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Hormones & Liver Functions

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LIVER, ESTROGEN, INSULIN CONNECTION

The Liver/Estrogen/Insulin connection is well established, and much ignored by mainstream medicine.

Whether you are peri-menopausal, menopausal, or a young woman, hormone issues are very real.  Guys, that “low-t” (low testosterone) may not be low t at all, it may be that you too are estrogen dominant.  

The foundation of these issues have more to do with liver congestion than with estrogen production. Sex related hormones are produced in the liver, ovaries, and testes. The liver has to be able to filter all of our hormones, along with all of the food toxins, the pharmaceutical drugs, the over-the-counter medications, the fats, sugars, and environmental toxins we come into contact with!

If your liver is not functioning properly, these toxins end up in our fat cells. Now, there are unhealthy fat cells, and healthy essential fats. However, if your diet is high in transfats, from all those cookies, cakes, candy, fast foods, then you have fat that is very unhealthy. Those transfats generally create excess adipose tissue, which also produces estrogens. So throwing more estrogen in the way of pharmaceuticals creates more problems in the long run!

Excessive estrogen disrupts thyroid function, slowing the thyroid down. Hypothyroid (low thyroid) is very closely linked to estrogen and progesterone levels. A simple shortage of thyroid hormone may be the cause of excessive estrogen, and the cycle continues.

Low thyroid equals low energy. Thyroid hormones use fat calories, and estrogen is what causes the fat to be stored. Since excess estrogen has to compete with the thyroid hormones, estrogen dominance blocks the thyroid from being effective. Sadly, this problem can start long before it will show up on standard lab tests.

If your blood sugars are high, and the liver has ended up clogged from high blood sugar and transfats, then the liver sends out hormones to store that fat in the way of adipose tissue. Since the adipose tissue fat is devoid of the essential nutrients needed to turn that fat back into energy, we end up with that belly we all want to go away. The body stores those transfats, hoping that someday when it needs an energy kick, that the fat will have the glucagon (glucose)  it needs to balance your blood sugar.  

These are complicated issues, and although mainstream medicine can throw pharmaceutical drugs at these issues, the end result is that you are chasing symptoms.

Nutritional Therapy, on the other hand, can look at these issues, correct the imbalances, so that your body can regulate itself, and in doing so, those hormonal issues, the hot flashes, the irregular menses, the acne, the loss of libido can be corrected.

At WHOLE FOOD MEDICINE, I offer a simple 21 Day Purification/Detoxification program that easily addresses these issues. Call for your appointment today!

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Seven Organs of Elimination & Purification Program

Tracie Feldhaus

Liver detoxification is a common household term.  Yet most often, it only addresses the liver, and the other six organs of elimination are ignored.  These organs are equally important, and true detoxification (or purification) should always be considered when deciding to “detox.”

What are these organs?  Our lungs, lymph, liver, colon, blood, kidneys and skin.

Your liver has more than 2000 known functions, from making hormones to storing fat to control blood sugar, to filtering the wastes of just being alive.

Your lungs filter the toxins we inhale, build red blood cells, and control our ability to breath.

Your intestines and colon not only absorb vitamins and minerals, but also eliminate toxins from the foods we eat.  Eighty five percent of your immune system is in your gut, and Eighty five percent of seratonin is made in your gut. It is becoming referred to as the “Second Brain” and new…

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Hypoglycemia

Whole Food Medicine Paradise: This is a good article on hypoglycemia, with the one exception that is extremely important to note. Once again, the emphasis on carbohydrate (glucose) burning for energy, is stressed as being the primary source of fuel for the body. This is only because we have been indoctrinated into being “carbohydrate/glucose burners.” The preferred fuel for our body is actually to burn essential fats. Your heart, brain and muscles all prefer fat over carbohydrates. Fat burners produce ketones– not to be mixed up with “keto-acidosis. Ketoacidosis happens when the pancreas cannot produce insulin (Type 1 diabetics and in very, very rare cases, Type 2. The book, KETO-CLARITY, by Jimmy Moore, along with 29 MD’s and nutritional biochemists and scientists from around the world have come together to explain this topic in detail. When we burn fat instead of glucose, blood sugars stabilize, cholesterol, HDL go up to the correct levels, and small dense LDL- the problem child, goes down. You lose that adipose tissue, which is cranking out estrogens (raising blood sugars) and raising inflammation markers in the body. You lose inches, pounds and you keep the weight off!
Sincerely, Tracie

http://www.healthline.com/health/low-blood-sugar-effects-on-body

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Seven Organs of Elimination & Purification Program

Liver detoxification is a common household term.  Yet most often, it only addresses the liver, and the other six organs of elimination are ignored.  These organs are equally important, and true detoxification (or purification) should always be considered when deciding to “detox.”

What are these organs?  Our lungs, lymph, liver, colon, blood, kidneys and skin.

Your liver has more than 2000 known functions, from making hormones to storing fat to control blood sugar, to filtering the wastes of just being alive.

Your lungs filter the toxins we inhale, build red blood cells, and control our ability to breath.

Your intestines and colon not only absorb vitamins and minerals, but also eliminate toxins from the foods we eat.  Eighty five percent of your immune system is in your gut, and Eighty five percent of seratonin is made in your gut. It is becoming referred to as the “Second Brain” and new research actually shows that our brain gets its signals from the gut and not the other way around.  THE SECOND BRAIN, by Dr. Michael Gershon is a great read on this subject.

The blood stream is another pathway of elimination, red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body, white cells fight infection, LDL carries cholesterol, hormones, and essential fatty acids. HDL carries the old cells out of the body for elimination. Our vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids are transported via the blood stream.

Your lymphatic system clears bacteria, enhances immunity, and helps clear toxins of all kinds.  Without a healthy lymphatic system, we see lymphedema, lymphoma’s and cancer.  Being able to sweat is integral to good detoxification.

The kidneys are also extremely important in detoxification.  What isn’t filtered via the liver and intestinal tract gets dumped into the kidneys for elimination via our urine.  When the kidneys are taxed, we develop high blood pressure, edema, gout, and arthritis.  Blood sugar instability is extremely damaging to the kidneys.

The largest organ of elimination is our skin.  When your liver, kidneys, intestinal tract, lymph, lungs, blood are toxic, you develop rashes, psoriasis, acne, dermatitis, dandruff, hives and more.  By the time the skin is involved, you can be assured your body is very toxic.

Where, and why have we become such a toxic nation.  Our groundwater and wells show signs of pharmaceutical drugs, flushed down the toilet and leached through septic systems. Pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, are all injected and sprayed into our crops. Enviromental pollution is rampant, and we can no escape it.  The air we breath is compromised, you know the story…

We do have choices, and one of the best is to utilize Whole Food Medicines 21 Day Purification Program.  This program addresses all of our organs of elimination by utilizing cleanse capsules that contain 28 botanicals. I will teach you how to make good food choices that lower inflammation, blood sugar, address fatigue, chronic pain, and more.  You will be given a Purification kit that includes your shakes, your food plan, and supplements to assist your body back to wellness.

I am starting the next program on JANUARY 8, 2015.  We will meet at Craig Congregational Church for 4 consecutive weeks, and “clean up our act!”

Join me in starting 2015 with the tools and skills for a stronger, healthier and kinder New Year.  WWW.WHOLEFOODMEDICINE.COM or TRACIEFELDHAUS@TRACIEFELDHAUSWHOLEFOODNUTRITION.COM

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FREE LECTURE SEPT 4, 2014 6PM CRAIG CHURCH PARADISE CA

DID YOU KNOW THAT CARBOHYDRATES SPIKE BLOOD SUGARS?

DID YOU KNOW THAT PROTEINS SUSTAIN BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS?

DID YOU KNOW THAT GOOD ESSENTIAL FATS MAINTAIN AND LOWER BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS OVER LONGER PERIODS OF TIME?

DID YOU KNOW THAT DID YOU KNOW THAT GOOD ESSENTIAL FATS LOWER SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION?

DID YOU KNOW THAT GOOD ESSENTIAL FATS ACTUALLY HELP YOUR BODY TO LOSE UNWANTED FAT?

FIND OUT HOW A KETOGENIC DIET CAN ASSIST YOU IN CONTROLLING BLOOD SUGAR, LOWER INFLAMMATION AND HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT!  

SEATING IS LIMITED, CALL 530-566-6116 OR EMAIL TRACIEFELDHAUS@TRACIEFELDHAUSWHOLEFOODNUTRITION.COM   TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT

 

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FATS! THE MOST IMPORTANT CHANGE YOU CAN MAKE TO YOUR DIET!

Three months ago I began hosting a Ketogenic Diet Group in Chico.  What incredible results we’ve had!  Six women and I committed to learning about Weight loss, Blood Sugar Control, and the value of becoming “Fat Burners.”   The next group will be in Paradise, CA.  

All of us were experiencing metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance and a couple of us were full-blown diabetics.  Each of us has lost a minimum of 6 pounds, and most between 10-20 pounds.  

To share a bit of this journey, four years ago, I was on oxygen 24/7, needed a scooter to get around, and because of systemic sarcoidosis, I was told to “put my affairs in order, I was not a heart/lung transplant candidate.”  I was on 13 prescription drugs, today, I take a thyroid pill.  I was pushing insulin twice a day, and taking glucophage.  Yes, I am still diabetic, but by making good fats the primary choice of food, followed by good, healthy proteins, and very minimal carbohydrates, my sugars have gone from being in the 200’s in the morning, to 130-150 by fasting glucose.  

Using coconut oil several times a day, my sugars are now in the 80-90 range following lunch, generally raw salmon and avocado.  Personally, I’ve finally broken a weight barrier that I’ve been at for the last couple of years, and lost 10+ pounds.  Over the last 4 years, I’ve now lost a total of 82 pounds!  

When you talk with your doctor about ketosis, they have a tendency to get a bit excited.  For them, ketosis means “ketoacidosis”.   Ketoacidosis is a serious condition that effects Type 1 DIabetics; where the pancreas is not able to produce insulin.  The body becomes extremely acidic, and you start spilling ketones in the 15millimol range, and unless you get immediate help, you are in jeopardy.  

That being said, NUTRITIONAL KETOSIS, is not  anywhere the same as ketoacidosis.  In NUTRITIONAL KETOSIS, your ketone levels are 1-2 mmol.  

So what is “ketosis?”  KETOSIS  is where your body burns fat for energy, instead of glucose.  All of us are taught that fat was the enemy.  TIME MAGAZINE’S JUNE 23, 2014 adresses this issue, with the cover stating ‘EAT BUTTER, Scientists labeled fats the enemy, why they were wrong.’  

Our brains and heart prefer fat to glucose.  Think about it, since the 1970’s, when we were told to stop eating fat, we have become a nation of overweight, diabetic, insulin resistant, metabolic syndrome society.  Some 29 million Americans have diabetes, and it is suspected that more than twice that just don’t know that they are diabetic.  Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS, and a host of various neurodegenerative diseases have also become epidemic.  Autism, ADD, ADHD, have all skyrocketed.  Our protein consumption has stayed about the same during this time, our fat consumption dropped, and our carbohydrate consumption skyrocketed!  It doesn’t take a rocket-scientist to get the connection!  

NUTRITIONAL KETOGENIC DIETS (NKD) have been used to treat epilepsy in children for the last 80+ years.  There are multiple books and articles that state the use of NKD for treatment of cancers.  Why does this make sense?  

The brain needs fat and cholesterol to protect the nervous system, to keep the electrical signals firing correctly.  Glucose becomes like “carmelized sugar” blocking and destroying these nerve fibers.  Technically, it’s called Advanced Glycogenic End Stage product. (AGE’s).  

Fat -good fat feeds the brain, lowers inflammation, increases seratonin, dopamine, GABA.  It is the balancing act for high blood sugar. Carbohydrates give you immediate energy, then the following “crash and burn” two hours later.  You are left hungry, fatigued, in pain, because carbohydrates increase inflammation.  Protein sustains energy, at least until the next meal a couple of hours later.  Fat maintain energy over the long haul, stabilizing blood sugar.  (Check your glucose level, then eat a couple of tablespoons of coconut oil, and recheck your glucose level 20-30 minutes later, it should drop 20 points.)  

Keep following for more on WHY WE NEED FATS.  I will be introducing more on becoming “Keto-Adapted.”  

 

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21 DAY PURIFICATION DATE CHANGE

We will begin the 21 Day Group Purification starting Monday, January 20,2014.

We will meet at 6pm at Craig Memorial Congregational Church in the office building, next to the church, located at the corner of Pearson and Scottwood Rd. Paradise.

There is still time to come in for your initial exam, and discover the incredible benefits of a Whole Food purification program.

This program addresses all of your body’s organs of elimination, your liver, gallbladder, colon, intestines, lungs, skin.

We only have Wednesday and Thursday to make this happen!  Call 530-566-6116!

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GROUP PURIFICATION SPECIAL JANUARY 15, 2014

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU

AND HAPPY FIRST ANNIVERSARY TO WHOLE FOOD MEDICINE

I AM CELEBRATING BY OFFERING A 21 DAY GROUP PURIFICATION AT JUST $300

YOU SAVE $314 OFF THE NORMAL PRICE!!

It’s time to start the New Year and honor those resolutions to get your health back into balance.  I am offering a 21 Day Purification Group.  The cost will include:  YOUR INITIAL EXAMINATION, INCLUDING A TOXICITY EVALUATION, A SYSTEM SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE, A FREE ZYTO BIOPREFERENCE SCAN, NUTRITIONAL RESPONSE TESTING AND REFLEX POINT ANALYSIS.  The normal cost for this is $150 for the exam, and $35 for the Zyto Scan. 

 THE 21 DAY PURIFICATION KIT INCLUDES a shake powder that has all the vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes that your body needs.  It also includes protein powder, whole food fiber and supplements to assist your liver, gallbladder, and colon in clearing out the toxins that effect your wellness.   The normal cost of the Purification Kit is $299. 

We will meet each Wednesday night for 4 weeks starting on January 15, 2014 for a 90 minute lecture, sharing, and support.  You will learn about good carbohydrates, good fats, good proteins and how they influence your health, and be introduced to a food plan that is incredibly effective in helping to lower blood sugar, inflammation, and various degenerative diseases.  The normal fee would be $130 for these 4 visits. 

The normal cost of this program would be $614.  

Since January marks the FIRST ANNIVERSARY of WHOLE FOOD MEDICINE (Thera-food Whole Food Medicine) I am offering this at the SPECIAL PRICE OF $300!!!

You do need to call and schedule your INITIAL EXAM before January 10, 2014 and a $150 non-refundable deposit is required.  The deposit is applied to the cost of the program.  Depending on how many people join us, we will be either at my office on the Skyway in Paradise, or at Craig Memorial Congregational Church at Pearson and Scottwood road in Paradise.  

TRACIE FELDHAUS
CERTIFIED TECHNICIAN IN WHOLE FOOD NUTRITION
WHOLE FOOD MEDICINE  5550 SKYWAY STE. B  PARADISE CA 95969
530-566-6116

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IMMUNITY

Eighty-five percent of our immune system is in our gut!   The fact we have a “gut reaction” when under stress, or are coming down with something is not coincidence.

When we feel threatened, our “fight or flight” sets in, slowing digestion so that the other body organs can ready us to run or defend ourself.

But what happens when we are getting sick?  Most often, our body tells us we need to urinate more, and our bowels develop diarrhea.  This is your body kicking in the immune system.  It knows it needs to “clean house.”

Daily stress, seasonal changes, enviromental pollution, poor eating habits, lack of sleep & exercise all lower our immunity.

Most of us run to the cupboard and grab the “vitamin c”– and start gulping huge amounts of ascorbic acid.  Ascorbic acid is only the outside shell of Vitamin C, so it’s like eating an eggshell and throwing out the egg.  Yet it is the egg that holds the nutrition!  Vitamin C, being a water soluble vitamin, makes you pee even more.   This isn’t because it’s helping you, it’s because your kidneys and adrenals have now gotten what they perceive to be a toxic dose of C.

Whole Food supplements, organic, complete- our C is the entire package, not just the “shell’ so it does support your immune system.

Calcium lactate helps your white cells function, but you aren’t going to metabolize it if you are on antacids, since antacids shut down the hydrochloric acid in your stomach.  Without HCL, minerals and fat soluble vitamins cannot be utilized.

Come in and let me determine what nutritional support your body needs so that this “flu season” is easier.

It isn’t “what you eat” that matters, it’s what you keep and can metabolize.

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Inflammation, Chronic Pain, & the Sugar Connection

Inflammation is our friend.  At least that is what it is meant to be.  Without inflammation, cuts would not heal, infections would not go away.  Think of it, you cut your finger, and immediately, there is a red ring around the wound.  Within minutes, white cells accumulate, and a scab is formed.   This is acute short–term inflammation.  This is good inflammation!

Today, way to many of us suffer from chronic inflammation.  This happens when our body is subjected to dialy irritants, processed foods, poor air quality, poor sleep habits, prescription drugs and synthetic vitamins.

When inflammation becomes chronic we find ourself dealing with arthritis, pain, headaches, fatigue, digestive issues, neuropathy and so much more.

What does this have to do with sugar?  Everytime we consume sugar, whether it is glucose, fructose, lactose, we lower our immunity for 6-8 hours.  It means that our body has to work harder to protect us from injury or illness.

Sugar issues aren’t limited to just sugar consumption.  Our body looks at simple carbohydrates and converts these empty calories to sugar (glucose) creating even more inflammation.

By addressing the root cause of the problem, you can take charge of your wellness, and reclaim your health.

Join me September 14, 2013 at OHana Health, 757 Fir St. Paradise for a FREE Lecture on INFLAMMATION, CHRONIC PAIN AND THE SUGAR CONNECTION.