[Music] hey everybody welcome back to the show it's great to have you here today excited to get into another cabral house call where we are going to be answering your questions just like we do each and every weekend so today we are going to tackle six questions these six questions have come in uh since about february 21st and yes i know we are well into april today's actually may 1st so it is may 1st uh but you know in all seriousness we answer our communities questions we answer every single one of them in the order they come in so we are now about 10 weeks behind and that is because which is not a bad thing again i know that you want your questions answered sooner but you can always get them answered basically same day as to where to find most of the answers just by going to while searching at stevencabral.com forward slash podcasts and then also joining the free facebook group that's cabralsupportgroup.com even if you don't use facebook excuse me for anything else like that's totally fine that's what i do i don't ever post in in facebook unless it's for our community and uh and you can get your questions answered there as well so if i'm answering them i'm happy to do that i'm also excited to say the podcast has grown tremendously uh in 2022 all thanks to you of course so i appreciate your reviews uh and as well as your support by sharing it with other people but we are now at three million plus downloads a month and uh again super grateful for all the support from the community just plugging along answering questions trying to uh add some perspective as to see how i see the wellness the body transformation the anti-aging based community and just sharing the unbiased perspective of working in clinical practice and and just running hundreds of thousands of labs and saying hey this is this is actually what's going on with people's bodies when they do this exercise this diet these supplements this stress on the body like whatever it might be and just trying to share that with you so once again thank you so much and let's get now into your questions all right the first question is from kayla kayla says hi i'm working with an integrated practitioner right now i have a sharp pain in my lower left stomach which she said it was a swollen lymph node my candida antibodies came back extremely high so i'm currently taking antifungal herbs as well as a probiotic and it my pain and symptoms seem to be getting worse do you think there is an underlying problems contributing to this pain or do you think there is such a sharp pain in the lower left abdomen thank you so much okay let me try to get to your question so when um so there's there's all sorts of different health practitioners if it's an integrative health practitioner they're not diagnosing you with anything so it's not an integrative health practitioner but it could be an integrative practitioner like meaning they use multiple modalities and most likely it's in person i'm assuming uh because they're they're saying that it's a swollen lymph node well the lymph nodes are typically what's called the inguinal cleft so it's like the v-shape down uh towards the groin that's where a lot of those are and sometimes they're swollen because of gut-based issues or uh not for women but for men prostate issues and so there's all sorts of different reasons why you could have swollen lymph nodes or there could be an infection in the lower legs i mean there's all sorts of different reasons um i don't the only person to give you a diagnosis of that would be a medical doctor and then things seem to be getting worse when you're doing an anti-fungal and a probiotic well it could be gut related i mean it certainly could be the thing is it's not possible for me to tell you what it is even though i want to you know really be able to to share with you what it is i i wouldn't know unless we run labs right so unless we run the big five labs i don't know what's going on or even if you just want to do one gut test you could do the bacteria and parasite stool test you could certainly run that all labs are at stevencabral.com forward slash labs and you don't even have to work with us if you choose not to that's okay we can at least see what the labs are so you know what to run with your integrative um health practitioner and you know what's going on the left side well the left side is when you look at it i mean you could have referred pain i guess from your pancreas but you've got your spleen over on the left then you definitely have lymph nodes lower in that area but on your left side you also have your descending colon so you know there's all sorts of different reasons why there might be pain there and that's why it's not possible for me to actually say what it is and of course i just have to give my disclaimer on the podcast i'm never giving medical diagnostics i'm not giving medical advice or medical treatment based plans so kayla we need to go deeper we're either running some labs or you're going to a medical doctor to get an actual diagnosis that's probably my recommendation all right jenny's up next hi dr all i'm a long time dedicated podcast listener and i'm so appreciative of the information and insights you share thank you jenny i appreciate that i'm excited to now be an io bone member and i look forward to receiving ongoing lab tests and coaching calls along with it well that's fantastic to hear ayubo and for those people that don't know who they will know in like another day or so uh we've got a a brand new apps app launching soon which is only one part of ayubone but it's completely free for ayobo and members um yeah and then ayamone is essentially free for people in the eco-life community so this is just us trying to take the entire industry to that next level it's going to be absolutely amazing i don't want to go through it right now because i want to make this about you and make this about the show but you can check it out at forward slash iubowen and iu bowen is a-y-u-b-o-w-a-n-i-u-bone or just head on over to uh stevencribal.com forward slash shop and then click on the thing at the top that says members and you can check that out all right so let's see you know what jenny says i follow the foundational protocol level 2 and take your immune support protocols my question has to do with the new longevity line that i'm excited to try because some of them include some of the supplements i'm already taking how can i determine whether i should continue with my supplements in addition longevity products i've been reluctant to order ones i'm most interested in trying because i'm unsure much thanks to you and your amazing team thank you jenny okay so since we've since i formulated the longevity line i took that into account while formulating them so i assume that most people in our community are going to be using the daily nutritional support at a minimum ideally omega-3s and ideally daily fruit and vegetable blend daily probiotic right something like that okay that's daily foundation protocol level two then the immunity protocol i expect that most people at least during the winter time they're going to use vitamin z alkalizing vitamin c balance zinc and they're going to use vitamin d okay so knowing that i did not put all of those extras in those products so for someone like me i use exactly what i just shared with you but then i also use cell boost and a few of the other longevity based ones so you can kind of see them right well i can't really see them too well in the camera right over there if you're watching this on video so they're totally fine to use being like we have most people adding on like a lot of people adding on the advanced renewal system i mean that is i mean talk about clinical science anti-aging based nutrients i mean people are giving amazing testimonials and success stories which we we love to hear but we also expect i mean these things are literally formulated based on the latest science using those nutrients that we've known for to work for thousands of years in ayurvedic based medicine so yeah i mean i'm excited about that and so whether you're using uh estrogen support progesterone support daily testosterone support bone support vision support brain support all of those can be used and they're really really okay of course again i don't know you i don't know i haven't seen your labs but you can always ask your health practitioner and i would you know during your next free coaching call with ibone you can ask and um if anybody does not know of our new longevity line i can't recommend checking it out enough and that's at stephencabral.com forward slash longevity all right hans is up next how to rid the body of fatty liver all right that's the question so hans uh happy to help with this so let's go over just fatty liver fatty liver i believe the statistics again i don't do research while i'm doing the house calls but it's about 10 to 15 percent greater amount of fat buildup on the liver ends up being then diagnosed with fatty liver there's fatty liver and fatty liver is honestly it's usually from people over consuming alcohol or fructose higher levels of um well i mean it can be from inflammatory polyunsaturated fats as well but a lot of people from too much processed sugar in their body in their diet high fructose corn syrup etc so those are definitely the big reasons um for fatty liver there's non-alcohol fatty liver so there's certainly that it's not as common but it's possible then you want to look at the overall again diet exercise inflammatory components most people are over are able to overcome it luckily with good nutrition exercise i mean we do functional medicine detoxes et cetera but again no medical based advice and you know again i don't want to make light of it at all i mean if you have fatty liver i would absolutely get rid of fatty liver because along with it comes oftentimes fatigue and low energy but then there's also people typically have maybe type 2 diabetes they have high blood pressure they have high cholesterol so there's a lot that goes with it so here's the thing as you get your body healthier and healthier you end up overcoming a lot of these things as well and again i just i'm sharing that from what i've seen happen tens of thousands of time in our private practice so i would if you if you have not read the rain barrel effect yet that's that's where you start so the rain barrel effect is as close to free as i can make it we literally pay to print the book we just charge shipping and that's at stevencrawl.com as well you can pick it up on facebook facebook you can pick up on amazon um so yeah and that'll that'll really go through all the different steps of again not how to get rid of fatty liver but how to get body healthy so that fatty liver can exist hopefully that's helpful all right malley's up next hi dr paul thank you so much for all you do your podcast and equal life products have been such a blessing for me and my family thank you melly i ran a stool in organic acids test through my functional medicine doctor and i have completed six-month bacterial overgrowth protocol through him i recently tested for incredibly high levels of ocratoxin a and started on your mold protocol his protocol called for some intense binders so i did not feel comfortable taking those my body is already herxy i appreciate how your mold protocol has less side effects my question is is your protocol able to address mold that is colonized in the sinus and or organs my chronic cyanide is started when i was a kid and i wonder what the proper expectation should be as far as recovery time i've seen decent amounts of biofilm in my stools for about six months now also is there any blood work i should be moderating while i'm detoxing so heavily okay happy to go through all this with you so it's great that you are working with a doctor that you trust that's always fantastic my suggestions are well let's go through your questions um okay so you're doing the the mold protocol from equal life fantastic the next part you're asking um well that's internal based so we can get to the internal stuff which is great that's what you want to do but it's also helping with the immune system like that's a big part of the mode protocol that most people overlook so yes like we we recommend the intestinal cleanse during it binders and all that like it's great there's no problem but you have to understand is that the only way that you get rid of mold is that you rebalance your immune system and if anybody's trying to tell you otherwise they're i don't know why they'd be telling you that but because what you're doing is you are eliminating waste products which are things like the ogre toxin a our job though is also and yes we do that but we also look to boost your immune system to kill mold to kill yeast to kill fungus like that's the goal okay so now for your nasal passages we recommend a neti pot twice a day once or twice a day so you're going to get a neti pot you're going to put in water you're going to put in some saline solution and then you're going to put in i again i can't give you medical based advice what i do is i personally put in two to three drops of citrus i don't or citrobase drops or something like that we just use citrus cyto and and then i just get an eddie pod one nostril that he put in the other washed that out of the sinuses i used to do that when i had really bad allergies and i had yeast overgrowth in my nasal passages i added all up my esophagus when i was in my 20s in my nasal passages it was horrible i had massive mold as well but i only learned that much much later because nobody was really doing a lot of mold testing back in the uh early 2000s late 90s so what can i tell you um that's what i would tell you and then um colloidal silver nasal spray can also be beneficial or the nasocourt that i recommended before by nutribiotics can be beneficial as well once or twice a day maximum you wouldn't do this forever you might do it for six weeks or so and um and that can give you the benefits of getting at your sinuses directly all right all right i can't give you recommendations on blood work that would be more what the medical doctor would do except to say hey run your typical cbc and you would run your blood chemistry analysis lipid panel every year all right and then in order to find out if the mold is gone in let's say uh four or eight weeks after doing the mold protocol you need to do it for a while and then you can retest and just i would also run that candida metabolic vitamins test organic acids test again just to make sure the yeast and fungal overgrowth and the gut is gone as well all right crystal's up next crystal says hi dr wall because of my pcos i now have chronic dry eye syndrome i've listened to your podcast on dry eye that i could find and nothing seems to help the only thing that has seemed to help the constant burning are restasis eye drops that my doctor prescribed me the dry i suddenly changed in 2020 february 2020 nowhere and ever since my eyes have been really red and a large visible red vein has formed my right eye my doctor told me it will never go away but i just don't want to believe that my eyes have always been the best feature and i hate having red eyes all the time what can i do to stop my dry eye sorry for my question so long i appreciate taking the time thank you dr brawl you are my biggest inspiration thank you crystal never listen to any doctor never listen to any doctor that tells you that's always going to be the way that it is a doctor should not be in practice that says anything like that it is the worst thing that you can do for a patient it's called the nocebo effect and it just speaks to their own ignorance that's basically it when i don't know the answer i just say i don't have the answer when someone comes to me and say hey can this be fixed or not i say we're going to do our best and i've seen pretty much everything else in the world be overcome so why can't you overcome this as well like that's the thing the human body has the remarkable ability to heal the problem is you still have pcos right and so you have to check out my podcast on pcos because pcos can be overcome it really can't and so if you can overcome pcos like you need to overcome the underlying root causes of the dry eye in the pcos well pcos is testosterone estrogen dominance high cortisol low thyroid blood sugar issues and not all of them but it's it's one of those so we need to fix that we fix that the body starts to get healthier we go through functional medicine detoxification based protocols we make sure their hormones are balanced we make sure glucose is balanced and then all the inflammation in the body which by the way this is inflammatory based starts to become a balanced healthy level of inflammation so that's really what we need to work on like don't think about the dry eyes specifically don't even think about the pcos specifically these are things that conventional medicine labels you with i was labeled with addison's disease rheumatoid arthritis type 2 diabetes pot syndrome mastocytosis insomnia allergies eosinophilic rhinitis like i could go on and on right well i don't have any of those anymore good thing i didn't believe in their diagnosis telling me that they would never go away right good thing all right michael's up next hi doctor and so by the way crystal you run the big five or you at least run at least run the stress hormones metabolic uh stress hormones mood and metabolism test and ideally the starter kit ideally those three if possible all right michael's up next and our last question of the day dr brawl would you what would cause someone to burp omega-3 capsules i've tried many functional medicine brands but i keep burping them i have low stomach acid tested positive for h pylori and probably have sibo as well thank you michael for your question and you know what you're answering your own question low stomach acid is the number one reason why people would burp up omega-3s and you might say well you don't need stomach acid really to break down body fat well you do and the reason you do is because one is it needs to actually break down a gelatin capsule so oil typically comes in a gelatin capsule not a vegetable capsule so 99 of our products come in a vegetable based capsule it's called hemicellulose you probably saw it in the back and cellulose means vegetable fibers and but things like omega-3 or an oil have to be in gelatin or if not it would leak through a vegetable capsule so you have to break down that vegetable capsule that takes stomach acid but also stomach acid helps prime they call it priming the pump so if you have stomach acid and it lowers the ph of the food that moves through your gastric valve in your stomach into the first part of your small intestine where it then mixes with bile well if it's not low enough ph then the bile does not need to flow as freely because it bile neutralizes biles high ph and the stomach contents are low ph right if you have stomach acid and that's how the body's supposed to work so we need to work on your stomach acid and most likely it's from h pylori and other factors so we need to fix the h pylori that's the first step and then we need to rebuild the stomach acid uh and then you probably won't have sibo anymore because one of the reasons people have sibo is low stomach acid because they're also not producing enough bile check out my podcast on the digestion they're completely free check out uh if you know you have these things check out again not providing any medical treatment plans whatsoever but check out the cbo protocol with the citrus cider drops with mastic gum so you might want to just check that out and then you'll work on rebalancing your gut then you'll strengthen your stomach acid and then you'll be able to take omega-3s again and i would start with a liquid omega-3 first uh super easy you just need one teaspoon that's it of the daily omega-3 support at least the equal life brand is just one teaspoon that's it and then you have to break down the capsules anymore so hopefully this was helpful thank you michael for writing in thank you everyone for your support of the show three million downloads a month who who would have thought uh when you first started out with 3 000 downloads a month right many many years ago but uh pretty amazing again i haven't changed whether it's 3 000 downloads a month 3 million downloads a month i'm just trying to do my part just like someone helped me many many years ago i'm just doing my best to pay it forward and and i thank you all so much so take care have an amazing day i'll see you tomorrow on our mindset of motivation monday [Music]