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Why Doctors Struggle To Fix Hormones
by Dr. Martin
Let’s be honest…Medical Doctors have a HARD time helping people fix their hormones.
If you suffer from sluggish thyroid symptoms…Then you KNOW what I’m talking about. Most hypothyroid patients have symptoms for YEARS before anything shows up in their lab tests (if anything ever does show up).
And, if something is finally ‘off’ in their blood work, the doctor has to constantly adjust the dosage of the medication.
But, as I mentioned, most people with hormonal problems never have anything really show up in their blood work. A person can have textbook hormonal symptoms and be told everything “looks good” by their doctor.
How can that be? Why are hormonal issues hard for doctors to figure out?
Why are there MILLIONS of men and women who suffer from hormonal problems and are told everything is okay?
One reason is that doctors forget there’s a hormone hierarchy. There are a couple of hormones that ultimately control or influence most of the other hormones. This means a problem with the “king” hormones will affect all other hormones. And cause all types of hormonal symptoms everywhere in your body.
So, what is this hierarchy of hormones? And more importantly, what KING hormones affect all other hormones?
If you’ve been with us for a while, then you know insulin is one of the KING hormones.
A problem with insulin affects every system and virtually every hormone in your body.
That’s why people who fix their insulin problem notice many of their hormonal problems have disappeared. There’s another KING hormone that’s often ignored…
CORTISOL.
Doctors forget that cortisol is one of three hormones that raise blood sugar levels.
This means that food not only impacts your insulin levels — but also your cortisol levels.
Doctors also forget that cortisol DIRECTLY affects your thyroid, ovaries, testosterone, estrogen levels, and inflammation.
If you have chronic thyroid problems — you most likely have a cortisol problem.
If you have chronic estrogen dominance symptoms — you most likely have a cortisol problem.
But there are more problems with uncontrolled cortisol. Uncontrolled cortisol wrecks your sleep. Too much cortisol is why you have a hard time falling asleep, staying asleep or you wake up cxhausted.
Uncontrolled cortisol can also slow your metabolism to a CRAWL (Do you ever wonder why some people can’t lose weight, even if they do everything “right”???)
Uncontrolled cortisol is also the #1 cause of anxiety in men and women over 40.
Here are a few more things too much cortisol can cause:
• Muscle wasting increases your risk of falls or disability as you age.
• Brain shrinkage (yes, your brain gets smaller) and how this increases the risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
• Sluggish thyroid symptoms
• Estrogen dominance symptoms
• Low Testosterone symptoms
• Joint and Muscle pain
…and faster aging.
All of this is because your cortisol is out of whack.
To fully understand how uncontrolled cortisol can cause all these problems, you need to know a little bit about cortisol.
Most people associate cortisol with stress because cortisol is often referred to as the “stress hormone.”
Now I’ve often joked that when I’m wearing a tie, it feels like I’m being strangled by someone with really weak hands. For me, wearing a tie is an annoyance — but I know that wearing a tie isn’t going to kill me.
Unfortunately, most people, including medical doctors, think of stress the same way.
Stress is an annoyance. They don’t like it. But, at the end of the day, they ignore it and shrug it off as “no big deal.”
Sadly stress is a “big deal.”
Without getting too bogged down in biochemistry, let me quickly share with you how cortisol works. Once you see how cortisol works you’ll know why uncontrolled cortisol can destroy your health.
I’m fortunate enough to get to spend some time in Florida during the winter. One of the things I love about it, outside of the fantastic weather and not having to shovel snow…
Is that the community I stay in, a “golf cart community.”
This means exactly what it sounds like. I can take a golf cart to the grocery store, tennis courts or even out for dinner. My golf cart has a switch that toggles between a picture of a turtle and a rabbit. If the switch is in the turtle position — the cart tops out at 12MPH. But, if the switch is in the rabbit position, I can get the cart up to 25MPH.
Your body also has two different operating systems and they’re kinda like the turtle and rabbit modes on my cart. One of your operating systems is called “REST AND DIGEST" and the other is your “FIGHT OR FLIGHT” system.
When you’re stressed, your body moves into the “fight or flight” operating system and your adrenal glands take over. Despite being no bigger than a walnut, your adrenals are powerful little glands responsible for creating and managing CORTISOL.
Like all hormones — you need cortisol. But cortisol needs to be balanced or controlled.
When you’re stressed…your cortisol levels go UP.
Here’s where most people (and doctors) get it wrong. Your adrenal glands can’t tell the difference between physical and emotional stress. So, even if you don’t “feel” stressed, it doesn’t mean your body isn’t loaded with cortisol.
That’s because things like chemicals - processed crappy foods, too little exercise, too much exercise, pollution, and too much sugar can all make your body think it’s stressed and this causes your adrenal glands to produce cortisol.
If your body thinks it’s stressed all the time…then your adrenals are ALWAYS making cortisol and this is when things get bad.
Let me end by saying… If you have a bunch of hormonal symptoms there’s a good chance you're struggling with uncontrolled cortisol and elevated insulin.
Since cortisol and insulin are KING hormones, you’ll have a hard time overcoming all your hormonal symptoms unless you FIX insulin and cortisol.
Read: Adrenal, Cortisol
Read: Insulin Does more than Lowering Blood Sugar
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The Link Between Dehydration, Magnesium, and Histamine.
Hey, It's Dr. Martin here…
I want to talk about an 'old' study that examines the physiology of brain histamine
and how this study gives some crucial insights into histamine.
Remember, histamine is a messenger molecule that many cells in your body use to talk with each other. This is one reason why you need some histamine.
Histamine is also released by mast cells (a type of white blood cell) during periods of stress and allergy. So histamine is an essential part of your normal immune response.
Now, mast cells are found in almost every tissue in your body. But they're primarily found in areas CLOSEST to the external environment - your skin, lungs, and G.I. tract.
That's why itching, redness, swelling, and increased mucus production are common allergic reactions. But your body also releases histamine during periods of stress.
When you're stressed your adrenal glands secrete cortisol and adrenaline. These two hormones stimulate your nervous system which activates your mast cells…and releases histamine.
Here's what too much histamine can do to your body:
Stimulates more mucus production — messing up your sinuses, lungs, or throat.
Constricts the bronchi in your lungs — causing wheezing, coughing, or asthma.
Too much histamine can even affect your gut by causing cramping and diarrhea.
Now, back to the 'old' study I mentioned earlier. Here's what researchers found:
"Histamine release is enhanced under extreme conditions such as dehydration or hypoglycemia or by a variety of stressors."
Here's what people don't know about histamine when you're dehydrated — you secrete more histamine. And more histamine means more symptoms.
Most people think that being dehydrated only means not drinking enough water. While most people don't drink nearly enough water dehydration can also happen when someone isn't getting enough electrolytes and key minerals….Mainly salt, potassium, and MAGNESIUM.
Here's something doctors don't know about magnesium when your histamine system is working the way it should and your mast cells secrete histamine, then your body makes an enzyme called Diamine Oxidase (DAO).
Think of Diamine Oxidase (DAO) as a mop that quickly removes histamine after its release. DAO is your body's way of ensuring you're not flooded with too much histamine and gets a bunch of allergy symptoms.
If you can't make enough DAO, then histamine accumulates, and you end up with chronic symptoms like asthma, hives, rashes, coughing, sinus congestion, and gut issues.
Well it turns out that you can't make Diamine Oxidase (DAO) without magnesium.
So, if you're not getting enough water, and you're low in magnesium. You're going to have a problem with histamine.
Not only did the researchers find that being dehydrated causes more histamine release they also found that hypoglycemia — or low blood sugar — also causes you to make more histamine.
There's a reason why people notice a drastic difference in allergy symptoms when they're eating low-carb. When you're eating low carb, your blood sugar levels are more stable, which positively affects histamine.
That's why my favorite natural approach to allergies is…
• Drink more water.
• Take electrolytes.
• Get enough magnesium.
• Quercetin
Read also: Dehydration
Read also: Electrolytes
Read also: Our need for Water
Read also: Magnesium
Understanding Diabetic Neuropathy (Diabetic Nerve Pain)
What creates the nerve pain of diabetic neuropathy?
Diabetics get nerve damage due to too much sugar in the blood. The sugar hurts the nerve cell’s outer sheath (the protective outer cover).
Peripheral nerve cells have three main parts: cell body, axons, and dendrites (or terminal).
Nerve damage normally occurs when the outer sheathing or the myelin (protective covering) of nerve cells degenerate. This is similar to an electrical wire that is covered with insulation, and the insulation is beginning to crumble. Without insulation the unprotected wire will start short-circuiting.
This short-circuiting will cause all the unpleasant and painful sensations that people who are suffering from neuropathy go through.
Diabetics will suffer from this neuropathy and it is a major complication of the disease. It is the higher than normal sugar levels that creates the damage and thus controlling blood sugars is important. It is an acquired disease.
Neuropathy Symptoms:
The symptoms of diabetic neuropathy depend on the type of nerves — motor, sensory, or autonomic — that is damaged. Some people may experience numbness, tingling, and pricking sensations, sensitivity to touch, or muscle weakness. It is the cause of numbness in the fingers and even left arm pain and tingling.
Others may suffer more extreme symptoms, including burning pain (especially at night), shooting pain, muscle wasting, paralysis, or organ or gland dysfunction. Small fiber neuropathy affects the nerve endings in the fingers or toes. When a motor nerve is affected, you get muscle weakness and wasting.
The symptoms of nerve damage and thus what is referred to as diabetic neuropathy are often slight at first. In fact, some mild cases may go unnoticed for a long time. Symptoms can be progressive, which means they worsen and spread to different parts of the body over time. This is particularly true for those with diabetes or other conditions that continuously inflict damage to the nerves.
Numbness, pain, or tingling in the feet and ankles or legs may, after several years, lead to weakness in the muscles of the feet and burning feet.
Diabetic neuropathy can flare up suddenly and affect specific nerves so that an affected individual will develop double vision or drooping eyelids, or weakness and atrophy of the thigh muscles. Nerve damage caused by diabetes generally occurs over a period of years and may lead to problems with the digestive tract and sexual organs, which can cause indigestion, diarrhea or constipation, dizziness, bladder infections, and impotence.
The loss of sensation in the feet may increase the possibility for foot injuries to go unnoticed and develop into ulcers or lesions that become infected, not to mention having trouble with coordination.
Treatments for Neuropathy
You’ve probably read or heard about lots of different remedies for the symptoms of nerve damage (neuropathy). You just need to search on the internet under neuropathy to get pages and pages of remedies. The search will reveal many different viewpoints about what will help you get relief. I’ve talked to many people who have tried remedy after remedy.
There are many herbs that attempt to cover up the symptoms and there are many drugs that try to cover up the symptoms.
There are many different anti-oxidants and formulas that will bring some relief. I know the things that will help – essential fatty acids, vitamin c, combination of acetyl l-carnitine and alpha lipoic acid – etc. etc.
You can go to Neuropathy Treatments to get the pros and cons of many of these.
The real cause of all these problems however is the unhealthy nerves. Healthy nerves aren’t painful, they aren’t numb, don’t burn…. and aren’t all the other symptoms that you feel with nerve damage.
What can you do:
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Nerves need to be healthy to function properly.
Pros: Healthy sensory nerves mean that they are not painful. Healthy nerves mean that they communicate and don’t send wrong signals such as burning, hot and cold, tingling when there is no reason for it. Healthy motor nerves mean that they relay messages from the brain to the muscle so that they move correctly without weakness.
The body needs specific nutrients (vitamins) to be able to build healthy nerves. Getting bio-available special forms of B1 and B12 along with the other B Vitamns that activate them will promote and support healthy nerves.
Cons: It may not give immediate relief as the vitamins are working at a cellular level, it may take longer, but it does address the actual problem and builds healthy nerves.
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The body needs the correct tools to restore health and build healthy nerves. These tools are specific nutrition (vitamins). Healthy nerves aren’t painful, they aren’t numb, don’t burn…. and don’t have any of the other symptoms of nerve damage.
What are they? Read on.
It has been known for some time that B1 (thiamine) is very effective. It is needed by the body to create healthy nerves.
Unfortunately, the oral intake of vitamin B1 does not greatly increase the levels of B1 in the blood stream.
The reason for this is that Thiamine, like all of the B vitamins, is water-soluble. Thiamine cannot be stored in the body and flushes out within 4 to 5 hours.
Additionally, it has been found the symptoms are made worse by insufficient amounts of B12 in the body. Vitamin B12 supports the sheathing that protects nerve cells and has shown in studies to promote the growth of healthy nerve cells
In the past, it has been difficult to remedy the B12 deficiency. The reason for this is that while vitamin B12 is readily stored by the body, it is not readily absorbed by the body. For this reason much larger amounts have been used in supplementation, but even large oral dosages have not been an adequate solution.
Keep reading. There is a solution.
A Remedy for this Problem
You might have heard of the new type of vitamin B1 being produced, called Benfotiamine. It is a fat-soluble version of vitamin B1. What does this mean? It means this new form of vitamin B1 can be taken orally in large dosages and it will not flush out of the body the way ordinary Thiamine (vitamin B1) does. This is due to the fact that this type of B1 will be delivered into the blood stream where it can travel to the cells and be used.
Also available is Methylcobalamine (called Methyl B12). This is the form of vitamin B12 that can be directly utilized by the body. When regular B12 is taken, the body has to convert it into the Methyl B12 in the gut. Methyl B12 already comes in this usable form.
Where can I find these supplements?
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We have looked for a product that had needed ingredients, and found one Nerve Support with Benfotiamince – A Formula by Dr. Eric Berg.
It contains both the Benfotiamine and Methyl B12. The result is that the blood stream levels of vitamin B1 and vitamin B12 can be greatly increased, providing the nutritional support needed by the body to rapidly and far more effectively to decrease or eliminate the symptoms of unhealthy nerves.
Both Benfotiamine and Methyl B12 have been shown to be non-toxic and without any side effects even in very high dosages.
Additionally, the formula has three other B vitamins and vitamin D3 in the exact proportion that work together to produce the best results. The formula has been found to be exactly what the body needs.
Why the other B vitamins in the formula?
B1 (thiamine) is dependent on the other B-complex vitamins. Absorption of B1 into the body requires adequate supplies of vitamin B6, B12 and B9 (folate). A deficiency in Vitamins B12 can increase loss of B1in the urine, and vitamin B6 also appears to help regulate distribution of thiamine throughout the body. B9 (folate) is also necessary to activate the absorption of the B12. The body utilizes vitamin B2 to keep tissue healthy and to help accelerate healing of injuries. B2 protects the nervous system.
In addition the formula has Vitamin D. One of the functions of Vitamin D is the regulation of nervous system development and function.
How do these vitamins support nerve health? Read about Healthy Nerves
We recommend Nerve Support with Befotiamine – A Formula by Dr. Eric Berg
This formula has all the ingredients you need to restore health to nerves. The healthier the nerve, the less symptoms you will feel.
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Nerve Damage - Why R-Alpha Lipoic and Acetyl L-Carnitine?
If you have nerve damage, R-Alpha lipoic acid and acetyl L-carnitine are two key supplements that you should add to your daily routine.
Evidence indicates that alpha lipoic acid has an ability to kill free-radicals which may help provide added nutritional support to people who have nerve damage in the arms and legs, such as:
- pain
- burning
- itching
- tingling
- numbness
Alpha lipioc acid comes in two forms. R and S. Alpha lipoic acid is a combination of these two forms. Most supplements have alpha lipoic acid with both forms, not just the R form.
The R form of alpha lipoic acid is the form normally found in the body. Studies indicate the R-alpha lipoic acid form appears to be better absorbed than the combination of R and S alpha lipoic acid.
Additionally, some small preliminary studies suggest acetyl L-carnitine may help provide nutritional support to people with pain and who want to improve feeling in affected nerves. It is also possible that acetyl L-carnitine can help nerves regenerate.
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