Learn about Hashimoto’s, always feeling cold, floating stool, gluten-free wheat grass, and athlete’s foot on HouseCall.
Chronic Illness and Digestive Health Concerns: Exploring Hashimoto’s, Gluten-Free Options, and Athlete’s Foot
Today on The Cabral #HouseCall weekend edition, Dr. Cabral answers questions on wellness, weight loss, and anti-aging from the community. One question is from Erika, who has been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s and is always cold despite medication. She also asks about the significance of floating stools. Another question comes from Hayley, who wonders if she should avoid wheatgrass due to her allergies to peanuts, corn, and wheat. Lastly, Anna seeks advice for her boyfriend’s persistent athlete’s foot issue. Stay tuned for expert tips and insights!
If you’re struggling with symptoms like feeling cold, digestion issues, dietary restrictions due to allergies, or persistent fungal infections, the insights shared in this video may provide valuable guidance and solutions. From understanding the underlying causes of your symptoms to exploring natural remedies and holistic approaches to wellness, Dr. Cabral’s advice can help you make informed decisions about your health and well-being. Tune in to learn more about addressing common health concerns and optimizing your overall wellness journey.
The Ultimate Guide to Conquering Hashimoto’s and Banishing Coldness: Debunking Myths about Wheat Grass, Floating Stools, and Athlete’s Foot
You’re listening to an archived cabal concept podcast after listening to this show check out the most upto-date podcasts available at Steven cab.com slmp podcasts or search directly on iTunes and now welcome to the cabol concept where board certified naturopath and Integrative Health practitioner Dr Steven cabal shares how he was diagnosed.
At the age of 17 with a life-altering illness and given no hope for Recovery it was only after studying and traveling all over the world did he discover how to combine ancient ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art naturopathic and functional medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life it’s time to discover how.
To get well lose weight and finally feel alive again and now here’s your host Dr Steven cabal and today we’re going to get started right into it with our host call questions of the weekend so every weekend we answer right now it looks like we’re answering around 8 to 10 questions per weekend.
Which is absolutely fantastic we usually stay within about probably after you submit a question about a week or two afterwards you will get your question answered and that’s where about where we’re running right now so I want to get right into it today because we have honestly so many excellent excellent questions and a lot of smart questions.
What I’m going to do though is sometimes there’s a couple different parts to each one if I’ve already covered it in depth I might just point you towards the podcast that could give you a more in-depth explanation as well because I really do want to make sure that everyone’s getting their question answered but also I can’t spend 10.
Minutes answering each question so of course I can always point you to more information and as you’ll see with some of these questions I’m actually going to turn them into their own show because I think they’re that important to look at so the first question is from ER Erica is asking hi Dr B thank you so much for your wonderful podcast I’m so happy to.
Have discovered it I have two questions for you I’ve been recently diagnosed with Hashimoto Hashimoto means low thyroid and I’m taking T3 and T4 and those are two different types of medications for the active form of thyroid the one thing and I’m I’m add liing here at the same time the one thing that has yet to improve is that.
I’m always cold and that’s an exclamation points and and all caps I’m an athlete work out eat relatively clean have low normal body fat and a healthy weight why am I always cold before the medication it was much worse but even with T3 and T4 it is still isn’t much better okay so here’s the thing I work with I mean tons of people my practice.
With Hashimoto and other autoimmune based disorders and Hashimoto is that meaning like your immune system is essentially attacking your own thyroid causing you a lot of the time to produce higher levels of antibodies and a number called TPO and that is really something that I would test not a lot of people test for that as much as they should we.
Have a great thyroid test in the store that you can obviously do right at home all of our tests you can do right at home that’s a great about them and you want to look at that you actually want to see is it really your Hashimoto or are you just low thyroid because sometimes will’ll improve someone from an autoimmune perspective where they’re.
No longer attacking their own thyroid they’re not producing those antibodies against their thyroid that’s because we clean up the gut health and we do a lot of other things as well but now they’re still low thyroid and of course we have to correct that now really great that’s why I love when people add a little extra to their question by saying you’re.
Always cold means this is and you’re also saying that you’re working out that you’re eating relatively clean and that your lower body fat all of this shows that you are most likely working out you know I would say pretty hard or at least just overall your body’s under a fair amount of stress when the hands are cold when the feet are cold when they’re.
Always cold it’s a good sign that your body’s under what’s called sympathetic nervous system tone or sympathetic nervous system stress which most people refer to as the fight or flight so what happens is the arteries constrict the capillaries constrict since all the little blood vessels are much smaller in your hands and feet there’s very little.
Room for those to constrict so when they do constrict there’s less blood flow therefore the digits the hands and the toes are going to be much colder than the the central part of the body where the blood is pulling and pulling towards anyways and deep into the core of the muscles to get ready to either run away or attack and so what we need to do in.
These certain situations is actually not just look at the thyroid because remember so many people and I’m going to do a whole episode on the thyroid but so many people don’t ever correct their thyroid because they don’t understand and their endocrinologists and their doctors and their Specialists have never told them that the thyroid is largely a.
Downstream gland to the adrenals meaning that the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis called the HPA virtually controls a lot of what goes on with your thyroid and thyroid production so as you start to produce more and more stress in the body and produce adrenaline or norpine phrine you actually block TSH from forming T4 and it’s an enzymatic.
Transformation there and when you start to produce cortisol or glucocorticoids or catacol amines and that a stress hormone you actually block T4 to be converted to T3 which is inside the red blood cells which is about 70 to 80% of all your thyroid is that T3 and it can also cause T3 to be converted to reverse T3 which is not usable so many things to.
Look into but look at that sympathetic nervous system stress we need to calm down that stress in any way possible all right Erica’s second question is the second is around my stools I read somewhere that if your stool is always floating that is a bad thing and it could mean I have digestive issues is that true this isn’t just once in a.
While for me it’s always thanks all right so this is great and I’m really glad that she qualified this I’m just guessing again I have never met with Erica that she’s most likely on a lower carbohydrates higher fat higher protein diet that she might be closer to maybe a keto based diet she says she’s working out she says she’s lower body fat she.
Says she’s eating relatively clean I just kind of get that hunch she’s always so cold that keto based diet can also put you in a higher stress position I’ll talk about that more in the future as well again I go against the grain some of the times but I always do it based on science and do it also based on so much clinical research uh of me actually.
Seeing people every single day so what I would say is this is yes it is a cause of digestive function usually when your stool floats and it’s not cause of because it’s broken apart because if you’re eating lots and lots of fiber sometimes the stool can actually float up because of all the fiber but a lot of the time the stool floats when there’s.
Poor digestion of fats and heavy fats undigested fats can cause the stool to float you probably if you mix oil and water together you’ll probably notice that the oil separates out to the top right that’s what we’re talking about oils of fat so we’re looking at it in almost the same exact way density buoyancy and all of those specific.
Things I won’t get too much into stool specimens right now but I do study stool in depth with parasite bacteria and of course all these different digestive based issues that I work with every single day in my practice so my first recommendation is this is light pace which is an enzyme that helps you digest fats it’s just a great place to start so.
We have one in the Steven Cal store it’s called daily digestive it is hands down my number one recommendation it’s great for proteins carbs and fat and I believe I did a review on enzymes on episode 265 so Erica please go to step cal.com 265 and you will get your answers and again the daily digestive enzyme that is.
The one I recommend and and email back let me know after taking that if you’re starting to digest your food that much better you just take one capsule with each meal right in the beginning all right hopefully that helps okay I have a note from my office that’s actually with all my my questions for to and my office wrote please do not not use the Steven.
Cab.com ask Cabral for customer support or trying to book a consultation with Myself by Skype or in person only because of this these questions are not a lot of times being answered right away because we’re we’re kind of backlogged so we want to just provide the best customer support possible so the fastest.
Way getting your email answered the same day just go support Dr cabal detox.com really simple between 8:30 and 5:30 Eastern we have people answering questions all day long so you can just do that and then of course if you’re booking a consultation or trying to book a consultation with myself you can do that as well you can just email support.
At Dr ball detox and my assistant will send you an application to look at that Skype consultation again anywhere in the world uh or of course in Boston we are again back locked a little bit but I’m always happy to help okay Haley is up next she’s asking hi Dr B I had an allergy test when I suspected I had a reaction to peanuts the test revealed I.
Had a peanut allergy but also a corn and wheat allergy I like using a greens powder in my smoothie but almost all of them have wheat grass powder I avoid eating bread and flour products but should I avoid weat grass too thank you okay great question smart question and this is super complicated it actually isn’t super complicated it’s just very.
Confusing and it makes like zero sense when you look at it from just a surface level saying and again nutritionists really don’t know this either because it’s you have to look deep into it and here it is so wheat grass barley grass you don’t really see this too often but rye grass sometimes you’ll see that as well when they are young grass all that.
Means is when they are first sprouting out of the soil and they are starting to grow they do not yet contain gluten okay so they’re glutenfree grasses they are not yet a grain all right really important because they’re not yet a grain so what happens next is this after a certain amount of maturity growing wheat grass or growing.
Barley grass because those are the two that I use that that a great great benefit they’re going to start sprouting seeds and once the seeds come about that then contains the gluten but here’s the real kicker to all of this is that if not all of your wheat grass is being grown at the same exact time and some of that wheat grass Sprouts those seeds.
Then all of your wheat grass is contaminated and so what I would say is this we as in my company the one that I formulate for and I’m the biggest stickler out of anybody it took me over 18 months to formulate a greens and ours is called a it’s called The Daily fruit and vegetable blend I am gluten-free myself so you’ll see that on the back.
The very first ingredients are organic sparina which of course is gluten-free organic barley grass juice and organic wheat grass juice so you’ll see we have two of those ingredients in there why well they contain massive ounts of chlorophyll they contain massive amounts of vitamins and minerals and they are so great for the body in terms of an.
Alkalizing effect again that doesn’t mean changing blood pH but it does mean producing and giving your body lots and lots of great minerals and so what we do is we send ours out to a certified third party they test it and they certify it and send us a piece of paper that says this is gluten-free and safe for those people with gluten intolerances why does.
That matter to me because I work with people with crohn’s colitis Celiac IBS sibo you name it all of those people should not be eating gluten they absolutely should not once they get better not Celiac but once the other people get better could they do it as once a week for a cheat meal most likely they most likely would because we’ve.
Repaired that gut wall we’ve decreased inflammation but for people who have Celiac and which is different than your your question Haley is an actual cause an autoimmune based reaction which is different so here’s the way that my company gets around it are organic so this is organic of course so it’s not sprayed with those harmful cancer.
Causing pesticides as well is they cut it all at the same time it’s all grown at the same time it gets to a certain number let’s say it’s like 2 inches all of it’s cut at exactly the same time before it has any chance of sprouting those seeds so again hopefully that makes sense it just goes back to this it’s like when you buy your vegetables.
You want to know your farmer if possible so you go to a farmers market you’re like hey you know this like we have a great company around us they’re in Deerfield Massachusetts no where there close to us but they come to the farmers markets in Boston I talk with the farmers and I go what are you doing for your growing practices what are you.
Doing for your you know your pesticides those types of things I know what they’re doing I know they’re certified organic I know the quality of the soil and I know the quality of their vegetables I mean it’s unbelievable so I get to know that and then it’s the same with nutritional supplements like that’s why you shouldn’t just be buying a.
Random nutritional supplement from Amazon that’s just it’s putting your own life and your own health in someone else’s hands that you don’t really trust so what I say is you go with the functional medicine based company you go with someone who third party tests that you trust and that they use the product themselves a lot of these supp man.
Manufacturers they just go to like Amazon Summits they third party private label these supplements from China and other places and I don’t even care if it’s certified or not like you’re getting certified in China and again no offense but there’s a lot of corruption and it’s not just in China so I’m not singing it out but I just wouldn’t do it.
There’s too much contamination so all I do is I go with the companies that I trust love Thorn love orthomolecular of course my company’s equilibrium nutrition I formulate it myself and I’m stricter than anybody else out there because I use this for myself my own body I want to live forever and I use it with my family and of course everyone in.
My practice so hopefully that helps hopefully that answers your question it’s gluten-free when it’s cut young enough that’s basically it all right we have one more question today and it’s from Anna or Anna and the question is it says I have a couple questions for you and thank you for all you do my boyfriend has athletes foot or toe.
Fungus he has been putting various C vs Walmart creams on it that don’t seem to be working I told him to go natural route but he gets overwhelmed with the options online he has had this for years since Football in college and he is now 35 what can he do should I invest and so the next question is asking about a certain water alkalizer or things like.
That I’m going to make that its own show most likely it’s going to be coming up this Friday it’s most likely going to be on our Friday review and so definitely tune back in for that one of course I can’t answer that it’s his own question too many people have a question on this so let’s talk about toe fungus toe fungus athletes foot it’s a fungus it.
Can be yeast based if he has any overall itchiness scalp itchiness jock itch those types of things as well definitely look for an overall yeast based candida based issue simple test you can do an organic acids test you can look for these specific things that’s what I would look for I would absolutely I mean if this has been sticking with him for.
Years could it be an infection that just got a fungal based infection possible but your body’s susceptible to it which most likely means means your GI tract is off your immune system’s off why isn’t your body naturally killing this on its own why is the mucosa which surrounds the body and also on the skin not working properly so I look at those.
Things I would recommend the organic acid test he’ll get our recommendations meaning my recommendations then he’ll get to speak with my holistic health coach if you don’t want to go that route and you just want to use natural antifungals well then that’s fine as well you can start applying things like coconut oil that works fantastically.
Well it’s natural antifungal it is natural antimicrobial another great one that’s worked really well for many many people is tea tree oil so you could certainly try that your boyfriend can also take coconut oil Orly just one tablespoon once to twice per day he can do that with meals or W for meals either way is totally fine that’s antimicrobial.
For the gut as well I wouldn’t start with probiotics yet I would use something like sacri my’s bulard but again in my opinion find out what the real underlying causes so he doesn’t have to deal with this for the next you know I mean he’s been doing this for a couple years right so he’s 35 you better get it in check now because this might.
Not just be the feet it might be internally as well so hard for me just to say hey use this topical thing when it could be internal coming to the outside because again you’re outside of your body your scalp dandruff psoriasis eczema skin rashes rosacea all of these things are an internal manifestation showings on the outside so you really do.
Need to look internally again my recomend that organic acid test if not start using the coconut oil start using some tea tree oil applications do a little bit of the coconut oil internally as well and then maybe just if you just want straight anti- yeast is a sacris bardi not sacris suresi but sacris bardi or if you don’t want to do the lab.
Testing even better go do the three Monon the 12we anti-candida antibacterial protocol on the um Steven cabal website as well same one I use in my practice it works phenomenally well so hopefully that gave you a couple options and then you and your boy boyfriend can talk it over and of course if you have more questions feel free to.
Write back in and I would be happy to answer them for you and and do please I mean I love people do send in their success stories so I love hearing that but after you’ve tried these things let us know how it went I mean I love hearing those success stories that is why I do what I do so thank you everyone for tuning in to another cabal host call.
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