Welcome to….The Lois List

a.k.a Wellness Products and Therapies Liked By Lois

Because it’s impossible for a local store our size to carry everything we like, we’ve made this page. Part of our mission is to educate and empower people to create their own good health and that of their family. Lois, the owner/practitioner of About Your Health, even after 19 years in this business, continues to study and learn so she can pass that knowledge on to others.

Some of the links included are affiliate links, which means you can still support us from afar, if you decide to make a purchase. We appreciate you all!

Items with an * asterisk can be found in store at About Your Health.

(Nothing on this page or website is intended to be medical advice in any way. The wonderful thing is…… you are responsible for your own health choices.)

We are always adding to this page, so check back often.

Books

At About Your Health, education is a major part of what we do. We believe that understanding why your body may be out of balance and how to bring things back into balance is the key to taking responsibility for your own health and keeping it. With that in mind, we've curated a list of books we think are helpful in one's quest for great health.

  • Activate Your Vagus Nerve: Unleash Your Body's Natural Ability to Heal by Navaz Habib : This helpful guide provides all the tools you need to understand and heal your vagus nerve, the rest, digest and recovery system. You’ll learn simple yet powerful techniques to address a variety of ailments health challenges, like inflammation, gut sensitivity and brain fog, from their root causes originating with the vagus nerve.

  • Knee Ability Zero by Ben Patrick: This book is for anyone with knee pain. The methods in this book have helped so many people with knee pain and more.

  • Dirty Genes by Dr. Ben Lynch: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health. Based on his own experience and successfully helping thousands of clients, Dr. Lynch shows you how to identify and optimize both types of dirty genes by cleaning them up with targeted and personalized plans, including healthy eating, good sleep, stress relief, environmental detox, and other holistic and natural means.

  • Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Natasha McBride: Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, A.D.D., Dyslexia, A.D.H.D., Depression, Schizophrenia. This book details the GAPS Diet and outlines exactly why you do what you do following this way of eating. Anyone with a gut issue, this book/program lays out a way of eating to help heal the gut.

  • GAPS Guide by Baden Laskov: Simple Steps to Heal Bowels, Body, and Brain. This book provides a more concise explanation and guide to the GAPS Diet that some people find easier to follow.

  • Why Stomach Acid Is Good For Your You by Jonathan Wright: Natural Relief from Heartburn, Indigestion, Reflux and GERD. This groundbreaking book unleashes a brilliant new plan for permanently curing heartburn by relieving the root cause of the problem: low stomach acid. So many people are told the reason for heartburn etc. is that they have too much stomach acid. For many people the real reason is too little stomach acid.

  • Back In Control by Dr. David Hanscom: A Surgeon's Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain. Back in Control provides a framework for you to understand the nature of chronic pain and will allow you to find your own solution based on well-established practices. Since it is a complex problem and you are a unique human being, the one person that can solve it is you. The principles apply to chronic pain involving in any part of the body or organ system. The process evolved from the author's own severe 15-year experience with chronic pain. 

Lab Tests

Viome - Advance Testing for a Deeper Level of Insight. Some of you may have heard Lois recommending testing through Viome. They offer full body, gut and oral health testing using stool, blood or saliva samples (the Full Body Testing uses all three). They also offer supplements formulated specific to you based on your lab results, as well as offering toothpaste and oral lozenges to address oral health.

Lois recently did the Full Body test, received her results, started implementing the food suggestions based on her specific test results and is already feeling a difference even before starting the supplements. Because Lois sees the great value in these tests and believes they are truly beneficial for everyone, we've partnered with Viome to get our customers a discount on testing and subscriptions.

Get $110 off the tests by using this link. - Discount automatically applied at checkout or use code AYH110

Full Body Test - $399, with discount $289

Gut Test - $279, with discount $169

Oral Health Test - $259, with discount $149

The tailored supplements, toothpaste and oral lozenges are not included with the above testing. Use our discount code to get 15% off a 6 month subscription - AYH15OFF6  or 10% off a 12 month subscription - AYH10OFF12

Oral Care

Body care starts with oral care. We know it’s a strange way to think, but once you see all the connections that begin with the teeth, it makes perfect sense. The health of the mouth affects the whole body. First, teeth are connected to organs through meridians. There are many charts, like this one, showing which tooth is connected to which organ. The Paracelsus clinic in Switzerland (well known for successfully treating cancer) starts by addressing dental work.

Second, the mouth is the gateway for bacteria to enter the body. If you have broken teeth, cavitations of teeth or bone, they are now breeding grounds for bacteria and continually leak into the system. One organ closely affected is the heart. ( check out the book “Put Your Heart in Your Mouth: Natural Treatment for Atherosclerosis, Angina, Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, Stroke, Arrhythmia, Peripheral Vascular Disease” by Dr. Natasha McBride)

Thirdly, we rely on our teeth to breakdown food so that it can be in a more digestible form. If you have teeth missing, or if they hurt, that makes it harder to get the foods into a good form to digest.

*OraTec Ozone Oral Irrigator:

Ozone has been shown to kill bacteria, viruses, molds, toxins and it helps heal and repair. Take your oral health up a notch with this water irrigator that can ozonate the water as you use it. It comes with multiple tips and can be used with or without the ozone function. Would make a great gift for someone.

We carry this product in store or you can purchase it online here.

*OraWellness:

*Shine Tooth Powder and *HealThy Mouth Blend. We love OraWellness Products. They really care about true dental health. The testimonials are amazing with people healing cavities, growing gums back and more.

The *Shine Tooth Powder is designed with Grass-fed & finished microcrystalline hydroxyapatite (MCHA). This is part of what helps to remineralize teeth. Yes, it’s possible.   The HealThy Mouth Blend was formulated using 100% certified organic plant essences that have been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years to help restore the mouth to health.

  • Stop and even reverse gum disease by restoring balance in the mouth

  • Heal bad breath by addressing the root cause

  • Stop tooth decay by making it more difficult for microbes to attach to the teeth

  • Support stressed tissue to heal itself

  • Help remineralize tooth decay by increasing saliva production

The *HealThy Mouth Blend restores the natural balance of microbes that live in our mouths.

Tooth decay and gum disease mean that our mouths are out of balance.  The *HealThy Mouth Blend was formulated using 100% certified organic plant essences that have been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years to help restore the mouth to health.

  • Stop and even reverse gum disease by restoring balance in the mouth

  • Heal bad breath by addressing the root cause

  • Stop tooth decay by making it more difficult for microbes to attach to the teeth

  • Support stressed tissue to heal itself

  • Help remineralize tooth decay by increasing saliva production

Revitin

Revitin toothpaste takes oral care up a notch by incorporating oral prebiotics to balance your mouth's natural ecology, plus vitamins, minerals, and other natural ingredients to support whiter, stronger teeth and better oral health! Other ingredients include vitamin C, D and E, CoQ10, ionic minerals and more.

We don’t currently carry this toothpaste in store, but we are planning on having it available at some point. In the meantime you can purchase it here.

Supplements

In the world today we are exposed to so many health diminishing elements like pesticides, plastics, GMO products, processed food products. Our food is rarely grown in nutrient dense soil, we don't spend as much time outside and stress seems to be ever present. This is where supplementation can come in and assist our bodies in regaining balance and health.

Methylene Blue: We featured this product in our recent newsletter. According to Dr. Mercola, Methylene blue can also be helpful in instances where you have impaired blood flow that prevents the delivery of oxygenated hemoglobin to the tissues. In this case, methylene blue helps counteract the reduced blood flow by optimizing the efficiency of mitochondrial respiration. It's also effective against urinary tract infections, shows promise to be a helpful in treating fatty liver conditions, and  plays an important role in your liver's ability to process estrogen.

Find more info about it here. We’ve tried this methylene blue and mushroom supplement and this liquid methylene blue option.

Magnesium: An essential cofactor required by 300 enzyme systems that promote thousands of biochemical reactions in the body.* It maintains a normal temperature, produces and transports energy, transmits nerve signals, and relaxes muscles.* Magnesium is vital for glucose, fat, and protein metabolism, and affects every cell in the body in a positive life-supporting way.* Magnesium also supports healthy bones by regulating calcium absorption and metabolizing the active form of Vitamin D from its storage form.* Magnesium supports brain and heart health.

*RnaReset ReMag:

In 2015, Dr Carolyn Dean MD ND launched the RnA ReSet brand based on nutrient protocols she built through 40+ years of experience in private healthcare practice. Dr Dean's career as a medical doctor and naturopath resulted in a collection of unique, proprietary formulations that support precise applications while remaining safe for everyday use. RnA ReSet’s high-quality minerals and vitamins provide direct support for your health goals. 

Medicinal Mushrooms:

The medicinal use of mushrooms dates back thousands of years because of their varied and uniquely adaptive benefits for health. Now, in recent times with functional medicine and holistic nutrition going mainstream, we’re seeing a resurgence of interest in these marvelous superfoods.

Medicinal mushrooms are nutritional powerhouses with a myriad of health benefits including the following:

We carry in store, and really like, the brand *Real Mushrooms (100% organic) for many of our medicinal mushroom needs. Unlike many other mushroom supplements, Real Mushrooms uses the fruiting body of the mushroom which is where the powerful effects of mushrooms are, instead of the mycelium (the root like parts) which is often grown on grains. If you’re using a mushroom supplement, check the ingredients to see which part of the mushroom is being used.

We currently carry Real Mushrooms * 5 Defenders (immune system), * Chaga (immune and digestion), Lions Mane (brain health), * Reishi (stress, blood sugar) and *Tremella (great for skin moisture). Note: Mushrooms can impart a wide variety of health benefits. The above info is just a small insight into their benefits.

Another way to get immune helpers into your system is through Real Mushrooms *Hot Chocolate (the cleanest hot chocolate mix we’ve seen) and *Creamers (dairy and coconut) made with 5 Defenders Mushroom Blend.

Therapies You Can Do At Home

Castor Oil Packs:

Castor oil has so many benefits when used externally. Some use it for joint pain relief, constipation, liver or spleen issues and so much more. There is even a book called “The Oil That Heals A Physician's Successes With Castor Oil Treatments” that outlines many successful uses of castor oil for health. We’ve seen for ourselves in our clinic how people have had issues get better or totally resolve using castor oil packs.

To use castor oil externally, you use or make a castor oil pack. It’s usually assembled using organic cotton or flannel, hexane free organic castor oil and a heating pad. See instructions here.

You can also buy one premade and not need to use a heating pad. *Queen of the Thrones castor oil pack is easy to use and high quality. They even have one for the thyroid area and hip area.

If using a castor oil pack several times a week in the abdominal area, some may notice diarrhea. This just means it’s working, but the pack is being used too much and you just need to do it less….for now. You may be able to build up to more frequent uses later.

Ozone:

Basically ozone (O3) is super oxygen (O2). It’s oxygen with an extra atom. Ozone’s unique structure makes it unstable, which means it wants to react and bond with something. And it’s that extra atom that makes it so beneficial.

Ozone can be administered to the body in many ways like: insufflation (pushing in), bagging or IV. You can also ozonate your water and consume it for internal benefits.

The Sixth World Ozone Conference held in Washington D.C. during May, 1982, produced many astounding papers on the medical uses of ozone. They ran the full gamut of topics from cancer to herpes to rheumatoid arthritis, written by the world's recognized specialists in their fields. These papers concluded that:

  • Ozone removes unwanted bacteria and viruses from the blood, the same way it does with water.

  • Ozone is effective in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, arteriosclerosis and hypercholesterolemia, and promptly restores circulation, relieves angina pain and improves brain function

  • Ozone is highly effective for all forms of rheumatoid and arthritis collagen diseases.

  • Ozone is very effective for allergies of all types.

  • Rectal insufflation with ozone is effective for proctitis, colitis, prostatitis and fissure; vaginal insufflation is effective for candidiasis and other yeast infections, trichomoniasis and other forms of vaginitis; bladder insufflation is effective for cystitis and bladder fistulas, as well as cancer.

  • And much more. See the full list of uses and conclusions here.

At About Your Health, we offer several types of ozone therapies. If you can’t make it in to see us….consider getting an ozone generator for home use. It’s less expensive that many other types of home therapies and has a wide range of health benefits for you, friends and family.

Promolife offers many options for all things ozone at home. They offer ozone generators, saunas and accessories. Promolife Ozone also has a wonderful learning section so answer many questions about ozone.

Hydrogen:

Hydrogen is one of the most powerful antioxidants available. Some studies have shown that hydrogen may decrease the effects of oxidative stress, reduce inflammation, and possibly boost athletic performance by lowering levels of blood lactate. The hydrogen molecule is so small that it can penetrate the blood brain barrier.

Luckily it’s quite affordable to have a simple hydrogen water generator at home. For more extensive and beneficial use of hydrogen there are hydrogen inhalation systems.

Promolife is one of the companies Lois likes to purchase from. They also offer many other devices to enhance overall health.

You can also get a portable hydrogen water maker that is in a convenient water bottle size. Lois and Jennifer both bought the one they use from Qlife. It’s called the Qcup Max and comes highly recommended. Qlife also makes other hydrogen devices.

If you aren’t interested in a device to create hydrogen water, there are tablets that you put in water to create hydrogen water.

Home Use Devices:

Pulsetto: Pulsetto is a vagus nerve stimulator that biohacks your parasympathetic nervous system. Stimulating the vagus nerve activates your nervous system, which helps your body "rest and digest." Your heart rate will slow, and you'll feel calmer, less stressed, and less anxious. Vagal tone for improved health. Pulsetto tech can help you beyond simply relaxing – the vagus nerve is vital in the control of inflammation as well as the management of food intake and feeling sated. Vagus nerve stimulation improves sleep quality, which can boost your mood, help you get more rest, and erase fatigue from your daily life.

We’ve heard from our clients how the Pulsetto has helped reduce and eliminate pains, eliminate seizure occurrences, improved gut health and more.

Bob and Brad Mini Massage Gun: This mini massager, percussor is great for muscle aches and pains. Addressing muscle tensions can help increase blood and lymphatic circulation, muscle soreness, improved sports performance, rehabilitation – post injury care, pain relief, nervous system stimulation, breaks up scar tissue and more.

HairMax: Hair Growth and Regrowth Treatment - Restores Natural Hair Cycle - Home-Use Medical Device With Medical Grade Lasers. We’ve heard this device is the real deal. Several people have purchased and experienced improved hair growth. For anyone dealing with hair loss, this device may be just the thing to stimulate regrowth.

All the devices below can be found at Sota.com.

Silver Pulser - Can make your own colloidal silver, micropulsing that offers gentle microcurrents that work with the body’s natural electricity for more energy, general health and well-being.

Water Ozonator - Produces freshly-ozonated water. The fresh taste and extra oxygen are an energizing way to hydrate your body.

Magnetic Pulser - Generates a pulsed magnetic field which create microcurrents of electricity that work with the body’s natural electricity for general health and well-being.

Bio Tuner - Supports the mind-body connection by offering harmonic frequencies that help create an inner sense of calm, balance and tranquility.

Squatty Potty - Yes, we’re all about bathroom talk. Did you know that most people walk around with about 8lbs of feces in the body. The way we eat has an impact on that, as well as our position when we have a bowel movement. Our body is optimally designed to eliminate in the squat position. Y Using the Squatty Potty puts your body in a more ideal position to eliminate like the body was designed to.

Far Infrared Sauna:

A far infrared sauna is different from a steam sauna in that a steam sauna heats the air around you, where a far infrared sauna heats your body from the inside out….in a good way. This makes it ideal for reducing inflammation, cardiovascular health and detoxifying. Other benefits include muscle recovery, relaxation, weight loss, sleep, helps cell and overall health.

Sunlighten Saunas - At the clinic we use the Sunlighten Solo Sauna. Sunlighten is known for it’s low emf and quality construction. We chose the solo for the clinic because of its low emf and the head can remain out in the cooler air while using the sauna. There have been studies done using the solo sauna showing how beneficial it is for lowering blood pressure. Use our link to get $200 off your sauna purchase.