Dr. Stephen Lewis of Green Wisdom Health returns to TSPC today to discuss why so many Americans are dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. The links to diet, life style, gut biomes and what we can do about it.

Welcome, folks. Good Wednesday morning. It is Wednesday, September the 11th, 2024. For this is episode 3, 556 of the survival podcast. We’re bringing back on one of my favorite people to interview Dr. Steven Lewis of green wisdom health. I don’t think he’s been with us since about 2019. If I remember right somewhere in that range, and it’s good to have him back on today.

We’re going to be talking about stress, anxiety, and depression and how, no, it’s. Not all in your head. There’s a variety of environmental and nutritional stressors that are actually causing stress. when you have stress, then maybe you have anxiety.

And then maybe when you’re stressed out and have anxiety. Maybe you get depressed, so you might feel it in your head some, but there are things that you can do to alleviate this and, Dr. Lewis will be with us in just a minute.

Next up today, you know, we’re going to talk about stress and one of those things that stresses people out is money and having your money constantly erode. That’ll stress you out. Well, you know, I don’t ever recommend going in all in on anything, but I’ll tell you, I’ve been recommending alternative investments for as long as I’ve done this show.

Anyway, with that, let’s bring Dr lewis back on to the survival podcast. Steven, man, welcome to the show. Hey, it’s good to be back. Can you just start out with, instead of our subject today, kind of your origin story. Before you decided to go to chiropractic school and then kind of go down this whole world of nutrition with those studies, what was your life like before that?

What led you in that direction to choose this as a profession?

Well, my parents always took us to the chiropractor first and then an osteopath or MB. Later, if the chiropractor suggested it, I always thought there should be a very symbiotic relationship between them. And that’s mostly true now, but, a chiropractor talked me into being a chiropractor and it’s been a really good road, because I couldn’t handle the blood and guts.

I admired the medical profession, but I’ve seen so many people get well. by taking supplements. And I know the FDA says, it can’t help a symptom or cure a disease, but still your body has to have the basics just to work with and our food doesn’t have it. And that’s why I kind of really admire what you’re doing.

You’re teaching people to grow more nutritious food. And you tell them it’s not the soil, it’s the microorganism that’s, fixing the nitrogen, for example. we’re going to talk about microorganisms today and how important that is in your brain health, stress, anxiety, depression, your musculoskeletal health.

early on in my chiropractic career, I was really busy. And I noticed that when I put people on nutrients to stop the musculoskeletal inflammation, Then say well God I see better. I’m not as stressed or my husband’s nicer to me Which meant I’m not as irritable it all works together structure function nerve supply nutrition and choosing a happy attitude.

I think right now people are experiencing more anxiety more depression. but they’re also dealing with kind of, as you alluded to, like, and probably part of this is like gut inflammation and you’re a chiropractor. So I would imagine muscular skeletal issues or something you’d be looking at.

how are all these challenges interconnected? Cause I think people tend to like make these compartmentalized, like anxiety and depressions over here. And that’s exactly what pharmaceutical companies want. Cause then they can tell you, right. Take this drug that’s on the TV where the mentally, mentally, depressed person is dancing through a field.

And then when your hands twitch, take this other drug to go with that first drug. So that’s a great money making formula, but it doesn’t seem like For all the drugs we have for these problems now, it seems like there’s more cases of the problem than ever before. So that doesn’t seem to be working.

Well, you know, before I get into what I think the cause is, I think we should choose to be happy.

We should choose to look at it in a quirky way. just a little over a year ago, I was in hospital and they said, did you get your flu shot? I said, I had a bourbon shot. Did you get your RSV shot? I said, I had another bourbon shot. Did you get your shingle shot? I said, oh, hell no. They said, did you get your COVID shot?

I said, I had two bourbon shots for that. And the nurse that was there trying to save my life at the minute, I had him laughing.

Yeah.

And so that probably helped, you know, everybody. So, you know, hormone imbalances, and I’m going to kind of jump the gun here and tell people I’m way different than I was four or five years ago in a lot of good ways.

If people will look on my website, there’s a book called the Pain Relief Nutrition Program. And it gives the top whole food sources to certain nutrients that you need. And, you know, I asked my patients, I said, have you noticed that most of these nutrients come out of meat or animal products?

Not that fruits and vegetables can’t be important, but I’m not a, I’m not a fan of grain at all. And for example, rice and wheat, they’re already grown nutritionally deficient anyway because of our soil and you cover that real well. But by the time they get through Modifying that, 80 percent of the nutrients are gone once they mill it and process it and then spray, you know, artificial folic acid on it, which makes things even worse.

So, it’s hormone imbalance and the pain nutrition, pain relief nutrition program book on the, on the website. I think it’s brilliant. Of course, you know, I wrote it.

Hey, this looks brilliant. By the way, I wrote it, but I can say it for you

Well, you know this I’m different.

I’ve gone a lot more in depth So, you know, we’ll start if you’d like with hormone imbalances, right? Well number one from poor eating And that’s why I think it’s important. I’m not much of a farmer. I can’t make very much grow, but I like what you do. What you’re teaching people. Yes, I do listen to some of your podcasts and like them.

another thing for hormone imbalance is getting older, which I take great exception to that. you can get old very, very slowly if you choose to. But, you know, your hormones can become imbalanced and it causes pain related symptoms. That’s one thing I noticed in my practice is like, well, what’s really causing this pain?

And I asked a lady the other day, she said, well, my, my right hip is hurting. It feels like it’s 92. I said, well, your left hip doesn’t hurt. How old is that? They never think about it. It’s like, well, you misaligned your car. So it tears up the ball joints and whatever.

That’s a good point from the musculoskeletal structure.

You know, you can put really great tires, expensive tires on a car. If your caster or camber is out, it’s going to tear the tire up. And first turn around and say, Firestone or Kelly or whatever stole me, or Michelin stole me a junk tire. No, you put your good tire on a car that was misaligned, you’re going to have problems.

Well, another way to decrease stress and be happier, and I was in court one time testifying for a sweet little lady that was in a car wreck, and she had, you know, three very degenerated, Discs and vertebrae and she was 67 and I said, well, don’t you think this is just because she’s old had nothing to do with her?

Car wreck and I said, well, I put my mother’s x ray up when she was 62 I said she was in a horrible car wreck 30 40 years ago. Her neck looks real beautiful. The judge says dr Lewis take it down. If you do that again, I’m gonna hold you in contempt of court. So the insurance company attorney They never tell you that’s he’s representing an insurance company.

He said, okay now dr Lewis now that we’ve disregarded your mother’s x rays

Yeah,

you can’t, don’t you think this is just old age? And I said, well, the vertebra above and below the degeneration are the same age. How do you explain that? And they gave the lady 51, 000 for her rec.

So

you have to learn to think outside the box.

And I think we have been. Programmed. If you want to know how I feel, listen to George Carlin. So hormone imbalances, which creates neurotransmitter imbalances, what we call the happy hormones. and I don’t think, you know, and I’m not an MD, I’m a DC, but I don’t think that stress, anxiety, and depression is Paxil, Prozac, or Wellbutrin deficiency.

Agreed. Agreed. I think that that’s, you know, I say it all the time kind of to break it down to going across the board with that, a headache is not an aspirin deficiency.

Exactly.

And it, oh, oh, well then maybe none of this other shit, like you said, is a Paxil deficiency or an Osambic deficiency or whatever.

Somehow humans existed without all of these chemicals for the, you know, for hundreds of thousands of years and if not longer. We’re not really sure. Those are our best estimates that modern humans are somewhere now in the neighborhood of 300 to 400, 000 years we’ve been on this planet. And we made it without Ozambic and Pax Lobet and, It, things to lower our A1C and somehow we actually were actually pretty healthy before, you know, the onset of all this modern food supply and modern living,

The humans, have not needed chiropractors as long, well, they didn’t wear the shoes we wear, they didn’t sleep in the type of beds we did. They were walking around or sleeping most of the time, one or the other. We live much more natural lives. I don’t think my sixth great grandfather in back spent a lot of time sitting in an office chair like I’m in right now.

Or, or, or lean forward looking at the phone for several hours a day. You know, the thing about chiropractic is, and there’s a lot of research that says if you have an abnormal curve in your spine, And they do autopsies on you. The nerves that emanate from that curve go to the diseased organs where it is not diseased above and below that abnormal spinal curvature.

And, you know, another thing I’m getting off subject a little bit, but, you know, I had a smart LA insurance company attorney said, well, you know, whiplash doesn’t occur in Russia. I said, yeah, but they’ve only got a fraction of the car. So whiplash. Statistically, it’s going to be much less and it shut him up.

I love embarrassing insurance company attorneys with my good old boy isms, but, yeah, I think chiropractic is very, very important, for the structural, you know, musculoskeletal aspect. And I think if you put good nutrition with it, that you can live healthier, you can age much, much slower, but more important, you can have the energy.

And have the mental get up and go that depression doesn’t slam you down on the couch in the middle of the day.

you kind of explain like how maybe some of those structural issues can relate to the Mental health aspects of things it makes perfect sense that if I have a spinal injury or compression or something and that goes out to where my lungs are that my lungs may not function as well Because the neural communication to the lungs goes out It would seem that then the same thing could be true of the mind, right?

Like if I have certain things that are off in my alignment or causing me to have less communication between the mind and the body, even, I mean, I would look at it this way. It’s not just about the mind itself, but like the mind is having problems communicating with another part of the body, then that’s going to put the mind in a state of stress.

You know, much, much of the research, and I’m not even talking about chiropractic supporting research says. Vagal Nerve Stimulation. Go to your chiropractor for vagus nerve. And here’s the kicker, and it is kind of what I’m going to tie this into. The vagus nerve, which takes care of all sorts of things and stimulates, good function, good physiological function.

Two thirds of those nerves go from the gut to the brain. Only one third go from the brain to the gut. The GI tract is intricately involved in all this.

Yeah, I’m just thinking one way to think about this is if you were designing a human.

Right. And you would say like the food that this human is consuming and how it’s digested is actually really important. The nutrient intake is really important. if there’s an efficiency, the body should have some way of saying, Hey, I need more of something, right? and the machinery that converts the food into nutrient for the body. There would have to be a comms link. Between those two things and it seems like we have so systematized the body that like Well, there’s a digestive system and then there’s mental health. And the average doctor would tell you, well, of course the two aren’t linked other than, well, if you have a lot of pain in your stomach, you’ll probably have bad mental health, but that’s like, it’s like saying if I punch you in the face every day, you’ll get depressed if you can’t do anything back about it, there is a actual link with that.

communication line.

very much so. I used to have patients that said, well, when you adjust me, I see better. I said, no, no, no, no. That’s eighth cranial nerve root. It comes out of the brain, doesn’t even go through the spine itself.

Yeah.

And I said, that’s got nothing to do with your eyesight. That’s just all in your head.

And I’m glad it’s in your head. And then I was, very humbled to find the research that says, no, they were actually right. It was an indirect link. But it, a very causal link anyway. so you have to go to the gut microbiome. there’s some studies that say, you know, we have 10 times more microbiome or micro organisms than we have cells in our body, billions or trillions in your GI tract, and it’s associated with pain disorders and it, and it’s.

It’s associated with depression, anxiety, poor sleep, fatigue. I hear fatigue all the time or poor sleep. The kicker is you have to stick with it long enough. You know, there’s some people that give up too quick. Physiology takes time. It takes nine months to make a baby and, you know, you’re not going to get well in one month or three months. You know, you can see signs that you’re getting better, but getting the microbiome balanced is a little bit, complicated actually. You have to kill off the, you know, there’s Firmicutes and Bacteriocides, you know, ones that make you fat are the Firmicutes.

so, as you kill these off by, you can do it just by starving them out by getting off your sugar, your artificial sugars, and your Carbohydrates mostly, I don’t do that many carbs and I can tell a huge difference. And that’s why I lean toward more meat and a lot of animal fat.

what are the two biggest problems in society from a food standpoint? Probably seed oils and high fructose corn syrup.

yeah, I’m just gonna for those that are on the audio only I’m gonna slide up right now It looks like it has nothing to do with what dr.

Lewis is talking about. That’s everything to do with it This one’s talking about How many cells in your body, right, are human cells versus how many cells are microbial cells and how many cells are viral? And if you look at the picture in the upper right hand corner, that little red, space on the, it’s just like the knee down on one leg.

That represents how much of you is human cells. The other majority of you is actually, microbial cells and bacteria that are you that you co exist with. And you have over a quadrillion resident viruses in your body at any given time. And you’re not just more bacterial cell. You’re more bacterial genes.

If you look at the bottom one, you see the dudes, like. front of his left hose is red. That’s human genes. You have about 20, 000 human genes in your body. You have two to 20 million microbial genes in your body. Now it fascinates me, honestly, that modern medicine ignores this. It literally completely ignores this.

Like you are more of these things than you are human. So these things might be important. Right, like, and, and a huge portion of those bacteria and microbes that are part of you are in your gut. And if you disrupt that, you, you’ve thrown off the whole system. It’s like, well, I don’t know why all the fish died in the pond.

All I did was kill the plankton, right? If you kill the plankton, then the whole system falls apart. You broke the base of the food chain.

I just stick my hand into one of the aquatic plants and move my hand around. So like, it looks like, you know, kind of like dust and debris and scum or whatever, a little floated cloud comes out of that. Well, the next thing that happens is all the minnows and all the zooplankton come in and then the bigger fish are looking around like, who can I eat?

And I’m like, there it is. Well, that’s your body. It’s just that you can’t see that cloud. That cloud is true microorganisms, but Our bodies can’t be healthy if that system is out of balance no more than the soil can or an aquatic system can.

Yeah, that’s very well put. So, you know, if you talk about what causes inflammation, you know, go to seed oils.

Yes.

It is the ratio of Omega 6s to Omega 3s. I tell people, you need more Omega 3s and they’re not all the same. Be careful who you follow. you know, the problem with the Internet is it’s made up. A lot of slightly educated idiots, basically, you know, one of my patients, very dear.

she’s my age. She looks good. She takes a lot of stuff, but she’s following the guy on the internet that says you shouldn’t do salt. You shouldn’t do fat. You should go plant based. And I see her lab going to hell in a bucket. and so’s her mental health and so’s her inflammatory markers, you know, for her joints and you know, sitting at a computer all day with that head translated forward.

But I said, careful who you listen to. I tell people, listen with a discerning spirit. And I get by by being a little bit of a smart aleck, but I’m too young not to be having fun. So

You know, it’s the salt things always amazed me like this is something that humans and animals both crave.

Yeah For all the talk there’s never been a study that’s actually proven anything to say they say about salt is true They’ll take these non scientific scientific studies, I guess I would put it. And they say, well, these people eat more sodium and look, they have higher blood pressure. What else are those people like?

They eat more sodium. We’re getting it. If they’re getting packets that say, add one cup of water dump and stir and boil for seven minutes, maybe you should look at all the other shit that’s going in there. Because I see these dudes like Dr. Sean Baker that he lives on basically beef and salt and he’s about 66 years old.

And he’s built like a brick shithouse Right. So so clearly the salt’s not hurting him, right? This guy’s an md and like he’s an er physician I’m sure he takes his own levels and if he was killing himself, he’d know And so I don’t I don’t really even understand this War on things like salt, but it’s there and it seems like the only reason they have to do this is because They can’t tell you what the real problem is because well You want somebody not to understand something, make their paycheck dependent on them not understanding it.

some people think too simplistically and that, of course that’s, you know, that’s why Janet and I do lab. the thing about it is people look at it in too much of a simplistic way. It’s like, well, if you don’t eat salt, your chloride starts going down in your lab. And if you don’t have chloride, you can’t make hydrochloric acid.

And they say, well I can’t eat this because I get a reaction. What are your liver enzymes? Why is your liver not detoxifying this toxic environment? and not excreting bile to digest, the fats and the meats and I’m not carnivore, but of the people and I’ve had a lot of my patients, I said, just go carnivore and they did real, real well.

you know, what are your digestive enzymes? What are your probiotics? What’s your vitamin D level, which is not really a vitamin. It’s more like a pro hormone, but, there, there’s a lot of things Figure into the equation. It’s not that simple, but salt, I think is good. I wouldn’t eat Morton’s, but you know, all the other ones, the sea salts, but here’s the problem with the internet.

It was like eat Himalayan sea salt. Then the next one says, don’t eat Himalayan sea salt. It’s full of, uh, heavy metals, you know, eat Redmonds, don’t eat Redmonds, you know, eat Celtic, you know, don’t eat Celtic. It’s like, be careful who you listen to.

I think that one of the things that, cause I’m pro salt.

But I’m also like these people that say, well, you’ll get all your extra minerals. Well, go look at the mineral analysis. I mean, the salt is primarily, no matter what it is, a sodium chloride. And probably the number one mineral that you’re going to find if you check out something like Himalayan pink is going to be fluoride.

And so the same person telling you only use Himalayan pink is also telling you stay away from fluoride.

Yeah.

But before we dig into that, can you just talk about like, What would a person notice about an imbalance in their gut biome relating to our subject today? Which is how it would affect stress and anxiety. How would they kind of identify that maybe this is my issue?

You know the usual things fatigue I hear brain fog quite a bit Poor sleep, loss of libido.

You’d be surprised how many 25 35 year old men says, Doc, I really don’t function like I used to back in the young years. I said, you’re 25 35 years

old. You should be functioning with a breeze.

waking up happy, you’ve got a problem. you know, it can be migraines, it can be different neuropathies, too sensitive to pain, or too sensitive to your spouse being a little bit critical, or being overly sensitive to that, you know, it, good health, here’s the thing, good health comes from the inside out.

Not the outside in and people say, well, I’m getting all these extra minerals from the Himalayan pink is yeah, you’re getting a larger array, but you’re not getting the recommended amounts. That’s the key. And then people say, but I don’t need magnesium because I’m getting it in my foot soak or I’m. Got this magnesium spray and it’s like, well, if you’ve got a rib eye, do you want to rub it on your skin or you want to put it internally?

I put it in a way where people cannot think about it differently. Yeah. Okay. You get magnesium by spraying it on and soaking your feet and that’s fine, but it’s not enough. It’s not complete. So. Pretty much any symptom, in my opinion, is because of the lack of the proper nutrition to allow your body to work.

Your body wants to work toward 100%, but it needs something to work with.

So, to me, there’s two aspects to this. One is, A lack of nutrient and the other is what I would call a disruptor of nutrient cycling, right? I think that like people are very familiar at least with the term The carbon cycle, right?

And so but that’s the carbon cycle or the water cycle and but basically even if they don’t know what it is They’ve heard of it, but you’re like, well your plants also use calcium There’s a calcium cycle, and they use molybdenum, and there’s a molybdenum cycle, and they use manganese, and there’s a manganese cycle, and if you don’t have the biology functioning, you can throw all that shit in your soil, and the plant can’t get it, because the first thing happens, these elements actually begin, you know, this is high school level chem, but they begin to bind together.

When they bind together in certain ways, We can’t access them anymore. They’re now a molecule instead of an individual element, right? And so if we increase the health in the soil, and what that really means is biology, then these different soil organisms actually can break these bonds,

Turns out the plants, and I’ve learned this in the last couple years, With some of the courses I’ve been developing, literally plants are like vacuuming up the microorganisms, like all plants on some level are carnivorous plants. Sorry vegans, right? You cannot elise your conscience that way. And so they’re taking all this in.

Well, so there’s two potential problems. One is we’ve disrupted the microbiology that allows the nutrient in. Or we’ve introduced something toxic that disrupts it or we’re also not getting enough and I think so those three things happen in soil I think those three things happen in the body. The person’s not getting enough of the essential nutrient The nutrient they are getting is because their gut health is off not being actually processed into the body Properly, but they’re also like you mentioned Seed oils

I think that Is I don’t want anybody to take this as being pro high fructose corn syrup But I personally believe that seed oils have done more macro level to overall human health than even HFCS. I really do. It’s, and the correlation is, you know, they say causation does not equal correlation or correlation does equal causation.

But there’s times where it’s exactly perfect and you go, that’s probably not by happenstance. So how do we begin to correct all of that? the lack of nutrient. the disruption of the nutrient, the disruption of the process to get the nutrient.

you got to check different hormones.

sometimes not so much. It goes into a little more depth in that, pain book, but you got to look to thyroid. Thyroid’s like a woman. If thyroid’s not happy, ain’t nobody happy. and it really, Affects pretty much everything in the body then you got the cortisol and that’s one of the things we routinely check Is it too high too low?

It’s like well, here’s the parameters you want to be in optimal parameters and I tell people and this is maybe a little tacky, but I said well these representables cover the average overweight Depressed, pain filled American. And the parameters are different in different countries because I see them.

So you want cortisol, if it’s too low, you’re fatigued as heck, you’ve got adrenal fatigue. If it’s too high, you can’t shut your brain down at night. Excess cortisol actually causes excess glucose, even if you’re eating good. Then you have insulin. I always check that. It says, oh, you can go up to 20 something.

It’s like, well, it gets past 8, 9, or 10. It’s going to create triglycerides, stick it in your liver, create fatty liver, and then it’s going to put excess weight. Insulin is actually a fat storage molecule. So you have to have insulin low. My wife makes the best sourdough bread. I said, well, that’s like substituting cyanide for arsenic.

It’s better than your, you know, whole wheat bread, but it’s not good. DHEA had a patient ask, what’s the significance of DHEA? Well, you want to be on the high level of a healthy 30 year old person because DHEA is not just for testosterone, but it has like 150 repair functions. It has to do with the muscle, bone, and libido, because it’s the precursor to testosterone and the other sex hormones, but it repairs your brain.

I get better cognitive function for keeping mine up at 400, where 450 sometimes in my range because my age is only 188 on the high side. I keep it like a 30 year old man should and it’s not just for the testosterone. then estrogen, you know, that’s a big problem because these plastics, pesticides, glyphosate act like estrogen.

That’s why men are more feminine. That’s why we have the low testosterone centers that we didn’t have when I was a kid. because all these pollutants that your liver can’t detoxify is acting like estrogen. Then It’s really scary, most women don’t have enough progesterone because it’s being overridden by the environmental estrogens and progesterone has to do with fertility and sleeping good and thinking your husband’s still a nice guy.

So the imbalances for the neurotransmitters caused by these, hormone imbalances, you know, it can cause our Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, anxiety, depression, and, but it increases

Then here’s the balance, you know, you were talking about, well, we’ve gone down to systems in our care and it’s like, yeah, we need to look at the whole, like we should the soil, because every neurotransmitter, one’s inhibitory and the other one’s excitatory and like serotonin, well, SSRI, Just stops the reuptake of serotonin.

Why not just make more serotonin? That’s happy overall mood Low serotonin is usually people that have migraines and fibromyalgia Unremitting back pain then you have dopamine. This is one of my favorites people that have low dopamine or addicts sex addicts Gambling addicts, drug addicts, alcoholics, and it can be inhibitory or excitatory, and usually you will have migraines along with that, as well as the addictive personality.

You have to have specific nutrients. Think GABA glutamate, think monosodium glutamate, which is excitatory. But the GABA, Brings it down, but they balance each other. You can have a neuropathies. Fibromyalgia, I hear that quite a bit in my patients. Epinephrine, epinephrine, and you know, if you have your adrenals blown out, we know that by your cortisol levels.

It’s too excitatory, then you don’t get the epinephrine or epinephrine, the fight or flight syndrome. You may be too tired for that sometimes. and it comes from gut issues, gut brain connection, because about depending on the research you read, you know, all research says different things. You can have 70 to 95 percent of all your.

Neural transmitters start in your gut.

So you’ve mentioned running labs a few times and people that have heard you before, know what you mean by that. Let’s talk a little bit about that. The type of labs you ordered, for me, for instance, it was like, even the phlebotomist was like, I’ve never seen anything, but this much on it.

And what I really like, I believe the way you put it back then was if you’re average, then that’s you. Your buddy and every fat person in the line at the state fair aggregated together And that’s how they’re determined average and average is good. Well, you know You could be a middle of the bell curve in one school and be a top student You could be the middle of a bell curve in the other school and be a dumbass and our health as a society leans toward the dumbass school instead of the the good student school And so I think it’s important people understand that like they could go to their doctor And be tested for these nutrients and they’d say it lies in normal range.

Well, normal’s not necessarily good, right?

I tell people there’s a difference between normal and common. You’re common, but you’re not normal.

I got you.

And, you know, I try to get them to think a little bit differently. And, you know, that’s huge with back pain. Arthritis, you know, you can have different types.

You can have the psoriatic, you can have the rheumatoid, you can have the osteoarthritis. There’s a connection from the gut to the disc, recurrent meningeal nerve, you know, need that stimulated. But, migraines, I hear that a lot or headaches. It’s like, well, it can be a lot of different, it can be the neurotransmitters or it could be you’re just not excreting, correctly.

It’s very important to have good bowel habits. Janet’s famous for saying, well, if you eat three meals a day and you have three trains going into the tunnel, how many trains should come out on the other side? If you’re not, if you’re eating three major meals a day, shouldn’t you be having two to three bowel movements depending on transit time?

Yeah, so when you do this type of lab work with people and you notice that certain things are deficient, how do you look at remedying that?

You have to look at it several steps down the line. for example, the, the ratio, the amounts and the ratio of different types of white blood cells. You know, there should be a good ratio of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines.

And that’s what your white blood cells represent. So, you know, we put supplements in that your body can use to stimulate your, immune system. There’s a lot of them that’ll do it. I like olive leaf and arabinogalactin, but there are other formulas that are just as effective. That’s just my favorite. vitamin D is very, very important.

Yeah,

and it was already ordered. Thank you for your And you really do need to get it I don’t I don’t push 300 but I keep them around somewhere around 75 to 100 And if it’s 140 150, that’s fine. I don’t think it ever gets hot.

So if you just have to watch the liver enzymes That’s very very incredible So, you know I tell them eat better eat like in in the book, you know, the tryptophan which you don’t get sleep because you ate turkey With the tryptophan because tryptophan is in beef and chicken too. You get sleepy because you gorged yourself like a pig.

Too much alcohol because the family was there.

They took half the team and had them gorge themselves on a typical Turkey stuffing gravy dinner and then they had the other half of the team eat like correct portions.

That’s all it was the same food Literally off the same bird and the half that ate a reasonable portion We’re all like I’m not sleepy at all and the people that had a couple of Bordeaux’s and then pigged out They all wanted a nap

then then I say well We know you need digested enzymes and I like the broad spectrum ones But I kind of tend to go toward the fat digesting enzymes Lipase hydrochloric acid which is more protein, but it helps with the fat You know, I have my favorites that work on most people, and then we can alter it.

but, you know, you’re trying to get some of the B vitamins, and like B3, B6. You can’t get the neurotransmitters from the gut here if you don’t have B6. Well, how do you know there’s a B6 deficiency? Well, because AST or ALT in your liver is going to be a little bit low. And if it’s a little bit low, you know, Most of these are, you know, tuna, beef, chicken, fish, scallops.

You can get some B6 otherwise, but I think it’s important that, you know, you can just have an educated, conclusion that if your liver enzymes are low, it’s not going to excrete. You know, that’s the methylation pathway. I don’t want to get too technical, but Janet says I need to dumb it down. It’s like, okay, throw it in and let God sort it out.

You don’t have to overthink this thing. Like you were talking about molybdenum. You never hear about molybdenum or manganese or boron. You have to have. To create testosterone and to create healthy bones, but you don’t hear many people talk about those. Well, it’s in my multimineral. it’s in the multivitamin in proper doses, and your body knows more how to deal with it.

And I’ve had all kinds of chemistry, organic and inorganic, and I hate it. I don’t even want to talk about it. I passed it, but that was it. And the folate, you know, when they spray the artificial. Stuff in enrich your flower. That’s poison. Most of us have five MTHF genetic mutations So all my vitamins the multivitamin and some other big dogs Have the five MTHF which is five methyl tetrahydrofolate You have to have that before you can convert B6 before you can convert B12 before you can let your energy You Engines the mitochondria work.

So you just throw it in people overthink it, you know Find somebody you trust and I’m not the only one that’s good at this But of course if you want to use me, that’s great, too.

You know What I noticed when I really started kind of going down the keto train and I think people think, I’ll think I’m carnivore.

I’m not carnivore, but I might go three weeks of carnivore. Not because I made a decision, because I don’t feel like eating vegetables.

You

know, like there’s times, it’s very seasonal for me, like where I’m like, I don’t know, like in the winter, I like salads a lot more than I do in the summer. And I know that’s backwards for people, but it’s just the way that it is.

I’m talking like, leafy green stuff. and I might go three or four weeks, but When I did that, I was a little bit worried about coming off of like lots of different colors and fruits and berries. Like they tell you to eat. Before you worry about that, maybe you should look this up.

So I started looking things up. I found like just plain old beef has like nine out of 10 of the things that we’re worried about an abundance of them. And the amount of fruits and vegetables you have to eat to get what you supposedly need, which is how they tell you to do it. Is ridiculous like, what’s that balance of nature products? Just a bunch of freeze dried vegetable and fruit powder and capsules is all that it is And they say you need this because you can’t get enough in your diet of fruits and vegetables You can’t eat like well Wait a minute if if I can’t get enough of the nutrient I need by eating fruits and vegetables Then maybe my primary source of nutrients shouldn’t be fruits and vegetables You Maybe it should be something that naturally has what I’m looking for because I know you’ve read like the work of dr Price and all like There are people say, you know, it’s traditional that we eat vegan or vegetarian.

No, it’s not You can’t show me an indigenous society on the planet that is a vegetarian or vegan society. You can show me a religion, but not an indigenous peoples that had to exist before the modern luxury that frankly lets these people eat diets like that. Like if you were trying to survive as a vegan in the Amazon, you’re gonna have a hard time.

But if you’re willing to put a couple darts and some cappy bears or some howler monkeys, it ain’t that hard to survive. I’m just saying, I mean, I know that sounds Way too oversimplified, but the easiest way to you Acquire calories is a human being in nature is to kill something and eat it You know you can get some you can forage some plants and you can get something out of that But most of the plants we can forage before modern agriculture The work that has to be done so you can eat it without killing yourself is pretty insane.

You can do that with like an acorn. Go see how long it takes to make a pound of acorn meal and how many calories did you burn to make A pound of acorn meal with you know, like 800 calories in it It’s a net loss I don’t know how we’ve gotten here, but I know where we are is in complete denial of where humans ancestrally got these nutrients that we’re talking about.

And we had to get them back then or we wouldn’t be here now.

It blows my mind where people say, well, I’ve got these fruits and veggies and I just love this particular company. I said, well, it’s not a bad company, but do you really think you’re going to get enough fruits and vegetables out of two capsules of fruits and two capsules of veggies?

What they might get is a little bit more of what they should be getting, and they might feel a little bit better. I mean, I’ll acknowledge that, and then that tricks you into believing you found the solution.

You know, I tell people, you’re overthinking it, just find somebody, listen to your gut feeling, your discerning spirit, whatever you want to call it.

Your gut won’t lie to you if your gut is healthy, and that’s those microbes that have some sort of innate intelligence. I know, this is getting a little hooey hooey, but ask your wife about her gut feeling. Well, if Dorothy or my wife, Janet has gut feeling, I’m going to defer to that before I go out of my intellect because they’re almost always right.

If not always,

I will agree with that. Like when I really feel like this is a bad idea, I’m like, okay, it might be.

Yeah. And Janet’s kept me out of all kinds of trouble that way. She said, you know, you’re the most petulant little four year old I’ve ever seen. I said, I am not. I’m five. you know, if you’re not having fun, something’s wrong.

But it’s easier to have fun if you feel like you can, if you have the energy and the mental cognitive function to do that. So it’s not that hard to eat better. you know, you’ve done a good job. I listened to enough of your podcast to know. And you know, that’s part of why I wrote that book. You’re like, man, okay, you just eat this.

And again, maybe three out of four of these nutrients that I say are the top whole food sources of this nutrient, three out of four of them are bad. Animal products,

which again, it makes sense. It, you think, what are we made out of? We’re made out of bone and muscle and nerve and fat, right? You know, it has everything you need to build bone and muscle and nerve and fat.

and all the connective tissue, other things that have all those things, like they say, like one of the reasons if you have a, like chicken sometimes will break an egg and if they break an egg, then they’ll eat it. Yeah. Well, the egg has everything necessary to make a chicken, right? So a warm blooded mammal has all the things necessary to make another.

Warm blooded mammal. And I think it’s only like this, emotional thing where we, we, you know, we don’t want to kill it because it’s a living thing. And because of that, I want to like try to then back nutritional theory into this emotional discomfort. I get it. It was a very different experience for me the first time I took like a chicken that I raised and slaughtered it I went out in the woods and busted my ass for half a day to shoot one grouse It’s about the size of a small chicken I had no emotional qualms in that at all because I had to go out there and meet that thing on its own and get embarrassed by it six or seven times.

The dog looked at me like I’m stupid because I missed and when I finally got him, I’m like, I got him. But this chicken is like, what’s going on? Like, I get having like some emotional compulsion there. But it doesn’t mean that your nutritional reality will change because you don’t like it,

you know I never had head of grouse.

They always dug behind a tree when I shot northern, georgia you know the thing about it is and again I try to say things in a way that gets people to thinking a little differently So i was having this discussion with this multi millionaire real estate developer out of dallas and we were in a nice quiet restaurant She says stephen.

How do you? How do you kill a deer? I said, honey, you don’t want to go there. Please don’t go there. Don’t go there. And she pushed it. And I said, well, number one, you think it’s sinful to kill a deer, but the number one loss, the killer of animals is loss of habitat. So pine plantations, I’ve seen the deer population go way down in East Texas because of the pine plantations.

You’re flooding the oak trees, you know, to make a lake. And I said, so. Out of the pine plantations, you’re making, toilet paper and Kleenex. So every time you blow your nose or you’re killing deer, you’re just not making that connection.

Yeah, yeah. My answer to it would have been, well, there’s lots of lasers at 30.

It was like, do you know how you grow grain for your bread? You kill every mole, vole, you know, everything in that field has to die. So you can eat a slice of bread. The only question is how cute does an animal have to be before you don’t want to kill it? It’s kind of how it ends. And it was like, it was like a complete shutdown.

You’re like, how did this get into like a mainstream media production? Cause it would so spot on honest. life begets death and death begets life. I mean, this is as old as humanity. And I don’t know, maybe someday we’ll live in a universe like Star Trek and I can go. I will have a ribeye and a replicator will make me an actual ribeye.

But this 3D printed shit, I ain’t playing that. Right, and until we get to that Star Trek 23rd century shit, I’m gonna stick to like, I’m looking at a rooster right now, that if he doesn’t get off my outdoor kitchen bar, he might be in the crock pot by the end of the week.

Yeah, one of the things we did to prepare, is move to Little Lake. Full of fish, full of fish.

I just had to get rid of his ass.

Yeah, they’re begging us to take catfish out because you know, we’ve got a whole amount of catfish 8, 10, 12 pounds. It’s like they said when you catch them, please kill them and fry them up and the brim are so big. That it’s a sin to throw them back. My granddaughter scooped up five in the net, says, Papa, can you get five brim?

I said, no, baby. My record is three. So, it’s that thick.

and if you don’t, once you get there, by the way, if you don’t start harvesting them, go back in five years and they’ll all be this big. Yeah, we’ll get stunted if you don’t harvest some.

We’ve got a few missing generations. We have some now six, eight, ten inches long.

We need to get rid of the ones that are two foot long. Yeah, they’re thick. But yeah, I like them. I’m not carnivore, but I’m maybe three quarter ish.

I tell people this all the time, you don’t have to do what I’ve done.

Mm hmm,

and it all depends. I have Ken Berry on and we’ll talk about it like that.

There are certain people I feel like, we look at carbohydrates and we gain weight, like, I just can’t, like, there’s certain people that can actually use illegal drugs and they’re alright, and the other person, like, does it once and they’re an addict, right, like, so, I have to just stay away from these heavy carbs, but there’s a lot of people, if they would get the seed oils, And all the multi syllabic crap out of their diets.

Keep their carbohydrate intake to under 100 grams a day. Which is way more than people realize. The average American is eating 400 plus. Right. and no seed oils. And no grains. And that, those five things. That was all you did. Your health, it, and it won’t, here’s the other thing. It’s not gonna turn around tomorrow.

How long, like, I think that’s part of a part when you get a natural solutions, people like expect the same kind of result. You get my back hurt. I took Tylenol and coding it stopped hurting until the drug wore off, but they had that instant relief. And so they’re looking for that. Well, how long did it take you to screw your shit up?

And it’s probably going to take some portion of that time, probably 10 percent of that time, you know, at least to rectify. So if it took you 10 years to screw it up, I’ll take you probably better part of the year. To unscrew it up. And so the other thing that happens, is people get addicted to all the stuff they’re eating.

So, if you have a person that came to you and they have a heroin addiction, and you’re running a rehab, When you take away the heroin, are they gonna feel good the next day? No. Right, but what’s the solution? We’ll give them heroin and they feel good again. No. You have to get through the withdrawal of the thing that you’ve become dependent on.

So you may, in fact, when you make changes like this, feel like dog shit for a few weeks. It’s okay, and I just think we should be more honest that this whole section of the world, carnivore, keto, natural diet, anti grain, anti seed oil, all of us in this space share some overlap in the Venn diagram.

And we need to be honest that, yes, when you take away all the chemicals that you’ve become accustomed to, If not addicted to and all the sugar that you become accustomed to if not addicted to you may not feel well for a while That doesn’t mean it’s a bad decision Anymore than stopping taking meth or heroin would be a bad decision

You know, it’s very wise that you go to that degree of in depth thought and people say well I have Yeah, I have brain fog.

I said, well, did you know you’re feeding Candida? You can assume you have too much Candida by the eosinophils should be zero to two. And if it’s two, three, four, five, six, there’s, there’s a problem. I said, but Candida and overgrowth, that’s going to make you fat. And the thing about it is they put out an enzyme called thiaminase.

It steals what little thiamine you have, one of the B vitamins, and you can do two things. Starve out and or kill the candida or overload the thiamine with other B vitamins.

Okay.

And then they’ll say in two to three days to two to three weeks when I overdose them on thiamine, it’s really not an overdose, they’ll say, oh my god, my brain fog went away.

And

I tell him, I said, well, I want Shiner Bock and dark chocolate to say, thank you.

I had a guy stopped me at a restaurant and said, are you Dr. Lewis, and I said, yeahhow can you tell? He said, well, my wife said, you’re the guy with the big ugly mustache. I said, okay. She told me when she got back to the girl that I’m married that I owed you Shiner Bock and dark chocolate. I said, well, how’s she doing?

She said, where’s your office? I need to make a delivery. All right. So, you know, if you put in enough, and yes, you feel bad when you start starving those candida, you’ll start craving, you know, all the carbs and the sugars. You just have to suck it up and have a little bit stronger willpower.

Yeah, I don’t even remember the documentary I was watching.

It was like one of these things where they figured out what was wrong with somebody in an ER and they’re trying to treat their way through it. And this person had a fungal infection

and

initially they thought they were wrong about that because when they started giving the patient an antifungal, their symptoms got worse.

the older doctor that’s been around a while steps into it and says, of course it did, you’re attacking the fungus. The fungus is not exactly happy about this. So it’s going to flare and it’s going to cause the response to the patient. We need to give them support through that treatment Candida is a yeast, and I would imagine when you start to starve it and it becomes unhappy, that maybe that would make a person not feel so well. So how do we starve it? I would say, not eating sugar would be a good start.

Yeah, cut, cut the carbs and then when you start killing the stuff off, it produces, you know, toxins.

So that’s why I tell people one time a day to have a bowel movement. I said if you’re not going two or three times, you’re going to start excreting or they’re gonna excrete the toxins and reabsorb in that and you’re gonna hate my guts. You’re gonna feel bad, but it’s still a good thing.

So just bear with me there.

I think another thing that happens and I noticed this because I lost over 70 pounds. we store a lot of toxins in our fat cells. So when, and I didn’t like start losing weight immediately. It took a while and then it kind of kicked in and I went where I lost like 25 pounds in 30 days.

And during that phase of it, I had, Pimples that were more like little boils pop up in like inconvenient place like your armpit or something like that But I knew exactly what it was. I also ended up with freaking gout That lasted about a week and I had a whole new sympathy for my grandfather with how bad that freaking hurts It’s hard to even explain it to somebody but it was part of the rebalance right in the part of rebalancing the body And so I think yeah one Like you said, Candida, like it’s going to release toxins.

But at the same time as you. Become healthy toxins you stored if you burn that fat cell, you know I’m still hoping that the one that stored the stuff from 1989 When I saw things moving in the wall, I hope that fat cell’s gone It doesn’t pop someday because I heard that can happen decades later. You can figure that one out.

But you know I burned through a lot of fat cells and I let a lot of stuff go And I think that some people again, we should be letting people know that When you improve your health, it may in fact, at least in some ways, get worse before it gets better.

I have a book on my website also about hormone balancing and weight loss, but since the semi glutide have come on to the market, nobody seems to care. They don’t want to lose weight by, you know, cutting out your donuts and bagels. So that kind of lost interest.

So yeah, y’all want to get by his site now.

If you’re watching the live stream right now and you do what I say, it won’t work because we’re not done yet. but when we’re finished, I will take the audio from the video stream and integrate it like I always do into the audio podcast. And that’s the stuff that goes out on apple and spotify and all that where most people actually listen there’s a link in the video notes below and if you click that link about 30 minutes after the live portion ends and we’re actually done It’ll go over there and i’ve got I’ve got his website.

I’ve got all the social media ways that you can connect because dr. Dr. Lewis actually is squared away when he fills out a guest application and he puts all of the ways that you can follow him in his guest Application because if you do that for me, then I put it all in the show notes.

So that will all be there for you guys can we talk we’ve kind of talked a lot about how this stuff helps with neurotransmission, right? And that’s important. But the other word that we have in this and Do you want to talk about being depressed? A person with inflammation is depressed, right?

Because I’ve had, inflammation that’s not dietary at times. it’s classic what your body does when you hurt yourself. So like you have some sort of sports injury or something and then, it happens to be an ankle or a knee and that immobilizes you. And when you do move, it’s hard and it hurts.

I’ve never been like, gee, I think I’m going to jump off a building over it, but I’ve also never been happy about it. So when you have chronic inflammation where you’re hurting, In general, you like, you say it’s your back, but then when you put your hand on that spot, it like magically disappears and it goes somewhere else because really what you have is like systemic inflation.

That’s going to make you unhappy. I promise you that’s going to make you unhappy. So what are some steps involved in dealing with, chronic inflammation that so many people have? And I guess I never really noticed it before I fixed it for myself, but now I’ll see somebody, like a picture that somebody posts, like a selfie or something, and I’ll go, they have chronic inflammation.

Like, and that’s not what the picture’s about. They’re not complaining. You just, you look at their face and go, this person’s got inflammation. Right. And like I could see it on people from a mile away now, how do we go about starting to correct that?

Well, you know, there are a lot of different ways to do it.

The way that Janet and I found to be most successful is do the lab work and you know, here’s here’s something that you and I have not talked about. I hope you’ll forgive me. But because I hear from these patients and many of them are long term and doing this eight or ten or twelve years. And they love it.

I appreciate what you’re doing because, you know, you’re making the world a better place to live just because people are healthier and we can go do a lot of good things.

Now, we talk about stress, anxiety, and depression. Now, if you have thoughts of hurting yourself, or harming somebody else, go to the emergency room. I love our medical profession. me being structure function as a chiropractor, I’ve noticed that most medical interventions are the ones that are structure function mechanical.

They do a really, really good job with all of that. the chemical imbalances, you know, my favorite drug is caffeine. second favorite is, I’ll bring your favorite drink and we’ll eat biltong because you’re not that far down the road. I’m not a big fan of chemical intervention and sometimes it’s very, very appropriate.

So if you’re that stressed or depressed that you’re going to go hurt yourself, go to the emergency room. But other than that, just do the lab work and let’s see where you are.

Yeah. You talk to people that have a supplement line and they’re like, well, everybody should take this.

Well, you’re like, well, I don’t know what the hell you should take until I know where you’re at. Now, you probably could make a pretty good guess of some basics for anybody that would be helpful, but in the end, if you really want to, zone in on it, both my wife and I worked with you, and we did not end up on the same shit.

Imagine that. Two different people had two different sets of needs. Now, there was some overlap, but a lot of it was unique and individual to us. And so, the other thing I want people to know, like, people talk about, you know, when you hear, like, get labs done and all, they think, you know, All the bullshit you deal with when you go see a regular doctor.

And then the doctor’s like, well, you have a kidney issue. So I’m going to send you a kidney specialist. Hold on doc. Didn’t you learn about kidneys when you was in in medical school?

It’s about five miles from my house. I walked in they took my blood and left It took me less time In there and i’m not going to promise everybody to be that quick But It was really simple.

I got stuck with a bunch of needles and left. So I want people to know it’s really easy. It’s not a big inconvenience you set your time and it’s not like you go to the doctor 9 a. m. Appointment 9 30 First of all, I email you tell you be there at 8 30

You’re still sitting there And there’s like three people in the waiting room and you ain’t back. You go to these labs. If it says 815 and 816, somebody’s pulling blood out of you. At least that’s the experience I had.

Well, we have the prices very, very low. And I appreciate the people that notice the difference.

I told one lady, I said, you know, it’s going to cost you 387, the comprehensive plus female hormones. and that’s two or 3, 000 worth. On the little kiosk, I said don’t put any insurance information. You paid me, I paid them the bulk of the 387. Well, she wanted to get her money back, so she filled out it and then they sent another bill for 1, 800 and she was mad about it.

And I said, honey, I’m not paying it. It’s yours.

you want me to fix healthcare, one of the first things I’m going to do other than change dietary recommendations is say, you medical providers, doctors, nurses, hospitals, all of it.

You can charge any price you want. I don’t believe in price fixing. But here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to charge everybody. The same freaking price and you’re going to publish your price. That’s what you’re going to do. And that would take 90 percent of our problems on the cost side. And maybe not get rid of them, but it would mitigate the hell out of it because that makes no sense, right?

I’m gonna pay cash. How much is my price about 300 bucks? Right. Well, i’m gonna use the insurance. It’s gonna pay more than 300 bucks. Now. It’s 1800

Right.

There’s a dishonest system And that’s why I feel people need to work with folks like you as they’re figuring out how to straighten their life out Because the system itself cannot be trusted.

Like you said you are a fan of doctors. I am too Especially structural issues like I tend to be much more a fan of a doctor that is a surgeon than a description writer, right? Like if I’m in a car wreck and I have part of a yield sign in my spleen, I want to go straight to a level three trauma center immediately.

I don’t want to have, you know, a shark piss sprayed on me and be chanted over. I want a surgeon to keep me from bleeding to death. But if I have a chronic problem, especially these chronic problems, like things you’ve named, this is just what we call it. We don’t really know. Like when you say fibromyalgia, it sounds very sophisticated.

You can have 10 people that all say they have this and say, okay, go give them a test, right? That shows me fibromyalgia Bacteria or something or some specific deficiency. No, no, they’re all be different It’s just a generic name because we have a label shit But what you really have is probably an unbalance of nutritional deficiency and overall poor lifestyle that’s led to this And the patient don’t ever want to hear that because, well, then that means it’s partly my fault.

Well, yes, that would be the case. But it’s a real illness. I’m sure it is. And alcoholism is a real illness, but you drink the alcohol, right? Like you bear some part in this and people get really upset about that. And I think that the whole system has convinced them that Every problem can be solved with a surgery or a pill, and I just don’t believe

And I don’t think everything can be solved by adjusting and nutrition. There are other things, and when I was in the hospital, they saved my life there, no doubt about it. they’re good people. It’s just the system is the problem. And I see more and more doctors, medical and osteopathic, getting out of the system and asking me about functional nutrition. Sure, come on in. I’ll tell you everything I know.

I’m seeing doctors do different things to get out of that system.

I’m seeing people like Ken Berry. It’s Sean Baker. They’re becoming online influencers and they’re focused on the diet and exercise side. I’m also seeing a lot that are moving into like the direct primary care market where like, you know, you pay this guy 140 bucks a month and it’s an adjunct on your health insurance, but then you buy a much cheaper health insurance.

And they do the same kind of thing you do. You need labs. They just order them and you go pay cash.

Right.

Right. And then, you know, because they have high volume and they can push that price down a bit and the provider’s willing to do it because I get paid now, I don’t have to fill out 17 forms.

They don’t have to deal with that. And those are the kind of the two migrations I’m seeing from MDs That are not leaving completely But they are putting themselves in a situation where they’re not wrapped into like basically code based billing Cause Ken explained it to me and I was blown away. Like he’s like, this is how much I can bill if I have you on one medication, but this is how much I can build the insurance company if I have you on three.

So I’m allowed to charge the insurance company more money. If I’m putting you on more drugs that they have to pay for, there’s gotta be some grab ass incest going on in the background between the drug companies and the insurance companies, because if I’m an insurance company, I would let you build me more.

To keep a patient off drugs.

Yeah.

whole thing is ass backwards. if this rule was true, the bees would say Zub instead of Buzz because they’d all fly fucking backwards.

we try to keep the price down. I like to know what I’m doing with the lab.

Yeah,

but some people like to test for five or ten thousand dollars worth I like to test for three or four hundred dollars worth and then spend your money on the nutrients that your body can work with To you know build a healthier musculoskeletal system and better physiology whether that’s you know Migraine relief or like you said the fibromyalgia is not really a Diagnosis

Right like and I’m not I know I’m going to get a hate mail I guarantee you there’s already, like, Outlook’s got 87 emails that didn’t go in the spam box since we started, okay? I guarantee you one of them’s telling me what an asshole I am for saying fibromyalgia’s not real. Even though that’s not what I said.

That’s not what I said at all. I’m what I said was it’s not a Condition that we can test for it’s a name We gave to a box of symptoms that we don’t know how to classify And the problem with that is then once that gets into the medical system Even though that it’s not a deficiency in some drug They’ll say this drug treats this illness and then somebody can bill for that and then they put you on that drug And inevitably, if people wonder how I got so jaded when I was a very young man, I did life insurance sales for awhile and I was very quickly good at it.

And so they gave me the pleasure of doing policy conversion, which is where like you have to sell enough new business every week to keep your job. But here’s a whole bunch of customers. They’re on term, you go convert them to whole, they’re older, they need enough money, you know, it’s a layup sale, basically.

And when you talk to these people, and you say, well, what medications are you on? And they’d get this box out, and they’d set that on the table, and you’re like, holy shit, I don’t even want to do this anymore, because I don’t want to write all this crap down.

They’d have two that were for something wrong with them And they’d have six They were well, I get a tremor from this so I take this to reduce the tremor, but it makes my stomach queasy So I don’t take this one all the time But whenever my stomach’s queasy after I take this one, I take that one Well, sometimes when I take that one, you know, my joints hurt So now I take this for that but it only happens when these two and you’re like, you know I’m sitting there.

I was like 23 years old at the time going You Oh, hell no. I’m not doing this. And it, like, when you get it once, you’re like, oh, that was weird. When you’re, like, talking to the fifth person that week that has the same story, you’re like, you start just writing. Well, I didn’t tell you what that was for.

Oh, I did six of these this week. I know what that’s for. That’s for this, right? And that, oh God, that’s 20, 20 some years ago. I hate saying it that way, but it’s true, right? And it was already that. No, that’s 30 some years. Shit. It’s 30 plus years ago. That was already that way and it can’t have gotten better.

You know, when the Medicare nurse was giving me my Medicare physical, and it’s like, well, I don’t feel old, but anyway, she said, what kind of medications you’re taking? I said, I don’t take any medication. She said, Oh, everybody, your age is on six to 12, six to 12. And so she does her stuff, you know, she makes me pee in a cup.

She draws my blood. She said, okay, what kind of medication you say you’re on? I said, okay, you’re right. I do drugs. She said, ha, gotcha. I said, I do caffeine in the morning and I’ll call at night and, and, and again, you’ve got to have fun. Most people have forgotten how to have fun, and she said, you ever smoke marijuana?

I said, I quit in 1975. She says, well, I don’t think I would’ve mentioned that. I said, well, you asked 1975, and it wasn’t a big, wasn’t a big deal like drinking a beer, she was a hoot. I was going to make sure she had a good time. I’m the kind that when you go into the elevator and everybody’s quiet.

So, yeah, you know, let’s lighten up, but let’s have the good health to create that fun to have the energy to do that.

So if you ever want to have fun with people in the elevator, total aside here, once the door’s closed, turn around and say, so I guess everybody’s wondering why I invited you all here today.

Watch everybody’s face when you do that. They’re like, oh, shit. Am I about to get an Amway presentation or something here? No, just, just, we, we have to have, like you say, you have to have fun. But one thing I know that you’re really into, Dr. Lewis, is research. Like, you actually, you’re like me, when there’s a study that comes out, you don’t read the synopsis.

You actually read, the whole thing, including the really important part, the methodology, to see if it’s even worth considering, What does the latest research actually say that supports some of the things that we’re talking about today? Because I know you always have good stuff like that.

You know, it’s like the research that says you should take an aspirin a day. Well, I can show you research that says taking an aspirin a day doubles your risk of stroke. And, you know, there was, I think it was 84 studies that said aspirin did absolutely nothing for heart health. And then Bayer, in its infinite wisdom, knew we were so magnesium deficient.

I think it put 15 milligrams of magnesium oxide in it. Oxide is not even a good form of magnesium, but it made the heart perform better to get a little bit. So, you’ve got to really pay attention to that. I’m going to be brief on this, and I’m going to read it, just because this is some good stuff.

PCB pesticides, you know, you talk about glyphosate, affect the uptake of neurotransmitters, dopamine, serotonin, glutamate, and GABA, and that’s from Journal of Toxicology. DHEA, which from the adrenal glands, Journal of Psychiatry. So, DHEA is not just for your musculoskeletal system. Thyroid, from Journal of Thyroid Testosterone, American Academy of Environmental Medicine.

here’s some really good ones. We can cause schizophrenia through gut irritation. Journal of Biological Psychiatry. and the Journal of Science. Wheat can cause schizophrenia. That’s why the hospital admissions during World War II when there was a bread shortage, psychiatric hospital admissions went way, way, way down until they got the farming back and got the wheat back.

This is lack of famine makes the blood brain barrier more leaky. Allowing toxins to penetrate the brain more readily, Journal of Experimental Neurology. Remember me talking about thiamine and how the candida steals your thiamine?

Yeah.

PMS becomes worse with lack of vitamin B. it just goes on and on and on about B vitamins and how you need that to convert, tryptophan to serotonin, etc, etc. Yeah, I read research, probably thousands, and you’re right. Don’t just go through the little synopsis thing, because sometimes it doesn’t really reflect what went on.

So let’s take some questions from some folks here.

If you have a question people, now would be the time and you should do it exactly like that one. See that where it says the word question in all caps? That way my one good eye might notice it. let’s go ahead and we’ll take an order that came in though. this one was when we were talking about salt.

So what are your opinions on Redmond’s Real Salt? I think that when we were talking about it, also the Himalayan, there was some chatter. I think people thought maybe we were talking it down. We’re talking down people who act like it’s the end all be all or their advice is inconsistent. But just as a brand, what is your thoughts on Redmond’s?

Janet has it on our chicken out there. She’s about to

Okay.

We use a lot of Himalayan, Redmond’s I think is good.

Yeah,

But don’t think you’re getting the amount of minerals from the salt that you really need, but that’s a good start.

Very good start.

Well, I pick on people with it is when they’re like especially all the keto shit where people are just looking for stuff to make videos about and they’re like they put like three twists of Pink Himalayan salt in their coffee in the morning. That’ll give me all my minerals. No, it won’t.

Just, would you please look it up and see what’s in there before you say something stupid like that. Now, Redmonds is actually my favorite brand of salt for day to day use. I think it’s a really good flavor, a good mix, but what I love about it is when you dry brine beef with it, it almost looks like you put a cure on it.

Yeah,

it’s really red. It does a really good job of a dry brine for like a ribeye or something like that, but and salt, all salt is good, in my opinion, as long as it’s not salt that was adulterated by a processor. Right. Use something natural. And in the end, I’ll tell you guys this too, all salt is sea salt.

The ocean just isn’t where it is anymore if it was mined out of the ground. How do you think, there’s no place that salt just appears. With some sort of saltwater formation that created the deposit or it wouldn’t be there. I’m not putting down like made from the sea. That’s good stuff too. I’m just saying all of it came from the ocean at some point.

Tom says, should someone stop all supplements before testing? If so, how long? it’s a good question.

Well, you could go either way with it. I would prefer people stay on it because I have to say, well, what you’re taking is not working because supplements are like your crazy ex.

Some of them don’t work and they’re counterfeit. And it is rampant. I’ve seen it get worse these last three or four years of idiocy that’s been going on in our country. I would say stay on them. Because if you’re on a good B vitamin and your ALT, liver enzyme is low, go to sleep. You’re not getting the right kind of B6.

Gotcha, gotcha. here’s an interesting one. It’s really about how your panels work, I guess. somewhere, says, if one orders the thyroid hormones extensive lab panel, will they still need the comprehensive lab panel too? Or, I’m wondering if the Comprehensive Lab Panel would include the thyroids. What do you think?

Well, usually, I tell people don’t start there, because it has more thyroid panels than most endocrinologists run, which scares me. But, if you just do the, Comprehensive plus female hormones, We’ve got, I think, seven different thyroid markers on women. We only have five on men, but on men, we put the D dimer, you know, through this COVID D dimer mess.

so Janet negotiated that, didn’t even go up on the price. I said, I don’t know how you did that, because they used to charge us 130 bucks, and there’s not that much profit in it. But, I would really start with the, comprehensive plus female hormones, or, Especially if you’ve got lab within the last three to six months, send it to me through email.

What I’d tell people to do if you really want to, talk to us, fill out a health survey and you know, what are your symptoms? Tell me your goals and concerns, and I’ll call you.

He will spend time with you guys because he did it with us.

Janet is probably more fun to talk to, but I usually do the calling because she’s working in, in her little niche and, you know, taking care of that.

But yeah, I don’t usually start there. If you’ve already got a bunch of labs, send it to me. You know, I want the history

of

what’s been going on.

Same person says, realistically, how long does one have to be carnivore? To starve out Candida?

three months, six months. they’re very resistant and then they grow little, tentacles and they’ll go systemic.

It is really tough to kill it down to a proper ratio. I think it should be 15 percent in your gut or less. I found it to be very problematic because you’ll hit them with stuff and I have a big formula that, works on all of them, but you want to hit them for a little while and then do something different, because they might get a little resistance.

So three, three months to six months and that’s being optimistic.

All right. We had a few more come in. I’ll allow it. And then we’re going to wrap up. Justin says, don’t shoot me if this is a dumb question, but as a peanut oil, a seed oil, I can guess I probably should just use butter, tallow, or lard. You, you tell me what you think.

I’m going to put it this way. I think that you, your conclusion, Justin is perfect. You should probably use butter, tallow, or lard. If I’m going to use an oil that doesn’t come from an animal, the three that all even think about. A real olive oil, which means read the label and make sure there’s nothing but olive oil in it.

Avocado oil or coconut oil. I don’t use them very much, but I will use them. Seed oil, is it a, or is peanut a seed oil? Technically, it’s a legume, not a seed, but it’s a seed. I would put it as probably one of the lesser bad. Seed type oils is kind of where I would put it. It’s not like walnut oil or something like that from a tree nut.

it’s a ground based legume, It’s probably not as bad as canola, but I pretty much don’t use it. What do you say?

Well, I agree with the, non animal oils, getting good olive oil is problematic. We found a, olive oil ranch in somewhere in central Texas. I don’t know where it was. We stumbled on it.

It’s called, Dell’s favorite. So we went through the process. If you can, if you can find a source that’s clean, you know, olive oil is good. Peanut oil, I’m very, very disappointed to say that I don’t think it’s a good thing because peanuts generally harbor more pesticides than a lot of others. And I was disappointed to see that, but I would go lard, tallow, or butter, or ghee, or duck fat, you know, those.

Yeah. you’ll get better results, too. I mean, what people don’t realize is that all of these seed oils were considered inferior, lesser, cheaper products once they developed the industrial processes to extract them. And then they were sold to us as a healthy alternative.

And they had to sell it as a healthy alternative, not because it was, because, you know, my grandfather wasn’t about to give up his eggs fried in bacon.

Right.

fry the bacon first and you throw the egg in the bacon grease. Why would, why would you give that up? You know, it tastes good. And so it took some convincing to get that generation, you know, the silent generation moved over.

Onto like margarines and stuff like that. And then, you know, boomers and gen extras and all, we grew up being told that, but we weren’t, we weren’t the target for conversion. It had already been done by the time we were in our formative years and being told this bullshit and crazy. And it is, the more I learn, the more toxic I see all this stuff.

I mean, I really do because, and he’ll say, well, why are you okay with olive oil? So how do I get olive oil? I take olive oil off a tree. If it’s real olive oil, I take the olive off the tree, and I press it, the oil comes out. That’s it. That’s it. Go, just, I’ll just tell people, because people get very angry about this.

Go look at how it’s made. Because I promise you if you were to take canola seed, which is rapeseed, which is basically a form of wild mustard, and you were to squeeze that shit and get oil out of it and try to use it in the form it comes out of that plant, it will gag a maggot.

That’s what my dad used to say when something was really bad. It’s so bad it would gag a maggot. You wouldn’t eat that or cotton seed oil? No. You guys ain’t supposed to be eating cotton. Right. What, what in the hell? We’re not a weevil. Tom says similar question. Should someone with pots, POTS, all caps do both the woman comp and the cardiac panel.

And I have to show my ignorance and I don’t know what pots is,

I’m not trying to pronounce it.

Well, I’ll tell you my opinion there. Don’t do both of those panels, do the cardiac panel. And what scares me is sometimes I do more, cardiac markers than your cardiologist, which scares the hell out of me. Fill out the health survey. That would be best. And far as that goes, the tachycardia that goes back to the bagel nerve stimulation from here and a lot of nerve supply from the lower, cervicals, and orthostatic, you know, that almost always will involve the adrenal glands.

So again, I know you’ve got lab if you know what that is and just send it to me along with the health survey and you know, I’ll call you

Awesome. Now here’s another one. Another thing I can’t pronounce and I don’t know what it is either regarding minerals is shilajit a good supplement? S H I L A J I T.

Yeah, I pronounce it Shilojit. Okay, Shilojit.

That is a biomass generally from the Himalayas where, all the plants a jillion years ago got involuted and it’s squeezing out. It’s usually brown or green. it’s full of fulvic and humic acid. And so it can actually bind with the heavy metals. I’m real, real scared about using many of the companies out there.

I use Shilajit every day. It’s in my testo essentials. And does it raise testosterone? Yes, but the good pure stuff is relatively expensive. But I tell these. people younger than me and older than me. Well, one guy said, ah, it’s real expensive. And he was a friend of mine, patient too. I said, I just take it and shut up.

It’s cheaper than a dinner in a movie and a Viagra. And he comes back in two weeks and he starts telling Janet about how he’s keeping two to three girlfriends happy. I said, Jim, be a gentleman in front of my wife, please. Yes, shallow sheet is a good thing. I don’t think it’s going to give you all the minerals, but it also cleans out a lot of stuff.

To be as delicate as I can be, you might wake up a little different, more like you did 20 years ago. Alright. I tested it on my 70 something year old brother and I said, okay, it’s good, I’m, I’m going to try it.

Alright, so real quick before we wrap up, just to remind you guys that Dr. Stephens website is GreenWisdomHealth.com

com. If you want to work with him, we do have a discount code in the MSB if you end up taking supplements that he’s recommending for you and providing to you. And we have, until end of year, it sounds like a discount on the lab work of 20%. And that will be discount code survival. You will not find that in your MSB because it’s separate from the ongoing MSB, discount that they offer.

Again, the website GreenWisdomHealth. com. And you can go there. It looks like probably fill out a form and get a whole bunch of eBooks, where you can learn a lot of additional information as well. Again, green wisdom, health. com links to everything. If you guys want to follow them on X or on Facebook or Instagram or whatever.

like I said, he did make sure that was all, on the guest application. So all will be in the audio notes, which will, it’s about one 36 right now, probably about two 15 ish today. We’ll end up in the audio version on the website link in the video notes below man. Thanks for being with us today

In our latest podcast episode, ” With Pain: Exploring Gut Health,Inflammation, and Natural Solutions for Chronic Pain,” hosts Dr. Stephen Lewis and Janet Lewis explore the complexities of chronic pain and offer holistic insights and solutions to help you navigate your journey towards better health and well-being.

Today on Green Wisdom Health:

·     The detrimental effects of chronic drug use on the liver and the importance of proper detoxification.

·     The role of methylation in energy levels, overall wellness, and the significance of B vitamins like B12, B6, and folate.

·     Identifying potential indicators of liver stress, such as waking between 1-3 am, and ways to improve sleep and energy through proper supplementation and nutrition.

·     How inflammatory factors from bacteria can contribute to chronic pain issues and the importance of addressing them.

·     Various sources of stress in our lives, including chemical exposure, work, relationships, and financial pressures, and how they impact our well-being.

·     The benefits of regular movement include toxin removal and overall health.

·     Natural alternatives like acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, mindfulness, and chiropractic care in alleviating pain.

·     The significance of weight management, avoiding negative influences and seeking help when needed for improved well-being.

Resources Mentioned:

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Pain Relief Comprehensive Lab Panel
If you struggle with headaches or muscle, joint, or nerve pain, this lab is the place to start. The Pain Relief lab panel is designed to uncover the underlying or otherwise unknown root cause of the inflammation.  

Dr. Lewis and Janet offer hope and guidance for people with chronic pain. Stressing the importance of addressing the root causes rather than just the symptoms, they also explore the connections between gut health, inflammation, and specific pain issues and provide a comprehensive approach to pain management.

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Bless you, and thank you for being a part of the Green Wisdom Health community.

Welcome to another episode of Green Wisdom Health. Today, we dive deep into a pervasive issue affecting many of us today—fatigue and lack of energy. We explore the underlying causes of this modern malaise, discuss holistic approaches to regain vitality and enthusiasm for life, and tell you why being fat is good!

“Being FAT, faithful, available, and teachable are key to improving your health and energy levels.”
– Dr. Stephen Lewis

Today on Green Wisdom Health:

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B-12 Methyl Supreme (60 Capsules)

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Comprehensive Lab Panel

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 Visit Green Wisdom Health for more personalized advice and to explore our AM/PM pill packs. We also recommend detoxification and gut health products to help propel you towards better health.

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Today on Green Wisdom Health, Dr. Stephen Lewis and Janet Lewis dive deep into the world of supplement quality, unraveling the mysteries behind why some supplements may benefit you more than others and how you can ensure you’re getting the most bang for your buck. We know that even with the best diet, additional support from high-quality supplements can be paramount in achieving optimal health, and supplement quality is critical.

We’re delighted to introduce our guest, Casey Sartori, an expert in manufacturing high-quality supplements. With extensive experience in the industry, Casey brings invaluable insights into the manufacturing practices that ensure the efficacy and safety of the supplements you take every day. From sourcing the finest raw materials to implementing rigorous testing procedures, Casey is here to shed light on what makes some supplements stand head and shoulders above the rest.

“As you age, your body’s production of digestive enzymes decreases, which is why supplementing with them, along with probiotics, is crucial for gut health.” – Dr. Stephen Lewis

Today on the Green Wisdom Health Show:

• Understanding Gut Health
The role of digestive enzymes and probiotics
The impact of age on gut health
Essential nutrients for gut health: magnesium and vitamin D

• Lifestyle and Gut Health
Influences of modern lifestyle factors: medications, water quality, diet
The importance of digestion and nutrient absorption

• The Importance of Fish Oil
Discussion of average age and quality of fish oil
Benefits of triglyceride form of fish oil for various health aspects

• Differences Between Probiotics and Digestive Enzymes
Explanation of probiotic strains and stability testing
Issues of probiotic potency and viability over time
Endorsement of the product “Probiol 20”

• Bioavailability of Supplements
Significance of vitamin and mineral bioavailability
Janet’s personal story of heart rate change linked to vitamin quality
Preference for chelated mineral forms

• Practical Solutions for Supplement Regimens
Efforts to provide convenient vitamin and mineral packs
Considerations in selecting high-quality supplements

• Fish Oil Quality and Market Navigation
Challenges in finding pure and fresh fish oil products
The problem of oxidation due to long storage times
Unusual experiment demonstrating fish oil quality

• Supplement Industry Challenges and Practices
Low barrier to entry for supplement manufacturers
The issue of insufficient FDA oversight
Importance of high-quality raw materials and testing

• The Efficacy and Patient Trust
Importance of healthcare professionals’ endorsement of quality products
The influence of supplement quality on patient outcomes

• Transparency and Consumer Navigation
The lack of clear information in the supplement industry
How patients should evaluate and choose supplements
Shipping practices and service standards, including international service to places like Australia

Resources Mentioned:

Omega Supreme (60 Softgels) Take 2 per day

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Active Mega Multi (120 Capsules)

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Probio 20 (30 count)(Replaces Probio 30)

Helps Maintain Gastrointestinal Balance Increases Secretory IgA for Enhanced Gut Immunity Supports Bowel Regularity Supports Digestion and Micronutrient Absorption

Join us next time on Green Wisdom Health as we continue to explore the path to vitality and wellness through informed choices and empowered living. Remember, kindness matters, so let’s continue to spread it as we seek wisdom in health together.

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Green Wisdom Health is excited to offer an exclusive 10% off on our Male Health Extensive Profile Lab Panel and the Women’s Extensive Hormones Weight Loss Lab Panel.

Our comprehensive lab panels are designed to give you deep insights into your health, helping you understand what your body needs to thrive. Whether you’re looking to boost your energy, improve your hormonal balance, or kickstart your weight loss journey, our tests provide the clarity you need to make informed decisions about your health.

Visit GreenWisdomHealth.com and use the code BALANCE to claim your discount.

Don’t wait to feel great—take the first step towards a healthier you with

Green Wisdom Health today.

For more information and personalized nutrient plans tailored to your health needs, please get in touch with our Green Wisdom Health team at (903) 663-1008

You can also explore our integrative nutrition programs and resources on our WEBSITE

Remember to check out the products we’ve discussed today, available at our WEB STORE.

Welcome back to Green Wisdom Health, the podcast that provides a path to vibrant health and clarity of mind. Today’s episode is Proactive Measures for Brain Health: Strategies to Combat Dementia and Alzheimer’s —an urgent exploration into the intricacies of our most vital organ. We’re diving deep into the genetic nuances of single nucleotide polymorphisms—SNPs—and how methylation defects can ripple through our health, affecting everything from liver function to serious health conditions like diabetes, dementia, and autoimmune disorders.

Join Janet Lewis and Dr. Stephen Lewis for profound personal accounts and critical insights into how something as simple as a b twelve methyl supplement can profoundly impact your energy and overall well-being. We’ll dissect the alarming connection between common sleep medications and the risk of dementia and why bolstering your brain’s health with the right minerals, particularly omega-3 fatty acids, is non-negotiable in today’s dietary landscape.

We’re not just talking fish oil here—we’re looking at the broader impact of our food choices. We cover everything from the perils of seed oils and farmed fish to monitoring allergies and environmental factors such as high copper levels.

But that’s not all. Our conversation will also bring to light the importance of liver health, particularly in the wee hours of the night, the controversial role of alcohol, and how toxins can spark inflammation, leading to a cascade of neurological diseases.

Vitamin D, cholesterol, and carnitine are all interlinked, and we’re unraveling the connections with practical advice on supplements, lifestyle, and preventative measures. Because the stakes are high, dementia and Alzheimer’s threaten not just our health but also our financial stability and relationships.

We’ll discuss how to reverse cognitive decline with a comprehensive approach. This includes optimal memory support and potent carotenoids such as lutein, crucial for your eyes and the cradle of your cognition in the fight against Alzheimer’s.

So grab a healthy snack, settle in, and take a proactive step into better brain health.

Remember, this isn’t just a journey—it’s a commitment to love, patience, and perseverance for a productive, healthy life. This is Green Wisdom Health, and we’re starting right now.

“The night is a battlefield for detoxification; our liver meridian working overtime between 1 and 3 am to cleanse us of the day’s intake.” – Dr. Lewis

Today on Green Wisdom Health:

? The crucial link between methylation defects and various health issues – Why your liver health could be the key to understanding and improving your overall wellness.

? The power of Omega-3s – Discover the importance of these essential fatty acids for brain health and why modern diets are falling short.

? Risks hiding in common sleep aids – Learn about over-the-counter medications that could be secretly jeopardizing your mental faculties.

? Personal experiences with B12 methyl supplementation – Hear first-hand accounts of the energy and health benefits it can bring into your life.

? Strategies to avert neurodegenerative diseases – Adopting preventive measures to fend off cognitive decline before it’s too late.

? Curated supplementation advice – From carotenoids to ginkgo biloba, get recommendations on natural ways to bolster your brain health and memory.

Resources Mentioned:

– “The Omega-3 Connection” by Dr. Andrew Stoll – for an in-depth understanding of the importance of omega-3 fatty acids.

Green Wisdom Health
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Optimum Memory (30 Capsules)

Maintaining cognitive function is an increasingly important challenge with the aging United States population. Aging is often associated with functional changes in the brain that can affect event recall ability, thought organization, and ability for self-expression. While some memory loss is common in the aging population, factors such as free-radical damage, nutrient deficiencies, lifestyle choices, and emotional stress affect cognition with age.

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Remember, it’s never too late to make changes that can enhance your health and vitality. Be proactive, be informed, and most importantly, be kind to your brain. We’ll be back next time with more Green Wisdom Health. Stay tuned and stay healthy!

Are you ready to take control of your health and start feeling your best?

Green Wisdom Health is excited to offer an exclusive 10% off on our Male Health Extensive Profile Lab Panel and the Women’s Extensive Hormones Weight Loss Lab Panel.

Our comprehensive lab panels are designed to give you deep insights into your health and help you understand what your body needs to thrive. Whether you’re looking to boost your energy, improve your hormonal balance, or kickstart your weight loss journey, our tests provide the clarity you need to make informed decisions about your health.

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Don’t wait to feel great—take the first step towards a healthier you with

Green Wisdom Health today.

For more information and personalized nutrient plans tailored to your health needs, please get in touch with our Green Wisdom Health team at (903) 663-1008

You can also explore our integrative nutrition programs and resources on our WEBSITE

Remember to check out the products we’ve discussed today, available at our WEB STORE.

Welcome to Green Wisdom Health. Today, we delve deep into the often misunderstood gut and digestive issues and dissect the uncomfortable signs and symptoms plaguing many of us, like gas, bloating, and that persistent, large stomach area. We’ll unravel the mysteries of probiotics and digestive enzymes, their critical roles in gut health, and why your liver might need more support than you think.

Dr. Lewis’ extensive knowledge of nutrition and digestion, with his in-depth understanding of the intricate connections between diet, digestion, and overall wellness, comprehensively examines why your gut might be at the root of various health issues.

“Your digestive health is the cornerstone of your well-being. Neglect it, and you may find the foundation of your health crumbling unexpectedly.” ~Dr. Stephen Lewis

Today on Green Wisdom Health:

Resources Mentioned:

Betaine & Pepsin Maintaining adequate levels of HCl is fundamental to healthy protein digestion, nutrient availability, and maintenance of beneficial gastric flora.

Digestive Essentials is a full-spectrum enzyme strategically designed to support each phase of digestion.

Gastro Soothe Helps Maintain a Healthy Balance of Gastric Flora* Protects and Supports the Integrity of the Gastric Mucosa* Provides Antioxidant Activity in the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract*

Our books are now on our website for free and available to read on your phone or computer. This is the book that goes with the show for today: Green Wisdom Gut Health

Are you ready to take control of your health and start feeling your best?

Green Wisdom Health is excited to offer an exclusive 10% off on our Male Health Extensive Profile Lab Panel and the Women’s Extensive Hormones Weight Loss Lab Panel.

Our comprehensive lab panels are designed to give you deep insights into your health, helping you understand what your body needs to thrive. Whether you’re looking to boost your energy, improve your hormonal balance, or kickstart your weight loss journey, our tests provide the clarity you need to make informed decisions about your health.

Visit GreenWisdomHealth.com and use the code BALANCE to claim your discount.

Don’t wait to feel great—take the first step towards a healthier you with

Green Wisdom Health today.

For more information and personalized nutrient plans tailored to your health needs, please get in touch with our Green Wisdom Health team at (903) 663-1008

You can also explore our integrative nutrition programs and resources on our WEBSITE

Remember to check out the products we’ve discussed today, available at our WEB STORE.

Welcome to this week’s Green Wisdom Health show! In this episode, we delve into the critical and relevant topics of stress, anxiety, and depression. Join Dr. Lewis and Janet Lewis as they provide valuable insights, expert knowledge, and practical solutions to help you navigate these common challenges.

Dr. Stephen Lewis brings a wealth of integrative and functional medicine expertise today. With decades of experience, Dr. Lewis has dedicated his career to helping individuals achieve optimal health and wellness. His holistic approach identifies root causes and provides personalized solutions for various health concerns.

“You can be sick as heck and glorify God, but it’s a whole lot easier if you feel good.”
 ~ Dr. Lewis

Today on Green Wisdom Health:

Guest Contact Information:

For more information about Dr. Stephen Lewis and Green Wisdom Health, visit their website at Green Wisdom Health. To learn more about the neurotransmitter test and other personalized health solutions, fill out the health survey on the website and connect with Dr. Lewis.

Resources Mentioned:

“The Truth About Contagion” by Thomas Cowan, MD
“Lies My Doctor Told Me” by Ken Berry
EZ Relax and Stress Adapt.

EZ Relax contains Suntheanine®, vitamin C, and selenium to enhance the further synthesis of chemical messengers that support calmness, a healthy mood, and a healthy nervous system. *

Stress Adapt helps your body resist and recover from everyday stress. Components of this multifunctional formula have been shown to support healthy cortisol levels, help alleviate occasional fatigue, promote mental clarity, and support relaxation and restful sleep. *

Are you ready to take control of your health and start feeling your best?
Green Wisdom Health is excited to offer an exclusive 10% off on our Male Health Extensive Profile Lab Panel and the Women’s Extensive Hormones Weight Loss Lab Panel.

Our comprehensive lab panels are designed to give you deep insights into your health, helping you understand what your body needs to thrive. Whether you’re looking to boost your energy, improve your hormonal balance, or kickstart your weight loss journey, our tests provide the clarity you need to make informed decisions about your health.

Visit GreenWisdomHealth.com and use the code BALANCE to claim your discount.

Don’t wait to feel great—take the first step towards a healthier you with Green Wisdom Health today.

For more information and personalized nutrient plans tailored to your health needs, please contact our Green Wisdom Health team at (903) 663-1008

You can also explore our integrative nutrition programs and resources on our WEBSITE

Remember to check out the products we’ve discussed today for heavy metal detoxification, available at our WEB STORE.

In this episode, Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis dive deep into the intricate relationship between hormones and weight loss. Dr. Lewis shares valuable insights on the impact of stress, inflammation, environmental factors, and hormonal imbalances on weight loss.

They also explore the crucial role of lab tests in identifying underlying health issues and crafting effective solutions, along with a wealth of information on supplements, nutrient-rich foods, and the importance of addressing hormonal imbalances.

“Your presence when you come here is really a reflection of your hopes about continuing to bless your family, bless your coworkers, and to be a better person because you’re healthier and feel better.” ~Dr. Stephen Lewis

Today on Green Wisdom Health:

• Understanding the complex relationship between hormones and weight loss and how hormone balance impacts overall health and well-being.

• The multifaceted role of hormones like leptin, ghrelin, insulin, cortisol, estrogen, and progesterone in regulating appetite, fat storage, metabolism, and overall body weight.

• The impact of chronic inflammation from exposure to microplastics on hormonal balance, fertility, and weight management.

• Insights on the weight loss market, including meal replacements, bariatric surgery, health coaching, fad diets, and the potential impact of these approaches on hormonal health.

• Evaluating the use of “skinny shots” and the importance of lab work and medical supervision before engaging in weight loss interventions.

• Recognizing symptoms of hormone imbalance, stress, and other hormonal factors that can affect weight management and overall well-being.

• Comprehensive lab testing featuring extensive male and female health profile lab panels to gain deeper insights into hormone levels and overall health parameters.

• Exploration of stress-relief supplements, the role of zinc, probiotics, and natural food detoxifiers in hormone balance, weight management, and overall health and wellness.

Understanding your hormonal health is crucial for effective weight management and overall well-being. Stay informed and proactive, and take the first step towards a healthier, more vibrant you with Green Wisdom Health.

Are you ready to take control of your health and start feeling your best?

Green Wisdom Health is excited to offer an exclusive 10% off on our Male Health Extensive Profile Lab Panel and the Women’s Extensive Hormones Weight Loss Lab Panel.

Our comprehensive lab panels are designed to give you deep insights into your health, helping you understand what your body needs to thrive. Whether you’re looking to boost your energy, improve your hormonal balance, or kickstart your weight loss journey, our tests provide the clarity you need to make informed decisions about your health.

Visit GreenWisdomHealth.com and use the code BALANCE to claim your discount.

Don’t wait to feel great—take the first step towards a healthier you with

Green Wisdom Health today.

For more information and personalized nutrient plans tailored to your health needs, please get in touch with our Green Wisdom Health team at (903) 663-1008 

You can also explore our integrative nutrition programs and resources on our WEBSITE.

Remember to check out the products we discussed today, available at our WEB STORE. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:10:05 – 00:15:01

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

00:15:01 – 00:20:02

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

00:20:02 – 00:25:01

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

00:25:02 – 00:30:01

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

00:30:01 – 00:32:44

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

You can also listen to This Broke My Heart on Spotify here.

Are you feeling tired, depressed, and lacking libido? You might be experiencing low testosterone levels. Low testosterone can affect both men and women. But before you rush to the doctor for synthetic testosterone replacement therapy, listen to Dr. Stephen and Janet Lewis talk about the natural way to boost testosterone.

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You can also listen to The Natural Way to Boost Testosterone on Spotify here.

SHOW NOTES:

Speaker 0 (00:00:01) – Welcome to the Green Wisdom Health Podcast with Dr. Steven and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now here are your hosts, Dr. Steven and Janet Lewis.

Janet Lewis (00:00:18) – Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the Green Wisdom Health Show. I’m Janet Lewis.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:00:24) – And I’m Dr. Lewis.

Janet Lewis (00:00:25) – And we are excited that you are here today listening to our testosterone podcast, because who doesn’t need testosterone? Apparently a lot of people are lacking testosterone, so that’s why Dr. Lewis wrote a book about it. But today, we are going to educate men and women about how to balance it naturally. I know people are used to getting patches and things, but we have a little bit different approach, don’t we, Dr. Lewis?

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:00:54) – Yeah. I’ve never thought that, uh, disease was a lack of a drug. And, you know, everybody’s got an opinion, but, uh, success leaves clues, but so does failure.

Janet Lewis (00:01:07) – Well, um, you know, I think there’s maybe some hormonal issues that go on that people don’t even realize or could be a testosterone issue, and they’re different for men and women. Uh, you know, usually you hear men saying, I need testosterone used to them getting pellets, or,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:01:25) – That started with Tim Allen going two the two men.

Janet Lewis (00:01:29) – Yeah. But why, why is that so rampant nowadays that the testosterone is low? I, I, you know, maybe that’s a better place to start.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:01:39) – You know, there, there are a lot of things, and, and it, it’s multifaceted. Well, our food is terrible. They’re genetically modified. And I know there’s some people say that doesn’t matter. Yes, it does. We’ve been to Europe and we’ve been to China. It does make a difference. The other thing is we have so many, uh, different things in our environment, 85,000 to a hundred thousand different chemicals that act like estrogen. And that’s why, and you’ve heard me say it many times before, little girls develop breast and menstrual cycle years before they’re supposed to. Little boys are getting more and more feminine. And if you hadn’t noticed that, you ain’t paying attention. And that’s why there’s, uh, an epidemic of, uh, low testosterone, only more low T clinics popping up and, you know, they’re getting, uh, whether it’s pellets or shots or whatever. But there, there are some real issues here, and that’s why it’s very important to, uh, increase your nutrient intake so that your body can ramp up.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:02:37) – Uh, the detoxification processes. We’ve, we’ve talked about that in the weight loss about, well, it is not just losing fat cells. You’ve got to deal with the, uh, toxins that are in there. And, and you have to be careful. And that’s why we talk about discerning spirit, because some people say, oh, I read this and, and it’s mercury, it’s mercury poisoning. I said, what are you gonna do about the other 85,000 things? And it, and it could be mercury poisoning if you’re taking, uh, high fructose corns syrup up, which is in all kinds of things hidden, you get a lot of mercury just from that. So, but there, there are other things to deal with. So why it, it’s because all these estrogen mimicking chemicals or estrogens, uh, are offsetting your testosterone as it offsets progesterone in a woman also,

Janet Lewis (00:03:26) – You know, and I think these, uh, clinics have been around long enough now that most people just think that’s a normal thing to do, is, um, to get those pellets or, or shots, because a lot of people are doing it and there’s a lot of clinics, but there are some side effects to that, right?

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:03:45) – Yep. Yeah. I tell people are, are, they come in and say, well, this isn’t working anymore. And, you know, I look at their lab and say, well, Jesus, your, your liver’s overwhelmed. And you know, I’m a chiropractor. I, I look at things from a musculoskeletal standpoint, but if you do the nutrients to fix your musculoskeletal system, you’d be surprised what else shows up to get well. And, and it’s like, I know I had this idea that there is a God, I know that’s kind of unusual for some people. Uh, and so we tell people, when your heart’s overwhelmed, we will help you fill it with peace. And then the other thing is, you know, I’m a little bit blunt and I tell people, stop eating crap. And they say, well, no, I eat good. And no you don’t. Crap stands for carbonated drinks, refined sugars, artificial foods, and processed foods. There. I’ve got a zillion patients and I absolutely love. But then you’ve got Alan up in Maine, and he sends me stuff from time to time. He says, well, I haul goldfish, but I don’t eat ’em. . And Alan, you bring joy to my heart. You really do. And a lot of other people too. But, uh, here’s a guy that hauls him in his truck, but he’s smart enough not to eat him.

Janet Lewis (00:05:05) – Well, that’s funny. I didn’t know that’s what he did. So that’s,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:05:09) – Oh, at one time, at least , .

Janet Lewis (00:05:12) – But you know, I, I think we’ve all been so conditioned to, we will just take a drug or put, put something in our body to replace what’s, what seems to be missing. Didn’t God give us all that we needed there?

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:05:25) – Well, I think so, but it’s not in our food is the problem. And, and you know, I understand some of the things I say are controversial, and sometimes I say it in a manner that’s not always polite. I tell people, you want me to shoot straight or sugar coat it? If you want sugar coated, you need to get some donuts. And here’s the thing I want you to think about. Depression is not an s sri deficiency. Heart disease is not a statin deficiency. Diabetes is not a metformin deficiency. A d d and a ADHD is not an Adderall deficiency. Insomnia is not an ambient deficiency, and obesity is not an ozempic deficiency. Okay, that’s blunt, isn’t it? Sorry, I’m, I’m gonna put a package of sugarcoated donuts on my desk just to have people think, uh, or question. But I want you to think about these things and, and always use your discerning spirit because this is Dr. Lewis’s opinion. But as I said earlier, success leaves clues pay attention to who’s successful.

Janet Lewis (00:06:28) – Well, and I think one thing, um, you know, low testosterone symptoms in male are, you know, obviously low libido and erectile dysfunction, but

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:06:38) – Which is rampant.

Janet Lewis (00:06:40) – But did you know when you start? Well, you probably do if you’re doing it. If when you start taking something, something to replace testosterone, aren’t your testicle shrink up too, Dr. Lewis? Yeah. Isn’t that where it’s made and they don’t need, they’re not needed anymore. Yeah.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:06:58) – Uh, it’s called lad cells. And that’s from 40 years ago. I took the test . Anyway. Yes, they do, but they, they shrink. If you get your testosterone shots and or your pellets, and the testicles say, well, we’ve got plenty of, uh, testosterone, we’ll just, uh, kind of hang around, pun intended, uh,

Janet Lewis (00:07:18) – And men don’t really like that. Also kind of makes ’em have some bald patches on the back of their head. I’ve noticed that too. It’s like their hair starts leaving a little bit faster and it should have

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:07:28) – Got, you know, and Janet says, I have here in the hospital, I didn’t hear her say that. I thought she said, ball patches. So nevermind , you know, our, our goal and, and I’m in a real smart lic mood and people say, well, what else is new? You know, our goal is to die, but die as healthy as we can, as late as we can in a much younger body.

Janet Lewis (00:07:51) – Yeah. We wanna look good with hair, right?

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:07:54) – ? Yeah. I asked Janet, is my hair thinning? She says, oh, heck no. Quit worrying about it.

Janet Lewis (00:07:59) – And I’m not, and I’m not picking on them, man. I’m just telling you that these are some things that are caused by, uh, synthetic. Um, well,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:08:08) – But you, you gotta get started. You, you’ve got to change your oil before the engine catches on. Fire starts smoking. Usually by the time people seek help from me, it’s like, why didn’t you do what I told you two 15 years ago? Now it’s too late.

Janet Lewis (00:08:23) – Yeah. Other signs of, uh, low testosterone in men are hot flashes. Yeah. You mean like women, they get hot flashes as

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:08:32) – Well. It’s power surge baby. Mm. .

Janet Lewis (00:08:35) – I didn’t know if we got to share that little fun thing. Yeah.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:08:38) – Well, maybe I’ll put that in the wrong column in the book. I don’t know. ,

Janet Lewis (00:08:44) – Uh, how about depression? Depression is low. Testosterone,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:08:50) – It can be a lot of things. And that’s another thing I I really plan to write a book about stress, anxiety, and depression. Uh, because it’s really rampant. And here, here’s, I made a note here. This was in 2010, so it’s a while back, uh, 45% of the workers surveyed were happy at their jobs. That means 55% hate it. And that those are the people that say, I’m retired and I’m happy. And it’s like, I can’t retire because I love what I do. Every year, the threshold of unhappiness sinks lower and lower and lower. And 50 years ago, the mean onset age of depression was at 29.5 years of age. Now that’s pretty Dad come young, that’s 50 years ago. Today, the onset, the mean onset of depression is at 14.5. So young teenagers are depressed at a much, much greater rate. Well, does that correspond with the lowering of testosterone? You know, 50 years ago, or since 50 years ago, our sperm count has gone down by 50%. Our, our our testosterone’s gone way, way, way down. So I think there’s a obvious correlation, and I don’t think that’s everything in the equation, but it’s, to me, pretty obvious that’s a big, big part of it.

Janet Lewis (00:10:15) – So, um, and they also gain weight, correct. And body fat is that because their testosterone is low? And when that low their metabolism slows down? , you know,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:10:24) – I just sucked in my stomach when she said that

Janet Lewis (00:10:27) – She’s asking a question.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:10:30) – Uh, that’s part of it. Yeah. Because, you know, we’ve got a weight loss program and, and we’ve had, most people have had really, really good success, except the ones that say, well, I went to here and got this ice cream treat, and oh, well, I had pizza to celebrate and, and set ’em back three weeks. Uh, yes, yes, yes. Absolutely. I I you’ve got to do 95% good. You, you can’t do well, I only cheat once a day with a bagel or with, you know, wheat’s the worst thing you can put in your body. I’d rather you drink beer cause it’s barley and hops. And I’m not suggesting you do that.

Janet Lewis (00:11:09) – And you made a nutrient based eating, uh, book. I mean, the book’s based on testosterone performance. Correct. And it’s nutrient based to help, to help build testosterone.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:11:20) – Well, yeah, there’s the key, you know, and I’ll tell you, our foods are very nutrient, uh, deficient, but most of our food is fake food. And you, if you eat the recipes in the book, people say, oh my God, I feel better mentally. Oh my God, I feel better physically. Oh my God, I have energy all of a sudden. Oh my God, my wife thinks I’m better looking. I said, that’s cause you’re not grouchy, which is one of the symptoms of low testosterone and you get irritable.

Janet Lewis (00:11:48) – Hmm. Does that go for a woman as as well? They get irritable.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:11:52) – Uh, if a man’s smart, he would never say .

Janet Lewis (00:11:56) – Uh, okay, well, we’re not done with men here.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:11:59) – So, so men, if your wife ask you, here’s, here’s Dr. Lewis’s answer, life is so much easier if you’re drunk. I’m just teasing . What,

Janet Lewis (00:12:09) – What I always tell men when they ask about low testosterone, I tell ’em, well, do you still have the endurance you used to have? Like, you wanna get up and do something? Or is your whole goal for the day is to sit in the re in the rocking chair or the recliner with the remote and change the channels. And that’s your activity is pushing the buttons go

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:12:28) – From bed to, uh, the recliner to take a nap. You know, it, think about this. This is, this is aism. Have you ever thought that humans are the only animal on earth that needs to be taught what to eat or what foods to eat to keep themselves healthy? And that’s because things have been bastardized. Oh, well that’s a tough word, isn’t it? We have been conditioned in a bad way to eat incorrectly. A normal diet is not what a normal diet was when I was a kid. And not that it was necessarily good then, but it was way, way, way better.

Janet Lewis (00:13:07) – Are you talking about cooking at home or the food in general? The normal diet?

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:13:13) – Yes. Yes. Mm-hmm. , well, you know, highly processed foods are full of, eh, don’t get me into the, the three letter agencies that say it’s okay not to put in, uh, a warnings about these hydrogenated oils that are inflammatory. No wonder things are inflamed, which has to do with the weight gain. It has to do with lowering of testosterone. And, and so yeah, if you eat out, you’re eating all these processed foods, and if you’re eating in, you need to make sure that you’re cooking better. And that, and that’s what the book’s about is learning to eat better. And we don’t put in what you shouldn’t eat. It’s just glaringly omitted and what you should eat rather than what you shouldn’t.

Janet Lewis (00:13:59) – So if they start eating correctly or eating nutrient based eating, that’s not a diet really. It’s nutrient based eating to, to replace the things that are low with testosterone. Right? It’s the foods that would give you those vitamins and minerals, I guess.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:14:15) – Yeah. The, the, the basics for that. And, you know, you’ve got to unlearn some of these stupid things that society has been conditioned to think. You know, if you tell a lot long enough, loud enough, people begin to believe it. Apparently people didn’t learn that with Hitler in World War ii, but, you know, just to unlearn, cholesterol is a very, very powerful antioxidant. Cholesterol heals inflammation, but that’s why it’s plaing. You gotta lower the inflammation. Cholesterol heals arterial damage. Well, you need to lower the arterial inflammation in the first place. Cholesterol’s needed for hormones. Ah, testosterone. Those of you that’s doing something stupid. Oh no, that’s a wrong word. Doing something to lower your cholesterol. Guess what? It can’t make, you can’t make testosterone. Mm-hmm. Cholesterols needed to produce serotonin. That’s why people that lower their cholesterol artificially serotonin’s one of the happy hormones that makes you feel happy and the peace of God.

Janet Lewis (00:15:17) – That’s interesting. They’d give you medications that would help lower those things.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:15:21) – It’s a 30 to $50 billion, uh, a year business. It’s all about the money, isn’t it, honey?

Janet Lewis (00:15:28) – I don’t know. It’s almost like they don’t want births or something. I,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:15:32) – I just want y’all to think, folks, you don’t have to believe what I say, but if you think about it and you’re halfway have a little bit of common sense, you’ll know that I’m

Janet Lewis (00:15:41) – Discernment. Mm-hmm.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:15:42) – , oh my God. Let’s get biblical,

Janet Lewis (00:15:45) – Uh, enlarged male breast tissue

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:15:50) – .

Janet Lewis (00:15:51) – That happens to be one of my favorite subjects.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:15:54) – I’m gonna let you tell that story. But, you know, fat cells produce estrogen if, if, and even in men. And the more fat you have, it’s like, well, you’re producing estrogen. Why you’re, you’re lowering your testosterone. So Janet has a really good story about male breast, .

Janet Lewis (00:16:13) – Um, so I happened to be at a area where they were serving drinks and went up to it and I was,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:16:23) – She sugarcoating this and ask the,

Janet Lewis (00:16:27) – The bartender wanted to know if he could get me a light beer. And I said, oh no. I said, you don’t drink light beer, do you? And he said, oh yeah, you know, he said, that’s, that’s the most popular beer on tap. And I said, you do know that that creates estrogen because of the estro estrogen mimics and light beer,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:16:52) – The way they filter it Yes. Puts more plastics in it.

Janet Lewis (00:16:55) – It’s, it’s worse than dark beer. And he goes, oh, dark beer’s not good. I said, well, you’re gonna get man breast from it. Which

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:17:03) – He looked down and grabbed his breast .

Janet Lewis (00:17:07) – And I said, you don’t want your son, cuz I know he had a son. I said, you don’t want him knowing that you need a bra, do you? And he said, again,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:17:15) – He, he brought his breast up close and he

Janet Lewis (00:17:18) – Goes, well, what do you drink? And I, and I said, well, not light beer. I said, if you’re gonna do it, the darker the better cuz it has a less estrogen mimickers in it

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:17:28) – And it more nutrients.

Janet Lewis (00:17:30) – And it was probably six months later, I came across him again. And as soon as I walked up to him, he goes, I quit light beer. I don’t drink it anymore. He goes, after that story you told, he said, I can’t do it. And I said, well,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:17:44) – Out of thousands of customers he remembered Jan. And I’m sure it was just about the beautiful smile. So

Janet Lewis (00:17:49) – That was one of the best things Bud Light could have done, is get everybody to quit drinking that beer. Cause now they’ll have less estrogen . And if her boobs starts shrinking, I mean, if they’re, if you’re, if a man’s breast are large enough that they need a bra, there may be something they’re having this estrogen mimicking. Yeah.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:18:08) – So,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:18:09) – And you know, the reason we do this is because life gets way more precious when you figure out there’s less of it to waste. And somebody told me, he said, Dr. Lewis, you’re on the short end of the stick. I said, what are you talking about? He said, well, you’ve kind of wasted most of your life. I said, I’ve lived most of my life, but I sure as heck hadn’t wasted it. We’re having fun and we’re blessing other people. And that’s the key to happiness is, you know, give it to somebody else and it comes back multiplied.

Janet Lewis (00:18:37) – And you wonder why that doesn’t work on women, though if they drink light beer, why don’t their breasts get bigger? Their whole body gets

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:18:44) – Bigger. Maybe they do. So here’s the thing to a woman, don’t let any man who drinks white claw raise his voice at you. You talk to him, woman to woman. . . Okay, sorry, . I’m

Janet Lewis (00:18:59) – Gonna go pick on women for a while.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:19:00) – That was funny. We’ve

Janet Lewis (00:19:01) – Probably done enough

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:19:03) – damage,

Janet Lewis (00:19:05) – Low testosterone symptoms in women. And all the men are like, oh yes, please fix her. It’s gonna just raise her testosterone. She’s going to want sex again. And the women always shake their head at me while he’s not looking and go, no, no,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:19:20) – I just want a good night’s sleep. Yeah, I know.

Janet Lewis (00:19:22) – That’s exactly right. So there’s other things, women that you need testosterone for. Uh, one of ’em is actually depression. Just like men. They actually, with low testosterone, you, they get very depressed. Uh, fatigue. You’re more tired because your testosterone’s too low.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:19:42) – If she’s fatigued, man, you need to get your butt up there and wash dishes. That’s the sexiest pose you’ll ever make after you’re married. Wash dishes.

Janet Lewis (00:19:49) – And don’t grab ’em from behind, you know, whatever that picture is.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:19:52) – . Yeah. You know what men do? The woman, nevermind . Sorry, I digress. Just wash

Janet Lewis (00:19:57) – The dishes. Let us sit.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:20:02) – Oh. Oh, I’m having too much fun. I know.

Janet Lewis (00:20:05) – Muscle weakness. That means they’re, I guess they’re not as strong as they need to be because they’re losing, losing muscle mass because

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:20:11) – Test men. Men and women. Yeah, absolutely.

Janet Lewis (00:20:14) – Women can actually get thinning hair. They always think it’s their thyroid. Sometimes it’s not.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:20:20) – It can be thyroid. That’s right. It could be poor digestion, poor protein utilization. But you know, low testosterone can do it.

Janet Lewis (00:20:27) – Which is what, when all the women say, well, which lab test should I get? Just make sure it includes thyroid. Well, that’s always in our comprehensive panel. I said, but you need the other hormones of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, d h e eight. No, I don’t need any of that. Uh, yeah, you do.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:20:45) – If you need what you needed, you know, why are you here?

Janet Lewis (00:20:47) – Right. It’s, it’s not just thyroid. Believe me. Difficulty concentrating can be a low testosterone,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:20:55) – What’d you say?

Janet Lewis (00:20:57) – I don’t know.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:20:57) – .

Janet Lewis (00:20:59) – And, uh, actually reduced vaginal lubrication is a, is a low testosterone issue also. And or progesterone can be progesterone as well.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:21:10) – And it can be estrogen and you know, or, you know, estrogen has to be conjugated in the liver. You know, it can get to be, there’s good estrogen and bad estrogen, so you need to pay attention to that and make sure there’s good liver function conjugation, good probiotics to take care of that so it doesn’t get unconjugated in your smaller intestine reabsorbed and, uh, potentially cause cancer.

Janet Lewis (00:21:33) – And we’re gonna talk about a few of the lab tests that are different than what you’re used to having, um, from your doctor. But first I wanted Dr. Lewis to talk about a product that men and women can both take that helps increase their testosterone. And we actually had a man that was doing pellets that tried the new, our new Testo Essentials Max to see what it did in, in relation to his pellets. And he said it actually gave him longer stamina. He noticed that the,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:22:08) – We’re talking about at work, I’m sure.

Janet Lewis (00:22:09) – Yes. Work, work .

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:22:12) – Oh, you believe that,

Janet Lewis (00:22:13) – Right. . But he said he, he could tell he’s actually something natural helped better than the pellets for him. So, um, could you tell us what Tesla Essentials Max is? Why you like it so much?

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:22:27) – Well, I like it, but uh, , it

Janet Lewis (00:22:29) – Gives me a lot of energy.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:22:31) – Yeah. Well, let me, let me digress and tell another story. There’s this guy that comes in and, and he, we grew up in the same town, although he’s like four years older than me, which makes him in his seventies. And he says, oh my God, that costs too much. I said, it’s cheaper than dinner in a movie. Shut up and take it. And, and again, I’ve known this guy all my life and I love him dearly. And, uh, he comes back and, and tells us things that, you know, Jim, you shouldn’t be talking like that in front of Janet, uh, about all of his girlfriends and going into the gory tmi. Too many details. Teo Essentials maxes. Oh, like, oh my God, it’s got something in it called Shiloh. Yeah, I had to look that up so I could pronounce it correctly. But it’s uh, it’s, it’s kind of an, a biomass from the Himalayan Mountains. It’s a, a naturally occurring mineral rich, phyto complex, uh, basically fulvic acid. And, uh,

Janet Lewis (00:23:29) – He is really . There’s no, the, the sound didn’t cut out. He’s looking for his next sentence. That’s been

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:23:36) – Interesting. I’m trying to be polite. Uh, it, it helps with, uh,

Janet Lewis (00:23:41) – And he’s red. You can’t see him. I’m, he

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:23:47) – It

Janet Lewis (00:23:47) – Helps with what

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:23:49) – Yes, . Yeah, it does.

Janet Lewis (00:23:53) – You can tell part of a story on someone else.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:23:58) – Well, you kind of danced around your bar story too. .

Janet Lewis (00:24:03) – I’m just saying that we had a, a gentleman that started taking this and his wife told us, doc, there are things I ain’t seen in years on him. So he,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:24:15) – He’s waking up in the morning with things I hadn’t seen in years. And I said, send me chocolates to say thank you. Sense.

Janet Lewis (00:24:23) – Go ahead with your ingredients.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:24:25) – Uh, well, you know, the, the, it helps with testosterone levels and it’s adaptogenic. So it helps you with stress to help, uh, adapt. It’s an antioxidant, it’s a cytokine balancing. And cytokine storm is one of the things that contributes to cancer. Uh, and other things. It blocks towel proteins. That means you’re not going to build those things up in your brain and have as much dementia, Alzheimer’s, uh, tendency. Uh, it is rumor to have a role in supporting cognition. And I know I need that genetically. Uh, we, we, my brother Dr. James Lewis and I helped put off, uh, dementia in my mother over 25 years. And then Janet came on the scene and my mother do anything for Janet and she didn’t get to, she had dementia in her early to mid sixties and she, it didn’t really kick her butt till about 88 to 92. And it’s because she took a lot of, uh, really, really good supplements to support her brain health. And the shallow sheet helps with that. And then it’s got something called, uh, your ucom, long glia Just Men Remember the word long? It’s a Malaysian gen sing and it’s a tonic and adaptogen helps support libido, energy, sports performance. Well, you could call that a sport, couldn’t you? ? How,

Janet Lewis (00:25:49) – How many of these do you take per day, sir?

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:25:52) – Oh, the dosages two. But you know, if your wife ain’t watching

Janet Lewis (00:25:58) – Oh yeah, I know. They’re all like more better. I’ve been there for a day and I’m, I’m like, you’re, it’s made for a month. Supply it too. And,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:26:05) – And, and, and people say it’s expensive. I said, well, it’s cheaper than pellets in your butt. .

Janet Lewis (00:26:11) – Well, you might as well while you’re on a roll, talk about our other product that also

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:26:18) –

Janet Lewis (00:26:18) – Mostly men. Like,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:26:19) – Well, I’m on a roll because I have the stamina to pull it off. Uhhuh . Oh, Tim Allen too, man. Uh, oh, let me, let me digress a little bit while I’m having fun.

Janet Lewis (00:26:30) – I didn’t know we weren’t .

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:26:33) – Uh, you know, the way testosterone is made is through it. It starts out in the brain. The hypothalamus in the brain then goes through the pituitary gland. Uh, so when they say it’s all in your head, oh, nevermind. Let’s go to nitric oxide. Revive. This is good, good, good, good, good. When I take it regular, it lowers my blood pressure because it helps with, uh, uh, vascularity or, or the flexibility of the arteries and veins. So if it’s more flexible and it opens up and relaxes more, you know, bigger pipe means lower pressure. So that one reason why it, uh, helps promote the health of the endothelial lining, which is the inside of the blood vessels. And, you know, there was a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nitric oxide. And guys, if you wanna know about nitric oxide, that’s why Viagra works. Okay. So it’s got, excuse me, it’s got the, the time released L Arginine, which

Janet Lewis (00:27:39) – Is, which is the difference. Usually they’re not time released. Right? Yeah.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:27:42) – Cause L Arginine will be in and out in about, uh, 20, 30 minutes. But if it’s time released, Jenny Sugar head on that,

Janet Lewis (00:27:48) – All his wording today is very interesting.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:27:51) – Well, I don’t know what your cognition is, honey. How do you, how do you interpret that? But it’s time. So it lasts more than 20 or 30 minutes. Uh, the effect of it, um, it, it’s really, really good. You know, as I said, helps with the endothelial, uh, uh, health of the blood vessel. It inhibits the smooth muscle contraction. Cause your arteries and veins really have muscles in ’em. So that increases blood flow and increases. Oh, increased blood flow means increased nutrient uptake and glucose utilization in the muscle, especially during exercise. Now, Janet’s brother is a oh oh oh macho man and he loves this stuff cause he likes to work out and it’s like, yeah, I just get tired. I don’t work out. But I’m very, very active. He loves this stuff cause

Janet Lewis (00:28:42) – He’s, I think he got all my testosterone, I think he got his and mine, but

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:28:48) – , yeah, something like that. So the nitric oxide revive just goes hand in hand with the Testo Essentials max, which really and truly I think everybody should be on D H E A, we’re not really gonna go there. Cause D H E A is the precursor to not just testosterone, but uh, it has responsibilities to help fix about 150 different, uh, things in the brain, in the body. So, you know, this is a pretty well put together package. So when I said it starts in the head hypothalamus pituitary gland, then it goes to the testicles, then it goes into the latic cells, and then it creates testosterone, which has a biofeedback mechanism to go back to the hypothalamus or the brain. So it’s a, it’s a pretty comprehensive and complex thing, but you don’t have to worry about it. Just throw these things in, you know, ask God to bless it and your body’s gonna use it for good. It really will.

Janet Lewis (00:29:45) – We were going to go into a little more detail about the different lab panels, but we’ve had so much fun explaining testosterone. Uh,

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:29:52) – I thought we was, I thought we was talking about dark beer

Janet Lewis (00:29:55) – . We don’t really have time to go into ’em individually, but just know that, um, there’s more to it than what your doctor is running for testosterone levels. They generally just run testosterone. Um, there is something called free, right, Dr. Lewis, that’s very important to that. Yeah.

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:30:15) – You know, how much do you have total doesn’t mean much unless you have a, an adequate amount of free, which goes into the sex hormone binding globulin. You don’t need to understand the process, you just need to know that Janet and I do.

Janet Lewis (00:30:29) – But there’s ex there’s also other test and we’re specifically talking about our testosterone Performance lab panel. You can see all the test markers on our [email protected]. But it’s got things like sex hormone binding globulin, follicular stimulating hormone, which is fs h lutin hormones. Um, and then it also has a prostate PSA on there. So, um, there’s different parts of the, the male profile that you probably have never seen on lab. So that’s, um, we’re pretty excited about that. It goes along with Dr. Lewis’s nutrient based eating program. And then we also now offer a 90 day bootcamp to kickstart you right into all this working way faster than you just trying to do it on your own. We have health coaching now available as well with it. Um, you get a copy of Dr. Lewis’s book and then, um, we hold your hand. It’s a white glove treatment for 90 days so you can get the results that you’re looking for. But Dr. Lewis, sadly, we are at the end of this show. So would you like to leave us with any other words than what you’ve already left us with

Dr. Stephen Lewis (00:31:43) – , something that’s not smart. LIC is what I heard. , I think from now on we’re going to put a warning on our podcast and say that our podcast on this, you know, may cause you to have original thoughts and to develop and have questioning your programmed and, and indoctrinated thinking. You know, because I want you to think so that you can be healthier. And the thing about it is we have a lot of fun, maybe too much. Some people say, but think about this for just a minute. If speaking kindly to plants help them grow, can you imagine what speaking kindly to other humans could do?

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