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Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions

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with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura.

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Now, here's Dr. Todd.

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Good afternoon.

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I am Dr. Todd Binkley, practitioner of functional medicine and non-force doctor of chiropractic.

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It's February, which is always Heart Disease Month.

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Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the US and most countries in the world

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for a whole lot of reasons, which we'll talk about.

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I'm going to present an amazing case study of a man who had open heart surgery and then

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four months later was basically left for dead by his cardiologist.

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I wouldn't say something that harsh if it wasn't true.

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It was literally true.

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I'll describe the details of that a little bit later.

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But first, I want to talk about a question I had come in about what is the difference

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between nutrients, between supplements, the things that I recommend, and drugs.

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This is a common question that comes up, so it's really important to address.

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Drugs are essential when you need to intervene now and get a quick, specific, controlled,

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reliable response because you have a crisis situation.

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Drugs work by altering and manipulating cell receptors and biochemical pathways.

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That's why they work instantly.

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The problem with that is that all drugs are also toxic to the body precisely because they

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interfere with normal human physiology.

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The normal control mechanisms of your body are overridden when you take drugs.

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You no longer have control when you take drugs.

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Consuming too much or too many drugs can easily kill you 100,000, it goes up and down, but

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it's always around 100,000 people a year in America die from properly prescribed medications.

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Not medical errors, not where the pharmacist couldn't read the doctor's handwriting, just

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normally prescribed drugs because of the tremendous side effects they have.

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Because despite the best training, if you go to the Mayo Clinic or UCLA or Boston General,

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the best physician in the country with the best training in the country, human disease

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is complex.

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You're as different on the inside as you are on the outside.

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Many people get prescribed the wrong drugs.

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Obviously, that's going to have a lot more profound effect than if you get prescribed

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the wrong vitamins.

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So the difference, an important difference between nutrients and drugs, are that nutrients,

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supplements are basically foods that our bodies have evolved the ability to assimilate and

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utilize for sustaining life.

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Nutrients are foods that our bodies have developed the ability to absorb and use for healing

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and repairing tissues that are required for sustaining life.

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They provide the raw materials for building and maintaining living cells.

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They are non-toxic because they support normal physiology.

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When you support normal physiology, as opposed to trying to disrupt it to save your life

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in a crisis, which is often important, if you start early enough and where you can safely

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rely on just supporting normal physiology, then your innate control mechanisms remain

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intact.

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Inate control mechanisms, which maintain the health of all of your organs and tissues,

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are really important.

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No doctor is as smart as your own body.

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There is no source of information in the universe as smart as your own body for what it needs

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right now.

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If you wait too long, then you will need the advice of people who can try and figure out

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why your body can't figure out how to heal itself.

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But your body is really smart at healing itself.

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The best thing about the difference between nutrients and drugs is, you know, drugs kill

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people if you take too many of them or if you take the wrong ones.

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But if you consume more than you need of most nutrients, if you take too much vitamin C

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or too much B12 or too much of most of the fish oil, most of the nutrients that I recommend

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to most of my patients, if you take too many nutrients and your body doesn't need them,

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it will simply excrete them.

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Just as it will if you eat too much food, if you eat too much hamburgers or too much,

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you know, any other kind of food.

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If your body doesn't need that to heal and repair its tissue, it has a very effective

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system of elimination to flush out stuff that you consumed that it no longer needs or didn't

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need in the first place.

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We're on this subject.

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It is important to get quality supplements.

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If you're going to take supplements, don't buy cheap crappy supplements.

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Don't buy supplements from Costco or any pharmacy or most of the ones from Trader Joe's.

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You can get good supplements at Whole Foods or Stroud's or Lassen's.

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The best place to get supplements depending on your situation, right?

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So when someone comes into me, I want to recommend something that I know is going to do the job.

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And I always tell people that the supplements that I stock in my office are not the only

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ones that work.

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There's lots of other great supplements that I don't stock.

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I often find out about good products when people bring in their bag of supplements that

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they're taking and they ask me, you know, what do I think about this?

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And I check it out.

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And oftentimes they're horrible and sometimes they're fantastic.

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And I add that to the list of the things I might recommend to other patients.

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But there, you know, there's a limited number of really good top quality products.

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Manufacturers of top quality products that I trust among them, chief among them, are

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Ortho Molecular Products, Designs for Health, Thorne Research, and a number of others.

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Too many to mention right now.

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Please email me if you have questions about any particular product you're taking or considering

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taking.

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The only way I know to tell if a product works well or not is to give it to a few thousand

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people or 10,000 people.

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Obviously, I've not given a product to 10,000 people on my own.

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I have given products to thousands of people, a couple thousand, two or three thousand people

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over the years.

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Alpha Base is my favorite multivitamin from Ortho Molecular Products.

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I've given that to thousands of people and it gets the results.

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How do I know that?

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The only way I know to see, to tell whether a product works is to give it to a few thousand

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people and test them before and after to see if it achieves the desired result.

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Every time you give a product to someone and do blood tests on them before and after, that's

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a case study.

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That is legitimate evidence that a product had the desired effect.

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I've talked a lot about the various seminars that I go to to maintain my knowledge and

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expertise in the various research that comes out every year, but I also teach.

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I taught anatomy at a local yoga studio for several years.

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I taught neurophysiology at a local massage school.

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I was really surprised at the level of detail that they wanted in their neurophysiology

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training, but it was really fun to train that.

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If you really want to know something, teach it.

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I also had the privilege of doing a seminar for a group of women physicians.

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In my local area, there's a group of women physicians and a member of that group was

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in my rotary club.

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She asked me, it's interesting, I was really excited about it actually because this women's

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physicians group mostly gets together once a month and has a representative from some

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pharmaceutical company come and educate them on the latest drug.

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I said, wow, yeah, fantastic, I'd love to do that.

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I made a presentation, I did a number of things, but I'm going to fast forward to the part

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that I was most looking forward to getting a reaction from them.

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I presented a bunch of cases and how you can get results with nutrients and no drugs and

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they were very interested.

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I even got one of them became a patient of mine after it.

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The most important part was I presented this slide.

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I said, okay, prospective study, which means something where you're looking to see what

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would happen.

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A randomized controlled trial of 10,000 people aged 55 to 65 years old, 30 pounds overweight

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on average with blood pressure of 140 over 90 with triglyceride levels of 200 to 240

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or total cholesterol of 200 to 240 and an A1C level of six to eight.

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Basically, these are people that everyone sees every day.

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Every doctor sees patients in their 50s and 60s who are 30 pounds overweight, have slightly

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elevated blood pressure, slightly elevated triglycerides and cholesterol and are pre-diabetic

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or full blown diabetic.

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They all know how they would treat those people.

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On my slide, group A is they're given the common medications for those conditions.

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Lipitor, a statin drug to lower your cholesterol.

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Metformin, the most commonly prescribed drug for diabetes.

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Lisinopril, one of if not the most common prescribed drugs for high blood pressure.

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A diuretic, so they start you on lisinopril usually or sometimes a beta blocker or a calcium

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channel blocker or some of the kind of... You have high blood pressure.

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Everyone's situation is different.

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It's really important.

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If any doctor ever tells you to take drugs for blood pressure, it is essential that you

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take them because you only get one heart unless you get a heart transplant, but no one wants

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that either.

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It's important.

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But the problem is people think, oh, I got high blood pressure.

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Okay, I'll take the lisinopril.

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I'll be fine.

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Well, that usually doesn't last very long.

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Then they add a diuretic, hydrochlorothiazide or they'll add one of the other classes.

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There's several classes of blood pressure drugs.

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Anyway, group A in my perspective study that I described to this group of women physicians,

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it was about 25, 30 physicians.

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Lipitor for cholesterol, metformin for diabetes, lisinopril and a diuretic for blood pressure.

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Your dietary advice is to count calories, cut fat and avoid salt.

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I thought some of them might be a little insulted by that, but they weren't.

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This was a few years ago, by the way.

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Physical advice has improved a little bit on that, but standard conventional advice,

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not a lot.

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So group B is my...

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Here is group B in my perspective study.

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Group B, give them three grams of fish oil, a hundred milligrams of coenzyme Q10, 5,000

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IUs of vitamin D, some digestive enzymes to make sure that they're getting all the nutrients

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from their food that they need.

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A folate and B12 supplement.

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Most people over a certain age are deficient in folate and B12 and this shows up on a CBC.

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A probiotic because most people eat crappy food that feeds the bad bacteria in their

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gut and doesn't provide the nutrients that the good bacteria need.

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And then dietary advice, instead of count calories, cut fat and avoid salt, my dietary

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advice is to eat mostly vegetables, some meat, some protein, whatever kind of protein you

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If you're vegetarian, that's fine.

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Eat plant.

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It is better for most people to eat plant-based protein.

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If you'll do it, but if you're not going to do it, then it's important to eat some other

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kind of protein like chicken or fish.

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And then most importantly, reduce grains, starch and sugar.

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And listeners of this show probably get tired of hearing me say that, or maybe if you're

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still confused about what I mean by that, grains are wheat.

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Starch is potatoes and corn.

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Sugar is soda and beer and sweet fruit.

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So anything that has sugar or starch that's going to instantly be converted into sugar

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in your body.

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So the evidence is in, but unfortunately these doctors mostly work for corporations, for

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medical groups, for hospitals, for other organizations with corporate directors that are interested

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in maximizing profit at the expense of your health.

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Obviously that's never going to be the best solution.

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It's going to give you the best result you need.

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they want and have the research to give them the confidence to recommend some of the things

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I talked about in this presentation, they know that they could actually be penalized

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by doing, by recommending food, supplements and exercise instead of drugs because they

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work, most doctors are employees.

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They work for corporations with boards of directors who are interested in maximizing

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profits for that physician group or that facility.

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that are interested in maximizing profit.

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And that's a problem.

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It's fine.

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There's nothing wrong with corporations.

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But if you have a problem and you want the best solution for your body, then some corporation

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determining what's best for you is not what's best for you.

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The best person to determine what's best for you is a doctor who knows what they're doing,

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who does competent testing on your body because you're as different on the inside as you are

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on the outside.

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You need individualized care.

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No corporation is ever going to provide you individualized care.

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That's just not what they do.

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So the most fun thing that came up is these physicians are inundated by misinformation,

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by the medical press about, oh, nutrients, just eat a balanced diet and you'll be fine.

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Well, no one ever defines what a balanced diet is.

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And their most standard conventional medical education suggests that all nutrients are

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the same, all macronutrients, protein, fats, and carbohydrates are the same.

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And micronutrients are widely available if you eat just a tiny amount of vegetables.

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And that's just not true.

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The evidence of that has been in for decades.

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So I got a little pushback on that, some questions about, well, what's so important about these

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nutrients you're talking about?

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So I said, well, are all apples and tomatoes the same?

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Humans had disgusting red delicious apples and tomatoes that taste like plastic.

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Is all cheese the same?

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Quality supplements are not isolated chemicals.

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There's a difference between a list of ingredients and a finished recipe.

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The difference is how they're made.

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The difference matters.

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So don't buy cheap supplements.

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I've said it before.

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I've said this to these medical doctors.

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Inferior, the reason there's a difference between high quality nutrients that work from

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some of the companies I've mentioned, again, they're not the only companies that good,

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but the difference between crappy supplements that get all the bad rap that you hear on

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news stories is because they're usually made from inferior or even stale or even inert

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source materials.

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Their poor processing depletes potency of those nutrients.

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Cheap capsule fillers and tablet binding agents prevent the absorption of the nutrients that

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you're paying for.

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And the amounts of many important ingredients are just insufficient to achieve the desired

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effect.

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And most importantly, what's on the label of any supplement and what enters your bloodstream

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and then further enters your cells are never the same thing.

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So it doesn't matter what the bottle says.

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What matters is what it's going to do when you swallow it.

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So human studies on common nutrients are hard to find because they can't be patented.

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So there's little money available for expensive trials.

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No one can make any money off patenting another trial on the benefits of broccoli.

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So our available human studies often show poor results because they test only one nutrient

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at a time, ignoring diet and other health habits.

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So I promised I'd present a case about a really successful case.

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I love this man.

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He was a wonderful patient that I'd seen for many years.

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He had been coming to me once or twice a month for several years because he had severe arthritis.

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He had a hard life, you know, physical, had some injuries.

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His neck was as stiff as a board.

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And it just worked for him to come in every two weeks to get his neck loosened up and

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his hips and they were tight.

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And then suddenly, three, he stopped showing up and he had told me that he was going on

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vacation to Minnesota and a couple of months went by and I tried to reach out, didn't hear

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back and figured, all right, he's busy, whatever.

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But then he finally, actually his daughter contacted me and she said, when we were visiting

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family in Minnesota, dad had a heart attack with a double bypass surgery and he finally

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came back in, but I didn't actually see him for five months.

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And when he finally came in, he looked like he was on his deathbed.

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He was pale and weak.

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He couldn't drive anymore.

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His wife had to drive him.

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His ankles were swollen.

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His ankles were swollen to the size of his calves.

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And he, I'm going to talk about a blood test that I'll come back to that.

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But the problem was his cardiologist told him this was five months after he'd had this

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surgery, a little over four months after he'd had the surgery and he'd been back relatively

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recently to see that cardiologist.

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And the cardiologist said, well, you're old, get used to it.

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This is as good as it gets.

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We successfully treated your heart attack, but you're going to have to slow down.

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Just enjoy the rest of your life.

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Well, he wasn't enjoying his life again.

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Before this month, a few months before this, he used to always wear shorts.

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He had fit thighs.

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He was ripped.

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He was in 75 years old, but he was in great shape.

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He walked all the time.

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He always had a smile on his face.

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He was feeling great.

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He drove everywhere.

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He didn't have any disabilities or weaknesses of any kind.

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And a little over four months after his surgery, when things should have been healed, or at

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least healed as best as they could, his ankles were still swollen the size of his calves.

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And I asked him, I said, did you have a BNP test done?

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I've mentioned this before.

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I'm going to keep mentioning it.

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B as in boy and as in Nancy Paulus in peptide.

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BNP actually stands for B type or brain type natrietic peptide.

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So natrietic just means it affects the kidneys and peptides, the protein fragment.

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BNP tests for turnover in heart cell muscle.

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Your heart muscles are constantly being built and destroyed.

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Your heart never stops beating.

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So it's normal that some of those cells are going to break down and going to need replacing

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when they break down.

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One of the things that is sloughed off by that cell turnover is BNP.

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So his BNP was 382.

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After his surgery, it was 1600, which that's fine.

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He's just had surgery.

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But five months after his surgery, his BNP was still 382, nearly four times the upper

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limit of normal.

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And his cardiologist told him, just get used to it.

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You're old.

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That's as good as it gets.

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Slow down.

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And fortunately, most cardiologists don't know that it's very simple to address elevated

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BNP levels and elevated damage to heart muscle by putting people on high doses of coenzyme

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Q10.

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I put him on a dose of 1200 milligrams and some other nutrients, but 1200 milligrams

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of coQ10.

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It's expensive to take that.

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But he was being left for dead.

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He looked like he was about to die in a couple of weeks or a little longer than that.

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And in two months on this high dose of coenzyme Q10, his ankle swelling was reduced by half

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and he felt much better.

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So I reduced his coQ10 down from 1200 to 900 milligrams.

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Four months, his ankle swelling and fatigue were gone.

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He was driving again.

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He looked and felt better than before the surgery.

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And his BNP had dropped down to 132.

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So this is almost unheard of by cardiologists because they don't give people coQ10.

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They just give them drugs.

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They think it's really unusual to get anyone over 70, 75, 80 with a heart condition.

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They think it's impossible to get someone's BNP below 200 because all they do is do surgery

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and hope that the body heals itself.

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Well, the body heals itself a lot better if you give it the nutrients it needs to heal

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itself.

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So this man just completely eliminated all of those symptoms, stood up straight again.

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His paleness was gone.

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His ankle swelling was gone.

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And he went on to live another eight years of a healthy, happy life and then died peacefully

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in his sleep.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.

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I'd love to help you or someone you love prevent or reverse heart disease.

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This is Heart Disease Month.

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Please tune in next Friday at 4 p.m. for more information on how to prevent that.

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Please send your questions in to me.

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I look forward to an opportunity to help someone you love prevent or reduce their risk of heart

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disease.

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Please tell friends and family members that you know and love to check out the past episodes

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of this show on my website, binkleyhealingcenter.com.

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I very much look forward to the privilege of speaking with you next Friday at 4 p.m.

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right here on KDAR 98.3 FM.

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Have a fabulous weekend.

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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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drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com.

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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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Join him next Friday at 4 p.m. for Safe, Effective Natural Solutions right here on 98.3 The

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Word, KDAR.