Paul Thomas's Blog

Dear Friends of Dr. Paul’s! 

We're doing a book signing THIS FRIDAY at Powell’s Cedar Hills Crossing at 7 p.m. 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton
Please help us get the word out.

Hope to see you there!

​Building Bridges in Children’s Health (https://bbch.community) is doing end-of-the-year fundraising campaign and has pledged to donate a fraction of BBCH membership fee proceeds to Pediatric Health Outcomes Initiative (PHOI), a prospective registry that will collect data from volunteers in pediatric practices for future studies with the goal to improve overall pediatric outcomes. 
​BBCH complements the mission of PHOI by equipping parents with the knowledge of current science and law that will empower them in protecting their children's health.  If you join BBCH Community with a promo code PHOI-2018, BBCH will donate 50% ($50) of your membership fee to PHOI research.  This promotion is for new BBCH members and will end on Dec 31, 2018.
​After joining BBCH, you will gain immediate access to Dr. Tetyana’s Natural Immunity Fundamentals (NIF) lectures.  See her NIF class description here: http://www.tetyanaobukhanych.com/nif....
Dr. Tetyana Obukhanych holds a PhD in Immunology, so you can learn directly from an immunologist by asking her questions during frequent live zoom Q&A sessions exclusively for BBCH members.
Message from Dr. Tetyana:

“We live in a society where chronic childhood illness has become the rule rather than a rare exception. Finding a child with no food allergies, eczema, asthma, incessant ear infections, seizures, neuro-immune and gut issues, or learning disabilities has become a difficult task. Yet, those of us whose children have escaped the plight of the many will tell you that our children’s extraordinary level of health is not due to luck. It is due to conscious and carefully researched choices we've made regarding pediatric care… I invite you to join BBCH to be part of the community dedicated to raising healthy children and improving the dialogue between parents and doctors."

Dr. Paul Thomas founded PHOI with the sole purpose to fund a registry that will track the health outcomes of about 5000 newborns, prospectively, for 18 years. The registry has IRB approval and has already enrolled over 250 newborns this past year. The registry will look at all factors that might be affecting health in an effort to determine which choices parents can make that will improve the long term health of their children.
I encourage you to join BBCH and learn from one of the best in the field of immunology, Dr Tetyana, who now dedicates her career to the education of parents.
 
https://bbch.community  sign up with code: PHOI-2018.
 
Thanks,
Dr. Paul Watch Dr Paul on KATU live between
2 - 3 pm Friday Nov 9th ​AND Meet & Greet The Authors of:
​The Addiction Spectrum:
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Cedar Hills Crossing
Friday, November 9 at 7pm Come join Dr. Paul Thomas and his co-author Jennifer Margulis PhD, as they share about the book and take questions from the audience.  Integrative Pediatrics is open to new patients and is in the process of upgrading our electronic medical record. We are also trying to answer phones so you don't end up in the phone tree that seems to never end! Please be patient with my staff as they are working incredibly hard juggling huge increased demands with all these changes Because we are a medical home, we cannot take new patients who don't live in the area. Being a medical home is vital to our mission to provide informed consent and to empower you the parents to make health
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When I cover the keys to health, the keys to recovery from a chronic condition or the keys to preventing a chronic condition I generally focus on 7 things:Eat real food (produce, organic if you can, nothing processed or from factories)Get your nutrients (we all must supplement vitamin D and likely other nutrients)Reduce Stress (this might have to include turning off the news and your smart phone alerts)Get enough exerciseFix your biome (internal environmental diversity)Surround yourself with nurturing people who support your passions and healingGet enough SLEEP (Restorative good sleep!)  
So how much sleep is right for you? While this can certainly vary from person to person, and we need more during times of growth or stress, there are some guidelines.
 
In my scan of important articles (something I do every day) I stumbled on three – all addressing the sleep issue based on studies presented yesterday at the European Society of Cardiology.
 
The PESA study enrolled 3,974 healthy middle-aged adults and carefully tracked sleep quality and quantity. 
 
Here is what they found:Those getting less than 6 hours a night had significantly more atherosclerosis than those who got seven to eight hours.Those with the most fragmented sleep were more likely to have atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).Those with short or disrupted sleep were also more likely to have metabolic syndrome, (the combination of diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity).  
The second study presented that in 1993, 50% of all men born in 1943 and living in Gothenburg were randomly selected to participate in a study. Of the 1,463 invited, 798 (55%) men agreed to take part. These men were followed for 21 years. Here is what they found:

Sleeping five hours or less a night, doubled the risk of cardiovascular disease compared to getting 7 or 8 hours of sleep.The magnitude of increased cardiovascular risk associated with insufficient sleep was similar to that of smoking or having diabetes at age 50.  
The third study was a meta-analysis of 11 prospective studies of more than one million adults without cardiovascular disease published within the last five years. The researchers found:

Six to eight hours sleep a night is most beneficial for heart health. More or less is detrimental.  
So how do we make sure we are getting enough, quality sleep?
 
A regular routine of going to bed at about the same time each night is important.  The 7 keys to health that I started with at the top of this article are important!
Avoid alcohol and caffeine before bed, and avoid large meals or vigorous exercise right before bed.  Having the room dark, cool and avoiding the blue lights of screens is important.
 
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"When there are no more leaders to follow you must become one."
My daughter got married! On July 14, 2018, my son Tare and I had the privilege of walking my daughter Zanele "down the aisle" to the love of her life, Deondrae Rhone. Family and friends came from Zimbabwe, Canada, and across the United States, and we all felt blessed to be part of this beautiful, diverse, chaotic, and big-hearted family.

That's not my only big news: I also have a new book coming on September 4, The Addiction Spectrum .
THE ADDICTION SPECTRUM

"The world is in the midst of an addiction crisis. Opioids steal most of the headlines. But whether it is from heroin, meth, or another substance, thousands of people have died, and sadly more will die in the coming months and years."

My new book, The Addiction Spectrum, combines my personal journey recovering from alcoholism with my experience helping hundreds of patients struggling with addiction. An empowering, outside-the-box, holistic approach to solving the addiction crisis in America, this book has been called a "welcome godsend" by critics.

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ADDICTION, DEPRESSION, & ANXIETY. ? We've all had these experiences  But, what if we could reduce or even eliminate these problems entirely, and for good? Beginning on August 13 you can put yourself on a journey to do exactly that, by tuning intoThe Addiction Summit that I host. I spent months interviewing 28 of the world's top health and recovery experts and I'm excited to bring you the latest research and best strategies to take back your life. It's FREE, and it'll be life changing. If addiction of any kind has been a struggle for you or a loved one, register right here to watch! Registration gives you access to my free cookbook, which is not available anywhere else. 
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Vitamin D probably wasn’t at the top of your list of nutritional supplements used by people in recovery, but new science shows that this vitamin may have a part to play. Low vitamin D levels have been found in people who crave alcohol. There’s also a link between vitamin D levels and mental health.

Vitamin D supports the health of neurons in the brain, specifically the ones that produce dopamine. Drugs and alcohol can cause levels of dopamine to nosedive over time. We know from animal studies that vitamin D protects against the dopamine-lowering effects of drugs like methamphetamine. Vitamin D also regulates genes involved in dopamine production.
This vitamin also controls the way your body uses calcium. Research shows that the higher your calcium level, the less you crave alcohol.

It’s important to take both vitamin D3 and K2. Vitamin D3 controls your blood levels of calcium so that your body has enough to stay healthy. Vitamin K2 sends calcium to areas in the body where it’s needed most. This is the best vitamin D available. Look for it NOW. 

Addiction affects your brain. But have you ever wondered how? Photo courtesy of Jesse Orrico via Unsplash
I find brain science fascinating and I’ll admit I’m a chemistry geek. Even if you’re not, you may be interested in what drugs, alcohol, and even behavioral addictions can do to you and how addiction can affect your brain.
 
I run an outpatient addiction clinic based in Portland called Fair Start. At Fair Start we help addicts—mostly young adults—recover from drug addiction.
 
The majority of our patients are addicted heroin and other opioids. Often they are using several drugs at once, including meth.

Most people know me as a medical doctor. Most people don’t know that I’m also a recovering alcoholic.
 
Or that my wife, Maiya, is a recovering opioid addict.
 
While I’ve been in active recovery for 15 years now and I’m not shy about sharing my story, I’m about to go public with all of this in a big way.
 
I have a new book coming out called The Addiction Spectrum: A Compassionate, Holistic Approach to Recovery.  www.Addictionspectrum.com The book will be published by HarperOne on September 4. 
If you have a young family and you read my last book, co-written with Jennifer Margulis, The Vaccine-Friendly Plan, I think you will want to read this one too. Any parent who is afraid their child might someday get addicted needs the information we present in this book. ​If you’ve ever wondered about addiction, loved an addict, or suffered from addiction yourself, this book is also for you.
If you’re a public health official, policy maker, doctor, or educator, you also need the knowledge in this book.
So how does addiction affect the brain? No child is born thinking, “I want to grow up to be an addict or alcoholic.” 
​Even when our using or drinking starts having a significant negative impact on our lives, most of us will deny that a problem even exists. That is one baffling aspects of addiction.
 
Addiction hijacks a person’s normal common sense.  To the outsider, it seems we have no willpower.
 
But that’s not what’s actually going on.
 
We now know where most of the substances we misuse act in the brain. What happens in our brains when we experience pleasure? “My dopamine made me do it,” a phrase my colleague and friend Marvin Seppala, a medical doctor who is also the Chief Medical Officer of Hazelton-Betty Ford, often says.
 
“My dopamine made me do it” is closer to the truth than you might think. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter responsible for the sensation of pleasure.
 
When we eat, drink water, or make love there is a small release of dopamine. The rewarding nature of this feeling of pleasure has us returning to eat, drink, or make love. These natural activities sustain our lives.
 
Drugs and alcohol bathe our brains in dopamine, which makes us feel good.

But when we overuse them, our brains get flooded with too much dopamine. The rewarding feeling is so intense that we want that feeling to continue. If we have a tendency towards addiction, our forebrain brain—the part of the brain that controls and moderates our impulse to stop before we hurt ourselves—gets overwhelmed.

Instead of helping us stop, our addicted brain does the opposite: we get intense cravings for more drugs or alcohol, we can think of nothing but the next fix or the next drink. We feel we’ll die without more.
 
I’m simplifying—there are more neurotransmitters involved than just dopamine—but dopamine is one of the keys.
 
When rats are given the opportunity to self-administer an electrical stimulation to their brains that releases dopamine to levels seen with cocaine, some will continue to do this without eating or drinking water until they die.

Some humans do the same: binge drinking or tweaking on a meth run that can last until the person collapses in exhaustion or even dies.
 
I was a binge drinker.

I couldn’t have just one glass.

​Once I started drinking I had no off switch. I needed another drink. Addictive substances affect the release and inhibition of dopamine by imitating neurotransmitters and activating receptors in key areas of the brain.
 
Alcohol, opioids, and even cannabis sometimes can suppress the inhibitory action of the GABA neurons, causing an unregulated release of dopamine.
 
Amphetamines and nicotine directly activate the release of dopamine into the brain.
 
Cocaine works by blocking the process through which dopamine is removed from synapses, resulting in a continued state of euphoria.
 
Isn’t it interesting how all these substances actually work on the same receptors, activate the same chemicals, and hence have the potential to produce the same addictive effects?
 
The problem is not that addicts are seeking pleasure.
 
The problem is that when you take the desire for dopamine too far, some people can’t stop.
 
Now that you have a better understanding of how addiction affects the brain, what’s the solution?
 
In order to heal from addiction, you have to heal your brain.
 
You have to find non-addictive ways to feel good.
 
You have to avoid addictive substances that overwhelm your brain with dopamine and replace unhealthy addiction with healthy behavior.
 
In The Addiction Spectrum we give you an action plan to move you from the severe end of the addiction spectrum to the mild end of the spectrum.
 
There is a way forward out of addiction. No addict is “hopeless.”
 
We can end the addiction epidemic.
 
We can stop people from dying from addiction.
 
We can all take steps to heal our brains.
 
Save your spot at The Addiction Summit, a free online event that airs from August 13 to August 19, to find out more. Pre-order a copy of The Addiction Spectrum, the book that will help every person affected by addiction find the way out.

How to End the Autism Epidemic Podcast 6. Dr. Paul Thomas Interview, How to End the Autism Epidemic! Well-versed, outspoken Portland-based Pediatrician Dr. Paul Thomas will challenge much of the conventional wisdom on pediatrics. Why is his Portland practice booming? Because he practices true informed consent, and because he tells the truth that vaccines have risks AND benefits. Listen Now! How to End the Autism Epidemic Podcast The truth about the autism epidemic and how to end it is already widely understood by many frontline doctors, scientists, journalists, politicians, and activists/parents. What's preventing the autism epidemic from ending? Paid shills, manufactured science, P.R. firms, vested interests, and bought politicians. If you open your mind and listen closely, the truth will be revealed.
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Join your host, JB Handley, in discussing How to End the Autism Epidemic.

Wishing you the best possible 2017 ​Enjoy the journey, but have purpose - a destination in your sights.

Success generally doesn't just bite us in the butt as we sit around waiting for it.  Luck favors the prepared, and my wish for us all is that we move forward in 2017 with purpose. Set your sights on worthy goals, but don't forget to enjoy the journey.

I thought I would share my personal goals with you in case it might motivate or help someone gain clarity on their own goals and journey. 
How I plan to start each day: ​ Drink a large glass of waterList 3 things I'm grateful for / prayRead from spiritually powerful books Move (5 - 20 minutes)Drink a veggie juice or detox drink 
(UltraClear RENEW - available at Integrative.metagenics.com)  My personal goals for 2017: ​ Read from the Bible, The course of miracles and the book: The disappearance of the universe.Consistent exercise (5 days a week)Eat paleo minus the fruit until I reach my desired weight of 180. 
(add fruit once at goal weight if I can maintain weight)Write a book on addictions (focus opiates) Implement Fullscript 
​(this enables my patients access to most brands of supplements at a discount)  What will you set out to accomplish in 2017? ​Wishing you peace, health and love.

Dr Paul. 

REVOLUTION, Health Care, Autism, Vaccine safety – Real news and where to get it!
​ by  Paul Thomas, M.D. ​Bernie talked of revolution, Trump talked of revolution. Too bad we couldn't combine the best each had. But the real revolution is just getting started. Regardless of party, religion or any other group that would separate us, we the people are waking up.  We are realizing that mainstream media is just a phony puppet front for big business and their interests. Powerful interests who own the media have intentionally kept vital information from us, and fed us a steady diet of lies and misrepresentations.
Where is the real news? We are starting to realize it is with us already, yes indeed, on the Internet, social media, and even in print. We are waking up to the fact that we must question everything.  If your news media or the CDC or a vaccine manufacturer says this vaccine is safe, then they put millions into promoting it ... THINK again. No vaccine is completely safe, so what are the real numbers?  Where are the real safety studies?
What?  The don't exist?  How can that be? Across the country Integrative Physicians, Functional Medicine doctors, Naturopaths, Chiropractors and many other healers in the "alternative medicine" world are starting to speak up. Starting to wake up to the disaster that has been shoved down our throats that is the CDC vaccine schedule, that is pesticides and herbicides, that is GMO foods, aspartame, acetaminophen and a drug for every symptom you can imagine, syndromes made up of a group of symptoms - all for the purpose of selling more drugs. Click to order your copy today! If there was a large pediatric practice with over 13,000 patients, where patients had been empowered with all the facts and the ability to make informed decisions about which vaccines to do when (INFORMED CONSENT) and then the data was collected over many years that showed no vaccines or a slower careful vaccine schedule could virtually eliminate autism, significantly reduce illnesses, office visits and ER visits and reduce developmental delays ... would you think your news outlets would jump all over that? The book that outlines the approach used in this pediatric practice (Integrative Pediatrics) is shared in detail in a very powerful book:
The Vaccine-Friendly Plan  ​ Too bad the national organization that recommends books for libraries to carry has chosen to censor this one. Too dangerous for you to read - NOT RECOMMENDED.
If this experience and data were submitted for publication, you would think journals would be fighting to get the chance to publish such society saving information.  Think again. Time and time again, journals who publish anything that has to do with vaccines and autism are threatened by the big powers that be and told to retract the study (if it's already printed) or forced not to print it (if not yet printed). You won't hear about this in the news on the boob tube, the papers or any other mainstream outlet. You won't hear about this from your doctor, unless you have already left your doctor for one more enlightened. Just this week JAMA just published a study showing the flu shot was safe for pregnancy! [http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2587559] The news of this wonderful finding is being blasted all over mainstream media. Just a quick look at the data, what they actually found and guess what? There will be 4 more cases of autism for every 1000 women who get the flu shot in the first trimester.  We have about 4 million births a year in the USA so that would amount to an additional 16,000 cases of autism a year.  It should be a crime to give the flu shot during pregnancy. Be careful where you get your news.
The revolution is under way.
Mainstream media - I can't hear you anymore. I'm tired of your lies. Your inability to investigate the real story shows that those who pay your salary have you under complete control - you are now obsolete.