24 Seven March 2022
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Over the past years, the human microbiome has been
dramatically altered. Chemicals in our environment, over
exposure to antibiotics, and industrialized food, have
created changes that pose silent dangers for health.
According to Dr. William Davis, we desperately need to
reintroduce our bodies to the microbial species that once
lived in our ancestors, while pushing back the army of
interlopers that have taken their place.
Dr. Davis joined me to talk about how we can reprogram our
microbiome to improve our health. Dr Davis is a cardiologist
and author of the number one New York Times bestseller,
Wheat Belly. His new book is, Super Gut: A Four-Week
Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and
Lose Weight.
Listen to my conversation with Dr. Davis:
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ISSUE NO.137
LOST LOVE
INSIDE THIS
ISSUE
BY WILLIAM DAVIS, MD
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MIND POWER WEIGHT LOSS
BY RENA GREENBERG
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ON THIS MONTH’S
COVER
DR. WILLIAM DAVIS TALKS ABOUT HOW WE CAN
REPROGRAM OUR MICROBIOME TO IMPROVE
OUR HEALTH. DR. DAVIS IS A CARDIOLOGIST AND
AUTHOR OF THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER, WHEAT BELLY. HIS NEW BOOK IS, SUPER
GUT: A FOUR-WEEK PLAN TO REPROGRAM YOUR
MICROBIOME, RESTORE HEALTH, AND LOSE WEIGHT.
LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATION WITH DR. DAVIS:
www.cyacyl.com/shows/william-davis
TIPS TO SPEED UP YOUR WEIGHT LOSS
BY RENA GREENBERG
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TOOLS FOR A JOYFUL SPRING RENEWAL
BY LINDA MITCHELL
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RECLAIM YOUR HOME OFFICE
BY GAYLE M. GRUENBERG
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MARCH
2022
LOST
LOVE
Have you ever taken an antibiotic for a urinary or
upper respiratory infection? Most of us have, given
the fact that 800 antibiotic prescriptions are written
for every 1000 Americans every year. By age 40, most
Americans have taken 30 courses of antibiotics.
Written by William Davis, MD
By taking antibiotics, you join the huge number
of Americans who have disrupted their intestinal
microbiome, i.e., the composition of microbes that dwell
in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Many healthy
microbial species that are meant to occupy the human GI
tract are eradicated by, say, a 10-day course of ampicillin
for a sore throat. There are microbial species that are
important players in human health that are lost with a
single round of an antibiotic.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that
over a third of the antibiotics prescribed are unnecessary
and provide no benefit. It might be a prescription for
ciprofloxacin for a viral upper respiratory infection
for which antibiotics have no effect. Or a course of
azithromycin for a fever without an identifiable source.
In the nearly 100 years since Dr. Alexander Fleming
discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin, in
1928, antibiotics have become an all-too-familiar
accompaniment to modern life — but one that comes
with a substantial health price.
One of the microbial species most susceptible to
common antibiotics is Lactobacillus reuteri, named after
the German microbiologist, Dr. Gerhard Reuter, who
first identified it in 1962. Performing his investigations
in the 1960s until the 1980s, Dr. Reuter remarked how
L reuteri was a common microbe in the microbiomes of
people when he first began his research, only to become
uncommon towards the end of his career studying
bacteria. A recent survey to identify how many people
still harbor this species found it lacking in 96 percent of
people studied.
L reuteri is a microbe that has been recovered from the
stool of indigenous human hunter-gatherer populations
unexposed to antibiotics, such as people living in remote
areas of New Guinea without access to running water,
toilets, supermarkets, and, of course, antibiotics. L
reuteri has also been uncovered from most mammalian
species—chipmunks, squirrels, possums, dogs, as well
as non-mammalian species such as chickens. But most
modern humans have lost this microbe and thereby the
advantages it provided.
What makes this particular microbe so important is
that, when restored, it takes up residence in the entire
length of human GI tract, then sends a signal to the brain
to release the hormone oxytocin, the hormone of love,
affection, and empathy. It is the hormone that brings you
closer to your partner, family, co-workers, and helps you
understand the opinions of other people.
Indeed, the thousands of people who have restored
this microbe report feeling closer to their partner and
families, feeling closer and less annoyed by co-workers,
experiencing less anxiety in social settings, becoming
better able to understand the opinions of people whose
views differ from yours. In other words, the boost in
oxytocin makes you more social, more loving, more
understanding — a better human being.
As powerful as these social and emotional effects can
be, there is another dimension to the effects experienced
with restoring this L reuteri. Not only are you a nicer,
more understanding, person, but many people also
develop smoother skin because of increased dermal
collagen, experience a return of youthful strength and
muscle, experience deeper sleep and increased libido,
have reduced appetite, an improved immune response,
and accelerated healing from an injury or wound.
Smoother skin, greater muscle, better sleep and libido,
improved immunity — doesn’t this all add up to turning
the clock back a few decades? I think it does. And these
are the benefits of restoring just this one microbe.
L reuteri is one of many microbial species that we can
restore with some pretty spectacular effects. You can
restore a microbe that, for instance, reduces arthritis pain,
or a microbe that shrinks your waist, or helps a newborn
experience improved neurological development, sleep
through the night, and have less asthma, skin allergies
and have a higher IQ as an older child.
If this and other ways to manage the universe of
microbes that inhabit your body by applying strategies
that go way beyond “take a probiotic and get some fiber”
interest you, then I invite you to take a look at my new
book, Super Gut: The Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your
Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight.
About The Author
WILLIAM DAVIS, MD
William Davis, MD, is the #1 New York Times bestselling author
of the Wheat Belly series of books. His newest book is Super
Gut: The Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome,
Restore Health, and Lose Weight, the book that provides a
roadmap on regaining control over the human microbiome to
enjoy unprecedented health, weight, and emotional benefits.
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March 2022 Issue
Mind Power
Weight Loss
Written by Rena Greenberg
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When you have 30, 50, 80, or more
pounds to lose, the prospect of weight loss can be daunting. You
can see how easy it would be to just give up at the first signs of
difficulty.
Since 1990, I have helped over 100,000 people to lose weight,
including myself, so I have absolute faith that it can be done. The
key to success is simply keeping your mind straight.
Hypnosis is a powerful tool that can help you to do just that.
It’s a state of focused concentration and physical relaxation that
invokes the power of suggestion and images to create personal
change.
Suggestion with repetition can place the images that lead to
success, front and center in your mind, ahead of any voice of doubt
or self-sabotage that wants to creep in.
We move towards pleasure and away from pain. The brain is
wired that way — it will never change. In a state of hypnosis or
self-hypnosis, suggestions can be planted to help you associate
absolute pleasure with looking and feeling your best, with being
in control of your life and your eating habits, with eating small
portions of healthy, delicious, nutritious, water rich food, and
moving your body.
Since it is your deep-seated beliefs that create your reality, and
not just fleeting thoughts, you’ll need to implant these positive
suggestions so they become your new normal way of thinking.
Many of us who like to consider ourselves “positive thinkers” like
to believe that all we need is positive suggestion. That would be
wonderful, but science tells us the opposite. Studies indicate
that most people are more motivated by what they don’t
want, than by what they do want.
What that means is that most human beings are more
likely to take action to avoid a negative consequence than
to gain a positive result. This understanding about the
human psyche can be extremely beneficial in helping you
to achieve your weight loss goals. It lets you know that you
are more likely to do what you need to do (eat less, exercise
more, and eat healthy food) by the fear of loss — whether
that be the loss of health, family or social status — than by
the promise of fitting into a size four pair of jeans.
Based on this understanding, to succeed over time
without feeling deprived, it’s necessary to associate pain
with the harmful, energy draining, life sucking foods that
propel you into food addiction.
Unless you condition yourself to associate a great deal
of pain with harmful foods (whether that be pipes in
your stomach, being too uncomfortable to move, loss of
mobility or even loss of eyesight or feeling ashamed and
being isolated), you are most likely going to want to continue
to eat the foods that are causing you to be overweight, since
undoubtedly you currently link the culprits with pleasure.
If you want to live the rest of your life at your ideal weight,
the trick is to associate fat-producing foods with pain. This
makes it easier to eliminate those foods from your diet,
permanently, without ever feeling as if you’re on a diet.
Think of getting rid of those foods as if you are banishing a
toxic relationship from your life.
Instead of fantasizing about all the pleasure these foods
give you by focusing on the fleeting sensation of a tempting
taste, remember the result of eating them and all the pain that
has caused you in your life on so many levels — physically,
mentally and emotionally.
To strengthen yourself, associate those foods with rolls of
fat, illness, disease, shame and guilt.
Roger, who has lost 60 lbs. since he came to see me for
gastric bypass hypnosis last year, told me that what helped
him change his eating habits was imagining the horror of
having half his stomach cut out, and a pipe put in, and months
of dealing with the aftermath of that! He knew that was his
fate if he wasn’t successful with his weight loss attempts and
he felt a great deal of relief and joy in avoiding that.
You, too, can imagine the pride you’ll feel when you get
down to your ideal weight and are no longer even tempted
by harmful substances (if you like, instead of thinking
of such edibles as food anymore — substitute the words
harmful substances that the food industry tries to seduce
you to eat).
A Successful Mind-Set
Deprivation and the state of wanting will cause you to
feel pain and in your desire to escape pain, the old impulse
will be to reach for food. To avoid wanting, convince
yourself that you are doing what you want by not eating
that which hurts you.
Success is so much easier when the goal is optimal
health in mind, body, emotion and spirit, and you think
of weight loss as the side benefit.
Focusing too much on the result of weight loss puts
pressure on yourself that creates desire for rebellion, or
self-talk that says things like: I’m fine the way I am, one
cookie won’t hurt me, or this is going to be hard.
It can be more helpful to think of food as either lifting
your vibration or lowering it, increasing your energy or
decreasing it, building your life force or destroying it,
perpetuating health or addiction. This line of thought
makes it much easier to make good choices.
Eliminate Emotional Eating
If you are an emotional eater, realize that reaching
for food when you are feeling strong emotion is just a
habit that you can shift. Set your intention to make that
change and stay committed. Use the power of hypnotic
suggestion by planting new seeds of thought and positive,
reinforcing images in your subconscious mind to help you
stay on track.
To help you cope with disturbing feelings, it can be
helpful to write down your thoughts and then write down
the opposite thought and realize that they are both true.
There is usually some truth in opposing thoughts – so
you might as well choose the highest thought. The highest
thought leaves you feeling expanded and the lowest thought
leaves you feeling constricted.
Next time you feel upset, notice the constriction you are
feeling in your body. When you check-in to your bodily
sensations, you may feel tight in your neck, upper back or
jaw.
Write down the thoughts that are floating through your
mind, without sensor. Your journal may look like this:
“I am too tired to do anything.”
“I am a fat slob.”
“This diet is not working.”
Now, without talking yourself out of it, write down the
opposite of these thoughts:
“I am not too tired to do everything.”
“I am grateful for the energy I do have.”
“I am attractive in many ways.”
“I have successfully stopped drinking soda and that is a
great feat.”
Now, without making yourself wrong, notice what
happens to your areas of tightness when you breathe in the
more positive, generous statements.
Since there is a shred of truth on both sides, why not
nurture your loving thoughts? Remember that what
you focus on grows. By reinforcing your kinder thoughts,
you are growing your own self-love and at the same time
increasing the likelihood that you will act on your more
positive impulses in the future.
The bottom line, is that your mind is more powerful than
you know. The key to success is to commit and re-commit
every day to the road ahead of you. The more you do, the
easier it gets.
Tomorrow will come either way, so you might as well
increase the likelihood of having the life (and body) that
your heart desires. You’ve got to talk yourself into it! Trust
yourself, you can do this! Create a sensible, doable plan of
action. Never give up on yourself! The only one who fails
is the one who abandons their own dreams. See (visualize)
yourself in five years. This is an important choice point in
your life. Decide what you want in your life and claim it!
About The Author
RENA GREENBERG
Rena Greenberg is an author, healthcare expert, and educator
whose programs are sponsored by over 75 US hospitals and 100
major US corporations, including Disney, Home Depot, and AT&T.
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Joyful Spring
Renewal
Written by Linda Mitchell, CPC, LMT
S
Spring is the perfect time for renewal and
rebirth. You may be one of many who have
abandoned their new year resolutions, but
instead of feeling bad about that use this
Spring to amend your goals and forge ahead
with a fresh focus and motivation!
Acknowledge yourself for each success,
assess where you are now, and reestablish
your personal values before hurrying forward.
Reflect on what works, what doesn’t, and what
most needs to change to make you truly happy.
Recognize it’s not your decision to make
massive changes that work, it’s intentional,
daily choices that really lead to lasting change.
You’ll feel restored by making better choices
daily. Here are some tips
for creating your successful
spring renewal.
Reassess obligations.
Want more time for what’s
genuinely important to you?
First look at everything
you’ve taken on that isn’t
essential. Consider each
commitment and extended
family or friend obligation
that no longer feels aligned.
If they feel burdensome,
reconsider them. Yes, it’s
challenging because no one
wants to let others down,
but this is your life, and it is
time to choose you instead
of what others want.
Break it down. Whether
you want to save for a new
home, start a business, or
get healthier, recognize it
will take time. The desire
for instant gratification can derail you.
Choose one big goal and break down each
step you need to make it happen. Then break
them down even further so you have at least
one small actionable step to take each day.
This consistency will serve you well. You’ll
not only see your goal as a journey, but you’ll
create manageable pieces that’ll keep you
motivated and on target.
Track your time. Everyone is busy but many
use busyness as an excuse for staying stuck,
even when they want to change. One simple
way to find wasted time in your schedule is
to track it. For at least three days, keep track
of what you do all day long. Use an app,
spreadsheet, or a simple notepad. The time
you invest will pay you back tenfold. You’ll
quickly notice you spend more time watching
TV, scrolling through emails, and checking
social media than you thought. Once you’re
aware of this wasted time, invest in yourself
instead. Repurpose that time. Either spend
more time on reaching your goals, relaxing,
filling your cup, or making memories with
family and friends. That’s more productive
and rewarding.
Redesign your life. Most of us sleepwalk
through life more than we care to admit. If
you want a happier, more fulfilling life, take
stock of what makes you happy. What brings
you joy and makes you feel alive? Make sure
From The Story
“By choosing
to make small,
intentional
changes daily,
you’ll start on
a path to feeling
more joyful,
renewed,
and fulfilled.”
those things are a bigger part of it. Look back
at your time-tracking list. What obligations
and expectations can you modify or delete
entirely, so you live a life full of joy and
purpose? Consciously decide to live life to the
fullest. Do more of what makes you happy.
Pursue dreams and goals. Many people use a
lack of time or money as reasons why they stay
in dead-end jobs, don’t pursue their passions,
or make real change in their lives. Reflect on
what you truly want and make it a priority. Is
it going back to school, starting a new career,
or turning your side-hustle into a business?
Finding ways to put your dreams first will feel
so uplifting and rewarding.
By choosing to make small, intentional
changes daily, you’ll start on a path to feeling
more joyful, renewed, and fulfilled. Be bold.
You deserve happiness and tranquility. Grab it,
and don’t look back!
About The Author
LINDA MITCHELL
Linda Mitchell is a board-certified coach,
speaker, intuitive healer and LMT.
She empowers people who feel stuck,
overwhelmed or desire change to move
through challenges and transitions with
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ISSUE NO.137 MARCH 2022
RECLAIM
YOUR
HOME
OFFICE
Written by Gayle M. Gruenberg, CPO-CD ® , CVPO
A
Are you in the throes of workat-home
fatigue, sick and tired of the kitchen table doing
triple duty, surrounded by the constant buzz of a noisy
household?
Has your home office become the family dumping
ground, where everyone just shoves their stuff inside and
closes the door, oblivious to the growing mountain of
obsolete clothes, books, toys, papers, and forgotten gifts?
Do you dream of creating a peaceful place for managing
your personal and professional lives?
Yes, it is possible to reclaim control of your home
workspace.
If you have a room that used to be an office and it has
become a dumping ground, set aside a few hours to go
through everything piled up on the floor and in the closet.
Remove anything that doesn’t support the activities you
need to do there: put tools in the basement or garage,
toys in the playroom, and food in the kitchen.
Put like with like. Gathering similar items together
makes it easy to see how much of something you have so
you can decide what you do and don’t need. Even if you
keep it all, you’ll feel a sense of control having everything
grouped in one place.
Clear off or set up a horizontal work surface. It doesn’t
have to be an expensive desk; it could be as simple as a
door set on two sawhorses. Equip it with only what you
need at your fingertips while you’re working: computer,
pens, notebook, files.
Create areas for filing away papers and storing supplies.
A rolling file cart is an efficient way to do both and could
easily be tucked away under the “desk” to conserve space.
Add a flat top and you have a compact mobile office that
can be moved to wherever you need a quiet place to work.
Two of my favorite organizing techniques are to go
vertical and utilize hidden spaces. Use walls and the
insides of cabinet and closet doors. An inexpensive
shelf unit increases horizontal space and maximizes the
height of a space. Hanging mesh shoe pockets inside a
closet door or on the back of the door to the room is a
great way to store supplies and keep them out of sight.
Make sure there is enough light in your workspace,
both general illumination and task lighting.
Your chair should be comfortable enough so you can
sit and concentrate, but not so comfortable that you fall
asleep. Sitting on a balance ball strengthens your core
and improves your posture while you work. A standing
desk eliminates the need for a chair altogether and lets
you burn a few calories at the same time!
Need to stay 100 percent focused on a task? Use
earplugs or noise-canceling headphones.
Decorate the space with items that are beautiful,
motivating, and meaningful to you. A welcoming space
is one you will want to work in!
About The Author
GAYLE M. GRUENBERG
Gayle M. Gruenberg, CPO-CD ® , CVPO is the chief executive
organizer of Let’s Get Organized, LLC, an organizer coach,
and the creator of the Make Space for Blessings system.
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March 2022 Issue
BOOK
CLUB
TINY BUSINESS,
BIG MONEY
A CONVERSATION WITH ELAINE POFELDT
The increase in the number of people
starting their own businesses in the
United States has surged. And so far,
the entrepreneurial boom has proved
to be more durable than early skeptics
expected. Starting and growing a
business can be challenging, but it also
provides many rewards.
In her book, The Million Dollar
One-Person Business, Elaine Pofeldt
outlined the pathways to joining the
entrepreneurial movement. Now in
her new book, Tiny Business, Big
Money: Strategies for Creating a High-
Revenue Microbusiness, she offers the
steps toward the next entrepreneurial
venture – a microbusiness. Elaine is an
independent journalist who specializes
in small business and entrepreneurship.
Her work has appeared on CNBC, and in
Fortune, Money, Forbes, and many other
publications.
Pofeldt believes that many people are
becoming entrepreneurs because they
were in work situations that weren’t
ideal for them, that weren’t healthy for
them. During the pandemic, people
who couldn’t cope with the discomfort
any more, started to experiment with
the idea of launching a small business.
Working from home provided the
privacy and opportunity to try.
Many realized they like working for
themselves and that they were good at
it.
Making the transition from a nonemployee
business, one with no
payroll, to a microbusiness, one with
employees, comes with new challenges.
There is a big change in mindset that
is required when you’re managing a
team because you have to convey the
purpose of the business, said Pofeldt.
How you want things done, how you
want customers to be served. That can
be difficult for people who have been
solopreneurs.
Knowing when to grow a business
can be frightening for many, but as
Pofeldt notes, that point usually comes
when you start noticing slippage in
the business; you’re not able to make
deadlines or you get sick for one day
and the whole things starts falling
apart. That’s usually a sign that you’re
maxed out and don’t have enough
backup in place.
Before taking the leap, Pofeldt
cautions business owners to make
a financial analysis to be sure the
company can support employees. “You
have to make payroll, that’s a legal
requirement,” she said. “You can’t just
not pay people because you’re short on
cash. You have to make sure you have
the cash flow to support paying each
employee consistently.”
Pofeldt’s best advice for success?
Don’t be afraid to trust automation.
Analyze how you are spending your
time during the week. Create a sheet
and put down what you do every hour
of the day and take a look at where
you are spending tasks that could be
done with technology, an outsourced
service, or somebody else.
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