The Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Adrenal, Thyroid axis with Alan Barrier: Rational Wellness Podcast 373

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Alan Barrier discusses The Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Adrenal, Thyroid Axis with Dr. Ben Weitz.

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Alan Barrier is is the National Product Sales Training Manager for Standard Process supplement company. The website is StandardProcess.com.

Dr. Ben Weitz is available for Functional Nutrition consultations specializing in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders like IBS/SIBO and Reflux and also Cardiometabolic Risk Factors like elevated lipids, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure.  Dr. Weitz has also successfully helped many patients with managing their weight and improving their athletic performance, as well as sports chiropractic work by calling his Santa Monica office 310-395-3111.

 

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Dr. Weitz: [00:00:00] Hey, this is Dr. Ben Weitz, host of the Rational Wellness Podcast. I talk to the leading health and nutrition experts and researchers in the field to bring you the latest in cutting edge health information. Subscribe to the Rational Wellness Podcast for weekly updates. And to learn more, check out my website, drweitz.com. Thanks for joining me. And let’s jump into the podcast. Welcome, everybody. Thanks for coming to the Functional Medicine Discussion Group. And please tell your colleagues I’ve been working to try to get everybody to come back to in person and everybody’s so used to Zoom. So tell all your colleagues in the functional medicine world that these are great educational events.  I hope you’ll consider attending some of our future events. Next month August 22nd, Dr. Howard Elkin will be speaking about Integrative Cardiology, and September, this meeting’s going to be on a Tuesday, so it’s going to be Tuesday, September 24th. Also, by the way, I welcome feedback if listeners prefer Tuesdays instead of Thursdays. We usually meet on the 4th Thursday of the month, but September 24th, Dr. Tom O’Brien is going to be speaking to us. He’s got a great new presentation on mystifying lipopolysaccharides and I encourage everybody to participate and ask questions. And if you’re not aware, we have a closed Facebook group for practitioners, the Functional Medicine Discussion Group of Santa Monica, so please join that.  Also, this event is going to be recorded. And included in my weekly rational wellness podcast, so please check that out you can find it wherever you see podcasts, as well as there’s a video version on YouTube, and if you do listen to it, enjoy it, please give me a ratings and review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.  And now I’d like to thank our sponsors for this evening. We have Integrative Therapeutics and Standard Process. 

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Dr. Weitz: So I really appreciate Integrative Therapeutics for being our monthly sponsor. And since the topic is hypothalamus adrenal pituitary axis they make the Cortisol Manager which is one of the best selling products on the market for managing adrenal function and includes adaptogens for adrenals and now we’d like Standard Process to come up and tell us about their company.

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Hi, I’m Kaylee. I’m the Standard Process rep for West Los Angeles. I have a bachelor’s degree in nutrition. I’m a nutritional therapy practitioner, and I just graduated with my master’s in herbal medicine, so.

Love Mediherb. It’s kind of my wheelhouse, but [00:03:00] yeah, we have a 500 acre organic farm up in Wisconsin, and 80 percent of the Ingredients in our products are from our organic farm. But yeah, I would love to talk to you guys after and set up a meeting to discuss standard process further. We did just launch a new product called Biofilm ProBalance.  It’s kind of a three pronged approach. We have organic kale from the farm, organic garlic. An enzyme alpha amylase as well as three screens of probiotic help support the gut microbiome. So we published a white paper on it and would love to give you that information after this presentation. So thank you.

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Dr. Weitz:  So now I want to introduce our speaker for this evening, which is Alan Barrier, and he’s going to talk to us about the hypothalamus/pituitary/adrenal axis. And I’ll let Alan introduce himself further. 

Alan:  Thank you. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. This is coming through. Everybody can hear pretty well.  Wonderful. If you need, can you hear me now? Is that okay? Yep. Is it okay? I just, [00:04:00] yes, sir. Without the microphone. Okay.  So can I use that one? It sounded like that was a little bit more booming. Oh, that’s that one. That one’s a little bit more booming, baby. Okay. My name’s Alan Barrier. I’m with Standard Process.  I’ve been with the company for 15 years. And so during my time with the company, I ran an independent on, on Uh, business model down in Northern Florida. So I was responsible for managing the brand, marketing it clinical insight, and now transitioned into the new company structure. And I’ve now gone to training the sales force on the product line.

So I have a deep appreciation for the history of Whole Food Nutrition, Dr. Royal Lee, as well as many of the philosophies that have built this company. So when we think about Standard Process, we have to understand there’s always this attitude that this is an antiquated brand, but that’s just not the case.  For 95 plus years, we’ve existed, we’ve existed based on results. If we were, if our products would have, we would have known seven decades ago that these products didn’t work. So we know to this day that our philosophy has an impact on human health. Can I just show you a picture here before we even get into the conversation on thyroid?  Plants. You see this plant here in the ground, this is actually our Organic Farms Standard Process. As Kaylee was discussing, our Certified Organic Farms. If one of these plants were to start to show disruption, they weren’t flourishing. Kaylee. What would you do as a gardener? You would put a stick in the ground, you would tie the plant to the stick, and then what?  You would feed the soil. One of the things that we’ve gotten to in society is this disconnection between our relationship with the nutrients that we take into our bodies through our diets and the quality of how our cells function. Now, one of the studies I like to reference in regards to that concept is the Minnesota Starvation Study.

This was done by Ancel Keys. And Ancel Keys is very famous for a seven country study on saturated fat and cholesterol, which there are a lot of, let’s say, inaccuracies in the reporting of that study and our understanding of saturated fat and health. But one of the studies on the Minnesota study that was so interesting was post World War II he took a number of men and began taking their diets down 1,000 calories a day. And what he was really monitoring was the psychological expression of the individuals. And they showed individuals diving into dumpsters, fighting one another, stealing food from the kitchen. So we understood that that psychological expression of starvation caused us to become ravenous and demand nutrients.

But once they had them on that low calorie diet, when they wanted to bring them back to health. The synthetic vitamin model was just entering into the lexicon of society because we were discovering vitamins in food and in the laboratory we were able to mimic that compound. So we were making high dosage vitamin C and high dosage vitamin E supplements.  And so what they did was they actually added those into a drink for those patients and gave that to them to see how they responded. And there was no physiological change.  But once they gave them food, and it was nutrient dense food, not high calorie food, because you can’t just, again, refeeding somebody a lot of calories.

Just by giving them nutrient dense foods, the epigenetic changes of their cells turn back on, and their cells re grew into an activation factor and weight poured back onto the body. So we have this relationship that there is a magic substance out there that if we put into our bodies, our physiology will change. What we actually need to change is our philosophy to help. We need to return to the soil. We need to return to the nutrient density of nature. Whether or not you see this world as a 6,000 year old world, or what would be considered the long version, billions of years. You have to take into [00:08:00] consideration all of the physical processes that brings that soil into existence.

The earthworms churning it. The importance of understanding volcanic, eruptions, our distance from the sun, the moon, the atmosphere, the water cycle, all of these physical processes have to take place for the nutrients even to come into existence. It’s once we believe that our human consciousness could mimic that we could play God with nutrition is when we got offset.  And this is what happened to our food supply. He began denaturing our foods and adding these synthetic vitamins back to it and mimicking a marketing approach on the importance of these vitamins for health. And all we did was sustain life. Remember the difference between a vitamin from nature and a vitamin that we make in a laboratory.  Laboratory vitamins are essential vitamins. What does that mean? You die without them. But that’s completely different than full growth and development. When you introduce nutrition from nature in a concentrated form, your cells from a genetic perspective see that nutrition and activate a biological process that you can only activate from nutrient density.

So that’s what we do here at Standard Process. So we discuss tonight about the importance of thyroid health and adrenal health. Understand that at the backbone of what we are is to then feed the system and let the system respond to those genetic changes. So with that being said, I’m going to have a discussion tonight on thyroid.  Um, so, please feel free to stop me with any questions as we go through some of the information. Um, but just wanted to give you really an overview of thyroid health and the importance of interacting with it. 

So, first thing is to understand that the thyroid gland exerts hormone effects across nearly all organ systems by increasing their function and metabolism.  You actually have Thyroid receptors on every cell of your body. So you have vitamin A receptors that trigger cell mitosis, and you have thyroid receptors that trigger metabolic activity. So the [00:10:00] importance of having a healthy thyroid means a healthy metabolism.  Every 13 minutes, all of the blood that’s in your body travels through your thyroid.  So it’s important that as we’re thinking about our metabolism in the circulatory system, we want to make sure that this thing is doing its job properly. Now it begins in the hypothalamus, so this is the area of the brain that regulates your entire hormonal cascade.  What happens is, is your hypothalamus releases thyroid releasing hormone this is an activation factor for the pituitary gland.

From there, the pituitary gland releases thyroid stimulating hormone. This is what travels into your thyroid and activates thyroid act production. So this is the opportunity for your body to begin making T4 thyroxin. Now, a portion of T3 is also made in the thyroid. Yet, from there, the T4 actually has to be converted into T3.

Jowitt does this by removing an iodine molecule. [00:11:00] T4 means? It is a tyrosine amino acid bound to four iodine atoms. So for that conversion to T3, which is the tyrosine with three iodine atoms, you actually have to have a selenium based enzyme that converts that, and it does that in multiple areas of the body.

As T3 is approximately eight times more biologically active than T4, activating factor of thyroid And that T cell is 90 percent circulating T3 is being produced. So 90 percent of the circulating T3 is converted with these enzymes in the brain, the liver, and the bloodstream. So your body actually has to function on multiple levels for you to have good thyroid function.

So it’s not just the thyroid, it is the hypothalamus and pituitary. One of the things that we do at Standard Process is we address the body from the tip of the head down to the toes. So when you think about Inflammation [00:12:00] in the hypothalamus. Well, how would you address that? You’ve got to get inflammation under control in the body.

Same issue when it comes to the pituitary gland. What happens when your pituitary gland is chronically stressed? How do you address the pituitary health? These are some of the things that we’re able to offer answers through at Standard Process is support for these tissues. And then from there, your body’s ability to make these conversion factors.

It’s important to make sure you get adequate trace minerals into your diet, which includes selenium. When you understand how we farm in this country, we use what’s called NPK. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium. The problem with that is it removes all of the other trace minerals like Magnesium, Selenium, and Zinc, Copper.  All of these trace minerals that are so beneficial to the body, we lack in our diet because of our fertilizing practices in this country.

So from here, the free thyroid hormone binds within the nucleus of a cell and acts to increase [00:13:00] the basal metabolic rate and thermogenesis, causing increased oxygen and energy consumption. It is the gasoline to the body. When we think about hormones, we think about how much hormones we’re producing. To be honest with you, a lifetime of hormone is about a teaspoon.

So these are not very much to the body. It’s the accordance of the quality, how the body manufactures them. that you have the building blocks to do so. From there, other effects of thyroid hormone include the weight, rhythm, and force effects of cardiac functions. So your thyroid regulates your heart. So individuals who have an overactive thyroid, they can have a pounding heart.

So this would be an indication where you might want to look at the thyroid. They can feel their heart beating, but they have a racing heart. Another area that you may look at is the stimulation of the nervous system resulting in increased alertness. Some of the issues when we see an underactive thyroid is brain fog because the mind cannot activate [00:14:00] properly.

Another issue that we actually don’t even discuss in society is anyone aware that an iodine deficiency in childhood leads to a 10 point drop in iq? So the importance of getting iodine into our systems increases the speed of thought. One of the things that happened to me in my past, yes, sir.

Fair, and you know one of the things I will tell you is that I’m not here to promote high dosage iodine. that’s not the idea. It’s the importance of getting iodine into the diet. The reality is that Japanese women living on the coast of Japan are Consume anywhere between 12 and 15 milligrams of iodine daily.

In this country, we [00:15:00] recognize 140 micrograms as the daily RDA. That’s a lot lower, but yet Japanese women living on the coast have some of the lowest levels of ovarian, stomach, and breast cancer in the world. The challenge that we face in society is that we are inundated with chemicals that displace or replace iodine in our systems, and we’ll talk a little bit more about that as we go.

Yes, please. It actually doesn’t, it doesn’t, it’s not a worry about the trace minerals. So there’s no measurement. The NPK actually is steroids for the plant. So you can have trace minerals in the soil, but you have to care about the soil. Our farming practices in this country, they don’t test the soil that way.

In the great dust bowl of the 1940s and 50s was because of monoculture where they didn’t have trace minerals to turn the actual top soil into dust. And that’s what blew across the Midwest. Yeah, I think the point you’re making is that the soil is [00:16:00] depleted and we’re only repleting it with a very small percentage of the minerals that are needed.

Absolutely. Did a lot. Yeah, that microphone was a little low. Okay. So I think what he’s saying is it’s that the soil is depleted. It’s been overutilized and without replenishing, dropping things, like putting all the minerals that we’re just putting in. Yeah, I mean, look, I will tell you this right now. The number one mineral deficiency in the American diet is magnesium.

It’s 50 percent on average lower in your body than you would actually need. When you trace how magnesium functions in the body, it actually regulates your potassium levels. So if you have low magnesium, your body begins to dump potassium. The other thing is, is that when you have Low Magnesium, you actually lower your Parathyroid Hormone, Parathyroid Hormone is [00:17:00] important to stimulate your kidneys to convert Vitamin D2 into the active form of Vitamin D3, I’m sorry, Calcidiol to Calcitriol, which is the active form of Vitamin D.

So, for your kidneys to actually function well, to convert vitamin D, you actually have to have adequate magnesium. So, it really comes down to, do you want to chase a mineral, or do you want to get all of those minerals in your fluid at once? I mean, one of the things that’s great about magnesium, plant based magnesium, comes from Swiss chard and buckwheat.

These are just plants, yet they come in these multiple forms of magnesium, 40 different salt bases. Now, your body does not look at one form of magnesium and say, that’s the one I want. What it wants is complexity. You’re a complex biological system. All of your cells interact with complexity. When we dummy our nutrition down to a molecule, We’re introducing the same concept of NPK into our bodies versus a full [00:18:00] broad spectrum trace mineral soil.

So the importance is to introduce that complexity back into the system, so you can get adequate trace minerals along with magnesium just by eating these nutrient dense plants. As far as some of the other things that thyroid is important for, which is development of fast switch muscle fibers, so when individuals have a hard time exercising and filling satie, Dreading proteins, as we talked about vitamin A receptors, that stimulatory factor is from your thyroid, your thyroid hormones.

It helps to regulate the ovulatory cycle and spermatogenesis. So, again, it both regulates female cycles as well as men’s production of sperm. Now, some of the common causes of acquired thyroid disorders include nutritional deficiencies. Things like iodine, things like tyrosine, things like trace minerals.

One of the things that people don’t realize that before night AIM 40, All essential fatty acids had an iodine number because it was known that when you took fat [00:19:00] in the diet, there was a certain portion of iodine that helped the body to absorb. Some of the best fats for iodine absorption were flaxseed oil.

That’s why we have such a deep relationship with that type of fat. It’s also important in the body to support the metabolism of calcium as well. But when you see the synergy of health, you understand that iodine helps to feed the thyroid, but it also makes calcitonin. Calcitonin is what drives calcium into bones, so our thyroid and fats go hand in hand, so we’re getting good quality fats back into the diet.

I will say this too, whenever you look at all of the studies on the importance of diet, it always reaches back to the Mediterranean diet. Why the Mediterranean diet? Omega 3 fatty acids, healthy fat, soil dense vegetables, fruits, green meats, fish, fish Things that we were meant to have from a nutritional perspective.

Then you can have autoimmune activity against thyroid tissue. [00:20:00] This is the importance of understanding the immune system directly. One of the things that we’re worrying about the gut microbiome is its ability to regulate T regulatory cell production. Now how we do that is we have to interact with compounds that down regulate inflammation through the immune system.

Some of this can come from direct tissue support, such as organotherapy approaches, where you actually take in tissues that are thyroid based. Or looking at other types of themes that support a better microbiome profile, which could include the production of Bacteroidetes. This is where we’re seeing a lot of research on how herbs function and normalize the profile of our gut microbiome.

The other one is Firmicutes. Interestingly enough, when we exercise, Firmicutes is the actual dominant profile that, that shows up. But always remember this. If you want to be firm, we use Firmicutes. It doesn’t mean that you don’t want the Firmicutes, but [00:21:00] Firmicutes upregulates calorie absorption into the body, so children should have elevated Firmicutes as do Boeing, and the elderly need to have elevated Firmicutes to keep eating muscle mass on the body.

But during our midlife, Bacteroidepines is the profile that we’re looking for. This is what helps to regulate inflammation in our immune system to help to down regulate some of these issues. If you have environmental toxins, which we have a slide on that one. And some of the last ones are radiation, surgery, and medication.

So, our current medical practices in this country are leading to damaging effects on the thyroid directives.

So what are some of the supportive lifestyle practices? So let’s talk a little bit more about the stress cycle and the importance of how it affects our thyroid. So promote stress reduction activities, stimulate parasympathetic nervous system. I know many of you in this room are familiar with Andrew Huberman.

Andrew Huberman. But if you ever want to know how to [00:22:00] activate your parasympathetic nervous system, you can just stare as far off to the right as you possibly can until your body sighs, and then back to the left as far as you can until your body naturally sighs again. This is actually an activation factor for your parasympathetic response.

So calming down the stimulatory effects of your sympathetic nervous system. Now what happens in regards to an overstimulated sympathetic nervous system is elevated cortisol This can lead to decreased levels of free T3 and increase the risk of autoimmune activity against the thyroid. So just to give you kind of an indication of what that looks like here, this is your hypothalamus in the brain and your pituitary as well as your thyroid.

Now what happens in the hypothalamus is that you have your thyroid releasing hormone. which triggers the anterior pituitary to release thyroid stimulating hormone, and then your thyroid releases T4, which is either converted into [00:23:00] reverse T3, or T3 based on the quality of selenium in your body. Now from here, these back lines here in the middle, show that cortisol inhibit TSH, and then also inhibit the conversion of T4 to T3.

So, it’s more important to keep your stress under control when it comes to the importance of the quality of your thyroid outcomes. Now, some of the other things that you can do to regulate your cortisol levels is to encourage regular exercise, utilizing a combination of both moderate aerobic intensity.

So, this is the idea of getting your cardiovascular exercise in, making sure your heart is functioning better. as well as weight bearing activities, which can increase more of your growth hormone and give you a better hormonal response as well, making your tissues more sensitive to T4 8. So again, exercise improves thyroid function by increasing tissue sensitivity to the hormone, promoting healthy weight management, And [00:24:00] improving perfusion of the th to the thyroid gland itself.

So helping the thyroid to both uptake nutrients as well as to excretions. So in understanding the cortisol, we actually need to have a relationship with the importance of the cortisol cycle. So the way our bodies work in a circadian rhythm is that we release melatonin throughout the night. Now, Melatonin itself is made from Vitamin D, Tryptophan, and Magnesium in the brain.

So it’s, this is one of the more important reasons why brain Magnesium crossing the blood brain barrier is so important, so that you can keep sleep pressure on the brain. But what happens in the morning is that Cortisol rises, and this is your awaking hormone. So people who have challenges with Cortisol.

We’ll have issues where they may wake in the middle of the night, or they’re tired in the morning and cheat up at the end of the day, or they may have low cortisol and are fatigued all the way throughout the day. So they wake up tired and go to bed tired.[00:25:00]

So what does hypercortisemia look like? So high levels of cortisol. So in an acute stress response, the body’s fight or flight response leads to temporary physiological changes, such as increased heart rate and adrenaline release. I know you’ve heard this before. But if you’re in the wild and a tiger is chasing you, the most important thing for you to do is run as fast as you can and avoid being harmed.

So your body is going to then pick up your heart rate. We know adrenaline does that because that’s what coffee does. When you drink caffeinated coffee, it makes your heart rate go up. This is why we give people EpiPens. If you have an anaphylactic shock when it comes to having a food allergy, you immediately give them epinephrine to make our heart beat faster.

So what we want to do in an acute stress response is have an elevation of that. Now we do release cortisol as an anti inflammatory. From an evolutionary perspective, if a tiger gets you, you’re bitten. You [00:26:00] need to immediately trigger an anti inflammatory response in those tissues. So the body is naturally going to bring out cortisol for that purpose, and its secondary benefit is as a glucocorticoid to raise your blood sugar levels.

Because now your muscles can be fed with the sugar and keep your energy levels up. But it also inhibits over activation of the immune system. And the reason for that is, is that if you’re running from a tiger in the moment, you don’t want to be in a rest and digest relaxation response. You want your immune system to be suppressed while you’re getting away.

Now the problem is when chronic stress takes place. This occurs when the stressor persists over an extended period of time. This is an issue where you have continued elevation of cortisol. So your body is constantly pressing the body on the stress response. This leads to continuous elevation of blood sugar.

This is why nurses who work night times have some of the highest rates of type 2 diabetes in the world. Because of their inability to have a [00:27:00] normal cortisol cycle, they’re tired all the time and they’re stressed all the time. So this is what leads to their physiological outcomes. Immunosuppression or susceptibility to infections.

One of the things about increasing blood sugar is that it’s been shown in research studies to suppress your immune system by about an hour and a half. And that’s a challenge when you think about it. So Just for fun, who here knows the first day of flu season?

November 1st. Why would it be November 1st? It’s the day after Halloween. All of those kids consume all that sugar, suppresses their immune system, they walk into class the next day, the first kid that sneezes on them, I’ve got the flu. Guess what we have for you? The answer, right? And so, at the end of the day, it’s all about regulating blood sugar so that you can have a better immune response.

So individuals who are under [00:28:00] chronic stress, it’s actually end up suppressing their immune system, and this is also going to lead to a dysbiotic gut. So just to kind of came back to again, as we’ve been discussing the importance of the pituitary effects, it releases ACTA that cortisol. This will cause faster breathing, this converts that glycogen storage site of sugar into glucose, it’ll increase your blood pressure, You’ll get tunnel vision.

This is a nice way of actually looking at someone’s adrenal insufficiency. You can actually shine a light into their eye. The retina inside their eye should constrict. The muscle should change. If you have proper adrenal function, once you start seeing adrenal fatigue, it’ll flutter. And then from there, if they have adrenal exhaustion, it’ll just dilate because they don’t have enough of an adrenal response to contract the eye.

So it’s a nice window into adrenal function. Very simple test to look at. You can have accelerated [00:29:00] acceleration of heart rate. And digestion slows down as well as sweating. Now, one of the reasons why I want to discuss acceleration of heart rate for adrenaline is the importance of understanding Laglan’s test.

So, this is an old test done by medical doctors looking at adrenal insufficiency. So, what they essentially did was they would take the blood pressure of the patient lying down and immediately have them stand up. Your systolic blood pressure should rise by 10 points. Why is that? Because when you go from lying down to standing up, Your heart can’t beat fast enough to get oxygen into your brain.

So your adrenal glands have to release adrenaline to stimulate your heart to beat fast. So if you take their blood pressure lying down and then standing up, and you don’t get a systolic raise, there’s no adrenaline being released by the adrenal glands. So Radlin’s test is a wonderful insight into adrenal insufficiency, and a great thing to address nutrition with, and see if your nutrition is actually working.[00:30:00]

So again, when we think about the General Adaptation Syndrome, or GAS, this was brought to us by Hans Selye. and understanding the different phases of the adrenal response. We go into an alarm phase, a resistance phase, and then to an exhaustion phase. In the alarm phase, we have the initial stressor and adrenaline response, fight or flight, increased blood pressure blood sugar, and heart rate.

Now, if you’re interested in continuing to understand your studies on this concept, a great book to read is Robert Sapolsky’s Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. Think about a zebra in the wild, just chewing on grass. The lion chases it, it runs, and then stops and chews on grass again. So that’s how your adrenal glands should work.

You should stress, and then calm down. But if you’re always stressed, you can see how our adrenal glands aren’t functioning properly. Now what happens is, we can get into a resistance phase, This is where the stress continues and the body compensates the signs of anxiety, insomnia, [00:31:00] appear as cortisol is chronically released.

So this would be the individual who tries to go to sleep at night, but they have so much stress hormone they can’t fall asleep. Their mind is just racing, racing, and race. Now what happens is you get into an exhaustion phase. This is the inability to manage chronic stress. So you get a depletion of hormones and fatigue and inflammation worse.

This is the individual who wakes up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep. So, on average, Americans at the breakfast table will eat anywhere between 200 and 400 grams of carbohydrate. What this does is it spikes their blood sugar, and in response, they spike their insulin. The insulin will drive the blood sugar down, but there’s still too much insulin.

Here, a body does not make insulin in response to the blood sugar. So, what ends up happening is you have to make stress hormones, glucocorticoids, to release stored sugar into circulation. The problem with that is, is all day long, your body is yo yoing that response. So you wait [00:32:00] for candy, coffee, or something to stimulate you throughout the day.

The problem is you lie down to sleep at night. You can fall asleep because your cortisol levels are low. Yet your blood sugar dips even lower while you’re asleep, and your body says you’re going to die. So I’m going to dump cortisol into circulation, and all of a sudden at one o’clock in the morning, I’m awake again.

And I can’t go back to sleep. So when you think about cortisol and its regulation of our waking up response, also think about the effects of blood sugar, as well as your adrenal function.

So some supportive lifestyle practices. If you’re not doing a purification detoxification type program in your practice, now’s the time to get started. One of the things that we know is we need to minimize our exposure to these endocrine disrupting chemicals. And they actually disrupt the thyroid directly.

So this is what thyroxin looks like on a chemical level. You can see two benzene rings. You have your iodine molecules. [00:33:00] Now, what we do know is that when you look at dioxins, two benzene rings, it looks like thyroxin. You have VPA, bisphenol A, it looks like thyroxin. So if you’re loaded in toxic compounds in your body and you’re not supporting Phase 1 and Phase 2 detoxification with your sulfur containing plants like kale and russet sprouts or Spanish black radish, you’re not supporting your Phase 2 mechanisms.

You can push the body with chemicals, but you need to feed it as well.

To some whole food nutritional recommendations, ensure adequate but not excessive amounts of iodine. I’m not a fan of iodine. Brownstein, Guy Abraham, Overload the Thyroid with Iodine. Remember that your body is going to displace iodine with halogen molecules like bromide and fluoride as well as picolinate, which is a jet fuel.  And so [00:34:00] whenever you take too much iodine into the system, your body tries to dump all of those halogen molecules at one time. It will put stress on your kidneys and your liver. So you want to make sure that you nourish the kidneys and liver to be able to handle the detoxification before you ever start ramping up iodine.

So it’s not so much that you don’t want to not use iodine, you just want to use adequate amounts. So the American Thyroid Association says that 600 micrograms a day is safe. But at the same time, the upper limit is 1. 6 mg of iodine. So you can take a little bit more iodine in certain cases. But at the end of the day, you can also get iodine containing foods.  Iodized salt, fish, seaweed, and dairy products. Now iodine deficiency can lead to hypothyroidism. That excess iodine has been shown to precipitate thyroid issues and exacerbate pre existing thyroid conditions. Now, the Weft Checkoff effect prevents the thyroid from synthesizing large [00:35:00] amounts of thyroid hormone by rejecting excessive iodine quantities.  So you’re not going to just take a bunch of iodine and make the thyroid worth better. It’s more about getting adequate amounts of iodine on a regular basis.

Some other whole food nutritional recommendations is to promote proper thyroid hormone conversion by supplying that adequate amounts of selenium. Zinc is important for thyroid receptors, so all the receptors of your body require adequate zinc. Now what I will remind everyone about zinc is that we have what are called metalloproteins in our bodies.

A metalloprotein is something like hemoglobin, which is important for binding iron. Now, these metalloproteins have a cascading effect of which mineral they actually want to attach to. And much of your metalloproteins need copper. Once you have inadequate amounts of copper in your diet, the next mineral that these metalloproteins go after is zinc.

So when you’re giving [00:36:00] zinc to your patients and they’re not responding to the therapy, it’s because they have a copper deficiency. So you have to address the importance of copper. Now copper is not one of those scenarios where you just want to get copper directly. Copper is naturally occurring in things like mushrooms and potatoes in the form of chirosomase.

This is organic copper, biologically active copper. So getting these feeds back into your diet allows you to get adequate copper, which also feeds your adrenal system as well. So when we think about the importance of zinc, you also have to address other minerals, but zinc is important for those receptor sites.

It is necessary for the production and activation, again, of T4 to T3. So selenium is a trace mineral found in things like Brazil nuts and organ meats. But one of the things about organ meats, Organ meats are the most nutrient dense foods you can possibly eat. We just don’t have a relationship with it. In 1952, the average American ate liver twice a week.

When’s the last time any other person [00:37:00] in this room has had liver for dinner? He just don’t consume it as much as we used. And so, the idea of things like blood sausage, or sweet bread, or kidney pie, you just don’t consume these foods on average any longer. But we do know that historically, we did have a relationship with them.

You can actually go back to ancient Egyptian papyruses, where you can see them actually consuming liver for night blindness. So we do have a relationship throughout human history with organ meats. And if you look at animals in the wild, when a lion kills a zebra, it eats its adrenal glands and heart, and its intestines, and its kidneys, and leaves the muscle meat for the jackals.

So, you can see a lion is a beautiful specimen of strength and power in nature. And what is it eating to get that outcome? Is the organ it eats. Zinc is found in oysters, beef, fish, and seafood. I [00:38:00] commend that those with underactive thyroid avoid consuming large amounts of raw goitrogenic foods such as Brussels sprouts, kale, and broth.

It’s not that you shouldn’t eat these foods, it’s just that goitrogens are sensitive to food processing, including heat, which can denature them, and steaming has been shown to reduce their effect. So have steamed kale. Have steamed Brussels sprouts. Have steamed broth. Because of what these compounds actually do is they ramp up phase 2 liver detoxification.

That actually helps the body to clear thyrox. So you don’t want to clear thyroxine when you have an underactive thyroid. So the importance then is to make sure you slightly prepare those instead of eating them in their raw state. Now, raw food is very healthy for you. I don’t want to tell you not to eat raw.

There was a study done in 1951 in Switzerland by the name, a doctor by the name of Dr. And what he did was he was actually monitoring white blood cell activity and whether [00:39:00] or not you ate cooked food or raw. And what he found was that people were eating cooked food and it would stimulate an immune response.

But when they ate raw, there was no immune response. But the nice thing was when they ate half cooked and half raw, there was no immune response. So it doesn’t mean that you have to eat 100 percent raw, but you need to have some raw food in your diet that will keep your immune system from over responding.

And so if you’re not consuming raw foods. Consider raw supplements and a few concentrates that can help to supply that outcome for you as well.

So this is what a few looks like. This is what most people don’t consume. I know we live in challenging times. You know, we live in food deserts at times, getting access to organic foods, nutrient dense foods, knowing that the farmer or the individual who are pulling the fish or making the dairy products is taking care of the supplying substance, the soil, the anima, their farming practices.

But at the end of the day, this is what we need to have a [00:40:00] relationship with, is healthy foods, because there are healing factors within foods that you can only get by eating these. The problem that we face in this country is this is what the average American diet looks like. These foods are made in a laboratory, just like synthetic vitamins, where they’re there to try to stimulate a response.

Push a pathway, but when it comes to foods, they actually use what is called functional MRI, where they’ll attach your brain to a system, feed you a food, and watch areas in your reward centers of your brain fire off like fireworks. Thanks. And then they’ll say, we got it. And then they’ll add chemicals that make it taste like food.

And then they’ll add coloring that’ll make it look like we can gas vegetables in this country. You pull them raw. And then we gas them to make the colors come back out. Because when you use NPK, you can’t wait long enough for it to go to its full ripening. It results. [00:41:00] maintain its structure. So we have to gas it so that you’re condensed.

If I’m eating tomatoes at the grocery store, I’m needing help. Now I’ll give you a little bit of insight on how bad industrialized food products are. Rats in laboratories, they’ll stay up against the whale of the king because it’s a survival mechanism. They’re scared of the environment. And what they did was they took those rats that they were feeding pellets to.

They started changing their diet and they gave them foodie pebbles. And those same rats. That would stay against the wall for safety purposes and come out into the open to eat the foodie pups. So it bypassed their evolutionary instinct to survive. That’s what these foods are doing. They’re making us addicted to them to the way that we can’t break our relationship.

So I’m not trying to shame for this. This is an actual travesty in this country where we produce foods that no longer provide health. [00:42:00] The idea that we’re even having a conversation on healthy thyroid is nonsense to me. Not because it’s not important to eat, because if you were eating whole foods all along, having a relationship with them, you wouldn’t have to have these conversations.

It is pottinger’s cats or epigenetics. It’s the sins of the father on the second and third generation. We’re now in a food testing system where we’ve changed the food supply so it can have better shelf life from the small eater so that we can keep it in a grocery store that we can buy and consume. You know, what’s happening is, is we’re now giving birth to children and we’re changing the way, my wife had three miscarriages.

It was the most difficult thing for us to get pregnant, and we’re passing these same types of genetic expressions down generation after generation. And it’s because of those facts of the epigenetic changes, there was a famous doctor named Francis Pottinger in the 1940s, did what was called the Pottinger’s Cat Study, where he was actually trying to renew their adrenal glands.

He wanted to [00:43:00] make a drug, a specific adrenal drug from these adrenal glands. The problem was is people found out he had cats, and so they started giving him cats. So at first, he was just giving him the food that they had access to, which is raw meat and dairy. Now, the problem was, is in the next cats that came in, they didn’t have enough food for them.

So they started giving them food leftovers and powders, that what he ended up finding out was the ones that were getting the second dosage of foods started ningsing their hair. They started having bone density issues and they are, they had issues with co creation by the second and third generation.

They no longer could make hats anymore. And the challenges. When they began feeding the cats properly again, it took them six to seven generations before we normalize again. So the importance of getting whole foods back into your diet is the best thing not only can you do for yourself now, but for the generations to come.

You need to feed people and that’s exactly what we want to do is [00:44:00] provide the missing components in the food supply that they’ve taken out. So this is what conventional pest and weed management looks like. This is putting glycophosphate on to The the plants themselves, if you’re interested in understanding that research and how devastating that concept is, the book is called Whitewash, where they talk about the importance of understanding that pesticide and the diseases that it causes.

And this is what people are consuming that are disrupting their thyroid function. We at Standard Process hand weed our plants. We use no inputs on the soil. We make sure that these nutrient dense soils are full of trace minerals. The mycorrhizae, the bacteria and fungal profiles of the soil and plant have a symbiotic relationship with the nutrient uptake from the soil.

And we make sure that we remove all invading factors that could disrupt that plant’s growth. So this is all hand weeding that we do at Standard Process. www. StandardProcess. com In [00:45:00] there have the healthy plants start with healthy seeds. We actually understand the genetic profile of our seeds to make robust plants.

We have over 800 plus acres of certified organic farm where we choose seeds for nutrient density. These are rows and rows of of plants coming from the standard process farms. On our farm, majority of our ingredients are grown locally from organic farm. Things like alfalfa. Alfalfa has a deep root system.

It goes Coombed to six feet into the soil, pulling minerals from the earth’s crust into the plant. So when you think about the importance of trace minerals, you need alfalfa in your diet. Wiley grass, a wonderful source of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is plant blood. Plant blood has unique benefits in the human system.

It actually neutralizes the taint poison called guanidine. Elevations in guanidine disrupt thyroid function. So getting more chlorophyll back into your diet. The importance of beedleaf and [00:46:00] roots. One of the things that we know that when your thyroid is not functioning well, dimethylation factors are decreased as well.

One of the things that’s nice about beets, this red coloring in the beet itself, which is very concentrated in the root. Why the root? Because as the nutrients come into the root, it makes the bulb, and from the bulb, there is an explosion of the plant top. So once the bed was made, the concentration of nutrients come out into the stem and the leaf.

are also in the root. So that red coloring is called Vatagln. Vatagln is tri methylglycine. Gly methyl donors on the vagfone of glycine. Interestingly enough, butathione is made from the amino acid glycine. So getting methyl donors, as well as glycine into your diet, is getting beets back into your diet.

Then you add the importance again of brussel sprouts for that phase 2 sulfur. Bonilla. Buckwheat is rich in thioflavonoids. Thanks. This is the plaque, the [00:47:00] structure of our cells. Vitamin C doesn’t work without the bioflavonoids. Nature of bioflavonoids is Mutin. Mutin is an interesting compound. It’s been shown in studies that if you have adequate Mutin in your diet, that it disrupts hemolysis, the breakdown, premature breakdown of your red blood cells.

So when you think about the quality of your circulatory system, it’s important to get those bioflavonoids. Kale, similar to Brussels sprouts, Kidney beans. Kidney beans have an interesting concept eating, they’re shaped like the kidney and they’ve actually found a compound in kidney beans that helps your kidneys to make more urine.

So the importance of getting things like kidney beans, which are also rich in the natural vitamin A precursors so that your body can get more of those on support or vitamin A receptors of the body. Oats are interesting because not only do they have vitamin E and vitamin B, but it’s a rich source of silica.

Silica is what makes your skin integrity more capable. So when you think about [00:48:00] gut lining or your skin, if it’s getting thin or easily cutting, it’s a lack of silica in your diet by getting oats, you can return to that. Pea vine, that’s that vitamin E from nature. One of the things that’s interesting about vitamin E is it’s rich in phytoestrogens as well.

Before the 1950s, if you had stomach ulcers, They would actually inject estrogen into your body to heal the ulcer. So what we actually know now is that it’s an estrogen deficiency. So who gets stomach ulcers? Postmenopausal women and thin men. Because they lack estrogen in the body. Now one of the things that’s nice about plants, by providing those phytoestrogens, you can provide that healing factor, some nature.

Cutting through things like key bind. And then Spanish Black Radish. is wonderful for clearing phase two detoxification factors. So this is our manufacturing facility at Standard Process. These are large drums of the vegetables coming directly from the soil [00:49:00] that we’re going to produce into our tablets.

So the key to the highest quality is the manufacturing process from Dr. Royalee, the founder of Standard Process. So what we do is we harvest crops at their peak nutritional state on the farm. We press them, freshly harvested crops, immediately to extract the juice. www. StandardProcess. com We then dry that juice in low temperature, high vacuum dryers, which we have some new technology that has actually increased the yield of our harvest.

And then we process by milling, mixing, capsuling, and then tabling and bottling products. So this is actually kale coming from our farms. That robust vein system in a beautifully grown organic plant. So robust. We’re able to then juice that out and pull the nutrient density from the tail. So we remove all the fiber and bring the nutrition out of that.

Just as the same concept with Spanish Black Radish and beets, how we chop them and begin the juicing process. This is the RDW dryer system. This is where we take that [00:50:00] juiced fluid and allow it to dehydrate into just the nutrient density from the flour. So what Standard Process is able to do is to give you feed based therapy, so what you’re not able to consume that.

So when you think about the importance of eating beets, if I give you a product called Beta Flute from our line, It is a concentrated beet manure. For me to give you 9 tablets of beta food would be upwards of 15 to 20 beets. Who’s going to sit down and have 15 to 20 beets? Get 9 tablets and give you the nutrient density of those beets.

So it’s gene based there. From there we take the dried powder and begin the tableting process. And from that tableting process, you can see here, we’re able to then bottle it and this is what is delivered to you. So it comes right from the farm. Right from the soil, right from the nutrient density of organic farming, right to your office.

So this is what Standard Process is. It’s Whole Seed Nutrition Therapy. We’re not an antiquated product line. [00:51:00] We are THE product line. You’ve always been right, and you continue to be right. Our job is to feed America, and that’s what we do. So with that being said, a little summary on Whole Foods Supplements.  They’re complex formulas retaining the synergy of nature. They start with the best quality seeds bred for nutrition, grow them to the richest, highest quality soils, harvest our crops at the peak nutritional content, process them quickly and gently to retain the inherent bioactive compounds, and fuel spectrum extracts to obtain whole vitamin and mineral complexes.

So thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to share this message with you tonight.  Please. So do you sell it for me? Yes. Yes. Yes. I’ve seen people eat kong, cow tongue. Now, let me tell you something about this. You know, I used to be [00:52:00] 275 pounds and I had a real challenge in life with my health. I had high cholesterol, high blood pressure. I was doped. And I used to, I’m a, I’m a business graduate from the university of Florida.

And I went during the real estate crash, I was in real estate to start out my career. And I’m, I was looking for a job in pharmaceutical industry. I thought, My dad told me when I was young, if you start taking the drugs, you’ll have to live on the drugs for the rest of your life. So I said, maybe I’ll go work in pharma.

They’ll give me a company car and they’ll give me the secret on how to take better care of myself. And I stumbled into the standup process experience that word. So I, in fact, doored it into this. For six months, I told myself, this is all nonsense. These food tablets? If there was something intuitive about it, carrots and beets.

I didn’t eat those things. Yet what happened was when I started taking the supplements, I started I had physiological changes in my body. And from there I started doing the purification program, which is a behavior modification. Not only is it clinically supportive of your body, which it ramps up [00:53:00] phase one and phase two detoxification, but you also began eating safe foods.

And I felt better eating that diet. So when I went back to those process feeds, I didn’t want to eat them. They made me sick. So the weight just started shedding off my body at that point. And from there I introduced iodine as a concept. and my brain sped up. Now all of a sudden I can retain knowledge and then it just became an issue where I just wanted more and more and more and more.

So then I went on a journey. 1, 500 books later, 30, 000 seminar hours later, running a business model for standard process, sharing this message, seeing people’s lives change. I didn’t even really fully articulate the concepts here. And you understand complexity theory? AI is actually chasing that concept.

What does that mean? They believe that as they make a computer more complex, out of that complexity, there will be emergent properties which will mean that the AI will become sentient. I don’t believe that, but I do believe in complexity theory. Look at a [00:54:00] snowflake. Each snowflake is like a fingerprint beneath the disc.

It’s the complexity of nature. That’s what these plants are, is a highly complex structure in nature that we have evolved over billions of years for 100, 000 years on this planet to have a relationship with. We thrive in the presence of, it’s only since we’ve removed ourselves from nature that we see sickness rising like we do now.

I actually believe a lot of our individual, Emotional challenges in society where we’re all disconnecting from one another is because we’ve lost that connection to soil. It’s once we return to nutrition that we return to each other again. We’re all a part of this together. But at the end of the day, we’re all starving.

And by that starvation response, we’re actually challenging one another because of it. You can find common groundies, find who are helped. And that’s really why I’m passionate about sharing is the importance of shedding fat to eating whole foods. And if you can’t, think about taking a concentrated key [00:55:00] tablet while you change the behaviors towards the end of those states, Ben.

Dr. Weitz: Yeah, there was just a recent report that there has been a significant increase in scurvy in the United States. Shock, we’re eating so many ultra processed foods that We’re actually getting vitamin deficiencies, which you only have to have 10 milligrams of vitamin C a day to not get scurvy.

Alan:  Albert Stengorgy was the discoverer of bioflavonoids.  So he did research on ascorbic acid and he was very famous in his book discussing scurvy. He actually gave pure ascorbic acid to a patient in Scurvy and they did not respond. That way he gave them paprika, which is rich in ascorbic acid. They healed from scurvy. So remember, vitamin C is not ascorbic acid.  Ascorbic acid is a part of the vitamin C complex. Bioflavonoids, tyrosinase, vitamin K precursors, all of these are found in nature around vitamins. Remember that the [00:56:00] Pirates and sailors of the British Army, they didn’t heal scurvy by ascorbic acid, they did by limes, and lemons, and citrus burts. All nutritional deficiencies, every one that we ever discovered in nature, was cured by food.

It wasn’t a chemical. So I’m not saying that ascorbic acid can’t change your P8, or stimulate and affect your body. But at the end of the day, it won’t be the full picture that your body needs from a vitamin C, but you should see that same concept radiates through all the vitamins. Peace. Very good. That’s good to hear.  Let’s take a break.

So what I think that would be, is that person eating from an organic farm? Are they getting all organic vegetables in their diet? Or are they just eating conventionally grown vegetables? Again, if someone’s living a good lifestyle, supplementation [00:57:00] is not necessary. What is supplementation? It supplements your diet that you’re not getting.

So if you’re eating conventionally grown tomatoes, I mean, I don’t even show it in this presentation, but there was a study done at Rutgers in 1991 where they put together conventional vegetables versus organic vegetables. And what they found is that in tomatoes alone, there is 2,000 times more iron in organic vegetables than there is in non organic vegetables.

The amount of B12 that people are so concerned about getting only shows up in organically grown vegetables. It’s very rare that all showing up in conventional gourmet vegetables. So again, it depends on the quality of the foods that you’re eating. Now, the way I live my lifestyle, I remove three main fats.

Trans fats, enriched flour products, and high fructose corn syrup. And then I supplement the rest. So I live in today’s world just like me. I’m not a purist. Again, I have a [00:58:00] problem. I was born premature. And my mom during her pregnancy could only consume saltine crackers and ginger ale. So think about the baby that developed in that environment.

I came out of the womb starving. So I don’t have an off switch in my brain. When I eat, I just keep eating and keep eating and keep eating. So if you have that issue, it’s called the volumetrics diet. There are actually receptors in your stomach that when activated tell your brain to stop eating. Well, what’s the best way to do that?

Boiled potatoes. Vegetables, fill your stomach and activate that sensational fullness with low calories. If not, I’ll replace that with potato chips and french fries and things that are very small and dense, and I’ll over consume them. Our society is actually over consuming food. On average in this country, we’re consuming 3000 calories in this country to 3200 calories.  People are consuming skin much. And now we’re having issues associated to that [00:59:00] same calories. Yeah, so we just, we have, we’re in abundant kinds, callas, what we’re missing are the nutrients from those callas. So it’s exactly.

So.  I have a lot to say on that, but I do represent Standard Process. I wouldn’t mind addressing that in a different way.

Dr. Lee’s original formula was called catalyn. And so catalyn is our, what we would consider a multivitamin, but we don’t look at it as a multivitamin. It has desiccated adrenal, who’s eating that, desiccated spleen, desiccated liver, and desiccated kidney. Now, why we want to take those things into our diet is that think about your kidneys for a moment.

How many different nutrients would you have to consume [01:00:00] to recreate nutrients that seeds your kid? You go right to the kidney and all the nutrients the kid he needs are in the kidney tissue directly. Then we also add things like carrots, and buckwheat, and all these other factors to figure out a fuller way of nature’s trace minerals, as well as vitamins as nature makes.

Catalyn, C. Think about it as an idea of a catalyst. Dr. Roy Elise said that vitamins and nature come in complexes. They’re bound to minerals and proteins. They act as enzymes in your body. So by getting them in the whole food storm, they enzymatically catalyze activity in your body. So again, it’s just the importance of getting those nutrients into your diet.  And again, you don’t have the supplement, but if you’re not eating that way, this is the reason why we want some.

Yes. Any.[01:01:00]  That’s.  Totally.  Thank you for that. One of the things that’s unique about Wisconsin is that a large glacier cut topsoil at Wisconsin. and basically pulled all the trace minerals out of the soil. That’s why it’s a cattle state, because of the dairy. Cheese is more robust. Attle is more robust. That’s why we organically farm in Wisconsin, because of all that nutrient density in the soil.

Dr. Weitz: Please.

I can tell you right now that fluoride has been shown in the early 1900s,[01:02:00]  To depress about 50 percent of your fatty acid metabolism. And it makes you just docile enough to not air. And that’s because of the iodine displacement, your thyroid shuts down because of all the fluoride in our drinking water and it’s everywhere. Just fluoride, not the, to consider all the other chemicals that we’re exposed to in our environment.

Think about what we’re breeding in today. And the amount of compounds that you can actually smell something and change your physiology. The same concept happens as the poisons in the air. You’re smelling it and it’s changing your stress cycle. So our bodies have to detoxify all of that. Are you taking sulfur based compounds into your diet to support that?

If not, you’ll end up being toxic. I have a presentation on the purification program where I show a picture of a polluted lake and a running whip. And the question is which one would you rather be or what would you [01:03:00] rather drink? The polluted lake of the running up. So our bodies need to be constant, functionally clearing its oxides.

And that’s what our diet does to support those pathways as the bodies.

Please,  Kaylee right here in the back will be wonderful to connect with and and connect about that. But I actually don’t have a detox video as much as I’ve been teaching the purification program for years. Yeah, but we definitely need to have people that we can point me in that direction in as far as video summit.

Just think about the purification program, not always as a clinical approach, although it has dramatic clinical outcomes. We actually have a study at Stand Up Process, where we took a number of patients, we put them through the 21 day, and we normalized their triglyceride levels and their blood sugar levels within three weeks, showing that things like triglycerides are a dietary issue more than anything else.

But at the same time, We change people’s behaviors. People become standard process users and stay in this work. Because we change [01:04:00] the way they have a relationship with chewing. It’s a behavioral modification. So when you’re thinking about helping the patients to be better ASD patients, think about something that will help them to change their relationship with their diet.

Because most people eat from a multitude of reasons. Sometimes it’s emotional. At the end of a tough day, a bowl of ice cream makes a person feel better. People who have lack eat and fast to consume a lot to get that sensation of bloat. It actually gives them a hugging feeling in their body. So there’s a lot of psychological reasons why people have bad relationship with bloat.

So by introducing them to also a food approach, they can get many of those same benefits. You can eat many of these benefits, love your foods, and have your brain say, thank you. Or you can eat high volume, effort foods and make your belly go pimp, but it won’t cause you to gain weight, but you’ll still get that sensation of falling full.

It’s just you have to put the white beans in. Yes,

to [01:05:00] me.

I would say that remember that your brain looks for magnesium and potassium. Your nervous system uses potassium to regulate its activity along with sodium. Your nervous system also uses calcium for exocytosis. So when you release neurotransmitters, you have to have adequate calcium in your nervous system.

So when you’re exercising, you have to replenish those minerals for your nervous system to respond again. So your brain says, go get them. The problem is we reach for a sports drink or just a protein bar, and we don’t feel full from that. Because we didn’t get the nutrients that our bodies would chase. So we go back again, and again, and again.

And so most people don’t realize they’re overfed, but they’re getting nutrients to support their health. And so, yes, absolutely, whenever your body goes through a time of [01:06:00] stress, nourishing it is the best thing you can do to recover from that stress. Robert McPherson in 1923. So the British Medical association was looking at European deficiencies in glandular functioning.

And what he found was, as your th a squa, your immune system and your adrenals are the first to go offline in deficiency. So by nourishing yourself, your immune system becomes more robust and your adrenal system becomes more robust. Thyroid is in the weeds down the road.  Is it, yeah. Well they found DDT and algae in Antarctica.  So yes, we’re [01:07:00] swimming in it. So the best thing that you can do is to support your body’s ability to clear it. That’s all that we can do is to help us support our bodies to be more robust in the presence of it. And that’s exactly what things like kale and bluster sprouts and Spanish black radish are.

That’s the importance of things like volcanic ash, Zeolites, You They are adsorbents, they adsorb toxins. The ability of our bodies to turn over our gyphoidal bacteria. The bacteria in your gut lining are heavy metal chelators, toxin chelators. So 60 percent of the dry weight stool is the bacteria. So individuals who have bowel movement issues, diarrhea, these are individuals who are not turning over the bacteria, meaning that they’re toxic loaded.  And they’re reabsorbing those toxins repeatedly, so you have to support the whole body to be able to help cure the toxic load.

 

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