Personal Guide To Health

 

By Pierre Cloutier, MD

 

Functional Medicine

 

Finding and Treating the Real Cause of the Problem

 

You will enjoy reading this book because it will answer many questions you may have about your health and the cause of disease. It will show you how to become healthy and avoid the culprits of aging. You will learn which supplements are essential, such as Vit D, Magnesium, Iodine, Lithium and Zinc. You will also learn which supplements are helpful, such as Carnosine, Selenium, Vitamin B’s (Vitamin B-12, Folate) and Vitamin A, and which hormones can affect your performance and your health when they become low, such as DHEA, Pregnenolone, Thyroid, Testosterone, Estrogen, Progesterone, and Cortisone. I will show you what poisons to avoid: sugar, mercury, lead, fluoride, and trans fats. You will learn how you can reduce your cancer risk with Vitamin D, DHEA, iodine, lithium, zinc, and Testosterone (for women and men).

—Pierre Cloutier, MD

 

ISBN#: 978-1-878398-45-1

PRICE: $32.95

NO. OF PAGES:  336

BOOK SIZE: 6 X 9, PAPERBACK

Ebook: available on Amazon Kindle

GENRE:

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

Finding and Treating The Real Cause of The Problem

AUTHOR BIO:

Dr. Pierre Cloutier has been a practicing physician in Emergency and General Practice for over 45 years. He is an advocate for Functional Medicine and a passionate researcher, always looking for the cause of the illness and the cure. With a love for the outdoors, he enjoys reading, surfing and paddle boarding in his spare time.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:

You will enjoy reading this book because it will answer many questions you may have about your health and the cause of disease. It will show you how to become healthy and avoid the culprits of aging. You will learn which supplements are essential, such as Vit D, Magnesium, Iodine, Lithium and Zinc. You will also learn which supplements are helpful, such as Carnosine, Selenium, Vitamin B’s (Vitamin B-12, Folate) and Vitamin A, and which hormones can affect your performance and your health when they become low, such as DHEA, Pregnenolone, Thyroid, Testosterone, Estrogen, Progesterone, and Cortisone. I will show you what poisons to avoid: sugar, mercury, lead, fluoride, and trans fats. You will learn how you can reduce your cancer risk with Vitamin D, DHEA, iodine, lithium, zinc, and Testosterone (for women and men).

—Pierre Cloutier, MD

REVIEWS:

*****Five Stars by Annette 

“I loved this book! I have read too many wellness books to count but this is the best. Dr. Cloutier managed to get very important information across without being overly technical...Read the book, I’m going to read it again..”you will not be disappointed!!”

—Annette, Amazon Review

“I believe that Dr. Pierre, in this book, has capsulized an enormous amount of information and laid it out in clear and easy to understand format. It addresses for both the health care professional and interested persons logical actions to take to regain or maintain health no matter the age.”

­— Dr. Brigitte Monrose C.C.F.P.FAARM, Markham, Ontario, Canada 

The first book by Dr. Pierre Cloutier, Optimal Physiology for Life, was published some years ago (Blue Note Publications, 2012). If you have read this book, you already know what that book could and still do for you.

This book has the ability to transform your life by understanding how to optimize your level of hormones and vitamins, understanding more about what your body needs to reach an optimal level. 

Dr. Cloutier’s first book gave me many tools, guidance, and ideas to really change my health level,  which changed my quality of life.

Now is the time for us to receive another amazing gift from Dr. Pierre Cloutier. This new book, Personal Guide To Heath, examines the full reality of your physiology and health.

I have personally studied physiology and hormones myself, and after reading this amazing new book I still found so much information in it that is so useful in taking my health to the next level. 

Personally, my passion is to coach, mentor and guide motivated people who desire to change their lives by changing the way they operate on a deeper level.

By understanding who we are at the center of ourselves we can begin living more consciously by creating the reality and life experiences where we can achieve a level of inner happiness that is reflected in our outer life.

My lifestyle and my work require a high level of energy. My brain must be alert for several hours a day and my sleep must be in recovery mode to produce a workup to what I give to my customer base.

Most of my clients have understood how important it is to have a healthy and even optimal body to be able to achieve a level of inner transformation.

I am convinced this new book will help you and many other people, as it has helped me. The contents of this second book will challenge what you believe and take you on a whole new journey through understanding your body and your health, and you may break many limiting beliefs about medicine and health.

It will bring you a deep awareness of what an optimal body is and how you can achieve this level on your own, without doctor’s prescriptions. 

Edith Croteau

Self-Mastery

www.themagicoflovingyourself.com

Contents

Prologue iii

Introduction 13

Foreword 16

Chapter 1

Vitamin D

A Steroid Hormone 18

Chapter 2

MAGNESIUM Deficiency

Do Not Skip This One 26

Chapter 3

Iodine Deficiency 33

Chapter 4

Lithium Deficiency 38

Chapter 5

Glycocalyx,

Hairs In Your Blood Vessels: Yes 40

Chapter 6 

Cancer 44

Chapter 7

Dairy Products 50

Chapter 8

Insulin and You 52

Chapter 9

Medications, Drugs, 

Supplements, Pills and Hormones 56

Chapter 10

Sugar 61

Chapter 11

Cholesterol 66

Chapter 12

Diabetes (Type 2) 71

Chapter 13

High Blood Pressure,

Hypertension 76

Chapter 14

What To Eat 81

Chapter 15

Kids’ Menus 87

Chapter 16

Cooking of Food,

(The Missing Link in Nutrition) 91

Chapter 17

Food Allergy And Lectins 94

Chapter 18

Gout 99

Chapter 19

Restless Leg Syndrome 102

Chapter 20

Actual Medicine 105

Chapter 21

Hormones (Endocrine) 109

Chapter 22

Thyroid Hormone 112

Chapter 23

Melatonin Hormone 117

Chapter 24

Growth Hormone 120

Chapter 25

Cortisone 125

Chapter 26

DHEA, (DeHydroEpiAndrosterone) 132

Chapter 27

Pregnenolone 136

Chapter 28

Aldosterone 139

Chapter 29

Estrogen 141

Chapter 30

Progesterone For Women 147

Chapter 31

Testosterone and Women 153

Chapter 32

Testosterone In Men 157

Chapter 33

Contraception For Women 164

Chapter 34

Hormones and Fear of Cancer 167

Chapter 35

A Star of Medical Research 175

Chapter 36

Carnosine 182

Chapter 37

Vitamin A 186

Chapter 38

Iron (too much) 191

Chapter 39

Omega-3 (fatty acids), Some Facts 196

Chapter 40

Vitamin B-12 Deficiency 203

Chapter 41

Dementia/Cognitive Decline/Alzheimer’s 207

Chapter 42

Breast Cancer 216

Chapter 43

Bioidentical Hormones 224

Chapter 44

Fibromyalgia 232

Chapter 45

Chronic Fatigue (Syndrome) 236

Chapter 46

Addictions 241

Chapter 47

Depression (Minor and Major) 247

Chapter 48

Skin Cancer & Sunscreen 255

Chapter 49

Cardio-Vascular Disease (Arteriosclerosis) 259

Chapter 50

Obesity 266

Chapter 51

Alcoholism 272

Chapter 52

Psoriasis 276

Chapter 53

Head Trauma - Traumatic Brain Injury 279

Chapter 54

Fatty Liver - Nonalcoholic Fatty

Liver Disease 284

Chapter 55

Osteoporosis (Weak Bones) 288

Chapter 56

Migraines 295

Chapter 57

Conclusion 300

Abstract And Pearls 304

References 309

Index 319

Introduction

How are you? Are you well? Do you remember what it is like to feel good?

Or maybe you have never felt very good throughout your whole life. Feeling good happens for a reason. It is when all the cells of your body have what they need to function properly, and that is the reason we feel well.

Cells need to be fed by the right foods: proteins; fats; glucides (carbohydrates); vitamins; nutrients; and minerals. The cells need not to be deficient in essential nutrients—the nutrients that were there at the initial shaping of our physiology, when our ancestors climbed out of the sea (the initial soup of the periodic table that we were originally made of). Those nutrients are: Iodine, lithium, selenium, zinc, boron, chromium, manganese, etc. The cells need to receive the right hormones in optimal quantities on their receptors to tell them what work to do. Yes, our cells need to be told what to do by our hormones.

Cells need not to be disturbed by poisons (pesticides, heavy metals, etc.). Chronic inflammation also disturbs the cells. Bad food or food allergies can result in chronic inflammation. Foods that make insulin high and make trans-fats lead to chronic inflammation.

To be healthy means feeling good in your brain, blood vessels, muscles, joints, skin, and the cells of your body. And, if you feel bad, we will look for the real causes!

Let me present myself, I am Dr. Pierre Cloutier, MD, a medical doctor trained in regular medical school, with over 40 years of experience in emergency and general practice.

Twenty-five years ago   I realized that a patient’s sickness was not caused by a lack of medication. So, I had to look for the “real causes” and study the physiology behind them. Through those years, I attended many world-class medical conferences. I met very good doctors, experts in a variety of fields, who taught me a lot. I studied two to three hours a day, reading a book per week and researched health magazines, papers and health newsletters. I compiled a vast amount of compelling information about the latest medical studies and research.

In this book, I will try to share that medical knowledge with you. In my practice I see one patient at a time. It is slow. But with this book, I hope to help many!

My definition of medicine is to understand and reestablish the optimal physiology of the human body. The goal is to find and correct the reasons for the dysfunction that causes a disease.

Alternative medicine means adding foreign molecules (medications or natural products) to the body in order to improve the patient. Both are good, but the best medicine is to find and treat the cause of the illness.

The medicine we are learning here is to find the cause, and correct it.

The goal is to be preventive and remove all or most of the causes of disease. By doing this, no disease will happen, and if disease is already there, by removing the cause, the disease will go away.