Lotus Life - Melissa Soria

Aloha cherished Friends & Guests!

My name is Melissa, and I am excited to share a little of my story and how Dr. Purser’s passion for preventative care continues to improve my overall life and well being! I am a 33-year-old (Island girl at heart) living in the city. My loves include family, Leilani (my corgi/lab puppy), and the beach! I am a former Division 1 collegiate water polo athlete, coach, breast cancer survivor. I have worked in education for nine years after completing my master’s degree in Teaching & Learning. It wouldn’t surprise me if you think, “She doesn’t have any experience or background in the medical field.” But I believe my experience will be relate as they are real-life experiences.  I have extensive knowledge of experiences with doctors from sports injuries, life-threatening infections, and Stage 3 breast cancer. You will be able to read about my own journey and experience with what is discussed each week as my story unfolds and how truly amazing life can be when you get your mind and body balanced appropriately. Just like a lotus flower, we all continue to rise from the ‘mud’ of life, bloom in the dark, and continue to be vibrant and beautiful. Our paths may all be different, but we are all here to find ways to better our well being. There is so much advice to share and I look forward to sharing the wealth of knowledge Dr. Purser’s research. He truly is compassionate and vested to help us all live a long, cheerful, healthy, and vibrant life. I invite you to follow along each week to see what new healthy lifestyle changes you can incorporate into your life.

Glutathione, is it the cure all? I’m not sure about that, but I do know that the antioxidant benefits of ensuring you have enough glutathione in your system will help prevent many symptoms. NIH (National Institution of Health) still doesn’t know if it should be classified as a hormone, vitamin, or supplement. For now, it is considered a vitamin/supplement. I’ve been raving about glutathione and how amazing it is, and it surprised me to have a reaction from Rebekah Thompson as she loves it as well! I was able to visit with Rebekah and I want to share a little of what she told me.

She is currently going to school to be a Certified Clinical Herbalist she has a strong passion for the realm of holistic healing, Shamanic Traditions and Native healing. She first heard about glutathione when she was working for a chiropractor who had a herbalist and would advise every patient, “Take this forever!”. Rebekah uses glutathione everyday and said, “My body likes it, it helps support tissue regeneration, repairing body matrix, and helps with the root of a lot of other symptoms.”

I was able to share my own experiences about glutathione and why I started to take it. The intense cancer treatments completely destroyed my body, I didn’t feel like me anymore. Glutathione has been helping me to recover to former self and is healing the neuropathy in my feet and legs (one of my biggest hardships). Being an athlete and experiencing the depletion of my body through chemotherapy was the hardest physical, mental and emotional set back I have gone through. Not being able to move around and be as active as I once was left me feeling depressed and feeling unattractive. Adding glutathione into my regimen accelerated my healing process. No one would ever guess a year after treatment I ever went through cancer. I like to refer to glutathione as our family’s ‘Windex’ (I am a huge My Big Fat Greek Wedding fan). We use it for everything from a bug bites, illnesses, sunburns, to neuropathy.

As Rebekah mentioned there are many benefits of glutathione, in fact thousands of ways this vitamin/supplement helps heal and protect your body. You may have watched Dr. Dan Purser in one of his YouTube videos explaining what glutathione does including supporting the Immune System Functionality. Glutathione covers your white blood cells (resembling a porcupine or blow fish) and these spikes protect white blood cells from viruses trying to kill them off. Viruses such as HIV, Shingles, Herpes, Hepatitis that try to turn off your ability to reduce glutathione to its functional state in your body.

If that doesn’t help you start using glutathione everyday, understand how important and refreshing glutathione is. It helps remove and detox heavy metals, relieve burns (especially with summer time approaching!), improve neuropathy, reduce arthritis and osteoarthritis, stimulate anti-aging properties, reduce cell damage, lower cholesterol, protect heart. Glutathione also lowers the risk of stroke, coronary artery disease, kidney disease, and chronic renal failure. If one of these symptoms you would like to prevent, adding glutathione into your daily routine is going to have you glowing like the sun and have a rejuvenated spring in your step.

Keep smiling,

Melissa Soria

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A Few Insights From Dr. Dan Purser

Great Salt Lake 2015

If you’re like us, you want to know the stories behind the names. We went straight to the source, Dr. Dan Purser, for a little insight on his background. Here’s what Dr. Purser had to tell us about some influential times and people in his life-

"I grew up in the countryside of Oklahoma and we only had three TV channels (in those days, we had an antenna, no cable), so I watched a lot of M*A*S*H. I know it’s not ideal to get your goals and aspirations from a sitcom, but I loved Hawkeye Pierce. He slept by the really sick patient’s bedside and bent rules to help the patient! He cared deeply for the patient and was not on autopilot. I loved his example and it has been my practice now for decades.

I struggled with the unwritten, silly, inane rules of medicine doing what the government, pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA tell us to do. I despise insurance as their advice and rules for patient care are 50% self-serving and detrimental for patients. No thank you."

Thanks, Dr. Purser, for these insights. We look forward to hearing more in the coming months!

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New Products Coming!

Just Some HUGE ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Four NEW or super IMPROVED PRODUCTS!

Our incredible improved all natural VARS MINT BURST LIPOSOMAL GLUTATHIONE — works great and tastes AMAZING! Available this week...

Our new MTHFR SUPPORT PLUS is almost (nothing’s perfect— right?) for A1298C MTHFR or Compound Heterozygous MTHFR. This contains FOLINIC ACID and not the Quatrafolate that the C677T errors need. Great stuff. Try the PLUS with the MTHFR SUPPORT.

MTHFR SUPPORT is available now from us with our Physician Designed label (me). Try it if you have MTHFR — BEST BASE product out there for MTHFR especially the C677T error. Super good (but start low go slow).

More METALLOTHIONEIN SUPPORT for those who suffer from metal toxicity or fibromyalgia. Supports your copper levels (and other metals) and makes them normal. Don’t believe? Try it — again start low and go slow but build up to 4-5 a day and see what happens. Ask others who take it.

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Success Stories (Videos)

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Is a Vitamin Deficiency the Root Cause of Your Problems?

I have several #1 books on Amazon™ bringing new patients into my practice as I use a step-wise approach. What do I mean by ‘step-wise’? I recently attended an education conference on testosterone pellets and their surgical placement since we occasionally use them with certain patients.

This conference was interesting because vendors were selling pellets from various pharmacies and to them everyone needed pellets. After a while I just started to chuckle and tell my partner, Dr. Kimball Crofts, that when you’re selling hammers, everything’s a nail.

The How to cross a river test

I once took a test on intelligence and they asked us to come up with ways to cross a river. I came up with 54. The average person came up with 14. For some reason I had the highest number – which surprised me. The professor explained that is showed brain flexibility and intelligence.

But now I watch my fellow physician’s thought processes becoming seemingly calcified and robotic. Honestly, they are as smart as me, if not smarter, but they are so swamped and overwhelmed they don’t have the luxury of time and patience that I do to look for root causes. I can, and do, take hours to look at each patient and consider what’s really happening with each patient.

In addition to more time, I am not at the mercy of insurance company rules and policies. The constraints of my Utah medical license and my own internal ethics control what I do (and my patient’s willingness to spend on tests) allow me to dig a little deeper.

How do men find a vitamin deficiency

I love looking at SpectraCell™ Comprehensive Nutritional panels to gather more data – to tell me if a vitamin deficiency can be a root cause. Numerous men come in with low testosterone and I ask them, “Why do you have low testosterone?”

They always look surprised, then I see a light dawn in their eyes. No one’s tried to figure this out or asked this question of them or for them before. Generally, I take a one- or two-hour long history, then check labs.

If a clear cause for their low testosterone (Hypogonadism) does not become apparent from their lab results or history, I suggest a SpectraCell™ Nutritional panel. It is not cheap and takes 3-4 weeks to get results back, but it is well worth it.

A number of young men with terrible SpectraCell™ results (significant vitamin deficiencies) came into my practice. The vitamin deficiencies ended up being the cause of their low testosterone. I took them off of their testosterone injections and their levels recovered naturally.

I see this with really bad osteoporosis cases (both male and female), too. If this isn’t dealt with appropriately, their osteoporosis will never go away. Patients think this is miraculous because usually a lot of doctors have tried to help them to no avail.

If in doubt, order a SpectraCell™ Comprehensive Nutritional panel as it could answer your questions.

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Key Probiotics Reviews

Life Extension® Florassist™ Throat Health

Every once in a while I run across a product that just makes me go, “Why didn’t I think of that?” This is one of those products. With over 200 products in development or in manufacturing this year, we’re certainly always looking for more and better. This is certainly an innovative hot idea.

Use this probiotic if you think you’re having a sore throat or feel an infection coming on. The good bacteria battles the bad and hopefully the good wins, crushing the competition in your throat!

I love Life Extension products because they tend to use validated products for the base. Validated means the studies are approved by the FDA to the point that they can be openly discussed, printed, written, or advertised (Life Extension® does this very well and meets all FTC requirements).

Below is the Product Description from Life Extension

FLORASSIST Throat Health is an oral probiotic that provides novel beneficial bacteria to colonize the throat and control harmful, unwanted bacteria. Just one lozenge of FLORASSIST Throat Health contains 20 mg of BLIS K12, a proprietary oral probiotic known as S. salivarius K12, which delivers 2 billion colony-forming units.

These organisms survive naturally in the throat, helping to ease inflammation and inhibit the damage caused by unfavorable organisms that may originate there. FLORASSIST Throat Health-naturally flavored with spearmint and cherry-can significantly protect throat health, ease inflammation, and help maintain good health.

Because this strain acts locally in the throat, S. salivarius K12 produces none of the problems related to systemic side effects.
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Top 10 Steps You Can Take to Prevent Breast Cancer Today!

Do you have family history of breast cancer, but are BRCA Negative? Here are some tips tricks that reduce risk:

1. Take CoQ10 supplementation -- ubiquinol 200mg/day

2. Take Vitamin D3 5,000 iu/day -- get level to 90-104

3. Take fish oil 2500 mg/day

4. Lose weight!

5. Exercise regularly 1-4-7

6. Stop smoking

7. Increase your natural progesterone levels above 20 ng/ml -- take compounded RDT at night

8. Take iodine supplement

9. Stop BCPs or Depo-Provera -- use abstinence vs condom vs foam vs copper IUD

10. Check your intracellular Zinc and Selenium levels. While you're at it, check your TSH, FT3, and FT4 levels to make sure they’re all good

BONUS TIPS:

• Optimize thyroid (FT3 & FT4) level

• Take low dose metformin 50 mg/day

• Take simvastatin or Crestor

• Check your MTHFR and COMT genetic status

For my #1 bestselling book on this subject click below:

The Breast Cancer Patient's Survival Guide: Amazing Medical Strategies for Winning

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Low Testosterone and Vitamin Deficiencies

Men, want to know the #1 secret to good sex as we age? Nutrition consiting of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. This covers a lot of ground, but let’s shorten that distance.

I see hundreds of men in my practice every year for Hypogonadism (medically low testosterone) with a serum total testosterone level below 400 ng/dl (very severe) creating severe fatigue. Hard to have sex, or even to consider performing, if you are exhausted!

Assuming you have no trauma (pituitary, heart, testicles, or penis) and you are noticeably exhausted after sex, or too tired to get going, then it probably is your nutritional status. Figuring this out is not as complicated as it sounds.

In our practice, we perform a test called a Spectracell™ Comprehensive Micronutrient Panel that looks at 39 different vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. However, Spectracell goes a step further as it looks inside your cells and gives us intracellular levels. The test is FDA- and HHS-approved and uses its own normative values making it an excellent test to use in research in the office.

Below is a severe case, but you can see the problems:

YOU CANNOT MAKE TESTOSTERONE WITH THESE VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES IN PLACE!

MAJOR DEFICIENCIES

• Glutathione Vitamin B12

• Vitamin B1 or Thiamin

• Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin

• Coq10 or UBIQUINOL

• Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA)

• Vitamin E (α-tocopherol)

BORDERLINE DEFICIENCIES

• Chromium

• Serine

• Glutamine

• Vitamin B6

• Pantothenate

• Biotin

• Immunidex® (just a general measurement ion immune vitamins and immunity)

This is also one of those results that I call ‘footprints in the snow’ because the B12 deficiency, thiamin deficiency, riboflavin deficiency and the CoQ10 deficiency are all critical to causing low testosterone or hypogonadism. Also, this would cause low sperm count and loss of libido. Any of these vitamins alone can cause the feeling of exhaustion, especially CoQ10 (ubiquinol).

You have to carefully replace these (though some patients start feeling improvement immediately) as sometimes it can take 90 days to really get intracellular and 180-240 days for a big difference in testosterone levels.

SO BE PATIENT WITH LOW TESTOSTERONE AND VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES!

I like Qunol® (100 mg) at 2-5 a day while you have this deficit.

B12 – use a methylated B12 (methylcobalamin) at 5,000 mcg a day. Sublingual or shots work best.

Thiamin (Vitamin B1) at 100 mg a day works well at two per day for at least 180 days.

Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) at 100 mg twice day for 180 days.

ALA or Alpha Lipoic Acid is a major antioxidant mostly required by glutathione to function. 200-250 mg twice a day is appropriate for this patient for at least six months.

Vitamin E needs to be down too.

I also dealt with all of the borderline deficiencies for at least six months but he had bigger problems (see next section).

FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW LED TO MTHFR DIAGNOSIS

This gentleman ended up having MTHFR, which is a genetic illness that causes low energy, depression, fatigue, low testosterone and many other problems.

Check out my bestselling book, The 85% Solution: MTHFR is Overpowering Our Medical System - Chance Are You Have it Too… This book and MTHFR errors can explain a lot if you think or know you have it. Majority of these men and women will have low testosterone levels along with other hormone deficiencies too. However, with proper vitamin replacement therapy many can get almost complete normalcy in their testosterone levels given time and appropriate nutritional status despite these genetic errors.

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Top 12 Steps You Can Take to Prevent Colon Cancer Today!

Below are steps you can do right away that are under your control to prevent colon cancer:

1. Have a free FOBT from state cancer society

2. Have a colonoscopy performed

3. Eat more fiber

4. Eat less red meat

5. Eat less barbecued red meat

6. Eat your veggies

7. Take CoQ10 supplementation

8. Take Vitamin D3 5,000 iu/day

9. Take fish oil 2500 mg/day

10. Lose weight!

11. Exercise regularly 1-4-7

12. Stop smoking

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Life Extension® Neuro-Mag® (Magnesium L-Threonate) Product Review

My patient population is aging and concerned about memory loss. They are in a constant state of wonder about how to prevent those issues, and I have recently found an answer. Magnesium L-Threonate. It crosses the blood brain barrier and improves memory in a natural way. Magnesium L-Threonate is available today for everyone, young and old, who wants to be sharp, clear, and focused. I was looking into research on magnesium and the brain, when I ran into the MIT study published in 2010 showing Magnesium L-Threonate is the only form of magnesium to cross the blood-brain barrier and show observable improvements in cognitive measures.*

However, please kindly note that at the moment there simply lacks substantiated evidence demonstrating whether or not Magnesium L-Threonate is in fact superior to other Magnesium compounds. If further studies are conducted and conclusively demonstrate that Magnesium L-Threonate is indeed superior in any respect, then I will most certainly adjust my perspective on the compound accordingly.

Magnesium L-Threonate is a unique form of magnesium. Magnesium L-threonate is simply a form of magnesium ions chelated to a fairly simple organic molecule, threonine, a metabolite of vitamin C. Magnesium L-Threonate is not a stool-softener and does not act as a laxative. Plus, Magnesium L-Threonate is free from any genetically engineered (GE) ingredients and is non-GMO. Magnesium L-Threonate has a great uptake into the brain and has increased cognitive effects compared to more common forms of magnesium supplements like magnesium citrate. Magnesium L-Threonate is one of the three forms of magnesium chelates in Natural Stacks highly effective nootropic supplement. The results, published in 2010 in the very prestigious journal, Neuron, clearly show only Magnesium L-Threonate is able to increase brain magnesium levels.*

Magnesium L-Threonate is a new form of this element, which is derived from L-Threonic acid. Overall, the MagTech with Magnesium L-Threonate is a high quality optimal magnesium complex. The primary benefit of Magnesium L-Threonate is an improvement in memory. Magnesium L-Threonate is for enhanced cognitive function so, in the nootropic world, Magnesium L-Threonate is considered one of the essential components due to its influence and maintenance of proper nerve and muscle functions as well as the metabolism of glucose for energy.

A popular supplement that may be stacked with Magnesium L-Threonate is Calcium. Magnesium L-Threonate is the only form of magnesium proven in animal studies to cross the blood-brain barrier. Since Magnesium L-Threonate is naturally calming you might notice it can cause relaxation but this depends on the amount taken. Magnesium Glycinate is a very good choice for muscle cramps and ‘charlie horses’, but some of us may find that Magnesium L-Threonate is the best choice for brain ‘muscle’ health.

I suggest trying Neuro-Mag® from Life Extension® as the best option for this form of magnesium and to improve brain health. There will be more articles to come on brain health.

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References

1. *Slutsky I, Abumaria N, Wu LJ, et al. Enhancement of learning and memory by elevating brain magnesium. Neuron. 2010 Jan 28;65(2):165-77.

2. *Slutsky I, Abumaria N, Wu LJ, et al. Enhancement of learning and memory by elevating brain magnesium. Neuron. 2010 Jan 28;65(2):165-77.