Q: Dr. Wong I'm taking the cream of tartar because of candida problem for 4 days alrady. I still have watery diarrhoea. How long does it take to stop? I found on the internet that cram of tartar is dengerous for the liver. Is that truth.? the pH of my salive went down from 6.75 to 6.5 Is that normal?Should I stick to the program regardless of my diarrhoea?
Sincerely: Robert

A: The amount of cream of tartar taken during anti candida therapy is no more than is had with fish, if it were truly dangerous it would not be a food. The loudest critics of Dr. Revis's therapy are the folks who's supplements and long drawn out ineffective programs are endangered by the use of a simple principle that no lining thing can exist when bathed in its own waste. Cream of tartar is a waste product of grapes making wine as alcohol is a like waste product of the same process. Both kill the yeast when adequate levels are had. Alcohol can likewise be toxic to the liver but at what dosages and taken for how long?

The runs had indicate a very fast yeast die off. Cut back on your intake of cream of tartar to just shy of having the runs. This only needs to be taken for a month along with the pro and prebiotics I spoke of.

Q: Hepatitis C cures? Any out there?

A: Don't know of any Hep C cures. Using Valtrex and Vitalzym concurrently works super well to lover viral load.

Q: I have Lyme Disease. What can help me to combat all the co-infections I also have with it?

A: On the Lymes please read the attachment to this email.

I have just finished reading your "Care and Feeding of A Penis" book, and I must say it has left me a little confused. On the one hand, you indicate that one should read Dr. Shippen's "Testosterone Syndrome"; however while Dr. Shippen touts the BENEFITS of soy, you are staunchly against it. Hence, my confusion.

Thank you.

Elliott, P.

A: Howdy:

Bruce Lee taught "Absorb what is useful, discard the rest". I am not one to throw the baby out with the bath water. Dr. Shippen's book is immensely useful even if dated; (he wrote his book in the late 1990's before the bad news about soy had fully come to light). It is likely he was not aware of the research and clinical findings Dr. Rapp wrote about. The news on soy is bad and getting worse. Just this week a large study was unveiled showing that the testosterone level in all men regardless of age has dropped 20% in just 20 years! Couple that with the precipitous drop in male fertility and the news is nothing but bad. It is the infiltration of soy into nearly every prepared food product and in open consumption that is the reason.

 

Thank you,

Steve R.

A: Hi Steve:

There are no formal articles on the feminization of men and boys that I can point to. Such studies would be highly politically incorrect as gender identification is now supposed to be a choice and not a biological imperative. (What ever happened to freedom of thought)? But we can look to the book by Dr. Doris Rapp "Is This Your Child's World" published by Bantam. She speaks to the effects of xeno estrogen's (which include soy) on the development of kids and the fertility of men. She may have more in her new book "Is this Your Toxic World". www.drrapp.com.

We can point to the new study that has found that across the board men at all ages have less testosterone then men at the same ages a short 20 years ago. (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Nutrition, Jan 2007). We can point to plummeting sperm counts from the 1960's where it took 100,000 sperm per ml to be declared fertile to now where men are struggling to attain what is considered the new level of fertility at 20,000 sperm per ml. (I believe the reference for this is in my article the Zardoz Effect at www.drwong.us). We can also point to the lower number of boys making it to college and the higher number of boys put on Ritalin to "control" the behavior that a good spanking used to keep a lid on with out burning out a kids brains on drugs. What use will a child be to himself or the world after a decade or more of amphetamine use? This creates a whole new class of folks for paternalistic government to care for!

Looking at the soy in the food, looking at the new fashion disease of "Man orexia" where men are anorexic, looking at the denigration of the image of strong, intelligent, independent men in the popular media, all this along with the whimpifcation of men by their teachers, pop culture and both the feminist and homosexual agendas makes you wonder if in 50 years we'll any males with any testosterone at all.

Thank you for your time Doctor. Yours truly,

Karl P.

A: Let's take you last question first avoiding T decrease from intense training. To answer this we'll turn to old timer Bill Pearl, workouts should take no longer than 1 1/2 hours. If your training for strength even this is too long. Strength training does compound joint movements against heavy resistance for low reps and low sets. So all of the over training we see body builders do where they do 5 sets of 3 different pec exercises at 8 to 12 reps, none of that nonsense exists in strength training. Strength training does not train body parts as much as movements. Squats and deadlifts for the pelvis lumbars and lower extremity. No leg extension, no front shaping squats, no sissy squats - and no solo joint movements at all.

In that paragraph you also have the formula for hyperplasia vs hypertrophy, plywood vs water balloon. Low set, low reps, high resistance, compound joint movements.

In men over 35, just about any training will lower T levels and things need to be done to increase one's own T production such as: eating tablespoon fulls of Maca, engaging in intense sexual activity with a lover, increasing zinc and magnesium intake, taking in the herbs that help the body make more testosterone and dopamine such as are found in Dr. Mesko's Libido Lift. For guys over 45 it's likely that these techniques will still work to a point but in the over 40 crowd estrogen control needs to be intensively done and T is likely going to have to be medically replaced through injection, gels or implants as our own making it becomes more and more of an impossibility.

Howdy Karl:

To answer your question its a matter of what and for how long. What: elliptical gliders, rowing machines, wind sprints, stadium steps, Harvard Steps and recumbent cycles. Are relatively safe on the frame and joints. Next or How Long: no less than 7 min. no longer than 24 min. Interval work is best at 2 min. on and 1 to 2 min. off in sprinting style as this conditions the heart for shock (a cause of heart attacks) regular same paced long term cardio does not train the heart to take shock and that has been one of the downfalls of that type of training and besides heart inflammation and too low a cholesterol level (high cholesterol protects against inflammation) is one of the downfalls of regular long (over 24 min.) cardio training. Distance and endurance runners are very susceptible to heart attack, sprinters and milers are not. Next rule no more than 3 cardio sessions a week.

Q: I’m 58 and my doctor has prescribed a testosterone gel to increase my testosterone levels but my chiropractor and applied kinesiologist both tell me I don’t need it, that I’ll shut down my own production. My total testosterone level is in the 460’s and my free testosterone level is 6.

A: In this instance, I would have to agree with your doctor. You’re muscle testers must be putting themselves into the testing loop and coming up with wrong answers. This happens quite frequently though they’ll never admit it. Most all men hit andropause between 45 and 50. Either the testicles stop working, as the ovaries stop in women, or the pituitary stops making Lutinizing Hormone and this stops testosterone production. In the X’er generation it’s starting to happen at 35 due to the high soy they’ve been exposed to from birth. Hormone textbooks from the 1940’s spoke of andropause as a definite physiological event. That knowledge was lost sometime after that and it took until the 1990’s for medicine to once again admit that andropause actually occurs.

I go stark raving mad when I hear some nitwit doc who does not remember his physiology tell a 50+ year old he’s going to shut down his own production if he uses real testosterone. WHAT PRODUCTION!!! Free testosterone levels should be in the high two digit to three digit numbers such as 70 to 200 to actually have testosterone you can use! At your level of 6 you HAVE NO TESTOSTERONE regardless of what the total number is! Your muscle testers, laser testers, tofness lens testers etc. have all put themselves into the testing loop and given you their own thoughts and opinions as the answer to the questions they are asking of your body!

Q: One question, I am taking a testosterone cream from a script and Michele suggests that’s the way to go. However, my Dr. has expressed that he’d rather have my body trying to make testosterone.

A: Stay on your testosterone cream. After 50-55 the testes just shut down and it would take a divine act to resurrect them. No one has yet invented a testicle transplant but that would be neat!

Q: What low glycemic carbs do you eat? I have been eating EZEKIEL bread as somewhat a staple because of it being sprouted. Low and behold I discovered it also contained sprouted soybeans and am wondering how negative of an effect it may be having on me. Does the sprouting have any neutralizing effect on the soy?
Thanks

A: I don't pay much attention to glycemic index, minding the numbers and proportions of food is not a sustainable practice. There is just too much stuff in life to pay attention to than to count the nutrition we eat to the 'nth degree. I do keep my carbs down and my protein and fats up trying to keep to a mostly Paleolithic diet with the addition of eggs and milk.

Don't eat ezekiel bread as I try to avoid high concentrated carbs. 30 years ago I went to a mainly "good" bread diet for a spell to see what would happen. It did not feel good to my slow metabolic rate. Sprouting does nothing to reduce soy's estrogen level.

I am trying a testosterone patch -- less side effects than the gels.
I need to lower my Prolactin (high - 132), raise my free and general testerone.
I have fungused toenails too.
I am on 3 mg. of prednisone/daiy.
Cortef or a bio-identical cortisone to get off eventually? Remnant of Lupus therapy.
Thanks!
God Bless!
Just wanted to let you know about the HGH product above.

A: HGH stimulating products don't work worth a poop. We take HGH to have the pituitary make IGF 1 so why go the long way round the barn? Just take IGF 1, it's easily made from deer antler velvet IGF 1 Lipo Spray www.nowfoods.com. 3 to 5 squirts 3 times a day.

The T patch is good.
Dopamine is the antagonist to prolactin. The natural product Libido Lift helps top make a good deal of dopamine if you take 4 capsules 3 to 4 times a day. Barring that the drug parlodel is the medicine of choice to lower prolactin and stimulate dopamine production. It is save and works very well, you'll need your docs Rx.

Q: What is the best way to restore digestive function post surgery and post antibiotic therapy?

A: As for improving digestion I've found Inulin powder works to eliminate yeast and bad bacteria while providing a colonizing medium for the good bacteria. You can pay some very expensive prices for the inulin especially that made from artichoke hearts but all of the positive research from the Univ. of Leipzig on Inulin was done with the chicory inulin and the best and least expensive source for that is www.docsprefer.com. 3 teaspoons of the powder daily taken with 1 teaspoon of the worlds best good bacteria supplement Armoured Acidophilus™ (www.docsprefer.com). A very good digestive enzyme is the one from Michael's Naturopathic Programs. Dr. Michael did a very good job creating a digestive enzyme.

Q: Do proteolytic enzymes need to be enterically coated to be properly absorbed?

A: Enzymes only need to be enteric coated if they:

1. Are made or extracted using dated technology or,
2. Cannot be made resistant to acids and heat. This is especially true of the animal based enzymes which can survive only in a very narrow pH range.

The enzymes that can be produced by fermentation can be made acid resistant and heat tolerant as well as be made stronger in their enzymic action.

Q: I am very disappointed in the SSS tonic. It not only contains alcohol (12 %) but also contains sorbitol, a man made substance that remains in your body and apparently does not get flushed out! Here you are trying to help us flush out our body from toxins and you recommend this! It also contains sodium benzoate, a preservative that is not good for the human body to consume (besides it tastes bad), artificial flavors and saccharin sodium ...what is the equivalent salt/sodium content per dose?! Have you considered Floradix by Salus-Haus? At least it does NOT contain any of the above mentioned chemicals, is entirely natural, and has a lower dosage of iron per teaspoon. I have been using this as my iron supplement, however I though I would try your recommendation as I am anemic (my physician said I should not be walking - I was - when he first tested me), I have fibroids, which I am aggressively attacking with your recommended Vitalzym and complimentary supplements/salves routine, and bleed very heavily during menstruation. I would be interested in your opinion of Floradix and would like to know if there is an alternative high potency iron supplement WITHOUT all of the above referenced chemicals. Thank you.

A: Do you understand that your anemia will kill you faster that any of the additives you are trying to stay away from!

Your doc has told you the Flordix is not working (that's no surprise, the stuff is crap) and yet you are bashing the ONLY iron supplement that builds a woman's red blood cell count up in days instead of weeks or as you've discovered with your "pure and natural" Flordix, never! The SSS Tonic is the best and only (that I know of) nutritional supplement that will work to get rid of your anemia!

A: While there are a lot of suppositions about DHEA, the most definitive study dealing with the stuff was done by the late Dr. Sidney Golinsky, PhD Pharmacologist, Naturopath and OBGYN. He fed DHEA to male body builders in therapeutic dosages (not the tiny stuff sold in stores which does nothing), for long periods all the while doing a saliva hormone test on them every week to see how the DHEA was working. What he found was that the body has no innate "wisdom" that tells it what to convert DHEA to. The body will turn DHEA into what it can make with the lease effort and that is estrogen!

During the entire time of the study the men had ever increasing estrogen levels and ever increasing DHT levels while their testosterone levels actually decreased. Buy the end of the months the men were bitchy, moody (even moodier than body builders usually are and that's bad)! Some of them had PMS and were growing gynocomasty (breasts in men). If that's not enough to scare you then know this higher estrogen and DHT levels also swells prostates ann causes hair loss.

DHEA is several steps away from being testosterone. Remember that creating a hormone from a sterol is a process of whittling. The closer the sterol to what you want it to become the more likely it will whittle itself down in to that hormone.

As to tribulus. Buyer beware. There are two main forms of tribulus Romanian and Indian. The Romanian increases T production. The stuff from India increases Dopamine production. Testosterone and Dopamine are two of the 3 things necessary for libido and erections (Nitric Oxide being the third). These days there are many sources of weak tribulus on the market and one must be careful to know who has the best raw material supplier with assayed herbs so that the content of the active icariin is high. ALSO herbs always work better in synergistic combinations than solo. So just taking a tribulus supplement may not have the desired effects. Dr. Meskos's Libido LIft has both forms of tribulus in it as as well as other synergistic herbs to boost effectiveness. He choice herbs are very potent. I've found that with most men 4 capsules taken 3 times daily works well as a "manly tonic" for guys under 200 pounds. Men over 200 should take 4 caps 4 times daily.

I guess I’m also wondering if I need it since I’m taking Testosterone and Progesterone?

A: The Libido Lift is meant to be used as a general male tonic and not as a prep for sex like the Super X is. Most of the doses should be taken before the evening. INcreased kidney function is a good sign when it come to pro-sexual products. In Chinese medicine the sexual ability is governed by the Kidney meridian and increased action there means increased ability elsewhere.

Aside from helping the body to make T and P the Libido Lift provides one essential to sexual activity Dopamine. Sexual ability depends on 3 things:
Testosterone
Dopamine
Nitric Oxide

Q: I take it that the extracts of maca that you refer to are different than the powder.

A: The extracts of maca have two problems, even though they say they are 100x stronger than maca that is only true of certain components of the maca, it's completely missing others. God created maca as a complete synergistic package; take any of the components out and it does not work the same, as well or at all. If you had a car that you doubled the gas tank size on it but removed the engine oil and transmission fluid, what would having the extra fuel avail you?

Q: I've been taking Lauricidin for about a month! I just wondered if it can be dangerous to take for a long time. Is there anything I should watch re this??

A: We use the stuff, though I can't say we feel much different from its use. There seems to be no ill effects to use this long term. If the research is to be believed it helps fight off nasty germs and such but the best reason I can think for taking it is to feed out brains the fats the brain needs for its maintenance.

Q: My son was fed soy formula for the first few years of his life, as prescribed by his pediatrician. Is there anything I can do to reverse any possible effects? He is in great health. He seems a little too fearful compared to his brother. I wory about his testosterone levels.

A: I was just speaking on this with a concerned MD from California who is seeking to find out why he's gay and the rest of his brothers are not. The trans sexuals support groups have done everyone a good service at warning about the dangers of soy in sexual bi morphism. (See all the articles below mine at http://www.senselessplanet.com/soyhomo.htm).

If your son is below the age of 18 to 25 my advice would be to feed him Maca powder. This peruvian vegetable tastes like butterscotch, can be baked into cookies cakes and breads or eaten solo as a powder washed down with water or any beverage. It contains plant sterols that are precursors to testosterone and progesterone (progesterone protects T from converting into estrogen end keeps both T and E from becoming the dreaded DHT that causes hair loss and swollen prostates in older men). The maca also has DIM to block estrogen. In latin america it is used as a T booster, fertility booster and to fight estrogen. Dr. Lendon Smith also found that gay men are always low on serum sodium and calcium so I advice the dads of boys to let them snack on salty foods and drink as much milk as they may want.

In South America when a dad thinks his teenage son may not have the right "lean" the boy is often treated to a series of monthly testosterone injections. If done before full maturation (18 to 25) this seems to grow the missing piece of the anterior pituitary gay men lack and the Latin docs swear it works. Here it has been attempted with older gay men without success but the Latin docs say it has to be done while brain and glandular growth is still possible before full maturation.

Hope these ideas help.

Hello Dr. Wong,

I'm really enjoying my soy-filler-free co-Enzyme E! Thanks so much for researching that for us all!

My question is in regards to Neem oil as an alternative birth control method. They say that Neem oil does not cause hormonal changes. http://www.neemamerica.org/ailments-womens_health.html#R1 Have you looked
into Neem Oil? Do you have any comments?

Howdy Crystal:

A: Neem oil works by inducing the immune system to create inflammation in the womb and thus creating a miscarriage. This is technically an abortion and not what I would consider the prevention of conception. While I don't like allopathic methods of birth control there are no natural methods of birth control that to my mind actually work. The use of Estriol cream (the only marginally safe estrogen) might be used as a birth control pill or estradiol ring would if applied in the same way a birth control pill is taken. The only estriol cream I know of is from: http://www.libidoedgelabs.com/Estriol_Creme.shtml

Mind you this is only theory but it might work.

Q: Since Maca also increases Testosterone in women, won't that inhibit breast growth since testosterone inhibits breast growth? Please e-mail me as soon as possible. Thanks so much!!

A: Testosterone is needed by women for libido, muscle mass, bone mass, anti depression and mental drive. When testosterone goes down so do the rest, when it disappears at menopause the rest of the good benefits disappear with it.

I've never heard of testosterone working against breast size. In my personal experience all the "horniest" women I've ever known (gals with the highest libido showing a high testosterone level) were all big breasted women.

Q: I wanted to ask you a question, but first should pass along that, after my wife and I have been struggling with infertility issues, I got your latest e-book and started taking vitamin E, Zinc, L-Lysine, and LArgine, and some Maca. Now my wife is pregnant! Coinkydink or not, I don't care. Thank you! Anyway, my wife has recently followed my lead started taking Vitalzym.

My wife has had one miscarriage. Is it is a good idea or not for her to continue taking Vitalzym. I recall reading somewhere that miscarriages are an inflammatory response and that systemic enzymes might help? Your thoughts appreciated!

Keep up the good work!

Brinton Warren

A; Congratulations!!! Systemic enzymes prevent miscarriage. Please read my article "Increasing Fertility and Maintaining Pregnancy" at the article archive of www.drwong.us.

Q: Also, I am entering menopause and during sex my vaginal tissues tear and it's painful and dry. I use natural progesterone and it's not stopping it. Help!

A: On the vaginal dryness there are two ways to go, keep using the progesterone. And add one of the following Tri Methyl Glycine (TMG) 3000 mg daily or Arginine EE, at 2000 mg daily. (www.docsprefer.com). Either of these amino's usually reverses vaginal dryness in less than a week, to maintain results the supplement must be taken continuously.