World Integrated Systems in Health

The prevalence of Celiac Disease has increased five-fold overall since 1974. This increase was not due to increased sensitivity of testing, but rather due to an increasing number of subjects that lost the immunological tolerance to gluten in their adulthood.

Natural history of celiac disease autoimmunity in a USA cohort followed since 1974. Ann Med. 2010 Oct;42(7):530-8.

Just in time for the cold and flu season, Dr. Sandy's Cold and Flu remedy!

When searching for information on the web, sometimes the results can be overwhelming not to mention the quality of information may leave much to be desired. Ways that you can improve effectiveness of your searches is to take advantage of advanced search features offered by various search engines such as Google.

One really great trick is to use is at the end of your search term to use site:gov or site:edu What this does, is limits your search to only government websites and only university websites. All research article abstracts can be accessed and searched by using site:gov. For example, if someone wanted to search for information about resveratrol and cancer and wanted to see what research papers were available, typing the following in your search bar: resveratrol cancer site:gov brings up all sorts of research articles, at least one government trial, some pages from the FDA and so forth. Doing the same search with site:edu on the end brings up a wide selection of work being done by universities on the topic of resveratrol and cancer.

Happy Searching!!

PowerPoint slides for the talk: Menopause Slides
Additional Info: Menopause Handout
CD recording: Weight Loss and Stress Reduction in Menopause

 ½ cup cashew butter, almond butter and/or macadamia nut butter 
½ cup coconut butter
1 cup Shaklee Energizing Soy Protein powder (any flavor), or Cinch shake mix.
½ cup honey or ½ cup agave nectar

If desired, you may add sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and/or dried fruit (chopped apricots, dates, cranberries, etc). Use approx ¼ to 1/3 cup.

Mix together. If the mix is too loose, add more protein powder. If it seems too dry add more coconut butter or 1-2 Tbsp of almond milk or water.

Form into balls and roll them in baking cocoa, cinnamon, sesame seeds or chopped nuts. Keep them in the refrigerator or freezer.
2-3 balls plus a cup of water is a very healthy, nutritious and delicious snack.

Handout for those who need relief from headaches or migraines. Migraine Formula Handout

Executive Summary

Eat your fruits and vegetables! The health benefits of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables outweigh the risks of pesticide exposure. Use EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides to reduce your exposures as much as possible, but eating conventionally-grown produce is far better than not eating fruits and vegetables at all. The Shopper's Guide to Pesticide in Produce will help you determine which fruits and vegetables have the most pesticide residues and are the most important to buy organic. You can lower your pesticide intake substantially by avoiding the 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables and eating the least contaminated produce.

Commodity crop corn used for animal feed and biofuels is almost all produced with genetically modified (GMO) seeds, as is some sweet corn sold for human consumption. Since GMO sweet corn is not labeled as such in US stores, EWG advises those who have concerns about GMOs to buy organic sweet corn.

Visit their website for the complete list.
http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/

To create great bowel movements:

1.      Hydrate. Consume ½ your body weight in ounces of water each day.

2.      Healthy oils. Take healthy oils into your body by drizzling over food and adding to shakes, take in 1-3 Tbsp per day depending on the size of the individual. (See healthy oil handout.) Consider supplementing with OmegaGuard and GLA Complex.

3.      Fiber. Take in 25-40 grams of fiber each day depending on the size of the individual. (See fiber sources handout for suggestions. Consider Shaklee Fiber Plan.)

4.      Movement.
    a.      Regular exercise
    b.      Normalize peristalsis. Shaklee Herb-Lax is very helpful for this. (See instructions for use.)

For decreasing hemorrhoid size, use topical shark liver oil. It’s not a popular solution for the environmentalists or the sharks, but it works wonders! To help reduce the occurrence of problems with hemorrhoids, maintain healthy bowel movements (see above).

Click to download a pdf file of Creating Healthy Bowel Movements.