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Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions

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with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd.

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Good afternoon and welcome. I am Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic

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and practitioner of functional medicine. If you're wondering what is functional medicine,

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you wouldn't be the first person to ask. Functional medicine means using standard

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diagnostic tests to identify earlier signs of stress on your various organs and tissues

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early enough that you can give your body a chance to heal itself before you become dependent on

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medication. Have you been to a doctor and been told there's nothing wrong with you and you still

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don't feel right? If you don't feel right, there probably is something wrong with you. You just

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haven't found out what yet. Whatever is preventing you from feeling as fabulous as you should can

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often be identified with proper testing and there is a safe, effective, natural solution

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for almost any health challenge. I've been getting a lot of questions coming in and one of the most

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common questions I get and one of the most common conditions people come to see me for is fatigue.

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So I'd like to talk a little bit about that today. There are some myths that need to be dispelled

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that people are misinformed about. So myth number one, if I eat right, exercise, drink plenty of

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coffee, my energy should be great and if that's not happening, I guess I'll just have to get used to

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it. In reality, lots of people eat fresh organic vegetables, eat farm-raised chicken and wild caught

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fish, go to the gym five days a week, drink good filtered water and still feel exhausted.

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Myth number two, I had my blood work done recently and all the tests came back normal and my doctor

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checked everything. No doctor ever checks everything. There are 300 common tests. Most doctors

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only check 15 or 20 on a typical visit and most doctors never check to see if any part of your

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of your body is functioning normally. They only check to see if you need medical care, a prescription,

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an injection, more tests, a referral to a specialist. Myth number three, it's totally normal to not have

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all the energy I used to have. Everyone slows down as they get older. In reality, most fatigue,

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tiredness, lack of energy is caused by a dozen little things that are undetectable by standard

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medical practice. They are identified if you look for loss of normal function in your liver, your

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kidneys, your cardiovascular system, your digestive system, your immune system, etc. So for example,

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I had a patient come in, well let's call her Yolanda, not her real name. She's a 47 year old

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hairdresser. She's complaining of gas, bloating, nausea, poor concentration. It's a long list.

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Headaches, dizziness, depression, anxiety, frequent colds and stuffy nose, cold hands and feet, and she

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has 50% less energy than she had five years ago. After I asked her a few questions, she revealed

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that she rarely exercises. She drinks five to six glasses of water a day. She constantly craves

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starch and sugar, uses a lot of artificial sweeteners. She has dry thinning hair and hair loss,

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dry skin. She's noticing bruises that seem to come out of nowhere. She also has neck and back pain,

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severe cramps, and heavy menstrual flow. So I did some blood work on her and the blood work showed

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that she had some stress on her kidneys, some stress on her liver, several nutrient deficiencies.

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She was low on calcium and chloride and magnesium and protein. Her thyroid was low. She had iron

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deficiency anemia and a few other things that are a little complicated to explain on this show.

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But the good news is four months later her kidneys were doing better. Her mineral deficiencies were

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still there, still needed some work. Her total protein was was better. Her cholesterol was better.

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Her liver was a little bit better. Her cholesterol was completely normal now. We're near normal now

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and her iron deficiency anemia was gone. But when I was explaining this to her,

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she actually stopped me. She said, you know what, I don't thank you. I don't really care what my

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blood tests look like. I want to tell you that I have no more gas, bloating, or nausea. I have no

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headaches, no dizziness. My concentration is better. My depression and anxiety are much better. I have

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no colds or stuffy nose. My hands and feet are less cold or cold less often and her energy is not only

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not like it was, it's not reduced compared to it. It's actually better. Her energy is now better

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than it was five years ago. She also was exercising three to five days a week and drinking two quarts

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of water a day. She was really surprised when I told her that five or six glasses of water

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was not enough for her body weight and lifestyle. She's eating much less starch and sugar. This is

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huge. She's not using any artificial sweeteners which jangle her nerves. Most importantly to her,

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at least the thing that seemed to get her the most excited, was that her hair wasn't falling out

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anymore and it was thicker, less brittle. Her skin's back to normal, no bruising, neck and back pain

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are 70% better. Her menstrual cramps are 50% less and her flow has returned to normal. So here's a

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question. Who do you know who struggles to do things that used to be easy or who's always sick

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and takes forever to get well? Do you know anybody that suddenly feels 10 years older

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than they used to be? That never feels like going out anymore? Who's gained weight eating the same

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food? Do you know anybody who's never wake who never wakes feeling fully rested or is anxious

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or depressed for no reason? Anyone who's addicted? Someone who's addicted to caffeine, sugar and

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stimulants? Someone who used to love to go on long walks, hiking or dancing? It doesn't have to be

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this way. I am Dr. Todd Binkley sharing with you safe effective natural solutions to almost any

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health challenge. If you're ready to take the next step and find out what's possible for your

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situation, email me at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. That's D-R-B-S-N-Boy I-N-K-L-E-Y

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at binkleyhealingcenter.com. Another common question I get is, Dr. B, you're always talking

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about functional medicine, making lifestyle choices, eating better food, exercise, supplements,

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trying to prevent and reverse disease without needing medication all the time. Why doesn't

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every doctor do this? Well, probably the most common reason is most patients wait till they

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need medical care, crisis care, some kind of pharmaceutical intervention before they go to a

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doctor. Most people wait till they're that bad off and that's why the practice of medicine is

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so heavily based on treating things with drugs because most people need them.

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But here's another reason. This is an article that just came out in Medscape in the medical

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literature a few days ago. Here's the title, How Primary Care Practitioners Are Panelized

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For Positive Outcomes From Lifestyle Change. How primary care practitioners are penalized

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for positive outcomes from lifestyle change. This is written by Dr. Padmaya Patel, MD,

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president-elect of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. And he says,

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clinical practice guidelines for many chronic diseases recommend lifestyle intervention,

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basically better food, exercise, stress reduction, etc. as the first and optimal treatment.

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A growing body of evidence supports lifestyle and behavior interventions to treat and when used

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intensively even reverse common chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease,

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obesity, and type 2 diabetes while also providing effective prevention for those conditions.

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However, no current quality measures consider lifestyle interventions, in fact some even

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unintentionally penalized physicians for successfully treating and reversing disease

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while rewarding conditions for meaning process measures, usually adherence to medication.

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So this means doctors are rewarded for, especially in a nursing home setting,

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for patients who consistently take their medication. If they consistently take their medication,

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then that's considered a positive, a gold star for that institution, and the physicians themselves

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are often rewarded for that. So rewarding medication adherence for the treatment of disease

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when a lifestyle change for something like hypertension could work better incentivizes

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physicians to skip the conversation about lifestyle changes and go straight to the

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prescription of medication. Meanwhile, the clinician who takes the extra time to guide

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a patient towards lifestyle interventions that could treat their current disease and prevent

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future diseases without side effects is penalized. Isn't that crazy? He goes on,

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existing comprehensive lifestyle programs that patients are eligible for, for example,

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the diabetes prevention program, are often so poorly reimbursed that clinicians and health

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systems decline to offer them. So despite the fact that lifestyle behaviors are top

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contributors to health and conversely contribute to up to 80% of chronic diseases, few of the

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measures that tell whether or not an institution or physician is doing a good job, are not

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the same as the other ones. So, specific quality measures penalize lifestyle medicine approaches

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include pharmacotherapy, drugs for type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, osteoporosis,

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and gout, as well as rheumatoid arthritis. So quality measures are the best for the patient.

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For type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, and gout, as well as rheumatoid arthritis. So quality measures,

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whether or not somebody is being measured as to whether they're doing a good job for their

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patients, a physician is penalized for lifestyle medicine approaches for type 2 diabetes, high

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cholesterol, osteoporosis, gout, and rheumatoid arthritis. Statin drugs for high cholesterol are a

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perfect example. Here's a lifestyle medicine primary care physician who had a patient covered

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by Medicare Advantage who was diagnosed with high cholesterol. Patient had a total cholesterol of 226

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and triglyceride level of 132. Instead of prescribing a statin drug like Zocor, Lipitor,

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it's orbit statin, etc. the physician prescribed lifestyle behavior modifications. Within three

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weeks the patient's total cholesterol improved to 171. It dropped 50 points and triglycerides

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similarly dropped over 50 points down to 75, which is a great success and the patient was delighted.

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However, the CMS five-star rating system assigned the primary care physician a grade of C

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rather than an A, which puts the physician's five-star rating at risk. Why? Because the system bases

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its score largely on medication compliance. So despite achieving the optimal outcome at a lower cost

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than with medication, he was penalized. So Medicare risk adjustment incentivizes physicians to manage

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rather than reverse disease. A physician utilizing diet alone to achieve remission in a patient with

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type 2 diabetes is penalized financially because when the risk is adjusted diabetes is no longer

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listed on that patient's list of conditions. So Medicare pays the physician less money.

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Does this make sense to you? For the change that needs to happen to be successful, it's vital,

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this is the end of the article, for this change, the change that we want to be successful, it's

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vital that lifestyle behavior interventions, optimal nutrition, physical activity, restorative

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sleep, social connections, stress management, avoidance of harmful substances, this needs to

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become the foundation of how we measure quality outcomes in health care. So isn't that sad?

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Somebody's trying to do a better job for someone's health when it's proven to work better

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and they lose money and lose their ratings for the institution that they work for. Pretty sad

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state of affairs. Let's talk about another great case, give you an idea of what's possible

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with taking better care of yourself. And even when things have become really bad, what you can do

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with high doses of nutrients in special cases. So I had a 75 year old man patient that was coming

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to me regularly for a few years, he had a lot of arthritis in his neck and his in his hips and he

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was coming every month routinely just to help me just for have me help him keep his neck and hips

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loosened up. And he had gone on vacation with his family. And I was only supposed to be gone for a

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couple of weeks and a couple of months gone by I hadn't seen him. And finally, I think about three,

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three or four months later, yeah, four months later, he comes in, he says, Oh, yeah, I was,

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when I was visiting my family, I had a heart attack and ended up having to have open heart surgery,

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double bypass surgery. And actually, I didn't see him for five months. And when he finally came in,

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he looked like a ghost. He was weak, pale, couldn't drive anymore. Previously, he was fit. He

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always wore shorts. Southern California, he's always wearing shorts. His legs were as strong as a man

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much many decades younger than him. He always looked fit. He walked the exercise regularly.

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He was he was in great shape. He comes in, he's pale, weak, slumped over, can't drive anymore.

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He's got shortness of breath. He's kind of huffing and puffing a little bit. His ankles are swollen up

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bigger than his calves. And I asked him what his BNP level was. And his daughter was with him and

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his wife and they immediately knew what what test I was referring to. BNP B is in boy and is in Nancy

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P is in Paul stands for B type natrietic peptide, B type natrietic peptide. So this is a test

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cardiologists use to diagnose heart failure, congestive heart failure, especially.

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So when you start, it's a common cause of death, congestive, natural, quote unquote, natural cause

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of death, congestive heart failure, you get older, you start to get shortness of breath, fluid backs

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up into your ankles and into your lungs eventually. And at some point, your heart just gives out.

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But long before it gives out completely, it just becomes weaker. So the definition of heart failure

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doesn't mean that your heart is stopped. It just means that it is failing to keep up with demand.

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It's failing to pump strongly enough to keep all of your blood circulating. And so therefore,

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fluid starts to back up into your ankles and eventually your lungs. So he looks terrible.

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He's had open heart surgery, but it's been five months now. And I asked him what his BNP test

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and it was was and it was 382, nearly four times the medical upper limit of normal.

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And he'd been to his cardiologist recently. And his cardiologist told him that this was just this

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was just normal. He's a 75 years old. He's had open heart surgery. Basically, this is as good as it

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gets. You know, enjoy the time you have left. So I put them on a high dose of coenzyme Q10.

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Coenzyme Q10 is an essential enzyme for heart repair for muscle repair throughout your body.

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It's also essential for energy and the mitochondria for making energy and the

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energy making part of every cell in your body. But it's especially important for heart

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muscle. And our bodies make coenzyme Q10, but production peaks at around age 25.

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And then after that it tapers off. So if you have heart failure or struggling heart condition,

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almost any type of heart condition will benefit from supplementing with coenzyme Q10. I put them

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on a very high dose of coenzyme Q10, 1200 milligrams plus several other nutrients.

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In two months, his ankle swelling was reduced by half. He was standing up straight again,

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his color had come back. He was driving again on his own. And he couldn't believe it. His wife

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and his daughter were very happy. I reduced his dose of coenzyme Q10 down to 900 milligrams. These

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are high doses and it's expensive to get that much coenzyme Q10, but it basically saved his life.

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Four months later, his ankle swelling was gone. His fatigue was gone. He looked and felt better

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than he felt before the surgery. And his BNP test was down to 132, 132, just barely out of the

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medical range. A lot of physicians who are used to treating patients who aren't aware of the benefits

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of coenzyme Q10, especially high doses on somebody with a situation like this,

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think it's impossible to get the BNP test down below 200 in somebody in their 70s or their 80s

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or older. So we got it down to 132. A couple of years after that, or I think about a year after

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that, if my recollection is correct, we even got it below 100. We got it down to 87. And he went on

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and lived another seven or eight years driving on his own, walking, doing all the things, you know,

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doing all the things that he enjoys doing. And then, you know, eventually his heart gave out when

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he was in his 80s. So that would never have happened without coenzyme Q10. And it did happen

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with no medications. He was taking some medications for his blood pressure, but he wasn't taking any

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statin drugs for his cholesterol. I think the only medication he was taking was one medication for

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his blood pressure. So some people would call that a miracle, because it doesn't often happen. And

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a lot of people don't understand how it can happen. But I've seen many, many patients respond very

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well to high doses of coenzyme Q10 for almost any heart condition. It works for people on atrial

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fibrillation. It works for people with cardiomyopathy, which is a thickening of the muscle of the heart.

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It works for people that, well, have almost any heart condition. So BNP is the test to run if you

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want to find out how much stress there is on your heart right now. BNP is a feedback mechanism

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between your heart and your kidneys. So a peptide is a fragment, a building block of a protein.

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The proteins that your muscle, your heart muscle is made of, you know, your heart muscle is made of

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is made out of include one of these peptides. So as basically as your heart muscle is normally

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turning over, as some old cells are dying off and new ones are replacing them, some of that cell

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turnover results in BNP ending up in your bloodstream. There's a normal level of it in your

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bloodstream all the time. The medical upper limit of normal is 100. The healthy range is 40 or less.

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But there's always some there telling your kidneys that this is the amount of stretch and strain on

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your heart muscle. And if it's elevated, then it tells your kidneys to dump more water to take the

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pressure off of the heart. So that's why there's always some there. But if it's above 100, and a

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lot of people have no idea, I test this on anybody who has signs or symptoms of being at risk for

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heart disease. And I've had people that are just high stress personalities or had a family history

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of heart disease, but have no symptoms of heart disease at all people in their 30s, 40s, 50s.

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I recommend we run this test and I've seen people with no symptoms of heart disease have a BNP of

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300, 400, 600, no symptoms. Put them on high dose of CoQ10 for a few months, get them back to normal.

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That's called preventing heart disease. Did you know that most doctors are employees? Most doctors

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are employed by a medical group, a hospital, a nursing home. They're told what they can and cannot

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do based on standards of care, meaning you get the same treatment everyone else does, and insurance

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reimbursement. They're governed by a board of directors who are mostly interested in maximizing

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profits for their institution and cutting costs at the expense of your health. I'm not employed by

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anyone other than myself, full stop. I work for you. My only interest is helping you, teaching you

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how you can take responsibility for improving your health. Nothing you'll ever hear from me on this

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show is a cure for any disease. That's not the purpose of this show and it's not what I do.

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I've never cured a single disease in my entire 33 years in practice. That's not my job. Your body

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does that. Your body heals or fails to heal any disease you get. That's worth repeating. Your body

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heals or fails to heal any disease you get. Diabetes is not caused by a lack of metformin.

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High blood pressure is not caused by a deficiency of lisinopril. Chronic headaches are not

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caused by inadequate Advil. Heart disease is not caused by insufficient statin drugs like

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etorvastatin or semvastatin, liposor or zocor. Most of these disease conditions are caused by

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stress, identifiable nutrient deficiencies, lousy diets, lack of exercise, and general neglect.

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If you want to be truly healthy, you have to take responsibility for your own health,

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but you don't have to do it on your own. I'm here to help. I'd be honored to help you identify

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all the areas where your heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, immune system, digestive system are

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silently struggling and could use a little help. Remember, the condition of your body is far more

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important than any disease condition you've been diagnosed with. Do something today to be a little

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healthier than you were yesterday. Go for a walk. Eat more fresh vegetables. Call your mother or

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that friend you haven't spoken to in years. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley sharing with you safe, effective,

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natural solutions to almost any health challenge. I look forward to the privilege of speaking with

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you again right here next Friday at 4 p.m. Have a blessed weekend. You've been listening to safe,

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effective, natural solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. If you have a health question you want discussed

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on the show, email your health questions to drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. Take

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advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved ones because our

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health matters. Join him next Friday at 4 p.m. for safe, effective, natural solutions right here

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on 98.3 The Word KDAR.