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On my Picky List post I told you that if you eat an apple before a fatty or sugary meal it will help decrease the absorption of cholesterol and keep your insulin levels regulated. Would you like to know how?
It’s the fiber and pectin that play the greatest role. You see fiber is essential for proper digestion and absorption of foods. Unfortunately, many of us are not even coming close to having enough fiber intake in our diets to make our digestion efficient. (When I talk about fiber, I’m not talking about grain or wheat fiber either…more to come on that)
Pectin is a potent antioxidant and is also a soluble fiber (which means it is a fiber your body can break down). Fiber aids in digestion because it adds bulk to the digestive tract and slows the digestion process and it also helps carry undigested material out of your body.
The fiber from the apple prepares your colon for what is about to enter. In our example pizza which has very little “good fiber” in it and is full of dairy and fat which is hard to digest without “good fiber”.

To help you understand lets take a look at eating pizza without consuming an apple first. This is what happens:
1. Due to the pizza containing virtually no “good fiber” it is rapidly digested into mostly sugars from the crust. There is also no “good fiber” to bind the fats and carry them out of your body so you also absorb more of the fat.
2. Because the pizza is converted into mostly sugar your insulin rapidly rises to deal with all the sugar.
3. Over production of insulin will make / cause you to age faster because insulin is a mitogentic hormone (makes your cells replicate faster) so your aging process is sped up. That’s why most anti aging techniques focus on keeping your insulin levels low.

Low insulin levels= slower aging = younger looking you!

Now let’s look at eating pizza after consuming an apple first:

1. You supplied your colon (gut) with “good fiber” so it is ready for the onslaught which the pizza will shortly bring.
2. The pizza enters your gut and the “good fiber” from the apple binds to the fat and sugar from the grain in the crust (remember all grains become sugar when digested).
3. The “good fiber” from the apple keeps the insulin levels lower because the sugars are not absorbed into the body so quickly and many are eliminated out the other end…same thing happens with the fats. Less fats means less chances of raised cholesterol.

Aren’t you glad the apple is no longer the forbidden fruit?

I’d love to hear from you, if you have questions, email me at draaron@unitedwellness.net

Dr. Aaron

Why Is This Not Just A Woman’s Problem Anymore
Despite what you might be thinking, hormone imbalance and “dis-eases” are not just a woman’s problem. Why? The organ that plays a gigantic role in your Estrogen levels does not even produce Estrogen…but it is responsible for eliminating or not eliminating it from your body.
Almost all hormone issues are not caused by excessive estrogen production, but inefficient elimination or deactivation of hormones in the liver.
Your liver is responsible for clearing your body of excess or non used items. To make is simple, think of your liver as having two oil filters inside. We will call them filter 1 and filter 2. Filter 1 is first to act. It will either make things less toxic or more toxic than the original substance that entered into it.
Filter 2 takes the less or more toxic substance and makes it safe for your body to eliminate through the urine or feces. The major difference between filter 1 and filter 2 is the speed at which they work and the different nutrients your liver needs for them to do their jobs.
We are going to focus on liver filter 2 and how it eliminates estrogen from the body. Estrogen comes in various forms. We will call them Estrogen 2, Estrogen 4 and Estrogen 16. To make it very simple Estrogen 2 is good or nice to your body. Estrogen 4 and 16 are bad. They are very active forms of estrogen and are more likely to cause dis-ease if in this form.
Here’s the important part for today. In order to make Estrogen 2 (good kind) we need a substance called Endo 3 Carbinol. You can get this compound in your body by taking a high quality supplement containing Endo 3 Carbinol.
The really great news is Endo 3 Carbinol is not some rare compound only found in a magic berry from the Amazon. You can find an abundance of Endo 3 Carbinol naturally in cruciferous vegetables (Broccoli, Brussel sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower and Turnips)
What I really love about vegetables is their ability not only to remove deficiencies and toxicities from your body, but at the same time they supply you with sufficiency and purity.
Who would have thought that vegetables would be so important to your hormone balance and healthy Estrogen metabolism? May be that’s why the American Cancer Society raised the recommended servings of vegetables per day to 6 to 11 per day instead of 4 to 5 per day.
And best of all, I have never seen a disclaimer of ill side effects due to eating too many vegetables.
The tip to take home is make sure you’re eating at least 6-11 serving of vegetables per day to provide enough Endo 3 Carbinol for Estrogen 2 (good) metabolism and elimination from your body.

Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well

Dr. Aaron

Are Pollution, Chemicals (xenoestrogens) and Life Style Responsible For The Rise In Hormone Related “Dis-eases?”

I have been studying health and wellness since 1995. Since that time I have been reading a lot about and personally observing a scary trend in our Country. The rate of hormone related dis-eases has been steadily rising. How can this be? Don’t we have the best health care in the world… the most abundant food supply on earth… more medication available than any other country in the world? We do, but this does not seem to be working. Take a look at what the research has proven.

“The incidence of breast cancer varies greatly around the world, being lower in less developed countries and greatest in the more developed countries.”

Stewart B. W. and Kleihues P. (Eds): World Cancer Report. IARCPress. Lyon 2003

“Women in the United States have the highest incidence rates of breast cancer in the world.”

Ries LAG, Eisner MP, Kosary CL, et al. SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975–2000.
Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, 2003.

What did that just say? The more developed the country you live in the more likely you are to get breast cancer? Women in the US have the highest rates of breast cancer in the world?
Have you ever thought about the fact that we have gotten so far away from what’s naturally good for our bodies in this country…that we are creating dis-ease through the very things we are using to treat them? Medications, synthetic hormones, pesticides and other toxic chemicals may actually be making us worse. If not what else could it be? If you know please tell me?
It’s not genetic! Only a minute percentage of these problems are related to your genes. Research has shown that only 5%-10% of breast cancer is caused by the “cancer gene”. Read it for yourself…

“About 5% to 10% of breast cancers are thought to be linked to changes (mutations) in certain genes. The most common gene changes are those of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.”
American Cancer Society

The Altered BRCA-1 gene appears in only 5% of the 182,000 breast cancer cases that develop. BRCA-2 is responsible for the same amount. Than mean over
Our way of life is not only affecting women, but men as well. Due to estrogen dominance look what’s happening to men.

“Since 1938, sperm counts of men in the U.S. and 20 other countries have plunged by an average of 50%. At the same time, testicular cancer has tripled.”
Newsweek 1994

I hope you see that what we have been doing is not working. You must understand the causes of disease to protect yourself. To help you, I will be sharing with you how to remove the deficiencies/toxicities from your life and body and replace them with sufficiency/purity. That is the only way to get well.

P.S. If you think what we are currently doing in the US is working…meaning people are getting healthier and happier please take a moment to look around. We are heading for disaster. This can be stopped. I will share with you how over the next four weeks, so check back weekly.
P.P.S. In order not to overwhelm you I will show you how to restore sufficiency and purity in bite sized pieces. Please share this information with people you care about. We must stop this downfall.

Eat Well, Think Well, Move Well

Dr Aaron

Dysbiosis (Leaky Gut) and “Bad” Bacterial Overgrowth are an American Epidemic.

Don’t like to read…then watch the video

I have been studying health and wellness since 1995. My studies have led me to research not only the latest health information available, but I also studied the diet our ancestors ate during the Paleolithic period thousands of years ago. Believe it or not, there are actually studies on the Paleolithic and hunter/gather societies and what they ate. Great advancements in science and technology have been achieved over that last 10,000 years, but some of these advancements seem to be causing more harm than good. Technology has made our nation the most advanced in the world. We have an abundance of hospitals, medications, doctors and no shortage of food…if you really want to call what many of us eat “food”.
When I look at the research from studies documenting the health and lifestyles of humans 10,000 years ago versus today, I discovered something scary. The only thing that has happened is we have gotten sicker, and managed to create some “dis-eases” that did not exist years ago. How could we be getting sicker and creating dis-ease? What has changed? I was able to quickly eliminate a cause that we have been brainwashed with, the reasoning that says, “ it’s genetic or it runs in my family.” Bad genes are not to blame, and this is why…
In all the research related papers and books that I have read, I found…
1. That our genes have changed less than 0.02% (two hundredth of a percent) in 40,000 YEARS!
2. The Paleolithic hunter/gathers did not have many of our modern illnesses… they had no hospitals or medications available…and their genes were virtually identical to ours today.
Since we have the same genes now that we had 40,000 years ago, what is different? I will tell you…their diets, movement, level of activity, exposure to toxins and emotional stressors…so…basically their lifestyles were the complete opposite of ours.
I will explain the differences in all of these factors and how it affects our health in the near future, but for this post we are going to focus on diet and how it affects the health of our guts (intestinal digestive tract) and ultimately the health of our bodies.
In a nut shell this is how our fiber deficient, nutrient deficient diets are destroying the health of our guts and our bodies.
One thing you must know is that our bodies work just like the world around us. Our environment is damaged and destroyed by excess pollution. Just as our body/internal environment is damaged and destroyed by excess pollution. The pollution in our bodies comes mainly from processed foods which are deficient in nutrients and fiber.
Our guts are the first line of defense and up to 70% of the bodies lymph tissue surrounds the gut. Why would you need 70% of your immune system surrounding your gut? The gut is one of the first areas where things have the opportunity to enter your body. If something toxic gets through your gut and into the body you need to be able to eliminate it or fight it.
Here is how the gut works… you need “good” bacteria to ferment and break down your food so it can be absorbed. “Bad” bacteria also lives in your gut and acts like a parasite living off the food you eat. So if you don’t have the “good” bacteria in your gut then toxins easily pass through the gut into the body. Now your lymph system and immune system must take care of it.
Toxins pass through the gut = Immune Response = Pain or Sickness.
So there’s the problem. If your gut is unprotected and you don’t have healthy bacteria you are going to be sick.

What should you do? Increase your fresh fruit and vegetable consumption, unless you’re eating 70%-80% raw fruits and vegetable every day you will have a gut imbalance. I know that sounds like a lot, but there are several, time effective ways to bring these foods into your diet (I cover this in the report.) The “good” bacteria come from fruits and veggies. The “bad” bacteria come from breads, cereals, processed foods, soda and the other man made foods we consume. The foods you eat either make you more pure or more toxic. It’s just that simple.
The traditional western diet will cause the “bad” bacteria to flourish. The “bad” bacteria will actually eat the food you eat, so they can keep multiplying and take over your gut. This is gross but, what your body is left with is the waste or “bad bacteria poop” they excrete back into your gut. Left unchecked this cycle will “snowball” and continue to make your body more and more toxic and sick. This condition is correctable, but if undiagnosed and untreated it can reach a point of no return!
How healthy do you think you will be…
If you are living on a diet of “bad bacteria poop?”
There are four steps to restoring the healthy bacteria in your gut:
1. Remove the bad (such as harmful chemicals from our environment, allergens and Pathogens)
2. Replace the “bad” with the “good”
3. Repair (a special diet may be need to restore intestinal health which includes villi and microvilli health)
4. Replenish (add nutrients like probiotics, fermentable fruits and vegetables to support the growth and repair of healthy bacteria flora)

There is a way to test for leaky gut. If you would like to find out if you have “leaky gut” I can help. I am also making available to you the steps you will need follow to Remove, Replace, Repair and Replenish your gut. I have made these steps available to you in a free report.
If you would like the report or more information on how to restore health to several of the most common GI issues such as: Leaky Gut, Inflammatory bowel, Candidacies, Parasites or Dysbiosis please feel free to email me at draaron@unitedwellness.net. I have many protocols available to help you restore purity and sufficiency to your body.

Eat Well, Think Well, Move Well

Dr Aaron
P.S. I realize that we are all busy and you may not wish to read the report… so, I will soon have my reports and other important health information available online in video format.

Why do I call Fibromyalgia the invisible disease? Because there are no laboratory tests to detect the widespread pain, fatigue, TMJ, poor memory, headaches and all the other miserable symptoms that usually accompany Fibromyalgia. How can a “disease” not be detected in blood work, Cat Scans, MRI’s, or with the use of other technology? You are about to find out.

Fibromyalgia is routinely diagnosed with a quick 5 minute physical examination where a physician or other health care practitioner prods 18 specific points on your body. If you have pain with 11 of them, guess what? You have Fibromyalgia. And now you must deal with this condition for the rest of your life. What a terrible diagnosis to give someone.

So we are faced with treating a disease that has no definitive testing procedure, and leaves the person diagnosed with Fibromyalgia with little hope.

Once diagnosed you now have a few very limited options for treatment. Anti-Inflammatory drugs, neurological drugs like Neurontin, steroids, or a combination of other medications, which usually offer little to no real relief from your pain. And these drugs all have very unpleasant side effects.

In order to get well you must identify the cause of the problem.

By studying and understanding the healthy body’s physiology, I am able to quickly observe and diagnose improper physiology. The key areas I would look at are as follows:

• The pH of your body tissues
• Liver function
• Kidney function
• Digestive function
• Adrenal function
• Electrolyte status

By observing the different functions of your body listed previously, I can observe how your body’s systems are working together, or not working together. Based on the observation and testing that I perform, I am able to provide the resources that will help you correct your health issues and keep you healthy.

The best form of treatment is early detection, and now through Functional Medicine Assessments we are able to detect illness in it’s earliest stages. This type of testing and evaluation is revolutionary and is changing the way in which healthcare is delivered. Functional Medicine is at the front of the wellness revolution and will be the healthcare of the future. The reason Functional Medicine is so powerful and effective is that it is medical science and testing that allows your doctor to deal with the CAUSE of your illness. Treating the cause of an illness leads to a removal of symptoms and is much more cost effective and time efficient.

After reading case study after case study, I have found what I believe to be the four main factors contributing to Fibromyalgia (which are very similar to the same physiology causing chronic fatigue.) There is dysfunction in three vital systems and one major cellular component.

1. Liver (toxicity/stress)
2. GI (colon/digestive tract)
3. Adrenal stress or dysfunction (over or under functioning adrenal glands.)
4. Mitochondrial damage (mitochondria are the power houses of the cell that produce energy)

There are three critical steps to get your liver, GI, and adrenal systems back to health, and turn the power supply back on in your mitochondria.

1. ELIMINATE PROCESSED FOOD – especially foods that contain gluten and phytic acid. Gluten is found in all grain (except sprouted grains like “Ezekiel Bread^TM”). Gluten is a protein that is very difficult to digest because we lack the specialized enzymes to effectively break it down, which causes damage to the cells in the GI tract. Phytic acid also found in grains and wheat products decreases the absorption of some essential minerals like Calcium, Iron, Magnesium and Zinc, which help decrease cytotoxins and prostaglandins production which cause inflammation.

INFLAMMATION = PAIN

This will help establish healthy bacteria in your gut and digestive tract and eliminate stomach and intestinal inflammation that blocks absorption of your food. This step will help your body to digest and utilize the good healthy nutrients you are about to feed it.

I know this sounds difficult, but please understand that grain and gluten are toxic to your body. Eating these types of food is like putting diesel fuel in your high performance car that was designed for premium unleaded fuel.

1. DRINK LOTS OF PURIFIED WATER. You need half your body weight in ounces of water every day. If you drink any caffeinated beverages throughout the day, you need to match the ounces of caffeinated drink with an equal amount of water. For example, if you weigh 100 pounds, you would need to drink 50 ounces of clean water each day. If you weigh 100 pounds and drink 10 ounces of coffee, then you need to drink 60 ounces of water per day (50 oz plus 10 oz because you drank 10 oz of coffee.) DEHYDTATION = MUSCLE CRAMPING = PAIN

Your body is 70% water. But what you may not know is that your cells are producing toxic waste every second of every day, and if you don’t have enough water to flush them out they will pool in your body and cause sickness and play a huge roll in your pain level.

Pardon my graphic example, but think about what it would be like if you used the restroom and had a bowel movement, but you only had one cup of water to flush it down. What would happen? The same thing happens inside you! Your body needs water to flush. Many people, when I first meet with them, are lucky to drink just one glass of water a day.

Now before I give you the following recommendations please remember that if you have any questions regarding the supplements listed below, any of the terms I use in this report, or why I recommend these supplements specifically, please e-mail me at draaron@unitedwellness.net

I am always happy to answer your questions and to share with you any of the research that I used to evaluate the recommendations I am making for you. In many cases I can show you that the supplements I am recommending are more cost effective and will allow you to achieve better results than going to your local store and buying something off the shelf that is not as effective.

1. TAKE HIGH-QUALITY SUPPLEMENTS. You will need initial supplementation to get your body over the “hump” and give yourself a much needed kick start. From the functional medicine testing that I have done I have found several common nutrients that people are lacking. Everyone’s exact supplementation requirements are unique (based on their Functional Medicine Assessment,) but I can give you the most common recommendations.

Here are my 3 primary supplement recommendations:

· A high quality essential fatty acid (fish oil), at 1,500 – 3,000 milligrams (mg) per day. Don’t buy just any fish oil…they are not all created equal. The two most important fatty acids found in fish oil are EPA and DHA, and together they need to equal 1,500 – 3,000 mg of the total fatty acids in the fish oil. We carry what research has found to be the two best brands.

LACK OF OMEGA FATTY ACIDS = INFLAMMATION = PAIN (You can view the Fish Oil supplements I am recommending on our web site at www.unitedwellness.net or feel free to email me with any questions at draaron@unitedwellness.net )

· Essential minerals like Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Selenium and Zinc. These important nutrients help decrease cytotoxins and prostaglandin production which cause inflammation. Inflammation = pain.

FibroPlex^TM is a nutriceutical which contains, among other things, a superior form of magnesium called, Magneisum Bis-glycinate. This form of magnesium helps increase energy production and reverses relative hypoxia…lack of oxygen to muscles.

Lack of oxygen to muscles = Muscle Breakdown = Pain.

· UltraInflamX^TM is a medical food designed to help reduce pain-causing inflammation in the body. While this medical food tastes good, and it is incredibly effective and the results that my patients have experienced while using this sophisticated formula are amazing.

If you follow these three steps your will begin to restore purity and sufficiency to your body’s cells and remove deficiency and toxicities which lead to the pain and fatigue of Fibromyalgia.

In order to assess severe cases a clinical examination, case history, and Functional Medicine Assessment may be required to correct other underlying issues and achieve the desired results. This allows for a broader clinical picture and provides the most accurate information needed for the appropriate recommendations specifically for you.

I realize that the information shared above is very technical, but I welcome any questions you may have via my email address at draaron@untiedwellness.net .

The Wellness Prescription:

Eat Well, Think Well, Move Well

Overcoming Chronic Fatigue

I’m always tired…what can I do?

I have been studying health and wellness since 1995 and this is a complaint I hear from over 90% of my patients when they first come into our office. They all suffer from a lack of energy, and the question is how do they get their energy back? I don’t blame them for wanting to feel more vigorous, I think all of us could use a little more pep in our step.

I have a habit of constantly observing people everywhere I go, airports, grocery stores, gyms, malls, restaurants, etc. and I am seeing the same thing not just in my clients but in everyone….

They look like they are dragging a 100 lb weight behind them.

This blows my mind! How can everyone look so tired and run down all the time? It took me several years of studying to uncover the main culprits of chronic fatigue, and I did not find it in my postgraduate medical textbooks.

If you look back in the medical text books from ten or fifteen years ago (I did) you will not see anything on chronic fatigue. How could that be? This “dis-ease” known as Chronic Fatigue did not exist as little as fifteen years ago! I had to discover what was so different now compared to ten or fifteen years ago.

I quickly eliminated several factors. Our nationwide chronic fatigue problems could not be due to a lack of doctors, hospitals, or prescription drugs. Why? Because we have more doctors, more hospitals and more drugs available to us now than at any other time in history, and we have more of these resources than any other nation in the world! Yet our disease and sickness rates are still climbing higher and higher each year. Did you know that the US is ranked 37^th out of 39 countries in the world in the overall health of our population?

Then it hit me…I know the reason why so many people are suffering from chronic fatigue, and the reason is…

No one has told you how to be healthy and reclaim your energy. Health really is a very simple concept we have just been lead to believe it’s not. You must restore purity and rebuild your body’s resources and remove the buildup of toxins in your body. There are three concepts you must follow if you want to restore health and re-energize your body. You must…

1. Eat well
2. Think well
3. Move well

If you did all three things at the same time for a period of time…you could not beat health and energy off with a stick.

I am going to focus on what I have researched and found to be the most important aspect of overcoming chronic fatigue. These recommendations are based on careful study of multiple clinical research articles, and my own functional medicine testing and results. Reversing your health starts first with your nutrition. After reading case study after case study, I have found that the three main factors contributing to chronic fatigue are dysfunction in three vital systems:

1. Liver (toxicity/stress)
2. GI (colon/digestive tract)
3. Adrenal stress or dysfunction (over or under functioning adrenal glands.)

There are three critical steps to get your liver, GI and adrenals back to health and I have condensed the necessary steps to overcome chronic fatigue in my FREE four page report Winning the Battle Against Chronic Fatigue.

My purpose is to provide you with the information necessary to restore health and wellness to your life. I am tired of seeing sick and suffering people who have lost their hope, that is why I will send you my report FREE of charge just e mail me at draaron@unitedwellness.net to receive your free digital copy of this breakthrough report. I have to warn you the side effect of following these recommendations will not only be increased energy but significant weight loss has also been reported.

Eat Well, Think Well, Move Well

Dr. Aaron Oxenrider D.C., C.C.W.P

Board Certified Chiropractic Physician

Certified Chiropractic Wellness Practitioner

P.S. I want you to know that I am always willing to answer additional questions you might have on any health related topic. Just e-mail your question to draaron@unitedwellness.net

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