Carolyn Dean: Have I lost you?
Patrick: I am sorry; I was just on mute there. There is another thought from Kurt here. How much Jigsaw Magnesium for diabetics? How much should he be taking in one day?
Carolyn Dean: What is -- I don't know the Jigsaw Magnesium dosage or amount.
Patrick: 125 per tablet.
Carolyn Dean: 125 per tablet.
Patrick: Yeah, what we usually recommend is 500 milligrams per day. I know that Dr. Blaylock recommends up to a 1000 milligrams per day.
Carolyn Dean: Right! And I earlier said 800 milligrams. So I am between you and Dr. Blaylock. So what you would do Kurt is take an amount to the point where you feel loosening of your bowels and then just cut back one. And it says to take them throughout the day; if you take them all at once, then they can create a laxative effect. I know that the Jigsaw prides itself on having a form that is very friendly to the bowels but what you would do is take it in two or three doses throughout the day, not all at once.
Patrick: Let me go back and correct your question that I kind of missed here from AT. How about a multi-grain whole cereal as a part of your daily breakfast? What do you think about that, Dr. Dean?
Carolyn Dean: Yes, that would be good. What you could do is get millets and rice and quinoa and maybe some spelt and Kamut. Soak it overnight and cook it up in the morning or get it a little one-quart crock pot and cook it overnight and have a great cereal in the morning. A whole grain cereal like that is excellent.
Patrick: And then maybe even sprinkling some cinnamon on top of that would be --
Carolyn Dean: Aren't you smart? Yes, that'd be good!
Patrick: Mike actually asked a question. He was talking when you mentioned cinnamon, doesn't cinnamon at restaurants include sugar? That's a good question.
Carolyn Dean: Oh yeah, it sure usually does, but you're not going to buy that type, are you?
Patrick: Alright, of course, not. It's a good thing; maybe they can get the cinnamon sticks.
Carolyn Dean: Oh yeah, cinnamon sticks but they're just too crunchy. I know however just for the women. And I must say I am happy to hear all the men on the call today, that's wonderful. When I used to put cinnamon on the exact cereal I just mentioned and when I started to go through menopause, I found that it made me worse because cinnamon is sort of a hot spice; it heats up your body. So, I had to cut it out because it was giving me more hot flashes.
Patrick: Speaking of men making some good comments, Dave wrote in that the researchers at Rockefeller University Hospital, they've done a clinical study on Vitamin D to explore the connection between basically Vitamin D deficiency and insulin resistance. Are you familiar with that?
Carolyn Dean: No, I hadn't heard about that study but it all makes sense and I guess that's why we talk about doing a multiple because we really don't know which one of maybe the dozens of things are important to keep ourselves healthy. So I don't doubt that Vitamin D is important because it's a fat-soluble vitamin and it is unfortunate that they just do study on one supplement at a time, instead of looking at the whole picture. Instead of having a thousand people on a great diet and all the Jigsaw Vitamins and then see how they do over a year's time. We'd have some very healthy people but you're not going to see that type of study. You have to do the experiment of that type of study on your own body.
Patrick: A couple of follow-up questions on the cereal, specifically in relation to oatmeal. Mike asked, oatmeal is counted as being great to lower cholesterol, is it good from a sugar stand-point and then --?
Carolyn Dean: Yes, yes!
Patrick: Is oatmeal advised for breakfast or not?
Carolyn Dean: Yes, definitely oatmeal is very good. Try to get the whole oats and not the instant breakfast. Definitely, they add sugar to the instant breakfast. So, oats are very good and try not to eat it everyday, I mean people get into a bad habit of eating the same thing everyday. So try to rotate your diet; a couple of eggs one morning and protein powder and vegetable powder another morning and then the oatmeal another morning, whole grain cereal another morning.
Patrick: I like that you are proponent, I learned this on our last call that Dr. Dean you are a proponent of don't take supplements every single day. You want to give a few days off a week; one or two days off a week so that your body doesn't kind of become immune to what you're taking.
Carolyn Dean: Right and certainly, you can't do that with drugs once you're on the medication, but if someone -- for example, I think if you were treating yourself for diabetes and taking magnesium and chromium and a fish oil and a multiple in your B, then you probably wouldn't want to take anytime off while you were kind of doing your experiment and watching your blood sugars. And people these days they can get a finger-stick, a machine so that they can test their own blood sugar and they can watch themselves. I know in my practice, I used to get people to eat a food that they loved and then come in and we do a finger-stick after half-hour and then an hour and if their blood sugar soared up, we would know they were allergic to it and their body was treating it as a straight sugar.
Patrick: Okay, let's do the final two questions. Before we get there, I do want to remind everyone that Carolyn Dean is accessible for telephone consultations where can ask her one-on-one all these different types of questions. Best way to find information about that is at her website, carolyndean.com. And also, I wanted to remind you of the code for Jigsaw Complete, $10 off for Jigsaw Complete is Dean, D-E-A-N. The final two questions; the first one, a follow-up from Kurt; what is your opinion on agave nectar as a sweetener?
Carolyn Dean: I haven't even tasted it, I've certainly heard about it but I think I did a little googling on it and I think it does increase blood sugar, but I am not 100% sure. I just tend to stay away from all of these sugars. You can get at my website under Articles and find an article called 'The Scary Truth about Sugar' and I think I've listed 40 or 50 different sugars. And I always get the same question, when I say to people, no added sugar at all, only Stevia, then what about Xylitol, what about agave, what about there is something out there called real sugar?
There is always going to be something, but if it has a sweetness that increases your calories and feed yeasts and also that feeds your subverted taste-buds, our taste-buds have gotten so addicted to sugar that I just tell people to just get away from the sweet taste for a couple of weeks and then you'll find that a simple organic apple or orange will be incredibly sweet to you and you'll have a whole new sense of your tongue. Now, this brings up zinc, I don't know if I've mentioned zinc. When people are deficient in that mineral, their taste-buds can be kind of blunted and they actually need more sugar and more salts in their food to be able to taste anything. So, zinc is one of the minerals probably in your multiple that will help to bring up that level and bring people's taste-buds back to life.
Patrick: Interesting, I did not know that and yet zinc is included in the Jigsaw Complete. The final question --
Carolyn Dean: Have I lost you?
Patrick: I am sorry; I was just on mute there. There is another thought from Kurt here. How much Jigsaw Magnesium for diabetics? How much should he be taking in one day?
Carolyn Dean: What is -- I don't know the Jigsaw Magnesium dosage or amount.
Patrick: 125 per tablet.
Carolyn Dean: 125 per tablet.
Patrick: Yeah, what we usually recommend is 500 milligrams per day. I know that Dr. Blaylock recommends up to a 1000 milligrams per day.
Carolyn Dean: Right! And I earlier said 800 milligrams. So I am between you and Dr. Blaylock. So what you would do Kurt is take an amount to the point where you feel loosening of your bowels and then just cut back one. And it says to take them throughout the day; if you take them all at once, then they can create a laxative effect. I know that the Jigsaw prides itself on having a form that is very friendly to the bowels but what you would do is take it in two or three doses throughout the day, not all at once.
Patrick: Let me go back and correct your question that I kind of missed here from AT. How about a multi-grain whole cereal as a part of your daily breakfast? What do you think about that, Dr. Dean?
Carolyn Dean: Yes, that would be good. What you could do is get millets and rice and quinoa and maybe some spelt and Kamut. Soak it overnight and cook it up in the morning or get it a little one-quart crock pot and cook it overnight and have a great cereal in the morning. A whole grain cereal like that is excellent.
Patrick: And then maybe even sprinkling some cinnamon on top of that would be --
Carolyn Dean: Aren't you smart? Yes, that'd be good!
Patrick: Mike actually asked a question. He was talking when you mentioned cinnamon, doesn't cinnamon at restaurants include sugar? That's a good question.
Carolyn Dean: Oh yeah, it sure usually does, but you're not going to buy that type, are you?
Patrick: Alright, of course, not. It's a good thing; maybe they can get the cinnamon sticks.
Carolyn Dean: Oh yeah, cinnamon sticks but they're just too crunchy. I know however just for the women. And I must say I am happy to hear all the men on the call today, that's wonderful. When I used to put cinnamon on the exact cereal I just mentioned and when I started to go through menopause, I found that it made me worse because cinnamon is sort of a hot spice; it heats up your body. So, I had to cut it out because it was giving me more hot flashes.
Patrick: Speaking of men making some good comments, Dave wrote in that the researchers at Rockefeller University Hospital, they've done a clinical study on Vitamin D to explore the connection between basically Vitamin D deficiency and insulin resistance. Are you familiar with that?
Carolyn Dean: No, I hadn't heard about that study but it all makes sense and I guess that's why we talk about doing a multiple because we really don't know which one of maybe the dozens of things are important to keep ourselves healthy. So I don't doubt that Vitamin D is important because it's a fat-soluble vitamin and it is unfortunate that they just do study on one supplement at a time, instead of looking at the whole picture. Instead of having a thousand people on a great diet and all the Jigsaw Vitamins and then see how they do over a year's time. We'd have some very healthy people but you're not going to see that type of study. You have to do the experiment of that type of study on your own body.
Patrick: A couple of follow-up questions on the cereal, specifically in relation to oatmeal. Mike asked, oatmeal is counted as being great to lower cholesterol, is it good from a sugar stand-point and then --?
Carolyn Dean: Yes, yes!
Patrick: Is oatmeal advised for breakfast or not?
Carolyn Dean: Yes, definitely oatmeal is very good. Try to get the whole oats and not the instant breakfast. Definitely, they add sugar to the instant breakfast. So, oats are very good and try not to eat it everyday, I mean people get into a bad habit of eating the same thing everyday. So try to rotate your diet; a couple of eggs one morning and protein powder and vegetable powder another morning and then the oatmeal another morning, whole grain cereal another morning.
Patrick: I like that you are proponent, I learned this on our last call that Dr. Dean you are a proponent of don't take supplements every single day. You want to give a few days off a week; one or two days off a week so that your body doesn't kind of become immune to what you're taking.
Carolyn Dean: Right and certainly, you can't do that with drugs once you're on the medication, but if someone -- for example, I think if you were treating yourself for diabetes and taking magnesium and chromium and a fish oil and a multiple in your B, then you probably wouldn't want to take anytime off while you were kind of doing your experiment and watching your blood sugars. And people these days they can get a finger-stick, a machine so that they can test their own blood sugar and they can watch themselves. I know in my practice, I used to get people to eat a food that they loved and then come in and we do a finger-stick after half-hour and then an hour and if their blood sugar soared up, we would know they were allergic to it and their body was treating it as a straight sugar.
Patrick: Okay, let's do the final two questions. Before we get there, I do want to remind everyone that Carolyn Dean is accessible for telephone consultations where can ask her one-on-one all these different types of questions. Best way to find information about that is at her website, carolyndean.com. And also, I wanted to remind you of the code for Jigsaw Complete, $10 off for Jigsaw Complete is Dean, D-E-A-N. The final two questions; the first one, a follow-up from Kurt; what is your opinion on agave nectar as a sweetener?
Carolyn Dean: I haven't even tasted it, I've certainly heard about it but I think I did a little googling on it and I think it does increase blood sugar, but I am not 100% sure. I just tend to stay away from all of these sugars. You can get at my website under Articles and find an article called 'The Scary Truth about Sugar' and I think I've listed 40 or 50 different sugars. And I always get the same question, when I say to people, no added sugar at all, only Stevia, then what about Xylitol, what about agave, what about there is something out there called real sugar?
There is always going to be something, but if it has a sweetness that increases your calories and feed yeasts and also that feeds your subverted taste-buds, our taste-buds have gotten so addicted to sugar that I just tell people to just get away from the sweet taste for a couple of weeks and then you'll find that a simple organic apple or orange will be incredibly sweet to you and you'll have a whole new sense of your tongue. Now, this brings up zinc, I don't know if I've mentioned zinc. When people are deficient in that mineral, their taste-buds can be kind of blunted and they actually need more sugar and more salts in their food to be able to taste anything. So, zinc is one of the minerals probably in your multiple that will help to bring up that level and bring people's taste-buds back to life.
Patrick: Interesting, I did not know that and yet zinc is included in the Jigsaw Complete. The final question --
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