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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'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner of

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functional medicine.

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I've got an exciting show for you today.

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I'm going to explain how you can avoid gaining 10 pounds in the next two weeks while dramatically

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reducing your risk of depression and anxiety and a whole host of other conditions, including

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the top two leading causes of death in America.

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We're also going to talk about a case study of a stroke patient who came to me a few months

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ago who made a dramatic recovery, who thought he was going to be permanently disabled and

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is now feeling good as new with very little medical care, mostly with a number of safe,

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effective natural solutions that he considered a miraculous recovery.

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So what is this amazing thing you can do to avoid all of these horrible conditions that

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people tend to be plagued with in the holiday season and the rest of the year, but especially

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during the holiday season?

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You've probably guessed it already.

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Reduce your consumption of sugar.

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Don't eat any sugar.

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Well, what's the matter with this man?

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It's the middle of December.

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He knows we're all going to go out and gorge ourselves on cookies and fudge and brownies

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and cakes and pies till the end of the year.

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Why not hold this topic for January?

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Because the whole point of this show is to arm you with ways to prevent disease, to not

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wait until you need drugs and surgery, to impress upon you the importance of not binging

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on sugar for a month.

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For some people, skinny teenagers, for example, the effects might be relatively minor, but

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if you're overweight, if you have diabetes already, high blood sugar, high cholesterol,

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high risk of heart disease, dementia, any autoimmune condition, any chronic inflammatory condition,

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then please take this seriously.

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Right now, during the holiday season, when you're most tempted, make a project out of

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it.

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Consider that if you can avoid a bunch of crap you know you shouldn't be eating while

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still being sociable at family and other holiday gatherings, then you'll be unstoppable for

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the rest of the year.

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Why is this so important?

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Because excessive sugar consumption causes insulin resistance, which causes cravings

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for more sugar.

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It's an addiction.

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It involves the same feedback mechanisms as heroin addiction or cocaine addiction.

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In the brain, the same neurotransmitters and hormones get disrupted and make you crave

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more of this stuff.

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It becomes impossible to avoid unless you avoid it at the outset.

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And it's a driver of depression.

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Insulin resistance also causes leptin resistance.

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Leptin, L-E-P-T-I-N, is another hormone in your brain that is essential to brain health.

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Normal functioning of leptin corrects cognitive defects.

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It heals nerves.

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Eating sugar damages nerves and increases cognitive decline, increases dementia, which

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is why dementia is now being called type 3 diabetes.

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And even though skinny kids and teenagers can seemingly get away with eating any amount

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of sugar with nothing more serious than maybe some acne, teenagers and children who are

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not skinny have a whole different experience.

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This is from the journal Pediatrics from 2012.

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Teenagers who have metabolic syndrome, which is the combination of obesity and high blood

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sugar, diabetes or pre-diabetes, in these people, sugar reduces prefrontal cortical

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function.

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Prefrontal cortical function.

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Well, what does that mean?

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Well, everyone knows or should know that the main reason teenagers make stupid choices

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in life is because their brains aren't fully formed yet.

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And the part of the brain that results in impulsive choices and delayed gratification

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and having enough sense to anticipate bad consequences of bad choices is the prefrontal

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cortex, the part of your brain that's right behind your forehead, which isn't really

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fully formed till about age 25.

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Well, guess what?

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Sugar reduces the function of this part of the brain in adolescence.

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It's like pouring gas on a fire.

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This is from a paper in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience from 2021.

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Sugar consumption in adolescence increases persistent hyperactivity and causes neurocognitive

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defects in adulthood.

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So not only does it help make things worse for children, things that a lot of teenagers

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are already struggling with, it actually sets their brains up for increased risk of dementia

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later in life by damaging nerves that are just very difficult and sometimes never get

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properly repaired.

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A study in the journal Injury Prevention found that Boston high school students who drank

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more than five cans of soda per week, which is probably most of them, right?

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Boston high school students who drank more than five cans of soda per week were likely

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to be more likely to be found carrying a weapon and having had violent episodes with peers,

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family members and dates.

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It screws up your brain.

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Sugar also screws up the microbiome in your gut.

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So these essential bacteria in your gut that are so important for every aspect of your

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health.

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Sugar feeds the bad bacteria, which then suppresses the population of the good bacteria, which

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are important to all aspects of health, among other things, promoting healthy nerve growth

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in your brain, preventing many types of cancer and obviously preventing diabetes, heart disease

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and a whole host of other diseases.

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I attended a conference called the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conference a few

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weeks ago and Dr. Robert Lustig, MD, his presentation was mostly about sugar and how sugar increases

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the incidence of and worsens the severity of nearly every mental health disorder, anxiety,

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depression, schizophrenia, ADD, ADHD, mild cognitive impairment, the precursor to Alzheimer's,

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full on dementia and Parkinson's disease.

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This was really fascinating.

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He put up a slide showing the increase in US sugar consumption for the past century.

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Then he put up a slide of US healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP.

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He then lined the two graphs up.

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They were identical.

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They were the exact same curve, which is a sharp line going up, up and up.

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The increase in sugar consumption for the past 100 years and the increase of healthcare

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spending in America are on the exact same trajectory and have been for most of the last

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century.

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Is that a direct causative relationship?

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Not necessarily, but it's a super strong correlation that's definitely worth paying attention to,

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especially when you consider the fact that right here in the United States of America,

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we spend more money on medical care, not healthcare, medical care than any other industrialized

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nation.

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We call it spending.

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We call it expenditures on healthcare, but as you know, if you listen to this show, it's

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mostly on medical care.

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We spend more money than any other industrialized nation on medical care, and yet we have the

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worst outcomes.

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We have the least healthy people.

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We have the fattest people as a percentage of population, the highest rates of diabetes

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and heart disease and cancer of all the industrialized nations, and our massive consumption of sugar

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and refined starches and carbohydrates is a huge part of the reason for that.

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Well, if you're rich enough to afford it, there's a miracle cure that just came out

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a few months ago.

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You probably heard about it.

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Ozempic.

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Just take Ozempic and you won't be hungry anymore.

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Even if you're not diabetic, it's all the rage in Hollywood.

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All the stars are taking it.

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Ozempic makes you feel full.

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It stops the emptying of stomach, slows the emptying of food from your stomach, and it

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was designed to treat diabetics, and it might be useful for some diabetics, but it also

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has a lot of side effects.

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Dr. Mira Shah, endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic, said that by far the most common side

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effects she sees in patients taking Ozempic and related drugs like Wigovia and Monjaro

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are nausea, abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea, and sometimes these effects get

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better over time, but in a certain percentage of patients, they have to be taken off of

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them because the side effects don't improve.

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The stomach and brain are so connected that these intestinal issues can lead to stress

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and anxiety and depression like we've been talking about, the gut-brain connection.

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Chronic abdominal pain and unpredictable digestive symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation,

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take a significant toll on your mood and energy levels, says Laurie Kiefer, psychologist and

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director of psychobahavioral research in the division of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai,

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and these symptoms can leave patients feeling isolated, overwhelmed, and embarrassed, anxious

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about when and where the symptoms might occur, avoidance of social activities, especially

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ones in which food is the focus and bathrooms might not be readily available.

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Diarrhea is not a fun side effect from any drug, but even more serious side effects of

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Ozempic are emerging including thyroid tumors, pancreatitis, changes in vision, hypoglycemia,

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gallbladder issues, kidney failure, and cancer.

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So the Dr. Shah at the Mayo Clinic, the most common severe complications she's seeing are

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pancreatitis and gallbladder issues, either of which can lead to hospitalization.

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There's already at least one lawsuit being filed against the manufacturer of it for failing

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to warn patients about something called gastroparesis, which is basically a paralysis of the stomach,

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which is just the most severe example of the way the drug is designed to work, to slow

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gastric emptying, to keep food in your stomach longer so you feel less hungry.

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Some patients who are taking this who are not diabetic, they're taking it just to lose

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weight or stay skinny, are becoming, their appetites become so suppressed that they end

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up mal, so malnourished, even when taking supplements to try to offset the effects of

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that, they end up in the hospital with severe malnutrition.

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Does anyone remember the FenFen scandal, this miracle weight loss drug that was out years

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ago that ended up causing so much misery, it had to be taken off of the market?

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Who knows if these drugs might end up being in a similar situation.

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It's unclear how long these drugs, they're prescribed for weight loss, but you have to

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keep taking them forever.

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If you stop taking them, then the weight comes right back, the appetite suppression comes

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right back.

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You get hungry again, you eat more and gain weight.

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So no one knows what the effects of these drugs is going to be.

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But a lot of weight loss advocates warn that there are long term health risks.

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So why take that risk?

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Just eat healthier food.

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And if you can't avoid all starchy sweets, at least avoid some of the worst of them.

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So the worst sugar is fructose, especially high fructose corn syrup.

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So think twice before you pick up that can of Ocean Spray cranberry sauce.

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Its main ingredient after the cranberries is high fructose corn syrup.

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High fructose corn syrup makes your liver worse at burning fat and therefore makes your

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liver store more fat, which makes you fat and dramatically increases your risk of diabetes

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and fatty liver disease.

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Instead, make your own cranberry sauce with, you know, real cranberries.

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It's fun to hear the fresh cranberries pop as you cook them.

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Just throw a bag of cranberries in a pot with half a cup of water.

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And most recipes call for a full cup of sugar, skip that.

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I mean, even that would be better than the high fructose corn syrup from the can of Ocean

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Spray.

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But better still, why not go sugar free and use Allulose?

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I've spoken about Allulose in previous episodes.

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It's an excellent natural sweetener that doesn't have some of the bitter taste of stevia, if

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you've heard of that.

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Allulose, it's spelled A-L-L-U-L-O-S-E.

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All you lose.

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Think about all you'll lose, the weight and risks of the disease you'll lose if you use

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Allulose instead of sugar.

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You probably won't find Allulose at your local supermarket, but you can easily order it on

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Amazon and often even receive it the same day.

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And if a half a cup of Allulose isn't sweet enough in your cranberry sauce, then maybe

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add a little bit of real maple syrup.

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Or if you must, honey or even plain sugar would be better than the high fructose corn

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syrup and Ocean Spray cranberry sauce.

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In the meantime, one thing you can do to protect your brain from some of the damaging effects

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of sugar is by taking a high quality fish oil.

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I recommend a gram and a half of EPA and DHA.

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Read the label.

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Those are the two omega-3s that you can really only get in significant quantities from the

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ocean from fish oil.

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1500 milligrams combined EPA and DHA.

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And if you're going to buy it from a store, the best brand that you can find in many stores

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is Nordic Naturals.

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So take some fish oil to help offset the inflammatory effects of other things you may be eating.

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And another great thing to do is before you're heading out for any party or any gathering

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where you're going to be tempted is get some of these Trader Joe's.

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Has garlic and jalapeno stuffed olives that are delicious.

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And it's a quick easy way just to open a jar, grab a fork and have two or three or four

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of those.

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It'll start to fill you up a little bit before you take off.

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Or you know, for a little bit more calories, cut an avocado in half.

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Just cut an avocado in half, take the pit out and fill the hole with olive oil and a

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little lemon fat snack that will help fill you up and prevent cravings.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley and you're listening to safe, effective natural solutions to almost

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any health challenge.

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Email me if you have a question that you'd like answered on air or privately at drbinkleyatbinkleyhealingcenter.com.

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So now let's talk about a great case to give you an idea of what's possible.

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A few months ago I had a 60 year old man that came in and he had a stroke, went to the hospital,

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was put on anticoagulants.

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The usual came to me about a week later with a drooping of his face, slurred speech, significant

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loss of function in his right arm and his right leg, mainly his foot.

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He was having difficulty walking straight.

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His left, his right foot wouldn't do, just seemed like it wouldn't do what it was supposed

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to do no matter how hard he tried.

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And he was really worried that he was going to be permanently disabled.

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And he was still on some aspirin for blood thinning and he was on Plavix and antiplatelet

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medication which is a good idea to take for a few weeks.

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And he continued to take that for a few weeks after getting out of the hospital.

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In addition to running the usual blood work that I run on most of my patients, I added

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a cardiometabolic profile which has some just better indicators and better baseline tests

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to have for measuring future improvement to see if we're going to be able to reduce his

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risk of having another stroke again.

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Obviously that's one of his main goals of coming in is to make sure that he heals from

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the current stroke but also that he has much less risk of another stroke in the future.

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In addition to these blood findings, he also had just some tremendous amount of tension

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in his neck and upper back which in addition to the loss of circulation to the muscles

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of his arm and the muscles of his legs and feet, just having this stiffness and impairment

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on the nerves, the ability for his brain to communicate with those muscles was being dramatically

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impaired just by physical issues from the type of work he'd done over the years and

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this tremendous amount of stiffness we had.

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So the upshot is within three weeks after beginning some supplements and some non-force

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chiropractic care to get these muscles loosened up, to get his brain communicating with his

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muscles better, his slurring of speech was gone, the droopingness of his face was gone

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and the function of his right arm and his right leg were 70% better.

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He was super excited and basically content to just continue with what we were doing,

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taking the supplements and doing the work on the table, getting his muscles loosened

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up, he was still getting progressive improvement every week and I told him actually there's

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something else I think you really should consider and that was hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

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So he was getting dramatic improvement very quickly but you never know for sure, there's

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no way to predict how well brain tissue is going to heal after circulation has been cut

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off, there's no way to tell for sure exactly how much brain tissue was damaged and hyperbaric

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oxygen therapy does wonders in cases like this to perfuse the brain.

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So there's a small amount of oxygen dissolved in your bloodstream all the time, it's only

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about 2% in the bloodstream but it's a persistent amount and when you do hyperbaric oxygen therapy

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it increases that circulating oxygen that's just directly in the bloodstream so it's not

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dependent on red blood cells to get to damaged tissue in your brain or anywhere else but

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it's actually in your plasma so it will still reach cells that have had impaired circulation

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because it's just perfusing throughout your body by sitting in a room with an increased

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pressure and amount of pure oxygen in it.

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So he did this, he did several weeks worth of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and continued

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his supplements, we continue working on the table getting his muscles and his nervous

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system working as best as they were able and it's now been a few months later and he has

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made a 100% recovery, he is as good as new, he actually feels better than before because

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he's got much more flexibility and strength and tone in his muscles, much more clarity

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and energy than he had before because many of the supplements that he's taking and so

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yeah, a combination of things is often necessary, everyone's situation is different but this

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is a 60 year old man that's made a complete recovery from a stroke that he thought was

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possibly going to be debilitating for the rest of his life.

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The focus of this show is mainly about metabolic issues using safe, effective natural solutions,

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better food, exercise and supplements to reduce your risk of and reverse conditions like strokes,

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heart disease, diabetes, hypothyroidism, you know, most of the things that most people

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go to regular doctors and get drugs for.

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So it is important to stress that a lot of times the physical problems that can go along

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with some of those conditions can be an important factor.

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So here's another great case study, I had a woman in her 30s, mid 30s who came into

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me a couple of years ago who had been to the emergency room, I think it was four or five

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times in as many months and she had rapid heart rate, shortness of breath and anxiety

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because of that and she had had echocardiogram, EKG, chest x-ray, all of these tests were

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normal, every test they could do on her heart and lung function were normal.

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I said well they must have done some blood work and she said oh yeah that's right, there

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was one blood test that was abnormal, I can't remember what it was, I said was it BNP, B

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as in boy and as in Nancy, P as in Paul or it actually stands for B type natrietic peptide,

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I've mentioned this on the show before, this is a measure of stress on your heart, she

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says yeah that was it, it was off the charts and they couldn't figure out why.

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I said well what did they tell you to do about it, they said there was nothing to do about

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it, just reduce stress.

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Well she wasn't feeling that stress until all this started happening, she was otherwise

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happy, healthy, looked fantastic, fit, you know great job and so I explained to her that

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this elevated BNP test shows that something is stressing her heart and I did a physical

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exam on her and the muscles in her rib cage and these are not to, it's kind of a graphic

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example, but the muscles that people eat when you eat ribs from a pig or a cow, these are

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those muscles, that's the meat you're eating so we have intercostal muscles as well, the

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intercostal muscles between the ribs and a human being are about a half inch thick and

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about three quarters of an inch long between each rib and there's three layers of them

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and they can go into spasm, they can cramp just like a shin splint or a cramp that you

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might get in any other part of your body and no doctors ever check for this, it's just

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most chiropractors don't even look for it, but I've seen it so many times now that if

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somebody presents with shortness of breath and a heart condition that's unexplained by

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anything else I'm definitely going to check that and usually there's two or three spots

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that will be really tight, you just push on the ribs on the front and lift up on the ribs

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from the back and there's a certain amount of flexibility when you push on them that

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should be there and should be about the same when you push on each rib and I very frequently

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find that two or three of them are just really restricted and that is enough to cause shortness

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of breath, it's significant enough to cause chest pain and other related conditions.

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So her entire rib cage just felt like it was made of steel, none of her ribs were moving

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as much as they should and again she was in her 30s, she's not an old person with a bunch

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of arthritis or what you might typically expect for someone who had that little mobility throughout

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her rib cage.

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So basically what was happening is she wasn't able to breathe because her ribs were all

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stuck, it was like so much spasm in the muscles between her ribs was almost like it was fusing

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her rib cage together, so when you inhale and when you exhale, 75% of your inhalation

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and exhalation is your diaphragm moving up and down, pulling your diaphragm contracts

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which pulls it down, which pulls air into your lungs and then your diaphragm relaxes

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which allows it to go back up and you exhale the air out of your lungs, but 25% of inhalation

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and exhalation is involved in the expansion and contraction of your rib cage.

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Well if all of the muscles in your rib cage are in spasm, then your rib cage can't expand

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and contract and you've taken out 25% of your capacity to breathe and this is exactly what

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was happening for her.

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So I did some very simple work on the table to just get those muscles to calm down and

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relax.

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Spasmed muscles are like scared children, you can't force the tension out, if she would

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have gone to a deep tissue massage therapist it might have helped for a little bit but

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it would have come right back because these are muscles that feel vulnerable, that feel

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that it's not safe to completely relax.

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Your brain is convinced they need to stay tight to protect you from some kind of perceived

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threat and it's often perceived, it's not even a real threat, it's just that you just

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get stuck that way.

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So I did some work on the table to convince her brain that there was no damaged tissue

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that needed to be guarded, healed or anything, her brain just needed to realize that it was

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okay to calm and relax these muscles.

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Well we did that three times and all of her shortness of breath and her rapid heart rate

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and her anxiety and the headaches that went with that were completely gone and I told

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her we should probably do it a few more times until you're up here, you know I'm glad she's

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feeling better but there's still some restriction in those muscles.

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So we did it three more times, retested her BNP, I forgot to mention the upper limit of

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normal for BNP, that blood test that she said was off the charts, the upper limit of normal

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for BNP is 100, the medical upper limit of normal, the healthy range is actually below

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40, you should have it below 40 if you're otherwise fit and healthy.

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So hers was 680 when she had gone to the hospital and after six sessions of working on her just

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getting her ribs to relax and working on her neck a little bit, her BNP, we retested it

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and it was 20 and you know that was a couple years ago, she's still feeling fine.

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So oftentimes a little bit of work on the table can go a long way to help with a condition

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that seems totally unrelated to anything physical like rapid heart rate and shortness of breath.

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Remember the health of your body is far more important than any disease condition you've

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been diagnosed with.

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Do something this week to be healthier than you were last week.

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Have a fabulous weekend, I look forward to seeing you right here on KDR FM 98.3 next

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Friday at 4.

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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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ones because our health matters.

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