Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions
with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura.
Now, here's Dr. Todd.
Good afternoon, I am Dr. Todd Binkley, practitioner of functional medicine and doctor of non-force
chiropractic.
The purpose of this show is to arm you, educate you, give you information you can use to take
better care of yourself so that you don't become dependent on standard medical care,
on pharmaceuticals, on drugs for the rest of your life, or needing surgery or ending
up in a hospital.
Those are all really important things when you need them, but most people would rather
avoid them.
But it's nice, it's one thing to say I'd like to avoid that, and it's another thing
to actually make it happen.
So to make it happen, to avoid the complications of decay.
I hear people all the time, not all the time, occasionally, I was going to say all the time.
Occasionally I hear people say, oh, it's just hell getting old, you know, getting old, oh
my God, getting old, it's the worst.
Well, do you want to die?
Most people don't want to die.
People just don't want to be disabled.
People don't want to be miserable.
So my motto, it's on my business card, is live long, live well.
Don't just live long and be miserable, but live long and live well.
So if you want to live well for whatever number of years, it doesn't matter, oh my God, I
don't want to live to be 100, I'm going for 120, why not?
What day are you going to wake up and not want to wake up the next day?
Well, only someday that you don't feel good, that you're miserable.
So you want to feel good, you want to be fit and healthy, or at least, you know, be able
to basically function and enjoy life.
That's the goal.
That's the goal for this show, to arm you with information that you need to take, to
do what will actually enable you to feel good until your candle blows out.
And that's not just going to happen, you can't just say, okay, yeah, I want that.
If I listen to your show, will that happen?
No, I've tried it several times.
I've tried buying books that I really like and just sticking them under my pillow to
see if I would wake up the next morning and have all the insights from those books in
my head.
No, you actually have to do it.
I'm sorry, I'm a provider of information, but also a coach.
You have to do something.
You have to do something to take better care of your health if you want to be healthy and
prevent ending up dependent on drugs.
So part of the way that I help people on this show understand that better is by reviewing
some of the medical literature that their doctors, so when you go to most doctors, they're
going to just recommend standard medical care.
And where do they get the information upon which they base those recommendations?
They get it from medical literature.
So medical literature is published online now.
You used to have to subscribe to medical journals, each one of them 300 bucks a month.
Typically I used to subscribe to some of them, the Journal of the American Medical Association,
et cetera, British Medical Journal.
There are specialty journals for heart, cardiovascular, gut, all the parts of the body, medical specialties.
But all this stuff is available, at least in summary form, online now and Medscape.
Medscape, not WebMD.
So WebMD, just so you know, WebMD is for patients, for laypeople.
Please ignore, don't subscribe to WebMD.
Don't look at WebMD.
WebMD is financed by the pharmaceutical companies.
There's never any useful health information on WebMD.
There's sometimes, occasionally, good information about medical diseases.
But the best information that most doctors use is published by Medscape.com.
M-E-D-scape, S-C-A-P-E.com.
Medscape.com.
Med, MedNews, what's the one?
MedPage Today is another one.
MedPage Today also has a good compendium of medical research.
These are places that, compendiums of medical research.
But anyone can subscribe to them and you probably won't want to read all of the information
that's provided because it's kind of technical.
So that's my job.
That's why you're listening to this show.
So here's a headline on Medscape.
Are food emulsifiers associated with increased cancer risk?
Well yes, they are.
What's an emulsifier?
Food emulsifiers are among the most widespread food additives.
So preserved foods that have a shelf life, even if they're frozen, but especially if
they're not, are added to food to increase their shelf life.
And they have a strong association with an increased risk of certain cancers, especially
breast and prostate cancer.
So there's a new term in the literature, which is really important to know about.
And it's ultra processed foods.
UPF.
It's actually become an acronym.
UPF.
Ultra processed foods.
So ultra processed foods are sodas, drinks, fruit juices, frozen foods.
I'll come back to that.
There's some other ones.
But ultra processed foods constitute a significant part of our diet, representing approximately
30% of the energy intake in France, so says this article.
And large studies have already linked diets rich in ultra processed foods to an increased
risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and death.
Explanations for this association include the presence of additives, particularly emulsifiers.
So these additives are added to improve the texture and shelf life of foods.
And experimental studies have shown that they affect the gut microbiota and lead to low
grade inflammation.
So dysbiosis and inflammation not only increase the risk for inflammatory bowel diseases,
but are also implicated in the disease process of other chronic diseases and certain cancers
in other parts of the body.
So I was just translating that from the medical jargon in the study.
But it's really, really bad.
It's this crap that you want to grow your, it's hard.
It's hard.
I understand it.
It's hard to grow your own food or buy fresh vegetables.
It's really convenient just to buy something in the freezer section of the supermarket,
stick it in the microwave and eat it.
The problem is some of those things are healthier than others and most of them are just not
healthy.
So if you're buying frozen vegetables, frozen broccoli, frozen green beans, frozen any kind
of vegetable and wearing them, it would be better.
Honestly, it's, you can, I have a countertop convection oven.
Looks like a toaster oven, but it's bigger, big enough to roast a whole chicken with convection.
So convection oven means, convection oven is basically a toaster oven with a fan in
it.
So convection means the heating element comes on and there's a fan that moves the air around
inside the heat and makes it cook a lot faster.
So convection oven is really great.
It's the best way you can roast a steak, you can roast chicken, you can roast vegetables.
So much better than using a microwave to cook anything.
It tastes better and it's better for you.
And it's almost as fast.
I mean, microwaves are obviously the fastest way to cook most things, but unless you're
just heating water, most things are so much better.
If you roast or bake or cook them in a convection oven, and a lot of people's ovens already
have convection in your house.
And if you don't have one, then you can buy a countertop convection oven.
I like using a countertop convection oven because it cools down really, especially in
the summer in California.
It cools down really quickly.
You don't have to heat up the whole house.
If you heat up your oven, it's just too much.
Heat takes too long to cool back down.
An electric convection oven on your countertop will very quickly heat up to, mine heats up
to 500 degrees and it will broil a steak to perfection and then cool down 20 minutes later.
You turn it off, the heat's gone.
It doesn't cook your house and make you have to turn up the air conditioner or open the
windows.
So anyway, it's nice, whatever you want to do, cook your food in a healthy way.
But the point is avoid these emulsifiers.
So I got a little off track there.
We're talking about emulsifiers.
So emulsifiers are things that suspend fats and liquids.
So soap, when you're cleaning greasy dishes after eating, soap is an emulsifier.
It suspends the fats in water so that you can remove them from a greasy dish and wash
them down the drain.
So similarly in foods, emulsifiers suspend fats.
So emulsifiers are in baked goods, all baked goods have starch and fat in them.
And almost all baked goods are bad for you.
Baked goods are not healthy.
Just try to minimize your consumption of anything baked.
Bagels, cakes, cookies, crackers, all baked goods are bad for your, they should be considered
treats.
They're delicious.
I eat them.
I know everyone eats them.
They're wonderful.
But you should consider them treats, not a part, not a normal healthy part of your diet.
There's no healthy baked good.
Baked goods are, there's no healthy baked good.
The bread of life, throughout history it's been considered that bread is healthy to survive.
Well, it will keep you alive.
It will prevent you from starving.
But if you live in the West, if you live where we, most of the people, most of the listeners
of this show, hopefully you all have access to healthier foods and baked goods are not
healthy foods.
Vegetables are healthy foods.
Protein, nuts, animal protein, seeds, grains are healthy foods.
We consume far too much starch.
Most people consume far too much grains, starch and sugar and not enough healthy fats because
we've been brainwashed by the government and by other so-called educators to eat low fat,
this and that.
Don't eat anything.
Don't buy anything that says low fat on the label.
Because you know what low fat means?
High sugar.
Anything low fat that's a product that's not, I mean carrots are low fat.
If you're buying a vegetable that doesn't have a label on it that says low fat, but
anything that does have a label on it that says low fat is usually, 99% of the time,
a processed food that is mostly starch and sugar.
The only way you're going to eat it, they have to make it edible.
They have to make it taste good or you won't buy it.
So anything that says low fat like low fat yogurt, low fat cheese, low fat prepared meal,
whatever it is, if it's low fat just think to yourself high sugar because the only way
they can make that thing taste good so that if you buy it, you'll buy it again later is
if you like it because it tastes good and the only way it's going to taste good is that
they replace the fat with sugar.
So sugar is always worse.
There's bad fats, definitely.
No one should consume too much fat either, but everything has become backwards for 30
years, 50 years, since the 70s.
It's crazy.
The good fats are good for you.
Cholesterol is an essential nutrient.
Cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease.
It's strongly associated with heart disease, but the process is created by inflammation.
You'll see my previous episodes about heart disease for more information on this.
So don't eat low fat anything because these low fat foods have food emulsifiers to get
back to the point of what I was talking about before.
Large epidemiologic studies have already identified links between diets rich and ultra processed
products to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and death.
So this is caused by the stuff they put in this crap food.
So notably the highest consumption of these fats that are in processed food, that are
in manufactured food, not natural food, things that you buy that are prepared already, were
associated with a 15% increased risk for all types of cancer, 15% increased risk of all
types of cancer, and 24% increase in breast cancer, 40%, 46% increase in prostate cancer
risk.
The highest consumption of carrageenan, so carrageenan is one of these preservatives
that are very, very prevalent in processed crap food, was associated with a 28% increase,
double increased risk in breast cancer, 28% increased risk in breast cancer.
So it's bad to eat this stuff.
We're all busy.
I recommend that people go to farmer's market, grow your own food if you can, but if you
can't, go to farmer's market or go to a health food store or go to someplace that sells organic
vegetables and bring them home.
The frustrating thing about eating healthy food is it takes work, it takes time to chop
everything up and you buy stuff and throw it in the fridge and then it rots.
So the best way that I've found to deal with that situation is ultimately the best thing
is to grow your own food because then your own food growing in your own garden, they're
your babies, you're going to want to eat that food.
You're going to make sure that you eat it, it's not going to die.
But that's hard for most people, so if you're not going to grow your own food, then buy
organic, preferably healthy vegetables, especially broccoli, spinach, kale, Google recipes for
these things.
If you think kale sounds disgusting, it is if you eat it raw.
Crudite, whoever thought of that, people, they put this at parties, raw broccoli, raw
cauliflower that you're supposed to dip in ranch sauce, that's disgusting, don't do that.
If you cook, some vegetables should be cooked, broccoli, cauliflower, definitely kale.
There's ways to prepare kale.
Most people hate kale, I shouldn't talk too much about kale.
It is actually delicious if you know how to prepare it.
Email me, I'll tell you how to do it.
But most vegetables are just better if you cook them, just steam them.
Steam them, cook them in a little water, boil them a little bit, and they're delicious.
And add a little salt and pepper, some garlic and onions.
Most vegetables can be made delicious with a little bit of salt and pepper and garlic
and onions and if you cook them.
So eat mostly vegetables and you will live long and live well.
I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, you're listening to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost
Any Health Challenge.
Today I am reviewing some of the medical literature that comes out that influences the decisions
that other doctors make about whether or not you need this or that drug or some other medical
procedure to address whatever you show up in their office for.
But of course the purpose of this show is to arm you with information so that you know
what other options are available for any condition.
I always like to include specific case studies, patients that have seen me that I've actually
helped that inspire you to give you an impression of what's possible and I have lots of those.
Please check out my past episodes.
This show is live every Friday on KDAR 98.3 FM at 4 o'clock.
But all of the past episodes are also on my website as a podcast and on Spotify and Apple
podcasts and YouTube.
Basically anywhere you can get a podcast you can find all the past episodes of my show.
So here's another headline.
Today I am reviewing just some of the medical literature that influences the decisions that
your doctors make when you go into sort of any random insurance doctor, whoever your
GP is.
E-cigarettes tied to heart failure.
That's really, really sad.
Association seen with heart failure and ejection fraction.
So that's a little technical.
But the bottom line is the hoopla was oh, originally if you did an E-cigarette that
would be better than cigarettes obviously instead of the nicotine and heavy metals,
cadmium, tobacco is full.
You couldn't make, if you wanted to, you couldn't make a better plant to kill human beings than
tobacco.
It's just, it's perfect.
It's addictive.
It's got the nicotine that makes you have a little bit of it.
You want more of it.
And it's full of toxic chemicals.
It's the best.
So there are, so here's a corollary.
I think this is important to understand.
California has Prop 65, Proposition 65, cancer warnings.
I get questions like this all the time about Prop 65 warnings about cancer causing properties
and supplements, some of the supplements that I recommend to my patients come when I order
them with Prop 65 warnings, which is ridiculous.
California is a pioneer.
The state of California is a pioneer in establishing regulations to protect human health.
But Prop 65 is unfortunately just an example of government gone overboard.
I have patients nationwide.
I have patients in New York and New Jersey and Georgia and Colorado and Nebraska and
New Mexico and Texas and Washington State, Oregon, all over the country and every part
of California.
I consult with people online and occasionally I send them supplements and buried in the
language at the bottom of the label is, oh my God, a Prop 65 warning.
This may cause cancer.
Well, lead and mercury and toxic heavy metals are ubiquitous in the surface of the earth.
California Prop 65, they put Prop 65 warnings on organic vegetables.
It's ridiculous.
It was a good idea at the outset to give, especially for pregnant women.
So pregnant women, maybe pregnant women should not eat, consume anything with a Prop 65 warning
on it.
Even then there are exceptions.
For anyone who's not a pregnant woman, I recommend you just ignore.
If it's a supplement or a healthy food, if it's a vegetable or a supplement and it has
a California Prop 65 warning on it, just ignore it because it's ridiculous.
There's trace amounts of lead and mercury and apples and oranges and anything that comes
from the surface of the earth.
It's unfortunate that they've just gone overboard and slapped these labels on healthy foods
to scare people when their energy would be much better served by telling them to not
smoke e-cigarettes.
So got a little off track there again, like I often do.
We're talking about e-cigarettes.
So e-cigarettes were thought to be an alternative to all the toxic chemicals in regular cigarettes
and they're worse.
People are showing up in hospitals with severe respiratory disease and a lot of these e-cigarettes
also add nicotine and obviously that's bad, but at least people have the choice whether
or not they're consuming nicotine in their e-cigarettes.
But just the basic ingredients that provide the smoke, that provide the experience, that
make an e-cigarette work, those things are toxic, hugely toxic and they're poorly regulated.
The government, the FDA, the federal government is just starting to regulate these things.
But the American College of Cardiology said that both users of these had a 59% increased
risk of developing heart failure.
These things are bad.
People are showing up in hospitals with lung disease.
Again, another quote from this study linking harmful effects to myocardial endothelial
function and microvascular function.
So what that means in English is the inner lining of your blood vessels, the cause of
heart attacks and strokes is inflammation in the lining of your blood vessels.
And these e-cigarettes, people vaping, are irritating, causing inflammation in the lining
of the blood vessels.
So it's bad.
No one should be using this.
So they're pushing back.
There used to be a recommendation to vape or use e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation
tool and now they're stating that that's a really bad idea.
No one should do that.
They're not officially recommended as a smoking cessation tool.
Basically, no one should vape.
These things are bad.
I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.
Thank you for tuning in.
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Dr. Binkley at BinkleyAnalyxCenter.com.
805-218-3939.
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