Thyroid health

Rejuvenis Thyroid Protocol is a dietary supplement to support thyroid function and health. It is a vegetarian blend of tyrosine, selenium, iodine, copper, zinc, manganese, forskohlin, Bocapa monnieri, guggulsterones, chromium and B vitamins all of which work together to optimize thyroid function, relieve fatigue, manage weight, appetite and mood, improve t4 and T3 ratios and elevate cellular metabolism.

Iodine works as an excellent antioxidant. It neutralizes hydrogen peroxide by converting it first to hypiodious acid and then water, thereby blocking its conversion into the hydroxyl radical.

Lets visualize taking a little butterfly-shaped piece of tissue about the size of a small oyster and place it right at the base of your throat.  Now lets Make it totally essential to life and health, and then make it secrete some of the most important hormones your body produces.

Lets Make it so that if it is removed or damaged, the results will be devastating to your health, including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and if left untreated, even death.

I just described your thyroid gland. This is the gland that secretes the hormones that control your metabolism, so if it is defective, damaged, or starved for nutrients, it will not secrete what you need to live a normal, active life. 

You may want to get your pencil out now, because I am sure you will want to jot down some things I am going to talk about today.

The body uses thyroid hormone and vitamin A to change cholesterol into pregnenolone, progesterone, and DHEA.

These are essential hormones for keeping the body young and active. For humans and higher animals, the thyroid can be very easily damaged by radiation.

People who are referred to as Utah downwinder’s, which some of you may be familiar with, in other words people exposed to radiation, could be X-rays as well, these downwinder’s can remember receiving iodine tablets all through grade school during the Fifties. Today, they may have chronic and systemic disorders that can conceivably be traced to a radiation-damaged thyroid gland.

Chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia are just two of the possible radiation/thyroid disorders. Hypoglycemia is another, as well as edema, which is fluid swelling and inflammation.  These are all symptoms of a damaged thyroid gland, which is not secreting at optimum levels, or Hypothyroidism.

Another thing that affects and cripples the thyroid include fluoride; as I can remember from my childhood days, there was a great deal of focus by our city fathers who were demanding the addition of fluoride to our drinking water, supposedly to protect us against tooth decay; how stupid we were. Certain foods, and toothpastes also contain fluoride.  This is one of the things You may want to jot down, Fluoride damages more than 100 kinds of enzymes in the body, let me repeat- Fluoride damages more than 100 kinds of enzymes in the body, which can lead to bone disease, cancer, premature aging, and seizures. 

Remember, I just told you certain foods and toothpastes contain fluoride, so please read the labels. 

Synthetic hormones (like Premarin® and birth control pills, for example) also disturb thyroid function.  Unfortunately, the types of hormones that harm the thyroid are often found in commercial meat, dairy products, poultry, and eggs so pay attention to labels.

Unsaturated fats, which are prevalent in the American diet today, exact an even greater toll on thyroid function. Unsaturated fats are those fats, which are liquid at room temperature, and include all the seed oils, like borage, evening primrose, flax, etc., as well as fish oils, and corn, safflower, and soybean oil. 

Now you say: David, you have been telling us that flax seed and Omega-3 fish oil is good for us. And I would respond, absolutely. First Flax seed, as soon as you grind it, it must be taken then. If you grind it in advance, for consumption at a later date, it is no longer Omega-3’s.

When you buy flax seed oil and you open the lid for the first time, at that point it is omega-3, but as soon as the air hits it, that next time you use it, it is no longer
Omega-3. The same goes for fish oils; if it is not preserved in a jell cap, with the proper amount of seaweed and kelp to preserve it, it looses its Omega-3’s.

Processing of the oils, which cause it to loose its
Omega-3’s has no effect one way or the other where the thyroid gland is concerned, although it does have an overall effect on the body, as refined /hydrogenated oils introduce free radicals into the body. 

But all of the polyunsaturated oils, cripple the thyroid to a greater or lesser degree, and prevent the secretion of the essential hormones of metabolism.  

All soy products contain estrogen-type substances that act against the thyroid. They are called "phytoestrogens" and they cause serious inhibition of thyroid hormones. 

Too much iodine in the diet is another source of trouble with the thyroid.  Dough conditioners in commercial white breads are usually heavy with forms of iodine, and common iodized table salt is also a major contributor to the overdosing on iodine. Kosher salt is a great replacement.

Even beta-carotene in certain levels and PABA, which are common nutrients of vitamins; PABA is also in sunscreen and can exert a negative effect on the thyroid gland; we utilized titanium dioxide for our sun block.

Mercury we ingest, like that in amalgam dental fillings is extremely toxic, and further inhibits the thyroid.  Even endurance running long distances can depress the effectiveness of the thyroid hormones.

Symptoms of hypothyroidism include low body temperature, depression, allergies, frequent colds and flu; fatigue, insomnia, fibromyalgia, weight problems, migraines in cycles, seizures around the time of ovulation and menstruation, high blood pressure (and low blood pressure, too), persistent weight gain as well as underweight, ADHD, PMS, bronchitis and asthma, fibrocystic breasts and ovarian cysts, mood swings, fibroids of the uterus, infertility, miscarriage near the 10th week, menstrual problems; aging problems, such as heart disease, gall bladder problems, tumors, cancer, diabetes and senility. AS IF THIS weren’t enough.

When the blood cholesterol rises in a person’s body, along with the fact that your body is deprived of Omega’3’s as we have discussed in several radio programs, it can also be because there is insufficient thyroid hormone present to convert it to bile salts and hormones like progesterone, pregnenolone, and DHEA.  These hormones are essential for prevention of obesity, heart disease, cancer, tumors, memory loss, and other aging-related disorders.

The liver uses glucose to convert thyroxine (T4) to its active form, tri-iodothyronine, or liothyronine (T3).  If there is not sufficient T3 present in the body, the mitochondria in the cells do not work.  The electron transport chain, which culminates in the production of oxygen, is affected, if sufficient T3 is not present.  In the absence of sufficient amounts of T3, glucose is burned inefficiently into a form of lactic acid instead of complete combustion to carbon dioxide.  In this event, the body gets insufficient energy from the glucose of the diet. 

 If the liver uses up its store of glycogen, the process of converting T4 to T3 comes to a stop.  Hypoglycemia is a result of this, and hypoglycemia over stimulates adrenalin in order to keep the body functioning in the event of insufficient glucose in the cells.  In hypothyroid persons, the excretion of 30 to 40 times the normal amounts of adrenalin metabolites is common.  In the presence of low blood sugar, adrenalin attempts to mobilize glycogen, in the stored fat.  Then progesterone is converted to cortisol in the adrenal medulla. 

A pituitary hormone (ACTH) is secreted, which responds to adrenalin.  Cortisol stimulates the production of blood sugar by the catabolism of protein in order to increase blood sugar (glucose).  Cortisol decreases adrenalin and causes a slow pulse, a condition common in those with under-active thyroid glands.  If the adrenal cortex is forced to over-secrete for too long, it begins to fail.  It cannot produce enough cortisol to control the blood sugar, and the adrenalin rises.  This causes what is called "adrenalin dominance." 

Sometimes, rarely, a very high pulse (often as high as 120-150) is found, in spite of the person having a hypothyroid condition.  Correction with proper supplementation can bring this pulse rate back down to the normal range.  

Cortisol is produced in the hypoglycemic individual in order to keep the blood sugar up, but cortisol inhibits the thyroid, which makes problems worse for the sufferer.  Our Bioidentical Identical Hormone balancing therapy is a good way to help rectify this problem in hypothyroditic individuals.  This could include, depending on the results of the saliva testing, supplementation of thyroid hormone replacement, as well as replacement of progesterone, and adrenal support.  Excess cortisol leads to hot flashes, night sweats, diabetes, bone loss, and glaucoma.

   "Adrenalin and its synthetic pharmaceutical drugs mimics, such as those used in asthma sprays and are toxic when used or produced continuously in response to the stress of hypothyroidism and endurance exercise. 

Excess adrenalin is cardio-toxic because it damages heart mitochondria. Research suggests that this is due to abnormally rapid mobilization and oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids, which we give lectures on weekly that leads to peroxidation, aggravated by inadequate antioxidant protection. This is also what leads to plaque build up in the arteries.  We routinely measure the antioxidant levels of our clients and provide them with high antioxidant supplements as well as Omega-3’s to slow the production of trans fatty acids in the body and to prevent the triglycerides, produced by these trans fats, from becoming plaque. 

There is research on the cardio-protective effects of thyroid therapy on diabetics who normally have an increased risk to heart disease.  This led the study group to conclude that the cardiovascular complications of diabetes, may be due to low thyroid function, not insulin."  The study was from Lita Lee, "Hypothyroidism, a Modern Epidemic," Oct. 2000.

Cancer is also a risk with hypothyroidism in both sexes, because so many types of cancer are estrogen-responsive, and hypothyroidism allows estrogen to become dominant, by not allowing the secretion of progesterone, pregnenolone, or DHEA.

This is why it is critical for us to accurately measure the hormone levels in the body utilizing saliva over a 37-day period and not a one-time blood test. So that balancing the hormones has a chance to reverse this trend.

Hyperactive adrenals can stimulate a high-blood pressure response, in susceptible individuals.  But if the adrenals become exhausted, the blood pressure will fall quickly to below-normal levels.

Thyroid hormones increase metabolism and stimulate circulation, which can lead to lower - NORMAL blood pressure.

WHAT SHOULD THAT PERSON WITH HYPERACTIVE ADRENALS EAT?

·         A diet rich in animal protein and animal-source fatty acids.  Animal protein is essential for stimulation of thyroid hormone, as well as helping the liver to convert it to active, usable form.  Eat some form of animal protein at every meal.

·         Fats and oils rich in saturated fatty acids, like butter, coconut oil, palm oil, lard, and tallow.  Leave the fats on your meat cuts.  If they are trimmed lean, add butter or coconut oil (this adds a delicious taste, as well as nutritious fatty acids; take our pristine Omega-3 supplements, as we have discussed).

WHAT SHOULD THE PERSON WITH HYPERACTIVE ADRENALS AVOID?

I also have this posted on my website. Go to WWW.LIVELONGER123.com and select “frequently asked”; then select: “Thyroid Health”.

Anyway you should:

·         Avoid a vegetarian diet.  Avoid Vegetable protein, such as that found in soy products, which will not only fail to stimulate the production of thyroid hormone, but soy contains compounds that actually suppress the action of the thyroid gland.

·         Avoid all soy products, for the reasons mentioned above.  Soy is found hidden in many commercial foods as hydrolyzed vegetable protein, MSG, or soy protein isolate.  For this reason, you should always Read ingredients on panels carefully.

·         Avoid Raw vegetables of the cabbage family, like cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, etc.  These foods must be cooked in order to destroy the thyroid inhibitors, for the person with hyperactive adrenals. Not the case for the rest of us.

·         Avoid All substances that stimulate or produce estrogens.  This includes especially products like birth control pills, Premarin® or other conjugated estrogens; herbs like black cohosh, sage,
penny-royal, licorice, and ALL unsaturated oils.

·         Avoid Too much iodine.  This is generally not too much of a problem, but it is conceivable that an individual could take an iodine supplement, and add too much iodized salt to their food.  Iodine is present in many vegetables, and small amounts are found in multivitamin supplements, sufficient to provide what the thyroid needs for health; it’s for this reason we suggest to our clients, to use Kosher salt.

·         Avoid PABA.  This is used in A sunscreen and member of the B-complex family of vitamins. Try our titanium dioxide and Hyauralonic acid for sunblock protection.  Avoid vitamin supplements with large amounts of PABA. It is extremely antagonistic to the thyroid.

·         Beta-carotene in large amounts, because it is also thyroid-antagonistic.  Do not drink carrot juice for instance, because of the high concentration of thyroid inhibitors.

·         Avoid pesticides.  They are all very estrogenic, which means that by themselves, they are severely thyroid inhibiting.  

·         Avoid fluoride in any form.  Fluoride is very antagonistic to the essential enzymes in the body that produce metabolic activity.  Fluoride can cause cancer, seizures, bone disease, and early aging.

·         Avoid mercury and for that matter heavy metals in all forms.  Amalgam fillings are the highest single source of mercury poisoning in humans.  Find a dentist who will remove the amalgam fillings and replace them with composite or epoxy fillings.

Remember that even minuet traces of heavy metals are problematic and you should seriously consider our detox program of EDTA suppository chelation therapy.

THYROID AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Generally, MS can be traced to environmental poisoning, such as radiation or heavy metal exposure, such as lead or mercury.  Here is how one expert describes the process: "Cells called "oligodendrocytes" are responsible for myelinating nerve fibers and are steroid-forming cells. Specifically, they produce pregnenolone.  In MS, these oligodendrocytes appear to stop functioning. The clustering of oligodendrocytes around deteriorating nerve cells, may be an attempt to provide pregnenolone to the injured cells." --- this is by:

Ray Peat, Ph. D.

Sometimes MS persons suffer from undiagnosed hypothyroidism, especially if they aren't overweight or seriously disabled.  MS - symptoms sometimes disappear under proper thyroid therapy.

WHAT ABOUT THYROID AND ESTROGEN

The sickness industry usually prescribes A blood test- known as a thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) assay, thyroid nuclear medicine scan, as well as thyroid ultrasound are used to confirm their diagnosis.

But many of the problems that afflict women, can be traced by careful researchers utilizing thorough saliva testing,  to a lower-than-normal thyroid function.  Even if the estrogen level is normal, the woman still suffers most of the known "female disorders."  Unsuspecting doctors often prescribe estrogen therapy for these problems, and this will often do nothing but make the woman sicker by exacerbating her original symptoms. 

Simply put, estrogen inhibits thyroid production.  Progesterone, on the other hand, is a thyroid stimulant.  The body makes progesterone from cholesterol if there is adequate thyroid hormone present and if there is sufficient intake of vitamin A. Help in restoring can be accomplished with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, targeted nutritional support and the removal of heavy metals with our suppository EDTA chelation.

Our BRAIN HEALH is just as vital as any other function of our body including the thyroid. To loose contact with every day reality, is a living death.

Whether you are calculating multivariate statistics, or simply trying to stay alert during a conversation or a long meeting - keeping your mind sharp, matters.

Luckily, the steps to protecting your mind are very similar in protecting your thyroid, which can be very easy and, it is combined with exercising your brain.

First lets examine, some of the root causes of memory loss.

Heavy Metal Toxicity, is the level of toxic metals that has been absorbed by the body, in numerous ways; (usually depending on the type of metal).  The four main toxic metals are aluminum, lead, cadmium, and mercury.  These metals can cause various complications to your everyday life.

Aluminum is the most common toxic metal.  It is found in almost everyone's body.  Whether it is under your arms, with spray anti-perspirant, or in your teeth with fillings or tooth past, or even on your baby's skin, from the use of products you trusted or, even those you suspected such as cigarette filters. Aluminum is found more than any other metal.  Why? 

Aluminum is an ingredient in everyday products such as those mentioned and how about aluminum foil.  Even our water supply contains a hint of aluminum!  Physical symptoms of aluminum toxicity may be brittle bones or osteoporosis, as aluminum is stored in the bones.  Kidney malfunction may also result, as the kidneys filter aluminum.  It is sometimes found excreted in the hair of children diagnosed with ADHD, ADD, Autism and those with seizures and of course, as I earlier mentioned, a contributing factor to thyroid diseases.  Hyperactivity, memory disturbances, and learning disabilities may result from even mildly elevated levels of aluminum. 

Science has been linking elevation of aluminum in the body with Alzheimer's disease for years. Also, there has been research that shows a link between aluminum hydroxide and mercury used in vaccines, and symptoms associated with Parkinson’s,
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), and Alzheimer’s.

Lead is usually absorbed by the body through contaminated water or by breathing polluted air.  Fumes from lead-based paints, automobile exhaust, polluted air from industrial plants, and cigarette smoke may all contain lead.  Even some cosmetics contain small amounts. 

Physical symptoms of elevated lead in both children and adults can be abdominal pain, irritability, constipation, and lack of hunger. 

In more exposed lead poisoning; a person may experience bone pain, gout, arthritis, anemia, memory loss, and numbness or tingling in the extremities. 

Lead toxicity in children can delay growth, impair motor skill development, and affect neurotransmission by altering the output and utilization of the brain chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin, and GABA or (gam·ma-amino·bu·ty-ric acid ) that control behavior and emotions. Women, who are considering having a child, would be doing their unborn child a great service by detoxing their body of these heavy metals before getting pregnant.

Toxicity of this metal can also cause attention deficit disorder, behavioral disorders, lowered I.Q., poor hand-eye coordination, and low vocabulary and reading skills. When children and teens become volatile, you can suspect toxicity.

The highest contributor to cadmium toxicity is cigarette smoke; it is found in cured tobacco.  This is toxic for both the smoker and the non-smoker.  First hand and second hand smoke are high sources of cadmium.  Symptoms of cadmium toxicity are sore joints, decreased appetite, slow growth, zinc deficiency, and kidney stones.  Cadmium can weaken the immune system and allow bacteria, viruses, yeast, and parasites to proliferate.

Mercury is an extremely toxic heavy metal, often found in the tissues of those people with dental amalgams.  Other contributors of mercury are contaminated fish, such as tuna, latex wall paint, some vaccines, and polluted water.  Mercury toxicity may cause decreased attention span, irritability, and lack of calmness.  Learning disorders may result. Memory loss and fatigue are symptoms, often reported by those with mercury toxicity. 

This metal can also cross the placenta of a pregnant woman and the fetus may emerge contaminated.  Common symptoms of mercury poisoning are arthritis and inflammation, cardiovascular disease, digestive problems, dementia, and allergies.  Psychosomatic, unknown, or mysterious conditions, often related to allergies that may clear up after the mercury amalgams are removed from the mouth combined with our EDTA suppository chelation program.  

Mainstream dentistry does not agree that the mercury amalgams are causing so many problems, but there are some dentists who believe that the best thing to do is to remove the amalgams.

This must be done very precisely; by a dentist who knows and understands this process, because mercury can slip into the body when the amalgams are being removed.  Most dentists who do this procedure recommend nutritional programs like ours, containing verifiable antioxidant supplements, immune builders, liver detoxifiers, Chelation and bowel cleansers to enhance detoxification of this harmful metal.

Human exposure to heavy metals has risen dramatically in the last 50 years as a result of an exponential increase in the use of heavy metals in industrial processes and products. Making it absolutely necessary to take our program of heavy metal removal, which our EDTA suppository chelation program; Especially young women who are contemplating having a child. She should remove all heavy metal prior to pregnancy.

Suppository EDTA chelation, from the Anti-Aging Clinic can be seen on our website; livelonger123.com, it is the key to rescuing ourselves, and our un-born fetuses from these neurological disorders. EDTA absorbed slowly throughout the night, delivered in our suppository form, binds to the heavy metals in the body and evacuates them through the waste system.  It is a six-month program that accomplishes this, in the privacy of your home. Since some of the good is removed with the bad, it is absolutely curtail that you begin our immune builder program before during and after the EDTA chelation.

Prevention is the better choice: Improving your immune system and ridding the body of heavy metals with our suppository chelation and with our natural immune building products like ZIWI, and our high antioxidant formula supplements would be the wise choice.

Along with our EDTA suppository chelation therapy and our supplements to increase the immune system, "Exercise is just as healthy for your mind as it is for your body," explains Christine Blue, an osteopathic psychiatrist specializing in general and geriatric psychiatry from Lewisburg, West Virginia. "Regular physical exercise will not only help your cardiovascular health, but it will increase blood flow to the brain and help with your creativity and memory." Try these six things:

·        Stay curious and involved

·        Attend lectures and plays

·        Play games

·        Work crosswords or other puzzles

·        Continue your education

·        Try memory exercises

In addition, the calming benefits of exercising will reduce stress, which can cause memory problems. Physical activity, something as simple as walking, can also prevent depression, which slows thinking.

Exercise will clear the mind and allow for creative thinking and a problem-solving state of mind. For example, studies have shown that after walking for 15 minutes, individuals will increase their memory and ability to multi-task by more than 15%. Relaxation techniques, such as yoga and meditation, are also beneficial for the brain.

There are several different memory techniques and exercises. One technique is called over-learning. This means that the individual would repeat and study something more than the topic might normally require. This technique might be employed when meeting new people. Oftentimes repeating the new name several times will help with remembering the person's name later.

Another memory technique that helps with remembering short lists of items is called the link or story method.

Using this method, you would simply make up a story that links together the different items you want to remember.

Dr. Blue explains that memory exercises can help fight age-related memory loss such as dementia.

"There has been a growing amount of research indicating mental exercises can help prevent memory loss associated with dementia."

Dementia is a neurological disorder that affects the ability to think, speak, reason, remember and move. The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, involves a loss of nerve cells in the areas of the brain that control memory and other mental functions, thought to be associated with heavy metal poisoning. The first sign of Alzheimer's disease is usually forgetfulness. As the disease progresses, it affects language, reasoning and understanding.

The precise cause of Alzheimer's disease is unknown, but risk increases with age and there are lots of studies pointing to heavy metal toxicity. Ten percent of the population over the age of 65 has Alzheimer's, and nearly half of the population over 85 has the disease.

"It is important to make decisions today that will help you later in life," explains Dr. Blue. "Keeping both your mind and body active is a great start."

In addition to exercise for the brain and body, including our health improving vitamins and minerals in your diet as well as beginning our heavy metal suppository chelation therapy, is a great way to start.

Most of us know that physical exercise is good for our general health, but did you know that physical exercise is also good for your brain? If you think you’re going to get smarter sitting in front of your computer or watching television, think again. Scientists present the evidence that a healthy human being is a human doing. The word exercise derives from a Latin root meaning "to maintain, to keep, to ward off." To exercise means to practice, put into action, train, perform, use and improve. See the attached on the brain.

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