Rough draft 1st chapter new book: diet

 This is a rough draft of the first chapter of a new book. Please give feedback, especially any questions you'd like answered about food and general diet that aren't covered so far here. Thanks!

Most can find room for a small veggie garden.

Optimal Health Diet:
(Assuming your digestion is great.)

Eat lots of veggies and greens with each meal,
eat good quality protein at eat meal.
Eat whole fruit or raw nuts/seeds between meals if you want a snack

Drink half body weight in oz of filtered water daily, but drink it mostly between meals. Don't drink more than 4oz of fluids at a meal, this stresses the stomach by diluting digestive juices, prolonging food time in the stomach before it empties into the small intestine.
If you weigh 150 pounds then drink about 75 oz of water per day.
Don't count caffeinated beverages since their diuretic effect causes excessive fluid loss through the kidneys. Dryer climates necessitate more fluid intake, humid climates less.

Don't eat transfats. They are found in fried foods, roasted nuts including peanut butter, vegetable spreads (fake butter) like margarine, most baked goods that are packaged and don't need refrigerating like muffins and cookies crackers and chips.

Cook with coconut oil to avoid creating transfats in your kitchen. Butter is okay if you don't brown it, olive oil is okay if fresh and cooked on low heat. It's best to just steam or bake things without oil. You can drizzle uncooked oils over your food once on your plate for taste.
Olive oil oxidizes quickly, so best to buy small bottles and use it all within 10 days of opening it. If it tastes different than the day you opened it, it's starting to go bad.

Quality meats are fresh meats from wild or grain free animals. Organic or conventional is up to you, the Organic label doesn't necessarily stand for the high quality it used to now that the government regulators have sold out to big corporate farming practices. It's best to know your farmers and find out how they feed and treat their animals.

If you are too busy to find a smart, health conscious, and ethical livestock farmer, one alternative source of quality protein would be vegetable source protein powder. Just eat lots of veggies and greens, then take enough protein shake to cover your protein needs. Or, maybe you can find a source of well fed chickens to buy eggs from. Just don't fry them in oils that turn to transfats.
Babies need 1 gram of protein per pound of weight per day. Children need about 1/2 gram protein per pound per day, adults need about 1/3 gram protein per pound per day, and pregnant or breastfeeding moms need about 2/3 gram of protein per pound per day. Of course the more physically active you are the more you need, so athletes can need double or triple these numbers.
Eggs have about 6 grams of protein each. Veggies and greens tend to have 2-3 grams of protein per half cup serving. Don't use soy sourced protein products. Rice, pea, hemp seed, acacia would be safer than soy. See Dr. Brownstein's book Soy Deception for more info on avoiding soy. Most don't need to be religious about avoiding soy, but eating it as your main source of protein is not recommended.

Keep your saturated, omega 3, and omega 6 fats balanced, and keep transfats at zero.
It's a big involved topic, but here's some tips.
Use high quality fish oil capsules to keep omega 3 levels optimal. Unless you have a source of fresh wild small fish like sardines, anchovies, trout, or similar, to eat daily, you'll need to take a couple capsules of fish oil daily. See chapter on Dr. C's daily supplements for healthy longevity.
Don't eat roasted nuts or seeds regularly. Fresh raw nuts/seeds are safe, but in moderation. Most are high in omega 6, not bad by itself, but if you get more 6 than 3 (fish oil) then you will tend to have more inflammation than otherwise. Theoretically you could eat lots of raw nuts if counterbalanced with extra fish oil capsules.
Saturated fats usually implies animal fats. Meats and milks from grain fed animals are highest in saturated fats. Even farm raised salmon is high in saturated and omega 6 fats because they are generally fed grains. Saturated fats are not bad, but too many in relation to the amount of omega 3 fats in your body causes inflammation.
We cannot make omega 3 in our bodies, but we can make saturated fats. We turn carbs into saturated fats when we overeat them, especially refined carbs from grains, like breads and pastas.
If you are overweight, most of your fat is likely saturated or omega 6 fat. And much of it could be transfats! So you have a long way to go to get your fats balanced, let alone losing weight. See chapter on weight loss.

Animal meats that are not grain fed will have less saturated fat and more omega 3 and 6 fats. This is good for you, but mostly if you eat the meat raw. Omega 3 and 6 fats turn to transfats when overlooked, saturated fats do not. I'm not suggesting that you eat raw meat but just making a point. Grass fed meats are a double edged sword. Less saturated fat but more likely to get transfats when cooking. So best to cook grass fed meats at lower temperatures. Increase the cooking time some to make up for this. And of course the least cooked the less transfats.

As far as digestible animal proteins, the smaller the animal the easier it tends to be to digest.

There are good sources of non fish omega 3, from algae oil. Flax seed or hemp seed oil can be used too, but extra steps are required by the body to utilize these oils.

Taking a poor quality fish oil is WORSE than not taking a fish oil at all. DO NOT try to save money buying cheap fish oil, you are shooting yourself in the foot. If you are too poor to buy high quality fish oil, don't take any. Or just take high quality fish oil every other day or every third day, whatever you can afford. Take nothing on days between.

Avoid foods with added sugar like desserts and soda, and in general, don't drink fruit juice. Sugar is usually made of 50% glucose and 50% fructose. Fruit juice has lots of fructose as well. Fructose is thought to be the cause of 75% of heart disease. It also contributes to developing diabetes, obesity, and gout. See Dr Robert Lustig's you tube videos and his 60 Minutes episode on the toxicity of sugar. He runs a child obesity clinic at UCSF. He says that he recommends that kids do 5 things to lose weight like playing outside and refraining from video games, but he says that the one variable that makes or breaks their success is fruit juice. If they drink it, they stay fat, if the don't drink it they lose weight.

Put some effort into rotating families of foods or at least eating a wide variety of families. For instance, if you eat steamed kale with your eggs for breakfast, cabbage rolls with mustard greens for lunch, and broccoli and turnips as sides for dinner, you are only eating one family of vegetables: brassicas. Just like a poodle and a Great Dane are both the same species, broccoli all the above vegetables mentioned were "bred" by farmers over the years from cabbages.
Plant families tend to have similar nutrient profiles and similar toxin profiles. All plants have small amounts of toxins that aim to prevent animals from overindulging in eating them into extinction. Generally animals nibble on plants before moving onto other types of plants. This ensures no one toxin builds up in their system, and the plants can recover from the damage sustained from the animal foraging.

Cooking vegetables breaks down some of the plant toxins, but it also breaks down some of the vitamins. So cooking vegetables mild to moderately is a good idea generally. Eating 10-25% of your vegetables raw and cooking the rest might be wise. Green smoothies can be a great way to get more raw veggies into your diet. See chapter on green smoothies.

But eating a wide variety of families is also wise.

List of plant families:

Brassica,: kale, cabbage, mustard, turnip, radish,
Spinach: chard, beets,
Melon: squash,
Asparagus
Artichoke
Okra
Cactus
Lettuce, sunflower, dandelion
Mushroom
Ginger
Onion, garlic, chives, leeks
Carrot, anise, celery, parsley, dill, cumin, caraway, fennel, parsnip
Pea, beans, soy, clover, peanut
Nightshade, tomato, eggplant, potato, yam, peppers
Sweet potato
Coconut
Olive
Rose: Apple, pear, plum, peach, nectarine, almond, apricot, strawberry, cherry, raspberry blackberry boysenberry cranberry
Avocado
Blueberry
Mint
Rice
Wheat
Corn
Aloe
Amaranth
Borage
Walnut
Brazil nut
Macadamia
Chestnuts
Breadfruit
Pine nut
As you can see, most of what we eat is only in a few food familys: wheat, corn, rice, soy, brassica, nightshade, rose, onion for the most part. The idea is not to be over concerned about this but to just count how many groups you tend to eat and see if you can expand your groups a little bit each month. Perhaps avoid or minimize some of the groups that find their way into everything we eat, like wheat, corn and soy.
visit website at www.drjohnusa.com or call office in Fresno: 559 930-1034 for a consultation on your health issues. Please post comments on here or on facebook page drjohn campise so everyone can benefit from your suggestions.

Where oh where has my happiness gone?

Happiness is physiologic.

Mammal DNA codes for positive and negative emotions that correlate with survival probabilities.

In general, negative emotions due to poor survival circumstances motivate us to take actions to acquire something better, and positive emotions due to rich circumstances allow for either lazy actions (to keep things the same) or extra-curricular actions like playing. 

Either way, happiness is pretty much guaranteed since there is a low level of happiness that creeps in during the actions taken (triggered by negative emotions) to improve one's life (felt as hopeful anticipation).

Lack of food, shelter, sleep, and friendship all lead to negative emotions and tend to motivate us to attempt to acquire them.

In modern USA, 99% have plenty of calories, shelter, sleep, and friendship. Yet depression, anxiety, or just general unhappiness is rampant. Now there's droves of people trying to "find" happiness. So what's gone wrong? Have the old DNA rules on how to be happy been broken?

The DNA programming is not broken, we just missed an ingredient. Who can guess which required ingredient is almost necessarily missing from a modern lifestyle?

One major ingredient needed to turn on human happy genes: copious amounts of midday unfiltered sunlight shining directly on bare skin.

Here is a good presentation to get started learning more about why we can't be healthy and happy without lots of direct skin sun exposure.

https://youtu.be/1zBBmh8xQhM?list=FLU9_mV_3DLoijkSmjeI-kzQ

I have a full body artificial sun lamp in my clinic. So far I am 2 for 2 using this on people with severe anxiety/depression who were unresponsive to medication. I thought the light therapy would help by maybe 30%, but instead was surprised to find 99% resolution after 4-8 weeks of every other day full body bare skin light therapy sessions. Only 2-4 sessions monthly seem to be needed to maintain improvements in these two cases.

It's been recently shown that endorphins, molecules of happiness, are created in the skin from direct sun exposure. And, serotonin/melatonin cycles are created and maintained by sunlight exposure. See this research discussion link, look about 4/5 of the way down: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2290997/

In short:

Modern human unhappiness is an artifact of an ubiquitous sub-clinical illness caused by lack of direct sunlight.

Simply procure food, shelter, sleep, friends, and lots of sunlight and you will have happiness whether you want it or not.

Correction: Provide lots of sunlight and have happiness whether you already have basic needs met, or are expecting to acquire them in the future through work.

Call to Action:

Are you at all unhappy in your life? Read my blog article...

http://campisechiropractorfresno.blogspot.com/2013/05/sunbathe-for-health-human-body-needs.html   

about how to sunbathe so you can fix yourself, or come into the clinic and use our light therapy bed. Then spread the word to your friends and family so that they too can be happier. 

Extra curricular:

Isn't too much happiness a bad thing because we wouldn't lift a finger to feed ourselves if we were in constant bliss?

There is no such thing as too much happiness, because it just leads to play. Play fosters creativity and generally leads to invention of new stuff to make our lives even more fun. Play is so fun that we invent machines to grow food for us so that we have more time to play. These actions are motivated and achieved by lots of happiness and the drive to have even more happiness. It's wrong to assume that a person who works to get more happiness is always motivated by unhappiness.

Just imagine what our world would be like today had we known about the essential qualities of direct sunlight exposure 100 years ago and took action! We could have eradicated war, poverty, disease, old age, and even having to work for a living by now. Instead we would all be playing for a living!

I don't buy the old idea that we are here to suffer and develop character through hardship. I say we are here to develop character by creating better ways for people to enjoy life through camaraderee with others. But just like in an airplane, "in case of loss of cabin pressure, put your oxygen mask on first before helping your loved ones with theirs." Take responsibility for your own happiness and get optimal levels of light. Then spread the word.

We will soon have a new light therapy bed, this one is all red light. Most people feel slightly stoned after 20 minutes under these red lights, they make you feel that good. When I use the red light bed, I literally feel like I'm eating a depleted nutrient through my skin!

We are in the process of lowering our prices so you all can use the light therapy more. We should have the discounted price schedule out soon.

New Treatment for Infections without Using Antibiotics: A possible cure for Lyme's Disease?

Scarlet Bee Balm among others

Antibiotics have perhaps done more to save lives than any other single invention ever.

But antibiotics have several down sides:

1) They are based on fungal toxins which means that your liver has to work hard to break them down so that they don't build up in your system and damage your other organs, nerves, or brain. In this way they are similar to chemotherapy in that they are very toxic. The idea is to take just enough toxin to kill the cancer or infection, but not so much that they kill you.

2) Chronic use of antibiotics can have long term consequences on your immune system, liver, and intestinal health.

3) Antibiotics kill good intestinal flora along with the infection. If the intestinal flora (probiotics) are not replaced immediately following treatment, other major problems can develop down the road (it is not standard medical protocol to give patients probiotic supplements after antibiotic use, go figure). Such things as yeast infections, acid reflux, ulcers, irritable bowel, constipation, excess gas, and even more bacterial infections are more likely to occur after killing good bowel flora from antibiotic use.

4) Bacteria evolve quickly. Antibiotics never kill all the bacteria in an infection, a few are left over, and usually the ones with the best genes for tolerating antibiotics. Over time, bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics, putting us right back to where we were before we invented them.

5) Antibiotics don't work for viral infections like colds, flus, chicken pox, shingles, ebola, etc.

Bacterial toxins can turn off, slow down, or otherwise interfere with your immune system. Toxins also damage tissues as the bacteria burrow deeper inside you. 

A new treatment aims to simply absorb the toxins excreted from bacteria. Robbed of the effects of their secretions by this new treatment, bacteria don't stand a chance against an animal's immune system.

Small natural fat particles called liposomes were injected into mice who had sepsis, an infection so bad that it had spread into the blood and circulatory system. The liposomes quickly absorbed the bacterial toxins, allowing the mice's immune systems to stop the infections.

It seems to me that if this turns out to work in humans as well as it does in mice, it could be a huge deal for not only antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, but it may also be able to be used to combat viral infections. 

If viral toxins were quickly absorbed by this new treatment, your immune system would have a much better chance to kill the virus before it killed you, in the case of ebola. Or at the least, taking this new treatment at the first sign of the flu might actually prevent flu symptoms while your body finished fighting off the virus.

Another possible huge benefit (in my opinion) could be for stopping Lyme's disease symptoms and halting further damage from the Lyme's toxins. Lyme's is known for causing widespread joint, muscle, and nerve pain due to the effects of the spirochetal toxins. Spirochetes are a type of bacteria, but antibiotics don't work very well for Lyme's because they bore deep into the tendons, joints, and other connective tissues where blood vessels are sparse. With few blood vessels, it is hard for the antibiotics to reach the spirchetes. 

But, since all the symptoms of Lyme's are due to the toxins released by the spirochete, liposomal injections could theoretically stop all the symptoms. Without pain, the person could begin to sleep deeply again and strengthen their body until the infection could be wiped out or at least held at bay by the immune system.

Liposomes are naturally occurring fat soluble microscopic organelles inside our cells that we use for absorbing certain toxins and fats and then burning them up. The researchers are of course artificially manufacturing the liposomes for injection into the mice, but from what I know about such things, the liposomes should not pose any harm to the animal or person.

Here's the link to the article:

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.3037.html

The real cause of colds and flus and how to cure them!

Have you ever wondered why medicine has been able to achieve such feats as successful organ transplants and laser vision correction, but they still haven't been able to cure the common cold?

We all know that microscopic viruses are contracted into your body before you catch a cold. But this is only half the story. Have you ever wondered why sometimes one or two members of a household won't catch the cold that everyone else came down with? Certainly everyone in the house was exposed to the virus.

The other half of the equation:

• Why do most people get colds and flus in the winter? It's not because it's colder. In India, the cold and flu season hits during the monsoons and it is anything but cold outside. But the one thing in common with winter in the US and the monsoons in India is that there is no UVB from the sun reaching the surface to make vitamin D in people's skin. Vitamin D is needed in high amounts in order for the immune system to work properly. During the summer months, most people have enough vitamin D from the sun that they don't get colds.
  

• Solution: Take enough vitamin D to get your blood levels of vitamin D up to 60-80 ng/ml. (My office can order your vitamin D blood test at a cash discount; be sure to check your levels every spring and fall.) To reach optimal levels, supplements can range from 2,000 to 20,000 iu of D3 per day. On average it takes about 8,000 iu daily. It depends on your weight and body fat percentage. The more you weigh and the more fat you have, the more vitamin D you will need to take. But the only way to know for sure is to test your blood. Studies clearly show that ALL Americans who do not supplement with D are low in it during the winter. The other option besides taking a D supplement is to regularly receive light therapy like we have at my clinic. (Call our office and talk to Erin to schedule a free introductory light therapy session: 559-930-1034)
  

• The immune system heavily depends on its front line defense: mucus. Most cold and flu viruses are transmitted through the membranes in our lungs, throats, sinuses, eyes, and nose. These tissues secrete a thin mucus that coats them as a protective barrier against microbes. The microbes get stuck in the mucus and are either expelled along with the mucus or are immediately killed by natural antimicrobial agents in the mucus. One of these antimicrobial agents is iodine. Iodine insufficiency weakens your front line defense because you can't produce effective mucus without enough iodine.
  

• Solution 1: Take extra iodine during cold and flu season. Take between 1.5 and 12 mg of iodine daily. Note: 1 mg = 1000 mcg (Contrary to allopathic belief, iodine is very safe since we just pee out any excess. But, if you have an autoimmune thyroid condition such as Hoshimoto's or Graves disease, then you should be supervised by a health care professional while taking iodine.) Unless you eat seafood three meals a day, 7 days a week, then you need to supplement with iodine. We need so much extra iodine in modern times because our exposure to bromide, chlorine, and fluoride is off the charts and interferes with iodine in the body. The cure for these toxins is to take lots of iodine. Have you noticed that chlorine dries out your skin, eyes, and burns your nose? Dry skin and membranes means there are millions of microscopic cracks for air-born viruses to get into your body. Iodine helps heal these chlorine caused cracks.
• Solution 2: Is there chlorine in your shower water? Get a shower head filter from the hardware store. They take out 95% of the chlorine, cost less than $50, and last about 6 months. Refill filter cartridges can be less than $20.
  

• Have you ever caught a cold or flu but you weren't even around anyone who was sick? This is a case of a virus allergy. You were exposed to a small number of a virus that was left in the air several minutes after someone who is now gone had sneezed. Normally such a small amount of a virus would not cause you to get sick, but in your case, your immune system freaked out. Your immune system ramped up its huge armies to fight, even though the enemy was the equivalent of a group of rowdy junior high kids. Too late, you have to go through the entire cold or flu cycle until your immune system is satisfied that the coast is clear. The reason for a virus allergy is an over-active immune system, which is the same reason for any allergy.
  

• Solution 1: Omega 3 oil supplement. Omega 3, generally from fish oil, is needed for overall total health. One of its jobs is to keep the immune system from getting out of control. This is why omega 3 supplements can help people with autoimmune and allergy problems so much, because these are conditions of an over-active immune system. Take 600 to 1200 mg of omega 3 daily during the summer and take 1200 to 1800 mg daily during the winter or up to 2400 mg if you think you coming down with a cold.
• Solution 2: Stay away from fried foods (like french fries), margarine, and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. These are full of something called trans-fats which counter-act omega 3 oils. Trans-fats actually contribute to allergies (including virus allergies) and autoimmune issues.
  

• Don't shoot your immune system in the foot! Eating sugar, (meaning desserts, candy, soda, fruit juice, and almost all beverages you find at a mini-mart) can lower your immune system dramatically for several hours or even days after consuming it. 99% of the time when a patient of mine gets a cold or flu, when I ask them if they had a lot of dessert or candy within 5 days of getting sick, they say yes. Desserts taste really good, but colds and flus are just not worth it to me. The only time I eat desserts in the winter is to be polite to the host of a party, and I take a small piece and eat just a few bites if possible. Then I rave about how good it is and then when no one is looking I put the rest in the trash. When asked to have seconds I say that I'd love to but I'm really full! And I never eat candy. I'll take the candy and say I'm saving it for later, then throw it out later.
  

• Solution: Just say no to sugar. Colds and flus are not worth it. Eat fresh fruit instead. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n watch this 60 minutes video called “Is sugar toxic?” (Ignore the drug commercials.)
  

• A slow bowel is a toxic bowel. Toxins lower the immune system worse than sugar does. Do whatever it takes to have at least two bowel movements daily, optimally three.
  

• Solution: Have regular bowel movements: Drink plenty of water (45-75 ounces daily). Go easy on the starches: bread, rice, pasta, and white potato can turn to a sticky glue in the intestine, feeding yeast, and slowing the bowels. When in a pinch, take magnesium mineral tablets for a natural laxative. George Goodhart, the father of Applied Kinesiology and muscle testing in general, once said that colds and flus are caused by a toxic bowel and that the cure is an enema!
  

• Lack of sleep lowers the immune system and allows viruses to take hold and cause illness much more readily.
  

• Solution: Get extra sleep. If you know you've been exposed to a virus, sleep an extra 90 minutes each night for the next three to five nights. This gives your body the extra rest it needs to re-cooperate from the stress of having to deal with the virus quickly before it has a chance to multiply, causing illness.
  

• Stress lowers the immune system. Even just hearing bad news can lower your immune system.
  

• Solution: Keep a positive attitude and stay away from negative news and negative people. There is good and bad to everything. Make sure that at least half your thoughts during the day are about how good things are in your life. If more than 75% of your thoughts are about how bad things are right now, then you are less likely to fight off a virus without getting ill during the process. I no longer watch the news or read the paper. If something big happens, someone else is sure to tell me. I also don't watch rated R movies. The extra violence is very stressful for the little kid brain inside us that controls our immune system. It's not worth it. Movies without excessive violence and with happy endings that make you feel good can actually strengthen the immune system.
  

Let's make this a cold and flu free season from here on out!



For more health related information or to read past newsletters, go to my website or blog:
www.drjohnusa.comhttp://campisechiropractorfresno.blogspot.com/

 Dr. Campise
559 930 1034
drc@drjohnusa.com
1100 W. Shaw # 120
Fresno, CA 93711

Salt can lower blood pressure?

Salt can lower blood pressure???

Do you know anyone who is on a low salt diet who still has high blood pressure?

I do. Lots of them. In fact, I've seen several patients lower their blood pressure by increasing their salt intake. Huh?

It is true that too much salt causes high blood pressure, but did you know that too little salt can cause high blood pressure too? Well, it can. Just like any other nutrient, too much can be harmful, but too little can be even more harmful.

Dr. Campise's Salt-for-Health Protocol

1. Check your blood pressure seated after resting for 15 minutes. Measure the circumferences of your ankles. Record these measurements.
   
   
2. Put 1 tsp of raw salt in a ziplock baggie. Add salt like you would normally do to your food during the day, but from the baggie. Then at the end of the day, measure the salt that is left in the baggie and subtract this from 1 tsp to get the amount of salt you are adding to your food on a daily basis.
   
   
3. The next day put the amount of salt you used the prior day plus ¼ tsp into a baggie. Try to use all of this on your food throughout the day, if there is salt left over at the end of the day, put it in water and drink the rest.
   
   
4. On the following day, remeasure your blood pressure and ankle circumferences in the exact same way as the day before. If your blood pressure goes up and/or if your ankles got larger, this means you got too much salt, so back off until numbers come down to optimal. HOWEVER, if your blood pressure went down, and/or your ankles got smaller, this means you were low in salt and you needed the extra salt that you added.
   
   
5. If you needed the salt, then keep increasing it by ¼ tsp per day until the blood pressure or ankles increase in amount/size again, then back off the salt slightly from there. In this trial and error way you can find the optimal salt level for you.
   
   
6. Over the next few weeks continue to monitor your ankles and blood pressure because once your body gets saturated with salt, you may need to decrease it again. Or if you start a workout routine or the weather gets hot and you are sweating more, you may need to increase it more.

That's it!

More Info:

Of course too little salt can also cause low blood pressure.

Generally the way it works is:

5) Way too much salt causes high blood pressure

4) A little too much salt causes slightly high blood pressure

3) The right amount of salt allows for normal blood pressure

2) Slightly to moderately low salt causes low blood pressure

1) Severely low salt can cause high blood pressure.

0) Extremely low salt can cause death.

So as you can see, if you go from severely low salt intake to slightly low salt intake, you can lower your blood pressure dramatically.

But paradoxically, this is achieved by increasing your salt intake.

Beware:

If you were borderline high blood pressure because of slightly too much salt intake, your doctor might say to cut out salt from your diet.

So let's say you do cut it out. But if you end up cutting out so much that now you are severely low in salt, you will go from borderline-high blood pressure to high blood pressure.

All because you cut out too much salt.

So now your MD puts you on a high blood pressure medication, which brings your blood pressure down to normal.

Then you read my article on salt and decide to experiment by adding some salt back into your diet. If you add just enough salt to get into the slightly low salt range..., can you see the problem?

That's right, your blood pressure can plummet to dangerously low levels because of the additive effect of the slightly low salt and the blood pressure medication.

In other words, by increasing your salt, you may no longer need blood pressure medication, but because you are still taking it, you may get light headed and risk passing out or losing your balance when you stand up.

You can see how this is especially problematic in the elderly. Overdosed blood pressure medicine is the cause of way too much injury to the elderly due to low-blood-pressure-induced falling.

So when experimenting with salt, please monitor your blood pressure closely and at the first sign of it going down, stop increasing the salt and ask your MD to lower the dose of your blood pressure medication or to take you off it.

Yes, some people are needlessly on high blood pressure medication when all they needed was a little more salt in their diet!

The best salt to use:

Raw salt is best because it still has lots of trace minerals in it.

Most table salts have been bleached and processed to take out the good trace minerals in order to achieve a white attractive uniform looking salt product.

My favorite brand of raw salt is Real Salt. It comes from an ancient sea bed mine in Utah.

Other good salts include Celtic Sea Salt, and Himalayan pink salt. But beware: plain old “sea salt” is not raw salt.

Other common causes of high blood pressure:

1) Smoking

2) Obesity

3) Chronic stress

4) Lack of exercise

So try out some raw salt and let me know!

Looking forward!

Yours in health,

Dr. Campise :)

www.drjohnusa.com

559 930 1034

The Best Liver/Gall Bladder Cleanse

We've finally found a Chanca Piedra and Gall Bladder Support replacement supplement from a company that gets it's products from responsible harvesters.

And we now have it in stock.

Chanca Piedra is Spanish for "breaking stone." It has been used as a tea by natives of the Amazon for centuries for dissolving gall stones and kidney stones.

I find that 80% of my patients have signs of bilary/liver congestion. Chanca Piedra is a gentle yet powerful liver and gallbladder detoxing herb.

More acurately, it cleans the sludge out of the drain so that the liver can get rid of toxins faster. Many times, traditional "cleanses" will make you feel sick because you didn't clean the sludge out of the drain first. Chanca Piedra is the only non-surgical way I know of that effectively cleans the sludge out of the pipes of the liver. Once this is done, other cleanses won't make you feel sick. In fact, once this is done, then other cleanses aren't really needed, the body will cleanse itself.

Call us to make an appointment for a free consultation to see if you are a candidate for a liver cleanse. 559-930-1034

-Dr. Campise

What to do About Dry Skin

Have you noticed that no matter how much lotion you use, you can never go without the lotion for even one day without your dry skin coming right back?

Lotion just covers up the symptoms, it doesn't fix the problem.

Dr. Campise's Miracle Soft Skin Recipe

1) After showering, dry off, then spray Liquid Iodine over the skin and
gently pat in until dry. (Use potassium iodide from Biotics Research,
it is a clear liquid. We carry this at the office. Do not use the
purple/red stuff from the drug store!)

2) Then rub organic virgin coconut oil into the skin until absorbed as
you would a lotion. (You can buy this at Whole Foods or any health food
store, it comes in pint jars and is sold for cooking purposes)

That's it!

Just a few weeks of doing this daily will create long lasting soft and
moist skin, though weekly maintenance may be required.

More Info

Dry skin is one of the signs of a thyroid imbalance. Even if your blood
work says your thyroid is normal, it may not be.

To check your thyroid function you can measure your oral temperature
when you first wake up in the morning before you get out of bed. If
your temperature is below 98.8 or above 99.2 then you have a thyroid
problem that needs to be addressed in order to permanently correct your
dry skin. (Menstrating women need to check their temperature on day 2
of menses, but everyone else can check any day of the month.)

If your temperature is 98.8 to 99.2, then your thyroid probably isn't
the problem but there is likely a nutritional component to your dry
skin.

The two most common nutrient deficiencies that lead to dry skin are in
healthy fats and a mineral called iodine. Both can be absorbed directly
by the skin.

Iodine is a necessary nutrient for the thyroid and is often all
someone's thyroid may need to correct the body temperature when their
thyroid is mildly out of balance. But iodine is also required by the
skin itself in order to maintain softness.

Coconut oil is a healthy saturated fat. Saturated fats like those found
in coconut oil help the skin to retain moisture.

Coconut oil and iodine both have anti-yeast and anti-bacterial
properties.

Sometimes severe dry skin will have a yeast infection on the skin which
this recipe will take care of in most cases.

Other things to watch out for:

Chlorine robs the skin of iodine, and as you might already know,
contributes to dry skin.

If your tap water is chlorinated, then you need to put a filter on your
shower head. They cost about $25 at most hardware stores and last about
6 months before needing to be changed.

If you swim or hot tub frequently in chlorinated or brominated water,
you may need to apply the iodine topically after each pool exposure.
Some of my patients who swim a lot take higher doses of iodine
internally that seem to combat the drying effects of chlorine on the
skin.

Antibacterial soaps are harsh and often dry out the skin. These soaps
should not be used.

Bleach, rubbing alcohol, and other harsh cleansers should not touch the
skin regularly, they quickly dry out the skin. Gloves should be used
when handling automotive fluids, hair dyes and perms, and so on.

Clothes detergents and softeners are not completely washed out of the
clothes in the washer. Their residues are absorbed from the clothes
into your skin. Some people are unknowingly allergic or sensitive to
certain brands of these, causing skin issues including dryness.

If you wouldn't put it in your mouth, you shouldn't put it on your
skin. The skin will absorb any liquid that touches it.

What else can I do?

If this doesn't correct the dry skin and your temperature is still off,
then you will need to see someone like me to evaluate your thyroid in
depth.

If your temperature is normal and you tried the two steps above for a
few weeks and your skin is still dry, you may have a hormone imbalance
that we could evaluate and correct. Proper levels of estrogen and
progesterone are required for healthy skin too.

So try it out and let me know what you think!

Looking forward!

Yours in health,

Dr. Campise :)