Take Charge of Your Health

Take Charge of Your Health - Interview with Dr. Robert Lustig, Author of ”Fat Chance” and ”Metabolical”

Dr. Robert Lustig is a Professor Emeritus from the University of California, San Francisco in Pediatric Endocrinology (www.robertlustig.com).  He observed the terrible toll that the processed food industry has taken on the health of our children and ourselves.  These foods lure us to pleasure instead of happiness, he writes.  He is the author of "Fat Chance" and his latest book "Metabolical: The Lures and Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine". Here's a quote from his website: 
Sugar is now the most ubiquitous foodstuff worldwide, and has been added to virtually every processed food, limiting consumer choice and the ability to avoid it. Approximately 80 percent of the 6,000,000 consumer packaged foods in the United States have added caloric sweeteners.

Take Charge of Your Health : Microbiologist Jeff Thurston joins Corinne and Carol to Discuss the Gut Microbiome

"Death begins in the colon" is attributed as a old Chinese saying.  We discuss the foundations of our wellness, particularly the microbiome of our gut.  Microbiologist Jeff Thurston joins us to discuss the power of using probiotics (various cultures of bacteria) to alter the milieu in our digestive tract.  This is an encore and the introduction contains our thinking at the beginning of the pandemic the world has suffered.

Take Charge of Your Health: Back to Basics, Corinne and Carol Review the World of Sweeteners

We have come a long way from only choosing honey, saps and fruits in our diet.  Our grocery stores are filled with alternative sweeteners, high fructose corn, and syrups of all sorts.  We discuss various sweeteners and the consequences to our health.

Take Charge of Your Health: Dr. Jamie Kaufman and Her Book ”The Chronic Cough Enigma”

There is a disconnect in medicine, Dr. Kaufman, an otolaryngologist, tells Corinne and Carol and the audience. A constant sinus drainage problem which causes constant nighttime coughing is in reality a gastrointestinal problem. It is originating with gastric reflux.  She relates to us how she remedies this in her practice but also zeros in on practical tips for us to apply on our own.  She says since this occurs in gaps in medical specialties, physicians cannot identify and treat the root of the problem.

Take Charge of Your Health : Corinne and Carol interview Dr. Michael Platt on his book ”Adrenaline Dominance”

 We are well aware of adrenaline as our "fit or flight" hormone, however, we also experience health problems when adrenaline is turned on constantly.  We never measure this hormone, yet it is fundamentally involved in our basic glucose and insulin balance, our most primitive and fundamental hormone system.

Take Charge of Your Health : Back to Basics

Melatonin , immune, energy, anti-depressant

Take Charge of Your Health : A Most Primitive Hormone-Melatonin

Melatonin is a hormone that is produced by every plant and animal and is considered one of the most primitive.  When released by the pineal gland, melatonin directs our circadian cycles.  Most melatonin production, however, is produced inside the mitochondria, the energy organelles inside our cells.  Consequently melatonin has far reaching effects on cardiovascular disease, cancer, immunology, heavy metal toxicity and more.  Listen as Corrine and Carol dig into the many applications of melatonin.

Take Charge of Your Health : Carol and Corinne Talk With Cardiologist, Stephen Sinatra

Unlike most doctors, Dr. Sinatra, also board certified in psychiatry and nutrition.  We discuss nutritional and emotional aspects of heart disease as well as risks rarely discussed:  poor sleep, lack of earthing, loneliness and broken hearts.

Take Charge of Your Health - Corrine and Carol Cover The Fascinating Electrolyte Potassium

 Inside the cell potassium is concentrated while outside of our cells sodium predominates. This uneven concentration of potassium and sodium creates a differential in charge just like a battery works.  Low potassium contributes to many chronic diseases and creates body signs such as low energy, missed words, matting eyes and difficulty in focusing, lack of lustre and shine in the hair and a straw like appearance, feelings of a heavy body and much more.  Additional posts in Facebook at Take Charge of Your Health with Corinne and Carol will provide a recipe for potassium broth and a more complete list of deficiencies and disease states.

Take Charge of Your Health - Our Guest is Dr. David Minkoff

 Dr. Minkoff enlightens us to the problems that face us when we cannot break down dietary protein to its smallest parts - amino acids.  Our bodies absorb amino acids and use those to make all the unique protein molecules used in our bodies.  We have an estimated 50,000 unique protein molecules.  We need these for all the enzymes in our bodies, all our immune system components, all of our body and bone structure and much more.  Ironically, in order to break down protein in our digestion system, we require the enzymes made of protein. Listen to how we can break the catch 22 and learn how proteins and amino acids function.