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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.

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Now, here's Dr. Todd.

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Good afternoon.

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

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of functional medicine.

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Functional medicine means using standard diagnostic tests to identify earlier signs of stress

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on your heart, your liver, your kidneys, your immune system, your digestive system.

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Don't be surprised if you've never heard of functional medicine before.

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Most doctors practice conventional medicine.

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And conventional medicine is essential when you're in a crisis, if you're bleeding, if

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you have an infection, if you need to go to the hospital.

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But if you've got an issue that you've been struggling with for years and your doctor

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hasn't been able to figure out a solution that's working for you, or if you just don't

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like the idea of being dependent for the rest of your life on pharmaceutical medications

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that mask your symptoms and often don't really ever address the true cause of what's ailing

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you, then stay tuned.

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We're going to talk about some exciting things today.

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I've got some more information to present from the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health

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Conference that I attended a couple of weekends ago.

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I'm also going to be presenting a case of a woman who experienced one of the most traumatic

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things any woman can experience.

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She was a victim of assault and was still suffering, had been suffering for many years,

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debilitating pain that no one could help her with.

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She worked for a prominent local medical clinic and had every procedure known in medicine

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to attempt to help her with this condition to no avail.

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For those of you who are just tuning in for the first time, this is the sixth episode

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in this new series, which just began last month.

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And I am working on getting a podcast set up so that anyone can listen to these programs

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again on demand anytime you like.

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So I'll keep you posted when I've got that up.

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Another one of the fantastic presenters who spoke at the Integrative Medicine for Mental

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Health Conference I attended a couple of weekends ago was Jill Carnahan, medical director and

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founder of Flatiron Functional Medicine in Colorado.

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She's a breast cancer survivor, survived Crohn's disease and toxic mold illness, and she brings

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a very unique perspective to healing and talks about her own journey.

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She just released a book called Unexpected, Finding Resilience Through Functional Medicine,

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Resilience and Faith, it just came out this year.

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And she had a fantastic presentation, mostly focusing on the gut-brain connection.

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So we've all heard that our guts and our brains are connected and some people wonder, you

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know, how is that a tenuous link?

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Is it, you know, what's the evidence?

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There's a tremendous amount of evidence on how profoundly linked our guts and our brains

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are and more research is coming out to document some profound effects, which she presented.

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So the gut-brain access is linked to mood disorders.

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Imbalances in the microbiome, the bacteria in your intestines can affect the production

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of mood-regulating compounds like serotonin, epinephrine, norepinephrine, dopamine, all

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of the neurotransmitters that affect psychiatric disorders.

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And this disruptions in, you know, whether or not you do not have enough healthy bacteria

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in your gut, it dramatically reduces the ability to respond to stress.

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And at the same time, chronic stress dramatically reduces the diversity of beneficial bacteria

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in the gut, so it goes back and forth.

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Also disruptions in this healthy bacteria population in your gut increases intestinal

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permeability, or what you may have heard called leaky gut.

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So people with a lower diversity, with fewer different kinds of healthy levels of good

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bacteria have higher levels of body fat and inflammation than those with more diverse

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populations of good bacteria in their guts.

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Consumption of high-fiber foods like fruit and vegetables leads to an increase in this

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desired diversity and also improves clinical outcomes with obesity.

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This is some of the research that she presented during her talk.

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I've talked about previously and will continue to be talking about inflammation and how it

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wreaks havoc throughout your body.

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So Dr. Carnahan also presented some amazing research documenting how dietary polyphenols,

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these are antioxidants in fruits and vegetables, but are also naturally occurring in coffee

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and cocoa for fans of dark chocolate.

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These things are extensively metabolized by good bacteria in your gut into compounds that

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reduce inflammation throughout your body and reduced diversity in sufficient amounts of

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good bacteria of varying types in the gut microbiome was also shown to increase the

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risk of allergies in infants.

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So this has in part to do with the intestinal permeability or leaky gut that occurs from

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disruptions in the normal population of good bacteria in your gut.

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If you lack sufficient good bacteria in your gut, it causes this leaky gut condition also

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called intestinal permeability.

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But bottom line is your intestines are, your entire digestive tract is actually outside

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of your body.

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Nothing, people say, oh, you are what you eat.

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Well, actually, you are what your body digests, absorbs, and then passes through the wall

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of your intestine into your bloodstream.

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It's not part of you until it's in your blood.

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And the walls of your intestines are a single cell thick.

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Your skin is about a dozen layers thick, and you can see how easy it is to penetrate those

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layers if you cut yourself.

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So the intestine, the walls of the intestines have to be very thin so that they can absorb

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nutrients, the nutrients that your life depends on.

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But they also have to keep out bad things, toxins, bad bacteria, viruses, and parasites,

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and even just things in your food that don't belong in your bloodstream.

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So when your gut is leaky, when this single cell layer, this single cell, the single layer

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of cells that lines your intestines is the biggest interaction between your body and

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the external environment.

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It's much bigger.

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You'd think your skin is the largest interface between the inside of your body and the outside

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world.

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But the lining of your intestines, if it were laid out flat, is the size of a tennis court.

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So it's a huge surface area that interacts with things from your environment, things

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you, your food, things you ingest so that it can absorb nutrients from them.

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doesn't belong there, including things from your food that don't belong there.

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Undigested proteins can enter your bloodstream.

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And when one of the most common of those, food irritants, are among the most common

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causes of a leaky gut, gluten is one of the most famous ones and one of the most common

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allow your immune system to sense whether or not something is passing through your gut

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that shouldn't enter the bloodstream.

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them.

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But when that happens over and over again, food irritants like gluten, there are several

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others cause these little openings, which are called tight junctions.

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They're tight normally gaps between one cell and the next group of cells.

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These tight junctions become not tight junctions.

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They become leaky junctions.

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This is what happens when you have leaky gut.

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So things that don't belong in your bloodstream from your digestive tract enter and your immune

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system rightly sees these things as foreign and attacks them.

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This is what underlies the cause of many, if not most autoimmune conditions.

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Your immune system doesn't just randomly wake up one day and decide to attack healthy tissue

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in your body.

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When you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis or lupus or multiple sclerosis, your immune system

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is recognizing foreign debris that has entered your bloodstream and your tissues migrated

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to various parts of your body that do not belong there and then attacks them and healthy

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tissue gets caught in the crossfire.

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So gluten is one of the most common causes of leaky gut, but other things include exposure

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to toxins, infections, overuse of common over the counter pain medications like Advil and

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aspirin, chronic alcoholism, persistent diarrhea, long standing stress of all stripes and low

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stomach acid, multiple nutrient deficiencies.

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The result is an increase in circulating toxins and lipopolysaccharides has recently been

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identified as the cause of inflammation in your brain and your nervous system, which

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can lead to constipation, depression, anxiety, cognitive decline, memory loss, and a whole

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host of other conditions.

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Dr. Callahan presented some recent research done in Italy that demonstrates that a common

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gut pathogen, a common bad bug in your gut called Clostridium difficile.

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This is a really bad bug that causes a lot of infections in hospitals.

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These Italian researchers showed that people treated for varying degrees of infection with

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this organism Clostridium difficile, surprisingly had all kinds of relief from seemingly unrelated

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conditions such as autism spectrum disorders, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and multiple

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sclerosis.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley presenting to you safe, effective natural solutions to almost any

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health challenge.

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I'd love the opportunity to help you with something that you're struggling with.

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If you have questions for me, I love questions, email me at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com.

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The focus of today's program is the gut brain connection.

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And in addition to various effects that microbes in your gut, good and bad bacteria, not enough

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good too many bad bacteria can have on your brain and nervous system, there is also a

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direct link between your brain and your nervous system called the vagus nerve, V-A-G-U-S.

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The vagus nerve is a two way communication freeway that hardwires your brain to your

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intestines and it plays a role in controlling inflammation throughout the body.

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Dr. Karen Carnahan presented research showing how certain beneficial bacteria can stimulate

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the vagus nerve to dampen inflammatory responses.

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It also helps grow and maintain new nerve cells in various regions of your brain and

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emergence to emerging studies suggest that certain bacteria can increase nerve growth

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factors that heal and repair your brain.

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Even more exciting than this, one of the most amazing presenters of the entire conference

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was Dr. Steven Porges, PhD, professor of psychiatry at University of North Carolina, professor

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emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago and the University of Maryland.

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He is a founder of the Polyvagal Institute.

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He's published over 400 peer reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including

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anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise, physiology,

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gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometric

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abuse. His research has been cited in more than 50,000 peer reviewed publications.

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In 1994, he proposed this phenomenal theory, the Polyvagal theory that basically completely

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redefines our understanding of the vagus nerve, this massive branch of your nervous system

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that can directly connects your brain to your gut.

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So it was a roller coaster of a ride in anatomy and neurophysiology, but for your benefit,

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he's also written a fantastic book called The Polyvagal Theory.

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I recommend it highly, The Polyvagal Theory, and it explains in layman's terms what this

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means and why it's important and how this hardwired massive nerve that connects your

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brain to your gut affects almost every aspect of your life. It underlies, effects on it

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can underlie, often underlie any psychiatric condition, anxiety, depression, even severe

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psychiatric disorders like multiple personality disorders, schizophrenia, and just extremes

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of emotion, rage. Our brains are designed and he's discovered and developed and been

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documenting and progressively identifying further aspects of how basically our nervous

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systems are hardwired to ensure that we feel safe. As we go throughout our day, one of

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the most fundamental things to our bodies, instincts to preservation of life is feeling

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safe, feeling that we can carry on doing whatever it is we're doing without any threat to our

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lives or our safety. Most of us are familiar with the extreme examples of this post-traumatic

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stress disorder in war zone experiences, returning soldiers, people who've been traumatized,

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assaulted, witnessed a serious injury of another even. Some of the effects of this can be subconscious

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and even something like sudden death of a close friend or relative or sibling or a parent

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can have very similar effects. So we're not always aware of this lack of feeling safe

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that's embedded in our nervous systems. And of course, the worst thing that can happen

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is when this nervous system as it's being developed in an infant in the first few years

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of life is traumatized in any way that causes this profound link between our brains and

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our guts that governs this feeling of basic safety to be traumatized. It might be tempting

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to think, well, that's really awful that people experience these things, but what can you

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do about it? Is there anything that could be done? And there is. So his book, Our Polyvegal

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World, I might have misspoken earlier, the title of his book that explains this in layman's

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terms is called Our Polyvegal World, How Safety and Trauma Change Us by Stephen Porges, P-O-R-G-E-S.

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So in this book, he explains several things that we can all do to reverse the effects

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of previous traumas or even just perceived trauma. Your body reacts, can react to an

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experience that isn't even occurring in the present time. You can smell something or hear

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something or just have any number of sensory triggers that launch your body into a reaction

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to something that happened many, many years ago when there is no current threat. So there

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are ways to enable your brain to understand. There's even a form of treatment that I do

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in my office called bio-energetics synchronization, where we can help your brain realize that

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the seemingly traumatic experience your body is convinced is occurring right now or imminent

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was in fact something that happened a long time ago and need not bother you anymore.

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So let's turn now to this case I promised to present in the intro. A woman in her late

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fifties came to me who was a rape victim and she had pain in her private area radiating

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down the inside of her upper thigh and she worked for a medical, I'm sorry this is not

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a fun case to hear but I promise you there's a happy outcome. She worked for a prominent

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local medical clinic. She had every procedure done to attempt to relieve pain from her pelvic

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area. She had a full hysterectomy. She had multiple epidural blocks. She had multiple

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nerve blocks, cortisone injections, every oral medication pain reliever that might potentially

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offer her some relief and nothing helped her. In fact when she called me she had heard from

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a she was referred by another patient and she asked me a few questions and then said

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she'd call back and then a few months went by before she finally did call back and come

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in and when she came in I told her that I don't have a treatment for rape. You know

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for the things that you're describing I have no direct way to cure that. What I can do

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is offer some ways to help your brain realize that the trauma you experienced many years

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ago is no longer occurring. Your body is reacting, her body was reacting as though this trauma

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was still happening or about to happen again at a moment's notice and that was what was

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causing her pain. So I did a form of treatment on her that's difficult to describe on the

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radio but it involves using kinesiology, muscle testing to identify emotions that her brain

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is associating right now with the memory of this traumatic event. The only parts of her

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body I touched were her feet and her head. I used this very special form of testing to

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identify a dominant emotion that her body was ready to work on, to release and after

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the very first session she said to me something feels different. She couldn't really describe

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it but the area that she had this intense pain in her groin inside of her thigh felt

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different. She came back a few days later, continued to work on her after about two or

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three weeks, three times a week doing this type of work helping her brain. I'm just giving

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her brain information that it can use to realize consistent with this polyvagal theory that

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I described earlier. I'm helping her nervous system realize that there's no current threat

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now. Something horrible happened to her. The memory of that is never going to go away but

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there is no current need for her body to react and continually be triggered by things that

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remind her of that event anymore. After about three weeks of this she told me that her pain

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was reduced by half. Nothing, hysterectomy, multiple medical procedures, injections and

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medications had ever given her any relief at all. And after three weeks of this type

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of work her pain was 50% gone. About three months later she was able to finally consummate

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her marriage. She had remarried a year and a half ago. Her husband then quickly became

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a patient. She was up dancing and painting. She was a painter and she had been a dancer

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in her youth and she felt like an entirely new person. It looks like we have time for

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another case. I know this is going to be difficult to understand on the radio and it's going

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to sound incredible beyond belief but I had another patient who came in who was a healthy,

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fit, young, happy, 23 year old woman, worked in a bank, married, happy life, happy job

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but was having difficulty getting pregnant. She wanted a family and she had had two previous

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miscarriages both that occurred in about the seventh or eighth week and now she was having

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trouble getting pregnant again. I told her that there is this particular form of work

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I can use on her, no guarantees but we can see what happens. A lot of times you are totally

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unaware of things that are causing profound effects in your body. So I did a similar procedure

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on her to identify a dominant emotion that her body was reacting to unnecessarily that

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was interfering with her body functioning the way it's supposed to. I had her think

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about some words and numbers that gave her brain access to places where she was reacting

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to something that had happened in the past that was no longer dangerous, that it no longer

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needed to react to. Soon enough she announces that she is pregnant again. She is very excited

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and I'm seeing her less frequently now, once a week. She was traveling from about over

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an hour away each time. I'm seeing her once a week and she is worried that finally she

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has gotten pregnant again. After two miscarriages she was having difficulty getting pregnant

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since she was delighted just to be getting pregnant again but of course still worried

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that she was going to miscarry again. So around the seventh or eighth week she says, I'm sorry

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I have to tell you something. I don't know how I didn't even think of this until then

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but I just remembered this. My mother told me at some point that when she was pregnant

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with me she was raped by her boyfriend. Wow. So again this sounds a little odd but here's

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what happened. Her body had an energetic imprint from an experience in the womb. That's my

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theory. I don't have any randomized controlled trials to prove it but what happened was we

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continued to give her brain feedback that it could use to realize that this perceived

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threat to her survival was no longer occurring. There was something that happened in the past.

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She got through the seventh and eighth week. She did not have a miscarriage. Nine months

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later she brought into my office a beautiful healthy young boy with tears in her eyes thanking

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me for helping her body figure out that there was nothing wrong and that she was perfectly

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healthy and she was very happy to have her healthy young son. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. I

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love an opportunity to help you with any health challenge you're struggling with. Email me

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your questions. I look forward to speaking with you again right here next Friday at 4

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p.m. Have a great weekend. You've been listening to Safe Effective Natural Solutions with Dr.

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Todd Binkley. If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your

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