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with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura.
Now here's Dr. Todd.
Good afternoon, I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, practitioner of functional medicine and non-force doctor
of chiropractic.
Do you know somebody who has depression or anxiety, attention indefinite disorder, cognitive
impairment, dementia, brain fog, dizziness, one of the autoimmune conditions like multiple
sclerosis or lupus or Hashimoto's thyroiditis, low thyroid from autoimmunity or rheumatoid
arthritis, one of the inflammatory gut conditions.
You know somebody that has weight that they can't get rid of or fatigue that is unexplained.
These are all things that can be caused or dramatically aggravated or contributed to
by exposure to toxic heavy metals.
Last week's episode was all about heavy metal toxicity.
This week's episode is a continuation of that.
We're going to talk some more about heavy metal toxicity, exposure to and body burden
of lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium and uranium.
These things are called heavy metals because they weigh more and they persist more in your
system than other types of metals, other minerals.
And there is no safe level of these things and we're all exposed to them but we're exposed
to varying amounts of them.
We're not all exposed to the same amount.
We all vary in our genetic capacity to flush these things out as we're exposed to them
and we all vary in the amount of regular intake of essential nutrients, especially essential
minerals like zinc and chromium and iron and magnesium and calcium, etc.
Essential minerals that are important for all aspects of our health are also important
for flushing out heavy metals.
You need more of certain essential minerals to flush out the bad heavy metals.
So if you're not getting them, then you could be exposed to the same amount of lead or mercury
or arsenic as someone right next to you working at the same job with the same toxic exposure,
for example, and you get sicker than them because you're not flushing the stuff out
as fast as they are.
How much water you drink every day can even contribute to that.
So it's a complex thing and that's why we do testing.
Everybody's different.
The only way to know for sure what your body is burdened with is to do a test for heavy
metals, which is either a hair test or a urine test.
The lab, the best lab in the country to do that testing, the most reliable that I've
been using for 25 years or so is doctors data.
We either collect a hair sample or urine sample, send it in the lab, and a week to 10 days
we get the results back and find out what is in your system.
What amounts of these things is your body flushing out?
It's a little bit different than a blood test.
You can't directly measure the amount of these things in your body like you can measure something
in the blood.
You can measure them.
They do blood tests for lead and mercury, but they're kind of useless.
They're only going to have a significant amount of lead in your bloodstream if you're in one
of those places like Flint, Michigan, where there's just dramatic amounts of it in the
water or you're having some kind of acute exposure from being in the military or working
in some kind of an industry with heavy exposure, ceramics manufacturer, certain construction
materials like tile has a lot of heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, lead in the glazes
on tiles and sometimes in the ceramics themselves.
So these heavy metals, why are they in all of these things?
Heavy metals make beautiful colors in paint, cadmium red.
I think it's uranium that's in yellow.
I forget which is in which, but really beautiful colors of tile and oil paints for artists.
Colorful paints that they paint toys from China, especially are notorious for having
lead in them.
And then heavy metals also make glazes and finishes, paints, any kind of material that
you use to finish something, a surface of something.
They make those things harder.
They make tiles themselves harder, less likely to crack or break, just like leaded glass
was harder.
Leaded glass, which you don't want to drink out of, especially any warm liquid out of
because it's more likely to leach the lead out or drink anything acidic like orange juice
or tomato juice out of a leaded glass because it's likely to pull.
It is a crystal, so leaded glass isn't a common huge source of exposure to lead, but I'm just
using it to illustrate a point.
So industries put these heavy metals in things purposefully on purpose because they make
things harder.
So the only way to find out your body burden of these things is to be tested.
So when we test, you get the results back and we do specific things to help you flush
these things out, like chlorella I talked about last week.
Anyone can go to nuts.com, which is a website that sells nuts, N-U-T-S dot com.
But nuts.com is great because they have really high quality products that are in vacuum sealed
bags, fresh, reasonable prices, a pound of chlorella.
I used to sell chlorella in capsules.
A bottle of 90 or 100 capsules was a little over $20.
You can get an entire pound of chlorella powder, top quality powder in a vacuum sealed pack,
stays fresh for $18.
So I encourage anybody who's willing to and interested in as just a general health habit,
who's willing to do a greens juice, if you're already making some kind of protein shake
in the morning and you want to add a little something extra to it, or if you like, if
you've already bought some kind of super greens powder from the health food store, or you
like drinking wheat grass shots or any green juice, use chlorella powder instead because
it has all the benefits of any other greens juice, protein, lots of minerals.
Chlorella is almost 60% protein by weight.
Most forms it varies a little bit.
It's always over 50%.
It's usually in the order of 58%, 59% protein.
I've seen some sources test it up to almost 80%.
Anyways, there's a lot of protein in it and every mineral known to man, all the minerals
that you need, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, selenium, chromium.
So all the big five main minerals and all the trace minerals, almost all of them are
in chlorella in abundance.
So it's just a good extra thing to add to your diet, if you like, and ongoingly flush out
the inevitable exposure to lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and uranium that we're all
exposed to.
So here's a case.
I had a man with, a 35 year old man with debilitating dizziness, nausea, and some neck pain.
He'd been to the ER five times in the previous four months.
He would wake up and have to sit on the edge of his bed for a half hour, 20 to 30 minutes
to wait for the room to stop spinning.
He would get up and feel like he was drunk and he didn't drink at all, ever.
And he was eating a pretty good diet, was a fit, healthy man, had a great job.
And I did an extensive case history on him and he insisted that he had not been exposed
to any, he couldn't, he wasn't aware of any exposure to chemical toxins.
But I had a pretty good idea for some other things that he said in his case history that
he was probably exposed to heavy metals and we tested him for him.
And I also tested him for chemical toxins and mold toxins because he was a mess.
He had MRIs, CAT scans, he'd been to a neurologist.
The neurologist told him to see a psychiatrist.
He really appreciated that.
It was in his head, it was in his brain, but it wasn't a psychological condition.
It was heavy metals in his brain.
So your brain is the most sensitive organ to any nutrient deficiency and any toxic exposure.
And mercury and lead and aluminum and some other toxic metals are actually stored in
the fat of your brain tissue.
When your body has an acute exposure to any heavy metal or any other toxin, that it can't
figure out how to flush out of it.
And immediately it will endeavor to flush as much of it out as it can through the kidneys
and the colon, just like it flushes out all other ways.
When you go to the bathroom, you're getting rid of that stuff through the kidneys and
the colon.
But what your body cannot flush out for whatever reason, the reason that heavy metals are bad,
it's usually trace amounts.
It's tiny amounts of them that you're exposed to, but your body has a great difficulty flushing
them out through the normal means.
And so after they're floating around, creating havoc, irritating your immune system and interfering
with metabolism of other nutrients, burdening your body, your body's smart.
It knows that these things, you need to get this stuff out of your gut and out of your
bloodstream so it shoves them into fat cells.
What it cannot get rid of, it's still circulating around in your bloodstream, re-exposing all
of your cells, especially your brain, not good.
Your body's smart.
It will shove those toxins into fat cells to get them out of circulation.
The problem with that is then they stay there, stuck in those fat cells forever.
Long-term small amounts of it come out when you sweat, but a lot of it just gets stuck
there forever and that's the way it doesn't show up on a blood test.
You're only going to see acute exposure.
Anybody who says, oh, I did a blood test.
I don't have any heavy metals.
Well, that's ridiculous because they're not in your blood.
The burden that you carry from long-term exposure, which is everyone has long-term exposure,
they're unavoidable in the environment.
That only shows up on a hair test or a urine test.
The hair test measures what your body's excreting from fat cells through your skin.
The urine test, using a chelating agent, can directly bind to these things that are stored
in fat cells and escort them to the kidneys where they're flushed out and will show up
in the urine.
Once you identify your body burden, then you can take things like chlorella, things like
modified citrospectin, extra nutrients.
There are specific combinations of mainly minerals, also some B vitamins that compete
for binding sites and help your body flush out the bad minerals.
For example, iodine competes with uranium.
You may have heard after the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, there was a scarcity, a shortage,
a run on iodine supplements all over the world.
People were buying up iodine because it helps your body flush out and protect your thyroid
and other tissues that have a lot of iodine.
Breast tissue in women has a lot of iodine in it.
Taking extra iodine can protect your thyroid and other body, your brain, other tissues,
help reduce your risk of getting cancer from that exposure.
It doesn't protect you from radiation, it just protects you from the effects of uranium.
There are several other examples that are different.
That's why we do the testing.
You may need some extra minerals in addition to eating a healthy diet and taking a good
multivitamin.
That's one of the reasons I recommend that everyone take a good multivitamin because
the minerals in a good four caps of a day absorbable bioavailable mineral product will
also help your body flush out these metals that we're all exposed to all the time.
So we come up with a strategy to flush those things out and then retest.
It usually takes about six months to see a difference on a hair test or urine test, sometimes
a year.
It's a slow process and you don't want to flush these things out too fast.
If you've ever heard of somebody doing some kind of a cleanse that they heard about somewhere,
oh, I'm going to do a liver cleanse or I got this powder I'm going to take every day for
a week or 10 days or a month.
Sometimes those things are good, but without testing it can be dangerous.
The bottom line is you don't want to put these things are in storage in fat cells.
To remove them, you have to pull them out of the fat cells into your bloodstream where
they will expose healthy cells to the damaging effects of those heavy metals until they're
eliminated until they're flushed out through the kidneys and the colon, or you can directly
flush them out by sweating.
So anytime you take something that's going to help your body flush out these toxins,
you have to remember that it's pulling them out of storage in fat cells where they will
enter your bloodstream and be in your bloodstream for hopefully just a few hours.
Or if you're doing it incorrectly, then they can persist in your bloodstream for days or
longer.
That's not good.
And so that's the name of the game is you only want to pull this stuff out as fast as
you can then excrete it.
So you pull it out of fat cells, it's in your little bloodstream for a few hours, a little
bit longer, and then flushed out, eliminated through urine and feces.
So if you try to pull it out too fast, it can make you sick.
And you can feel that.
And sometimes we have to adjust doses accordingly when, if and when that happens.
So that's why it's a slow process.
That's why it takes six months to a year, sometimes two years to totally reduce to a
minimum level your body's exposure to heavy metals.
Usually if we do a hair test, that's a simple test.
It doesn't require a chelating agent.
It's less expensive than doing the urine test, which you always have to do two.
You have to get a baseline before you use the chelating agent that pulls them out of
storage and then a second one to compare it to.
Anyway, I often do hair tests, hair tests on people to identify it.
With that, you always have to do at least three tests inevitably because the goal is
to increase excretion.
So when we do initial tests, we see what's coming out now.
It's usually six months later.
Sometimes a year we do another test and we expect to see increased amount of things coming
out.
We've been giving your body extra nutrients so it can flush out whatever's in there.
So we expect to see some of the things on the test result to go up because the test
is measuring what you're excreting, what you're flushing out that's showing up in your hair,
what you're flushing out through the hair follicles and sweat glands in the skin.
And then we do a third test to see, to make sure that it's gone up and then come back
down.
So we have to see an amount.
It either go down or we need to see what usually happens as it will go up first as it's more
is flushing out and then it will go down.
And then we know we've totally reduced your total body burden.
And if it's gone up and down, but still high, obviously we need to continue sometimes test
a fourth time, whatever it takes and whatever time it takes to get the as much flushed out
as possible slowly and safely.
I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.
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Who do you know that has some of these symptoms, who has a weight that they can't get rid of
or unexplained fatigue?
So this, this, I started talking about this 35 year old man a little bit while ago, been
to the hospital several times.
Nobody could figure out what was causing his debilitating dizziness.
And I did, he had, he even had an MRI done on his brain and it was clear.
Well, I did a second MRI with contrast and the MRI with contrast showed that he had a
thickening of the mucosa, the lining of his intestines.
I'm sorry, of his sinuses, thickening of the lining of the sinuses, the mucosa of the sinuses
right above the bottom of the, the sinuses right on top of the brain.
So right next to the brain where he's inhaling the part of your brain where the sensors are
for the sense of smell, the nerve endings for the sense of smell, the tissue around
that was thickened.
Well, the only thing that causes that is inhaling something that irritates that tissue over
and over and over again.
And chronic exposure to something that's irritating that tissue is what will cause it to become
inflamed and thickened.
And so we did some further testing and identified there's this tremendous exposure to chemical
mold and heavy metal toxins.
We put him on a program to help his body flush those things out, including chlorella and
a bunch of nutrients and pectinol, some modified citrus pectin and a few other things to help
his body heal and repair damaged cells and the inflammation to his brain and flush out
the heavy metals.
And, you know, for about month, month and a half, he felt no different.
It was, you know, he had to, I told him, you're going to have to be patient.
You can't get these, you can't just pull these things out instantly.
But after about six weeks, he started to feel a lot better.
He was able to go back to work.
It would take less time for the dizziness to go away.
And after about three months, it was almost gone.
He still had a little bit of lingering nausea and his a little bit of problem with some
inflammation in his gut that, you know, about six months later, everything was completely
gone.
But, you know, he was he was feeling almost as good as new after about three months.
And that's partly because he was otherwise fit and healthy because he had a lot of exposure
to these toxins.
And it definitely we definitely did not get rid of all the toxins that he needed to get
rid of.
He's still working on flushing some of that stuff out.
But people have this you everyone listening is has lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium and
uranium in your body.
I've never tested anyone who had zero.
It just doesn't happen.
It's ubiquitous in the environment.
We can't avoid it.
But if you just reduce the burden, it's when you have a lot of it or when you have an extra
amount of it that's getting flushed around in your bloodstream or building up in your
brain or some other part of your body that's causing symptoms.
If we just reduce it, you know, an amount.
I don't know what the percentage may be 10, 15, 20 percent.
It's very difficult to quantify that.
But the bottom line is we don't have to fly.
You hear me saying, oh, it takes a year or two to completely reduce your body burden
to a minimum.
It doesn't take that long to feel better.
When somebody has exposure to these things and we identify a burden of heavy toxic heavy
metals on testing, it usually takes two, three months before you start feeling noticeably
better or significantly better.
And, you know, on average, you know, somewhere between three and six months, sometimes a
little bit longer to feel basically feel as good as new.
It still takes time to ongoingly after that, continuing to take some things to flush out
the metals and follow up testing to make sure that you're as clean as you want to be and
need to be.
So obesity, people who have unexplained weight gain or who are eating a good diet and exercising
and just can't lose that last 10, 20, 30 pounds is a lot of time.
A lot of times the reason for that is because those extra fat cells, wherever they are in
your body, it tends to be the hardest part to shift is usually around the belly, the
abdomen.
That's the worst fat also.
For a whole bunch of reasons, it's a subject of a whole other talk because those fat cells
in your gut are the worst ones because they produce hormones that wreak havoc throughout
your body and affect your brain.
And a lot of times you can't lose that last few pounds because those fat cells are full
of heavy metals.
And if you test, identify, test to identify those heavy metals and get on a program to
flush those heavy metals out, now your body doesn't need those fat cells anymore to store,
to keep them out of circulation.
You get rid of the toxic heavy metals, you don't need those fat cells anymore.
You lose that weight.
I've seen that many, many, many times with people.
Fatigue.
Fatigue is never caused by one thing.
It's always caused by a half a dozen things.
But anytime somebody's fatigued for no reason, like they've suddenly just had a comparative
lack of energy now compared to two years ago, five years ago, with no explanation.
They didn't do anything different.
They didn't expose themselves to anything.
They haven't been sick.
They just have low energy for no reason.
Heavy metals, chemical and mold toxins are always part of the picture with a patient
like that.
Getting those things flushed out makes all the difference.
That 35-year-old man I talked about earlier also had significant fatigue.
He just wasn't barely able to do his job.
That all went away after about, you know, went away significantly after about three
months and went away completely after about six months on a program to help flush out
the heavy metals.
So one last patient I love talking about.
I had a 70-year-old man who was having memory loss.
His wife especially noticed it.
And that's very difficult.
I've got several episodes on dementia, Alzheimer's.
Look at my podcast feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify.
My past episodes are on YouTube.
They're on my website, binkleyhealingcenter.com.
If you go to any of those places, please like my podcast there and share it with someone.
Leave a comment and tell others.
I appreciate that.
Get the message out.
So this 74-year-old man with memory loss, it wasn't terrible and that was the reason
it worked.
So he didn't have significant memory loss.
You know, he wasn't diagnosed with, he was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment,
which is, you know, early signs of some dementia.
And I put him on a high dose of fish oil, some other basic nutrients, and we did testing
for heavy metals.
And after he'd been tested for that before, it kind of happened at the same time.
We'd already tested them for heavy metals for other reasons.
And when his wife noticed that the signs of the memory loss were sort of becoming more
noticeable, we were already on his second test for metals, flushing more metals out.
More were coming out.
And so we adjusted some of his doses on things and continued.
And about six months to a year later, we dramatically proved that his body burden of toxic heavy
metals was dramatically lower and his wife noticed a significant difference in his memory
loss, his forgetfulness, and the other signs that you always see in a situation like that.
So she was very happy.
We dramatically reduced his signs at a late age, which is very difficult to do.
So everybody's different.
It's not a slam dunk.
Not everyone who reduces their body burden of heavy metals is going to reverse memory
loss, but they might.
That's always something we look for.
If you have it, it's definitely worth doing because it often does help.
I'm Dr. Todd Bankley.
You've been listening to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions.
As a reminder, most of the conditions I talk about on this show are caused by stress and
identifiable nutrient deficiencies, identifiable on tests, by insufficient good food, by insufficient
moving of your body, and general neglect.
So if you want to be truly healthy, you have to take responsibility for your own health,
but you do not have to do it on your own.
I am here to help.
I'd be honored to help you restore health and longevity.
I loved one of yours.
It's having one of these conditions.
Send me your conditions, your questions about various conditions.
I love helping people with questions, providing information that you can use to take control
of your health and live long and live well.
Tune in here next Friday at 4 p.m. and check out my past episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts,
YouTube, and my website, binkleyhealingcenter.com.
Remember, do something today to be a little healthier than you were yesterday.
Go for a walk.
Eat some more fresh festivals.
Call your mother or your brother or your granddaughter or that friend that you haven't spoken to
in years.
When you forgive someone, that is for your benefit, not theirs.
It is to reduce your stress, but of course it probably will benefit them as well.
Have an awesome weekend.
I look forward to speaking with you right here next Friday at 4 p.m.
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