1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,300 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 3 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:14,700 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:15,700 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:21,300 I am Dr. Todd Binkley, non-force chiropractor and practitioner of functional medicine. 6 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:27,360 Functional medicine means using diagnostic tests to identify places where normal health, 7 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,240 normal function, the normal function of your kidney, your liver, your immune system, and 8 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,440 other parts of your body is no longer working the way it should be. 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:40,080 Instead of just waiting until you need medical care to treat disease that you already have, 10 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,880 perhaps even in an advanced state before you know it. 11 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:50,400 And one of the most common things that people come to me for is fatigue, unexplained exhaustion, 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:56,560 lack of energy for no apparent reason, and there is always a way to improve your energy. 13 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:57,920 Patients always show up on tests. 14 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:58,920 It's never one thing. 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,480 In my experience, I'm going to talk about a really great case of a woman who was just 16 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,760 having really debilitating fatigue, had been to several other doctors, no one could help 17 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,480 her and we've got her feeling a whole lot better. 18 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:16,800 But before I do that, I'm going to go over some of the latest updates in the medical 19 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:17,800 literature. 20 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,400 This one's really exciting. 21 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,800 The headline is cholesterol denialism. 22 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,940 Is it pseudoscience or appropriate medical care? 23 00:01:25,940 --> 00:01:30,140 So there's this controversy that's been going on where someone wrote into a major medical 24 00:01:30,140 --> 00:01:36,280 journal saying that it's ridiculous people who say that everyone shouldn't be on statin 25 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,280 drugs. 26 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,800 Statin drugs are the most common cholesterol lowering drugs like Lipitor, Atorvastatin, 27 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:49,900 Zocor, Simvastatin, and many in the medical profession, if you go by how they practice, 28 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:55,560 just basically think almost everyone should be taking these drugs to, in theory, prevent 29 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,080 heart disease. 30 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:03,440 And there's a vocal, increasingly a growing and vocal minority in the medical profession 31 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:10,200 and especially natural health community that suggests that no, not everybody needs to be 32 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,200 on statins. 33 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,840 Even people that are at risk of heart disease, there are better alternatives and it doesn't 34 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,560 make sense to put everyone on statin. 35 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,240 So of course, somebody wrote an article saying this is ridiculous. 36 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:22,480 Everyone should be on statin drugs. 37 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,660 That's an abbreviation of the first article. 38 00:02:24,660 --> 00:02:30,360 So this latest article is written by two doctors who happen to have a different opinion. 39 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:36,880 So John Abramson, MD, retired family physician who is an expert in pharmaceutical litigation, 40 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:42,520 and Dr. Robert Kaplan, PhD, who's a researcher and an expert in clinical research standards. 41 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:48,040 And they begin by agreeing with the cardiologist that wrote the original article that for some 42 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:53,920 people at high risk who had heart attacks or strokes before that statins are beneficial. 43 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:59,160 There is some research to support that, but they go on to point out that people who are 44 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:05,680 not at high risk for heart disease, who take statin drugs, the benefit is modest at best. 45 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,460 And they cite data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey that shows 46 00:03:10,460 --> 00:03:14,800 that nearly two thirds of people who are using statins are not at high risk. 47 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,600 And they cite the 2022 systematic review and meta analysis. 48 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,080 This is when a bunch of studies are aggregated to see if there's a trend that was done by 49 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:29,440 the US Preventative Services Task Force that included 12 studies on statin therapy for 50 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,520 primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. 51 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:39,000 None demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in cardiovascular mortality. 52 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,800 Point out how these findings are consistent with several other investigations, including 53 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:49,920 the internationally respected nonprofit Cochrane Libraries publication in 2011 of a systematic 54 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,160 review. 55 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:56,140 That concluded, quote, only limited evidence showed that primary prevention with statins 56 00:03:56,140 --> 00:04:00,280 may be cost effective and improve patient quality of life. 57 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,840 And caution should be taken in prescribing statins for primary prevention among people 58 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,220 at low cardiovascular risk. 59 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:13,680 So even among cardiologists and mainstream medical professionals, there is a lot of disagreement 60 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,760 on who and how many people and how early and how often and how much statin drugs people 61 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,400 should take to attempt to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease. 62 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:24,400 So why is that? 63 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:30,720 Well, in 1994, a cholesterol treatment trial collaboration was established with the goal 64 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,640 of aggregating the data across all these major trials to add more information about subgroups 65 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:42,440 like women and the elderly and increase the potential relevancy, clinical relevancy of 66 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,640 the data by pooling, which is similar to the pooled trials that I was talking about just 67 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:48,640 a minute ago. 68 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,840 But even on a grander scale, well, here's the rub. 69 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:56,560 They agreed to pool all this data, but the investigators in the studies, all but one 70 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:02,680 of which were funded by pharmaceutical makers, provided confidential individual level trial 71 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:03,680 data. 72 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:04,680 But there was a catch. 73 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,640 Before receiving the data, this group agreed that it would be held in strict confidence 74 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:13,560 and would not be used in any publication, quote, without the permission of the responsible 75 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:14,560 trialists. 76 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:19,200 In practical terms, that means that nobody outside this group would be given the opportunity 77 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,440 to verify and replicate the results. 78 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:28,020 So in the age of open science, peer reviewers, guideline writers, and independent analysts 79 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:33,840 have been denied access to the data that might resolve these differences of opinion. 80 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:39,260 We close with this, the preferences of those who choose to reject statin therapy must be 81 00:05:39,260 --> 00:05:40,680 respected. 82 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:45,640 Doctors who engage in high quality informed shared decision making are delivering optimal 83 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,080 patient care. 84 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:53,040 Those are the words of Dr. John Abramson, MD and Master of Science, practiced as a family 85 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:58,840 doctor for 22 years and served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for 25 years. 86 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:03,140 And as an unpaid consultant to the Department of Justice and the FBI, he's written two books 87 00:06:03,140 --> 00:06:07,760 about the commercial takeover of knowledge doctors must rely on, the most recent of which 88 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:14,280 is Sickening, How Big Pharma Broke American Medicine and How We Can Repair It. 89 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:18,320 And the other author of the data I've been talking about today is Robert Kaplan, PhD, 90 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:24,260 who's a senior scholar at Stanford University's Clinical Excellence Research Center and a 91 00:06:24,260 --> 00:06:29,400 former associate director of the National Institutes of Health. 92 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,400 So in spite of all that, most medical doctors are going to tell most of their patients that 93 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,680 they should be taking statin drugs and there's lots of reasons for that. 94 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,680 Not all of them good. 95 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:43,800 The main point for you is there's other, there's better ways to prevent your, to reduce your 96 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,480 cholesterol but even more importantly, reduce your risk of heart disease because those two 97 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:48,480 aren't the same thing. 98 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,720 I've listened to my other podcasts about heart disease, cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease, 99 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,320 inflammation causes heart disease, cholesterol is part of the process of dealing with the 100 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,840 inflammation in your blood vessels that leads to the formation of plaques that cause heart 101 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:06,680 attacks and strokes and there's other ways to prevent that even without lowering your 102 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,020 cholesterol. 103 00:07:08,020 --> 00:07:13,280 So email me if you have questions about that with a single product called Bergamot BPF, 104 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:14,520 my orthomolecular products. 105 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:20,840 I've routinely seen people lower their total and their bad LDL cholesterol by 25, 30 points, 106 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:26,800 have had a few patients that have reduced it by 40 or 50 points, one even up to 70 points 107 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:33,040 by taking that product and eating some decent diet and getting a little bit of exercise. 108 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,160 So it's important number one to know that there are real alternatives to preventing 109 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,520 heart disease, for preventing heart disease and lowering your cholesterol but also statins 110 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,200 cause real harms. 111 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:48,640 The way statin drugs work is by putting a chemical clamp on your liver and in the process 112 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:55,360 that same HMOQ reductase enzyme pathway that's blocked in the liver stops the, produces the 113 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:03,600 production of coenzyme Q10 which is coenzyme Q10 is the most important enzyme for healing 114 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,220 and repairing heart muscle and muscle throughout your body. 115 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:11,280 That's why the main side effect, one of the main side effects if not the main side effect 116 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,080 of statin cholesterol lowering drugs is muscle aches and pains. 117 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:20,600 Well you can do a blood test to see if it's also suppressing the production of adequate 118 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,280 amounts of coenzyme Q10. 119 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,480 CoQ10 is the main enzyme you need to heal and repair heart muscle. 120 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:33,680 So all these doctors are giving people the cholesterol lowering statin drugs to prevent 121 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:39,320 heart disease and at the same time impairing the production of the natural enzyme your 122 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,920 body makes to keep your heart healthy and strong, coQ10. 123 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:49,100 So you can test that with a blood test that directly measures coQ10 in your blood or more 124 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:52,160 importantly a test called BNP. 125 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:59,400 Backed about this test a lot of my previous shows before BNP, Bob, Nancy, Paul, it stands 126 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,680 for B type natriuretic peptide. 127 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:07,240 This measures stress on your heart and if you have high stress on your heart, if that 128 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:13,540 number on that test goes up the solution to it is to simply supplement with higher doses 129 00:09:13,540 --> 00:09:21,000 of coenzyme Q10 which is a direct way to reduce your risk of heart disease and document that 130 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,680 it's happening. 131 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:27,160 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley and you're listening to Safe Effective Natural Solutions to Almost 132 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:28,160 Any Health Challenge. 133 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,840 I promised I'm going to talk about an excellent case of a woman who came to me with fatigue 134 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:40,120 today but before I get into the specifics I just you know I ask you ask yourself or 135 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,220 people that you know do you have you noticed people that are having fatigue feel tired 136 00:09:44,220 --> 00:09:48,200 all the time for no apparent reason and then maybe they've been to the doctor already and 137 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,640 have been told the tests are normal. 138 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:56,320 Well is that is that really true all are your tests normal do as your doctor even done all 139 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,800 the tests necessary to identify the potential causes of fatigue. 140 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:06,480 Well short answer to that is no because there's almost never a single cause of lack of energy 141 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:07,480 or fatigue. 142 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:13,720 It's almost always caused by a half a dozen or more sometimes a dozen or more little things 143 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,840 that are contributing to it. 144 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,960 So why shouldn't you have all the energy you used to have. 145 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:24,640 Well a lot of people think you know I eat right exercise I drink plenty of coffee my 146 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:26,920 energy should be great. 147 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,160 I guess I'll just have to get used to it. 148 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:34,320 Well in reality lots of people eat really good food fresh veggies farm raised chicken 149 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:40,480 wild caught fish go to the gym drink good water and still feel exhausted. 150 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:45,840 So a lot of people also think you know it's totally normal to not have all the energy 151 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,800 I used to have everyone slows down as they get older. 152 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:51,840 Well that's not true either. 153 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,760 Most in reality most fatigue is caused by as I just mentioned several little things 154 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,860 that can be measured on testing. 155 00:10:58,860 --> 00:11:04,060 So as an example one of the most recent patients who came to me is having unexplained fatigue. 156 00:11:04,060 --> 00:11:05,060 She's doing everything right. 157 00:11:05,060 --> 00:11:06,060 She's eating pretty well. 158 00:11:06,060 --> 00:11:07,060 She looks great. 159 00:11:07,060 --> 00:11:08,060 She's exercising. 160 00:11:08,060 --> 00:11:09,060 She's happy. 161 00:11:09,060 --> 00:11:10,400 She's got a job she loves. 162 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,160 She's busy but she likes being busy. 163 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:17,740 And for just the last couple of years her energy is half of what it used to be and there's 164 00:11:17,740 --> 00:11:20,720 no apparent reason for it none that she can find anyway. 165 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,760 And she has been she had been to another doctor who told her that you know all of her tests 166 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:25,840 were normal. 167 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:30,880 Well when I tested her number one I do a lot more tests than most doctors do and I identified 168 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,720 a whole bunch of things that were contributing to her fatigue. 169 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:39,840 She had borderline anemia from insufficient vitamin B12 and folic acid. 170 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:45,040 Now I didn't even determine this by measuring or testing directly for these vitamins. 171 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,760 All often patients will come in and some of their doctors will have tested folate and 172 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:49,880 B12 levels in the blood. 173 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,120 But that's not actually the best way to do it. 174 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:57,520 It's much better to look at a complete blood count because when your body is deficient 175 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:02,080 and folate and B12 your red blood cells get bigger. 176 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:07,880 Red blood cells live for about three months and if you're not if your bone marrow isn't 177 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:13,360 getting sufficient folate and B12 to make adequate numbers of new red blood cells according 178 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:19,400 to demand whatever demand you're putting on it then the old red blood cells that are you 179 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,120 know working their way through their lifespan get bigger to take up the slack. 180 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,440 So that is a classic sign of deficiency of folate and B12. 181 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,800 And then the other of course the other most common cause of anemia which was part of the 182 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,720 case in this patient as well. 183 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:39,920 Any any menstruating woman who's not supplementing iron especially if their flow is heavy is 184 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:44,080 going to be functionally iron deficient even if they go to the doctor and they tell them 185 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:45,080 that they're not anemic. 186 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,960 Well if they're if they're losing blood and they're not replacing it they're going to 187 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:54,560 be functionally anemic and it will show up when you look at the healthy ranges the functional 188 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:59,660 ranges the ranges on standard blood tests that not the broad ranges that are used to 189 00:12:59,660 --> 00:13:04,440 determine whether or not you need a medical procedure or a drug or some kind of medical 190 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,340 follow up or specialist that day. 191 00:13:06,340 --> 00:13:11,480 But the functional ranges the measure for normal human physiology normal function any 192 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,720 menstruating woman who's not supplementing iron to replace the iron she's losing in that 193 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:19,080 blood is going to be functionally anemic. 194 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:20,740 And a lot of women know this. 195 00:13:20,740 --> 00:13:24,720 This is the other thing I hear so many times have heard so many times over the past 30 196 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,000 plus years in practice. 197 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,160 Oh I know that I need to take more iron but I can't it makes me constipated or it gives 198 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,600 me nausea or stomach upset. 199 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,800 Well that the reason that's true is because ninety nine point nine percent of folate and 200 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,280 B12 I'm sorry of iron supplements. 201 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:46,240 Ninety nine point nine percent of iron supplements on the market are iron or ferrous sulfate 202 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,840 iron sulfate which really no one should take because it's just very difficult to absorb 203 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,920 that and it and it causes nausea and cramping and other issues. 204 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,280 But no but that's you know that is not the only option. 205 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:06,600 Iron bis the bis glycinate B I S G L Y C I N A T E bis glycinate the bis glycinate form 206 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:07,600 of iron. 207 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:12,980 I've been giving to women for dozens of years and I haven't had a single one who had any 208 00:14:12,980 --> 00:14:14,240 problems taking it. 209 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,140 No constipation no stomach upset no nausea. 210 00:14:17,140 --> 00:14:21,840 So any woman can take iron supplements if they need it if they take the right kind. 211 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:27,000 The product I use is usually that's not the only one available but the one that that I 212 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:33,320 always have in my office is also made by orthomolecular products it's called reacted iron. 213 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:39,160 In addition to these two forms of mild anemia this woman also had borderline low thyroid 214 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:44,440 the thing I see all the time as well as a lower than normal white blood cell count. 215 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:49,360 White blood cells are essential for fighting off and healing infections and a lot of times 216 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:54,320 you have a chronic infection in your gut and your sinuses or in your gums that you don't 217 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:55,320 even know about. 218 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,880 Well you usually know about it if it's in your sinuses or your gums but lots of people 219 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:03,880 have too many bad bugs and not enough good bugs in their gut and do not know it because 220 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:08,020 it may not cause any symptoms at all except fatigue. 221 00:15:08,020 --> 00:15:12,160 So this can show up the lower white cell count will show up on the test on the blood test 222 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:16,960 panel that I do on everyone and specific types of the red blood cell white blood cells may 223 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:21,760 also be lowered and that shows that your immune system is being challenged. 224 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:27,280 Well not surprisingly I also test vitamin D levels on every single patient and most 225 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:32,440 people who end up having that lowered white cell count also have low levels of vitamin 226 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:39,800 D. Your immune system is dependent upon adequate levels of vitamin D. The standard dose for 227 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:46,080 most adults for functional range to keep your immune system strong is 5000 units of vitamin 228 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,740 D a day. 229 00:15:47,740 --> 00:15:54,000 If you're a white woman who weighs less than 120 pounds then 4000 might be enough but even 230 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:59,600 children that weigh over 50 or 60 pounds I often recommend they take 5000 units of vitamin 231 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:06,120 D a day to keep not just your bones but your heart your brain and especially your immune 232 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,040 system strong and functioning at its peak. 233 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:17,360 So we identified you know four, iron and folate and B12 deficiency, iron deficiency, vitamin 234 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:23,520 D deficiency, borderline low thyroid, anachronic infection of some kind we don't even know 235 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:28,400 what the infection is but just giving this woman some nutrients to build up her immune 236 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:33,520 system restore her vitamin D levels to where they where they should be between 50 and 90 237 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:39,760 on the test and healthy levels of vitamin D on the standard test should be between 50 238 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,660 and 90 whereas most doctors will tell you you're fine if it's above 30. 239 00:16:44,660 --> 00:16:50,560 So we gave her some supplements to deal with these deficiencies made sure that she was 240 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:55,000 well she was actually you know not doing as much exercise as she used to do because of 241 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,180 the fatigue hello it's not easy to exercise when you don't have any energy. 242 00:16:59,180 --> 00:17:04,960 So after four months of taking some supplements she started actually through I forget what 243 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:08,520 she said it was halfway through or three quarters of the way through maybe a month two or three 244 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,960 she started exercising a lot more because she had the energy to do it and that just 245 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,400 and you know it makes everything work better. 246 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,200 So she's happy feeling good now has all the energy to do the things that she wants to 247 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,680 do and she said you know I feel like a new person. 248 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:28,420 I said at the top of the show that fatigue is one of the most common things people come 249 00:17:28,420 --> 00:17:33,140 to me for and I've just I've helped hundreds and hundreds of people identify what's causing 250 00:17:33,140 --> 00:17:38,100 their fatigue so that they can correct it and have healthy levels of energy without 251 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:42,920 resorting to stimulants or other things that don't really give you energy they just you 252 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:47,320 know they give you a false sense of energy without actually improving it without improving 253 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,640 your own body's ability to make its own energy normal which is the way you want to do it. 254 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:56,880 So if you know someone who has fatigue please have them give me shoot me an email. 255 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:01,160 You can even check out another website in addition to my regular website Binkley Healing 256 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,600 Center dot com. 257 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:08,640 I set up a separate website just for fatigue with information about fatigue called fatigue 258 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,920 free living dot com. 259 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:16,360 Fatigue free living dot com is a great place to send people that you know who are having 260 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:21,140 fatigue and want to know how I might address it and you know understand better about why 261 00:18:21,140 --> 00:18:26,920 there's so much confusion why so many people have it and don't know what's causing it and 262 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:32,440 there's a great example of a successful case there who had amazing results with what we 263 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,820 did for her and then there's even a place at the bottom where you can sign up to get 264 00:18:36,820 --> 00:18:42,560 some more information a guide that I developed called the dozen most commonly overlooked 265 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:44,760 causes of fatigue. 266 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:49,800 Here's an interesting article in the medical literature the headline is the quote useless 267 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:55,840 appendix is more fascinating than we thought and then further down in the article the appendix 268 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,920 is called a safe house for bacteria. 269 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,400 Do you still have your appendix. 270 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:06,040 It's sometimes important it can be an emergency situation if your appendix ruptures and can 271 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:11,640 lead to bad bacteria causing a rapidly expanding infection so there's lots of good reasons 272 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,200 that people have had their appendix out but there's also a lot of people that have had 273 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,700 it just routinely taken out for no good reason at all. 274 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:22,720 That's what the subject of this article is for years people who are having surgery for 275 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,840 some other reason while they've got you opened up they would just take your appendix out 276 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:30,880 while it's at while while they're at it thinking it's a useless organ that has no function 277 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,840 and might save you know save you from having to have another surgery later so that's no 278 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:40,840 longer considered best practice but there's more data coming out that shows what but this 279 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:46,680 you know for years we're still hasn't been convincing argument for what the appendix 280 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,000 actually does. 281 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Well so French researchers in a twenty twenty three study compiled data from a French zoo 282 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:01,640 that established that animals with appendixes are far less likely to suffer severe diarrhea 283 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:08,800 diarrhea far less likely to have diarrhea in animals than those that don't have an appendix. 284 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:13,600 So immunologist William Parker PhD a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina 285 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:20,000 at Chapel Hill says quote these data are in support are as bad as good as we could hope 286 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:25,680 for in support of the idea that the appendix might protect mammals from gut problems and 287 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:31,640 experiment on humans would be unethical but observational studies offer clues. 288 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:37,520 So one such study showed that people with an intact appendix when compared to young 289 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:42,500 people who had their appendix removed the people that would have their appendix removed 290 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:47,480 had double the risk of developing a serious infection of salmonella that would require 291 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,560 hospitalization. 292 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:54,040 Those studies like this add weight to the theory that Parker and his colleagues developed 293 00:20:54,040 --> 00:21:00,640 back in 2007 that the appendix acts as a safe house for beneficial gut bacteria. 294 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:06,320 We're hearing more about the importance of a healthy microbiome of having sufficient 295 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,560 amounts of good bacteria in your gut for a whole host of reasons. 296 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:15,040 So Parker Dr. Parker suggests that we think of the colon as a windpipe that may become 297 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:19,600 contaminated with a pathogen a bad bug such as salmonella. 298 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:25,560 Well diarrhea is going to follow so that the pipe gets repeatedly flushed wiping everything 299 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:30,880 clean but also including your friendly gut microbiome. 300 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:35,460 So luckily you've got this little offshoot of the pipe where the flow can't really get 301 00:21:35,460 --> 00:21:37,920 in because it's too constricted. 302 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,080 That is the appendix. 303 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:45,160 The appendix is a little worm shaped blind pouch that sticks off of the lower end of 304 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,920 the small intestine right where it transitions to the large intestine. 305 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:55,240 There is evidence to show that the appendix is full of beneficial bacteria and it survives 306 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:56,240 this flushing out. 307 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:01,880 If you get diarrhea from getting eating some bad food you don't wipe out all of your good 308 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:07,000 bacteria after you've had diarrhea if you have an appendix because it stores up some 309 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,640 of the good bacteria and they can work their way back into the gut. 310 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,640 So that's why they're calling it the safe house for beneficial bacteria. 311 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:19,400 The appendix is also rich in special cells that act there are called M cells that act 312 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:25,840 as scouts detecting and capturing invasive bad bacteria and viruses and exposing them 313 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,320 to the body's defense teams such as T lymphocytes. 314 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:34,000 There are several studies that show people who've had their appendix removed have increased 315 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,680 risk of certain diseases. 316 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:40,300 A study done in Taiwan showed that people who had an appendectomy had a 40 percent higher 317 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:43,160 risk of developing irritable bowel syndrome. 318 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:49,600 There was another study that showed that within three years of having their appendix out patients 319 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,680 under 30 had double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. 320 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,760 So don't panic if you've had your appendix out it may just be a good reason to come in 321 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:02,520 and get a functional medicine evaluation to identify whether or not you need some support. 322 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:08,480 Perhaps you need a good probiotic or some good prebiotics to feed the healthy bacteria 323 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,480 and grow more of your own. 324 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,120 The test sometimes a stool test is required. 325 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:18,480 Stool tests can directly measure whether or not you have adequate good bacteria and too 326 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:24,800 many bad bacteria whether they be or bad viruses parasites or a fungal infection. 327 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:31,280 I've had some cases of severe irritable bowel syndrome severe ulcerative colitis and Crohn's 328 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:36,080 disease people who've gone to other doctors on medications and just nothing has worked 329 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:42,040 for years and years and years and had to help them make dramatic recoveries by restoring 330 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:47,760 testing for and restoring the normal beneficial microbiome in the gut. 331 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:52,180 This is hugely important for those conditions but also for any condition that involves a 332 00:23:52,180 --> 00:23:58,320 weak immune system almost any mood disorder depression anxiety attention deficit disorder 333 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:02,080 hyperactivity these things are all affected by your gut. 334 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:03,720 So gut health is super important. 335 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:08,360 It's one of the most important things to consider testing for if you're not feeling right. 336 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:13,520 I'd love the opportunity to help you or someone you love find out what's actually causing 337 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,240 their problems that other doctors haven't been able to figure out and get you feeling 338 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,640 better as soon as possible. 339 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:20,840 Thank you for listening. 340 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,640 I look forward to speaking with you right here next Friday at 4 p.m. 341 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,960 Have a fantastic weekend. 342 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:32,460 You've been listening to safe effective natural solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 343 00:24:32,460 --> 00:24:36,960 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show email your health questions to 344 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:41,560 Dr. Binkley at Binkley Healing Center dot com. 345 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:46,240 Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved 346 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,200 ones because our health matters. 347 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:56,840 Join him next Friday at 4 p.m. for safe effective natural solutions right here on 98.3 the word 348 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:02,840 KDAR.