Conventional Medicine Is Not Discussing This: Lead In Our Food, Microbiome & Adrenal Fatigue

Today, we're going to focus on the microbiome, micronutrients, and nutrition in chronic health conditions. There's a new study that says transforming psoriasis or eczema care with probiotics and prebiotics is now a new novel approach. We also know that pre and probiotics can help with weight loss resistance.

A riveting new study came out of MIT states that there are microbes that can consume cholesterol. Imagine if we could stop all the statins that are being prescribed. We know microbes can help with skin issues, GI issues, and of course, brain fog, and 80 percent of your immune system is in the gut.

People are calling the gut, the microbiome, the second brain. We also know probiotics can help improve the feel-good hormones like serotonin. Or for example, you are not sleeping well, you can help produce melatonin and other calming type hormones before you go to bed with probiotics. So, probiotics are where it's at.

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Understanding Gut Health

So, you’ve been diagnosed with some type of generic diagnosis like IBS. Then, you get sent from your general practitioner over to a specialist, the specialist can't get you in for three to six months, even though you're suffering. You finally get in, they scope you every which way you can be scoped, only to be told you have a generic diagnosis like IBS. So now what? That's where I come in. We dig deeper and test to determine exactly what pre and probiotics that you are going to need. We talked previously on the show about how certain micronutrients and nutraceuticals and pre or probiotics can help with all kinds of things from skin issues to GI issues to brain fog to feeling wired and tired and we can improve your immune system.

Another recent study said diabetes starts in the microbiome. So, what we're finding out is that everything starts in the gut. They're calling the gut your second brain. And so, we say test, don't guess to determine exactly what food, drinks, and supplements you should or should not be consuming. In addition to that, we're going to get you on the exact pre and probiotics that you need along with several different nutraceuticals.

And another recent study said diabetes. It starts in the microbiome. So, what we're finding out is that everything starts in the gut. They're calling the gut your second brain. And so, we say test, don't guess to determine exactly what food, drinks, and supplements you should or should not be consuming. In addition to that, we're going to get you on the exact pre and probiotics that you need along with several different nutraceuticals.

Prescription drugs are not the only answer. We're going to dig a little bit deeper than what they do in conventional medicine. it's been Ozempic is the, the big one for weight loss. I don't think it's right that people that actually have diabetes cannot get their diabetic meds because other people want to lose weight, that seems very unfair and I hate to use the F word on the show.

There are other answers besides prescriptions and nutraceuticals, pre and probiotics and more intense testing that the conventional doctors aren't doing.

So we are getting to the root cause of these GI issues.  We are actually helping people without prescriptions. I don't prescribe, and even if you are on prescriptions, it's not my job to tell you to get off of them or on them or whatever. That's a discussion that you have with your doctor. That's out of my scope of practice as a functional nutritionist registered dietitian. But what is in my scope of practice is doing deeper nutritional testing that the doctors are not doing in conventional medicine.

A New Chocolate Study

A new study that found dozens of popular chocolates made in the U. S. and Europe that contain more heavy metals than the limit set by the California law. So, in 1986, California law proposition 65 requires businesses to inform state residents about products with chemicals known to cause cancer, and birth defects.

While the elevated levels of metals and chocolate are concerning, consumers don't need to cut chocolate out of their diet altogether. I talk about the benefits of chocolate, but we can't ignore this fact that lead and cadmium are naturally occurring elements that can affect every tissue in the body by inserting themselves into cellular processes involved in the body in major bodily functions. In my NutriStat micronutrient test, we do look at heavy metals as just one part of the test.

Children are especially vulnerable if they ingest heavy metals, particularly in terms of their neuro neurological development. Exposure can damage the brain and the nervous system, slow growth and development and trigger learning and behavior problems. That's why we have all these lead laws now, right? Because kids were consuming lead, which we should not have in, in our systems, um, above certain amounts. They found that 43 percent of chocolate products studied exceeded the maximum allowable dose of lead and 35 percent exceeded the amount of cadmium.

These heavy metals make their way into your chocolate through the, the cocoa bean. Long story short, what do we do, Magnificent? I say you can eat a little bit of chocolate, a little bit, at a time. Make sure that you have some fruit with it, dip the strawberries in it, dip the blueberries in it. Just don't sit there and eat a Snickers bar that's filled with all kinds of crap and chemicals. You could see right on the label. So, in the study, more lead was found in the dark chocolate. The safest choices of the about 30 bars tested was a company called Tazza Chocolate. Mast, and Valrhona. Some of the bars that were found to be high in lead and cadmium were Theo, Lillies, Trader Joe's, Green, and Black.

So now you know which chocolate to avoid. Get my bread guide and learn which breads to avoid and remember you need to be your own health care advocate. I want you to think about making a free call. Click on the link below and schedule a call. If you're not ready to do that, get the free information that I offer on the microbiome, micronutrients, food sensitivities, and all the crap that's in our food in our free bread guide to determine exactly what foods you should be consuming or not consuming, whether it's the bread or the micronutrients, etc.

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