Q: I wanted to respond to one of the email newsletters I received from you back in September.  First of all, I love the newsletters, and I think you are doing great work – thank you!

In your newsletter, you advocated for the supplementation of Vit D – an excellent recommendation, since we are all pretty much deficient in this vitamin.  However, you also recommended getting a blood test done to confirm whether levels of Vit D fall within normal limits.  This concerns me, as I know for a fact that blood labs alone are not reliable…for example, blood work may show Vit D levels (or anything else for that matter) to be within normal limits, when in fact the source of the problem may be the absorption of available Vitamin D. 

The best indicator of a deficiency, therefore, is not a blood test…but how the patient actually feels, and if they are showing signs and symptoms of a deficiency.  This is the only reliable indicator, and this fact should be stressed.   To say that a person should rely o...

Q: Should my toddler take the probiotic that I ordered for me?  The infant one says for kids up to two years old, but she is 3 and a half.   With the powder, do i just mix it in with my food or a drink?  I was a little confused.

A: Your toddler can take the ProBiota 12. It is what I give my boys who are above 2 yrs old.

Give them less than your dose – give about 1/8th teaspoon for her to a 1/4 teaspoon of ProBiota 12 Powder. You can give the ProBiota powders directly to the mouth. No need to mix in food or water. You may mix in food or drink but no need as the ProBiota tastes good.
 

In health,

Dr Ben
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Many ask us this question and amazingly many patients I see are not getting enough protein - especially in the morning.

Not eating protein in the morning is like not starting your car before you drive away. It will simply roll down the hill a bit with momentum, be very hard to steer and then stop.

How Much Protein Does An Average Joe Need?
Do this simple calculation:

1. Take your weight.
2. Divide it by 2.2 (to get it into Kilograms).
3. Then multiply it by 0.8 grams.
4. Voila - that number is how much protein an average person needs in a day.

Example:
I weigh 195 pounds. So I take 195 pounds/2.2 and that gives me 88.6 kilograms. Then I take 88.6 kg and multiply by 0.8 grams of protein and get: 71 grams of protein a day is my required intake.

How much protein to eat with each meal?
Breakfast is most important, then some for lunch and a decent amount for dinner.

Eat about 40% of your daily protein requirement for breakfast.
Eat about 30% of your daily protein requirement for lunch.
Eat about 3...

1. Take your weight.
2. Divide it by 2.2 (to get it into Kilograms).
3. Then multiply it by 0.8 grams.
4. Voila - that number is how much protein an average person needs in a day.

From generation to generation we go.

We've seen the photos of our grandparents, our folks when they were young [hard to visualize my dad in 2nd grade], and we've heard the great flood of 19whatever.

What we didn't hear is silently bioaccumulating in all of us....from the dawn of our first generation to the present one.

How?

From maternal blood.

What?

The latest analysis of newborn babies shows they are born with an average of 200+ chemicals found in their umbilical cord blood.

Not a great start.

The good news is that many, if not all, can be removed by trained environmental medicine docs.

An informative report by the Environmental Working Group is entitled, Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns.

I highly recommend you at least scan it.

Take a moment. Learn and understand where we are currently in the world.

One step further is the report on adults: Body Burden: The Pollution in People.

This report was the initator to get the Center for Disease Control [CDC] to do "the most extensive assessme...