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

Show Notes:

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

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

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I mean, what are you trying to achieve with these products? Well, the mitochondrion each cell has a lot of them in there. And it's like the spark plug that ignites the gasoline vapor or which releases the energy, so mitochondria are the powerhouses. And there's a lot of different facets to good health. It can be community purpose. We've talked about doing good for others, diet, nutrition, and they're signals the macronutrients and micronutrients total energy, glycemic impact. Signals, environmental signals. We've talked about the toxins and chronicity, whether it's long-term shift workers, seasonal regular rest vacation, sleeping time, stress response signals and we do a lot of that with your cortisol. Some of the things you just have to throw it in and let God sort it out. And I'm sorry that people that are trying to get you healthier more and more being silenced. And I work with the medical profession. I tell people get lab and a guy came in and he had a

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

Show Transcript

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

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

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And these monounsaturated fats that play an integral part in the health of your membranes. So kind of getting back to the cell danger response when cells are exposed to these stressors. And COVID or coronavirus being one of them, what happens is imagine imagine you're out here in east Texas and there's a big storm coming. Right. What do people do? They get inside. You've been reading our mail. No, not Texas. They don't get inside. Some of them get a drink in their hand and go stand and wait for the tornado. Yes, I do. Like a double....

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

Transcription

The Secret Enemy of Weight Loss

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

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

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Our son just made from Germany to Alaska and he says, mom, they're so large, large. Large smell what he said. She said, welcome to America. We've been to China. We've been to different places in Europe. We spent a couple of days in St. Petersburg, Russia. That was pretty cool. And it's not that America doesn't have some great grand and glorious things to be thankful for, but eating soybean and wheat and grains is not where health resides. That's good. That's as clean as I can do it. Here's the thing, some people say, count your calories, other people's like calories don't count....

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

Sandy is the Co-Founder of The Hashimoto's Connection podcast. She helps women transform their lives by teaching them how to lead a healthy lifestyle through changing daily habits and unique autoimmune programs. Sandy specializes in working with women with Hashimoto's Disease and provides unique support in dealing with autoimmune symptoms. In this episode, she interviewed Dr. Lewis and discussed how supplements play a role in long-term health, and how they can help people who are struggling with chronic illnesses. If you would like to learn more about Coach Sandy and the programs she offers, you can visit her website here.

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Show Transcription

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

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

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

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Is Your Gut Healthy? How to Tell

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

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

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Can you fix leaky gut? Is that just like, I mean, it sounds so devastating ending, is it a sick body produced? Do you think a healthy body with God's innate wisdom can fix it? Depending on how you answer that. And it's amazing to me how many people sitting on a toilet having a bowel movement tell me, I think of your wife every time I have a bowel movement to train you coming

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

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

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

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

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

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

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And he's done real well. And I don't even treat that, but we throw stuff in, ask God to bless him. It's amazing how much better people do....

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

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Is Your Toxic Burden Stopping Weight Loss?

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

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

Low energy and difficulty losing weight are common issues that most Americans struggle with. In some cases, the cause can be a simple nutritional deficiency or an unknown food sensitivity, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the cause. In this week's episode, we'll discuss how to help rev up your metabolism through supplementation and lifestyle changes. We'll also go over some of Dr. Lewis' favorite supplements to help support energy levels and detoxification.

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Welcome to the green wisdom health podcast, with Dr Stephen and Janet Lewis, where you will learn about natural solutions to common ailments. And now, here are your hosts doctor Stephen and Janet Lewis. Hello and welcome to this week's edition of the green wisdom health show. I'm Janet Lewis. And I'm doctor Lewis. And we are going to help you rev up your metabolism this week because who doesn't need energy, weight loss, just all around feeling better. And especially now we're coming into the spring. It's time to get cleaned up and get moving, right, doctor Lewis. If you can get me up moving, yes, ma'am. He's coming along. And he's developed these fine ideas here of how to do this because he has, he does this himself. Because all of us from time to time experience tiredness and fatigue and coming out of the winter, it seems worse for some reason because we've just been sitting on the couch. A lot. And it's time to get rid of a lot of that stuff. It's time to shed it, right? Doctor Lewis. Shared is a good word, yes. Yes, okay. So we're going to help you with tiredness fatigue, drug to lose weight, cold, hands and feet, thinning hair, Lola libido. This depresses me reading it. Irregular periods for women poor slate. For me, I've heard PMS belongs to me and also. Bloating and constipation and more. It's not like an OE hall song. I know. So we want to figure out what's going on. Get to the root of it and get you feeling better and have a life worth living. So doctor Lewis, what do you want to talk about today as far as that is concerned? Well, we can talk about BMR. Who? BMR. BMR. Yeah, that's not a big fan revolver, but what is a BMR? It's called basal metabolic metabolic rate. If I can pronounce it correctly. So tell us about it. Energy sometimes seems to be not enough of it. It seems to be running and hiding from us. For example, the BMR is you've got to understand most of your energy is about 50% of it or so is used for the nervous system itself. 27% or so, I think she used for the liver, which is about synthesizing glucose and ketone ketone bodies as fuel for the brain itself. Women usually yeah, I'm going to get hate mail on this one. Women usually have 5 to 10% lower being BMR compared to men and part of that is because when the typical woman has 25% body fat while the typical male has 15% and fat cells in your body for the most part produces no energy at all. Lose weight, people, people want to lose weight, but they're always looking for the magic peel. There's not any magic eat, half as much, eat good stuff and eat half as much of it. And I had a sweet lady from Houston come up the other night. She said, but you promised me. I said, I don't know what I promised you, but I know what you're eating and it's not going to work. We should have called this show the magic bullet, right? Yeah, her silver bullet. You're a product of your choices, and that kind of irks a lot of people. It's like, well, I didn't choose this. And I said, yeah, but you've made a thousand little bitty choices. That did, you know, I mean, for example, the volume of water, let's just say, is one, but when you crank it up 1°. From 211° to 212 expands 1700 times. So sometimes you just have to crank it up a little bit to get things going. Sleep decreases BMR by 10%. And Janet, I'm sure I won't get into some of her notes because I know she's got notes and sometimes we do funny things like we don't compare each other's notes just to see who can stump who. So she usually stumps me. It's kind of fun. For you. Yeah. So many times people are trying, I don't know why they think that they are a weight loss clinic. There must be something on Google. I don't know. Because we're not overweight and that's a lot of little bitty choices. And they'll call here and say, but you do weight loss. I'm like, well, it will turn into weight loss many times if you start doing healthy choices and taking some things and doing low cost lab work and they're like, what about that shot? I'm looking for that shot. Go to your MD and I'll tell people I'm a chiropractor.

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I'm proud of it. I love being a chiropractor. I deal with musculoskeletal system and biomechanical stuff, but if you and I'll get into that when we talk about mitochondria. If you deal with that and you throw in these supplements to support musculoskeletal system, guess what? Your body uses them all over the body for everything. Every physiological function. As you have so many people want it quick, easy, they don't want to put any effort into it because when you start telling them that white loss is got to do with more than you just getting a shot because somehow they think that if they get these shots, that they're magically going to stay thin for the rest of their lives. And I tell them you know that's like taking speed. That's what it's doing. It's like revving up your metabolism to the point that's not healthy. We see them be a high risk of heart attack or stroke on lab. But people are still fine with that. Because they're losing weight. And I guess what we're trying to teach you here is a lifestyle change altogether as uncomfortable as that may be. But it produces long-term comfort later when you don't have joints and things that are degenerating and oh my God, if you take care of your body now, it's just like taking care of your vehicle. Yeah, it's kind of like when they used to spray the lawn, the lawn, if you took care of it all through the year, it would, it would make a really beautiful lawn in the summertime because you nourished it, but there used to be companies that would go around and just spray the ground green and say, there's your lawn. And you knew that went along, but it was green and it wasn't healthy and it didn't stay. And I guess that's what we're trying to teach you is how to make different choices where it stays and it's not so hard. And it doesn't come back easy. And I can tell you as a fact, I started taking a different product that we have here in our store thinking that because it was more expensive. It had to be better and it was one of our new deal products and if you don't know what that is, it helps eat up bad. It takes out some of the estrogen mimickers. Right. For women, if they don't take enough of it, they get thick through the middle through the belly and then you just this is my story. They get thick through the belly. And their shirts don't fit like they used to. And I've been taking dim ever since I've had a hysterectomy about 12, 15 years ago. I guess now. And it got my shape back. It didn't make you lose weight, but it made your shape come back, so literally I've been in a size 8. And she says, I don't do time. And so I started noticing over the last few weeks. I'm like, I am gaining weight in the middle. And I don't really grasp wise. I'm getting fat. And he goes, no, you're not. He said, some of the little skinny girls that worry about it. And I said, well, that's why we say thin is because we are worried about it. And it took to me when I'm this little, it feels big. And so I started going, what am I doing wrong? And I started looking at our deal. And we have one, you know, we've had product changes, which we take all this stuff, it's not like we're telling y'all to take stuff that we're not doing. We have two of them. One's called CDG ASTRO dim. It's really expensive. There's another one that we use a lot more often called dim plus. I never really looked at the label about what had what in it. I just thought it cost more. It's got to be the better one. I think I'll just take the big one. So I've been taking this big one for about three months now. And the other day, we started comparing the labels on it, and the big one actually has less dim, the registered trademark deal in it than the small dim plus that doesn't cost as much does. Again, there's been a lot of product changes because of the supply chain issue. And the calcium D glick right, if you look that up, that increases a different detoxification pathway. Look around a nation of the liver and that's generally much, much, much more helpful if you have. Family history of cancer of head cancer to help detoxification. Or men's prostates. The CDG DM, we use more for men. That's who we get to help somebody testosterone for a man because in all three carbon all that's in there as well, like a lot of it and that stuff is what's so expensive. But I didn't pay attention to that. And I was just taking off state doesn't hurt. So I was taking half of the amount of DL my use to take is what it came out to be that of what the other product was. And now over about three months, I'm beginning to gain weight. So I had to go back and listen to myself, tell y'all why that was happening. And the minute I realized that I thought, oh my gosh, I'm not hanging enough of the straight deal. And I started doing the dim again, the extra deal, and by golly, it's beginning to come back off again.

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And yes, there's a headache that goes with it. I am suffering through it because it's actually altering the body's metabolism, your hormones, but it does make a little bit fast, which we'll talk about. Totally fine with that. Doesn't always cause a headache, but it certainly can. And all this time, she told me it was me causing her to have a headache. But see, it's little stuff like this that people don't realize of what's happening. For me, it's having no hormones....

Difficulty losing weight is one of the most common issues plaguing the U.S. There are many things that influence weight such as diet, activity level, hormones, genetics, food sensitivities, environment, and much more. However, one of the lesser-known influences on weight are lectins. Lectins are found in many different foods like beans, peanuts, whole grains, etc. Lectins are often called antinutrients because they are typically difficult to digest and can hinder the absorption of some nutrients. In this week's episode, Could This Be Causing Your Weight Gain?, we'll discuss how lectins affect your body, including the thyroid, and what you can do to help make them easier to digest.

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