Whoo Hoo! I just watched a segment on the Dr. Oz website interviewing Dr. Mercola! While I feel the Dr. Oz show is limited by short glossy, segments and is generally not as helpful for me, he brought trailblazer Mercola on the show! This indicates that the general public is starting to be open to holistic ideas. Oz recently did a segment on bio identicals, which I will talk about later in this post.
I am a huge fan of Mercola, and Oz was able to publicly ask why Mercola is so entrepreneurial with supplements that are both promoted and sold on his website. This could be considered a conflict of interest and money-making. Mercola explained that for the first three years of his publication he sold no products, and he ended up $500,000 in debt due to expenses for his newsletter. He had three choices: stop the newsletter, get ads, or sell his own products.
Mercola chose not to have advertising, which would inevitably conflict with his content and values. He now sells his own brand of natural supplements, but it is not necessary to buy them to get his free newsletter. Although he is entrepreneurial, the content of his newsletter is thoroughly researched--his staff reads 1,000 articles a day, and he interviews researchers who have devoted their whole careers to a pertinent topic. Much of his content focuses on intensely healthy eating and exposes corporate manipulation in the food industry.
As mentioned in earlier posts, this newsletter is geared to the part of the population that is not as extreme as Mercola, but are right on the heels of the innovators as and early adaptors of holistic health. We are the critical mass who will tip the scales.
Marketing experts know that 85% of the population (consumers who are "followers") will tag along with those of us close to the forefront of new ideas. As we build an informed critical mass, inevitably, the general population will also come to question the status quo of the food industry in this country and demand corporate transparency and better access to healthier food.
A friend of mine, who is a personal trainer certified by Paul Check mentioned that Dr. Oz was not progressive enough, and sometimes Mercola seems too hard-core for people. She agreed with me that there is a definite niche for this blog that lies somewhere between Oz. and Mercola.
Paul Check is a Holistic health Practitioner and trainer who founded the C.H.E.K. Institute in California for advanced trainers and holistic health coaches. He wrote How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy, and I recommend his website. I learned about Mercola.com from Paul Chek's blog. (Paulcheksblog.com and Chekinstitute.com)
In fact, meeting a C.H.E.K. trainer changed my entire life. I was exhausted and sleeping 10-12 hours a day--much more on weekends. This exhaustion has been recurring, on and off for many years. Nothing in Western medicine solved this problem. Kristie Yaakoby, a certified C.H.E.K. trainer and Functional Nutritionist was able to help me.
Over the past 15 years, I had been to sleep disorder clinics and had every test possible, including hormonal, with my Doctor. I was told by a sleep clinic that I was a "long sleeper," and that tests showed I was totally healthy. A wide array of medical and blood tests over the years showed no abnormalities. Eventually I came to a dead end, and was still exhausted. It was then that my Western medicine doctor had a phone conference with my new Functional Nutritionist Kristie.
"Western Medicine is not good with Chronic Fatigue," my doctor admitted and recommend that I go with the testing recommended by Kristie. I took a saliva test provided by Kristie that is more sensitive than the ones I took at the doctor's office. This alternative test revealed that my hormones were imbalanced and that I was Estrogen Dominant, with disturbingly low levels or progesterone. Also, that I had adrenal fatigue, which is a condition not recognized by Western medicine. (Adrenal fatigue is often linked with estrogen dominance in women.)
With my Western medical doctor's support I moved deep into the world of holistic health and followed an intense nutritional and supplemental protocol recommended by Kristie, including bio identical hormone replacement.
Estrogen Dominance has been mentioned on the Dr. Oz show, as well as the bio identical hormones that treat it. Bio identical hormones are natural (the ones I took are made from yams) and do not lead to cancer, unlike their synthetic counterparts. Unfortunately, many American women are still at risk of cancer because they are taking synthetic progesterone cream, rather than the natural counterpart, which is just as effective.
Initially, I was uncomfortable about venturing into the unknown, even though I had been attuned to holistic health for years, but had not yet tried bio identicals for estrogen dominance or glandulars for the adrenal fatigue (glandulars are ground up adrenal glands from animals.) But the results I have seen have literally been amazing. Not only did I have no adverse side effects from the hormones, but immediately I was sleeping two hours less a night (down from 10-12 hours or more), and had immediate energy. I am only half-way through the protocol, and expect to see more great results as I go.
I will talk more about suppliments and nutritional protocol for the estrogen dominance and adrenal fatugue in my next blog about Paul Chek.
A Votre Sante (Here's to your Health), Alix
*Tip of the day: On the Dr. Oz show, Mercola recommended 1-3tsp of coconut oil a day to stave off Alzheimer's. The coconut oil acts as a sort of brain fuel that can be absorbed past the brain-blood barrier--I already use coconut oil, so I'm going to try this.
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