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

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

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Now, here's Dr. Todd.

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Good afternoon.

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I am Dr. Todd Binkley, non-force chiropractor and practitioner of functional medicine.

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What is that?

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Functional medicine basically means using the same diagnostic tests, mostly blood tests,

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that other doctors use, but instead of trying to diagnose a disease condition that requires

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pharmaceuticals or surgery or some other invasive medical procedure, identifying functional

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medicine means using standard blood tests and other diagnostic tests to identify the

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absence or presence of normal function.

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Normal function, like when you're in your 20s.

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So when you're in your 20s or younger, teens, everything is working perfectly.

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Your blood work looks a certain way.

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There are ranges that have been established that identify where normal function looks

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like, what your normal function looks like when you test your blood, when everything

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in your body is working perfectly.

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So most doctors ignore that.

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Most doctors only look for really bad, already advanced, diagnosable disease conditions because

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everything is insurance-based.

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Insurance is based on paying for a doctor to treat a disease you already have.

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No, there's no such thing as health insurance.

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It's medical insurance.

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What is called health insurance is medical insurance.

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It doesn't pay to keep you, there's no insurance company that will pay you anything to do any

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process or procedure that will make you healthier.

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There's no health insurance that will pay for your gym membership or to buy a new water

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filter to drink clean water or buy organic food or it will help subsidize you growing

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your own healthy food or exercising.

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All of the things that keep you healthy, you have to pay for that yourself.

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And there's nothing wrong with that.

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Think about car insurance.

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That's the analogy I always use.

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Car insurance doesn't pay for you to keep your car healthy.

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Car insurance doesn't pay for you to change the oil in your car or put new belts or tires

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on your car or do any kind of routine maintenance on your car or do anything else that will

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make your car live long and live well, last longer.

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Car insurance pays when you crash your car.

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Very similarly, medical insurance, it's not health insurance, they call it health insurance.

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Health insurance, air quotes, health insurance, medical insurance pays when you crash your

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body, when you need medical care, when you end up in the hospital, when you need drugs,

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when you need surgery, when you need antibiotics and you have an infection.

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And that's a great thing.

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Everybody should have health insurance.

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The basis of insurance is we all pay a little bit into a pot to pool resources so that when

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a few need special attention, they'll be covered.

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That's how insurance works.

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So there's never going to be any insurance that's going to pay for you to take better

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care of yourself.

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I'm sorry.

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There could be.

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There could be, but then even talking about that gets into politics and I try to avoid

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that because no one, you know, it's contentious.

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But I'll say it quickly.

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Now, there are countries in the world where there is one insurance company and therefore

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that one insurance company that covers everybody in that country has a potential return on

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investment by investing in their health.

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They still usually don't do it.

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Australia did it.

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There's a plan.

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There's a I've never been able to find I heard about this or read about it.

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And I can't find the paper.

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I wish I could.

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But I know I read somewhere that the federal government in Australia did a pilot project

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where they gave everyone basically some of the things that I recommend that most functional

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medicine practitioners recommend a multivitamin with absorbable minerals, more or less four

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to five thousand units of vitamin D and a gram and a half of fish oil every day.

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Something like that.

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I know I read this and I've never been able to find it.

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But anyway, they did that and it worked so well, they stopped doing it and made it part

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of their program.

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So it is possible for a single payer health care system to invest in your health and get

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a return on investment.

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But that's never going to happen in the United States of a because we have multiple insurance

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companies and if they invest in your health, then you're going to get healthier and go

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get cheaper insurance from one of their competitors.

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There's no way anybody can get any any business can get a return on investment from investing

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in your health.

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So that is why health and quote air quotes health insurance.

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It's not health insurance.

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It's medical insurance.

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That's why it doesn't cover anything to do with improving your health.

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It only pays when you are in a crisis, when you already have diabetes, when you already

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have hypothyroidism, when you already have a herniated disc or any other any other condition

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that requires medical attention.

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So on most of these episodes, I try to focus on a specific condition like heart disease,

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high cholesterol, high blood pressure, the things that can cause heart disease or dementia.

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We've covered those in some past episodes.

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But every week there is literature that comes out in the medical literature, new studies

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that come out from around the world and in prestigious.

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A lot of it is in America, but some of the best research for natural, more natural oriented

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healing is from Europe and other places around the world.

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And this research is published in peer reviewed medical journals.

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Otherwise it's pointless to look at.

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And the good stuff, the stuff that is published in peer reviewed medical journals is published

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online and among other places Medscape, Medscape and a couple of other online places push these

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new studies out to doctors everywhere.

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This is where most doctors get their information these days.

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It's where I get it.

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I spend 20, 30 hours a week reading this stuff, skimming through it and identifying the stuff

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that's interesting.

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I ignore a lot of it because it's not interesting.

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So among other things, some recent studies came out about niacin.

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So niacin is vitamin B3 and approximately 100 years ago, there was a widespread deficiency.

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That was how niacin was discovered basically is there was a disease called pellagra and

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it was at its peak in the southern United States of America about a hundred years ago,

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over 120,000 people died between 1900 and 1920 due to a deficiency that had yet to be

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discovered which was a deficiency in vitamin B3 niacin.

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So how ironic is it that there was a major new study from the Cleveland Clinic that said,

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oh my God, niacin can increase your risk of heart disease.

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It was published on NBC News.

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The headline is high levels of niacin linked to heart disease.

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New research suggests.

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No it doesn't.

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If you actually read the research upon which this ridiculous headline is based, it suggests

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nothing of the sort.

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In fact, it says that this is really frustrating to me because it's from the Cleveland Clinic.

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The Cleveland Clinic is an excellent, normally almost always an excellent resource of health

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information but this study was published from Stanley Hazen's group at the Cleveland Clinic

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but it didn't study niacin.

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It studied, and it's a little technical, but there's no way around it.

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The study involves a measurement of plasma metabolites that correlate with major adverse

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cardiovascular events.

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So you can be forgiven for having your head spin at that series of words that's really

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confusing and the study itself just doesn't hold up.

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If you review it, what they studied was, it's interesting.

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So metabolites are important.

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There are tests that I use, often urine tests.

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There are important tests that measure metabolites of processes in the body to identify unusual

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things that don't show up on other tests.

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So it's a useful test but this test, the test that was used in this study, didn't measure

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the consumption of niacin.

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It measured a metabolite of niacin which is associated with niacin consumption but not

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directly.

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So it proved nothing basically and it's ridiculous on its face.

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B vitamins are in food.

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They're in meat.

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They're in meat organs, they're in grains and they're essential.

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Everyone knows that the word vitamin means vital amine and vitamins were discovered in

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the early 20th century because people were dying from diseases that they discovered that

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if you just fed them some food, in the case of B vitamins, liver, they suddenly survived.

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And so everyone now knows that vitamins are essential.

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So any study, if you ever hear or read about any study that says any vitamin is dangerous,

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you should really, well, the best thing to do would be to email or text me.

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But even if you don't have time for that, just ignore it.

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There's so many ridiculous studies published about so-called dangers of vitamins.

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And a hundred thousand people die every year from the toxic side effects of medications.

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Medications are dangerous.

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They're also essential for some people.

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Vitamins are parts of food that our lives depend on to suggest that any vitamin is toxic

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is ridiculous.

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It's insane.

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So whenever you look up the basic data, the foundational data that once you get past the

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headline and look up the study that people are referencing to produce these ridiculous

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headlines that say any vitamin is dangerous, the conclusion is always the same.

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It was a poorly done study.

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It didn't measure what it said it was measuring.

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It didn't use appropriate doses.

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It didn't use the correct forms of that vitamin.

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And that's why it's so important if you want to live long and live well to seek out the

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counsel of a functional medicine practitioner, someone whose interest is in not pushing drugs,

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but instead restoring normal, healthy function of all of your organs and systems.

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I'm Dr. Todd Benkley.

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You're listening to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost Any Health Challenge.

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And today I'm doing a review of some of the latest things that have come out in the medical

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literature we talked about.

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Niacin.

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Let's move on to another study which is headlined.

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Abdominal fat deposits are related to lower cognitive functioning and brain volumes in

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middle-aged males at high Alzheimer's risk.

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So basically it means that if you have a belly, if you have a big gut sticking over your belt,

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it's going to increase your risk of Alzheimer's.

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Why is that?

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And I know it's really frustrating because it just seems unfair.

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Just you know, people want to get on with their lives and their bellies expand as they

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get older.

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But the research is in.

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Belly fat is different than fat in your thighs or your arms or your calves or any other part

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of your body.

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Belly fat is really bad.

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Fat belly fat is the worst.

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It doesn't mean you need to be, you know, have six pack abs or be skinny or any of that

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nonsense that people get so obsessed about.

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But belly fat is different fat than the fat in other parts of your body.

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And especially in men, this study has proven that accumulations of that fat increase your

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risk.

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I don't know if dramatically is appropriate, but significantly, I think, is the word they

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use.

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Increases your fat in the pancreas and other organs and is directly associated with lower

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cognition and lower brain volume.

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And that's just not good.

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It's unfortunate.

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But there's ways to test your risk for these things.

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So you know, if you're curious about your risk of this, if you have, especially if you

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have a family member that had dementia and you want to know your risk, there's ways to

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test for this, including among other things, the APOE gene.

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I've talked about this before a few episodes ago.

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If you have questions about it, send me a text or an email.

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Dr. Binkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com.

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Text me at 805-218-3939.

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I love answering people's questions.

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So here's another headline, intermittent fasting.

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There was this ridiculous research or not research headlines that came out in, I don't

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know, some media, some media that said intermittent intermittent fasting is dangerous.

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What is intermittent fasting?

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Intermittent fasting means not eating for most of the day, restricting your basically

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not eating three meals a day, instead eating two meals a day.

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But not even that intermittent fasting basically means most days, not even not necessarily

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every day, but most days eating breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner.

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Most people do lunch and dinner.

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Most people skip breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner, go to sleep, skip breakfast.

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Not good.

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That's not a good, it's not a good idea.

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No one needs.

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So our culture, and it's wonderful, especially if you have children, if you have a family,

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people come home at the end of the day, you want to have a nice meal together.

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I'm not sure how many families even do that anymore.

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Most people are staring at their screens while they're eating dinner.

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But the big picture problem is you don't need food to sleep.

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It's way it's for almost everyone.

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It's much better to do it like the Europeans and eat your biggest meal of the day at lunch.

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Eat a big lunch and eat something when you wake up in the morning that includes fat and

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protein, not starch and sugar.

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Also eat a protein and fat rich breakfast and a huge lunch and skip dinner.

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That's what I do.

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I never eat dinner.

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I occasionally go out to dinner.

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It's the whole, it's a whole cultural thing.

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eat for lunch as well.

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They legalized that several years ago.

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You can eat anything you want at lunch or even breakfast.

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You can eat leftovers for breakfast, things that you had for dinner the night before.

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It's really important just to remember that or know that you want to consume food when

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your body needs it, when you're actually healing and repairing yourselves.

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It takes a while.

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It takes a few hours for whatever you eat, whatever you chew and swallow.

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Remember to chew your food.

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There's no teeth in your stomach.

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It's really important to chew your food.

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Chew your food until it's like the consistency of baby food.

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Otherwise you're not going to get the nutrients from that food.

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Chew your food, swallow it.

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It goes into your stomach.

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It takes a few hours for it to work its way through your intestines and eventually end

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up in your bloodstream.

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So you are not what you eat.

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You are what your bloodstream, what ends up in your bloodstream.

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You are, your body is made of what actually your body is capable of absorbing, of absorbing

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into your bloodstream through your intestines.

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So if you eat starch and sugar, that's absorbed really, really quickly.

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If you eat vegetables and meat, it takes a little longer to break those things down and

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absorb them.

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And that's what you want.

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You want foods that take time to slowly break down and absorb into your system, which is

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why it makes no sense to have our biggest meal of the day in the evening right before

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you're going to go to bed.

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Or if you're going to have dinner and have your biggest meal in the evening, please do

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it at five or six o'clock sometime.

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The goal should be to try to have your last meal at least four or preferably five hours

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before you lie down, before you go to bed.

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Because then it's going to work its way, that food is going to work its way through your

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digestive system.

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Those nutrients are going to start to be broken down and absorbed and used to heal and repair

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the damage that's caused by normal life.

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Every day we walk around and cause damage to ourselves that require repair.

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Our bodies require routine maintenance every single day.

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And the routine maintenance requires a steady supply of nutrients.

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I like to think of, and I encourage you to think of your bloodstream as a river of life.

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So your bloodstream is a river of life supplying nutrients to every cell in your body for healing

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and repair projects that are ongoing, that are waiting.

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Imagine a river with a construction crew on both sides, both banks of the river.

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They're sitting there, they've got all their equipment, they're ready to fix the cells

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of your pancreas or your spleen or your liver or your heart or your joints, your bones,

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your brain, whatever part needs healing and repair that day.

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They're sitting there waiting on the banks of the river and your bloodstream is either

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full of nutrients that they need to make that project happen or not.

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Most of the time it's not.

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People eat calorie rich food that fills them up, makes them feel full so they stop eating

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and that crap food, bread, rice, pasta, sandwiches, junk food, prepared meals, has no nutrients

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in it, no vegetables, no meat, no good protein, no healthy fats like avocados and nuts and

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oils from seeds, et cetera.

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And so they just think they're good.

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You feel good, you ate, you feel fine.

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But eventually you don't feel fine because you haven't provided the river of life, your

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bloodstream with the nutrients it needs to give those construction crews on both sides

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of the river bank the nutrients necessary to heal and repair your tissues.

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This is how disease happens.

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This is how your body breaks down.

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No one tells you that.

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Have you ever heard anyone tell you that before?

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Disease is not random.

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It doesn't just suddenly show up.

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There are rare, very rare genetic conditions, but they're not even worth thinking about.

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If you have one, doesn't matter.

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There's nothing you can do about it.

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And they're also really, really, really rare.

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Most disease, most of the diseases that people end up going to doctors for, end up in the

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hospital for are the result of neglect, of bad behavior and neglect, of eating too much

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grains, starch and sugar, too much bread, too much sugary crackers and cakes, cookies,

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bagels, donuts, french fries, too much sugary drinks, beer, fruit juices.

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There's no good fruit juice.

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Nobody should drink orange juice or any other fruit juice.

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Eat the fruit.

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If you want it, if you want the nutrients and fruit, there's lots of nutrients and certain

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fruits.

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Eat the fruit.

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Most fruits, many fruits, most of the fruits that people love the most are way too sweet.

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So I just, I recommend that most people don't eat most fruit like grapes, oranges, melons,

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pineapple.

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There's wonderful, amazing enzymes in pineapple, but the fruit itself is too sweet.

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The only fruit that I think justifies the sugar content is our berries, berries, blueberries,

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elderberries, blackberries, any kind of berries.

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They're also pretty sweet, but how many of them are you going to eat?

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They're expensive.

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Nobody, it's very rare for anybody to eat too many blueberries, raspberries, blackberries,

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elderberries, any kind of berries because they have some sugar in them like all other

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fruits, but they also are full of nutrients, antioxidants, so they're worth eating.

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If you like to make a shake in the morning, I'm just thinking of this because it comes

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up a lot.

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A lot of people like to make a shake, blend some fruits and protein powder.

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If you're going to do that, I recommend adding some berries, no sugar, some berries, unsweetened

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almond milk is better or regular milk is okay, but unsweetened almond milk is better than

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soy milk or some of the other crap, air quotes, milks that people drink.

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If you're going to add, a lot of people like to add a banana.

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A banana is nice, but also often too sweet.

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The way to make it not too sweet is to buy organic bananas, which keep a little bit longer,

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and when they're still green, while they're still green, cut the tips off and peel them,

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put them into little one-inch segments, freeze them overnight, and then put them in a bag

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the next morning and they'll be ready to throw into your shake.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.

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We're out of time.

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Thank you for listening.

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I'll look forward to talking to you right here on KDAR next week.

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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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