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There is a wonderful book called “Eat Fat Lose Fat” by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig. It is not low-fat, boring, starve yourself diet garbage. It is about REAL food that was put on the earth for us to enjoy! Low-fat does not work as you can see when you look around you. The grocery stores are filled with low-fat food and still we are sick and overwieght. You can Google the book to get an idea about what it is about. You do not need to starve yourself or suffer to lose weight and feel great! And honestly I’ve looked at MANY books on health and nutrition and I am amazed that almost every one of them suggest you eat foods that are so dangerous like canola oil and soy products. This book is a great guide on how to lose weight, get healthy and a quick lesson on what real food is. Good luck!
That is a good point. I will have them checked! I can’t stand gaining 5 pounds after I was so happy about losing 10!
Just call his office at 831-375-6655. If you get an answering machine do leave a message as Paulette will call you back.
That’s funny you did see yourself in that book. I know a lot of people in there!
I was on one thyroid medication and it wasn’t working for me so we switched to another and it is working.
I think Dr.M will consult with another doctor about treatment. Obviously that is not for free but maybe your doctor wouldn’t mind doing that for you. Just a thought!
@Gardiner 2734 wrote:
So there’s no confusion, I think the important quantity is the “elemental” iron involved. I assume you weren’t taking 325mg of elemental iron. I have two iron supplements in front of me. They both have 18 mgs of elemental iron but one is from 90 mgs of “Iron Amino Acid Chelate” and the other is from 360mg Iron Protein Succinylate. As both claim to be 100% of the daily requirement, if one was taking 325mg of elemental iron it would be nearly 18x the daily requirement and two tablets would be 36x!
Good clarification. My bottle says “Ferrous Sulfate 325 mg (5gr)” and on the back”65mg of elemental iron”.
Well I started the Lithium with 2 other meds so hard to say which one is working best or if they all are doing a good job. All I know is after starting those 3 meds after 3 months I feel great as far as depression and energy. But I have also gained 5 pounds. I have no idea which one did it to me as 2 of them are know to do that including Lithium. So this is probably not too helpful to you. Sorry.
I had to take 2-325mg tablets daily of ferrous sulfate for a few months for mine to go up. But of course I did that under Dr’s supervision. Now that it is up I am on a lower maintenance dose.
Have you read the book “Adrenal Fatigue, The 21 Century Syndrome”? Dr. Mariano recommeded it to me. Excellent book! You are in it. Only the name has been changed. It is not normal or ok to have 3 hours of sleep and live on adrenaline and caffiene. That and your injuries with the subsequent surgeries and meds have messed you up. You need a doctor who knows exactly what to do with you and Dr. M can do that. You can search around all you want for information but without a special doctor you will never figure it out. He fixed me!
I’m on Lithium because my mood wasn’t stable. Some days I felt good others terrible but never did I feel great. I don’t know what unipolar is.
This might sound really dumb but he is so great that when I go to his office I hope I’ll see someone famous just coming out! He really is good! So many people could benefit from hiim but everytime I try to send someone his way they igonre me. So go ahead and suffer I say.
@MetalMX 2558 wrote:
Im constantly breaking wind. You’re right IBS is a adrenal/thyroid problem.
I have abolished that same problem by one particular change in my diet. I soak all grains, nuts and seeds before eating them. Once I started doing that it was amazing. I used to always by the end of the day be so bloated up it was really uncomfortable. You can do an internet search for “soaking grains” and you will find the why and how for things like sourdough bread, oatmeal, rice, beans, nuts, pancakes etc. I think the fact that we don’t do that anymore is one of the many reasons we are all so messed up. People did not used to eat grains prepared quicky the way we do now and we can’t digest them without proper preparation and also our body can’t absorb minerals properly unless we soak, ferment or sprout our grains. I highly recommend it. Oh, the other thing I changed was I cannot eat apples raw for the same reason and so I saute them first and eat with cream. Yum!
Geno,
That is so awesome! Isn’t it great to be normal? I too have finally begun to feel alive again with the help of Dr. M. No one else could have done it for me. About 4 weeks ago I realized I was running up the stairs instead of slogging up and from that day on I have felt happy and energetic and I have so much more patience with my loved ones and I don’t hate going to work like I used to. So to all of you who haven’t reached that yet all I can say is don’t give up and if you can find a way to see Dr.M it is money well spent!!!Ah, I understand. Solgar makes a desiccated liver tablet (or maybe it’s a capsule) that will be your most pure option with as many benefits of liver as possible in a pill. I know the Vitamin Shoppe has it.
I don’t know if this information will be helpful to you: (from the Weston A Price Foundation)
“Beef consumption in England plummeted recently with the ‘Mad Cow Disease” scare. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a wasting disease of cattle characterized by nervous disorders and weakness, said to be related to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. Scientists have not been able to link a virus to this disease, so they theorize that an abnormal protein particle called a prion, found in the brains of cattle with BSE and humans with CJD, is the cause. The theory is that these prions are infectious agents, passed along to cows though the practice of animal part feeding and then to humans who eat infected meat, particularly meat from the nervous system, like brain.
There’s a lot wrong with this theory. For one thing, BSE is nonexistent in the USA, where animal part feeding has been going on for almost one hundred years. Another is recorded cases of CJD among vegetarians; yet another is the absence of CJD in the Shetlands where scrapie, a disease similar to BSE, is common in sheep and where potted sheeps brain is a national dish.
The research of Mark Purdey, a diary farmer in England, indicates that the mad cow disease epidemic in England occurred in areas where farmers were forced to treat their cattle with organophosphate pesticides in a warble fly eradication program.20 The warble fly makes holes in the cows’ backs—not dangerous in itself, but it reduces the value of pelts sold to leather manufacturers. These holes are open doors to the spinal cord and organophosphate pesticides are very toxic to the nervous system. By a complex process, these compounds seem to cause certain proteins to fold in pathological ways—these are the prions that are found in the brains of animals with BSE and humans with CJD. Mineral deficiencies are also involved, particularly magnesium, which is a mineral that protects the nervous system. Finally, a similar disease occurs among wild animals living in areas of volcanic soils, whose diets are high in aluminum and manganese, minerals known to be toxic to the nervous system. Clusters of human CJD cases are also found in areas where the soil has mineral imbalances, where there are cement factories and where high levels of organophosphate insecticides have been used.
So the answer to CJD and BSE is good soil management and the elimination of neurotoxic compounds in farming—but it’s easier to just blame it on beef. By the way, now that animal part feeding has been outlawed, feedlot operators are turning to soy feeds as a protein substitute. Soy is very toxic to cows’ livers. Does the use of soy in cattle feeding explain why beef—lean beef—has become politically correct again? After all, the other politically correct meats—chicken and salmon—use up vast quantities of soybean meal in battery feeding and fish farming. “
In short what I take away from that is eat organic, grass-fed beef. And if you can’t stomach it then do try the desiccated liver! Here’s to good health!
This information is from the Weston A Price Foundation website:
“First, our bodies can obviously handle a range of omega-6 to omega-3 ratios—if our body chemistry could only function at a precise ratio, the human race would have died out long ago. What we have learned from research on EFAs is that it is not good to have an extreme imbalance. The modern diet, in which omega-6 fatty acids predominate at a ratio of 20 to 1—with most of these omega-6 fatty acids rendered rancid by processing—creates serious imbalances on the cellular level; likewise, overdosing on flax oil or fish oil creates an imbalance in which omega-3s predominate, leading to lowered immunity.
We do not recommend any of the fish oils. We recommend certain brands of cod liver oil to get vitamins A and D. You will also get EPA and DHA–both necessary for brain development. However, you can get too much EPA and DHA by taking fish oils.The other key factor is saturated fat–the more saturated fat you eat, the less omega-3 of any type you need because with saturated fat, the body conserves them. Plus, people can get too much DHA and EPA if they are taking fish oils.”
That is what I meant by overdosing on unsaturated fatty acids. That is what the fish oils contain.
And as a reminder-cod liver oil is the richest source of vit D and A. Well besides sunlight for D but then you still need your A. And the other important one is vitamin K which you can get from butter from grass-fed cows. You should put butter on anything you can think of!
And again: cod liver oil (certain brands) is a whole food because it still contains the vitamins it came with. Fish oil is not a whole food, the vitamins are gone. And we really only want whole foods in our diets.
