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Page 14 | Abby's Magazine | instagram.com/abbyshealthfood Q & A with Collin Gow, C. N. C. Q & A with Collin Gow, C. N. C. Collin Gow, C.N.C. is a certified nutritional consultant who has been working in the fields of health and nutrition for over 13 years and researching for over 20 years. Collin is currently employed at Abby's Health and Nutrition consulting and educating in the Tampa Bay area. Q: My dog has high liver enzymes. What can I give him for that? A: Liver enzymes such as ALT, AST, ALP, and GGT can be elevated due to liver damage and liver diseases. However, the ratio of liver enzymes to each other is important as well and can provide a differential diagnosis. I can tell you what foods/ natural supplements have been shown to lower liver enzymes in studies on mice and/ or humans. Here are some of them: Plantago major seeds, silymarin, carnitine, vitamin E, betaine, garlic, omega 3s, and curcumin. I know for a fact that silymarin, carnitine, vitamin E, garlic, omega 3s, and curcumin are all safe for dogs. Maybe try some of those but talk to your veterinarian before making any changes. Q: Do you have any radiosensitizer supplements? I have cancer. A: There are a few compounds that have been shown to both enhance the effectiveness of radiation and protect from its toxicity at the same time. Resveratrol and genistein have been shown to do that. You can buy those in supplement form. Abby's carries the resveratrol, but not a straight genistein. Genistein can be obtained from eating organic soy. My book contains more information on the subject. Be well. Q: How do you know which electrolyte to get? There are so many of them. A: I prefer an electrolyte that has clean, all natural ingredients, such as one that uses stevia or monk fruit for a sweetener or uses no sweetener at all (you can always add coconut water or juice to sweeten if you like) and I prefer an electrolyte with a ratio of potassium to sodium that is close to 50:50 or that is slightly higher in potassium than sodium. Sodium is easy to get in the diet and it is rare to be deficient is sodium (other than maybe those people who are on certain blood pressure medications). On the other hand, 97% of the population is deficient in potassium because it is required in higher amounts than any mineral. Nobody eats enough fruit to get anywhere close to the amount of potassium in their diet that they actually need. I also look for an electrolyte that has what I consider most of the key minerals, which, when combined with acids, function as electrolytes: sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, and magnesium. It's nice if the product has trace minerals as well. Zinc and copper would be nice too, but most electrolyte powders don't have those. Q: My significant other has Multiple System Atrophy. We are going to specialists but not getting much help. What can we do? A: EGCG from Green Tea, Chinese Skullcap, Red Sage, Mannitol, Nicotine, and Caffeine are the most promising natural compounds in the medical literature showing benefits for inhibiting alpha-synuclein aggregation (the common cause of MSA) and/or having other beneficial biological actions on alpha-synuclein. Talk to your doctor before making any changes. Q: I have a dry cough that won't go away. What should I do? A: You will need demulcent herbs (moistening herbs), antitussive herbs (cough sedating herbs), hydrating electrolytes (like BodyHealth Perfect Amino Electrolytes), and lubricating oils (like borage oil). However, you need the right energetics of herbs as well. The energetics of herbs in the simplest form means that an herb is either hot, cold, dry, or moist. Most cough formulas in the health food industry have more hot/warming herbs and drying herbs. They are usually formulated for a cold, wet cough. Therefore, many cough medicines are not going to be good for a hot, dry cough condition. For instance, ginger is hot and dry, ivy leaf is warming and very very drying, thyme is warming and drying, osha is warm and dry, yerba santa is warm and dry, wild cherry bark is neutral and drying. Instead of those herbs, pick either kelp or bladderwrack or irish moss, pick either licorice or marshmallow, pick mullein, and pick either horehound or chickweed. So, a dry cough remedy might be the following recipe: kelp, licorice, mullein, and chickweed. Try that and add the electrolytes (and drink more water) and add borage oil. Let me know how it goes. A much more extensive article on Dry Cough and the Energetics of Herbs will appear in my Collected Works on Health and Nutrition Volume 3 book. Be well. Abbys Health Magazine Ad 9.825x4.5 - PRESS.pdf 1 2/2/24 1:21 PM