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Dr. Amy Myers - The Thyroid Connection - Tired, Brain Fogged and Overweight? Get your life back - Part 2

Thyroid health expert Dr. Amy Myers joins Kevin on the show today to discuss the importance of thyroid health and what simple things you can do to improve your thyroid health and get your life back on track. Amy is a renowned leader in functional medicine, a New York Times bestselling author, and has helped thousands of people around the world recover from chronic illnesses through her dietary-based program – The Myer’s Way.

Amy received her doctorate degree in medicine at the LSU Health Science Center and has spent five years working in emergency medicine before training at the Institute for Functional Medicine. Moreover, she has personally experienced thyroid dysfunction issues, and understands the thyroid epidemic from the patients point of view as well as the medical professional. Today, she shares her story and describes in detail about the small changes you can make in your diet and lifestyle that can significantly – and positively – impact your health and well-being.

“Your thyroid can’t grow back, but your adrenals can recover. There are things you can do to get your life back.” – Dr. Amy Myers

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• Why 60% of the estimated 27-million Americans suffering from thyroid dysfunction are unaware of the problem.
• How thyroid problems can manifest.
• What is Graves’ Disease and Hashimoto Disease?
• Why Amy believes so many conventional doctors overlook or misdiagnose thyroid problems.
• What nutrients your thyroid needs in order to function at optimal levels.
• What you can do to get your thyroid tested.
• Amy’s opinion on taking iodine supplements for thyroid health.
• What are the risks or side effects of taking too much iodine?
• How stress can affect thyroid function and health.
• What is a “leaky gut?”
• Amy’s perspective on the importance of air quality.
• Amy’s perspective on drinking water quality, water with chloride, and plastic bottled water.
• What are BPA’s and how do they affect the thyroid?
• Why morning and evening sunlight is important to your health and how it contributes to your overall health.
• What areas in your body and health does your circadian rhythm affect?

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Amy Myer’s book: The Auto-Immune Solution
• Amy Myer’s book: The Thyroid Connection
• My Labs for Life
• Amy Myer’s website
• The Myer’s Way Multi
• The Iodine Crisis book by Dr. David Brownstein
• F.lux software

Key Takeaway:

There are natural ways to approach thyroid dysfunction problems. There is hope and there are things you can do to get to the root of the cause and get your life back!

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Thyroid health expert Dr. Amy Myers joins Kevin on the show today to discuss the importance of thyroid health and what simple things you can do to improve your thyroid health and get your life back on track. Amy is a renowned leader in functional medicine, a New York Times bestselling author, and has helped thousands of people around the world recover from chronic illnesses through her dietary-based program – The Myer’s Way.

Amy received her doctorate degree in medicine at the LSU Health Science Center and has spent five years working in emergency medicine before training at the Institute for Functional Medicine. Moreover, she has personally experienced thyroid dysfunction issues, and understands the thyroid epidemic from the patients point of view as well as the medical professional. Today, she shares her story and describes in detail about the small changes you can make in your diet and lifestyle that can significantly – and positively – impact your health and well-being.

“Your thyroid can’t grow back, but your adrenals can recover. There are things you can do to get your life back.” – Dr. Amy Myers

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• Why 60% of the estimated 27-million Americans suffering from thyroid dysfunction are unaware of the problem.
• How thyroid problems can manifest.
• What is Graves’ Disease and Hashimoto Disease?
• Why Amy believes so many conventional doctors overlook or misdiagnose thyroid problems.
• What nutrients your thyroid needs in order to function at optimal levels.
• What you can do to get your thyroid tested.
• Amy’s opinion on taking iodine supplements for thyroid health.
• What are the risks or side effects of taking too much iodine?
• How stress can affect thyroid function and health.
• What is a “leaky gut?”
• Amy’s perspective on the importance of air quality.
• Amy’s perspective on drinking water quality, water with chloride, and plastic bottled water.
• What are BPA’s and how do they affect the thyroid?
• Why morning and evening sunlight is important to your health and how it contributes to your overall health.
• What areas in your body and health does your circadian rhythm affect?

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Amy Myer’s book: The Auto-Immune Solution
• Amy Myer’s book: The Thyroid Connection
• My Labs for Life
• Amy Myer’s website
• The Myer’s Way Multi
• The Iodine Crisis book by Dr. David Brownstein
• F.lux software

Key Takeaway:

There are natural ways to approach thyroid dysfunction problems. There is hope and there are things you can do to get to the root of the cause and get your life back!

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Lisa Perkins is a health coach who once suffered from common health issues regarding her weight and had bouts of depression and anxiety. She figured out ways to get the weight off, but she did them in ways she doesn’t consider healthy. It wasn’t until she was in her late 30’s that she decided to finally take a hold of her life and learn about how to be healthy, not just for her sake of it, but also so she can be a good example to her children.

Today, Lisa gives us her thoughts on how we should listen to our body more, what she thinks are necessary when starting a healthy lifestyle, and provide a few tips on some basic health guidelines that most people should not have any trouble following.

"Our body's talking to us all the time and we literally stopped listening.” Lisa Perkins

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• We have this mindset that makes us follow gurus and attempt to copy their health template word-per-word. What many people don’t know is there is no one-size-fits-all approach to a healthy lifestyle.
• Short-term health strategies yield short-term results.
• We only have one stress bucket and people should be careful not to fill it to the brim.
• We equate diet and exercise with deprivation and pain.
• A ketogenic diet is beneficial but it won't work as good if you're always stressed.
• There are so many approaches and a ketogenic diet is just one of the tools in the toolbox. A keto diet requires lots of tracking and monitoring.
• Lisa says a good way to start a healthy diet is by eating 30-40g high quality protein each meal, fill at least half the plate with organic, non-starchy vegetables, and 2 tbsp. of natural fat. The goal is to reduce and totally eliminate packaged or processed food.

Key Takeaways:

• We need to build self-awareness; we need to rebuild relationships with ourselves.
• When it comes to embarking on a health journey, acceptance, curiosity, and patience is necessary.
• We have an evolutionary mismatch on how we were designed to live as humans and what society tells us all the time.

Connect with Lisa Perkins:

• Primal Transformations
• Facebook
• Twitter

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Tara Grant, also known as Primal Girl, has been living an ancestral lifestyle since 2009. Her story wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies, though, as she also struggled with her weight and her own body issues all throughout her life.

Before she knew of the Paleo diet, she tried other fad diets which literally did nothing for her. Even the doctors didn’t know what to do with her condition. It wasn’t until she read about living a Paleo lifestyle that she finally managed to bring about a huge transformation. She has since actively told her story, her struggles and successes, so she can serve as an inspiration to others.

In today’s episode, Tara talks about the many changes she's made to transform herself, her own fitness inspirations, and her story of how she changed her life from being a 260 lbs. struggling dieter to a 143 lbs. personal trainer.

“Listen to your gut, to yourself. If something works or doesn't work for you then that's true for you.” Tara Grant

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The many fad diets she tried that didn’t work despite her fondness of training and dieting.
• What book inspired her to revise her lifestyle for the better.
• She felt so weak and riddled with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, it was like she was an 80-year-old in her 20’s.
• Her body had insulin issues so the Paleo diet was perfect due to the low carb requirement. She went full paleo overnight.
• Having too much dairy in your diet might be what’s causing you many health problems.
• Full functional movement, with or without weights, is better than using machines.
• Being able to bend over and touch your toes is a pretty good indication of health.
• The importance of sleeping and waking up in a more “natural” manner.
• Eliminating blue light is the best practice before sleep.
• Be more social outside your phone. Physical human interaction is a necessity for our survival as a species.

Key Takeaways:

• We're the only mammals that think we need milk after nursing so try and see what happens when you remove all forms of dairy for at least 30 days.

Connect with Tara Grant:

• Primal Girl Official Website
• Email: [email protected]
• Join Tara on her live video chats weekly on Facebook

Mentioned in this episode:

• Primal Blueprint book by Mark Sisson
• The Hidden Plague book by Tara Grant
• Philips Wake-up Light with colored sunrise simulation

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On today’s episode, Kevin is joined by inveterate biohacker and founder of MitoLife Matt Blackburn. Matt shares his interesting story on how he started his journey into optimal health and wellness on a very different path as a vegetarian and then discovered he was way off track.  Before founding MitoLife, Matt began to study the critical role that DHA and Circadian alignment played on health and especially on Mitochondrial Health.

Matt and Kevin discuss the critical role that sunlight, especially in the morning and DHA play in health and wellness. Today, he shares some of his advice, suggestions, and tips to help you improve your overall health and wellness, allow your body to repair after a strenuous workout, and fight off many diseases.

“DHA, especially from Algae sources is far superior to supplementing with Fish Oil.” Matt Blackburn

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• Matt’s daily routine for optimal health and wellness.
• Harmful effects of artificial light (blue light) from technology and why is should be avoided at night.
• Why DHA is superior to fish oil for optimal Mitochondrial health.
• Why sunlight, especially in the morning anchors your Circadian cycle daily and should be part of any health regimen
• Why circadian alignment is more important than diet and exercise and should be your first focus

Connect with Matt Blackburn:

• MitoLife Website

The Takeaway:

“Using DHA from Algae and optimizing your circadian based cycles will supercharge your Mitochondria and Health.” – Matt Blackburn

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Vivica is a nutritionist, blogger, and a ketogenic cookbook author. Her fondness of the ketogenic diet stemmed from not just targeted learning experiences and seminars but also from how she used it to bounce back from a pre-diabetic state. She also realized the need for ketogenic research and practitioners, so she has since offered lifestyle programs centered around the ketogenic diet.

Today, Vivica discusses the specific challenges that come with implementing and sticking with the Ketogenic Diet for women and how that often varies from what men experience.  She details out how she adjusts things for her clients and keeps them on track.

She also discusses carb re-feedings and adjustments that are key considerations for success with the Keto Diet.

"When you have serious, underlying health issues, your macros aren't going to fix it.” Vivica Menegaz

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• There are many ways to “attack” a ketogenic diet. There are no one-size fits all approach.
• A ketogenic diet just means some macro nutrient ratios; it doesn't really tell you what you should be eating.
• Most ketogenic diet fans were motivated with weight loss. Vivica did it so she can bounce back from being a pre-diabetic.
• A standard ketogenic diet is high in dairy, Vivica promotes a Keto-Paleo approach because dairy products interfere with hormonal production.
• The basis of a keto-paleo diet is founded on high quality, nutrient dense food. It also has to be locally sourced and organic.
• Don't be obsessed with macros, focus on food quality.
• Auto-immune disease is common but it's not really a disease but a phase of disease. Every disease will go to an auto immune phase if left unchecked.
• A ketogenic diet is an ultra-low carb diet and it might not work for someone if they were to go with it for long-term. A good way to circumvent this is by doing a cyclical ketogenic diet.

Key Takeaways:

• Ask yourself if any food is designed for humans. Milk in cartons are usually for cows or goats.
• You don't have to get the perfect diet right away but the quality of food you get is important.

Connect with Vivica Menegaz:

• The Nourished Caveman
• Facebook

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Paleo Answer book by Loren Cordain, PH.D.

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Vivica is a nutritionist, blogger, and a ketogenic cookbook author. Her fondness of the ketogenic diet stemmed from not just targeted learning experiences and seminars but also from how she used it to bounce back from a pre-diabetic state. She also realized the need for ketogenic research and practitioners, so she has since offered lifestyle programs centered around the ketogenic diet.

Today, Vivica tells us how an average person can get started with a ketogenic diet, why she thinks a diet by macros aren’t ideal, and why she is strongly against dairy in any diet.

" When you have serious, underlying health issues, your macros aren't going to fix it.” Vivica Menegaz

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• There are many ways to “attack” a ketogenic diet. There are no one-size fits all approach.
• A ketogenic diet just means some macro nutrient ratios; it doesn't really tell you what you should be eating.
• Most ketogenic diet fans were motivated with weight loss. Vivica did it so she can bounce back from being a pre-diabetic.
• A standard ketogenic diet is high in dairy, Vivica promotes a Keto-Paleo approach because dairy products interfere with hormonal production.
• The basis of a keto-paleo diet is founded on high quality, nutrient dense food. It also has to be locally sourced and organic.
• Don't be obsessed with macros, focus on food quality.
• Auto-immune disease is common but it's not really a disease but a phase of disease. Every disease will go to an auto immune phase if left unchecked.
• A ketogenic diet is an ultra-low carb diet and it might not work for someone if they were to go with it for long-term. A good way to circumvent this is by doing a cyclical ketogenic diet.

Key Takeaways:

• Ask yourself if any food is designed for humans. Milk in cartons are usually for cows or goats.
• You don't have to get the perfect diet right away but the quality of food you get is important.

Connect with Vivica Menegaz:

• The Nourished Caveman
• Facebook

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Paleo Answer book by Loren Cordain, PH.D.

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Rick Gold joins host Kevin Cottrell today to discuss circadian based health & wellness.  Rick is a Functional Wellness practitioner from South Florida with a passion for helping educate, treat and heal patients.

Rick is a certified FDN & Functional Wellness Practitioner and is well-versed in the concepts of functional medicine.  Working with clients locally in South Florida and around the world, Rick helps his clients identify and eliminate many of the underlying causes of their symptoms, with a specialization in gut health and circadian rhythms.

Prior to his career in health & wellness, Rick worked for Wall Street firms as a financial adviser, institutional trader, and hedge fund recruiter.  So, how did someone working for Wall Street end up as a Functional Wellness Practitioner?

For most of his adult life, Rick suffered from 24/7/365 allergies, frequent colds and sinus infections, indigestion, heartburn, GERD, stomach and joint pain.  He was able to find temporary relief using conventional medicine doctors, but the conventional medicine route never identified or fixed the underlying causes of his health issues.  

Rick used functional lab testing and lifestyle changes to vastly improve his health.  Dietary and other lifestyle modifications essentially reversed most of his health challenges which are now a distant memory.

Additional research, references, and recommended reading from Rick Gold

Here are some more (in addition to what I’ve linked to in the text throughout this building block) circadian rhythm, blue light/ALAN studies, sunlight, and nnEMF research articles, and videos for you to learn more (mind you this is just a SMALL sampling of the THOUSANDS of studies out there on these topics.  The research is so definitive it makes one wonder why it isn’t more mainstream!):

1. Blue light, ALAN, Sunlight, and Melatonin
2. 1. (Study) Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness – “These results demonstrate that evening exposure to an LE-eBook phase-delays the circadian clock, acutely suppresses melatonin, and has important implications for understanding the impact of such technologies on sleep, performance, health, and safety.”
   2. (Article) How light affects human melatonin levels – Florida Atlantic University.  “Researchers are finding that exposure to bright nocturnal light decreases the human body's production of melatonin. A decrease in melatonin production has been linked to higher rates of certain cancers, such as breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men.”
   3. (Video) The end of night: potential impact on cancer incidence – Russel J. Reiter, PhD
   4. (Study) Light at night and breast cancer risk: results from a population-based case–control study in Connecticut, USA “The results from this study suggest a potential increased risk of breast cancer associated with domestic exposure to LAN (Light at Night).”
   5. (Video) – The impact of screens on sleep – Dr. Daniel Siegel
   6. (Study) Nocturnal light pollution and underexposure to daytime sunlight - Complementary mechanisms of circadian disruption and related diseases – “Nighttime use of personal computers, mobile phones, electronic tablets, televisions, and the like--now epidemic in adolescents and adults and highly prevalent in pre-school and school-aged children--is a new source of ALAN. However, ALAN exposure occurs concomitantly with almost complete absence of daytime sunlight, whose blue-violet (446-484 nm λ) spectrum synchronizes the CTS and whose UV-B (290-315 nm λ) spectrum stimulates vitamin D synthesis. ““The observed elevated incidence of medical conditions the two are alleged to influence through many complementary bioprocesses of cells, tissues, and organs led us to examine effects of the totality of the artificial light environment in which humans reside today. Never have chronobiologic or epidemiologic investigations comprehensively researched the potentially deleterious consequences of the combination of suppressed vitamin D plus melatonin synthesis due to life in today's man-made artificial light environment, which in our opinion is long overdue.”
   7. (Study) Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor for all-cause mortality – “The results of this study provide observational evidence that avoiding sun exposure is a risk factor for all-cause mortality. Following sun exposure advice that is very restrictive in countries with low solar intensity might in fact be harmful to women's health.”
   8. (Study) Blue light hazard – “Blue light can induce formation of toxic reactive oxygen species that cause photochemical damage, leading to the death by apoptosis first of critical retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells and then photoreceptors. This slow process, in which damage accumulates over a lifetime, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of retinal degenerative diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD).”
   9. (Study) Blue Light Induces Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Free Radical Production in Epithelial Cells – “We conclude that visible light can cause cell dysfunction through the action of reactive oxygen species on DNA and that this may contribute to cellular aging, age-related pathologies, and tumorigenesis.”
   10. (Study) Bright light exposure reduces TH-positive dopamine neurons- Implications of light pollution in Parkinson's disease epidemiology – “Remarkably, in preliminary analysis that accounted for population density, the age and race adjusted Parkinson's disease prevalence significantly correlated with average satellite-observed sky light pollution.”
   11. (Study) Daily, seasonal, and latitudinal variations in solar ultraviolet A and B radiation in relation to vitamin D production and risk for skin cancer – “The best way to obtain a given dose of vitamin D with minimal carcinogenic risk is through a non-burning exposure in the middle of the day, rather than in the afternoon or morning.”
   12. (Study) Environmental Light Exposure Is Associated with Increased Body Mass in Children – “The findings identify that light exposure may be a contributor to the obesogenic environment during early childhood.”
   13. (Article) Study of fruit fly 'brain in a jar' reveals mechanics of jet lag – “He explained that a single light pulse cues the biological clock of the fruit fly brain to shift two hours ahead of its original schedule through a process the researchers call "phase retuning." 

1. Circadian Rhythms
2. 1. (Video) The clock in our genes and in every cell of your body | Joseph Takahashi | TEDxSMU 2013 – Great Ted Talk that teaches you about circadian biology. 
   2. (Article) Circadian rhythm and human health – Joan E. Roberts, Fordham University “Humans evolved being exposed to different spectra of light in the morning, the late afternoon and evening. So it should not be surprising that human physiology is profoundly affected by the daily and seasonal changes in the visible light spectrum. Exposure to the appropriate spectrum of light during the day and evening enhances human health and wellbeing, immune response and productivity. However, exposure to light sources that do not match the natural solar spectrum to the time of day or evening, is hazardous to human health. The reason visible light has such a powerful effect on human health is that light exposure through the eye modifies circadian rhythm.”
   3. (Article) Around the Clock – “The circadian clock influences far more than daily habits, according to a few decades of research. Obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, cancer, and depression have all been linked to malfunctions of the internal timekeeping scheme. Almost every cell in a living organism, it turns out, sees daily fluctuations in levels of genes and proteins, and when these fluctuations are dampened or stopped, things can go awry.”
   4. (Study) Circadian stage-dependent inhibition of human breast cancer metabolism and growth by the nocturnal melatonin signal: consequences of its disruption by light at night in rats and women. “This biological mechanism (ALAN) may partially explain the higher risk of breast and other cancers in women working rotating night shifts and possibly others who also experience prolonged exposure to light at night.”
   5. (Article) From Fertility To Mood, Sunlight Found To Affect Human Biology – NYT article from 1981!  “Dr. Richard J. Wurtman - 'we are all unwitting subjects of a long-term experiment on the effects of artificial lighting on health. Until much more is known, we should design indoor lighting to resemble as closely as possible what the sun provides.''
   6. (Study) A functional circadian clock is required for proper insulin secretion by human pancreatic islet cells – (Think diabetes!)
   7. (Study) Adverse metabolic consequences in humans of prolonged sleep restriction combined with circadian disruption. – “Thus, in humans, prolonged sleep restriction with concurrent circadian disruption alters metabolism and could increase the risk of obesity and diabetes.”
   8. (Study) Circadian Clock Control of Liver Metabolic Functions – “A wide variety of processes throughout the entire gastrointestinal tract and notably the liver appear to be under circadian control. These include various metabolic functions such as nutrient uptake, processing, and detoxification, which align organ function to cycle with nutrient supply and demand. Remarkably, genetic or environmental disruption of the circadian clock can cause metabolic diseases or exacerbate pathological states.”
   9. (Audio) BBC talk on circadian rhythms and their importance.  
   10. (Study) Circadian clocks, obesity and cardiometabolic function – “Disrupting this process through mutations in the core clock genes or by interfering with the environmental zeitgebers that entrain the clock appear to modulate the function of cells and tissues, leading to an increased risk for cardiometabolic disease.”
   11. (Study) Circadian rhythm-related genes - implication in autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes – “The hypothesis that circadian genes are involved in type 1 diabetes is reinforced by findings that the immune system undergoes circadian variation and that several autoimmune diseases are associated with circadian genes. Recent findings in the non-obese diabetic mouse model pinpoint to specific mechanisms controlling type 1 diabetes by the clock-related gene Arntl2 in the immune system.”
   12. (Study) Endogenous circadian system and circadian misalignment impact glucose tolerance via separate mechanisms in humans – “We demonstrate that the circadian system importantly contributes to the reduced glucose tolerance observed in the evening compared with the morning. Separately, circadian misalignment reduces glucose tolerance, providing a mechanism to help explain the increased diabetes risk in shift workers”
   13. (Study) Gut Clock - Implication Of Circadian Rhythms In The Gastrointestinal Tract – “Motor and secretory activity, as well as the rhythm of cell proliferation in the GIT (Gastrointestinal Tract) and liver, are subject to many circadian rhythms, mediated by autonomic cells and some enterohormones (gastrin, ghrelin and somatostatin). Disruption of circadian physiology, due to sleep disturbance or shift work, may result in various gastrointestinal diseases, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or peptic ulcer disease. In addition, circadian disruption accelerates aging, and promotes tumorigenesis in the liver and GIT.” 
   14. (Study) Keeping circadian time with hormones – “Circadian deregulation of hormonal rhythms may participate in internal desynchronization and associated increase in metabolic risks.”
   15. (Study) Thyroid hormone and seasonal regulation of reproduction – “In mammals, the eyes are the only photoreceptor involved in photoperiodic time perception and nocturnal melatonin secretion provides an endocrine signal of photoperiod to the PT to regulate TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone).”
   16. (Study) Exposure to Room Light before Bedtime Suppresses Melatonin Onset and Shortens Melatonin Duration in Humans – “These findings indicate that room light exerts a profound suppressive effect on melatonin levels and shortens the body's internal representation of night duration. Hence, chronically exposing oneself to electrical lighting in the late evening disrupts melatonin signaling and could therefore potentially impact sleep, thermoregulation, blood pressure, and glucose homeostasis.”
   17. (Article) UCI study finds jet lag-like sleep disruptions spur Alzheimer’s memory, learning loss – “Chemical changes in brain cells caused by disturbances in the body’s day-night cycle may be a key underlying cause of the learning and memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a University of California, Irvine study.”

1. nnEMF (Non-Native Electromagnetic Fields)
2. 1. (Article) Stress from Current And Radiation – This is a transcript of a lecture given by journalist Wolfgang Maes in Los Angeles, California in 1990.  Wolfgang suffered from EHS and tells his story and how he fixed his surroundings and his health by lowering his night time exposure to nnEMF. 
   2. (Video) Electromagnetic Fields and DNA Damage: Dr. Jerry Phillips – In this video, Dr. Phillips discusses how nnEMFs damage your DNA, but he also tackles the topic of conflicting research between the independent science and the industry-funded science.  By the way this video is from 2012, before Dr. Martin Pall’s work in 2013 that actually FOUND the non-thermal mechanism by which nnEMF disrupts cellular function. 
   3. (Article)  Cell Phone Radiation Boosts Cancer Rates in Animals – “The cell phone cancer controversy will never be the same again.  The U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) is expected to issue a public announcement that cell phone radiation presents a cancer risk for humans. The move comes soon after its recently completed study showed statistically significant increases in cancer among rats that had been exposed to GSM or CDMA signals for two-years.”
   4. (Video) Dr. Martin Pall – How Wi-Fi & other EMFs Cause Biological Harm – Amazing talk by Dr. Pall where he goes in depth and breaks down the non-thermal biological effects of Wi-Fi. 
   5. (Documentary) – Resonance Beings of Frequency – An eye-opening documentary that will teach you a tremendous amount about the dangers of nnEMF. 
   6. (Study) – Genetic Analysis of Circadian Responses to Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields in Drosophila melanogaster – “Our results are therefore not consistent with the classical Trp triad-mediated RPM and suggest that CRYs act as blue-light/EMF sensors depending on trans-acting factors that are present in particular cellular environments.” Translation – nnEMF is perceived as light by sensory proteins in your body and that can mess with your circadian biology. 
   7. (Study) - Is it Blue Light or Increased Electromagnetic Fields which Affects the Circadian Rhythm in People who Use Smartphones at Night – “Furthermore, previous reports have indicated a significant association between exposure to RF-EMFs of mobile or cordless phones and sleep problems (2, 3). The 2nd shortcoming of this paper comes from ignoring this point that electromagnetic fields may affect the level of plasma melatonin (4, 5).”
   8. (Study) Critical time delay of the pineal melatonin rhythm in humans due to weak electromagnetic exposure. –“The results show that significant melatonin interruption and changes to the circadian rhythm occur due to the perturbation of chemical reaction rates, as also reported in previous studies. The results also show the influence of the mRNA degradation rate on the circadian rhythm's critical time delay or maturation time. The results support the hypothesis that exposure to weak EMFs via melatonin disruption can adversely affect human health.”
   9. (Study) Why are living things sensitive to weak magnetic fields? – “This implies that weak magnetic field interactions may have a chronodisruptive basis, homologous to the more familiar effects on the biological clock arising from sleep deprivation, phase-shift employment and light at night. It is conceivable that the widespread sensitivity of biological systems to weak ELF magnetic fields is vestigially derived from this diurnal geomagnetic effect.”
   10. (Article) - 'Radiogenetics' seeks to remotely control cells and genes – “The new system, dubbed radiogenetics, uses a signal, in this case low-frequency radio waves or a magnetic field, to heat or move ferritin particles. They, in turn, prompt the opening of TRPV1, which is situated in the membrane surrounding the cell. Calcium ions then travel through the channel, switching on a synthetic piece of DNA the scientists developed to turn on the production of a downstream gene, which in this study was the insulin gene.”Translation – Scientists are actively using nnEMFs NON-THERMAL effects on cells to develop therapies for diabetes.  How can anyone read this and deny the non-thermal effects of nnEMF??
   11. (Documentary) – Searching for a Golden Cage – A short and informative film that documents the plight of people who suffer from EHS. 
   12. (Documentary) – Take Back Your Power – A must-watch documentary that illuminates the dangers of electric company-installed smart meters on homes and in apartment buildings. 
   13. (Study) – Access to electricity is linked to reduced sleep – “New research comparing traditional hunter-gatherer living conditions to a more modern setting shows that access to artificial light and electricity has shortened the amount of sleep humans get each night.”
   14. (Study) Mitochondrial calcium overload is a key determinant in heart failure – This study in particular does not mention nnEMF as a cause of heart failure, but if you remember Dr. Martin Pall’s work that showed how nnEMF causes excess calcium in the cell, and you see how this study links excess calcium in the cell to heart failure, it’s easy to connect the dots!  Heart attacks kill a staggering number of Americans every year.  Might nnEMF be a hidden cause that no one is considering?  Food for thought. 
   15. (Study) Effects of the Effect of Ultra High Frequency Mobile Phone Radiation on Human Health – “The results of this study and International Commission of Non Ionization Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) reports showed the people who spend more than 50 minutes a day using a cell phone could have early dementia or other thermal damage due to the burning of glucose in the brain.”
   16. (Study) Cancer incidence vs. FM radio transmitter density – “The findings present strong support to the earlier presented hypothesis that body-resonant broadcasting radiation emitted by horizontally polarized main FM transmitters has an immune-disturbing effect. “
   17. (Article) Diabetes and Electro sensitivity – This article raises the possibility that diabetes is caused by nnEMF. 
   18. (Article) Wireless technology – studies on health effects, lawsuits & court rulings. – This is a fantastic resource that links to a tremendous treasure trove of research and other evidence of the harm that nnEMF causes to human health. 
   19. (Article) New research links cell phones to health issues in children – “For years, we’ve heard of a possible link between cell phone use and cancer. Now, this week, researchers in Baltimore say the evidence is clear, and children are more at risk.”  This is crucial to watch and read if you have children. 
   20. (Study) Schumann resonance is found in the earth and in the human brain – Think about that.  Our brains resonate at the same frequency as the natural frequency emitted by the earth that gets charged by lightening.  With no nnEMFs this is how we are supposed to resonate.  nnEMFs disturb this natural resonance and we pay the price with our health.
   21. (Video) Magda Havas talks at NIEHS May 9, 2016 on electro smog and electro hypersensitivity – She shows what nnEMFs do to our blood under a microscope, and shows how reducing nnEMFs helped several MS patients. 
   22. (Article) The pulsed microwave radar tower and the cell – the role of calcium – This one is definitely more for the science geeks, but it goes into great detail about how nnEMF affects the calcium in and around our cells. 
   23. (Article) Mobile Phones are cooking men’s sperm – “Study finds sperm levels of men who kept their phones in their pocket during the day were quite seriously affected in 47 per cent of cases“
   24. (Article) Wireless devices & wildlife – This is a fascinating and well-referenced article that depicts the effects of Wi-Fi on animals and plants.  It discusses key studies done on bees that show how Wi-Fi is causing colony collapse disorder. 
   25. (Article) nnEMF research collection – And finally, a massive collection of research on nnEMF that includes a link to 2300 studies done by the US Navy showing the biological impacts of nnEMF! 
   26. (Study) Prenatal Exposure to weak magnetic fields leads to childhood asthma – “Li's study is the first prospective epidemiological study ever carried out on any group exposed to any type of electromagnetic fields (EMFs). The mothers' magnetic field exposures were measured during the first or second trimester and the health of their children —a total of 626 boys and girls— was followed for the next 13 years. Li sees a clear dose-response: Every 1 mG increase in median magnetic field exposure during pregnancy led to a 15% increase in asthma in the offspring. The trend is highly significant.”

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Alex Fergus is a wellness coach whose goal is to get people back on track towards living a healthy lifestyle. He strongly advocates the importance of sleep and how people should prioritize recovery over training days. He cites sleep is one of the foundation of what makes a healthy lifestyle work, especially since sleep helps boost the body’s overall functions such as muscle growth and even fat burning.

Today, Alex will tell us all about his fitness program, how to improve sleep with morning sunlight, and tell us what exactly happens when we lose even 2-3 nights of sleep.

"Just think about how good you'll feel after a really good night's sleep.” Alex Fergus

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Jetlag is due to the misaligned circadian rhythm and your body is confused.
• Hunger is even triggered, when it shouldn’t be, when you’re someplace with an extremely different temperature.
• Most people experience a mild form of jetlag every day. You simply have to stay up late and avoid getting outside every day to induce it.
• If your goal is fat loss, fix your sleep first. Sleep deprivation reduces your body's ability to properly metabolize fat and sugar.
• Getting up so early, and purposely disrupting sleep, for training is more negative than you think. It also promotes hunger which is something the body’s not supposed to do if you’re goal is to lose weight.
• Lack of sleep, such as sleeping for only 5-6 hours, will increase cortisol chronically which is one of the worst things you can do to your health.
• Too much cortisol leads to loss of testosterone and will have a domino effect on your health. This can happen in as little as 2-3 bad nights of sleep.

Key Takeaways:

• The best things about sleep is it’s both powerful and free.
• Getting up 15 minutes earlier to see the sun is going to pay off in the long term. Even if your sleep isn't terrible, it's important to keep that natural cycle of hormones in your transmitters, for general health and wellness.

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