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DID YOU KNOW that highly sweetened, flavored alcoholic drinks, often marketed in brightly colored portable containers, deserve greater attention because they combine concentrated alcohol exposure with substantial metabolic stress?

According to the World Health Organization, public health experts are seeing more and more patients where the problem is no longer alcohol or sugar, it’s both together. The liver is being punched twice, because alcohol is directly toxic to the liver, while at the same time contributing excess calories and metabolic stress.

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Steve: When it comes to keeping blood pressure in check, most of us have heard one message loud and clear: cut back on salt. But a new report in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition makes the case that the more powerful and often-overlooked lever is potassium - and that raising it deserves at least as much or more attention as trimming sodium.

High blood pressure affects more than 1.28 billion adults worldwide and is a leading driver of heart disease, yet potassium intake in most countries sits far below where it should be. The report's authors argue it's time to stop treating these two minerals as separate concerns and start recognizing how they work together in the body: bringing potassium up appears to help the whole system regulate blood pressure more effectively.

The good news is that boosting potassium is delicious and practical. Fruit and vegetables are among the richest sources. Potassium-based salt substitutes can help by replacing part of the sodium in ordinary salt. Supplementation can sometimes help as well. The bottom line is that the path to healthier blood pressure isn't only about taking something away. Filling your plate with potassium-rich foods is an active, positive step you can take starting at your next meal.

Steve has seen significant improvements in many of his autistic child-aged clients.

While every child's needs are different, there are similar issues that link many autistic children: gastrointestinal dysfunction and nutrient deficiency. Once these are corrected, it is easier for parents and caregivers to use the tools Steve gives them to work with their children to better their eating habits by expanding variety and accepting more textures.

For example, in one girl who was only stooling a few times weekly and exhibiting worsening behavior, once Steve corrected her GI function and fixed various nutrient deficiencies, the parents are now seeing so much better communication and a more stable mood. Moreover, they were able to completely eliminate her leucovorin.

Now of course, this takes extreme effort and patience from parents and caregviers because this is never an overnight process, but in the aforementioned case, the improvement was seen in just two months!

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MRKH or Mayer‑Rokitansky‑Küster‑Hauser syndrome, is a medical condition associated with being born without a uterus, known as Müllerian agenesis. This occurs in one out of every 4,500-5000 female births. I found out about this after watching an interview of a woman, who had not gotten her period as a teenager. After a series of blood tests and an ultrasound they discovered that she did not have a uterus. She did, however, have her fallopian tubes and ovaries. 

This diagnosis caused her deep concern, as in her religious upbringing she intended on meeting a man, getting married and starting a family in a few years time. The doctors gave her a few options for having children: adoption, use a surrogate or receive a Uterine Transplant, which she wasn’t aware was possible. A few years later she met the man that would become her husband and very early on informed him of her syndrome along with their options for having children. He was completely onboard, which created a deep sense of calm for her. 

After they got married they began looking for clinics that performed uterine transplants and were accepted into a clinic a few states away. They decided to move there to make the whole process easier. The organ donor would be deceased and that person’s family would need to give their permission for this transplant to occur. Once this woman received the call that a donor uterus was available, she underwent the surgical transplant procedure and it was successful. 

She had to go on many medications due to the rejection that occurs with transplants. Not long afterwards the doctors used her eggs and her husband’s sperm to do in-vitro fertilization. It took and her healthy baby girl was born 9 months later. She will attempt another pregnancy and hopefully have a second child. After that the doctors will take out the uterus as they want her off all of the medications in order to live a healthy life.

I was moved by the experience that this woman had. Quite the testament of how amazing our body's are and what is possible beyond our wildest dreams. 

Dr. Liselotte Schuster is a Holistic Family Chiropractor and has been in practice with Nutritional Concepts since 1989. She uses a variety of techniques, including low level laser, to help patients reach their full potential. Contact Dr. Schuster at (847) 509-9067 or drliloschuster@sbcglobal.net.

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