Yoga Pants And Invisalign Are Wrecking Your Hormones With Patricia Luccardi

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If it were ONLY yoga pants and Invisalign interfering with our hormonal health, it might not be too hard to avoid them and move on. But there are many more products and protocols–including plastic, pesticides, and mammograms–that throw our health out of whack. Patricia Luccardi today exposes numerous sources of toxins, PFAs (forever chemicals), and radiation that disrupt healthy hormonal function.

Patricia also offers solutions and suggestions for avoiding these things in the first place and flushing them out once we’ve been exposed. She shares the benefits of going braless, the power of broccoli sprouts and seeds for clearing out hormonal interference, and practical tips for supporting the lymphatic system and overall well-being.

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Episode Transcript

Within the below transcript the bolded text is Hilda Labrada Gore and the regular text is Patricia Luccardi.

Estrogen-mimicking chemicals lead to hormonal imbalances for men, women, and children. Where are they coming from, and what makes us susceptible to their effects? What steps can we take to avoid them in the first place and the dysregulation and illness that come with exposure to them? This is episode 544, and our guest is Patricia Bowden-Luccardi.

She is a thermography practitioner and an educator who focuses on the serious health risks that we face from environmental toxins and endocrine disruptors. Patricia points out how plastic, pesticides, and other chemicals can lead to PCOS, fibroids, and breast cancer for women, man boobs for men, and brain fog in our children.

She gives specific tips and protocols, including Lugol’s iodine, going braless, and without sunscreen, for avoiding the estrogen-mimicking chemicals all around us, and for shoring up our health naturally. There’s advice for men, women, and children in our episode. She also discusses, by the way, why thermography is superior to mammography when it comes to early detection of breast cancer.

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Welcome to Wise Traditions, Patricia.

Thank you for having me. I am so honored. Thank you. I’ve been following you guys for years.

Swimming In A Toxic Soup

We are thrilled to have you here because, more and more, people are becoming aware of the toxins in their environment and in their food that are changing their makeup and leading to hormonal imbalance. Can you talk to us a little bit about the toxic soup that we’re swimming in, so to speak?

To reference it, I’ve been a thermographer for thirteen years. I have a private practice in Manhattan. Thermography is picking up the heat on the body, particularly the breast, and estrogen. There’s a lot of estrogen out there. Women have their own estrogens, but we’re seeing estrogens coming from petrochemicals, all the plastics, and everything. They’re not tested on routine hormone testing unless they’re doing an environmental study or an environmental toxicity study.

How they show up in thermography in the black and white scale looks like a black and white photograph. There’s the color scale, which looks like the rainbow, which is thermographic imaging. In the gray scale, like the black and white, classically, estrogen will look like leopard spots. We’re seeing it on men, we’re seeing it on young teenagers, and we’re seeing it on boys. It is becoming shocking because this has been my expertise for the last thirteen years. It is getting this estrogen dominance down through using sulforaphane from the broccoli seed and Cruciferous Complete, and using the natural plant-based nutrients that come from the Brassica family.

I want to explore those natural remedies shortly. First, I want to talk a little bit more about the problem. If I’m understanding you correctly, there are estrogens and hormones in some of the plastics that we use, even leggings for women that are made from recycled plastic bottles, or drinking water out of a plastic water bottle, or even Invisalign.

It’s interesting because Susan G. Komen from the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which was created by a petrochemical company. It was called the British Imperial Company. It went on to become AstraZeneca. They were touting the BPA. They have been shown that BPA is linked to breast cancer. They have denounced it for years. You haven’t seen too many pink ribbons in the last couple of years.

What happened at Duke University, they had test tubes with breast cancer cells in them, and the breast cancer cells started proliferating. They’re like, “What’s going on?” The BPA was leaching from it, making the breast cancer cells proliferate. There is a link. There’s an absolute link. They have gone to the bottom of the ocean, to the top of the Himalayas, and there are these estrogen chemicals everywhere. They are everywhere.

Even in sunscreen. I interviewed Elizabeth Plourde, who talked about how she was seeing the estrogenation, for lack of a better word, of men surfers in particular, who were slathering their bodies with sunscreen. Their testosterone was low, and they didn’t put two and two together.

I’ve seen men coming to me who are covered completely in leopard spots of estrogen, completely covered like a leopard.

This is what you see when you take a thermographic image of the body.

A lot of companies that do thermography don’t use the grayscale. It’s called the inverse grayscale. It looks like a black and white photograph. In 60% of the findings, we see vascular patterns such as lymphatic backup. We’ll talk about root canals and Invisalign. Classically, heat spots of estrogen will come up looking like leopard spots, or what I call little pigeon feet around.

As we get to the way that we can detox this, if a woman is on a protocol and she is compliant, we see huge changes in six months. There was a woman who wrote a book called Breast. I cannot remember her name, but she and her daughter didn’t touch anything plastic for two weeks. Nothing. They went to the butcher, they didn’t touch anything, and they didn’t drink anything. Yet their body burden dropped almost in half. There are ways to get it out of the body.

Why Thermography Is Better Than Mammography

I’m glad that you said that. What do they say? “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Instead of trying to mitigate things after the fact or after the exposure, what if we made some different choices right now? Let’s give people a little more of a framework of where you’re coming from. You said that for the past thirteen years, you’ve been doing thermography on people. Why would you say thermography is preferable over mammography for women to have some early detection of breast cancer?

When you go to school, you study anatomy and physiology. You don’t just study anatomy. With the breast cancer industry, which is an industry, our breasts are monetized. One in seven women is getting breast cancer. No one is talking about it, but mammography is looking for an anatomical structure. An ultrasound looks for an anatomical structure, even if it’s tiny. An MRI is looking for something. It has to be something they can see, but they cannot see heat.

Thermography is looking at heat. All pathological processes start with heat. If it’s found on a mammogram, an MRI, or an ultrasound, it’s been there for a long time. The stages of cell replicating are what’s metabolically active. There are fast-growing tumors, and this was covered by insurance until 1987. Mammography has saved a lot of women’s lives because that’s all they had been given.

What they said in 1987 is that thermography has too many false negatives. It’s because they cannot see it under the techniques they were using. Ten years later, the cancer came up in the same spot. There are studies on mammograms, 25 and 30-year studies by the Journal of American Medicine and the British Medical Journal, that all showed the harm outweighs the good. I even have a picture on my desktop of the New York Times saying mammograms are dangerous. It comes in and it goes out. They have been phased out in Switzerland.

Tell me if you think this is right, Patricia. The way I see it is, why should I get a mammogram when they’re going to irradiate my breast, which can only lead to more issues? I usually try to avoid radiation to the best of my ability. I have EMF Harmonizers, and I wear an anti-EMF hoodie when I fly and things like that. I’m always thinking along those lines that it does more harm than good. Is my thinking faulty, or is there something to it?

I think there’s something to it. They are advanced ultrasounds. They can see through density. It can see through cysts. It can see through calcification. We’ll talk about dense breasts in a minute. There’s no harm. There’s no radiation. We need to bring in environmentally safer ways of screening the body. Women who have large breasts or small breasts are being squeezed and irradiated. They cannot get under the armpit. We’re seeing a lot of cancer in the outer quadrants with lymph node involvement. We’ll talk about how bras could be impacting that, too. A QT scan is what it is.

There are only five in the country, but I think they’re going to expand. We’re on the cutting edge right now. So much new technology is coming through. At the same time, breast cancer is touching the lives of younger women. I had a woman from Long Island, Long Island is famous for having its cancer alley. Actually, two women. They had cancer in their twenties. They are twenty years old. It usually stays in that stage of being metabolically active for 8 to 10 years. That means they were getting breast cancer as young teenagers. That’s so unacceptable. Why are we not talking about this?

Why was it called Cancer Alley? What do they suspect was at play there?

It’s because the potato farming has shallow water out there. There was a lot of stuff coming from Stony Brook. A lot of children around the area were getting cancer, and there was Strontium-90 that was coming from one of their towers or one of their reactors out there. I thought that there would be more awareness out there because those potato farms have now turned a lot into vineyards. I have a map of Long Island of how much cancer is out there.

How Bras Are Causing More Harm Than Good

It’s so alarming. Let’s go back to something you said a moment ago about how our bras could be affecting our lymph flow and leading to some issues.

There was a book written about ten years ago by Sydney Ross Singer. He’s a medical anthropologist. He went around the world. He looked at bras, breast cancer, and lymphatic backup. In 1931, Dr. John Mayo of the Mayo Clinic said that bras put women at risk of stagnant lymph with the potential of breast cancer. They have known this since 1931. Those bras that were so structured in the ‘50s with those tight little pointed breasts actually had a patent as a risk for breast cancer on it. This is just bras alone, but the underwire starts at the sternum, where there is a lymph node that goes into the digestive system, into the liver, and ends under the armpit.

Many women wear those bras all day long. They take them off before they go to bed at night. There’s no way for that lymph to move. Day in and day out, that stagnant lymph, that debris, those environmental estrogens are being pointed at the breast. Now there are less structured bras, but if the lift is in the strap, if you want to have the lift, you get a sports bra that you can move the strap. Anything that’s going to be holding that outer quadrant of the breast is stagnating the lymphatic system.

Are you saying the sports bra is preferable to one with an underwire?

Underwires are completely a no-brainer. Those wires are not lifting a woman up in space. It is the strap that is lifting it. It is not magically doing that. The thing that’s so crazy is that a group of midwives in Iran is the first to file a lawsuit on breast cancer in the bra industry.

We need to bring in safer and more environmentally friendly ways of screening the body.

They filed a lawsuit.

Yeah, they have a lawsuit on it. There are bras like Blue Canoe, Pact, and even Jockey. If you get it online, there are a lot of natural fibers out there. They are moving away from those bras. When you think about it, the whole bra industry is run by men. A woman is not going to put on her bra that morning, thinking about how she is going to have the best sex later that night. What’s on her mind is that she wants to be comfortable.

I’ve had three women who slept in their bras, and they all have breast cancer. Sometimes you have to wear a bra because of school, you teach, you have to work, or whatever you do. When you get home at night, take it off so the breast can relax. Our breasts are pendulous. They run a degree or two cooler. Let them flow. Fluff them up a little bit. Move them, do some dry brushing, get on the rebounder, but don’t go to bed, and then take off your bra because there’s no way that lymph will move while we sleep.

You’re right. You take it off, you immediately get horizontal, and there’s nothing flowing there. You need to do something to get the blood flowing and the lymphatic system going there.

I work with a few doctors in the city. One is Dr. Loretta Friedman, who is a lymphatic specialist. I’ve been going to the Integrative Healthcare Symposium for years. All the nutraceutical companies out there are doing a great job. There’s a pill for this, there’s a pill for that, or whatever. No one is addressing the lymphatic system. It is our immune system. You think of these tight clothes. I don’t know if it was a lawsuit, but they went after Lululemon. They were wearing their yoga pants without any underwear. They didn’t want a panty line and all the petrochemicals.

You have this skin-tight clothing. We have lymph nodes behind our knees. We have lymph nodes at our ankles. Men wear tight ties. We have lymph nodes here. We have lymph nodes all over our bodies. This tight clothing is stagnating our lymph. We should be wearing like Yves Saint Laurent togas, goddess togas, and move out of these tight clothing.

I’ve had the privilege of traveling the world, following in the footsteps of Dr. Price from time to time. The people I see, the indigenous people, have the kind of clothing you’re describing, not the tight stuff. I’m talking about flowing robes among the Maasai. Also in Ethiopia, I met some tribes along the Omo Valley, and they had the most loose, comfortable clothing. The women are wearing no brassieres at all. I wonder if studies have been done comparing what the clothing does to us.

That is in Dressed to Kill, the link between bras and breast cancer. That’s what Sydney Ross Singer wrote about. He found that the women, particularly in these tribes, don’t have breast issues. It’s interesting because in France, they did a fifteen-year study showing that women who wear bras are experiencing breast sagging because we’re laying them on a ledge every day, not using our ligaments and tendons. They always show us these pendulous breasts from women in Africa, who might nurse several children. They’re giving us false information. Actually, they found from a fifteen-year study that by not using our ligaments and tendons, our breasts will sag.

How Invisalign Causes Hormonal Imbalance

You’re right, we get the impression, they don’t wear bras, so then everything turns straight and saggy. When in fact, by not wearing bras, they’re activating the ligaments and tendons that can keep the breasts perkier. Let’s talk about Invisalign now. You mentioned it earlier. Tell me the story of that young boy that you saw. What was the effect of the Invisalign on his body?

He came to me. He was referred by a doctor. He had gynecomastia. He had a few nodules underneath his nipples because his breasts were starting to develop. In the black and white scale, it looked like estrogen spots all around his mouth. He had the thickest drainage I have ever seen on any of the images I’ve ever taken over thirteen years. Maybe it was a good 1-inch line of drainage coming down his neck into his chest. He had leopard spots all over his chest, and he was growing boobs.

How old was he?

Eighteen. I’ve been collecting images of CPAPs, night guards, and Invisalign, and they’re all draining. There are some new products out there, like EVA Vinyl. If a person is going to wear a night guard at night or something, they can be safer because everything is petrochemicals. One of the biological dentists I work with said, “By law, those companies don’t have to tell you what’s in their products.” Plastic is plastic, and these are also petrochemicals and foreign estrogens. These plastic has estrogens in them.

The reason this is problematic for men, women, and children is that what you’re seeing in those images depicts hormonal imbalance. What’s the problem with that?

There are good estrogens and then there are bad estrogens. It is disrupting. First of all, think about these bad estrogens. They park on our reception sites. We have receptor sites all over our bodies, and they don’t allow our own hormones to signal correctly. They’re like Velcro. We can do things like sulforaphane, which is on the radar right now, to flush those receptor sites.

 

Even children can take it because it’s a functional food that has no contraindications. It’s on the radar of many people out there. Once it goes into the bloodstream and into the brain, we don’t know what to do with it. We’re getting great results with flushing those receptor sites, but the BFAS has a shelf life of 2 to 4 years.

It’s important to get that stuff out because this is not just affecting the human kingdom. We’ve been seeing male fish becoming female for years. Look at the Chesapeake Bay. Litters are becoming smaller. Amphibians is a gender bender game out there. They found in Apopka, Florida, female alligators growing penises. Very toxic lake.

It is around the world that we’re seeing this gender dysphoria from all these foreign estrogens. If anybody saw that movie, The Graduate, with Dustin Hoffman, I’m aging myself. His mentor said, “Son, the future is in plastics.” Now, 50, 60 years later, plastics are everywhere. You cannot get away from it. The dental floss has those forever hormones in it. Dentistry is very toxic.

How Root Canals Play A Role In Hormonal Imbalance

We could have a whole episode on that. I do want to talk to you next about root canals. You said these also play a role in this estrogen dominance and this hormonal imbalance that we have.

I’m not sure if it’s a hormonal imbalance, but as we know from the work of Dr. Weston Price, there is a link between oral health and the rest of our body. The first thing we ask when a patient comes in is, “Do you have root canals? Do you wear a night guard and Invisalign? Do you have amalgams? Do you have bleeding gums?”

What happens, particularly with the root canals, we see the drainage going down the neck. I have three, for whatever reason, if it’s a lymph pathway, three went right down into the right nipple of the woman. Root canals, I always say, “Are they in the back? Could you have them pulled out?” When you start messing around with that, it’s like buying a good used car. It’s a lot of money. The longest chapter in my book is on root canals, oral health, and breast health.

It’s all linked, isn’t it?

Yes. There is a movie called Root Cause, you probably know that. To say it, it’s pun intended, yanked off Netflix within a week. It was the truth about root canals. You can see it on YouTube, and you can see it on Amazon. I saw it with a dentist. He said, “That’s exactly why I don’t do root canals.”

Why do you think it would be censored, Patricia?

It’s because the cash cow of dentistry, and so is Invisalign. For the audience out there, when you go to a dentist, let it be a biological dentist because they’re using things in the mouth that are environmentally safe. They’re not using toxic fillers and this and that. Our mouth is connected to our immune system because it goes right into the lymph system and drains down the neck and into the lymphatic system.

The Right Way To Flush Receptors

Let’s say there’s someone right now who is like, “I’m going to get my root canals pulled,” or “I’m so happy I haven’t had any, but I know I have these yoga pants that are full of plastic and estrogen disrupting chemicals and so forth,” and they’re going to start doing their best to prevent exposure to things that could affect their hormonal balance. Talk to me a little bit about what we can do if we think we’ve already got a heavy load. You talked about flushing the receptors. How can we do that?

There is a product, sulforaphane. It comes from the broccoli seed. For many years, Johns Hopkins has conducted a lot of studies on broccoli sprouts. Broccoli sprouts had a way of inhibiting breast cancer cells, but now they have found that the seeds have more efficacy than the actual sprouts do. There are many companies out there, such as Designs for Health and Metagenics, that are working with sulforaphane. The company that I work with directly is a seed grower out of Kentucky, and it’s Vitalica Plus, the Physicians’ Formula. It’s 600 milligrams of pure sulforaphane.

They have been studied for many years by that company, with Johns Hopkins. That particular product they have is the Brassus Osiris Hopkins. They named it the Brassus Osiris Hopkins because so much study was done with it. What it does is it flushes those receptor sites. They got a 600 milligram and a 200 milligram. The 200 milligrams can be given to kids. They’re being exposed to this stuff too. What it does is it flushes those receptor sites, allowing our own hormones to signal correctly.

Here at the Weston A. Price Foundation, we put a lot of emphasis on food, nutrient-dense food in particular. If we weren’t going to buy those supplements, should we just eat more broccoli, for example?

Iodine is necessary to keep estrogen from becoming dysregulated.

Taking Care Of Dense Breasts Properly

Yes, the cruciferous family. Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and kale. Kale is cruciferous, right? I know broccoli is. Broccoli and cauliflower. Choose to do their own broccoli sprouts and juice them. Green, green, green. Think about if a mother were nursing her baby, making breast milk, what would make the best breast milk? It wouldn’t be wings and beer. It would be things that are beautiful, green, and plant-based. We’re going to get a lot from there, too. We are in an epidemic time. I’d like to talk a little before we leave about dense breast and iodine.

Talk to me.

First of all, I wrote a book called Thermography and the Fibrocystic and Dense Breast because I started seeing a lot of women come in with dense breasts. They were overdiagnosed, overbiopsied, but on a mammogram, a tumor, cancer is white. On connective tissue and dense breasts, the tissue is white. Nothing is wrong with having dense breasts. It just means there’s more connective and glandular tissues. There are so many false negatives, false positives on mammograms, but they will not let a woman get an ultrasound without having a mammogram, even though they know that it could be as low as a 23% sensitivity.

Thermography has no issue with density because it’s looking at heat. They can see through that. There have been studies that show that you can do an ultrasound with thermography with dense breasts. Thermography with ultrasound, with dense breasts, could be as high as 97% sensitivity. Of course, there’s always variance and everything. For dense-breasted women, mammography is not the best screening for them because it cannot see through the density. They will offer what’s called 3D Tomosynthesis, which delivers about 38% more radiation. It still has a 40% failure rate.

It’s more radiation, but less clarity with the results.

You get a little more. As opposed to a 60% failure rate, you get a 40% failure rate.

I still don’t like those numbers, Patricia.

Anyway, I always ask my patients if they take iodine. I’m doing a presentation on the link between breast cancer and iodine deficiency. We became deficient as a nation between the ‘60s and the ‘70s. I told people to stop having table salt because of high blood pressure, and they took out the iodine from our salt, and they put bromine. That disrupts the system, not allowing the thyroid to uptake the iodine.

Iodine is necessary to keep estrogen from becoming dysregulated. Now we’re living in such dysregulation of estrogen, which is why we have such estrogen dominance. There is a direct link to what happened in the ’60s and ’70s when we became deficient. It was taken out of the bread, it was taken out of the milk, and we had bromide. We started seeing the dovetailing of the endocrine disorders, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, and ovarian cancer.

The ovaries store most of the iodine, then it’s the thyroid, then it’s the breast. Now, what we’re seeing is 550,000 hysterectomies a year from heavy bleeding, polycystic ovarian syndrome. I had a woman come to me a few weeks ago, her fibroids were so big that they had to chop them up and take them out. I said, “Are you having problems with your thyroid?” She says, “Yes, I have hyperthyroid.” I said, “Do you have a cyst in your breast?” “Yes, I do.”

What happens to the breast? The breast gets a cyst. They can become hard nodules. They become hyperplastic. It becomes breast cancer. You can take Lugol’s solution, Lugol’s iodine, and paint it on the breast. We need iodine, even children. It’s in the prenatal vitamin. If there’s not enough iodine, there’s cretinism and retardation. The more iodine, the higher the IQ. In Japan, they have a very high IQ. Have you ever noticed that? They have very low breast cancer rates because their food includes a lot of sea vegetables.

There are three kinds of iodine: potassium iodide, sodium iodide, and molecular iodine, which comes from seaweed. Our breasts thrive on this. All these endocrine disorders started dovetailing during this time period. Guess what? They cannot patent an element. We didn’t hear about iodine anymore. They put it on the back shelf. They scared people. I still have doctors who go, “I don’t know, 3%.” The RDA said you can have 1%, 1 milligram of iodine. That’s not enough to do anything. That’s like telling a person not to take vitamin D. You cannot have it, but it starts at 3 milligrams, and it can go up to 50. If you go back to the old 1920s, the old PDF, they said people were taking up to 100 milligrams.

How did they scare them? What did they tell them would happen if they took in too much iodine?

They just took it away. I was afraid of iodine when I started.

You were?

Yeah, because I didn’t know anything about it. You think of iodine from radioactive iodine because that’s where you hear about iodine when you get a PET scan or something. It’s interesting if there’s something like Fukushima, what do they do? They pass out iodine lollipops, whether it’s Chernobyl, whatever, it’s iodine lollipops.

This is so fascinating. I feel like there are trends in emphasis on different vitamins and minerals. I feel like magnesium and zinc are big right now. You’re right, not many people talk about iodine.

Be diligent about what your breasts like. Eat broccoli, take off your bra, and be mindful of how much alcohol you consume.

I’m from New York, so in New York state, we cannot test. There are tests that you can do a 24-hour urine test, and they can test for different halides. We also have the halide disruptors that are challenging our iodine, fluoride, chlorine, bromide, and percolates that are coming from jet fuel and stuff like that.

We often found fluoride and chlorine in our water, both in our tap water and our swimming pools. Where would the percolates be found?

Coming up from jet streams.

If we fly a lot or live near an airport, or even if we’re under an airport route.

Jets are flying everywhere. Our air is very polluted right now. If we want to talk about chemtrails, that’s a whole other discussion, but percolates are. These can be tested for. There are all kinds of tests right now that will test for all these foreign toxicities in our bodies. It’s becoming a full-time job trying to stay healthy.

I would say so. You’ve given us some tools to consider. What do you think about sweating it out? You talked about dry brushing earlier. Would that also help us flush those estrogen receptors?

Yes, absolutely. Sweating is excellent. A lot of people don’t sweat because our lymph system is stagnant, and doing saunas or even taking a hot bath, and then covering up with a blanket and sweating a little bit. You do that when you have a fever. You take a hot bath and then sweat it out. Sweating is excellent.

Why You Should Take Hormonal Imbalance Seriously

Patricia, as we start to wrap up, I want to ask you, what do you say to the person who’s like, “You are seeing hormone-disrupting chemicals under every rock. You’re obviously overly concerned about this.” What would you say to the person who thinks you’re making much ado about nothing?

I’m not because I’m seeing younger and younger women with breast cancer, and I have two young daughters. I am a mama bear, as I can say now, because I’m a grandmother. I want to protect women’s breasts. It’s heartbreaking to have a 27-year-old woman come in with two young children with breast cancer. Be diligent about what our breasts like. Our breasts thrive on sulforaphane. Get out there and eat that broccoli and everything. Take the bras, and massage your breasts. Be mindful of how much alcohol you consume. This is interesting, that coffee will turn into estrogen in 45 minutes.

I’d never heard that.

Even mainstream gynecology, if you have tender breasts, sometimes lumpy breasts, and you’re drinking coffee, they said, “Get off coffee. It will be regulated in about 2 or 3 months.” I started drinking so much espresso because it was a new place in my little village. I’m down there drinking espresso almost every day. I got a lump in my breast, and it started becoming tender. I went off the coffee, and it disappeared after about three weeks.

One Tip To Improve Your Health

You’ve given us lots of tips and tools. I’m excited to get this episode out, but I want to pose to you now the question I love to pose at the end of the show. If the listener could do one thing, just one thing to improve their health, what would you recommend that they do?

Think positive. Think about the good beauty and life, but consider doing a detox. There are all kinds of detoxes out there. There’s liver detoxes. Every nutraceutical company has a detox out there. Can I name some names of some companies? I particularly like Standard Process. They have a 10-day and a 28-day. The reason I like the Standard Process is that they’re one of the few that are 100% organic. They’re really organic.

Unless you’re a practitioner, you cannot buy from them, but so many practitioners sell it online. They’re powdered, and then you take the things for bowel movements and the minerals and everything. They’ve shown the toxicity report, what this can draw out of the body. Spring is coming up, doing a juice fast or something like that, but be mindful. I’ve seen that we can find ways of pulling these toxins out of the body.

That’s wonderful. Thank you so much for your time. It has been a pleasure. On behalf of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Patricia, thank you for your time.

Thank you so much.

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Our guest was Patricia Bowden-Luccardi. You can visit her website, Patricia Luccardi, to learn more. Now for a letter to the editor from our Spring 2025 Wise Traditions Journal. “I have a Yorkie dog that is thirteen years old. Since he was little, he has had coughing, gagging, and spinning up sessions due to a trachea problem. I don’t really take him to a vet because other than that first rabies vaccine, I don’t vaccinate.”

“The few times I have taken him to different vets, they have all told me that this trachea issue is very common with Yorkies. In other words, I should just live with it. As he has been getting older, the cough has become more frequent and seems much harder on him. I was getting concerned, and I wondered how I could continue to let him suffer. What could I do? He would gag and almost throw up. After listening for many years and because it seemed to be getting worse, I decided to give him a drug, a steroid.”

“It may have helped a little bit, but not much. Drugs are never my first choice. I tried homeopathy, which did help slightly, but didn’t solve the problem. As a side note, Chewy had had real food his whole life, with the meat usually raw. I felt like that has kept him healthy, except for this aggravating, bad cough. It was hard to watch him have an episode, and lo and behold, a friend told me about a brand of raw dog food that has organ meats in it. As a nutritionist and a WAPF chapter leader, I became very excited because of the added organs.”

“To make a long story short, I bought and tried the dog food, and almost immediately, my dog’s cough was gone. Yes, gone in two weeks. I have heard him cough without gagging 2 to 3 times, lasting about two seconds instead of a full minute. Previously, he had been coughing like 10 to 20 times a day. Now the only time I hear him cough is after drinking water, and even that is short-lived. It is like a miracle. It took me a few days to completely realize it, but this food has changed his life.”

“It’s the organs in it, I’m sure of it. Here are the ingredients. Unwashed greens, beef tripe, beef lungs, beef bone, beef liver, beef trachea, and beef heart. Would it have helped him if the beef trachea hadn’t been in the mix? I don’t know. I just know he’s like a different dog. I’m so very thankful. It’s made me think about upping my own organ needs. I smelled it once, and it was icky, so I don’t smell it anymore. The owner says the tripe gives it that smell. The name of the dog food, by the way, is Raw Advantage, located in Iowa. I had the owner come and speak at my WAPF meeting because I want to share my story with every pet owner. I’m not a dealer, just a very satisfied customer.”

This is a letter from Elaine from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. If you want to learn more from people who have had amazing stories to tell and to get the benefit of the many experts that we know in the Weston A. Price Foundation, become a member. I mentioned it earlier, but I forgot to mention that one of the perks is getting the journal. You’ll get to read lovely letters like this one, but also nutrient-dense information about sulfur in the diet or vaccines.

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About Patricia Luccardi

Patricia is a Women’s Holistic Health Speaker focusing her expertise on the natural prevention of breast cancer. She is a professional advocate and practitioner for the promotion of radiation-free thermography. Her public seminars and lectures are designed to educate women about the serious health risks of environmental toxins, endocrine disruptors, and breast cancer.

 

 

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