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 --> 00:00:14,960 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:15,960 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:21,120 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner of 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:22,520 functional medicine. 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:29,040 I identify conditions other doctors miss by running tests that they don't normally do, 8 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,040 usually because your insurance company doesn't want to pay for them. 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,960 But it's a lot less expensive than you might think to get true health care. 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:37,640 I've got an exciting show to you today. 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:43,520 We're going to be talking about some reasons, some ongoing reasons that most medical doctors 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:50,000 just don't know anything about or even if they hear about, still choose not to provide 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:57,200 safe, effective, natural solutions for most health challenges and instead just rely on 14 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,960 drugs and conventional medical care. 15 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:05,480 I'm also going to talk about an exciting case study about a patient of mine who had a really 16 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:13,200 bad cancer of the stomach and intestines who completely reversed it with my help and conventional 17 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:20,000 oncology combined and has now been feeling great for two years plus. 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:26,320 I've mentioned before that one of the reasons 99% of most doctors don't offer safe, effective, 19 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:32,280 natural solutions and still just rely on pharmaceuticals is because they're employees. 20 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:40,160 Most doctors are employees of a private equity group or a contract management group or a 21 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,440 hospital or a health system or a health insurer. 22 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,800 So here's an article that just came out. 23 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:52,560 United Health's optimum division just added 20,000 doctors this year alone. 24 00:01:52,560 --> 00:02:00,560 They now have over 90,000 doctors, some 10% of the physician workforce as employees or 25 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:01,560 affiliates. 26 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:07,240 Well, that's good if you have insurance with United Health Group because you want to have 27 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:12,200 doctors available to treat you if you need medical care and lots of people need medical 28 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:13,200 care. 29 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,320 There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. 30 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:22,280 But in addition to this 10% of the physician workforce, United Health also counts an additional 31 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:28,200 40,000 advanced practice clinicians among its ranks. 32 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:34,920 And these figures reported make optimum health the largest employer of physicians in the 33 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:40,960 US and United Health is the largest, country's largest private health insurer. 34 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,540 So why do I mention this? 35 00:02:42,540 --> 00:02:48,040 The main reason is because people often ask me all these things that you talk about, about 36 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:52,760 how you can use better food, exercise and supplements where indicated in the fact that 37 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,340 you do all these tests that most other doctors don't do. 38 00:02:56,340 --> 00:02:58,520 Why don't all doctors do that? 39 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,400 Well, this is the reason. 40 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:08,000 Their employees, their employees of corporations that dictate what they can and cannot do. 41 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,600 They get penalized if they order the tests that I order. 42 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,100 It costs them money. 43 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:14,840 They can even lose their credentials. 44 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:22,880 I've mentioned this in a previous show of mine where a group of physicians were penalized 45 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:30,480 in their health care facility for not prescribing medication and instead offering lifestyle 46 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,720 alternatives, basically better food, exercise and supplements. 47 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:39,680 And they got downgraded in their ratings because the ratings weren't based on how healthy the 48 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:40,840 patient was. 49 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:48,160 Their ratings were based on how well the patients adhered to taking recommended medications, 50 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,200 which is just ridiculous. 51 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:55,500 Here's another reason most doctors don't recommend natural alternatives. 52 00:03:55,500 --> 00:04:00,280 They continue to see in the medical press articles like this, which was just on Medscape 53 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:06,240 this week, an article entitled Can Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Prevent Cancer or 54 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:07,880 Cardiovascular Disease? 55 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:15,240 Well, I can guarantee you when you see a headline like that, the answer is going to be no. 56 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:21,320 According to this article, the USPSTF, the United States Prevention Services Task Force, 57 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:29,240 said that they reviewed 17,000 unique citations and 379 full text articles that included randomized 58 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,480 clinical trials and observational cohort studies. 59 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,760 The conclusions of their research showed that there was little to no benefit in taking 60 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:43,000 vitamin or mineral supplements to prevent cardiovascular disease, cancer or death. 61 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,080 So I mentioned this because this is what your doctors see in the medical literature every 62 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,800 day, not every day, but every week at least two or three or four times every month. 63 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,760 They see these ridiculous announcements, pro announcements that vitamins don't work for 64 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,760 this or that. 65 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,440 And as I've mentioned before, I'll mention it again. 66 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:06,520 Most of these studies, if not 99, I don't know what the percentage is, but a vast majority 67 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,720 of the studies that say vitamins don't work for this or that are poorly designed from 68 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:11,720 the outset. 69 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:18,240 They're testing vitamins on their own with crappy forms, the cheapest forms of nutrients, 70 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,080 insufficient doses to achieve the desired effect. 71 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:28,680 They ignore other studies that show if you want vitamin D or vitamin C or vitamin E or 72 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:33,600 a certain amount of turmeric or co-inside Q10, if you want it to achieve the desired 73 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:38,360 effect that is reported in the literature, then you have to take enough of it to do the 74 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,160 job and they usually use insufficient doses. 75 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,760 And they often use inferior forms, the cheapest forms. 76 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,100 They think all nutrients are just chemicals. 77 00:05:48,100 --> 00:05:49,360 And that is not true. 78 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:54,640 Nutrients come from plants and everyone knows that there's variations in the quality of 79 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:55,640 plants. 80 00:05:55,640 --> 00:06:01,040 If you've ever had tasted the difference between a crappy apple that tastes like plastic and 81 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,760 a real apple that was just picked off of a tree recently that you got off your own tree 82 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:11,240 or from farmers market, it's a similar difference between high quality and low quality nutrients. 83 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,240 And even organic doesn't always ensure that you're getting the best thing because the 84 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:22,560 organic version might have been picked in Chile two months ago and shipped in on a truck. 85 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,840 Whereas if you buy something from your local farmers market, even if it isn't organic, 86 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:33,760 because they can't afford to get the certification, buy local, fresh, organic when you can and 87 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,360 grow your own veggies when you can. 88 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:42,860 The point is these studies about vitamins and other nutrients are horribly biased because 89 00:06:42,860 --> 00:06:45,200 they just ignore the forms of the nutrients. 90 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:51,080 They use doses that are way too low to achieve the desired effect most of the time. 91 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:57,080 And they test supplements, vitamins, minerals, other nutrients as though they were supposed 92 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:02,800 to function like drugs, meaning they're supposed to work in isolation. 93 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:09,160 Just give a thousand people or 200 people or 300 people or 6,000 people X amount of 94 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,800 this vitamin and see if it achieves this effect that they're looking for it to have. 95 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,560 And vitamins don't work by themselves. 96 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,320 They work in combinations. 97 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:23,020 They work synergistically like the multiple nutrients that are in food. 98 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:25,920 They work in combinations. 99 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:31,160 The article goes on to state that the internet is full of the wonders of supplements from 100 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:36,160 turmeric curing cancer to vitamin D curing COVID cure, cure, cure. 101 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:37,800 Conventional medicine loves this term. 102 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,440 They own it legally. 103 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:44,720 It's largely a fantasy, especially as regards to cancer and cardiovascular disease, the 104 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,080 headline disease for this article. 105 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,800 There are no cures for either of these. 106 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:54,440 And most people, if you, once you get cancer, it goes into remission. 107 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:59,500 If you're the success that you're looking for is to put cancer in remission and keep 108 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:00,500 it in remission. 109 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:06,740 If anyone tells you it's cured, they're largely misinformed because it's always more likely 110 00:08:06,740 --> 00:08:10,900 to come back once you've had it in cardiovascular disease is never cured. 111 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:15,580 People who have inflammation and plaque formation in their arteries, that never goes away. 112 00:08:15,580 --> 00:08:20,800 There's no treatment that completely reverses that and restores your cardiovascular system 113 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,560 to perfect health. 114 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:28,320 So the goal is really reducing your risk of getting these things in the first place and 115 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:35,000 then maximizing your body's innate ability to heal it self. 116 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,480 The lack of evidence of cancer on a scan rarely means you've ridden your body of cancer forever. 117 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:46,120 When you take blood pressure medication, it does not cure hypertension, it manages it. 118 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:47,640 I've said it before and I'll say it again. 119 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,040 I have never cured a single disease in any of the thousands of patients I've seen over 120 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,720 the past 30 plus years. 121 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:56,760 Your body does that. 122 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,680 The only thing that cures any disease is your body. 123 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:05,360 Only your body can heal or cure anything. 124 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,600 This article goes on to make suggestions as to what most doctors should do when patients 125 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,320 ask them about supplements. 126 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,040 It says we should hear what they're saying. 127 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,200 They don't know who to trust and it will never become, we'll never become their trusted source 128 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,440 of medical information if we don't listen to their concerns. 129 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:21,440 Well that's good. 130 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:27,560 Then the next line says answer their questions, quote, no matter how ridiculous they may seem 131 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:29,040 to us. 132 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:36,200 Many people who sell supplements sound convincing and that is how they sell their products. 133 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:41,160 That sounds a lot to me like the inflated confidence physicians place in the efficacy 134 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:46,120 and safety of many medications which are often only tested on a few hundred people before 135 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:53,460 they're released on the market and no one ever tests the effects of multiple medications. 136 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:57,040 They only test them one at a time. 137 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:01,760 Next the article says to give the patient resources so that they can know what websites 138 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,080 to direct them to to get accurate information. 139 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,440 So this is excellent advice. 140 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:13,800 Don't get medical advice from blogs with no doctors on them, just patients doing their 141 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,340 own independent research. 142 00:10:15,340 --> 00:10:20,760 These may be good places to get a baseline information to understand the condition to 143 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:26,200 do further research but you do not want to base your treatment decisions solely on a 144 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:32,560 blog with no doctors giving you, no experts giving you information that you need for proper 145 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:33,800 treatment. 146 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:39,080 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley and you're listening to safe effective natural solutions to almost 147 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:45,160 any health challenge and I'm happy to announce again that people often asking me where can 148 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,960 I hear the past episodes of the show. 149 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,400 So I do have a podcast set up now. 150 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:54,160 You can go to my website Binkley Healing Center dot com Binkley Healing Center dot com to 151 00:10:54,160 --> 00:11:00,240 get the past episodes of the program and you can also email me your questions at Dr. Binkley 152 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,500 at Binkley Healing Center dot com. 153 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:07,080 Here are some good websites to get useful health information. 154 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:15,280 The Cleveland Clinic website, the Mayo Clinic website, but most importantly PubMed. 155 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,200 Just Google PubMed. 156 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:21,440 The actual name of the website is much longer but if you just Google PubMed it will come 157 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:27,200 up and you can look up any information about any research that's done on any condition, 158 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:33,280 any supplement, any drug, all the research from around the world including European studies 159 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:39,760 in Asia etc. are published for free by the National Institutes of Health on PubMed. 160 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:45,640 Unfortunately the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force like so many other so-called authorities 161 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:51,480 regarding all aspects of health will never find the studies that show the tremendous 162 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:58,800 benefits of supplements on preventing cancer, heart disease, COVID or any other health condition 163 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,920 because they're only looking for studies that show the supplements work on their own and 164 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,880 cheap forms and low doses like I mentioned before. 165 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:10,560 But these studies are available on PubMed, thousands of them like the ones I mentioned 166 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:18,080 in last week's program about vitamin D. As a reminder anytime I say prevention know that 167 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,160 I mean reduce risk. 168 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:26,800 There are no guarantees in health care that will, of any sort, that will prevent absolutely 169 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,360 100% guaranteed prevent any disease. 170 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:34,600 What matters is keeping your body healthy, giving your body a fighting chance, keeping 171 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:39,280 your immune system strong, your heart, your liver, your kidneys functioning as close to 172 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:47,200 peak function as possible so that you can reduce your risk of premature death and disability. 173 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:52,540 This is as close as you can get to preventing almost any disease condition. 174 00:12:52,540 --> 00:12:56,480 This article goes on to mention that many patients assume that supplements are safe 175 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:02,080 and while this may be true for many of them, some of them can be harmful in several ways. 176 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,960 They can act with medications that patients may be taking and this is true. 177 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:11,120 They could cause, they have been, some are shown to cause liver and other organ damage. 178 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,320 It's very rare but there are some important examples to know about. 179 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:20,080 So although it amazes me to hear people in authority talk about the danger of vitamins 180 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:26,640 while never citing the statistics that show properly prescribed medications kill a hundred thousand 181 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:33,040 people every year in America alone, it is true that some supplements can interact with 182 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:34,680 medication. 183 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:37,040 And here are some of the more important ones to know about. 184 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,280 If you're taking the blood thinner Warfarin, there are a host of things that you shouldn't 185 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:46,000 take, the most important of which is vitamin K, which can interfere with the function of 186 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,300 that medication dramatically. 187 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:53,280 Even grapefruit juice can interfere with several medications because of its interaction with 188 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:59,600 a major pathway in the liver that clears many drugs from your body. 189 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:04,240 Probably the worst single category of supplements people should be wary of if they're on any 190 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:10,440 medications are many weight loss or sports or so-called energy boosting or performance 191 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,160 enhancing supplements. 192 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:19,360 The stimulants in these products like mawong, ephedrine and many other dangerous stimulants, 193 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:24,880 even ridiculously high doses of caffeine can have a dangerous effect on people with heart 194 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,440 conditions and high blood pressure. 195 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:32,680 If you need to pick me up a couple of cups of coffee or tea is fine for most people but 196 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:38,720 don't take stimulants in powdered form or capsules and definitely not these massively 197 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:43,840 caffeinated sugar overdoses like Monster and Red Bull. 198 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:51,040 Instead sweeten your coffee or tea with liquid stevia or liquid allulose. 199 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,560 A lot of people have tried stevia think it tastes terrible. 200 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:59,240 Some people can never get used to the taste but most people have only tried the powdered 201 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:05,120 form of stevia and every powdered form of stevia I've ever tasted tastes terrible. 202 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,760 So there's a really good, I've tried many, many kinds. 203 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:12,400 I put liquid stevia in my water every day just because it coats my throat and I'm always 204 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:18,200 talking a lot, keeps my throat from drying out and the brand of stevia that I like that 205 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:22,880 I've also given to lots of my patients in the office just to help sweeten their tea 206 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:29,060 or coffee is called Sweet Leaf Sweet Drops Vanilla Flavored. 207 00:15:29,060 --> 00:15:33,800 So Sweet Leaf is the brand Sweet Drops is the product vanilla flavored tastes better. 208 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:39,480 They used to have a decent tasting plain flavor but then they changed it so the vanilla flavored 209 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,520 kind of cuts the taste of the herby part of the stevia. 210 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:47,160 A lot of people still think that stevia is an artificial sweetener. 211 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,160 It is not. 212 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,440 Stevia is a plant. 213 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,880 I have it growing in my veggie garden right out in front of my office. 214 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,820 You can come by, take some leaves off and chew on it. 215 00:15:57,820 --> 00:15:58,820 It's amazing. 216 00:15:58,820 --> 00:16:05,760 The juice from the leaves of this little shrub like plant are 200 times sweeter than sugar 217 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,680 and they have no calories. 218 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:09,280 There's no carbohydrate in it. 219 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:15,080 It's a different type of sweet nutrient in it that stimulates the sweet sensors in your 220 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,760 tongue but has no carbohydrates. 221 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,680 Another option is allulose. 222 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:20,960 So stevia has been around for years. 223 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:25,040 A lot of people haven't ever even heard of allulose. 224 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:30,820 Allulose is also a natural sweetener that to most people tastes much better. 225 00:16:30,820 --> 00:16:33,680 To many people it tastes exactly like sugar. 226 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:39,160 It's not as strong as sugar so you have to put, if you're going to cook with it or put 227 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:44,600 it in your tea or your coffee, you're going to put twice as much of allulose as you would 228 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,200 put for sugar. 229 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:53,920 And again, the powdered forms of allulose also don't really taste that great. 230 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:59,840 The one that I've found that tastes the best, which I just buy from Amazon, is called My 231 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,600 Normal Keto Allulose. 232 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,840 So allulose is made from monk fruit and jackfruit. 233 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:11,520 This particular brand appears just to be made from monk fruit. 234 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,840 It actually does have a little bit of stevia in it too. 235 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,660 But it tastes great. 236 00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:18,140 It looks the color of honey. 237 00:17:18,140 --> 00:17:20,680 It's a syrup and it tastes a little bit like honey. 238 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:21,680 It's really good. 239 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,040 If you put it in my Earl Grey tea, it's also really good in coffee. 240 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:33,120 So natural stevia or natural allulose are great substitutes to sweeten your coffee or 241 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:36,840 tea or bake with or anything else that you want to substitute. 242 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:41,240 I make pumpkin pie and apple pie with no sugar. 243 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,600 Oh my god, how is that possible? 244 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,840 Well, with allulose. 245 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,680 And with apple pie, just by cooking the apples a little bit, there's plenty of sugar in the 246 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:50,800 apples. 247 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,880 So more on the sugar-free options later. 248 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:59,660 Just to finish off the comments on this article about dangerous supplements, quote unquote, 249 00:17:59,660 --> 00:18:05,040 there are a lot of cheap Chinese herbs out there that can cause problems, that can interact 250 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,020 with a lot of common medications. 251 00:18:07,020 --> 00:18:13,220 And cheap Chinese herbs that you just might buy in some store somewhere have frequently 252 00:18:13,220 --> 00:18:19,780 been tested and found to be dangerous and even laced with drugs, with pharmaceuticals. 253 00:18:19,780 --> 00:18:24,400 So I recommend a number of herbal products in my practice, but I always recommend only 254 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:32,640 getting them from reputable sources like Orthomolecular Products, Designs for Health, Doctors Research, 255 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:37,960 and Clinical Synergy, which is a product line specifically designed for cancer patients 256 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:43,720 by the preeminent integrative oncologist, Dr. Isaac Elias, MD. 257 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:49,340 So you know, you get what you pay for, don't buy cheap Chinese herbs. 258 00:18:49,340 --> 00:18:52,880 Most of the rest of the supplements you're going to take, all the ones you're going to 259 00:18:52,880 --> 00:19:01,040 hear me talking about on this show, are very safe, especially compared to the drugs that 260 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:07,960 kill a hundred thousand people a year, properly prescribed medications. 261 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,640 I promised to talk about an exciting cancer patient. 262 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:15,440 A 64-year-old woman came to me who had been diagnosed with stomach cancer that had spread 263 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,680 to her small intestine and slightly into her pancreas. 264 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,360 This is about three years ago. 265 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:25,400 She was scheduled for chemotherapy and she wanted to know if there were any nutrients 266 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:30,080 that could help her body heal itself while she was doing the chemotherapy. 267 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,440 Of course, I said yes, there definitely are. 268 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:38,200 You don't take, when you're on chemo, you don't take a bunch of supplements while the 269 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,240 same day that you're doing the chemo. 270 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:44,760 But chemotherapy is usually done in cycles where you take it for two or three days and 271 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:49,280 then you go off for the remainder of a couple of weeks. 272 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:50,280 They vary a lot. 273 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,240 But the point is, you don't take it the day of, you don't take it the day before, you 274 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,400 don't take it the day after, but then the rest of the days in between the days when 275 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:04,120 you're going in, usually for an infusion for chemotherapy, then you can load your body 276 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:11,520 up on nutrients to help it survive the horrible damaging effects on your healthy cells that 277 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,480 the chemotherapy is doing to try to kill off your cancer cells. 278 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:21,120 You want the rest of your cells to survive and boosting your body with nutrients in between 279 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:23,520 the chemotherapy sessions can do wonders for that. 280 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:31,000 So she started off with just a very basic program of vitamin D, some anti-inflammatory 281 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:38,200 nutrients, a nutrient to boost her glutathione levels, and some mushrooms. 282 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,720 There's a whole host of great nutraceutical products, mushrooms, that help boost your 283 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:43,720 immune system. 284 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:49,680 There was one in particular by Clinical Synergy, which I mentioned earlier, and a low dose 285 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,760 of curcumin, a product from Designs for Health called curcumaville. 286 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:58,400 So she did that for a while and she got her response back and she did pretty good. 287 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:03,600 Her response to the chemotherapy with the support of the nutrients combined was pretty 288 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:04,600 good. 289 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:10,600 And then a few months more went by and she got another PET scan. 290 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:15,800 After the initial PET scan, she was doing great, the response was deemed by her traditional 291 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,520 oncologist to be a very good response. 292 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:23,920 But then a few more months went by and she got her blood tests again. 293 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:29,040 I'm constantly talking, not constantly, but occasionally talking about these blood tests 294 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:35,240 you can do which oncologists use called tumor markers that measure your immune system's 295 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:41,120 ability to, your immune system's activity, your immune system's attempts to fight off cancer-causing 296 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:42,120 cells. 297 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:49,160 So these markers she had done a few months after her fairly successful bout with cancer 298 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,360 treatment, these markers were going back up again. 299 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:55,120 And I said, well, you know, I had mentioned to her before that I would recommend that 300 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:56,680 she take a whole bunch of supplements. 301 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,840 If you have cancer, you want to load your body up with everything it could possibly 302 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,080 benefit from to fight the cancer off. 303 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,440 And she wanted to take it slow. 304 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,940 She just took a few things, the ones that I mentioned before. 305 00:22:06,940 --> 00:22:12,080 So then when she came back a few months later and her tumor markers started going back up 306 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,960 again, I said, okay, don't waste any more time. 307 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:19,880 And we added, well, she actually wasn't even taking the good multivitamin I recommended 308 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:20,880 before. 309 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:28,240 So now we added the good form of vitamin D, fish oil, the good multi, a special form of 310 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:34,060 magnesium to help deal with some of the side effects that chemo can cause on nerves, tingling 311 00:22:34,060 --> 00:22:35,800 and numbness in the nerves. 312 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:42,520 Some acetyl alcarnitine to help also heal nerves, resveratrol, a potent antioxidant, 313 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:50,320 an herbal product to directly help her body called neurotrophin to directly help repair 314 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:56,160 damaged nerve to chemo chemotherapy damages, in a lot of cases damages your nerves. 315 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:02,320 Some enzymes to help break down the products of inflammation continuing on the cumabale, 316 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:08,720 the tumor product, glutathione support and the mushroom, high dose mushroom product to 317 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,560 boost her immune system. 318 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:17,720 So a few more weeks go by and all of her tests come back much, much better. 319 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:24,180 And after doing both traditional oncology with a whole host of nutrients, both to deal 320 00:23:24,180 --> 00:23:29,080 with the side effects of the chemotherapy, but also to boost her body's immune system 321 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,920 and give it its best chance to fight off the cancer. 322 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,200 She has now been in complete remission. 323 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,240 Her PET scan, totally clear. 324 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:45,920 Her oncologist was very impressed with her response to treatment and she's doing great. 325 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,320 And that's actually been almost a year ago. 326 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:53,700 She's still doing, I spoke to her recently and she's still doing really great. 327 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:58,000 In another episode, I'll talk more about these tumor markers, relatively inexpensive 328 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:03,440 blood tests that can be used to identify places where your immune system currently needs support 329 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:08,840 in fighting off cancer causing cells, which you can use to reduce your risk of many types 330 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:09,840 of cancer. 331 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,520 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. 332 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:16,380 Remember the health of your body is always far more important than the name of any disease 333 00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:18,560 condition you've been diagnosed with. 334 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:19,980 Have a fabulous weekend. 335 00:24:19,980 --> 00:24:26,200 Do something this weekend to be healthy, then you were healthier than you were last weekend. 336 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:32,280 Give someone a hug, stuff yourself with some healthy fats and proteins, nuts, a piece of 337 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:37,320 chicken, anything with sustained energy and actual nutrients before you go to all those 338 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,560 parties and are tempted by all those sugary snacks. 339 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:45,040 I look forward to speaking with you right here on KDR next Friday at 4PM. 340 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:50,520 You've been listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 341 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:55,040 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to 342 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:59,600 Dr. Binkley at www.BinkleyHealingCenter.com. 343 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:04,320 Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved 344 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,280 ones because our health matters. 345 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:14,560 Join him next Friday at 4PM for Safe, Effective Natural Solutions right here on 98.3 The 346 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:25,680 Word KDAR.