Bette Dowdell
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Main Areas:The endocrine system--metabolism, energy, immunity, libido, etc., etc., etc.Best Sellers:Pep for the Pooped: Discovering Vitamins and Minerals Your Body Is Starving For, Understanding Blood Tests: When Your Doctor's Too Busy to Explain
Career Focus:Helping people achieve health
I've dealt with a whacked-out pituitary gland for most of my life. A drunk driver hit my parents' car as we drove down the highway to Grandma and Grandpa's for Christmas, a month before my first birthday. My infant skull torpedoed into the door panel with enough force to remove the skin from my forehead--and cause a concussion.
Even minor concussions can damage the pituitary.
After a childhood of going to doctors because, according to my mother, "something wasn't right," symptoms exploded when I hit puberty. Doctors didn't know what my symptoms meant, and as far as I could tell, they didn't care, either. I was "fine."
As time went by, my health slipped away. Finally, I found an excellent doctor, the late Robert Hamburg in Detroit. Based on a mountain of tests, he finally put a name to my symptoms, panhypopituitarism.
Shortly after the diagnosis, we moved, and I had to find another doctor--only to realize I was back in the land of "You're fine" doctors. They didn't know what to do about pituitary problems so they didn't go looking. One doctor said my symptoms came from wanting to get married. Another, that they were emotionally based because my dad was a minister. Nobody seemd to think I might be telling the truth.
And I realized it was up to me. So I got my Oh, Yeah! attitude in gear and started to study. Thanks to Dr. Hamburg's diagnosis, I had a name. I had no idea what it really meant or how things worked; I just knew I needed to find some answers if I expected to have any kind of life.
It took me 30+ years, but I made it. My brain works again. My energy and my hair came back. Life is good.
Nowadays, doctors tell me the diagnosis must have been wrong because I doing too well. People with pituitary problems don't do this well. But I remember where I was and what I went through. And my research confirmed Dr. Hamburg's diagnosis.
Things haven't changed much for people with pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, immune system, etc. problems. Most patients don't do well. Without help from somewhere, they're doomed to live a kind of half-life.
So now I'm sharing my research. Explaining the endocrine system--what it is, what it does and how to get it back on track--and the impact it has on everything else in our bodies. The endocrine system may be unknown to most of us, but it's in charge of our health whether we understand it or not.
Understanding your endocrine system puts you at the head of the class--and ready to rumble against poor health. Sickness and disease don't have to be part of life if you give your body the support it needs. So that's what I write about.
Join me in my adventure.
Other Programs & Highlights
Moving to Health is a whole new way look at health. Your body tells you what it needs via symptoms, most of which we don't recognize. So Moving to Health correlates symptoms with health issues, along with how to give your body what it needs. It takes a year and some effort, but people around the world who had all but given up hope of ever feeling good again are once again healthy and enjoying life. One example: Lisa, an Australian mother of five struggled just to get through the day. Moving to Health changed everything. So, she used the symptom approach on her autistic son, who also did great; teachers said he was like a new boy. And once again for her younger son, who stuttered. Good-bye stutter. Read about Moving to Health--and some amazing testimonials--at http://MovingToHealth.com
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Bette Dowdell
I think in sound bites, so I write quotes. My brother said I developed material like Henny Youngman. Henny Youngman!! My brother's fully recovered now, which is good because he was talking about methodology, not content.
Get 1, 2 or 3 small portfolios, printable on 8.5X11 paper, of my original quotes at http://QuickTakesOnLife.com
My guiding belief is God custom-created each one of us for a purpose and put in us everything we need to fulfill it. Achieving our purpose isn't a lay-up, but it's doable.
I go on about how we mess things up with PC conformity. Plus the tendency for people to slip-slide through life instead of living purposefully. Both result in a beige kind of half-life. Why is anybody content with that?
Getting Started With Bette Dowdell
Subscribe to my free, weekly health e-mail at http://TooPoopedToParticipate.com
Check out my e-book, "Pep for the Pooped: The Vitamins and Minerals Your Body Is Starving For." It's impossible to get the nutrition we need from our diets, no matter how careful we are, especially if we have health issues. This 106-page e-book gives you the information you need for good nutrition.
And check out my year-long, on-line teaching program at http://MovingToHealth.com . Get new step-by-step information each week to learn how your body's supposed to work, how to tell if it's off-track and what to do about it. And it's all about things you can do for yourself, mainly nutrition. My approach, developed as I struggled out of my own health ditch, is about healing, not the patch, patch, patch approach of today's medicine, covering over symptoms, but never healing.
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