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 --> 00:00:15,120 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:16,120 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,860 I am Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified doctor of non-force chiropractic and practitioner 6 00:00:20,860 --> 00:00:22,600 of functional medicine. 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:28,520 I identify conditions other doctors miss by doing tests they don't often do. 8 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,800 Last week we talked about osteoporosis. 9 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:37,240 I began the show by answering a question from listener Grace in Ventura who wanted to know, 10 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:43,600 wanted me to talk about the difference between osteoporosis and osteoarthritis and the best 11 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,560 ways to treat those things without becoming dependent on drugs. 12 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,800 And I ended up spending the whole show talking about osteoporosis because it's such a large 13 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:58,160 topic plus I was also really excited about and still am and will still be giving more 14 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:06,000 information from this spectacular symposium I attended which was held in San Francisco 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,040 last weekend, the Laboratory Endocrine and Neuro Transmitter Symposium. 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,000 I've taken it for five years now. 17 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I'll probably continue taking it every year because the speakers they have there are world 18 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:25,000 renowned speakers, lecturers, professors at universities, authors, just amazing materials. 19 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,920 So people often wonder, oh, how do you find the best doctor? 20 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:29,920 Did he go to Harvard? 21 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:34,800 Does he have privileges at the Mayo Clinic? 22 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,820 I always tell people the best way to tell if you've got a doctor that's going to give 23 00:01:38,820 --> 00:01:45,200 you the best treatment available is ask them what seminars they took last year. 24 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,400 We're all required, all doctors are required to maintain our licenses, to take continuing 25 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,960 education seminars, to maintain our knowledge, to keep abreast of all of the latest research 26 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:01,680 which is just constantly getting better and better every year and that's really exciting. 27 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,480 So I did promise I would talk about the difference. 28 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:10,080 Craig Grace's question was about the difference between osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. 29 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:16,680 So osteoporosis is a disease of bones, a loss of bone density. 30 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,840 We spent the whole last show talking about that. 31 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:27,000 Osteoarthritis is not related to osteoporosis at all even though they sound similar. 32 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,680 Osteoarthritis is a disease of joints mainly. 33 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:37,000 Osteo means bone, arthro means joint, itis means inflammation. 34 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:43,680 The reason osteo, the root word for bone, is in what is basically a joint condition 35 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:50,880 is because when your joints break down over time from minor injuries and stress but mostly 36 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:57,200 from neglect, this is the major reason that osteoarthritis occurs anywhere in your body, 37 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:03,120 it can occur from trauma, but most of it, almost everyone gets arthritis as they get 38 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:09,120 older, that's why they call it the disease of aging is because it does tend to be very 39 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,700 common in most people. 40 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:12,940 It is not inevitable. 41 00:03:12,940 --> 00:03:18,920 There are lots of people who are in their 80s and 90s and have no significant amounts 42 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:25,960 of osteoarthritis, but more importantly, when you take x-rays on people in their 50s, 60s, 43 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:34,120 70s or 80s, no one gets osteoarthritis or any other kind of arthritis uniformly in every 44 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:38,160 joint in their body as they get older. 45 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:44,860 So it is not caused by aging, it is mostly caused, it is associated with aging because 46 00:03:44,860 --> 00:03:48,440 most people get more of it as they get older, but it is caused by neglect. 47 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:53,560 In other words, there are lots of people who don't get it when they get older and the difference 48 00:03:53,560 --> 00:04:02,960 is mostly stretching, stretching the muscles that tend to overload the joint tissue in 49 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:03,960 your body. 50 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:09,320 So the main cause of arthritis, especially in your neck and your back and your low back 51 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:16,920 and your hips and your knees and your ankles and your shoulders, your elbows and your wrists, 52 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,280 is lack of maintaining flexibility. 53 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:24,920 Over time, our bodies just get stuck in certain positions. 54 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:31,840 We spend all day long sitting in chairs instead of getting up and moving around, but just 55 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:36,640 getting up and moving around, walking for example, which is excellent for cardiovascular 56 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:44,400 and mental health, just walking will not do much of anything to maintain flexibility in 57 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:45,400 your joints. 58 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,040 It is a little better than sitting in a chair all day, but only a little. 59 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:57,000 What you really need to do to prevent and reverse arthritis is identify the joints that 60 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,280 are, well you can feel pain in your joints. 61 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:05,080 To identify the muscles around those joints that have been tight for years. 62 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,800 When people come to me, they're surprised, oh, my hips just started hurting three weeks 63 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:10,800 ago. 64 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:11,800 I don't know what happened. 65 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,160 Well, did anything happen? 66 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:14,160 No. 67 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:15,680 Did you fall off a ladder? 68 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:16,680 No. 69 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:17,680 Did you have a car accident? 70 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:18,680 No. 71 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:19,680 There's no particular injury. 72 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,680 Everything shows up at some point. 73 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,840 People are always surprised, oh, but last week I felt fine and today I have pain. 74 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:27,840 What happened? 75 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:35,320 Well, you, your hips, wherever that painful spot is, was an accident waiting to be happened 76 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,320 most of the time. 77 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:42,560 If it's an arthritic condition, if it's a degenerative joint condition, you have patterns 78 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:50,920 of tension that build up in your muscles over time, over long periods of time, not weeks, 79 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:52,180 decades. 80 00:05:52,180 --> 00:05:57,000 Most of the time when I come in and do a physical exam, when someone comes in and I do a physical 81 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:05,000 exam on someone, it's very easy to tell on palpation just by pushing on bones and joints 82 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,040 and palpating the muscles, feeling for tension in the muscles. 83 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:14,680 It becomes very clear that in certain spots in most people's bodies, especially the base 84 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:20,720 of the neck, the low back, sometimes the middle back, sometimes the upper neck, various parts 85 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:26,340 of the body, it's very clear that that tension has been there for 20, 30 years. 86 00:06:26,340 --> 00:06:33,280 It takes a long time for joints, certain joints in the spine in particular, to become that 87 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:34,480 tight. 88 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,440 And so people go to traditional chiropractors and get an adjustment and it feels better 89 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:40,760 immediately. 90 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:41,760 And that's great. 91 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,760 That's so much better than doing nothing. 92 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:49,680 But some people are frustrated by the fact that when they get a traditional adjustment 93 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:57,000 or a deep tissue massage or any kind of forceful treatment, oh, I have all this tension, force 94 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,800 it out of me, please. 95 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:03,640 And you do that and you get a hit of endorphins and you physically release some of that tension 96 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,840 and it feels amazing. 97 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:06,840 For how long? 98 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:07,840 A day? 99 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:10,120 A couple of days? 100 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,800 At most, maybe a week or two if you're really lucky. 101 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,680 The problem with forcing all that tension out of your body that you have allowed to 102 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:23,780 accumulate is your body doesn't learn anything from that. 103 00:07:23,780 --> 00:07:29,340 If you want your body to, if you want to reverse the pattern of tension, that pattern of tension 104 00:07:29,340 --> 00:07:33,840 in your muscles that's been built up over time, then you need to do something else. 105 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:40,560 And that is the reason that applying massive force with a really deep tissue forceful massage 106 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,480 or a standard traditional chiropractic adjustment often doesn't last. 107 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,400 Again, these are great things to do. 108 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:51,520 If you're not going to do anything else, please continue getting traditional chiropractic 109 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:52,720 or massage. 110 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:58,360 They're both wonderful things that will prevent you from becoming worse than you would otherwise. 111 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:05,060 But there's something that's even better and that is to identify the patterns of tension 112 00:08:05,060 --> 00:08:07,520 in your muscles. 113 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:13,600 Patterns of tension in your muscles build up over time and persist for years, for decades 114 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:19,600 from poor posture, from crappy beds, from car seats that push your head forward to prevent 115 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,140 whiplash and never allow you to sit up straight. 116 00:08:23,140 --> 00:08:28,240 From just sitting in a chair all day staring at a computer screen and allowing your shoulders 117 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,540 to come up around your ears and you know, just having bad pot. 118 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:36,160 Most people know when they have bad posture and they just figure there's nothing you can 119 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:37,160 do about it. 120 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,260 Well, there is something you can do about bad posture always. 121 00:08:40,260 --> 00:08:45,840 And that is to get it assessed and learn how to do some very specific stretches to reverse 122 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,760 those patterns of tension that build up in your muscles. 123 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:52,040 So that's the key phrase. 124 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,560 I'll say it again. 125 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:55,400 Most people don't know this. 126 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:01,040 Patterns of tension in your muscles build up over years and decades and you'd think, 127 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,960 oh, well, if my muscles are tight, I'd feel that. 128 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,000 Sometimes you feel it, but most of the time you don't. 129 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:13,680 You don't feel it until one day the result of that pattern of tension on your joints 130 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:17,980 or the attachment of those muscles suddenly begins to hurt. 131 00:09:17,980 --> 00:09:24,120 So you're walking around with a sub threshold accident waiting to happen for 10 years, 20 132 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:25,720 years, 30 years. 133 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:30,880 Finally it just goes above that threshold and now you feel the pain and you think, oh 134 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,820 my God, what just happened? 135 00:09:32,820 --> 00:09:36,640 What just happened was the straw that broke the camel's back. 136 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:40,000 Obviously there were no camels involved and your back's not broken. 137 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:45,680 But it's a very confusing thing if you don't have an understanding of it, but I'm very 138 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:48,160 happy to explain it to you if you come into my office. 139 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:54,020 It's very common patterns of tension build up in your muscles all the time and they can 140 00:09:54,020 --> 00:09:55,120 be identified. 141 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,360 So here's a thing that I get all the time. 142 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,640 Someone comes into me, oh, I have this horrible pain in my neck or my shoulder or my knee 143 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,680 or plantar fasciitis or sciatica. 144 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:10,760 I have something in my joints, in my musculoskeletal system and it just started last week and nothing 145 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:11,760 happened. 146 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:12,760 I didn't have an accident. 147 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:13,760 I didn't fall. 148 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:14,760 Nothing happened. 149 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:20,720 I do my physical exam and it's very clear immediately that there has been a pattern 150 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,620 of tension in the hip rotators. 151 00:10:23,620 --> 00:10:30,280 For example, the hip rotators are muscles in the upper glute area that attach from your 152 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:36,240 pelvic bone near the base of your spine in the middle out to the side of your hip bone, 153 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,440 the bone that you can feel, the easiest bone to feel on your hip. 154 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:45,080 There are several muscles that cross your hip joint from the front, from the back. 155 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,920 Most of them are in the back or in sort of in the middle in between. 156 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:54,800 And these hip rotators constantly get tight when you sit a lot. 157 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,520 Raise your hand if you spend a lot of time sitting in front of a computer, sitting in 158 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:02,320 a car, sitting at home, reading, watching TV, whatever. 159 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,320 We all do it. 160 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:08,760 And, you know, it's fine but you need to do something to offset the effects of that 161 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:14,000 by identifying these places where tension has built up over time and you don't feel 162 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,000 it. 163 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,120 You don't feel that tension until it's been there for a long time, until it finally so 164 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:26,520 badly irritates those places where the tendons and those muscles attach to bone or where 165 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:31,240 because of the compression on the joint tissue gets so bad, then boom, you suddenly feel 166 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:37,120 a horrible pain even though maybe all you did was bend over to pick up something off 167 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:38,120 the floor. 168 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:43,240 In fact, the herniated disc in the low back is one of the most common joints that becomes 169 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:50,320 arthritic and an accident waiting to happen by something as simple as bending over to 170 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,680 pick up something off of the floor. 171 00:11:53,680 --> 00:12:00,200 Most people over 40 have some significant patterns of tension built up that are causing 172 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:06,280 breakdown in the joint tissue, making it very easy to tear, basically making it an accident 173 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,000 waiting to happen. 174 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:13,440 So that's why these things seem to occur suddenly but with osteoarthritis, with any kind of 175 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:18,800 musculoskeletal injury, unless you had an obvious trauma, you fell off of a roof or 176 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:23,000 a ladder, you had a really bad car accident or you slipped and fell. 177 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:29,440 The trauma can cause these conditions but most of the time, even when you have a trauma, 178 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:33,440 when you have a slip and fall, when you have a car accident, when you have a fall of any 179 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,420 kind, what's the part that ends up getting injured? 180 00:12:37,420 --> 00:12:39,840 It's the part that's been an accident waiting to happen. 181 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:41,240 It's the weakest link. 182 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:49,560 No one gets osteoarthritis, the most common arthritis of aging, uniformly in every joint 183 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:51,700 in their body as they get older. 184 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:57,720 When you shoot x-rays on people, I've seen thousands of them, no one has arthritis uniformly 185 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:58,800 in every joint in their body. 186 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,040 They only have it in some joints. 187 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:01,240 Well, which ones? 188 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:08,040 The ones that aren't moving, the ones that haven't been flexible for years because the 189 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:13,340 muscles around those joints have become short and tight. 190 00:13:13,340 --> 00:13:18,360 And you'd think if muscles around the joints at the base of your neck or the base of your 191 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,320 low back or anywhere in your body have become short and tight, you'd think you'd feel that 192 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:24,320 immediately. 193 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:25,320 You don't. 194 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,040 There's no flashing light. 195 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,560 You don't notice really anything at all. 196 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:33,060 The one thing you can notice is loss of flexibility. 197 00:13:33,060 --> 00:13:37,320 So people do notice as they get older that they can't turn their head when they're backing 198 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:42,120 their car out as far as they used to be able to or it's difficult to bend over and touch 199 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:43,120 your toes. 200 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:48,680 They notice lack of range of motion, but they still think they feel fine. 201 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:51,280 I'm just getting a little bit older. 202 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:57,200 Getting a little bit older does not necessarily have to involve losing range of motion in 203 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:58,380 your joints. 204 00:13:58,380 --> 00:14:04,320 So if you get a good head to toe examination of all the muscles in your body that impact 205 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:10,400 all those joints, you'll often find that there are simple ways you can reduce that tension, 206 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:15,840 restore flexibility, restore normal tension in those muscles, take the pressure off of 207 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:16,840 those joints. 208 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,120 The arthritis is caused. 209 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:27,160 The meniscus in your knee wears out because your quadriceps are constantly overloading, 210 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:32,920 compressing that cushion between the upper and lower bones, between your thigh and your 211 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:39,880 lower leg, and oftentimes, as often, because hip rotators in your thigh are constantly 212 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:46,280 twisting your leg just a little bit so that every time you take a step, your knee tissue, 213 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:50,920 your knee joint, instead of just bending forward and back like a hinge, which is all it wants 214 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:58,680 to do, it's being forced to twist a little bit because your hip rotators are short, pulling 215 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,320 your knee towards the outside, trying to turn your foot out. 216 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:07,320 If you're a ballerina or a soccer player, you use these muscles all the time. 217 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,960 If you're someone who doesn't do either of those things, you probably never use your 218 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,760 hip rotators very much. 219 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:21,360 And interestingly, dancers, ballerinas in particular, overuse the external hip rotators 220 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,040 and never the opposite ones. 221 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:28,360 And they often end up with knee injuries as well from the same problem. 222 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,240 So the only way to know if that's you is to get a proper examination and identify the 223 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:34,920 patterns of tension in your muscles. 224 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,240 And these are things that most doctors never check. 225 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:43,560 So if you find them, there are always ways to implement a stretching program, sometimes 226 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:49,160 requiring a helper, sometimes requiring me to do some work with you on the table to remove 227 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,960 that tension. 228 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,600 And oftentimes I invite someone to bring in a helper to show you how you can do some of 229 00:15:55,600 --> 00:16:01,800 these very specific stretches at home that will go gradually, if you do them consistently, 230 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,400 reduce and reverse that tension, restore normal length. 231 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,600 You're physically making these muscles longer. 232 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,120 That's what relieves the pressure on the joints. 233 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:13,400 I'm Dr. Todd Benkley. 234 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,720 You're listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions to Almost Any Health Problem. 235 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,680 Today, we're talking about osteoarthritis. 236 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:25,020 And the most important thing is to reduce the tension on the joints that causes the 237 00:16:25,020 --> 00:16:26,280 damage in the first place. 238 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:32,200 But there are nutrients that you can take to help your body heal arthritis as well. 239 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:37,320 Among the most common ones that people hear about are things like glucosamine sulfate, 240 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,360 MSM, chondroitin sulfate. 241 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,760 These are our precursor nutrients for building new joint tissue. 242 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:48,440 And they wouldn't be around if they didn't work for anyone. 243 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,240 They work for a lot of people, but usually only for maybe three or four months. 244 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,960 And then they kind of taper off in their effects. 245 00:16:54,960 --> 00:17:02,800 I find that the most important thing for nutrient-wise is to give your body other nutrients that 246 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:10,640 help build joint tissue, which are actually joint tissue from other animals in form that 247 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,160 are difficult to describe. 248 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:17,400 But they're made by companies like Doctors Research and Standard Process. 249 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,400 And most importantly, systemic enzymes. 250 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:26,240 So the main thing that needs to happen to heal and repair joint tissue, similar to osteoporosis, 251 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:31,000 is you need to break down the old joint tissue before you replace it with new tissue. 252 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,800 And our body makes proteolytic enzymes. 253 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,280 Proteolytic just means breaking down protein. 254 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:43,200 Our body makes enzymes that break down old proteins so that they can be effectively replaced 255 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,760 with new proteins, with new tissue made from protein. 256 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:54,560 But the production of those enzymes decays over time, usually starting in your 30s, which 257 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,800 is why arthritis often begins in your 40s. 258 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,920 Even when you don't know about it, if you look at hundreds and hundreds of x-rays, you 259 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:07,820 first see when you study radiology, you can often tell how old someone is by the amount 260 00:18:07,820 --> 00:18:13,320 of arthritis they have starting to form in the joints, especially in their spine. 261 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:20,280 So the nutrients that I've found to be most effective over time to help reverse arthritis 262 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:25,760 and act as an indirect anti-inflammatory, which even relieves the pain because it's 263 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:33,480 reducing the inflammation, in the joints are systemic enzymes, things like seropeptase 264 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,120 and natokinase. 265 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:43,720 So systemic enzymes are enzymes that your body can use to break down fibrin, which is 266 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,440 the main protein of scar tissue, over time. 267 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:56,600 So natokinase, for example, was famously identified decades ago in Japan in a food called natto, 268 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:02,580 which is a fermented soy product, which is very uncommon to be eaten in the West because 269 00:19:02,580 --> 00:19:07,080 it has the consistency and odor of nasal mucus. 270 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:12,280 It's really disgusting, but Japanese families start their children on it early as a porridge 271 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,600 and they get used to it and it doesn't bother them. 272 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:20,840 I have a cousin that lives in LA who has a Japanese wife, and so I tasted it once and 273 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:25,440 it wasn't quite as bad as I expected it to be, but I'm definitely not going to, I've 274 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,200 never eaten it since, it's pretty gross, it's stringy. 275 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,360 And not very many people, unless you're Japanese and have gotten used to it, are going to eat 276 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:37,240 the fermented soy product called natto. 277 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:43,520 But the great thing about natto is there is an enzyme in it, so named natokinase, which 278 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,680 has robust research. 279 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:50,240 It is one of the main reasons that the Japanese have much lower rates of cardiovascular disease 280 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:56,040 and they live so long, so well, because they consume this in their diets. 281 00:19:56,040 --> 00:20:02,320 That's only one of the reasons, but it's an important one, so natokinase breaks down fibrin, 282 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:07,680 that is the scar tissue protein that forms arthritis in your joints. 283 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:13,600 So when you consume natokinase, it helps break down that fibrin. 284 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:19,920 Similar and also famously, natokinase also helps break down fibrin and hardening fibrin 285 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,240 forming, creating scars in your blood vessels. 286 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:29,320 So actually, natokinase is more famous for its effects on blood vessels than on joints, 287 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:30,640 but it works on both. 288 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:36,580 There's another very important natural enzyme, which is even more powerful for joints called 289 00:20:36,580 --> 00:20:38,800 serrapeptase. 290 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,000 Serrapeptase is an enzyme made by silkworms. 291 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:49,440 So it's not inexpensive, it can be a little pricey because it's literally the enzyme that 292 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:56,520 a silkworm makes to digest its way out of a silk cocoon. 293 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:01,780 Silk is the strongest natural fiber in nature. 294 00:21:01,780 --> 00:21:07,800 If you shoot a fiber of silk with a bullet, it will deflect. 295 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,600 If you shoot any other natural fiber, the bullet will tear right through it. 296 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,280 If you shoot a strand of silk, it will deflect. 297 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,280 It's really, really strong silk. 298 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:22,840 If you've ever tried to tear a necktie that's made out of silk, then you can get an impression 299 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,280 of how strong silk is. 300 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:31,800 So how does a squishy little worm get out of this cage of silk, the strongest natural 301 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:32,800 fiber? 302 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,480 Well, it makes this enzyme called serrapeptase. 303 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:40,760 So that's why it's a little pricey to get this product because it's literally extracted 304 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,740 from the intestines of silkworms. 305 00:21:44,740 --> 00:21:55,880 And it's a natural product and it's totally safe because there's no side effects and the 306 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,480 only interactions that you have to be concerned about, any doctor has to be concerned about, 307 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,880 is these drugs will make blood thinners work better. 308 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:10,000 They will never thin your blood unless it's too thick. 309 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:18,640 But if you're on warfarin, a very common blood thinner, which is also in rat poison, Coumadin, 310 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,680 I don't want to scare people too much who are on warfarin, but sometimes people need 311 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:23,680 it. 312 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,160 My own mother had been taking it for a long time. 313 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:32,880 I finally got her switched to a better blood thinner called Eloquist after she had deep 314 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:33,880 vein thrombosis. 315 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,720 But that's a whole other story. 316 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:43,040 It is important to know that you shouldn't take natokinase or serrapeptase if you're 317 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:50,840 on warfarin unless you have a very progressive physician who will measure your INR, your 318 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:55,120 international normalized ratio, your prothrombin time. 319 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:56,120 They always measure. 320 00:22:56,120 --> 00:23:00,480 When you're on warfarin, they always measure your blood thinning activity. 321 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:04,560 And you actually can take these enzymes even when you're taking that blood thinner, but 322 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,960 only if you measure it and adjust the dose accordingly. 323 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,800 So it is contrary indicated to take these things if you're on a blood thinner. 324 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,760 But if you're not on a blood thinner, then anyone can take natokinase and serrapeptase. 325 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:22,360 And they are the most effective things I've ever found for reversing osteoarthritis as 326 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:27,240 a supplement, in addition to, of course, doing stretching. 327 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:28,400 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. 328 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:36,120 I've helped thousands of people reverse the effects of both osteoarthritis and osteoporosis 329 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:40,960 by identifying these patterns of tension in the muscles and giving you some specific stretches 330 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,240 and a few things that we need to do on the table. 331 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:48,520 Most of these conditions are caused by stress, identifiable nutrient deficiencies, lack of 332 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,300 exercise and general neglect. 333 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:55,840 So if you want to be truly healthy, you have to take responsibility for your own health. 334 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,120 But you don't have to do it alone. 335 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:03,680 I would be honored to have the opportunity to help you do these things, to identify the 336 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:09,760 things that you need to do to make your body work better the way it is designed to do. 337 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:15,000 Remember, the condition of your body is far more important than any disease you've ever 338 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,280 been diagnosed with. 339 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:21,480 And I'm taking the time and the cost of this program to teach you how you can improve your 340 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:22,480 health. 341 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,400 Do something this week to be a little bit healthier than you were yesterday or last 342 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:27,400 week. 343 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:34,040 Go for a walk, take a Tai Chi class, a stretching class, go for a swim if you have access to 344 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,440 a pool and send me your questions. 345 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,240 I'd love to be able to help you with anything you're struggling with. 346 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:43,520 I look forward to the privileges speaking with you again right here next Friday at 4 347 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:44,520 p.m. 348 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,280 Have a blessed weekend. 349 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:51,780 You've been listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 350 00:24:51,780 --> 00:24:56,280 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to 351 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,840 Dr. Binkley at www.BinkleyHealingCenter.com. 352 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:05,520 Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved 353 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,480 ones because our health matters. 354 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:15,760 Join him next Friday at 4 p.m. for Safe, Effective Natural Solutions right here on 98.3 The 355 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:26,880 Word KDAR.