if you're having trouble sleeping
experience experiencing anxiety or brain
fog and can't figure out what's causing
it you may need to try an alternative
approach we are welcoming back our
partner natural health expert dr. Josh
shields who is the owner and clinic
director of integrative wellness centers
thanks for being here thank you for
having me again absolutely so what are
some of the kind of issues that your
patients are dealing with well a lot of
our patients are just overwhelmed with
stress worry anxiety depression some of
them are having trouble sleep we
remember people that report to us that
they're starting lose their memory Wow
Wow well here's one patient who sought
your help let's take a look for me I was
at the point where I was crying every
single day my anxiety was horrible
I started not being able to handle life
so I like to see a therapist and they
recommended that I get an anxiety
medication and depression medication and
I went I was apprehensive about starting
that because I had fears about
side-effects
so I went and I saw dr. shields and
after meeting with him and talking to
him I felt a bit of Hope that actually
somebody might be able to help me
because the care that you receive here
is unlike anything else that you can
find
with functional medicine you weren't
being prescribed a drug to fix your
symptoms they really get to the root
cause I didn't know that I had digestive
issues I didn't know I had autoimmune
disease I didn't know I had liver
dysfunction hormonal imbalances that
were causing all these other things I
just thought I had anxieties and I
thought maybe being put on an exciting
same medication would at least make me
feel normal again but instead of feeling
normal I feel healthy I'm doing better
than I ever had felt in a really really
a long time Wow
she also talked about her concerns about
taking medications like these that you
have out here but you have another
approach you know it's unfortunate it's
been shown that one in five Americans
right now are taking the mental health
drug and with that the research has
shown us that one in four of those are
actually made worse with the side
effects for example like sleeplessness
weight gain and some I mean depression
every increased suicidal tendencies so
you know in our office when we address
the root cause of people's health issues
what we find is that instead of side
effects we have additional benefits okay
and you know it really is amazing
because medications just can't offer
that for example if you have something
that comes in your office with
depression and you help address their
health issues not only does their mood
improve but their energy improves their
sleep improves just as they get
healthier the quality of their life gets
better they get happier so let's talk a
little bit about brain fog what is it
and how can you help with it well you
know right now what we found is in
America is that cognitive diseases like
Alzheimer's and dementia are on the rise
and unfortunately if people are watching
the show and they're noticing they're
having trouble with their memory now and
they're younger that that research is
showing us that that's a red flag that
down the road they could develop one
those cognitive diseases but thankfully
there's a blood test called homocysteine
that's been linked to Alzheimer's and
dementia two to threefold increase and
what we found in our office is we help
our patients lower their homocysteine
levels that on average our patients see
a 69 percent improvement in their
comprehension and in their memory by
lowering that so
is really remarkable that's a definitely
test people should be getting Wow
especially if they're younger you said
anybody should get that's homocysteine
anybody should be Gillis so how can you
help people who are having sleep
troubles you hear this all the time you
know I really believe that sleep is the
crux is the cause for a lot of brain
health issues and you know I think about
it with my kids for example if one of my
kids don't get enough sleep the next day
they're irritable they're irrational
they're moody they're temperamental
and they definitely is not a good time
to try to study with them because their
memory shot and that's really what's
happening to a lot of Americans 40% of
Americans report that they have troubles
falling asleep or trouble staying asleep
and you know with our office once again
is when we help people get healthy what
we see is that on average our patients
see a 60% improvement in the quality of
their sleep and when they see that
improvement than everything else
improves their energy improves their
immune systems improve their strength
does improve their productivity improves
so it's so important that you address
the root cause of these issues instead
of just using medications because
ultimately those medications aren't
addressing the real issues typically
okay it all works together dr. shields
is offering our viewers today a free
consultation with one of the doctor with
one of their doctors to determine how
they can help to schedule an appointment
visit the website iw centers comm slash
brain health or call seven three four
seven seven nine one six five zero and
you can also join dr. shields right
after live in the D on our Facebook page
where he will be giving a short training
in better brain health sounds good to me
thank you so much