In this week’s social media recap, we look at what you can do for earaches, plus many more quick tips to help you live a healthier life. Enjoy!

Have you or your children ever had chronic earaches and you just didn’t know what to do? In this week’s “What Can I Do For …” I share what we have found to help stop them for good!⁣
⁣Hint: It involves not eating 🥛⁣
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Visit my Earache Chapter from my #PreventSurgery book for more information.⁣

Real quick, do you remember what you had for breakfast yesterday? If your memory can use a boost, consider adding zinc-rich pumpkin seeds as a snack or on your salad.

Thank you to everyone who brought their non-perishable food items to The Drugless Doctors. We were able to donate over 300 lbs to The Greater Cleveland Food Bank today!

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Thanksgiving is soon approaching and we want you to send us your tried and true Thanksgiving recipes that we will highlight in a few weeks. Please keep them as close to Dr. Bob “Approved” as you can. One of our readers will randomly win the selection below in order to entice you to send us your recipes. You can send them to customercare@druglessdoctor.com and if you have a photo of the end result, even better!

We are thankful for you!

The Dr. Bob Team!

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One of my favorite brands I partner with is Selina Naturally, home of the Celtic Sea Salt brand. I was recently asked to write an article about healthy snacking in their most recent “magalog”, which you can view below and a link to their entire issue below, enjoy!

Dr. Bob

Entire Magalog

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I hope you are enjoying my #OptimalU photos and videos, and that you are also beginning to implement them into your daily regime. For this week’s health news, I have two links about General Mills’ decision to halt production with GMO’s with their Cheerios’ brand, and also a look at the flu. Here’s how I prevent the flu year after year. Thank you for watching (click the box), and have a great Monday!

Dr. Bob

Article Links:

1. Food Navigator USA-GMO-free Cheerios: Did General Mills buckle to consumer pressure? Will the move backfire?

2. The Huffington Post-2013-2014 Flu Is Here

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Here’s a recipe for a cold winter’s night, that I have been making for sometime with Deb. If you decide to make it, I’d love to see your photos. You can share them on our FB page!

Dr. Bob’s Chicken Kale Soup

Ingredients:

8 Chicken thighs with skin and bone

6 Chicken legs with skin and bone

One large white onion

6 medium carrots that are to be sliced to 1/8^th wide pieces

6 celery stocks which are to be sliced to 1/8^th wide pieces

1 bunch of kale cut into one-inch pieces

Celtic Sea Salt™ ground up to one tablespoon

2 quarts pure water

1 Pint reserved chicken stock broth – this is chicken broth that has been saved in the freezer from past baking of chicken thighs (If you buy, make sure the stock has no MSG or sugar)

Large Pan or Dutch Oven

Directions:

Add chicken thighs and legs to the water with the onion. Bring water to a boil, and then simmer until the chicken is fork tender.

Add reserve chicken broth to the boiling pot

Cool the chicken and cut in small bite size pieces

Add the carrots and celery to the water and chicken pieces; simmer until the vegetables are fork tender

Remove onion, let it cool, cut into pieces and add to the mixture

Add salt to taste

Add kale to the other vegetables and continue to simmer for a few minutes.

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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. Celtic Sea Salt looks like a teaspoon is 1920 mg, while you answer the iodoral question, tell us what you recommend as a daily dosage on the celtic sea salt as well.

Traditionally I recommend a  ¼ teaspoon of Celtic Sea Salt per day on a regular basis.

2. You mention you take 25 mg of Iodoral, which is 2 of the 12.5 mg tablets from the 90 count bottle. What do you feel is safe to take as preventative for someone who was restricting salt?

At the present time, I use Iodizyme-HP (one tablet per day). Before you start iodine, I recommend a TSH T3 T4 examination to see how your iodine is working looking at T4. A urine iodine loading test also helps to determine your iodine levels.

3. I just received a THS of 17.47 and do not want to take drugs.

In our practice we use GTA, which is porcine thyroid tissue. Also Iodizyme-HP and L-Tyrosine.

4. Can you give advice please about gum infection/disease with shooting pain?

If it’s an infection, talk to your dentist. I would avoid sugar. I also consume Agrisept-L, which is a natural antibiotic of citrus seed extract only.

5. What do you think about Amy’s foods, soups, etc?

Make sure to read the ingredients. I do not promote soy, canola or hydrogenated oil, sugar (evaporated cane juice), dairy (I know they have pizza), or gluten.

6. What’s your prescription for high blood pressure?

In our practice, we use magnesium (liquid and solid).

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I know how easy it is to gain weight, but I see the biggest obstacle is the roller coaster of weight gain followed by weight loss, weight gain followed by weight loss, like a teeter totter. From my previous weight gain experiences, I had an inner circle which enjoyed eating and drinking beverages with high calories. Even though I made significant dietary changes since then, I had a “truth” moment in 2012-that even healthy food (with high calorie content) was causing me to gain weight.

Stress and weight gain are “friends”. Whenever your stress levels increase, the amount of cortisol which is released by your adrenal glands also increases. The excessive sugar intake can result in self-inflicted cannibalized muscles, with loss of muscle tissue. This loss can also create an environment of more glucose hanging around and storing itself in your body as fat. Over time, with reduced muscle bulk, and an over indulgence in foods with high calories, it’s easy to see how someone can gain weight.

Other “friends” of weight gain include heavy metal toxicity from the environment, which causes your body to dilute toxins in fluid, or added water weight (your body will also store toxins in fat or cellulite). Leptin is the hormone that broadcasts to the rest of your cells that you are “full”. Ghrelin, on the other hand, promotes hunger. High fructose corn syrup (a weight loss assassin), reduces leptin and increases ghrelin. It would be in your best interest to reduce your HFCS exposure, which is commonly used as a sweetener in many packaged foods.

The list of weight factors could be limitless and often, tiring. I want you to focus on the amount and type of calories you are choosing- reduce your high caloric intake foods. Exercise, or any type of movement, is a secret weapon for long-term success with your weight loss plan. Weigh yourself often, daily would be an excellent strategy.  Your strategy should also include a SWAP bag (Start With A Protein). More info in this video:

I recommend Gammanol Forte with FRAC™, an excellent product helping create lean muscle tissue (two or three daily). Lastly, L-Carnitine™, which promotes optimal fat metabolism and excellent adjunct to optimize the fats consumed in your daily routine. My best to you on your long term weight loss plan and achieving your weight loss goal and BMI number of 25.

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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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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. Dr. Bob, do you promote palm oil for cooking?

I primarily use olive oil for cooking, alongside rice oil for stir-fry, and coconut oil. Do not use flax oil for cooking.

2. Would you use green coffee beans to help in weight loss?

If you want to lose weight, it’s pretty simple. Limit Calories! If you focus on green, non-starchy vegetables and lean protein, that will help your weight loss. You want a BMI of about 25.

3. Can you tell us what a liver cleanse is, and why I need to do one?

There can be many definitions. Milk thistle is an herb that helps liver function. Minimize the toxins you put in and on your body. The safest would be Dr. Bob’s ABC’s (½ red apple, ⅓ cup of beet fiber, and one medium carrot per day).

4. How can I quit smoking without wearing a patch or ecigs?

Royal Jelly provides nicotinic acid, I would also consider Kava Kava root, which would aid in anxiety.

Extra: What is ablation?

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