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Dietary Oil Consumption and Thyroid Function

3/9/2018

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My wife and I have been on a ketogenic diet for about eight weeks, for weight loss and to help us gain control over our diet again (perhaps I should just speak for myself on that last one). In the past we always did the homeopathic version of the hCG diet, the one from DesBio we put patients on while in practice. It always worked well for us and we knew it inside and out, but we decided to try something different.

It was a little tough for a couple of weeks, mainly because we didn’t supplement with enough electrolyte replacements, but we’re humming along now. We’re at the point where we’re starting to add more carbs from starchier but healthy sources, like sweet potatoes. (We’ve been eating plenty of vegetables but no fruit). I’m down 17 pounds, my wife about 10 (but she looks like she’s lost more).

Anyway, this isn’t a keto diet post, it’s a thyroid post. While researching for my upcoming SET-DB™ Thyroid Protocol, I ran across some interesting information regarding dietary fat and the thyroid gland.

“It turns out the linoleic acid suppresses thyroid signaling.”

Here are some highlights of the post I linked above (Mark’s Daily Apple—great site):
  1. Rats on a corn oil diet convert less T4 to active T3 than rats on a lard diet.
    - You’ll recall that about 90% of the hormone made and released by the thyroid gland is T4. The body has to convert T4 into the active T3. Corn oil inhibits this conversion.
  2. Rats on a safflower oil diet have a more greatly reduced metabolic response to T3 than rats on a beef fat diet.
    - Beef fat also reduced the metabolic response, just not as much as safflower oil.

    - The rats were fed a high-glucose and otherwise fat-free diet. Nasty, even for rats.
    - Last sentence in the abstract: “These data support the hypothesis that polyunsaturated fats uniquely suppress the gene expression of lipogenic enzymes by functioning as competitive inhibitors of T3 action, possibly at the nuclear receptor level.”
  3. Rats on a high-PUFA (polyunsaturated fatty acids) diet have brown fat that’s less responsive to thyroid hormone. Remember, brown fat is the type that generates heat to keep us warm.
    - Click this link if you need a primer in what brown fat is (I had to).
  4. Rats on a long-term diet high in soybean oil have terrible body temperature regulation, which thyroid function in large part controls.
  5. The more rapeseed meal (from which PUFA-rich canola oil is derived) you feed turkeys, the worse their thyroid signaling gets and the less meat/eggs they produce.
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    The researchers didn’t state whether this negative effect would apply to humans.
  6. Back in the 70s, researchers proposed using vegetable oil as a treatment for hyperthyroidism.
  7. This reduced thyroid signaling isn’t a function of all polyunsaturated fats, however. Omega-3 PUFAs, found in seafood, increase thyroid signaling in the liver. Keep eating fish, folks.
What’s all this mean? For one, people concerned about their thyroid health should eat as little PUFAs as possible (except Omega-3). In fact, since PUFAs are easily oxidized, and rancid fat is bad for you, PUFAs should also be avoided by anyone concerned with their health in general.

When I developed my highly effective fibromyalgia treatment program, I didn’t feel the need to include dietary recommendations, for a number of reasons.

One, getting people to change their diet is difficult. Most have to be backed into a corner, facing serious health problems, before they’ll give up their favorite fast food meals and daily quarts of sugary soft drinks.

Two, the program is very effective without a change of diet. This suggests that diet doesn’t cause or greatly contribute to fibromyalgia, but I realize that may not be completely true. While the average patient sees a 67% decrease in their overall symptom profile, the fact is most had some symptom(s) at the end of the program, albeit far less than they had when they began. Diet modification could well have resolved some of those residual symptoms.

Three, sometimes you have to pick your battles. Those who raised or are raising children understand this. Do you want to spend your energy getting patients to come in for their treatments (which actually isn’t difficult at all because we got the money issue out of the way at the start) and take the few supplements you give them, which proved to be effective, or spend your time begging and pleading with them to stop eating at Burger King every day?

This won’t be the case with my upcoming thyroid protocol. As you just read (and there’s more to come, diet-wise), there’s enough evidence that diet does affect thyroid and thyroid hormone function.

The most important part of the program will, of course, be eliminating a person’s sensitivities to things like iodine, thyroid tissue (80–90% of hypothyroid sufferers have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis), T3, T4, TSH, adrenal hormones, certain amino acids, etc. If this isn’t done, it’s likely supplementation with hormones or nutritionals will not work as well as they could, or at all.
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Case Study: Fibromyalgia — Finish the Program

6/7/2017

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This was a fibromyalgia patient of mine from 2007. There's nothing "special" to be learned from this case. I only present it to once again demonstrate how quickly fibromyalgia patients can be feeling better with the SET-DB™ Fibromyalgia Treatment Program, and to lead into a discussion of why I sold the program as a series of treatments instead of allowing patients to pay visit-by-visit.

One thing different about this 41-year-old single mother was, she was still able to work full time. She had 2 or 3 kids (remember, this was 10 years ago) and lived with her mother. Speaking of her mother, as I recall she was so happy with her daughter's recovery that she offered to write a testimonial as well.

​Here are the 2 testimonials:
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Notice how the patient wrote "I wanted to die." It was obvious she wasn't suicidal, but felt she had very little quality of life. Yes, she was able to work full time, but you and I know that some people can push through pain better than others. And her job was the main source of for the household. 

​Here's her Symptom Intensity Graph:
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We see here the typical free-fall in the graph from when the patient presented to when they completed their first symptom questionnaire, after their first 6 visits. She went from 7.07 to 2, nearly a 75% drop in her overall symptom pattern (I tracked the top 13 symptoms of fibromyalgia). She ended at .92, an 87% drop in her overall symptom profile.

Now, what might have happened if I didn't sell the treatment program as a package and the patient was paying visit-by-visit? She likely would have dropped out after 6 treatments, or earlier. I can see where some may argue in favor of her stopping the program early. After all, at 6 treatments in her symptoms had dropped 75%. (The FDA approved Lyrica for the treatment of fibromyalgia after a couple of trials where it dropped ONE symptom—pain—by about half that.)

It comes down to your treatment philosophy: how well do you want your patients to get? I wanted to help my patients get as well as possible. If you learn one thing from reading Dr. Nambudripad's first book, Say Goodbye to Illness, it should have been ANY sensitivity can cause ANY symptom. I wanted to get rid of as many of my patients' sensitivities as they'd let me.

​Overall, the people who went through the SET-DB™ Fibromyalgia Treatment Program saw, on average, their symptom profile drop by 67% and 80% of the cases were successful, meaning both the patient and me were happy with their outcome.
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How simple and effective SET-DB can be!

6/27/2016

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A couple of days ago I gave my wife a new supplement, standardized black cohosh, to see if it would help minimize (or eliminate) the few hot flashes she's been getting. I had her take her supplements in the morning, then we went out to do some shopping.

About two hours later, while scratching her arm, she asked me if I gave her anything new. I said yes and told what it was, and why. She replied that she's been itching like crazy for about an hour and asked if she could be allergic to the new supplement.

Of course the answer is "yes." In fact, I should have known better. We've known each other for 20 years and over that time span she's had definite and clear reactions to supplements I've given her. 

​So, when we got home, I had her lie on our portable adjusting table, checked her leg length (always short on the right), then put the bottle of suspicious supplements in her hand. Her right leg went almost another half-inch shorter.

I performed the treatment, gave her an adjustment since she was on the table, and had her hold the bottle for 15 minutes. 

The itching actually got worse for about an hour, then suddenly and completely disappeared.

What can we learn from this?
  1. SET-DB is easy to do, even for practitioners who have nothing more than a table and Dr. Newsum's NewStim (or some other device able to perform the treatment). 
  2. No computer is needed (although computerized equipment like the ZYTO Elite make it possible to help many more people enjoy better health faster). Some practitioners prefer to do things manually. An extensive selection of testing (and treatment) vials can be purchased from companies like Ergopathics.
  3. SET-DB is remarkably effective. 
  4. Patients get results FAST. 

Use the marketing materials included in the program and never stop working on expanding this segment of your practice!

Dr. Teryl Boothe

P.S. Shoot me an email if you have any questions.
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Energy medicine: are you telling patients too much?

10/8/2014

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I had an interesting experience years ago, 1998 or 1999, shortly after I purchased a BioMeridian MSAS-Pro. I lived in a city of 220,000, in Central California. Word got around that I had the MSAS-Pro (you know how news travels in small circles) and one day a man came in to see me for a consultation.

He identified himself as a retired physicist. He was of the age to be retired and I had no reason to doubt him, so I assumed he was. I soon learned he wasn’t much interested in my services—he just wanted to see the machine he heard I had and to hear what I had to say about it.

So I went through my spiel, and he smiled and nodded. A few minutes into my routine I realized I was boring him, that what I was saying was child’s play to him. Then he started explaining things to me that very quickly soared ten feet above my head. I think we spent fifteen minutes together, then I never saw him again. I guess I wasn’t interesting enough to him.

I learned some important things that day that helped me in my energy medicine journey:

1)  That all matter is composed of energy vibrating at different frequencies is well known by people with training and education in physics. It’s Physics 101. Having an experienced scientist understand what I was doing was validating to me. It made it not so nutty-sounding after all.

2)  People who don’t have training or are not educated in physics (pretty much me at that time) have no idea that matter and energy are interchangeable. With the little bit of knowledge I had then, still about 100 times more than the average person has, I had no idea what the guy was talking about most of the time he was speaking to me. Imagine how a Joe the Plumber would have felt if he’d been in the room with us?

Let me tell you another important story.

As a doctor of chiropractic, I had to take X amount of hours of continuing education every year to maintain my license, and to help me stay up on new things. Some of these classes were interesting and helpful, others not so much.

One year I decided to take a class on handling auto accident cases. While the instructor did spend some time on treatment approaches (without telling the class anything they didn’t already know), the part of the seminar that has stuck with me through involved testifying in court. 

Accident reconstructionists were new back then. Defense attorneys were hiring them to “prove” that given the circumstances involved, the accident couldn’t have generated enough force to squash a mosquito, let alone injure a human being.

The instructor related the experience of a colleague who’d been depositioned by a defense attorney. The defense had hired an accident reconstructionist who, naturally, claimed the injured party could not have possibly been injured in the so-called accident. The attorney would spout numbers his “expert” witness had generated, pounds of pressure and G forces, which all sounded pretty impressive.

The colleague’s response was simply, “I don’t know about all that. All I know is when the patient’s car was rammed from the side, his left shoulder and leg got shoved into the door and his head slammed up against the window. This tore muscles and stretched ligaments on the right side of his body, causing pain and preventing him from…” (It’s been a few years.)

The attorney would come back with some numbers, and the treating doctor would repeat when he’d already said. That was his story and he was sticking with it. Back and forth they went for a couple of hours. The end result was the defense settled with the injured patient out of court, something they’d been refusing to do. Why? Pay attention, here’s the big message:

They were convinced that because the treating doctor spoke in such easy-to-understand language the jury would side with him and not their egghead accident reconstructionist.

What’s this got to do with practitioners of energy medicine?

People who have no idea what you do need to be told something, but they need you to keep it simple.

It’s tempting to show off what you know by using big words almost no one knows the meaning of. Like the word matter. Tell the average Joe off the street that all matter is energy and they’ll say “Huh?”

The reports that come with my SET-DB™ program are written in language that most people with a fifth grade education can understand. Study the reports and learn the language and you’ll be able to talk to prospective patients about allergy elimination treatment in a way that will make them want to get the treatment.

It may not satisfy your need to show off by using big words, but it will get you more patients.

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