Although your family history suggests you may be stricken with certain diseases, Dr. Mitchell Gaynor shares why you still have a chance of NOT developing them.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1517wl5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Mitchell Gaynor, MD
- Guest Website Gene Changer
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Guest Bio
Mitchell Gaynor, M.D., is Founder and President of Gaynor Integrative Oncology and Gaynor Wellness in New York City. A renowned pioneer in the field of integrative oncology for 30 years, Dr. Gaynor is author, physician, speaker and composer of original sound healing meditations. His latest book, The Gene Therapy Plan – Taking Control of your Genetic Destiny Through Diet and Lifestyle (due in April, 2015, from Viking Press with a Forward by Dr. Mehmet Oz), provides a revolutionary approach to reverse gene damage associated with aging, cancer, obesity, and diabetes and to prevent future gene deterioration with specific programs that are appropriate for anyone who wants to maximize longevity for themselves, their children and future generations.
Dr. Gaynor has a notable history in the treatment of chronic diseases, particularly cancer, with scientifically grounded therapies that augment traditional modalities. He has served as Director of Medical Oncology at The Strang Cancer Prevention Center in New York and was former Medical Director and Director of Medical Oncology at the Weill Cornell Medical Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine in New York. He has served on the Executive Review Panel at the Department of Defense – Alternative Medicine For Breast Cancer Sector and the Smithsonian Institute’s “New Frontiers in Breast Cancer and the Environment” Seminars. Board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American College of Physicians, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a post-doctorate fellow in molecular biology at Rockefeller University in New York City.
Dr. Gaynor is a popular speaker and lecturer in hospitals, conferences, spiritual centers, and universities throughout America and abroad. His topics frequently focus on cancer and its causes, as well as his successful therapies that reverse cancer damage and promote vibrant health. He has spoken extensively in the field of integrative medicine and, most recently, about his Gene Changer Programs to promote healthy gene expression and reverse damage from chronic diseases.
Dr. Gaynor has been consecutively listed in “The Best Doctors in New York” since 1997 and has served on the Board of Advisors for Healthy Living magazine, the Sass Medical Foundation, as well as on the Editorial Board of Integrative Cancer Therapies. -
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 24, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Mitchell Gaynor, MD
It's time to feel better with Dr. Susanne Bennett. Allergies, nutrition, ultimate wellness, all discussed right here, right now. It's Wellness for Life Radio on RadioMD. Here's your host, Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: My guest today has caught the attention of Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show and the Martha Stewart Show. Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, best-selling author of The Gene Therapy Plan is here to discuss that. Although we cannot alter the genes we are born, with we can change how they are expressed and how we can change out health destiny. Welcome to Wellness for Life, Dr. Gaynor.
DR. GAYNOR: Oh, it’s great to be with you.
DR. SUSANNE: Thank you, thank you. Many people believe our genetic makeup determines our susceptibility to certain diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease but in your book The Gene Therapy Plan, you explain that our genetic destinies are not fixed. Can you explain why this is true and what can we do to alter our genetic blueprint?
DR. GAYNOR: Well, we used to think that our genetic destiny was determined by the genes we’re born with and now we know that our genes are dynamic and they can be changed for better or worse throughout our entire life by the food we’re putting in our body. So, the reason I titled the book The Gene Therapy Plan is because each of us is doing gene therapy on ourselves every time we eat; for good or for harm. So if we’re putting a lot of white sugar, refined sugar, refined flour, heat damaged vegetable oils in our body that come from fast and processed foods, we’re doing negative gene therapy. These actually turn on genes that promote inflammation, premature aging, tumor promoter genes and diseases like diabetes and heart disease. On the other hand, if we’re putting foods in our body that increase detoxification enzymes on a genetic level like broccoli, brussel sprouts, kale, garlic, black raspberries, they also decrease inflammation, enhance our sensitivity to insulin, then we’re doing positive gene therapy. So, it’s really a brand new field called “epigenetics” and that is the field where we know that we can control our genetic destiny. We’re not victims of it.
DR. SUSANNE: It’s so great to hear because, you know, often a lot of us have said, “Oh, our parents had breast cancer, had heart disease and now I’ve got to deal with it when I get older.” So, what you’re saying is that everything we do it doesn’t matter whether we’ve got these genes from our parents that might have suffered from different diseases, we don’t have to suffer from it anymore as long as we use food as our medicine and using that day to day. As you’re saying you’re altering your genetic blueprint.
DR. GAYNOR: Absolutely. So, we can change our genetic destiny. We can’t change the genes themselves but we can change the dynamics of our genetics throughout our lives. So, it’s sort of like having a crystal ball. We don’t have a crystal ball to know our future but we do in essence have knowledge through this book and this science that can determine our future by what we put in our bodies and how we put it in, how we prepare it. So our futures are going to be a lot sunnier and less cloudy if we take actions every day. But it’s never too late even if you’ve been overweight for decades, even if you’ve smoked for decades, even if you’ve had all these types of bad habits, it’s never too late because you can still increase detoxifying enzymes, decrease inflammation in your body and lower your risks.
DR. SUSANNE: I totally agree with you on that I am a true believer in making sure that our body is clean and healthy and what we’re exposed to is definitely not going to alter our genetics but, more importantly, also the ability for ourselves to get rid of these toxins. We’re so loaded with toxins these days. Now, in your Chapter One of your book, you go into four concepts that are actually real easy to remember. I love these four concepts. Can you just please shorten—summarize--these concepts to us so that everyone can learn them?
DR. GAYNOR: Absolutely. Well, the first one is the rule of thirds. So, briefly what that is, Dr. Susanne-- I talk about all the diets that have been out there over the years. People have become so frustrated with them because, basically, they’re all leading to deficiencies in something. You know, it’s either no carbs or low carb. It’s either high protein, which ends up being a lot of high saturated fats, they’re all leading to deficiencies in things that help us with inflammation and detox and all of these other factors. So, the first is the rule of thirds and the rule of thirds is that if a third of your calories should come from healthy protein, that would include things like egg whites, lean meats, fish, tree nuts and a lot of people are surprised that I include raw vegetables in there which is why I love juicing so much. Raw vegetables are loaded with protein. Then, a third of your calories should come from healthy carbs that includes things like nuts, Swiss cheese and different fruits and as well as whole grains but not processed grains. And a third of your calories should come from healthy fats. That’s about a 3:1 ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3’s. Examples of the best Omega-6’s are things like olive oil which you should have every day. It’s best that you don’t heat it because it can denature easily. It’s loaded with anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer nutrients. Examples of Omega-3’s are cold, deep water fish. If you don’t eat fish, you can get it from chia seeds. Chia seeds by weight have 8 times the number of Omega-3’s as the same weight as salmon. You can get it from pumpkin seeds and flax seeds as well.
DR. SUSANNE: Love all those. So the rules of thirds as you’re saying. What’s the number two concept?
DR. GAYNOR: The other is that you don’t want to get into fake foods or what I call “food-like” substances. So, it’s not that all carbs are bad for you but it’s the glycemic index of the carbs that are bad for you; it’s the processed foods that are bad for you that are loaded with all these preservatives and all these artificial things that are difficult to digest. The reason they’re so bad, let’s just take soda for instance. You know, you drink a can of soda and even if it’s diet soda, you know the aspartame is broken down to wood alcohol and methanol, which are pro-inflammatory. If you’re having a lot of refined sugar like in a package of donuts or a lot of the sports drinks even that are out there, what that will do is make you resistant to insulin so it promotes inflammation. Then your body makes more and more insulin and it quits working so you’re hungry all the time because your pancreas is trying to make more insulin because you’re resistant to it and so you’re always hypoglycemic and hungry. And the third one is that supplements are essential. No matter how well you eat there are some supplements that are absolutely key. One of the most important is Vitamin D especially D3. Everyone should know their 25 hydroxy Vitamin D level. That’s the blood equivalent of Vitamin D3. If you eat a perfect diet for Vitamin D: salmon, yogurt, cottage cheese, the most you can get in the diet is about 350 units. The least most people need is about 1000 units some people need 5-7000 units a day so you have to ask your doctor to check the level. I talk about other supplements that are absolutely key. And the concept four is, whenever possible go, with the whole food. It’s really good to get whole fruits, whole vegetables, it’s really part and parcel of it, which is a big reason why I put a whole recipe program in the book both for juicing, breakfast and a whole meal plan.
DR. SUSANNE: That’s excellent and again I have this book of yours right in front of me. Really love it. You’ve given us such great information. There’s so much available in this book. Again, everyone: rules of third. No fad or faux diets, fake food, stay away from that, you talk about supplements that are essential and I totally believe in supplementation and using the phytonutrients. You gave a whole list of it in your book. And, of course, whenever possible go with the whole foods.
Thank you so much, Dr. Gaynor. This is such great information. Please go to genechanger.com or go to my Wellness for Life Radio show page on RadioMD. This is Dr. Susanne sharing my natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD. Now until next time stay well! - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares with her listeners Nature's Secrets to a healthier body. This week: Nature's Treasures right in your kitchen spice rack.
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1515wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 10, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
It's time to feel better with Dr. Susanne Bennett. Allergies, nutrition, ultimate wellness, all discussed right here, right now. It's Wellness for Life Radio on RadioMD. Here's your host, Dr. Susanne.
DR SUSANNE: I love to cook and I use a lot of spices, especially Asian spices and Korean spices. Not only do spices add unique and flavorful tastes to your dishes, but by using them, you'll likely use less salt and sugar, which is so much healthier for you and your family. Now, spices also contain powerful phytonutrients that can protect you from illnesses and diseases. I'm going to teach you five of my favorites.
Number one: ginger. This spicy herb has been used for thousands of years in India, Korean and Chinese medicine as an anti-inflammatory tonic fruit. It's now readily available, obviously, fresh, but it's also dried and powdered. You can even find it in juice and oil form. You may think that fresh ginger is like an ugly root, but it really, the appearance can be deceiving. It's so good for you. You just need a little bit. New studies are showing that the power of ginger as a super antioxidant and anti-diabetic remedy. It reduces blood markers called "hemoglobin A1C, insulin and glucose levels". It is an anti-inflammatory and also reduces inflammatory blood markers including c-reactive protein. Researchers also found that ginger accumulates in the GI tract and perhaps that's part of the reason why it helps us as a nausea remedy. So, it soothes nausea, vomiting and other GI distresses. Also, you can use it for pregnancy, motion sickness and even chemotherapy. Ginger is being study for a possible protective role in cancer, cardiovascular function and other diseases as well. Some people say that it helps them with congestion, phlegm build up and coughs. So, it's all different forms of symptoms and chronic illness including menstrual, arthritis pain and stomach pain. So, take a look at ginger. It's going to be one of the best for you to have daily.
Now, my number two spice is cinnamon. Cinnamon is a very common baking spice that has all sorts of significant health benefits as well. It really does taste and smell delicious. So, there's a good deal of research relating to cinnamon saying that it actually is a powerful anti-oxidant and anti-microbial agent. In addition, it helps lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels. They find that it can lower the cholesterol level, but also, at the same time, it satisfies your craving for sweets which is what we constantly deal with, since America is basically a sugar eating country.
It's been studied, also, to help possibly reducing the tangling of the protein called tau protein tangles. This is for Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's! So, it's really exciting to know that cinnamon can help with neurological input. Now, together ginger and cinnamon are the powerhouse couple of spices. I love them so much that I made an informative video on the two and how to use them to make an ancient drink called Soo Jung Gwa. You can watch that video and get the recipe at DrSusanne.com/spicedrink.
Now, number three is oregano. Oregano is one of my top spices. I love this spice. Now, it's an Italian herb and so flavorful, loaded with chemical compounds that decrease inflammation and promote good health. Mediterranean dishes actually, they are really well-known to be health and reverse the aging process. They, actually, in Mediterranean countries, they use 5-10 times more of this dried herb than what we use in North America. So, you know what? We've got to use more of this herb, oregano. Now, many of my patients grow oregano and rosemary at home right in their kitchen. So, you can do that, too yourself. Fresh and organic is the best. Oregano is high in vitamin K which promotes bone growth as well as increasing bone density. It's also an antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and you can consider this nature's antibiotic. It kills parasites, staph bacteria and even E-coli infections. It's the active ingredient in Listerine, that mouthwash that you remember many, many years ago. Now, oregano has been studied as a possible treatment therapy for diabetes and it's involved in the insulin signaling. So, it really can help reduce your blood sugar level. It's also excellent for GI antifungal and shown to reduce the bad cholesterol called "LDL". It increases the good cholesterol called "HDL" so it will help maintain a healthier overall cholesterol count in your blood stream. So, make sure that when you do get oregano, you can take it in the herb, but it's also found in liquid form and in gel caps. You an even use a few drops of oregano oil in a vaporizer or in a bowl of hot water and by inhaling it, it will soothe your nasal passages and fend off bacteria and reduce coughs.
So, what's next? Cilantro. It's one of my favorite herbs. I love to eat cilantro as a fresh herb--the leaves of the coriander plant. Now, cilantro looks a lot like parsley and often you find it at Mexican restaurants in like, let's say, guacamole or salsa. But, it's a very delicate leaf and tastes citrusy. I add it quite a bit to many of my dishes and, particularly, I love crockpot Paleo dishes and I've created one. You can find my cilantro chicken curry recipe on my website, DrSusanne.com. The reason why I love it so much, not only for the taste, but it's packed with super antioxidants. Super antioxidants will help prevent DNA damage and damage to your tissues. It's also packed with phytochemicals, so it's very, very nutrient dense. So, I also love cilantro because it's also a digestive aid and it also helps lower your blood sugar again. We keep on talking about lowering blood sugar, right? It is called the anti-diabetic plant in parts of Europe and it also lowers the saturated fats and helps control cholesterol and it's also, you know, one of the researchers, Dr. Yoshi An Aki Amoura. He discovered that when he gave his patients cilantro, it excreted toxic metals after consuming it in like a soup, like this Chinese soup type of thing that he recommended. Again, it's the leafy part of coriander, the green, leafy part. So, what he found, Dr. Amoura, was that you can detox and cleanse out toxic metals such as mercury, lead and aluminum out of the body and even the brain. The brain. So, for me, I use that quite a bit in my practice, giving cilantro tablets so that we can get the toxicity out of the brain and the less toxic metals in your brain, the cleaner and the brighter your brain will be for focusing, memory, mental clarity and remember, it's also a good digestive aid.
My last is rosemary. It's this wonderful piney scented plant in the mint family. It's excellent for skin topical issues but also for hair growth and muscle pain. This herb has a powerful antioxidant called carnosic acid and it's been evaluated to be a possible anti-cancer effect.
Now, plants can be healing and as times go by, I think you'll see more and more interest in using natural botanicals versus antibiotics and other drugs to gain health benefits without the side effects and the risk of potential pharmaceuticals. Remember, all of the top five that I spoke about will help you.
Number one, ginger, cinnamon, oregano, rosemary and cilantro. Excellent. Now, try growing your own spices right there in your own kitchen.
Okay, until then, this is Dr. Susanne. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to serve you. I am dedicated to helping you feel the best you can today.
This is wellness for life radio and on RadioMD. See you next time.
Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Did you know that you can reduce your risk of disease by reducing the amount of sugar in your diet? Learn how to keep things sweet, yet healthy.
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1515wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Richard Jacoby, MD
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/sugarcrushbook
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Guest Bio
Dr. Richard Jacoby is one of the country’s leading peripheral nerve surgeons. He practices in Scottsdale, Arizona, and specializes in the treatment of peripheral neuropathy. He is also one of the co-founders of the Scottsdale Healthcare Wound Management Center, a diplomat of the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and a member of the American Podiatry Association, the Arizona Podiatry Association, and the Association of Extremity Nerve Surgeons.
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 10, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Richard Jacoby, MD
You're listening to RadioMD. She's a chiropractic, holistic physician, best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and talk show host. She's Dr. Susanne Bennett. It's time now for Wellness for Life Radio. Here's Dr. Susanne.
DR SUSANNE: My next guest estimates that 19 million Americans have undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes on top of the over 350 million diagnosed diabetics worldwide. Now, he is here to tell us why it's so important to reduce sugar intake to prevent such diseases. He's the author of the new book, Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage and Reclaim Good Health.
Welcome to the show, Dr. Richard Jacoby.
I'd like to ask you first thing, you know, often when you mention about reversing nerve damage, I talk a great deal about vitamin B's, how important vitamin B's are for stimulating and strengthening your nerve conduction and regenerating nerve, in fact. So, tell us about the Sugar Crush, your book, and how even B vitamins is linked to that.
DR JACOBY: Excellent. That's a great question because what I've done in the book is to put the neuropathy, especially the peripheral neuropathy into phases. In Phase I, we get these buzzing sensations. They come and they go and they're very sporadic that you couldn't really attribute to anything. A lot of people will call this restless leg syndrome. So, that's the small fiber neuropathy. We'll talk about that in a second. Phase II, you get these we'll call them "zingers" at the present time. They're more intense and they come and go more frequently. When you hit Phase III, you have buzzing in your feet constantly and you may be on medication. We'll talk about Lyrica and some of those drugs that kind of take the symptoms away as the process continues into process Phase IV. Phase IV, a lot of my patients say, "Doctor, I'm actually getting better. I have less pain, but you know, I'm getting more numbness." Phase V, they come in and they say, "You know what? I'm all cured. I don't feel anything. But, what's that hole in the bottom of my foot? Why does it stink?" because they've got gangrene.
DR SUSANNE: Oh, my goodness.
DR JACOBY: Very dangerous disease. Between 100,000 and 150,000 amputations a year in the United States, over a million worldwide. It doesn't have to happen. So, what can you do to reverse or stop this process? Number one: don't eat sugar in any form. I tell my patients, "If it tastes good, don't eat it unless you read the label." It always gets a chuckle, but it's true. Eighty percent of the food in the United States has high fructose corn syrup. It's everything. Even fruits and vegetables. The only fruits and vegetables that people like are the ones that are sweet. A grapefruit. Forty years ago, you had to put sugar on it, it was so tart. Today, you can eat it like an apple because it's got 10 times the amount of sugar. Fructose. So, what can you do? You can mitigate that by eliminating from your diet wheat, bread, plus fruits and vegetables, you have to be very careful because you're going to raise your blood sugar with that substance. On the vitamin side of it what can you do? Well, I think the B vitamins are very, very important and in the nitric oxide pathway and please excuse me for going into biochemistry because everybody hates that, but it's the crux to this argument. There's a substance called L-arginine and it's a semi-essential amino acid. In diabetics, they are deficient in that and you can measure that in the blood. L-arginine converts to nitrous oxide. If you have enough L-arginine, you'll get a lot of nitric oxide. You'll dilate your blood vessel, your end organ will function fine. If you don't, you get perioxynitrite. Very vasoconstrictive. So, why does one turn to the other? One, if you have L-arginine, you'll not convert or, if the co-enzyme, tetrahydrobiopterin, and we'll call that BH4, that's it's nomenclature, and what is that? It's B6, B12, folic acid and vitamin C. The higher the levels of those ingredients, then the more nitric oxide you'll produce, the more blood flow you'll get to an end organ. It doesn't matter what the end organ is. In women, I just digress to one of the problems is pelvic floor pain. That's mediated by nerve compression, pudendal nerve. The symptoms of pelvic floor pain are very similar to the symptoms you get in your feet. The number one symptom in the beginning is burning. That is because of too much sugar in your system. Now, let's go back to the formula. Vitamin C. Linus Pawling, famous for his talk in books on vitamin C and cancer. What he was saying back in the 70's was, we don't eat enough vitamin C. That statement is true, but, actually, we're eating too much sugar because the molecule of vitamin C and glucose are about 2 carbons different, both mediated by insulin. So, let me give you an example. You reach for orange juice because you think you need the vitamin C. True. But, you're really getting sugar. Lots and lots of sugar. So, both those molecules compete with insulin. So, just a little metaphor. Mr. Insulin steps into the cell and says, "What can I do for you?" and there's vitamin C standing there standing there and glucose. Glucose trumps C. C is washed out of the bloodstream and the glucose goes into the cell. So, it's then down regulating your nitric oxide pathway and you're cutting off the blood supply. So, you think you're doing the right thing, but you're not. Should you supplement with L-arginine? Yes. But you have to make sure you have the B6, B12, folic acid and vitamin C. Now, a lot of people can't absorb those B vitamins because diabetics are generally overweight and they have lots of different diseases in the alimentary canal in the stomach and in the intestine, one of which is GERD, the reflux. So, a lot of people are taking proton pump inhibitors because they're trying to mitigate or lessen the effects of hydrochloric acid in their stomach and it causes burning in their esophagus. But, it also knocks out the hydrochloric acid which you want to do, but you don't want to do that because you need that hydrochloric acid to break down protein and the B12 is in meat. So, a good thing and a bad thing. So, you need a supplement, in my opinion. Otherwise, you're going to cause a grave process of losing your nitric oxide. I hope that explains it without too much detail.
DR SUSANNE: No, you did such a great job. I love the fact that you are a true believer in supplementation because I am as well. As we get older, we have a difficult time absorbing these nutrients as well. When you have sugar and, everyone, what I want to talk about is that B vitamins are very important if you drink alcohol. Alcohol is a sugar and it really reduces your ability to maintain your B vitamins in your body, isn't that right? I know you recommend in your book, Sugar Crush, I know you recommend a low carbohydrate diet. It's called a ketogenic diet. We only have about 1 minute and maybe, if you can, just explain what the ketogenic diet means.
DR JACOBY: It means the absence of carbohydrates in any form. The body will go into ketosis and produce ketones and it's ketones—I talk about cancer in this book as well. Otto Warhburg, in 1931, got the Nobel Prize for what I'm going to tell you: sugar causes cancer. He said that ketones kill cancer cells because they can't metabolize ketones. They die. They need sugar and, specifically, fructose. So, that's his theory in 1931. I tell my oncology friends, I say, "He got the Nobel prize. Not the Marvel comic book prize. The Nobel Prize. Yet, you never hear any talk about him." There is some new literature that proves his point, once again. The answer is, sugar. Low carbohydrate diet means a ketogenic diet. So, I'm kind of over towards the Paleo type meal. If you can't pronounce words, you shouldn't be eating it.
DR SUSANNE: Thank you. Dr. Jacoby, such great information. If you want to learn more about the book, Sugar Crush, I put it on my Wellness for Life Radio show page on RadioMD.
This is Dr. Susanne Bennett sharing natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD.
Until next time, stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
We use it to sweeten just about everything; but did you know that what sugar does to your body is, well, not so sweet?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1515wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Richard Jacoby, MD
- Guest Website Sugar Crush
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/sugarcrushbook
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Guest Bio
Dr. Richard Jacoby is one of the country’s leading peripheral nerve surgeons. He practices in Scottsdale, Arizona, and specializes in the treatment of peripheral neuropathy. He is also one of the co-founders of the Scottsdale Healthcare Wound Management Center, a diplomat of the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and a member of the American Podiatry Association, the Arizona Podiatry Association, and the Association of Extremity Nerve Surgeons.
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 10, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Richard Jacoby, MD
It's time to feel better with Dr. Susanne Bennett. Allergies, nutrition, ultimate wellness, all discussed right here, right now. It's Wellness for Life Radio on RadioMD. Here's your host, Dr. Susanne.
DR SUSANNE: According most nutritional experts and doctors alike, sugar is known to make you gain unwanted pounds, but did you also know that it's linked to severe life-threatening diseases? Staying healthy is all about keeping informed. My next guest is the author of a ground-breaking book, Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage and Reclaim Good Health. He is here to inform you about the dangers of sugar.
Thanks for being on Wellness for Life, Dr. Richard Jacoby. Now, please tell us, the listeners, what inspired you to look into sugars?
DR JACOBY: Well, first of all, thank you for having me on and I want to just reiterate, I'm standing as I'm speaking to you because I listened to your previous guest. And, you're standing. That's a very important part of what I'm going to talk about today. Sugar Crush is about how sugar destroys nerves not only the diabetic peripheral neuropathy, the nerves in the feet and the legs, but every nerve in your body. My contention is that all these diseases that we're talking about from Alzheimer's to autism and from MS to diabetic peripheral neuropathy, are really the same disease. I go into the biochemistry of how sugar destroys your nerves and I go into the particular end organ damage that it produces. That's the crux of the book.
DR SUSANNE: You know, when I took a look at the just the beginning, the intro, and the table of contents, in the beginning you wrote, literally, a little diagram that says "sugar equals chronic inflammation plus trauma" and what that equals is "nerve damage, pain and dysfunction". I am a total strong proponent of what you're saying about inflammation and sugar. Can you talk about that a bit because people don't realize inflammation is really the root cause. Of course, sugar is what causes inflammation, but it's also the root cause of these debilitating diseases that we deal with every day.
DR JACOBY: Absolutely. In my book, I trace the history of sugar back into the 1500's, right after Columbus actually brought sugar to the New World. That's why the United States is here today, because of sugar. It was a very valuable commodity brought back to London. It was about 1,000 pounds in those days and in today's money. The rich ate sugar. That's why the rich started to get the problems. If you look through the historical accounts of these diseases like Bell's palsy, Alzheimer's was unknown. There's a lot of reasons why the never got to that point because most people died of infectious diseases, but those people who did live longer died of chronic disease, diabetes mellitus, which means to siphon sugar out of your body. What we're doing is poisoning ourselves with an excessive amount of sugar. Every person today eats about 150 pounds of sugar and maybe 100 years ago, it was only 5 pounds. But, it's more than the genome, our genes, can handle. In the 70's when high fructose corn syrup hit the market, it's been replacing regular table sugar with an artificial sugar that's made from corn. I get into the genetically modified production of that. Few people know that high fructose corn syrup is made with sodium hydroxide. That's a caustic acid that's made with mercury. Mercury gets into our food supply. When I started to look at all these different diseases, it came to me to be the same disease. I'll give you an example. Carpal tunnel, which is the wrist, the median nerve, causes numbness and tingling and eventually, loss of function. Prior to 1960, there were 12 reported cases in the literature. There were close to 500,000 surgeries last years. It was thought that it was a mechanical problem. The computer came on the scene in the early 70's. People were using typewriters prior to that. Typewriters had a lot of force. A computer keyboard really has very little force but what was next to the keyboard was the can of Coke. Coca Cola. That's what they were drinking, but they didn't realize what was in that can was what was causing the problem. The metabolic changes of the nerve. There are three biomechanical pathways. Number one is called the polyol pathway. Sugar gets in the nerve and breaks down to sorbitol. Sorbitol's an alcohol sugar. It pulls water into the nerve and the nerve swells. The malleolar reaction, the second chemical pathway, sugar plus a protein makes the nerve very brittle and less flexible. So, we have a swelling nerve. At the same time, the nerve can't swell and it gets trapped. So, that's called a compression neuropathy. At the wrist, we call it carpal tunnel, but it's the same process throughout the body. The third pathway is called the nitric oxide pathway. When you have sugar blocking that pathway, you have vasoconstriction of the blood vessel and you can't get enough blood to the part. So, it doesn't matter if the brain, Alzheimer's—by the way, the first symptom is compression of the olfactory nerve, cranial nerve number one. Your sense of smell. So, we discuss, in the book, all these end organ damages and how those receptors are affected. So, on the foot, you can't feel because you have mechanical receptors underneath the skin. Your nose is the chemical receptor. Your ears, obviously, and auditory receptor. So, every one of these receptors is being damaged. The face, the facial nerve, number 7, we call it Bell's Palsy only because Dr. Bell, in the 1800's described it. He didn't know about this biochemistry. So, what I've done is taken the literature. It's in the literature. Thousands of articles describe the effects of sugar. I just put them together. Hopefully, in a comprehensive, understandable book. It's very difficult to take biochemistry to the masses. Hopefully, we did that in this book.
DR SUSANNE: Well, you know, just your describing it as the three different ways that you can damage nerves really explains it all, too. Now, I know that a lot of people don't understand what nerve damage and the subtle symptoms that you may be having. Like you're saying, if you can't smell as well, you're ears are going and you have, let's say, a little bit of buzzing tonight. You can't feel like the fingertips, you know? And, you just feel a little bit more deadening and numbness in your fingers and even burning pain in your feet. Now, are there any other symptoms that we should know about to actually talk to our doctors possibly that it might be a sugar problem?
DR JACOBY: Yes. I have a test in the book and we go through these different symptoms: elevated blood pressure is one of them because the blood vessel is getting less flexible. That's part of the nitric oxide effect, plus the malleolar; then, you have a test to kind of go through all your different "itis" things. Sinusitis and all those types of problems that seem unrelated. Migraines are the perfect example. In the 1600's, Lady Conway, a very wealthy and successful woman who was a philosopher who had chronic migraines. Her physician was Dr. Willis. He's the father of neurology and Gray's Anatomy, the circle of Willis around your neck. He did the original autopsy on her and he actually made the first reference to inflammation in the brain that was lying next to a nerve and a blood vessel. That's what we're studying. I took these concepts up to Stanford, discussed this with Dr. Cook who's a vascular biologist and he was able to measure that. Dr. Dillwyn from Johns' Hopkins and investigators all over the country. At Harvard there are several. They understand this from a very basic biochemical standpoint but they just really never put it into clinical practice for the patient to understand.
DR SUSANNE: Well, I really look forward to reading your book more in depth. I'm so excited because it's a brand new book, everyone out there. I want to thank you again, Dr. Jacoby, for being here with us. If you want to learn more about Dr. Jacoby's book, Sugar Crush, I put it on my link on my Wellness for Life radio show page on RadioMD.com.
Again, go check out his book, Sugar Crush. It's excellent.
This is Dr. Susanne Bennett sharing natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD.
Until next time, stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Whether it's Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter... you can always find ways to spring into a thinner you. Here are some tips.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1515wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Wayne Anderson, MD
- Guest Website Take Shape for Life
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/TakeShapeForLife
- Guest Twitter Account @takeshapeforlife
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Guest Bio
Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen is the Co-founder and Medical Director of Take Shape For Life and the Co-founder of the Health Institute. His groundbreaking book, Dr. A’s Habits of Health, is a core component of the successful program. He and his wife Lori were the first Presidential Directors and have had a huge influence on the 10,000+ Health Coaches. Dr. A is the heart and soul of Take Shape For Life. An innovator and tireless champion of America’s health, he is dedicated to providing the means for those who want to make a difference in the fight against obesity. He is the former Director of the Surgical Critical Care Program and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Grandview Hospital.
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 10, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Wayne Anderson, MD
You're listening to RadioMD. She's a chiropractic, holistic physician, best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and talk show host. She's Dr. Susanne Bennett. It's time now for Wellness for Life Radio. Here's Dr. Susanne.
DR SUSANNE: When springtime rolls around, millions of people get motivated to exercise off all of the holiday pounds added during the winter months. Now, Dr. Wayne Andersen is co-founder and medical director of the Take Shape for Life program and is here to help us spring into thin.
Thanks for being here with us on Wellness for Life.
Now, Dr. Andersen, tell us about your program, Take Shape for Life. What is it and why did you start it?
DR ANDERSEN: Well, thank you for having me on your show, Dr. Bennett, and I'm pretty excited about Take Shape for Life. We've literally helped almost a million people now over the last 15 years create health in their life. I'm a critical care physician. I was one of the first board certified intensivists in the country and pioneered that specialty. Well, in 2001, I decided to move upstream and really focus the rest of my career on helping people create health. So, what I did is I moved from Dayton, Ohio, where I practiced. Ended up moving to Oregon and started this company as a way of helping people create long-term health. What I realized and what's really cool about it is, just yesterday, a study came out showing diets themselves really don't have any long-term effect on peoples' health or their life. What's required is support, a social network and a specific system. That's what Take Shape for Life is. In 2006, the New England Journal of Medicine came out with a study that showed that people that hang around obese people get obese, even if they're not physically next to them because, by their nature, by modeling the same people. So, what I did was reverse engineer that and I took and built a partnership with a company called "MediFast". And Medifast has been making meal replacements since 1980. What I found was, if we could have people start on these programs, lose 2-5 pounds per week, within the first 2-3 weeks, when they felt better and had more energy, we would then move forward with a coach and help them start to learn the habits of health. It's kind of like we've been talking about before, but here's the deal. If we can help people start to eat healthier, move more, handle stress better, start sleeping better and put all those things in a system where we cannot intervene in someone's busy time, what we find is, most people it's hard for them to overcome the logistics and the psychological barriers of living in modern America which you know, Dr. Bennett, is an obesogenic world. Everywhere we go, someone's trying to feed us energy dense food or have us sit down on our rear. So, if we can reverse that trend and have a coach that's been there before that now helps them, that's a pretty cool thing.
DR SUSANNE: Oh, I think so, too. I mean, I took a look at your website, Take Shape for Life, and it was really interesting, particularly some of your people—the people who want to lose weight and get healthy. They actually become health coaches themselves.
DR ANDERSEN: Well, it's so critical because, you know, if I look at the evolution, even the best programs out there, some of the ones people have heard before, they give you some support and a little socialization but what we've done is create this thing called the "bionetwork" and the bionetwork, you probably haven't heard that word. I made it up. It's a living network of people who, on the inside, helped themselves become healthier and now are reaching out and paying it forward and helping others. What's cool about that is, once you start creating health in your own life and then you start helping others, it really reinforces. As you know from being in medical school, you "see one, do one, teach one." Once you're teaching other people, that's when you really start to understand and comprehend. So, our clients and our patients become coaches. Our coaches, then, move forward and start to build really cool teams of like-minded people and then together we make all the difference. You know, they say "pick the five people closest to you" and I bet you have your same habits. You're around the same health, the same weight, make about the same amount of money, so if we can create a place where people can come, have a coach, be a part of something that's really cost effective—it doesn't cost them anything other than regular food—and then change their orientation so health becomes a priority, that puts them in an underlying structure where now we create a microenvironment of health and they can actually go into this obesogenic world and put a protective bubble around them. In fact, in my New York Times best-selling book, Discover Your Optimal Health, I have a really cool diagram that shows that protective bubble that allows you to go out in this crazy world where people are trying to feed you all the wrong things and keep you from moving and now puts you so you can create health for yourself, your family and the people that are important to you. As you know, when you're socially interacting in that environment we're attacking not just the biomedical part of our health, but also, Susanne, the psychosocial.
DR SUSANNE: Yes. That is so important. I love your philosophy, the bionetwork. You know, being motivated, being able to inspire others. You're doing an incredible job. You also have the "Be Slim Club". Can you tell us a little bit about that?
DR ANDERSEN: Yes. That's designed for people like they become part of our health coaching network from the standpoint of they have their coach, they're part of our system at Take Shape for Life and then, what we do is, for being part of that, they buy our healthy products, they get a progressive discount because we want to always be loyal to those people. They also get other benefits. You know, one of the things we like to provide is through the Habits of Health system, and again, the organization, where they have healthy peers. So, they get a coach for free. What's cool about that is, you have someone who's probably been where you are now and is there, will listen to you. One of the things we teach our coaches is empathetic coaching. We want to become great listeners and really find out what's important to people. All of that coaching and all those things we provide is free because we want to provide a solution that costs no more than regular food and allows people to move forward and have a partner, someone to help them because, you know, it's a really tough thing to do on your own. It really requires the support. When you have someone who cares about you and truly can help you make a difference and keep you accountable in every which way you want—on text messaging, on emails, on the phone. Even now, we're using stuff like Zoom where our coaches do individual Zoom calls so they can look at each other face to face. We figure out what the client or patient wants and then helps them do that. We have more and more physicians. You know, almost 25% of our health network, our bionetwork, are now health professionals that want to move upstream as well, like I did, and help people truly create health in their life—not put them on more medicines or surgery.
DR SUSANNE: Yes. I love that fact that you've got so much support going for the people, the audience that you serve. You know, you mentioned briefly about your meal plans and you actually have meals that you sell. Is that correct?
DR ANDERSEN: Yes. And they cost no more than regular food. What we have is during the weight loss phase, we help people rapidly lose weight, and they do it safely. They're eating a complete meal replacement. It gives them all the right vitamins and minerals and as they lose weight, what it does is it changes. You feel better. You have more energy. You start feeling better. People are noticing that and it really helps reinforce, inside of you, it creates that incentive, that intrinsic motivation so that people say, "You know what? I really like what's happening to me and I want to continue it. So, that's when our coach works with you and starts working, not just in what you're eating, but starts teaching you so that, you know, you go out to restaurants that you know what to eat, how to eat healthier, you know, the Habits of Health system has a color-coded system that shows you to make sure you're eating the healthy foods and staying in the lower carbohydrates and balanced carbohydrates; eating healthy fats and staying away from saturated fats; and giving you the proper amount of nutrition so that you can move forward and make all the right choices and help you incorporate into your day, more movement. It's not the 3 hours of exercise that matters per week and when I wrote in 2008, the Habits of Health, we talked about that and now, in the last 6 months, three studies of independently collaborated studies that say basically, what we're doing now, it's our day to day movement: getting up from our desk, moving around more, going for walks, standing at work rather than sitting and using your phone—all these are little bitty steps that, put together, can change your trajectory towards moving toward optimally healthy; from sick to non-sick, and now puts you on a trajectory for the rest of your days which is pretty cool.
DR SUSANNE: I love everything that you're saying. It's so funny you talked about standing. Right now, while I'm interviewing you, I'm standing.
DR ANDERSEN: I love that! I love that.
DR SUSANNE: Yes. It's the way I do all my interviews and I do a lot of my work. I love what you're saying. Thanks so much. You know, everyone, go to DrWayneAndersen.com. You spell Andersen with an "e" at the end. Dr. WayneAndersen.com. Go look for his books. He's got plenty of books, but also the Take Shape for Life program. He's got it there. Really appreciate all the things that you've said here. I know, gosh, I'm going to have to have you back one day because there is so much information that you can provide for us. Really appreciate it, so everyone, you can also go to my Wellness for Life Radio show page on RadioMD.com.
This is Dr. Susanne sharing my natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD. Until next time, stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
The change in seasons brings spring cleaning to mind. But, you should think about spring cleaning your diet all year long.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1515wl5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Wayne Anderson, MD
- Guest Website Take Shape for Life
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/TakeShapeForLife
- Guest Twitter Account @takeshapeforlife
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Guest Bio
Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen is the Co-founder and Medical Director of Take Shape For Life and the Co-founder of the Health Institute. His groundbreaking book, Dr. A’s Habits of Health, is a core component of the successful program. He and his wife Lori were the first Presidential Directors and have had a huge influence on the 10,000+ Health Coaches. Dr. A is the heart and soul of Take Shape For Life. An innovator and tireless champion of America’s health, he is dedicated to providing the means for those who want to make a difference in the fight against obesity. He is the former Director of the Surgical Critical Care Program and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Grandview Hospital.
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 10, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Wayne Anderson, MD
You're listening to RadioMD. She's a chiropractic, holistic physician, best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and talk show host. She's Dr. Susanne Bennett. It's time now for Wellness for Life Radio. Here's Dr. Susanne.
DR SUSANNE: Spring is here. You may be purging your closets and garages this weekend, but it's also a perfect time to start spring cleaning your body by cleaning up your diet. Before you know it, summer will be here and some of us want to get into our favorite bikini or swim suit.
My guest today is Dr. Wayne Andersen, the author of Dr. A's Habits of Health and he's going to share with us tips on how to spring into a healthier diet.
Thanks for being with us, Dr. Andersen. There's so many different diets to choose from and many lists "to do", right? Do lists here. Don't lists there. Tell us some of the foods that people think are actually healthy for them, but they're not.
DR ANDERSEN: Well, that's great. Thank you so much for having me on your show. It's real exciting and it is spring and people are shedding their winter clothes and excited about getting out and being more active and fueling our body, obviously, as you say, Doc, is so important. So, one of the cool things that we hear are healthy, but actually aren't healthy that we have to be aware of are multigrain breads. We know how important it is to have whole grains, but a lot of these multigrains, literally, are full of sugar and refined grains, so you're not getting the full nutritional benefit once the husk is broken, as you know, and the outer shell and also, it's a much higher glycemic index and the glycemic load and the amount of carbohydrates you get is higher. The second one is salad. As you know, some of these prepared salads like tuna salads and chicken salads and shrimp salads, are loaded with hidden fats and calories because of the high mayonnaise content in them. So, what's really important is to use a low-fat mayonnaise and the other thing you can do is replace your mayo with something like Greek yogurt.
Then, the third one, just to move along here quickly is, granola. A lot of granola is filled with trans fats and sugar. So, obviously, that can increase our risk for heart attack or stroke. So, one of the things that you can do is try almonds or pistachios instead as an added crunch to your morning yogurt.
So, those are three tips that people should keep in mind. Things they think are health and really aren't.
DR SUSANNE: I love exactly what you're talking about. You talked about the glycemic index and load. You know, there are a lot of people that get confused about those two terms. Can you describe that just a little bit more?
DR ANDERSEN: Sure. Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. In fact, in the book you mentioned, Dr. A's Habits of Health, I have a whole system and because glycemic index and looking at the numbers can be a little difficult, what I did was, I created a color-coded systems that makes it easy, but here's the deal. Glycemic index means that after you ingest whatever food source you have, how rapidly, by the end of 30 minutes, how high does your blood sugar go? And, things that are high glycemic—so, if the number is larger, that means, in relationship to eating pure sugar, that you're closer to eating pure sugar. So, if you have a high glycemic index in something, it means that you're going to absorb a lot more sugar, which as your sugar goes up, obviously, your insulin responds to that and your insulin response curve is, especially if you eat something that's sugary, that has a high glycemic load, it's going to raise your blood sugar and then your blood sugar's going to fall as a result because your insulin stays higher and then you drop out. That's what causes the cravings. Our brain is so important to maintain a normal level of energy to the brain. So, if your blood sugar falls, the brain needs to use sugar, so it actually sends out those cravings and you get into that cycle. 76,000 Americans, Doctor, have insulin resistance as a result of eating all this sugar throughout the day.
DR SUSANNE: Absolutely. And the glycemic load. How does that relate to the index?
DR ANDERSEN: Yes. Yes. That is actually the amount of total load. So, if you take something like watermelon, it would be a good example. Watermelon has a high glycemic index. In other words, if you look at it, it will raise your blood sugar, but because it's mostly water, the glycemic load is actually low. So, actually, watermelon isn't a bad thing to eat. If you eat something that's got a like a pasta, like we were talking about these multigrain that have a high glycemic load and they also have a high glycemic index, then you're really raising your blood sugar significantly, which is what we don't want to do. So, there are some things you can do to lower glycemic index or this is a great thing, by the way, to put to get some zest on your food by putting lemon or lime on. By changing the acidity, it lowers the glycemic index. Pasta, if you keep it when it's al dente or not so mushy, it also has a lower glycemic index. So, there are some things you can do that can actually modify the glycemic index. Also, the amount of total absorption into your body which, as you know, we want to keep our glycemic index relatively low and eat things that don't stimulate our blood sugar to elevate our insulin.
DR SUSANNE: Right. I tell my patients all the time to use fiber as a way to slow down your digestion of carbohydrates. Have you heard of glucomannan? I'm sure you have.
DR ANDERSEN: Yes, I have.
DR SUSANNE: I use it with individuals who've got insulin issues and it helps slow down the absorption and the breakdown, actually, of the carbohydrates in your gut so that it doesn't make that spike. So, again, as you're saying the insulin in the glycemic index and the load—it's actually important to look at both so that you manage your blood sugar level properly.
DR ANDERSEN: That's so important. In fact, Susanne, the cool thing is, and you've talked about fiber. Fiber is so important. Actually, you know, one of the things I do is I've created an organization where I help people create long-term health. We use meal replacements to help people so when they're in a hurry, they can eat something that's designed to keep the healthy at the same time. We make sure that there's lots of fiber because fiber is a tremendous way to put yourself in the best possible situation. Obviously, there's two types of fiber: the soluble and the insoluble. People buy good sources of soluble fiber or vegetables or legumes, fruits, grains such as barley and oats. The insoluble fiber comes from everything such as whole wheat, cereals, seeds, fruit skins, vegetables. I love legumes. Legumes are great. You know, taking and getting some…if you do go to a sushi place to eat, it's always great to get some edamame in the front end.
DR SUSANNE: Yes. Hopefully, it's going to be GMO—free edamame.
DR ANDERSEN: Oh, of course. Of course.
DR SUSANNE: Yes. Yes. You know, tell us a little bit more about that book of yours, Dr. A's Healthy Habits because…
DR ANDERSEN: Dr. A's Habits of Health. I wrote Dr. A's Habits of Health in 2008 as kind of a comprehensive of taking people from wherever they are, and 68% of us, Susanne, are overweight, and so I start there and then I go through reaching a healthy weight, what are the key components of habits of health necessary to maintain a healthy weight and then moving forward on to optimal health and then longevity, living a longer, healthier life. In the continuum, if you set your sites and you now focus on a health orientation, over time it's amazing how much we can transform. I've helped over a million people now transform their health. I'll tell you that by taking it in baby steps and moving forward—not just in what you eat, but how you move, how you handle stress, all those things together make all the difference in the world. It's not just eating right. It's also sleeping right and moving enough and all these things. If we start focusing on little baby steps, we put ourselves in the best position to change our overall health.
DR SUSANNE: What you're talking about is really the foundation of optimal well-being. All of these lifestyle changes, you mentioned about sleep. You've got to change your diet, you've got to change your exercise. Is there one thing that someone can do right away today that you can share to get them started?
DR ANDERSEN: My favorite thing is to realize you have 168 hours in the week and, you know, many people really have a lack of affinity for exercise. So, what I say is, look at your leisure and look at your work and the first thing you can do is start moving more. The studies are coming out now, even if you exercise 3 times a week, if you're sitting on your rear most of the time because of your job or lifestyle or on a computer or watching TV, you're putting yourself at much higher risk. So, we want to get people up. We want to get them moving more. So, that's the one thing. The other thing I would say is, just drop and go down in 1/4 of your food that you're eating now. Just, basically, cut out that fourth. So, in other words, remove that from your plate before you eat and then just eat the 3/4 and that, by itself, is portion control. Dropping your energy in and increasing your energy out, those simple steps can help you start on the path to improving your health and your life.
DR SUSANNE: Love it! Love it! Thanks so much for all of your great information. To learn more about Dr. A's Habits of Health, go to DrWayneAndersen.com.
This is Dr. Susanne… - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares with her listeners Nature's Secrets to a healthier body. This week: Natural Remedies for Hormone Imbalance.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1514wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
- Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
For some women, menopause can be absolutely unbearable... when is it time for hormone replacement?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1514wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Daved Rosensweet, MD
- Guest Website Target Method
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Guest Bio
Dr. Daved Rosensweeit is a nationally known lecturer and frequent presenter at The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) and The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). He is a Principle Investigator for a scientific study of female hormones sponsored by Genova Diagnostics and Meridian Valley Lab. Dr. Rosensweet is author of the book The Target Method: A Woman’s Guide to Navigating Menopause. He is also Organizer of a National Summit Committee on the Treatment of Women in Menopause with Bio-identical Hormones. He was formerly on the Board of Directors of the American College of Advancement in Medicine and the Chairman of its Endocrine Committee.
Dr. Rosensweet graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1968. He has been in private medical practice since 1971, and has had offices in New Mexico, California, and Colorado. He is currently in practice in Southwest Florida. Formerly the clinical physician involved in the very first Nurse Practitioner training program in the USA, and was in charge of health promotion for the State of New Mexico. He teaches medical professionals about the treatment of women in menopause with bioidentical hormones. -
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 3, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Daved Rosensweeit, MD
You're listening to RadioMD. She's a chiropractic, holistic physician, best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur and talk show host. She's Dr. Susanne Bennett. It's time now for Wellness for Life Radio. Here's Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: The symptoms of menopause can be absolutely devastating for some women. These hot flashes, painful intercourse, mood swings, the list can go on and on. So, when is it the best time to start looking for alternative methods to ease some of these symptoms?
Now, my next guest is the author of The Target Method: A Woman's Guide to Navigating Menopause and he is here to share some of these methods for menopausal relief.
Welcome to the show, Dr. Daved Rosensweet.
DR DAVED: Thanks, Susanne.
DR SUSANNE: Dr. Daved, you know, in my natural medicine practice, I have women transitioning to the menopausal times from the peri-menopausal states meaning we start early so that the symptoms are much less when the change is coming. But, some patients come into the office at a very late stage into their menopause and they really have a much more difficult time. So, what I actually recommend to them is to go ahead and contact their integrative doctor or their integrative gynecologist so that they can get a prescription of hormone replacement therapy. Specifically, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. I'm sure that this is what you recommend as well.
DR DAVED: Absolutely. One hundred percent. Yes. How good that you're starting early. I can't emphasize, once again, the importance of like when a woman starts losing her progesterone in the mid 30's, adding some transdermal progesterone which can be purchased in health food stores and over the counter. It can be such a benefit to the women and, yes, like you say, there comes a time when the other hormones need to be replenished as well. And, bioidenticals, absolutely. The same molecules that are in the female body. There are other methods of treating with other hormone analogs, but they're problematic, just to cut to the chase. Why not choose the same molecule that's in the body?
DR SUSANNE: That's right. A lot of us women are given, by our gynecologist, a hormone called Premarin. Premarin, and we all know that that actually, now we all know, but what people don't realize is that estrogen comes from horse urine. You know? It's called conjugated equine estrogen. CEEs and, you know, I personally would rather get it bioidentical just as you spoke. Can you give us a little more information about the differences?
DR DAVED: Well, in the early days, women have been treated with hormones for menopause for a long, long time. The best that could be produced to supply large numbers of women came from the horse urine. That was the original manufacturing technique. You know, I must say that a lot of women out there who got Premarin in the 1950's and 1960's, etc., they benefitted from it. They liked it. Now, the Premarin itself is not the ideal substance, of course. Who would not want the bioidentical? It was also associated with another molecule called Prempro. It was Provera that was added to that molecule. That's problematic. That was part of the study that blew up in the early 2000's showing that women that were, it was pretty small, but at increased risk of breast cancer and heart disease from taking Prempro—not Premarin. Premarin actually was associated with reduced risk for breast cancer. The bioidenticals, though, along with progesterone, the estrogen with progesterone and ultimately, the androgens, the medical literature is great. It's very clear on that. That this one results in a reduced risk for breast cancer, heart disease, etc. So, why not go to the very best? Bioidentical. It makes perfect sense.
DR SUSANNE: Absolutely. One of the things that a lot of my patients come in, since I'm a natural health practitioner and use natural medicine, they are concerned that hormones are dangerous and I don't believe that they're dangerous, but what I do find is that some of the prescription that they're getting are overly prescribed. What I mean by that is, higher dosages than they really need to ease the physiological symptoms. From that, they end up having breast growths or uterine tissue growths and increased in the buildup of that uterine lining. Can you share a little bit about that because I want everyone to know that bioidentical is not bad at all. I want you to be able to know that, yes, it will ease some of your symptoms and make you feel so much better. But, we've got to do it in the right, appropriate manner.
DR DAVED: Yes, in the knowledge base, how to treat with hormones, in general, has expanded enormously in the last 30 years and it does matter greatly. I mean, 40 years ago, we didn't know how to do it and over dosages were done commonly. Yes. You get an overdose of estrogen and you get the stimulation of the breast glandular tissues. We don't want that. It turns out, interestingly enough, that the lowest dosages can do such great good to the bones, to the brain, to the vagina, to the bladder, these things that matter so much in the long run. So, it's a precise medical approach and this is why we train doctors. This is one of the main missions I have. We train doctors all over the country and if you can't find a local expert in your area, because that's what I'm recommending. Get an expert. Get this one done right. Hormones are powerful. Too much of them are going to give you trouble. You can go to our website and find a doc. You send us an email, we'll send you an address of a local doctor or we'll help your local doctor, if they want, with further information themselves.
DR SUSANNE: That's great.
DR DAVED: Getting it properly, get it precise really matters. Most women will get away with imprecise errors in hormones because there is so much resilience out there, but there are a few that won't. They're sensitive and they've got risk factors and we're trying to make menopause and treatment of menopause as safe and as efficient as absolutely possible. Get it down to how close to zero can get that risk? We can't take it to zero. We're all at risk, including myself for a lot of trouble, sooner or later, including some of the harsher diseases. But, we can get that risk as absolutely close to zero, based on the terrific information and the terrific hormones that are available.
DR SUSANNE: Yes. That's great. On your website, you actually give physicians as well as…I mean, if you're a physician, you can actually learn from that. And, if you want to find a physician, you can actually find that as well.
You can go to the website, DrSusanne.com/TargetMethod. All of the RadioMD listeners will be able to get $5 off of your book, The Target Method: A Woman's Guide to Navigating Menopause as well as finding yourself a physician that can help you in your area.
Now, should a woman stop taking these hormones that you recommend at a certain age? You know, if the menopause symptoms are starting to ease, should we stop taking it after you find that the hormone fluctuations are better?
DR DAVED: It's an individual issue that one should really discuss with a very knowledgeable practitioner. We definitely cover this in the book, but for most women, I say "no". You start losing androgens and you starting muscular strength and the ability to stand and walk with stability and we don't want to get into weak muscles. If you look at many elderly people that's what's happening. There's a big relationship to low hormones in there. The muscle that supports the bladder, for example. A lot of women get into bladder issues can wind up in Depends and they don't like it. These kinds of things matter greatly. Protecting the arteries, protecting the brain. We even have a specially designed hormone formulation for the elderly, but in most instances if a woman's on a low dose and the risk factors are not there, I have women who keep on taking it, for good reason. We've treated elderly women who couldn't get out of a chair and we've treated them for a while and they could stand up on their own. I shifted my attention the elderly at a certain point and I think, "Boy, it matters a lot to elderly women. They have a lot of things that they care about, too, and to be strong and the best that they can be. Hormones can really help them."
DR SUSANNE: I totally agree on that one because what we don't want is the condition where, as you said, where we lose muscle mass. It's called sarcopenia, everyone. That sarcopenia will actually. So, it's super important that you regulate your hormones. Of course, we're not asking women to still have their cycle in their 70's and 80's. I'm assuming that, Dr. Rosensweet.
DR DAVED: Sure. Those take very, very robust, huge levels of hormones to pull those off. I say absolutely not.
DR SUSANNE: Great. Thanks so much, Dr. Rosensweet.
Alright, his latest book, The Target Method: A Woman's Guide Menopause. Please go to DrSuanne.com/targetmethod. You'll get $5 off that book as well as find some physicians and you can go to my Wellness for Life Radio show page on RadioMD.
Until next time, this is Dr. Susanne sharing natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD.
Stay well everyone - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Menopause is never a fun trip. Navigate your way to easing the symptoms and enjoying life again.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1514wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Daved Rosensweet, MD
- Guest Website Target Method
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Guest Bio
Dr. Daved Rosensweeit is a nationally known lecturer and frequent presenter at The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) and The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). He is a Principle Investigator for a scientific study of female hormones sponsored by Genova Diagnostics and Meridian Valley Lab. Dr. Rosensweet is author of the book The Target Method: A Woman’s Guide to Navigating Menopause. He is also Organizer of a National Summit Committee on the Treatment of Women in Menopause with Bio-identical Hormones. He was formerly on the Board of Directors of the American College of Advancement in Medicine and the Chairman of its Endocrine Committee.
Dr. Rosensweet graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1968. He has been in private medical practice since 1971, and has had offices in New Mexico, California, and Colorado. He is currently in practice in Southwest Florida. Formerly the clinical physician involved in the very first Nurse Practitioner training program in the USA, and was in charge of health promotion for the State of New Mexico. He teaches medical professionals about the treatment of women in menopause with bioidentical hormones. -
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 3, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Daved Rosensweeit, MD
It's time to feel better with help from Dr. Susanne Bennett. Allergies, nutrition, ultimate wellness, all discussed right here, right now. It's Wellness for Life Radio on RadioMD. Here's your host, Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: Whether you're going through menopause or perhaps you're in symptoms that menopause is just around the corner, the one thing every woman of age will share is that it is truly a unique journey. My next guest is here to help you figure it out and navigate through this inevitable transition. The title of his latest book says it all. The Target Method: A Woman's Guide to Navigating Menopause.
Please welcome to the show the author, Dr. Daved Rosensweet. Hello!
DR DAVED: Hi there, Susanne.
DR SUSANNE: Good to talk to you, Daved. Now, let's talk about the most basic questions. What exactly is menopause? Now, we all know about it, but I want you to just give us a basic so that we can start talking more about it.
DR DAVED: Well, it has a lot of biological issues to it and one of them relates to hormones. A woman's hormones actually start declining from their peak in maybe their early 30's or mid 30's and by the time they're in their 40's, mid 40's, early 50's, the ovarian hormone levels—the ovaries producing estrogen, progesterone and testosterone—they are really declining and they go from being very robust to very low levels. There is a threshold in which the estrogen gets so low that periods stop. New to the human race is about 10 years earlier, which is more common than ever before, the progesterone production can go way down. That can lead to a woman in her mid-30's, for example, it's not uncommon for her to start developing breast tenderness and menstrual cramps because she's not getting the progesterone to balance the estrogen. That's what you've mentioned is estrogen dominance and that's not a beneficial situation. Breast glandular tissue gets overstimulated. The uterus gets overstimulated. You can get fibroids. So, menopause is really a gradual decline. It begins in the 30's but it has these landmark times when the periods stop and that's when menopause officially is announced, on year from the last menstrual period, is medically the beginning of menopause. But, I try to point out that the decline is gradual and better you should pick up on it when the decline is beginning.
DR SUSANNE: Oh, absolutely. So, us ladies, we really need to look at our hormonal health, really even during the phase when you're still having babies, right? A lot of women end up wanting to get pregnant a little bit later in life because they're professional women, they've got a lot of things that they're doing, or they get married at a later age. These women should also take a look at their hormones, don't you think?
DR DAVED: Absolutely. Healthy reproductive life can be benefitted by, for example, if the progesterone starts declining, to take a little bioidentical progesterone to bring your levels up to decency so that your period will continue in a regular way and it will help support ovulation regularly. These hormonal declines lead to imbalances that will go so far as to effect ovulation. So, keeping regular with the additional hormones can make a difference.
DR SUSANNE: Right. You mentioned the hormone replacement. Are there any other things that we can do to ease some of these irritating symptoms that we have as we're going into the peri-menopausal state?
DR DAVED: Well, there are a lot. Keeping one's general health up through nutrition, through proper exercise, through acquiring the information tools that can help you deal better with the stress in your life. Sometimes dealing with toxicity. All these things that you mention in your shows. They all matter because a healthy person has a better shot of keeping those hormones up and a person who is having a way exaggerated response to stress, on the other hand, can deplete those hormones very significantly and unbalance them.
So, there are herbs. There are nutritional supplements. There are a wide variety of things. Herbs, to me are some of the most elegant of medicines, but they're still medicines. They force the body to respond to them because they're not identical molecules to what's in the body. To cut to the chase, long ago, I started preferring the hormones that were actually what is going on in menopause. Way diminished estrogens, way diminished progesterone and eventually testosterone and DHEA and even thyroid. I started favoring and replenishing, not to use full levels. That's not needed. But to replenish the actual molecules than dealing with something that tries to force the body into a response, which is okay in the short run, but not in the long.
DR SUSANNE: Got it. Got it. Now, tell us about your book. You wrote the book, The Target Method. What made you decide to do this? Obviously, you see a ton of patients in this field.
DR DAVED: Well, I started realizing early on in my career in dealing with menopause that an informed woman can do much better out there getting the programs right because, like anything else in life, the approach to menopause can be rather rudimentary and it was for decades, even centuries. Or, it can be responsive to the beautiful amount of information and knowledge we have about hormones. Hormones are so powerful in medicine, I say, "Get them right." This is not a venture for the amateur. So, because so many women in America were meeting up with practitioners who weren't necessarily terrifically knowledgeable about it, about 10 years ago or 13 years, I wrote the first edition of books on menopause to make the women informed. The informed women in my practice, gosh. It was so much easier to work with them because we have to do a process to arrive at the right levels and the women who knew about it, it was so much easier and cost efficient for them to work with me. So, that's how it all started. Plus, I enjoy writing and this has evolved and this is a different book, entirely, than the original. But, I think there's good stuff in it if you want to learn about menopause.
DR SUSANNE: Absolutely. Thanks so much for gifting me that book because I definitely love everything that you've written about it. In my book, The Seven Day Allergy Makeover, I originally wrote it just the way you say. It was for my patients because there is so much information you want to give to your patients so they get the best results and they need the foundation, as you're saying. They need to know and be informed about everything.
Thanks so much, also, for giving our RadioMD Wellness for Life Listeners the $5 off your book. Now, everyone, to go get that book, you can go to DrSusanne.com/TargetMethod. I've given you this pretty link because it goes directly to his link for just our RadioMD Wellness for Life people so that they can get that $5 off.
So, again, DrSusanne.com/TargetMethod is where you're going to find that information to get this book.
So, besides this what we're doing regarding the book, now can you go ahead and tell us one thing right now, someone can do so that they can start to feel better.
DR DAVED: Well, you know, I would like to avoid oversimplifying it. When these hormones decline, the very best thing I could say to a woman is, learn about it and select a health professional that is really knowledgeable about how to assess and treat a woman with bioidentical hormones. You know, there are other opinions on how to approach menopause but I want to give you my best shot. The very best thing a woman can do is learn about it. There are many books on this topic, many excellent ones. A woman may be at a place where it is time for her to go shopping to select the ideal health professional to guide her in that process and to prescribe hormones for her. Because these are prescription items, you need to have a medical doctor or a nurse practitioner or an osteopathic doctor, or a naturopathic doctor who is licensed to provide prescriptions.
DR SUSANNE: Totally makes sense.
DR DAVED: That's what I would say. Find the perfect person to work with.
DR SUSANNE: Right. Got it. And, I know that you can find that also on the website that you've provided for us, DrSusanne.com/TargetMethod.
Everyone, go and take a look at his book, The Target Method: A Woman's Guide to Menopause, even if you're not in menopause, if you're in your 30's go ahead and read the book so you can prepare and be informed as Dr. Rosensweet has stated. Thanks so much, Daved. Really great to have you here.
Now, you can always go to my Wellness for Life radio page on RadioMD.com. I'll have a link up there for you so that goes and you can get that $5 of his book, The Target Method.
Until next time, this is Dr. Susanne sharing natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD.
Stay well, everyone. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
On a roller coaster ride with your hormones? Change your diet and gain control.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 2
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1514wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Magdalena Wszelaki, Certified Nutrition Coach
- Guest Website Hormones Balance
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/hormonesbalance
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Guest Bio
Magdalena Wszelaki is the founder of Hormones Balance, a nutrition coaching practice dedicated to helping women re-balance their hormones with nutritional and lifestyle changes. Magdalena is a certified nutrition coach, speaker and educator with a long history of hormonal challenges which resulted from a highly stressful life in advertising; starting from Graves’ and Hashimoto’s Disease (autoimmune conditions causing thyroid failure) to adrenal fatigue and estrogen dominance. Today she is in full remission, lives a symptom-free awesome life and teaches woman how to accomplish the same in her various online programs.
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 3, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Magdalena Wszelaki
You're listing to RadioMD. She's a chiropractic holistic physician, best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur and talk show host. She's Dr. Susanne Bennett. It's time now for Wellness for Life Radio. Here's Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: As a woman, we all have these ups and down, particularly when it comes to the roller coaster ride with our hormones. It can go really, really haywire.
My next guest is here to share how we can finally take control of our hormones simply by choosing the right foods to eat.
Welcome to the show, the founder of the Hormones, A Balanced Program. Magdalena Wszelaki.
Hi, Mag.
MAGDALENA: Hi. Thank you so much for having me.
DR SUSANNE: Oh, absolutely. So, you know what? First, share with us how can we tell if our hormones are not in balance and what can we do to start making the lifestyle changes, the nutritional changes, so that we can restore the hormones?
MAGDALENA: Yes. Sure. So, you know, I think a lot of us intuitively feel something is off and a lot of times, as women, we do look for external reasons. So, we say, "You know, it's because the kids are now demanding more time. Or, it's because the weather has changed or because my husband has a lot of issues going on." So, we kind of blame a lot of external factors where it's actually really good to sometimes look inside and say, "What is going on, really?" And, you know, some of the most obvious things when it comes to hormonal balance, of course, you would have things like PMS. You're going to have a headache before your period, right? You know, infertility. I think these things. Women going through menopause. We know that those are hormonally connected. But, there's a whole long list of other symptoms that, as women, we don't connect and I want to mention those. Things like, for example, just feeling really wired and tired. You know, especially later at night. Craving salty foods and feeling ourselves saying, "Oh, my god. Why am I craving salty foods?" There's nothing wrong with it. It could be adrenal exhaustion. Having this what we call love handles or muffin top. You know, the little fat that kind of pours out when you put on tight things. That could be hormonally connected. Memory loss. Walking into a room going, "What did I walk in here for?" That could be another one. You know, interestingly, for example, cellulite. We spend so much money on cellulite without realizing that that could be a connection to hormones as well. Incontinence. You know, you go the gym and you work yourself really hard and you kind of pee yourself and it's like, "Oh, it's so embarrassing. What's going on?" It could be a hormonal imbalance that's causing that. Hair loss is another one. Weight gain that just wouldn't go away. Fatigue could be connected to various different hormonal problems.
What else comes to mind, Susanne, from your side? What am I missing now? The big ones?
DR SUSANNE: Well, there are so many things that you could…I mean, number one, as you said, fatigue. That is downright the number one symptom that I get in my practice. The number one.
MAGDALENA: Yes.
DR SUSANNE: You know, people don't realize that anxiety and insomnia are signs of a hormonal imbalance. When you're really, really moody and all of a sudden, you're thinking, "Gosh, I have nothing to be moody about, but gosh, I'm not feeling good and I'm snapping at my partner or my children and that just doesn't feel great." Those are the things that you really want to look out for, right? Those symptoms that you think, "Oh, I'm having a bad day," but it may be that you're having an imbalance in your hormones.
MAGDALENA: Absolutely. I'm sure you get a lot of that weight gain. The weight that just wouldn't go away, right?
DR SUSANNE: Absolutely.
MAGDALENA: That could be anything to do with your thyroid. It could be estrogen dominance. It could be high or low cortisol levels that are causing that. It could be insulin resistance. So, it's so important to really work with somebody who understands hormones and get those checked.
DR SUSANNE: Absolutely. Now, you actually work with food. You know?
MAGDALENA: Yes.
DR SUSANNE: And, I love that. I'm going to tell everyone right now that I've got these incredible crackers that you made and you sent to me. I'm just…I love these crackers that are for progesterone as well as estrogenic. These are phytoestrogen foods, so what foods, please tell us which ones can support the production of the different female hormones?
MAGDALENA: Sure. So, you know, I sent you the crackers. It was part of my whole concept that what's called "seed rotation". Seed rotation has been used by naturopathic doctors for a while. It kind of goes a little bit under noticed so, I really decided to bring it up and bring it to light with some great recipes. The idea of seed rotation is for women who are still menstruating. It's to use the first part of your cycle. So, from day 1 to day 14 or thereabouts, whatever is the half point of your cycle. It's to work on bringing up your estrogen levels in a healthy way. The best way to do that is to eat flax seed and pumpkin seeds, 1 tablespoons of each or you can do 2 tablespoons of either one of them. The point is to get 2 tablespoons of one or the other. Then, so that's going to be a natural way of bringing up your estrogen levels because both flax seeds and pumpkin seeds are known to be phytoestrogens, natural, helping us to bring the estrogens up. I just want to make a quick note here and that is that a lot of women are afraid of being estrogen dominant and that's a good concern. However, doing flax seed and pumpkin seed are actually going to help regulate the estrogen. It's going to move the needle toward the good estrogen, the metabolites of the good estrogen in a positive way. So, actually, it's a good thing.
Then, we're talking about Phase Two, which is the second part of your cycle which is your [inaudible 5:55] we're talking about the 14th day through day 28. We want to do sesame seeds and sunflower seeds. The reason is that sesame seeds are high in zinc and sunflower seeds are high in vitamin E. Both the zinc and vitamin E combination helps boost up our progesterone levels. You can also supplement it with evening primrose. That's another good one to help progesterone production. When you do that, you're really setting yourself up very nicely for having balanced estrogen and progesterone. It's right in your cycle. It's super helpful for women who having irregular menstrual cycles, who are having painful PMSs. I've seen a lot of women having much better PMSs or going away, actually, of PMS symptoms when they do the seed rotation. So, with sesames and sunflower seeds, you're doing exactly the same thing. One tablespoon of each. You want to either grind them or make sure you put them in a smoothie. You can put them in a salad or make crackers with it. That's one of my bonus giveaways is the recipe that I send of the crackers to you as part of the program—the Cooking for Balance program. That's where you can get the recipes from.
DR SUSANNE: Well, I love this whole seed rotation aspect because what you're doing is you're working with the natural rhythms of a woman. Did you know, everyone, if you're in menopause, you still have these rhythms. You just don't bleed. So, it's important to be able to use this, not just when you're PMSing or premenstrual. You can use this to support you during your menopausal states.
Now, I want everyone to know that there's a great little workshop that, just tell us a little bit about it. You can go to that workshop by going to DrSusanne.com/cookingfor balance.
So, tell us a little bit about what you teach. I love those free recipes you gave out because I'm part of that workshop.
MAGDALENA: The cooking for balance is going to be a free workshop that's going to be held on flax breakfasts and quick meals that really help support our hormonal health. I'm going to be focusing on helping us restore our digestion, sugar levels and liver function which are the underpinning body systems for hormonal balance. We've got free recipes we're giving away for fantastic breakfasts that really sustain you. Quick meals that most women struggle with and then snacks are a part of this. I'm going to also be teaching about 30 different foods that help us rebalance our hormones. There's going to be a super information packed workshop.
DR SUSANNE: How fun. This is awesome. Everyone, just know that you can actually balance your hormones, have a healthier state of well-being just by using seeds. I highly recommend organic, raw sprouted seeds. Of course, sprouted is best. For more information about the workshop, please go to DrSusanne.com/cookingforbalance.
So, visit DrSusanne.com/cookingforbalance.
Thanks again, Mag. You're such a great wealth of information. Really appreciate having you here.
Everyone, you can also go to the Wellness for Life radio page on RadioMD.
Until next time, this is Dr. Susanne sharing natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD. Stay well everyone. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
