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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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For those of you who are tuning in for the first time, welcome.

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Thank you for tuning in and for those who have been sending me questions and referrals,

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welcome back.

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One of the commonest questions I've been getting is how can I listen to these programs on demand?

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So I have gotten, I have finally gotten a podcast set up so you can listen to these

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programs on demand anytime you like now just by going to my website at BinkleyHealingCenter.com.

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Every episode, this is episode eight, so not all of them are up there yet, but you can

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listen to some of the old programs now and eventually I'll get them all up and I really

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appreciate you tuning in.

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The theme of today's show is going to be mostly about vitamin D. It's a timely topic in the

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holidays.

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When people are exposed to less sun, their vitamin D levels go down.

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It's the cold and flu season.

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That's not a coincidence.

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And I'm going to be presenting a bunch of data that a lot of people are surprised about.

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There's amazing things that happen when you get adequate levels of vitamin D in your body

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and most people do not get adequate levels of vitamin D in their body if their goal is

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to keep their immune system strong.

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Before I get into sharing some of the amazing data on all of the fantastic effects vitamin

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D has on keeping your body healthy and strong, I just want to give everyone a context.

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So usually the conversation, people are worried, oh my God, 5,000 units of vitamin D, really?

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But the RDA is only 400.

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Well it's ridiculous.

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The RDA should be 5,000, maybe 4,000 if you weigh less than 120 pounds, although children

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above 60 pounds can often take 5,000 units of vitamin D a day and how do we tell what's

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working or not?

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You test.

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So if your serum level ends up between 50 and 90, then the amount you're supplementing

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is the amount that you need.

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But years ago they did studies on mega doses of vitamin D. This was published in 1945 by

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Dr. G.W.

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Dowling, MD and E.W.

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Prosser, Thomas, MD and they were experimenting with mega doses that I do not recommend, but

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mega doses of vitamin D, 100,000 units of vitamin D a day for two years and they eliminated

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lupus disease.

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Again, there's always been a link between vitamin D and an effective immune system function

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that gets too often ignored.

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This was not a good idea.

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This study also, it raised their calcium levels to plus 14, which will cause kidney stones.

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So they stopped doing that.

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It's not a good idea to take that much.

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But it didn't kill them.

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It's not as dangerous as people think.

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They did another case study, 150,000 units of vitamin D for two months and then 100,000

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for a year with no ill effects.

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Her calcium levels remained fine.

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This is just one case study.

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That's not enough information to base a broad recommendation for the general public.

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But it's just an outline of some brackets to give you some perspective.

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It is really difficult to do any damage by taking too much vitamin D, whereas the opposite

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is occurring daily all around us all the time, people dying from diseases that could be prevented

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if they took enough vitamin D.

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So here's a study more recently from 2016 published in the North American Journal of

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Medical Sciences and they were looking to see if taking vitamin D could help people

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with statin intolerance.

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Well, it would be a lot better to, here's the best way to fix statin intolerance.

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Don't take statin drugs.

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Hardly anyone needs to take statin drugs.

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I'm probably going to get all kinds of messages about that.

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There's lots of other ways to reduce your cholesterol without taking statin drugs that

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are much healthier and statin drugs, cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease.

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I've talked about this before.

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I'll talk about it again.

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But anyway, this study was giving people 50,000 to 100,000 units of vitamin D per week.

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So that's a reasonable dose.

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Divide by seven, 50,000 to 100,000 per week.

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That's about 10,000 a day.

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That's what I recommend to many patients whose vitamin D levels come back testing low, below

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Anybody below 30 or 40, I recommend they take 10,000 units of vitamin D for two or three

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months and then we retest to make sure that their vitamin D levels get back up to between

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That is the healthy range to keep your immune system strong.

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But this study also showed that people who were taking statin drugs and having side effects

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from statin drugs, which always have side effects.

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They stress your muscles.

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They put a chemical clamp on your liver to stop it making the cholesterol that it's designed

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to make, which is an essential nutrient to build cell membranes and all of your sex hormones.

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So just taking vitamin D, getting adequate amounts of vitamin D in these people's blood

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systems dramatically reduced their side effects from taking cholesterol, lowering statin drugs

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without any side effect.

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Here's one of the most important things you can take away from any episode of this program.

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People who feel fine, symptom free, healthy as a horse, suddenly drop dead every day.

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If you're still convinced that you're fine because you feel fine, then I'm really glad

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that you've tuned in because how you feel is a very poor indicator of how healthy you

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are.

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Have you heard about people healthy, supposedly air quotes healthy athletes drop dead on a

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basketball court or people who jog every day drop dead while jogging.

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The most common first sign of severe underlying heart disease is sudden death from a heart

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attack.

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Everyone knows someone who has been recently diagnosed with cancer and has three months

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to live a lot of really bad things.

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You have no symptoms.

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You have no idea how healthy you are unless you get tested.

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99% of doctors who practice conventional medicine do examinations to see if you have disease

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now a full blown diabetes, heart condition.

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They don't scream for cancer.

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Usually it's a sad thing that this is the one of the main reasons I'm doing this program

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is to help inform people, give you, arm you with information that you can use to bridge

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the gap that exists, this huge gap that exists between conventional medicine that is not

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stopping heart disease and cancer from being the number one and number two causes of death

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in America, which are preventable.

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Most heart disease, many cancers could be prevented with better food, exercise and supplements,

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but the only way to make that happen is for you to get tested.

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The condition of your body is far more important than any disease you've been diagnosed with

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and obviously more important than any disease you haven't been diagnosed with.

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And the only way you know how healthy you are is to get tested.

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I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving last weekend.

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It's the holiday season and one of the most common comments, questions, feedback I get

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at this time of year is I know I'm going to eat too much sugar.

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Well, you have choices.

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You don't have to eat all those cookies and cakes and pies, but I'm going to all these

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events and all this stuff is going to be there.

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I have to eat it.

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I don't want to be antisocial.

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Well, here's one thing you can do before you go to all of these holiday parties that are

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going to be surrounding you with various forms of amazing delicious cakes, cookies, pies,

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whatever sugar kills you.

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Okay.

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Sugar is death.

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Sugar is really, really bad.

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It's far worse than you think it is.

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People make light of it.

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Oh, it's just a little sweet.

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Listen that sugar is the worst thing anyone can eat.

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It contributes to all diseases.

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It feeds cancer.

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It causes diabetes.

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It exacerbates heart cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, strokes, increases your risk

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of dementia.

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Dementia is now being called type three diabetes because of the impact of hyperglycemia, too

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much sugar in your blood, destroying cells in your brain.

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So it's not a light matter.

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This is a serious thing to think about.

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Don't eat all those sweet things during the holidays.

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You don't have to.

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And here's one thing you can do when you're getting ready to go to one of those parties

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filled with cakes and cookies and pies and whatever else, stuff yourself with some real

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food before you go to those parties.

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Eat a salad.

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Eat an apple.

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Eat a carrot.

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Eat something that actually has nutrients in it.

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Stuff yourself.

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Fill yourself up before you go to those parties so that when you get there, you can politely

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have a bite or two of this or that, but not gorge yourself on it because you won't be

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hungry with a full stomach.

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Before going to any holiday event, you can also stuff yourself.

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It would actually be best to stuff yourself with healthy fats and protein because these

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things will sustain you and make you less hungry for all those horrible sugary things

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that people are going to be tempting you with.

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So carry some nuts in your car before you go to any holiday event.

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Stuff yourself with cashews or walnuts or almonds or pistachios on the way there in

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the car even.

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Or before you go, have some cheese, some olives.

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Do a shot of olive oil.

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This is a really delicious thing to do.

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It probably sounds kind of strange, but they do it in Greece every morning.

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Drink a shot of really good olive oil.

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Not the stuff from the supermarket, but the good stuff that you get at farmers market

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or Whole Foods or a specialty store.

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Eat a piece of chicken.

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Keep some hard boiled eggs on hand, ready to eat on the go.

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Have a can of sardines and olive oil.

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Not everyone's taste, but they can be delicious and super satisfying, especially if you put

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some capers on a can of sardines or a can of any tinned fish.

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Can of salmon or a can of tuna, as long as it's the Polka low mercury tuna.

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That's always a good snack to have.

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Eating healthy protein and fat is super satisfying.

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Feeds your brain with excellent protein and omega-3 fatty acids and will help you avoid

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the temptation to ingest sugar that is just not going to do you any favors at all.

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Vitamin D is essential for pretty much every organ in your body, but the most important

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system in your body that vitamin D is essential for is your immune system.

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The recommended daily allowance, if you look at those ridiculous numbers on the back of

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a vitamin, it'll say, oh, the RDA or the daily value of vitamin D is 400 units a day.

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Or if you're pregnant or you're over a certain age, maybe 600.

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Ignore those numbers.

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Please ignore those numbers.

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Ignore those numbers for every vitamin.

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They're useless information if you want to be healthy.

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The recommended daily allowances of all vitamins are the amounts you need to prevent severe

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deficiency diseases like pellagra and berry berry and scurvy.

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Vitamins were discovered when they found out that people's teeth were falling out.

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People on long voyages across the seas at the turn of the 20th century because they

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hadn't didn't have vitamin C. So they started giving them limes.

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And that's why British sailors were called blimeys because they ate limes that stopped

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their dramatic reduction of collagen production, which is dependent on vitamin C to stop their

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teeth from falling out by giving them limes.

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So severe deficiency diseases are what the recommended daily allowances of most vitamins.

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That's the listing on the back.

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Those recommended daily allowances are to prevent severe deficiency diseases.

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They have nothing to do with what you need to be healthy.

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Back to vitamin D. Vitamin D is the single most important vitamin that no one ever gets

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enough from in their diet.

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Every was well, not everyone, but far too many people think, oh, if I walk around in

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the sun with short sleeves and short pants and do some gardening, I'll get all the vitamin

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I need from the sun.

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No one gets enough vitamin D from the sun.

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They should, we should human beings in some parts of the world do that.

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If you walk around naked all day and expose the entire surface area of your skin to the

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sun in the summer, you'll get enough vitamin D. If you expose your torso in Southern California,

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not your arms and your legs, but your torso to the sun with no sunscreen on for 20 minutes,

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three times a week.

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If you have darker skin, it will take even longer to get adequate amount of sun exposure

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to generate healthy levels of vitamin D in your skin.

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No one does that.

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That's the main point.

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No one sun bathes without sunscreen and they shouldn't, especially on your face.

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You want to wear sunscreen.

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So the point is, yes, our bodies are designed to make vitamin D from sun exposure, but no

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one in the Western world, in the, in cities, the places where most of you are listening

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live even in play, even in India or Africa in cities, in third world countries near the

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equator where there's lots of people that are outside.

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They don't get enough vitamin D either.

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There's studies on all of this.

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No one gets enough vitamin D to keep their immune system healthy and strong unless you

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supplement vitamin D. So just forget everything you've heard about, Oh, you can get all the

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vitamin D you need just by going out in the sun.

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It's not going to happen.

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If you want your immune system to be strong, here's how you know.

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You have to test your serum level.

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You have to test your blood, your serum level, your blood tests of vitamin D should be between

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50 and 90.

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Most doctors will order this test for you now if you ask, but egregiously in my opinion,

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they will also tell you that if it's above 30, it's fine.

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In fact, even it drives me crazy.

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Some doctors tell their patients that, Oh my God, if your vitamin D level is above 40

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or 50, that's too much.

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This is ridiculous.

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The lab range for vitamin D on Quest LabCorp, all the major labs is 30 to 100.

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If your vitamin D level go, it is possible to take too much vitamin D, but it never happens.

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The reason some doctors, many doctors are concerned, worried unnecessarily that anyone

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might supplement too much vitamin D, 5,000 units of vitamin D every day is the standard

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dose for all adults.

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If you want your immune system to work at its peak, 10,000, I routinely recommend that

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patients of mine take 10,000 units of vitamin D every day for two, three, four months.

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I've had patients, especially older patients, the older you are, the more difficult it is

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for your body to absorb and maintain a healthy level of vitamin D. I've had patients who

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I told to take 10,000 units of vitamin D every day for two, three, four months, who can continue

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taking 10,000 units of vitamin D for a year and it still didn't raise their calcium levels.

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So when you, when you hear medical doctors worried, if you're, if you go to your GP,

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your physician and they say, Oh my God, your vitamin D levels are too high or it's dangerous

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to take these ridiculously high amounts of vitamin D. They're, what they're worried about

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is kidney stones.

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If you take too much vitamin D for too long, you can increase your risk of kidney stones,

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but it never happens.

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You have to have first elevated levels of calcium.

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The normal levels of calcium are in the range of 10, 10 point anything.

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If it's above that, then, and if your calcium levels are 11 for several months, then you

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can increase your risk of kidney stones.

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But even then it doesn't happen.

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So if you ever take too much vitamin D and get it tested, then just stop taking vitamin

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D and avoid sun exposure for a month and it goes back to normal.

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So the problem is millions of people die needlessly from colds and flus that take them to the

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hospital and cancers that could be prevented.

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Robust data has documented the association between insufficient levels of vitamin D and

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death rates to cancer, especially breast cancer, prostate and colorectal cancer.

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Vitamin D is the single most nutrient that you can take if you want to become healthier.

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And if you're not currently, for example, taking any supplements, everyone wants to

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take one pill.

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I already did a rant in my last episode about how useless most one a day multivitamins are.

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But if you want to take just one pill to improve your health and you're not supplementing anything

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now, then the best one to take would be 5,000 units of vitamin D. Vitamin D impacts and

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is involved in maintaining the health of almost every organ and system in your body.

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And I'm going to present some data about that.

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But I also want to arm you with things that you can do yourself.

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So if you are someone who likes to look things up, just go to PubMed.

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The actual website is pubmed.ncbi.ml.

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It's a whole mouthful, but it's run by the National Institutes of Health and it is a

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resource where all published medical literature is available for free.

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And even if you're not going to read the studies, you can at least get an impression of how

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much science is behind the things that I'm talking about on this show that maybe other

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doctors haven't told you about.

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It's out there.

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Unfortunately, a lot of doctors just aren't that interested in the benefits of supplements.

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They spend most of their time providing crisis care using pharmaceuticals for most conditions

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for most people.

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So here's an obvious example that's still on many people's minds.

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COVID, right?

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Vitamin D can help your immune system.

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It should help with COVID, right?

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Well, absolutely it does.

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When I was open, my office was open throughout the pandemic.

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People were still coming to see me and I put out a, I built a box outside my office with

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a smart lock on it so that people could come and pick up supplements without any contact.

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And but the point is long COVID.

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Now we've got long COVID.

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People are still having lingering symptoms like fatigue and brain fog and loss of sense

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and smell.

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But, you know, mostly fatigue, headaches, brain fog, a few other symptoms, the spike

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proteins on COVID wreak havoc in your vascular system and create an ongoing inflammatory

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response.

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And this is the way vitamin D helps.

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So here's a study.

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You can look it up on PubMed.

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It's in the prestigious journal Nutrients.

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This is from April of 2022.

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Vitamin D is an immunomodulatory.

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That means it regulates your immune systems in ways that if it's overreactive, it will

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make it less.

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And if it's under reactive, it will boost it.

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That's the ideal situation.

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And that is literally true.

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The reason vitamin D is so important for your immune system is because your immune system

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is designed to ramp up inflammation, to destroy debris, to heal damaged tissue.

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But then it can also get stuck on overdrive and overload your body with inflammatory cytokines

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and other things that can cause problems.

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So vitamin D is the great modulator.

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It's the it's the referee.

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It helps your immune system figure out how much exactly when to stop killing off dead

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tissue that needs to be cleared out and replaced with healthy tissue and when to relax and

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boost the healing functions of your immune system.

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So vitamin D is an immunomodulatory hormone with proven efficacy against upper various

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upper respiratory tract infections.

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Also says this study, it can inhibit the hyper inflammatory reactions and accelerate the

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healing process in affected areas, especially lung tissue.

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Moreover, vitamin D deficiency has been associated with the severity and mortality of covid-19

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cases with a high prevalence of people with low vitamin D found in patients with acute

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respiratory failure.

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So let's say that again.

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And this is just one state.

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There's several other studies that say the same thing.

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The people that died with covid from acute respiratory failure, the people that ended

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up in the hospital in the first place, all any any population like that who has been

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tested and compared with people who didn't up in the hospital and didn't end up on a

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respirator.

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The people with the lowest vitamin D levels died.

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The people with the highest vitamin D levels, even if they ended up in a hospital, even

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if they ended up on a respirator, they were the ones most likely to survive.

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Just that one nutrient, one change in the serum level of that nutrient made a dramatic

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difference.

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We're about out of time.

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I usually do a case study to demonstrate or give you an idea of what's possible for you.

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If you change your diet, exercise, take some supplements, get some testing, it's just there's

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so many.

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I tell everyone to take vitamin D and I have thousands of patients who do that.

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And one of the most common responses just to leave you with is people tell me they no

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longer get colds and flus or if they do, they last for a couple of days instead of a couple

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of weeks or a couple of months.

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Osteoporosis, of course, is the second most common thing that dramatically improves when

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you consume adequate amounts of vitamin D along with calcium and vitamin K2.

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Do something today to be healthier than you were yesterday or last week.

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Go for a walk, call someone you haven't spoken to in a long time, do some deep breathing

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exercises, eat a few more vegetables than you otherwise might, stay away from all that

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sugar.

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Don't be trying to shove down your throats and give me a call and give me an opportunity

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to help you find a safe, effective natural solution to any health challenge you might

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have.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.

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I look forward to speaking with you right here next Friday at 4 p.m. right here on KDAR.

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You've been listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley.

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If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to

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Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved

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