1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,280 Music 2 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:21,600 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 3 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:31,040 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:36,800 Good afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic 5 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:44,720 and practitioner of functional medicine. Functional medicine means using standard diagnostic tests 6 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:52,000 to identify conditions that otherwise go unnoticed by the standard practice of medicine. 7 00:00:52,000 --> 00:01:01,760 The goal is to restore normal function and as a result restore normal health as opposed to just 8 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:10,640 waiting until you need medical treatment, until you need a pharmaceutical or a CAT scan or an MRI 9 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:19,840 or a referral to a specialist. I'm here to describe to you a huge gap that exists between 10 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:27,760 the standard practice of medicine and health. So a lot of people think that if you go to your doctor, 11 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,880 your regular doctor for an annual physical for example, a lot of people do that once a year, 12 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:39,760 you go for your annual physical, he checks everything out, she, he, and if you get a clean 13 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:45,840 bill of health, you're good to go, you're fine. You usually think that means you're healthy. 14 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:54,480 That's not true. The standard practice of medicine has nothing to do with the identification 15 00:01:54,480 --> 00:02:03,920 of whether or not you are healthy right now. The standard practice of medicine practiced by most 16 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:10,000 of my colleagues is to identify whether or not you need medical care today. Do you need a prescription 17 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:17,040 for high blood pressure or high cholesterol or for low thyroid or for rheumatoid arthritis 18 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:24,080 or for some other medical condition? If you need medical care today, if you don't need medical care 19 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:32,240 today, then you're told you're fine. That doesn't necessarily mean that you're healthy. 20 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:38,320 So if the idea of ending up depending on toxic drugs for the rest of your life that mask symptoms 21 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:45,360 but don't really ever help your body heal itself from anything, that don't increase your longevity, 22 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:49,840 if that doesn't appeal to you, then stay tuned because I've got an exciting program for you 23 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:56,160 today to share that will hopefully demystify some of these things that they can be confusing 24 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:02,080 they can be confusing and they don't have to be but there's a huge gap there's a big there's a 25 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:07,360 difference there's a big difference between true health and the mere lack of disease. 26 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:16,960 I also want you to know that nothing you'll hear from me on this show is a cure for any disease. 27 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:22,880 That's not the purpose of this show. It's not possible to do that on a radio show and it's not 28 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:31,760 what I do. I've never cured a single disease in my entire 33 years in practice. That's not my job. 29 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:40,000 Your body does that. Your body heals or fails to heal any disease you get. 30 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:47,920 Diabetes is not caused by a lack of metformin. High blood pressure is not caused by a lack of 31 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:56,000 lisinopril. Chronic headaches are not caused by insufficient Advil. Heart disease is not caused by 32 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:02,720 inadequate statin drugs or any other any of the other medications that you're commonly given 33 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:09,440 to so-called what goes under the guise of preventing disease. Earlier 34 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:17,120 earlier prescription of medication doesn't prevent disease it just masks the symptoms of disease. 35 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:25,920 So most of these disease conditions are caused by stress and identifiable nutrient deficiencies, 36 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:34,000 lousy diets, lack of exercise, and general neglect. If you want to be truly healthy 37 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,360 you have to take responsibility for your own health but you don't have to do it on your own. 38 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:46,960 I'm here to help and I'd be honored to help you restore true health and longevity. I'd be delighted 39 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:53,600 to help you identify all the areas where your heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, your immune system, 40 00:04:53,600 --> 00:05:00,240 your digestive system, and pancreas are silently struggling and can use a little help. I'd love to 41 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:07,040 help you get back thriving vibrant energy. I'd love to help you get rid of nagging aches and pains. 42 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:14,000 I'd love to help you get a great night's sleep every night where you wake up feeling fully 43 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:20,800 rested and ready to take on the day and do whatever it is you love doing with full focus 44 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:27,600 and clarity and intention. It's usually possible to do all of these things not always but usually 45 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:36,240 with better food, exercise, and necessary supplements where indicated based on comprehensive 46 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:42,000 testing. Have you thought about your retirement lately? A lot of people spend a lot of time 47 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:48,240 talking about all the different ways to make money, save money, make money from money, 48 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,480 check your investments. The best investment you're ever going to make for your retirement, 49 00:05:52,480 --> 00:06:00,320 for your longevity, for your lifetime is investing in your health. So many people save up piles and 50 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:06,000 piles of money at the expense of their health doing stressful things, end up in their retirement 51 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:12,480 spending their wealth that they've accumulated trying to regain their health or even worse. 52 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:20,400 A lot of times people end up disabled, so uncomfortable, so filled with racking aches 53 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:25,440 and pains that they can't do all the things they thought they were going to do in their retirement. 54 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,920 So just like with saving money it works a lot better to save your health early. The most 55 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:36,720 important investment you can make for your retirement is investing in your health right now. 56 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:43,520 Start as early as possible in your 20s and your 30s. People are constantly calling their 57 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:48,720 financial advisors, checking their bank accounts, checking their investments. There's nothing wrong 58 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:55,120 with that obviously, but when is the last time you truly checked your health? I'm not talking 59 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:00,320 about a standard physical exam from your physician, someone who's just checking to see if you have 60 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:08,000 disease right now that needs medical treatment immediately. I'm talking about a serious comprehensive 61 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:16,320 evaluation of how healthy you are right now. How healthy are your kidneys, your liver, how strong 62 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:22,640 is your immune system and your digestive system? Are you at high risk of heart disease or cancer? 63 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:28,880 Do you have any idea what your risk level of those things are right now? Most people have no idea 64 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:36,640 how important is this? Heart disease and cancer are the two most common causes of death and the 65 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:43,120 most common first symptom of severe underlying heart disease is sudden death from a heart attack. 66 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:48,240 How many times have you heard that someone was just diagnosed with cancer of their pancreas, 67 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:54,160 of their lungs, of whatever part of their body and they've got months or maybe even weeks to live? 68 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,840 It doesn't have to be this way. Things will show up in the blood long before you have full-blown 69 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:04,480 disease, but that's just not how traditional medicine is practiced. You go to the doctor to 70 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:11,840 see if you have disease now. Your doctor, most doctors, never check to see whether or not you're 71 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:18,640 healthy, whether or not every cell, organ, tissue in your body is functioning at its peak early 72 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:25,680 enough that you can take action to become healthier. So functional medicine means using blood tests 73 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:32,800 to identify conditions early enough that you can restore health with a little bit better food, 74 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:40,960 exercise and supplements where needed. A lot of people have heard that your body is fighting off 75 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:47,360 cancer-causing cells every day of your life. That's true. When your cells are dividing, 76 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:54,480 sometimes they make mutated copies that can cause cancer and your immune system identifies those 77 00:08:54,480 --> 00:09:02,320 cells and sees them as foreign, bad, encapsulates, digests and eliminates them. This is happening 78 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:08,160 every day of your life. But what if there was a blood test they could check for that activity 79 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:15,520 right now? There are several blood tests that can do that. So my oncologist colleagues are probably 80 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:21,040 having the hair raised on the back of their necks right now because it is true you cannot diagnose 81 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:28,640 cancer from a blood test. Cancer is diagnosed based on scans that show a tumor such as a CAT scan, 82 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:36,080 an MRI, x-ray, chest x-ray of your lungs, an ultrasound. You find a tumor, biopsy it, look at 83 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:41,920 those cells under a microscope and then you can specifically identify what type of cancer you have. 84 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:50,240 But then what's next? What does every oncologist do after that? Blood tests. Blood tests to see 85 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:57,600 which tumor markers these blood tests are used for prognosis and to identify the best course of 86 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:03,760 treatment and to monitor your response to chemotherapy, radiation, any other type of cancer 87 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:10,320 treatment. They use these blood tests that measure your body's, your immune system's efforts at 88 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:16,320 fighting off cancer-causing cells. So if you unfortunately have been diagnosed with a certain 89 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:23,840 type of cancer, before that cancer will show up on a scan again, it will show up on a blood test. 90 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:31,920 These tumor markers identify your immune system's attempts to fight off cancer-causing cells. So 91 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:37,360 the point is you don't just wake up one day with heart disease or cancer. They take years to develop 92 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:43,600 and nearly every condition will show up in the blood years before you have any idea, before you 93 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:51,760 have any symptoms, and long before it's bad enough to be diagnosed on a typical medical exam. So your 94 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:56,800 regular doctor's never going to tell you about that. As an example, one of these tumor markers 95 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:04,720 that I've been describing is called CA199. This is a blood test that's used to monitor 96 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:12,000 gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic, and colorectal cancers. The upper limit of normal is around 35. 97 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:19,280 So let's say three years ago you had this test done and it was 15, and then a year later you had 98 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:25,920 it done and it's 20. Then last year you do it again and it's 25. And let's say you had a 99 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:31,840 test done and it's 35. And let's say now you just had it done again a few days ago and it's 30. 100 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:37,840 Are most doctors going to pay any attention to that? No, because the upper limit of normal is 35. 101 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:45,280 Should you be concerned about it? Absolutely. It's a trend and it's heading in the wrong direction. 102 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:51,040 It's going up and getting worse every year. But most doctors are not going to do anything about 103 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:57,040 it. For most doctors you either have cancer or you don't. You either have liver failure or you 104 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:02,320 don't. You have heart failure or you don't, based on the ranges that have been established 105 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:10,000 to identify and diagnose various disease conditions. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, sharing with 106 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:15,200 you safe, effective, natural solutions to almost any health challenge. If you're ready to take the 107 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:22,320 test and find out what's possible for your situation, email me at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 108 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:32,560 That's drb as in boy, i-n-k-l-e-y at binkleyhealingcenter.com. The condition of your body 109 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:39,120 is far more important than the name of any disease condition you've been diagnosed with. 110 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:44,480 When you get your blood work done, the blood tests that come back outside the standard 111 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:49,600 medical range show up in a separate column on standard lab reports. So these are the only ones 112 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:56,880 most doctors pay any attention to. But there may be 10, 15, several other results on the same report 113 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:04,960 that are signs, earlier signs, of problems in the making of disease in development. There are a lot 114 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:12,560 of gray areas in disease. So these tests and using a more progressive analysis of standard tests 115 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:19,760 allow some doctors, those of us who choose to practice functional medicine, restoration 116 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:25,520 of normal function as opposed to just treating disease with drugs once you've gotten too far 117 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:32,240 along. Functional medicine, functional analysis allows us to identify earlier signs of stress on 118 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:37,680 your organs and tissues that need to be identified and need to be addressed if you want to be healthy. 119 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:42,960 So when I run a blood test, I prepare a special report for you that doesn't just have the standard 120 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:50,320 medical ranges but instead has a color-coded chart in three different colors. So if something is way 121 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:56,160 outside the medical range like code blue, it shows up in blue, something that's way too high 122 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:03,760 or way too low. Anything that shows up outside the standard clinical range that is used to diagnose 123 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:09,760 and treat disease will show up red. Those are obviously important. But the most important 124 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:18,480 thing is the third color is yellow. So yellow tests, yellow markers, when we identify things that 125 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:25,840 are outside this narrower range that represents normal human physiology, what does your blood 126 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:30,640 look like? What did your blood look like when you were in your teens and in your 20s when everything 127 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:36,800 was functioning at its peak? That's what this range is for. Things that are outside this yellow range 128 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:44,000 represent absence of normal function. Your heart, your liver, your kidneys, your spleen, your 129 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:51,120 pancreas, your digestive system, your immune system is no longer functioning the way it should. It's 130 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:58,080 not a disease yet. You don't need a prescription, but something's going on. The point is before you 131 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:04,480 have a raging forest fire, look for smoke. Look for things that are early enough that you can 132 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:11,840 correct them with better food, exercise, and supplements. So if you want to be healthy, 133 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:18,720 if you really want to choose health, that's your responsibility. The standard practice of medicine 134 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:25,440 is not going to help you with that. I have a colleague who is a retired surgeon, was a world 135 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:32,640 renowned hepato-biliary pancreatic surgeon, which means that he was an expert, a go-to. People used 136 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:39,840 to fly in to get a particular type of surgery on their liver, their pancreas, their gallbladder, 137 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:45,440 and he stopped doing that because he got sick himself from all the toxic chemicals that medical 138 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:50,880 professionals have to use, that surgeons have to use just to scrub in for surgery. And he also just 139 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:57,040 wanted to restore health instead of treating disease. He was an ER doctor for several years 140 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:05,840 dealing with whatever showed up in the ER to help people in a crisis, then specialized in surgery on 141 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:13,520 pancreas, liver, gallbladder, and got frustrated with how sad it was that people wait until they 142 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:19,440 need these crisis interventions when if they just did a few other things to take better care of 143 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:26,480 themselves, they wouldn't end up in the ER, they wouldn't end up on his operating table. And he 144 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:32,320 became a practitioner of what he called environmental medicine. It's basically the same 145 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:38,400 type of work that I do. That's how we met in a functional medicine seminar. And when I go to the 146 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:44,320 courses that I do every year, several times a year around the country to study the latest 147 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:50,480 developments in nutritional medicine, clinical nutrition, functional medicine, all these terms 148 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:59,280 basically mean the same thing. The point is, how do you identify and help people reverse stress 149 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:10,240 on their organs and tissues, restore health, restore normal function to prevent disease? And 150 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:16,160 yes, even when you have diabetes or irritable bowel syndrome or rheumatoid arthritis or high 151 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:23,200 blood pressure or high cholesterol, you can reverse these things and get off meds. Wouldn't it be nice 152 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:30,960 to get off medications that you're otherwise told you need to take for the rest of your life? I'm 153 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:37,040 Dr. Todd Binkley sharing with you safe, effective, natural solutions to almost any health challenge. 154 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:42,080 If you're ready to take the next step and find out what's possible for you, email me at drbinkley 155 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:50,960 at binkleyhealingcenter.com. That's D-R-B- as in boy, I-N-K-L-E-Y at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 156 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:58,400 So here's something you don't often hear. Well, myth, let's do it this way. Myth. If I get my 157 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:02,720 annual physical every year, my doctor will find out anything that's wrong with me and plenty of 158 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:08,880 time to keep me healthy. In reality, they won't. Here's one of the reasons why. Kidney tests, for 159 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:15,600 example, standard kidney tests don't show up out of range until about three quarters of your kidney 160 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:22,560 function is damaged or destroyed. And I invite you to Google anything that you hear on this program. 161 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:27,840 You don't have to take my word for it. You can look this up on labcor.com. Labcor is one of the 162 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:33,920 premier labs in the country. And it says, I quote, in chronic progressive renal disease, which is the 163 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:39,600 most common type of kidney disease, three quarters of the renal parenchyma, that's the functional 164 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:46,480 part of the kidney, must be damaged or destroyed before nitrogen starts to build up in the blood. 165 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:53,360 So what does that mean? That means you can be walking around with 70% of your kidney function 166 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:59,680 damaged or destroyed. And you can go to your doctor and get the standard tests that you get on your 167 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:05,520 annual physical standard kidney tests or creatinine, blood, urea, nitrogen, glomerular 168 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:12,880 filtration rate. You'll get those tests back and you're told you're fine when 70% of your kidney 169 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:20,560 function is damaged or destroyed. Does that sound like health care to you? At the time of diagnosis, 170 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:28,080 type 2 diabetics have usually lost half of their pancreatic beta cells, the insulin producing cells 171 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:35,440 in their pancreas. Type 1 diabetics may have lost 90% of their beta cells before they have any 172 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:45,040 symptoms. They feel fine. That's the kiss of death. I feel fine. You have no idea how well you are 173 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:51,600 unless you get tested. So suddenly people are diagnosed with diabetes. Boom, you have diabetes. 174 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:58,160 And before that, you had no idea. And you suddenly are diagnosed, slapped with a label, given a 175 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:04,960 prognosis of a permanent life altering condition. And especially if you have, well, if you have type 176 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:10,160 1 diabetes, you're put on insulin for the rest of your life. The problem with that is insulin 177 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:18,000 doesn't cure diabetes. The cells that produce insulin don't disappear overnight. It's a long 178 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:27,200 process. It takes years. And you can identify this earlier if you do proper testing. So just 179 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:33,520 testing for glucose or A1C, the marker for three months worth of your average glucose, 180 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:39,280 that's the standard diagnosis of diabetes. But you can identify that by the type of 181 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:45,840 insulin you have. But you can also test directly blood levels of insulin. You can also test 182 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:52,000 directly your C peptide levels. These measure the function of your pancreas right now. And 183 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,600 unfortunately, most people just never find out if they have a problem until it's already so bad 184 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:03,760 that you end up dependent on drugs for the rest of your life. Wouldn't it be great if most 185 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:09,680 people who are taking high doses of insulin now could get healthy enough that maybe they only 186 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:16,080 needed half the amount or a quarter of the amount? The reason that this would be good is because 187 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:25,120 people who take the most insulin die fastest. Insulin does not fix diabetes. It's a stop gap 188 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:32,400 measure at best. I am never going to tell any patient to stop taking any medication that was 189 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:38,800 recommended by any other doctor. That's not my job. My job is to get you healthy enough that you no 190 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:44,800 longer need medication. And then you go back to the doctor that prescribed that medication and 191 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:50,080 talk to them about what you want to do next. It looks like we're out of time. I'm Dr. Todd 192 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:56,640 Binkley sharing with you safe, effective, natural solutions to almost any health challenge. If you're 193 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:03,040 looking for a way to take the next step and find out what's possible for your situation, email me 194 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:13,040 at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. That's D-R-B-S-and-Boy-I-N-K-L-E-Y at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 195 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:18,240 Remember, the condition of your body is far more important than any disease you've been diagnosed 196 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:24,000 with. I look forward to the privilege of speaking with you again right here next Friday at 4 p.m. 197 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:33,120 Have a fantastic weekend. You've been listening to safe, effective, natural solutions with Dr. Todd 198 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:38,320 Binkley. If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions 199 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:45,760 to drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions 200 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:53,040 for yourself and for your loved ones because our health matters. Join him next Friday at 4 p.m. 201 00:22:53,040 --> 00:23:05,920 for safe, effective, natural solutions right here on 98.3 The Word KDAR.