Here is this week’s social media roundup, including one of my new favorite traditions: looking back at all of the testimonials we have had at The Drugless Doctors throughout the year. If you would like to add you name to the board, come and visit us either in Cleveland or Naples, Florida. I know, you’ll be glad you did!

This has been our best year yet at The Drugless Doctors: I celebrated 40 years in practice, and thousands of practice members saw health improvement without prescribing medication.⁣
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No matter where you are in the world, we would love to help you too!

In this week’s “What Can I Do For” I share how to help high blood pressure. For more info, visit this link for the $1 chapter download.

Your body requires oil to function and there are two critical oils your body cannot make on its own, called essential fatty acids. ⁣
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Clinical-based evidence from diet-journaling suggests we get more than enough of the omega-6 fats from snack foods. ⁣
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One thing you can do today would be to limit the “healthy” expeller pressed oils such as safflower and sunflower, since they can create an imbalance when too much is consumed.

“It was only one cookie” – Santa

Here is some food for thought today!

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In this season of thanks, we asked our practice members this past week to share one thing they are thankful for when it comes to health. Here are a few of their responses:⁣
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-I am thankful for you helping me to improve every area of my life, decreasing pain, and helping me make healthier choices.⁣
-I am thankful I can sleep through the night without hip pain!⁣
-I am thankful that I feel 100% better!⁣

& Many More⁣
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Share with me an emoji today with something you are thankful for!⁣

We love that we have the opportunity to help improve our practice member’s health, from all over the world. In this testimonial, Carol shares how even though she received care from other healthcare providers, it wasn’t until she came to see us at The Drugless Doctors, that she began to see improvement

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This #TBT was fun to do, but actually very important. I have found that if going No. 2 is not easy for you (aka constipation), it can be due to the fact your thyroid has an impact on bowel and colon activity. ⁣
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Many people choose to treat constipation with laxatives, and while this may work temporarily, it’s easy to become dependent on them while ignoring your body’s cry for natural, healthy habits. ⁣
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To get your colon functioning, increase your water and fiber, and limit or stop gluten. ⁣

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My first YouVersion plan, this is a God-inspired, biblically-based devotional to natural health restoration.

Sickness. Offense. Anxiety. No matter what situations in life come your way, God can restore and bring healing. Let’s look at how you can live healed together!

Start your cleansing protocol with a logical plan to begin wellness from the inside out.

In Psalms it says, “Create in me a clean heart, O God.” This is a five-day plan to help you do so.

In this four-day plan, I share how regaining your health is the foundation to restore the pursuit of your spouse and relationship with God.

Once considered counter culture, my natural protocols have been receiving positive results in thousands of practice members for almost forty years. Men, get ready to be spiritually encouraged and physically motivated.

In my most recent four-day plan, I share how we can celebrate God’s goodness through food and community.

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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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The challenge that many men face today is the larger “pot belly” or liver abdomen which is very common and potentially destructive. The fat that is located in and around organs and glands (visceral fat) creates estrogen. Estrogen counterbalances testosterone, and with the massive amount of estrogen in the environment today (canned food, conventional versus organic meat, herbicides on yard and fairways and soy) any male with a bigger tummy has an estrogen generating machine. A logical goal for any aged male desiring to achieve optimal testosterone and ultimately long-term hormonal health would be to reduce the pressure placed on the liver, which in turn will help process estrogen. Men, you do not want a waistline greater than forty inches; I would like to refer you to a previous “Know Your Numbers” Focus.

Individuals with a history of liver/gallbladder distress need to reduce the amount of artificial sweeteners and processed foods and focus on at least one-half of a red apple a day, one-third cup of beet fiber and one medium carrot. Dr. Bob’s ABC’s assist the liver in its natural restoration by supporting clearing and function naturally. The liver processes and neutralizes toxic substances with a variety of resources including sulfur and protein. Eggs, onions, garlic and broccoli are logical choices to support the detoxification process in the liver.

Optimal liver supplementation for long and short-term optimal function (virus and bacteria control) includes:

1. Milk Thistle, a natural liver herb – Two daily before meals
2. Peppermint Mint Leaf, liquid herb – Five drops in four ounces of pure water; promotes bile flow
3. Dandelion Root/Leaf, liquid herb – Five drops in four ounces of water; detoxifies
4. Citric Seed extract (I use Agrisept-L)- Ten drops in four ounces of water; controls unwanted and unnecessary bacteria and viruses
5. Calcium lactate or citrate – Four to six daily on an empty stomach; prevents virus penetration
6. Vitamin D – Four to six thousand IU’s daily; improves calcium absorption. It would be best to have a serum D3 test annually to monitor the dosage. Itchy skin is a body signal of low calcium or an abundance of vitamin D that is stored in the liver.

I also discuss the Castor Oil Pack in Dr. Bob’s Drugless Guide to Detoxification. This is an “old time”, low-tech, high touch protocol that supports the function of the liver. I would not suggest the castor oil pack in any acute phase. (Apply castor oil to wool flannel and place it on the lower right rib cage covered with a heating pad at medium heat for forty minutes). Liver enzyme assessment is an excellent tool to monitor liver function.  It is also wise to request a test for mononucleosis with a history of tiredness, sore throat, a low-grade fever and right abdominal pain. Hope these tips help you in your drugless journey. Dr. Bob

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Why are these events occurring all of a sudden-and what can YOU do about it? I have conversations daily with men who are having issues with multiple bathroom trips during the night, because if not, they would literally wet the bed. The prostate gland (which is located in the lower abdomen) can swell due to too much estrogen exposure. Over exposure to estrogen is one of the leading challenges men face today; when men have high estrogen they will generally have low testosterone.

The real question is “What is causing the high estrogen”? Synthetic estrogens, commonly called xenohormones, are found in the lining of canned foods, soy products, fertilizers (which is sprayed on your yard and golf fairway) and even in the water we drink. I want to point out that soy products do not balance hormonal health but tend to create a heavy amount of estrogen. The male physiology is not designed to process the overload of estrogen we are exposed to on a daily basis. Women have the pathways and physiology to process estrogen and, even so, many of them have tender breasts and heavy menses (signs of excessive estrogen in women) because their livers are compromised and cannot process the huge amount of synthetic estrogens.

Men, if you notice that you are getting a bit more passive with no desire to be active outside, or hang with your friends and family, or if you have lost your desire to be intimate with your mate, then it would be wise to follow these simple steps to raise your testosterone:

1. Stop all soy consumption
2. Start a liver cleansing product like Milk Thistle or Livotrit Plus™ to assist liver function; two(x) daily
3. Add Maca Root – I use a product called b-Vital™; two(x) daily
4. Do not use testosterone patches; the testosterone can be flipped to estrogen because of Aromatase
5. Eat broccoli which will naturally lower estrogen

I would encourage you to evaluate what you are putting in and on your body.  Estrogen has saturated our ecosystem; there is really no way to completely avoid it.  If your breasts are starting to enlarge it is definitely be time to begin focusing on keeping your liver clean.

For more men’s health tips, you can watch my watch my “Get to Know” Men’s Health series here: You’ll be glad you did!

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