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I have to give credit to a Standard Process client for this one. Most of the time questions from clients have the best information to offer others so I thought I’d repost some of the info on gut problems.

This is a touchy thing because no one likes talking about bowel problems in fear of being rude or gross. I can put that to rest right now. Two nights ago in a men’s restroom I heard a typical sound as the guy started to do his business.

Just think of an underground explosion going off and if there were candles lit in the bathroom, they may have all blown out.

Ok, do you feel better now that you don’t have that much bowel trouble. If you do have trouble; diarrhea, constipation, diveticulitis, colitis, ulcers, GERD (reflux), or any other malady that involves digesting food stick around it is important to fix this stuff.

Ahhh … here is the crutch of the problem, eating.

I love to eat, especially my wife’s chicken and wild rice soup and Dutch oven cheese bread. I think most people love food and here lies problem number one with diverticulitis or any other gut troubles. Eating is necessary but if not done with intention can cause so many problems. So follow this simple guide to start fixing it.

#1 Eat good, whole, unprocessed food. Two things happen when you eat processed food, (packaged food). You get robbed of nutrition and must use vitamins to supplement the loss, or your body suffers. Secondly, you pollute the body with toxins.

#2 You have to digest the food, well.

If you struggle with GERD or reflux, you are NOT digesting food well. Simple fix = Zypan from Standard Process. A more complicated problem comes from allergies to the food. Here is a simple way to tell. Spend 3 weeks eating just fruit and veggies. Most aren’t very allergenic. Make sure to eliminate milk, grains, soy, corn, and eggs. That is more challenging, but necessary.

If you happen to have diarrhea on a regular basis, many times that is a good indicator of gut flora imbalances. Just email me and we can get you an account to order some very good probiotics.

Diverticulitis: for example

The carbs impact the walls of the colon and start blocking nutrients from absorbing and as a consequence the intestinal walls start to die and you see that as diverticulitis.

The first thing is to get the diet straight, then add supplements to bring the body back into balance.

Supplements that are necessary because things aren’t normal.

#1 Okra Pepsin E3 (Mandatory) helps pull the yucky mess off the colon walls and helps heal the walls.
#2 Zypan (to improve digestion overall) only if there is no ulcer problems.

Those two will help a lot. Here are a few bonus items that will also help.

#3 If there is pain, we use Gastrex.
#4 If there is an ulcer, we use Chlorophyll

All of these are from Standard Process. If you need help just email. If you need supplements just email docaltman [at] gmail [dot] com or call our web based order line and just leave a message, 612-BE-GREAT (612-234-7328.

-Dr. Altman

P.S. if gut problems exist is needs to be tackled first and foremost. Why? Nothing else gets digested or into the body well without digestion. This is the primary reason over-the-counter drugs that stop reflux and block stomach acid are so incredibly dangerous. Hello, they stop you from digesting your food and your right to life. Email for help. Most of this stuff is so easy to fix.

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This is a special one for people with heart issues.

Here is the list of topics

• Angina and vitamin E2 - If you have even an minor concern about  your heart -read this.
• Cancer from SCANS?
• The danger of diabetic drugs. I can personally tell you that one patient went through this.
• Flu drugs -Does any one take this any more?
• Meditation proves better for the heart than you know what…
• How to crank up your immune system

To download it here or click to open in your browser.

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It could work. Really, there is truth to it, just hang around and see how it unfolds.

This is part 3 and our last installment, the most influential, the most volitle, most difficult, and the most important to fix.

Let’s just see if you even need to read further. Just take this little test below. Just keep a mental note if the following problems apply to you

Do you have?

Group A

• Insomnia


• Nervousness


• Can’t gain weight (no laughing)


• Intolerance to heat


• Highly emotional


• Flush easily


• Night sweats


• Thin, moist skin


• Heart palpitations


• Increased appetite without weight gain


• Fast pulse sitting around


• Irritable


• Can’t work under pressure

Group B

• Increased weight


• Decrease in appetite


• Fatigued easily


• Ringing in the ears


• Sleepy during the day


• Sensitive to the cold


• Dry or scaly skin


• Constipation


• Course hair that likes to fall out


• Early morning headaches


• Pulse below 65


• Frequent urination


• Low desire to do anything

Group C

• Failing memory


• Low blood pressure


• Increased sex drive


• Splitting headaches


• Can’t handle your sugar

Group D

• Abnormal thirst


• Abdomenal bloating


• weight gain around the waist


• Reduced sex drive


• Frequent ulcers


• Love the sugars


• Menstrual problems

Whew we have to take a break that’s getting to be a long list. As you can see there are numerous ways hormone problems can show themselves, and we have more to go.

Did you have any of the troubles in group A,B,C, or D?

If you have group A problems there is a good likely hood that your thyroid is revving to high and working too hard.

If you have group B problems, it’s likely to be just the opposite and the thyroid is running to slow. Check out the Broda Barnes thyroid test.

If you have group C problems, this is often related to a pituitary gland that is working too hard and overactive.

You guessed it, if you have group D problems it is just the opposite and the pituitary is likely sagging like an old horse.

Lets find some more problems to fix, eh.

Try these on for size.

Group E

• Dizziness


• Headaches


• Hot flashes


• High blood pressure


• (females) growing facial hair


• (females) starting to look like the boys

Group F

• Dizziness


• Chronic tiredness


• Low blood pressure


• Weak or ridged fingernails


• Sweat easily


• Bowel troubles


• Poor circulation


• Swollen ankles


• Crave salt


• Brown skin spots


• Frequent allergy trouble

If you have group E troubles then it is very likely that your adrenal glands are maxed out in production and working way too hard and you are heading for group F.

If you have group F troubles, we should talk. This is so common and I know way too much about this because I’ve gone through 2 adrenal crashes. This is a problem where the adrenal glands can’t keep up with the demands you are making on your body. Chronic fatigue, pain and heart problems are waiting for you.

So here is where the rubber meets the road.

If you or your wife is working 2 jobs has kids, friends, church choir, keeps an orderly house and basically does everything. I know some patients (female) who also shovel all the snow, do all the yard work, and run all the errands. Why have a husband?

To be healthy these issues have to be addressed. You can ignore them for years, you can even drug yourself into a antidepressant stupor, but that doesn’t make you healthy. These problems are just the warning signs to more serious long term health issues, you don’t want to meet in the dark alleys.

The adrenals alone have significant control over the heart and are critical links in heart attacks. We’ll cover that much later.

The thyroid is like the keystone of an arch. years ago Dr. Harrower did a boat load of studies with animals and how each gland was affected by the others. His findings are known as Harrowers chart. Basically he found that the thyroid controls and influences more parts of the body than any other gland.

The pituitary is the puppet master behind the scenes pulling the strings telling the others how to behave.

Ok … so you have a few problems

If that is the case then you likely have vitamin problems. Very likely. How is that for being certain without saying I’m certain? To top it off there are also likely lifestyle issues. Not like what drapes to buy or where to go on vacation, but how you go through day to day life.

Adrenal problems

These often reflect too much stress or activity either emotional, financial, relationships, or physical. You are burning the candle at both end and in the middle too.

Thyroid problems

This is a toughy. Many things can contribute, but some common ones relate to eating raw cruciferous veggies, like broccoli (so steam it), or soy, drinking chlorinated water or brushing with flouride toothpastes.

Each one of these could be a massive post, but you get the idea. These types of glandular troubles often take 6-12 months to correct. So start now. Start feeding those glands what they need to work right and try and stop the behaviors that are making them worse.

Some simple tests for you

For the adrenals:
Try taking one Cataplex B from Standard Process every waking hour for 2 days. If it helps fatigue you need to adrenal issues.

Optional: Try taking 12 Catalyn/ day and if fatigue is better then adrenals are struggling for nutrition.

If either one of those helps email me and I’ll try and help you along further with some more advanced supplements and herbs.
docaltman [at] gmail [dot] com

For the thyroid:
Many thyroid problems are actually secondary to either a pituitary problem or a lack of progesterone hormone. Dr. John Lee taught me that. But the easiest way is with the Broda Barnes thyroid test
you can do at home.

We never really got to touch on weight gain that spirals out of control. The reason I included weight gain as a hormone messer-upper is because fat cells actually produce estrogen. So they further stack the deck for imbalances.

So lets say you took the birth control pill, eat mostly processed food, no dark green veggies, work a lot, have relationship stress, financial stress, drink soy lattes every morning, never would dream of buyng organic food, and use a microwave as your primary cooking weapon. I’m being funny, but there are a lot of these women in America.

So here is my parting advice. If you are feeling that you are unhappy and sad and all those things that make you want to chuck your spouse in to the river, have a heart to heart talk with him. Let him read these 3 articles. A supportive spouse is worth keeping around. Unfortunately, there aren’t that many. No lie. I actually had women sneak into the office because their spouse went nuts when they found out they were going to the chiropractor for help. That is a screwed up husband. “No, no, no honey don’t go get help, healthy, and happy I want you at home in pain and miserable like me”. That kind of attitude is unhealthy and may be worth tossing in the river, if he can swim.

It will take time, be patient. Every patient want to be better yesterday and they are there own worst enemy. Twenty years of mistreatment doesn’t get erased in a few weeks or even months. Heck, you may even feel a bit worse for a week or so until your body gets its act together. It does come around though.

Health comes from within and life should be fun.
-Dr. Altman
P.S. Just email if you need personal help, want to order, or just chat. Better yet leave a comment so others can learn.

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Marriage and hormone problems don’t mix that well. If there isn’t a strong faith in the marriage hormone problems can add gasoline to the mix and even light the match to cause explosive relationship issues. It is great to be married but having to walk around on egg-shells is no way to live. So let’s do more hormone investigations.

An unbeatable fact is that hormones go through changes throughout life. Also, if there is a problem it won’t improve over time like a fine wine or tequila.

We covered how nutritional deficiencies can throw off your hormone balance. The next biggest problem is MAN-made. There we go again … thinking. Yes, thinking we can out do God and the natural way, by altering nature and thinking we can make it better. We call these … drugs.

Here are 4 ways the Mad-Scientist is messing with you.

1. The Pill -
If I had to venture a guess this is a source of the majority of the problems. mostly because so, so, so many women take these. Did you know? The original researcher spent 10 years in England studying the effects of “the pill” on women and when she published her results they were surprising. She said it is too dangerous, at any dose, for women to use. Well as you may have guessed the drug companies didn’t like that, so they erased her book from every library and book store. Only rare private copies exist.

As a bonus, “the pill” also creates a significant loss of vitamins and minerals, one of which is folic acid. How ironic is that?

If that isn’t bad enough, the main way it messes with you is by the very action it is made for, to shut down ovulation. To stop pregnancy, it shuts down progesterone production. This starts a hormone imbalance. Having no progesterone to balance estrogen production is a huge cancer risk and ding, ding, ding a big shift in hormones and women feel that. Often supplements and herbs work very well if the woman is young enough. Things like Chaste tree, Ovex-P, magnesium, Cataplex E, Catalyn, and Hypothalmex all have their place in helping.

2. Clomid
Our next concoction is a doosy. I have some ethical problems with this one. This drug is for fertility. It forces the ovary to keep shooting out eggs like a roman candle. Eventually burning up the ovary and it’s hormone making ability

Now since I’ve run hormone tests on these women, I can say with confidence they have very messed up hormone profiles. Every one I’ve seen had a progesterone as flat as an EKG of a dead guy. Beeep——————-

Back to problem #1, no progesterone = heavy duty imbalance. There really isn’t much hope for herbs and supplements in this case. To get relief you’ll likely need a natural hormone replacement.

When there is a problem with getting pregnant there is obviously something wrong. Question of the day. Should we force life just because we can? Leave a comment on our site so others can participate.

3. Old age hormone drugs

This fascinates me to no end. Women have all these things working against them as they go through life and in the later years when the imbalances kick into high gear they want relief, now. The solutions are a catch-22.

The medical community has got caught with their pants down, twice. They started with ERT estrogen replacement therapy and researchers discovered that it caused cancer … whoops. Can’t have people dying of cancer, so lets add fake progesterone. Kind of like giving your kid a fake carrot for dinner and expecting him to grow up strong and get good grades. Now they called it HRT, hormone replacement therapy. Fake estrogen combined with fake progesterone.

Whoops in 2002, a huge nurses study found out that HRT cause heart attacks and strokes, dang. So they changed the names of the drugs again and women still show up, amazing.

As a side note, when millions of women temporarily stopped taking HRT in 2002, in 2003 the rates of breast cancer droppedfor the first time, hmmm. I think if presented with a choice of breast cancer or hot flashes which would you choose?

Help for this kind of lifetime of imbalances is tough. It depends a lot on the nutritional status of the person and I think seeing a natural health practioner is necessary. Supplements and herbs are very helpful, but other changes may be necessary.

4. Pesticides
My arch-nemesis. This one is a huge problems because it is so pervasive and so well accepted. We as a society are such dumb sheep. “Let’s poison our food so we can grow lots of nutrient poor food.” That sounds like a fabulous idea for a strong healthy woman. I’ll get off my soap box fora moment. “Eat organic” O.K. I’m done now.

Pesticides mimic estrogen. This is one more way to create a massive hormone imbalance. Consider this, the average American eats only processed food or if they do slip in some veggies or fruit, they are coated with chemical pesticides, that many don’t wash off.

Fix it

Your liver is the primary way your body tries to get rid of this stuff before it gives you cancer or hormones so wacky you want to get a divorce for no obvious reason, except your unhappy. Things like organic cruciferous veggies are great. People generally don’t eat kale or Brussels sprouts so you can take Standard Processes Cruciferous Complete and LivCo. If you know this sounds like you then I’d add Livaplex.

Remember it takes time to get better. Expect 3 months to a year.

We have 3 more issues next time.

Spirally weight gain
Adrenal fatigue
Thyroid insufficiency

Health comes from within,
Dr. Altman

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Lets say for a moment that 1/2 of the divorces could be prevented.  Perhaps more, maybe less, I really don’t have any hard numbers, just some hard ponderances.

My wife and I were trying to hash this out the other night, no we aren’t getting the axe.  The last two couples I know who are getting the big D had very similar stories and if they hadn’t been so close together in time frame I doubt I’d be writing this.

The wife is very unhappy, not really sure why, just unhappy, fighting depression, and confused.

Divorces happen for a boat load of reasons.  Sometimes they are some of the best decisions a woman can make.  But, these seem different.

As far as I know and can see the husbands are nice and non-abusive.  So for the sake of this story we are going to follow this line of thinking.  They don’t cuss or drink or wear barbeque stained wife-beater shirts.  They don’t gamble or smoke or go out all night with their buddies. They aren’t perfect, but really none of us are.  Being married reveals and highlights your imperfections.

After being married for 123 years, whoops I meant 13 years.I know it is work, sometimes a lot of work. I also know my wife sometimes wants to wring my neck. Like after she reads this post.

I know from talking to my wife that women have some wild hormone fluctuations.  I also know from trying to help women for the past 10 years with supplements and herbs has become very difficult.

Seriously, 10 years ago I used to advertise and lecture on balancing hormones.  I quit 5 years ago because it became exceedingly unpredictable on who could be helped.  What used to be easy and fun had become very hard to do.

From a clinical standpoint women have become more hormonally screwed up than ever before. Heaven forbid, don’t send send me nasty emails, thinking that I’m blaming women for divorces. Far from it, just stick around til the end. Don’t kill the messenger.

Here is the million dollar question…

Are some divorces related to hormone imbalances?

I’ve thought about this stuff for the past 5 years.  If you ask most 80-90 year old women if they ever had hormone problems the answer is about the same.  They had none or just a fraction of what a typical 50 or 60 year old has now.  Heck many 30 year olds have a lot of problems.  So I know I’m not too far off base when I say women have far more hormone problems now-a-days.

Women are
more stressed
have more expectations
have more demands on time
have more shoes to wear
and juggling more balls in the air than ever before

Let’s just say for a moment that a woman’s hormones are off kilter, every little irritation that would normally just bounce off becomes a major deal.

-The dishes aren’t done
-The clothes are on the floor
-The tooth paste was squeezed in the middle
-The bed isn’t made
-The toilet seat is up

Everyone has that one thing that can get to them, like that cartoon, “I have one nerve and you’re standing on it.”

So who bears the brunt of this irritaion?  The spouse.

Is it the womans fault?  No

And really it isn’t just women, it could relate to men as well, but if I used men as the example no one would read this.  So how do the hormones get so out of whack?

1. The birth control pill use
2. Fertility drugs like “Clomid”
3. Nutitional deficiencies
4. Pesticides in foods
5. Continuous weight gain
6. Fatigue
7. Thyroid insufficiency
8. Postmenopausal hormone drugs

Wow, that’s a heck ‘uv a list.  The main reason women bear the brunt of this problem is because half of the problems relate to estrogen medications or pesticides that mimic estrogen hormones.  Estrogen being the major hormone in making a woman a woman.

This post can get very, very long if I detail each of these problems, so I’m going to pick the problems that started this whole discussion with my wife.

That would be #3.  Nutitional deficiencies.

It all started because I made the comment that Royal Lee, DDS. once wrote that the first system to go off line when there are nutritional deficiencies is the hormone system.  I thought, wow, how amazing is that, especially since it was written 70+ years ago.

February 15, 1934
“If an endocrine organ fails to receive the proper nutrition, it is unable to secrete a functionally normal hormone.  If the nutrition is severe enough, the result will be atrothy… If the deficiency is less severe, over a longer period, (the result is nervous stimulation to excessive activity.”

April 16, 1934
“Oversecretion of the ovarian calcium-depressing hormone is responsible for the nervous, irritable and hysteric type of woman, because of the nervous irritability occasioned by the low serum calcium.  Vtamin therapy is particularly successful in normalizing this type, and the use of ‘Catalyn’ is indicated. Vitamins C,D and F are all factors.  This type usually has a prematurely aged appearance, and the effect of vitamin therapy is often an obvious rejuvenation.”

Could the lack of nutrition and vitamins in general make a person more irritable and unhappy, sure, is it the only reason, no … but I found the thought interesting enough to share with you.  I hate to see the break up of a marriage, especially if it is possibly related to nutrition.

If you click through to the site, you can leave a comment.  I’d like to know if you would like more explanations for the other 7 problems or if this is a topic that makes no sense.

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