1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,760 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:12,080 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,560 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:15,560 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:23,640 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, practitioner of functional medicine and doctor of non-force chiropractic. 6 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:30,160 My purpose is to educate you on how to take better care of yourself by doing things that 7 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:36,360 I recommend on this show and if necessary, not necessarily, but if necessary, coming 8 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:42,720 in to see me to get some blood tests or other diagnostic tests to identify whether or not 9 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,480 your body is functioning normally. 10 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:51,560 So most doctors only test you to see if you have a disease. 11 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:56,840 Right now, do you need medical care for diabetes, for hypothyroidism, for high blood pressure, 12 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:58,260 for high cholesterol? 13 00:00:58,260 --> 00:01:00,560 Do you need surgery for a herniated disc? 14 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:05,320 Do you need some kind of medical procedure referral to a specialist? 15 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:10,820 Do you have a disease condition that requires medical care? 16 00:01:10,820 --> 00:01:15,920 That is the practice of medicine and that is what medical insurance pays for. 17 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,920 There's no such thing as health insurance. 18 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,520 Health insurance is medical insurance. 19 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,360 It doesn't pay for anything. 20 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,560 To make you healthier, it pays for medical care. 21 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:31,400 It pays for medical treatment for a disease condition, which is way too late. 22 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:37,080 If you want to be healthy, then you don't want to wait until you need medical care. 23 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:42,920 Hopefully that's why you're listening to this show. 24 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:49,640 But the unfortunate part of that is everyone pays a lot of money for air quotes health 25 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:50,640 insurance. 26 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,640 Please always insert the air quotes because there's no such thing as health insurance. 27 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,840 Health insurance does not pay for anything to make you healthier. 28 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,400 It will not pay for you to take better care of yourself. 29 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,020 It will not pay for your gym membership. 30 00:02:03,020 --> 00:02:05,320 Health insurance is medical insurance. 31 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,060 It pays for like car insurance. 32 00:02:09,060 --> 00:02:11,440 Car insurance pays when you crash your car. 33 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,880 It doesn't pay for oil changes or to keep your car in good condition. 34 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,160 Health insurance is medical insurance. 35 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,240 It doesn't pay to keep you healthy. 36 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,320 It pays for medical care when you need it. 37 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:28,100 It's frustrating when you pay all this money for air quotes health insurance and you go 38 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:30,980 to your doctor and your doctor says, oh, you're fine. 39 00:02:30,980 --> 00:02:32,240 There's nothing wrong with you. 40 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:37,960 Well, where does your doctor, where do all these doctors, so many doctors that don't 41 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,240 do, people ask me all the time, why doesn't every doctor do functional medicine? 42 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,640 Why don't all doctors want to keep you healthy? 43 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:45,720 Because they're busy. 44 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:51,040 They're busy treating people that wait too long and need medical care. 45 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,800 There's nothing wrong with medical doctors spending all their time providing medical 46 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:01,280 care for people that need treatment for medical conditions. 47 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,480 That's a lot that most people wait till it's too late. 48 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:11,160 My goal is to sort of reduce the numbers of those people that wait till it's too late. 49 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:18,280 So the point of this episode of this show is to give you some information about why 50 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:28,080 is it that most doctors only focus on, or at least apparently ignore this other information. 51 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,080 People have the experience. 52 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:33,960 They go into their doctor and they say, oh, I heard about this or that thing that might 53 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:34,960 make me healthier. 54 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,200 What do you think about that? 55 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:45,640 And they usually just ignore it or say something that doesn't give a satisfactory answer. 56 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:52,000 And so part of the reason for the opinions that are expressed by those doctors is the 57 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,560 information that they get. 58 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,880 A lot of information, most medical information is available online now. 59 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,400 In the old days, you had to subscribe to medical journals for each one of them for hundreds 60 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,920 of dollars a year. 61 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:10,080 Now fortunately, everything is online and synopses, abbreviations of all the latest 62 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:15,160 research comes out, is emailed to every doctor in America. 63 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:19,800 In the world, I get several of them, so many of them, too many of them. 64 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:27,800 I think, I don't know, dozens of them every week, sometimes 10 or 12 a day, it seems. 65 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:28,800 It's ridiculous. 66 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,160 But anyway, I do it because I want to keep abreast of the latest research. 67 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:40,960 Most of it is pharmaceutical information about the latest development in drugs that I want 68 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:47,040 to know about, but I'm not that interested in, so I skim through it unless it's important. 69 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:55,560 But I am always interested in research that documents the effects of damaging chemicals 70 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:59,440 and toxins, because a lot of people are just not aware of this. 71 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:05,560 You don't know unless you test to identify the effects of chemicals. 72 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:12,560 So the headline is, Common Household Chemicals Tied to Brain Cell Damage. 73 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,880 This is a little technical, but it's really important. 74 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,680 So the article begins on Medscape. 75 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:25,200 Two classes of chemicals present in common household products may impair the development 76 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:30,960 of oligodendrocytes, the myelinating cells of the central nervous system. 77 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:36,020 So basically, it means that what they're saying is two classes of common chemicals that people 78 00:05:36,020 --> 00:05:42,600 are exposed to all the time, which are critical to brain development and function, are impaired 79 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:49,200 by exposure to these chemicals, quaternary ammonium compounds. 80 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:55,680 I took a lot of chemistry classes in school, but you'll be forgiven if you don't know 81 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,960 what a quaternary ammonium compound is. 82 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,400 I don't know exactly what that is either. 83 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:09,040 But they are, according to this article, ubiquitous in disinfecting agents and personal care products 84 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,800 and organophosphate flame retardants. 85 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:19,760 So organophosphates are common pesticides that are really bad, and they're found in 86 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:26,320 household items such as furniture and electronics, and have surprising effects, quotes. 87 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:34,040 This article, Dr. Paul Tassar, professor and director of the Institute for Glial Sciences. 88 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,240 Glial means brain tissue. 89 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,480 Glial cells are a special form of brain cells. 90 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:49,080 So this man, this doctor, PhD professor at the University of Western Reserve University 91 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:56,200 School of Medicine at Cleveland, Ohio, told Medscape News that common household chemicals 92 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:02,080 and common household items such as furniture and electronics had, quote, surprising effects 93 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:07,280 specifically on the non-nerve cells of the brain. 94 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:08,640 And so what does that mean? 95 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:17,200 The brain is filled mostly with nerve cells, but it's also filled actually more by weight 96 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:18,680 and volume. 97 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:23,960 More of the actual physical structure of your brain is filled with fat and water. 98 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:33,400 So the glial cells, G-L-I-A-L, glial cells, are these fat cells that support your brain. 99 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:41,520 They're often, they're one of the most susceptible forms, one of the most susceptible cells for 100 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:42,520 brain cancer. 101 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:49,940 So a lot of times if people get brain cancer, it is a cancer of these fat cells in the brain. 102 00:07:49,940 --> 00:07:54,820 This is also, while we're talking about it, important to understand why it's so important 103 00:07:54,820 --> 00:08:02,400 to consume omega-3 fatty acids, because these glial cells, these fat cells in your brain, 104 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,560 are composed more than anything else. 105 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:14,640 The main ingredient is docosahexaenoic acid, D-H-A, an omega-3 fatty acid that you can 106 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:19,680 only get from fish, from the ocean, or from algae. 107 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:26,880 If you're a vegan, you can get D-H-A, docosahexaenoic acid, from algae. 108 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:33,560 And eventually, people, there are industries that make biofuel from algae. 109 00:08:33,560 --> 00:08:38,760 So it makes no sense to me right now, and hopefully this will eventually change. 110 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:44,720 But don't buy, I tell people all the time, there are some things that some nutrients, 111 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,240 some supplemental nutrients that you can buy wherever you want. 112 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,800 Vitamin C is the classic example. 113 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:56,880 Ascorbic acid is the same wherever you buy it, buy it at Costco, buy it at Trader Joe's, 114 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:02,740 buy it from any store, it doesn't matter, as long as your stomach isn't irritated by 115 00:09:02,740 --> 00:09:06,520 the acidic effects of ascorbic acid. 116 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:12,680 Vitamin C is, vitamin D, D is in dog, the most important nutrient for your immune system, 117 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:15,840 along with vitamin C. Vitamin D is sort of in between. 118 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:21,240 I get a lot of people that buy cheap vitamin D from stores, and my rough estimate from 119 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:27,440 testing thousands of people is that it's roughly 15% less effective. 120 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,720 How do I come to that number? 121 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:35,160 The healthy level of vitamin D, D is in dog, the sunshine vitamin, the healthy level of 122 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,560 vitamin D is 50 to 90. 123 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:43,600 If you want your immune system to work, you need your serum level of vitamin D to be between 124 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,440 50 and 90. 125 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:52,960 Most doctors now, it didn't used to be the case, but now if you ask, if you go to your 126 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:58,260 routine physical and ask your doctor to add the vitamin D test, you usually still need 127 00:09:58,260 --> 00:09:59,960 to ask or they won't do it. 128 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:03,240 If you ask, they will add the vitamin D test. 129 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:09,680 The medical range, the clinical range, the broad stretch your arms out as far as you 130 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:17,400 can side to side, broad range for vitamin D is 30 to 100. 131 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:25,560 Well, 30 nanograms per milliliter, the standard range, is enough to prevent, reduce your risk 132 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:36,240 of, not prevent, not prevent at all, but reduce your risk of osteoporosis, and it will help 133 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:43,160 your immune system to work a little better than if it's below that, but it's ridiculous. 134 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:48,920 The healthy range, the functional range of vitamin D is one of the most important distinctions 135 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,600 between healthy ranges and the standard medical range that most doctors use. 136 00:10:53,600 --> 00:11:00,280 So you want, everyone should get their vitamin D blood test and you want, and don't ask your 137 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:05,480 doctor if it's good or not because they'll say it's fine if it's above 30 and that's 138 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,480 recent. 139 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:07,480 That's a recent change. 140 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:14,320 They used to say, I think it was about five years ago that the medical clinical range 141 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:21,360 on the form that comes back, the results from lab core request, whatever lab your hospital 142 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,240 was 20 to 100. 143 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:27,680 But the point is, it's not enough. 144 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:32,320 That's barely enough to prevent rickets, to prevent your bones from collapsing, and it 145 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:39,840 will not even dramatically reduce your risk of osteoporosis, which, so the main things 146 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,420 that people are concerned about for vitamin D, there's many more things that people should 147 00:11:44,420 --> 00:11:51,840 be concerned about for vitamin D because vitamin D affects every single part of your body. 148 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,520 And you want, if you want to be healthy, if you want your immune system, especially if 149 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:00,200 you want your immune system to function at its peak, it is totally dependent. 150 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,440 It will not work. 151 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:08,880 Your immune system cannot do its job unless you provide it with adequate amounts of vitamin 152 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:17,160 D. And adequate amounts are a serum level in your blood, the blood test, 50 to 90. 153 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:21,040 So I got a little bit off track there talking about vitamin D, but that's never bad because 154 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:28,080 no one ever knows enough about how important vitamin, most people don't know enough about 155 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:36,600 how important vitamin D is. 5,000 units a day is the standard dose for most adults. 156 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:42,480 If you're a white woman that weighs less than 120 pounds, then 4,000 might be enough. 157 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,500 I've tested thousands of patients. 158 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:49,800 The only way you know whether or not you have adequate vitamin D is to get a blood test. 159 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:56,080 But I promise you, if you weigh more than 120 pounds, or if your skin is darker than 160 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:01,600 a white person like me, then you need to take at least 5,000 units a day. 161 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:06,920 And if you haven't been taking 5,000 units of vitamin D supplementally a day for at least 162 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:12,300 a year, even then, if I test your blood, the vitamin D test costs 25 bucks. 163 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:13,760 It's inexpensive. 164 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,040 Everyone should know about this. 165 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:16,660 Everyone should get that test. 166 00:13:16,660 --> 00:13:19,640 Ask your doctor if you're going in for any routine blood work. 167 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,060 They will do it now because they know it's important. 168 00:13:22,060 --> 00:13:24,540 They just don't know what range is important. 169 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:27,000 Just ask them to do the test or come into me. 170 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,200 I'll order it for you, 25 bucks. 171 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:38,000 The main thing is to know if your immune system has adequate vitamin D to make it work properly. 172 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,360 So, I got a little bit off track. 173 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:47,240 We were talking about results published online in the journal Nature Neuroscience about motor 174 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:54,020 dysfunction from exposure to various chemicals in the environment that impair brain development 175 00:13:54,020 --> 00:13:56,720 and can destroy nerves. 176 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:04,300 Oligodendrocytes, which form the electrical insulation around the axons of central nervous 177 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:05,640 system cells. 178 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:06,960 It's a little technical. 179 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:12,760 But basically, your nerves are wires that communicate messages from your brain to the 180 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:14,720 rest of your body. 181 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:23,600 And these cells have connective tissue coverings and an extra coating around them that protects 182 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,280 them but also the nerves are a little weird. 183 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:28,280 They're a little different. 184 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,560 They're not exactly wires. 185 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:37,240 The analogy for a wire kind of breaks down because, you know, like a telephone wire is 186 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,000 usually metal wrapped in a plastic coating, something like that. 187 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:49,800 The wires for your nervous system are living tissue, obviously, and they're coating. 188 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:56,160 The signals are actually the transference of the transmission of the signals from your 189 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:02,280 brain to the other parts of the body actually occurs not just along the wire but also through 190 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,080 the coating. 191 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,000 So that's a little bit, I'm trying to make this as simple as possible to understand. 192 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,940 It's very complex. 193 00:15:09,940 --> 00:15:16,000 But the coating around your nerves is involved in the transmission of nerve signals. 194 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:22,400 So when the coating around your nerves has any kind of disease or impairment like multiple 195 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:31,360 sclerosis, multiple sclerosis is a sclerotic effect on this coating around the nerves and 196 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,280 it's devastating. 197 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:41,820 So just as we're talking about household chemicals and lots of other chemicals that people are 198 00:15:41,820 --> 00:15:46,560 exposed to can damage this coating around your nerves. 199 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:53,840 So in the journal Nature Neuroscience published March 12th, March 25th this year, damage was 200 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,640 caused to the coating around the nerves. 201 00:15:55,640 --> 00:16:04,880 They analyzed the effects of 1823 chemicals and identified 292 that caused cells, nerve 202 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,080 cells to die. 203 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:16,600 And 292 chemicals caused these coating oligodendrocytes, this coating the nerve, the tissue that protects 204 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:24,520 the nerves, caused them, 292 chemicals caused the cells to die and 47 chemicals that caused 205 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:28,680 them that inhibited their regeneration. 206 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:34,320 And even that is often significant if these cells can't, they're degenerating all the 207 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:35,440 time. 208 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:41,240 That's why we get Alzheimer's as we get older, nerve tissue and the coatings around our nerves 209 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,480 are degenerating just from age. 210 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,080 So it's really important to not have them degenerate. 211 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:52,800 It's really important to minimize exposure to chemicals that causes them to degenerate. 212 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,480 So what chemicals are we talking about? 213 00:16:54,480 --> 00:17:00,040 So one of the main ones, the main categories is flame retardants, flame retardants in fabrics 214 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:09,440 and other things, furniture, curtains, things that, you know, it seems like a good idea 215 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:16,220 to make things less likely to catch on fire if somebody knocks over a candle or drops 216 00:17:16,220 --> 00:17:17,580 a cigarette. 217 00:17:17,580 --> 00:17:22,520 But these things are super, super toxic. 218 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:29,000 Children with concentrations of these chemicals had significantly increased odds of damage 219 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,480 to their motor neurons, the nerves that control their muscles. 220 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:38,960 These results, quote in this article, it says, these results suggest that they identify chemicals 221 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,920 that are hazardous to human health. 222 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:48,360 And we want to be clear that more studies are needed, but people should start to pay 223 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:49,840 attention to this. 224 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:58,520 So future studies are needed, but the results that are out now are scary and theoretically 225 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:05,760 could contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders as well as adult conditions like multiple 226 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:10,720 sclerosis and later cognitive defects. 227 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:18,760 So it's be careful, try to avoid exposure to any kind of toxic chemicals. 228 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:19,760 What is that? 229 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,880 How do you know a chemical is toxic? 230 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:28,020 Well, I can't off the top of my head think of the brand names of toxic household chemicals 231 00:18:28,020 --> 00:18:31,880 that people use because I don't use them anymore and I've kind of forgotten. 232 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:39,120 But basically, you can clean almost anything in your house with vinegar or lemon. 233 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,160 These are great or baking soda. 234 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,040 So anything else is probably toxic. 235 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:53,200 And if you have questions about that, please email me or you can also go to EWG, the environmental 236 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,640 working group, EWG.org. 237 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:05,120 They have EWG.org has an excellent website where you can research the toxicity of anything, 238 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:12,240 any household chemical, pesticide, cosmetic, anything that you're going to put in or on 239 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:13,280 your body. 240 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:20,860 And you want to know the research about the toxic potential or actual documented toxic 241 00:19:20,860 --> 00:19:26,480 effects of any of those chemicals, go to EWG.org. 242 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:27,920 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. 243 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:32,520 You're listening to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost Any Health Challenge. 244 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:40,600 I always like to include a specific case about the topic that I'm talking about. 245 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,400 And I'm sorry I don't have someone that's immediately coming to mind. 246 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:45,640 I've had so many though. 247 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:50,240 I do test people for chemical toxins, for mold toxins, for heavy metal toxins. 248 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:56,240 I'm going to talk about this more in upcoming episodes because it's really, really important. 249 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:57,520 People have no idea. 250 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,440 Oh, how do I know if I'm exposed to toxins? 251 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:01,800 They're everywhere. 252 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:08,240 Everyone is exposed to chemical toxins from fertilizers, pesticides, and the air and the 253 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,320 food we eat and the water we drink. 254 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:12,320 There's plastic. 255 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:18,760 If you drink bottled water, there's plastics, heavy metals and fillings, silver fillings 256 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,360 in your teeth. 257 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:25,200 If you eat fish, tuna, tuna especially, there's so many. 258 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:29,120 I'm going to do a whole episode on this, probably the next one. 259 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:33,680 We're all, you and I, are constantly exposed to toxins. 260 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,720 The only way to know if they... 261 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:42,920 The thing, the triggers, the signs I look for if someone comes to me with a mood disorder, 262 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:50,480 any kind of brain issue, a mood disorder like anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, neurodegenerative 263 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:55,680 to condition, any brain condition, anything that affects the brain, the red flag goes 264 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:02,600 up in my mind for potential toxin exposure because the brain is the most sensitive organ 265 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:12,840 to any toxic exposure from lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, uranium, aluminum, pesticides, 266 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,560 et cetera. 267 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:20,800 Any autoimmune condition that causes your immune system to overreact and quote unquote, 268 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,800 air quotes, attack healthy cells, your immune system doesn't attack healthy cells for no 269 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:26,840 reason. 270 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,280 Your immune system is not over reactive. 271 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:34,080 Your immune system, when you have an autoimmune condition like multiple sclerosis or lupus 272 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:42,620 or Hashimoto's thyroiditis or any other ulcerative colitis, any autoimmune condition, your immune 273 00:21:42,620 --> 00:21:50,960 system is not randomly attacking healthy cells, it's attacking diseased cells and your healthy 274 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,440 cells get caught in the crossfire. 275 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:58,720 The reason that your immune system is hyper activated is almost always because of toxic 276 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:04,160 material that has leaked into your bloodstream or become stored in some part of your body 277 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,840 and your healthy cells get caught in the crossfire. 278 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:13,120 Your immune system is not, there's nothing wrong with your immune system, it's reacting 279 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:14,120 normally. 280 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:19,800 It sees something foreign, the toxins that you've ingested that cause no symptoms. 281 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,400 You don't know, you don't have no idea. 282 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,560 These things are ubiquitous in the environment. 283 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,600 When I do these tests, they're always positive. 284 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,000 No one is immune. 285 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,160 We're all exposed. 286 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:35,960 What matters is how much and which things are you exposed to the most and then we can 287 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:41,360 do a protocol to help your body flush those things out a little better. 288 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,600 That's really important for so many conditions. 289 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:51,240 Any autoimmune condition almost always involves the exposure to toxins that you have no idea 290 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,320 about. 291 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,140 Standard medical tests never look for exposure to toxins. 292 00:22:56,140 --> 00:23:03,640 These are usually hair tests for heavy metals or urine tests for heavy metals and chemicals. 293 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:12,360 All of these tests, none of the exposure to chemicals tests, none of these are blood tests. 294 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:16,600 There are blood tests for lead or other toxins, but they're stupid. 295 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:17,600 They're pointless. 296 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:27,680 If you have any level of lead in your blood, then you're really screwed. 297 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:36,120 The point is, so many doctors test blood to see if you're exposed to lead and if it's 298 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:37,520 not in your blood, then you're fine. 299 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:38,560 No, that's not true. 300 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:45,120 Your body will excrete an exposure to lead like the people who had lead pipes and drinking 301 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,680 the horrible water with lead in it or just any exposure to lead. 302 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:55,040 We're all exposed to these chemicals all the time from pesticides and other things in the 303 00:23:55,040 --> 00:24:00,640 air, in our food, in our water, and we excrete them or your body will excrete them as efficiently 304 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:06,120 as it can through the kidneys, through the colon, but what it can't excrete will be 305 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:10,880 shoved into fat cells for storage to get it out of your bloodstream. 306 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,080 So there it remains forever. 307 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,240 So the only way to know for sure is to get proper testing because chemicals are stored 308 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,240 in your fat cells. 309 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,800 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. 310 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:21,800 Thank you for listening. 311 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,840 We're about out of time. 312 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,240 Tune in next week at 4 p.m. 313 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,320 I look forward to your questions. 314 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,160 Email me anytime. 315 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:31,680 Have a fabulous weekend. 316 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:37,200 You've been listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 317 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,720 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to 318 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:46,280 drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 319 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:50,960 Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved 320 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,520 ones because our health matters. 321 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