Full Transcript Intro and Q&A Setup 0:00 When we're on our blood sugar roller coaster. 0:02 So say you're having something with higher carbs. 0:05 It's shooting you up, and then you're bottoming out. 0:07 You could feel jittery. You could feel anxious. 0:10 And I've had a few patients now that their anxiety was due 0:15 to blood sugar imbalance and some insulin resistance. 0:19 So that's something that you'd want to you could wear a continuous glucose monitor. 0:23 You could play around with different supplements. 0:26 You could hunker down on your macros and and check those out. 0:30 But that's another root cause for anxiety that you definitely want to look into 0:35 and make sure it's balanced and balancing your blood sugar is just it's key. 0:40 It's key for longevity. 0:42 Welcome to Doctor Talks, the podcast, where every episode leads 0:46 to a healthier you. 0:48 Join us as we navigate the world of optimal health, 0:51 uncovering groundbreaking strategies to conquer chronic disease. 0:54 In each episode, we'll bring you the latest insights 0:57 from leading health experts, medical innovators, and wellness warriors. 1:01 If you're seeking to transform your health journey, or if you're looking 1:05 for answers to burning questions, you've come to the right place. 1:09 Get ready to unlock the secrets of lifelong health and vitality. 1:13 This is Doctor Talks, 1:15 real talk from real doctors on the issues that matter to you most. 1:21 Hey everyone, it's Doctor Jen. 1:23 Welcome back to a Q and A. 1:26 We are doing these special 1:29 in the integrative of Health group on Facebook. 1:32 I'm gonna ask people to put their questions 1:34 and what they're struggling with, 1:35 and we're going to answer them on the podcast and YouTube. 1:38 If you would like to submit a question, you can submit it to Doctor Jen. 1:43 Apps like Mediacom with the subject titled Doctor Jen Q&A. 1:48 And as always, please like and subscribe.
Weight Loss, Candida, and Gut Health 1:52 Share this. 1:53 If it helps you at all, or you think it would help anyone 1:56 because I would like this informed consent. 1:59 Goodness to to get out there. 2:02 I am a practicing physician and double board certified, 2:06 so it's it's hard to get through some of the bad information out there. 2:10 And as always, this is not medical advice. 2:13 This is just suggestions. 2:15 Things that I've seen that have worked in my practice. 2:17 So let's get started. 2:18 Someone was asking weight loss, macro 2:21 counting and dealing with Candida after overcoming H. 2:25 Pylori. 2:26 Okay, so gut health is big with weight loss. 2:30 We need to make sure that our gut is functioning properly, that we, 2:34 our GLP one receptors are taking care of, that we have a good amount 2:39 of good and bad bacteria that they're in there in a good ratio. 2:43 Okay. 2:44 So when we have a lot of good bacteria, 2:47 then if we have some Candida or bad bacteria, it covers that, right? 2:52 We're not going to see Candida rise up and cause problems. 2:55 But what happens is there's a dysbiosis or overgrowth of the bad bacteria. 2:59 And Candida is so common, so common for women, 3:03 so common in women in perimenopause leads to sugar cravings. 3:07 It leads to bloating. 3:09 It leads to skin problems. 3:11 It allows other infections to come in, such as age 3:15 pylori or C difficile causes inflammation, creates biofilms. 3:19 Right? Yikes. 3:22 What are symptoms of Candida overgrowth? 3:24 Sometimes a Candida overgrowth. 3:26 Our sugar cravings bloating, rashes, itching, 3:31 yeast infections, rashes under the breast of Candida 3:36 brain fog can be big with that fatigue trouble sleeping. 3:41 So a lot of different things can be out of whack. 3:44 What I think is interesting is I think it's pretty common 3:48 after being on birth control. 3:49 So me personally, I was put on oral birth control 3:53 to regulate my period, when really it was Hashimoto's that was the problem. 3:58 So this is also why if you're listening 4:00 and your daughter or yourself, you're going through 4:04 irregular, erratic periods or something isn't right no matter what the age. 4:09 That is a warning sign. 4:10 Our cycle is like a vital sign for our health as women. 4:15 And if it's off or you're having all these crazy symptoms 4:19 like PMS is not normal, even though it's normalized. 4:23 So just because it's normalized doesn't mean it's normal. 4:26 And this happens a lot in the health field. 4:29 So what we can do is that we can 4:33 really examine our cycle and and figure out what's going on. 4:37 Now, what you don't want to do is jump on birth control. 4:40 So anyway, I was put on birth control to regulate my period. 4:43 And we know that oral birth control contraceptives, it's 4:47 conjugated equine estrogen. It's c.e. 4:50 It's not real estradiol. 4:52 It is not doing good things on those receptors. 4:55 It's doing bad things. 4:57 And it's also depleting us of minerals and also making it 5:01 more likely for Candida to grow in the gut. 5:04 So this happens a lot. 5:05 And I remember personally, I didn't have any signs 5:07 of yeast infections until after my doctor in high school 5:12 put me on birth control, and I did not need to be on birth control. 5:15 And then I struggled with Candida up until about, you know, ten years ago 5:20 when I, you know, really started 5:23 practicing the integrative medicine in my practice over ten years ago. 5:26 But I, you know, this candida can flare up to in patients. 5:31 So I see patients take it, get it under control. 5:34 I have a protocol unhealthy by Doctor Jen for Candida. 5:38 It works excellent. 5:39 Sometimes though if botanicals don't help 5:44 we do go to things like die Fluky and rate or nice stat. 5:49 And sometimes we do need that to break down the biofilm. 5:52 So it really just depends on the patient. 5:55 So when we're looking at coming out of a Candida infection 5:59 stress, you want to make sure that you're not stressed, that 6:02 you are not creating stress. 6:04 Because when we have high stress, high cortisol, 6:08 we're going to create an environment in our gut that it's it's going to be 6:13 favorable for overgrowth of candida and the bad guys, you know going off. 6:18 So we want to make sure that we want to make sure that we're replenishing 6:23 with good probiotics. 6:25 And spore based probiotics too, are helpful. 6:28 And then that we're not killing off the good guys. 6:30 So we're not you're swimming in glyphosate, right? 6:34 If you live in the Midwest, 6:35 that could be an ongoing problem that I tell my patients in the Midwest. 6:39 You should probably be on Gut 6:40 Protect Powder every day, especially during harvest season, 6:44 because otherwise you're getting inflammation in that got 6:47 the good guys are getting cut off and not good. 6:51 They're dying off. 6:52 So you're going to get that dysbiosis antibiotics. 6:55 So if you have to if you have to go on antibiotics 6:57 for some reason, then you need to supplement 7:01 with a probiotic and prebiotics to feed the good guys that are left. 7:04 So we know that there's an increased risk of candidiasis 7:09 or candida after antibiotics, you know, oral or IV. 7:13 So you got to realize that you have to be proactive. 7:17 And when I work in the E.R., I always prescribe a probiotic with the antibiotic. 7:22 And I explain with them how to take it, you know, two hours, 1 to 2 hours 7:26 to to be safe apart from your antibiotic and take it for at least a month. 7:30 But keep going. 7:32 But I try to at least teach a little bit in the emergency room. 7:35 And please don't give antibiotics for viruses. 7:38 Don't take antibiotics for viruses. 7:41 Sometimes doctors or practitioners, especially if they're new practitioners 7:45 in the urgent care and they're just out of school 7:47 because they just want to, you know, get a job. 7:50 And that's why they hire new grads. 7:52 Because it's less expensive. 7:53 It's awful, I know, but they will just, you know, 7:57 just give antibiotics even though it's a virus 8:00 because it takes longer to educate the patients. 8:02 You have to advocate for that. 8:04 And I think antibiotics have such an important role in diseases. 8:08 But keep a healthy gut first, because we know that our immune system 8:11 is in our gut. 8:12 So you're coming off killing the Candida. 8:15 Your sugar cravings are butter. 8:17 Your sugar cravings start coming back. 8:18 Well, is it stress right? 8:20 Is it just you need to do a sugar reset. 8:23 Try to decipher that. 8:25 But I will say that, you know sugar is addictive, 8:28 so you have to be careful that you're not feeding that addiction. 8:32 And then if you're feeding that addiction to you're feeding the Candida in the gut. 8:36 And then if the candida in the gut are overgrowing, they are going to through 8:40 the gut mind connection, ask for ask for sugar. 8:45 Right. 8:46 So we have to be careful. 8:47 It's a vicious cycle I know. 8:49 But it's something that you can get under control. 8:52 So I recommend like a three day sugar fast if you're trying to like 8:55 kick the cravings. 8:57 And a lot of the times like a carnivore diet 8:59 short term can really shut down those sugar cravings. 9:03 Even even a three day sardine fast or a three day carnivore bar fast. 9:09 We'll just reset it. 9:10 I know over Christmas I felt like I was getting out of control. 9:13 I'm like, oh my goodness, I'm just losing it. 9:17 I'm so inflamed. 9:18 I just like, have I'm craving sugar and I'm just eating it. 9:21 And I was stressed too, because we were moving and I just was like, no. 9:26 And and I did like a, like probably three day animal based, but like a full, 9:31 like two days of just carnivore and just reset everything to whole food. 9:36 And but this can include fruits too. 9:38 So sometimes you just need to 9:40 shut that down or just have berries which are lower glycemic index. 9:44 So all of these things can be helpful if you're coming off a Candida infection 9:49 or if you're coming off like, like sugar cravings 9:52 and all these things that I'm telling you guys about, 9:54 they're all going to help with weight loss, too. 9:56 Isn't that amazing? And inflammation. 9:59 So like one of those resets can be very helpful okay. 10:04 And you're just going to feel better. 10:05 Your skin's going to look better. 10:07 You're not going to be as bloated. 10:09 Inflammation is going to be better because candida is always going 10:12 to be there in the gut. 10:13 And it's okay to have some candida in the gut, but it's when it over grows 10:17 that it's the problem. 10:18 Okay? 10:19 It's when it over grows and creates inflammation 10:22 and you are just having a leaky gut 10:27 or dysbiosis from all the inflammation from the candida. 10:30 So going going off of the candida once again 10:36 you just have to look out for those symptom times 10:39 that it might be coming back because it definitely could come back 10:44 because how did it get there in the first place. 10:45 So if you're not changing that then it could come back. 10:48 So Candida is one of those that you kind of have to keep in check. 10:52 This is where I love Gut protect powder. 10:54 You could do colostrum along with 10:56 making sure that you are keeping that inflammation low in the gut. 11:00 You could use peptides such as BPC 157, 11:03 KP and or La Raza tied 11:06 to keep that, knock that inflammation down and keep that gut healthy. 11:10 Keep the villa nice and flourishing 11:13 like they should be instead of flat and and not good. 11:17 So all of those things are great. 11:20 And like I said, you could find the protocol on Healthy by Doctor Jen. 11:25 Let's do one more question. 11:26 So someone they are having significant anxiety 11:30 since the death of the mom a little more than a year ago. So. 11:34 Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss. 11:36 That is heartbreaking. 11:37 And anxiety, you know, fear. 11:40 So losing losing someone first, you know, going 11:44 going to the church and asking for prayer, asking for 11:50 to be surrounded by the word, getting in the Bible 11:54 and making sure you are you're asking God, God for help. 12:00 You know, the spirit of fear can can be terrifying. 12:03 And we know fear is how we're controlled, right? 12:08 Fear is what the news does for us. 12:11 Fear is what it can really has significant problems. 12:15 And it could also hurt our faith. 12:18 Right? 12:19 So we need to really dig into 12:23 what is going on with this anxiety. 12:25 Like once again, what is the root cause of the anxiety? 12:28 Anxiety can also be caused by abnormal gut flora 12:32 and you want to look, you know, what's going on with with the gut flora.
Anxiety, Grief, Hormones, and Blood Sugar 12:36 There's a lot of great botanicals for anxiety anxiety there. 12:40 You could be missing co-factors such as magnesium is great, 12:44 so magnesium l-theanine is great at night. 12:48 So I do have that at the store. 12:50 Two capsules at bedtime. 12:53 It crosses the blood brain barrier. 12:55 Really great stuff. And then also try my eggs. 12:58 So I take both of those at night and try. 13:00 Mag has the mallet and glycine 13:03 in the citrate, so you need to replenish your magnesium, 13:06 especially in times of stress you're burning through a little bit extra. 13:11 I love DKB, it's from magnolia bark 13:16 and it is found in the product called serenity. 13:20 That one is great. 13:21 Also helpful for sleep too, so I love that one for anxiety. 13:27 L-Theanine is amazing. 13:29 Lightning is an amino acid found in green tea, which it balances. 13:34 Caffeine, balances the the caffeine in green tea. 13:39 And you can take that one. 13:40 So it's just it's just amino acid found naturally. 13:43 So I tell patients so you can take that. 13:45 If they're waking up in the middle of the night feeling anxious, 13:48 it can kind of help them go back to sleep. 13:50 You can take it during the day. 13:52 A lot of women, when I check their saliva 13:55 cortisol tests, they have this spike in the afternoon. 13:58 And it's because that is when, like the kids are coming home from school, 14:01 or if you're homeschooling, 14:02 you're getting dinner ready and your husband's coming home 14:05 and it's like you got to clean up the house from the kids 14:07 being there all the day and like all the things. Right. 14:10 And I feel this sometimes, like when I would come home from work 14:14 and then everyone was coming home and I was trying to cook dinner, 14:17 and everyone is just like once the, you know, once me and attention for me. 14:22 So I sometimes it will take in l-theanine in the afternoon. 14:26 So that one is really helpful for anxiety. 14:28 And that along with the Dehp, I've had patients like really do well with it. 14:32 And one of them like they were coming off some benzodiazepines 14:37 with it with the Dehp. So that was great. 14:39 Anxiety can also a root cause be from hormones. 14:45 So if you are stressed that is going to affect 14:49 your progesterone and your hormone cascade. 14:52 So maybe you are already perimenopausal or maybe you're menopausal 14:56 and not on hormones. 14:58 And that anxiety can really creep up. 15:00 So anxiety can 100% be from hormones. 15:03 And that one is, you know, you talk with your doctor, 15:07 you test, don't get some hormones and you appropriately treat depending on 15:12 if you're in perimenopause, menopause or you're menstruating, you know, normally. 15:16 But maybe your progesterone is a little low. 15:19 So a lot to do with that. 15:22 And it's oh gosh, like when women have anxiety and perimenopause. 15:26 And then we put them on progesterone 15:29 and fix that root cause it is like night and day. 15:33 They do so well. 15:35 It's it's great. 15:37 I just I think it's amazing to see. 15:40 And then we use oral progesterone on if there's also trouble sleeping at night 15:44 because of the break how it progesterone breaks down when you take it orally. 15:48 It can be really helpful. 15:50 One more thing I wanted to mention for anxiety 15:54 that could be a root cause, could be blood sugar balance and blood sugar problems. 16:00 When we're on our blood sugar roller coaster. 16:02 So say you're having something with higher carbs. 16:05 It's shooting you up, and then you're bottoming out. 16:07 You could feel jittery, you can feel anxious 16:10 and I've had a few patients now that their anxiety was due 16:15 to blood sugar imbalance and some insulin resistance. 16:19 So that's something that you'd want to you could wear a continuous glucose monitor. 16:23 You could play around with different supplements. 16:26 You could hunker down on your macros and and check those out. 16:30 But that's another root cause for anxiety that you definitely want to look into 16:35 and make sure it's balanced and balancing your blood sugar is just it's key. 16:40 It's key for longevity. 16:42 It's key for going through perimenopause and menopause. 16:44 It's key for being an appropriate healthy weight 16:48 blood sugar balance is is all of that. 16:50 So that's another thing. 16:51 If you're having some some more anxiety or anxiety creep up okay. 16:56 That was two questions for the week. 16:57 So I hope that this was helpful. 17:00 I would love if you guys you created this podcast 17:05 and give it a thumbs up on YouTube and show me that you guys like 17:09 these breakout sessions, these Q and A's, and I will continue to do them. 17:13 So have a wonderful day. 17:15 Thank you for tuning in to Doctor Talks. 17:17 We hope today's episode has enlightened 17:19 and inspired you on your path to optimal health. 17:23 Each day is a new opportunity to make choices that empower your well-being. 17:27 For more insights and strategies, subscribe to our podcast 17:30 and visit our website WW dot Doctor talk.com. 17:36 Stay connected, stay healthy and join us next time on Doctor Talks. 17:41 Real talks from real doctors on the issues that matter to you most.
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