as Casey talked about the microvilli in the intestines or the lumen, sometimes you need a lot of product there to get enough absorbed to do the body some good and make that transport into the cells. Especially if you’re insulin resistant or have diabetes because it takes more product to get through that. And that’s why we check insulin on people’s labs, which most doctors don’t, because I don’t care. If you’ve got insulin resistance, you’ve got the musculoskeletal problems. You’ve got the Tennessee toward diseases, and you have poor absorption. So we have to deal with that. And what doctor? Smokers, too, especially. If you smoke, you’re likely selenium deficient. If you have chronic GI issues, IBD, Crohn’s ulcerative colitis, you’re likely selenium, among other minerals among the micronutrients deficient, but there are certain people who might be. Better off with taking more selenium. And we’re talking about weight loss and the diabetes, the insulin resistance, the sugar levels, start going low glycemic foods, and even CoQ10 drop sugar levels, 31% in a diabetic. So will you take CoQ10 for your heart? Well, your heart has to process or the responsibility of shunting more blood through the all the way down to the capillaries to deliver the nutrients that you need for better health. When doctor Lewis is talking about insulin resistance for those of you that are not aware of what we do in our lab work, most of the times when you go to the doctor, they run your glucose levels, and that’s just like what you did the day before, basically. Or that minute. Yeah, that minute. And then some people get an A1C, which is a three month blood sugar average. And we have literally had people that are over 200 pounds come in with a perfect A1C, which means their blood sugar levels look great. But insulin, like doctor Lewis is talking about, which is another test we run, tells us if they’re headed toward being a diabetic because while they may be good with their pancreas now, if it’s on the higher end with the insulin that means the pancreas is running, trying to keep up with your body and at some point it’s going to say, hey, I quit. And then you will be a diabetic. And that’s what we see many times with people that are overweight. They have perfect a-one-cs or insulin is way high. So you know you’re not eating correctly. And it’s just a matter of time before it craters. So that’s what we’re trying to help prevent by using some of these supplements. Guys, yes. Okay.

00:30:02 – 00:34:10

One other one I want to talk about very quickly, because we don’t have much time left in our show. Every time Casey comes here, it’s like, oh my gosh, we have so much to say. It’s stress adapt. Why would someone need stress adapt to help with their weight loss? And energy levels, toxic burden. Well, I don’t think you can talk about thyroid gland function without addressing stress. Talking about two systems in the body between the HPA, which is your stress response and the HPT, which is your thyroid functioning. You’ll notice the two common glands that they share are the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland. If you’re lit up over here, if you’re constantly stressed and we’re talking not just mental and emotional stress, I know we’ve talked about this on the past and the show, but glycemic dysregulation, which you just mentioned, inflammation, sleep issues. There’s a lot of different stressors, toxic burden. That will keep you lit up over here on the HPA side. And if you’re kind of allocating all your resources to your stress response, it doesn’t leave much over here for your thyroid gland to operate correctly. So taking something like stress adapt alongside of thyroid essentials, which is going to help kind of buffer the stress response over here, kind of decrease the overall the overall cortisol response that you have in cortisol again, cortisol is being driven by all of these different all of these different factors. If you can kind of quiet down the HPA axis, it just allows for more optimal functioning of freeze up the resources that allow us for the HPT access to do what it needs to do. So you don’t get set off so easy by little things in life that like gas prices and things that way, right? I don’t know if that’s avoidable, but everything is interconnected. If you want to, if you want to truly address your thyroid issues, we have to take a look at over what are these stressors in your life that can potentially be addressed and something with like stress adapt is something that’s just going to, it’s going to help you do that. Obviously there’s lifestyle modifications that are needed. There’s dietary modifications that are needed. But this is just something again that’s just kind of help you better cope. Your body physiologically better cope and better deal with some of these things. A buffer. So with being overweight and being diabetic or insulin resistant, the inability to lose weight has you so tired that you can’t make it to the Oklahoma line. Then you need to call us. And we’re from Texas. So that’s a cyan down here. Well, I’m so poor. I’m so tired. I can’t make it to the Oklahoma line. You should do something good. So that you can live your best lap right now. Casey, thank you for being a guest on our show again today. We always learn so much and for those of you that have no clue where you’re levels are on your lab because you can’t afford it or they don’t run any of the things that we’re talking about today on the show. Guess what? We do. And we do it all across the United States very inexpensively. And tell you exactly what to take for your nutritional supplements, so we take the guesswork out. You can get started by going to www.greenwisdomhealth.com and fill out the health survey. It will lead you to a lab panel and you can start having a life worth living. And we appreciate you listening to our show. We’ll be here next time on the green wisdom health show you guys have a blessed week. 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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Thyroid Essentials – Thyroid Essentials is a comprehensive formulation that provides a blend of nutrients and botanicals working in synergy to support thyroid health. Thyroid Essentials includes L-tyrosine and iodine, which make up the backbone of the thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). The addition of zinc, selenium, vitamin A, and the botanical guggulipid activate enzymes that enhance the conversion of T4 into the active thyroid hormone T3.

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. The L-Carnitine formulation provides 500 mg of L-carnitine per capsule, now delivered using quick-release, fast-absorbing Licaps^® Technology.

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Is Your Service Engine Light On?

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The human body often gives signs that something is wrong long before most people realize the problem. People often ignore these signs as just a part of life, or have had them so long they think it’s normal to feel the way they do. However, suffering from constipation, diarrhea, fatigue, anxiety, depression, chronic bad breath, joint pain, insomnia, and many other common issues is not normal. These things can be your body’s way of telling you that something is wrong. The problem could be a stealth infection, heavy metal toxicity, an illness related to mold exposure, an unknown food sensitivity, or a number of other things. In this week’s episode we’ll discuss if your service engine light is on and what signs you might be ignoring, and some things you can do to help support your body to be the healthiest it can be.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Turmeric Complex – The herbal extracts in Turmeric Complex contain multiple, beneficial compounds with documented ability to help modulate COX enzymes, scavenge free radicals, and promote physiological balance in susceptible tissues in a safe and harmonious fashion.^† Meriva^®brand turmeric, a key ingredient in Turmeric Complex, combines turmeric extract with phosphatidylcholine forming a bioavailable turmeric phytosome complex that is significantly better absorbed than regular turmeric extracts.

Stress Adapt – Contains a nootropic and a blend of adaptogenic botanicals and nutrients specifically formulated to counteract the effects of daily stress, improve mental performance, and support healthy energy levels.

GI Support – Provides extensive support for the entire GI tract by addressing energy requirements of intestinal mucosa, structural composition of intestinal and colonic cells, microorganism balance, and production of protective intestinal mucus secretions.^†

You can also listen to Is Your Service Engine Light On? on our YouTube channel here.

Posted on October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Cleaning Up A Toxic Liver

Our bodies have to deal with a near constant influx of toxins including pesticides, chemicals, pollutants in our air and water, chemicals in our food, heavy metals, mold, and much more. The liver has many important jobs, and one of them is filtering through these toxins each day, but due to the staggering amount of chemicals the average person encounters each day (which can range from hundreds to thousands of different chemicals), the liver often ends up overworked and dysfunctional. The liver is such an important organ that is necessary for many vital functions in the body, so it’s important to keep it as healthy as we can. Let’s discuss what the liver does, and some things we can do to help clean up a toxic liver.

Jobs of the Liver

The liver is responsible for over 500 tasks like producing bile, filtering blood, producing cholesterol, storing glucose, and many others. Keeping your liver healthy is crucial to overall health, and sluggish livers are a common problem today. We encounter many different chemicals every day in our air, water, food, medications, beauty products, plastics, etc. Our bodies are constantly working to filter through these chemicals to minimize the harm done, but our livers and other organs can’t always keep up. Many people also do not eat correctly and lack vitamins and minerals essential for proper liver function, add this to the toxic load we’re carrying, and it’s a wonder our livers are functioning at all.

Glutathione

Glutathione is an antioxidant that the body is supposed to produce in cells, but production may not be optimal due to genetic mutations and/or environmental factors. We also produce less glutathione as we age, so supplementation is often recommended, especially for older individuals. Glutathione has many functions and benefits, including potentially reducing damage in liver cells, supporting a healthy nervous system, and improving insulin resistance and fat-burning especially in older people. One of the main benefits of glutathione is that it can help reduce oxidative stress, which greatly influences aging, certain chronic conditions, and autoimmune conditions. In autoimmune conditions, the mitochondria of the cells are often damages, and gluathione may help protect the mitochondria from further damage. Supplementing with glutathione may help aid in cleaning up a toxic liver, as well as many other potential benefits.

Symptoms of a Sluggish Liver

When the liver is not working quite as well as it should be, it is often referred to as sluggish. This doesn’t mean it is diseased, just that it is not functioning at the level it should be. Some of the symptoms of a sluggish liver may include:

Dark circles under the eyes
Waking up at 2am-3am for no apparent reason
Fatigue
Acne and/or rashes
Moodiness
Headaches
Brain fog

This is not an exhaustive list as symptoms can manifest differently in each person, but it is good to be aware of these common ones.

What Can You Do?

The good news is that we can do a lot to promote healthy liver function, but consistency is important. Reducing your exposure to toxins as much as possible is a great first step. Try to avoid synthetic household cleaning products, aerosol products like hairspray and air freshener, and opt for natural products whenever possible. You can also supplement with vitamins, minerals, and herbs that can help promote healthy liver function. Liver Support & Detox and Vital Detox are great products for liver health, and can aid in both phase 1 and phase 2 liver detoxification. Limiting alcohol intake is also important because excessive drinking can cause liver damage and may contribute to some forms of liver disease.

Cleaning up a toxic liver means you should focus on eating a varied diet of fruits, vegetables, high-quality meats, and healthy fats like coconut oil and avocados. You should also make sure the food you eat is organic because pesticides are a major source of toxins, and make sure you are drinking clean, filtered water to avoid the chemicals, heavy metals and other harmful substances found in tap water. Exercising regularly may also help improve liver function, and limiting alcohol intake may decrease your risk for certain forms of liver disease. Your liver is a very important organ and it has a lot of responsibilities, so take good care of it!

You can listen to our Happy Liver Makes a Happy Life podcast episode here. You can also listen on our YouTube channel here.

Posted on October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Start When You’re Young to Protect Your Brain

Microphone and computer; early warning signs of a thyroid problem.

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Many people only consider the health of their brain when they notice their memory getting worse, but supporting the health of your brain when you’re young can make a big difference later in life. Often, once a person’s memory is severely affected, it may be too late to fully heal the brain, but there are still plenty of things you can do to help support the brain. In this week’s episode we’ll discuss some of the things you can do to support a healthy brain, as well as the importance of starting when you’re young to protect your brain.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

GPC Liquid – GPC Liquid is a good choice when higher doses of GPC are desired, and the dropper is calibrated to allow for easy titration. GPC has a naturally delicious, sweet taste on its own so no additional sweeteners were added to this product.

B Complex Ultra – B vitamins are essential nutrients required for optimal health and functioning of numerous systems and biochemical reactions in the body, including energy production, brain, liver and nerve cell function, and muscle tone in the GI tract.^† Activated forms of folate (Metafolin^®‡ L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate) and vitamin B₁₂(methylcobalamin) are used for enhanced absorption and bioavailability. This high-potency B-complex vitamin supplement is formulated to be hypoallergenic and yeast free.

Niacin Slow-Release – Slow release of niacin over several hours helps avoid the uncomfortable flushing action of this B vitamin so that its full benefits on cholesterol metabolism can be obtained.^†

You can also listen to Start When You’re Young to Protect Your Brain on our YouTube channel here.

Posted on September 23, 2020October 5, 2020 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Fighting Anxiety and Depression Naturally

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Many people are dealing with stress, anxiety and/or depression on a daily basis, and it can make it hard for some people to live their life normally. Antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications are often prescribed, but they don’t always help, and the root cause may not be in your mind. Research has shown a possible connection between gut health and the development and severity of certain emotional problems like anxiety and depression. Stress and vitamin and mineral deficiencies may also play a role, so let’s take a look at some possible ways of fighting anxiety and depression naturally.

Gut Health

There are certain types of bacteria in your gut that produce neurotransmitters like dopamine, GABA, and serotonin. These chemicals play a key role in mood, anxiety, ability to relax, stress management, and many other things. If the gut is unhealthy and the bacteria are unable to produce these neurotransmitters in the right amounts, it couldcontribute to the development of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. Improving gut health can also help improve immune system function, digestion, and nutrient absorption.

There are many things you can do that may help improve the health of your gut. Cutting out inflammatory foods and replacing them with fresh, whole foods is one of the most important changes you can make. Inflammatory foods include frozen or boxed meals or food mixes, high-sugar foods like candy and soda, unhealthy fats like canola oil and margarine, and foods that have long ingredients lists with ingredients you don’t recognize. Cutting down on the chemicals we consume and use around the house is a great step towards reducing our toxic burden and the accompanying inflammation. You can replace these foods with organic fruits and vegetables, homemade meals, high-quality meats, healthy fats like coconut and olive oil, and replacing sodas and fruit juices with water.

Nutrient Deficiencies

Another possible cause of certain mental health disorders is a vitamin or mineral deficiency, or multiple deficiencies. Different vitamins and minerals play different roles in the body, and many of them help regulate mood, anxiety, and stress. For example, vitamins B12 and B9 (folate) play important roles in regulating mood, vitamin B5 helps support the adrenal glands which are affected by stres, and vitamin D deficiencies have been linked to anxiety disorders. These are just a few examples of why it is important to ensure you are getting all the vitamins and minerals your body needs on a daily basis, but it’s often difficult to get all of these nutrients through diet alone. Suppplementing with a high-quality multivitamin can help you get some of the nutrients you may not be getting enough of from your diet, or you may want to include a B vitamin complex like B Complex Ultra. You can also get routine lab work done so your vitamin D levels, iron levels, and cortisol can all be checked.

These are great changes you may want to consider implemeting in your life, but if you need a little help along the way you could try taking EZ Relax which may help if you have a hard time unwinding or falling asleep at night, or you could try Pantothenic Acid Complex which contains rhodiola extract and other adaptogenic herbs, along with pantothenic acid that work together and may help reduce stress and anxiety. Sometimes people notice a big improvement with just taking a b complex or starting a yoga routine, but everyone is different. You should never be afraid to ask for help from your family and friends, or your healthcare professional. Do your best to focus on the good days rather than the bad days, and surround yourself with positive, healthy, and encouraging people and habits.

While these healthy changes could make a big difference, this advice is not meant to replace medical treatment. Always consult with your doctor before making any changes, especially if you are on medication.

You can listen to our Little Known Facts About Depression podcast episode here. You can also listen to it on our YouTube channel here.

Posted on September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Little Known Facts About Depression

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Depression and anxiety have become much more common this year due to the unprecedented events that have happened, and the demand for products and medications that help treat these issues has greatly increased. While most people know the typical symptoms of depression and anxiety, there are some other things you may not know about these conditions. In this week’s podcast episode we’ll discuss some little known facts about depression, like how certain vitamin deficiencies and food sensitivities may contribute to the development of certain emotional disorders, along with some natural things you can do that may help.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Stress Response – A comprehensive formula of nutrients and botanicals with demonstrated and unique neurosupportive effects creates a robust and multifactorial approach to support daily brain health and function.†

Methyl Supreme – Vitamins B₂, B₆, B₁₂, and folate are provided in active, coenzyme forms for maximal bioavailability and function. The ingredients in Methyl Supreme work together to synergistically support methylation processes and help maintain normal homocysteine metabolism.^†

You can also listen to Little Known Facts About Depression on our YouTube channel here.

Posted on August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Were You Sold Snake Oil?

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Many people have made taking supplements part of their daily routine, and most people understand the importance of taking certain supplements to help fill in nutritional gaps they may have, even with a balanced diet. However, many people are unaware of the differences in the quality of supplements. Not all fish oils or multivitamins are created equal, and some can do more harm than good. In this week’s episode, we discuss some of the differences in professional-grade supplements versus the ones commonly found in grocery stores, including how certain forms of vitamins and minerals are more absorbable, and we’ll help you determine if you were sold snake oil.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

Active Multiminerals – Supplies a balanced mix of essential minerals and trace elements for situations that may call for minerals without added vitamins or other nutrients. Contains highly-abosrbable Albion^® Laboratories amino acid chelates, calcium citrate-malate, L-selenomethionine, and other well-utilized forms.

Omega Supreme – Omega Supreme is a convenient once-daily omega-3 fatty acid supplement offering 1,000 mg eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the natural, triglyceride form per soft gel.

GPC Liquid – GPC is a type of choline that has been shown to support cognitive health and focus. GPC has a naturally delicious, sweet taste on its own so no additional sweeteners were added to this product.

You can also listen to Were You Sold Snake Oil? on our YouTube channel here.

Posted on August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 by Green Wisdom Health — Leave a comment

Are You in Optimal Health?

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Many people don’t take their health seriously until a new symptom arises or they are diagnosed with a serious condition, but we should all be doing our best to be as healthy as possible even when we feel good. There are many habits and lifestyle changes you can implement that may help support health and quality of life, as well as potentially reduce the risk of developing certain conditions later in life. In this week’s show we ask if you are in optimal health, and give some tips on what you can do to help you be healthier.

Products Mentioned in Today’s Show

GI Support – This formula contains the amino acid glutamine, the primary fuel for intestinal cell function, to help meet the high energy demands of the GI tract, liver, and immune system during periods of physiological stress and transport ammonia to the kidneys for excretion.^† Acacia and inulin add soluble fibers that are readily fermentable into short-chain fatty acids that support growth of beneficial bacteria, assist water absorption, and support colonic cell function.^†

Resvera-Max – Resveratrol is a polyphenolic compound with antioxidant activity found in grapes, wine, blueberries, cranberries, and peanuts. While red wine has been popularized as an important source of resveratrol, amounts vary widely. The maximum content of resveratrol in red wine extracts available for use in dietary supplements is 20%. In contrast, root extracts of Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) provide up to 50% trans-resveratrol content, the same form as found in red wine.

Amino Complete – A comprehensive, hypoallergenic source of essential amino acids. Designed to meet the needs of individuals who require additional amino acids for protein support. This formulation of 20 essential and non-essential “L-form” amino acids uses the highest-quality, pharmaceutical grade, crystalline amino acids in their “free” form to ensure maximum bioavailability and tolerance.

You can also listen to Are You in Optimal Health? on our YouTube channel here.