October 2007
In This Issue:
The 30-Day Plan To Get Your Health Back - the Adrenals
Looking for a Nutritionist? You've found two!
Food Allergies: How They Can Harm the Adrenal Glands
The 30-Day Plan To Get Your Health Back - the Adrenals
According to the AMA, 85% of all diseases begin with adrenal stress. Why should you care? Because it looks like this – recognize anything?
- Fatigue
- Insomnia (falling asleep or staying asleep)
- Afternoon tiredness
- Anxiety/depression
- Sugar cravings/ Candida
- Slow to wake up in the morning
- Athletic injuries that don’t heal
- Inflammation anywhere
- Heart disease
- Stress
If your adrenals aren’t working, this is physiologically what can happen:
- Gastric and duodenal ulcers
- Reduced bone density
- Depression
- Insomnia
- Insulin resistance or hypoglycemia
- Thyroid defects
- Congested liver and liver dysfunction
- Leaky gut syndrome and intestinal dysbiosis
- Suppressed immune system
It can’t be stressed enough how important the adrenals are in overall health. One scientist described them as the “center of the body’s universe” – if they are not working, a score of other things aren’t either.
To be able to heal the adrenals, several things must be taken care of first or simultaneously: inflammation (including pain or chronic pain), infection, stress and high or low blood sugar levels.
When you come in, our practitioners will decide the treatment priorities and create a treatment plan for you. Once it is determined that there are no barriers to healing the adrenal glands, we test them to see exactly how they are functioning. Based on those test results, we create a treatment plan tailored to you. In about 30-45 days we will retest you on the supplements to see if you are now 100%. If you are, congratulations! You can reduce and then stop the supplementation.
Looking for a Nutritionist? You've found two!
Did you know that we are certified Applied Clinical Nutritionists? This means that we have studied and received a separate certification in nutrition, and we have been using that in conjunction with acupuncture and herbs for a few years now. We have several years experience and we use nutrition to treat many medical conditions - from digestive problems of all sorts, to improving heart function, to reversing osteoporosis, stopping inflammation, bruising and, improving sleep, energy and moods - all with nutrition. So why don’t our diets heal us?
Well, it would have to be a really healthy diet. And those foods would have to be organic and nutrient-dense, versus calorically-dense like so many are. Organic foods today have more nutrition than commercial but are still less than organic foods of the past. Our soils are not what they used to be, which is why so much fertilizer is used. We would LOVE to have people just eat “good” food, but even then they would be deficient. Which is why we get such great results when we get people taking what they need - one patient told us that the nutrition we gave her for depression during PMS worked as strongly as Prozac! If you would like us to evaluate your health, and want to start feeling better, please give us a call. We can help with everyday maintenance as well as complicated health conditions and we have many satisfied patients!
Food Allergies: How They Can Harm the Adrenal Glands
Food allergies set up a perpetual inflammation response in the gut. They react every time you eat those foods. This will make a person feel tired, bloated, foggy headed, cause insomnia, and unusual symptoms like joint pain. Unfortunately, the inside of the gut does not have pain receptors and the inflammation cannot be felt. People usually develop sensitivities to foods they most commonly consume (wheat (gluten), soy, milk, egg). Continually eating these foods keep the inflammation going which causes the adrenal glands to work to put out the inflammation. Over time this can wear out the adrenal glands. This can also get in the way of healing the adrenal glands.
We can easily test for these common food sensitivities. If a patient has any digestive problems, has been on antibiotics (especially for a long time) we suggest testing for allergies and possibly leaky gut. Leaky gut is where the gastrointestinal tract has had inflammation and the tight junctions between cells have opened and allow food and toxins to pass into the blood. If we test for these, then we can treat these problems. Then a retest will confirm that we are successful and all areas of your health will improve much more easily.
While doing the SP Detox Cleanse you can eat (yes,
EAT!) and still carry on with your everyday life.
The SP Detox Cleanse is 21 days- versus only 2 or 3.
The 21 day process allows you to gradually form new
lifestyle habits so that you can retain your new found
health!
