Hey guys/gals….if you had success on the hcg program and want to share your story, please subscribe to my blog and post a comment (I have to approve but then it will be published). If you are proud of yourself, share the glory!
We want to link to facebook too….so hcg will be more widespread.
Keep it coming folks! I will give 10% off of any hcg kit or refill if you post a blog story on my website!
dr.jen
I am so sick of people claiming that the “hcg diet” is dangerous and unhealthy. Usually the person claiming this is ignorant on the subject and perhaps jealous of the results. Even our local health club is doing a community talk on “the danger of hcg and rapid weight loss”. Cracks me up…this is the same club that wants you to pay $50-100 per month to jog on their treadmill but stop for a bagel on the way out….I guess it keeps you coming back! Forgive me, I am a sarcastic bitch sometimes….I am all for exercise but come on PEOPLE!
The hcg diet is NOT dangerous for most people. At my office, we medically screen potential clients to make sure they can do the diet. There are some people that can NOT do the diet and some people need help with drug management over the course of the diet. The diet is only 6 weeks long…not months and months like some think. In six weeks no one in America is going to die from malnutrition…remember you are eating your own fat for nutrition (that is what the hormone hcg does for us). I guess religious fasts of 20-40 days are socially acceptable but a medical weight loss program causes huge controversy.
Someone recently said “hcg caused a bladder infection in my friend”. I say BULLSHIT to that….dehydration causes 90% of urinary tract infections and if she wasn’t drinking enough water she probably caused the infection all by herself. Coincidence. Coincidence. I did tell this person that sex causes UTIs too…so maybe we shouldn’t have sex either????? Come ON!
The hormone hcg is present in the 100,000’s in pregnant women…injecting 200 iu/day is a pinprick amount compared to that. In fact, the more times you are pregnant the lower your risk of breast cancer. Now I guess I could say that hcg lowers cancer risk…I am not going to say that but these are the claims that get made for or against drugs/programs/vitamins/herbs etc…
With about 3000 people through our HCG program (I did it way before the FAD hit) we have had no serious medical problems. In fact, we have had hundreds of medical miracles…people go off of blood pressure medications, migraines go away, blood sugar stabilizes, rashes go away and hundreds of other maladies disappear. If you can convince people that what they eat matters and directly causes disease and health issues then we have succeeded…no matter how many pounds they lost.
I do hate the fact that people do the program and then gain their weight back and then want to do it again. These people irk me. I want people to change how they eat forever….be thinner forever, be healthier forever. I love the lifelong success the program can jump start in folks. I have over 1000 testimonials I could share and they are the above folks…they lost 30-100lbs on the program and are now LIVING life and maintaining their healthy new self. Love you! When people say “hcg didn’t work for me” I think they meant to say “I didn’t work while doing the hcg”. If you want to do the program do it right, don’t waste your time or money. Agh!
So enough of my verbal diarrhea…I hope you get the idea. HCG is a great jumpstart to a healthy new life and anyone who says differently is ignorant or makes money prescribing drugs and seeing sick, fat people. Good luck!!!!!!!
rgds,
dr.gb
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By Erika Schwartz, M.D.
Why didn’t anyone tell me about natural, bioidentical progesterone when I was young and in the throes of hormonal imbalances caused by PMS?
Unfortunately, even today millions of women within the teen through menopause age groups suffering with mild to severe symptoms of PMS are offered antidepressants, birth control pills or are just being told to grin and bear it. Conventional medicine has failed to address this incapacitating and all pervasive problem. A woman cannot lead a happy life if she suffers with PMS every month.
PMS is a problem that conventional medicine still chooses to ignore with the possible exception of the diagnosis of endometriosis.
PMS includes but is not limited to the two weeks before the period starts. As we get older the problem often expands to encompass the whole month. The most common description I hear from women in their mid-forties is “I live in a perpetual state of PMS” and “I only feel better when I get my period.” Many women I see have learned to manage their lives around the time of the month when the scourge of PMS hits. I see young women who stop caring for their children, miss work and get into horrible fights with husbands, lovers and friends. Suspiciously, these dramatic situations seem to occur more frequently when the woman is suffering with PMS.
Another statement I hear that makes me shudder is “I’ve learned not to trust my judgment during PMS.” These are women in their 20s and 30s, with children and careers speaking and they are severely handicapped by PMS.
The symptoms of PMS include
• bloating
• weight gain up to 10 pounds in 24 hours
• mood swings
• depression
• irritability
• sleep problems
• loss of sex drive or heightened sexuality
• food cravings
• cloudy thinking
• migraines
• muscle pains
• itching
• visual disturbances
• anxiety and panic attacks
• joint pains
• extreme fatigue
• complete personality changes
When I started to write about hormonal imbalances and made the connection between symptoms of hormonal imbalance and the lack of progesterone, estrogen and thyroid hormones at all ages, not just at menopause, I was overwhelmed by the response I received from women in all walks of life.
These women had given up, they were desperate and their physicians had told them that there was no hormone basis for their symptoms. They were told they were basically crazy and the level of validation and care they received from their doctors was minimal to non-existent.
Yet the problems exist and they need to be addressed. Discarding and discounting the women is no longer an option. The time has come to do something about it. Life is too short to pull the blanket over your head during PMS or second guess every decision you are making.
No, you are not crazy; you are suffering with a concrete change in your hormonal balance that affects everything you do. Correcting the change is possible, even easier to achieve than you think.
PMS is easy to understand if we think of the hormonal changes the woman’s body undergoes every month. As we ovulate, in the middle of the cycle, exactly 15 days before our next period, the levels of estrogen and progesterone we make peak. If we do not get pregnant, the estrogen and progesterone are no longer needed so they start to drop. As they drop, we start to develop PMS.
The best times of the month for a woman are the times when we are having our period and the times right after when we are building our hormone levels. When the levels start to drop we are no longer on the top of our game.
So, how can we minimize or even eliminate the symptoms that are ruining our perfectly okay lives for the rest of the month.
The answer is- natural, bioidentical progesterone. The hormone that is leaving us PMSsy is easily supplemented by adding it to our regimen during the two weeks before the period.
I personally work with cream from progesterone. Depending on the severity of the symptoms, I prescribe between 50- 200 mg a day in those difficult times. The lower doses go for younger women, the higher often for women in their 30s and 40s.
For women nearing menopause or further along in age, I have found that if progesterone alone does not suffice, we add estradiol to help even things out.
This is a link to a great article on saving money when trying to eat organic….Hey, I have a family too and I can’t afford to eat 100% organic. We do what we can, right! I couldn’t copy and paste the article so I am supplying the link to you. Check it out!
http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/Save-on-Sustainable-Gallery-44032808
I hope it works. Please let me know if it doesn’t.
Dr.GB
Organic is everywhere these days, from the cereal we eat in the morning to the aperitifs we sip at night. But amid all the good intentions, some lose sight of the most important things to buy organic, both for their own health and that of the environment. Here’s a list of the top 10 most important products to buy organic, as well as a recap of why it’s worthwhile.
While milk is a natural product, all the antibiotics and hormones that go into high-yield cows most certainly aren’t. Some studies on supplements like recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) used in conventional milk production have suggested links to early puberty and other hormonal abnormalities. Danish studies have shown that not only does organic milk have less of the bad stuff, it has more of the good stuff. Specifically, organic milk has higher levels of vitamin E, omega-3 essential fatty acids and antioxidants.
Though they are a terrific source of protein, most eggs are produced using a range of antibiotics and hormones on the chickens that bear them. Given this, the health gains of eating organic eggs are similar to those of drinking organic milk. Essentially, organic eggs mean fewer hormones in the chicken and fewer foreign hormones (or chemicals acting as hormones) in your body.
Chlorothalonil, often used on potatoes, can be particularly harmful to children. In fact, chlorothalonil was deemed so unhealthy by the state of New York that it was at the center of a lawsuit against the U.S. federal government due to its extensive commercial use. Moreover, in Canada, potato pesticides have been linked to high rates of asthma and asthma-related deaths in farming communities. And no, ketchup doesn’t cancel out the ill effects, so go green on this one.
Poor spinach. It’s actually one of nature’s most healthy “superfoods,” one that nutritionists and doctors keep on encouraging us to eat. But it’s not just E. coli scares that have given conventionally grown spinach a bad name. Spinach is another regular feature on pesticide-occurrence lists, with one sample of spinach in a study having residues of more than 20 different pesticides on it.
Grapes from Chile add a load of detrimental fungicides to your diet. Even U.S. grapes contain methyl parathion and methomyl, a carbamate insecticide listed as an endocrine disruptor. You’ve got it — bring in the organics on this one!
No matter how good they taste, conventional pears consistently show up on lists of the most pesticide-rich fruits and vegetables. Though it was banned from use on pears, methyl parathion — the fungicide that contributes significantly to the toxicity of strawberries and peaches — shows up in the fruit’s residues, as does azinphos-methyl, an acutely toxic chemical used on many fruit crops.
Strawberries, those tasty morsels that make a good waffle even more worthwhile, unfortunately show high levels of fungicides. Two of these fungicides, captan and iprodione, are classified as probable human carcinogens by the EPA. Moreover, vinclozolin, another common fungicide found on strawberries, impedes the normal functioning of the male hormone, androgen. Among other commonly found contaminants on strawberries is endosulfan, a relative of DDT that imitates the hormone estrogen, which ends up interfering with your normal hormone levels. Go organic on these and you’ll feel even better after that lazy Sunday brunch.
Typically, green bell peppers are added to diets to provide vitamin C, while red bell peppers enrich meals with vitamin A and a moderate dose of carotenoids. Unfortunately, when it comes to crops, bell peppers are the most heavily contaminated vegetables out there in terms of neurotoxic insecticides. Even the USDA has found pesticide residues on over 95% of conventional bell peppers. Go for organic to avoid this type of high exposure.
Though they say that one a day keeps the doctor away, this rule of thumb might only apply to organic varieties. The pesticide load of apples is disturbingly high. In one study, there were more pesticides detected on apples (36%), and more pesticides found on single samples of apples (7%), than any other fruit or vegetable analyzed. And while apples aren’t No. 1 when it comes to fruits contaminated with dangerous chemicals, they are always near the top of the list. Given this, it is important that you choose one of the many organic options popping up at your local market instead.
Peaches are the No. 1 fruit to avoid in conventional produce. In some studies, they’ve had up to 10 times as much pesticide on them as other fruits and vegetables. And those chemicals aren’t friendly ones: They include the cancer-linked fungicides captan and iprodione, and the neurotoxic pesticide methyl parathion.
If you’re interested in making sure that the only hormones and chemicals in your body are self-produced or voluntarily there, be sure to start buying more organic foods. Here’s a helpful hint: Stick this list in your shopping cart and keep it handy until you know off the top of your head which organics are the best buy for your dollar.
Resources:
www.consumersunion.org
www.grinningplanet.com
www.sciencenews.org
www.sdearthtimes.com
www.panna.org
www.thegreenguide.com
www.oag.state.ny.us
www.stonyfield.com
www.organicconsumers.org
www.macrowholefoods.com.au
http://veg.ca
By Shane “The People’s Chemist” Ellison
I wish medicine wasn’t so damn complicated. If it weren’t, people would see how Big Pharma cleverly plays prescription cupid to hook the masses into an antidepressant romance. Fueled by dreamy ads, sexy actors, and medical experts who get paid to give pharmaceutical fellatio, the romance has grown into a full-fledged orgy.
Antidepressants are among the best selling drugs, yet not one single diagnostic test supports their effectiveness. Romance makes for great business. But, are patients getting the love they deserve or are they facing another life threatening disaster akin to the Vioxx fiasco (killing an estimated 30,000 people who could have just used aspirin)? Perhaps the chemical facts behind antidepressants will give way to reality and help Americans sever ties to the deadly affair.
Life can be a bitch at times. Everyone knows it and Big Pharma profits from it. To answer our cries for happiness, they sell us a slew of molecules ripe with supposed happy atoms purported to elicit wanton pleasure. It’s a pipe dream. Like a parent who doesn’t like their daughter dating drug reps or psychiatrists, the FDA started using Black Box Warnings to inform us that, “Antidepressants, compared to placebo, increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children in short term studies.” Psychiatrists quickly refuted this.
Massaging our fears, Dr. McAllister-Williams of the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University publicly insisted that “I believe they work and have an acceptable risk: benefit ratio for many patients.” Taking his cue, psychiatrists from around the world did what they do best: Ignore scientific ethics and get on their knees for Big Pharma.
In a vulgar display of medical ineptitude, prescribing habits surged. From 1996 to 2006, use of antidepressants increased 50% among children, 73% among adults and a ghastly 100% among the elderly – so much for Black Box Warnings. Why not rename them Profit Warnings?
As prescribing habits have surged, so has antidepressant reality.
The so called disease of a “serotonin” chemical imbalance among depressed patients has never been proven. The Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience recently reminded doctors that, “Brain serotonin cannot be directly measured” and that even in the deceased, “Serotonin levels are unstable, within 24 hours of death.” Therefore, “direct evidence that serotonin is low in depressed persons is unavailable.”
Panicked, psychiatry hypothesized yet another cause of a chemical imbalance: Bad genes. Apparently, select people (basically anyone with a heartbeat) have a defective gene that makes them susceptible to depression – and drugs, drugs and more drugs can save them from the scourge of sadness. Bio-babble like “alleles” and “transporter genes” were thrown around like condoms at a high school pep rally. The jargon confused everyone. And in their dizzy stupor, most were convinced that it must mean one thing: antidepressants are the Holy Grail to attaining happiness. Psychiatry was once again renewed with the stench of pharmaceutical pheromones. But it didn’t last.
Thanks to scientific methodology, the industry was slapped with the facts. The New York Times delivered the blow and wrote, “One of the most celebrated findings in modern psychiatry — that a single gene helps determine one’s risk of depression in response to a divorce, a lost job or another serious reversal — has not held up to scientific scrutiny.”
You don’t need science to disprove the antiquated, reductionist propaganda surrounding the chemical imbalance theory. You only need the common sense of a child.
The human brain floats in thousands, billions or maybe even trillions of brain chemicals – all working in orchestra like unison to confer proper brain function. Even serotonin exists not as a single molecule, but instead as an ever changing chemical cascade of 5-htp, niacin, L-tryptophan, quinolinate, kynurenine and more. You’d have to be Paris Hilton or a psychiatrist to miss this logic and adhere to the simplistic serotonin imbalance theory.
With no such thing as a chemical imbalance or “depression inducing genes,” psychiatry did what any organization would do in the face of impending demise: Get the U.S Government to do their dirty work.
Today, an insidious collusion between Big Pharma and Big Government is doling out drugs paid for by our tax dollars to foster children, to our U.S. Troops, and to the elderly at breakneck speeds. With so many being drugged, a harsh reality is emerging: Antidepressant romance fuels “premedicated murder.”
While researching my new book, Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, I uncovered stories of horrific suicide and rage that occurred after being medicated with antidepressants. But none more disturbing than the Chris Wood story. Doped up on his prescribed cocktail of antidepressants – all three of them – he shot his 33 year old wife Francie and their three children – Chandler, 5, Gavin, 4, and Fiona, 2. Shockingly, in his drug damaged mind, they weren’t “dead enough” and gruesome decapitation followed. Afterwards, he picked up a shotgun and killed himself. This isn’t an isolated incident.
Among our US troop, suicide and rage is at an all time high – in direct correlation to mass prescribing. The same trend exists among teens as seen by the ever growing act of spraying classmates with bullets. Psychiatrists don’t seem to be alarmed with these trends, or at all interested in seeing the obvious correlations. In an attempt to “leave no American un-medicated,” they encourage subjective mental screening tests for the rest of us as a means of converting healthy people into psychiatric patients.
Pyschiatry wants to position antidepressants as the cure for the premedicated violence. So to counter the growing evidence that their drugs are the cause, they insist that, “The only evidence that would be acceptable is the demonstration in a double blind trial that a difference in suicide rates was consistently seen. There is no evidence at all for a differential suicide attempt rate with antidepressants. Suicidal thoughts are an integral part of depression.” Here comes the backhand.
Writing for the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Joel Kauffman elucidates that combined clinical trials on antidepressants show five times the risk of suicide among the treated compared to placebo.
The suicide/aggression trend is not inexplicable from a chemistry viewpoint. Using the latest cloning techniques and laboratory methods, it’s been shown that antidepressants elicit “neurotransmitter hijacking.” This may be partially responsible for the mental state that causes a person to gruesomely murder their loved ones, then put a shotgun to their chin and pull the trigger.
Once swallowed, antidepressants sail past the blood brain barrier and congregate on top of “neurotransmitter recyclers.” This can prevent the cellular “recycling factories” from activating previously used neurotransmitters like serotonin or any of its chemical cousins. With nowhere to go, the inactive brain compounds get “hijacked” by recycling facilities found in other regions of the brain. This would be similar to a square peg being shoved into a round hole. As shown by Baylor College of Medicine, the recycling facilities of key neurotransmitters, like dopamine (round), begin to retrieve serotonin (square) into dopamine vesicles. A dastardly consequence ensues.
Commenting on the hijacking, CNN publicized that, “Antidepressant drugs actually create a perilous brain imbalance.” And Psychiatric Times hypothesized that blocking transporters on cell bodies could drop neurotransmitter levels in the synapse. Is it true?
To measure if neurotransmitter hijacking leads to an empty synapse, you can simply look for clinical manifestations of poor neurotransmitter function (like Parkinson’s disease, which is due to poor output of dopamine) among antidepressant users. As far back as 1995, the American Journal of Medicine showed that 37% of all prescriptions for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease are due to Psychiatric drug use. Case closed. These antidepressant actions are the exact opposite of the claimed “neurotransmitter boosting” actions purported by most doctors!
Once neurotransmitter hijacking takes place, pharmacopossession (due to poor neurotransmitter function) may also set in. As patients come fully under the spell of antidepressants, the brain can become so scrambled that all normal reality and reason are overwritten by a new confusing and violent agenda. A new personality arises – one with homicidal and suicidal tendencies. And for an ever increasing number of antidepressant users, these tendencies are manifesting as premedicated murder – the deliberate killing as a result of being medicated in advance.
Unbalanced by drugs, the brain of an antidepressant user faces a slew of mind altering outcomes. What kind? What was Chris Wood thinking and feeling prior to committing premedicated murder of his family while pharmacopossessed? To answer these questions just go back to the beginning of this article and read the “profit warning” that comes with every Prozac prescription. It’s all there in black and white.
Even though the FDA “compels” drug companies to warn the public about antidepressant risks, their “death grip” on the medical industry has kept doctors and patients from knowing the real extent of the danger. Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association said that “Pharma’s influence on medicine is so blatant now you’d have to be deaf, blind and dumb not to see it.” I guess psychiatrists are all three since they continue to ignore science and romance the masses with promises of happiness courtesy of antidepressants.
Before your doctor gives you an antidepressant, ask him to read you the Black Box Warning that comes with your prescription. This will ensure that the potential romance quickly gives way to reality and that you don’t succumb to premedicated murder.
About the Author
Ellison’s entire career has been dedicated to the study of molecules; how they give life and how they take from it. He was a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his research in biochemistry and physiology. He is a bestselling author of Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, which helps you live healthier and pay less with $10 lifesaving supplements for under $10! Get a free chapter now – cancer truths that will save your life – at http://www.otcnaturalcures.com.
So are you 40-45 and are wondering what the frick is going on with your body…You have dry skin, dry vagina, insomnia, low energy, low libido, maybe hot flashes, maybe irregular cycles, maybe horrible periods, maybe headaches, or maybe you are just a moody, irritable bitch. Hey, it’s OK…..you prob have hormonal imbalances……and it’s curable!
Get to your doctor and explain all of your symptoms. If you have a decent physician, they will listen to you and do the appropriate tests. I don’t know how many woman I have seen (in tears, I might add) that have been to their doctor and the doc said “you are too young to be perimenopausal”. Bull. Any woman, any age, can have low or wacky hormones. Our environment (plastics and chemicals), our diet (antibiotic and hormone fed animals), our stress (crabby husbands, cranky kids, crappy jobs..) , and our genetics can all cause our hormones to fluctuate. Sure, periods usually stop in woman’s 50’s but that doesn’t mean her hormones are perfect until then??
So if you get your doc to listen, what tests should he/she do? Well, you can do blood or saliva testing (some do urine as well..I don’t). You want to get your estradiol, free testosterone, progesterone, DHEA-SO4, TSH, free t4, and cortisol checked. Saliva is cheaper and you can do at home but blood is good as well. Once you get your levels make sure whomever is interpreting them knows how to read and treat.
I do use bioidentical hormones to treat deficiencies in younger woman. A little good hormone goes along way…I also use B-vitamins, herbs, diet/exercise, detox and supplement regimes to help balance hormones. Every woman is unique and deserves unique care and treatment based on THEIR symptoms, labs, etc….
rgds,
dr.gb
Happy Spring to all of you! I saw many fat little robins on my lawn yesterday…a sure sign of sunshine to come. Start of your Spring with a little Spring cleaning. I challenge you to do the Green Smoothie challenge cleanse.
Directions for the next 7-10 days:
1. Every day drink 32 ounces of delicious green smoothie. Make in the morning in your blender or VitaMix (much better at liquifying the greens than a standard blender) and drink through out the day or even just for breakfast. Recipe to follow.
2. Eat only fruits, veggies, limited whole grains and drink lots of water. No wheat or dairy. No sugar or processed food.
3. You can do some lean protein…fish and white meat or protein powder.
Green Smoothies:
2-3 cups water (add more if you like it thinner)
Fruit–add 2 to 3 pieces of fruit (frozen berries, frozen bananas, apple, mango, pear, orange etc…)
Greens–add 4-5 leaves of kale, two handfuls spinach, or other greens till your hearts content
Other–can sweeten with stevia or a bit of agave. I also add flaxmeal or chia seeds to my smoothie. Ice can be nice too.
Smoothies should taste good so adjust according to your taste! Here is a TOAST with my green smoothie to your Spring cleanse!
Dr.GB
I see alot of perimenopausal and menopausal women…This crowd tends to complain about dry vaginas alot (guys, if you are reading this it is bc your partner probably can’t even have sex due to the pain!). A dry vagina is like saran wrap held taught…one tiny tear and the whole thing rips in half. OUCH! Another complaint is that of chronic yeast infections or itchy vagina (vaginitis)…this is in the same group of women or even young women. How can we keep the down-unders healthy and moist??? Simple answer.
1. Estriol suppositories–the gentlest of the plant estrogens. Used nightly for 7-14 nights and then even 2-3 times per week feeds estrogen starved saran wrap tissue. It is 100% successful and is treating the cause of the problem to begin with. I DO NOT prescribe premerin or estrace cream for the same issue….synthetic estrogens are GROSS and scientifically WRONG.
Find the suppositories in my online store…1 mg for mild issues, 2 mg for very dry VaJJ.
2. Fem Dophilus–good “flora” down there is a must to prevent infections. It keeps the areas ph healthy and fresh. You take 1-2 capsules per day of these GOOD bugs for the privates! Find FemDophilus in my store.
3. Apple cider vinegar and water douches occasionally can balance the entire area. (use only once in awhile)
4. Use it or lose it….no explanation needed.
Dr.GB
Hey all! I just got back from a conference on GUT problems. I learned so much and hope to give you all the best pearls I heard.
1. Food allergies–almost all of us have some food sensitivities. Our CHEMICAL exposure in today’s world messes with the inside of our digestive system and creates food allergies. The most common food allergies are WHEAT, SOY, DAIRY (in that order). Try an elimination diet to see if you feel better not eating those foods. The website www.wholelifenutrition.comhas a free elimination diet plan and the author, Tom Maltere, is brilliant (I heard him speak this weekend).
If you have any autoimmune disease, arthritis, digestive issues, MS, uveitis, skin rashes, etc…you most certainly have food allergies. Try the diet. I know I am GOING to do it! Post your results.
2. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease–almost always are diagnosed incorrectly and sometimes folks get the wrong treatment then.
3. Urban renewal–Yes, that is what I said! You must get rid of the bad neighborhood (colon bad bugs) and replace with the beautiful good bugs and a healthy environment ….URBAN RENEWAL. Get rid of ‘da hood MAN! Start with an elimination diet and add 50-100billion/bugs per day in the form of a GOOD, POTENT probiotic. Kids need 6-20 billion/bugs per day. Do the probiotics for 30 days and your neighborhood should be SAFE again.
4.What you eat really matters…If it walks on the earth and grows from the earth EAT IT. If it doesn’t do either of those things, leave it on the shelf (in it’s box).
5. Celiac disease (gluten intolerance)–is very hard to diagnose. The only sure fire way is genetic testing combined with some other blood tests. The standard tTG/IGA tests are NOOOOO GOOOOOOD. Small bowel biopsy can even miss celiac! Again, try the elimination diet and eliminate wheat for 30 days…you just might feel better.
Enough for one post….will post more later.
rgds,
dr.gb