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

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

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Now, here's Dr. Todd.

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Good afternoon.

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I am Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified doctor of non-force chiropractic and practitioner

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of functional medicine.

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February is always Heart Disease Awareness Month.

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I've been getting some questions coming in and I'm going to address one of those first.

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I got a question from a listener whose husband has learned he has a 70% blockage in his right

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carotid artery.

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That's the main artery in the neck that supplies most of the blood flow to the brain and she

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was concerned that he was getting recommendations for various procedures and she wanted to know

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whether or not the open surgery procedure called endartectomy or a stent was better.

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Obviously, it's nice when you can get a stent for a lot of heart blockages.

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A stent is preferred.

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It's standard.

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But with the carotid arteries, the research has been recently updated and is not so good.

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It still recommends open heart surgery plus the fact, just the fact, not open artery surgery,

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the fact that the carotid artery is so close to the surface in the neck also makes that

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better.

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So I was happy to answer that question for her and I invite you to send your questions

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about any topic.

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I'm not a cardiovascular surgeon but I do have access to medical information that is

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difficult for other people to decipher and I'm happy to answer those questions for you

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and provide you with the latest most relevant data to support your decision making for your

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health or the health of your loved one.

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We're going to talk about a great case a little bit later.

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We're going to talk about some studies that have come out, chief among them, study about

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low vitamin D levels causing increasing risk of cardiovascular disease in young adults

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and also here's a headline for you.

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Why are we letting insurers dictate patient care?

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Prior authorization is wreaking havoc on patient health.

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I'm going to come back to that article in a minute as well.

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But first I want to give you an overview on how to prevent heart disease.

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There's three simple steps anyone can do to prevent heart disease.

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Heart disease is the number one cause of death.

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It's really important to understand this.

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I'm always excited in February to present this to people who are interested because

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most heart disease is preventable.

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It's not as easy as snapping your fingers or saying yeah I'd like to do that.

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You actually have to do something to prevent it but you can do something to prevent it.

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Simple things and I hope to arm you with a clearer understanding of what would make an

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actual difference.

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So to simplify things as much as possible there's three steps to preventing heart disease.

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Number one, keep the pipes clear.

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Number two, keep the pressure low.

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Number three, keep the pump strong.

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So what does that mean?

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Number one, keep the pipes clear.

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Well it means keeping your arteries clear of blockages.

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And so most people then first think of cholesterol.

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Oh yeah I got to take my Lipitor or my Zocor or like my doctor told me to keep my cholesterol

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low.

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Well cholesterol is a factor in the blockages that clog your arteries.

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It is one of the main things that plaque formation in your arteries is a combination.

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It starts.

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That's the most important thing.

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Cholesterol does not clog your arteries.

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Plaque clogs your arteries.

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Cholesterol is like a party crasher.

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It sneaks in when your guard is down.

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It's inflammation that drives plaque formation.

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It causes micro tears and disruptions in the inner lining of your blood vessels which then

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are healed with little scab like formations which are made of three things.

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Fibrin the main protein that is the form scar tissue anywhere in your body and cholesterol

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and calcium.

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So that's why most doctors are concerned about your calcium levels because most doctors know

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that most people have inflammation and if you have a body filled with inflammatory debris

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constantly from poor diet and stress mainly then the worse your cholesterol is the more

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cholesterol the higher the cholesterol the higher likelihood that you're going to have

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plaque formation or worse plaque formation because you've already got the initiation

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of the disease.

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But guess what?

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There are studies on 50,000 people or more in hospitals.

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The net result is half the people who show up with heart attacks or strokes have low

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or normal cholesterol.

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So there was a study done, a national study done on 53,000 hospital admissions for people

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with heart attack or stroke and half of them had low or normal cholesterol.

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So obviously cholesterol is not the problem.

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Cholesterol is a long for the ride.

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Cholesterol contributes to the problem but only if you have the problem caused by inflammation

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in the first place.

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Little tears in the lining of your blood vessels initiate the process of plaque formation.

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I'll say that again.

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Inflammation causes the inner lining of your blood vessels to become brittle instead of

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flexible like their normal state and when little tiny tears, little micro tears occur

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in the endothelium, the inner lining of your blood vessels, your body has to heal those

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tears with something like a scab like when you cut your skin.

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And those bridges, the scabs that bridge the gaps, then those little micro tears are made

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up of fibrin, the main protein, the main tissue used to heal and repair a scar.

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If you cut your skin, the same fibrin is also what is repairing that scar.

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Fibrin cholesterol and calcium.

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So having high inflammation in combination with high cholesterol will increase your risk

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of heart disease.

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But if you have low risk, if you have low inflammation, even if your cholesterol is

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high then you will not get the standard plaque formation that most people get on the standard

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American diet because you're controlling for inflammation and there are ways to test for

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that and ensure that you are doing a good job of keeping inflammation low.

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It's so much more important to keep inflammation low than it is to keep cholesterol low because

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cholesterol does not cause heart disease.

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Heart disease causes heart disease if you keep the inflammation low then the amount

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of cholesterol matters little.

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So you want to keep the pipes clear by keeping cholesterol low.

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So it's important to know where if you don't do that what happens.

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Well plaque builds up, piles up mostly where there's a fork in the pipes.

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So in the carotid arteries which are the main arteries in your neck that supply blood flow

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to the brain and the femoral arteries where the main aorta from your heart going down

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through your abdomen branches off to both of your legs and in several other places.

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Anytime anywhere there's a fork in the road plaque will tend to build up there.

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Also any place there's just a lot of blood flow, a lot of stress.

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So as everyone knows the arteries to the heart are prime places to form plaque.

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But again that plaque does not form unless you have chronic meaning long standing over

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long periods of time inflammation in your bloodstream from stress, from diet, from lack

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of nutrients to keep your arteries clear and your health strong.

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So what does that mean to keep your health strong?

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Well we'll talk a lot about that but you know obvious things, vegetables, fruit, good fats

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and other important nutrients reduce inflammation to make it less likely for you to have injuries

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in the blood vessels in the first place.

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So inflammation is the body's normal response to injury.

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This is the normal response to any kind of irritant.

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It's the response to infection.

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It's sort of like a microscopic combination of the Marines and the Army Corps of Engineers

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and the Red Cross.

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It's a complexed organized attempt to destroy an invader, to suppress an irritant or repair

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damaged tissue.

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So if you have a virus or some poisonous chemical or you smash your thumb, inflammation is your

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friend.

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But if you don't have a virus and you haven't burned your finger or cut yourself or broken

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a bone, then inflammation is sort of like a group of bored teenagers with a bad attitude

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and too much time on your hands wreaking havoc throughout your body.

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So chronic inflammation, and I always have to remind people chronic does not mean bad,

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chronic does not mean severe, chronic just means taking place over a long period of time

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like chronos, like chronology.

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Chronic means something's been around for a long time.

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So chronic inflammation occurs when physical, chemical, dietary, even emotional irritants

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are constantly prodding your organs to basically dial 911 even when there's no clear and present

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danger.

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Irritants like this trigger an automatic but mild response.

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You don't notice it.

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You don't know anything's happening at all, but it goes on indefinitely for years even

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as long as that irritant is present.

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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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The focus this month is on heart disease and I am referring to notes of mine from a lecture

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I've given several times on heart disease at Community Memorial Hospital.

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When I did it the first time it was so popular they asked me to come back and several nurses

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attended to get some continuing education units before that.

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I've mentioned before that I love teaching and it's always fun to do this because I provide

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a contrarian message to what people normally hear in standard medical training.

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So that's always fun.

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I've presented this talk at St. John's Hospital to heart disease support groups and Rotary

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Clubs and other service clubs.

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But anyway I decided that it would get, just to get people's attention.

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I don't have the benefit of having a PowerPoint to present to you radio listeners, but what

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I'm looking at right now is a picture of normal lungs right next to a picture of smoker lungs.

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To just make it as clear as possible and have a little fun with it I've decided to do a

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series of slides on how to increase inflammation.

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So understand for the next few minutes I'm talking about things that you don't want to

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do.

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So here's how you can increase inflammation that causes cardiovascular disease.

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Inhale smoke.

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The worst kind is from cigarettes, but smoke from any source will increase inflammation

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that wrecks your lungs and your cardiovascular system.

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So smoke from cigarettes, but also from incense, from exhaust, from car exhaust, from living

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near a freeway, from working in an environment where you're constantly exposed to smoke,

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burning anything in your home and smelling the smoke from that, including wood burning

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fireplaces.

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I love a wood burning fireplace, but don't breathe the smoke.

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So another way to increase inflammation is to eat lots of fried food.

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So you know fried junk food, everyone knows what fried food is, but the worst of all the

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fried foods, the two worst fried foods are french fries, number two coming in, the runner

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up is french fries because potatoes have almost no nutrients in them.

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When you peel them, they have no nutrients left.

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They're just starch.

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And then the fast food industry coats them with things that make them so crunchy and

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delicious like chemicals that give them flavor and make them golden and crispy and basically

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manipulate you into thinking you need more and more of them.

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Has anyone ever eaten a serving of french fries and not wanted more of them immediately?

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That's a bad sign.

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That's very similar to the addiction that occurs when you eat sugar.

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So number one for the worst possible fried foods you could eat, you can eat, people do

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eat all the time, are donuts.

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You've got the triple whammy with donuts, the starch of the flour, the sugar of all

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the other crap they put on donuts and the fact that they fry them in grease, which is

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if you knew what happens, go ask someone who's owned a donut shop.

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What do they do with that grease after a while?

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That's a toxic waste product that is regulated by the environmental protection agency.

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Don't quote me on that.

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It might be some other government agency, but there's whatever agency governs the removable

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of and hazardous waste.

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The removal and proper disposal of hazardous waste is involved behind in the back, behind

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every donut shop.

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That grease that they boiled, they fried those donuts in, it becomes a toxic waste product

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and that is what your donuts are lifted from right before you eat them.

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So yeah, donuts, top of the list, worst thing you could possibly eat to increase inflammation,

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but there's lots of other ways to increase inflammation that cause cardiovascular disease.

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You can eat lots of processed foods.

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So stay away from the perimeter of the grocery stores where all the good food is, all the

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fresh vegetables and fresh meats and real cheese and anything made fresh and stick to

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the center aisles where all the processed foods like anything, especially anything that's

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room that's meant to be kept fresh at room temperature.

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So chips, Cheetos, cookies, crackers, anything that's designed to be have a shelf life for

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a long time at room temperature is probably filled with things that will increase inflammation.

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So though one of the best ways, if you're a listener to this show, you've heard me talk

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about this a long time.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm never going to stop eat lots of grains, starch and sugar.

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So grains are things that are made from wheat.

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Starch are things that are made from starchy plants that aren't grains like potatoes and

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corn and of course sugar.

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So grains, starch and sugar.

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So breakfast cereal is a great way.

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Start your day with breakfast cereal.

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That's a great way to increase inflammation in your body and increase your risk of heart

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disease, especially if you then add some pancakes covered with high fructose corn syrup, masquerading

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is real brown syrup and muffins.

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If you think muffins are healthy food, Google, go to YouTube and listen to Jim Gaffigan.

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Jim Gaffigan is a comedian that talks about how muffins are basically cake.

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How did that slip in there?

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Did it dress up a cupcake as a breakfast food and suddenly people think that's healthy?

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It is not.

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So inflammation is what drives plaque formation and scientists have identified several markers

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of inflammation that predict the risk of heart attack and stroke.

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Everyone knows that cholesterol, total cholesterol, LDL, bad cholesterol, HDL, good cholesterol.

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Here's our homocysteine, things like interleukin-6, lipoprotein-A, C-reactive protein.

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There are studies that have been around for over 20 years that show that C-reactive protein

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is a much stronger predictor of cardiovascular events than total cholesterol.

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So okay, enough of that now.

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Enough of talking about ways to, if you just tuned in, everything you heard for the previous

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few minutes were things that I do not recommend, ways to increase inflammation and obviously

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the goal is to do the opposite.

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So inflammation drives plaque formation.

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So to reduce it, consume fish oil.

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There are three nutrients that I recommend everyone consume even without testing them

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and they are a good multivitamin with adequate absorbable minerals, which is never a one

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a day.

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It's always a high quality product from a company like Orthomolecular Products, Metagenics,

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Designs for Health, Foreign Research and is usually three to four capsules per day for

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minerals that your body can actually absorb.

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Number one, a good multi for the minerals.

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Number two, 5,000 units of vitamin D. 5,000 units is the standard dose of vitamin D and

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we're going to see shortly how that can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease even in

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youth and so inflammation can also be reduced by fish oil.

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Fish oil reduces, there are numerous studies that show that consuming fish oil, consuming

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omega-3 fatty acids that you can only get from the ocean, which are DHA, Dicosa Hexanoic

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Acid and EPA, Ecosapentaenoic Acid.

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Consuming fish oil reduces interleukin-6, one of the most pro-inflammatory cytokines.

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When people talk about inflammation, what is inflammation exactly?

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Well, it is the production of chemicals that course through your blood system including

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things like inflammatory cytokines, interleukin-6 chief among them.

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Consuming fish oil reduces interleukin-6.

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Consuming fish oil also reduces lipoprotein A, which is another test that most doctors

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don't do, which is a much stronger indicator of your risk of imminent heart attack or stroke.

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Lipoprotein A, knowing your levels of this is also much more important than simply knowing

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how much cholesterol you have, total cholesterol, bad cholesterol, good cholesterol, etc.

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I promised I'd present a great case just to give you an idea of what's possible.

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I had an 82-year-old female who had been running a high blood pressure of 160 over 90 for many

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years, 20 years.

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She'd been running roughly 160 over 90 and she refused to take blood pressure medication

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because it made her dizzy.

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It made her feel wobbly.

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She was a very sharp woman and she didn't like the side effects of the blood pressure

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medication so she refused to take it.

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But when she came to me for other reasons, she came to me for neck pain because she was

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a concert violinist but she eventually described to me this situation.

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I said, well, it's really not a good idea to not take, you should take blood pressure

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medication.

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If your blood pressure is that high, you only get one heart, you're going to wear it out.

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I asked her if she'd ever taken a number of nutrients that I recommended for reducing

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blood pressure like fish oil, pomegranate juice, and reducing inflammation in the vascular

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system which all basically have the same synergistic effect.

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It's not that nutrients don't work like drugs.

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There's no one nutrient to lower your blood pressure.

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There's no one nutrient to reduce inflammation in all of your blood vessels to prevent the

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formation of plaque.

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There's no one nutrient to slow rapid heartbeat and relax you from all of your stress.

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There's no one nutrient that provides the most essential, well, there is one.

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CoQ10 actually is one nutrient that provides the essential cofactor to healing and repairing

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heart muscles.

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So anyway, I asked her, I told her about a number of nutrients I'd recommend and asked

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her if she'd ever tried any of those before.

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She said, oh yeah, individually I've tried all of those.

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I said, have you ever tried all of those things?

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Fish oil, pomegranate juice, turmeric, natokinase, an enzyme that breaks down that fibrin that

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forms that horrible plaque, coenzyme Q10, and an adequate dose and some other vitamins

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and minerals.

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I also recommended that she do some stretching exercises for flexibility, relaxation, and

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stress relief.

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She said, well, why would I do all those things at the same time?

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Then I won't know what's working.

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Well, she did all of them at the same time.

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And in six weeks, her blood pressure went from 160 over 90 to 130 over 80.

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That's a huge reduction in an 82 year old.

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It's really, it's relatively easy to reduce blood pressure, 20, 30 points.

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And someone in their 30s or 40s or 50s who's really high stress.

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The older you get, the more rigidity, the more plaque, the more degradation is inevitably

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going to build up in your blood vessels, even if you have great genes, which she apparently

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had.

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But her blood pressure went down from off the charts, too high, super dangerous range

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to in a safe range.

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And six weeks by taking a whole bunch of nutrients that were synergistic, that worked in combinations

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to alleviate the effects of everything else that was happening in her body and her life.

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It looks like we're about out of time.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.

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You've been listening to Safe Effective Natural Solutions.

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I would love to help you identify your risk factors for cardiovascular disease, yours

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or those of someone you love, I'd be honored to help you come up with a solution by using

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proper testing to identify what's really important.

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That's what it comes down to.

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Heart disease is the number one cause of death in America because we all do things that stress

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our cardiovascular system.

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So how important is it for you to make a change in your life right now or someone you love?

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And how do you know?

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How do you know what's going to make a difference?

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So proper testing and a proper consultation, I've helped hundreds, thousands of people

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reduce their risk of heart disease.

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I'd love to do that for you.

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Tune in next week, next Friday at 4 p.m.

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Have a fantastic 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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Dr. Binkley 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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