1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,760 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:12,080 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,640 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:16,640 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,300 I am Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified doctor of non-force chiropractic and practitioner 6 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:23,440 of functional medicine. 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:28,600 Functional medicine means I use tests that most doctors don't order, usually because 8 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:33,160 your insurance doesn't want to pay for them, to identify conditions that they miss because 9 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:35,680 they don't order those tests. 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:42,840 And I really love doing what I do, helping people identify ways that they can heal themselves. 11 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:47,960 I just had the privilege of attending for the fifth year in a row this past weekend 12 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:55,680 a conference in San Francisco called Laboratory Endocrine and Neurotransmitter Symposium, 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:01,120 which was mostly about hormones and neurotransmitters as they affect the brain. 14 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:10,120 But it was especially focused on reversing, not just reducing or preventing, you have 15 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,840 to really start early to prevent cognitive decline. 16 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:19,360 But there was a lot of really exciting information, very new research showing that there are ways 17 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:27,960 to actually reverse cognitive decline, to reverse dementia, Alzheimer's, and all other 18 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:29,960 forms of dementia. 19 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:33,640 So we'll talk a little bit more about that if we have time and some great case studies. 20 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:39,320 But I'm going to start with a question that came in from a listener in Ventura. 21 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:46,520 Grace asked me to talk about the difference between osteoporosis and osteoarthritis and 22 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:51,280 the best ways to facilitate healing them with something natural as opposed to drugs. 23 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,760 She was especially concerned about the side effects of the common osteoporosis drugs that 24 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:05,880 you hear about, drugs like Fosamax, Actinel, Boniva, Prolia, Reclast, these are bisphosphonate 25 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:11,980 drugs and in my humble opinion almost no one should take these drugs. 26 00:02:11,980 --> 00:02:17,680 As long as you seek out a better alternative of which there are many. 27 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:23,040 So the scary thing is you can go to the websites of these drugs, Fosamax, go to their website 28 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:29,120 and it says the mechanism of action is to, it clearly states the way these drugs work 29 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,760 is by shutting down osteoclasts. 30 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,640 What is an osteoclast? 31 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:42,280 There are two essential processes continually rebuilding and replacing old bone tissue. 32 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,040 You want this. 33 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:49,040 Every part of your body is constantly being broken down and replaced with new healthy 34 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:50,040 tissue. 35 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:51,040 That's how you stay alive. 36 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:59,520 So in bone it works with two types of cells, osteoblasts with a B which build new bone 37 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:05,920 and osteoclasts with a C which clear out old bone. 38 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:15,440 So these bisphosphonate drugs work by shutting down the function of osteoclasts so that they 39 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:22,840 can no longer clear away old bone which results in the osteoblasts just continually building 40 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:29,320 new bone over decrepit scaffolding that remains in your old bone cells. 41 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,720 Does that really sound like a good idea? 42 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,240 Obviously it is not. 43 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:36,880 Why do they do it then? 44 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:42,080 Well if those drugs will make your bone density scans look better because if you just stop 45 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:47,480 breaking down the old bone that really needs to be cleared away and just keep shoving in 46 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:53,040 more new bone it will make your bones more dense and it will make your dexa scan, your 47 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,680 bone density scan look better. 48 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,000 It will increase your bone density. 49 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,400 What it will not do is make your bones stronger. 50 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:08,700 What it will not do in many women is make you less likely to have a fracture. 51 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:11,840 These drugs even actually cause bone cell death. 52 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:12,840 It's documented. 53 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,280 You can look this up on PubMed. 54 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:16,680 These drugs are known. 55 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:23,080 One of the most common side effects is to actually cause bone necrosis, death of bone 56 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:30,160 cells, especially in the jaw but also in the hips where you need your bone strength the 57 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,160 most. 58 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:36,640 To make your bones just to look pretty on a test you need them to be strong. 59 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:42,880 And the way you make strong tissue anywhere in your body is to let the natural mechanisms 60 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:48,440 that have been there since you were born that are designed and know what they're doing to 61 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:49,840 do what they do best. 62 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:54,800 To heal and repair bone in particular you need to clear away the old bone before you 63 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,480 start replacing it with new bone. 64 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:02,760 You need both osteoclasts and osteoblasts to function. 65 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,040 That's the problem with these drugs. 66 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,040 So what do you do? 67 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:11,120 What is the natural safe effective natural solution to maintain healthy bone strength? 68 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,000 Well I've had lots of patients. 69 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,640 Hopefully we'll have time if we do I'll get to some case studies. 70 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:22,600 I'll describe some specific women who have reversed themselves from osteoporosis back 71 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:30,560 to osteopenia or low bone density even from low bone density to fully normal bone without 72 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:31,560 drugs. 73 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:37,080 So the most important natural nutrients you need for bone health obviously calcium everyone 74 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,200 knows that calcium is important. 75 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:44,600 The big problem with that is if you just go to Costco and buy a calcium supplement or 76 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:52,560 if you get a prescription for calcium from your doctor 99.99 percent of the time those 77 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:59,400 supplements are calcium carbonate which is ground up rocks and seashells. 78 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,300 And there's a reason that almost all calcium supplements are made from calcium carbonate. 79 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:12,800 It's cheap and penheaded physicians that think all nutrients are the same don't take the 80 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:18,360 time to learn that those nutrients that particular form of calcium is not very bioavailable and 81 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:24,920 it does not do a job do a very good job of helping maintain bone health. 82 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,200 So they just often recommend more of it. 83 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:35,620 A lot of physicians recommend 1200 1500 milligrams of calcium calcium carbonate for people who 84 00:06:35,620 --> 00:06:40,600 have osteoporosis and this is just bad advice. 85 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,760 So you want a bioavailable form of calcium. 86 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,560 Ideally you want to get calcium from food like sesame seeds and spinach and any dark 87 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,680 green vegetable will be loaded with bioavailable spinach. 88 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,520 There is calcium in the ground. 89 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:01,400 There is calcium if you mine minerals from the surface of the earth and consume them 90 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:07,000 in a capsule your body will do its best to try to absorb them. 91 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,880 Women in third world countries who are minerally deficient famously sometimes eat dirt when 92 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,480 they're pregnant because they sense that they need something that they're not getting from 93 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,080 their food and that's just a sad situation. 94 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:27,000 But there are supplements that make available plant based like forms of calcium. 95 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:33,840 So if you stick a plant in that same dirt instead of eating the dirt or mining minerals 96 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:43,280 from sources of calcium like seashells and rocks you can put a plant in that same dirt 97 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:49,240 and it will absorb calcium through its roots and bind that calcium in the stems and leaves 98 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:55,120 and vegetables whatever that seeds whatever that type of plant that is it will be bound 99 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:03,040 up in food food that our bodies have recognized for thousands hundreds of thousands of years 100 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,840 and developed the ability to easily break down and absorb. 101 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:14,440 My favorite form of calcium for bone health and many other reasons for to supplement calcium 102 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:19,520 is a brand called reacted calcium by ortho molecular products. 103 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:25,680 This has four different forms of calcium in it that are like as close as you can get to 104 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:31,320 the plant based forms that most people don't get enough of from their diet. 105 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:37,040 So calcium is obvious it's really important to take good calcium if you look at your calcium 106 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:44,240 and it says calcium carbonate on it throw it away and get the reacted calcium from ortho 107 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:49,900 molecular products is not the only good one calcium lactate is also not a bad form. 108 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:53,400 There are several other forms email me if you have specific questions about this but 109 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:59,880 obviously you need calcium and most people obviously think about drinking milk when you're 110 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:06,560 young and growing drinking milk if you don't have lactose intolerance or sensitivity to 111 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:11,880 casein or any other problems with drinking milk if you're a young growing child or teenager 112 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:17,920 that might be fine evidence is sort of mixed on that but I do not recommend that most adults 113 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:24,540 drink cow's milk for a whole host of reasons that we don't have time for here today it's 114 00:09:24,540 --> 00:09:31,840 much better to get calcium from green vegetables or take and or take a good calcium supplement 115 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:37,200 if you come to me and have a dextrose can with low bone density I'm going to recommend 116 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,640 that you take reacted calcium from ortho molecular products because I've given it to hundreds 117 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:46,000 of people and seen the results before and after that prove that it works it's not the 118 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:53,080 only one that works but I know that that one does work and you also need vitamin D and 119 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:59,480 vitamin K and sometimes collagen so let's talk about those other three nutrients vitamin 120 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:06,800 D keeps calcium in circulation so that it's available to be absorbed by your bones by 121 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:12,400 your muscles by other tissues lots of your tissues need calcium so vitamin D keeps good 122 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:22,280 calcium and circulation vitamin K especially the K2 form of vitamin K actually moves the 123 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:27,520 calcium from circulation and deposit helps your body deposit it into the tissue into 124 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:33,480 your bones where you need it most so you need good plant-like calcium you need vitamin D 125 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:41,000 to keep the calcium in circulation and you need vitamin K especially vitamin K2 to deposit 126 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:48,760 that calcium into your bones so many women also need collagen a lot of women actually 127 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:53,960 I find in my practice when they come in when I'm first doing an exam I find they're often 128 00:10:53,960 --> 00:11:00,760 taking collagen because it also has wonderful effects on your skin hair and nails many people 129 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:07,360 take it just because it makes them look and feel better taking the most the high quality 130 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:14,920 collagen is also really important I for years I've been doing this type of work doing testing 131 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:22,640 getting actual data before and after whether nutrients work on my patients for about 20 132 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,760 years now I've been 30 years in practice as a non-force chiropractor and have been doing 133 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:32,760 functional medicine for about 20 of those years and for a lot of those years I didn't 134 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:37,720 recommend taking collagen supplements because they didn't seem to work when I tested people 135 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:42,880 that didn't seem to improve their bone density scans a lot of people found that they didn't 136 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:50,800 get the benefits of better skin hair nails that they were looking for so calcium are 137 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:57,780 collagen supplements have improved a lot in the last few years and especially with with 138 00:11:57,780 --> 00:12:01,920 some of the the top shelf brands like designs for health the two I recommend and I've been 139 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:09,280 getting amazing reports back from many many many patients who take either collagen from 140 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:14,360 designs for health or orthomolecular products so those again are not the only ones that 141 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:20,400 work bone broth just consuming bone broth is a great natural source of collagen but a lot 142 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:26,880 of people don't like the taste and some of the previous powdered forms of supplemental 143 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:32,560 collagen also didn't taste very good so collagen from designs for health and orthomolecular 144 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:37,080 products works great that people are getting fantastic results with it and it has no taste 145 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,880 at all it just has a kind of a neutral taste and you just mix it with water you can even 146 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:46,600 put it in you know any other liquid you'd like so not everyone needs collagen to improve 147 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,680 their bone health but it's often part of the picture depending on how bad your tests are 148 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:57,000 you as you know if you've listened to my show at all before I'm my focus is always on testing 149 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,160 the problem with bone density testing is you have to wait two years what why do you have 150 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:05,440 to wait two years well because it takes two years to see a difference you know the best 151 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:12,280 time to redo any test is when you expect to see improvement or any change and so bone 152 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:18,320 density scans dexa scans bone mineral density tests you're not going to see a difference 153 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:24,580 if you do it before two years so whenever you and instigate a new protocol to improve 154 00:13:24,580 --> 00:13:28,240 your bone density you have to you have to wait for two years but I've done that with 155 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:34,200 many many patients and most of the time just taking a good bioavailable calcium adequate 156 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:41,680 vitamin D which for most adults is 5,000 units a day and especially and often very high doses 157 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:51,240 of vitamin k2 makes all the difference sometimes you also need supplemental collagen I'm Dr. 158 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:56,040 Todd Binkley you're listening to safe effective natural solutions to almost any health challenge 159 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:02,220 I'm talking mostly about osteoporosis today I had a question from a caller who asked me 160 00:14:02,220 --> 00:14:07,920 about the difference between osteoporosis and osteoarthritis so far I've only been talking 161 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:12,720 about osteoporosis I will get to the difference between those two before I do that I just 162 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:17,320 have to tell you how excited I am to have attended again for the fifth year in a row 163 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:23,480 this fantastic symposium I keep going because every year it's better than ever it's called 164 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:30,060 a laboratory endocrine and neurotransmitter symposium and one of the featured speakers 165 00:14:30,060 --> 00:14:36,280 again this year was Pamela Smith MD and she had some interesting things to say about the 166 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,480 correlation with autoimmune disease and long COVID which I'm definitely going to come back 167 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:47,760 to later I'm preparing a lot of information on the latest research on what's causing long 168 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:52,560 COVID but we'll come back to that Pamela Smith MD spent her first 20 years in practice as 169 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:58,000 an ER physician at a level one trauma center in Detroit and she's an internationally known 170 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:04,880 speaker and author on anti-aging and personalized medicine she's been featured on CNN PBS and 171 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:10,640 many other television shows and radio shows focusing on anti-aging including awakening 172 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:17,280 from Alzheimer's and regaining your brain she's the author of 14 best-selling books 173 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:23,400 include including one I recommend everyone get any woman who's interested in understanding 174 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,800 their hormones better her her best her best the best selling of her many best-selling 175 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:35,240 books is called what you must know about women's hormones the second edition just came out 176 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:41,160 fairly recently so she says hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women has decreased 177 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:47,320 a lot in the last few years because concerns about increased risk of breast cancer and 178 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:52,840 heart disease and nearly all of these concerns are due to the fact that most hormone replacement 179 00:15:52,840 --> 00:16:02,080 therapy administered by most doctors is synthetic hormones conjugated equine estrogen also known 180 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:09,920 as Premarin which is named for the fact that it's made from female horse urine taking estrogen 181 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:15,420 without progesterone can increase risk of cancer and many other conditions so synthetic 182 00:16:15,420 --> 00:16:23,040 estrogen by itself is not the not the way to go and and because of that it is often 183 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:30,040 combined with progesterone but combining synthetic estrogen with synthetic progesterone can be 184 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:35,960 even worse so the combination of synthetic estrogen combined with syngetic progesterone 185 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:43,840 which is really progestin it's not even progesterone synthetic progesterone is progestin and drugs 186 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:50,080 like prem pro and activella are examples of these combinations of synthetic estrogen and 187 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:56,640 syngetic synthetic progesterone and they have documented damaging effects on DNA especially 188 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:03,400 the progestin which makes it carcinogenic so nearly half of women quit taking synthetic 189 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:08,580 hormone replacement therapy after a year because of the side effects and synthetic hormones 190 00:17:08,580 --> 00:17:14,960 this is doc going back quoting dr smith here synthetic hormones waste energy by giving 191 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:22,120 incomplete messages to our cells which then fail to produce a balanced hormonal response 192 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:28,720 so i'm mentioning all of this because yes after taking bioavailable calcium adequate 193 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:36,940 vitamin d high doses usually of vitamin k2 and sometimes supplemental collagen a lot 194 00:17:36,940 --> 00:17:43,760 of women actually are suffering from bone loss because of inadequate hormones especially 195 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:50,600 estrogen so the only way to know for sure if that's you or if someone you love needs 196 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:56,140 hormone replacement therapy for bone health or a whole host of other symptoms then there 197 00:17:56,140 --> 00:18:01,920 is a safe effective natural solution for that as well and it is taking plant like plant 198 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:08,120 based bioidentical hormones instead of the synthetic hormones that most women get and 199 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:16,220 this is often a critical part of the picture for women that are osteoporosis have osteoporosis 200 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:21,700 and it's not getting better with whatever else they're doing if you or someone you 201 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:28,340 love is feeling the classic effects of estrogen deficiency postmenopausal or during the transition 202 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:35,560 even if you're just starting to feel the early signs of menopause it might be perfectly safe 203 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:42,980 for you to take plant-based forms of bioidentical estrogen at very low doses so the problem 204 00:18:42,980 --> 00:18:47,920 with conventional hormone replacement therapy is not only that they use synthetic hormones 205 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:54,000 most of the time but also that they give you way too much because they're only testing 206 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:00,760 your hormones in serum so often very low doses can dramatically reduce the symptoms of hot 207 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:05,920 flashes and night sweats or cold flashes or dryness vaginal dryness discomfort during 208 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:13,520 sex dry skin dry eyes dry mouth mood swings mild depression irritability or urinary urgency 209 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,340 feeling the need to pee immediately trouble sleeping these are everybody you know these 210 00:19:17,340 --> 00:19:23,960 are very common symptoms and they're relieved by synthetic hormone replacement therapy but 211 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:30,400 it's not worth the side effects especially when there is an alternative and so the most 212 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:38,360 important way to know whether or not you have safe if it's safe for you to take hormones 213 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:42,800 to say for example you have a family history of breast cancer or even if you've had breast 214 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:50,800 cancer before it may still be safe for you to take very low doses of estrogen and or 215 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:56,360 progesterone the way to know that is to not do a blood test i talk about blood tests all 216 00:19:56,360 --> 00:20:02,480 the time they are the gold standard for most things but for hormones especially if you 217 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:10,400 want to treat them with physiological levels meaning low doses that have profound effects 218 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:17,180 then it's important instead of a blood test to test your hormones with saliva the salivary 219 00:20:17,180 --> 00:20:23,900 glands have a robust capillary bed surrounding them which is the smallest form of blood vessels 220 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:30,040 your saliva comes from your blood so your salivary glands are surrounded by a huge number 221 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:36,040 of tiny little capillaries and things anything that's in your blood will leak in to your 222 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:43,440 saliva which makes it a good testing medium the equipment to test hormones in saliva has 223 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:49,500 to be a hundred times more sensitive than the equipment to test hormones in blood which 224 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:56,320 makes these tests very accurate but more importantly the best way to if you want to do low doses 225 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:03,820 the safe low doses of plant-based natural hormones of bioidentical hormone therapy then 226 00:21:03,820 --> 00:21:09,360 it makes no sense to test whether or not you're getting adequate amounts what you always have 227 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:14,800 to do you have to test continually you have to tack and you have to adjust your hormones 228 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,240 you start with a reasonable dose and then you have to test again to make sure that's 229 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,960 working and that will always change as your body responds to the therapy you're taking 230 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:30,000 but you want to test with saliva tests instead of serum tests especially if you're doing 231 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:38,120 a trans dermal hormone therapy so there are lots of oral hormone therapies but the best 232 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:43,680 ones to do if you want to do a safe effective plant-based solution are trans dermal something 233 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:52,720 you put on your skin when you put hormones on your skin they bind to red blood cells 234 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,360 your red blood cells deliver them directly to tissues throughout your body where they 235 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:04,800 are needed like your bones and your heart and your brain and several other your uterus 236 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:10,640 everywhere you need that estrogen to function normally again it's delivered directly from 237 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:15,480 the surface of your red blood cells and then there then they disappear they're taken up 238 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:22,560 by those cells so that's why they don't show up adequately accurately on a serum test when 239 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:28,440 you get your blood tests done for most things you're really mostly most of the time testing 240 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:35,560 blood serum not red blood cells they remove the red blood cells and test your serum for 241 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:40,840 most things there are lots of exceptions to that but the point is it works much better 242 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:48,000 to test your hormones with a saliva test administer trans dermal creams or oils directly to your 243 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:54,960 skin in very low doses safe doses that do not increase your risk of cancer for most 244 00:22:54,960 --> 00:23:01,760 women and see the profound effects in reducing all of those horrible symptoms a lot of women 245 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:07,280 start perimenopause in their 30s and almost always by the time they reach 50 but it you 246 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:15,880 know it varies a lot but it is totally safe to get tested and start very low doses of 247 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:20,980 replacement hormones for the ones that your body has stopped making on its own and then 248 00:23:20,980 --> 00:23:27,760 test again to make sure that you're maintaining safe physio normal physiological levels of 249 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:33,200 these things and you can with if you do that if you do the proper testing then you have 250 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:39,440 very low risk of increasing your risk of cancer maybe even reduce it and definitely this is 251 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:43,840 what the latest research shows that no one most people have not heard about yet most 252 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:49,520 doctors even have not heard about yet it actually read is well documented to reduce your risk 253 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:55,200 of cardiovascular disease you actually reduce your risk of heart attack or stroke by maintaining 254 00:23:55,200 --> 00:24:03,240 adequate physiologic not maximum overdoses like most endocrinologists do with women with 255 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:10,100 synthetic hormones but maintaining normal low but adequate physiologic doses of especially 256 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:14,040 estrogen and progesterone and they prevent all the horrible symptoms the hot flashes 257 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:19,000 the night sweats the dryness and the trouble sleeping the mood swings and irritability 258 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:25,760 but restoring normal levels of hormones can also prevent memory loss improve heart health 259 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:33,600 and of course maintain adequate bone production prevent osteoporosis sometimes even reverse 260 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:39,320 it where does the time go i still haven't talked about osteoarthritis so the difference 261 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:46,560 between osteoporosis and osteoarthritis is osteoporosis is a disease of the bones osteoarthritis 262 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:51,640 is a disease of joints the best way i promise i will talk about the best ways to prevent 263 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:59,560 osteoarthritis of the joints on another show have a fabulous weekend you've been 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