1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,760 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:12,080 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,400 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:15,400 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:21,220 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner of 6 00:00:21,220 --> 00:00:22,640 functional medicine. 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:29,600 I identify conditions other doctors miss because I do tests that most other doctors don't do, 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,740 usually because your insurance doesn't want to pay for it because it's not quote unquote 9 00:00:33,740 --> 00:00:35,720 medically necessary. 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:36,720 I'm really excited. 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,560 I've got some exciting things to share with you today. 12 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:45,720 I spent the entirety of last weekend in a three-day online conference, the Integrative 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,200 Medicine for Mental Health Conference. 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:54,600 This was three days of presentations from some amazing, renowned speakers and authors 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,680 from around the country and a couple from the UK. 16 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:03,160 There were over 400 participating physicians and practitioners from around the world talking 17 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,880 about some pretty amazing things. 18 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:11,480 For example, psychiatrist Mary Beth Ackerley, summa cum laude, graduate of Harvard University, 19 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,640 who went on to study at the National Institutes of Middle Health and finished her residency 20 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,520 at John Hopkins, certified in psychiatry and neurology. 21 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:24,400 She was the past president and co-founder of the International Society for Environmentally 22 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,000 Acquired Illness. 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:33,160 Dr. Ackerman, this very distinguished psychiatrist known around the country in the profession, 24 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:40,320 declared antidepressant medications like Prozac, Zoloft, Baxil, Lexapro, and Celexa, the top 25 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:49,000 selling drugs in 18 to 44 year olds and top selling mental health drugs in history, 337 26 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,680 million prescriptions per year. 27 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,560 Don't work for most people long term. 28 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:01,720 They dramatically increase suicide risk and make depression and anxiety worse. 29 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,680 People just become dependent on these things for the rest of their lives. 30 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:13,080 She also demonstrated conclusively with robust data how exercise, a low carb diet, and fish 31 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,220 oil works better for most people. 32 00:02:17,220 --> 00:02:23,120 So this is one of the top psychiatrists in the country and educators for other psychiatrists 33 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:28,380 who speaks around the country, who's published over a hundred papers in peer reviewed journals. 34 00:02:28,380 --> 00:02:35,420 She says that SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, these are these very common drugs 35 00:02:35,420 --> 00:02:40,400 for depression, Prozac, Zoloft, Baxil, Lexapro, Celexa, top selling drugs and mental health 36 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:46,880 in history, 337 million prescriptions are written for these drugs every year. 37 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,580 That's more than there are adults in the United States of America. 38 00:02:50,580 --> 00:02:53,560 She declared that they don't work for most people. 39 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,600 They alter symptoms temporarily, but they also dramatically increase risk of suicide 40 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,680 and eventually make depression and anxiety worse. 41 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,380 They're very difficult to wean yourself off of. 42 00:03:04,380 --> 00:03:10,440 And she showed data on how exercise, a low carb diet, and fish oil works better for most 43 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:11,440 people. 44 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,080 Dr. Akina Stein, board certified psychiatrist, certified practitioner of the Institute for 45 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,440 functional medicine and a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatrics Association, 46 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,160 former professor of psychiatry at the medical school at Brown University. 47 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:29,880 She began her talk with a description of functional versus conventional medicine. 48 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,860 Conventional medicine means diagnose an acute disease, spend about an hour interviewing 49 00:03:34,860 --> 00:03:39,560 someone, diagnose them with depression and give them a prescription. 50 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:44,800 And the challenge is that trying to switch to do anything other than that, anything to 51 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,800 what they're trained to do, it's very difficult. 52 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,560 Most doctors don't have time. 53 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,720 It takes longer to do a proper functional medicine workup. 54 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:58,480 And most doctors believe that their patients don't want or can't make changes in their 55 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,520 lifestyle and their diet. 56 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:06,320 And many doctors believe that they can't trust their patients history or even that they're 57 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:07,320 lying. 58 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:12,380 This is top psychiatrist saying this to her other professionals and people are nodding 59 00:04:12,380 --> 00:04:13,660 their heads. 60 00:04:13,660 --> 00:04:19,980 So adopting a different model of thinking about the root cause of chronic disease and 61 00:04:19,980 --> 00:04:27,960 treating function, treating places where normal function has gone amiss instead of disease, 62 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,800 treating identifying earlier causes of all the stress on your organs and systems like 63 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:37,260 I'm always talking about doing this for a psychiatrist to switch to doing this requires 64 00:04:37,260 --> 00:04:40,440 different training that most of them just don't have. 65 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:47,000 And most general practitioners and most conventional doctors in general just don't have the training 66 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,840 to do functional medicine. 67 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:49,840 They're not trained in it. 68 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:57,480 So she also described the most commonly medically overlooked causes of depression, anxiety. 69 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:03,600 So the most commonly overlooked causes of depression and anxiety, according to this 70 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:09,520 very distinguished board certified psychiatrist are low cholesterol. 71 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:17,160 And she presented data on how low cholesterol is linked to suicide attempts, low omega three 72 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:23,440 fatty acids, low vitamin D, undiagnosed thyroid conditions and other autoimmune conditions 73 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,480 and hypoglycemia, low blood sugar. 74 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:31,340 So these are, and she presented robust data to back all of this up studies in peer review 75 00:05:31,340 --> 00:05:39,800 journals showing that risk of suicide, people who attempt suicide have much higher incidence 76 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:45,740 of low cholesterol and low omega three fatty acids, mental disorders in general across 77 00:05:45,740 --> 00:05:50,760 the board, depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder. 78 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:56,640 All of the main conditions that psychiatrists treat are strongly associated with low levels 79 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:04,240 of vitamin D, low levels of omega three fatty acids, undiagnosed thyroid conditions and 80 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,240 other autoimmune conditions and low blood sugar. 81 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:17,520 And these are all things that you can successfully resolve with better food, exercise and supplements. 82 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:22,960 One of the most exciting presentations of the entire weekend was offered by Kat Toups, 83 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,640 a functional medicine psychiatrist treating cognitive impairment and dementia. 84 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:33,280 Dr. Toups is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a distinguished 85 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:39,760 fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the highest honor bestowed by the American 86 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,800 Psychiatric Association and a certified practitioner with the Institute of Functional Medicine. 87 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,400 She's been practicing for psychiatry for over 30 years and functional medicine psychiatry 88 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:48,400 for more than a decade. 89 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:53,720 She's been a featured speaker at national and international medical conferences on dementia 90 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,000 and functional medicine psychiatry, as well as a frequent guest at various summits. 91 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,360 She's been the principal investigator on over 100 clinical research trials. 92 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:08,140 Her specialty is reversing dementia. 93 00:07:08,140 --> 00:07:12,400 And she recently collaborated with Dr. Dale Bredson on a promising prospective clinical 94 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:17,520 trial using functional medicine to reverse mild cognitive impairment. 95 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:26,960 This early dementia where 84% of the patients had improvement, including on their head scans. 96 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:35,080 So she's implementing a protocol, a robust protocol of better food, exercise and supplements. 97 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,080 It's not an easy thing. 98 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:40,080 It's not an easy program to adhere to, but 84% of the patients had improvement. 99 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,620 She's reversing Alzheimer's. 100 00:07:42,620 --> 00:07:47,400 This is unheard of or until very recently, she's documenting it. 101 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:52,200 This paper was published in the prestigious Journal of Alzheimer's Disease in July of 102 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:57,720 22 and two additional papers that are even more exciting that she presented early the 103 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,800 data from at the conference. 104 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:05,780 Two more papers have been submitted for publication. 105 00:08:05,780 --> 00:08:13,480 So it is possible to reverse dementia with lifestyle changes with better food, exercise 106 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,480 and evidence-based supplements were indicated. 107 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,760 There's data to show this is happening right now. 108 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:26,400 Interestingly, nearly every single presenter at the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health 109 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:32,160 Conference that I recently attended included some discussion about one topic that affects 110 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,880 all aspects of mental health disorders. 111 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:42,240 Can anybody guess what the one commonly overlooked, almost never tested for element that affects 112 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:47,600 all of us that contributes to and in some cases is the primary factor underlying almost 113 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,840 all mental health disorders? 114 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:50,840 Anybody? 115 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:56,840 Those of you that were listening to my program last week probably guessed it. 116 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:03,720 Toxins, mold toxins in particular, mold toxins, chemical toxins from pesticides and fertilizers 117 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:09,320 and heavy metals in our water and in our air. 118 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:15,680 The brain is the most sensitive organ to any kind of toxin, especially in children and 119 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:17,340 in the elderly. 120 00:09:17,340 --> 00:09:18,920 But we're all sensitive to these things. 121 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:26,280 We're all inundated with exposure to mold toxins, chemical toxins from pesticides, fertilizers, 122 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:33,480 heavy metals in our water and our food because of the way most of our food is grown. 123 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:38,440 And most of us have no idea the effect of these things on our physical body, on our 124 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,440 physical symptoms, but also our minds. 125 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:47,440 These things are literally driving us crazy and robust data was presented documenting 126 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,360 the effects of this, especially mold toxins over and over and over again. 127 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:56,800 Several of the presenters were hitting on mold toxins and showing the direct way they 128 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:06,720 damage neurons in the brain and increase and drive cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety, 129 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:12,960 obsessive compulsive disorder, autism, virtually every mental disorder that was discussed in 130 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:13,960 the conference. 131 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:20,000 They had data to show some linked to especially mold toxins, but also heavy metals, lead, 132 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,320 mercury, arsenic was another big one. 133 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,800 So toxins, they're out there. 134 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:30,120 If you're suffering any symptoms like this, if you know someone who's suffering symptoms 135 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:36,200 of depression and anxiety especially, or wants to reduce their risk of dementia, please have 136 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:42,960 them contact me at email me at dr. binkley at binkley healing center.com. 137 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:49,280 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley discussing with you safe, effective natural solutions to almost any 138 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,280 health challenge. 139 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:59,120 There are many ways you can test for these various types of toxicities for mold toxins. 140 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:03,520 What we're measuring is not the presence of the mold itself, but basically the metabolic 141 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,800 waste of those molds. 142 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,160 So the mold itself isn't really what's harming you. 143 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,440 It's their we, the metabolic waste they produce. 144 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,080 That's what does the damage and that's what your body flushes out as best it can. 145 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:23,480 And when it can't, it gets shoved into fat cells for storage to remove it from circulation, 146 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:28,760 to stop it circulating around, irritating every other part of your body. 147 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,700 And there it remains for the rest of your life. 148 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:36,440 So you might have been exposed to mold for six months, 10 years ago, and you'll find 149 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:43,200 out once you do a specific type of test that you've still got huge amounts, huge body burden 150 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:50,760 of these toxins that are damaging your brain, that are causing perhaps depression and anxiety, 151 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,140 increasing your risk of dementia or autoimmune conditions. 152 00:11:54,140 --> 00:11:58,880 So there's a special urine test that you can do that with for other toxins. 153 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:07,240 You can directly measure chemical toxins like glyphosate, Roundup, the chemical that is 154 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:12,680 most commonly used, pesticide, herbicide, anything that ends inside is designed to kill 155 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:13,680 something. 156 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:16,360 Monsanto wants us to believe that it's not going to kill you. 157 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,520 It's sprayed on Roundup ready crops. 158 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,000 So they don't kill the crops if you buy your seeds from them. 159 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,340 So they make money that way. 160 00:12:23,340 --> 00:12:29,240 And then they make more money by selling all that toxin to spray on that food that then 161 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:30,720 ends up throughout the food chain. 162 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:31,720 It ends up in the groundwater. 163 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:38,840 It ends up in the livestock that are fed those Roundup glyphosate saturated crops. 164 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:44,620 It ends up in breast milk that mothers are feeding their children, which has been linked 165 00:12:44,620 --> 00:12:45,620 to autism. 166 00:12:45,620 --> 00:12:47,960 We're going to talk more about that later if we have time. 167 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:53,680 Dr. Shaw presented a very interesting data set that he's been collecting for many years 168 00:12:53,680 --> 00:13:01,080 showing that glyphosate that ends up in exposing pregnant mothers and ends up in food that's 169 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:07,840 being fed infants is increasing their risk of autism. 170 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,240 And not because of the effects of it by itself. 171 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,560 I want to come back to that later. 172 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:20,320 There is another way, there's a simple way anyone can get some idea of your broad body 173 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,440 burden of toxins with a simple questionnaire. 174 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,840 So if you email me, I can send it to you or you can Google this, look it up. 175 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:27,840 It's Dr. Hyman. 176 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,360 A lot of people have heard of Dr. Hyman. 177 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:34,960 He's an excellent functional medicine practitioner that does a lot of educational programs on 178 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:36,520 eating better food especially. 179 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:42,980 And so it's Dr. Hyman's medical symptom toxicity questionnaire. 180 00:13:42,980 --> 00:13:50,000 So if you Google Hyman medical symptom toxicity questionnaire you can answer the various symptoms 181 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:56,780 on that and score it and get a rough idea of how you compare to a normal population 182 00:13:56,780 --> 00:14:03,120 that has not been exposed and tested for these various toxins. 183 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,920 Let's talk about a case who came to me whose primary complaint was depression. 184 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:13,760 She was a 22 year old female at the time with anxiety, depression, attention deficit disorder, 185 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:14,960 fatigue. 186 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:19,000 She was constantly craving starch and sugar and she's on three different medications for 187 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:24,760 anxiety and depression and amphetamines for attention deficit disorder. 188 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,640 Her blood test showed very low protein. 189 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:34,960 She had some significant stress on her kidneys and anemia from both iron deficiency and B 190 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,080 vitamin deficiencies. 191 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:43,120 And as I almost always see when I initially test people, very low vitamin D. So I also 192 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:44,960 did some heavy metal testing on her. 193 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,520 There's a couple of different ways you can test for heavy metals. 194 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,480 One of the simplest ways is with a hair test. 195 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:56,400 So your body, as I've mentioned previously, when you're exposed to these things they build 196 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,400 up in fat cells in your body. 197 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:04,560 And your body, one of the ways your body excretes them, mostly initially when you have an acute 198 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:11,480 exposure to lead, arsenic, cadmium, uranium, your body will flush these things out through 199 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,480 the kidneys and the colon. 200 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,880 But another way they flush them out is through sweat, directly through your skin, your sweat 201 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:25,160 glands excrete these things in very small amounts over long periods of time. 202 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:31,200 But it is a good way to detox that anyone can do to sit in a sauna or exercise and sweat. 203 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,240 And make sure you wipe that sweat off and wash it off as soon as possible so that it's 204 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,440 not immediately reabsorbed back into your skin if you're going to do that. 205 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:46,000 But we did a hair test which shows these hair tests are widely used for drug testing and 206 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000 other things as well. 207 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,680 But it's a simple way to test not what's in your body, but it tests what your body is 208 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:53,680 excreting. 209 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:57,400 It tests what's coming out through your sweat glands and hair follicles as your hair grows 210 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:58,740 out. 211 00:15:58,740 --> 00:16:02,320 So we cut the hair off right at the scalp, little pieces, you don't have to shave your 212 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:07,680 head, it's about a teaspoon full of little one inch cuttings of hair. 213 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:12,120 And we send it in, the lab analyzes it, Doctors Data is the premier lab in the country that 214 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:13,680 does this type of testing. 215 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:15,740 It's very reliable. 216 00:16:15,740 --> 00:16:24,440 And her hair test came back with high uranium, high levels of aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, 217 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:30,160 lead and mercury, not off the charts high, but noteworthy, bad enough to definitely want 218 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,820 to do something about it. 219 00:16:31,820 --> 00:16:40,300 So I put her on chlorella, a reasonable effective dose of chlorella powder which is a blue green 220 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:47,040 algae that you can take in capsule or powder form, you can make it in a shake. 221 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,780 And these things, you want to do this slowly. 222 00:16:49,780 --> 00:16:56,720 So sometimes you hear about people doing a liver cleanse or just some kind of detox thing 223 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:01,800 that they've heard about somewhere without any testing and without any guidance. 224 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:06,320 And sometimes these things can be dangerous, they make you sick because your body has shoved 225 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:10,840 these things into storage to get them out of circulation for a reason. 226 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:16,740 So if you try to pull them out of storage, you can make yourself sick and people feel 227 00:17:16,740 --> 00:17:18,620 experience that sometimes. 228 00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:24,440 So it's a slow process to slowly, gently escort these things from storage and fat cells to 229 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:30,260 the bloodstream where they're then excreted, eliminated through the kidneys and the colons. 230 00:17:30,260 --> 00:17:36,460 So I told her with a hair test, we're not measuring what's unlike a blood test or a 231 00:17:36,460 --> 00:17:41,560 provoked urine test, we're not directly measuring your body burden of these things, we're measuring 232 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:46,620 what your body is trying its best as it can to flush out. 233 00:17:46,620 --> 00:17:52,080 And so when we retest, and you've been taking chlorella, which is going to one of the most 234 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:58,000 powerful herbs to facilitate your body's ability to flush these things out, when we retest 235 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:04,220 these, what we expect to see is some of these things go up because now her body's flushing 236 00:18:04,220 --> 00:18:05,260 more of these things out. 237 00:18:05,260 --> 00:18:06,740 That's what we want to see. 238 00:18:06,740 --> 00:18:07,860 And that's exactly what we saw. 239 00:18:07,860 --> 00:18:18,180 So her initial uranium was 0.049 and six months later when we retested her, it was 0.4, it 240 00:18:18,180 --> 00:18:20,340 got up tenfold. 241 00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:23,260 So ten times as much uranium is coming out. 242 00:18:23,260 --> 00:18:27,060 She still has some significant levels of aluminum coming out. 243 00:18:27,060 --> 00:18:29,780 But the lead and the mercury were already getting better. 244 00:18:29,780 --> 00:18:34,700 We're already coming down to safer levels, the arsenic was unchanged. 245 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:36,660 So I told her to continue that. 246 00:18:36,660 --> 00:18:43,020 You know, meanwhile she's also been doing, I explained to her how to get much less, simple 247 00:18:43,020 --> 00:18:47,720 ways to get much less grains, starch and sugar in her diet so that she would stop craving 248 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:48,720 those things. 249 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:58,260 I gave her some iron and some folate and B12 to address her B vitamin anemia and some vitamin 250 00:18:58,260 --> 00:19:02,860 D. I always recommend everyone take fish oil and a good multivitamin. 251 00:19:02,860 --> 00:19:07,340 We'll talk more about that later because there's lots of bad multivitamins, but she took a 252 00:19:07,340 --> 00:19:08,680 very good multivitamin. 253 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,860 So after taking some supplements for about six months, we retested her hair, getting 254 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:18,180 the expected results, still got a lot of work to do on flushing those heavy metals out. 255 00:19:18,180 --> 00:19:20,680 But her protein levels are back to normal. 256 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,340 Her anemia is gone. 257 00:19:22,340 --> 00:19:27,180 She has no more iron deficiency anemia or vitamin B deficiencies or vitamin D level 258 00:19:27,180 --> 00:19:29,180 is back to normal now. 259 00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:32,400 And she's off of all three of her medications. 260 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,940 She went back to her psychiatrist and that physician was very happy that she was doing 261 00:19:36,940 --> 00:19:37,940 better. 262 00:19:37,940 --> 00:19:44,540 She's still taking one of the medications for depression once in a while on a bad day, 263 00:19:44,540 --> 00:19:47,020 maybe once or twice a week. 264 00:19:47,020 --> 00:19:53,340 But she was taking amphetamines for attention deficit disorder and two medications for anxiety 265 00:19:53,340 --> 00:19:55,980 depression every day for years. 266 00:19:55,980 --> 00:20:01,860 And so she's off of the amphetamines and off of one of the other medications with her 267 00:20:01,860 --> 00:20:07,420 psychiatrist's approval and just occasionally on a bad day, still having a little bit of 268 00:20:07,420 --> 00:20:09,340 depression but so much better. 269 00:20:09,340 --> 00:20:14,300 She was very excited and very happy with her results. 270 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:17,980 And of course, I tell you still people with a hair test, you usually have to test at least 271 00:20:17,980 --> 00:20:22,380 three times you do an initial read to see what your body's flushing out now. 272 00:20:22,380 --> 00:20:24,980 We do an intervention, chlorella. 273 00:20:24,980 --> 00:20:27,940 There's several other things that chlorella is the one I use most commonly, but there 274 00:20:27,940 --> 00:20:32,100 are several other ways to facilitate your body's ability to flush out the heavy metal. 275 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:36,380 So when we do a second test, these things go up because your body's flushing more out. 276 00:20:36,380 --> 00:20:42,380 So then we need to do a third test, usually six months, a year apart, sometimes longer. 277 00:20:42,380 --> 00:20:47,460 And then on that third test, we should see that the ones that had peaked are now going 278 00:20:47,460 --> 00:20:48,460 down. 279 00:20:48,460 --> 00:20:49,460 And that's exactly what we saw. 280 00:20:49,460 --> 00:20:55,300 So that tenfold increased uranium is back down to nearly a safe level. 281 00:20:55,300 --> 00:21:02,140 The cadmium and lead and mercury are almost undetectable. 282 00:21:02,140 --> 00:21:05,780 And the arsenic was still a little bit elevated, still needed a little bit of work on that, 283 00:21:05,780 --> 00:21:07,500 but also much improved. 284 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:11,380 And she was feeling fantastic. 285 00:21:11,380 --> 00:21:14,820 Another common theme that kept coming up in all of the presentations in the conference 286 00:21:14,820 --> 00:21:21,500 I went to last weekend for mental health disorders was inflammation. 287 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:24,420 Inflammation underlies all chronic disease. 288 00:21:24,420 --> 00:21:29,380 And one of the presenters did a great slide and a metaphor for this, because what is inflammation 289 00:21:29,380 --> 00:21:30,380 exactly? 290 00:21:30,380 --> 00:21:31,500 Well, there's a technical way to explain it. 291 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:36,580 It's inflammatory cytokines like TNF-alpha and IL-6, and nobody knows what those things 292 00:21:36,580 --> 00:21:37,580 are. 293 00:21:37,580 --> 00:21:40,500 But another way to think about it, it's like flood water. 294 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:44,980 So if you have a flood, water enters your house, so all of a sudden all your floor is 295 00:21:44,980 --> 00:21:47,180 completely covered with water. 296 00:21:47,180 --> 00:21:50,100 The longer it's there, the more damage occurs. 297 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:55,420 And you don't just have damage to your flooring, but eventually it seeps up into your couches 298 00:21:55,420 --> 00:22:01,340 and your chairs and your kitchen cabinets, your baseboards, and starts working its way 299 00:22:01,340 --> 00:22:02,460 up the drywall. 300 00:22:02,460 --> 00:22:06,100 And eventually it affects every part of your house. 301 00:22:06,100 --> 00:22:10,720 Well, in the case of chronic inflammation, it affects every part of your body. 302 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,940 So acute inflammation, like if you have a flood and then get somebody over right away 303 00:22:14,940 --> 00:22:20,660 to clean it out, maybe you just had a nice cleanup for your house. 304 00:22:20,660 --> 00:22:24,460 When you have acute inflammation in response to some kind of disease, to heal a cut or 305 00:22:24,460 --> 00:22:30,500 a bruise, if you smash your thumb with a hammer, or if you have an infection that your body 306 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:32,280 needs to heal, then inflammation is good. 307 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:37,400 That's part of the process that your body needs to use to fight off and eliminate something 308 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,860 or repair damaged tissue. 309 00:22:39,860 --> 00:22:47,900 But when it's chronic and persists over weeks and months and years, then it's causing damage 310 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:50,540 and damage that you're often not aware of. 311 00:22:50,540 --> 00:22:58,420 But in combination with the stress of everyday life, this is also chemically stressing and 312 00:22:58,420 --> 00:23:01,740 damaging organs and tissues throughout your body. 313 00:23:01,740 --> 00:23:07,420 And of course, we can test for these things too, with tests like ferritin level and erythrocyte 314 00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:11,420 sedimentation rate, which measures the blood viscosity, the thickness of your blood, the 315 00:23:11,420 --> 00:23:17,580 thicker your blood, the more of these inflammatory components are present. 316 00:23:17,580 --> 00:23:20,260 So there's ways to test for inflammation and eliminate it. 317 00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:26,220 And there's ways that anybody can reduce the effects of inflammation on your body simply 318 00:23:26,220 --> 00:23:28,020 by eating better foods. 319 00:23:28,020 --> 00:23:33,140 So eat, you know, pro-inflammatory foods are grain, starch, and sugar, junk food, burgers 320 00:23:33,140 --> 00:23:34,140 and fries. 321 00:23:34,140 --> 00:23:36,740 Probably the worst thing you can eat is a donut. 322 00:23:36,740 --> 00:23:40,420 Probably the second worst thing you can eat are French fries because they've got starch 323 00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:44,140 and sugar and grease all in one package. 324 00:23:44,140 --> 00:23:51,580 Instead, eat more fresh, healthy vegetables, preferably organic vegetables. 325 00:23:51,580 --> 00:23:53,420 And organic vegetables can be expensive. 326 00:23:53,420 --> 00:23:55,700 Not everybody can make it to a farmer's market. 327 00:23:55,700 --> 00:24:00,620 Another way to get fresh, healthy vegetables every day, one of the best ways, is to grow 328 00:24:00,620 --> 00:24:01,980 your own. 329 00:24:01,980 --> 00:24:03,460 I've done this at my office. 330 00:24:03,460 --> 00:24:04,980 You can come by and check it out. 331 00:24:04,980 --> 00:24:08,940 There's a fresh organic veggie garden right on Main Street with some herbs. 332 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:11,580 You can come by and pick some for yourself if you like. 333 00:24:11,580 --> 00:24:17,820 There's basil, parsley, chives, rosemary, thyme, tarragon, oregano, mint, stevia, green 334 00:24:17,820 --> 00:24:18,820 onions. 335 00:24:18,820 --> 00:24:24,220 I like to demonstrate how you can grow your own food, an abundance of food, in a small 336 00:24:24,220 --> 00:24:26,020 space with minimal water. 337 00:24:26,020 --> 00:24:28,540 It looks like we're about out of time. 338 00:24:28,540 --> 00:24:30,740 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. 339 00:24:30,740 --> 00:24:35,180 I'd love the opportunity to help you solve whatever is challenging your health. 340 00:24:35,180 --> 00:24:39,300 If you have any questions, email me at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 341 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:43,620 Look forward to speaking with you right here again next week at 4 o'clock. 342 00:24:43,620 --> 00:24:44,820 Have a great weekend. 343 00:24:44,820 --> 00:24:50,340 You've been listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 344 00:24:50,340 --> 00:24:54,860 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to 345 00:24:54,860 --> 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