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Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions

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with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura.

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Now here's Dr. Todd.

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Good afternoon.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner of

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functional medicine.

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I use standard diagnostic tests to identify conditions other doctors miss, usually because

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they don't want to do those tests because insurance doesn't pay for them.

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Insurance pays for things that are medically necessary to diagnose a condition that needs

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medical care like drugs or surgery or referral to a specialist, etc.

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It often doesn't pay for things that just keep you healthy or reverse a condition, restore

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health.

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So if restoring and maintaining health naturally is your goal, then you're listening to the

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right show and I really appreciate you tuning in today.

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I've spent the last couple of episodes talking about one of the most common things that people

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come to me for and other functional medicine practitioners and that is fatigue, tiredness,

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lack of energy.

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You're doing everything the same way you always have been, but slowly or suddenly you just

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don't have the energy that you used to have.

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How come?

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What's wrong?

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What's going on?

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There's usually a reason that can be identified and if you've been to other doctors and told

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there's nothing wrong with you but you don't feel right, there probably is something wrong

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that can be fixed without drugs oftentimes even, especially if it's fatigue.

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And there's a whole host of reasons for that.

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During the last two episodes I covered what I consider to be the 12 most commonly overlooked

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causes of fatigue because fatigue very rarely, basically never has one cause.

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It's always caused by a whole bunch of things, minor things that accumulate, have a combined

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effect that make you feel miserable.

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So I'm finally going to talk about this case that I love talking about.

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It's just one of hundreds of people that have come to me with some form of unexplained fatigue.

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I'm going to call her Yolanda, not her real name.

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She is a 47 year old hairdresser that came in complaining of gas, bloating, nausea, poor

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concentration, headaches, dizziness, depression, anxiety, frequent colds and stuffy nose, cold

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hands and feet.

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And I always ask this, you know, how is your energy?

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And she said if she had, if she thought about it, her energy was 50% less than it was five

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years ago.

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So I asked her some more questions and she revealed that she rarely exercises, mainly

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because she's too tired.

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She drinks five to six glasses of water today, per day, which she thought was plenty, but

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in her case wasn't.

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She craves starch and sugar.

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She uses a lot of artificial sweeteners.

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She has dry, thinning hair and hair loss, which was really upsetting to her as a hairdresser.

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She's trying to make people's hair beautiful and she has products that work on most people

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but weren't working for her.

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She also complained of dry skin and easy bruising easily.

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That was a sort of a new symptom.

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She started getting bruises for no apparent reason.

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She had some neck pain and back pain, severe cramps and heavy menstrual flow.

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So I did my standard 55 point blood panel and identified a bunch of things that were

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out of range on her test.

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She had some problems with her kidneys showing up, some low minerals, low chloride, low calcium,

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magnesium, her total protein was low.

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I talk about low protein a lot, contributing to fatigue.

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Her cholesterol was a little high.

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Her liver enzymes were high, which was unusual.

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She wasn't a drinker.

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She wasn't on any medications that could account for that.

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Her thyroid was low.

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Her storage form of iron, ferritin, was low.

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Her white blood cell count was low, which means she has some kind of chronic infection.

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Her red blood cell count and hemoglobin were low.

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And the average size of her blood cells was high.

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All of that means that she definitely has both iron deficiency and B12 deficiency anemia.

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So I put her on a handful of supplements, not a couple of supplements.

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People always complain, oh, I don't want to take any supplements.

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Well, would you rather wait till you need drugs?

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I encourage everyone to get most of the nutrients, all the nutrients they can from their food.

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But if they're not, if we test them, test you, and you're not getting all the nutrients

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you need from your food, then the easiest way to resolve that, if you don't want to

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end up dependent on drugs for the rest of your life, is to take a half of supplements,

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usually for three or four months, until we retest and confirm that you're back on track

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again.

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And then we can cut that list in half or down to a third.

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My goal is to get you to live a long and healthy life with minimal supplements.

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There's three basic ones that most people need, a good multivitamin for the minerals,

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vitamin D, and fish oil for the omega-3 fatty acids.

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But anyway, she took a handful of supplements.

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We retested her four months later.

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She still had some signs of stress on their kidneys, but they were a lot better.

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Her minerals were still a little bit low.

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Her total protein was great, because she was now absorbing the food that she was, the protein

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that she was already eating.

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Her cholesterol was better.

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Her liver was a little bit better, still not quite perfect.

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Her thyroid was almost completely normal now.

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We gave her some supplements for that, and it was working fine.

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Her ferritin was way better, because she was getting enough iron now, and it was building

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up in her storage tank.

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Her white blood cell count was still low, a chronic infection that causes that can take

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a while to completely correct.

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Her red blood cell count and hemoglobin and the size of her red blood cells, basically

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her anemia from iron deficiency and B12 deficiency were completely normal now after four months

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of taking the supplements to fix the iron deficiency and B12 folate deficiency.

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It was completely resolved.

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And so that was exciting for me, but the funny thing was when she's sitting in my office

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and I'm explaining all this to her, she's kind of like, it's like I'm trying to get

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through it.

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There's a lot of stuff to report, and she's not, she's trying to interrupt me basically.

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She's saying, look, Dr. Binkley, thank you very much.

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I'm really glad to hear that.

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Well, I got to tell you, I don't really care what the tests say.

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I want to tell you, I have no more gas, no more bloating, no more nausea.

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It's gone.

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I feel like I can concentrate again.

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The headaches I had are gone.

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I have no more dizziness.

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My friends have noticed that I'm less depressed and anxious than I used to be because I'm

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actually going out and hanging out with them more now.

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She has no more colds or stuffy nose.

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Her hands and feet are still a little bit cold, but much less often.

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But the most of all, her energy is not only not 50% less than it was five years ago, it's

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better than it was five years ago.

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She has more energy than she can ever remember having in years, and she was super excited

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about that.

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Of course, I was very happy to hear that, and I asked her some more questions.

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She reported that she's now exercising three to five days a week because she has the energy

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to do it.

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Then that exercise keeps your heart healthy and strong, blood pumping, oxygen flowing

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to all yourselves, and gives you more energy.

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She's drinking two quarts of water a day instead of five to six glasses.

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Her body weight and for her condition, she needed to drink at least two quarts of water

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a day, and she was doing that and feeling better as a result.

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She's eating much less starch and sugar, and the cravings are going away.

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Still a little bit of a craving for that, but she's able to resist it and feel so much

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better.

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She feels worse now when she eats too much of that stuff.

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She's doing no more artificial sweeteners.

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Most important to her, the thing that she was most excited about, as I mentioned previously,

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because she's a hairdresser, is her hair is thicker and less brittle.

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It's not breaking off anymore.

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She was super excited about that.

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Her skin was back to normal.

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She had no more bruising.

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Her neck and back pain were 70% better.

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I told her if her neck and back still hurt, I could treat her with chiropractic for that,

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but she wasn't coming to me for chiropractic.

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She was just doing the nutrition stuff.

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Just from controlling that inflammation and getting oxygen to all of her cells and all

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the nutrients, her body needs to heal and repair, her neck and back pain were 70% better.

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Her menstrual cramps were 50% less, and her menstrual flow had returned to normal.

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That's just one example that's actually pretty typical of what can happen when someone has

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fatigue that no one else has been able to figure out the cause of.

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We just do a few things to identify the many causes.

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It's never one cause.

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It's usually a whole bunch of little things that add up to a big effect.

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We identify all of those little causes and make the necessary changes.

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Eat a little bit better food, exercise a little bit, and take the supplements to restore the

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deficient nutrients, and your body starts working again, and you tend to feel better.

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You get the energy back that you should have and develop a strategy to keep it that way

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forever.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.

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

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So who do you know who struggles to do the things that used to be easy, or who's always

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sick and takes forever to get well if they have a cold or a flu that lasts for a few

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weeks instead of a couple of days?

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Who do you know who suddenly feels 10 years older than they actually are or looks even

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older or who never feels like going anywhere anymore?

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Do you know somebody who's gained weight while still eating the same food or never wakes

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feeling well rested?

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Do you know someone who's anxious or depressed for no reason or is addicted to sugar and

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caffeine and other stimulants?

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Do you know someone who used to love long walks or hiking or dancing?

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These are really important questions to think about and ask people, and I've actually written

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them down in a PowerPoint presentation that I give on this subject.

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So that brings me to a question.

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Would you like to hear a PowerPoint presentation in my office of me talking about how to eliminate

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fatigue or how to naturally reduce your risk of heart disease or strokes or lower your

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cholesterol or any of these other conditions that I talk about?

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I've been thinking about this.

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I've been talking to some of the many patients that come in, have come in from listening

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to the show.

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I'm strongly considering doing talks like this in my office on a Wednesday night.

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Seems to be I've been taking a poll.

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Most people say a Wednesday night, maybe 6 p.m. would be a good time.

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I've already got a couple of dozen talks like this that I've been doing over the years that

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I've gotten really good responses for, and I've just gotten out of the habit.

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I've done them in the office.

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I've done them at Rotary Clubs.

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I was invited by the Heart Aware Program at Community Memorial Hospital a few years ago.

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I did a talk there on, when I did the first talk there on diabetes, they used to do a

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talk every, on a Thursday night once a month and sometimes have a cardiothoracic surgeon

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come in and talk about the latest surgeries for atrial fibrillation or bypass surgery

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or whatever.

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They get some kind of doctor to come in and talk about a heart condition related subject

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once a month.

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I did a talk on diabetes and basically talked about how medical care for diabetes is terrible

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and people should instead focus on taking better care of their cells and you can reverse

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diabetes.

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They told me that they used to usually get about 25, 30 people for those talks, and I

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told everybody, all my patients and some other contacts about my talk.

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We had 70 people there and they have the people fill out a review afterwards each time and

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they said it was the best reviews and the best attended event of that program they'd

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ever had at the time.

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So I kind of miss doing that.

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If people want to hear it, I'm happy to do it again at my office.

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I'm thinking about doing it on a Wednesday around 6 p.m. or so.

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So please email me.

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Please let me know if you would like to attend a free live presentation about some of these

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things I talk about on the radio all the time and what subjects you'd be most interested

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in hearing about.

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I'll usually do a talk for about 30 minutes and then open it up to questions.

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So if you have questions that you'd like to ask in person or just meet me or come check

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out the office or bring somebody in that has some questions and wants to just get a little

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bit more information before they commit to getting an exam or scheduling a consultation

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or anything, this would be a great opportunity to just come in and find out what's possible

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and get your questions answered.

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So please email me.

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Let me know if you'd like to come to a presentation and the topics you'd like to hear about and

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let me know if a Wednesday night around 6 p.m. would be a good time for you to come do that.

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I'm Dr. Todd Bankley.

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

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We've been talking about fatigue and I told, I think on the previous episode, if you go

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to my, I have a dedicated website about fatigue called FatigueFreeLiving.com.

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If you go to that website, you can hear some of this content that I've been presenting

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here and also get the 12 most commonly overlooked causes of fatigue that I've been talking about

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and surprise, another dozen commonly overlooked causes of fatigue.

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I could easily come up with a dozen and I came up with a dozen more on top of that.

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So another dozen commonly overlooked causes of fatigue or number one, low serum ferritin.

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So you can have iron deficiency anemia just from a low white cell count.

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We've talked about the ferritin test and the importance for that.

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That's a commonly overlooked cause of fatigue.

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Mitochondrial dysfunction.

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Number two, the mitochondria is the part of every cell in your body that makes energy.

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It's the powerhouse of every cell.

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can happen that usually require some supplements to fix, exercise can help.

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Dramatic way to improve fatigue.

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Number three, adrenal fatigue.

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So lots of people have heard about adrenal fatigue, but it's kind of sometimes carelessly

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used I guess I want to say.

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Adrenals produce adrenaline, epinephrine.

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They also produce cortisol, the stress hormone.

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It's also the hormone that wakes you up first thing in the morning.

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And a lot of people that have fatigue have exhausted adrenals, depleted adrenal function.

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And the best way to test that is with a saliva test.

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So it doesn't show up well on a blood test.

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Most doctors will send you to test your adrenals by just having you do a first thing in the

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morning, 8.30, 9 o'clock in the morning serum cortisol test.

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And you know, that's useful information, but it just doesn't tell you the whole picture

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because a lot of people who have adrenal fatigue will be able to produce adequate amounts first

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thing in the morning because that's when the peak always is.

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But then it tapers off during the day normally, but if it tanks during the day, if you just

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barely crank out enough to wake yourself up in the morning and then it immediately tanks

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middle of the day, afternoon you're exhausted all day, often don't get a good sleep.

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So adrenal fatigue is a very commonly overlooked cause of fatigue that can be identified properly

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best on a saliva test of your adrenal hormones.

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Number four, stress on the liver.

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Stress on the liver is most commonly caused by medications, properly prescribed medications

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have to be removed from your body mostly by the liver and that can cause stress on the

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liver.

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Anybody that's on a lot of medications, that's why liver tests are included by most doctors

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on a standard liver panel.

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When they're doing your routine blood work, they will always do this two standard liver

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enzymes AST and ALT among other things to make sure that the drugs they're giving you

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aren't trashing your liver.

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But toxins that we're all exposed to, heavy metals, mold toxins, chemicals from the workplace,

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chemicals in the water and the air we breathe, pesticides, chemical fertilizers that are

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blowing in our open windows at night from fields miles away.

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All the toxic debris from the fires that we have in Southern California that blank at

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the surface of the earth and then are airborne again every time the wind blows or some guy

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with a leaf blower is stirring that stuff up again outside your window.

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Love those people.

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All of this stuff ends up in your system, causes stress on the liver because it's mainly

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your liver's job to get rid of that stuff.

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And also really importantly, iron overload.

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So I've talked about testing for iron.

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I always do the ferritin test.

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I talked about it to identify anemia.

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But the other really important, one of the other important reasons to test ferritin,

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the storage form of iron, is to find, identify iron overload.

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So many people, and they almost never know it if they do, have too much iron in their

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body.

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If you have too much iron in your body, then it damages the liver, damages your heart,

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can cause all kinds of havoc if it builds up too high over time.

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So it's really important to test for that as well.

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And the test is serum ferritin.

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And I include that on my panel test, everyone for it.

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And I see people with iron overload several times a year, every year.

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And the solution is simple, just donate blood.

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So you know, the blood bank is always looking for people to donate blood.

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And you know, they'll ask you if you have iron overload.

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But if it's not that bad, you can still donate blood.

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It's just a little bit tricky, confusing sometimes.

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But ask me about that.

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And the solution to iron overload is just to donate blood.

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And sometimes just doing it once will resolve the problem.

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If it's just minor things, sometimes you have a hereditary iron overload, which can be identified

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with a gene test.

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And then, you know, you're always going to have it, but you can manage it by donating

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blood regularly.

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Typically every six months, sometimes once a year is enough, sometimes more than once

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every six months is typical.

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So that's number four, stress on the liver.

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Stress on the pancreas, number five.

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So stress on the pancreas causes fatigue.

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So poor diet, mainly eating too much grains, starch and sugar.

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Too many things made from flour, cookies, cakes, crackers, waffles, potatoes, corn,

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any starchy vegetable.

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I say grains, starch and sugar, because everyone knows what sugar is.

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But starch, anything, bread, pasta, anything made from flour and starchy vegetables like

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potatoes and corn are almost the same thing as sugar once you swallow them.

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They turn into blood sugar within minutes and spike your blood sugar almost as bad as

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if you ate sugar out of a bowl.

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So grains, starch and sugar.

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Stress your pancreas because your pancreas has to produce insulin to keep your blood

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sugar under control.

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That's not even its job.

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If you aren't overloading yourself with too much starch and sugar, too many carbs, too

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many bad carbs all the time, then your blood sugar is supposed to be maintained by your

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liver.

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You eat meals and then your liver stores up some sugar to keep you going between meals

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and then releases it when you need it to keep your blood sugar normal.

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It's only when you eat way too much starch and sugar that your pancreas has to kick out

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excess insulin.

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It's always supposed to make a little insulin to escort sugar into your cells when you need

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it.

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But it is not your pancreas' job to lower your blood sugar when you're eating way too

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much starch and sugar all the time.

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That's what causes diabetes.

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So stress on the pancreas from poor diet and alcohol, a few other things will result in

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pre-diabetes, diabetes, and the fatigue that results from that.

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Number six, low testosterone.

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So men, you know, as they get older tend to often have reduced levels of testosterone

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and most people are familiar with the effects that that can have on your energy.

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For women, low progesterone can cause fatigue.

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So the best way to test for that for postmenopausal women especially is a saliva hormone test,

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not a blood test.

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Again, most physicians test hormones with blood tests and you have to test the blood

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for thyroid hormone.

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You have to test the blood for pregnancy issues, for certain other, you know, hormone issues.

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But for postmenopausal women who are considering whether, want to know whether they, you know,

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have estrogen and progesterone that's so low that they might need hormone replacement

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therapy or maybe they don't want to take hormone replacement therapy, they want to know if

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they can, you know, do something about the symptoms of menopause, you know, night sweats

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and hot flashes and all the rest, it's important to test the saliva to a salivary hormone test.

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Much more accurate way of determining your average level throughout the day of a constantly

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varying parameter.

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Your sex hormones, your estrogen and progesterone in a postmenopausal woman is going up and

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down, up and down, up and down every 10 minutes.

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If you do a blood test, you're getting a snapshot in time of something that's constantly changing.

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Whereas if you do a saliva test, you're getting the average throughout the day.

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So I encourage doing a saliva test for progesterone.

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Number eight, chemical toxicities.

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So we're all exposed to chemical toxicities.

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Number nine, heavy metal toxicities.

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Number 10, mold toxicities.

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So I've mentioned a little bit about these already.

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We're all exposed to these things.

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People are always surprised when I test for them and the tests prove, you can find out

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that they're mostly, usually urine tests and these things will show up.

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The very sensitive equipment will measure the amount of lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium

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and uranium for the heavy metals.

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Chemical toxins like pesticides and fertilizers.

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Mold toxicity, if you've ever been exposed to mold, even if it was 10 years ago, it's

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very likely that some of the toxicity from that exposure is still built up in fat cells

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because your body shoves it in there to get it out of circulation and it stays there forever.

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So dysbiosis in the gut.

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Number 11, insufficient beneficial bacteria.

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Too many bad bacteria.

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Saps your energy, stresses your immune system, causes fatigue.

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And number 12, sleep apnea.

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If you find yourself waking up in the morning or your spouse notices that you stopped breathing

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in the middle of the night, if you're not getting adequate sleep, this is obviously

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going to cause fatigue.

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So there we go.

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Another dozen commonly overlooked causes of fatigue.

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I appreciate you bearing with me spending so much time on this subject because it's

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so important and so commonly overlooked.

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People a lot of people have fatigue that they don't really need to have because most doctors

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never even look for these problems.

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Medical standards of care mean you get the same treatment everyone else gets, but you

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are as different on the inside as you are on the outside.

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And restoration of health requires personalized care.

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Fatigue never has one cause.

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It's always the result of several problems which are often easy to fix.

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So regain the energy you had five years ago, six years ago before COVID, before whatever

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mysteriously set you back if you have fatigue.

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Doing this could change, telling someone else about this could change their life.

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Get your husband, son, sister, mother, neighbor, coworker or friend back, you know, that normal

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person that that normal version you remember who liked to go dancing or cycling or running.

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Reclaim the health you deserve.

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So don't wait until drugs and surgery are the only option.

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You can identify issues that are very commonly overlooked and treatable with functional testing.

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Thank you as always.

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Thank you for tuning in.

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I look forward to speaking with you right here next Friday at 2 p.m.

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I'm Dr. Todd Bankley.

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There is a safe, effective natural solution to almost any health challenge.

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Remember the condition of your body is far more important than any disease you've ever

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been diagnosed with.

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Do something to be healthier this weekend than you were last weekend and make this weekend

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the best one ever.

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