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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 hope you had a fantastic holiday season.

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Happy New Year.

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We're here to talk about how to start the new year off right.

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Make 2024 your best year ever, especially as regards your health.

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The most important investment you can make for your retirement is investing in your health.

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Early detection of disease is what most doctors do so they can provide medical care earlier.

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Well, that's better than doing nothing.

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But wouldn't it be better to actually prevent disease?

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Instead of early detection of disease that already exists, why not go for early detection

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of the factors that cause disease?

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Why not do more advanced testing to identify signs of stress on your organs and tissues

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that will lead to disease early enough that you can reverse them with better food, exercise,

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supplements when necessary, and actually prevent the disease?

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This is functional medicine.

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This is true prevention.

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Finding early signs of stress on your immune system, your digestive system, your respiratory

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system, your cardiovascular system, your liver, your kidneys, your pancreas.

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If you identify these things early enough, then you can remove that stress and heal those

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organs and tissues and actually truly prevent disease so that you can live long and live

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well.

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Those of you who have visited my website will have seen the banner at the top of the page

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which says Binkley Healing Center.

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Then live long, live well.

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When you come to the office, you'll see it painted right on the building next to the

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door just above the Verdant herb garden.

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I love that word, Verdant.

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Picture over a dozen different fresh organic herbs bursting with flavor and scent.

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You're welcome to come by any time and clip a little fresh mint or tarragon, rosemary,

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dill, cilantro, parsley, basil, what else is there?

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Thyme.

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Come by and clip a little bit for whatever you're making for your dinner anytime you

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like.

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That's why I put it there.

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It's to educate people on how you can grow a sizable amount of food in a small space

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with minimal water.

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With the rains we've had, everything is just looking amazing.

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When you're standing in front of the herb garden next to the front door, if you look

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up you'll see right below Binkley Healing Center it says, live long, live well.

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That is the tagline for my business.

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Now a lot of people say, you'll hear people say ridiculous things like, oh, I don't want

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to live too long.

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I don't want to live to be 80 or 90 or 100.

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What I hear when people say things like this is that they don't want to be miserable.

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They don't want to tack on an extra 10 years to their life that aren't going to be as enjoyable

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as the previous 10 years or the 10 years before that.

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And here's the kicker.

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People who are 70 years old who say they don't want to live to be 80 or people who are 80

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years old and say they would never want to live to be 100, these are people who are convinced

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that they'll feel terrible, that they'll feel encumbered by increasing decrepitude and disability

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and frequent visits to the doctor to get more and more prescriptions for toxic drugs with

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horrible side effects.

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I understand that.

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Here's something that a lot of people don't consider.

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There are a lot worse things than sudden death.

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So people that say, oh, I don't want to live to be X number of years.

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I think a lot of those people imagine that they'll just die in their sleep one day.

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That's the nicest way to go.

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That's the goal.

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You know, natural cause of death, die in your sleep, pain free.

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And far too many people do not have a nice peaceful transition at the end of their lives,

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pain free, but rather suffer the consequences of neglect and poor decision making and, you

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know, just life.

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I'm not trying to make anybody feel guilty.

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Everyone's day fills itself up, right?

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No one can't figure out what they're going to do with their time.

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We always are complaining that we don't have enough time.

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So you know, the day just fills itself up and you have intentions to do this and that.

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But the problem is, my goal is to give you some information you can use to maybe alter

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your decisions a little bit, because people who think that their body's not going to last

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another 10 or 20 years, you know, think that it'll be fine.

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It'll work out.

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And for far too many people, it doesn't work out that way.

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They have a chronic disease with debilitating symptoms and I'm going to say something now

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that's a little graphic so you can cover your ears if you want.

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But here it is.

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This is the most vivid image that I can give you to inspire you to do something else, to

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take better care of yourselves.

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And here it is.

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If you don't want to spend your golden years drooling in bed while someone else changes

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your diapers, then it may be a good idea to come in and get checked to take inventory.

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If your body, for example, was a used car, what would the blue book value on it be?

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How many miles does your pancreas, your lungs, your digestive system, your heart still have?

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Do you have any idea?

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Did your GP when you went in for that annual physical last year, did he or she even check

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to see how many miles your kidneys have left on them?

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No.

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Conventional medicine practiced by 99% of doctors is the diagnosis and treatment of

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disease.

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Disease that you already have.

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If you want to find out how many miles you have left on your liver or your hip joints

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or your knees, you need more advanced testing.

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Testing that will identify earlier signs of stress on any of your organs and tissues early

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enough that you can stop the damage, maybe even reverse the damage before it's too late.

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Why shouldn't your 90s be better than your 80s or your 70s be better than your 60s?

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So here's a question.

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Raise your hand if you've ever let the following phrase pass your lips.

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It feels like I'm getting older.

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Okay, if you're driving, don't raise your hand, keep both hands on the wheel.

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But for those of you who are at home who have raised your hand, who have said, it feels

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like I'm getting older, keep your hand up.

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If when you said that, when you said it feels like I'm getting older, if you were thinking

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about how much worse you'll feel five or 10 years from now than you feel today, if you've

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still got your hand up and you're nodding your head, I've got news for you.

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That's not whenever you like and please share them with your friends and family.

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I love questions.

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Email me a question about any health related topic you have.

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You can even text me at 805-218-3939.

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You can leave a voicemail as well.

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Voicemails take longer for me to get to, but I love answering your questions.

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Let that be you.

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Don't let that be the fate of your mother or your grandfather or your sister or your

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son.

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Disease and disability are rarely inevitable.

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There are exceptions, but they are rare.

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Most disease and disability, chronic disease and disability that occurs later in life,

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most of this is the result of neglect.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley sharing with you safe, effective, natural solutions for any health

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challenge.

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Remember, the condition of your body is far more important than the name of any disease

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you've ever been diagnosed with.

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Please check out my website, binkleyhealingcenter.com to see the past 12 episodes of this show that

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you can listen to whenever you like and please share them with your friends and family.

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I love questions.

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Email me a question about any health related topic you have.

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You can even text me at 805-218-3939.

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You can leave a voicemail as well.

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Voicemails take longer for me to get to, but I love answering your questions.

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There are some exciting things coming out in the medical literature.

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This is from a study that was just published in November, 2023 in microbiome.

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The research was done at the University of Western Ontario talking about can a healthy,

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the headline is can a healthy gut microbiome, healthy bacteria in your intestines, can a

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healthy gut microbiome prevent kidney stones?

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So the bacteria in your gut play a key roles in the development of kidney stones, suggesting

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that if you avoid such things as poor diet and antibiotics, you could reduce the recurrence

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of kidney stones because kidney stones are formed by calcium oxalate produced by the

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body.

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But as with so many things, the reason some of us survive these things just fine, or as

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other people get sick and even die, is because our guts and the beneficial bacteria in our

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intestines break down these things, break down toxins that would otherwise damage organs

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and tissues of our bodies.

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So it's really, really important.

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Did your doctor, the last doctor you went to, did he ask anything or do any testing

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about your, to see if your microbiome and your intestines were healthy?

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That's usually just not part of a conventional medical workup.

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To really check out your gut, you have to do a specific type of case history.

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And ultimately, if you have a condition that strongly suggests a disruption in your microbiome,

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too many bad bacteria, and as importantly, often the problem is just not enough good

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bacteria.

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I had a patient, for example, a few months ago who came back from a vacation in Thailand

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and was having just horrible diarrhea for weeks.

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And it was a real struggle to get her regulated.

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I gave her some supplements that help most people with that, some things to kill off,

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various types of bad bugs.

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And I said, you know, we really need to do a stool test, but the good stool test that

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really checks everything, which you'll, again, your insurance won't pay for most gastroenterologists,

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the best gastroenterologists at UCLA or the Mayo Clinic probably doesn't order this stool

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test, at least not as a first line means of diagnosing your condition.

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But a good stool test costs about $400.

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And she just, you know, she didn't have or didn't want to spend the $400, so she suffered.

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Finally, she agreed to do the test.

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And I was expecting to find some horrible bug because she wasn't responding to, you

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know, natural bug killers like oregano oil and loracidin, which is a form of monolaurin.

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I'll talk about that later.

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But there's a handful of things that generally work pretty well if someone has diarrhea or

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other signs and symptoms, gas bloating or the vacillation, you know, the seesaw between

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diarrhea and constipation can be caused by the same thing.

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Too many bad bacteria, not enough good bacteria or some other kind of bad bug in your gut.

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And, you know, that's what a stool test will show.

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And oftentimes, you know, I can help people figure out something they can take or something

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they can stop eating or start eating in combination with a couple of supplements and get that

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result.

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But this is a really stubborn case.

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So she finally gets the stool test done.

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And I'm expecting to find a parasite or because she had just come back from a vacation in

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Asia and I thought, you know, she's picked up something really exotic.

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The test will show it for sure.

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It tests for this test tests for everything.

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And lo and behold, she had no horrible bad.

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I was thinking maybe I'd have to send her off to, you know, a conventional practitioner

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to get a prescription for some kind of antiviral or antifungal or anti parasite drug or something

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like that.

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But she had no bad bugs, no evidence of any bad bugs on the best tests that you can get.

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She was clear.

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But what was very clearly indicated is that she had very little good bacteria in her gut.

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Her normal flora, the technical term for do you have adequate good bacteria, not just

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to fight off the bad bugs, but to perform all the myriad of things that we rely on for

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the healthy bacteria in our guts to digest and assimilate nutrients and to process things

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that there's a whole, I could do a dozen shows on just the importance of the microbiome.

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And this is becoming mainstream medicine.

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You see it in the, in the, in the regular medical press all the time.

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The problem is what do they do with it?

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That I don't, I don't hear a lot of solutions in these articles apart from just waiting

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until it's bad enough to take some kind of drug.

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So the solutions, if you have insufficient good bacteria in your gut and or too many

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bad bacteria in your gut, first of all are to look at things like, do you have adequate

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hydrochloric acid in your stomach?

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This shows up on a blood test.

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Do you have, are you eating fermented foods?

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You know, most people think, oh, do I need to be taking a probiotic and I'll just, I'll

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just go to Costco and buy a probiotic.

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Maybe that'll help.

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Well, don't do that.

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That's a waste of money.

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You know, the most money you'll ever waste on a supplement is one that does nothing.

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That just passes through your digestive tract from your mouth to the other end with no effect.

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So don't buy cheap probiotics.

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A good probiotic is always going to cost you probably around 40, 50 bucks a month for a

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month supply or more.

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The ones that cost less than that don't have enough organisms or don't have the right strains

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or just, you know, generally in testing hundreds, thousands of people, my colleagues testing

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tens of thousands of people, they just, they don't do the job.

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The ones that do do the job, i.e. restore the proper balance in good bacteria versus

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bad bacteria, you know, usually run you more like 50, 60 bucks a month or more depending

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on how bad your system is.

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But anyway, back to this woman who we finally did this dual test on, what it clearly showed

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was that she severely lacked enough good bacteria in her gut.

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I think it was Thailand.

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She just got a random infection, you know, a random introduction of bad bacteria in her

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gut that was an accident waiting to happen.

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She could have got it here and we had to slowly rebuild the beneficial beneficial bacteria

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in her gut.

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So to start out, the solution wasn't to take some hugely expensive billions of organisms,

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strong probiotic, but rather prebiotics and some other nutrients to feed the bacteria

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that live in her gut.

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technical to explain right now, send me an email if you want the specifics.

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We got her gut back to where the healthy bacteria that live there started reproducing and becoming

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strong enough again to fight off the bad bacteria and keep the bad bacteria in balance.

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bacteria and she's feeling great.

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So how do you tell if you don't have a healthy microbiome?

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Well, the typical symptoms are gas, bloating, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, feeling miserable

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after eating.

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If you know after eating, you should feel good.

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You've supplied your body with essential nutrients.

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If you ate good food and you have reserves, it takes a lot of energy.

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This is what's something that people don't realize.

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One of the worst things you can do is eat the biggest meal of the day and then go to

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bed.

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And hello, a lot of people do this, right?

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We a lot of people skip breakfast or have a tiny breakfast, skip lunch or have a sandwich

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and need a huge meal at night.

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This is the worst way to give your body the nutrients it needs to heal and repair all

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of your tissues.

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You don't need food to sleep.

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It's our culture, you know, and it's important to have, you know, if you have a family to

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gather around and, you know, talk about your day, et cetera.

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But it's just not a really good idea to eat a whole bunch of food, especially high calorie,

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low nutrient food like potatoes and rice and other forms of starch and sugar right before

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you go to bed, ice cream, popcorn.

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If you're going to eat that stuff, don't eat it and then go to bed immediately because

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your body is just going to convert it into fat and create, raise your triglyceride levels

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and wreak havoc throughout your bloodstream, creating inflammatory debris, exacerbating

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every chronic condition, diabetes, heart disease, increasing your risk of cancers, Alzheimer's,

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dementia, et cetera.

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So the worst thing you can do if you want to have a healthy microbiome is eat a lot

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of grains, starch and sugar.

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The bad bacteria in your gut love starch and sugar.

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It's their favorite food.

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So see if this helps you remember this.

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It's always tempting, you know, sugar and starch.

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It's our favorite food, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, even sweet potatoes.

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Starch and sugar is the staple of most people's diets, unfortunately.

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So here's a way to kind of a little visual to maybe remember why this is bad.

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Imagine you have ever been to a restaurant and, you know, it's a nice place.

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Maybe you're out with your favorite person in the world and you're going out on a Friday

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or Saturday night for a nice quiet meal.

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Maybe a little some candles somewhere, some great food someplace, and you're enjoying

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yourselves and all of a sudden you hear this table over there across the room.

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It's with a bunch of people who are being loud and obnoxious and, you know, probably

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are consuming a little bit too much wine, whatever.

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And they're just ruining it for everybody else because they're talking so loudly, even

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if they're not saying anything rude or offensive, they're just so loud that now everyone else

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has to scream just to be heard.

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Or if you spend enough time, maybe they are becoming obnoxious.

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Well, here's what you do.

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Get the bartender or the waitress over and say, hey, send that table over there around

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the shots, around the tequila shots.

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Pour some gas on the fire.

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That's what it's like if you have excess bad bacteria in your gut that are making it impossible

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for the good bacteria to do their job.

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Eating grain, starch and sugar is like pouring gas on the fire.

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It's like ordering around the shots for the drunk crowd in the corner of the room that

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make everybody else miserable.

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So instead, what you want to do is eat natural fibers and not metamucil, natural fibers,

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fibers in vegetables like spinach and broccoli and cauliflower and tomatoes and carrots and,

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you know, whatever the best vegetables are just, you know, the ones that you like.

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And if you don't know how to cook vegetables, sometimes a lot of people ask me if I'm a

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vegetarian and I say no, and depending on who it is, sometimes I'm a little snarky about

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it and I'll say no, I'm not a vegetarian.

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I eat a lot of vegetables.

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And I say that only to people that I think won't be offended by it because a lot of I

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test hundreds of thousands of people and a lot of vegetarians that I test and take case

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histories, they don't eat very many vegetables.

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They eat mostly pasta or tofu or bread and or rice and not a lot of vegetables.

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But I think if you're going to call yourself a vegetarian, that should mean that you eat

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mostly vegetables.

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So I eat a lot of vegetables and that's the best place to get fiber to keep your microbiome

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healthy is vegetables.

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Just in case I've offended a few vegetarians out there.

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Here's the reason I bring this up.

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Most people, well, people who don't eat enough vegetables, even if they say they want to,

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I strongly suspect it's because they don't know how to prepare vegetables properly prepared

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vegetables taste delicious.

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The worst vegetables I can think of that people just see all the time are like raw broccoli

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or cauliflower, carrots, crudités in French that you see at parties that you're supposed

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to Duncan ranch dressing to make them palatable, you know, or raw vegetables that a salad bar

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most not all, but a lot of vegetables should be cooked.

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Broccoli should be cooked.

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You know, tomatoes are fine raw, but they actually release more lycopene, one of the

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most beneficial nutrients from tomatoes.

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If you cook them, that's why Italians cook tomatoes and make pasta sauce out of them.

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So if you don't like vegetables and putting air quotes around that phrase, if you think,

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oh, or if it's just a fit, or if you, if you honestly want, if you know, yes, I'd like

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to eat more vegetables.

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I know it's good for me, but I don't know.

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It just seems like so much work and they don't taste great.

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If you want to know how to make delicious vegetables by vegetarian cookbooks, they have

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amazing recipe.

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And you don't even have to buy anything, just Google vegetarian recipe for something, you

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know, pick a vegetable and Google recipes to cook artichokes or mushrooms or broccoli

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or kale or spinach or chard or collard greens or, you know, any type of vegetable, cabbage,

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whatever it is that you're, you know, you think, oh, I've heard this is good for me,

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but it tastes nasty.

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How could I make it taste good?

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Google vegetarian recipe for red cabbage or something like that.

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And you'll get these amazing ways of preparing vegetables that taste delicious without the

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savory deliciousness that comes from fish and chicken and other types of animal protein.

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Most of us are used to getting most of the flavor in our meals from savory animal protein,

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chicken, beef, pork, ham, bacon, et cetera.

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That's okay, you know, in moderation for most people, not for some people.

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But what I like to do, I'm not a vegetarian.

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What I like to do is use vegetarian recipes to make delicious vegetables and then make

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those dishes even better by adding a little bit of chicken or a little bit of prosciutto,

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a little bit of ham, a little bit of something savory makes vegetarian dishes delicious.

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So apologies to all the vegetarians out there.

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It is actually, there's lots of great data to show that the healthiest diet you can possibly

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eat is a purely plant based diet.

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But I'm a realist, I know a lot of you are not going to do that.

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And I'm also a fan of being honest, I don't do that.

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My body type is one that just requires massive amounts of protein.

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I don't feel good if I don't eat a lot of protein.

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So that's just me, I'm being honest.

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So there's my bias as well.

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You can incorporate that to anything else I say.

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I think it's really great to eat a plant based diet and mostly plant based diet.

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I think if most people would eat 75% of their food, vegetables, then the other 25% could

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be dark chocolate and you'd be way healthier than most people.

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

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any health challenge.

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And I'd like you to know, I keep forgetting to mention this, for those of you who have

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relatives in other states, I can help them.

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I have patients in dozens of states around the country, in New York, in New Jersey, in

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And you could help someone you love start the new year outright.

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So I'd love an opportunity to help you or someone you love make 2024 their best year

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ever have a fabulous beginning of the year.

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I look forward to speaking with you next Friday, right here, 4pm on 98.3.

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Have a fabulous weekend.

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