1. Achieve proper weight
2. Healthy Lean Tissue : Fat Ratio
3. Heal or improve your metabolism
4. Slow down the aging process
5. Reduce your chances of acquiring a degenerative metabolic disease
6. Uses a “no stress” approach to eating
3 out of 5 of the following is a YES!
1. Elevated waist circumference:
Men – Equal to or greater than 40 inches
Women – Equal to or greater than 35 inches
2. Elevated triglycerides:
Equal to or greater than 150 mg/dl
3. Reduced HDL (”good”) cholesterol:
Men – Less than 40 mg/dl
Women – Less than 50 mg/dl
4. Elevated blood pressure:
Equal to or greater than 130/85 mm Hg
5. Elevated fasting glucose:
Equal to or greater than 100 mg/dl
Start with I5 shakes every morning to lose weight, improve body composition, increase energy, improve lipid panel and drop blood pressure.
You can order I5 shakes by calling the company direct in FL. The company is called Xymogen 800-647-6100. Use my pin # TUC 500 so you can order. It’s a medical food and they won’t just let anyone order without a medical Rx.
I wanted to share my favorite GMO-free functional food shakes with you. I especially like it because it has 17 grams of protein/serving and only has approximately 140 calories per serving. It’s called Fitfood Lite Vegan. Good flavors- choc & vanilla. Use 2 scoops mixed with water for a delicious shake. It will promote lean (fat free) body mass and increased muscle mass.
You can order it by calling the company direct in FL. The company is called Xymogen 1-800-647-6100. Use my pin # TUC 500 so you can order. It’s a medical food and they won’t just let anyone order without a medical Rx. You can also order GMO-free shake bars from them.
Top 10 Low-Glycemic Foods
Apples
Berries & cherries
Barley
Grapefruit
Legumes (lentils, beans, peanuts)
Nuts (almonds, walnuts, soy nuts)
Oatmeal (unsweetened)
Green peas
Tomatoes
Plain yogurt (unsweetened)
Top 10 High-Glycemic Foods
Candy
Cookies
Juices with added sugar
White potatoes
Chips (corn & potato)
Sweetened cereal
Sweetened soda
Sweet snacks
White bread & bagels
(processed flour)
White rice
Metagenics 28 Day Liver Detox
Day 1 – 3
Breakfast – 2 scoops Ultra Clear Plus and 2 Advaclear Caps.
Snack – from Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Lunch – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Snack – From. Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Dinner – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Day 4 – 7
Breakfast – 2 scoops Ultra Clear Plus and 2 Advaclear Caps.
Snack – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Lunch – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Snack – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Dinner – 2 scoops Ultra Clear Plus and 2 Advaclear Caps
Day 8 – 21
Breakfast – 2 scoops Ultra Clear Plus and 2 Advaclear Caps.
Snack – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Lunch –2 scoops Ultra Clear Plus and 2 Advaclear Caps.
Snack – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Dinner – 2 scoops Ultra Clear Plus and 2 Advaclear Caps
Day 22 – 25
Breakfast – 2 scoops Ultra Clear Plus and 2 Advaclear Caps.
Snack – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Lunch – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Snack – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Dinner – 2 scoops Ultra Clear Plus and 2 Advaclear Caps
Day 26 – 28
Breakfast – 2 scoops Ultra Clear Plus and 2 Advaclear Caps.
Snack – from Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Snack – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Lunch – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Snack – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Dinner – From Basic Dietary Guidelines sheet.
Regarding the Anti-inflammatory Diet: The whole point of the avoid list is to remove as much of the inflammatory foods and commonly allergenic foods to give the body a much needed rest and hopefully begin to rejuvenate. This is similar to an allergy elimination technique. For example, you know that wheat & dairy products are everywhere and one of the most allergic foods. These foods need to be eliminated first.
I have my patients follow the anti-inflammatory diet for a month and then add 1 food every few days. If eggs ( I also know they are a perfect protein food) are what you miss the most… make it the first thing to try. Patients find this sooo easy to do themselves.
I want my clients to feel responsible and enpowered to take charge of their own health using nutrition. Each day I hear new clients come in and share with me their disappointing stories of things they have already tried. After they have been on my anti-inflammatory diet program for a month (sometimes sooner), they come to find out they had an exaggerated immune reaction (IGG). Clients get the message quickly without any nagging from me. Please don’t think I’m going to be upset with you for not following the diet to a tee. I love watching patients teach themselves their own lessens.
This is an example of one of the product protocols I use to help ‘miracles’ occur in my patients.
Choice 1: Ultraclear/Advaclear 28 day from Metagenics. This is a great maximum bang for the detoxing buck.
Choice 2: Xymogen OptiCleanse GHI, Mitochondrial Kit 28 day cleanse. Both have simple directions.
I keep track of patients progress using the body composition analysis. I personally evaluate and work with each patient to ensure weight loss progress.
Chronic pain patients can have slower pogress….sometimes several years and patience is the hardest thing to do. I look for the slow and steady slope with my chronic pain patients.
I was asked how I felt about hormone replacement therapy. I wanted to share the following thoughts with you:
We are born with an excess amount of hormones to ensure survival of our species through reproduction. However, hormones are very powerful and can have very stimulating, excitatory, and proliferative effects within the body. As such, they are treated by the body as toxic and we have evolved mechanisms to detoxify them (these mechanisms in turn rely heavily on support from a healthy diet and lifestyle). Perhaps, as these mechanisms wear (throughout the aging process), the body naturally turns down its production of hormones.
In other words, if aging ensures the survival of our species by (a) clearing out older “models” and making room for new “models” (which in turn allows for continued evolutionary change) and (b) protecting the gene pool from individuals who have become laden with infectious parasites, then perhaps it makes sense for the body to naturally turn down the production of hormones (that would otherwise promote reproductive success and stimulate tissue growth/proliferation) in synchrony with the aging process. If you feel this way, it does not make sense to work against the body’s natural clock using hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
If you feel synthetic or bioidentical hormones are appropriate for you, you should first prepare the body using lifestyle intervention as well as provide the necessary nutrients to support the healthy, downstream detoxification of those hormones (keeping in mind that it can take years of eating properly to “train” the liver to properly detoxify). By the time patients come to see me, most are manifesting symptoms that are reflective of an underlying imbalance caused, over time, by unhealthy lifestyle habits. At this point, patients want immediate and drastic action. Even so, this still does not provide a rationale for long-term hormone replacement therapy.
In my opinion, natural Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) can be used, if necessary in the short-term, and for others the long -term. Some typical conditions I recommend hormone related supplements are to address mood-related issues, fatigue, loss of sex drive, and muscle wasting. Topical creams for vaginal dryness are helpful as well. There is very little scientific evidence to support HRT as a treatment strategy for the chronic conditions that women naturally become more susceptible to after menopause (diabetes, CVD, osteoporosis, and cognitive decline) and there is certainly no rationale for placing women on HRT indefinitely. The bottom line is that, if your doctor recommends HRT, it is incumbent on him/her to make sure that those hormones are being properly metabolized and cleared from the body.
The long-term treatment strategy in post menopausal women should focus on:
Manage stress and nurture the adrenal glands in order to support continued hormone production.
Provide healthy, estrogen-mimicking support using phytoestrogens like soy isoflavones.
Use diet and lifestyle intervention to address chronic inflammatory conditions (diabetes, CVD, osteoporosis, and cognitive decline) that women naturally become more susceptible to after menopause (keeping in mind that insulin resistance plays such a significant role in perpetuating this inflammation).
I hope this helps!
Paleo Diet: A client asked me “When was the Paleo Diet popular” and “What changes occured in our diet since?”
The answer to this question is quite variable. There are probably as many legitimate answers to this question as there are readers of this response.
Here are a few thoughts:
Paleo diets began to be displaced in the Fertile Crescent about 12,000 years before present. But who knows how long it took to make a complete shift? Further, these people formed only a tiny part of the world’s population at that time. In some parts of the world, the Paleo, hunter-gatherer diet persisted in human populations well into the Twentieth
Century. Vilhjalmur Stefansson wrote several books about the diet of the Inuit with whom he lived for about 11 years early in the 20th Century.
The agricultural revolution made grain-based foods more affordable to everyone. Those who cultivated these crops had historically grown them as cash crops and enjoyed such foods only on special occasions. A variety of perspectives identify the agricultural revolution in Great Britain at different times. The Agricultural revolution is usually seen as occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries following several inventions that made
cultivating, sowing, and harvesting more efficient and less labour
intensive. However, others point to the use of an internal combustion engine combined with the use of chemical fertilizers as constituting the largest leaps forward in agricultural production.
As for the “fast food” diet, there are a variety of ways of seeing that as well. When I was a child growing up in Los Angeles, during the 1960s, we were very aware of fast foods. I could have milk and cereal out of a box at breakfast, a Coke in a bottle at lunch, buy donuts in between, and later that day pick from A & W, Jack-In-The-Box, McDonalds or a host of other fast food restaurants. In High School, “The” place to hang out with friends was a deli while having coffee with sugar. Candy bars and cookies were commonplace.
The general notion about paleo is that if we evolved eating a particular food, we are more likely to thrive eating this same food. In broad terms, that eliminates refined sugar, dairy, and gluten. Some people insist that legumes be completely eliminated from a paleo diet, while others are less rigid about legumes. Still others argue that only raw foods are truly paleo, while others harken to archaeological proofs of when humans harnessed fire (although nobody really knows when we began to cook
our food).
I think that if we can stick to eating more fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats, our chances of being close to human eating habits prior to the Neolithic are pretty good. I hope this proves helpful.
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