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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Killer Milk

Milk and cookies make a great snack, right? Well, maybe not so much. Besides the fact the cookies almost certainly have high fructose corn syrup in them, everyday milk is a killer. Literally. I mean, you don’t keel over right away, but take it from me, you’re asking for trouble. Here’s the deal: Factory farms give hormones to their cows to force greater milk production. This changes the composition of the milk, reducing its nutritional value. The hormones also give the cows mastitis. Not a problem! Just shoot ‘em up with antibiotics. That’s the ticket.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Endocrine System is King of the Hill

Problems of the endocrine system are everywhere, often unacknowledged and untreated by most doctors. People talk freely about the thyroid, and they should; it’s estimated 40% of us have thyroid problems. Adrenal fatigue is in style–and uglier than massive shoulder pads ever were–so we’re ...Problems of the endocrine system are everywhere, often unacknowledged and untreated by most doctors. People talk freely about the thyroid, and they should; it’s estimated 40% of us have thyroid problems.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

This Is Your Endocrine System: Adrenals

We have two adrenal glands, each perched atop a kidney. With your spine dividing your back in two, you can locate a kidney in the middle of each half, with the bottom of the kidney right around the bottom of your rib cage. A few inches above that sits an adrenal gland, topping the kidney like a little beanie.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Six Ways to Get Your Energy Back

So, there you are, dragging your patooty through one grey day after another, wondering where your brain went, why your body aches and if you’ll ever feel good again. Even if your doctor checked for thyroid problems, and the flaky blood tests actually found the problem, you probably ended up on the ineffective medicine Synthroid or its generic equivalent. It helps almost nobody. But you don’t have to be hypothyroid to lack energy and joy. Perhaps your thyroid’s in a world of hurt because of what you’ve been doing to it, but it’ll work if you let it.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,678 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Talking About Aging and Disease

People in the health biz throw around the lingo as if everybody has a clue. Well, some do, but some don’t. And even those that do may recognize the word without understanding its meaning. So, lets talk some terminology. Especially about things that drag us down–including body parts that insist on going south–and not just for the winter. We can wrap up disease and aging in just a few words. Not, of course, all the intricacies and complications, but words that should grab out attention and move us to action.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,674 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

I Feel a Sigh Coming On

We moved a lot, so I went to ten schools in twelve years. I was always the new kid. Take it from me, most teachers are a whole lot less than delighted when the new kid turns out to be a loud, energetic tomboy who doesn’t pay attention, but still scores the highest test grades. As if that weren’t enough, I exhibited a symptom of my whacked-out adrenals (a problem yet to be discovered) that few people know about: I sighed a lot. Totally involuntary. I didn’t even realize I was doing it.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Thyroid Tests and Vaccines

The latest thing in medicine is the ‘fact’ that all medicine is based on solid, scientific evidence. Excuse me? At least 70% of all medical practice has no scientific basis, relying instead on tradition, rumor and best guess. Meanwhile, doctors, according to the latest statistics available, kill 1200 patients a month with the medicines they prescribe. Obviously, their evidence doesn’t come with a ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ requirement.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,664 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

It's Not Your Grandmother's Chicken Anymore!

Doesn’t just about everybody like chicken? And doesn’t it bring up memories of the family around the table, enjoying a wholesome meal and good family time? Chicken’s the inexpensive choice, with thousands upon thousands of recipes singing its praises. Well, those were the good old days. I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but they’ve gone and messed with good old chicken.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,660 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Autism Wars

Wanna choose sides in the latest autism war? One side says the mother’s lack of Vitamin D during pregnancy causes autism, while the other side says it’s the glutamate that’s in the many immunization shots babies and young children receive. Let’s take a look-see. Autism comes from brain ...Wanna choose sides in the latest autism war? One side says the mother’s lack of Vitamin D during pregnancy causes autism, while the other side says it’s the glutamate that’s in the many immunization shots babies and young children receive. Let’s take a look-see.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Thyroid Problems

Back in the olden days–say 1960–doctors diagnosed thyroid problems by asking about symptoms, then working to alleviate them. Simple system, that. And it worked for the 20% of the population with flaky thyroid glands. Ah, but then blood tests, purportedly able to diagnose thyroid ...Back in the olden days–say 1960–doctors diagnosed thyroid problems by asking about symptoms, then working to alleviate them. Simple system, that. And it worked for the 20% of the population with flaky thyroid glands.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***How Much Protein Do You Need?

The government’s food pyramid and leading poobahs recommend that we eat very little protein, which is a no-science, no-facts recipe for disaster. In fact, most politically-correct thinking about health leads to poor health, even disease and death. How much protein you need is a case in point. Without protein, your body’s in a world of hurt. Your brain doesn’t work. Your endocrine system doesn’t work. Your digestion doesn’t work. In short, you feel really crummy.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,643 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Phthalate: The Hidden Poison

Have you been reading about phthalate? (Phthal as in thal, rhymes with Hal.) Yikes! Talk about your basic poison! This stuff is murder! Phthalate is a “softener” added to plastics, cosmetics and everything else they can lay their hands on. It goes without saying that it knocks the endocrine ...Have you been reading about phthalate? (Phthal as in thal, rhymes with Hal.) Yikes! Talk about your basic poison! This stuff is murder! Phthalate is a “softener” added to plastics, cosmetics and everything else they can lay their hands on.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Hypoglycemia: First The Truck Hits You, Then You Pass Out

Most of us know that our bodies create insulin to handle the sugary treats we eat. And most of us know we get diabetes if our insulin can’t get the job done. What few of us know is what happens when insulin does its job too well. It’s hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, and it’s the pits. I’ve been there and done that, and there’s nothing I can say to recommend it.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,635 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Vote For Your Health

Bette Dowdell Medicine is a mess. Doctors don’t even try to heal chronic illnesses, content to treat symptoms instead. Probably because that’s all they learned in medical school. But it means their patients--that's us--drag through life, out of gas, running on fumes. Even worse, while some doctors are just bad doctors, more are totally hemmed in by regulations–from government and insurance companies, both of which are in cahoots with Big Pharma.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,634 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

What Causes Digestive Dismay?

Perhaps you’re familiar with setting modern indoor speed records to get to the bathroom. And maybe you know about foods racing through your system, stopping only long enough to liquify before demanding “Out! Out!” I could go on, but if you spend time thinking about your digestive activities, you don’t need details. Since the digestive and endocrine systems are closely related–they’re even talking about declaring the digestive system to be part of the endocrine system–digestion is a huge problem.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,628 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Case of the Sun Screen Killer

Some years back, about thirty or so, the medicos labeled the sun an enemy agent. We all needed to slather on sun screen all day, every day, or risk dying of melanoma in slightly more than a trice. If, like me, you’ve lost a loved one to melanoma, you reacted quickly and positively, making sun screen a regular part of your daily routine. And melanoma rates skyrocketed.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Vitamin C: Good for What Ails You

Did you know that some animals produce their own Vitamin C? They never get heart disease. No atherosclerosis. No heart attacks. Just singing a song all the day long. Sad to report, humans aren’t part of that happy group. Heart disease runs rampant amongst humans. Hark, Sherlock, might that not ...Did you know that some animals produce their own Vitamin C? They never get heart disease. No atherosclerosis. No heart attacks. Just singing a song all the day long.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Problem With Medicine

Senator Patrick Lehman and Representative Henry Waxman rush about, day after day, year after year, to do Big Pharma’s bidding. Let’s talk about where this takes us. Big Pharma, the major pharmaceutical companies, is about money. They advertise their wares as wonders created especially to improve your health. In reality, not so much.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,587 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

One Size Never Fits All--Especially in Medicine

I’m one of five siblings, and we’ve all had heart surgery. Like most people with heart problems, none of us ever had any of the so-called risk factors. No high cholesterol. No high triglycerides. No high blood pressure. Nothing. My ‘turn’ arrived on Christmas Eve, 2005. Of course, nobody worked on Christmas Day, so my stent had to wait a day. You couldn’t say anybody showed a sense of urgency. Knowing what I know now, I wish I had seen that as a big-time clue and taken a pass on surgery. But, with a family history replete with death by heart attack, I didn’t.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,587 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Could it Be Lyme Disease?

A dismayed grandmother said her precious grandson was diagnosed and treated as autistic–when, in fact, he has lyme disease. She reports that a recent study said 90% of California kids diagnosed with autism actually had lyme. Then she asked the jackpot question: How come doctors don’t know ...A dismayed grandmother said her precious grandson was diagnosed and treated as autistic–when, in fact, he has lyme disease. She reports that a recent study said 90% of California kids diagnosed with autism actually had lyme. Then she asked the jackpot question: How come doctors don’t know better?

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,577 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Vaccinate or Else! The Vendetta Against Health

I read that the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill mandating vaccinations of all sorts. And if the good citizens of Massachusetts decline the honor, they get smacked with a $1000 a day fine. Now, Massachusetts proudly passed socialized medicine statutes a few years back, so the Senators obviously think the fact of being elected to public office gives them the right to tell other people how to live their lives. But politicians, never the sharpest knives in the drawer, often get it wrong. Mandated vaccinations provide only the latest example of governmental overreach.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Coconut Oil

What with all the publicity it’s getting lately, it probably won’t come as news to you that coconut oil’s pretty astonishing stuff. A medium-chain saturated fat, wondrous coconut oil blesses the socks off your body. First, since our endocrine system makes its hormones from saturated fat, coconut oil can give sagging glands a boost. Improved metabolism, anybody? More energy? A pumped-up immune system? Coconut oil makes a big endocrine difference.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Nutrition Powerhouse We Laugh At

Super foods, by definition, have more nutrition per ounce than your average health food. Most health foods strut around, proud as a peacock of their power and glory, but when a super food shows up, they fold up their tails and take a back seat. Now, I’m talking a real super food. Some people get all giddy and call anything with a trace of nutrition a super food. Not a chance. Even many of the foods known for their nutritional power, blueberries, for instance, can’t really be called super foods. Good, yes. Super, well no.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Bette’s Excellent Adventure

Mold is my enemy, and it’s everywhere! In fact, it lives in all the soil, in all the world. Well, you ask, if mold lives in the dirt, how can it jump up and attack? Ah, my little chickadee, it has no need to do anything. The gentlest breeze wafts mold spores into the air where they weasel their way into my body. At which point my very annoyed body yells, “How many times do I have to tell you I’m allergic to mold?” Excuses about how I couldn’t help it get me nowhere.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Wonder of Parsley

Parsley is the Rodney Dangerfield of herbs; it gets no respect. Probably not even from Rodney Dangerfield. We’re talking NO respect. Once upon a time, most restaurants used parsley as a perky, colorful accompaniment on your plate, whatever you ordered. Most eaters ignored it, though, pretty much ending the parsley era. We need to reconsider our attitude here. Parsley is a nutritional powerhouse. And, better yet, a little dab’ll do ya. In fact, it would be hard to munch through a dollar’s worth in a week.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Unknown Glands of the Immune System

Our thymus gland, leader of the immune system’s world, starts out strong, but as the years go by, sayeth the poobahs, it becomes a shadow of its former self, ending as just a few, lonely fat cells with no power, no glory. And that’s when cancer and other bad guys take us down. This is just the way it is, they claim, and nothing can be done. “Just normal aging,” they say. Well, nuts to that!

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Reach-Out-And-Touch-Everything Immune System

Did you ever wonder how your body protects itself from disease? More important, did you ever wonder how you could help get the job done? Well, you probably know that your immune system leads the battle against diseases. And you may even know this defense system is the most complicated system in your body. For one thing, the immune system is but one part of the ultra-confusing endocrine system. Half the world has a wonky endocrine system, and most aren’t getting much help from medicine.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

In Praise of Cholesterol

Can we all get over our fixation on cholesterol? I mean, now that it’s clear that cholesterol isn’t what’s causing heart disease? But, but, but, if cholesterol is building up in my arteries, doesn’t that mean cholesterol’s the problem? Actually, no. Your cholesterol is simply trying to patch ...Can we all get over our fixation on cholesterol? I mean, now that it’s clear that cholesterol isn’t what’s causing heart disease? But, but, but, if cholesterol is building up in my arteries, doesn’t that mean cholesterol’s the problem?

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Death by Caffeine?

Perhaps you read about the death of John Jackson, of West Midands, England. The 40-year-old Mr. Jackson, unable to work because of advanced liver cirrhosis, the result of years of heavy drinking, is said to have died from eating mints. How could mints, specifically Hero Instant Energy Mints, kill him? Well, sayeth the poobahs, it was all the caffeine in the mints–82mg per mint.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***THIS SOUNDS WEIRD, BUT . . .

The immune system is kind of a mystery. We don't hear much about where any of our immune system parts are, what they do, how they do whatever it is they do, etc. Well, maybe you've heard of lymph glands. Perhaps a huge lump showed up on the side of your neck–which, you decide, can only mean cancer. So, off you hie to see the doc, who tells you an allergy caused your tender-to-the-touch lump. You breathe a sigh of relief and get on with life, happy that it wasn't more serious.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Ice Your Muscle Pain Away

Muscle problems tend to accompany endocrine issues, especially adrenal glands that can’t or won’t keep up. Of course, they also tend to accompany life as a jock or a do-it-yourselfer. But with endocrine people, muscles act up without a cause. As the song says, that’s life. Our muscles get inflamed and “knotted up,” worse on some days than others.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Facing Down Ebola

I tell you true, this Ebola thing is a mess, and the reactions to it are not promising. Medicine has nothing to offer, so they’re in a panic. Which means the media is beating a very loud drum about death and mayhem marching in shortly. Meanwhile, the President has sent soldiers, trained to defeat the enemy with guns and tanks, into Ebola-stricken lands where, apparently, they’re expected to win the war against a virus. Sayeth the brass, “Training? We don’t need nostinkin’ training!”

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

1,478 views

By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Fluoride Fraud

Enough with the fluoride already! Communities began adding fluoride to our drinking water based on “scientific” studies–which turned out to be bogus–claiming fluoride would protect our teeth from cavities. Based on the same “science,” companies put the stuff in toothpaste. Fact is, fluoride ...Enough with the fluoride already! Communities began adding fluoride to our drinking water based on “scientific” studies–which turned out to be bogus–claiming fluoride would protect our teeth from cavities. Based on the same “science,” companies put the stuff in toothpaste.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Blank Slate Myth

Have you ever met people committed to the idea that babies arrive as blank slates. Beyond body parts, a lot of noise at one end and foul deeds at the other, babies, they believe, have nothing. No personality. No talents. No will. No inbred likes or dislikes. Just pure nothingness, a blank slate. Babies, all babies they believe, can be whatever you want them to be. You simply take the blank slate and fill it in as you choose.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Mercury Contradiction

Did’ja ever get the feeling you’re in Wonderland looking for Alice? Where two plus two doesn’t equal four any more, and too much of what you see offers only puzzlement? For instance, our powers that be outlawed mercury thermometers. Better you shouldn’t know your temperature than risk breaking ...Did’ja ever get the feeling you’re in Wonderland looking for Alice? Where two plus two doesn’t equal four any more, and too much of what you see offers only puzzlement?

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Do-It-Yourself Brain Damage

Every day of every year, people across the fruited plain engage in do-it-yourself brain damage. Sadly, they have no idea. How can this be? I’m glad you asked. First, some background: Along the bottom of the brain is a small, sort of pancake-shaped thingy called the hypothalamus. And although ...Every day of every year, people across the fruited plain engage in do-it-yourself brain damage. Sadly, they have no idea. How can this be? I’m glad you asked.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Standard of Care Catastrophe

The latest Big Thing in medicine is “Standard of Care.” It has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? The name alone makes you believe that no matter what doctor you go to, there’s a Standard of Care ensuring a quality outcome. What a comforting thought. Clever name, that. The sad truth is ...The latest Big Thing in medicine is “Standard of Care.” It has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? The name alone makes you believe that no matter what doctor you go to, there’s a Standard of Care ensuring a quality outcome. What a comforting thought.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

How Good Timing Affects Your Health

Figuring out what we need to do for good health can get pretty complicated, but here are a few, easy-to-implement tips that pay big dividends for not so much effort. • If you’re still trying to lose the Freshman Fifteen after all these years, you’re more likely to get the job done if you start the day with a high-fat breakfast. Scramble eggs in plenty of butter, for instance. Maybe add a small steak. Top it off with a few cups of coffee, and you’re good to go. The fat tells your body all’s well with the world, and it doesn’t have to hoard fat ‘just in case.’ Well, who knew?

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***We Are Seriously Doomed

A while back, Dr. Steve Nissen, president of the American College of Cardiology, along with ten other prominent physicians, offered an outstanding proposal that would immeasurably improve medical care in this country. And what is this great idea? Take control of medicine back from Big Pharma, who have all but destroyed it, and let doctors practice medicine with excellence. See, a most admirable idea. So excellent an idea, in fact, that it doesn’t stand a chance. Zip, zero, nada, as they say.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Is It Endocrine Problems?

Chances that you have endocrine problems are fifty-fifty. It could well be that’s why you feel lower than a snake’s belly. How can that be? How do endocrine problems happen? Let me count the ways. First, let’s look at the pituitary, the master of the endocrine system. The Pituitary Society says 20% of us have pituitary tumors, most of which, thankfully, are benign. As if that’s not bad enough, study in Europe says 25% of us have pituitary tumors.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Cause of Constant Fatigue

I’ve been dealing with an underperforming pituitary gland most of my life–possibly from a seemingly minor head injury when a drunk driver hit my parent’s car during my eleventh month. However it happened, the deal is this: When the pituitary ain’t happy, ain’t ...I’ve been dealing with an underperforming pituitary gland most of my life–possibly from a seemingly minor head injury when a drunk driver hit my parent’s car during my eleventh month.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

A Shortage of Grownups

Babies show the world what selfish looks like. On a whim, they set up a wail loud enough to wake the dead–or at least it sounds that way at 2:00 a.m. No matter that others may be tired or sick or have to go to work. Babies want what they want when they want it. So stop sniveling. Some ...Babies show the world what selfish looks like. On a whim, they set up a wail loud enough to wake the dead–or at least it sounds that way at 2:00 a.m. No matter that others may be tired or sick or have to go to work. Babies want what they want when they want it. So stop sniveling.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

One-Diagnosis-Fits-All Medicine

Here’s the scene: You go to the doctor dragging your patooty behind you. Your body got fat, but your hair got thin. Overwhelmed by a whole new definition of tired, you find yourself doing beached whale impressions while life goes to pot. Well, who could cope anyway? For all you know, your brain ...Here’s the scene: You go to the doctor dragging your patooty behind you.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

This Is Your Endocrine System: Thyroid

Our most well-known endocrine gland is the thyroid. Not nearly as well known is the fact that half the population has thyroid problems, mostly undiagnosed or mistreated. The thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland located by your Adam’s apple, controls metabolism and affects everything else. You may know about the weight problems, hair loss, brain fog, depression, extreme fatigue, etc. that accompany an underperforming thyroid gland. Some of you have experienced the living on the edge sensation of an overactive thyroid.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Enemies Are Everywhere!

Have you been reading about phthalate? (Phthal as in thal, rhymes with Hal.) Yikes! Talk about your basic poison! This stuff is murder! Phthalate is a toxic “softener” added to plastics, cosmetics and everything else they can lay their hands on. For starters, it throws the endocrine system–thyroid, adrenals, immune system, etc.–into a total tizzy because it pours bogus estrogen into our bodies. Besides whacking the endo system, bogus estrogen causes inflammation, a major cause of dread diseases. And as with so many things, kids get hit the worse.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Job's Comforters

So there you are in the middle of one of life’s train-wrecks–dazed, wounded, wondering what shoe–or bomb–will drop next, and up walks Job’s comforter. You may remember Job from the Bible. A rich, powerful man, a great father and good in every way was Job ...So there you are in the middle of one of life’s train-wrecks–dazed, wounded, wondering what shoe–or bomb–will drop next, and up walks Job’s comforter.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***A Closer Look at Protein

All proteins are not created equal. For instance, animal protein provides more health benefits than plant protein. To make the imbalance larger, a lot of plant protein comes from soy. Besides not having the oomph of animal protein, soy is really hard on the body. It beats up your thyroid, absorbs needed minerals from your body, causes kidney stones, throws your hormones out of whack with bogus estrogen, and on, and on. And most soy is genetically-modified. While we won’t know the results of this medical experiment for years, ominous signs about damaging our DNA are everywhere.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Coffee: The Health Drink

Conventional wisdom says coffee’s bad. Doctors agree. Magazines second the motion. You can hardly find a kind word about coffee. Which is just a tad bizarre because coffee is a health drink. Since nearly 90% of the U. S. population drinks the stuff, this comes under the heading of good ...Conventional wisdom says coffee’s bad. Doctors agree. Magazines second the motion. You can hardly find a kind word about coffee. Which is just a tad bizarre because coffee is a health drink. Since nearly 90% of the U. S. population drinks the stuff, this comes under the heading of good news.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Does God Understand Life in a Cubicle?

Or, for that matter, does God understand what’s going on in the life of a road warrior sales person? Or life on a clanging, banging, push, push, push assembly line? Or on an oil rig? As part of a building crew? To tell the truth, the God of our Sunday School days kind of comes across as a part ...Or, for that matter, does God understand what’s going on in the life of a road warrior sales person? Or life on a clanging, banging, push, push, push assembly line? Or on an oil rig? As part of a building crew?

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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Parkinson's Disease Ain't For Sissies

My mom lived with Parkinson’s Disease the last seventeen ears of her life, Let me tell you for sure and for certain that Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is more like scaling Everest than walking in the park. It’s uphill all the way, with no certainty about the about the twists and turns you’ll ...My mom lived with Parkinson’s Disease the last seventeen ears of her life, Let me tell you for sure and for certain that Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is more like scaling Everest than walking in the park.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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