1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,660 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 2 00:00:06,660 --> 00:00:12,220 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 3 00:00:12,220 --> 00:00:14,460 Now here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,460 --> 00:00:15,460 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:15,460 --> 00:00:21,220 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner of 6 00:00:21,220 --> 00:00:22,580 functional medicine. 7 00:00:22,580 --> 00:00:27,700 Functional medicine means using standard diagnostic tests to identify conditions that other doctors 8 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:32,700 have missed. 9 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:33,700 The last couple of episodes we were talking a lot about the microbiome. 10 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:37,140 This is something that actually affects today's topic, but the focus is going to be, and it's 11 00:00:37,140 --> 00:00:43,040 kind of complex, but a lot of people are concerned about dementia, cognitive decline, cognitive 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,260 impairment, Alzheimer's disease, etc. 13 00:00:47,260 --> 00:00:54,260 So the title for today's talk is Dementia, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease Inextricably 14 00:00:54,260 --> 00:00:55,900 Linked. 15 00:00:55,900 --> 00:00:58,300 You can't have one without the other. 16 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:00,300 They go together. 17 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:06,380 And the sad thing is most people wait until they have severe signs of cognitive decline, 18 00:01:06,380 --> 00:01:11,420 memory loss, dementia, before they consider doing anything about it. 19 00:01:11,420 --> 00:01:16,280 So how do you know if you really need, you know, ideally everyone should start doing 20 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,540 something about it in their 30s. 21 00:01:18,540 --> 00:01:22,580 And that's just probably never going to happen. 22 00:01:22,580 --> 00:01:26,740 You definitely don't want to wait until your 70s or your 80s, especially if you already 23 00:01:26,740 --> 00:01:32,660 have a familial history of risk for, you know, if one of your parents had severe dementia, 24 00:01:32,660 --> 00:01:38,180 then there's a hint to start earlier identifying risk factors, things that can be mitigated 25 00:01:38,180 --> 00:01:39,180 in advance. 26 00:01:39,180 --> 00:01:41,820 Here's something that anyone can do. 27 00:01:41,820 --> 00:01:47,980 The APOE gene test, apolipoprotein E gene test. 28 00:01:47,980 --> 00:01:54,340 There's three different versions that are the result from the test, two, three, or four. 29 00:01:54,340 --> 00:01:57,220 And we have two, we have a pair of each. 30 00:01:57,220 --> 00:02:03,340 So the results are going to say that you have, you know, APOE two and two, three and three, 31 00:02:03,340 --> 00:02:07,140 four and four, two and four, two and three, three and four, et cetera. 32 00:02:07,140 --> 00:02:11,700 You get, you have two and they're, each of them is either going to be two, three, or 33 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:12,700 four. 34 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:22,660 So it's a little tricky, but the thing, the takeaway is folks who have APOE two, fours, 35 00:02:22,660 --> 00:02:28,660 two examples of the APOE four gene test are at the highest risk of dementia. 36 00:02:28,660 --> 00:02:32,140 So it's really important to know if you're one of those people, because your risk is 37 00:02:32,140 --> 00:02:37,420 dramatically increased and it would behoove you, hopefully motivate you to do some things 38 00:02:37,420 --> 00:02:39,340 earlier to reduce your risk. 39 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:42,460 So that test used to cost seven or $800. 40 00:02:42,460 --> 00:02:48,500 I just checked today, it's down to $340 now through LabCorp, which is still pretty expensive 41 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:50,620 for one gene test. 42 00:02:50,620 --> 00:02:58,300 Some people are a little reluctant to do 23andMe gene testing for a host of reasons, but you 43 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:02,100 know, I figure, yeah, you've got to worry about how they're going to protect your data, 44 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:04,800 but they've done a pretty good job of it so far. 45 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:11,180 And I think if they ever abuse it, that someone could run and win a Senate campaign to crack 46 00:03:11,180 --> 00:03:15,020 down on any transgressions they might have made. 47 00:03:15,020 --> 00:03:16,620 So that's a little bit of diversion. 48 00:03:16,620 --> 00:03:21,340 23andMe, what's great about this health test, not the hereditary, where do your ancestors 49 00:03:21,340 --> 00:03:29,100 come from, but 23andMe offers for $149 a whole slate of gene tests that individually cost 50 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:30,420 hundreds of dollars each. 51 00:03:30,420 --> 00:03:34,660 So it's thousands of dollars worth of gene tests that are really useful, including the 52 00:03:34,660 --> 00:03:41,060 Alzheimer's gene, blood clotting factors, hemochromatosis, iron overload, a whole host 53 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:42,060 of other genes. 54 00:03:42,060 --> 00:03:43,460 You can look them up on their website. 55 00:03:43,460 --> 00:03:47,300 And it's just a huge bargain for $149. 56 00:03:47,300 --> 00:03:51,420 And when I test people, when I do people's blood tests or when they come in with certain 57 00:03:51,420 --> 00:03:55,980 conditions, I often ask them, have you done the 23andMe gene test? 58 00:03:55,980 --> 00:03:58,540 Because that can provide some information that we can use. 59 00:03:58,540 --> 00:04:04,220 Is this a genetic condition for you or just the result of your diet or your lifestyle? 60 00:04:04,220 --> 00:04:06,380 So that's really helpful. 61 00:04:06,380 --> 00:04:12,140 And one of the reasons that's helpful is outlined in a study that just came out last week and 62 00:04:12,140 --> 00:04:16,660 published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showing the benefits of taking 63 00:04:16,660 --> 00:04:23,860 fish oil supplements to reduce your risk of brain damage that causes cognitive decline. 64 00:04:23,860 --> 00:04:29,100 So this was just published August 1st in JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association, 65 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:35,700 older adults with lower intake and tissue levels of these two main omega-3 fatty acids, 66 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:40,020 EPA and DHA, that you can only get from fish oil. 67 00:04:40,020 --> 00:04:45,420 The people they tested that had, they gave a certain amount of this, and I'll get back 68 00:04:45,420 --> 00:04:53,500 to that, had more, who didn't have adequate levels of this, had more white matter, brain 69 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:59,660 white matter lesions, which is associated with small vessel ischemic disease, basically 70 00:04:59,660 --> 00:05:04,360 loss of blood flow to the tissue of the brain so that it can heal and repair itself. 71 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:10,540 And that is a major contributor to the development of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. 72 00:05:10,540 --> 00:05:17,220 And this study showed may be preventable through treatment with omega-3 fatty acids from fish 73 00:05:17,220 --> 00:05:18,220 oil. 74 00:05:18,220 --> 00:05:27,620 So the people who tested with two APOE4 genes, carriers of that gene pattern, had significant 75 00:05:27,620 --> 00:05:33,860 reductions in neuronal integrity breakdown over three years by supplementing with fish 76 00:05:33,860 --> 00:05:34,860 oil. 77 00:05:34,860 --> 00:05:41,060 And these were participants with an average age of 81 years old that already had white 78 00:05:41,060 --> 00:05:47,180 matter lesions on their MRI, the early signs that you can see on a scan of the damage to 79 00:05:47,180 --> 00:05:49,340 the brain that causes dementia. 80 00:05:49,340 --> 00:05:56,020 And it was a pretty modest intake of fish oil that this study used, 1.65 grams, a little 81 00:05:56,020 --> 00:06:05,220 more than a gram and a half, a little more than 1,650 milligrams specifically, of combined EPA and DHA, 82 00:06:05,220 --> 00:06:09,460 the two important omega-3 fatty acids that you can only get from fish oil. 83 00:06:09,460 --> 00:06:14,620 You can't get any significant amount of EPA or DHA from any vegetable source, from chia 84 00:06:14,620 --> 00:06:19,960 seeds or flax seed oil or any of these other vegetable-based oils. 85 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:25,100 You can get it from algae, but it's very expensive, two and a half times the cost of getting it 86 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:26,100 from fish oil. 87 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:34,100 So the easiest way to get EPA and DHA, these brain-protective omega-3 fatty acids, is from 88 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:41,140 eating fish, oily fish like sardines and chauvis, salmon and tuna. 89 00:06:41,140 --> 00:06:46,180 But the problem is with salmon and tuna, eating too much tuna, unless you're getting small 90 00:06:46,180 --> 00:06:51,620 pole-caught smaller fish that are tested to be lower in mercury, which you can get in 91 00:06:51,620 --> 00:06:53,260 a can. 92 00:06:53,260 --> 00:07:01,140 The brands that you can get in cans in stores, vans or standard stores, Wild Planet and Safe 93 00:07:01,140 --> 00:07:06,540 Cats you can get tuna, which is a great source of omega-3s and has lower mercury than eating 94 00:07:06,540 --> 00:07:10,560 tuna in a restaurant or getting the chicken of the sea canned tuna or basically any other 95 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:11,860 kind of tuna. 96 00:07:11,860 --> 00:07:16,860 Even fresh-caught fish, if it's a big fish, it's going to be high in mercury. 97 00:07:16,860 --> 00:07:20,660 And so salmon also has a lot of omega-3s in it, but unfortunately most of the salmon that 98 00:07:20,660 --> 00:07:23,740 we eat is farm-raised and that has a host of other problems as well. 99 00:07:23,740 --> 00:07:30,700 So if you get fresh-caught salmon, which you can often get frozen in stores or some restaurants 100 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:34,500 serve wild-caught salmon, that's also an excellent source. 101 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:39,460 It's always great to get everything you can from food, but it's so difficult for most 102 00:07:39,460 --> 00:07:46,740 people to get enough omega-3 fatty acids from ocean-based foods that I recommend almost 103 00:07:46,740 --> 00:07:52,820 everyone supplement fish oil to get the omega-3s they need to protect their brain, also to 104 00:07:52,820 --> 00:07:59,060 protect their heart and a whole host of other inflammatory-based conditions. 105 00:07:59,060 --> 00:08:04,960 For years it's been difficult to tell if you have early onset dementia or document the 106 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:10,980 state of your brain as regards the degradation that causes dementia and there's a new blood 107 00:08:10,980 --> 00:08:19,060 test out from, it's called the Perclivity A-D2 blood test, which includes an algorithm 108 00:08:19,060 --> 00:08:25,580 that measures your level of the damaging tissues in the brain, things like amyloid plaque and 109 00:08:25,580 --> 00:08:27,580 neurofibular tangles. 110 00:08:27,580 --> 00:08:33,460 It's a little technical, but basically it measures these things in the blood and several 111 00:08:33,460 --> 00:08:39,020 things and then measures the level of them compared to a standard. 112 00:08:39,020 --> 00:08:48,940 And this is a test that's been out for a while and the results of its use was recently published 113 00:08:48,940 --> 00:08:55,300 at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, a study presented by Oskar Hansson, 114 00:08:55,300 --> 00:09:01,300 MD, PhD from Skein University in Sweden and it was also published in the Journal of the 115 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:03,220 American Medical Association. 116 00:09:03,220 --> 00:09:12,700 So this blood test had a diagnostic accuracy of 91% compared with 61% diagnostic accuracy 117 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:20,660 after standard clinical evaluations by primary care physicians and compared to 73% accuracy 118 00:09:20,660 --> 00:09:25,460 after evaluations by dementia specialists, usually neurologists. 119 00:09:25,460 --> 00:09:27,420 So this is a very exciting test. 120 00:09:27,420 --> 00:09:32,340 It is available now at Perclivity Labs by C2N Diagnostics. 121 00:09:32,340 --> 00:09:36,180 I just went on their website earlier today to find out pricing. 122 00:09:36,180 --> 00:09:39,340 I haven't heard back from them yet, but I hope to have pricing for this soon. 123 00:09:39,340 --> 00:09:45,500 It's probably not cheap, but like all tests like this, they become less expensive as time 124 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:46,500 goes by. 125 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:53,540 And just based on the fact that it has a diagnostic accuracy of 91% compared with 61% to 73% with 126 00:09:53,540 --> 00:09:58,180 standard methods that most physicians are using now and the amount of money that could 127 00:09:58,180 --> 00:10:05,060 be saved by potentially treating this earlier, argues that it could probably become a standard 128 00:10:05,060 --> 00:10:07,980 test that's available through insurance eventually. 129 00:10:07,980 --> 00:10:11,420 But things like this can take a few years for that to happen. 130 00:10:11,420 --> 00:10:12,420 So stay tuned. 131 00:10:12,420 --> 00:10:15,180 I'll let you know as soon as I know what the pricing is on that. 132 00:10:15,180 --> 00:10:17,660 Here's another really exciting test. 133 00:10:17,660 --> 00:10:22,900 Intermittent fasting may improve memory and executive function. 134 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:27,920 So these are measures, obviously measures of things that have to do with dementia. 135 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,340 So what is intermittent fasting? 136 00:10:31,340 --> 00:10:35,740 Intermittent fasting means usually trying to avoid eating more than a certain number 137 00:10:35,740 --> 00:10:37,660 of hours per day. 138 00:10:37,660 --> 00:10:41,820 So there are lots of different kinds of fasts where people don't eat all day, sometimes 139 00:10:41,820 --> 00:10:43,140 even for days at a time. 140 00:10:43,140 --> 00:10:44,140 This is not that. 141 00:10:44,140 --> 00:10:51,260 The intermittent means regularly not eating for 16 hours a day, for example, trying to 142 00:10:51,260 --> 00:10:56,500 get whatever meals you're going to have in an eight hour period, sometimes a little bit 143 00:10:56,500 --> 00:10:57,500 longer. 144 00:10:57,500 --> 00:10:59,860 For example, just eating breakfast and lunch. 145 00:10:59,860 --> 00:11:04,660 Unfortunately, it's more common for people to skip breakfast and only eat lunch and dinner. 146 00:11:04,660 --> 00:11:08,860 But the one meal that you need the least is the one that you eat right before you go to 147 00:11:08,860 --> 00:11:10,020 bed. 148 00:11:10,020 --> 00:11:15,220 So if you're eating dinner at five o'clock and lunch at 12, then that's not a bad way 149 00:11:15,220 --> 00:11:16,220 to do it. 150 00:11:16,220 --> 00:11:21,140 But if you're eating lunch at 12 or one and dinner at eight, that's not such a great way 151 00:11:21,140 --> 00:11:23,060 because you don't need food to sleep. 152 00:11:23,060 --> 00:11:27,260 So there's lots of information available on the internet about intermittent fasting. 153 00:11:27,260 --> 00:11:32,660 And this trial that's exciting because of the effects it has on improving memory and 154 00:11:32,660 --> 00:11:34,540 executive function. 155 00:11:34,540 --> 00:11:37,380 These are two markers for brain health. 156 00:11:37,380 --> 00:11:46,660 It was an eight week randomized clinical trial, a small trial of 40 overweight cognitively 157 00:11:46,660 --> 00:11:51,240 normal older adults with insulin resistance. 158 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,740 And they basically did one of two things. 159 00:11:53,740 --> 00:11:59,740 Half of them were on a quote unquote healthy living diet based on portion controlling calorie 160 00:11:59,740 --> 00:12:00,740 restrictions. 161 00:12:00,740 --> 00:12:04,020 So basically just on a low calorie standard weight loss diet. 162 00:12:04,020 --> 00:12:09,340 The other half was on the same diet for five days a week and just two days a week. 163 00:12:09,340 --> 00:12:17,700 Only two days a week they did two meal replacement shakes, 480 calories a day. 164 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:21,620 And the rest of the five days they did the same diet as the other group. 165 00:12:21,620 --> 00:12:29,620 So just two days out of a week doing this calorie restricted meal intermittent fasting 166 00:12:29,620 --> 00:12:35,520 to two meal replacement shakes per day had a significant difference in improved executive 167 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,660 function and memory. 168 00:12:37,660 --> 00:12:43,420 And the intermittent fasting showed better results on cognitive measures. 169 00:12:43,420 --> 00:12:50,420 This test was done by the by a reported by Demetrios Kapogiannis, MD of the National 170 00:12:50,420 --> 00:12:55,540 Institutes on Aging and John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and presented 171 00:12:55,540 --> 00:12:58,420 at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference. 172 00:12:58,420 --> 00:13:00,740 It was also published in Selmitasinolent Tabulism. 173 00:13:00,740 --> 00:13:06,140 So it was a small study and then obviously, well I would imagine lots of other studies 174 00:13:06,140 --> 00:13:13,340 have given us reason to believe that a more typical intermittent fasting program where 175 00:13:13,340 --> 00:13:19,540 you're most days, not just two days a week, but most days restricting the two meals a 176 00:13:19,540 --> 00:13:24,740 day that you eat or you know a number of smaller meals to an eight hour window and then not 177 00:13:24,740 --> 00:13:29,860 eating for 16 hours to let your body break down and digest and assimilate all of that 178 00:13:29,860 --> 00:13:33,660 food has a huge impact on your health including your brain. 179 00:13:33,660 --> 00:13:35,300 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. 180 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:39,760 You've been listening to safe effective natural solutions to almost any health challenge. 181 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:45,260 Today we're talking about dementia, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and how these three 182 00:13:45,260 --> 00:13:47,960 are inextricably linked. 183 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,780 You can't have one without the other. 184 00:13:50,780 --> 00:13:56,780 So you know we're all familiar, hopefully we're all familiar with the causes of diabetes, 185 00:13:56,780 --> 00:14:02,780 eating too much sugar, not exercising enough, obesity and you know the causes of cardiovascular 186 00:14:02,780 --> 00:14:04,540 disease are pretty familiar to most people. 187 00:14:04,540 --> 00:14:11,020 Not enough exercise, not enough healthy food to keep your heart strong, some of the lesser 188 00:14:11,020 --> 00:14:13,900 common causes of cardiovascular. 189 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:17,240 One of the things that most people hear about for cardiovascular disease is high cholesterol. 190 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:21,020 Everyone needs to take a statin drug to keep their cholesterol down. 191 00:14:21,020 --> 00:14:22,020 Not true. 192 00:14:22,020 --> 00:14:28,460 I've talked about that over and over and over again but these three things are linked and 193 00:14:28,460 --> 00:14:33,920 there are some uncommon causes of heart disease and diabetes that you may not have heard of. 194 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:40,420 So just recently this came out in the medical literature, the effect of heavy metals predicting 195 00:14:40,420 --> 00:14:41,840 risk of heart disease. 196 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:48,940 So cadmium, tungsten, uranium, cobalt, copper and zinc. 197 00:14:48,940 --> 00:14:55,120 Increasing levels of these six metals on urine testing were associated with 29% more cardiovascular 198 00:14:55,120 --> 00:15:03,260 disease and 66% all cause mortality after accounting for demographic lifestyle and other 199 00:15:03,260 --> 00:15:05,680 clinical risk factors. 200 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:13,440 And cadmium and copper showed a direct relationship with both cardiovascular disease and mortality. 201 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:22,420 This is reported by Irene Martinez Morata, MD, PhD of Columbia University and the School 202 00:15:22,420 --> 00:15:24,280 of Public Health in New York City. 203 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,840 Reported in the journal Circulation. 204 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:32,140 So quote, this is her quoting, our findings support the fact that urinary metals are a 205 00:15:32,140 --> 00:15:37,600 robust predictor of cardiovascular risk and all cause mortality and these associations 206 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:43,080 with these clinical events, heart attacks, etc., are consistent with a previous finding 207 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:50,760 that these same six metals were associated with higher levels of coronary artery calcification, 208 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:56,000 supporting the idea that atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, is a major underlying 209 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:01,780 pathway explaining the association between metals and heart disease. 210 00:16:01,780 --> 00:16:03,120 So let's just review that again. 211 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,720 This is a major journal. 212 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:11,640 Circulation is a very prestigious journal for cardiology and they're finding that these 213 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:18,200 heavy metals that we're all constantly exposed to increase cardiovascular disease, all causes 214 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:25,980 of mortality and specifically coronary artery calcification, the hardening of the arteries 215 00:16:25,980 --> 00:16:30,380 that underlies most heart attacks and can cause strokes. 216 00:16:30,380 --> 00:16:36,680 So these heavy metals, cadmium and uranium, are two really common toxic metals that have 217 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:40,000 been known, the effects of these are well known, have been tested. 218 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:46,160 Four years prior, studies have established that arsenic, cadmium, and lead, are contaminant 219 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:51,400 metals and exposure to them, are now considered a cardiovascular risk factor by the American 220 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,520 Heart Association. 221 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:59,060 Functional practitioners like myself have long known that the big five heavy metals 222 00:16:59,060 --> 00:17:04,480 we're always looking for when we test for heavy metals are lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, 223 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:05,480 and uranium. 224 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,400 So we're all exposed to those to varying degrees and most of us never test for those things 225 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,760 and have no idea how much of those we're carrying in our bodies. 226 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,160 The only way you know is to test. 227 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,460 They don't necessarily cause any symptoms until they get really bad. 228 00:17:18,460 --> 00:17:21,920 So it's important, it's really a good idea for everybody to get tested for heavy metals 229 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:27,480 and the test for that is either a hair test or a urine test. 230 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,120 Check out my past episodes. 231 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:33,360 If I haven't already, I should remind everyone that all the past episodes of this show are 232 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:34,360 available as podcasts. 233 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:36,640 You can listen to them anytime you want. 234 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,720 You can find them on my website, binkleyhealingcenter.com. 235 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,860 They're right on the homepage, easy to find. 236 00:17:42,860 --> 00:17:47,880 If you use Apple podcasts or Spotify, they're there. 237 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,480 Just Google my name, Binkley, and they usually come up or the title of the show, Safe Effective 238 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,200 Natural Solutions. 239 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,960 The past episodes are also on YouTube. 240 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:00,280 If you search for my name or Safe Effective Natural Solutions. 241 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,080 They're not always in order on YouTube and there's no video. 242 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,520 It's just they make a little video of a bouncing this or that, but you can listen to them there 243 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:08,520 as well. 244 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:12,080 So anyway, previously I've talked a lot about heavy metal toxicities and this is a relatively 245 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:17,760 new study that just came out talking about the connection between our exposure to toxic 246 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:22,320 heavy metals like cadmium, uranium, and cardiovascular health. 247 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:28,400 So they also mentioned cobalt, which is in vitamin B12, copper, and zinc. 248 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:34,400 So these are essential minerals that we depend on for life, but like iron, you can get too 249 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:35,640 much of them. 250 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:40,360 And these are also urine tests without any kind of a provocation or a chelating agent 251 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:41,360 to draw them out. 252 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:46,560 And again, that's a little technical, but the authors of this study are saying in this 253 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:51,560 study, they say, well, it's right here, the copper, zinc, and cobalt authors explained 254 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:56,440 that these essential metals are tightly regulated in the body and elevated levels in the urine 255 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,520 may just represent early cardiometabolic dysregulation. 256 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,200 So they may just represent a diseased state. 257 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:09,760 Your body's increased amount of these things being flushed out is a result of disease, 258 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,080 not necessarily the cause. 259 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:20,000 Whereas toxic heavy metals like cadmium, uranium, and arsenic are well known to cause these 260 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000 diseases. 261 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:27,960 One of the most common sources of cadmium, which is a known carcinogen, is smoking. 262 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:36,280 Smoking tobacco is full of cadmium, but it's in ceramics and certain industrial chemicals. 263 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,720 There's Google sources of cadmium. 264 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:39,720 It's in a lot of things. 265 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,840 It's possible to avoid all of these things. 266 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,700 We're exposed to them to greater or lesser degrees. 267 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:48,620 Cadmium also affects the kidneys and the liver and the lungs. 268 00:19:48,620 --> 00:19:50,360 So I was surprised to hear about tungsten. 269 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:51,780 So tungsten is on the test. 270 00:19:51,780 --> 00:19:56,320 It's not something that's been in the research for a long time, but similar evidence of harm, 271 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:03,180 according to this article, is some things that are commonly exposed. 272 00:20:03,180 --> 00:20:09,120 People in the US are commonly exposed to all of these from drinking water, food, air pollution, 273 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:11,940 and indoor dust. 274 00:20:11,940 --> 00:20:17,040 So heavy metals are an lesser known contributor to cardiovascular disease that is becoming 275 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:22,760 the significance of which is becoming better known and better documented. 276 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:27,080 And anything that causes heart disease causes dementia. 277 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,920 There's several different types of dementia that have been identified by neurologists 278 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:35,160 and pharmaceutical companies that are trying to come up with different drugs to attack 279 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:36,760 these different various types. 280 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,800 Maybe it's important to make the, well, it's apparently important to make those distinctions. 281 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:47,000 Louie, do you have Louie body dementia or frontal lobe dementia or classical Alzheimer's 282 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,640 or vascular dementia? 283 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:53,880 For the purposes of healing yourself and providing nutrients to heal your brain, the solution 284 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,460 is the same. 285 00:20:55,460 --> 00:20:59,200 Anything that helps prevent heart disease helps prevent brain disease. 286 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:05,000 All forms of dementia are in part, if not mostly, vascular disease. 287 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,760 Your brain loses, tissue is damaged, cells are lost, scar tissue builds up to replace 288 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:16,680 that damaged tissue from inflammation and lack of nutrients because of vascular disease, 289 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,000 the same vascular disease that cause heart attacks and strokes. 290 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,940 The calcification that builds up and clogs the arteries and prevents adequate nutrition 291 00:21:24,940 --> 00:21:31,760 to the brain is mainly what causes the slow decay and loss of brain cells in the tissue 292 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,780 that leads to dementia. 293 00:21:33,780 --> 00:21:39,640 So anything that causes heart disease will contribute to loss of brain cells and neurodegenerative 294 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:45,440 diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and any other neurodegenerative disorder in 295 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:46,440 the brain. 296 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:51,320 Here's another unusual, so most people know the causes of diabetes, eating too much lousy 297 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:57,840 food, especially sugar laden foods, but artificial sweeteners are often used by some people as 298 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,920 an alternative to sugar. 299 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:01,120 Here's an article that just came out. 300 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:03,640 Do artificial sweeteners really help people with diabetes? 301 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:10,360 A recent review led by researchers in Mexico concluded that sucralose, which is Splenda 302 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:14,440 is the brand name, is associated with various adverse health effects. 303 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:19,160 Despite being considered safe in previous studies, the recent research suggests possible 304 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:24,440 links to systemic inflammation, metabolic diseases, meaning diabetes mainly, disruptions 305 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:30,120 in the gut microbiome, liver damage, and toxic effects at the cellular level. 306 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:36,400 Quote, it is crucial to highlight the persistence of sucralose Splenda in the body and its ability 307 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:42,320 to cross the placenta and its presence in breast milk, raising concerns about prenatal 308 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,160 and neonatal exposure. 309 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:48,920 Well, this is really important because a lot of women get gestational diabetes. 310 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:54,440 They get diabetes when they're pregnant and they may be using these, using sucralose and 311 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,680 these other alternative sweeteners that are not healthy to reduce their sugar intake. 312 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:00,680 So there's better ways to do that. 313 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,520 We're going to run out of time here to get into all of those things. 314 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,920 But there's a whole other article here that I'll come to. 315 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,640 I thought I had it here, but I'll have to come back to that. 316 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:16,220 But xylitol is a sugar alcohol that is in a lot of alternative sugar-free things. 317 00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:17,220 It's in toothpaste. 318 00:23:17,220 --> 00:23:20,740 The small amounts in toothpaste are not really a big deal, but I'll try and find that and 319 00:23:20,740 --> 00:23:22,480 talk about it on another episode. 320 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,300 Xylitol, you don't want to consume lots of that either. 321 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:32,600 So the takeaway is anything that causes heart disease, diabetes contributes to heart disease. 322 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:38,720 Alzheimer's is often now being called type 3 diabetes because the high blood sugar that 323 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:44,200 damages blood vessels to the brain also dramatically contributes to dementia. 324 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,920 So send me your questions about this and any other subject that we've talked about or any 325 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,400 other health concern that you have. 326 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,360 I really appreciate you tuning in. 327 00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:58,360 And you can reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes and dementia by eating better food, 328 00:23:58,360 --> 00:23:59,640 getting a little bit better exercise. 329 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:05,160 If it's hard for you to exercise, get the relief from pain that you need. 330 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,160 Contact me about that as well. 331 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,160 I am a non-force chiropractor. 332 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,720 I can help with pain as well. 333 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:14,840 And I'd love to help you or someone you love get back to feeling the way they should. 334 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,300 See if you can do something this week to be healthier than you were last week. 335 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:21,720 Have a fantastic weekend. 336 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:27,280 You've been listening to Safe Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 337 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,800 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to 338 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,360 drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 339 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:41,040 Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved 340 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,000 ones because our health matters. 341 00:24:44,000 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