We had a great week sharing drugless content over social media this week, including the new “What Can I Do For” on sleep apnea. Enjoy – and share with your friends who you know can benefit.

In this “What Can I Do For …” I am sharing about how you can help #PreventSurgery for sleep apnea. For more information, visit this link

If you have been following me for a time, you know optimal health is about cleaning up your liver.

For more info, visit here for the “Importance of Optimal Liver Function” from my “Drugless Guide to Balancing Female Hormones” chapter.

One question we always get, either here on social media or at our practice is, “Is breast thermography safe?” Dr. Casen shares how and why it is.

Click here for more information about breast thermography returning to The Drugless Doctors in Ohio and Naples in a few weeks!

Dr. Bob continues the conversation of why your liver is so important when it comes to breast cancer prevention in this #NoMeds video.

Last week was World Mental Health Day, and Dr. Bob and Dr. Casen shared their drugless tips to keep your brain functioning at its best. Go here to watch! 

Last week was Dr. Bob’s birthday, and the team at The Drugless Doctor wanted to celebrate with this vintage throwback picture. Happy Birthday, Dr. Bob!

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Let’s jump right into my past week in social media with my new “What Can I Do For” – this week on headaches.

In this “What Can I Do For,” I am talking about one of the biggest reason people come to visit The Drugless Doctors: headaches.

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For #BreastCancerAwareness, I want to make sure you have all of the info you need to know to make steps to PREVENT breast cancer before it starts. This includes adding iodine.

For more information, I have included the link to my “Drugless Guide to Balancing Female Hormones,” which now includes individual chapter downloads. Enjoy!

This month is also recognized as #NonGMO month. Skeptics often say that foods derived from GMO seeds, most common in soy, but also in canola oil, corn, and other grains don’t have an effect on your health, but after reviewing many exams of practice members at The Drugless Doctors, we have seen that your digestion is indeed impacted from GMO consumption. ⁣
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One thing you can do today while grocery shopping is to look for the “Non-GMO Verified” label.⁣

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Thank you all for watching, to help you on your road to optimal health, you may consider a thirty-minute consultation with me. Please use the code: Wellness10 to receive 10% off (offer is only good if it’s your first consultation).

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Each month on the last Wednesday, I host a Facebook Live covering a wide variety of health topics. October is the month that is generally set aside for breast cancer awareness, but we decided to have our FB Live about women’s health in September so you can begin to make these changes sooner.

In this video, I am sharing about breast thermography, which returns to our practice in both Westlake and Naples in October and November, plus, what you can do for a fatty liver, and other women’s health-related concerns.

Please feel free to pass this video along and then join us for our next Facebook Live which will be a special FB Live on October 10th for World Mental Health Day.

https://www.facebook.com/druglessdoctor/videos/465993010571384/

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These were the questions that were asked in this episode of #AskDrBob. Click the blue box to watch the video. Thank you for sending us your general health questions. We hope they make a difference in your life.

1. I would like to try Agrisept-L but have liver problems and do not want want to compromise any function.

Personally, I take ten drops per day. The only time I’ve seen liver challenges with Agrisept, is when there might be too many parasites. (More info on kupffer cells). Body signals of parasites are grinding your teeth at night.

2. How does radon affect the body?

If you are exposed, please consider purchasing a radon detector.

Notes About Radon (From Wikipedia): radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, occurring naturally as the decay product of radium. It is one of the densest substances that remains a gas under normal conditions and is considered to be a health hazard due to its radioactivity. Its most stable isotope, 222Rn, has a half-life of 3.8 days. Due to its high radioactivity, it has been less well-studied by chemists, but a few compounds are known.

Radon is formed as part of the normal radioactive decay chain of uranium. Uranium has been present since the earth was formed and its most common isotope has a very long half-life (4.5 billion years), which is the amount of time required for one-half of uranium to break down. Uranium, radium, and thus radon, will continue to occur for millions of years at about the same concentrations as they do now.[1]

Radon is responsible for the majority of the mean public exposure to ionizing radiation. It is often the single largest contributor to an individual’s background radiation dose, and is the most variable from location to location. Radon gas from natural sources can accumulate in buildings, especially in confined areas such as attics, and basements. It can also be found in some spring waters and hot springs.[2]

3. I’m due for another analysis the first one said that i had problems with my thyroid and hormones I use to take a lot of statin drugs, and now I take vitamins & minerals. I detox 2 times a week and use an infrared sauna, but my skin is dry and I have like a little thick under my chin. The lady told me that I had a malabsorption that my body was not taking in the nutrients, and I’m overweight, I lost about 60 pounds but I’ve gained some back. I want to lose it plus more want to get to 140 pounds and I’m 5 feet 2 inches i have too much progesterone and not enough estrogen she says that I need the bioidentical hormone.

In my experience, too much progesterone comes from applying a progesterone cream. I suggest blood pressure from a sit to a stand (more info in vid). I also suggest an Adrenal Stress Test for the exact hormone situation in your body.

4. My sister has noticed that after eating cashews she has an orange oil that comes out with her BM. Is that a body signal for something? Should she avoid cashews?

The body signal can be from a plugged-up liver from stress/diet. I would limit cashew intake.

5. What causes swollen knees in adult women with pain & what may be lacking in her body?

First, it can be inflammation (too much gluten (wheat products), sugar, and cut back on dairy. I encourage you to squeeze your wrist (in video). Try adding flax or marine oil to help with inflammation, and/or a Bloodspot Fatty Acid Profile exam.

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Estrogen is being mass produced and utilized for a variety of common household products including plastics, chemicals for cleaning, birth control, leather upholstery, yard treatments and food products that are not organic; dairy and animal products. Estrogen toxicity can be managed by choosing foods that promote optimal liver function; starting with Dr. Bob’s ABC’s which a step in the right direction. One-half of a red apple, one-third cup of beet fiber, and one medium carrot promote liver activity.

It has been estimated only 14% of the population consume the recommended five to seven servings of fruits and vegetables on a regular basis. We are being exposed to an unprecedented amount of estrogen so it is so very important if you do not want to be told you have breast cancer, to eat more sulfur-based vegetables including broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage. Eating other sulfur-based foods like eggs, onions and garlic would assist your body in clearing the excessive estrogen levels. One of the best decisions you could make if you want to get really serious about preventing breast cancer would be to have your urine estrogen levels checked. You want the urine estrogen 2 levels to be greater than the 16 urine estrogen. I am so excited to be able to help the patients who come to our office, create a plan of wellness by supporting their bodies into normal levels of physiology.

If you have tender breasts and a heavy menses it will not go away by having your uterus cauterized with an ablation. You MUST control the clearing of estrogen. The urine estrogen test is a simple tool to help you determine the strategy of food choices. I would avoid all non-organic animal and dairy products. I would also be aware of the herbicides applied to your yard, use only organic cosmetic products, and for sure, eat green foods.

Drugless Action Steps

1.  Avoid all foods with an added estrogen potential: Soy, canned and/or non-organic food.

2.  Drink water from a pure source.

3.  Eat three to five servings of green vegetables daily (Kale, Spinach, Collard Greens, etc.)

4.  Add Dr. Bob’s ABC’s to your life for optimal liver support; ½ red apple, 1/3 cup of beets and one medium carrot

5.  Add a liver supporting herb or nutritional supplement: Milk Thistle, Dandelion Root, Calcium D-Glucarate

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I explained to her the physiology of what cows eat and asked when was the last time she saw a cow eating cottage cheese, milk or ice cream. The long pause she gave was so long, I had to ask her if she was still there. She had an epiphany when I suggested cows eat green food which is loaded with calcium. I proceeded to inform her kale is the new beef, not only a great source of calcium, but also protein—much better than soy, which is a story in itself.

You, the public, are always searching for information from reliable, clinically substantiated sources, and the freelancer mentioned above, along with other journalists, are compensated for the information they provide. I also received two other requests for an interview the last few weeks with similar questions on outdated scenarios which I was not able to provide answers, since the protocols they wanted me to comment on are not a part of the time-tested  “norm” of “Let food be your medicine…”

One common misconception in health articles is progesterone cream will resolve your estrogen dominance problem (heavy menses, tender breasts and PMS). Progesterone is the counterbalance partner to estrogen, meaning progesterone and estrogen are on a teeter-totter of life going back and forth, hopefully in harmony.  Excessive levels of estrogen from our toxic environment is currently the more dominant one, and a substantial factor why we are experiencing an epidemic of estrogen-related disorders including breast cancer.

Progesterone is sourced naturally in the body from the primary building block for all steroids: Cholesterol [see the chart below]. Cholesterol is at the peak of the cascade that develops into pregnenelone, then to proceeding to become progesterone, and down the line to a variety of other steroid hormones.

One of the major options for progesterone utilization to prevent breast cancer is to balance estrogen. Hormonal estrogen harmony will not occur when a female continues to choose a refined sugar diet, requiring the release of sugar breakdown hormones to metabolize those sugars. The example in the chart is the final step of cortisol or also known as glucocorticosteroids.

When sugar is dominant, progesterone is dramatically depleted and is not able to answer the beck and call of the body to balance estrogen. The process appears to be hampered or stopped in women with cancer histories by the collateral damage of a sugar-induced progesterone deficiency which is needed to balance estrogen. I discuss this scenario in detail in “Dr. Bob’s Guide to Balancing Female Hormones”. We monitor our patient’s diet journal patterns. Sadly, it’s quite common to see most patients journals with massive sugar consumption, which also leads to obesity.

I am repeatedly asked by women who are desperate to get healthy, while having their hand in the cookie jar and desiring the best source of progesterone cream. In theory, applying progesterone to one’s breasts and/or abdomen does make sense to the scientific mind, but it is not getting to the cause of the problem. Over time, the negative feedback mechanism which is the natural system on body function is sabotaged. I do not promote progesterone creams and or bioidentical hormones. I promote a lifestyle of eating organic green vegetables and proteins that do not place a demand on the progesterone pathway. In fact, greens assist in the process of clearing estrogen. One of the best estrogen clearing foods is broccoli.

Creating a drugless plan for optimal female wellness not only includes knowing your urine-estrogen number, but you may consider having your saliva progesterone levels checked also. If your 16 urine-estrogen is elevated in the Estronex Urine test in comparison to the number 2 estrogen, it would be wise to have a saliva female hormone panel completed to create a plan of wellness. From my experience, patients who come into our office with a history of miscarriages, subpar thyroid function and MS tend to have deficient progesterone levels.

Drugless Action Steps

1. Do you use progesterone cream(s)? If yes, have your blood pressure tested both sitting then standing. If the standing blood pressure drops, you potentially are experiencing adrenal fatigue and the inability to create adequate progesterone.

2. Is your cholesterol level above normal? If yes, it may be a signal that you are either under stress and or consuming an abundance of refined sugars, or both.

3. Consider a Female Hormone Panel saliva assessment if you experience tender breasts, heavy menses, a history of miscarriages, low thyroid and/or full body weakness.

4. An Adrenal Stress Index will reveal cortisone levels which are dependent on progesterone.

5. Estronex Urine assessment for Estrogen 2 and 16 helps determine the excess of “bad” or proper “good” estrogen.

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1. USA Today-Study: Post-menopausal hormone therapy should be limited

2. USA Today-Need more motivation to control weight, exercise? It lowers risk of breast cancer.

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The real challenge men contend with is the fact estrogen competes with testosterone (women, on the other hand, are challenged with too much estrogen). Testosterone is the key hormone for men and estrogen is the principle hormone building block for females. Men do not have the natural metabolic pathway to process the massive amounts of estrogen found in the water we drink, the soy that is in nearly every processed food or “energy” bar today, and the steaks, burgers and chicken patties you pick up at your local franchise restaurant (read all labels of the food you eat!). I am treating more men today with enlarged prostate glands causing them to get up five or six times a night to urinate.

I recently had a number of men come into the office with elevated estrogen and low testosterone; they each gave me one of two answers—they just finished walking through a golf fairway or were fertilizing their yard.  Golf course maintenance crews apply herbicides and pesticides to the greens and fairways to control weeds and bugs, but those sprays have a base of xenohormone producing estrogen.

I would not golf in the morning when there is dew on the grass blades.

Walking on the course will kick up the water droplets and vapors that you are going to inhale. I did not have the ability to assess hormones this easily in the past, but now with Zyto™ technology the process of estrogen/testosterone levels can be tested incredibly effortlessly.  We can actually order a cradle to place your hand on to assess your hormone and other levels anywhere in the world; it works via a USB internet software, all you need is a computer.

You would be wise to incorporate a plan to reduce the massive amount of estrogen and the negative impact created by its exposure. This is by far one of the biggest sources of long-term health challenges I am seeing currently and will continue to be in the future. Forty-five thousand women die from breast cancer every year in the US; ninety-five percent of those cases are caused by excessive estrogen. The amount of men having breast cancer is also increasing; there are over two thousand cases of male breast cancer yearly. This number will continue to increase due to the toxic environment and the lack of information being provided.  (Please pass this tip on).

Action Steps to manage estrogen which will help increase testosterone:

1.     Do not eat soy or canned food.

2.     Take Livotrit Plus™ two or three daily—this supports liver function.

3.     Do not eat sugar; this depletes B vitamins needed to process estrogen.

4.     Golf Tips: 1. Ride the cart when you golf 2. Do not put the T in your mouth. 3. Don’t wipe grass and dirt off your high tech golf balls with your tongue.

Fresh green vegetables, especially those in the sulfur family – broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower are great foods to lower estrogen. Eat organic meat products and drink water from a pure source; reverse osmosis would be wise. Finally men, I would not apply any testosterone to the body via patch or lotion; the external testosterone can be easily converted to estrogen. Trust me, you’ll be glad you did!

(Me in the 1990’s-Pre Dr. Bob’s 20:12)

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