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 --> 00:00:14,800 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:15,800 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:21,400 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner of 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,000 functional medicine. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:29,120 I identify conditions other doctors miss by doing tests that most other doctors don't 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,360 do, usually because your insurance considers them medically unnecessary and doesn't want 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:34,360 to pay for them. 10 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:40,640 But it doesn't cost as much as you might think to get comprehensive testing to identify conditions 11 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:48,040 that get overlooked and underlie a lot of misery and pain and suffering or just minor 12 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,760 symptoms even, things that you'd really rather not have to deal with if you've been to a 13 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:56,640 doctor and told there's nothing wrong with you but you don't feel right, there probably 14 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,560 is something wrong with you, you just haven't identified it yet. 15 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:05,720 And there is a safe, effective, natural solution for almost any health challenge. 16 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,600 We're going to talk about supplements today. 17 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:12,720 I get a lot of questions about, you know, what's the best supplement for this or that? 18 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:17,920 And I'm going to describe a really exciting case about an 82-year-old lady who we were 19 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,200 able to get her blood pressure to drop 30 points. 20 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:23,200 That's a big deal. 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:30,880 It's not easy to produce someone's blood pressure by 30 points in their 80s with no medication. 22 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:35,920 When I talk about functional medicine, a safe, effective, natural solution to almost any 23 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:42,000 health challenge, there are three main things that I use to achieve that and they are better 24 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,660 food, exercise, and supplements. 25 00:01:45,660 --> 00:01:49,400 There are other things that are important, getting a good night's sleep, doing things 26 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:54,640 to reduce stress in your life, having a good spiritual practice. 27 00:01:54,640 --> 00:02:00,060 Most of the listeners here probably have that covered or doing something as simple as meditation 28 00:02:00,060 --> 00:02:02,400 and deep breathing exercises. 29 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:07,200 Also releasing physical stress from your body by having a good stretching routine. 30 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,460 But the most important things that I find that make the biggest difference when people 31 00:02:11,460 --> 00:02:19,560 come to see me are counseling them on how to get better food, exercise, and supplements 32 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:25,000 in response to the testing that we do to identify what their body needs. 33 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,080 This is the most important thing. 34 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:28,760 I cannot stress this enough. 35 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:35,320 You are as different on the inside as you are on the outside. 36 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:40,440 There are no one-size-fits-all solutions for any health issue. 37 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:46,120 The medical profession standards of care tries to do a one-size-fits-all treatment based 38 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:52,600 on tests that show that the drugs they give you are not dangerous enough to kill you but 39 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:59,760 helpful enough to solve a certain crisis, acute condition, or manage a chronic condition. 40 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,000 But there's a big difference between drugs and supplements. 41 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,360 So that's a common question I get. 42 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:09,480 What is the difference between drugs and supplements? 43 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:14,320 Drugs are essential when you need to intervene now and get a quick, specific, controlled, 44 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:19,760 reliable response to something that's ailing you, maybe to save your life even. 45 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,440 And drugs work by altering and manipulating cell receptors and biochemical pathways in 46 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:26,440 your body. 47 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:31,720 They block receptors on cells or increase cell receptor activity. 48 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:39,280 They directly alter enzymatic and other chemical pathways that immediately change your physiology. 49 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:40,840 And they're often essential. 50 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:46,280 If your heart is stopped, an injection of epinephrine directly into your heart may get 51 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,160 it started again and save your life. 52 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:54,300 Or if you have anaphylactic shock from some form of allergy, opening your airways with 53 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:58,200 an EpiPen, also epinephrine, adrenaline, can save your life. 54 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:04,040 If you have a stroke and your blood circulation is cut off to parts of your brain, getting 55 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:09,760 to the hospital as quickly as possible to take something that will reduce the clotting 56 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,520 that's blocking those arteries and restore blood flow to the brain before too much damage 57 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:15,520 is done. 58 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,040 Obviously, these things are all essential. 59 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:24,880 But none of these drugs do anything to improve your health. 60 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,400 There's a bold statement. 61 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,640 I'm going to say it again. 62 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,920 Drugs don't improve your health. 63 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,520 They may save your life. 64 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,360 They're amazing at treating disease. 65 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:37,880 But they don't improve your health. 66 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:43,180 The only things that improve your health are things that enhance the internal mechanisms 67 00:04:43,180 --> 00:04:48,800 that your body was designed with to use to heal and maintain itself. 68 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:55,400 Better, good food, full, nutrient rich food, exercise, moving your body the way it was 69 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:02,440 designed to be moved, the way we've been moving our bodies most of the time for most of our 70 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:10,920 existence on a grand scale, and where necessary, based on comprehensive testing, using supplemental 71 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:16,160 nutrients to fill in the gaps that you're not getting from your food. 72 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:21,520 So drugs are essential when you need to intervene and get a quick, specific, controlled, predictable 73 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:22,680 response. 74 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:29,960 But they're all toxic to the body precisely because they interfere with normal human physiology. 75 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,360 Normal control mechanisms are overridden and consuming too much or too many drugs can easily 76 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:36,920 kill you. 77 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:42,980 Properly prescribed medications, not medical errors, not some instance where the pharmacist 78 00:05:42,980 --> 00:05:49,320 couldn't read the doctor's handwriting, properly prescribed drugs kill nearly 100,000 people 79 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,080 every year. 80 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:57,680 By contrast, nutrients are foods that our bodies have evolved. 81 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,880 The ability to assimilate and utilize for sustaining life. 82 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:03,920 I'm going to say that again. 83 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:11,160 Nutrients like food are things that our bodies have been experiencing and learned how to 84 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,080 utilize for healing and repairing cells. 85 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:19,880 They're raw materials for building and maintaining every tissue and organ in your body. 86 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:28,040 They're non-toxic because they support normal human physiology, innate control mechanisms 87 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:33,560 are maintained when you eat good food and take supplements that have been identified 88 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,100 as missing on comprehensive testing. 89 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:42,800 If you consume more than you need of most nutrients, your body will simply excrete them. 90 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,800 Well, if supplements are so great, why do you always hear these news stories continually 91 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:55,240 coming out saying this vitamin or that was proven to be useless for this or that condition? 92 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:59,980 The best advice I can give you is if you hear a two things I can say. 93 00:06:59,980 --> 00:07:04,080 If you hear a study slamming some vitamins saying it's useless for them proven to be 94 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,920 not effective for this or that. 95 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,920 Number one, email me that and I'll give you a response. 96 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:13,160 I'll look up the original data on that study and explain to you why that study was probably 97 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,840 doomed to failure at the outset. 98 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:22,880 So much money is wasted time and money is wasted by myopic medical researchers trying 99 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:29,060 to study supplements, nutrients like they were drugs. 100 00:07:29,060 --> 00:07:32,260 Nutrients do not work like drugs. 101 00:07:32,260 --> 00:07:39,600 And most of these studies use insufficient dosages, inferior forms and most importantly, 102 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:45,520 they're just idiotic by design because they test nutrients in isolation. 103 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,480 Supplements don't work in isolation. 104 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:48,940 They're synergistic. 105 00:07:48,940 --> 00:07:55,160 They work in combinations like the nutrients in foods, supplements. 106 00:07:55,160 --> 00:08:01,040 And these studies also test them in isolation and never consider the diet and lifestyle 107 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,720 of the person who's taking them. 108 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:10,380 Supplements are called supplements because they're meant to supplement a good diet. 109 00:08:10,380 --> 00:08:13,900 They do not replace healthy food. 110 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:19,000 So when you hear about a study that declares conclusively that vitamin D doesn't work for 111 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:24,960 this or that or vitamin C or coenzyme Q10 or fish oil or anything else, probably the 112 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:29,140 best thing to do is just ignore it because almost all of these studies are poorly designed 113 00:08:29,140 --> 00:08:32,980 from the outset or biased or basically useless. 114 00:08:32,980 --> 00:08:39,280 But if you want to know more, please, I invite you to email me any such study that you hear 115 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:46,320 about and I'll look up the base data and reply to you and explain it on air why such studies 116 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,320 are so misleading. 117 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,160 There is one common thing you hear all the time though that is absolutely true. 118 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:58,640 Most multivitamins are useless or nearly useless. 119 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:04,160 I'm Dr. Todd Bankley discussing with you safe, effective, natural solutions to almost any 120 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:05,160 health challenge. 121 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:06,400 And yes, I just said it. 122 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:11,880 I'll say it again, most multivitamins are nearly useless. 123 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:12,880 Why is that? 124 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:18,460 The main reason is because most multivitamins are one a day multivitamins. 125 00:09:18,460 --> 00:09:20,120 Everyone wants one pill. 126 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:21,360 Just give me one pill. 127 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:22,960 I'll take it. 128 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:29,120 Store shelves have always been and will always be stocked with one a day multivitamins. 129 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,960 Most one a day multivitamins are nearly useless. 130 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:37,400 And the reason for that is because the purpose of taking them, I recommend that all of my 131 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:42,960 patients take a multivitamin and it is never a one a day multivitamin. 132 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,940 The main reason to take a multivitamin is not for the vitamins but for a mineral. 133 00:09:46,940 --> 00:09:52,400 So we call them multivitamins but all multivitamins are multivitamin and mineral supplements. 134 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,240 And you can get vitamins from food. 135 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:59,880 If you eat any decent amount of vegetables, you can get most of the vitamins that you 136 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:02,840 need, many at least, of the vitamins that you need from food. 137 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:03,840 There's exceptions. 138 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,200 No one gets enough vitamin D from their food, for example. 139 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,680 But you can get vitamins from food. 140 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:12,320 But you can't get, most people do not get after testing thousands of people myself and 141 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,800 with my colleagues, hundreds of thousands of people around the country, most people 142 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,480 do not get enough minerals from their food. 143 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:26,600 Most people do not get enough calcium and magnesium and manganese and selenium and chromium 144 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,680 and zinc and molybdenum and germanium. 145 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:37,440 These are essential cofactors and enzymatic reactions in every tissue and cell pathway, 146 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:38,960 chemical pathway in your body. 147 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:45,360 You need minerals to function and most people do not get enough minerals from their diet. 148 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:46,900 Well, why is that? 149 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:52,760 The food we eat comes from soil that has been so depleted by conventional farming that there's 150 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:57,840 no minerals left, not enough at least, minerals left in the soil. 151 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,100 So how are they going to end up in your food? 152 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:06,440 Unless your diet includes a lot of super greens, unless you're eating a lot of kale, spinach, 153 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:12,840 broccoli, anything dark green in abundance every day, then I can guarantee you when we 154 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:19,120 test you, you will show functional deficiencies of many, many minerals. 155 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,880 So there are three common supplements I recommend to almost anyone. 156 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:28,520 The best thing is to get proper comprehensive testing done to identify your specific needs, 157 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,680 things that are missing from your diet. 158 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:38,600 Think of your bloodstream like this, your bloodstream, I like to call it a river of life. 159 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:43,520 Imagine your bloodstream is a river that is constantly coursing throughout your entire 160 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:49,620 body and there are construction crews waiting on both sides of this river. 161 00:11:49,620 --> 00:11:50,620 The guys are there. 162 00:11:50,620 --> 00:11:51,620 They've got their tools. 163 00:11:51,620 --> 00:11:53,280 They're ready to rebuild. 164 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,720 They're ready to heal and repair tissues throughout your body. 165 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:57,720 They're waiting. 166 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,480 All they need is the materials. 167 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:05,320 They're waiting on something to be delivered that they need, that's essential, without 168 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,120 which they cannot heal and repair that tissue. 169 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:14,640 So that river of life is your bloodstream and if those nutrients are not in your bloodstream, 170 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:20,280 when that cruise, they're waiting to heal your kidney, some part of your liver, repair 171 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:26,680 your joints to reduce or prevent arthritis, especially provide nutrients to your brain 172 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:32,480 to prevent catastrophic neurodegeneration that is just getting worse and worse every 173 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,300 year in our society. 174 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:39,120 As we get older, people didn't used to live that long, so neurodegeneration in your brain 175 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:44,320 that causes Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases was less 176 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:45,320 of a problem. 177 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:49,120 But the river of life in your body is your responsibility. 178 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:55,120 If you want those construction crews that are waiting day after day to repair the parts 179 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:01,720 of your body that need attention and maintain them, then you must provide that supply. 180 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,540 You must provide them with the nutrients necessary. 181 00:13:05,540 --> 00:13:09,000 So one of the most important things to make that happen is to take a good multivitamin. 182 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,880 A good multivitamin is almost always four capsules a day. 183 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:14,880 Three or four capsules. 184 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,360 If you weigh less than 120 pounds, three might be enough. 185 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,840 My favorite multivitamin, it's not the only good one. 186 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:26,200 I tell my patients all the time the supplements that I stock in my office and most commonly 187 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,840 recommend to my patients are not the only good ones. 188 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:30,740 They're not the only ones that work. 189 00:13:30,740 --> 00:13:34,860 They are ones that I've been giving to hundreds, thousands of patients. 190 00:13:34,860 --> 00:13:39,760 My colleagues that I speak with at seminars several times every year have collectively 191 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:46,220 given to hundreds of thousands of patients, tested them before and after to prove that 192 00:13:46,220 --> 00:13:49,040 they achieved the desired result. 193 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:55,160 The only way I know to find out if any particular supplement, product, nutrient works is to 194 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:01,120 give it to several thousand people and test them before and after and see if it achieves 195 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:02,660 the intended result. 196 00:14:02,660 --> 00:14:08,360 So Alpha Base by Ortho Molecular Products is the multivitamin that I recommend to all 197 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:09,360 of my patients. 198 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,560 And again, I recommend it not for vitamins, but for the minerals. 199 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:19,080 It has minerals that are as close as you can get in capsule form to the plant-based forms 200 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:23,880 that we would all ideally get from our diet, but usually fail to do. 201 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:30,580 So these plant-based, plant-like forms of minerals in these four capsules are bulky. 202 00:14:30,580 --> 00:14:32,500 They take up space. 203 00:14:32,500 --> 00:14:36,760 Most multivitamins are just made from minerals that are mined from the surface of the earth. 204 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:43,920 And so you can put a certain amount of zinc, chromium, magnesium, calcium, etc. into one 205 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,760 pill and test it. 206 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:47,840 They have to be tested. 207 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,920 That's one thing the government does is make sure that what's on the label is in the tablet. 208 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,580 But does that mean it actually enters your, does anybody ever test to see whether those 209 00:14:55,580 --> 00:15:01,800 one-a-day useless centrosilver multivitamins, Kirkland vitamins from Costco, you know, you 210 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,360 get what you pay for. 211 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,960 One-a-day multivitamins, the minerals in one-a-day multivitamins usually just pass straight through 212 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,000 your body and into this, into the toilet. 213 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:16,040 So the most expensive vitamin you'll ever take, the most wasteful, the most money you'll 214 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:21,720 ever waste on a supplement is the one that just passes straight through your body without 215 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,380 any benefit. 216 00:15:23,380 --> 00:15:29,560 So the forms of minerals that are like the ones that plants make, instead of just mining 217 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,560 minerals directly from the surface of the earth, isolating them, grinding them up and 218 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,220 putting them into one tablet that everyone wants. 219 00:15:37,220 --> 00:15:43,360 If a spinach plant or a broccoli plant in that same dirt and those minerals are absorbed 220 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:48,040 through the roots of that plant and then bound up in the leaves and the fruit and the stocks 221 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:56,320 of whatever vegetable it is, informs that our bodies recognize that we, that they automatically 222 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:03,280 understand how to break down and easily assimilate and utilize for all those so important pathways 223 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:09,280 that are required to heal and maintain our organs and tissues. 224 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:16,040 So to get, plant, to get something like that in a multivitamin, manufacturers that make 225 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:22,860 the best quality multivitamins have figured out ways to develop minerals that are bound 226 00:16:22,860 --> 00:16:27,840 up in forms similar to the ones in plants and they're bulky. 227 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:29,320 They take up space. 228 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:35,720 They just will not fit in a decent daily dose to keep you healthy, to keep most people healthy, 229 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,720 will or give you a chance of being healthier than you otherwise would be. 230 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,200 Keep that river of life flowing with the materials. 231 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,780 Those construction crews need to heal and repair every part of your body. 232 00:16:46,780 --> 00:16:50,120 Those plant like based minerals will not fit into one capsule. 233 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:51,120 They're bulky. 234 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:57,200 They take up space and usually they take the space of about four capsules for most people. 235 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,840 So there's two other nutrients that I can recommend to anyone without any testing because 236 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:07,020 again these are two other things that I continually see no one gets enough, almost no one gets 237 00:17:07,020 --> 00:17:12,460 enough from their diet and they are fish oil and vitamin D. So fish oil, everyone's heard 238 00:17:12,460 --> 00:17:17,520 about the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids for cardiovascular health, for raising your 239 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,360 good cholesterol, for your brain. 240 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:28,800 Your brain is mostly made of water and fat and 25% of the fat in your brain is made from 241 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:36,320 docosa hexanoic acid DHA, one of the two omega-3 fatty acids that you can only get from the 242 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:37,320 ocean. 243 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:38,320 The other one is EPA. 244 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:44,280 So whenever you look at something that purports to be a good source of omega-3s, check and 245 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:49,320 see how much EPA and DHA is in that product. 246 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:52,280 And these are things that are only available in the ocean. 247 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,720 There is no DHA or EPA. 248 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:59,040 These most essential omega-3s that you hear all the health benefits about, there are none 249 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,740 of those in any vegetable based source. 250 00:18:02,740 --> 00:18:09,600 There's no EPA or DHA in walnuts or chia seeds or flax seeds. 251 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:14,640 These are all good things that are nutritious, that are absolutely fantastic to include as 252 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,280 a part of your diet. 253 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:22,200 But you want to think of flax oil or flax seeds or chia seeds the way you think of olive oil 254 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,400 or sunflower seeds. 255 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,400 Just they're good additions, they're great things to put on your salad. 256 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:32,840 They're nutritious, but they do not produce the benefits that you hear about for omega-3 257 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:37,240 fatty acids, which mainly only come from, get from the ocean. 258 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,700 So most people to get adequate amounts of that need to either eat a piece of salmon 259 00:18:41,700 --> 00:18:45,320 every day or some sardines or supplement. 260 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:51,160 I recommend a gram and a half at least for most people, about 1500 milligrams combined 261 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:57,840 EPA and DHA in supplemental form because most people don't get enough of it from their diet. 262 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:01,620 The third nutrient I recommend everyone supplement because no one gets enough of it from their 263 00:19:01,620 --> 00:19:06,000 diet and the most important of the three is vitamin D, but it looks like we're not going 264 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,480 to have enough time to cover that today. 265 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:12,240 I could do a whole show just on the importance and benefits of vitamin D, but let's just 266 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:13,880 do a quick overview. 267 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:18,580 Most adults need to supplement 5000 units of vitamin D per day. 268 00:19:18,580 --> 00:19:23,240 You hear all the time, oh my God, you can take too much vitamin D. It's dangerous. 269 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,240 Most medical doctors are worried that if you take too much vitamin D, you're going to get 270 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:27,520 kidney stones. 271 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,320 It's possible, but it never happens. 272 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:31,360 Look in the literature. 273 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:32,800 It's just really, really rare. 274 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,880 It's very difficult to take too much vitamin D. 275 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:42,120 Meanwhile, thousands of people die from cancers and colds and flus that could be prevented, 276 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:47,200 end up in a hospital and die from infections and cancers that could have been prevented 277 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:54,320 if their immune systems were working properly by virtue of having adequate vitamin D. 278 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,400 Most adults should take 5000 units of vitamin D a day. 279 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,840 If you weigh less than 120 pounds, maybe 4000 might be enough, but the most important way 280 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:07,480 to ensure that you're getting adequate vitamin D is like with everything else, get tested. 281 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:13,880 The lab range for vitamin D on most standard tests is 30 to 100. 282 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:18,800 Most doctors will order your vitamin D test for you, but they'll also egregiously, in 283 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:23,240 my opinion, tell you that you're fine if it's 30 or above. 284 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:24,240 That's just not true. 285 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:29,040 Your immune system will not function at its peak unless your vitamin D level is between 286 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,320 50 and 90. 287 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:36,280 Get your vitamin D level tested, take enough vitamin D. You're never going to get enough 288 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:40,760 from the sun or doing gardening or walking around in short sleeves and short pants. 289 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:46,760 You need to supplement 5000 units a day, sometimes more, and get your blood levels tested to 290 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:52,280 make sure that they're in between 50 and 90 so that your immune system is functioning 291 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,200 at its peak. 292 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:58,800 Do this and you can prevent a whole host of diseases, especially you just, most people 293 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:04,360 who do this never get colds and flus anymore, or if they do, they last for a couple of days 294 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:07,160 instead of weeks or months. 295 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:13,360 Your immune system is totally dependent on adequate levels of vitamin D. 296 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:18,200 So let's talk about that case study I mentioned previously, an 82 year old, lovely 82 year 297 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:24,920 old lady whose blood pressure was consistently running around 157 over 90. 298 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:30,040 She was otherwise fit, she was an orchestra conductor, a concert violinist, she was a 299 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:31,660 force of nature. 300 00:21:31,660 --> 00:21:37,400 In her 80s she was still running a school play at her church every year and directing 301 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,320 this orchestra at her church. 302 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:47,000 And you'd look at her and she just looked to be amazing, and she was in really phenomenal 303 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,000 health for her age. 304 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,080 She was thin and tall and had just an abundance of energy and she had high blood pressure 305 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,720 for over 20 years. 306 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,520 And she refused to take any blood pressure medication because when she did, it made her 307 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,060 dizzy. 308 00:22:03,060 --> 00:22:09,760 And she had had, she had bypass surgery two years ago and her other doctor was strongly, 309 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,360 constantly urging her to take medication to keep her blood pressure under control. 310 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:16,200 So she asked me, you know, is there anything that you can recommend? 311 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,840 And I said, have you ever tried taking fish shell? 312 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:19,840 Yep, didn't work. 313 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:24,320 I said, have you ever tried taking pomegranate juice because pomegranate juice can actually 314 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:29,080 reverse arteriosclerosis in high concentrations, especially if it's not too sweet. 315 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,080 Yep, tried that, didn't work. 316 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:31,320 Have you ever tried turmeric? 317 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,320 Yes. 318 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:37,240 Have you ever tried taking any kind of systemic enzymes like seropeptase or natokinase? 319 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,360 Yes. 320 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:39,720 Have you tried taking CoQ10? 321 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:40,720 Yes. 322 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:45,880 Are you taking a good multivitamin with all the minerals your body needs to heal and repair? 323 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,680 She says, yep, I've tried all of those, none of them worked. 324 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:54,480 I said, have you ever taken all of those things at the same time? 325 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,960 Well, no, she says, almost indignantly. 326 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:58,960 Of course not. 327 00:22:58,960 --> 00:22:59,960 Why would I do that? 328 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:02,240 How would I say which one was working if I took them all at the same time? 329 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:07,580 And I carefully explained that supplements, nutrients are not drugs. 330 00:23:07,580 --> 00:23:09,180 They do not work by themselves. 331 00:23:09,180 --> 00:23:10,720 They work synergistically. 332 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,480 They work in combinations, just like all the nutrients in your food. 333 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,360 Everyone knows that there's a lot of nutrients in broccoli. 334 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:23,880 We've only identified a small portion of them, but trust me, they work in combination. 335 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:30,480 So she started taking fish oil, pomegranate juice, turmeric, natokinase, Coenzyme Q10, 336 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:31,480 and a good multivitamin. 337 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:40,040 And I also recommended that she do some stretching for flexibility, relaxation, and stress relief. 338 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:45,040 And in six weeks, her blood pressure went down to 127 over 80. 339 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:52,360 From 157 over 90 to 127 over 80, her top number dropped 30 points and the bottom number dropped 340 00:23:52,360 --> 00:24:00,040 10 points to well to nicely within the healthy range with no medication. 341 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,680 That's really hard to do in an 80 year old, especially a go-go active person like she 342 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,200 was, which can create a certain amount of stress. 343 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:13,600 We dropped her blood pressure 30 points without drugs and she was elated. 344 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:19,440 Remember the condition of your body is always far more important than the name of any disease 345 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,040 you've been diagnosed with. 346 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:22,360 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. 347 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:26,920 You've been listening to safe, effective, natural solutions for almost any health challenge. 348 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:31,000 Tell somebody this weekend what you're grateful for, especially maybe someone you haven't 349 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 talked to in a long time. 350 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,960 That can be an amazing stress reliever. 351 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:35,640 I'm grateful for you. 352 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,800 Thank you very much for tuning in. 353 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:43,000 Please tell all of your friends and family to tune in next Friday right here at 4 p.m. 354 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,040 for the fabulous rest of your weekend. 355 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:50,520 You've been listening to safe, effective, natural solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 356 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:55,060 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to 357 00:24:55,060 --> 00:24:59,620 drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 358 00:24:59,620 --> 00:25:04,320 Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved 359 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,280 ones because our health matters. 360 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:15,240 Join him next Friday at 4 p.m. for safe, effective, natural solutions right here on 98.3 The Word, 361 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:38,600 KDAR.