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Probiotics – The Next Big Thing!

5 Benefits of a Probiotic Supplement:

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

How do you choose the right probiotic?

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

Probiotics mentioned in todays show:

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

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Adrenal Fatigue or Holiday Blues?

We’ve talked about adrenal fatigue before, but it’s worth discussing again. Adrenal fatigue is very common, but most sufferers don’t realize they have it, and considering how much it can affect your quality of life, it’s something you should know about. However, with the holidays comes a lot of stress, and for some people it can be a depressing time of year, making it difficult to know whether it’s adrenal fatigue or just holiday blues.

Adrenal Fatigue

Adrenal fatigue occurs when a person has low cortisol levels due to being overly stressed for a long period of time. This condition is very common, and it’s believed that almost everyone will experience it at some point in their lives, but most people don’t recognize the symptoms. We lead high-stress lives nowadays due to work, school, kids, social media, holidays, family or marital issues, or a variety of other potentially stressful things. Though most of these things are out of our control, we can control our reaction to them and our nutritional intake. Nutrition can make a big difference in our ability to deal with stress both physically and mentally. Having vitamin or mineral deficiencies makes your body and mind more susceptible to stress, and most people are suffering from at least one nutritional deficiency.

Symptoms

Adrenal fatigue usually occurs when a person is under a lot of stress, which eventually causes the adrenal glands to stop producing cortisol the way they should. These symptoms could be due to a different condition, but adrenal fatigue can cause:

  • Brain Fog
  • Fatigue
  • Weight Gain
  • Body Aches
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Mood Swings
  • Hair Loss
  • Trouble Sleeping

Holiday Blues

Anxiety and depression are more common during the winter months for different reasons, there’s even a mood disorder called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) that causes people to feel depressed during the fall and/or winter seasons. Seasons affect our moods for different reasons including less sunlight (which means less vitamin D), stressful holidays, social gatherings, etc. Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish between adrenal fatigue or holiday stress, but taking certain supplements can help you deal with stress regardless of what’s causing it.

How to Fix It

Our Comprehensive, Comprehensive Plus Hormones, and Super Panel blood tests include a cortisol test which can tell us if your cortisol is too low or too high. For low cortisol you can take Adren-All which contains bovine adrenal glands, vitmins A, C, E, B6 and B12, licorice root extract, and a few other ingredients that promote healthy cortisol levels. For high cortisol levels you can take AdreneVive which contains ashwagandha root extract, l-theanine, skullcap root extract, and a few other ingredients that can help lower and re-balance cortisol levels. Supplementing with a high-quality multivitamin like Alpha Base Without Iron, and a mineral supplement like Reacted Multimin can help fill in any vitamin or mineral deficiencies which will help your body deal with stress. Anxiety and depression tend to become more common during the winter months, and CereVive is a great choice to help lessen the symptoms of anxiety, stress and depression.

Work on eating a balanced organic diet, try out some supplements, practice stress-reducing techniques, set aside time for a relaxing bath or something else that relaxes you, and focus on the positive. It’s difficult to heal adrenal fatigue without reducing the stress that caused it. Remember to enjoy the holidays, and not let them stress you out!

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Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic Syndrome is the name given to a group of risk factors that greatly increase your chances of experiencing diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. These risk factors include high blood sugar, high triglycerides, low HDL (“good”) cholesterol, excess body fat – especially abdominal fat – and high blood pressure. These are common issues, but having Metabolic Syndrome means you have at least three of these risk factors. Each one of these risk factors alone can increase your heart disease, diabetes and stroke risk, but having more than one is especially dangerous.

Can You Fix It?

Considering how common these problems are, many people are wondering – can you fix it? The simple answer is yes, but it takes work, dedication and consistency. Cleaning up your diet should be your number one priority when trying to fix Metabolic Syndrome. A diet high in sugar and processed food contributes to Metabolic Syndrome, and a diet low in sugar and high in fat and protein is what can help fix it. Getting your blood pressure to a normal level, controlling your blood sugar, and losing excess body fat go a long way in treating Metabolic Syndrome.

What to Eat

When trying to heal Metabolic Syndrome, or if you’re just trying to eat clean, you should focus mainly on a variety of vegetables, nuts and seeds, fruits, and lean meats like fish and chicken. Avoid high-sugar and high-carb foods like bread, cookies and pasta, and avoid processed foods like frozen pizzas, bagged chips and snacks, and processed meats like hot dogs, sausage and sandwich meat.

You should drink plenty of water and avoid soda and juice due to the high sugar content and chemicals – you should also avoid diet soda because artificial sweeteners have been found to contribute to Metabolic Syndrome. Unsweetened tea and coffee are safe to drink, but water should be the main thing you drink.

What to Take

There are a few supplements that can help treat some of the risk factors like high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol, and high blood sugar. You should notice a difference after beginning a healthier diet and taking these supplements:

  • Diaxinol – Can help maintain a healthy blood sugar level
  • CM Core – Can help control blood sugar levels
  • CitraNOX – Can help normalize blood pressure
  • OrthoMega 820 – Can help raise HDL (“good”) cholesterol

Learning that you have Metabolic Syndrome shouldn’t discourage you, it should encourage you to lead a healthier lifestyle and reduce your heart disease, stroke, and diabetes risk. Remember that you have the power to fix it, and never give up the goal of being healthier!

Be sure to listen to our podcast on Metabolic Syndrome for more information!

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The United States of Stress

Stress is one of the biggest issues facing our society nowadays. We lead such fast-paced, busy lives that it’s difficult to ever let ourselves unwind, and we often allow meaningless things to stress us out and dampen our mood. There are many things that can contribute to stress like vitamin and mineral deficiencies, sleep deprivation, adrenal fatigue, illness, family or marital issues, and countless other things. Although some stressors are out of your control, you can control your reaction to them. Changing the way you view and react to situations can greatly lower your stress level.

Vitamins and Minerals

Magnesium and zinc are very important minerals for dealing with stress, they both play important roles in nervous system function, and many people who struggle with anxiety or high levels of stress are deficient in these key minerals. Getting enough B vitamins is also important for dealing with stress, and for countless other functions in your body. Iron deficiency (anemia) is another common cause of anxiety and stress, and can lead to shakiness, fatigue, weakness, pale skin, and an anxious feeling. These deficiencies can usually be fixed by using a high-quality multivitamin, but if you’re greatly deficient in a certain vitamin or mineral, then you may need to take a supplement designed specifically for that along with a multivitamin. For example, if you’re anemic, you may need to take an iron supplement along with a multivitamin, or a multivitamin designed for low-iron individuals.

Sleep and Adrenals

Getting enough sleep every night is crucial for dealing with stress and for your overall health. You should be getting seven to eight hours of good quality sleep a night. If you get less seven hours of sleep on a regular basis you may start noticing more irritability, fatigue, forgetfulness, depression, bodily aches and pains, etc. Sleep is so important for every part of your body, and getting enough sleep every night should be one of your top priorities. However, adrenal fatigue can make falling and staying asleep difficult. Adrenal fatigue refers to a condition in which your cortisol is too low, usually due to being highly stressed for a long period of time, causing your cortisol to bottom-out. This is a common issue, and many people don’t realize they have it. Fortunately, you can heal adrenal fatigue naturally by supplementing with the proper nutrients and adrenal gland supplements, getting adequate sleep, and utilizing stress-reducing techniques like yoga and meditation.

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Get at least seven to eight hours of sleep a night, drink plenty of water, make sure you’re getting enough vitamins and minerals, and focus on positive thoughts. Remember that you can choose to be stressed-out and worried, or you can choose to not let small things affect you.

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Learn True Health Podcast with Ashley James – Thyroid

Learn True Health Podcast with Ashley James

Dr. Lewis recently had the opportunity to be a guest on the Learn True Health Podcast with Ashley James where he spoke about thyroid issues and what you can do about them. Thyroid issues are becoming more and more common, so learning how to prevent and treat them is more important than ever. You can listen to that podcast here.

Ashley James is a health influencer and she has hundreds of podcasts and lots of information on how to be a healthier you, physically and emotionally. These podcasts and articles can be found on her website here.

Thyroid Issues

It seems as though everyone knows someone who has a thyroid issue, it may be themselves, or a friend or relative, but there’s no denying that thyroid problems have become much more common in recent years. There are many contributing factors like stress, environmental and dietary toxins, poor nutrition, hormone imbalances, etc., but the good news is that you can do something about it. Diet is the biggest thing to consider changing if you’re concerned about thyroid health, but iodine, fish oil, and certain vitamins and minerals are crucial to achieving and maintaining thyroid health.

Iodine

Adequate iodine levels are necessary for the thyroid to function properly, and iodine absorption is often inhibited by fluoride, bromine, and chlorine. These chemicals are commonly found in tap water, and they can bind to the iodine receptors, preventing your body from being able to absorb the iodine it needs. It is often necessary to eliminate these chemicals from your diet before supplementing with iodine so your body can properly absorb it.

Fish Oil

Fish oil should be a part of everyone’s diet/supplement plan due to the many benefits. Fish oil may help balance cholesterol levels, lower triglycerides, lower blood pressure, and it may even improve the symptoms associated with certain psychological disorders because it supplies the brain with the fat it needs to function correctly. We likely still haven’t discovered all the benefits of fish oil, but we know it’s incredibly important to your thyroid and overall health.

Vitamins and Minerals

Taking a high-quality multivitamin can be beneficial because it provides a wide-range of nutrients, many of which you likely aren’t getting enough of through diet alone. Vitamin deficiencies are very common today due to stress and environmental toxins that deplete certain vitamins and minerals, and diets that are high in processed food that contains few nutrients. Another big cause of the increasing deficiencies are gut imbalances. When the good and bad bacteria in your gut aren’t balanced, or if you have leaky gut (many people do without realizing it) or digestive disorders, then you probably aren’t able to absorb much of the vitamins and minerals you do eat and/or supplement with. This is why the first steps to healing usually include cutting out fake food (processed, packaged food with long ingredient lists), eating lots of organic fruits and vegetables, and healing your gut through the use of probiotics, celery juice, and supplementation. Fixing these issues can greatly improve your overall health, and may help prevent or lessen thyroid issues.

Be sure to listen to Dr. Lewis speak on Learn True Health Podcast with Ashley James to learn more about thyroid issues and what you can do.

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Oh No, Not the Flu!

Flu season is finally upon us, and we know no one wants to get the flu, especially after last year’s rough season, but how do we protect ourselves? Fortifying your immune system is one of the best ways to help prevent the flu and other sicknesses, and it can help make it easier for your body to fight off anything it does come into contact with. There are many ways to naturally increase your immune system, and we’ll cover a few of them in this article.

Vitamins

One of the most common things people think of when it comes to preventing and treating cold and flu viruses is vitamin C. Vitamin C is a great choice and it does help increase immunity. However, there are many other vitamins and herbs that can also boost your immune system. Vitamin B6 is a great vitamin to add into your immune-boosting routine, along with vitamin E. Vitamin B6 helps support the immune system, and a B6 deficiency can even cause your body to produce less antibodies which can lead to decreased immunity. Vitamin E is a very powerful antioxidant that helps fight off free radicals and prevent them from causing damage, and it also boosts your immune system, making it easier for your body to protect itself.

Herbs

Some herbs and spices that are good for boosting immune system include astragalus, olive leaf, cinnamon, garlic, and turmeric, among many others. Astragalus can help support the immune system while also increasing your body’s ability to deal with stress. Olive leaf contains antioxidants that protect your body, plus it can help boost heart health. Garlic is another tasty spice/food that is an anti-inflammatory, an immune system booster, and might even shorten colds. Last but certainly not least, turmeric can help fight inflammation, and it can help protect the liver and other organs from toxins.

Probiotics

Around seventy percent of your immune system resides in the gut, so if your gut is not functioning properly, or if you have an imbalance of good and bad bacteria (which is a very common issue) then your immune system likely isn’t functioning at optimal levels. Adding back in the good bacteria helps crowd out the bad bacteria, leading to enhanced digestion, less constipation and bloating, and increased immunity. Eating fermented foods like kimchi can help replace some of that bacteria, but the easiest and most effective solution is taking a probiotic. Supplementing with probiotics can also help ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety because many of our mood hormones are produced in the gut. You’ll be amazed at how much probiotics can improve your overall health.

Recommended Products for Immune Health:

  • Liposomal C – liquid vitamin C supplement with high absorption rate
  • Stress B-Complex – contains several B vitamins, including B6
  • Vitamin E Mixed Tocopherols – contains vitamin E
  • Olive Leaf Extract – contains olive leaf extract, mentioned earlier
  • Garlic 5000 – contains garlic
  • Traumeric – contains turmeric root extract along with other antioxidants
  • Innate Flora 50-14 – probiotic containing 14 different strains of bacteria, and 50 billion total bacteria

Viracid

Our top recommendation for immune system support is Viracid.

Viracid contains vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B12, pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), zinc, astragalus, European elder berry extract, echinacea extract, and a few other natural ingredients. Each of these herbs and vitamins can help provide immune support when taken by themselves, but taken together in a supplement like Viracid, the immune-boosting effect can be much greater. Research supports the claims that these herbs and vitamins boost immunity, and we’ve had many customers report that they took Viracid while everyone around them was getting the flu and colds, but they never caught anything.

Eating a variety of organic fruits and vegetables, and eating plenty of good fats and proteins also improves your immune system, along with your digestive system, hormones, mood, and almost every part of your body. What you eat fuels your body, so make sure it’s good, natural food.

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Fish Oil Fat or Fiction

Janet Lewis:                        Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the Green Wisdom Health Show. I’m Janet Lewis.

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

Janet Lewis:                        And we are bringing you an exciting show about fish oil, which I’m sure all of you know something about or at least have heard of so this is not a random vitamin that you’ve never heard of. This is actually something that’s very commonplace; however, the differences in them are vast. So, this show is titled, “Fish Oil – Fat or Fiction,” and that’s not misenunciated, that is Dr. Lewis’ title. So, with that, Dr. Lewis can you tell us what we’re talking about? What has fat got to do with fish oil?

Dr. Lewis:                            God, I don’t even want to go there yet. It’s kine of like fast food. It’s funny how they slipped the “s” in there instead of calling it what it is, fat food, but we’ll get to that and how that’s related to fish oil in a minute. Where do you want me to start, Janet?

Janet Lewis:                        I want you to educate people about what they’re buying over-the-counter and what fish oil does and is it all the same?

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, I’m going to talk about what fish oil does. Some people don’t believe me and they’ll go get the cheap stuff and we’ve literally seen labs go to heck in a bucket because a person would change and go to a different cheap fish oil that may be contaminated. It’s like I go back to the thing you’ve heard so many times. You know, all women are not the same, I guarantee you. I’ve had the best in the world in Janet and I’ve had … okay, let’s go to fish oil. There’s a lot of things that you need to know and it’s very, very, very important. Sometimes on the internet, you can read anything on the internet. Now they’re saying all fish oil is not helpful, it’s this, it’s that, it’s that they always come back and poo-poo something that’s good. I wouldn’t say be careful what you read, but I’d definitely say be really, really careful what you believe because there’s a lot of people that say things that aren’t true.

Dr. Lewis:                            They used to say smoking actually helped your digestion. They used to have cocaine in Coca-Cola and I’m not sure they shouldn’t bring that back, but you know, that’s another topic. They used to say sugar is good for you. They used to say butter is bad and now they’re saying, no, margarine is bad. They used to say eggs are bad and I don’t know how anybody could believe that, but okay.

Janet Lewis:                        Well, that’s the problem. You hear such positive and negative things from everything now. How do you know what to believe?

Dr. Lewis:                            Believe me.

Janet Lewis:                        I guess research.

Dr. Lewis:                            I do a lot of research and then on that subject, you can get on the internet and read anything you want, good, bad, ugly and in-between. You know, God gave us discerning spirit and I think … I may be wrong, but I think some people have forgotten they have a discerning spirit and they’ve gotten to where they don’t trust their intuition. Intuition, to a big degree comes out of the GI tract, your gut feeling and our guts are so messed up, which we’re going to get into because Eddie, from up there close to Chicago asked a question and we’ll get into that in a minute. But just a few facts on fish oil. You know me. I’m going to go down rabbit trails and I hope you can make sense because I write about two or three hours worth of stuff that we try to cram into a 30-minute show and that’s why I talk fast and that’s the only time I talk fast.

Dr. Lewis:                            This has nothing to do with fish oil, but I’ll lead up to it and this is from some really good sources that says Ritalin is essentially the same as cocaine. Then I’m going to go into why should you take fish oil. The anti-inflammatory properties of fish oil with antioxidants, that’s important. I take the big dog vitamin E, but the antioxidant vitamin E added to it, prevents or helps to prevent immune and autoimmune diseases. There is research out of Harvard that says omega-three fatty acids are vital for the treatment of depression and we’ll get into a lot of different disease processes or symptoms that fish oil could potentially help your body help itself. Of course, the FDA disclaimer, none of this affects your symptoms or disease. Not intended to cure diseases and all that kind of stuff. It’s like, well, of course not, but we have forgotten that our body can.

Dr. Lewis:                            Omega-three fatty acids, and they need to be a good one. The one we use is 393% more absorption than the regular fish oil because of the form and the purity. One thing, it does have antioxidants in it. One thing people don’t really know is some of these places say well it comes from Sweden and Norway and a lot of the good fish oil does, but they catch them little rascals down around, some of them, Central America and South America and by the time they ship it up to Sweden and Norway, all that’s rancid and then they have to use all kinds … you want to say a plethora, that’s a word … I don’t know if that’s correct, of chemicals to decrease the rancid part and then what are you really, really getting?

Dr. Lewis:                            So, there’s also a study that said omega-three fatty acids are a better option than the NSAIDS, that’s non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs which is aspirin, Advil, Tylenol, Naproxen Sodium. It’s a better option than NSAIDS because they have no side effects and they help prevent autoimmune diseases and they also have curative effects. This is also out of Harvard and I keep mentioning autoimmune because that’s going to go back to Eddie’s question on leaky gut.

Janet Lewis:                        Can I talk a little bit about what they’re looking for in a fish oil because I think people would be completely flabbergasted at what the ingredients are in the fish oil and then the next question is well, yours is expensive, but it’s not.

Dr. Lewis:                            No, it’s really not.

Janet Lewis:                        Not when you compare what you’re getting. One of our soft gels, what you want to look for is the ratio of the EPA and DHA ratio on fish oil and if it don’t break it down and it just says it’s combined and makes this amount, you don’t want that. You want it broke down. On our bottle it actually says, which I’m talking about the Orthomega, one soft gel is 950 milligrams. It is broke down by EPA of being 430 milligrams and DHA 390 milligrams and then the additional omega is 130 milligrams so it makes 950.

Dr. Lewis:                            But, keep in mind, that it’s also the ones that through research are 393% more absorbable. And we can get them stronger than that, but we always have a good blend of what you spend versus what you get. If you want it more powerful, we can get it, but this for the price is the best bet by far and that’s what Janet and I take, except I take the liquid.

Janet Lewis:                        The reason we recommend this is because you can see the breakdown on it. You can see that it’s extremely strong. I would ask that you go to your health food store and look and find one that’s equally as strong and I could almost bet you a $100 bill you will not.

Dr. Lewis:                            And then, is it the fake stuff coming from South and Central America.

Janet Lewis:                        And then what we’re wanting to use this for is actually to help move lab values because believe it or not when you’re running your cholesterol panel, which we run on our lab panel, if you’re HDLs on the cholesterol are lower, you’re lacking a good fish oil. A good fish oil will actually help bring that up higher and it’ll actually help put your triglycerides lower. So, you need diet changes as well, but a good fish oil on its own will help bring that down into a normal range, so it’s not about masking it with cholesterol medication. It’s actually about getting the different levels of the cholesterol correct and LDLs on there are more about hormonal imbalances and we’re educating them now a little bit about labs, so when somebody’s running cholesterol, you know, their whole deal is let’s just give you a pill and let’s just make it all right.

Dr. Lewis:                            We use lab because how do you know where you’re going if you don’t have a map or if you don’t have a destination and this will tell you where you are so you know where you want to go and where you need to go. And people say, “But I feel good.” I don’t care how you feel. You can drop dead tomorrow and not ever feel it.

Janet Lewis:                        But I can tell you on our lab and we give them this fish oil, the numbers start getting back right like they’re supposed to be, so that’s what you’re looking for when he’s talking to you about that.

Dr. Lewis:                            And we’ll talk about all kinds of different things, but there’s the differences in DHA. DHA is like, I think it’s a 22 carbon long essential fatty acid and it says essential because your body cannot produce it. And then I treat a lot of vegans and you know, if you want to eat that way that’s fine, but you can’t get this from flaxseed and flaxseed is probably your best plant source of omega threes.

Janet Lewis:                        And explain that a little bit, too, because people do come in here and say, “Well, how about I just take flaxseed?”

Dr. Lewis:                            Well, you better eat a bale of it every day and then you couldn’t digest it and assimilate it and flaxseed is not a bad thing. Well, it’s better if you get it organic and better if you grind it right before you consume it because it can go rancid and I don’t think taking flaxseed’s a bad thing, I take it, but it’s just not complete.

Janet Lewis:                        Well, we just use fish oil because the fish has already broken it down.

Dr. Lewis:                            Oh, good point and I was going to talk about that sometime, about cows. Why not let them use the energy to make the omega threes and that’s the difference between and I might get into it more later, but that’s the difference between grass fed versus grass finished or grain fed. The grass fed beef has extremely higher percentages of the omega threes and the problem in today’s society is we have about a 1:20 ratio of omega threes to the inflammatory omega sixes and nines. It needs to be about a 1:2 ratio to 2:1. We need more omega threes by a long-shot to offset the inflammatory oils and they come hidden in all kinds of things. So, DHA is the one that helps build the brain. If you want a healthier baby, you need to eat the holy heck out of it. Take digestive enzymes. Use probiotics, because you will develop a healthier baby that has a healthier, more well-developed brain and central nervous system, plus higher immune system.

Dr. Lewis:                            There’s a really good book called, “Smart Fats.” There’s another book called, “The Miracle Brain.” And then there’s one, “Eating Well For Optimal Health.” They’re all really, really good books and there’s just tons and tons of studies. I won’t take too much time. I won’t say too much about that, just because I have two or three hours of stuff to talk about and I’ll never get around to it. The linoleic acid which is something that most people say, “Oh, well that’ll turn into-” and the answer is, “No, it doesn’t.” That’s the stuff you get from corn oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower, safflower, peanut, soy and canola. I think you should avoid the holy heck out of all of them except, I’m not so sure about sunflower oil. I kind of like it, when you can get organic sources of it and since socialism works so well, that’s why we can’t get organic sunflower oil much because Venezuela and socialism’s working so good, so beware of what you ask for. You might become Venezuela. But, there’s a lot of chemical processes as it goes through this … some of it’s beyond me.

Dr. Lewis:                            Some of these inflammatory acids, arachidonic acid, is actually inhibited by the EPA in the fish oil, so it stops a lot of the inflammation. Then, if it goes into too much arachidonic acid, then you get into the COX-1, COX-2, COX-3, which causes pain that’s activated by insulin. It just goes on and on and on and the end result is inflammation, immune system dysfunction, vascular disease, pain, degenerative joint disease, fibrosis, fibromyalgia and an increase in free radicals. Okay, enough chemistry, because frankly that’s all I know. You can go to alpha linoleic acid and that’s back into chemistry … that’s the one you get from flaxseed oil and it is converted to EPAs slightly, but it’s better if you get it from the cold water fatty fish because they’ve already used energy to create it through their livers, but it’s incredibly anti-inflammatory and then it’s converted into DHA which is incredible to build the brain, the synapsis, increases the production of serotonin and dopamine. If you’ve got enough serotonin and dopamine, hey you’re a happy camper. Give it to your spouse if they’re grumpy as heck.

Dr. Lewis:                            Okay, this is a Stevenism, so pay attention. Classic inflammation hurts. Silent inflammation kills slowly. Stevenism 101. And that’s the toxic fat. Waiting for Janet to jump in here. I think once she sees me on my soapbox, she doesn’t want me to step down from the pulpit.

Janet Lewis:                        I’m just looking for my opportunity.

Dr. Lewis:                            Go ahead.

Janet Lewis:                        I just wondered if you guys know about all the different things that fish oil does, actually, that’s very good. In fact, actually there’s 13 different things that we have listed here that it helps with and a couple of them I really didn’t know so it was kind of intriguing.

Dr. Lewis:                            It may be a little bit beyond what I just said. I think Janet has a very, very good list.

Janet Lewis:                        Yeah, there’s ADHD which I think you mentioned.

Dr. Lewis:                            And sometimes I have it.

Janet Lewis:                        Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Lewis:                            And Alzheimer’s, not just Alzheimer’s, but any neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson’s, dementia, brain fog, brain fart … oh, I didn’t say it … chronic headaches.

Janet Lewis:                        Anxiety.

Dr. Lewis:                            I’m anxious about it, baby.

Janet Lewis:                        Arthritis. I know it helps joints a lot.

Dr. Lewis:                            Big time.

Janet Lewis:                        Cancer, actually.

Dr. Lewis:                            And since it helps joints, it also helps rheumatoid arthritis because of the autoimmune connection.

Janet Lewis:                        The cancer, it’s been proven that it makes conventional cancer drugs more effective.

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, absolutely.

Janet Lewis:                        But it’s also an effective standalone therapy and natural cancer treatment, believe it or not.

Dr. Lewis:                            And there’s more and more doctors that are being very cooperative with me. I just got a referral from Shreveport from a gastroenterologist and it’s getting better. The MDs and DOs are good people. They do a lot of good things and they’re getting better and better about sending their patients to people like me, not as an alternative to medicine, but as an adjunct and complementary. I’m impressed with the medical profession for doing that.

Janet Lewis:                        It helps with cardiovascular disease which we kind of already knew that a little bit.

Dr. Lewis:                            Janet does like to keep my blood pressure down.

Janet Lewis:                        Diabetes.

Dr. Lewis:                            Say it like Wilfred Brimley. Diabetes.

Janet Lewis:                        Diabetes, or diabet-ees, that’s what they usually say. Eye disorders and I can tell you for a fact when I miss my Orthomega, I know my eyes are more dry. It really does help dry eyes.

Dr. Lewis:                            And after her LASIK surgery, which nobody knows she got, I started looking prettier, but she had dry eyes, so I told her to add borage oil with it and that did a really good job to enhance the EPAs and the DHAs from the fish oil.

Janet Lewis:                        It helps with immune system function because when the antioxidant astaxanthin is combined with fish oil, the immune boosting power is multiplied.

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, and we don’t sell a lot of it because some people they get to their limit before that, but Janet and I take it and she’s way prettier than me, so I think she takes more of it, but astaxanthin’s probably one of the best antioxidants you can take.

Janet Lewis:                        In women, fish oil helps skin and hair, which is the only thing we really care about.

Dr. Lewis:                            I don’t know about testosterone, that’s all men care about.

Janet Lewis:                        All they care about. Women don’t want to lose their hair and they want their skin to look good.

Dr. Lewis:                            But they don’t care if their man has testosterone. Go figure. They just want to look pretty and … never mind.

Janet Lewis:                        It helps with fertility and pregnancy, actually. DHA and EPA play key roles in sperm health and mobility, so somehow it makes them move faster.

Dr. Lewis:                            You make stronger swimmers.

Janet Lewis:                        I guess, along with increasing female fertility and also you need it when you’re pregnant because your baby is taking all of yours and that’s a lot of times what makes women go kind of nutty in the head afterwards.

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, but men, you’ll live longer if you don’t say anything about it.

Janet Lewis:                        Yeah, but give them fish oil because that’s what the baby just took from you and plus you need it when you feed the baby, when you’re breastfeeding because it’ll actually be smarter if it takes it. And the big one, which I think is pretty darned exciting, number 13, is weight loss which Dr. Lewis keeps alluding to in his-

Dr. Lewis:                            You ever seen a fat fish?

Janet Lewis:                        Well, that’s because they’re swimming. Is it not?

Dr. Lewis:                            I don’t know. Next time I catch a catfish I’ll ask him.

Janet Lewis:                        Well, I figured a fish was thin because it’s swimming all the time.

Dr. Lewis:                            Sorry, people. You know, this is the South and we have people that listen from all different kind of countries, so in the south, my friend from Michigan said, “I don’t understand how you catch and eat a catfish.” I said, “Well, you go bow hunting for carp and you eat that nasty thing,” so there are a lot of regional differences, so pardon me if I don’t eat a carp, but I will eat a catfish, the bottom feeder.

Janet Lewis:                        Well, it actually showed the effects of weight loss in fish oil and the combination with diet and exercise in the May 2000 issue of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the results showed that a combination of fish oil supplements and a regular exercise program can reduce body fat while also improving heart and metabolic health.

Dr. Lewis:                            Well, also, it’s because the higher fat content, the more your body feels full and happy and that’s why I’m a big fan of keto. Paleo is okay, but I like keto, because it’s higher fat. It has to be the good fats, though, and it keeps your brain happier and is very anti-inflammatory.

Janet Lewis:                        Yup, it actually helps stimulate the use of fatty acids for the production of energy in healthy adults.

Dr. Lewis:                            And I’ve heard this a couple of times once today and once I think yesterday. Well, I’m on keto and I’m tired. Listen, that’s normal. Your body has to do a lot of conversion to go from burning glucose to burning fat, so just hang with the lack of energy and that’s why we have sold out of Mitocore, which is energy producer, but we’ll get some more and if we don’t get to the questions, we won’t get to the questions, but-

Janet Lewis:                        Oh, no, we’re getting to questions.

Dr. Lewis:                            Oh, okay.

Janet Lewis:                        Because we had several of them and we always asked you guys which, if you’re not a fan on our Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis on Facebook, just either send me an email to janet@greenwisdomhealth.com and we can include you that way or just go on Facebook and ask to be a friend of Shoot’n Straight and that has no “i” in it and no “g.” It’s S-H-O-O-T apostrophe “n.”

Dr. Lewis:                            There we go talking southern for you people that aren’t southerners.

Janet Lewis:                        Right, but we always ask the people in that group give us questions for the show so we can educate you on the things that you’re most interested in. And we have one from Carl, who happens to be a local client of ours and he wants to know how toxins affect vision?

Dr. Lewis:                            You know, there are a lot of toxins that affect vision and I still tell people go to a good optometrist or if that’s not appropriate, go to an ophthalmologist, but I’ve seen people that seem to have a lot of mold intoxication, you know, a dirty building or dirty house, something like that, that can work. Then I had a 94-year-old missionary in here this week. He got toxins from his drugs and woke up blind. Of course, that was just temporary, so worry about drug reactions. But I think seeing an eye specialist and my suggestion is take a lot of vitamin C. We like the liposomal kind because it’s greatly enhanced absorption and take NAC, acetylcysteine, because that helps the liver detoxify, helps create glutathione, helps create energy and with the glutathione it begins to take a lot of the toxins out. I’ve had several people say well, since you put me on this NAC, I see better. It’s like, “Go to your optometrist and measure it, but that’s very possible.”

Janet Lewis:                        And one way you can tell if you’re full of toxins which we always suggest people do lab work, when your liver enzymes are high, your eyes obviously won’t work as well because you’re toxic, but there’s no way for you to know that without seeing it on lab. That’s why we were talking about the cholesterol panel and liver enzymes now. One of the most easy ways is to do the low cost lab panel that we have. It’s 12 different panels, which you don’t ever see that happening at your doctor’s office because they are, by law, not allowed to do that because of insurance. We don’t do insurance and that’s why we run what we want to run because we want to see the body as a whole and not just one to three panels. So we run 12 and one of those 12 panels is a CMP which is a complete metabolic panel and it does have liver enzymes in it, so we’re able to tell if you’re toxic or not. And if the liver enzymes get right, then your eyes will feel much better as well.

Janet Lewis:                        If you’re thinking, hey y’all are in Texas and that’s a heck of a deal, we’re actually able to do that across the United States, so go to our website, greenwisdomhealth.com. You’ll see it on there. It says GWH3 because that includes Dr. Lewis’ consultation to go over the results so he can tell you if you’re toxic.

Dr. Lewis:                            Thirty minutes of lab explanations and Stevenisms.

Janet Lewis:                        That’s right. Also comes with a functional medicine report. It comes with a supplement recommendation sheet so we don’t just leave you in the closet and say, “Hey, good luck to you.” We actually tell you what to take and how to take it and for how long and actually show you on followup lab that it’s better. So, you can’t beat it. There’s usually a lab local to you because like I said, we can run it anywhere. You just have it drawn somewhere close to you and the results come back to us and Dr. Lewis takes it from there.

Dr. Lewis:                            Yeah, unless you live in someplace like Wyoming. I talked to a lady in Iowa. Sometimes the labs are little bit further, but they’re used to driving a hundred miles. She’s about to ask another question, but I’m going to throw this in. It’s off the subject. It’s the flu season. Everybody wants you to get a flu shot and you can or not, that’s up to you, but there are major studies that said over a 3 year period, so that’s a good study, three years, taking 800 IUs of vitamin D and that’s not much vitamin D, not enough, but 800 IUs of vitamin D reduce colds and flu by 70%, so why are they not screaming to high heaven about take vitamin D? And then people went from 800 to 2,000 IUs and that’s still not enough for 99% of the people, 2,000 IUs reduced the instance of colds and flu to nearly zero. There was only one case in 104 users. Vitamin D, folks. And that’s from Epidemiology and Infection. That’s not my opinion. This is from high class medical research.

Janet Lewis:                        Oh, not just the thing you find randomly on the internet?

Dr. Lewis:                            Nope.

Janet Lewis:                        Okay.

Dr. Lewis:                            I don’t listen to that.

Janet Lewis:                        We have just a few minutes left and this next question is from Eddie and he would like to know how to heal leaky gut and how long does it take to heal and how do you know you’re healed?

Dr. Lewis:                            Do you want to answer that?

Janet Lewis:                        Actually, leaky gut is a big problem for a lot of people.

Dr. Lewis:                            A lot of people. Anybody eating genetically-modified grains.

Janet Lewis:                        Yeah, it’s a modern day plague that’s killing us from the inside out. It’s actually caused by food, stress, environmental exposures and a combination of other factors. Basically the large molecules pass through the small intestine into the bloodstream and then the large molecules aren’t sufficiently broken down and are not meant to enter the bloodstream quite yet. They’re supposed to be broken down by the celia in the small intestine, so in essence, the large molecules have escaped the small intestine through leaks between the cells. That causes things like autoimmune problems, debilitating autoimmune problems which, over the last 30 years, have become increased exponentially.

Dr. Lewis:                            Obvious to us. We see more people have it. And Floyd kind of answered this. I answered Eddie with an article from his herbal studies and this is actually from a different study, but you know, Floyd gave a really, really good answer, so thank you for that.

Janet Lewis:                        But we actually have a product now that we are really excited about that goes in and helps to repair leaky gut. I know that it works because I take it myself. The problem is, it’s relatively new. I think we’ve only had it about six or eight months now, so to answer Eddie’s question, I don’t know how long you have to take it before you’re well. I just know when I don’t take it, I feel horrible, so.

Dr. Lewis:                            I’m not sure you’re ever really healed, but you can certainly be greatly, greatly … most of it can be healed and then you can maintain because we get people that have celiac and Crohn’s and they say, “Oh, my God, this better. Oh, my God, they noticed at Thanksgiving how much better I was.”

Janet Lewis:                        Well, it used to be that we only had colostrum, which is an IgG. It protects the intestines by blocking and binding toxins in the gut. The problem with colostrum is that it’s from cows and some people are sensitive and they can’t tolerate even trace amounts of dairy, so we have the new product called SBI. It’s from bovine.

Dr. Lewis:                            Well, even though that is a cow, it seems to be a cleaner source. It seems to be better tolerated and we do have another one if you need to, that comes from eggs. So we use the cow first.

Janet Lewis:                        Yes, but basically it helps things like the leaky gut, colitis, ulcerative colitis, IBS, Crohn’s disease and diarrhea associated with celiac disease, so you have people that tell you they have irritable bowel, the SBI Protect really helps control that.

Dr. Lewis:                            With massive amounts of good probiotics and we have some pretty major probiotics. It works faster.

Janet Lewis:                        And it’s even being used with C-diff and HIV enteropathy infections.

Dr. Lewis:                            And you know one of the other things? We use a lot of Glutashield with great success. There’s another product called Inflammacore for those that want to make a drink in the morning. It’s one of the things I have and I don’t have enough time to read all of the ingredients here, but it has some great immune-boosting products here and we get super, super results. We kind of sell out from time to time. I guess we’re going to have to up the stock we keep.

Janet Lewis:                        The SBI Protect, though, is from a completely non-dairy source of immunoglobulin-G.

Dr. Lewis:                            So, I don’t really know, Eddie, when you know you’re healed, but Eddie also told me his mother-in-law is a whole new person. Because I was talking to Eddie as Janet and I were driving the new RV back from Colorado. This was what? Two or three months ago and I said, put your mother-in-law on this, this and this and he says she’s a whole different person. She can eat. She’s smiling and happy, where she wasn’t before and her personality shines for the better and it’s like, “Well, she’s your mother-in-law, she’s supposed to be lovely,” and he says, “Yes, and now she is.”

Janet Lewis:                        Well, one rule of thumb with healing? It takes a minimum of three months before you begin to heal and then it’s a month for every year you’ve had the problem, so that’s why I tell you, I don’t know how long because I’ve had this all my life and I’m only 29 now, I know, but for the last 20 years of it, I’ve had-

Dr. Lewis:                            There’s a time when I should always keep my mouth shut and I usually don’t.

Janet Lewis:                        So, I haven’t been on it long enough yet to get to that complete healing stage, so we’ll keep you posted on it. And with that being said, we have come to the conclusion of our show again. This goes by so fast. We really appreciate that you’re listening to us and we really appreciate you guys’ questions. Maggie, I know you had a question. I promise we’ll get to it next week. I’ll have Dr. Lewis all sharpened up and honed in.

Dr. Lewis:                            And Brian sent in a good question and that’s a good reason you need to join Shoot’n Straight with Dr. Lewis because you get a lot of information, a lot of experience for other people, so just sign up for Shoot’n Straight and you’ll learn a lot. It’ll be worth it.

Janet Lewis:                        You guys have a blessed week.

 

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The Obesity Crisis

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of you low cost lab work, where you don’t have to guess at what’s going on with your health. We actually test by using lab work to assess where you are with your nutritional values. Speaking of nutritional values, we have a very exciting show today about obesity, because it is prevalent in our society. Today’s show is called The Obesity Crisis, because it literally is a crisis here in America. For those of you listening in other countries, I know it’s not that big of a crisis for you there, because you guys get better food. So Dr. Lewis is going to talk to us today a little bit about why so many of our children are now overweight, when that used to be a very rare thing, and why America itself is so much overweight. With that being said, Dr. Lewis, I’m hoping you’re going to educate us and help us all get skinny.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, I don’t know about that. I promise you today I’m going to go down a lot of rabbit trails. I appreciate your phone calls and emails and the people that drop by locally. We just got an email from a lady named Lisa that said, “I enjoy the information that you and Janet give on these podcasts, and because of that, my son has da da da.” Thank you for listening, for folks out there, thank you for sharing.

Dr. Lewis:                     The best thing sometimes you can do for yourself to get healthy is to help others get healthy. It’s more of a matter of mind and spirit and how you focus that. Yes, you have to do some things physically, too, and I’ve been on a lot of podcasts lately. Going on another one in about 30 minutes. This will be down the rabbit trail I promise you, but what started this was this week we had this thing, you know, it scrolls across Good Morning, America, which Jan and I have trouble listening to, because they’re always very negative. But it scrolled about before long cancer is going to be the second leading killer, behind obesity.

Janet Lewis:                  Wow, really? That’s scary.

Dr. Lewis:                     But there’s a big link between the two. We get people that come in here and say, “Well, if I can just lose weight, everything else will take care of itself.” I said, “Well, if you take care of everything else and get healthy, you’ll lose weight.” The problem is, we’ve become a society where we want it instantly, and we’re not willing to suffer. It’s like, “I’m hungry.” It’s like, “So what? Have you never been hungry?” It’s about courage. Sometimes you just have to have the courage. Like the old thing that says nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. It’s like, well, sugar is my issue, too. I relate it to Mother’s love, when I got off the school bus a million years ago.

Dr. Lewis:                     Cancer is probably the scariest diagnosis you can get, but obesity is like, “Well, we’re not going to do any body shaming. This is healthy, and I’m happy.” It’s like, “Well, I’m glad you’re happy. Yeah, you can get along and do good, but if you’re over weight, you’re not healthy. You’re lying to yourself.”

Janet Lewis:                  Well, I think a lot of it is so many people are overweight that when someone sees someone else that is, they just assume that that’s normal, because so many people are overweight. Where we used to look at it differently. It was like, “Oh, wow. What’s going on with them? Because they’ve gained a lot of weight.” Now it’s just common place to see everybody being large.

Dr. Lewis:                     So our perception has changed. Sometimes we mix up what’s common versus what’s normal. We say, “Well, that’s common, therefore it’s normal.” No, it’s not really.

Dr. Lewis:                     So I’m going to go down a lot of rabbit trails. My apologies to Amanda and to Jonathan. I’m going to do it anyway. I hear this all the time. People say, “But I eat good.” Of course, I’m a Lewis, so I roll my eyes and say, “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” If eating good is getting you this way, you need to start eating Snickers and ice cream. I’m never that impolite, but I gain weight over stress and how I eat incorrectly. Janet, not so much. But people say, “I’m doing everything right.” Some of the people really are. They get at the end of the rope, and they need to lose 40 pounds, but then they come in … Since they’re at the end of the rope, they don’t have the patience to kind of hang in there a lot of times.

Dr. Lewis:                     Sometimes people make food choices, and they’re not really as good as you think they are. Sometimes it makes you bloated and tired. Well, that’s a big indicator you need digestive enzymes. Sometimes people use a butter substitute, and they don’t realize that is super inflammatory oils that you don’t need. They do grains. You want to lose weight? Quit eating grains. You’re supposed to keep your sugars or the high glycemic vegetables down to where you’re only getting about 25 grams. Or you get it under 50 grams a day of simple carbohydrates and sugars, you’ll most likely lose weight.

Dr. Lewis:                     What people do, they say, “Well, I like the salad dressing. I’m eating a healthy salad.” But the little packages of salad dressing, they taste good, so let’s go for two or three. What happens is, it’s full of inflammatory oils, even though you think it’s healthy. Then wash it down with a diet soda. Well, you’ve heard me say aspartame not only contributes to obesity but dementia and all kinds of other things as well. We’ve known that since the 1970s. Why that stuff is on the market, I don’t know. Go talk to your congress about it. These people that are trying to eat healthy, and I applaud the effort, but you still get hungry. Sometimes I can eat a meal, and it’s like I’m hungry later. I find out, well, maybe that meal wasn’t that healthy, and, oh, probiotics. Which I hope I have time to get into.

Dr. Lewis:                     Sometimes people are eating too much and too many calories, but they’re still malnourished. You have to make sure they’re nutrient dense, not calorie dense, but nutrient dense. If you’re lacking in minerals and vitamins and enzymes, you kind of stay a little bit hungrier than you should. One of the things I tell people is you have a life force, you have a spirit, but you’ve got to encourage it and not succumb to discouragement. That’s the big kicker. I’m subject to that, too. Janet’s been a really good help for me.

Dr. Lewis:                     But these diets, they’re pro-inflammatory. Breakfast, sometimes it’s a roll. Well there you go. You’ve got your grains. If you’re eating grains, that’s terrible. If it’s a butter substitute. When I eat butter, I eat real butter. And I mean I eat the holy heck out of it, because the fake butter is 60-something percent inflammatory omega-6 oils. I refuse to eat that stuff. Maybe on the sandwich the meat might be okay, if it’s not full of the nitrates and nitrites. Stay away from grains. I said that, I know.

Dr. Lewis:                     For example, I’ve got this friend. Wonderful, wonderful guy. He goes out and he blesses people right and left. He has a happy, happy life. He said, “But I’m overweight.” I said, “You eat bad stuff.” I said, “Well, you need to quit eating grains.” He says, “Nope. United States Department of Agriculture says do 6 to 11 servings of grains a day.” I said, “When you had an FFA calf, what did you feed it to get it fat?” He said, “Grain. Oh my god, you caught me.” I said, “You’re about to have some sort of heart incident. You need to change your diet, see a cardiologist.”

Dr. Lewis:                     About three weeks later, his girlfriend called me and says, “Dr. Lewis, he’s in the hospital. He had an incident.” Most of us men don’t have heart attacks. We have incidents with our heart. That’s another way we lie to ourselves. She says, “Please don’t tell him I told you so.” I said, “Honey, you know I’m going to tell him I told you so.” He finally did lose, I don’t know, 7500 pounds, but he had to go through his incident before it scared the holy heck of him for him to give up drinking that 18-pack of beer a day and eating all those grains. Yes, beer is made from grain. It’s not really a healthy thing, either. Man, I’m getting personal.

Janet Lewis:                  So is cereal.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s the other thing that people think they can eat every morning, is cereal. I don’t know how many people go, “Really, is that a grain?” Okay, yes.

Dr. Lewis:                     They think corn is a vegetable. No, corn is a grain. I like corn. I do better with corn than I do with wheat. Wheat is one of the nastiest things you can put in your body, for a lot of different reasons. We’re here in east Texas, it’s a heavy Hispanic influence so it’s a give me some chips and salsa. Yeah, it hurts. You can get by with stuff like quinoa and brown rice, and that has some issues. How many people really and truly eat broccoli, spinach, kale, asparagus, and string beans?

Janet Lewis:                  I do! I have it in my smoothie mix that we have here, with all of our greens.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, the Deeper Greens.

Janet Lewis:                  Mm-hmm (affirmative)-

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, that stuff tastes good, too.

Janet Lewis:                  Because if you can’t eat it. Many places don’t serve good vegetables. If you go … I hate to name it. We have a cafeteria here in town that we ate at today, and I looked at their food. They had something called a spinach soufflé, and it was a big square about the size of-

Dr. Lewis:                     She’s saying we. It was me that did it.

Janet Lewis:                  It was about the size of a iPhone, and I thought, “What is in that?” Dr. Lewis ordered it because it looked large and healthy, I guess.

Dr. Lewis:                     It was different. Like a big, big iPhone or two of them.

Janet Lewis:                  I ask them, I said, “What is in a spinach soufflé?” He said, “I think it’s a bunch of cheese.” Which, cheese is good for something.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then I cut into it, and it was like a piece of Wonder bread in the middle of it.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah, I’m like … These vegetables you’re serving here are just not healthy. So that’s why I drink mine.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and we eat good vegetables when we can. I mean, who knows how much of this stuff I’m going to get around to, but butter, yes. Eat butter. Eat butter. Eat all kinds of butter. Make sure it’s good butter. It’s better if it’s grass fed. Organic is much, much better. We eat Kerry Gold. It’s not organic, but that’s about as good as you can get I think, without going organic. Some of the oils that are poison and/or inflammatory is canola, corn oil, vegetable oil. Kind of the jury is out on peanut oil. It’s probably not good. Soy bean oil, oh my god. Stay away from that. Margarine is terrible, terrible. Olive oil would be great, except it’s about 70% of them they say is adulterated, mixed with vegetable oil or canola. So I don’t know what the really good olive oils are. Stay away from canola. That’s terrible.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, let me ramble. Where do you want me to go now? Oh. One of the best things you can do to lose weight, restrict your calories. I had an article up on my wall about 20 years ago that said rats that were left to eat as much as they want lived half the lifespan as rats that had their food restricted to half of the normal calories, and the rats that restricted their diet continued into old age having a really vigorous sex life. Where the ones that ate everything they wanted, they got impotent. Yes, they talk about rats and impotence.

Janet Lewis:                  Wow.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. You should see the look on Janet’s face. Don’t get me started.

Janet Lewis:                  I never know what he’s going to come out with. I don’t know what he reads. He reads all the time.

Dr. Lewis:                     And I got a memory that once in a while works.

Janet Lewis:                  I can tell you, though, from experience, about eating. People say, “Well, I’m just really hungry.” What I’ve noticed, and Dr. Lewis explained this, and I think it’d be great for you to explain it to the audience-

Dr. Lewis:                     I don’t know where she’s going. I hope to god I can bring that up in my memory.

Janet Lewis:                  I hope he does, too. We were eating the other day, and we were eating a healthy taco, as healthy as a taco can be.

Dr. Lewis:                     Minus the corn tortilla, but everything else was great.

Janet Lewis:                  I ordered one taco, and after I got it, I was really disappointed because it was really tiny, because it was a healthier taco. I thought, “Well, okay, I’m going to eat this and then I’m going to go back up and get one more taco, because I just know I’m not going to be full from this.” So I had the taco, and then Dr. Lewis and I started talking. Maybe 10 or 12 minutes went by, or something like that. I thought, “I’m not hungry anymore. I don’t need a second taco.” I told him. I said, “Why is that? I sat here for a little while, and now I’m full.” So would you explain what happens? This is free advice. You don’t have to buy anything. This is something that you can learn to do.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m glad I remembered what she thought I was talking about. Physiologically, it takes about 15 or 20 minutes for all of that to digest to the point that it sends signals to the brain that makes you feel satisfied. That’s why they, you know they is a big word that means nothing, but they tell you to chew very thoroughly, chew many times, eat slowly. Have a conversation with whoever you’re dining with. Slow down. Eat slowly. That way you eat half as much. That’s one of the reasons that I eat a lot less, is because it takes me a long time to swallow pills for some physical and some psychological reasons I guess. By the time I get through swallowing my digestive enzymes in the middle of my meal, I eat a whole lot less just because I’ve spent all that time swishing and swashing and making it go down.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, you know, I’ve tried the thing where you chew so many times. That’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of work, where you can’t hold a conversation with someone and then sit and count how many times you’re chewing this food.

Dr. Lewis:                     But then you get better digestion because digestion starts in the mouth. Most people don’t leave it there long enough for their saliva to begin the digestive processes.

Janet Lewis:                  So maybe if you’re eating by yourself and having lunch, eat some food, read a good book, or read something on your phone. God knows we’re always on our phones. Take some time and read a little something on your phone, and then come back and decide, “Hey, am I really still hungry?” I bet you won’t be. It was really interesting, how much food you really don’t need if you just give it a little time to digest.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, and when you restrict the calories, it doesn’t just work with mice and rats. You know, that works with all sorts of organisms. Even ameba live twice as long if they restrict the calories. The problem is, and I’ve said this before, it’s not a sin to die. It’s a sin to not live while you’re here. It’s I think worse to die young, because it takes so blooming long to learn how to live. You’ve gotta make those stupid mistakes so you can be wise in your older age.

Dr. Lewis:                     Health is in your hands. It’s about responsibility, and it’s about … Responsibility, at least in my definition, means the ability to respond. I said the other day on a podcast, I’ve been a guest on a lot of podcasts lately, but-

Janet Lewis:                  I keep him talking.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh, lord. I’m tired. I need a drink. The guy says, “Well, aren’t you what you eat?” I said no. He was flabbergasted. He was speechless. I said, “It’s not what you eat. It’s what you absorb.” I said, “It’s not what you know. It’s what you do.” Knowing what to do is not the issue. Doing what you know is the issue.” Yes, it takes a little work, and it takes a little courage. You have to kind of put off the pleasure, but the rewards are so much greater further down the road. You have to think about things at the functional age. Your life expectancy is like, there’s so much. If you’re susceptible to disease, the researchers say that you can actually influence your genetic expression. So if you have bad genes, you can influence it by around 90% by changing your environment and changing your diet. Which means get the toxins out, because you’re going to get them in your diet.

Dr. Lewis:                     The keto thing, I’m sorry Janet, I’m going to jump off the rail here for a minute. I had a patient that asked me to explain why they’re having issues with keto. I said, “Well, okay.” The main thing about keto, and I more commonly … I like keto even better than paleo, but I’m more for the high fat, moderate protein, and then copious amounts of vegetables. These percentages will vary. Some people in keto say 70% fat. I’m more like 50% fat, 30% really, really good vegetables, and 20% clean grass-fed or organic or pasteurized meat. People say, “Oh my god, no. Fat makes you fat.” Then I ask them, “Well, 53% fat in your diet is bad?” They say, “It’s a horrible thing. Of course. It’s terrible.” I said, “That’s your mother’s breast milk. So get over the fat thing. Fat is not bad for you if it’s the right fat.”

Dr. Lewis:                     To the two or three people that wanted me to go over the mistakes of keto. Some people think it’s just a quick fix, and you have to kind of make it more of a lifestyle. Which I’ll get into that, another question, in a minute. You obsess over the scale. Most people don’t have the patience. Janet got a text while we were eating that healthy taco about, “I’ve done this for two weeks, and I’m not young, rich, and good-looking. I haven’t got my results.” It’s like, good lord, it’s been going on 15 years and you’re mad because in two weeks your physiology is not changed?

Janet Lewis:                  I think a lot of people are at the end of their rope whenever they come to see us, to start with. The time element is really different for them, because they’ve been-

Dr. Lewis:                     Their patience is less.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah, because they’ve been experiencing it for so long.

Dr. Lewis:                     And I’ve been that way. We all have. I’m just telling you what to do. A keto mistake is eating too much protein. When you eat more fat and you start burning fat for fuel, burning a gram of fat is nine calories, versus burning sugar is I think two or something like that. So your body actually burns more energy, uses more calories to burn fat. Then your brain starts working better. Being afraid of fats, which we talked about. The wrong fats we talked about. Not drinking enough water. My wife reminded me of that this morning. Thank you, honey.

Janet Lewis:                  Sure.

Dr. Lewis:                     Not enough sleep. That’s a tough one. I’ve had some people that say, “Well, I can’t sleep very well.” I say, “Well, try this product.” Some people say it worked real well. Other people say it didn’t work. The ones that say it didn’t work, let’s try something different, are the ones we get good results with. We’ve got some new stuff that is like oh my god. It’s called Kavinace Ultra PM which creates serotonin. We’ll get all into that some day, with the neurotransmitters in the brain.

Dr. Lewis:                     You gotta mix your meals up. I see keto people that they’re on a kick of this is the only meal I eat. Well, you need a little variety. That’s kind of I think physiologically programmed in us, to have differences. Not different spouses, but different meals. Don’t compare yourself to other people. Does that make sense?

Janet Lewis:                  It does. One other thing you might want to mention is people that think that they’re just not able to choose their food because their food, they look at something and the food chooses them.

Dr. Lewis:                     Shiner and Blue Bell and Snickers.

Janet Lewis:                  It’s amazing how much of that comes out of your gut in the wrong probiotics and bacteria. I can tell you, many years ago when the moon would be full, it was like bring on the Mexican food, bring on anything that has sugar.

Dr. Lewis:                     We don’t mean to be racist. We love our Hispanic brothers and sisters.

Janet Lewis:                  Love Mexican food, but you also know when you’re doing too much of it, but you’re craving it and you can’t stop.

Dr. Lewis:                     But it’s high in carbs.

Janet Lewis:                  Right, because it’s a problem in the gut.

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s usually yeast making more cravings. That’s a good point. Janet just ordered me a book about the importance of the microbiome and how it influences us. I’ve got a lot of notes here on probiotics. I don’t know if I’ll get around to it.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, that’s what people don’t know. It’s not their fault that they’re craving those kind of things.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh no.

Janet Lewis:                  If you stick with something long enough and actually change the gut bacteria, you’ll actually start making healthier choices. When the full moon rolled around this time, I wanted vinegary things. So I know something is better, because I’m not wanting yeasty things. That just takes a long time to make those choices.

Dr. Lewis:                     Folks, I want you to know that took so much restraint not to say anything. Okay, let’s-

Janet Lewis:                  His eyes rolled. Go ahead. Just throwing my two cents in. Go ahead with your story.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know, I’ve told some people, and they wanted me to explain the difference between dieting versus being healthy. It goes back to the mental focus. I can tell who’s going to get well by whether they’re focusing on what can be or the ones that won’t get as good of results because they’re focusing on what they have, the ones that have, oh, I was diagnosed 47 years ago. It’s like if you’re still hanging onto your diagnosis, you’re never going to get well.

Dr. Lewis:                     To be healthy, you have to have the mentality that focuses on food for fuel, not food as the enemy. There’s a difference in what you think versus outcomes you get. You have to focus on your good habits, rather than your bad habits. You have to think, “Oh, I’m going to do this forever.” Where if you’re just on a diet, “Oh, I’m going to do this temporarily.” You have to focus and speak things that you want for yourself, versus things you don’t like for yourself. If I do this, I can be a blessing to my family. Versus, oh, well I’m selfish, I want the extra piece of pie that’s in the fridge. Daily choices is you just make a one choice, versus people that says, “Well, I’m going to get on the scale, and if it didn’t change I’m going to give up.”

Dr. Lewis:                     You have to think in being healthy it’s a lifelong journey that pays dividends, versus the people that go on a diet and it’s like, “When can I cross the finish line?” Then they go right back into exactly the problem they had before. Did you know 95%, 95% of people that go on a diet lose weight, end up gaining it back plus some? Which I talked in detail about that on another podcast. So don’t go on a diet. Choose a lifestyle.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, and honestly there are people out there that are eating correctly. They’re doing all the things that you’re talking about and I’m talking about. They really do have something else wrong on their lab.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yes.

Janet Lewis:                  We’ve had several come in here just this week, and they were a little bit overweight. They were wondering, “Well, why do I have all this anxiety? Why am I not losing weight?” Run the lab. We ran several people’s labs. I’m just talking about several in the last week that I’m thinking of, that were trying to lose weight. They came back with thyroids that were not optimal, which means, yeah, your doctor told you is was in range, but it’s not optimal. I had one girl ask me yesterday. She said, “Well, why do they tell you it’s okay?” I said, “Because the range is so large that anywhere in there, if it falls in there, they tell you it’s normal.” Well, that doesn’t make it optimal.

Dr. Lewis:                     They’re confusing what’s common with what’s normal now.

Janet Lewis:                  Correct. Seriously, there are times on the lab that it is really not your fault. You’re doing everything. You’re exercising, you’re doing everything. You’re eating right. We see people with perfect A1Cs, which is a three month blood sugar. They think, “There’s something wrong with my diet.” There’s nothing wrong with their diet. It’s because their thyroid wasn’t right.

Dr. Lewis:                     Or their digestion is terrible.

Janet Lewis:                  Right, or some of them have underlying viruses going on, that their body is trying to fight off, so they’re gaining weight. Some of them are anemic and don’t know they are, so they have high anxiety and then they can’t lose weight because they have no energy at all. Simply fixing their iron, which did not show up on the regular panel because no one ran a ferritin, which is the stored iron. If you’re in that category and you’re thinking, “Hey, I’m doing all these things, and I still have a problem.” You’re not alone. Do the lab.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s why we do it at low cost. We run 12 lab panels right now. It’s available on our website. I put it in the show notes. It’s called the comprehensive panel. It includes Dr. Lewis’s consultation to go over everything going on with you. We include what to take to fix it, and we also give you a functional medicine report so you can see it in black and white with red and green checks on good and bad, about what’s going on with your health. So there’s no reason not to know. If you’re thinking, “Hey, well y’all are in Texas. We can’t do that.” Yes, you can. We do it across the United States. There’s generally a lab that is close to you. We use Quest. All you have to do is go on our website, to GreenWisdomHealth.com, fill out the health survey. Dr. Lewis generally calls you and talks to you about what’s best for you.

Dr. Lewis:                     Because Janet’s working her butt off, and she has less time than I do.

Janet Lewis:                  He’s just so much more knowledgeable.

Dr. Lewis:                     Oh, you’re full of it.

Janet Lewis:                  And he can help figure out which way to guide you or which lab panel is best for you. Then we can figure out, well, why are you not losing weight? So when you put a combination of the right products in, and you keep doing the good things that you’re doing, you start seeing the results that you’re looking for. To see someone’s face whenever that happens is the best feeling for us, because we’ve had another couple of them that’s come in this week that have said, “I’m finally losing weight. I’m not even really having to try. I’m just doing what I normally do, and it’s beginning to really come off.” So you know, there’s two sides to this. There’s people that need to change what they’re eating, and there’s people that are really trying to do the right thing and can’t get over the finish line. So that’s the lab.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s true. So folks, if you have to look at the ingredients, you’re eating the wrong stuff. I’m going to read just a few ingredients here. This is out of a list of 37. Enriched bleach white flour, corn syrup, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated vegetable and/or animal shortening, soy bean, cotton seed, and/or canola oil, beef fat, dextrose, leavenings, glucose, corn starch. Let’s see. Monocalcium phosphate, soy protein isolate. That’ll give you man boobs. Polysorbate 60, soy lecithin, soy flour, cornstarch, cellulose gum, sodium sterol, natural and artificial flavorings, sorbic acid, yellow 5 and red 40, which are known to cause cancer.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s just a partial list. If you have to read something like that, you need to, oh my god, stay away from it. Because that’s a partial list of Twinkies. Never go bad on the shelf, and once on your lips, forever on your hips. So stay the heck away from it.

Janet Lewis:                  If you’re craving that kind of stuff, we have something called five HTP, which is-

Dr. Lewis:                     This is a specially absorbable type, here.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. You’ve probably seen it over the counter, but it’s not this five HTP. This is a pharmaceutical grade which we call the peace of God in a bottle. It really does help cravings. It helps you not want the bad stuff.

Dr. Lewis:                     Many men get it stirred in their coffee, and they do not know it. Honey, are you doing it to me?

Janet Lewis:                  No. And it really helps with OCD.

Dr. Lewis:                     Her eyes said yes.

Janet Lewis:                  No. I personally take up to three of these per day, and it really does help the cravings. It mentally helps you make better choices.

Dr. Lewis:                     Help her put up with me.

Janet Lewis:                  It also helps you lose weight.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, because your mind feels satisfied.

Janet Lewis:                  Right, so we do have magic pills.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. It may not be that easy, and you may need help. You may need some encouragement, and I’m very happy to do that. We all need help from time to time, so the best way for you to lose weight is go out and bless somebody else. Do something really, really healthy. Get your kick out of helping somebody. I don’t-

Janet Lewis:                  Slow down when you’re eating, and visit with people. Put your phone down and have a conversation with someone when you’re having dinner. That’ll help you digest better.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  With that, I hope you’ve digested our show this week. We are open for any ideas you may have about other shows you would like to hear topics on, because we’re full of them.

Dr. Lewis:                     Full of it, yeah.

Janet Lewis:                  We look forward to talking with you.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, we’re full of it.

Janet Lewis:                  We are. You guys have a blessed week.

 

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Heavy Metal and Mold Detox

 

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

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

Janet Lewis:                  And we are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low-cost lab work, here to bring you a show about heavy metal and mold detox. This sounds like something we might’ve should’ve saved for Halloween, but … Sounds a little creepy, but Dr. Lewis is going to make it fun and interesting. And we’ve also got a bunch of questions that we will be answering at the end of the show. So if heavy metal and mold is not your thing, I bet there some other things that you will find very interesting.

Dr. Lewis:                     But it’s kinda funny though that a lot of the questions go hand in hand with exactly what we had already decided to talk about.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. Apparently, this is a big topic that’s trending right now about heavy metals and mold. I guess a lot of people are in the middle of worrying about whether or not they’re filled with them or exposed to mold.

Dr. Lewis:                     You should be. You should be.

Janet Lewis:                  And yeah, it’s kinda different. I wouldn’t expect that people would be interested that much in this. So I’m really excited to hear this show.

Dr. Lewis:                     You’re excited to hear it? You’re part of it.

Janet Lewis:                  I’m excited to hear what you have to say. Because you never know what’s coming out.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s scary. After 18 years of marriage, she’s still in the surprise mode. Sometimes she puts a muffler on. Well, the mold thing is still happening down around Houston because of Hurricane Katrina. Now that Hurricane Joseph, What’s her … Who is it?

Janet Lewis:                  Florence.

Dr. Lewis:                     Florence. Yeah, Josephine, that’s what I thought. Is bearing down on the East Coast, and there’s gonna be a lot of flooding, and our thoughts and prayers go to them. But I tell people your thoughts and prayers are good, but send your money too, or go there and do action. The action step. And the same thing applies in your health. Last time I did my lab I got spanked, and now I’m taking more action. So hopefully we’ll say something that makes sense to you to move you to act so that you know that you’re health and your body can be a blessing to your friends and family.

Dr. Lewis:                     Mold really is a big thing, and it’s not as easy to get rid of, but it’s just painting over it, I suggest you go to professionals and check out several different ones to do that. One of the things that I’ve found, and this has been going on for decades, but some people that have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, infections they can never get over, and Lyme’s disease is growing like crazy. And then you’ve got the Epstein Barr, and all sorts of diseases or infections. It seems to me, and the research supports this, that the people are so full of mold and/or heavy metals that their body can’t take care of the disease or the infection itself. And there’s a lot of research that does support that.

Dr. Lewis:                     So we’re going to go and we’re going to talk a little bit about some of the heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, mercury, lead, et cetera et cetera. I think I’ll include ballium there because very few people know what that is.

Dr. Lewis:                     The heavy metals actually block some of the enzyme system or production, and it causes oxidative stress or reactive oxidative … What’s the word? ROS species, I think is what they usually term. But it stops the mitochondria, and the mitochondria is the energy producing substance inside the cell. It really wreaks havoc on all of that. When the mitochondria is blocked, or maybe it’s full of cadmium, maybe it’s full of lead or aluminum or mercury, it really can’t do its job, and then you get chronic fatigue. And you wake up … And I hear this all the time.

Dr. Lewis:                     The thing about it is, I have people that stick with it, and they may say, “Well, I don’t feel any better. It’s been three months.” Hopefully, I’ll get to this, but somewhere in these notes of the different research articles I’ve read, when I make these notes it says usually it’s a year or more by the time you get your body so detoxified that it actually can begin to function more promptly.

Dr. Lewis:                     And the reason it takes so long is that even though you’re getting out a lot of toxins every day if you’re doing the right things, then the environment puts it back in. And that’s one of the questions that this lady asked. We start with … Well, we’ll talk all about different kinds of things. You take enough nutrients and properly targeted nutrients, your body really can take it and run with it. Then some people call me or email me and say, “Well, this supplement and this supplement and this supplement. You’re adding up and you’re getting so much of this one vitamin or mineral.” I said, “Yeah, but it’s not what you put in, it’s what you absorb.” “Oh, okay.” And then they start getting better because they stick with it.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, I talked about the mitochondrial function, and we’re getting great success with something called Mito Core, or Core Restore. Just remember those, because I don’t think she’s going to tag them. She does the hard, heavy work over there. When it blocks that enzyme, halts the production, creates more oxidative stress, and I can see potential signs of that on the lab.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the things I’ll talk about is we know about the lead paint. Don’t lick the walls, and don’t let your kids eat two led chips. And they don’t put lead in the paint anymore, but it’s still very prevalent. And also mercury. And both lead and mercury cross the blood-brain barrier. Well, aluminum dust too, and it goes into Alzheimer’s or one of the many possible reasons for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and degenerative, neurodegenerative diseases. But it crosses the blood-brain barrier.

Dr. Lewis:                     One of the things that Janet puts in my drink every morning is something called magnesium threonate, because it’s only magnesium known that actually crosses the blood-brain barrier and helps displace things like aluminum, lead, and mercury, and gives you a better functioning brain.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve seen people that talk about anxiety. And I get phone calls and emails and then that. It’s like, “I have anxiety, what do I do? There are certain things that can help your body create the neurotransmitters, but at the same time, while you’re doing that and quelling the fire of anxiety, you also want to take some things that will bond with these metals and carry them out of the body.

Dr. Lewis:                     You’ve heard of the Mad Hatter in, what is that? Alice in Wonderland or something like that. That’s … A long time ago, the people that made hats, you know, those felt hats, but it was full of mercury. And there are people that have died because the cans, the canned goods were sealed together, soldered with lead. And after a time of extra exposure, then it got to be too much.

Dr. Lewis:                     The question is … And our government tries to tell you how much is safe and it’s like well, none of it safe. I don’t know why you have an upper limit of that. But why is it some people can be exposed and not have a problem, at least obvious, and other people can be exposed and all of a sudden they start losing her IQ points, they get dementia, they get brain fog, they get anxiety, they get chronic fatigue syndrome. Well, that’s because people … Those people do not have enough nutrients to detoxify their body.

Dr. Lewis:                     Arsenic … I love arsenic. It’s really good. I’ve got a friend that raises chickens. And he says, “I would never eat one of the chickens that I raise.” I said, “Why not?” He says, “Well, they won’t tell us what is in the feed and they won’t tell us what’s in a lot of the things,” because the chicken farmers do not own the chickens. They just raise the chickens. He’ll eat chicken that’s raised in his backyard, but not the ones that’s raised in his chicken houses. What people don’t know is it’s in the water supply, and it’s in chickens, it’s sprayed on the chickens to fight against the mites. It’s in the feed.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’ve got another friend that has made millions going and pumping chemicals into the water supply, the chicken houses, because these particular chemicals cause the chickens to bloat up and get fat faster. It’s not that I don’t eat chicken, and I try to do the organic and free range and all that when I can. But when I can’t, Janet and I are taken enough digestive enzymes and vitamins and minerals to displace or offset the things that we take in, because you have to eat something. So I tell people, “Don’t get paranoid, just take positive steps to do something about it.”

Dr. Lewis:                     Some of these heavy metals interfere with – maybe all of them – interfere with the GI tract and interfere with your microbiome. And that means your GI tract is not full of good probiotics like it should be, and that will improperly mess with tumor suppressor pathways. That’s scary because, oh well, if you don’t have that working, you’re more prone to grow tumors.

Dr. Lewis:                     All of these things deplete something called glutathione, because glutathione is kind of the master antioxidant that comes from the liver. And you can take things besides glutathione to help your liver make it. But when it depletes glutathione, you’ll feel sluggish. And sometimes if Janet and I feel a little sluggish, she’ll give me a shot of Liposomal Recharge. And that tastes nasty, nasty, nasty. Actually, I like the taste of it, but most people say, “Oh my god.” But boy, about 30 minutes later I get such an incredible burst of energy. You can just take NAC or inositol cysteine that helps the liver make glutathione. And again, glutathione is the major antioxidant. So it will take these heavy metals, grab them, and allow your body to transport it out or detox.

Dr. Lewis:                     Aluminum is a big one. I talked about that in Alzheimer’s. What people don’t really realize is it binds to glyphosate, or Roundup, and Roundup is in everything. It’s already been known to be in some of your so called organic flowers. People that act like they’re organic, and they probably are better than the regular flour, but … I mean, they even spray glyphosate on cotton for god’s sake to defoliate it because it’s easier to go through, and the combines have less trouble because there are no leaves on it. And that does all kinds of things, and that messes with your gut barrier, deposits in your kidneys and your brain.

Dr. Lewis:                     Think about that folks. If it’s messing with your kidneys, have you not noticed in the last 10, 20, 30 years the great proliferation of dialysis centers? There’s a reason for that. And that’s not the only reason, but that’s one of the more obvious reasons.

Dr. Lewis:  There are many, many, many things you can do. And I can’t wait to get to those questions too. It’s going to be kind of interesting.

Dr. Lewis:                     I guess we should talk about mold maybe for a little while.

Janet Lewis:                  I think mold is kind of interesting and scary all at the same time. I guess I don’t usually think about being inundated with all the toxic a mold and things, but you do look up at your air conditioning system and see the vents and see the little black things that are coming out of the vents.

Dr. Lewis:                     I noticed that in our laundry room the other day. I forgot to tell you. So we need to get somebody check that.

Janet Lewis:                  Well no, I’m noticing that now since you’re talking about this. Because that’s something that’s … It’s’ moisture in the air, which leads to moisture inside the system, which leads to bold growth.

Dr. Lewis:                     So you have to have a good air conditioner man.

Janet Lewis:                  And it spews out mold spores into your living space.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, when you go to your house and you start coughing and hacking, your eyes burning, you’re wheezing, it could be mold exposure. And that’s something you should have checked.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s true. Other signs of mold are headaches.

Dr. Lewis:                     Not your spouse.

Janet Lewis:                  Chronic fatigue, fever-

Dr. Lewis:                     Probably.

Janet Lewis:                  … eye irritation, sneezing and rashes, and chronic coughing. I think that’s kind of interesting that maybe you ought to be looking around for mold and it may be places that you’re not really thinking it is. You always suspect in the bathrooms because you see it on the tile and that kind of stuff.

Dr. Lewis:                     The shower curtain.

Janet Lewis:                  And then what do you do? You spray it with Clorox trying to kill it, and then you walk in on top of that with bare foot, and get those chemicals from the Clorox.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. Well you’re smelling it. One of the things you can do is get into a good essential company and start spraying it down with tea tree oil. There’s a lot of essential oils that do a wonderful job at helping kill that. And mold and fungus and yeast are similar, kind of like first, second, and third cousins I guess. It’s generally hard to recognize and hard to diagnose. And I tell people … You’re wanting to test, and it’s easier and less expensive just to treat it and assume that. It’s less expensive to take the really, really good supplements than it is to test, test, test, and retest. But some people like to do that. They test, but they don’t really do much about it.

Dr. Lewis:                     I would just say, “Okay, well you’ve got all these symptoms that may fit different categories, but it’s obvious because your house got wet in Hurricane Katrina or whatever.” And now we’re going to have that problem on the East Coast of America. And god, I got so many people from Houston just because of that, and Houston area. Now I guess I’ll get more from South Carolina, North Carolina, et cetera, et cetera.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, I know you haven’t mentioned this product, but there’s one that I really like to take, and I take it daily because of that. It’s called HM Complex, because it really does help pull out the heavy metals. It’s not so much mold, but the heavy metals.

Dr. Lewis:                     It creates glutathione though. So yeah, that makes sense to me.

Janet Lewis:                  But Dr. Lewis likes just going right to the heart of the matter.

Dr. Lewis:                     The nasty tasting one. And I don’t think it’s that bad. Sometimes people say, “How does it taste?” And I tell him, I said, “If you have to ask how it tastes, you’re not serious about getting well. Just go glug, glug. Swig it down, say thank you, god, because I’m about to be healed. Have some courage.”

Janet Lewis:                  But there are some natural things that you can do to help with black mold symptoms, like raw garlic.

Dr. Lewis:                     Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Janet Lewis:                  You do two to four grams of fresh garlic per day. Now no one else may want to be around you, but …

Dr. Lewis:                     But now let me just say this. It’s gotta be fresh. You need to crush it first, because that gets all the enzymes going. Most garlic pills do not work. It has to be enteric coated to get beyond the stomach for it to work.

Janet Lewis:                  There you go. Charcoal, which I personally like. I always carry charcoal even when we travel, because it absorbs all kind of nasty stuff.

Dr. Lewis:                     She took some the other day when we were on vacation.

Janet Lewis:                  And it’s interesting later because it’s very hard to pass. So make sure you take something that helps push it through.

Dr. Lewis:                     But you’ll notice when you pass it because it’s the same color.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah, I’ll be kind of black. Chlorophyll. That’s a fun one. Most people don’t realize they can take chlorophyll. We have a liquid chlorophyll that we prefer. It tastes spearminty.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. And makes your tongue green. And it’s full of magnesium, which we’ll get to in a minute.

Janet Lewis:                  Yes. And it really helps clean the blood. Other things you need to do, which I guess this is for everything. Cut out sugar, because it makes black mold worse.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, it feeds mold yeast and fungus. And I’m an expert at that because I had it, and it was a horrible. I bled out of my armpits, my fingertips, and places you don’t want to hear about for six years. And Janet was really, really good. And I took some of those drugs. I’m not anti-medical at all. I took some of those drugs where it almost killed my kidneys, and I was a urinating blood, and Janet’s stepmom, the nurse, said, “Steven, you’re about to die of kidney failure.” I said, “Yeah, I know, but I’ve got an elk tag, and my daughter wants to shoot the elk and tag the elk with my tag.” If you are a game warden, listening, I’m just making that up. We didn’t do anything illegal. And I went and got her and elk in spite of those drugs. Almost killed my kidneys. And it was terrible.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s another thing. There was a big recall of her drug recently, and I’ll be brief. But this drug I got, it was ordered out of Canada because it was less expensive, came out of New Zealand, and boy, my MD was pretty angry at me. He says “It won’t work because they counterfeit it.” You know what? He was absolutely right. So be careful about what drugs you take, and take your physician’s advice about what to get.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, I wish when you had that going on that I would have known about this product. I guess it wasn’t around then. But we have a pretty good product here called Core Support. It’s French vanilla flavored. And if you’re looking for something to help detoxify, we’re recommending that, because it comes with a powder. It’s a detox powder, but there’s actually some fiber in it and protein. So you can use it as a meal replacement. One meal, not every meal, for you weight loss people out there. There are some capsules in it as well. And it’s a kit, and it lasts seven days, and it comes with this cute little hand mixer in there that’s battery operated. We have one at home and we just love it. But you can do this quick little cleanse that’s a week long. And I wish I would’ve known this, and I would’ve put Dr. Lewis on this whenever he was suffering from all of that issue many years ago.

Dr. Lewis:                     But she put me on so much stuff it saved my life.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. But it’s called Core Restore. I want to make sure that we get a chance to answer all these questions, so I think we’re going to jump over to that, and if we get some more time we’ll come back and talk about more mold things, but some of these questions have got to do with mold and heavy metal detox.

Janet Lewis:                  We have Brenda that’s local to us here, and we love Brenda. She’s doing the keto diet but has not found an alternative sweetener that doesn’t leave an aftertaste. One of our other patients, Tara, is kind enough to jump in and help answer that.

Dr. Lewis:                     All the way from Florida. Hi Tara.

Janet Lewis:                  Because she’s doing keto as well. But Dr. Lewis, we’d like your opinion about what a natural sweetener should be for some of the recipes.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, since we very rarely cook, how would I know? And then it’s not sweet stuff. I think monk fruit’s probably okay. And stevia. Of course, some brands taste much better than others. I weened myself off all of that, and I thought I’d never liked coffee without sugar, and then I went to agave nectar. Of course the organic stuff. And then I can’t stand coffee with any kind of sweetener. Your taste buds will change once you change the flora in your GI tract and kick out the yeast that’s a craving that stuff. So just kinda … Sorry Brenda, just suffer through it until your taste buds change a little bit.

Janet Lewis:                  And that’s really true. As you get healthier and kill down the yeast, you don’t want it. Yeah, I was talking to my daughter about that last night. She goes, “You don’t like going to Dairy Queen to get blizzards anymore?” And I said, “I can’t stand them because they’re really sweet.”

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s 20 years ago, we might’ve done that.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. And I was like, “I can’t do it.” And it does. As you get healthier and healthier, you really don’t want the sweet stuff anymore.

Dr. Lewis:                     Brenda is doing a good job. And lord, I love seeing her come in here, because she’s got the prettiest smile in east Texas. Just come on in.

Janet Lewis:                  That’s right. And Tara, I guess because Dr. Lewis is a chiropractor, she would like for you to discuss the benefits and types of adjustments that are best. Why do you go to a chiropractor and what types of adjustments are the best?

Dr. Lewis:                     Depends on what you prefer. I practice Gonstead diversified, you know, the Osseous movement, but not overly rough. You have to be careful about that. Never go beyond the physiological limits of the joint itself. Now all chiropractic techniques work. Some I like, some I don’t. Janet and I were in a horrible boat wreck about 18, 19 years ago. The kind where you sit up all night crying even after taking the Xanax because it almost killed us and a couple of kids. After fighting the river for eight hours in a boat, the raging river. Anyway, we were beat up, I lost my billfold with my elk tag and a whole lot of money. Still in the bottom of the Dowagiac River in Michigan.

Dr. Lewis:                     Anyway, my friend that we were up there with, he was a chiropractor, and he says, “Well, do you want me to adjust you the regular way, or do you want me to do the activator?” Now the activator is a very legitimate, good technique. I said, “You’re the doctor, I submit to you.” And he did the activator thing. Click, click, click, click, click, click. He says, “What do you think?” And again, it’s a very legitimate technique. And I looked at my friend who’s like a brother, and I said, “If that’s all there is to chiropractic, I’ll take a cold beer.”

Dr. Lewis:                     I like the osseous adjustments, but not the rough ones. And activator works. I send people to a lot of activator practitioners here in Longview that are really good at it.

Janet Lewis:                  Very good. My husband happens to be the best. He’s retired now, but he’s still the best. Also, Tara would like to know what are your thoughts on the carnivore diet?

Dr. Lewis:                     I know people that have done it, and believe it or not, their cholesterol gets much better, and I’ve seen the lab before and after.

Janet Lewis:                  Is that just eating all meat? Yeah. Mostly.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m more of a fan of the keto, paleo, South Beach. I think more vegetables are better. Now they need to be the low glycemic, and it’s, for god’s sake, get organic as much as you can. I’m more of a high-fat fan than I am high meat. Fat burns better.

Janet Lewis:                  Well, it’s great for your brain too.

Dr. Lewis:                     Absolutely.

Janet Lewis:                  Okay. Tricia would like to know why does your metabolism slow down when you get older, or is that just a myth? And she’s got a double question here. And is there a way you can enjoy that glass of wine or beer or other carbs, sugar drink without adding a mac belly to your figure? She has a great sense of humor.

Dr. Lewis:                     I can tell Tricia that … I can tell you slowed down because I hadn’t heard from you in a long time. She’s absolutely incredible, sense of humor. I think you slow down not because you’re getting older, I think you slow down because your body has accumulated more toxins. I’m 63 and I feel 35, but I take a lot of supplements for it, I spend a lot of money, and Janet will not tell me how much I spend on myself because I’d probably quit. She can spend anything she wants on her. But it’s worth it. It’s an investment in feeling good. I can just run round and round and round.

Dr. Lewis:                     Can you have alcoholic beverages? I think so. I like a good cold beer. It’s coming up on a weekend. I’m gonna have a couple. But to be healthier, Janet and I use a base of freshly squeezed lime and Perrier water with … She likes a Ciroc vodka with some Grand Marnier. But we don’t do much.

Janet Lewis:                  Yeah. Beer will make you fat. You can’t keep doing beer because it’ll make you fat because of the grains.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, a little bit. And the light beer has a tendency to give you man boobs if you’re a man because of the way they filter it, and it’s more full of plastics and estrogen mimickers. She’s had bartenders change to dark beer for that reason.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know, Trish, just give me a call. I miss you. Great sense of humor. Then, Maggie, you gotta love Maggie. She is so consistent doing her stuff, and she’s got some incredible results from it. She said, “Do I have any thoughts on Dupuytren’s and diet?” No, I really don’t. Dupuytren’s contracture, or any kind of a scar forming disease, I’ve seen some research that says it can very easily be a deficiency of iodine. And I’ve seen people that would get the scarring, like the keloid scarring. And you get them on the right amount of iodine, most of them do much, much better. And I know that for a fact with two people in my family, up close and personal,

Janet Lewis:                  But Maggie does say on a footnote that her hair cut from her hairdresser for the first time in about a year. She’s been on supplements for a year and a half now.

Dr. Lewis:                     Consistent, folks, Maggie’s the one.

Janet Lewis:                  Her hairdresser told her her hair is thicker and there’s not any more gray in it since the last time she saw her. So see, you can slow down aging. I really think that’s true with doing the right supplements.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, consistently, because it does take a long time to detox because the environment does put it back in. But on iodine, you have to be careful. And there are some so-called experts that say you need to take massive amounts of it. Well, you have to understand, folks, that massive amounts of iodine can actually suppress the thyroid. You have to get with some sort of functional medicine doctor and figure out what’s right for you because no one size fits all. It does not exist that way.

Janet Lewis:                  And Eddie would like to know about red light therapy, the pluses, and minuses, and that goes with our detoxing here.

Dr. Lewis:                     That we didn’t get into. The infrared and far infrared saunas are really, really good for detox for different reasons. The red light therapy, I’m still investigating. And every company says, “Oh, mine’s the best because of this, this, this, and this.” And I don’t know the truth of it. I’m still in the middle of investigating it. I think red light therapy is really good. I had one used on me many years ago when my elbow was dying because I was adjusting too many patients, and it worked. It was developed by NASA. And it helps the mitochondria create energy.

Dr. Lewis:                     I hinted to Janet that I want one for Christmas, and Eddie said he’s been hinting to Evelyn, his wife, too. That question’s all way from Illinois.

Janet Lewis:                  These must be very expensive items.

Dr. Lewis:                     You’ve bought me guns that cost less than that.

Janet Lewis:                  Okay.

Dr. Lewis:                     Okay. Maybe like the cost of an expensive gun, honey.

Janet Lewis:                  Eddie let us know how that works out.

Dr. Lewis:                     I think they’re great, I think it’s a good investment, and they charged 50 or 100 bucks at these salons to do it. Women do it for wrinkles and all that kind of stuff.

Janet Lewis:                  Okay. And our last question, which we sort of answered, Krista asked what is the best and quickest way to detox? Again, we go back to the Core Restore, the seven-day kit, because you don’t have to think about it and it’s all in there, and most people don’t want to do it very long. And that’s a week’s supply of product.

Dr. Lewis:                     But you’re not totally detoxed, but you can normally tell a huge difference in seven days if you do it right. But you want to continue it every day.

Janet Lewis:                  Correct. So you have a few minutes left. Or about a minute left. Would you like to add something in?

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, you know me. Janet got an email from a patient this morning that we just put on a lot of stuff yesterday. It’s a sweet, sweet lady I’ve known for years. She just got on it yesterday and she says, “How long do I have to stay on all these pills?” I’ve had preachers asked me that. “How long do I have to stay on this?” “Well, how long do you have to read the Bible, and how long do you have to pray, and how long do you want your people in your church to put money in the collection plate?” And the preachers look at me and say, “Wow, you’re a little harsh.” I said, “No, it’s just a good analogy.”

Dr. Lewis:                     I think you should do it forever.

Janet Lewis:                  With that being said, we will have many more podcasts, I guess. Again, thank you for listening to this week’s show, and if you guys have topics you would like to hear, please write to us. You can friend us on Facebook with Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis, and he can add you into the conversation. It’s kind of cool.

Dr. Lewis:                     That’s where these questions come from. Shooting Straight.

Janet Lewis:                  It is a closed group, so you have to ask to be included. But you guys let us know what you’d like to hear, because we enjoy these questions, and hope you have a very blessed week.

Dr. Lewis:                     Thank you.

 

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The Miracle Magic of Magnesium

Janet Lewis:                 Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Green Wisdom Health Show. I’m Janet Lewis.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m Dr. Lewis.

Janet Lewis:                 We are bringing you an exciting show about the miracle magic of magnesium. I know you guys have always wanted to know about magnesium, and it’s one of those minerals that’s very important in our health. I believe it does over 300 different functions in your body, and it’s something people desperately need but it is also very important that you get the right kind of magnesium. Dr. Lewis is going to educate us a little bit today about what kinds are out there, what you need, and what it does for the body that you might not know.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, there are a lot of different kinds of magnesium, and I caution people to stay away from the types of supplements that have phosphate, sulfate, oxide. Those are not really good forms of anything. It’d be great if you put them on your plants and let the plants convert it to something that you can deal with. That’s why Janet and I ask so many people, “Well, how many times do you have a bowel movement per day?” If it’s one a day or less, then we put you on magnesium citrate. Citrate is a very good form, but it’s also very hydroscopic, and absorbs or attracts water, which gives you a tendency to have more bowel movements. You do have to be careful, because even if four a day is right for you, if you start out at four a day, you might have to go to the bathroom too much. There’s a lot of different types, and there’s a dimagnesium malate, and then there’s the citrate I talked about, but some of the better minerals are called traacs, T-R-A-A-C-S, and that’s a registered trademark. It’s more absorbable.

Dr. Lewis:                     Then you’ve got magnesium lysinate, magnesium glycinate. They’re a little more gentle. For people that have, say, high blood pressure, well, you need to put them on something that’s a little bit slower to absorb, which would be the glycinate and the lysate. Malate would be good, or a combination of them, so I’m gonna just, and you know me. I’m gonna ramble.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, I think it’s interesting to note that they say there’s an 80% of our American society that is deficient in magnesium, so, while you’re thinking, “Oh, magnesium sounds so boring,” if 80% of you guys out there are deficient in it, we just think maybe you should be educated a little bit about why you need it, and what all it can do. Many times it can do things in place of many of the drugs that you’re taking. It may be something that you’ve just never thought of, or maybe you thought, “Hey, it gives me diarrhea so I don’t want to do that,” so maybe you could discuss a little bit about what forms of that do that, and what we give versus what people are generally used to getting.

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, again it depends on how often you have bowel movements, and I always tell people this is complimentary, not alternative, but I’ve had a lot of people, it’s like, well, if you take this and then your blood pressure begins to go down, then you need to talk to the physician that put you on the drugs to make any changes there. Far as in the foods, it’s in dairy products, it’s in fish, meat, and seafood, and I treat a lot of vegans. They just really, they have trouble getting enough nutrition to make them healthy. Other sources of magnesium are like apples, apricots, avocados, and bananas. Now, bananas are known for their potassium, but they have a lot more magnesium too. Many of you have heard the story about my conversation with the organic farmer that said he feels great on my supplements and feels terrible without them. He says, “But I eat totally organic,” and I said, “Yeah, but you still don’t know if it’s one part per million or 16 thousand parts per million of magnesium, molybdenum, manganese,” because you don’t know where they’re grown and how much they’ve lost during the transport of these foods. It’s really, in my opinion, pretty much impossible to get proper nutrition out of your food itself.

Dr. Lewis:                     I read a lot of books and I read massive amounts of research, and then there’s research that’s actually skewed and it’s not real research. It’s just a con job, so you have to be able to discern that. I actually pay a lot of money to go to seminars to help people that are more of a research scientist help me decide what’s real and what’s not, and pay a lot of money to do that too, so I hope you all appreciate that I get knowledge from people that are more knowledgeable than me in certain areas. Actually, I usually quote the research that says, the government said at one point that we were 94% deficient in magnesium, because 94 sounds a little bit more alarming than 80%, and again, you don’t know if you’re getting it or not. Even doing the RBC magnesium test, which is way, way more accurate than the serum, it is rare for somebody, even taking magnesium, to ever come to a point where it’s on the high end of normal. It’s really, really rare, so.

Dr. Lewis:                     Some of the reasons that I think you should try it, it’s a catalyst in the enzymes, the 300 activities that Janet talked about. Not totally, but it’s pretty heavily involved in energy production enzymes. It has a lot to do with absorption of calcium and potassium, and that’s very important too. If you don’t have enough magnesium, then you have like a nerve impulse that doesn’t go as fast as it should. It interferes with nerve impulses, and that can cause irritability. Yes, I’ve seen, even kids with ADD/ADHD, and their mother would sprinkle it in something to get the kid to take it. Usually it’s apple sauce, hopefully organic, or stir it in their yucky yogurt, because most yogurt’s not any good at all, but if you’re going to stir in magnesium, stir in probiotics too, which I hope to get some of that. We usually run out of time before we run out of notes. I make notes for about a three or four hour show, and this is 30 minutes.

Dr. Lewis:                     If you have PMS, you know. I’m a chiropractor, and women would come in and say, “Oh, my menstrual cycle hurts me so bad.” Well, adjusting them and working with the muscles, and that helps a great deal. Even my daughters would come in and say, “Well, I’m about to start my period,” and I’d adjust them and they’d feel better, but I’d also encourage them to take magnesium. Then they would just breeze through their period with about a 90% reduction in pain and cramping.

Janet Lewis:                 Isn’t that interesting, that that can be what’s missing. I know that many times when a young girl or a woman craves chocolate, that it’s usually the magnesium that they’re trying to get from that, and they do that around their cycles.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, magnesium and also serotonin, which is the feel-good, happy hormone. Janet always says I’m the female in the relationship because I jump on chocolate and she doesn’t care on way or the other, so. Yeah, I’ll be the female if you give me chocolate.

Dr. Lewis:                     Depression, dizziness. Yeah, dizziness, muscle weakness, and although we’re talking about magnesium, those people that are out in the hot sun and they get an increase in vitamin D plus they’re trying to sweat and all that, one of the things that happens is you get the intracellular calcium that actually comes out into the bloodstream, and then that’ll cause cramping and heat-strokes and sometimes even death. Since we’re all mineral deficient, people that are out there sweating sure needs to take a lot of different minerals. I got too hot the other day, out messing with the RV, getting it ready for vacation. I came in, I was shaking like crazy, and I told Janet, I said, “Yeah, I got overheated.” She said, “I wondered where you were,” so she immediately fixed me up a concoction of electrolyte energy with extra magnesium and calcium and potassium, and I sat down. I was good to go in about 20 minutes, so minerals are extremely important because you’re just not going to get enough out of your diet. I don’t care if you do eat organic, it’s just not enough.

Dr. Lewis:                     PMS or dizziness or irritability, whether that’s male or female, you might try magnesium. I personally like the reactive magnesium, because it has so many forms. I think that’s better, unless you’re just really chronically constipated. Then I’d go for magnesium citrate. I actually take some at night because it calms you down, and takes a lot of acidity out of the body and you sleep more peacefully. It takes care of many people that have restless leg syndrome. It’s just, you know it’s missing so you might as well just throw it in there.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, I also think it’s interesting that people that have AFib, isn’t that one of the missing things for that, is magnesium as well?

Dr. Lewis:                     You know, in a lot of areas. I put them on magnesium immediately and tell them to go see a cardiologist, but usually, or many times by the time they get to the cardiologist the AFib’s gone away, but there’s a lot of other conditions that can relate to that, so that’s when a cardiologist should be involved. Magnesium, there’s a lot of research that says it will dissolve calcium and phosphate kidney stones, and I see on Facebook all these people have put their woes on Facebook, and I’m thinking, “I’ve got the answer,” but I don’t usually say anything because I’m not asked. We’ve got a friend that’s down there getting his kidney stones blasted today. Nothing like spending two grand to, maybe 10 grand sometimes, to get that done when you could’ve just taken magnesium and sometimes B6 and potassium, to prevent it.

Janet Lewis:                 I think that’s an interesting topic, because there’s a lot of people that have kidney stones and they think that’s just something they suffer with, so you’re saying magnesium is actually a part of that?

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, there’s different research. The quick answer to that is yes, that’s what I’m saying. There’s research that says activated B6 or P5P will help with that, and then there’s research says that if you give them one pill of potassium citrate per day … When people have it bad, they have kidney stones, I say, “Well, see a kidney specialist of course, but take … ” I put them on everything, the P5P, the proper form of magnesium, and the potassium, and one of the big hints is if you have calcium oxalate stones in your urine, it’s like, well, you’re very, very likely to form kidney stones if you don’t have them already.

Janet Lewis:                 You know this how?

Dr. Lewis:                     Calcium oxalate crystals in the urine.

Janet Lewis:                 How do you see that?

Dr. Lewis:                     You’ve got to do lab. You know, guess, guess, guess, and I talked to a jillion people yesterday, and I have about that many to talk to today. You can’t really piecemeal it and halfway do it. One woman said, “Well, I’m doing this person’s because they said this, and I’m doing this other person’s vitamins here and I want your opinion,” and it’s like, you know. Goes back to the old adage of too many cooks spoil the soup. She won’t get as good of results as somebody that says, “Hey, just do my lab work and tell me what to get on.” I had a man yesterday, he’s 81. He says, “I’ll just do whatever you say.” I said … He’s like, “Hey, whatever,” and he actually is a suck-up. He said, “Is that Janet out there? Is that your daughter?” I was like, “Yeah, well, you need a new eye doctor,” but, he was actually flirting with Janet because she does look a lot younger because she takes a lot of supplements, so.

Janet Lewis:                 I believe you just took my compliment away, with an eye doctor. I think his eyes were perfect.

Dr. Lewis:                     I’m sorry honey, I was wrong. Yeah. Well, he was messing with me, but, you know. The thing about magnesium, and I talked to a pregnant lady yesterday and she’s going to go ahead and get her lab work and get something done, but there’s a study that’s published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that said there’s a 70% lower incidence of mental retardation in children of mothers who take magnesium supplements during pregnancy. You can reduce the incidence of mental retardation 70% by taking magnesium. Of course, there’s other things you need to take. The incidence of cerebral palsy was 90% lower with magnesium supplements, and again, don’t take magnesium oxide. That’s not a good form at all.

Dr. Lewis:                     One form I have not talked about and probably should, because Janet puts it in my drink … Thank God, she loves me enough to throw stuff in. I generally don’t know what she throws in it, but there’s a patented magnesium called magnesium L-threonate, and that’s very, very important because it’s the only one that they know for a fact can cross the blood-brain barrier. If it crosses the blood-brain barrier, what does it do? Binds with mercury and aluminum, which is very, very common toxins that are injected into us willingly, but I won’t get into that. Aluminum and mercury are massive, massive pollutants and we get it all over the place, so you need to throw in these certain minerals that will bind with the toxic metals and make you healthier. This magnesium threonate … You know, Janet, I don’t think she worries about anything but my brain function and my heart, so I get a dose of that every day. Maybe more than that, I don’t know. It’s very, very important.

Dr. Lewis:                     I read a study one time that said low magnesium levels makes almost all diseases worse, and headed in a direction there, it’s called diabetes, or as Wilfred Brimley would say with his beautiful mustache, I’m jealous because mine’s not that pretty, he said, “Diabetes.” You know, it has a lot to do with how well that functions, and I’ve got some notes over there Janet may get into, but. Even though you’re trying to get it through your food, you might really and truly want to supplement. I’d be afraid not to. I’ve had patients over the years that says, “Well, now that you have me on magnesium, I don’t need to be adjusted nearly as much.” One person said, “Doctor, you’re going to run yourself out of business,” and I said, “Good. I’ll go fishing.” I don’t care. If you’re that healthy, great.

Dr. Lewis:                     As far as picking it up and utilizing it in your GI tract, you know, that’s another thing that we talk about a lot. One guy called, well, a lady called yesterday and said, “I’m taking this much and this much and this much, and all these supplements, it’s all adding up,” and I said, “Yeah, but the problem is, you’re not absorbing it.” In order to help absorption, you have to take the digestive enzymes, and we have some that are definitely our favorites, that’s much, much, much stronger than what we used to get great results with. We’ve improved that, but you have to have probiotics, and more strains is better. We have some that, assays, about three times more than what they sell it for, but one of my favorites, I’ll just go briefly over lactobacillus rhamnosus. It helps enhance cellular immune responses, even in healthy volunteers. It helps the immune system in healthy people. It alleviates clinical signs of gastrointestinal inflammation. How many of you do not have GI inflammation? Yeah, nobody is raising their hands there. Then you got the more well-known lactobacillus, acidophilus, that’s the one that, it’s very important in vaginal health as well as GI health because it creates acid, which leads me to another bone of contention.

Dr. Lewis:                     Some people get on internet, and they read something, and it’s like, “Oh my God.” People are going around now saying, “Well cancer can’t live in an alkaline body,” and they’re doing everything they can to make their body alkaline, and they are really, really, really messing up their health. God, in his infinite wisdom, you know. Saliva should be alkaline. Stomach should be acid, and that’s a big problem because most of us that think you have too much don’t have enough, that’s the problem. In the intestines there’s buffering of alkaline to acid, so the lactobacillus acidophilus, acid, it has a huge antioxidant activity. It’s very effective against the grown of H pylori. It’s been very proven effective against that, and then the vaginosis, or infection of the vaginal area. Then there’s a lactobacillus brevis, which also helps immune responses. It inhibits a lot of bad things to happen because it increases the activity of natural killer cells. That’s pretty important thing, tumor necrosis factor, which means against tumors. Then you’ve got the lactobacillus vulgaris, you’ve got plantarium, which is real good for the people that have seriously irritable bowel syndrome and things like that. It reduces gas, so I can see women saying, “What did he say? Was it lactobacillus plantarium, because my husband has way excessive amounts of gas,” and all of these and many others actually increase the absorption of magnesium and many other things.

Dr. Lewis:                     We’ve talked about the lactobacillus. Then you need to get to the bifidobacterium. The infantis is really, really good. It’s actually antimicrobial against clostridium difficile, the C dif. That’s a really horrible infection to have. Then, bacto-bacterium longum, the casei. There’s all sorts of the … The people that get sore throats, you want to look for a probiotic that has the lactobacillus salivarius in it, and you want to start that out, even if it’s in a capsule. Open it up and put it in your mouth, because the salivarius is really, really important in oral cavity or mouth health and the health of your gums and teeth. It’s also good against H pylori and you know, things like that. It’s important all the way through, but it’s really incredibly important just to make sure there’s enough down there to make the absorption of the magnesium better.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know, I can go on and on. Janet, do you want to get to the questions? I’m going to go down a rabbit trail if you don’t.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, and I will get to the questions also, but I just wanted to say, tell a few more things that Dr. Lewis hasn’t mentioned about magnesium, because there’s many people that ask about these problems. One thing that magnesium helps with is fibromyalgia, believe it or not.

Dr. Lewis:                     Magnesium malate usually is the form there.

Janet Lewis:                 Type two diabetes, which I guess Dr. Lewis would have to explain how that helps, but-

Dr. Lewis:                     Well, I mentioned. Just take it and we’ll monitor your A1C, and your insulin.

Janet Lewis:                 I think a really big one is migraine headaches, because there’s a lot of people suffering from headaches and magnesium, simple magnesium can help stop the migraine headaches. I thought that was very interesting, but yes. We do want to make sure we get to our questions because we love our listeners that always ask them. That way we know what y’all are wanting to hear about. Jonathan from New Mexico is always one of our favorites, and he’s asked-

Dr. Lewis:                     We’re giving him royalty for using his name now.

Janet Lewis:                 Oh yeah, he loves it when we mention his name. He said his son got a, I’m sure I’m saying this wrong, necrotizing fasciitis, aka flesh-eating bacteria, and he lives in New Mexico and I guess they have that out there a lot. He’s healing okay, and if you could talk about this, where it comes from, et cetera, that would be great.

Dr. Lewis:                     Okay. The one I know about that’s most popular is called MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, and my favorite story to that is I got bit twice on the leg by a, theoretically a brown recluse spider. They’re so reclusive I didn’t see him, but, and me being the brilliant man I am, I waited five days until I couldn’t walk before I went in to the see the doctor. I love our medical doctors, because they saved my leg, and … I’ll try to make this a short story, but anyway, the guy cut it out, and they came in. They had swabbed the area and they swabbed my nose, and then they sent in another surgeon. He squeezed it and sniffed it and said, “Is that sore?” I said, “No.” He said, “It should be.” He said, “You do not have MRSA,” which is the one that is the flesh-eating bacteria. “We do not understand why, because the last 50 spider bites, there was one guy that didn’t have it, but he was a young strong man fresh out of the military. Everybody else gets the MRSA bacteria from the spider bite,” and he said, “If you don’t get it from the spider bite you get it from the hospital because we have superbugs in here that get resistant to them trying to kill them. Why don’t you have it?” I said, “It’s nutrition. You wouldn’t really understand.”

Dr. Lewis:                     He was a really great surgeon, better than the one who did the surgery on me, which got fired and run out of Longview, but he did a good job on my leg. I literally gave a lecture to the nurses at 3:00 am, because they don’t let you sleep and get any rest in the hospital, about olive leaf. Now, olive leaf is incredibly important, and that was back before I realized there was some really, really strong olive leaves, which is what we carry now, so. Olive leaf, we did colloidal silver. Janet healed up that hole in my leg you could’ve thrown a golf ball in … It’s funny watching the muscles move up and down, because there wasn’t any skin there, but anyways. Cut in a circle, and the doctor knew better to do that, because he told me, so it wouldn’t heal, and he wanted a $6000 skin graft off my butt to put it over my leg. I said, “No,” and anyway, Janet with her knowledge of herbs, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and essential oils, she healed that up and the surgeon said, “I have never seen one heal like this,” and, you know. “You didn’t get a skin graft.” I said, “Well, no. You cut it wrong, and you said that.” He said, “I’ve never seen this happen. What happened?” I said, “All those supplements you said didn’t work.”

Dr. Lewis:                     See, I needed the medical care and he did a really good job. He saved my leg from rotting off, and probably from early death, but olive leaf and colloidal silver. Be careful with the silver. Don’t make your own.

Janet Lewis:                 That’s something that everybody should just keep in their medicine cabinet, and it has to be a high amount of oleuropein. It’s just not over-the-counter olive leaf like you guys are getting ready to go out and grab. It has to have a high amount of oleuropein, which is what makes it work, and we carry it here.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. I was on one that had a lower amount, but I was taking massive amounts of pills, too. That’s back before I learned as much as I know now, but I’ll know more next year too, so.

Janet Lewis:                 Okay. Our next question comes from Kelly. She wants to know of any supplements that can alleviate symptoms of interstitial cystitis, and that is also known as a painful bladder syndrome, and it’s a chronic condition causing bladder pressure and bladder pain. You guys probably don’t have this, but women do many times.

Dr. Lewis:                     Men suffer too when y’all have it, though.

Janet Lewis:                 That’s true. She knows that coffee, tea, citrus juices and artificial sweeteners and spicy foods can aggravate it, so is there anything else that can help or hurt when it comes to diet?

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, and Vicky got on this, Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis. Vicky got on there and said D-Mannose and colloidal silver, and Vicky’s been with us for many years and she’s very intelligent about these things, and that’s a good answer.

Janet Lewis:                 You guys could be added to that. When he said Shooting Straight with Dr. Lewis, that is a closed Facebook group, but if you will shoot us an email we will be happy to add you to the group so you can get in on the conversation as well. I can testify to this product personally, for what we, or I use it for. I had a hysterectomy, which made me have that problem. We have something that’s called cystistatin, that is excellent at actually … It’s something you use first. It’s a bottle of, it’s got uva ursi, bearberry, marshmallow, bladderwrack, and celery seed, but you go through a bottle of that, it’s actually like a urinary tract infection type killer. If you’ve got a urinary tract infection, it’ll kill it off, and then when you’re done with that, you go to a bottle of something called UT-defense. It’s for urinary tract, and it has a different set of ingredients.

Dr. Lewis:                     For the ones that have, you know, chronic things, it’s a cranberry concentrate, and there’s a lot of misinformation about cranberry. Then it’s got dandelion leaf and hibiscus flowers, and these are extracts, and we have women that get somewhere close to incredible results, and we have men that just are thrilled because their wife’s not in pain all the time.

Janet Lewis:                 It’s actually, you know, diet is great to clean up as well, but if you do some of these products, you can actually get by with eating or drinking a little bit more of the quote, wrong things that set it off, because it will help keep it under control, and me being who I am thought I’d take both of them at the same time. These are both orthomolecular products, and the rep for them said, “Do not do that.” He said, “There’s a reason why we make one and then the other,” so, it’s cystistatin, it’s C-Y-S-T-I-S-T-A-T-I-N, first, and then you go to UT-defense.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah. We thought only men said, “Well, if a little bit’s good, more is better,” but Janet, again. She’s the man in the relationship, because I’m over there eating chocolate, so. She thought more is better, so she did them both.

Janet Lewis:                 Also, getting back to the magnesium thing. You know, a lot of people wonder if they have the right magnesium levels. I wanted to mention that we do offer a super-panel. I’m going to discuss the men’s panel because men primarily are the ones that we see really need to magnesium, when we run it on lab. The super-panel men’s that we run, it includes a magnesium RBC, and you’re wondering what’s an RBC. Many times when you go to the doctor and have your lab run and ask him to run magnesium, they’ll run magnesium-

Dr. Lewis:                     It’s a serum.

Janet Lewis:                 -but it’s not actually what’s getting in on a cell level. It’s just what’s out in the bloodstream, and the RBC one that we run is actually a spun magnesium, where they actually see how much magnesium you’re getting on a cell level.

Dr. Lewis:                     In the red blood cells, itself.

Janet Lewis:                 There’s early signs of magnesium deficiency to keep an eye out for, if you’re deficient, like loss of appetite, and headaches, and nausea and vomiting. Fatigue and weakness, so I just wanted to make sure I covered that a little bit for people, because I felt like magnesium still needed a little bit.

Dr. Lewis:                     You know what interferes with the absorption of magnesium?

Janet Lewis:                 What’s that?

Dr. Lewis:                     Alcohol intake.

Janet Lewis:                 Oh. Really? It blocks it, or you just don’t, it just eats it up?

Dr. Lewis:                     Well actually, a little bit of both, but the use of diuretics, diarrhea. Presence of fluoride. These people said, “Oh, this water out of the tap’s good.” Well, you’re getting enough fluoride in there, you have to greatly increase your magnesium level. Those of us, including me, that take high levels of zinc for our prostate and immune system, need magnesium. When I give a single mineral, I tell people it’s better to take the reacted multi-min, which is the multi-minerals, for balance. It’s really better that way.

Janet Lewis:                 I know certain medications can also eat up your magnesium in the body, so they’re treating you with antibiotics and diuretics and that actually helps you lose your magnesium, so it’s very important that you supplement with that if you’re on any of those medications, because you need that for your heart, because your heart will sometimes cramp too. If your leg muscles are cramping at night like Dr. Lewis mentioned, you just have to remember that your heart is also a muscle and it can cramp the same way.

Dr. Lewis:                     Yeah, so, you know, I’d like to thank you for the ones that shared this, and there’s a lot of that going on. We have an incredible influx of people, so if you want to get our care, you’d better jump on the train, but I would like for you please to let us know, is this helpful that we’re talking about one thing and I’m not going down through too many rabbit trails? I’d really like your feedback, positive or negative. I will listen to it, so we would ask that you always be blessed.

Janet Lewis:                 With laughter on your lips and joy in your eyes. Hope you guys have a great rest of your week, and we’ll be here next time on the Green Wisdom Health Show.