Using Supplements Correctly to Regain Health

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If you’ve used supplements in the hope of feeling better or achieving better health but haven’t had good results, this article will show you:

  • Why you’ve had trouble
  • How you can be ultimately successful in regaining your health, even from long-term health problems that you may be using drugs to control.

There is some very important information to know about supplements. If you select and take them correctly, they are effective for long-term health improvement. If you don’t, they can be a waste of your time and money.

Supplements have the potential to facilitate real healing and health improvement, but only if used correctly long-term and not just as a symptom reliever.

People bought $35 billion worth of supplements in the US last year, but only a tiny fraction of those received a long-term health benefit.

What’s the secret to using supplements properly to recover your health instead of just temporary symptom relief? Read on!

Stress Reduction

Stress in the body is different from mental or emotional stress, although mental stress can certainly cause body stress. Body stress is literally “pressure, tension or strain” on physical parts of the body. This can be from physical, structural or chemical causes. For example, when you have an illness (like the flu), your body is under stress from a viral attack. Stress that your body finds overwhelming is the main cause of symptoms and can slow or prevent healing from taking place. Just as you need to reduce the stress on your body by going to bed when you have the flu, your body often can’t heal long-term health problems due to ongoing stress that can’t be reduced or resolved.

There are a lot of supplement products that would fall into the “Stress Reduction” category. I’ve always thought of these as “supplies and tools” supplements, in that they give the body functional help to lessen stress (“tools” such as probiotics, enzymes, etc.) or to supply missing substances that the body needs to function (“supplies” such as vitamins and minerals).

Because reducing body stress can often result in a reduction of symptoms, these are very popular supplements. However, most people I ask have had the experience of feeling better for a while after taking supplements and then… they stop working, or don’t work nearly as well.

This can be because the functional problems (hormone, digestive, immune, etc.) that caused the damage and symptoms in the first place are not addressed by stress reduction supplements. Your body isn’t healing, you’re just covering up the symptoms using natural methods instead of drugs.

Body stress must be reduced or controlled as a first step in healing, but just reducing stress may not be all that’s needed to allow healing to occur.

Cellular Healing

Bodies have health problems because some areas have too many damaged or unhealthy cells. This is a simple but important concept. If you have a liver with poor function that’s causing stress, that liver has too many damaged or unhealthy cells making up its structure.

If your body was to successfully heal the liver, it would do so by “remodeling” it on a cellular level. It would replace the unhealthy cells with healthier versions of those cells until the overall functional balance of the liver tipped into the healthy range. You’ve observed this remodeling when you’ve scraped your arm— all that new, pink skin. The same basic actions occur inside your body as well.

If you have a health problem that isn’t improving or is getting worse, this means your body is trying to remodel the damaged areas but is running into barriers to doing this successfully. Your body may need assistance to help it overcome these barriers. In the clinic, we consider ourselves to be assistants, and we consider the body be the doctor (after all, who knows more about how to heal your body, your body or the best doctor in the world? I’d go with your body every time!).

As an assistant, our job is to supply the materials that your body lacks that are needed to successfully remodel the damaged cells.

Failing to understand that all healing takes place on a cellular level and that symptom reduction does not correlate to cellular healing is responsible for tremendous wasted time and money.

Support Supplements

Helping the body to remodel specific areas requires an entirely different classification of supplements. I like to call these “replacement part” supplements, as they are often literally the building blocks for cells that the body has been unable to obtain in sufficient quantity or quality to remodel an area successfully.

These products are designed to help with organ support and rebuilding, not stress relief. As such, they aren’t likely to do much short term to relieve symptoms and so aren’t popular at the local health food store.  In fact, these supplements usually aren’t sold at the health food store because they don’t help with specific symptoms and because using them effectively requires a high degree of knowledge.

Putting it Together

Support supplements to rebuild (remodel) an area of your body can’t work if that area is under constant stress (remember the go to bed with the flu example). So, you’d need to use stress reduction supplements along with the replacement part or support supplements to get the long-term healing your body needs.

If you take the correct stress reduction and support supplement combination, it works. Your body begins to remodel a long-damaged area and health improves.

But then… it all changes!

At this point, your body takes its attention off the now-healing and no-longer-stuck area and refocuses on the next area that needs to be addressed. This requires a change in supplements, without which the healing process will come to a stop.

For a supplement program to do more than minimal, short-term symptom relief, the program must be changed and updated continually as the body changes.

The Long-Term Assistance Program

Healing from a significant health problem isn’t a quick process. Generally, your body has been stressed by a problem for years before you ever noticed a symptom. The damage that needs to be repaired can take many years to complete, often because it was many more years in the making.

Symptoms are caused by stress that the body can’t control or compensate for. There are many effective ways of helping your body compensate for stress better and thus reduce symptoms. These are called “functional treatments” and include drugs, surgery, stress-reduction supplements, and many other treatments. Though effective for symptom relief, often these do nothing for the underlying damage.

If the cellular structure of your body is compromised, these functional treatments may work to reduce symptoms but you’ll have to keep doing them. If the cellular structure worsens, you’ll have to do more or stronger treatments. At some point, the functional treatments may stop working entirely due to the increasing cellular damage.

Here’s a more optimistic scenario:

If you maintain your body’s healing on a cellular level, you’ll need less and less functional treatments until you may not need these at all. This is the basis of getting off all drugs. Further, if your body is structurally more stable and healthy, you are much less likely to have health problems in the future.

How to Use Supplements to Recover Health

1 It’s essential to use accurate testing and very knowledgeable professionals to recommend the correct supplements. The trial-and-error system is hopeless on a problem of this complexity.

2. The basic formula is to use stress-reduction supplements in combination with support (replacement part) supplements to take stress off an area and help it to rebuild (remodel).

3. Bodies heal in layers or sequences, because the body compensated repeatedly over the years for the stress it couldn’t heal. This means an effective supplement program needs to be adjusted on a regular basis to keep it relevant and working.

4. In almost every case, some diet and lifestyle changes will be required to reduce stress enough to allow healing to occur. These are very specific stress-reducing changes, not overall “eat healthier” attempts.

5. Often, functional stress from hormones, allergies or nervous system blocks can slow or stop cellular healing despite a correct supplement program. There are specific effective solutions to these problems, but once again it requires accurate testing and evaluation to find and isolate the stress and determine a solution.

6. Treatment programs must be continued long enough to achieve stable health. The length of a program depends on the problem, the intensity and effectiveness of the treatment program and to a large degree the ability of the patient’s body to heal. Given that a cellular healing cycle is three months and that most health problems will require many of these cycles to become stable and healthy, this is not a short process.

Some Make it, Some Don’t

After 23 years of helping patients recover from long-term health conditions that had previously frustrated them for years (often for decades), I have some observations that you may find useful:

1 Overall, I’ve observed that almost everyone with a health problem vastly underestimates the effort and time needed to see it completely resolved. That’s not a wonder, given the pure symptom-relief that passes for most healthcare.

2. I’ve had a lot of conversations with patients who did a part of a program, felt a bit better and quit. Then, five years later they came back with more problems. Often the “new” symptoms were somewhat different from the first ones, but testing proved the source was the same. The patient almost always expressed regret at not completing their original program. Their new attitude would sum up to:
Living in a body with health problems reduces your happiness, productivity, accomplishments and usefulness. If there’s a way to avoid this, it is worth almost any amount of effort.

3. My experience has been that it may take a short time or it may take a long time, but if you persist in doing effective therapy and are willing to adjust your lifestyle you will eventually recover your health.

4. We have amassed thousands and thousands of success stories from patients who discovered that it was possible to assist their bodies to successfully heal. This is not an unproven or risky way to get well, it just takes a lot of personal responsibility and determination.

Starting the Journey

No question, the most difficult part of getting your health back is getting started!

The way to start is to call the Clinic at 770-612-1100 and make an appointment for an Evaluation Visit. This will take an hour, and we’ll find what is stressing your body, what’s the main cause of this stress and what could be done to start the healing process. You’ll then come back for a second consultation visit to go over all this information, work out the particulars of your program and get started.

Im looking forward to your success and recovery.

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THE GUT-BRAIN CONNECTION TO DEPRESSION

THE GUT-BRAIN CONNECTION TO DEPRESSION

The Gut-Brain connection

Safe Healthy Solutions to Depression

Have you ever heard it said that the root of disease starts in the stomach? It is true that the gut is the key or in many cases the cause behind the onset of many disease processes. The digestive system and the ecology of those organs can determine the health or ill health of our bodies. The gut has been called the “second brain” and can create a number of unwanted physical and emotional effects in our lives. I have been reading this week on the connection of our finely balanced digestive systems and our brains.

If you are depressed or sad and lacking motivation you may be having gut issues. Did you know that the essential nutrients needed to manufacture the correct neurotransmitters that can help us sleep and feel happiness have to be absorbed from the gut? If your gut cannot absorb nutrients, you may not sleep well or feel well.

I worked with a patient recently who is depressed and exhausted daily. When we tested her we found that she had very little enzyme or probiotic activity in her body. Without a healthy gut ecology many illnesses can begin. Do you LOVE sugar and breads? Eating these things have been shown to not only contribute to overgrowth of harmful bacteria and other microbes but it can contribute to wide blood sugar swings that can affect our moods.

The woman we tested recently felt so tired and bad the only things she was consuming on a daily basis were candy and sugar drinks which made her “feel good” for a few minutes after which she would CRASH! This cycle would go on everyday and she is gaining weight and feeling horrible increasingly. But what to do with the cravings?? During her visit we desensitized her to sugar! This helps the body deal with the overuse of sugar that many of us have had in our lives and helps the body to react less strongly to the substance.

This is a painless, powerful acupressure technique that helps the body balance and deal with sensitivities. We have found that clinically it helps tremendously with cravings. In addition to this we got her on a simple diet of small protein meals with balanced vegetable and fruit and a couple of delicious smoothies to keep that blood sugar balanced throughout the day.

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We used a fabulous product called Gymnema that helps to balance blood sugars. This wonderful lady was feeling so much better after just 2 days! She had the energy to go shopping for healthy food and to prepare it. And even better, SHE WAS NOT DEPRESSED! One of the body’s ways of communicating with us is to be sad. When we are exhausted physically it is very hard for our bodies to want to jump up and run around shopping or working in the yard or exercising. One of the signs of body being exhausted is depression. Sometimes when the thyroid or adrenals are fatigued the body just directs itself to shut down. We can often experience this as depression.

We have some “happy” supplements that we use to engage the body in it’s own healing process and in many cases, putting back in nutrients and essential minerals into a depleted body can make a body and you HAPPY again!

So natural solutions to depression:

  1. Eat regular protein meals in relationship to your body weight and caloric needs
  2. Avoid sugar
  3. Get evaluated for specific deficiencies both vitamin and mineral
  4. Get tested for adrenal and thyroid stress or fatigue
  5. Get tested for enzymes and probiotics to help your gut be healthy
  6. Listen to your body—If you are tired or depressed, find the CAUSE and fix it

You probably do not have a deficiency of Prozac or other anti-depressant drug. Your body is trying to tell you something.  Look for the CAUSES of health issues. There may also be more and deeper health issues surrounding your depression.  Find a caring alternative health care provider to help you.  If you have a medical problem make sure you seek competent medical help. You may need in depth testing and a more complete program to get you to your goals.  I have spent the better part of my life studying and learning how to help the body using safe drug-free alternatives. You can get your health back. You can be happy and healthy. If I can help you please let me know.

Participatory Medicine

Stubborn mule

What would you do if you discovered that your best friend or a member of your family had a serious health problem, but were unwilling to do anything about it?

Unfortunately, I know a lot of people reading this are trying to answer this question right now. And others may BE the person who is unwilling to get treatment for their condition. This is a very common problem.

There are rational, logical reasons a person might refuse care:

  1. They believe the “cure” is worse than the disease (for example, lifetime drugs for blood pressure or cancer treatment).
  2. They believe the “cure” won’t really work, and that no effective treatment exists (in many cases, this can be true).
  3. They believe that though there may be a solution to their problem, this solution will be so difficult, lengthy and expensive that it is impossible.

Sometimes there’s false or missing information that needs to be cleared up to get the person the help they need. Often however, they may be right about why they are refusing treatment!

If you want to help this person, there is one approach that may work… to help them agree to get help as well as to successfully resolve their problem: Participatory Medicine.

Participatory Medicine takes the approach that a patient is ultimately responsible for their own heath, and that in most cases of chronic health problems (not emergencies) the patient has a much greater power to assist their own healing than to rely entirely on traditional medical treatment to “fix” their condition.

Let me rephrase this more clearly: Done correctly and with the right technology, a person can successfully recover from many conditions that might otherwise be very unlikely. People who refuse medical treatment may be able to happily recover their health— by doing much of the therapy themselves.

An EvecticsSM therapy program uses this approach. A patient is educated to do as much as possible to relieve stress on the areas causing their problems, while at the same time I utilize a powerful program of natural therapy developed individually from testing and labs.  For over 20 years I’ve seen this system routinely help people who had all but given up on solving their health problems.

What’s the first thing to do?

If you’d like to help a friend or family member with a health problem, the first step would be to test them and find out what is causing their body to malfunction.

To get started, they can:

  1. Call us at 770-612-1100 to make an appointment. Tell them to mention your name to receive a large discount on their initial visits.
  2. Request an appointment on our website: AlternativeHealthAtlanta.com
  3. Take an online test, submit it and receive a free phone consultation with a doctor on their test results. After this, they can schedule an appointment to get tested.
  4. Come with you to an appointment! Just bring them in with you to meet us, get some information and decide how to proceed. Just give us a head’s up so we make sure to have a little extra time to talk with your friend.

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What the BLEEP Should I Do?

More or Less DifficultWhat the BLEEP Should I Do?

“I have health issues, and I need to improve how my body works. Nothing I have tried has really solved this. What the BLEEP should I do?”

You may have severe and long-term health problems,

OR

several problems that annoy you occasionally,

OR

one single health issue that you just keep tripping over.

Whatever the situation, if you are very interested in how you could get your body to recover from a health problem you have, here are some facts that you very much should know:

  1. Bodies are well-designed and extremely tough. If you have managed to break yours, it took a lot of stress to do this and usually over a long period of time.
    Symptoms are the final stage of your body’s system of dealing with stress or damage. Your body is designed to keep you alive. Back in prehistoric times, having a distracting symptom from a health problem would get you eaten by something hungry. Thus, your body was designed to HIDE symptoms as long as it possibly can. You can rock along happy and sassy, certain that you have no health problems (“and my doctor said my bloodwork is totally fine!”). This continues right up to the day your body runs out of ability to compensate for the stress. You wake up with your brand-new symptom and think it all started that morning (you might think, “What did I eat last night that made this happen?”). Not so. This symptom may have been developing for the last decade.
  2. Recovering from your health problem (the one that “just started” but has actually been invisibly getting worse for the past five or ten years) requires a lot more accuracy of testing and organization of treatment than you may realize.
    Because our current health care system aims mainly at symptom suppression, we have become accustomed to rapid relief. But the job of helping your body handle the cause of its problem and fully heal from long-term damage takes much more time, as well as accuracy of testing and understanding of solutions.
  3. Modern medicine, sanitation and food availability have made it much easier to survive on Earth over the past century.
    Over the same period, environmental toxicity, drugs, the de-nutritionization of food and an insanely stressful lifestyle have destroyed the quality of this longer lifespan. Yes, we may live longer, but most of us are pretty messed up physically.
  4. Getting really, stably healthy and staying that way does not happen without a very organized and well-executed long-term plan.
    There are too many factors dragging your health down daily to expect to stay healthy without a plan, much less to recover if your health is already damaged.
    If I sound too pessimistic, please look around you. You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone without some type of chronic health problem. We have just become so used to this that we don’t find it remarkable or upsetting.

What to Do About It

EvecticsEvecticsSM is a systematic approach to solving health problems using exact combinations of natural therapies.

The goal of an EvecticsSM therapy program is to enable you to take control of your health and to be healthy in toxic and stressful world.

  • EvecticsSMcan help you to recover your health to a good condition if you have problems.
  • Once recovered, you will learn how to keep your body healthy. This is different for everyone as it depends on your genetics, history and existing damage.
  • Once you have learned the specific dietary and lifestyle habits you need to stay healthy, an EvecticsSMWellness Therapy Program will help you to avoid future problems:
    • Occasional testing to find developing health problems before a symptom develops and taking action to help your body recover.
    • Rapid response to any illness or injury to prevent any long-term problems.

How to Get Started!

I have developed a very efficient way to test a patient and develop an individualized health improvement program. It’s called an EvecticsSM Evaluation.

Call 770.612.1100 to make an appointment for your Evaluation. This consists of two hour-long visits which can be scheduled on two consecutive days in many cases.

OR

Visit our website, AlternativeHealthAtlanta.com and click the “New Patients” menu button.

If you have questions or need information, please call Catherine, our New Patient Consultant at 770.612.1100. She has 10 years of experience with EvecticsSM therapy programs and can answer your questions.

The sooner you start taking effective action to improve your health, the sooner you can get your life back!

I look forward to helping you,

Dr. Melodie Billiot

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It’s None of your Business. Except that it really has to be!

It is not your business 

 

 

 

 

 

You almost certainly have an acquaintance that is suffering to some degree every single day because they have bought into a lie.

  • Your coworker suffers from depression that they are sure is from a brain chemical imbalance (the drugs they tried were worse than the depression, so they are “just living with it”).
  • Your best friend has fibroids and is starting to think seriously about a hysterectomy (their doctor says there is no other solution).
  • Your sister is barely making it because she’s so tired and wiped out all the time (at her last physical her doctor told her she was completely healthy).

If your friend had great energy and a healthy, happy body:

What more could this person accomplish their life?

How much happier could they be?

How much more effective could your friend be in helping the people he or she loves?

Could your friend develop the energy, creativity and courage to make the changes to their life that they have only dreamed about?

If your friend has a health problem that is not resolving with medical treatment:

How much damage to their life potential and quality of life could result?

Are they likely to be put on one drug after another in an effort to control their symptoms?

Could some of these drugs have mental side effects such as anxiety, memory and concentration problems that could significantly affect their life?

How much wasted time, creativity and enjoyment of life will be lost to them as a direct result of this health problem?


 

THE END (or, “What you can do about it”)

Why is this your business?

Because you have the knowledge to help.

By telling your acquaintance about us and helping them to make the decision to get an EvecticsSM Evaluation, you may very well change the course of their lives for the better.

OUR PURPOSE:

To provide the appropriate application of EvecticsSM technology for anyone who is dissatisfied with or getting poor results from traditional medical treatment.

EvecticsSM is the technology of utilizing life energy and intelligence to restore health.

Very limited number of appointments are available, so please talk to your friends without delay.

Thank you for your help and support!

Dr. Melodie Billiot

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