Prescription for turkey, Brazil nuts and sex.

I love my doctor.
Doctor Mandy is AWESOME.
She is the best thing since seeds.

As some of you know I have had struggles over the last couple years with my inside parts of my body. This last round of blood test have come back and they are looking pretty darn good! Thank you! I will take my bow now.

Over all my blood came back with glowing reviews. My white blood cells are looking great the red ones - on the other hand - are having a little problem with their size. Seems that they are on an ego boost and sucking all my seratonin with it.

Apparently, when Dr. Mandy took my blood she had it tested for Lyme Disease. Yes, I knew she was going to test for it simply because I hang out under bushes and play in the dirt. What was truly amazing is finding out that there could be so many different "bands" to Lyme's Disease and if you test positive for more then two then you are catagorized as sick. You have the illness. Well, since I work out side and haven't had any ticks sucking on me like small little vampires, I am doing ok.
Lucky Me!

I am fighting off one band or what is resembling one band. Things that make you go hummmm. Even though Dr. Mandy is a little concerned, I am not. She thinks that since it's only one band and not three that it could be an autoimmune something or another BUT when we got to the end of the 6 page report my blood ran free of those too. So now back to drawing baord, haha get it? gotta draw more blood.

Well anyhoo, it is a good thing that needles don't bother me. Trust me I know it would make a better story if I was.

Dr. Mandy, is so patient with me. When it comes to telling me things like my Pregnenolone levels are low she can see that she really can't tell me too much technical jarrgon without my head literally spinning around out of control and popping off so she breaks things down like this: this level is too low - eat more animal fat. She also knows I am very visual and I need help understanding a few things so she breaks out the scrap paper and starts doodling!

I love this woman!
Did I say that yet?
Ohhhhh and thank goodness she has good hand writing.

So from what I understand about pregnenolone,  the word I can type but can not pronounce (pregna - no- lone - knee, my version) has everything to do with cholesterol and eventually my hormones. So long story short my hormones are still out of whack. She put me on a natural herbal drug that I take every morning that helps balance out my emotional roller coaster but the animal fat is to help with the building of the hormones so it has everything to do with the cell structure and so on.

More medical jargon that refused to stick in my brain. I used to get enough animal fat when I could eat cow milk yogurt and drink half-n-half or eat cheese. Or just intake milk in anyway I could. Now its' a daily adventure to find more things that involve the fatty parts of animals. I have introduced goat milk and cheese but the prices of these products keep me pretty limited on what I can actually bring home. There will be a goat in the year eventually. Hint, hint boyfriend!

When I asked Dr. Mandy how vegetarians make this whole cholesterol/hormone thing work she said it doesn't.

Noted. Never go vegetarian.

Vegan? Yes! Just make sure I remember to get animal fat! So it boils down to more steaks and more vegan desserts. Ok, that is not complicated. Rolling my eyes now.

Moving on ...

My risk of cardiovascular problems have dropped below "high" and I am now sitting in the average range. I can handle that.

The best part of the test came next on page 4 of the report. MY SUGAR LEVELS HAVE DROPPED!! Taking in less refined sugar, learning to bake yummy treats with homemade applesauce or honey and dropping sugary drinks has lowered my sugar levels by two points!!

You heard that right!
2 freakin' points!!

Dr. mandy was so thrilled I had to get up from the table and do a happy dance. She was so happy because we did it soley with food. I didn't have to take prescription drugs to accomplish any of it. Noted.

My Vitamin D levels are still low. Yes, that is understandable since we garden in the islands north of the sun! My little droplets of liquid Vitamin D still need to be added to my green lucky charm flavored shake every night.

Cure for this?
Move to a warmer climate!
Lay out naked in the sun even in the 45 degree weather. Yeah that ain't happening.

My Vitamin B levels are still ringing in at low levels. This means Dr. Mandy will shoot me in the butt more times than I care for with bright red liquid filled with B-12 and other things. I really do enjoy the high for a couple hours afterwards.

Cure for the low results? I knew you wanted to know the answer!? So the cure is (drum roll) Forever on Vitamin B pills that comes labeled as Stress B-Complex, brazil nuts, squash and pumpkin seeds.

Vitamin B's are awesome!!
A legalized head rush that can really only come from the work of bees! Ahhh ... thank you bees.

Now the best part of the whole 2 hour appointment! My Serotonin levels. Well let's just say that they are so low that they were barely on the scale. Hell they were barely on the same side of the street as my red blood cells and their ego! Not enough room for the both of them so one of them had to go.

Reminds me of a conversation my best friend and I had when we lived in the same town together. Okay. Yeah, it was more of a yelling match. We decided that we would live is desperate towns.  We have stuck to that promise.

So what is Serotonin?
Yes, I had to ask. I had no idea what it was or did.

If you ever have the chance to have a visit with Dr. Mandy you will understand that she is an amazing, caring, woman that has truly packed a bunch of love in a small body. Now that I have said this it brings me to the cure from my levels falling from the charts. Kind words spoken from my heart.

Serotonin measures the amount of happiness you have in your life. Oh. Doh! She calls it my "snap shot of Joy", Guess I am not a happy person. Ouch.

How the hell do you fix that?
Yes, I had to ask this too.

She got a big smile on her face and said ... SEX ... and lots of it! I can do that! Anything else? The food cure is more turkey. Ok ... I now have 6 turkeys in my freezer.

The other? This is sure a hard one. Haven't quite figured out how to get this cure to work.

We get out joy from people telling us how great we are, how we make a difference to them or how we make a difference in the lives of others around us.

Ok with that being said. I know you all want to post comments on this blog entry telling me how awesome I am and how I make you a better person. Go ahead! Do it!! You will be helping my levels go up and you will be part of my cure! My prescription of happiness starts with you and of course the boyfriend who is thrilled about the first part.

My mind is still spinning on this and thinking of my serotonine levels brings me to start thinking deeper about how this can really work. That will be another post when I figure it all out. I hope I can figure it out. I do know that we all need to be the reason that other peoples' levels are raised and not drained.

I hope my kind words about Dr. Mandy help raise her levels! :) Just let me know if I can help you raise yours. I know, for an absoulte fact, there is a list of great things in everyone.