Well, big food has been buying off scientists now for a long time and we're starting to see evidence about this coming out in the news

Jesse Waters talked about it last week and then my friend Dr. Sherwood sent me an article talking about how the White House nutrition

Advisor has created a food compass that vilifies whole foods and promotes junk foods like Lucky Charms

is going to be a fascinating conversation with my friend Dr. Mark Sherwood stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

Well, welcome to the podcast today you guys. We have been for now several months my friend Dr. Mark and I talking about things that you guys are interested in when it comes to your health and fitness and goals. We talked about those last time he was here.

And I've invited him back on today because there are so many things happening in the news that really do affect our health directly and one of those things is what we eat right so we've talked with Dr. Mark before about the food pyramid and how it's backward and upside down now is it.

It's not only backward and upside down but I would say it was downright wicked. I asked Dr. Mark to come back on the show many of you will remember that Dr. Mark Sherwood is a natural pathic physician.

He lives in Oklahoma with his beautiful wife Michelle and they are running a functional medicine clinic there and I'm just thrilled to have him back on the show. Hey, my friend. Welcome.

Hey, welcome. It's good to see you. Happy New Year once again and I appreciate so much the audience interaction and some of the terrific amazing questions they've asked.

Yeah, it's a lot of fun to see the questions come in and I think I think it's given a lot of people hope that they don't have to feel sick and stuck and all the things so you want to jump right in.

Yes, absolutely. Let's do it.

All right, let's do it. So we have asked people to send questions and for those of you who are new to the show if you want to submit a question to Dr. Mark and myself, you can just go to Heidi St. John.

For it's such mailbox Monday and you can get your question in the queue. I want to start with Michelle in Maryland. Are you ready, Dr. Sherwood?

What are natural ways to clear excess estrogen from the body or to have the estrogen metabolized down the right pathways.

I tried D. I. M. and AC and didn't notice a difference. Are there any foods that help the body properly metabolize estrogen?

I've been told by a former practitioner that I have gut issues. I'm not sure if the gut issue, whatever that has not been disclosed is contributing to the estrogen dominance.

I eat a clean diet and I use clean products. I'm not sure what could be causing my estrogen to be out of whack.

Well, that is a question that's as we say loaded. There's a lot there.

First of all, let's understand that wherever the person is in life, they could be in the perimenopausal stage to where and what that means is about 15 years prior to the onset of menopause.

Ladies will begin to get lessened production of progesterone and testosterone and continued production of estradiol or estrogen.

What that means is you get this imbalance, which is sometimes referred to as estrogen dominance. You could flip it around and say, well, it's maybe testosterone deficiency. Same difference either way.

We also need to understand that estrogen in itself is not a bad thing, but there's a lot of estrogenate compounds in our world that can mimic estrogen and create this estrogen synthesis or directional platform.

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