Are you avoiding sugar but drinking diet soda and making low carb sweet treats with sugar substitutes? Depending on your use of artificial sweeteners you might be doing more harm that good in your quest to avoid sugar or stick with your low carb diet. Research has shown that consumption of artificial sweeteners, including some processed forms of stevia can irritate your gut lining and kill your good gut bacteria. In this episode Doc J discusses what's in these artificial sweeteners that are irritating your gut, killing your good bacteria and causing leaky gut symptoms.
Your plasma contains proteins that have all you need to stimulate hair and tissue growth to treat signs of aging & injuries. Eliminate scars, wrinkles, fine lines and treat old or new injuries with your own blood. Doc J goes into the details of how using your own plasma can provoke tissue regeneration to heal injuries and turn back the clock on signs of aging.
Did you ever wonder how little needles can stop headaches, relieve pain, increase mobility and melt muscle tension? Are you debating trying acupuncture or have tried it and want to know what’s going on with those needles? Want to eliminate pain, improve your joint mobility and stay active into your 100’s? Doc J goes into the details of how needles initiate a response in the body, what happens when the needles are in, how far they go in, what to expect during a treatment and how it helps her patients daily to remain pain free and active.
Do you have digestive issues, itching, rashes, throat swelling, sinus congestion, cough or difficulty breathing with certain foods? Noticing that you are becoming less tolerant of certain foods as you get older? Struggling with constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating or chronic abdominal pain? Chances are you have food sensitivities due to a leaky gut not actual food allergies. Food allergy testing tests for foods that you have created an immune system reaction to and developed an immediate, IgE or delayed IgG reaction to. Doc J breaks down how food allergy testing is useful in determining the status of the gut lining barrier and if you have a leaky gut that has caused food sensitivities versus full on allergies.
Are you a hot mess the week before your period? Irritability, insomnia, fatigue, mood swings, breast tenderness & weight gain frustrating you? It’s possible to end the misery with estrogen detoxing and the right hormone replacement therapy for you. Even if you are not in menopause it is still possible to benefit from hormone replacement therapy. In this episode Doc J breaks down how estrogen dominance contributes to PMS and how many women find relief in balancing their hormones before hitting menopause.
If you have low energy, cold hands and or feet, constipation, acne, dry skin, thinning hair, low heart rate & body aches you might have an underactive thyroid. It’s possible that your doctor tested only 2 tests for your thyroid function and told you that your thyroid is completely normal. These 2 tests, TSH and free T4 are just a quarter of the picture of evaluating your thyroid function completely. If you are convinced that there’s something wrong with your thyroid and your labs keep coming back normal, don’t miss this episode as Doc J breaks down all the tests you need run to fully evaluate your thyroid function.