Epi-paleo Rx Quotes

“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. Action is always a better choice than inaction. The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.”
― Dr. Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“Most physicians and patients believe disease risk is set by genetics. This is false, but also the most common excuse doctors give patients when we do not know the answer. We just blame it on genetics and hope you’re satisfied. Don’t be. We learned this from the studies by Nir Barzilai, MD on super centenarians at Albert Einstein Medical College. Studies on people over 100 years old showed they were all found to harbor most of the bad genes we already know about. What was very interesting, however, was that the bad genes were turned off in these people. The ultimate arbiter of a long healthy life is the expression of our genes-whether they are turned on or off. This is called the epigenetic expression of disease.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“15. Fasting serum insulin and HbA1c assessment I generally do this as a baseline test and order it frequently if I have a diabetic who wants to reverse his or her disease.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“14. Omega 6:3 serum test (for severe findings consider tissue assay) This assay is critical before you change your diet and lifestyle to see how far you need to go with the Paleolithic diet. It generally takes 12-36 months to reverse this ratio depending upon how gone you are. When I began I was at 35:1 and it took me three years to get below a 4:1 ratio.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“14. Omega 6:3 serum test (for severe findings consider tissue assay)”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“13. Highly Sensitive CRP (HS-CRP)-not a regular CRP This is well covered in the VAP section in this chapter.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“12. Complete Urinalysis (beta HCG for menstruating women) This includes a standard urinalysis, a urine specific gravity and regular chemistries.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“11. Complete thyroid panel with antibody screening (TPO Ab and Tg Ab) This is critical for the Hashimoto’s hypothyroid patients, who make up the bulk of this disease hack. A. TSH level, Free T4 and Free T3 (“free” means unbound fraction of hormone and is bio-available) B. Reverse T3: To be done at the same time you do the Free T3. Then calculate your ratio with the results and measurements. Realize that most labs do not make these two the same units, so you will to find a calculator online to make that conversion. C. Thyroid antibodies (TPO Ab and TgAb) D. Four iron labs, which include Ferritin, % Saturation, TIBC and serum iron mentioned above.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“Food quality and choices dictate 95 percent of our genetic expression. Diet is that important!”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“can cause your heart a problem. If you have a lot of tartar on your teeth that becomes easily calcified you have a Vitamin K2 deficiency, which the Framingham Heart study”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“If what you’re doing in life is not your passion, then you have nothing to lose by changing right now. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. Action is always a better choice than inaction. The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health

“It isn’t genes alone that determine our health destiny, but instead it’s our food and lifestyle choices. Genes do not control us, they respond to what we do!”
― Jack Kruse, Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health