Dr. David Brownstein's approach to optimizing your response to viral challenges is the use of 4-key nutrients.
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Dr. Brownstein's recommended nutrients should be taken in a clean, proper form. Vitamin A plays an important role in supporting the immune system responses to infectious agents. It has been shown to help regulate and support the innate as well as the adaptive immune system. Vitamin C The immune system cannot function...
Bile movement is needed for digestion, elimination, hormones and mycotoxin elimination.
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Mycotoxins congest bile. If bile is stagnant, it can be a breeding ground for parasitic infections and viruses. Bile helps you preserve the vitamin D that you gained from sun exposure during the warm summer months. Bile helps you preserve vitamin A and all the other fat soluble nutrients....
Vitamin D Is Crucial for Fighting Autoimmune Diseases and it is also important for hypothyroidism.
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Vitamin D is a potent immune modulator, making it critical for the treatment and prevention of autoimmune diseases. According to one study, 80% of patients in the winter, and 50% in the summer, are vitamin-D deficient. If Taking a Vitamin D Supplement, remember K2 and Magnesium. If you are looking...
Hair Can't Survive An Unhealthy Liver.
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
An underperforming liver struggles to metabolize the essential nutrients, vitamins and hormones involved in hair growth.Hair is primarily made of a tough, fibrous protein called keratin, and small amounts of lipids (fats), water, and trace minerals. Keratin is composed of long chains of amino acids, which form strong, insoluble fibers that provide strength, elasticity and stability to your hair.
I NEVER recommend using ascorbic acid. Here's why.
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Doctors and practitioners who don't know better, equate vitamin C with ascorbic acid, as though they were the same thing. THEY ARE NOT! Ascorbic acid is NOT real Vitamin C. It is a synthetic C made in a lab from gmo corn. Corn is a grain. Grains irritate the gut and cause inflammation. Your body only absorbs 10% of ascorbic acid, the rest is lost in your urine.
Improve Your Body's Ability To Detoxify, Especially If You Are MTHFR Positive.
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Epinutrients are these incredible compounds that have the remarkable ability to regulate gene expression.It is this ability, that drives all the extraordinary downstream beneficial effects of whole natural foods, including their anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and bio age reversing properties...
Reasons To Avoid Synthetic Vitamins....What If Food Could Make You Feel Better?
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Reasons To Avoid Synthetic Vitamins. They Aren't Natural. They Cause Deficiencies. They are Fractionated Trace Amounts That Do Nothing For You. They Don't Absorb Well. They Contain NO Cofactors or Enzymes.
Undiagnosed Vitamin & Mineral Insufficiencies Create Health Problems.
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
There is a difference between between nutrient "deficiencies" and "insufficiencies". Nutrient deficiencies rarely go undiagnosed because they cause severe and specific symptoms. However, many of us have vitamin and/or mineral insufficiencies, which means we aren’t getting an adequate amount to be healthy, but we still have enough to avoid any serious problems. Iron, vitamin D, iodine, zinc, and selenium are all important micronutrients for thyroid health, and many women have insufficiencies in at least one of them.