Bette Dowdell: Too Pooped To Participate!

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Open up, Carlene. It's Bette!Quit Stomping on Your Energy So, there you are, dragging your patooty through one grey day after another, wondering where your brain went, why your body aches and if you'll ever feel good again. Even if your doctor checked for thyroid problems–and the flaky blood tests actually found the problem–you probably ended up on the ineffective medicine, Synthroid or its generic equivalent. It helps almost nobody. So, let's talk what we can do for ourselves. Hypothyroid or not, anybody dragging through life should give these ideas a go. • Don't eat bread, cookies, cakes, etc–at least, not any you buy. And not because of weight. Commercial bakeries started using bromine, a fire retardant, as a dough conditioner in the 1980s, and bromine is death on the thyroid. Just eliminating bromine from the diet could restore health to some hypothyroid problems. Here's why. Our thyroid hormone doesn't work without iodine. Bromine is chemically very similar to iodine, and when it gets into our bodies, it pushes iodine out of the way and hijacks our thyroid hormone. So our thyroid hormone no longer includes the needed iodine, just bromine, and it becomes completely ineffective. You're pumping out hormone with no power. Zilch, zero, nada. But here's the rub: Blood tests can't distinguish between effective iodine and nonfunctional bromine. While having thyroid hormone that doesn't work is like having no thyroid hormone at all, the test says you're good to go. Even if you're verging on comatose. The blood test has spoken. • And everything I said about bromine goes for fluoride, too, so don't drink fluoridated water or use fluoridated toothpaste. It's tough on your immune system and lowers kid's IQs as well. • Eat plenty of protein, including red meat at least every other day. Our thyroid glands, as part of the endocrine system, thrive on protein. They live for protein. They can't make it without protein. And red meat has micronutrients we need and can't get anywhere else. But (and why is there always a `but'?) don't eat just any protein. Beef from factory farms contains hormones, antibiotics and, because of an unnatural diet of grains, a whole lot of inflammation-causing Omega 6. Gotta get grass fed, grass finished beef–and butter and cheese. • You don't want to cut off the fat, either. Our bodies make their hormones from saturated fat. Our brains need it to function. And we need dietary saturated fat to absorb nutrition from our food. No fat means no nutrition. • And for pity's sake, I'm begging you, don't eat soy. Or drink soy. Or put soy lotions on your body. Just don't have anything to do with soy. Besides depressing thyroid function, soy messes with the entire endocrine system, especially estrogen, testosterone and progesterone. Do you really want to do a number on your reproductive system? Want more? Soy sucks the minerals out of your body and causes kidney stones, too. How much fun is that? Here's the hard part: Eliminating soy means avoiding processed foods–fast food, meals at most chain restaurants and meals that come out of a box. • Take quality vitamins and minerals to give your body the ammunition it needs to fight the good fight. Food alone can't do everything that needs doing, so you have to supplement. But you have to supplement intelligently. Picking up any old thing in the grocery store doesn't work. So there you have it. Six ways to super-size your health. A tip of the proverbial iceberg to be sure, but a strong beginning for your health revolution. God is good, Bette Dowdell http://TooPoopedToParticipate.com P.S. Remember. I'm not a doctor, just a patient like you. Luckily for both of us, I've been studying this stuff for years. Knowledge is power. Moving to Health teaches you, step by step, what you need to know to become your own health advocate. Explains the entire endocrine system–the start of everything. How things work. How the pieces fit together. What can make things better. Ways to avoid–and deal with–diseases. Until now, nobody's laid out the information we need to protect ourselves. Read about the Moving to Health program at http://MovingToHealth.com and listen to me talk about it at http://budurl.com/yw7w. If you're not ready for the entire program yet, check out Pep for the Pooped: Vitamins and Minerals Your Body Is Starving For and learn the gazillion ways vitamins and minerals can improve your health. Get a free, sample chapter–at http://PepForThePooped.com Consult with Bette by phone. Details at Consult With Bette. Please forward this e-zine to friends and family. Everybody needs all the health help they can get. If a friend forwarded this e-mail to you, you can get on board by clicking here.Always consult your doctor about health issues. Bette Dowdell is not a doctor or other medical professional, and the content of the Too Pooped To Participate e-zine should not be viewed as healthcare diagnosis, treatment regimen or any other prescribed healthcare instruction. It is provided as general information only and no action should be taken based solely on the contents of this letter.

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