Hello wonderful community!
I hope you’ve been feeling great and, with the holidays approaching, still putting your health first. This week’s newsletter is packed with answers to your questions — real questions from our TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube community — to help you stay balanced, energized, and inflammation-free.
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Here’s what we’re covering in this week’s questions:
Fasting & Inflammation: How to lower insulin resistance naturally
hs-CRP: What this test says about your body’s inflammation
Gut Repair: How to heal bloating, constipation, and fatigue
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Q: Hi Nurse Doza! I love your videos and podcasts! I have insulin resistance and inflammation. What can you do to get rid of inflammation and bring down the insulin? I have heard you talk about fasting in your videos but I’m afraid to go without eating for that long. I get a headache if I miss lunch. Can you teach me how to fast the right way? Thank you for helping us get healthier!
A: Nurse Doza: Fasting is an amazing tool to help people struggling with insulin resistance. 1 in 3 adults are insulin resistant which means they are just a few years away from becoming a diabetic. While this is happening (keep in mind it can take 10-15 years before a diagnosis of diabetes comes along), inflammation is building. Insulin resistance leads to inflammation throughout the body because there are insulin receptors everywhere. In the liver, arteries, ovaries, muscles, fat cells and even the brain. Insulin resistance means high levels of insulin being released and the goal in fasting is to bring down fasting glucose levels to help lower insulin levels.
Fasting can be done weekly, monthly or quarterly depending on the individual and their needs. I think fasting for 24hr-36hrs is the “sweet spot” for people to lower insulin resistance and start becoming insulin sensitive. I have heard that many different doctors use fasting on their patients to help fight diabetes, fatty liver and even obesity. I think fasting has the potential to lower our risk of dementia too. And with someone being diagnosed with dementia every 65 seconds, fasting needs to be discussed and considered by almost every single adult. Be sure to track your labs during your journey and keep in mind every fast will be different for you. Some fasts will make you tired but you should never feel like you cannot function. There’s a correct way to fast, and once you master this, not only will you live a life of less inflammation, you can also promote longevity. (Fasting is the only diet shown to extend lifespan!)
How to fast (to lower your insulin resistance and inflammation):
Goal: 24hr-36hrs
Eat healthy fat before & after fast
Drink lots of water during. Can drink black coffee or green tea (idea is to not stimulate digestion)
Can take supplements at beginning of fast
Can work out during fast (weight lifting is strongly encouraged)
It's ok to feel hungry and tired, but its not ok to not be able to function. Break your fast if this happens
Extra credit: watch our “insulin resistance” podcast
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Q: Hi Nurse Doza. I recently saw your video about the blood test hs-CRP and how when it’s high, it could mean inflammation. I have never had this test done but I can tell you, I live with inflammation everyday due to my fibromyalgia. Is this a test I need to ask my doctor to order? And what do I do if it’s high? Thank you!
A: Nurse Doza: Hs-CRP (high sensitivity C reactive protein) is a blood test that measures inflammation in the body. I order this for every client every year as this is a vital test that can provide insight to overall health. Most doctors can order this, but some don’t. The range for most hs-CRP labs cuts off at 8, but I prefer our clients below <1.0. Anything above 1.0 could mean low level inflammation, and hsCRP can go higher with acute inflammation (around 20-30).
Every dis-ease involves inflammation and even though hsCRP doesn’t always tell me where the inflammation is coming from, there are a few possibilities. Finding out the cause of elevated inflammation can provide us the information needed to get to the root cause and fix this.
Possible causes of high hs-CRP:
Insulin resistance
Liver inflammation
Autoimmune disorders
Gut inflammation
Heart disease
Early development of dementia /cognitive decline
7Lack of good sleep
Take a look at that list again and think about how our diet and lifestyle could be affecting our inflammation. Things like processed foods, late nights, stress and even previous infections can all lead to organ damage and inflammation. Cut back and modify what you can to start lowering inflammation entering the body. Then detox your liver, fix your gut and start taking vitamin D3 daily, until you see your hsCRP come down below 1.0. When it comes down, continue to maintain the healthy lifestyle that lowered your hsCRP and inflammation. This is known as an “anti inflammatory” lifestyle.
How to lower hsCRP and inflammation:
Detox the liver:
Start our LIVER BOOST (1-4x/day)
Fix the gut:
cut out inflammatory foods (dairy, bread, rice, pasta, canola oil, high fructose corn syrup, sodas and alcohol)
eat gut foods (sweet potatoes, beets, olives, garlic, apples, seaweed, flaxseed, sauerkraut, cacao, and even salmon.
Take Glutamime daily.
Fast (24hr-36hrs)
Take 5000 units of vitamin d3 as most people are deficient. This is ours.
Morning sunlight (10-20 mins daily)
Restful sleep: watch our “prioritize sleep” podcast
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Q: I need your help Nurse Doza! I have been listening to your podcast about foods for the liver and I need help. Everything I eat either bloats me, or causes me to run to the bathroom. I can go 3-4 days without pooping as well. Help! I feel miserable and overwhelmed. Where do I start? Will I ever be able to enjoy food again?
A: Nurse Doza: Yes you will. It will take some effort but it will be worth it.
Gut issues don’t always happen overnight. They can start the second we introduce processed foods into our diet, leading to such issues as acid reflux, leaky gut and constipation. Gut issues can even start after a c-section, as this procedure can alter the gut’s microbiome, our environment of healthy bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi. Repairing years of gut damage can be done, but the lifestyle must be changed to support this.
How to have healthy gut:
Stop eating processed foods like dairy, bread, rice, pasta, canola oil, high fructose corn syrup, sodas and alcohol. You can do this one at a time or all at once. It’s worth it and you will start to feel better almost immediately in some cases.
Eat more gut foods: sweet potatoes, beets, olives, garlic, apples, seaweed, flaxseed, sauerkraut, cacao, and even salmon.
Fast: 24hrs-36hrs. Each time you fast this long, you make new healthier gut cells.
Take L-glutamine powder (1-3 scoops with water on empty stomach). Try this first thing in the morning. Try this in between meals. Each time you take the glutamine, it helps “patch up” the holes found in leaky gut. (FYI: L-glutamine is our most abundant amino acid and the entire digestive lining is covered in glutamine.)
Extra credit: watch our “fix your gut in 5 steps” podcast
Your health journey doesn’t have to be confusing. Each of these steps — fasting, gut repair, and inflammation management — connects to the same goal: helping your body work the way it was designed to.
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To your health,
Nurse Doza
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