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Tachycardia

Tachycardia generally refers to a resting heart rate that is higher than one-hundred beats per minute. Some potential reasons for an elevated heart rate are stress, anxiety, physical exertion through exercise or a physically demanding task, anemia, anger, certain medications, heart damage, congenital heart problems, high blood pressure, hyperthyroidism, and some other medical conditions. Heart conditions are more common now than ever, and tachycardia is one of many. Let’s take a look at some reasons for an elevated heart rate, and what we can do about them.

Stress, Anxiety, and Anger

Your emotional state can affect your body in many different ways. One of the most common parts of your body that is affected by strong emotions is your heart. Stress, anxiety, and anger can increase cortisol levels and trigger a release of adrenaline. This release of hormones can lead to an elevated heart rate, faster breathing, feeling of a tight chest, and some research suggests that these strong emotions may also contribute to inflammation. This can be particularly damaging when someone experiences these emotions every day. Many people are experiencing chronic stress, anxiety, and/or anger due to things like a demanding career, an unhappy marriage, family issues, financial struggles, etc. This prolonged release of cortisol and other hormones can wreak havoc on the body, decrease adrenal gland function, and may increase a person’s risk of heart disease, stroke, and other medical conditions. However, if a person notices a high resting heart rate and is not experiencing stress, anxiety, or anger, other causes should be considered.

Medical Conditions and Medications

Some medical conditions can cause an elevated heart rate, even at rest. Anemia is a medical condition in which iron levels are too low, which decreases the amount of red blood cells, leading to lower oxygen levels in the blood. This can cause an elevated heart rate because your heart is trying to compensate for the low blood oxygen by pumping blood throughout the body faster. Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland produces too much thyroid hormone, which can also lead to an elevated heart rate. There are many other conditions that can cause an elevated heart rate, so it’s best to check with your doctor if you have an elevated resting heart rate to rule out any medical conditions. Certain medications can also cause an increase in heart rate, so you should be familiar with the potential side effects of any medications you are taking.

Heart Healthy Habits

The health of your heart largely depends on your diet and lifestyle. Eating a balanced diet, engaging in light exercise, staying hydrated, practicing stress-reducing techniques, and taking supplements formulated to support heart health can all go a long way in keeping your heart healthy. Processed foods should be avoided as much as possible, and your diet should consist mainly of organic fruits and vegetables, grass-fed and free-range meats, and high-quality fats like those found in coconut oil and olive oil. You should also do your best to drink around 64 ounces of clean, filtered water every day.

Some supplements that may help improve heart health include:

  • Orthomega – High-quality fish oil supplement providing EPA and DHA.
  • Bergamot BPF – Contains bergamot orange extract, which may help balance cholesterol levels and improve liver function.
  • Methyl CPG – Contains a high-dose of vitamin B12, and is designed to help decrease homocysteine levels in the body.

Taking care of your heart is so important, and we’re here to help you learn how!

You can listen to our Heart Health podcast here.

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Brain Fog, Anxiety and Memory

Brain fog, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and poor memory are all common problems today. Almost everyone is dealing with at least one of these issues, and many deal with more than one, but why are they so common? You may be surprised to know that most of these issues don’t originate in our minds, but are often due to stress, sleep deprivation, a sluggish liver, and inflammation. These issues often clear up when their root causes are addressed, so let’s dive into the causes and some potential natural remedies.

Causes

Brain fog, anxiety, depression, fatigue, poor memory, difficulty concentrating, and several other similar issues are usually traced back to the same few root problems. Not getting enough sleep is one of the most common causes, as sleep deprivation can lead to a number of short-term and long-term effects. (We have an article that discusses the effects of sleep deprivation more in-depth here.) Not getting enough sleep can cause brain fog, fatigue, impaired cognitive function including poor memory and difficulty concentrating, irritability, and anxiety. These problems often get worse as the sleep deprivation continues.

Stress is also a possible cause of these issues, likely due to elevated cortisol levels. Cortisol is also known as the “stress hormone” and is responsible for the fight-or-flight response. When cortisol levels are too high they can caues anxiety, irritability, difficulty concentrating, depression, and can lead to adrenal fatigue. Adrenal fatigue refers to a condition in which cortisol levels were elevated for a long period of time, and the adrenal glands “burned-out” and cortisol bottomed out. This can lead to fatigue, depression, anxiety, brain fog, muscle weakness, and other issues. You can check your cortisol levels by getting blood work done, and see if your levels are where they should be.

Another common cause of brain fog and other issues is inflammation. Inflammation is a very common problem today, with many experts beginning to believe that inflammation is at the root of almost every chronic disorder. However, not all inflammation is bad, inflammation also occurs when their is a wound or infection that needs to be healed. The body could not properly heal itself without an immune response (inflammation), but chronic inflammation can be dangerous. Chronic, uncontrolled inflammation wreaks havoc on our bodies and affects all of our organs, our mood, and our cognitive function. There are many things that can contribute to inflammation, with our toxic burden and nutritional deficiencies likely being the biggest contributors. Toxic burden refers to the amount of toxins our bodies deal with on a daily basis, and everyone’s “burden” is different.

Things that can contribute to a toxic burden include air and water pollution, pesticides, plastic usage (more on that here), a diet high in inflammatory foods like processed foods and factory-farmed meat and dairy, chemical exposure from working in chemical plants, welding, etc., and soap and beauty products that contain chemicals. Many people also have nutritional deficiencies, which can make it difficult for your body to get toxins out and fight inflammation. Add chronic stress and sleep deprivation to this, and you’ve got a recipe for brain fog, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and many other issues.

Solutions

Fortunately, there are several things you can do to help reduce brain fog, anxiety, depression, etc., but the root causes must be dealt with. The problems will not fully go away until the cause is addressed, so let’s look at what we can do. First, we always recommend that you get blood work done, because it can reveal problems that need to be fixed, many of which have no symptoms. With blood work you can check your cortisol levels, liver enzymes, iron levels, homocysteine, C-Reactive Protein, potassium and calcium levels, vitamin D, and much more. This can make it much easier to know what supplements you do and don’t need.

Whether you get blood work done or not, everyone has inflammation that needs to be dealt with. We encounter toxins every day, so reducing your exposure as much as possible, and giving your body the right nutrients to help it detoxify is critical to our health. You should start by switching to natural products whenever possible. Just take a look at the ingredient label of your deoderant or shampoo and notice how many chemicals are in it, one or more of which is likely an endocrine (hormone) disruptor, carcinogen, or suspected carcinogen. Generally if you can’t pronounce it or you don’t recognize it, you shouldn’t consume it or put it on your skin. Try switching to natural deoderant, shampoo and conditioner, shaving cream/soap, makeup, household cleaners, laundry detergent, and lotion. There are many companies that have begun producing natural alternatives that don’t contain carcinogens and endocrine disruptors.

Getting enough sleep is another important step towards reducing brain fog and anxiety, and improving memory. Adequate sleep is crucial to our health, but many people struggle with insomnia and other sleep disorders. Blood work can help to identify the root cause of your insomnia, but it may be as simple as reducing stress. Stress and adrenal fatigue can keep you from falling asleep, so practicing stress-reducing techniques and taking a supplement to balance cortisol levels may help reduce insomnia. You can also try a natural sleep-aid like Kavinace.

Giving your liver some help is another great thing to do to combat the issues we’ve been discussing. The liver is responsible for over 300 different functions, so a sluggish liver can have a huge impact on your health and how you feel. Eating a diet high in organic (pesticides burden the liver and add to the toxic burden) fruits and vegetables and grass-fed meat helps provide the nutrients your liver needs to function optimally. Also, milk thistle, turmeric, artichoke leaf, dandelion root, taurine, choline, vitamin B12, etc. are all good for helping the liver detoxify and function more efficiently. We’ll discuss some specific supplements you can take below.

Supplements

Best-Rest Formula – Contains melatonin, GABA, l-theanine, chamomile extract, and several other ingredients that may help promote relaxation and sleep.

Adrenal Response Complete Care – Contains vitamin C, ashwagandha, holy basil leaf extract, and several other ingredients that may help combat adrenal fatigue and stress.

Daily Stress Formula – Contains vitamin B12, l-tyrosine, bacopa monnieri extract, chamomile extract, and many other ingredients that may help you relax and deal with daily stress.

Traumeric – Contains turmeric extract, bromelain, quercetin, and a few other ingredients that may help combat inflammation. Traumeric may also work well for joint pain.

Core Support – Powder that contains magnesium, rice protein, taurine, l-glutamine, green tea leaf extract, and many other ingredients that may help heal the gut and help the liver detoxify. May also help increase energy and alertness. Available in French Vanilla and Chocolate.

Membrin – Contains gingko biloba leaf extract, vinpocetine, and huperzine alkaloids which may help improve blood flow to the brain, and improve cognitive function and memory.

Brain fog, anxiety, depression, poor memory, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, and other issues can be difficult to deal with, and they can have a big impact on your quality of life. We want to help you get better! Look into getting blood work done, add in lots of good fats, grass-fed meats, and organic fruits and vegetables to your diet, reduce your toxic burden by switching to natural products whenever possible, and try taking some of the supplements listed above. It’s often the little decisions and changes you make every day that make the biggest difference.

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Effects of Stress

Stress is something most people face on a daily basis, but it may have more of an impact than you think. Chronic stress can contribute to the development of adrenal fatigue, migraines, increased risk for heart attack and stroke, high blood pressure, and even diabetes. Managing stress, particularly every day stress, is vitally important for good health.

Causes of Stress

There are many possible causes for stress, and the causes often vary from person to person. It may have been a stressful traumatic event like the death of a loved one, an injury, or a financial crisis that caused acute stress. Acute stress (short-term stress usually due to a particular event) is less harmful than chronic stress. The effects of acute stress usually go away once the stressful event is over, but chronic stress doesn’t. If you get angry and/or stressed-out every day, or several times a day, then you will likely experience many more negative affects which we’ll discuss further in the next paragraph. This chronic stress tends to cause the most problems because your body and mind never get a break from it. Getting mad and stressed out about traffic, your job, or anything else you deal with daily can have a major impact on your health, so work on letting the little things go.

Effects of Stress

Stress has negative effects on nearly every part and function of the body. Chronic stress can lead to elevated cortisol levels (cortisol is also known as the stress hormone, responsible for the “fight-or-flight” response) which can cause hormonal imbalances, food cravings, low libido, depression and anxiety, and may lead to insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease, weight gain, digestive issues, adrenal fatigue, and decreased immune system function. Stress may also exacerbate pre-existing high blood pressure, heart issues, diabetes, depresion, and anxiety. Chronic stress should not be taken lightly, and working on reducing stress in your daily life is very important.

The Link to Diabetes

So, how is stress linked to diabetes? Our latest podcast talked about the relationship between the two, and you can listen to that podcast here. As mentioned above, stress can lead to elevated cortisol levels, which often leads to food cravings and weight gain. Some studies have shown that stress may directly raise blood glucose levels, causing your body to release more insulin to deal with the elevated glucose. If your body is consistently releasing more insulin to deal with high blood sugar from stress or a poor diet, you may start to develop insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is a condition in which your body essentially stops responding to insulin, leading to an inability to control blood sugar levels. Unchecked insulin resistance can contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes, so eating a balanced diet and keeping stress under control should be a priority.

Supplements

There are some supplements we recommend for helping you deal with stress, and maintaining healthy blood sugar levels. These include:

Cerenity – Contains vitamin B12, 5-HTP, L-Theanine, magnesium, and several other ingredients that may help promote mood stability and relaxation.

CereVive – Contains vitamin C, vitamin B12, zinc, l-theanine, 5-htp, and several other ingredients that may help you deal with the symptoms of anxiety and depression.

GlycemaCORE – Powder that contains amino acids, protein and fiber to help keep you feeling full. Also contains chromium which may help keep blood sugar levels balanced.

Reacted Chromium – Contains chromium which may help keep blood sugar levels balanced.

Stress is something we should always work on reducing, especially in our daily lives. So, practice some stress-reducing techniques like yoga, meditation or exercise, try out some supplements, eat a healthy, balanced diet, and learn to not sweat the small stuff.

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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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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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Immune System Compromise and Adrenal Fatigue

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

Doctor Lewis:               And I’m Doctor Lewis.

Janet Lewis:                 We are Green Wisdom Health, home of your low-cost lab work, available across the United States. We are here to educate you a little bit today about a adrenal fatigue and immune compromise. We decided to pick this subject because we just came back from vacation where we decided to buy, well, I decided to buy ourselves a motorhome. A midsize motorhome. Doctor Lewis drove it. We got a little adrenal fatigued over it.

Doctor Lewis:               Against my will, I drove it.

Janet Lewis:                 We drove it through west Texas where it’s just wind. It was … we love the RV. It was a little bit stressful trying to get used to everything and learned so many new things. We took it Colorado and there were a lot of fires going on out there. With came home and have a little bit of adrenal fatigue and I thought, well, you know, there’s probably a lot of people out there that are suffering from the same things that don’t really know what to do about it. Thank you for Doctor Lewis’s knowledge. He does know what to do about it.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, teach Janet how to drive it.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, not yet. But, unfortunately, when you don’t know what to do about it, your immune system also craters with it. Today, we’re going to teach you a little bit about how to get your adrenals back up, normalized to keep your immune system from not being compromised. With that, Doctor Lewis, would you like to enlighten us?

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah. Hopefully, I won’t go down too many rabbit trails. Yeah, okay. You know that’s a lie. Adrenal stress, I think most of us create our own storms and we whine about it when it rains. We create a lot of it by our consumerism, by wanting too much, and I’m guilty of that too. By being in a hurry, you know, as I get older, I realize it’s not slowing down, it’s speeding up and you have more things that you want to get done.

Doctor Lewis:               A lot of adrenal stress is just how you think about things. I always tell my kids, “Show up and smile. It’ll all be fine.” This is actually my fourth podcast this week. I was a guest on three other podcasts. One of which was two hours long, which was enough adrenal stress on its own. I was kind of off the cuff and I was not prepared for it.

Janet Lewis:                 So, we’re really lucky to have a show this week, is that what I’m hearing because I know you’re adrenal’s got a little taxed and plus we’re running a busy practice.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 But, we keep having so many go, “You all need to put out more shows.”

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, you know, the old advertisement of this bud’s for you? Well, Tara, in Jacksonville, Florida, this podcast is for you because Tara has followed my instructions real well and she got some absolutely incredible results on her lab worth. Although, to be honest, didn’t look like she was unhealthy at all when she started. It’s funny, the people that follow instructions get a better quality of life, if not a longer life. It’s by putting nutrients in the body and many of these we’ll talk about how it can boost your immune system and boost your adrenal gland function to normal.

Doctor Lewis:               Unfortunately, in the last few months, I’ve seen more and more and more people die that are, you know, a year or two older than me, or a year or two younger than me. It’s like, they’re always the ones that have the time and money for beer and cigarettes, and you know, no time or money to put good nutrients into the temple of the Holy Spirit. I hate that. We’re going to have a question later on that comes up that one of my sweet long-term patients ask about that.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, we create a lot of our own adrenal stress. The compromise in the immune system, this off the cuff two-hour podcast a couple of nights ago, she says, “Well, don’t you see immune systems going downhill fast?” And she was a very popular practitioner from up in the northwest part of America. I said, “Yeah, it is getting worse.” And she says, “What is that?” I said, “It’s not just one thing, it’s you know, the toxins I always talk about. They’re real, whether you can see them, or sell them, or taste them, or not, they’re real.” Read the research.

Doctor Lewis:               The other thing is our mental attitude. Janet and I are much happier and less stressed if we quit watching the news that kind of skewed the truth into something that’s not necessarily true anymore. Many of it, I think it’s the food that we eat. We don’t really have a choice here in America, but to eat genetically modified foods. I know there’s people that say, they don’t make any difference at all. It’s like, I’ve read book after book after book, and hundreds of research articles, real research, not opinions. I’ve read that genetically modified organisms and how it alters our expression of our genes. How it alters the probiotics in our GI tract. That is incredibly important to get that as balanced as possible so you can have a proper immune system response.

Doctor Lewis:               I have seen people sit in here and cry. They couldn’t talk to me without crying and they think they’re crazy in the head. I’ll say, “Well, the thoughts are in your head, but it originates in your GI tract.” I could go on and on about that. The ones that follow instructions get really really good results because your body has more to work with. You know, the FDA says the only thing that cure is a drug, or radiation, or chemotherapy, you know, that kind of stuff. When did we lose the thought that our body’s smart enough to heal itself? It just needs fewer toxins and more nutrients to do that.

Doctor Lewis:               Your body really is a smart organism, but it needs something to work with. I said in our last podcast, if your doctor says you can get all the nutrients you need out of your food, you need to run like crazy because he’s full of it, or he didn’t read his own research. Here’s a good example, there’s this young lady that I grew up with and I told her, I said, “I’m so sorry that I couldn’t’ get your sister to stick with it long enough.” And her sister’s just a sweet sweet lady and she had a lot of depression and anxiety. It was pretty severe.

Doctor Lewis:               And the sister came to me and says, “Well, I trust you. I grew up with you so, therefore, I’m going to stick it out.” Well, then she went back to her doctor and the doctor says, “Well, you can either do it naturally or you can do it through me. If you’re going to do the natural stuff, I’m withdrawing my care from you.” Well, she chose to go with that doctor and so I asked her sister, I said, “Okay, that’s just a handful years ago, did the extra drugs make her healthier?” And she said, “No. She’s going downhill rapidly.”

Doctor Lewis:               I’m not against drugs. Anytime you feel so stressed that you want to harm someone or harm yourself, go to the emergency room, go to MD, go to your psychiatrist. It’s not a bad thing. But, let’s try to work on the underlying issues that cause your immune system to aray, that can alter the way you feel mentally, and put chronic stress on your adrenal glands, and get into adrenal fatigue, which in and of itself can cause depression and anxiety.

Janet Lewis:                 I think it’s kind of interesting the list of … maybe because I have a lot of these. The list of adrenal issues that are associated with adrenal fatigue. You know, when people always tell you they’re extremely tired. It can be your adrenals and people say, “Well, I take something for my adrenals.” Our question is to you, well how do you know which way the adrenals are going? Are they too high? Are they too low? Well, you don’t know that without lab word.

Doctor Lewis:               Kind of sounds like the three bears and the porridge.

Janet Lewis:                 Exactly.

Doctor Lewis:               Just right.

Janet Lewis:                 It’s exactly right. We check cortisol in the lab to see are your adrenals in the process of cratering or are they so cratered they need to be built up because there’s actually two different products for those and you don’t want to take the wrong one. Don’t take what Aunt Mary tells you what worked for her because it probably won’t work for you.

Janet Lewis:                 Some of the signs that go with adrenal fatigue are fatigue, and weakness, that you’re really tired. Depression, fearfulness, or anxiety, and hormonal imbalance can be a sign of adrenal fatigue.

Doctor Lewis:               Men out there, if you think your wife has a hormonal imbalance, be quiet. It’s not worth saying anything.

Janet Lewis:                 Interesting. The suppressed immune function actually goes with adrenal fatigue.

Doctor Lewis:               Yes.

Janet Lewis:                 You know, we wanted to talk a little bit about, you know, you’re going to say, “Well, what do we take for this because we have this stuff and what are we supposed to be taking for that?” The big one, I guess, that we’ve been using now, that we’ve just been absolutely thrilled with is the SBI Protect because it is for immune gut function because all of these things that we’re telling you are out of the gut, believe it or not. It’s not in your head. It is something that is in your gut.

Doctor Lewis:               We sell so much of it, the company that produces is called us and asked us how do you sell that much? That’s incredible because we’re growing that fast.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, and it’s not we’re selling it, this stuff works.

Doctor Lewis:               Yep.

Janet Lewis:                 People keep coming back.

Doctor Lewis:               People keep coming back, yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 It used to be a prescription. It was $400.00 a month and now it’s …

Doctor Lewis:               Up to $1,200.00, yeah. But, $400.00.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah. And now it’s $70.00 something a month.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah. $70.00 to $77.00 depending on what form you get it. It’s the exact same stuff.

Janet Lewis:                 It actually goes and repairs the gut leakiness, and helps with autoimmune, and all of these adrenal things.

Doctor Lewis:               I may get into the immunoglobulins later because Jonathan in Gallup, New Mexico thinks I’m smarter than I really am.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, this is actually an immunoglobulin, so.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, I may try to impress you Jonathan, but I’m glad you’re doing good, but.

Janet Lewis:                 He can only take so much of your knowledge at one time because there’s so much rattling out of there, he said.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, I’m not that smart Jonathan, you’re just really smart for following instruction. You’re the man.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, you talked about people craving bad things to eat. Actually, cravings for foods high in salt, sugar, or fat, are an adrenal fatigue problem.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 Isn’t that amazing? So, it’s like well, you’re feeding your body some more things that there’s going to have a hard time with and your adrenals are already stressed.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah and when you’re craving chocolate, it’s usually you want serotonin or magnesium. Janet always says I’m the female because I’m the chocolate person. I buy her wonderful chocolates for all of her birthday, and Christmas, and anniversary because I get to eat them all.

Janet Lewis:                 Increased allergies are a sign of adrenal fatigue. Skin problems. Lightheadedness when getting up from sitting or lying down.

Doctor Lewis:               That’s an adrenal fatigue because when you stand up very quickly, your adrenals have to have this … it has a biofeedback mechanism and it has to raise your blood pressure temporarily so the blood doesn’t get too little in your head. That also is a bad side effect from some of the drugs because some of the drugs can cause adrenal fatigue. If you stand up, sit up, or suddenly get light headed, and want to go tump over on your head? You know, suspect your drugs, suspect adrenal fatigue.

Janet Lewis:                 Trouble waking up in the morning despite a full night sleep.

Doctor Lewis:               God.

Janet Lewis:                 Low sex drive. So, see if people are getting all of these pellets and creams and all of this stuff, and it may just be their adrenals and they didn’t know that it was just their adrenals. Decreased ability to handle stress. I might go through a little bit of that sometimes.

Doctor Lewis:               She takes those adrenal products she may talk about, but she takes a lot of pantothenic acids also. I thought it’s just because it made me for tolerable to live with.

Janet Lewis:                 Pantothenic acid’s wonderful. If you feel like you’re having an anxiety attack, which I used to feel like I would get that because there was so much coming at you so fast.

Doctor Lewis:               There still is, but we can still handle the stress much better.

Janet Lewis:                 It’ll make your heart race and it’ll make you feel like you’re trying to have a heart attack. Pantothenic acid completely took care of that for me. It was like, that’s great. Poor memory and mental fogginess is actually a sign of adrenal fatigue.

Doctor Lewis:               That sometimes, many times goes back to the GI tract. When you have a GI track full of candida and those books were written 30, 40 years ago, some of them. The Yeast Connection is one of the good ones. The yeast, for some reason, stops the thiaminase inside them, so it eats up your B1. When somebody just says brain fog on their health survey, I pretty much automatically put them on benfotiamine and they will, you know, nine times out of ten say, “I don’t know. My brain fog’s gone.”

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, Benfotiamine’s excellent.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, it’s way more absorbable form of Thiamin.

Janet Lewis:                 There’s a lot of people that tell you, “Well, when you’re that stressed, you should go exercise because it just makes you feel great.” Well, personally, and you know, it’s interesting, I think that’s for people with high cortisol more so. I think they do better exercising. The people with cortisol, they’re already so whipped, it’s like really, you’re going to add one more thing on to my plate. Like, I have to go run?

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, Doctor and Bowen and Doctor Bowen, they do Ironman competitions and they’re really young, good-looking, and in good shape. Doctor Ruth Bowen says, “Well if you’ll just start going out with us and riding bikes, and doing this, and doing this, you’ll get that endorphin rush in your head. It’s like getting high.” I said, “Ruth, when I do that, I get tired, so.”

Janet Lewis:                 I know. That’s because our adrenals are different. When you’re that stressed and your adrenals are that tired and worn out, the key is to focus on gentle activities when you’re exercising like, walking or yoga, or gentle cycling. Huh?

Doctor Lewis:               When you get your sex drive back.

Janet Lewis:                 Is that a gentle exercise?

Doctor Lewis:               It can go either way.

Janet Lewis:                 I’m not going to answer that either. Tai Chi.

Doctor Lewis:               Sorry guys.

Janet Lewis:                 Moving on. Once you’re starting to feel better, you can improve exercise tolerance, gradually beginning to add in some moderate exercise, which may be where that falls under.

Doctor Lewis:               You might be able to tolerate me a little longer.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, that’s all I have to say about that. So, now it’s back to you.

Doctor Lewis:               Are my ears red?

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, your whole heads red.

Doctor Lewis:               You know, I’m just going to ramble. Here I go down Doctor Amanda, down the rabbit trails again and jumping down a rabbit hole. You know you hear me talk about toxins and I think that’s very very prevalent. More so than it was in the 70’s. Some of the things that are toxic is taking a shower in the morning, you’re getting the chloride and fluoride. You’re absorbing from the water through your skin, cosmetics can be horribly toxic, although, we got one or two girls that’s going even carry that to a new dimension where they’ll teach us about it.

Doctor Lewis:               There can be like 100 different chemical compounds just in your shower and in your food that you eat for breakfast. The average person, according to the … there was a report on human exposure to chemicals and this was done by the Center for Disease Control, talked about American’s of all ages are carrying over 219 toxic chemicals in their body in any given time. If the CDC says that, you can take it to the bank, except there’s probably 1,219.

Doctor Lewis:               The immune system, the liver, and the kidneys’ kind of take the hit on that and that’s why we say get the immune system, the gut healed. I’m always helping people with their liver. If their enzymes aren’t just picture perfect, I always give their liver something that it can have building blocks to detox even more rapidly. Again, you know, the FDA says that supplements can’t, you know, do anything for symptoms and diseases and I say, they’re absolutely right. But, if you got three two by fours and seven bricks, what kind of house can you build versus if you have an 18 wheeler load of bricks and 18 wheeler load of two by fours?

Doctor Lewis:               More building blocks you can build a better building or better immune system and more energy. So, you have pretty much an increased toxic burden in your system. Some of the toxins, you know, they come from pollution. I could read you research about that. Auto exhaust and diesel exhaust actually can increase your risk of heart attack when you get behind that smoky diesel guy. Solvents, which is paint and cleaning products. Most cleaning products contain chlorine.

Doctor Lewis:               Pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, radiation, inhalants, toxins that come from your lifestyle. This is in a huge book called, oh, I forget the name of it. It’s a huge book, about 900 pages about cancer. I read that once. The dietary choices, you know, fast foods, and fried foods, you know, the inflammatory chemicals. Although I’m a big proponent of keto and Drew Manning and all that, fat is good, except you need to get the clean fat from the clean animals because if it’s not clean animals, then it’s stored more toxins.

Doctor Lewis:               Cosmetics, nicotine, alcohol, oh, alcohol and caffeine. God, that hurt. Any kind of drug, over the counter, or prescription. They always steal more nutrients of the nutrients you don’t have enough of anyway. Just had a consultation about that about a couple of hours ago. Food additives, coloring, and preservatives. One lady today says, “Well, I’m taking this, my doctor prescribed it.” I said, “Well, it’s got a known cancer causer in it because it’s a dye.” Why do you care what your supplement looks? They put cancer-causing food dye in it. I’d run like crazy. Refined foods and sugars.

Doctor Lewis:               Now, then there’s internal toxins. You know, I mentioned yeast and yeast and fungus overgrowth can wreak havoc. There’s a book called Cancer is a Fungus by Doctor Simoncini, and God forbid I ever get cancer, but I think I’d go to Rome, Italy if I had it to let him treat it. I’m an expert of yeast overgrowth.

Janet Lewis:                 I’m pretty sure that you could take a trip there and be treated for less than they would charge you for their standard American care here for cancer.

Doctor Lewis:               Oh, yeah and then you get to see Rome.

Janet Lewis:                 Exactly. You’d feel way better when you were done.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, one way or the other. I’m an expert on yeast, fungal overgrowth because Janet helped me fight it for six years. It’s a long story. We won’t get into it. Byproducts of your typical metabolic reactions, which is you know like, carbon dioxide and ammonia. Make sure your kidneys are cleaning that real well. Undigested food. It’s amazing how many people don’t have enough digestive enzymes and their chloride’s not high enough to make hydrochloric acid. If you can’t have enough hydrochloric acid, it doesn’t eat the protein sheath off yeast, fungus, or a virus. And then, they go down the small intestine and set up shop and you wonder why you have a belly full of yeast, and you got the belching burping full feeling.

Doctor Lewis:               And then, you get the fibromyalgia or fatigue. Stress, and again, we create a lot of our own stress. So, that’s why you should go pray, meditate, sit on the deer stand, don’t take a gun, [inaudible 00:20:48] don’t shoot anything. Unresolved trauma or abuse. There’s a lot that going around, so in a world where you can be anything you want to be, the best thing you can be is just be kind to other people. Unhappy relationships, yeah, understand that one. Now, that I’ve got a really super one, I really understand how toxic some things used to be in my past.

Doctor Lewis:               We can help with that with the nutritional part of it. If you’re here locally, I’d give you a hug even though I’m not supposed to, I do it anyway. But, the nutrients that you need like, phase one, detoxification, that’s B2 and three, which also help your thyroid enzymes or thyroid hormones to be converted. B12, B6, folic acid and be careful if you have that folic acid, 5-MTHF are a problem. Making glutathione and bioflavonoids. Phase two, methenamine16, magnesium, glutathione, vitamins B5 and that’s the pantothenic acid, B12 and it’s not just B12 folks. It’s got to be methylcobalamin.

Doctor Lewis:               Vitamin C, glycine, taurine, glutamine, folic acid, and choline. If you’ll notice, most of those things, if not all of them are in the formulas that we put you on. We do understand phase one, phase two, and how to clean your body out. It’s not like that infomercial that goes for 30 minutes on TV that detox won’t make you young, rich, and good looking in three weeks, just because they make you poop.

Janet Lewis:                 There are some natural herbs and spices that help build your immune system.

Doctor Lewis:               When we were in Colorado and we didn’t do any of them.

Janet Lewis:                 No, because on the way home there was a million signs that said, “Welcome back to Texas. If you got arrested for picking up some illegal substances.”

Doctor Lewis:               Cannabis.

Janet Lewis:                 “While in another state, call us.” There must be a lot of that going on. We did not partake nor buy.

Doctor Lewis:               Not since 1975.

Janet Lewis:                 I wasn’t hardly even very old then. But, there are some natural spices that you can have because we don’t want to make you feel like we’re trying to sell you something. You can actually do some of this on your own to help your immune system. Like, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum are good antivirals. I don’t know how you’re supposed to eat that. Is that right off the flower?

Doctor Lewis:               You compete with the bees. You get stung on the nose.

Janet Lewis:                 Artemisia.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, artemisia’s actually …

Janet Lewis:                 That’s a wicked like guy.

Doctor Lewis:               That’s good for killing worms and worm eggs too.

Janet Lewis:                 Licorice and that’s not like the …

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah, it’s deglycerized licorice.

Janet Lewis:                 Yeah, it’s not like the good licorice. Turmeric, or turmeric, however, you would like to say that. Black pepper, but don’t do black pepper and turmeric together.

Doctor Lewis:               That’s very good because and a lot of them say, “We put black pepper in our so you can enhance the absorption of turmeric.” No, you usually get allergic or sensitive to both of them and don’t absorb either one of them. You know, there’s a lot of sales hypes out there that go on just a little bit of information and it’s usually misinformation. I’m going to do a podcast here pretty soon about the research that people believe that is somewhere between BS and bologna. BS is belief systems.

Janet Lewis:                 We’ll call that fallacies and fiction.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah.

Janet Lewis:                 We have to clean it up.

Doctor Lewis:               You’re kind.

Janet Lewis:                 Oregano is another big one, actually, for the immune system.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah. Well, that’s really hard on the yeast. It’ll kick them out. That will clean up the GI tract.

Janet Lewis:                 One of my personal favorites, cinnamon. I love cinnamon.

Doctor Lewis:               But, my mama put it with sugar and butter on toast, that’s not the best way to take it, folks.

Janet Lewis:                 No. And cloves. You know, cloves are interesting. They remind me of being in a dental office for some reason, that same smell.

Doctor Lewis:               Well, they used to use it.

Janet Lewis:                 Oh, really.

Doctor Lewis:               Yeah. As a deadening agent.

Janet Lewis:                 I swear he is so intelligent. He was actually on another podcast the other day and someone asked him something about what he ate and he said, “Oh, avocados are actually my favorite fruit.” And I said, when it was over, I said, “I think you did that wrong.” I said, “You said avocados were a fruit.” He goes, “They are a fruit.”

Doctor Lewis:               No, I said, I could be wrong honey and I left it that. I’m smart.

Janet Lewis:                 No, he told me to Google it, which I did. It’s actually from the berry family. It is a fruit and I thought, oh my gosh, there’s just so much rattling around up there that’s just very impressive.

Doctor Lewis:               Well, knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom’s not putting it in a fruit salad.

Janet Lewis:                 I did not know tomato was a fruit either until that same conversation, so you just never know what’s coming out.

Doctor Lewis:               I’m not that smart. I read a lot and I remembered a couple of things.

Janet Lewis:                 I do know, we wanted to address the conversation that we had on Facebook about a multi-vitamin that there was a study done, I don’t know what multi-vitamin and we can only assume it was not a good multi-vitamin. They followed these people around for 12 years that had the heart issues. They concluded that taking a daily multi-vitamin did absolutely no good or helped that at all with any kind of cardiovascular risk. Doctor Lewis wanted to address that, so I’m going to let him talk about that.

Doctor Lewis:               She asked me to clean it up. You know, here’s the thing, you will hear studies and again, I’m going to do a podcast on the facts, and the fallacies, and the BS, which is belief systems or bacon sandwich. A lot of people throw out research and then they hang their hat on it. You know, I’ll dispel the aspirin’s good for the heart myth too, while they ignored 84 good studies that said that one, it’s bull, and how they skewed the statistics.

Doctor Lewis:               All right, here’s the thing. First of all, we don’t know if it’s a good multi-vitamin, multi-mineral. Here it says, “Minerals and essential fatty acids help the thyroid, which helps the heart.” That comes from the Journal of Molecular Cellular Endocrinology. Then, there’s one that says, “Fish oil lowers cholesterol and improves the function of sex hormones, which helps the heart.” American College of Nutrition. Let’s see, let’s go to another one. I’ve got a list of about 100 here. You know, I won’t get there.

Doctor Lewis:               “Fruits, vegetable, EFA’s, essential fatty acids, nuts, antioxidants, decrease endothelial inflammation.” That means the covering of the heart. That’s from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  Chocalate lowers lukatrienes which leads to less inflammation.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. That honey is why I like chocolate. See, another one. “I-3-C.” That’s the thing that’s in the cruciferous vegetables that help clean up the hormone imbalance. You know, leads to DIM, which Janet talks about a lot. “Helps in the detoxification of environmental estrogens, which helps balance hormones for those of you with hormonal symptoms ” that’s from Journal of Biology Chemistry.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, I think it is safe to say that that vitamin that they did the testing on was not a pharmaceutical grade vitamin. I’m assuming it was something that was an over the counter product because they’re right. You can take that it’ll do absolutely nothing because we’ve seen it on lab.

Doctor Lewis:               Have you ever kissed a girl and it absolutely did nothing for you? I’m not asking Janet that, but guys out there, have you ever kissed a girl and there was nothing there? That doesn’t mean all girls are that way.

Janet Lewis:                 Well, okay, I don’t even know where to go with that.

Doctor Lewis:               I was just making her speechless. “Homocysteine, which is lack of vitamin B, damages endothelium.” Now, that means you’ve got to have good folic acid, which is probably the F-MTHF, then you got to have B6 and B12. That’s from Journal of Circulation. There’s half of you out there that have that 5-MTHF problem and you got a lower homocysteine. Just saw a lab today. Her homocysteine was a 20. It needs to be under a seven.

Janet Lewis:                 And speaking of lab, would you recommend that for adrenal fatigue and immune system, which lab would you recommend that someone …

Doctor Lewis:               At least the GWH3. That stands for green wisdom help three, that’s comprehensive.

Janet Lewis:                 What’s in that panel that you would be looking for to see someone’s immune system?

Doctor Lewis:               Well, the ratio of lymphocytes to neutrophils, to basophils and eosinophils and the total number of your white blood cells. Then, you’d see the globulins, then you can see the alkaline phosphatase.  And then you can see cortisol, which is going to tell me if your adrenals are running 120 miles an hour down a rainy I20, which people around here know that’s dangerous  to go 70 when it’s raining, or if it’s dragging your butt. If you do your three cups of coffee and go back to bed, you know you have adrenal fatigue.

Doctor Lewis:               We’ll see plenty unless you just want to add your hormones, which I think is a good idea. Then it’s GWH1 for a woman because they’re number one. GWH2 for a man because we’re always number two.

Janet Lewis:                 There you have it, folks. So, if you’re tired, don’t be too tired. Go on our website to greenwisdomhelp.com fill out our health survey, and it will actually recommend which lab panel you need based on what you fill out. You can actually purchase the lab there online and have it drawn somewhere close to you where you don’t have to generally drive very far to have that draw feed done, or the draw accomplished. We get the results back here and Doctor Lewis goes over the lab with you. That is part of the that GWH1 he’s talking about or the three.

Janet Lewis:                 It comes with a functional medicine report, recommendations from him on supplements, and time with him, which is invaluable, as you can tell. I’ve spent 30 minutes of it with him today and it’s been delightful.

Doctor Lewis:               My brilliance smart alack remarks. Thanks, Jonathon, I love talking to you.

Janet Lewis:                 You guys have a blessed week and we’ll be here next time for the Green Wisdom Health Show.