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Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions
with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd.
Good afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic
and practitioner of functional medicine. Functional medicine means using standard diagnostic tests
to identify conditions that otherwise go unnoticed by the standard practice of medicine.
The goal is to restore normal function and as a result restore normal health as opposed to just
waiting until you need medical treatment, until you need a pharmaceutical or a CAT scan or an MRI
or a referral to a specialist. I'm here to describe to you a huge gap that exists between
the standard practice of medicine and health. So a lot of people think that if you go to your doctor,
your regular doctor for an annual physical for example, a lot of people do that once a year,
you go for your annual physical, he checks everything out, she, he, and if you get a clean
bill of health, you're good to go, you're fine. You usually think that means you're healthy.
That's not true. The standard practice of medicine has nothing to do with the identification
of whether or not you are healthy right now. The standard practice of medicine practiced by most
of my colleagues is to identify whether or not you need medical care today. Do you need a prescription
for high blood pressure or high cholesterol or for low thyroid or for rheumatoid arthritis
or for some other medical condition? If you need medical care today, if you don't need medical care
today, then you're told you're fine. That doesn't necessarily mean that you're healthy.
So if the idea of ending up depending on toxic drugs for the rest of your life that mask symptoms
but don't really ever help your body heal itself from anything, that don't increase your longevity,
if that doesn't appeal to you, then stay tuned because I've got an exciting program for you
today to share that will hopefully demystify some of these things that they can be confusing
they can be confusing and they don't have to be but there's a huge gap there's a big there's a
difference there's a big difference between true health and the mere lack of disease.
I also want you to know that nothing you'll hear from me on this show is a cure for any disease.
That's not the purpose of this show. It's not possible to do that on a radio show and it's not
what I do. I've never cured a single disease in my entire 33 years in practice. That's not my job.
Your body does that. Your body heals or fails to heal any disease you get.
Diabetes is not caused by a lack of metformin. High blood pressure is not caused by a lack of
lisinopril. Chronic headaches are not caused by insufficient Advil. Heart disease is not caused by
inadequate statin drugs or any other any of the other medications that you're commonly given
to so-called what goes under the guise of preventing disease. Earlier
earlier prescription of medication doesn't prevent disease it just masks the symptoms of disease.
So most of these disease conditions are caused by stress and identifiable nutrient deficiencies,
lousy diets, lack of exercise, and general neglect. If you want to be truly healthy
you have to take responsibility for your own health but you don't have to do it on your own.
I'm here to help and I'd be honored to help you restore true health and longevity. I'd be delighted
to help you identify all the areas where your heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, your immune system,
your digestive system, and pancreas are silently struggling and can use a little help. I'd love to
help you get back thriving vibrant energy. I'd love to help you get rid of nagging aches and pains.
I'd love to help you get a great night's sleep every night where you wake up feeling fully
rested and ready to take on the day and do whatever it is you love doing with full focus
and clarity and intention. It's usually possible to do all of these things not always but usually
with better food, exercise, and necessary supplements where indicated based on comprehensive
testing. Have you thought about your retirement lately? A lot of people spend a lot of time
talking about all the different ways to make money, save money, make money from money,
check your investments. The best investment you're ever going to make for your retirement,
for your longevity, for your lifetime is investing in your health. So many people save up piles and
piles of money at the expense of their health doing stressful things, end up in their retirement
spending their wealth that they've accumulated trying to regain their health or even worse.
A lot of times people end up disabled, so uncomfortable, so filled with racking aches
and pains that they can't do all the things they thought they were going to do in their retirement.
So just like with saving money it works a lot better to save your health early. The most
important investment you can make for your retirement is investing in your health right now.
Start as early as possible in your 20s and your 30s. People are constantly calling their
financial advisors, checking their bank accounts, checking their investments. There's nothing wrong
with that obviously, but when is the last time you truly checked your health? I'm not talking
about a standard physical exam from your physician, someone who's just checking to see if you have
disease right now that needs medical treatment immediately. I'm talking about a serious comprehensive
evaluation of how healthy you are right now. How healthy are your kidneys, your liver, how strong
is your immune system and your digestive system? Are you at high risk of heart disease or cancer?
Do you have any idea what your risk level of those things are right now? Most people have no idea
how important is this? Heart disease and cancer are the two most common causes of death and the
most common first symptom of severe underlying heart disease is sudden death from a heart attack.
How many times have you heard that someone was just diagnosed with cancer of their pancreas,
of their lungs, of whatever part of their body and they've got months or maybe even weeks to live?
It doesn't have to be this way. Things will show up in the blood long before you have full-blown
disease, but that's just not how traditional medicine is practiced. You go to the doctor to
see if you have disease now. Your doctor, most doctors, never check to see whether or not you're
healthy, whether or not every cell, organ, tissue in your body is functioning at its peak early
enough that you can take action to become healthier. So functional medicine means using blood tests
to identify conditions early enough that you can restore health with a little bit better food,
exercise and supplements where needed. A lot of people have heard that your body is fighting off
cancer-causing cells every day of your life. That's true. When your cells are dividing,
sometimes they make mutated copies that can cause cancer and your immune system identifies those
cells and sees them as foreign, bad, encapsulates, digests and eliminates them. This is happening
every day of your life. But what if there was a blood test they could check for that activity
right now? There are several blood tests that can do that. So my oncologist colleagues are probably
having the hair raised on the back of their necks right now because it is true you cannot diagnose
cancer from a blood test. Cancer is diagnosed based on scans that show a tumor such as a CAT scan,
an MRI, x-ray, chest x-ray of your lungs, an ultrasound. You find a tumor, biopsy it, look at
those cells under a microscope and then you can specifically identify what type of cancer you have.
But then what's next? What does every oncologist do after that? Blood tests. Blood tests to see
which tumor markers these blood tests are used for prognosis and to identify the best course of
treatment and to monitor your response to chemotherapy, radiation, any other type of cancer
treatment. They use these blood tests that measure your body's, your immune system's efforts at
fighting off cancer-causing cells. So if you unfortunately have been diagnosed with a certain
type of cancer, before that cancer will show up on a scan again, it will show up on a blood test.
These tumor markers identify your immune system's attempts to fight off cancer-causing cells. So
the point is you don't just wake up one day with heart disease or cancer. They take years to develop
and nearly every condition will show up in the blood years before you have any idea, before you
have any symptoms, and long before it's bad enough to be diagnosed on a typical medical exam. So your
regular doctor's never going to tell you about that. As an example, one of these tumor markers
that I've been describing is called CA199. This is a blood test that's used to monitor
gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic, and colorectal cancers. The upper limit of normal is around 35.
So let's say three years ago you had this test done and it was 15, and then a year later you had
it done and it's 20. Then last year you do it again and it's 25. And let's say you had a
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.
Are most doctors going to pay any attention to that? No, because the upper limit of normal is 35.
Should you be concerned about it? Absolutely. It's a trend and it's heading in the wrong direction.
It's going up and getting worse every year. But most doctors are not going to do anything about
it. For most doctors you either have cancer or you don't. You either have liver failure or you
don't. You have heart failure or you don't, based on the ranges that have been established
to identify and diagnose various disease conditions. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, sharing with
you safe, effective, natural solutions to almost any health challenge. If you're ready to take the
test and find out what's possible for your situation, email me at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com.
That's drb as in boy, i-n-k-l-e-y at binkleyhealingcenter.com. The condition of your body
is far more important than the name of any disease condition you've been diagnosed with.
When you get your blood work done, the blood tests that come back outside the standard
medical range show up in a separate column on standard lab reports. So these are the only ones
most doctors pay any attention to. But there may be 10, 15, several other results on the same report
that are signs, earlier signs, of problems in the making of disease in development. There are a lot
of gray areas in disease. So these tests and using a more progressive analysis of standard tests
allow some doctors, those of us who choose to practice functional medicine, restoration
of normal function as opposed to just treating disease with drugs once you've gotten too far
along. Functional medicine, functional analysis allows us to identify earlier signs of stress on
your organs and tissues that need to be identified and need to be addressed if you want to be healthy.
So when I run a blood test, I prepare a special report for you that doesn't just have the standard
medical ranges but instead has a color-coded chart in three different colors. So if something is way
outside the medical range like code blue, it shows up in blue, something that's way too high
or way too low. Anything that shows up outside the standard clinical range that is used to diagnose
and treat disease will show up red. Those are obviously important. But the most important
thing is the third color is yellow. So yellow tests, yellow markers, when we identify things that
are outside this narrower range that represents normal human physiology, what does your blood
look like? What did your blood look like when you were in your teens and in your 20s when everything
was functioning at its peak? That's what this range is for. Things that are outside this yellow range
represent absence of normal function. Your heart, your liver, your kidneys, your spleen, your
pancreas, your digestive system, your immune system is no longer functioning the way it should. It's
not a disease yet. You don't need a prescription, but something's going on. The point is before you
have a raging forest fire, look for smoke. Look for things that are early enough that you can
correct them with better food, exercise, and supplements. So if you want to be healthy,
if you really want to choose health, that's your responsibility. The standard practice of medicine
is not going to help you with that. I have a colleague who is a retired surgeon, was a world
renowned hepato-biliary pancreatic surgeon, which means that he was an expert, a go-to. People used
to fly in to get a particular type of surgery on their liver, their pancreas, their gallbladder,
and he stopped doing that because he got sick himself from all the toxic chemicals that medical
professionals have to use, that surgeons have to use just to scrub in for surgery. And he also just
wanted to restore health instead of treating disease. He was an ER doctor for several years
dealing with whatever showed up in the ER to help people in a crisis, then specialized in surgery on
pancreas, liver, gallbladder, and got frustrated with how sad it was that people wait until they
need these crisis interventions when if they just did a few other things to take better care of
themselves, they wouldn't end up in the ER, they wouldn't end up on his operating table. And he
became a practitioner of what he called environmental medicine. It's basically the same
type of work that I do. That's how we met in a functional medicine seminar. And when I go to the
courses that I do every year, several times a year around the country to study the latest
developments in nutritional medicine, clinical nutrition, functional medicine, all these terms
basically mean the same thing. The point is, how do you identify and help people reverse stress
on their organs and tissues, restore health, restore normal function to prevent disease? And
yes, even when you have diabetes or irritable bowel syndrome or rheumatoid arthritis or high
blood pressure or high cholesterol, you can reverse these things and get off meds. Wouldn't it be nice
to get off medications that you're otherwise told you need to take for the rest of your life? I'm
Dr. Todd Binkley sharing with you safe, effective, natural solutions to almost any health challenge.
If you're ready to take the next step and find out what's possible for you, email me at drbinkley
at binkleyhealingcenter.com. That's D-R-B- as in boy, I-N-K-L-E-Y at binkleyhealingcenter.com.
So here's something you don't often hear. Well, myth, let's do it this way. Myth. If I get my
annual physical every year, my doctor will find out anything that's wrong with me and plenty of
time to keep me healthy. In reality, they won't. Here's one of the reasons why. Kidney tests, for
example, standard kidney tests don't show up out of range until about three quarters of your kidney
function is damaged or destroyed. And I invite you to Google anything that you hear on this program.
You don't have to take my word for it. You can look this up on labcor.com. Labcor is one of the
premier labs in the country. And it says, I quote, in chronic progressive renal disease, which is the
most common type of kidney disease, three quarters of the renal parenchyma, that's the functional
part of the kidney, must be damaged or destroyed before nitrogen starts to build up in the blood.
So what does that mean? That means you can be walking around with 70% of your kidney function
damaged or destroyed. And you can go to your doctor and get the standard tests that you get on your
annual physical standard kidney tests or creatinine, blood, urea, nitrogen, glomerular
filtration rate. You'll get those tests back and you're told you're fine when 70% of your kidney
function is damaged or destroyed. Does that sound like health care to you? At the time of diagnosis,
type 2 diabetics have usually lost half of their pancreatic beta cells, the insulin producing cells
in their pancreas. Type 1 diabetics may have lost 90% of their beta cells before they have any
symptoms. They feel fine. That's the kiss of death. I feel fine. You have no idea how well you are
unless you get tested. So suddenly people are diagnosed with diabetes. Boom, you have diabetes.
And before that, you had no idea. And you suddenly are diagnosed, slapped with a label, given a
prognosis of a permanent life altering condition. And especially if you have, well, if you have type
1 diabetes, you're put on insulin for the rest of your life. The problem with that is insulin
doesn't cure diabetes. The cells that produce insulin don't disappear overnight. It's a long
process. It takes years. And you can identify this earlier if you do proper testing. So just
testing for glucose or A1C, the marker for three months worth of your average glucose,
that's the standard diagnosis of diabetes. But you can identify that by the type of
insulin you have. But you can also test directly blood levels of insulin. You can also test
directly your C peptide levels. These measure the function of your pancreas right now. And
unfortunately, most people just never find out if they have a problem until it's already so bad
that you end up dependent on drugs for the rest of your life. Wouldn't it be great if most
people who are taking high doses of insulin now could get healthy enough that maybe they only
needed half the amount or a quarter of the amount? The reason that this would be good is because
people who take the most insulin die fastest. Insulin does not fix diabetes. It's a stop gap
measure at best. I am never going to tell any patient to stop taking any medication that was
recommended by any other doctor. That's not my job. My job is to get you healthy enough that you no
longer need medication. And then you go back to the doctor that prescribed that medication and
talk to them about what you want to do next. It looks like we're out of time. I'm Dr. Todd
Binkley sharing with you safe, effective, natural solutions to almost any health challenge. If you're
looking for a way to take the next step and find out what's possible for your situation, email me
at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. That's D-R-B-S-and-Boy-I-N-K-L-E-Y at binkleyhealingcenter.com.
Remember, the condition of your body is far more important than any disease you've been diagnosed
with. I look forward to the privilege of speaking with you again right here next Friday at 4 p.m.
Have a fantastic weekend. You've been listening to safe, effective, natural solutions with Dr. Todd
Binkley. If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions
to drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions
for yourself and for your loved ones because our health matters. Join him next Friday at 4 p.m.
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