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Dr. Eric Serrano MD, MS, BC

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Dear Dr. Serrano,

I have a question in regards to hormones and young women.  My youngest daughter is 17 and gets depressed easily.  She is tired and gets random aches and pains.  She's been to the doctor and phsical therapy and everything checks out.  Could she possibly have hormone issues due to her diet, which is lacking in healthy foods, as she doesn't want to eat what I cook?

She is sleeping in my room because she can't sleep at night.  She gets adrenalin surges through her body and sometimes night terrors, that's why I wondered if it was a hormone issue.

She eats good foods and bad and tends to binge eat.  She likes to eat and is very lazy in regard to exercise.  I buy beef from US Wellness and Alaskan fish.  I buy organic chicken and eggs, and try to get organic fruits and vegetables.  I buy sprouted bread and raw milk.  She hates the raw milk and refuses it, so I get her Organic Valley organic milk-2%.

Her lifestyle - she hates school.  I recently took her out of a $$ private school and put her in public.  I put her in IB classes as they were the highest available and then she'd be sure to meet decent kids, as our area is rough.  Her grades are low- she carries a 2.8 GPA, and just wants to sit on Facebook.  She has no motivation.  She cries all the time and is easily overwhelmed these past 2 years.  Before that, she was on top of everything.   

She has a bold,leadership type of personality.  Although she is quite rude at times and doesn't have many friends, she wants to be in the "popular crowd" more than anything and those kids do not care for her. She eats junk with kids at school and with her sister.  She'll buy candy or cookies from the kids who sell them at school.  She is 5 ft 7 in and about 135.  She is beautiful, but hard to be around as she is so emotional.   

Recently she has been drinking soda.  I don't know how to stop her from eating the way she is.  She gets mad at me when I try to talk with her about her diet.  In the morning these last two weeks I've been giving her kefir with fruit, stevia, vitamin D, flax oil, coconut shavings, and she has been drinking it. Today I packed her a tuna sandwich on sprouted bread, carrots, and a pear.  Tonight I will serve her salmon w/spinach, onion and garlic topping, and possible wild rice.  I think she'd be happy if she were accepted among the kids, and I think she eats to help herself emotionally.

My older daughter is 24 and nursing a baby that just turned one on January 5th.  She has blurred vision and headaches that come on in the morning and leave by evening.  They are migraines, so she gets sick as well.  Could this be hormones?  Or related to diet?   They also found a growth under her arm and are watching it.  Her blood work came back normal.  I still wonder why she has blurred vision and db vision, and migraines.  She eats nothing but junk.  She is married and doesn't live at home.  She feeds her kids junk too.  

Thank you,
Shirley

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Dear Shirley,   

Everything is related to diet, everything.  Even lifestyles that are out of balance.  

You said that she drinks sugary drinks, eats good and bad, but my question to you is does she work?  Where does she get the money to spend on junk food?  Are you buying it at home?

Why would I want to interact with you when I have a computer that I can use to interact with my many friends 24 hours a day?  I bet that she has her own TV in her room, true?

I am going to give you some suggestions, no, no suggestion but some Serrano rules, you might not agree with them but I use them at home and with a lot of my patients and I have a lot of patients and a lot of kids.  I did obstetrics for nine years and started 22 years ago and I have seen my share of problems.

1. Believe or have faith in GOD
2. Go to church or give some of your time, money or knowledge as a gift and your daughter will follow
3. Absolutely no TV or computers in the room, we have five kids and two TV's, and only to watch educational shows
4. If you are watching more than 2 hours per week of TV you are wasting your time and not spending time with your daughter
5. Don't be your daughters friend but be her mother or father, you are not there to play with her, or laugh at mistakes, you are there to protect her and show her the way, to be the leader and the follower when necessary but always be a parent first.  If she doesn't want to follow tough luck, she can do what she wants when she is on her own making a living
6. Your husband and you must be like glue, always sticking together, don't let her divide you, if you or him are wrong - discuss it behind close doors
7. Talk to her with respect so she shows you the same
8. You are never ever allowed to talk back to your mother, she is the queen of the house.
9. The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness
10. You wonder about your older daughter - why is she getting migraines, double vision, but then you answer your own question
11. Your daughter is dependent on her friends instead of you
12. We don't have a democracy in my house but a dictatorship, and I am a soft dictator
13. Eat dinner together at least three times per week, we do it at home five times per week
14. Now that I focus almost all of the above on you and her, Shirley you must give her two choices but always make sure that the two choices you give her and two that you like a lot and the other one you like a lot more that way she can't make the wrong choice
15. Stop feeling sorry for her and show her the way like you are, if she is acting negatively acknowledge it, but then go on and show her solutions if you can
16. Don't buy any junk food that way she will not have a bad choice
17. And now to some medical answers:

• Get a food allergy test
• Check her thyroid, vitamin D and blood sugars
• Start her on Alpha Omega 3 taking 4 per day
• Start her on Muscle Synthesis, 10 tablets empty stomach or two scoops empty stomach
• Start doing things with her, like going places, exercising together, reading together, and less time on tv or computer,

If I could live my life again I would spend more time playing with my children and grandchildren, less time watching athletes perform, more time enjoying what I have, less time thinking about the things I don't have.

Good Luck,  

Dr. Serrano

BBQ Pork Salad with Summer Fruits & Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette   

Ingredients:

• 4 cooked Pork Chops, sliced
• 8 cups Mixed Greens   
• 1 Grapefruit, segmented 
• 16 Cherry Tomatoes 
• 1 tablespoon Salad Oil  
• 2 Avocados, cut into wedges  
• 2 Nectarines, cut into wedges
• 2 tablespoons Toasted Almonds, slivered 
• Salt and Black Pepper   

• 2 tablespoons Balsamic Vinegar
• 2 tablespoons Honey 
• 1/2 tablespoon Dijon-Style Mustard
• 2 tablespoons Mayonnaise*
• 1 teaspoon Chili Powder
• 1 teaspoon Black Pepper
• 3/8 cup Salad Oil

1. For the Vinaigrette:
   In a blender, combine all ingredients except oil. Blend at medium speed for one minute.  
2. Next, with blender at medium speed, pour oil very slowly into blender. Add salt and pepper.
3. For each serving, toss 2 cups greens with 2 tablespoons dressing, top with 4 cherry tomatoes, 1 sliced pork chop, 1/2 avocado, sliced in wedges, 1/2 nectarine sliced in wedges, 1/4 grapefruit segments.  
4. Drizzle with more dressing and sprinkle with toasted almonds. Serve immediately.  

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