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

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

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Now, here's Dr. Todd.

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Good afternoon.

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

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functional medicine.

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The last two episodes we've been talking about dementia, especially Alzheimer's, the most

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common form and there are so many things that are so important to do basically to take care

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of your health and know your risk factors because there's no fix for Alzheimer's once

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the damage is already done.

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There are ways to reduce some of the effects and improve quality of life.

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That's what the focus is going to be of today's show.

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There are a lot of products that I've seen in my office with patients and for which there

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is tremendous research to mitigate some of the damaging effects and unfortunately most

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people wait until they've already got full blown signs of cognitive decline or dementia

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before they go see anyone.

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So that is going to be the focus of today's presentation.

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But I would be remiss if I didn't remind you that the simplest things you can do to keep

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your brain healthy are everything that you've already heard to keep your heart healthy.

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Exercise, just go for a walk and drink three to four quarts of water a day.

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Divide your body weight by two and drink that number of ounces of water every day.

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Can do wonders for your brain.

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The focus of functional medicine is using standard diagnostic testing to identify earlier

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signs of stress on any organ and tissue of your body and then finding a solution that

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involves eating better food, exercising and supplements.

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So the focus of this talk today is going to be about some of those supplements.

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Before I get into that, I really want to empathize with people who are confused because they

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hear things in the media and from their doctors that say, you know, this supplement or that

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supplement doesn't work for this or that.

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And you know, the media loves to report on something that works one day and doesn't work

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in one day.

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Eggs are good for you.

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The next day, eggs are bad for you.

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One week coffee is good for you.

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The next week coffee is bad for you.

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Spoiler alert, eggs and coffee are both good for you and moderate doses.

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But the frustrating thing is people go to their doctor and many physicians will tell

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their patients that all supplements are useless.

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Well, that's just sad.

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I mean, and it's egregious because it's costing people their lives, honestly, in some cases,

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and certainly quality of life in many, many, many cases.

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So any doctor that tells you that supplements are useless or that you should not waste your

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money on supplements or you shouldn't take this or that is basically admitting his or

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her ignorance.

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This is one of the most obvious signs of a doctor who bases all their clinical recommendations

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solely on information bought and sold by big pharma.

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The pharmaceutical industry has slightly less money than Exxon and Mobile and Elon Musk

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and Jeff Bezos, but they still underwrite most medical research and much of the continuing

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education that most physicians use to update their clinical recommendations.

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So myopic physicians who choose to limit themselves to conventional medicine based entirely on

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pharmaceuticals, wait for it, are heroes.

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These are people that are going to save your life because most of the time, maybe not,

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hopefully not most of the time, but oftentimes far too many times people wait until they

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need medical intervention.

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They need pharmaceuticals.

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They need an immediate solution to a crisis.

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So the purpose of this show is to educate you, to arm you, to facilitate a difference in

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your life, facilitate better choices that you can make so that you don't end up needing

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medical intervention.

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But these people are heroes.

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They save people's lives.

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So I'm definitely not saying or perhaps better said, I want to make it clear that it's not

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their fault.

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They're busy treating people who show up in such a mess that they need medical care.

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The egregious part, there's nothing wrong with you.

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It's all in your head when what they should say is that I can't figure out what's wrong

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with you.

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And of course, they often love to say supplements don't work.

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Don't waste your money.

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Just take these drugs or wait until you need these drugs to save your life.

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So again, it's not their fault.

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Listeners prepare to perhaps be offended a little bit because most people wait until

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they need crisis care.

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Most people spend their entire lives saying to themselves, quote, I feel fine and then

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wait till the ambulance shows up.

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So listeners to this show are obviously much smarter, but context matters.

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The world in which we live regarding all aspects of health care, most of which isn't health

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care at all, but instead medical care to treat disease and a crisis.

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This situation where drugs are constantly marketed to be the solution of all our problems

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is not an accident.

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Most people refuse to take responsibility for your own health.

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If you want to be healthy, it's up to you.

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Medicare is not going to make you healthy.

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Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, nothing they offer is going to restore you

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to optimum health.

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They offer medical care to treat disease you already have.

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If you want to prevent disease and reverse disease, it's up to you.

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And dementia is a classic example of a condition that our conventional medical system and the

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expectations we have about medical insurance and reimbursement, et cetera, is a catastrophic

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failure.

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Trying to treat and reverse the symptoms of cognitive decline and let alone full blown

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dementia will never work.

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I'm going to say that again, trying to treat with pharmaceuticals to reverse the symptoms

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of cognitive decline and full blown dementia will never work.

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Millions of dollars have been spent by pharmaceutical companies.

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Scores of trials are currently in development right now to find drugs that reverse damage

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to your brain.

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They will never work.

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This is the saddest thing that everyone needs to know about damage to the brain.

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You don't feel damage to your brain until the damage is already done.

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And that damage is mostly irreversible.

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But on that bright note, there is hope.

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So there are a host of nutrients.

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As I've already mentioned, a product called Synthetic Synergy in the previous episode

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and the importance of having adequate vitamin B12, which is very, very commonly deficient

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and almost everybody as we get older and strongly contributes if it's deficient to cognitive

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decline, heart disease, risk of stroke, and all of those things go together.

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Anything you've ever heard to keep your heart healthy and strong will keep your brain healthier

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and stronger.

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So another nutrient, rock star nutrient to help both your heart and your brain is coenzyme

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Q10.

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Coenzyme Q10 is the rate limiting enzyme that your body produces to help replace muscle

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tissue, muscle cells as they die, including the muscle cells of your heart.

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And this is why it's so egregious that nearly every doctor in the world wants to put everybody

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on statin drugs because statin drugs block the production of coenzyme Q10, which is essential

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for your heart.

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So see my, listen to my previous episodes to hear more about this or email me if you

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have questions.

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Here's a great study titled Serum Coenzyme Q10 levels as a predictor of dementia in a

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Japanese general population.

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This study was done at the department of cardiology at the national hospital organization in Tokyo

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Medical Center published in atherosclerosis arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis clogging

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of the arteries.

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This is a very prestigious journal and Dr. Yamagishi and others reported their population

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based study of approximately 6,000 Japanese subjects from 45 to 70 years at baseline who

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were followed for five years.

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And they showed that the people with the lowest levels of coenzyme Q10 had the highest incidence

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of disabling dementia independent of various other risk factors.

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More importantly, they reported that there was an association between the coenzyme Q10

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and total cholesterol ratio.

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So basically what they showed is that if you had high levels of coenzyme Q10 and low cholesterol,

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you were at increased risk of dementia.

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This is the opposite of what statin drugs that most doctors want to give everyone, which

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lower your cholesterol, but even more importantly, drastically reduce your levels of coenzyme

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Q10.

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So it should be malpractice to prescribe a statin drug, Lipitor, Zocor, et cetera, any

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cholesterol lowering drug without also giving people coenzyme Q10 to offset that effect.

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I'm Dr. Todd Benkley, you're listening to Safe Effective Natural Solutions to Almost

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Any Health Challenge.

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This week we're talking for the third episode in a row about Alzheimer's and other forms

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of dementia and how you can reduce it.

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And this time we're focusing on various supplements that you can take that will reduce the effects.

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When you've already found yourself in a situation where cognitive decline is present, there

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are ways to improve your quality of life, enhance healing of your brain, replacing brain

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cells with certain products.

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I always stress to my patients when they're in the office that the products that I recommend,

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the products that I stock in my office are not the only ones that work.

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There are lots of great products out there.

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The problem is there are so many more products out there that are not great.

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So most of the products, unfortunately, in stores other than health food stores, there

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are some good products in health food stores like Lassons, Whole Foods, etc.

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Health food stores generally stock good products, but they often cost more than the good top

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shelf products that you can get from doctors who practice functional medicine.

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So the context is important.

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

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In conventional medical standards of care, our one size fits all decrees designed to

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minimize the damage caused by the side effects of toxic pharmaceuticals.

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Your doctor has probably never even attempted to diagnose with tests appropriate to your

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condition.

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Your actual level of health, conventional medicine, is the diagnosis and treatment of

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disease, not the diagnosis and identification of how healthy you are.

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And so think about that.

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Most people go to their doctor and if they're not needing crisis care, they're going to

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check to see if they're okay.

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The goal of an annual physical is to get the celebrated, insert your own air quotes, clean

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bill of health.

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Clean bill of health.

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What is that?

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What is a clean bill of health?

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Well, basically it just means you don't need medical care today.

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So 99% of these proclamations are nonsense given by overworked physicians with goals

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that are often completely at odds with the goals of their patients.

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Is your goal when you get your annual physical to find out if you're healthy or just to find

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out if you need medical care?

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Well, if it's to find out if you're healthy, I'm sorry, but that's not even the goal of

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an annual physical as practiced by most doctors.

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But don't blame your doctor.

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They're busy treating people who need medical care.

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Instead, if you want to increase your longevity to, as I like to say, live long and live well,

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nobody wants to live long if they're going to be miserable drooling in bed while someone

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else changes their diapers in the last five, 10, 20 years of their life.

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There are a lot worse things than sudden death.

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The goal should be, I mean, I think for most of us, the goal is to burn bright like a candle

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and then, you know, just pass in your sleep one night when your time comes.

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So instead, find a doctor whose goals are aligned with yours, who will listen to you

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and properly do the most important test of all, a good case history.

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Are you getting adequate sleep?

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Have you had a recent loss of a loved one in your life?

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Have you had a change in a relationship?

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These are the most stressful things that can happen to anyone and they're important and

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should govern any decisions about what kind of testing will help to identify what your

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body needs to restore health and give you the best chance at living long and living

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well.

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So, yeah, I see this all the time.

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People are so frustrated with the experience they're getting at the doctor that their insurance

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pays for that they try to diagnose themselves.

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Have you consulted Dr. Google?

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Most doctors become livid if you reveal that you've, or announce even worse, that you've

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looked something up on the internet and found that this could do this and this could do

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that.

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It can be dangerous to look things up on the internet and base health decisions on what

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you find depending on your source of information.

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So don't look up stuff on Reddit or blogs of people where patients, where there's no

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doctor they're giving expert advice, where it's just patients talking about their experience.

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Even those can actually be useful as a starting point, perhaps, but you need to follow it

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up and find something that's actually based on evidence and experience by a trained physician.

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When someone comes to me and tells me about things they've looked up on the internet,

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I applaud them.

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I applaud anyone who's motivated to take responsibility for their own health.

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So more high quality information for enhancing health and reversing diseases published online

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every day.

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But the human body is complex.

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You might find some amazing thing online that your regular doctor would never tell you about,

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but you also might get information that's been effective on just a few people, but not

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enough to justify risking your time and money.

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So I would be honored to bridge that gap for you.

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That is my purpose.

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That is the purpose of my practice and the purpose of the show is to bridge that gap

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between the frustration with conventional medicine and frankly the dangers of trying

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to go it alone on your own.

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So the practice of functional medicine, like the practice of conventional medicine, is

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an art.

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It's not a science.

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We base clinical decisions on scientific evidence, on studies, but it's not physics.

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It's not chemistry.

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It's not something that's reproducible.

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There are too many variables.

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Human beings are different.

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

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So there are too many variables to predict outcomes with perfect precision like hard

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science like chemistry and physics.

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So clinical practitioners of every stripe use their skills and experience to identify

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what's most likely to work for you with all the past traumas, self-inflicted or otherwise,

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and most importantly, neglect.

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I'm sorry, but it just has to be mentioned.

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People don't take care of themselves.

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People that end up in my office, the evidence is usually they just haven't taken good enough

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care of themselves, but you don't have to do it alone.

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I'm here to help you take better care of yourself.

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There are other options.

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Throughout the month of February, I talked about heart health and anything you've ever

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heard to increase your heart health, the health of your cardiovascular system will increase

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your brain health and reduce your risk and the damage to your brain cells because almost

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all damage to the brain is a result of insufficient nutrients and insufficient oxygen.

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The same process that causes hardening of the arteries throughout your body causes hardening

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of the arteries in and to your brain.

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One of the most common arteries they measure to determine your level of cardiovascular

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disease is an ultrasound of your carotid arteries.

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This is a good test for anyone to order if they want to know their level of damage at

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this point.

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It's a non-invasive, inexpensive test.

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I can get it for about 150 bucks from Grossman Imaging, but you can ask your doctor to order

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that as well.

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The point is there are products that can reverse the effects of early damage to the linings

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of your blood vessels.

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The inner lining of your blood vessels is kind of like pantyhose.

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It's a very thin, silky-like material that keeps everything flowing smoothly, but inflammation

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causes little tiny tears in that, which must be healed with a scab, which is the genesis

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of plaque formation.

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It is formed plaque in your arteries, is formed by fibrin, the standard scar tissue that heals

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any kind of tear in your skin or any part of your body.

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Fibrin, it's a protein scar tissue, plus cholesterol and calcium.

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So in the blood vessels, when you get these little micro tears from inflammation, fibrin

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forms to bridge the gap to create a scab, and then cholesterol and calcium tend to stick

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to that and unfortunately create plaques that get thicker and thicker and cause atherolose,

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sclerosis, hardening of the arteries.

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But if your cholesterol is high and you have no tears in your blood vessels, then the cholesterol

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won't stick to those scabs and you won't get heart disease.

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So this is the best demonstration of why cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease, it's just associated

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with it.

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So there's a great product called Natokinase.

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The Japanese discovered an enzyme that is in a fermented soy product called Natokinase,

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which is a systemic enzyme that actually breaks down that plaque, it actually breaks down

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that fibrin, the main protein, the main component, especially in the beginning of those plaques

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that build up.

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And you can slowly scavenge your blood vessels and reduce that plaque formation by taking

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Natokinase.

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Functional levels of vitamin K2, which comes in many different forms, but the two most

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important forms to know about are called MK7 and MK4, that's more detailed than you need

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to know about.

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If you want to, if you have questions about that, email me, if you come see me, I'll find

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the best form for you.

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There's research to support both forms, but adequate amounts of vitamin K are so important

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for so many things, like vitamin D, they ask the, vitamin D keeps calcium in circulation,

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vitamin K deposits calcium into your bones, but if you have the wrong kind of calcium,

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then it will deposit it and more of it into the arteries as well.

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So that's why you might've heard, oh my God, taking too much vitamin D can increase your

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risk of heart disease.

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This is ridiculous.

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Vitamin D reduces your risk of heart disease.

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But if you take adequate levels of vitamin D and take cheap crappy calcium carbonate

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supplements, read your labels, 99% of the calcium supplements in stores are calcium

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carbonate, ground up rocks and seashells.

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Nobody should take that.

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It is not nutritious.

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You need to take other forms of calcium.

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But vitamin D keeps calcium in circulation and vitamin K deposits it into tissues.

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So the nice thing about that is if you're taking good calcium, having adequate levels

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of vitamin K actually scavenges and helps remove plaque formation.

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And if you combine it with olive leaf extract, which is a concentrated form of some of the

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beneficial nutrients you've heard of a Mediterranean diet of consuming olive oil, a healthy fat,

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it's always best to do that first.

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I'm a fan of getting most of the nutrients you can, all the nutrients you can from food

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when possible, and olive oil has this very specific classification of polyphenols that

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help reduce both blood pressure and hardening of the arteries.

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So there is robust data to show that you can actually reduce hardening of the arteries

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and blood pressure if you take a combination of relatively high doses of vitamin K2 in

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the MK4 or MK7 form along with olive leaf extract.

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I've always said that cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease.

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It's associated with it.

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And unfortunately, a lot of people do have damage to the interlining of the blood vessels.

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And it is important to reduce your cholesterol.

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But you don't need to do it with statin drugs.

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There's a whole host of products.

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One of the best ones is Bergamot BPF from Orthomolecular Products.

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I've routinely seen people reduce their total and bad LDL cholesterol levels by 30, 40 points,

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sometimes even 50 points.

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And there are several other products that can safely reduce your cholesterol levels

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without the side effects of statin drugs.

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And there are a whole host of products with polyphenols, plant-based nutrients, that can

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heal this interlining of your blood vessels, that can give you energy, that can deal with

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all of the issues that are associated with cardiovascular disease, and help you heal

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both your nerves and your blood vessels to keep your brain and your heart healthy and

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strong.

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I would be honored to consult with you about this.

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Proper testing is required.

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An initial consultation is required.

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But it's far less expensive than you might imagine to get a proper functional medicine

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analysis of what you need or what someone needs, one of your loved ones.

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I consult with people all over the country, in New Jersey, in Florida, in Colorado, in

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Washington state, even Hawaii and Alaska.

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So lab tests are available nationwide.

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I can consult with people via telemedicine on the phone, FaceTime video if they want

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it.

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I'd be honored to help someone you love restore their health so that they can live long and

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live well.

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Thank you for tuning into my show each week.

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Please tune in next Friday at 4 p.m.

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Have a fantastic weekend.

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Remember to do something this weekend to be healthier than you were last weekend.

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I look forward to speaking with you right here on KDAR next Friday at 4 p.m.

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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 www.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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