1. Alcohol Consumption Before Gut Function Tests:
- Uncertainty was expressed regarding whether alcohol should be avoided before gut function tests. It was suggested that the answer is likely "yes" and that the information should be available on the testing website.
2. New Year's Vision Work:
- The group discussed the importance of setting a vision for the year rather than making resolutions. Participants shared their personal and family goals, with a focus on growth and practices like meditation.
3. Bone Health and Primary Care:
- A participant inquired about prioritizing concerns for a meeting with a new primary doctor, specifically regarding bone health and baseline testing. The discussion covered the importance of feeling out the doctor's openness to patient input and the potential use of bone turnover markers for monitoring bone health.
4. SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth):
- The symptoms and treatment of SIBO were discussed, including dietary changes (low FODMAP diet) and the use of natural antibiotics or traditional antibiotics for treatment.
5. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and Cardiovascular Health:
- The conversation touched on the consideration of cardiovascular status before starting HRT and the possibility of conducting a coronary artery calcium score or CCTA to assess safety and disease severity.
6. Non-Toxic Dairy-Free Organic Milk Alternatives:
- The challenge of finding non-toxic, dairy-free milk alternatives was discussed, with a suggestion to use nut milks like almond milk as a base for smoothies rather than as a direct substitute for dairy milk.
7. Hair Loss and Testosterone Therapy:
- Concerns about hair loss potentially worsening due to testosterone therapy were addressed. The discussion included the possibility of using DHT blockers like soft palmetto or spironolactone to mitigate hair loss.
8. Neuropathy and Nutrient Deficiencies:
- The potential link between nutrient deficiencies, particularly B vitamins, and neuropathy was discussed, along with suggestions for supplements that may help alleviate symptoms.
9. Oxalate-Rich Foods and Bone Health:
- The potential negative impact of oxalates on bone health was mentioned, with a note on the environmental challenges of almond cultivation.
10. Use of ChatGPT for Research and Meal Planning:
- The utility of ChatGPT as a research tool and for meal planning was highlighted, with a demonstration of how it can be used to compare amino acid profiles of different foods.
11. Protein Powders and Amino Acid Profiles:
- A question was raised about a specific protein powder made from a legume called Chaco, with a discussion on the importance of leucine in protein metabolism.
12. Magnesium Supplements:
- A question about a specific magnesium supplement called Calm was addressed, with advice to check RBC magnesium levels to ensure proper absorption.
13. Dietary Concerns and Whole Grains:
- The health claims of whole grains in diets like DASH and Mediterranean were scrutinized, with a discussion on the potential negative impacts of modern grains due to genetic modification and glyphosate contamination.
14. Fasting and Bone Health:
- The potential benefits and drawbacks of fasting for bone health were discussed, with a focus on ensuring adequate protein intake.
15. Exercise and Nutrient Depletion:
- A question about whether exercise could deplete bone nutrients was addressed, with advice on consuming protein before and after workouts to support muscle and bone health.
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Jo Ann Hardig: yeah. I know. But I think I don't know. I'd have to look at the list. But II wanna say, that's probably and so for those that are just joining us. The the question was, is, is alcohol something that we should not have before we do a tool test for for got function. And I don't remember the answer to that. But I'm thinking the answer is, Yes, but it should say it on their website, too.
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Dr Doug: Yeah, they and I don't know they might. Alcohol is one of those funny things that some people just like to not talk about
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Dr Doug: alright. Well, good morning, and Happy New year, everybody as we roll into the hour. Nice to see some familiar faces, some new faces Lorna. Nice to see you.
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Dr Doug: alright. Well, I'm glad my watch reminded me that we were doing this today at 9 Am. Cause I was upstairs playing a game with some kids, so I'm glad I got. I'm glad I got spurred to run down to my office. So you get maybe in my my holiday casual of attire.
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Dr Doug: But I've got all the questions that we have, and we have more questions than we have time to go through. But before we do that I'd love to hear, and I'm happy to volunteer mine as well. I don't like the idea of New Year's resolutions, but I like the idea of doing vision work at the beginning of the year. Has anybody done any any compelling work either last night or today already? That they wanna share with the group for a vision for 2024.
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Dr Doug: No. One. I'll share mine. I haven't actually done the full work on this yet. I did some work with the kids last night, and one of the things I love to do with them cause mine are 11, 9, and 4. We did not include the four-year-old in this, but the 11, and to be 10 year old this next week. We included them this year in visioning for work what they wanna do as a family. So travel.
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Dr Doug: and it's fun to hear their ideas of what they want to do. It's just totally different than my ideas of what we should do as a family. So that was kind of a fun exercise to go through.
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Dr Doug: Personally, I'm gonna go through an exercise with a group that I'm a part of on Friday. So we have a half day, and we'll go through
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Dr Doug: the whole like I'll look at, you know, a vision for the business in 2,024, which we've kind of already done with the leadership team. But then, personally, things that I want to really focus on this year, and I think it's relevant. If you're gonna do this yourself, relevant to think about this, not as a New Year's resolution, because we know that New Year's resolutions fail.
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Dr Doug: Almost 100% of the time, but just a vision to keep track of. And I have last year's vision on my whiteboard. It's out of camera shot intentionally, but things to look at from a personal perspective, things that you wanna really focus on so that you can grow those things. And I know for me. One of the big things is gonna be a meditation practice, something that I talk a lot about. And I tell people to do.
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Dr Doug: But I just schedule over it almost every day, something that I really need to do for myself and for those around me, cause it has a significant impact on how I treat others. So that's gonna be one big thing for me. Anybody else want to share one big thing for them that they wanna focus on this year.
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Dr Doug: It's okay. If the answer is No.
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Dr Doug: alright, you're here to learn not to share. That's okay. Alright, I'll just dig into the questions unless anybody has a compelling question they want to ask out of the gate.
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Kitt Lurie: I do have a question that I did submit, and it is compelling, because I'm meeting with my new primary doctor this week. I'm just moved to a new state and just started Medicare. So I do have a question.
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Dr Doug: is in my name, Kit Lori. So II get yeah, I've got. I've got your question here, but go ahead and ask, live, and I'll I'll read this as you're asking it.
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Kitt Lurie: Okay? Basically, I'm just wanting to know how to prioritize what I'm gonna try to talk to my new primary physician about as far as you know, I wanna get baseline. I wanna figure out how to move forward with my bone health, and everything I've been learning about. And I
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Kitt Lurie: you know II haven't met this doctor A and you know, it's mainstream medicine. B, so I just feel like I need to really prioritize, and I know I'm I have Dexa.
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Kitt Lurie: actually, it's not scheduled yet. II will get that scheduled. It's been over 2 years now? But you know, and I know the pros and cons of that from what I've been learning. But what else should I really prioritize in this first meeting. And
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Dr Doug: yeah, so great question. And one of the things that's really challenging in the traditional medical model is just feeling out your doctor, and how open. They are to your input
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Dr Doug: doctors. I try not to talk about about doctors in the traditional medical system, but they're under a lot of pressure time pressure financial pressure sometimes.
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Dr Doug: and they don't necessarily want to hear from their patients, which is a challenge. And if that's the case, then then you really have. You have no leg to stand on, no pun intended. So feel that out and and ask them just up front, hey? I'm really concerned about my bone health. And I have some things that I've been researching on my own. And I would like to get your input and your support, you know, and just directly. Ask them, say I need. I want your support and see what they say.
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Dr Doug: And if they say absolutely love to hear it, then you know, then see how far you can go. I think the prioritizing of probably labs to see if they're open to running labs through insurance or Medicare would be great. You run the risk of Medicare or secondary insurance, not paying for them. So there's a little bit of a risk there. But I think the bone turnover markers are so valuable so that Ctx and Np.
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Dr Doug: Because you can get a sense of what's happening in real time in between imaging studies and watch the video. I think we just put it out on the ratio between the 2. So and I'm happy to, I'll just. I'll mention that here for everybody but the the and P. Over C. Tx,
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Dr Doug: divided by a thousand. So move the decimal point over so that it's like a 2 digit number over Point something, and and we are finding pretty consistently that that is telling of what's happening.
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Dr Doug: Because we know, like you just said for Dexa. There's
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Dr Doug: there's, you know, there's so much variability between imaging centers and machines, and with the position that you're in. So even, you know, year to year or every other year. It's still not a great imaging modality for bone density. But if you're following your bone turnover markers, then
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Dr Doug: you can get a better sense of if what you're doing is working. So I think I would definitely prioritize those.
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Dr Doug: If you haven't gone down the rabbit hole of making sure that you don't have a secondary cause of osteoporosis like looking at parathyroid numbers.
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Dr Doug: I don't like the urinary serum calcium markers, cause I don't think they're helpful. But really, parathyros gonna be one of the biggest. And then making sure that your gut is functioning. Well, so we were talking earlier about doing gut function testing. Now, that's something that your primary Co primary doctor is probably not gonna order, but something that could be done either on your own or th through through some kind of functional testing.
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Dr Doug: Okay, okay, that all sounds good. Yeah. Yeah. And then,
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Dr Doug: I, depending on your, you know, your interest and capacity, talking to see what what their interest is in hormone replacement. If that's something that you're open to.
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Kitt Lurie: Yeah, yeah, which I I'm thinking also looking into more my cardiovascular health and status at this point, which I don't know if they'll also be resistant to.
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Dr Doug: Yeah. So thanks for bringing that up. So then, if you know, if you are in that, in that group of of women that we need to ask the question of cardiovascular status before we start hormone replacement, seeing if they're open to doing a coronary artery calcium score. And I need to update a video on this. But are they open to doing a coronary artery, calcium score, or potentially even a ccta. In looking at your arteries to get a sense of, can we?
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Dr Doug: How how safe is it? And of course it's a gray area. We don't really know the answer. But we can get a sense of how significant of a disease do you have, because we all have some. But how significant is yours? And is it doesn't make sense to start estrogen that late in the game, or consider some other forms of of form on replacement like testosterone. If they're open to it, they're probably not. But even Progesterone, which is pretty darn safe and still has benefit.
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Kitt Lurie: Okay, alright great. Thank you. Yeah. Of course.
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Dr Doug: I know, Laura, I've got yours, so we'll ask those.
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Dr Doug: a quick question from Robin Codon. She is a patient who is. She's been with us for a little over a year now, and she has a great story that I'm happy to tell, but I don't know if she wants me to. So her question, though, is, she's struggling to find a non toxic dairy, free organic milk with lots of calcium
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Dr Doug: dairy, free organic milk. Yes.
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Dr Doug: okay, it's quick and easy way to get more calcium through food, but every brand seems to have at least one or more issues. Do you have any recommendations? So I. This is a great question, because I see this a lot where people want to find dairy that's not dairy.
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Dr Doug: and get all the benefit of dairy without consuming dairy, and the thing is is, I just don't think it's possible, because when you start highly processing things, you're gonna end up with stuff in there that you don't want, like the gums and the preservatives, and the this and the that.
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Dr Doug: And so, if you can't tolerate dairy, I think, just avoid dairy. Now, I consume, and I have patients do this for smoothies or protein shakes to use nut milks so like almond milk.
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Dr Doug: not because I like the calcium or other nutrient content. I actually just sort of ignore the nutrient content in it. I just use it as a base for a smoothie, because it's better than water making a protein smoothie with water is just terrible.
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Dr Doug: And so II recommend just using as as clean of an organic almond milk as you can as a substitute, but don't consider it a substitute from milk. I think milk has, especially if you can get raw milk, if that's available in your state, and you can get it from a great source. We have a company that we use. I'll mention in a second, but if you can get good quality dairy that you can tolerate.
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Dr Doug: then that's going to be a totally different thing than any kind of substitute.
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Dr Doug: If that makes sense. The company that I wanted to mention. We don't have an affiliation with them, but Miller's organic like Miller, like a miller, Miller is organic. If you look them up, they ship. I don't know how far nationwide. But they're in New York. They're in Amish country and up in somewhere in New York, and they ship to a lot of different areas, and they ship to Asheville. And so we can get raw dairy from them every other week.
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Dr Doug: continue to do more research on raw dairy, and it really impressed that the the proteins and growth factors that are in raw dairy, if you want to build muscle and bone and work on immunity, and you can tolerate the lactose and the casing. I think it's a pretty cool thing. I find a lot of people, too, that can't tolerate conventional dairy can actually tolerate raw dairy because it's coming in its whole form, and our body knows more what to do with it. It's still unnatural, so don't be confused. We're not baby cows.
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Kitt Lurie: so that helps. Can I? Add something in I've been making almond milk myself, and it's really pretty darn easy kind of a mess. But you know, takes a couple of minutes. And anyhow. So it's just, you know, almonds and filtered water. So
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Kitt Lurie: Well, the recipe! I uses one cup of raw almonds to 5 cups of water. and then II
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Dr Doug: okay, it's competitive. Right? Yeah, yeah, well, that's interesting. Yeah. I struggle with almond milk, too, because I know that from a environmental perspective almond growing is is a challenge, you know. And it's it's such a waters, a water suck in the Central California area. So I don't know there's no, there's no perfect answer. But I do I, don't we? I probably consume I don't know. Maybe a cup cup and a half like every other day.
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Dr Doug: alright so the next question is from an and asks about really having a lot of issues with bloating, taking things like gas. X doesn't seem to help
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Dr Doug: any other suggestions. So whenever I hear somebody complaining of bloating, and we ask this in our intake because it's really common. But when people start having bloating, especially immediately after eating or within that hour after eating, I worry about bacterial overgrowth. So if you guys have heard of Sibo, small intestinal, bacterial overgrowth, it is pretty common, and comes sort of in a spectrum of severity.
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Dr Doug: so I would recommend a test, not necessarily for Sibo, because the testing for Sibo is kind of challenging to do. It's like you have to blow, you know. Blow into this thing, and they measure the amount of methane. But you can test that, or you can test just gut function and get a sense of somebody has Sibo, or just treat it, and the treatment for Sibo is, can be variable, depending on what kind of sibo you have which you would have to test to know. But essentially it's fighting back the bacteria
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Dr Doug: that have made their way until you're a small intestine. And they're fermenting food before they're supposed to. And so it's pretty common if you're getting bloating really pain in the upper part of your stomach within that 30 to 60 min window after eating, that's likely from bacterial overgrowth, and the traditional medical model is to throw antibiotics at it which works. But then it often comes back. You can treat it naturally with natural antibiotics.
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Dr Doug: somebody who really knows what they're doing from a gut health perspective. But that's what I would worry about in that place.
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Dr Doug: And then there's a whole dietary component to that, too. The low fob map diet is a good way to kind of diagnose this. So fob map is fodmap. If you go on a low fob map diet, and it makes it better. And that means that probably the bacteria that are in your small intestine are fermenting the things that are not in the low fob map diet, which would be things that you would need to eat otherwise. So
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Dr Doug: to summarize that either get tested. Use a low fob map diet to see if it gets better, and then, if it does get better than you need to get treated either way and get rid of that overgrowth.
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Dr Doug: There is an overarching way to treat overgrowth, and that is that you? So there's this thing called the 4 R. It's funny, not my 4 R. Method, but the fourr Gut health program through the functional medicine. I think this came from Ifm, maybe, but it's been around for a long time, and the whole principle is, let's see if I can come up with all 4 Rs. You have to remove the offending agent, and so remove
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Dr Doug: You have to repair the gut. Say you have to repair the gut lining, and then you have to replace what you're missing and then repopulate the microbiome. I think that's the 4 Rs. In some manner.
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Dr Doug: We like to use to remove the bad bacteria. We like to use the the stool, study the Gi effects, and the other Gi map will do it as well, but they'll actually show you the bacteria that are in your gut that appear to be pathogenic and what they're sensitive to. So it's almost like looking at. I'm not actually tell you this, too. But what antibiotics would be effective. You can also look at what natural antibacterials
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Dr Doug: would also be effective. And then you can do a course of those things, plus or minus antibiotics to help knock them back. But then you have to also, in conjunction with that repair the gut lining. And so that's gonna be some of the things that you mentioned. I wouldn't use lactoferrin specifically. Some of the more common things would be like L. Glutamine. L. Glutamine is very healing to the gut lining. I really like immunoglobulins, so lactofer
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Dr Doug: and I don't think is actually an immunoglobulin. But there they generally would come together in in raw dairy. But immunoglobulins can come as a separate product as well, and those are very healing to the gut lining. And then once you have the gut lining healed, then you're gonna need to go in the process of repopulating your microbiome cause you are, gonna have a negative impact to the microbiome. And that's gonna be a good probiotic.
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Dr Doug: and there are a lot of different versions out there.
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Lorna Nichols: I'm getting nowhere. And and related question is, I'm making a smoothie with prunes in it every morning, and I'm wondering is the sweetness and the carbohydrate of the prunes aggravating this?
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Lorna Nichols: Could even the milk sugar be aggravating it? I don't you know how the milk sugar shouldn't be so dairy raw dairy used to be a treatment for it.
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Dr Doug: bone turnover markers earlier. She says my doctor runs a lot of tests because I'm on biodonical hormones, and I stumbled across the ntx ratio among them. It claims in the reports to track the probability of bone loss. Can you comment on this test?
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Dr Doug: so she's referring to Ntx. And I talk about ctx. They're a very similar test. Ntx is the urine version, and I find that most people don't want to pee in a tube or a bucket when they do their labs. So we use Ctx. I think it's probably more accurate as well, because once you add in other organ systems. Then we, you know, there's more variables.
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Dr Doug: you're dealing with the kidneys. Hydrochlorthioside is a diuretic which is going to impact the kidney function. So maybe so I would just use Ctx and do it in blood.
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Dr Doug: Oh, Hi, Nancy, yes, that was your question.
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Dr Doug: All right. So then, let's get into Lorna's question. So Lorna has a few that she put in here. The first one, Lorna I have is on hair loss. And so you noted that you've been losing hair for several years and now that you're on Hrt with testosterone, it's getting worse. Hair loss is a toughie. So we we talk about this a lot. And I'm actually writing a book on testosterone in women right now, because it's such an underserved and very confusing space. So I've looked into this quite a bit, and the answer is, I don't have a clear answer.
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Dr Doug: But the tough thing about hair loss is that generally it doesn't happen quickly after any potential you know, quote unquote insults or change in anything. It is a trailing indicator by like months.
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Dr Doug: And so we know that. You know if you have a stressful event, you can lose hair, but you don't lose hair until 6 months later, and so I feel like with hair loss. We're always chasing our tail because we don't know why. Now, when we start, because we, you know, we'll we'll start women on testosterone and relatively high doses of Dha at the same time, and that can provoke hair loss.
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Dr Doug: And so but that does it pretty quickly. And so we know that if if a woman's gonna have an impact to that. Then we, the first thing we do is stop Dha, because it's more likely to have an impact than as the testosterone. Remember the testosterone. If you're getting it at physiologic doses.
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Dr Doug: And so I find that it's probably not the testosterone, but at high doses it certainly could be, or perhaps for some reason, when you're getting it from the outside, you're over converting to Dht. Or maybe your hair follicles are more sensitive now, so I think it's real so again, first thing we would do is stop. Dha, cause I'd rather people be on testosterone than dha, and then if you still feel like you're seeing it, or and well, at the same time, make sure your levels are not too high of testosterone.
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Dr Doug: pattern thing is to use a dht blocker like soft palm meadow. And and this would look funny because you're you're gonna be essentially be looking at male prostate supplements, because they're all gonna say prostate health and prostate Max, and whatever cause they're marketed to men. But the reason why they do that is because the same thing happens in men with conversion of testosterone to Dht and prostate hypertrophy.
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Dr Doug: So you can use that same mechanism to block conversion in the hair follicles of testosterone or dht, I've never seen a woman a woman's specific product for that. Probably something I should make but I think that's an option. And then the other thing that we've been talking about within my provider group is using the drug spray and a lactone.
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Dr Doug: So Sperona Lactone is used particularly for men on testosterone that struggle with acne. And so this is something that you know, like I think about my own journey with this like, when I was a kid, I had pretty bad acne, and this was probably when I had. And I say, kid, like young adult. I had pretty bad acne, and I looking back on it. It was very androgenic appearing, you know, like. And so if I if I had taken Sprone a lactone back. Then I probably would have had
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Dr Doug: great skin when I started testosterone a couple of years ago. For myself, I started seeing not the same like not a lot of facial acne like when I was a kid, but more like body acne, and when I doubted my dosing, and II came down from my initial dose, cause I'm like a pretty rapid responder of it. It almost went away, but not quite. And so now I take a small dose of Spronal Lactone, and it helps Block that it hasn't done anything for my hair. But I think that's because of a different reason.
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Dr Doug: So I think Sprona Lactone is something that women could also leverage. These are all off label and clearly, we're in a gray area. But Sprona Lactone is actually a very. It's a very safe drug. I think that for even for myself, you know, dropping, it's a blood pressure drug. So dropping my blood pressure by a point or 2 is probably good from a health span perspective. I don't get any symptoms of that.
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Dr Doug: And then again, you're messing with your kidneys, which I'd prefer not to do. But the overall picture for me looks better with a small dose, and we're talking, you know, 100 milligrams is sort of like the the starting dose. If you were to treat it, use it to treat blood pressure, and we start at 25 milligrams so like a whiff of a dose.
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Dr Doug: It's my Q. One goal we have that buck, and then we have the Osteostrong. Folks want me to write a book with them.
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Dr Doug: Alright, Lorna, your next question is that you've heard that too much. B 6 or lack of B 12 can cause tingling in the feet. Are you aware of any of other supplements that too much or too little can have this effect.
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Dr Doug: idio video traffic. There we go. So when people would have that, we would say, Well, you know. What could it possibly be for most people? It was probably because of early diabetes, and they just didn't know if they were impacting their nerves in their feet because they had high levels of insulin high levels of glucose. They weren't quite diabetic yet, but they were on their way. So I think that's the primary reason for most people, but
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Dr Doug: They're not well absorbed. They have negative impact that that we're just really kind of finding out. And so b vitamins are one of those things where we're trying to find the right combination of methylated forms, natural forms, you know, folite's the same thing like methyl tetrahydrofolate versus folic acid. Folic acid is not a naturally occurring thing. We should not be consuming it. And yet it's it's in every grain that you could possibly buy in the United States.
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Dr Doug: by a company called Beam BEAM. And we actually should. I don't know if it's live yet or not cause. I I'm doing a podcast with the CEO of the company later this week. But beam makes a product out of these things called folic and humic acid. Which are these proteins that live deep in the earth and have these really interesting properties?
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Dr Doug: It won't let me do the whole thing. So here's the 2 top ones which are Benphetamine and Alpha lipoic acid.
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Dr Doug: then the other one, Lorna is Alpha Lipoic. And this is basically an Antioxidant, and I've seen this for
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Dr Doug: which I'm not opposed to? The question is, do you want to live like that? So I think oxalates have the potential to be damaging. But people have obviously tolerated them for a long time, so I don't really know what to say about that.
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Dr Doug: Susan asks, she said. I tested positive for the Mt. Hfr. Gene. Yeah. And should we not be taking L. Methyl folate. I thought. The thorn has that product. And now, taking Mercolo's L methyl folate. Yeah. So, Susan, that's different than folic acid by itself.
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Dr Doug: It's not perfect. But wow! It's fast.
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Dr Doug: Yeah. So I think there are. There are plenty of dietitians that are using that as their sole source of you know, custom, nutrition.
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Kitt Lurie: Great! Can I? Can I ask a quick question about that? It feels like a dumb question, but so chat. Gbt, which I've certainly heard about. But I have not used much. So is that a website. Is that a app? If you just if you just Google Chat, Gpt, it'll take you to the website. But it's was it actually called. It's called Chat openai.com.
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Dr Doug: and it there is a free version. We have a the pro versions like 20 bucks a month that just gives you the updated version. But
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Dr Doug: the free version's fine honestly, and there are several different engines out there, but that's one that I think has the most support behind it.
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Dr Doug: Can you say the name of that again. Yeah. So here, I'll just drop it in the chat. Okay, thank you. I'll drop the chat in the chat.
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Dr Doug: Alright. So then, Lorna, you're asking about another product from a company called Natural Vitality is called calm. So it's a mag carbonate powder that also has citric acid.
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Dr Doug: And then, Lorna, you're asking about using chronometer, which, for those that aren't familiar with chronometer. Chronometer is what we use in our practice for people to track food. And you say that you consistently don't get enough thymine and folate
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Dr Doug: unless you're putting in everything, and if you are. God bless you! It's it's so hard to do like for me, like I'm almost. I use chronometer more to track Macros more than anything else. So for give you an example, like, if I eat a salad.
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Dr Doug: And some of these things are hard to test through blood. So that's when using things like a Neutrae Val, which is a vibrant test.
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Dr Doug: Or we're actually, we have a couple of people that are training in hair tissue mineral analysis right now, as well to try to get us a better sense of what what we're potentially deficient in cause. I think it's just hard to know. And it's really hard to split B vitamins like you're finding like, how do I get more of this one and less of that one. But then it's different every day. So if I have 15 different b vitamins, how do I know which one to take, and the answer is, Don't do that.
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Dr Doug: Tom asks about weight, training and thumb arthritis. I think we talked about this live. But basically thumb arthritis is a really really common thing. I used to treat it when I was in the journal part of my practice, and usually it will happen down here at the base of the thumb.
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Dr Doug: And so it's called basil, or joint arthritis or basal joint and it makes it hard to grip stuff. And so if you have that issue, then using machines so that you're not having to grip. But you're just pushing with your the palm of your hand, and then pulling with your fingers or potentially using wrist straps. And I actually sent. I hope I sent Tom a
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Dr Doug: or no, I told his coach, but what wrist wraps look like cause you can pull with wrist wraps and not have to use your thumb at all. It's really great that we have these, this cool, opposing thing, but we don't need it to lift weights necessarily
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Dr Doug: Here's a comment for a comment. Here's a question from Susan J. About. So she says that last week I mentioned that Mchg. Versus algae is something that I hope to explore. More.
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Dr Doug: I forget which product it was, but it was a plant or sorry a soil-based, micronutrient product. I think whenever we're pulling things out of soil, we're going to see.
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Dr Doug: So then, if you're talking about Mchc, which is the the form of calcium that we like that comes from bones. You kind of have the same issue, right? So what were the cows consuming? What kind of heavy metals are in their bones. What's being ground up and then condensed into a product that you're then consuming as a supplement.
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Dr Doug: So that's where that person that that company probably said, well, they have an elevated lead count, I think, elevated compared to what and is it? How unsafe is it? Cause if you just go out there and consume anything that comes out of the soil or out of the ocean. It's gonna have something in it. So I don't know. I don't really know how to guide people here. Ii can ask them that I'm gonna meet with their team, their marketing team on Wednesday.
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Dr Doug: would isometric exercises, such as pushing or pulling as hard as you can do the same thing as Osteo strong equipment. The answer is, no.
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Dr Doug: I can't really explain why I could. I could have John Jakeish on, and he could tell you why. But, There's something about the way that it pushes back. It's measuring what it is, and I think it's pushing into you. So again, I haven't actually been on this equipment in a long time, but I don't think that an isometric would do the same thing
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Dr Doug: which would make sense, because I don't know how you could generate 9 multiples of body weight by pushing on the wall.
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Dr Doug: and you have a question about whole grains. You say whole grains are part of the dash, and Mediterranean diets are said to be healthy for weight.
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Dr Doug: weight, loss, glucose control, lowered risk of cardiovascular disease and improved cognition. What is unhealthy about grains? See this link from Dr. Weil. So
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Dr Doug: I mean, it's just like it's frustrating when I see cause I know his name is is is he's a he's a legend, and I don't know what he eats. I have no idea, but I see him on social media with his daughter, and his daughter is trying to do something with his name, but the guy literally has so much visceral fat. Just looks like he's gonna have a heart attack right now. Now is that cause? He eats whole grains. I don't know.
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Dr Doug: but it definitely makes me question his statements about what is healthy and what is not, so I don't know that I would listen to whatever Dr. Weil is saying. But here's the thing about the dash and the Mediterranean diets in any diet that compares that diet to the standard American diet, which is terrible diet is that they're all gonna be better. That's why Vegan diets are better. That's why carnivore diets are better. That's why Mediterranean, all of them right
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Dr Doug: The other challenge with diet studies is that even if they are intervention studies and not just epidemiologic studies, but even when they are intervention, they have so many components and so many inputs. It's hard to know that something like whole grains is beneficial. If the diet is beneficial, or is the diet beneficial in spite of
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Dr Doug: right? And so I see this all the time like, if you look at the cardiovascular benefit and the dash diets, actually a great example of this. But look at some of the older research by Pritikin and a blanket on the other doctor that does this but shoot what's on the tip of my tongue?
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Dr Doug: but with an intervention that included meditation, improved sleep. Quitting, smoking, eating, a plant based diet, you know, like all these, all these different lifestyle things. And then they said, Well, see the plant-based diet did it. It's the same thing with the blue zone conversation.
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Dr Doug: These people live to 100 years old because they eat a plant based diet. Well, actually, they don't eat a plant based diet. And there's so many inputs there that they might live to 100 years old, despite the fact that they eat a plant based diet we don't know, and to say that whole grains are part of a healthy diet is certainly possible. But I think not in the United States, because our our grains are all Gmo.
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Dr Doug: They're mostly sprayed with glyphosate. They're contaminated. They're inflammatory. So I think. Unfortunately, our grains, you know, maybe a hundred years ago
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Dr Doug: just across the board. You can always challenge that right? So you can take them out. See how you do, and then you can add them back and see how you how you don't do or do. I just did the same thing with oatmeal, because I go back and forth on oatmeal all the time, so I haven't eaten it for a long time. I've got a buddy that has an oatmeal company
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Dr Doug: called Creatures of Habit, and so I've had this oatmeal sitting in my pantry for like a year. It's not expired. Don't worry, but I tried, because it's it's kinda cool. It has protein powder added to it. So it's 30 grams of protein, and then I add more protein powder to it, so I can get 50 grams of protein with a bowl of oatmeal, but I feel like garbage when I eat it.
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Dr Doug: especially if you're not absorbing it. Well, and you're having a hard time getting it in if you were to eat for 16 HA day. So I find that it's a beneficial thing for some things. But if bone, growth and muscle growth is your primary goal. It's probably not a tool to to utilize
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Dr Doug: what's your window? You know. So, for example, people are talking about doing intermittent fasting. That's like a a 12, a 12 and 12. That's just not eating overnight, right like that's not really intermittent. Fasting. 16 8 is skipping breakfast, so can you get all of your protein in in 8 h, probably. Sure. But are you really getting any benefit from
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Dr Doug: going from 12 to 16 h? Maybe you know. What's that? What's that skipping breakfast doing? I don't think it's necessarily bad as long as you can get all of your protein in. But are you actually getting any benefit? And I think the answer is, maybe for some people I love fasting for people that have metabolic dysfunction. So people with diabetes, prediabetes, elevated fasting insulin. It is the best tool
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Dr Doug: And then you have a question here about you've heard that exercise can actually deplete bone nutrients. Should you eat protein before and after workouts?
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Dr Doug: That would be the example of, you know, like chronic cardio, especially somebody who's malnourished like a long distance runner, right like we see long distance runners have terrible bone quality and density. Do you need to eat before and after you train? It wouldn't hurt. I mean, think about this from a bodybuilder perspective.
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Dr Doug: The the pre workouts that they consume, I mean, please avoid the grams of caffeine, but the pre workouts that they consume that have amino acids. There's a little bit of protein, not so much that it slows them down, but it's enough that your body has whatever it needs. For the immediate consumption of amino acids. And then there's that quote unquote
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Dr Doug: Didn't it just continued to go up the more protein they ate. So that's different than what I was taught, and what I tell people, which is, you really can't
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Dr Doug: According to this study, potentially, you can but that's I mean eating a hundred grams of protein in one setting is a lot for even me. So I wouldn't. I wouldn't necessarily go there. But I think definitely eating after and then eating before probably beneficial, you have to start watching your weight.
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Nancy Mandowa: I'm not sure the correct term aromatizing. I'm concerned about Progesterone turning into testosterone or something like that. That's just the general topic that yeah. Well, I can address that actually, really quickly. So the aromatization is the process, and an enzyme that converts testosterone to estrogen or estrogen to testosterone. I think it's the same name. Regardless
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Dr Doug: and you can see exactly where all the hormones and the the enzymes are. So if you were to take a lot of testosterone. It'll convert into estrogen at varying rates depending on your genetics. This is where men get all of their estrogen.
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Dr Doug: or I shouldn't say that almost all other estrogen cause. We have more more testosterone. So we convert to a certain amount of estrogen. And that's the estrogen that we have. Women can do the same thing. So we can use testosterone alone in postmenopausal women and impact estrogen levels. But you have to use a lot, and it gets pretty super physiologic. So I think you're gonna see more side effects if you use that approach. That's why II choose not to do that
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Dr Doug: If that makes sense estrogen when given in higher doses, can also convert into testosterone. That's why we see women that are on Hrt. That has estrogen, and progesterone alone will also improve levels of testosterone. But it's not very much.
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Susan Jaye: Doctor Doug. Did I ask you one quick question? Okay? I wanna know she on her topic. I'm taking a hundred 25 Mgs. Of micronized Progesterone every night.
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Susan Jaye: Oh, my God! Strontium! Citrate with silica boron Maganese! Oh, like like, within a few hours of that of taking the progesterone. Would that be helpful for your Osteel class?
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Yeah, I think it would likely be additive.
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Dr Doug: And I would say, osteoblasts, actually, because of of what the you know, all the things that you're combining there progesterone impacts osteoblasts and then the other things that you're doing with the silica. The strontium in theory and boron are all gonna have an impact on osteoblasts, more so than osteoclasts that that the systems connected. But yeah, you can take those 2 together, or at least I should say I would recommend taking those 2 together if you were my patient.
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Susan Jaye: Okay, thank you. Okay, you're welcome. And then, Thomas, your question in the chat, which is, if I don't answer all these questions will answer them in the future. Yes.
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Will, we will get through them all. Someday
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Dr Doug: we are developing quite a list.