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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 doctor of non-force chiropractic and practitioner

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of functional medicine.

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Most of the time I talk about functional medicine for metabolic issues like rheumatoid arthritis

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or diabetes or heart disease or high cholesterol or most recently Alzheimer's.

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But last week I switched and started talking about neuropathies.

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Neuropathies are basically damage to nerves, impingement on nerves from nutrient deficiencies,

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diseases like diabetes and impingement from conditions like pressure on nerves that cause

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sciatica.

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So last week we talked a little bit about the causes of diabetic neuropathy.

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So liver disease can also cause diabetic neuropathy, mainly though because it causes deficiencies

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and especially vitamin B12.

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So alcoholics, people with hepatitis, people with fatty liver disease and people with diabetes,

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almost anything that damages the liver will cause a deficiency, can cause at least and

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often causes a deficiency of vitamin B12.

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And this is so important to know about because it's easy to fix.

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It's very difficult to fix those diseases, but it's easy to fix the deficiency.

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You can just take a vitamin B12 supplement, but don't buy a vitamin B12 supplement from

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Costco or whenever you buy a vitamin B12 supplement, check the label.

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You want to make sure that it says methylcobalamin, methylmethylcobalamin.

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This is the active form of B12.

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It's essential for healing, repairing nerves throughout your body.

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And 99.99999% of B12 supplements on the shelves in stores are cyanocobalamin.

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Cyanocobalamin is the precursor.

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It's cheap.

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That's why it's so common.

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But methylcobalamin only costs maybe 15 or 20% more.

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It's not expensive.

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20 bucks.

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You can buy a bottle of methylcobalamin three months worth, two or three months worth for

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20 bucks.

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Don't buy cheap B12.

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Get methylcobalamin to heal your nerves.

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Pyridoxine, vitamin B6 is also an important overlooked nutrient for deficiency, often because

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of liver disease, but also just from crappy food.

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People not eating vegetarians in particular, vegetarianism is a good idea, or at least

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eating less meat is a good idea.

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Eating vegetables is a good idea.

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I'm always perplexed or sort of conflicted when I talk about vegans and vegetarians because

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it's a really good idea to not kill animals.

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And it's a really good idea to not eat too much protein from really horrifically produced

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farms that produce most of the meat we eat.

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But we need protein and that's the conflict.

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So eggs are an excellent source of protein.

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I personally eat mostly chicken and fish and some of the chicken and fish I imagine is

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probably produced and slaughtered in horrific ways as well.

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So no insult to the vegans and vegetarians out there, but every vegan and vegetarian

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I've ever tested shows up on blood tests functionally deficient in B vitamins, especially B12 folate

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B6 and others because our bodies usually get these things from animal protein.

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So make sure, the only way to know for sure is to get tested.

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Restless leg syndrome is another common condition that people experience and have no idea what's

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causing it and they often get no relief when they go to most doctors and it's often a combination

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of tight muscles and B vitamin deficiency.

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So this is what we're talking about, the causes of damage to nerves, neuropathies, damage

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to nerves, pressure on the nerves, which in the legs and lower down to the feet usually

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occurs in the hips and nutrient deficiencies from things like inadequate B12 folate, B6

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calcium, magnesium and a host of others.

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Last week I talked about a young teenager who had a severe muscle spasm that was severely

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impacting her life because she couldn't do the cheerleading that she wanted to do anymore.

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But it was also painful even to sit or walk or do her homework and she had a dramatic

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recovery just from releasing the tension on that muscle.

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So I had another man, he was in his early 50s and he fell off a 57 foot cliff.

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He was, he had borrowed a wheelbarrow from a neighbor and was dumping some rocks that

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he had been digging up in his backyard and his backyard happened to back up to a river

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bed and he was throwing these rocks over the river bed and it was dusk and he was tired

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and he just had one more load to dump and in his effort to dump this load the wheelbarrow

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started to slip over the edge of the cliff and he tried to yank it back and in the process

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the wheelbarrow yanked him over the cliff and he fell 57 feet onto a rocky bottom river

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bed.

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And he was lucky he lived because he broke I think nine bones in his body or more and

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he was in the hospital and he had to have back surgery and they wanted to fuse five

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of his vertebrae together.

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He basically flexed forward like closing a knife and crushed a vertebra in his spine

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and I did some research and found a surgeon that would only fuse three vertebrae.

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He had to have a vertebral fusion because one of his vertebrae was completely disintegrated

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by this fall and so obviously they have to rebuild something and connect it to a vertebra

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above and below but instead of fusing five vertebrae I helped him find a surgeon that

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would only fuse three vertebrae.

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But before that long before that happened he's in the hospital and he's had multiple

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procedures and he's in his room and when I got there after he called me in there's a

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sign on the door that says do not touch the patient or the patient's bed and when you

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walk in there's another sign on the bed that says do not touch anything and he was this

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guy is a tough guy he was strong he was fit but because of the surgeries he'd had to repair

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the all the broken bones somebody nicked a nerve that was their diagnosis somebody nicked

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a nerve that ran down to his leg and so he had this collar around his big toe kind of

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like the collars that they put around a dog if they've had any kind of procedure where

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they don't want the dog to lick and disrupt the procedure he had this white plastic collar

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around his foot and another sign there saying don't touch because it was so this is a tough

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man he was not he could take pain but for whatever reason because of this nicked nerve

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if you touched the railing on his bed or even came close to touching his foot he would scream

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in pain and jump off off of the bed even though he was in agony to try to defend himself it

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sounds like hyperbole but this is a I've never seen somebody in this much pain and such a

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specific spot with you know these particular situations so he called me in because he knew

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that I did unusual things this was a lot this years ago and I came in and I said I'm not

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going to touch your toe got a pretty good idea that that would hurt but what about if

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I touch your opposite foot would that be okay and I started probing around and checking

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his opposite foot in the same area as the foot that was in pain and I said does it hurt

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a little bit here if I pinch if I push there is a hurt a little bit there our bodies are

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designed our brains are designed to regulate pain receptors by perceiving dangers and threats

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so his left foot was in such a heightened state of alert that breathing on his foot

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would cause him to scream out in pain and again I want to stress this was not a sensitive

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man he was a pretty tough guy and so I said can I press on your other foot he said yeah

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sure go for it and I checked out and I said right so is this the spot on the other foot

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that hurts and I pushed on whatever part of his foot I don't remember it was a while ago

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and he said yeah and I said is it a little tender here he says yeah and I held that part

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of his foot this is not first this is an example of non-force chiropractic chiropractic means

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done by hand anything you do by hand to relieve pain is on force chiropractic so I'm holding

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his opposite I think it was his big toe some part of his foot I'm pretty sure it was his

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big toe I'm just holding this spot and saying this is a little tender here he said yeah

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and I held it for a while and I said okay after a period of time is it not tender now

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and I said yeah and I said how does your other foot feel the one that he wanted to kill people

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for breathing breathing on and he said oh my god how did you do that the pain in his

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opposite foot was about 50% less I came back the following day did the same process again

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so then the pain was almost gone I came back a third day and it was completely gone so

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the point is the surgeon didn't nick a nerve when he had his surgery it just irritated

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a nerve that caused the brain to become super hypersensitive to something that it perceived

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was a threat and I by helping by sending different signals to the brain from the opposite side

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the brain always compares the one side to the other and the front to the back this goes

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on behind the scenes and you don't even know it your brain is constantly deciding whether

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or not you need to be in pain for that bump on your shoulder that whenever you stubbed

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your toe the pain goes away anytime you've ever experienced pain that went away that

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was the result of your brain checking in comparing one side with the other front to back to see

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if there's really any threat there does the pain need to be on a heightened state of alert

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forever or can we let that go and so I helped his brain realize that it wasn't necessary

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for him to have pain on that other foot there was no damaged tissue that needed to be protected

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while it was healing it was just an overreaction and so once his brain realized that it changed

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the sensitivity it re-regulated the sensitivity in those nerves and his experience of that

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was the pain disappeared I'm Dr. Todd Binkley you're listening to safe effective natural

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solutions to almost any health challenge this week we're talking about neuropathies neuro

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means nerve pathy means disease or damage so anything that can put pressure on or cause

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damage to a nerve is what we're going to be talking about today I've previously discussed

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damage from diabetes liver disease nutrient deficiency and pressure on nerves we've just

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talked about a patient who fell off a cliff and had thought he had his doctors thought

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he had a knick nerve from the extensive surgeries that he had to undergo after breaking several

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bones throughout his body from falling off a 57 foot cliff but there are several other

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things that can cause damage to nerves surgery again is another good example I had a 65 year

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old woman who had liposuction and the surgery was a success but the patient couldn't lift

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her foot up her whole left leg was numb and she couldn't lift her she was dragging her

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left foot and the doctor thought oh we might have nicked a nerve that's a phrase you don't

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want to hear but he assured her that it would go away in time it would just been a small

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insult and it would heal on its own well it pat time that time that predicted he predicted

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passed and it was not healed and she came to see me and I checked for tightness in her

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hip rotators tension in her spine this is the thing if you have any kind of nerve symptom

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nerve symptoms are classically you have pain it happens in the upper body too we're kind

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of focusing on the lower extremities today but you have pain in your butt in your back

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of your leg front of your leg in your calves in your feet and your low back basically anywhere

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in your body but we're kind of focusing on the loker lower extremities today if you have

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pain in these regions that's not explained by any injury that you had you didn't have

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a trauma you didn't fall you didn't break anything you didn't have a car accident just

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you have these pains that persist and probably been there for a while and are getting worse

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and no one else has no one else been able to help you with these well these are symptoms

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of pressure on a nerve or damage to a nerve from inability to heal and repair that nerve

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tissue from lack of nutrients so I specialize and I've helped thousands of people deal with

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both sides of this removing the pressure from the nerve and identifying the nutrient deficiencies

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so that you can consume them and fix the deficiency and the deficient it's really inexpensive

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to fix these deficiencies it's usually B vitamins vitamin B12 proper forms and adequate amounts

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of vitamin B12 so don't make the mistake of thinking oh I'm taking centrum silver and

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it says there's B12 in there no don't do that you need to be you need to have testing done

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proper diagnosis and identify the amounts of if you're taking a multivitamin and if it's

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a one-a-day multivitamin it's not providing adequate amounts to heal any disease multi

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one-a-day multivitamins are useless the good multivitamins that provide adequate nutrients

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to prevent disease are almost always three or four capsules a day and more and even more

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importantly even if you're taking one of those if you have a severe nutrient deficiencies

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deficiency that's causing a neuropathy then even if you're taking an excellent multivitamin

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you may need to take a significant higher amount of some B vitamins like methylcobalamin

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vitamin B the prop the proper absorbable form of vitamin B12 B6 in the p5p form the form

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that your body actually uses in methyl folate the active form of folic acid and there's

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you know several other things that are important to consider if you have damage to or pressure

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on your nerves creating nerve symptoms so here's another case I had a woman who came

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to me who had lipo suction I think she's about 65 late 60s had liposuction surgery was a

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success she looked a lot better she felt a lot better you know and certainly hopefully

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liposuction is not a first line therapy for most people but she was in you know she was

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she was eating well that people's it's important to be sensitive to people with this issue

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because she was severely overweight but she was otherwise fit healthy she was eating an

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excellent diet she had an organic veggie garden in her backyard and she was just struggling

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she could not lose the weight and she you know she was well off and so she had the surgery

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and she you know they law I think she reduced her body weight by 60 pounds or something

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like that but then she came into me because she had she had foot drop her left foot she

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couldn't she couldn't properly she was you know limping not limping but it was hard for

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her to walk properly because she would her her left foot would catch she had foot drop

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she couldn't lift her left foot well that's nerve damage she had some nerve damage because

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of the surgery that's what she blamed it on and I said well you know let's see so there

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it is often the case that when you do surgery it can nick nerves and they mostly ignore

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this because they're focused on the procedure they're doing and preventing blood loss you

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know there's much higher priorities and it is true that a lot of times a little tiny

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branches of nerves that are cut during surgery will easily regenerate themselves so when

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she complained to her surgeon that you know her foot was dropping she was dragging her

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foot he told her that it would eventually heal itself and a certain amount of time well

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that time passed and it didn't heal itself so she came in to see me and I examined her

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and she had tremendous tension in these same hip rotator muscles that I've been talking

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about before that impinge on the sciatic nerve well that didn't change when she had her surgery

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so you know whatever happened during the surgery caused some kind of irritation but that's

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not the only thing that that's not necessarily determinative of what her symptoms have to

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be the point is there's always other options when something suddenly starts hurting you

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and you know that something happened recently that probably caused it and especially if

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you're worried that oh my god no one can fix that well that's not often the case because

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several things contribute to your symptoms you most of you myself everyone we're all

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walking around accidents waiting to happen we all spend times in chairs in cars looking

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at the screens and computers all day muscles get tight we're accidents waiting to happen

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so if something like this like this surgical procedure this woman that had the liposuction

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done maybe you know the that procedure caused a problem but the bottom line is she came

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in to me identified patterns of tension and muscles in her hips that were ridiculously

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tight and no one ever checked that on her before and I released those patterns of tension

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and in a very brief period of time it was this was a few years ago I don't know it might

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have been two or three months her doctor would told her it would take a certain amount of

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time for those nerves to heal it didn't and after two or three months we got her back

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to where she was completely feeling totally back to normal to recap if you or someone

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you know has burning tingling numbness or unexplained pain in your buttock leg front

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of your leg back of your leg upper lower leg or foot that's probably some kind of pressure

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or damage to a nerve caused by pressure on the nerve in the hips or nutrient deficiencies

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such as folate and b12 b6 deficiencies which are super easy and effective inexpensive to

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fix most doctors never look for these things unfortunately and most doctors never look

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for the most common causes of impingement on nerves in the hips the piriformis muscles

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and other hip rotators in your hips this carniation's cause neuropathies as well diabetes etc these

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are common but if you've already ruled those things out then there are other options so

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let me know if someone you love needs assistance with this I'd love to be able to help them

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I've helped thousands of people with similar situations that were told there was nothing

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they could do and it's just it's just not true there's always almost always something

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that can be done especially if you haven't done the proper testing that most doctors

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don't do so disc herniations are important anytime somebody comes into me with a neuropathy

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pain nerve but numbness burning tingling going down their legs especially or their arms I'll

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try to cover the upper extremities in another episode I've covered some of this before in

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previous episodes but if you have a bulge in a disc or anything in your spine that can

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arthritis is another example to compress on your nerves then you can experience some of

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these same symptoms so we always have to consider the big picture several things can cause pressure

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on your nerves numbness burning tingling a radiating pain these are very confusing things

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but the very fact that it's difficult to identify what the problem is is almost guarantees that

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it is pressure on or damage to a nerve from some kind of injury or nutrient deficiency

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they can often be reversed so whether you have a neuropathy from diabetes from liver

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disease from nutrient deficiencies that you probably don't even know about or pressure

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on nerves from sciatica or plantar fasciitis plantar fasciitis I could do a whole show

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just on this plantar fasciitis the plantar is the bottom of the foot the plantar means

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the bottom of the foot where you plant your foot when you walk and fasciitis means inflammation

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of the fascia on the bottom of your foot this is a really common condition that is also

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just horribly inadequately treated by most doctors if the bottom of your feet hurt it

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is probably because of tension in muscles but also because of things that can irritate

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your nerves so please if you know anyone who has plantar fasciitis have them shoot me a

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text or an email I've been getting a lot of texts and emails about neuropathies and other

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nerve conditions and that's why I did this show and I'm happy to answer your questions

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley you've been listening to safe effective natural solutions to almost

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