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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, practitioner of functional medicine and non-force doctor of chiropractic.

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I'm going to be talking about heavy metal toxicity today, toxins in the air, food and

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water, they're in the soil.

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The main top five toxic heavy metals that we need to concern ourselves with are lead,

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mercury, cadmium, arsenic and uranium.

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I'll be talking about some really interesting case results I've gotten with people who've

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done that testing identified problems that were being aggravated or directly caused by

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excess amounts of toxic heavy metals in their systems.

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When we get those metals flushed out properly, then the body just works better, especially

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certain parts of the body.

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Before I get into that, I want to talk about something that was in the news here recently.

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Fish oil, the ridiculous clickbait headline in the medical press is regular use of fish

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oil supplements may increase first time heart disease and stroke risk.

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Well, I like to tell people, especially listeners to the show, my patients, people who are a

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little more sophisticated, anytime you see a headline like this, the easiest thing to

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do if you don't have time to delve into and find out what's really behind that headline

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is just ignore it.

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I mean, that's just a ridiculous thing.

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The same article itself later on in the article, it says, continue to eat salmon every day.

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It's a really good thing to do whether you've had a heart attack or stroke or not.

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These headlines like this contradict themselves in the article itself most of the time.

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Anytime you see something slamming a well-known, well-researched vitamin, other nutrient, it's

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usually funded by a pharmaceutical company or somebody with a vested interest in poo-pooing

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that nutrient when they want to sell you a drug instead.

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When you look at the research behind it, the way the study was done is usually poorly designed

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from the outset.

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We're going to get into the specifics of this one.

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When you scroll down, this article, what the data showed in this poorly designed study

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showed that people who have already had a heart attack or a stroke or people that are

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older benefit from taking fish oil.

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Dramatic reductions, 15% reduction in risk of heart attack and stroke.

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Numbers close to that.

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Don't cite me on the exact number.

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And rather, on the contrary, people who have not, younger people who have not had a heart

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attack or stroke, this study says that it seemed to indicate that people had a slightly

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increased risk of heart attack or stroke if they were taking fish oil.

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Well, when you get down to the meat of the article, Elana Natker, registered dietitian

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and director of consumer and health professional communications for the global organization

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for EPA and DHA omega-3s, those are the main two omega-3s that you hear about all the benefits,

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to review everything you hear that's good about omega-3 fatty acids, those fatty acids

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are EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid and DHA, docosahexaenoic acid.

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So these are only available from the ocean.

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When you see vegetable sources that say good source of omega-3s like flax oil, chia seeds,

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walnuts, these have ALA, which is a healthy fat and those are good foods.

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It's excellent to include them in your diet, but do not assume that you're going to get

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the risks for cardiovascular disease and reducing inflammation and joint health and all the

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other brain health, all the other benefits that you hear attributed to consuming omega-3

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fatty acids.

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You're not going to get those benefits from eating walnuts and chia seeds and flax seeds

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because they don't have EPA and DHA in them and the conversion, your bodies can convert

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the ALA and the vegetable sources into the EPA and DHA, but it's only like 5%.

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It's very small amounts.

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So to get the benefits of omega-3s that you hear about all the time, including for cardiovascular

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health, you need to get those omega-3s from the ocean, either from fish or seaweed.

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You can get vegetarian algae oil, which has those two omega-3s in it as well.

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It's a lot more expensive than regular fish oil and hopefully it will be less expensive

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at some point because they make biofuel out of algae and it's much less expensive.

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If it's cheap enough to make biofuel out of, they ought to be able to do the health level

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grade algae, which is grown in stainless steel tanks.

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I really don't understand why it's not less expensive than fish oil, but currently it

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is not.

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So the article in question we're talking about here, the spokesperson for the global organization

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for omega-3 said, while this study was done on a large population, it was observational

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in nature, just watching what people were eating and seeing if there was any association.

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It gave no potential consideration of dose.

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No consideration of dose.

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In other words, it didn't ask people how much fish oil they took.

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It didn't consider any confounding factors.

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So the people that were younger that just said they were taking some fish oil supplements

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that supposedly got slightly increased risk of heart attacks or strokes, they didn't ask

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them if they were smoking, what kind of food they were eating, how much fish oil they were

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taking.

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In other words, it's highly likely that they had other health habits that were contributing

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to and risk factors that were contributing to their slightly increased risk of heart

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attacks and strokes.

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That had nothing to do with whether they were taking fish oil or not.

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And it didn't ask them how much fish oil they were taking.

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So you can't blame the fish oil if you didn't even ask people if they were taking a sufficient

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amount.

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It's just a ridiculous study.

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But they put the controversial bit at the top and the headline because that's going

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to get people's attention.

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So that's a long way of saying, here's a perfect example of a study with a ridiculous headline

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like this that you can ignore or ask me about it and I'll look up the real story behind

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it.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.

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

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I always like to remind people periodically the following.

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The quality and quantity of food you eat and the level of physical activity you incorporate

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into your daily life are almost always the most important two things you can do to enhance

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your health and prevent and reverse chronic disease.

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So anytime somebody comes to me, if you send a family member, a loved one to see me, we

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do some testing, I'm going to identify nutrient deficiencies usually that are underlying

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someone's current symptoms and recommend some supplements, probably almost always,

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to get their body work, give their body the nutrients it needs to heal and repair itself.

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Usually when people have certain health concerns, even severe health concerns that they're taking

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medications for, a lot of times these same concerns can be addressed with high quality

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and sometimes higher doses of good bioavailable nutrients.

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But it is always important in addition to getting those nutrients based on your testing

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because everybody's different, that's why you have to do the testing to find out what

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you need for your condition.

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Everybody always to get optimal outcomes always needs to eat good food and move their body.

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So most of the conditions that people show up with are caused by stress, by identifiable

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nutrient deficiencies, by lousy diet, by lack of exercise and general neglect.

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So if you want to be truly healthy, you have to take responsibility for your own health.

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But you do not have to do it on your own.

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I'm here to help.

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We're talking about heavy metal toxicity this weekend.

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So anytime somebody comes to me and has any issue with the following, their brain, an

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autoimmune condition, obesity and or fatigue, I'm always thinking we must consider toxicity

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testing for that person.

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So problems with the brain like anxiety and depression, attention deficit, hyperactivity

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disorder, ADHD, cognitive impairment, full blown dementia, brain fog or dizziness, anything

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that's not right with someone's brain, we must always think about potential toxicities.

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Basically we're all exposed to the toxins that I test for, but we are exposed to different

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amounts of them, varying amounts, and your genetic ability to excrete the toxins that

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you are exposed to varies tremendously from one person to the next.

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And then whether or not you're getting mainly the minerals, the nutrients you need to facilitate

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that excretion varies.

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So that's why we often need to test.

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So anybody with a challenge to their brain, also autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis,

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rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, the autoimmune attacking the cells of the

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thyroid that cause low thyroid, very, very common, especially in women over 50, lupus,

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psoriasis, an autoimmune condition that causes rashes in the skin, irritable bowel syndrome,

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all of the inflammatory bowel conditions, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis,

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and Crohn's disease, there are slightly different variations of inflammatory gut conditions.

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The linings of the intestines are being attacked and decimated and wreaking havoc on often

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other parts of the body because of the gut becoming inflamed.

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Obesity.

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Anybody who's overweight for no reason.

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I see people all the time that say, you know, I eat an excellent diet.

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I eat lots of vegetables.

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I eat chicken and fish.

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I eat an excellent diet.

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And I just can't shift this weight.

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I can't get rid of that last 10 or 20 or 30 pounds.

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Oftentimes it is because your body has exposure and a heavy body burden of heavy metal toxins.

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And then fatigue.

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So anytime someone has fatigue, it's almost never caused by a single issue.

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If you have a lack of energy and there's just no explanation for it, again, you're doing

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everything else right.

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You're getting adequate sleep.

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You're eating good food.

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You're even taking a few supplements already that are good for you.

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Or maybe your energy has just changed dramatically in the last two, three, five years.

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Nothing seems to have changed in your life.

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But suddenly you have much less energy than you used to.

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This is very, there's almost always a half a dozen things that are contributing to that,

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which are usually identified for five or six things.

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I very commonly see almost any time I order a comprehensive blood panel on anyone.

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Things like borderline anemias, vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies, vitamin D deficiency,

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chronic infections that you don't even know you have, insufficient protein, common things

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like that that will sap your energy.

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But always included on that list is exposure to heavy metals like lead, arsenic, cadmium,

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uranium.

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These things are in the air.

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They're in the water.

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They're in the soil.

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They're in our food.

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In organic food, especially processed foods.

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It's always a good idea if you have any of those conditions to test for heavy metals.

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How do we do that?

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Testing for heavy metals is either with a hair test or a urine test.

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Your body, and sometimes I do both because they test different things.

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When our bodies are exposed to mercury from eating fish, for example, a lot of people,

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most people know that there's mercury in fish.

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You know where the mercury in fish comes from, anybody?

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Coal fired power plants.

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When you burn coal, coal is full of mercury.

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It's riddled with mercury and mercury is liquid at room temperature.

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Anybody who's seen a thermometer knows mercury is liquid at room temperature.

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And a little bit higher, it turns into a vapor.

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So when you burn coal, mercury becomes a vapor that goes up into the atmosphere, then settles

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down when it cools to the ocean, falls down to the ocean, sinks, becomes a liquid again,

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and sinks to the bottom.

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It is eaten by bottom feeders in the ocean and it works its way up the food chain.

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And it's in anything in the ocean.

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It's going to have mercury in it.

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Everywhere in the world, the ocean has mercury in it.

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Anything that's alive in the ocean is going to have mercury in it.

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But the amount of mercury depends on how long that living creature has been in the ocean.

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So it works its way up the food chain and the fish with the most mercury are simply

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the biggest fish.

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So of the fish that we commonly eat, the highest in mercury are tuna, shark, and swordfish.

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So all tuna and swordfish and shark is high in mercury just because of the size of the

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fish.

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You can get tuna pole caught smaller fish, fish that are only three feet long instead

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of six feet long.

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And it has much lower content of mercury.

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It's tested.

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You can get tinned in a can.

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Tuna that's delicious.

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It's a whole filet.

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It's not chopped up chicken to the sea garbage.

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Any canned tuna, when you go to a sushi restaurant, it can be the best sushi restaurant in the

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world.

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And that tuna usually comes from big fish and when it's tested, it's still high in

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mercury.

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So you know, eat restaurant tuna once a month.

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No more than that, I recommend.

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But you can get pole caught smaller tuna filet in a can in olive oil.

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It's delicious from brands like Wild Planet.

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Another one is called Safe Catch and these companies and there's some others, but those

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are the ones that are on the shelves at Vons where I live in Southern California.

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These companies that catch the smaller fish also test it and confirm that it has a tenth

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of the mercury of standard large tuna or less.

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So mercury is in tuna.

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Arsenic is in the water in much of the country.

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It's in commercial, all the heavy metals are in commercial pesticides and fertilizers

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that are used on our fields.

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Aluminum can be an issue.

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It's not as toxic as the big five, but if you cook with aluminum cookware or aluminum

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foil, it's not a good idea to cook on aluminum foil.

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with the food because in high amounts for some people, aluminum can cause an issue.

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So we're only concerned with mercury, lead, so lead from lead paint.

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There's again, there's lead in ceramics and in paint on, you know, paint in houses, but

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also paint on crafts, on toys, kids toys that are made in China, especially often have lead

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in them.

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When you get a test, when we order a heavy metal test, it comes with the lab report from

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Doctors Data, Doctors Data is the premier lab in the country for testing heavy metals.

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They have the best reliability.

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You know, how do you find that out?

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You take a sample from somebody and send in two samples at different times from the same

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person and see if the results come back the same.

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Well, they've done that with lots of labs around the country and found out that they

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don't come back the same, but the best data, the most reliable lab for testing heavy metals

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is Doctors Data.

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And that's of course the lab that I use.

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And when you get the test back, the report will say, it will say, you know, which metals

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do you have an outsized amount of, an unexpectedly high amount of, and then right on the report

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it also says these are the sources of those metals so that you can identify whether or

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not you're currently still being exposed to them and eliminate that exposure.

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And then we come up with a protocol to help your body flush those things out.

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So I'll talk about the things we use to flush out the metals here a little bit later.

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But here's a case, for example.

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I had a 55 year old man with severe rashes on his hands and his arms and his back.

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But the worst part was his hands and his forearms.

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They were just pink and covered with pussy lesions and it just came, it came on slowly

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initially and it would kind of come and go for a while.

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But then he wanted, by the time he finally tells me about it, they're just covering his

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entire hands and forearms and he's having to wear plastic gloves and it's difficult

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for him to work and it was painful and just really, really irritating.

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And we tested him for heavy metals and his heavy metals came back off the charts and

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I said, you know, it's going to take a while.

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It's going to take a few months to flush out enough heavy metals that it's going to make

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a difference.

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And I recommended an ointment.

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You can never fix something like this by putting any kind of ointment on it by itself.

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But the ointments you get from stores, the cortisol, the steroid creams that are recommended

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for almost any skin condition, very rarely work long term.

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They give short term relief for some things, but they never fix the problem.

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I do have an ointment that's called EpiShield that has an ingredient in it that comes from

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coconuts called monolaurin.

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Monolaurin is an ingredient in human breast milk that helps set up your immune system

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when you're born, when you're breastfeeding.

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And then most of us never get any monolaurin in our diets after that.

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You can get it as a supplement called loracidin, loracidin.com for more information.

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That same company makes an ointment with that same ingredient in it.

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That is very effective on rashes, but usually we have to do both.

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So temporary relief and slight some healing of the tissue by using the ointment for almost

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any skin condition.

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And so, you know, he was really frustrated because a couple of months had gone by and

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he wasn't feeling much better.

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He came in, he was upset.

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He was using some words and I said, I'm sorry, I did tell you that it was probably going

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to take three or four months and that's not two months, that's three or four months.

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So, you know, I gave him, you know, showed him how to, he wasn't using the ointment every

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day.

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I said, you know, use it every day.

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It'll help.

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Ice it.

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And, you know, about three and a half months later, it was almost completely gone.

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And I talked to him, that was about three or four years ago.

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He moved out of state and I talked to him, I don't know, three or four years after this

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had all happened and he was still doing great.

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He never came back.

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So we've had to flush out enough of the heavy metals.

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Your skin is an organ of excretion, an organ of elimination.

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Normally, when we're exposed to toxins and when we just eat things that our body can't

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use to, as nutrients, that becomes waste that we flush out through the kidneys and, and

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to the colon.

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But some toxins and waste are flushed out through the skin, through sweat glands, through

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hair follicles.

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And, you know, that's why we sweat.

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Part of the reason we sweat is to cool the body, but also most of the things that make

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sweat smell are, you know, toxins and other waste that our bodies need to flush out.

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And one of the ways that we all flush out some of that stuff is by sweating through

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the skin.

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So that's why you can test the hair because when you sweat and when your hair follicles

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are growing out, some of the things that your body has been exposed to and is currently

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trying to excrete will be recorded in the hair as it grows out.

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So when we do a hair test, we cut off, we collect a sample that's about the size of

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a teaspoon.

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It depends on how thin or thick your hair is, but about a teaspoon size little pile

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of cuttings of hair.

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We trim it off right at the skin, right at the scalp.

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And we just use the first inch.

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So you need hair that's at least an inch long with no coloring in it.

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When we collect a sample from women, I always tell them they can't put any coloring in their

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hair for two months.

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Most hair grows about a half inch a month.

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We need an inch of clean hair, but you can do that.

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Just not put any coloring in the back of the skull.

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So it's, you know, your hair is usually going to lay down and cover that.

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You won't see the grays.

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And we just do a few little spots so that you never, you know, you don't notice it.

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So we collect the hair, send it into the lab.

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Usually a week to 10 days, we get the results back and it'll show.

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Do you have an outsized amount of arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium, uranium?

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And what is your total toxic burden?

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So the lab also does a weighted average compared to normal healthy people.

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Some of the metals are more toxic than others.

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And depending on the amount that you have and which ones you have, they'll do a weighted

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total toxic burden.

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So this is another metric we can use to compare to later on when we retest to see if you're

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improving.

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And the things that we use to help your body flush out these heavy metals are, well, so

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number one, something anybody can do right now that is a general healthy thing to eat

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because we're all exposed to heavy metals.

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Something that you can eat to help reduce your body burden of heavy metals is cilantro.

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Well cilantro is a very mild, what we call chelator.

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It's a very mild agent to bind and help your body flush out heavy metals.

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But if you love cilantro, eat as much as you can.

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So it takes a lot to have a significant effect.

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And so cilantro helps.

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Much higher on the list from that is also something that anybody can do.

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If you don't mind the taste of super greens, if you like doing a greens shake or any kind

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of super greens drink, greens juice, that kind of thing, then the best one to do is

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chlorella.

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Chlorella is a blue-green algae, kind of like spirulina.

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And it's mostly chlorophyll, so it tastes like any other green juice, like wheatgrass

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juice or oatgrass juice.

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But chlorella has benefits that the grass juices and even spirulina does not.

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It is much more effective at helping your body flush out toxic heavy metals.

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And so if you like doing a shake in the morning, go to nuts.com.

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It's a website that sells nuts, like almonds and cashews, but also all of the superfood

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nutrients that you can make your own shakes with, protein powders, et cetera.

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Nuts.com is where I send people to get top quality chlorella powder.

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That's a good thing to put in a shake for anyone.

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And that's one of the first things I recommend to somebody once we test them and identify

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a heavy metal burden to help flush that out.

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Next up from that, there is a chelating agent called DMSA.

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So that's a whole other conversation, but that is just one of the other nutrients that

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can help flush out heavy metals that I've used in the office over the years.

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There are several others.

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There's new things coming out all the time.

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Another one is called pectisol, which is modified citrus pectin.

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This is also a powder that you just mix with water.

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And there are several others.

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New things coming out all the time.

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I haven't had enough experience with some of these other ones to promote them yet, but

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I am studying several other nutrients that I've seen research about recently.

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And so I'll let you know more about those when I find out and confirm that they work

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well.

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So we've talked about heavy metal toxicity needs to be considered anytime you have something

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wrong with your brain, depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment, dementia, brain fog,

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dizziness, autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto's, low thyroid, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple

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sclerosis, psoriasis, obesity.

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So if you have a weight gain or just the inability to lose that last 10, 20, 30 pounds for no

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apparent reason, it is often because your body is storing toxic heavy metals in fat

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cells that it can't get rid of.

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So we're about out of time.

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We'll come back and I'll do another episode next week continuing on heavy metals.

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I'm Dr. Todd Benkley.

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