Woe Is You
Across the fruited plain–around the world, in fact–people drag their patooties through life, wondering why they’re so darned tired all the time.
And what caused their brains to become so uncooperative? Ideas flit through, but don’t land long enough to jot them down. Learning something new takes more effort. And remembering names? Yeah, right.
Then there’s the fire in the belly that has nothing to do with ambition, just pain.
Fact is, most of us have health problems that aren’t getting fixed.
And doctors seem to care more about writing prescriptions than taking time to figure out what’s really wrong.
We end up with a bunch of different medicines, none of which fix anything. Worse, they get in battles with each other, and our bodies become war casualties. Our bank accounts, too.
We need to talk about this because life doesn’t have to be this way.
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Medicine’s In Bad Shape
How bad is it? Nowadays, according to the American Medical Association, doctors are the third leading cause of death. Following doctor’s orders is as risky as sky-diving, for crying out loud.
Medical schools teach doctors they only have to listen to a few symptoms to pigeonhole a patient, order tests or write prescriptions–in almost no time.
Are they kidding? The human body is wa-a-ay more complicated than three symptoms and out. And most tests give questionable results, while the meds bump people off left and right–more than 100,000 a year in the U.S. alone at latest count. Sheesh!
Blind trust in doctors can ruin your health.
Especially since doctors, besides bad training, work under major constraints. If they stray from the three-symptoms-and-out, so-called “Standard of Care,” they can lose their medical license in a jiffy. Then how do they support their families and pay their enormous student loans?
Pharmaceutical companies, Big Pharma, and insurance companies call the shots in medicine. And it’s all about money, not health.
Medically, the deck is stacked against us.
Most Doctors Aren’t Allowed To Be Excellent
Fortunately, some are. Trauma surgeons, for instance, can be as excellent as they choose to be–and happily grab for that fine choice.
But most doctors are hemmed in by rules and regulations.
• Insurance companies tell them what tests they can run–and which are ‘medically unnecessary.’ Doctors need the answers, but they could end up in jail if they persist in ordering the tests. So they’re effectively blindfolded.
• ‘Standard of care’ sounds comforting: No matter what health issue attacks you, there’s a standard to insure excellent care. Well, no. Standard of care, the misbegotten offspring of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, is about protecting doctors from malpractice claims. A ‘medically necessary’ test or so, a prescription or two and Voila! no liability, regardless of the outcome.
• State Medical Boards are chock-a-block full of insurance and pharmaceutical company people. If doctors don’t do what the board says, they can lose their licenses. Fight the loss–and they watch their money and reputation disappear.
And Medicine Misleads Us
Medicine insists it provides “evidence-based” medicine Truth is, science backs up less than thirty percent of what medicine does. Most medical practice comes from tradition, guesswork or good ways to bring in money.
Did you know, for instance, that immunizations have no science behind them?
That five consecutive years of getting your annual flu shot doubles your risk of dementia?
And what immunizations do to our kids is criminal.
Also, did you know that cholesterol doesn’t cause heart disease, and that statins “work” by preventing the liver from doing what it was born to do?
And that osteoporosis drugs make your bones brittle and easier to break?
Drugs create more problems than solutions.
Doctors treat symptoms, not causes For example, doctors treat diabetes by trying to lower blood sugar levels. But your blood sugar is a symptom, not a cause. The cause is your pancreas, an endocrine organ, can’t get with the program. The solution is to find out why and fix it. Besides, artificially lowering blood sugar levels isn’t even close to the best idea anybody ever had.
And sometimes doctors fly blind Here’s just one example: Half of us–especially those older than 35–have low stomach acid. The tricky thing about that is the symptoms for low stomach acid are the same as for high stomach acid.
So when you tell the doctor you have heartburn and GERD, the doctor doesn’t know which you have, but here’s the kicker: Testing isn’t allowed because it’s ‘medically unnecessary.’
So you end up on the little purple antacid pill–which lowers your stomach acid further, a ticket to a large selection of disasters. Digestive chaos being just one of them. Leaky gut. Candida. Food sensitivities by the carload. All while your heartburn symptoms get worse!
But sometimes it’s about agenda The cause of heart disease is well known, but the fix is about diet and supplements, not prescriptions, which will never do as far as medicine is concerned.
And diet and nutritional supplements can fix endometriosis, too, but doctors only offer surgery–again and again. And they don’t even mention the vitamin that protects your brain from the anesthesia, either.
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Meanwhile, Your Body’s Talkin’ To Ya
• If you have bald patches on your legs, it’s not because your pants rubbed the hair off.
• Anybody who lost their sense of humor can probably find it again with one particular vitamin.
• Itchy ears indicate one problem, an itchy back another and an itchy rectum yet another.
• A constantly swollen tongue is probably just one common vitamin away from normal.
• Pain at the base of your thumbs announces a digestive problem.
• Cysts, anywhere, are shouting, “mineral deficiency, mineral deficiency.” But it’s a specific mineral that fixes cysts.
• And your fingernails are an encyclopedia of clues.
And You May Be Making Things Worse Every Day
• Following the government’s food pyramid invites disaster.
• Canned foods bring bad news; not necessarily the food, but the can.
• One common food additive makes for big time weight gain. And cancer really slurps it up, too.
• One food can cause kidney stones and grow breasts on men. And it’s everywhere, in just about everything.
• The wrong bread can deactivate your thyroid hormone–but in a way that tests don’t catch.
• Some widely used food additives cause brain damage.
• Vegetable oils are killers. They work slowly, but they sure get the job done.
“I fell for the high cholesterol worry & my doc put me on a statin w/o explaining the dangerous side effects. I just trusted. My liver freaked out & I ended up in the ER.”
Enough Problems, Bette! I Need Solutions!
Let me help you fight back! There’s a lot you can do to avoid disease–and not just the biggies, but even colds and the flu. That’s why I created my new program, Moving to Health. You will be amazed, astonished and agog to discover all that’s available for your good health.
Solutions come from knowledge.
So Moving to Health shares my more than thirty years of learning–thousands upon thousands of hours of research–with you. And I’m still researching every day so you don’t have to worry about getting outdated information.
You’ll discover natural ways to handle health problems, you’ll see ways to get to feeling better and you’ll understand what to do and what not to do for good health.
“You do a wonderful job! I’ve actually lost weight. I stay fuller and feel satisfied. I can’t imagine ever going back.”
My Story
Let me tell you how I began this adventure. A month before my first birthday, a drunk driver hit my parent’s car. I suffered a concussion, and my pituitary gland, king of the body’s universe, went south. But doctors said I was fine.
Doctors continued to say I was fine as my energy and health slipped away. For years.
One doctor announced my 70/40 blood pressure was caused by my desire to get married. (Funny thing about that is he made me late for a date with a guy who kept proposing while I kept saying ‘no.’)
Another doctor said my severe hypoglycemia came from having a father who was a minister.
Yet another (I kept looking) said my temperature, which ran between 94 and 95 degrees, was normal. Well, no.
Finally, I crashed and burned. A friend’s mother-in-law, an experienced and very skeptical nurse, recommended an amazing doctor who took me seriously and, after extensive testing, put a name to my problem: panhypopituitarism. Major problem. No known cure.
Then I moved across the country and ended up with “you’re fine” doctors once again.
And I realized it was up to me. My research started.
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So Now I Want To Share What I Know With You
Moving To Health: What you need to know to make the trip is a one-year program that explains how your body works, what blesses your body and what does it dirt. Things doctors won’t tell you, but you absolutely, positively need to know.
Fortunately, I’m not a doctor, so I’m not limited in the research I can follow. For instance, nobody can pull my license–because I don’t have one. I am free to go wherever good research leads.
And while I can’t prescribe medications, I can provide the information you need to move ahead with confidence. And the fact is, most meds don’t compare with all you can do for yourself.
Moving to Health starts with a discussion of your endocrine system. Now, you may think that has nothing to do with your health problems. Maybe the doctor even told you it didn’t.
But let me tell you for sure and for certain, if you’re dragging through life with half a brain and no energy, your thyroid’s in a world of hurt. And tests are as likely as not to tell you you’re fine.
And even if tests show you have a problem, you’ll still be dragging because the doctors’ preferred treatment doesn’t work.
And why is this important? A whacked out thyroid beats up on your liver, makes your gastro system sensitive to more and more foods, puts your gall bladder into the sludge-making business, throws all your hormones for a loop, ramps up your cholesterol, gives your brain the hiccups, drags down your energy, and on, and on, and on.
The endocrine system is the wheel in the middle of the wheel as far as your health is concerned–the hub for everything.
Did you know that breast and prostate cancer are endocrine problems? That irritable bowel syndrome is, too? And an even slightly flaky thyroid gland doubles your chance of heart disease?
Everything your body does or doesn’t do is tied to the endocrine system in some way.
So I start at the beginning, with things endocrine.
And I tell you about the nutrition your body needs–foods, vitamins, minerals, super foods, adaptogens, herbs, amino acids, etc. The food facts alone will will blow you away.
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I give the ins, the outs, the ups and the downs when I talk about nutrition. I don’t just throw out names. When I talk about, say, an amino acid, I tell the whole story so you have a factual basis for decisions.
For instance, I’ll talk about an amino that helps maintain muscles as you age and also pumps up your injection fraction. (If you don’t know what an ejection fraction is, remember to say “thank you” to God.).
I hardly ever see this amino mentioned for all it does, but it’s the real deal. As always, I give reasons to take it, reasons not to take it, guidelines on how much to take.
Then–this is huge–once you decide the description of the problem fits you, I give you a direct link to the specific product from a quality company, in the right form, at a great price. No more wandering up and down aisles or searching all over the internet trying to figure out what fits the criteria. And I get no money for these recommendations; they’re all about helping you.
Besides nutrition, you’ll also get information about the health enemies all around us. We’re under attack every day, and I’ll give you the ammunition to fight back.
For instance, did you know some baby bottles put estrogen in your baby’s body? Who gives a baby birth control pills? Who wants their child to reach puberty at seven? We need to know our enemies.
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Typical Moving To Health Topics
• The endocrine system, also known as the center of the universe
• Digestion problems
• The estrogen dominance disaster
• Taming inflammation, a huge cause of disease
• Putting the brakes on aging
• Protecting our brains
• Weight loss
• The swinging of moods
• Natural heart care
• Achieving good energy levels
• Preventing cancer
• Dealing with candida
• Things you need to know about autism
• What they don’t tell us about diabetes
• A look at gall bladder problems
• Skin care
• Vision concerns
• Sleep
• Autoimmune problems: when your body fights itself
• Outside problems that whack our health
• Good foods vs bad foods
• Tinnitus, urine, gout, anxiety
• And more
See what I mean about the endocrine system being connected to just about everything? It’s either involved in causing a problem or taking it on the chin as a result of a problem, but you can count on it being in there somewhere.
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The Approach
Rather than dump a humongous book on you, Moving to Health comes in weekly installments that make it easy to digest the information. You get 52 weeks of in-depth information to improve your health and make your days brighter. And it’s all easy to understand and simple to do.
The step-at-a-time approach lets me take each part of the puzzle, explain how it works and show you how all the pieces fit together. So you can begin to read what your body’s telling you.
And each issue will include a question I’ve received, along with my answer. It helps to know that others are going through the same stuff you are, and you’re not some medical weirdo. Or a hypochondriac.
Plus, you get five Didja Knows, one-sentence health factoids, each week. Now this doesn’t sound very big time, but any one of them could be the clue you’ve been needing.
Besides the weekly articles, question and Didja knows, you get ten special reports and e-books, including Pep for the Pooped: Vitamins and Minerals Your Body Is Starving For. Pep for the Pooped’s nutritional information creates a foundation on which we can build. And since 70% of all deaths are caused by poor nutrition, this alone can save your life.
Pep for the Pooped customers give it rave reviews. Several e-mailed to say they had given up hope before they got Pep for the Pooped, but with the book’s guidance, good things are happening.
“Thank you for writing that brilliant book, Pep for the Pooped. It’s the best info I have found making me able to do something for myself. Love to be told what to take and when. Really see some changes. Fantastic. I’m very grateful that you share all you know.”
Unless you feel so terrific you can hardly stand it, you owe it to yourself to join Moving to Health and start doing just that–moving to health. Feeling energetic. Looking forward to the future. Remember that?
You get my 30+ years of research–backed by actual experience–in easy-to-understand weekly bites.
You get information to act on each step of the way.
And at the end of the program, Moving to Health becomes your reference material about a huge range of health issues–information about how to improve your health and avoid sickness.
You’ll be prepared to deal with future challenges.
And you can get this entire program to improve your health and restore your energy for only $37. a month for twelve months. Your health is worth a whole lot more than that.
I mean, what price would you put on having more energy? Increasing your defenses against cancer? Keeping your brain healthy? And on. And on. And on.
And I’m not talking about signing up for a lifetime. Just for a year. And you can unsubscribe anytime.
Moving to Health isn’t an expense, but an investment with a huge return: Good health.
What You Can Expect
A health education that gives you the knowledge you need to improve your health.
• An understanding of how your body works
• Information about what harms us–in diet and in everyday things in our lives
• Knowledge of the natural things that can restore our well-being–what, how and how much.
• Terminology we need to know. For instance, if you hear, say, about something that oxidizes the mitochondria, you’ll know it’s time for action, not for yawning. Some words you just need to know. Not enough to write a book, but enough to know when to pay attention.
• How to recognize false information–bogus studies, misleading articles, all kinds of nonsense crosses our paths, and we need to know it for what it is.
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To Recap
By joining Moving To Health: What You Need To Know To Make The Trip, you get:
• 52 weeks of specific, in-depth health information about how your body works, what it needs and what you should avoid. You probably don’t have time to dive deep into research, but now you don’t have to. It’s all served to you, silver-platter style, so you get to avoid the heavy lifting.
• Ten special reports and e-books–on health enemies, good foods, bad foods, vitamins and minerals, other powerful supplements, amazing adaptogens, amino acids, herbs, etc.
• All told, you’ll receive a special report or e-book about once a month–full of well-researched information to improve your health.
• Bette’s answers to real-life questions. Bette’s information is great; realizing you’re not alone in your mess is priceless.
• All for the small investment of $37. a month for 12 months
• Unsubscribe anytime
(One possible hiccup: If you unsubscribe, then resubscribe, the system starts you at week #1 again. It’s a computer thing.)
Medicine continues down a very deep slope. Unless you learn all you can do to help yourself, you’ll end up wondering what hit you. And who needs bad surprises like that?
Join Moving to Health and and get the knowledge you need to claim your right to better health. Our bodies are amazing self-healing machines if we know how to give them what they need.
Knowledge is power.
Thanks for your time and attention. I look forward to talking with you somewhere down the road.
God is good,
Bette Dowdell
(“Bette” has two syllables; “Dowdell” rhymes with cowbell)
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